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STEAM | September II 2014 - Ride the Lightning
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Kaleinc
Banned
Civ has no 6GB VRAM requirement.
Atraveller
Banned
I'm going to wait for the complete edition.
We were desperately in need of a new benchmark warrior. Also, it's Monolith baby.
Yeah I have a GTX 760. if you look right above I posted a screenshot of the settings im using
is such a thing even possible?
No, they should not in any way impact each other.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Yep. But I am super interested.
I thought he switched to the 780 cards?
Well I don't know how the store determines the recommendations exactly (does it weight recently played more than others?) but I would imagine idling in games you wouldn't normally play would affect what pops up on the new front page, at least temporarily.
Atraveller
Banned
This is possible, my main account recommendations are way off base thanks to idling I assume. Meanwhile my "Steam Machine" account that mostly plays local multiplayer games has great recommendations.
Super Early Impression: Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor (About 1 hour into the game)
So as usual I'm just going to give you the synopsis of it. From Wikipedia.
As many of you already know, the game play a lot like if Batman and Assassin's Creeds have a baby. The stealth element is very well done, despite not having a lot of objects to hide behind. You have to rely on staying behind the enemy or on top of them. You can also distract them and lure them to your position. When you're near an enemy in stealth mode, you can execute a quick and satisfying kill. Though I'm pretty sure this won't work on all enemies (aka Captains). Combat is a lot like Batman games, where you have to freeflow your way from one enemy to another, attacking and countering. You can execute an enemy when you build up your meter past x8. You can also do this cool move where you grab an enemy by the face and drain him of his life force, which will recharge your "Elf-Shot" aka your bow. When using your bow, time slow down and you can pick off as many shots as you can until it run out. When fighting you use your sword, in stealth mode you use your dagger, which is pretty much a broken sword. Though to note, during finisher, it depends on the animation but you can use either your sword or dagger. Once you unlock the ability, you can even possess an enemy to fight for you or to do your dirty works.
The traversing and climbing of the game is very satisfying and familiar with any AC fan. You can run and jump off any cliff and take no damage, no haystack needed lol. You can scale any wall with ease. I climbed upon a wall, see an enemy below and just jumped down, stabbed him in the head, pulled out my bow and killed 3 orcs in perfect stealth. You can find runes by defeating enemies and completing missions to upgrade your weapons. Mix and match the runes to customize your gameplay style. You have your standard side quests and challenge missions. The one challenge mission I did so far, involved me having to stealth kill 10 orcs in under 3 minutes, and you get extra points if you do it completely undetected. You can also earn points by doing challenge missions that unlock special abilities.
Voice acting in this game is very good. Talion is voiced AND motion captured by Troy Baker, I'm just going to stop there cause we know how good he is. There's a good bit of emotions so far from the game and the story is decent. But don't go in expecting The Last of Us. I have not had a chance to experience the Nemesis system very much but from what I could see, the enemies are very well voiced and it seem to work pretty well. This one orc remembered the last encounter I had with him where I interrogated him for information on his Captain and let him go. Now he is branded a Coward.
Graphically, even on my GTX 760, the game look very pretty. Everything run smoothly without stuttering or texture pop in. Though I did notice, it was a bit laggy during the prologue when a new scene load. But haven't seen any since. I'm sure those who have a better graphic card are running this game even better. It's a gorgeous game. Though sometimes Talion's eyes can seem a bit dead, especially when the camera zoom far away.
I haven't heard much of the soundtrack yet, but from the few songs that were played. They were very fitting to the situation. It sounded like it came straight out of the Peter Jackson films.
Most satisfying thing in the game so far is when you get to do stuff like this.
So as usual I'm just going to give you the synopsis of it. From Wikipedia.
