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STEAM | September 2014 - Nice thread. Btw, Bayonetta 2 is out next month.
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I had fun with Magical Diary... but then again, I paid very little for it (bundle)
Had I paid 15$, I probably wouldn't have been very happy with my purchase though.
Thought so. Dead Rising 3s 25+ gb is killer.
Pyroclastic
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Won some of these recently so going to give back 
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Hero Prinny
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Elizabeth? the only way you can get more vague than that is by saying girl. Be more specfic, I'll take on this challenge, I just need to know who this is I'll be drawing.
Intheflorsh
Banned
I kinda like this. hmm will put it up for consideration.
If only I can draw.Sometimes I feel like you don't know me at all brother.
Kaleinc
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MMBosstones86
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yeah I left the page open
Both Alien and PayDay say : key will be delivered soon. (Alien says before release, blah blah).
legacyzero
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someguyinahat
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Is that some kind of stealth brag? Your download rate is like 100 times mine.
I've been playing through the two Bone games made by Telltale, and my opinions about them aren't favorable. I just wrote a review for the first one (Out from Boneville) and posted it on Steam. I decided to post it here too in case anyone wants to read it and isn't on my friends list; hope the rest of you don't mind!
I'll start this review with a confession: I haven't read the Bone comic books, so my only experience with this universe is through these games. This is Telltale's first adventure, and it shows. With that out of the way, I'll get to the first thing that's noticeable. Graphically it is bland and plain, and I found it boring to look at. Sometimes, the objects that had to be interacted with didn't stand out from the rest of the background, making a few puzzles an exercise in frustrating pixel hunting until you finally saw the cursor turn into the "interactive" indicator. Need to find something that hits hard? Good luck finding a rock that doesn't even look clickable among a sea of similarly unremarkable objects.
Speaking of puzzles, they weren't much fun to solve. None stood out as particularly clever or creative, but fortunately they weren't too hard either (mind you, I'm usually pretty terrible at point & click adventures, and yet I managed to beat this without using a guide). The minigames, however, were much harder to learn. In particular, there's a part where your character has to play hide-and-seek with some kids. You have to guide them so they can find him, but the game never tells you how this is done. Instead, all you get is three dialogue options, one of which makes them walk backwards, the other forwards and the last one turn in the same spot; every time they move they also turn to another direction. It took me a while to realize there was a method to this madness, and that the creatures didn't move randomly. It's even worse due to the game having a similar section before, with you trying to find the kids, that used the same words but completely different mechanics; of course, I tried applying what I had learned then and it didn't work. There were also a couple of chase sequences, which feature terrible controls and seem to last quite a lot (it doesn't help that they aren't any fun to play). At least the devs seem to be aware of how bad they were, because as soon as you lose once you get the option to skip them entirely. I chose not to, but looking back I should have.
The characters didn't appear to be likable to me, and some dialogues were plain annoying. I usually want to explore every option in this kind of games, but here I just wanted to get it over with. I had to force myself to check every dialogue option I could, and it was not worth it at all. There's a bit of humor there, but it's not written in a way that made me laugh. Maybe I would have related to the characters or appreciated them more had I read the comics, but as it stands I didn't care for any of them. This is no Wolf Among Us, that's for sure, but I still wasn't expecting it to be so dull.
All in all, there are barely any traces here of the greatness that would come with future Telltale titles, such as Sam & Max and The Walking Dead. It's not a terrible game, but a pretty mediocre one. I can't recommend it, not when there are much better games to play instead.
I'm not going to bother with a review for the sequel (The Great Cow Race) since it's more of the same. Dull and uninspired as the first one, only a little bit more refined. Longer too, at least double (2:40 and 4:40 hours respectively), but with some complicated puzzles that frustrated me a bit (also managed to beat them all without using a guide). Unless you are in love with these comics or something, I wouldn't give these games any of my time. Be glad I did it so you don't have to!
I'll start this review with a confession: I haven't read the Bone comic books, so my only experience with this universe is through these games. This is Telltale's first adventure, and it shows. With that out of the way, I'll get to the first thing that's noticeable. Graphically it is bland and plain, and I found it boring to look at. Sometimes, the objects that had to be interacted with didn't stand out from the rest of the background, making a few puzzles an exercise in frustrating pixel hunting until you finally saw the cursor turn into the "interactive" indicator. Need to find something that hits hard? Good luck finding a rock that doesn't even look clickable among a sea of similarly unremarkable objects.
Speaking of puzzles, they weren't much fun to solve. None stood out as particularly clever or creative, but fortunately they weren't too hard either (mind you, I'm usually pretty terrible at point & click adventures, and yet I managed to beat this without using a guide). The minigames, however, were much harder to learn. In particular, there's a part where your character has to play hide-and-seek with some kids. You have to guide them so they can find him, but the game never tells you how this is done. Instead, all you get is three dialogue options, one of which makes them walk backwards, the other forwards and the last one turn in the same spot; every time they move they also turn to another direction. It took me a while to realize there was a method to this madness, and that the creatures didn't move randomly. It's even worse due to the game having a similar section before, with you trying to find the kids, that used the same words but completely different mechanics; of course, I tried applying what I had learned then and it didn't work. There were also a couple of chase sequences, which feature terrible controls and seem to last quite a lot (it doesn't help that they aren't any fun to play). At least the devs seem to be aware of how bad they were, because as soon as you lose once you get the option to skip them entirely. I chose not to, but looking back I should have.
