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STEAM | September 2015 - The Phantom Pre-Load or: AAA Movies Are Just +1s To Us

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mulac

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My current "problem":

Valkayrie Chronicles - started this last week and cant put it down...
Arkham Knight - not yet started
MGS5 - not yet started
Witcher 3 - started it last week aswell, not gone back to it yet
Mega Man Collection - huge mega man fan so need to finish this

Where to start?!?!?!
 

Salsa

Member
My current "problem":

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My current "problem":

Valkayrie Chronicles - started this last week and cant put it down...
Arkham Knight - not yet started
MGS5 - not yet started
Witcher 3 - started it last week aswell, not gone back to it yet
Mega Man Collection - huge mega man fan so need to finish this

Where to start?!?!?!

Might as well wait on Arkham Knight due to the patching stuff, so that's out.

MGS5 can wait if you haven't started it, unless spoilers really bother you then you might want to go through it. It will be a while if you're a completionist, though, just like all these open world games you list.

The Witcher 3 is great and you should continue playing it, but there will be reason enough to continue playing it in a month or two when the expansion pass content drops.

MMC whenevs, because you clearly want to play it!

Valkyria Chronicles should be your first priority. It can be difficult to dive back into RPGs and strategy games, so focusing on it until completed is my recommendation. It's also rather good, like everything on your list except Arkham Knight.
 

Jawmuncher

Member
Crazy. I don't know how you have the willpower to focus like that. There's so much stuff that's great on the sidelines!

You'll have to try just enjoying a game one of these days, rather than being solely focused on 'completing' it. After all, there's more to a game than reaching the credits.

It takes a rare game for me to sit down and do absolutely everything. The last games that come to mind are all 3 mass effects. Most of the time I don't feel the side quests are worth it, but I do dab my feet in them. Such as the entire red baron quest line in Witcher 3. All in All I say I still enjoy my games. But this is also why I much prefer linear fare. I'm more story and the journey the game offers, over exploration and all of that.
 

CheesecakeRecipe

Stormy Grey
Bodes real well for MGO doesn't it.

I kinda wondered if the 4 month delay for PC MGO was to work on a better scheme to protect against hackers. But I think the length of the delay is enough to kill the game just as badly as a hacker ridden den.

Sucks either way, because I was hoping to get some life out of it. :c
 

CheesecakeRecipe

Stormy Grey
Over 65.5 days of L4D2?
HOW?!

Lots of mods (you can see a slightly outdated list of what I was using lately on this screenshot's page), and a huge community of players who used to play 4-5 realism versus matches a day. We are quite a dysfunctional family, always tearing each other to pieces and throwing each other off of buildings. The first 1,100 hours came really quickly, then around the time Borderlands 2 came out we all started to feel the burnout and played other games for a while. Now we load up every once in a while after surfing the workshop for new gun model replacements or goofy things like Macho Man as the Tank.

If Steam were keeping track of my game hours for CS 1.6 and Source back when I played those, the numbers there would dwarf my L4D2 hours.
 

Cth

Member
So, Armello is amazing.

It's like Catan mixed with Magic the Gathering, Fluxx, Talisman and probably some others I'm leaving out (set in a Redwall environment)

4 different win conditions, unlockables, gorgeous art (animated cards to a diorama-ish view setting) Lots of ways to play and win strategy wise.

Supposedly cross play is in the works.
 

rtcn63

Member
With regards to MGSV,
is there any reason not to pick up rank D and E soldiers? I've been trying to focus on C and higher, but recruit numbers are low. And can I ditch soldiers later?
 

iosefe

Member
So, Armello is amazing.

It's like Catan mixed with Magic the Gathering, Fluxx, Talisman and probably some others I'm leaving out (set in a Redwall environment)

4 different win conditions, unlockables, gorgeous art (animated cards to a diorama-ish view setting) Lots of ways to play and win strategy wise.