The game takes place between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. The family of Talion, a ranger of Gondor responsible for guarding the Black Gate of Mordor, is killed by Sauron's armies, but Talion is revived with "wraith-like abilities" and heads into Mordor to exact his revenge Mordor is not yet a barren wasteland in this story. The player will encounter Gollum in the game, discovering that Talion and Gollum have a lot in common. Talion discovers that the wraith who revived him is Celebrimbor, the greatest Elven smith master of the Second Age and the maker of the Rings of Power, who also seeks revenge against Sauron.
As many of you already know, the game play a lot like if Batman and Assassin's Creeds have a baby. The stealth element is very well done, despite not having a lot of objects to hide behind. You have to rely on staying behind the enemy or on top of them. You can also distract them and lure them to your position. When you're near an enemy in stealth mode, you can execute a quick and satisfying kill. Though I'm pretty sure this won't work on all enemies (aka Captains). Combat is a lot like Batman games, where you have to freeflow your way from one enemy to another, attacking and countering. You can execute an enemy when you build up your meter past x8. You can also do this cool move where you grab an enemy by the face and drain him of his life force, which will recharge your "Elf-Shot" aka your bow. When using your bow, time slow down and you can pick off as many shots as you can until it run out. When fighting you use your sword, in stealth mode you use your dagger, which is pretty much a broken sword. Though to note, during finisher, it depends on the animation but you can use either your sword or dagger. Once you unlock the ability, you can even possess an enemy to fight for you or to do your dirty works.
The traversing and climbing of the game is very satisfying and familiar with any AC fan. You can run and jump off any cliff and take no damage, no haystack needed lol. You can scale any wall with ease. I climbed upon a wall, see an enemy below and just jumped down, stabbed him in the head, pulled out my bow and killed 3 orcs in perfect stealth. You can find runes by defeating enemies and completing missions to upgrade your weapons. Mix and match the runes to customize your gameplay style. You have your standard side quests and challenge missions. The one challenge mission I did so far, involved me having to stealth kill 10 orcs in under 3 minutes, and you get extra points if you do it completely undetected. You can also earn points by doing challenge missions that unlock special abilities.
Voice acting in this game is very good. Talion is voiced AND motion captured by Troy Baker, I'm just going to stop there cause we know how good he is. There's a good bit of emotions so far from the game and the story is decent. But don't go in expecting The Last of Us. I have not had a chance to experience the Nemesis system very much but from what I could see, the enemies are very well voiced and it seem to work pretty well. This one orc remembered the last encounter I had with him where I interrogated him for information on his Captain and let him go. Now he is branded a Coward.
Graphically, even on my GTX 760, the game look very pretty. Everything run smoothly without stuttering or texture pop in. Though I did notice, it was a bit laggy during the prologue when a new scene load. But haven't seen any since. I'm sure those who have a better graphic card are running this game even better. It's a gorgeous game. Though sometimes Talion's eyes can seem a bit dead, especially when the camera zoom far away.
I haven't heard much of the soundtrack yet, but from the few songs that were played. They were very fitting to the situation. It sounded like it came straight out of the Peter Jackson films.
Most satisfying thing in the game so far is when you get to do stuff like this.
I can't wait to play more of it tomorrow, but this game in my opinion is a lot like Dishonored. Came out of nowhere, people didn't expect much and it took everyone by surprise. Definite GOTY contender for me.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
I can certainly get down with more games even halfway like Dishonored.
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
that's what you get for reading gaf at work
phoenix296
Member
This page won't load for me. I fear for mobile users.
Atraveller
Banned
Enable hardware acceleration in your flash player's settings.
Niiice. I should test that deluge of gifs on my shitty laptop.
On another topic, New Red Team drivers won't allow driver-side Vsync on Doom 3 BFG. OpenGL jacked up again? 14.4 doesn't have this issue so fuck me.
Evidently Frogwares needs to go a different route with the Sherlock games. Maybe a "cinematic", narrative-driven FPS named Sherlock'n'Load.
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Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
Shadow of Mordor kind of looks like Ass Creed in Middle Earth
Is it good?
