Baron von Loathsome
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Sweet, GMG delivered my Civ Beyond Earth key. Preloading now.
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STEAM | October II 2014 - PC Gaming: Getting a D in Yoga class
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derExperte
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Preorders for Be Mine 15 will go live today. Also only one repeat. And a new hint, a dude with orange hair.
For sure. The whole habit of trying to compare movies to games I have thought to be a bit flawed, especially the way both are consumed and their length. It's pretty much established a film should run for an hour and a half (maybe 2+ hours for the bigger epics) and that goes for a rom-com as well as an action spectacular. Smaller independent films of course can buck the trend and you can see something that last a handful of minute or go on and on for hours but in the more studio based system it's all pretty tight. Now games on the other hand can wildly vary in length, even titles that are similar, sometimes even entries in the same franchise. You could say that lasting 10's of hours and consumed over several sittings games are more closer to television than film but then again that's painting with a broad brush. But then with something as free from ridged constraints like gaming what could be a 20 hour game for one person could be 100's for another. Though some are a bit more tight in their pacing.
Even in 'cinematic' games no fat is trimmed and every last footstep is shown to the audience (well in gameplay). You could compare say and Uncharted to a film, Indiana Jones for example (sacrilege in my eyes but it's an easy comparison) but Raiders didn't go on for 10 hours. Sure you could tighten things up and make the experience a short one but that takes away from the key hook most of us play games for, interactivity. While I think it could be said the Uncharted has little to no agency as the story will unfold for every player exactly the same it's the stories we make ourselves whilst playing that are a big draw to that kind of game. If that experience is polished to a mirror sheen coupled with a decent story then for me the time it takes to consume is kind of irrelevant. Same with Dark Souls and you could argue that had little to no forced story but one the emerged as you played but the mechanics of the game whittled the hours away.
Assassin's Creed III and Final Fantasy XIII might have their flaws but gameplay wise I really enjoyed both but it was that meshing of the story and gameplay that didn't click for me. Combined with constant tutorialisng that really needed stripping back that got in both the way of the story and the gameplay.
Jawmuncher
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The groupees chat is a strange place.
Went there looking for hints on the games.
Never again.
Chairmanchuck
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Thats cool. Hope the games are good.
Btw. what happened to the "world"-bundles for Groupees? I remember they said they will do some world bundles like Japan-bundle, scandinavian bundle etc., then they did one and IIRC after that no other bundle was launched.
Darkroronoa
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Any idea what the games might be? The moustache guy looks like the guy from "the novelist" trailer.
Well unlock times got posted the other day. We get a midnight release but if you use a VPN to New Zealand or Australia you could get it 6 hours early.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=536013
So 2 days and 5 hours for GMG to get you your key!
EmergentFocus
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There are reports that some of the GMG Civ: Beyond Earth keys are activating as Borderlands Pre-Sequel...
https://forums.playfire.com/gmg/thread/122441?page=2
https://forums.playfire.com/gmg/thread/122441?page=2
Heh maybe they will give both
DJSebolski
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Still no release date for h1z1 EA. Is it still coming out this year?
Holy shit I wouldn't wish that to my worst enemy.
So I should buy Civ: BE and get both it and Borderlands PS?
Actually this might explain why I haven't got mine - in my GMG library it used to say "no key available till release" now it is says "no key available for this game", yet hitting the download button no longer shows any messages, instead it has a click here to download, that does nothing... wonder how all that has happened
EmergentFocus
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I guess we now know what the "Great Mistake" was that is referenced in BE
Yep, same here.
Baron von Loathsome
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I'd be okay with this if I didn't already have my Civ key.
The Red Wizard
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I decided to move Civ V off my SSD to make room for BE but now Steam is literally downloading the game again. Any idea what I did wrong?
I just moved the files from the Steam directory on my SSD to the one on my HDD.
I just moved the files from the Steam directory on my SSD to the one on my HDD.
someguyinahat
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Get a second opinion before doing this, but you may have to have a copy as a backup and one in the original place, then via steam game properties, delete the game, then choose to redownload the game but indicate the sdd drive and the same location as the backup. Steam will say it is redownloading but after a minute it should just work itself out **I THINK** I say this because I seem to recall their being an option to do that. Could be wrong. Be safe and check with the SoiSoi Ronin
Hero Prinny
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Yo is Korra out yet? If so is it region locked? Pls no region lock. I got some cash on my PayPal just waiting to be spent on some sweet Russian prices
Gipsy Danger
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Keyboard for top screen stuff and mouse for bottom screen stuff. Just split the screen. EZ. Do it Square.
What did you do, exactly? Simply moving the game from one library folder to another won't work. You have to move the installation folder, uninstall the game, reinstall the game and select the proper library folder.
InfiniteNine
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Brr want to get Korra but I still haven't been paid for the last weekends work at ACL. Going to call to see whats up. /:
It'll release when the store updates.
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I'm like 99% sure it'll be region-locked ... so don't get your hopes up
Chairmanchuck
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Anyone knows what the Alien Isolation Seasonpass will offer? Just the preorder DLCs and some challenge maps?
