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STEAM | September 2014 - Nice thread. Btw, Bayonetta 2 is out next month.
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Greird. Gross and weird, man
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I don't need to go into that PC thread to know that it's a shitshow. Console warriors are an especially defensive bunch this gen, with their machines basically being small form factor PCs and devs/pubs putting their games on PCs becoming more common thing than ever before.
The amount of salt that will come out of the official announcement of the Master Chief collection for the PC will kill the inhabitants of most pacific island nations.
The amount of salt that will come out of the official announcement of the Master Chief collection for the PC will kill the inhabitants of most pacific island nations.
toddhunter
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Either way, I don't see what the confusion is.
People getting too attached to their gaming system is certainly not a console exclusive.
Gipsy Danger
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Chance Hale
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Who cares? Be a better person and ignore them. Just as annoying to read constant posts about how silly fan boys are in here.
Ah my bad. Well we've had some funky release time here in the UK, even exclusive to our timezone (namely most Total War games and Resident Evil 4 launching at midnight when they weren't unlocked in any other region). what I'd prefer is there was just a single day, date and timed release for ever game on Steam. It's like this with smaller stuff but some of the larger releases that have commitments to retail distribution still end up leaving some territories lagging behind.
What was quite funny that Wolfenstein got delivered to me 3 days early, was unlocked for the US on Steam but despite having the disc's in my hand couldn't play the game until 3 days later due to how the release date set in stone due to the official release date over here which corresponded with the official retail release. Even more so when there was a lot of retail copies left unsold in most places for a month until they got put on sale.
They can hover now brah
I've been out of the loop a long time it seems. I grew up with the worst Doctor, Sylvester McCoy. Why couldn't I be born a few years earlier and had Tom Baker or Peter Davidson. I might have actually like Dr Who at the time then.
-MD-
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That thread is painful to read through.
Tizoc
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McCoy's the 7th Doctor IIRC.
...The Daleks could hover during his series.
You follow the current series though right?
ANuclearError
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They could float during McCoy's too, in Remembrance.
Jawmuncher
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If portable ops comes to Steam it isn't worth the pain to play it.
Unless they went and full on remade it.
Unless they went and full on remade it.
Chance Hale
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Achievement for dragging every soldier back to the truck.
TheLetdown
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The age old pivot point of couch comfy vs PC gaming doesn't work anymore. I've been couch gaming on my PC for a while now, switching from the office to the living room depending on the game alone. Dark Souls -> couch style. CS:GO -> the way it's meant to be played (tm). Binding of Isaac v.2 is going to put a divot in my couch.
Which brings me to this: my understanding of Steam in-home streaming is that, as long as I have my main rig running and on my Wi-Fi, any other PC on that Wi-Fi with Steam installed can run games at the same graphical output as my main rig, regardless of the receiving end's specs or OS.
The question(s): Am I more or less correct in that roundup above? Does anyone have a MacBook Pro that has done this? How about a MacBook Air? How hot does the laptop run? Could I then run an HDMI output to a TV and have that laptop operate similar to an HTPC? Are there risks involved, such as diminishing the lifespan of the laptop?
Which brings me to this: my understanding of Steam in-home streaming is that, as long as I have my main rig running and on my Wi-Fi, any other PC on that Wi-Fi with Steam installed can run games at the same graphical output as my main rig, regardless of the receiving end's specs or OS.
The question(s): Am I more or less correct in that roundup above? Does anyone have a MacBook Pro that has done this? How about a MacBook Air? How hot does the laptop run? Could I then run an HDMI output to a TV and have that laptop operate similar to an HTPC? Are there risks involved, such as diminishing the lifespan of the laptop?
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derExperte
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Doubtful, we'll just get 50 pages of 'now I don't need to buy an Xbone even though I never would've anyway' from SonyGAF.
Also that thread isn't worse than all the other ones, some reasonable responses from both sides and at least I know which posters will write dumb shit before reading so it's like a horror movie where you know all the scares already.
Portable Ops was awesome, and much better than Peace Walker. I say bring it on. And I hope they bring the Plus expansion too.
Crab Milk Mickey
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Shadow Hearts II would be a personal favorite of mine for engaging turn-based combat in a JRPG thanks to its Ring System or whatever it's called. Also helps that the various characters have different styles to them, complete with unique, quirky sidequests that (for once) are actually fairly fun to complete.
For contrast, I'd go against picking up Dead Rising 3, keys or not. Its gameplay design is deeply flawed even as a standalone game and as a sequel it's nothing but a mere shell of what Dead Rising used to be. A hypothetically fixed performance will only alleviate so little and there's better games to choose from in that wishlist.
Gipsy Danger
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You are correct. It works with any OS and mostly any setup as it's just a video stream. Yes, you could run the laptop as an HTPC and I can't imagine it would diminish the lifespan of the laptop. One thing worth noting is that some people had issues with both the host and the node computer being on WiFi. If you can, try hooking your main computer through Ethernet, but if not then you should be fine with occasional issues.