Like on a scale from Ass Creed (bad) to Dark Souls (good), where would you guys put it?
Is it good?
Like on a scale from Ass Creed (bad) to Dark Souls (good), where would you guys put it?
Sherlock only has 1 review out so far. So hold your horses. But with how well Shadow of Mordor is doing. It's going to be tough to beat.
If you like Batman and AC gameplay set in Middle Earth setting. Then you can't go wrong with this game.
But seeing as how you dislike AC. You might hate it. Also I think you hurts JaseC's feeling..
is there any way to sav your steam's categories in some sort of file like you can do with a browser's bookmarks? Just realized when I switch to the new rig I will lose all of it and it filled me with dread, and not the judge kind >_>
I'm pretty sure they carry over.Saved in the clouds.
Steam categories are saved in a file, namely Steam\userdata\[account id]\7\remote\sharedconfig.vdf. Steam backs up this file to the cloud upon start-up, though:
If you want to be super-safe, add -console to Steam's target line and check the "Console" tab for the above lines.
I went and explored all old bundle purchases and found like 10 games I wasn't aware of! Was especially surprised to see that the Brandon Boyer bundle has had a couple of very late additions, I followed that one pretty closely and remember Actual Sunlight was added to it like a month later so these two must be even later.
Anyway, one of them got me this:
Too bad it's never selling for that.
Anyway, one of them got me this:
Too bad it's never selling for that.
Woah Shadow, that screen looks ominous...
I hope it was an unfortunate shot, in one of the rare occasions where the scene doesn't have neither shadows nor an actual background...
Woah Shadow, that screen looks ominous...
I hope it was an unfortunate shot, in one of the rare occasions where the scene doesn't have neither shadows nor an actual background...
Which one are you talking about? the 1st of 2nd screenshot?
Yup you can!
it's here:
STEAMFOLDER\userdata\USERID\7\remote\sharedconfig.vdf
(steamfolder = your actual steam folder, not additional libraries
userid = if only one user ever logged into your steam, then there's only one folder, if not... uuuh I don't know...
)This one:
(the other was a setting screen, and i'm kinda fine with it not casting shadows
)
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Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
Well tbh I have only played the first Ass Creed, and I have never played a batman game :O
jediyoshi
Member
FTFY
Not gonna lie, I shivered.
The Dear Leader
Banned
That cloak, so good.
Posted this in the OT but I thought CloakGraphicsTech was too good not to share.
Does dat cloak have Batman level PhysX movement?
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
my cloaking demand for this game increases
I'm a sucker for a good videogame cloak/cape.
Yeah when I was talking with Roboito, he showed me a screenshot of that part in the game. It had no shadow at all which really confused me. But It was really bright day time.. so that's probably was why.(the other was a setting screen, and i'm kinda fine with it not casting shadows
What settings are you running it on man?
LurkerPrime
Member
Firaxis doesn't need hype so long as they keep designing great games.
There's a reason something like Civ5 tops the sales charts... and it isn't because of a $500m marketing spend.
The Dear Leader
Banned
It's damn close, maybe not quite as good as PhysX but it's one of the best cloaks I've seen.
Then this game is for you, even the default one looks great.
Mix of High and Ultra, with tessalation on Medium, I even kicked the textures up to high on my 2gb 7850 and it still runs great, in the 40-60FPS area.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Wait, how are you guys running Shadow Of Mordor, I read on NeoGAF that it would be impossible to run on current hardware because it neeeeeeds 6 gigabytes of VRAM
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Quantum computers man, can't fucks without it
The Dear Leader
Banned
The 6gigerbutts of VehRams was only for the ultra textures, which come in it's own texture pack, some people are having a rough time running it others like myself, are having it run fine on midrange hardware. The hysteria was greatly exaggerated I think.
Abomination
Member
Nice site, The RAM download just took me three minutes. Now I am upgraded like the best of them
Now you're playing with power.
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