Microtransactions brings on the delusional hordes.
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Microtransactions brings on the delusional hordes.
pretty done
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I thought that's what it was too, but apparently lots of people seem to not like the story/end of the game.
Wok
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Humble Store trolling or what? Not a great deal for Battleborn...
And Woven has a kickstarter and a demo on Steam:
And Woven has a kickstarter and a demo on Steam:
Well, I can see that point. The last act of the game does feel a bit abrupt.
'Bad performance' - I don't own the game, but from my understanding the game does have some bugs, but also has some performance heavy settings. Majority of people complaining about the latter, are likely those people that set everything to max and then wonder why they have performance problems.
'Microtransactions' - Seems like a non-issue due to their implementation.
'Ending' - I don't know if people remember, but Human Revolution ended similarly to Mass Effect 3. It's difficult to end a long game in a satisfying way.
I think Michonne is interesting so far, i'm in the 2nd ep and the game pushed you to make more negative choices than what you usually get with these sort of games where you're either neutral or a good guy, the bad choices are usually "be a dick" in these games which isn't really the case here
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
PC fanboys, man.
Kudo
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My feelings exactly. Got brand new GTX 1070 and week later it's electronic waste, thanks Deus Ex.
The ending is actually pretty bad though, and felt like the game was just beginning.
Spring-Loaded
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Entitled gamer
Sales for it don't seem to be too hot either.
Maybe its time to reboot the series?
Get rid of that crappy Jensen character.
Kudo
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I don't get it.
Crimsonclaw111
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I'm gonna sell my 770 4gb, asking $100 from a friend. That's not a rip, right? Seems about the price on eBay after fees anyway.
That has little to do with its quality though, it's a great game.
Based on what context? The game seems to be doing well compared to historical numbers from the first game. Steamspy wasn't around back then, but the game sold 2 million copies over three platforms through its first month.
Selling ~400,000 copies up front seems to be keeping pace, if not surpassing the early sales of the first game.
The Dear Leader
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That seems pretty good for the 4gb version.
Regginator
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The ending is actually pretty good, meaning it sets some things in motion. It starts amazing as well. It's just that the majority in between is very uninteresting and not very Deus Ex-like. By the time the story finally grabs some hold of you with (
GARM Switzerland
APEX London
It's my GOTY so far. ¯\_(ツ
_/¯ If only the main story overall was on par with the great visual design and excellent level design, I think this would have been my game of the generation SO FAR, no doubt.Crimsonclaw111
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Oh good. He wants to upgrade from his dying 5870 and I want a 1070 so this is win/win.
Kudo
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The ending is actually pretty good, meaning it sets some things in motion. It starts amazing as well. It's just that the majority in between is very uninteresting and not very Deus Ex-like. By the time the story finally grabs some hold of you with () and the last level (GARM Switzerland), you're greeted with an insulting "YOU'VE UNLOCKED NEW GAME+!!" pop-up.APEX London
It's my GOTY so far. ¯\_(ツ
I thought the
news was just really cheap and lame, the secret bit during credits was nice touch though.
I wasn't just talking about pc sales.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1274344&
Seems to be underperforming on consoles.
Wow, performances for Michonne Episode 3 are...awful.
The game for me like freezed for a whole minute, I was manually closing it when it started running again. One loading point around the end of the game is like 80 seconds long. I wonder how this game runs on Ps3.
Also the final time for the whole game is 3.4 hours, awful if you consider it's 15€ and there's barely a gameplay here. I mean, at least in walking simulators or games like Abzu you need to explore, here it's an onrail experience with zero freedom.
Another interesting thing to note:
-Walking Dead Season 1 was 15 hours for me, by reading Steam play time (it also includes 400 days).
-Walking Dead Season 2 was 8 hours.
-Walking Dead Michonne was 3.4 hours.
-Games of Thrones was 10 hours (but there were six episodes and not five)
-Tales from the Borderlands was 10 hours too.
And this excluding Sam & Max games, since they were around 3-4 hours for each episode.
970 with 16gb of Ram here, but for a game like this, it's clear TT didn't optimize it at all, it should run on a potatoe, considering the engine is still the one from Sam & Max (only Batman has the "new" engine and we already read about it...)
The game for me like freezed for a whole minute, I was manually closing it when it started running again. One loading point around the end of the game is like 80 seconds long. I wonder how this game runs on Ps3.
Also the final time for the whole game is 3.4 hours, awful if you consider it's 15€ and there's barely a gameplay here. I mean, at least in walking simulators or games like Abzu you need to explore, here it's an onrail experience with zero freedom.
Another interesting thing to note:
-Walking Dead Season 1 was 15 hours for me, by reading Steam play time (it also includes 400 days).
-Walking Dead Season 2 was 8 hours.
-Walking Dead Michonne was 3.4 hours.
-Games of Thrones was 10 hours (but there were six episodes and not five)
-Tales from the Borderlands was 10 hours too.
And this excluding Sam & Max games, since they were around 3-4 hours for each episode.
970 with 16gb of Ram here, but for a game like this, it's clear TT didn't optimize it at all, it should run on a potatoe, considering the engine is still the one from Sam & Max (only Batman has the "new" engine and we already read about it...)
pantsattack
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Does anyone have a high quality Steam pic (logo or whatever) I can use for my PC lockscreen?