Steam Mover and SteamSpreader should do the trick without making any errors. Depends on how you moved it really.
If you're doing a manual move you need to move the game folder from the SteamApps>Common directory and the manifest file in SteamApps directory which is labled with the game id no so in Civ V's case appmanifest_8930.acf to the new location in exactly the same spots. If you leave either things can go pear shaped. I make sure the client is closed when I do that so not to mess anything up. Doing that only things redownload are dependencies like .net or DirectX needing to be updated.
EmergentFocus
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Oh well my Civ BE key just came in from GMG and (unfortunately?) no mistakes, just a slow roll out
Glad(?) that you got it without any mistakes. Just received mine too, and it also activated without any nasty surprises. While I suppose I'd have reluctantly accepted a free(?) copy of Pre-Sequel
just for the +1 of course!
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I think it's just challenge maps.
I enjoyed 3 more than 2 as well. I would actually replay it if they Steamworked it.
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Strazyplus
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You should play Receiver!
Hero Prinny
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Boo, that's gonna be forever from now. Store should update at 12am est
stahp lash, maybe if we believe hard enough it won't be region locked
Gianni Merryman
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Orange hair, eyebrows and a big orange nose, that may be a clown, only thing that comes to mind is Payday.
milamber will be back in here soon with porn purge withdrawal symptoms.
Literally would have been a +1 to go through when excruciatingly bored, but of course Civ BE is what I have been waiting for for a long time. Only thing that I'm unsure of with Civ BE is the new narrator, as weird as that is to say. Really loved William Morgan Sheppard doing Civ V, but I understand Civ BE wants to represent the new future and generation with a younger less aged narrator
I played Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut for another couple hours last night and I'm seriously digging the game, but there are some really annoying parts to it.
In order to start one of the early sidequests, I'm supposed to talk to one of the owners of a local general store to start the quest, which is only open at certain hours. By the time I was able to get there, they were closed for lunch. Okay, no biggie (despite there being no documentation that they close for the lunch hour). I wait out the time, and oh, what's this, the lady is coming outside! Yay! Oh, wait, she's going for errands, and leaving the shop, which means I can talk to her, but she won't offer her sidequest. And by the time she's back from her errands, the shop is closed again. I could wait for morning to roll around, but that means having to go back to the hotel to sleep (or having enough coffee to recharge my rest meter that way), and even if I advance to the next day, there's a chance it will be raining, which also means the shops will be closed.
And from the guide I'm reading, the 'chapter replay' feature is especially weird. Just like it sounds, you can replay any chapter you've already beaten. However, in this mode, if you save and exit during it, it purposely won't save your progress (just your items and such). This means, if you do a chapter replay, you need to complete the chapter in one sitting. This is not necessarily a long thing to do (some chapters are like 20 min or less). It's just... strange. And could that with the fact that some sidequests can literally only be done during a chapter replay of a chapter... weird game is weird.
In order to start one of the early sidequests, I'm supposed to talk to one of the owners of a local general store to start the quest, which is only open at certain hours. By the time I was able to get there, they were closed for lunch. Okay, no biggie (despite there being no documentation that they close for the lunch hour). I wait out the time, and oh, what's this, the lady is coming outside! Yay! Oh, wait, she's going for errands, and leaving the shop, which means I can talk to her, but she won't offer her sidequest. And by the time she's back from her errands, the shop is closed again. I could wait for morning to roll around, but that means having to go back to the hotel to sleep (or having enough coffee to recharge my rest meter that way), and even if I advance to the next day, there's a chance it will be raining, which also means the shops will be closed.
And from the guide I'm reading, the 'chapter replay' feature is especially weird. Just like it sounds, you can replay any chapter you've already beaten. However, in this mode, if you save and exit during it, it purposely won't save your progress (just your items and such). This means, if you do a chapter replay, you need to complete the chapter in one sitting. This is not necessarily a long thing to do (some chapters are like 20 min or less). It's just... strange. And could that with the fact that some sidequests can literally only be done during a chapter replay of a chapter... weird game is weird.
NingenJanai
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Thanks for the heads up!
I hope my current setup can brute force the game.
:/ When I searched, it only gave me the closed threads.
You must walk home naked, dragging behind you the Stone of Shame.
About time we got a release date for this one. 24th October.
Visually it looks interesting, I'll have to pick it up. The score seems to be promising, maybe near the level of Shatter.
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Pah Sheppard pales in comparison to Spock!
That would have been much more fitting to get Leonard Nimoy back for Beyond Earth but I'd imagine it's going to be the same sort of adjustment period for me. Though really looking at Civ classic and Beyond Earth while the framework is the same the core of each looks to be a little different and seems they can go in quite different way. As jaundicejuice pointed out earlier the lack of Civs (or Sponsors now) might lead to a bit of repetition unless their playstyles are mixed up or randomised. Still it's Civ, I'm fully expecting it to break conventions I have gotten used to that won't get addressed until an expansion.
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