Supposedly cross play is in the works.
Played with dongs macabre tonight. Ended up in a game with a sec names Xiao. Unfortunately he left early in the game
 

CheesecakeRecipe

Stormy Grey
With regards to MGSV,
is there any reason not to pick up rank D and E soldiers? I've been trying to focus on C and higher, but recruit numbers are low.

Go ahead and siphon them up at the start. As you progress through the story missions, the extras will be automatically sorted into new departments and eventually the grades of skill will start rising in general. Better soldiers always seemed to push the weaker ones out into the waiting room, where I would later mass-dismiss all the E and D grade soldiers left over from the start.
 

Jawmuncher

Member
With regards to MGSV,
is there any reason not to pick up rank D and E soldiers? I've been trying to focus on C and higher, but recruit numbers are low. And can I ditch soldiers later?

lol Thats not a spoiler. Also no, you get so many recruits just from completeing missions and other things that it's not worth getting low level guys.
 

oipic

Member
It's like Catan mixed with Magic the Gathering, Fluxx, Talisman and probably some others I'm leaving out (set in a Redwall environment)

The Armello devs should pop this quote onto their store page, Cth - ticks so many boxes, and I'm now super-intrigued, interest is fully piqued etc. Sounds great!
 

Dongs Macabre

aka Daedalos42
The Armello devs should pop this quote onto their store page, Cth - ticks so many boxes, and I'm now super-intrigued, interest is fully piqued etc. Sounds great!

"It's like Monopoly meets Yu-Gi-Oh! meets Guardians of Ga'Hoole."
-Dongs Macabre

The game's really fun. I'm terrible at it, though. Io's way better at it than me.
 
Dino Crisis 2(PC) has some weird things with it's internal resolution but, that could have existed with Dino Crisis 1(PC) as well. I am talking about in terms of trying to record stuff. If you try to record anything outside of it's native res it doesn't like it.

You can't customize button layout as well as DC1 so that would need to also be addressed if Capcom ever reissued these games. That said the keyboard controls for DC2 are pretty good.
 
I have to go replay a handful of missions on MGSV to get a couple of specialist I missed that are tied to multiple upgrade trees for stuff that I really want... this kind of sucks.
 

Cth

Member
The Armello devs should pop this quote onto their store page, Cth - ticks so many boxes, and I'm now super-intrigued, interest is fully piqued etc. Sounds great!

Tutorial was really helpful too.. These kind of games can be overwhelming to learn all the rules at first. As weird as that may sound. The reward/unlockables keep you interested until the game clicks enough for you to win.

EDIT : and it's really well balanced too.. Day/night cycles with class bonuses, race bonuses, etc.
 

Dsyndrome

Member
Nuuvem's indeed gotten tricky, no Dying Light for me. Always thwarts me saying that it's not available; with the VPN set to Argentina, I get to the part where it's authenticating after doing the Paypal part.

Oh well, site's still good for non-VPN purchases.
 

Dusk Golem

A 21st Century Rockefeller
I feel like I play some games a lot, but then I see other people's times and I feel inferior.

I think my problem is I have too many games to play, and I end up playing so many. As of the last 4 or so years, I've completed over 100 games per year, most being around 5-11 hours long.

Also to that dirty confession, I bring up I almost always play games in 720p windowed mode, but this is partially because of all the streaming/recording I do and my own set-up, since of my monitor it takes up most of my screen anyways but enough to see the chat and recording output, there's no room where I am to put a second monitor anywhere practical so I make due with what I've got.

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Speaking of beating games, I just beat Old City: Leviathan. I liked it, but I feel it's a game most wouldn't like. It's a walking simulator with wonderful art direction and graphics, some really striking scenes, beautiful music, and hidden scenes and some horror elements, but the narrative was almost told entirely in exposition dumps, of both the talking to yourself kind and long files that go on for pages, and the narrative eventually went on overly about perception and truth and how it leads to conflict and war that we must all believe in some pre-perceived truth and deflect that which challenges our views rather than taking the journey to understand others. The writing was good, and I ended up enjoying the narrative (ending was okay), and the horror elements were nice and sometimes even super subtle, but as a whole I'd find it a hard game to recommend to most unless they were interested in investing time to explore the world (actually had a lot of branching and interconnecting pathways) and read everything, which takes a while.
 