I'm taking my PC to a Mac/PS4 user friend's house and I want to boot into Big Picture for a nice impression.
I'm taking my PC to a Mac/PS4 user friend's house and I want to boot into Big Picture for a nice impression.
no gaben please
it runs fine for me (yeah i have a 1060 gtx, but at 2880x1620@60fps, it should be fine at lower hardware), maybe I'm just lucky with these games :0
Just sticking to the PC demographic here as discussing console sales is a whole other beast entirely.
Seems to have positive returns on PC so far.
It's the Telltale Engine, doesn't perform well anywhere.
I recommend turning your lockscreen off. I turned mine off a long time ago and it makes for a much easier user experience on boot and you can still manually lock the screen (win + L) on command.
Homefront is actually alright, I enjoyed what I played through the weekend. A shame that it released in a semi-broken state, really nesses uo the perfection of the game. Publisher really need to learn to not rush things and let devs polish as much as they can before release. A bad launch can fuck up a game completely.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I just finished Homefront: The Revolution's single player campaign. The game was pretty cool - it's like Far Cry without the sex, drugs, or exotic locale. Lots of stuff to collect and see and do. It was definitely worth playing for free, and I think I could easily recommend it for $20. $24 might be a bit of a stretch though. I am kinda disappointed with the inclusion of all the multiplayer achievements, that's always a shame. I unlocked 25/50 although there are about 10 more that are single player that would take a much more significant time investment.
Am I the only idiot who got the game bugged in the first 100% bar you need to fill in order to progress?
Should be a quote on the store page
Are you sure it bugged? Did you liberate all the outposts in that area?
Yes I did all the activities and I kept doing them for 40 minutes, the bar got stuck on 91% and won't progress, I quitted the game, booted again and nothing. So I uninstalled it.
You need to do different types of actions. Same actions won't give more after few repeats.
I see. I was stuck at 95℅ and it wouldnt increase more when saving people or destroying the machines. It turned out I needed to take over a outposts that was a bit behind the main area.
Yeah I often wondered that, just how they were making it run so well. Sure it's in the desert but damn does it look great. Performe aside, I'm also impressed that they managed to make varied types of areas.
yeah, it shouldn't run that bad on a 970, game's engine is probably just weird/bad
it's probably has problems but I've ran all their games with my 760gtx and 1060gtx at 2880x1620 so far without flaws
Jawmuncher
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You know I never have issues with Telltale games on PC. They seem to run fine for me and since I use a controller, the prompts are never an issue. It's still outdated even with Batman, but I can see why they're still able to get mileage out of it. Obviously it could be better though.
Stallion Free
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The multiplayer stuff is definitely a bit grindy. I played an hour or so with randoms on Saturday morning and even in the easy missions there seemed to be some difficulty spikes for low level players. Beating a mission on hard will definitely require 4 decently leveled players with solid gear. The citations are going to take some time too.
LurkerPrime
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Huh. I got two instances of twenty second freezes while playing TWD: Michonne Ep 3. I just assumed it was my computer dying, didn't think that TellTale's engine was that awful.
My playtimes are a bit longer than yours, but either way TWD: S1 has an edge because it was still straddling the line between adventure game and cinematic adventure game. Like, it's the only one that had extended segments of just "wandering around" where you could do more than talk to a few people and automatically proceed into the next scene.
PetriP-TNT
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The story is dumb and is only explained in the DLC, but pretty much everything else in that game is superb. Resident Evil 4 refined. It's also surprisingly hard. The hatred for the black bars was ridiculous too, I posted somewhere on GAF how the game is brilliantly designed around the black bars being in and removing them not only reduces the challenge but also makes the games secrets and traps way more obvious.
pantsattack
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You don't even do an initial log in?
Jawmuncher
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I feel like the game was Mikami just throwing way too many ingredients in one pot. There's so many ideas there, that to me nothing ever comes off as fully done. It has it's moments and is a decent game for 20 or less USD. But I expect more from Mikami than just decent. A big part was the story is fucking trash. Maybe that gets a bit better with the DLC I have yet to play. But I didn't care about any of the characters, or the motivation of getting to the end and stopping the bad guy. RE1 and DC didn't have that issue. The characters left an impression and were likeable from the get go. I don't even remember the name of any character in The Evil Within. But as you can see the game is rather divided. Some love it completely, some love it by looking past the flaws, some think it's ok (my camp), and other's just hate it.
If you make a thread on gaming side about it, you'll see.
I really liked Evil Within, for sure one of the best survival horror of the mid-gen. The only thing I didn't like it was I had zero fear when playing it. That was a bummer for a survival horror, but level design, characters and gameplay were great.
Dunno, as I wrote I interacted with literally every icon on the map, including vehicles to destroy, outposts etc, but it was simply stuck :S
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Jawmuncher
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Then is it really survival-horror? I know horror and all that is subjective. But I don't think any big budget horror games can be classified as Survival horror. When you have that much action, I just don't think it's possible.
Really it's the survival part that ends up being argued. Since difficulty can vastly influence that as well.
derExperte
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No reason to if you're the only one using the PC and it's not at a place accessible by random people.
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