The characters didn't appear to be likable to me, and some dialogues were plain annoying. I usually want to explore every option in this kind of games, but here I just wanted to get it over with. I had to force myself to check every dialogue option I could, and it was not worth it at all. There's a bit of humor there, but it's not written in a way that made me laugh. Maybe I would have related to the characters or appreciated them more had I read the comics, but as it stands I didn't care for any of them. This is no Wolf Among Us, that's for sure, but I still wasn't expecting it to be so dull.
All in all, there are barely any traces here of the greatness that would come with future Telltale titles, such as Sam & Max and The Walking Dead. It's not a terrible game, but a pretty mediocre one. I can't recommend it, not when there are much better games to play instead.
I'm not going to bother with a review for the sequel (The Great Cow Race) since it's more of the same. Dull and uninspired as the first one, only a little bit more refined. Longer too, at least double (2:40 and 4:40 hours respectively), but with some complicated puzzles that frustrated me a bit (also managed to beat them all without using a guide). Unless you are in love with these comics or something, I wouldn't give these games any of my time. Be glad I did it so you don't have to!
Man, this was a pretty fun game! Sadly I got stuck in the scenery once, and that forced me to replay the whole level. Don't think I ever came back since then.Graphics remind me of De Blob on Wii/DS.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Yeah, I just found out my dorm gets these speeds. Never had anything close to it before, it feels... unethical.
As in, out? (In no particular order, across all kinds of styles)
- Tomb Raider
- Murdered Soul Suspect
- Just Cause 2
- Saints Row IV
- SHOGUN 2
- Deus Ex Human Revolution
- Guacamelee
- Mutant Blobs
- Banner Saga
- Alien vs Predator
- Sleepydogs
- Titan Quest
- Supreme Commander
- Alien
Atraveller
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Totally not showing off.Tell me about it. I'm going to have to leave my computer on overnight.
Tell me about it. I'm going to have to leave my computer on overnight.
I only manage 1.2MB/s.
Haunted
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Tell me about it. I'm going to have to leave my computer on overnight.
Hero Prinny
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hey steamgaf it seems like my mom is serious about getting my bro a gaming pc (we've had the motherboard and os just lying around here for almost a year) and graphics cards are pretty confusing with all their numbers, we have a budget of like $500 or something and the graphics card is the most expensive thing(the 2nd being the processor, this is the processor I'll be getting btw since the motherboard i have is for amd: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009O7YORK/?tag=neogaf0e-20)
but my question is which one of these graphic cards are better:
the gtx 750Ti:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IDG3IDO/?tag=neogaf0e-20
or the gtx 660 overclocked:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00966IREK/?tag=neogaf0e-20
i wish these names were more consumer friendly with their name for us newbies. >.>
but my question is which one of these graphic cards are better:
the gtx 750Ti:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IDG3IDO/?tag=neogaf0e-20
or the gtx 660 overclocked:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00966IREK/?tag=neogaf0e-20
i wish these names were more consumer friendly with their name for us newbies. >.>
MMBosstones86
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abracadaver
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Anyone still selling AMD codes?
From deviant art, but it looks nice.
http://derianl.deviantart.com/art/Elizabeth-Chase-Olsen-474649608
Hero Prinny
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You're gonna come back with a drawing of Queen Elizaberth aren't you.
MarcoZombieCannon
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All dat salt.
Hero Prinny
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... actually when he said Elizabeth the first person who i thought he was talking about was the queen >_> But its the girl from Godzilla that he means. Its going to be ace guys, just you watch, + its going to be made with the power of friendship so shadownet will HAVE to use it for at least a week or he's a shitty friend cause I'm not doing this for the code, I'm doing this FOR FRIENDSHIP! :3
... actually when he said Elizabeth the first person who i thought he was talking about was the queen >_> But its the girl from Godzilla that he means. Its going to be ace guys, just you watch, + its going to be made with the power of friendship so shadownet will HAVE to use it for at least a week or he's a shitty friend cause I'm not doing this for the code, I'm doing this FOR FRIENDSHIP! :3
So then I can have the code?
Nice friendship ring btw.
Tell me about it. I'm going to have to leave my computer on overnight.
damn you first world.
Intheflorsh
Banned
660 would be better even if it wasn't overclocked.
Nvidia's naming scheme is suuuure dumb.
Haunted
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Hero Prinny
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ahh okay thanks man
do you know if theres a better graphics card than the 660 for a similar price to that one? make a better drawing than me(you won't), its going to be awesome. almost done with the layout, next will be all the extra details and then coloring it.
Is that Ashly Burch?
MarcoZombieCannon
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What did they change?I don't like the new changes to CS:GO
Edit: just found the changelog on reddit.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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So I think we all agree to vote Intheflorsh off the thread/island/prison next?
That's just Saints Row IV brah, but in like 4K
Intheflorsh
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Sorry guys, that was a mean thing to post in retrospect.
You could always get a 660ti for not that much more. I have one, it's still treating me well.
ahh okay thanks man
You could always get a 660ti for not that much more. I have one, it's still treating me well.
MarcoZombieCannon
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Dunno about now, but even a few months ago a GTX 760 was cheaper than the 660ti. And it has about the same performance.
Literally the only thing I know about SR IV is the dildo bat....sword.....stick....thing.
hit me up with that link
You... don't know about the dubstep gun?
I don't like the new changes to CS:GO
that bomb placement on d2. we 1.6 again.
legacyzero
Banned
Perfect LOL
Oh, I saw that in a Minecraft video that played before a youtube clip. Guess it was SR that they were parodying...
spindoctor
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I don't like the new changes to CS:GO
The CZ75 nerf was the most predictable change that was coming after how it was abused in Cologne. Can't judge the Cobble changes just from the text but this was another necessary step to stop it being so heavily CT biased.
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