Lolcomin

Banned
Nuuvem's indeed gotten tricky, no Dying Light for me. Always thwarts me saying that it's not available; with the VPN set to Argentina, I get to the part where it's authenticating after doing the Paypal part.

Oh well, site's still good for non-VPN purchases.
Yo I just got dying light yesterday with a Vpn though
 

Deitus

Member
I haven't really posted much this week, since I've been busy with MGS V, but then I pop into the thread and see the last several pages are full of madness.

You should all be ashamed
of your words and deeds
.
 
Why waste time on something that they were trying to do for cheap in the first place?

It only took a couple of weeks for a modder to do that.
Actually, we don't know when did he actually started the modding. Perhaps it's way faster than that.

I get it that their sole purpose is just to re-release the game on PC. However, they actually showed some efforts to enhance the game by adding new shadows and other nice things. But why did it half-hearted?

I feel like I play some games a lot, but then I see other people's times and I feel inferior.

I think my problem is I have too many games to play, and I end up playing so many. As of the last 4 or so years, I've completed over 100 games per year, most being around 5-11 hours long.

Also to that dirty confession, I bring up I almost always play games in 720p windowed mode, but this is partially because of all the streaming/recording I do and my own set-up, since of my monitor it takes up most of my screen anyways but enough to see the chat and recording output, there's no room where I am to put a second monitor anywhere practical so I make due with what I've got.

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Speaking of beating games, I beat Old City: Leviathan. I liked it, but I feel it's a game most wouldn't like. It's a walking simulator with wonderful art direction and graphics, some really striking scenes, beautiful music, and hidden scenes and some horror elements, but the narrative was almost told entirely in exposition dumps, of both the talking to yourself kind and long files that go on for pages, and the narrative eventually went on overly about perception and truth and how it leads to conflict and war that we must all believe in some pre-perceived truth and deflect that which challenges our views rather than taking the journey to understand others. The writing was good, and I ended up enjoying the narrative (ending was okay), and the horror elements were nice and sometimes even super subtle, but as a whole I'd find it a hard game to recommend to most unless they were interested in investing time to explore the world (actually had a lot of branching and interconnecting pathways) and read everything, which takes a while.

That's why I'm limiting myself with the genre of games that I'll be playing. Most of the time, I only play RPGs. I can't imagine if I were to play everything out there, I'll be overwhelmed.
Even with my RPG only strategy, I still feel overwhelmed at times and I have to pick my games more carefully.
 

Tizoc

Member
I get it that their sole purpose is just to re-release the game on PC. However, they actually showed some efforts to enhance the game by adding new shadows and other nice things. But why did it half-hearted?

Maybe it had to do with how many people worked on the port+Release schedule?
 

fertygo

Member
Gungho even adding feature after just one patch, I don't know maybe they gonna even add these UI thing after new patch if no one mod it, no more reason for that I guess
 
Steam doesn't like me. I get on a few seconds, just enough for some notifications to pop up then no connection. Restart client, can't connect to network. Reset router, get on for a bit then offline.

EDIT: Back in. For now.
 
I don't know if I should feel sad about how low the posted playtimes other peoples most played games are or how high mine are.


Also, I bought a 20$ Steam card to add to my wallet but forgot why. The I remembered someone posting about Drifting Lands, which looks like an amazing shmup, buuuuut it isn't for sale.
 

Tizoc

Member
Gungho even adding feature after just one patch, I don't know maybe they gonna even add these UI thing after new patch if no one mod it, no more reason for that I guess

They did add 60 FPS option for battles, they're slowly going through with updates, but it's coming.

At least it isn't like TiTS 2nd Chapter :V
 
Can't believe Kojima's idea of confronting the issue of child soldiers is just saying "child soldier is bad mmkay? and we should help them" in cassette tapes.
 
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