I never said I had too either.
Payday 2's (paid) DLCs would be great in my opinion if they focused more on heists instead of weapons and masks.
Since it's a crossover hopefully it'll be free. Hopefully.
Jawmuncher
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Man that game hasn't aged well at all.
Don't know how the hell I put up with it at release.
Played it recently and was so glad once i finished it.
I think you are just talking nostalgia unless you played it recently.
I thought the same thing at once until I played both back to back.
Yeah I try to. I worked in Cardiff for a bit down the road from where most of the filming is/was done. Though it's not like I bumped into any of the cast as all. Saying that seen John Barrowman a few times round Bristol but the amount of semi famous people that pop up here everyday it's kind of a non event most of the time.
Oh trust me I had give up not long after getting into Who. I did see a stage show with John Pertwee at about the same time which kind of got me interested again but didn't really pick it back up until it came back recently.
Speaking of Dr Who and trying to make this post relevant to Steam I must keep an eye out for when the Adventure games go on sale again.
This is real tempting. I'd buy it on a whim if I could play offline with bots. I just don't know if I'd play it much.
Jawmuncher
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Gipsy Danger
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I just remembered that a PC version of MGS1 already exists. Does anyone know how they handled the Psycho Mantis fight in that game? Assuming we are getting a rerelease of an MGS Collection then I'd be interested to know.
Some people love more customization and weapons and I presume that they're pretty easy to make. With that they can keep the community alive with updates while they work at new Heists. Plus, of course, it's a bit extra money for development. Things like free new maps are not self-evident anymore and a great thing in my eyes. If they finance it with DLCs, even if they don't interest me much - great! Payday 2 is a cooperative game and thus is´t's not game breaking to have some people have a greater weapon variety than others.
toddhunter
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Sherlock Holmes games are amazing but they need quite a lot of brains in the puzzles..
oh just fucking kill me now ; _ ;
I missed out on it while it was still unlocked
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hah, no irony in that post.
but to discuss your point: I was responding to a fairly ignorant post that was linked earlier in the thread regarding some really terrible and ancient assumptions about PC gaming. I wasn't actually gloating about how amazing PCs are and that SteamGAF is the best or anything
not that none of that isn't true, of course 
Does it mean that i can't enjoy some tears and salt when willfully ignorant people say the darnest thing about PC gaming or anything else? C'mon, where's the fun in not chuckling at that? I'd poke fun at someone saying dumb and inaccurate things about an xbone, too, if it was something as outrageous as the comments linked to in that post.
yeah, that's fair enough. Just speaking from my own experience with those Master Chief collection coming to the PC threads, where a good chunk of the posts were about how MS would be so dumb to put those games on the PC and how people were going to stop buying MS games if they went through with it.
It's okay. Some people just can't handle watching the best Doctor in all his glory.
Chance Hale
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Such things are constants, it's like making a post about every terrible youtube comment. Not much you can do about the situation and you're certainly never going to run out of things to mention but after a certain point it's better to just ignore them.
Thief, Half-Life, System Shock 2, and Deus Ex references
don't do this to me
derExperte
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GG.co.uk doesn't even offer Titanfall and I don't think I can buy from .com (also don't really want to, still weird).
toddhunter
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I think it is always best to discuss it in the thread in question. As much as posts discussing pros and cons about PC gaming are infuriating, they are also pretty easy to avoid if you want to do so. It is like reading the destiny xbox thread, no good can really come of it, but if you want to play that game you can certainly go nuts in there.
Dragging that into other threads can be pretty annoying. Best you will get is an echo chamber anyway.
too good to watch?
All EU branch has no Titanfall, too good for us!
also I was sure I've seen LoS 2 before, but I can't see it now either... weird.
We shouldn't ignore the poor lost souls and use every inch of power to show them the way of light. Don't be a lazy consolist and go out in the freshness of sunday morning, ring at random doors and tell them about the worth of following Gabe, our on and only Managing director of Valve Corporation, he who is the son of parents.
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derExperte
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Any Hack'n'Slash impressions? I'm considering buying just because they extended their initial discount to after release instead of just rewarding preorders like many others do nowadays. How long is it?
Sometimes we get a background picture of a game not available here.
Sometimes we get a background picture of a game not available here.
MMBosstones86
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I didn't make it past the fifth post
We're seriously doing this 'not a game' bullshit again?
In any event....it takes about 2 hours to run through.
But anyway, opinions and shit.
That's understandable.
I didn't mean it in a demanding way, just that I personally would not spend money to unlock masks, guns, and parts which I hope the the Hotline Miami DLC isn't if it is paid DLC.
Chance Hale
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Hmm, I wonder why that bit is written in a completely different tone in a paragraph that praises the game.
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