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[efyu_lemonardo]

And that sometimes is easier to suffocate things than fight them.

when is it not easier?

 

[smr00]

So how random are booster packs? Admittedly, I've only just qualified, but I'd like to know how often these things pop up. Do they pop up for multiple games on a regular basis?

I would like to know this as well because i have only gotten 1 pack since it came out of beta and i have multiple games ready to get them with a +40% chance from my steam level.

 

[Rickenslacker]

Fire and Sword worth it? Or is Warband enough?

Warband is pretty much the one thing you need. Fire and Sword were apparently made by a different dev team and wasn't as well received while Warband effectively overwrites the original by being a standalone expansion that includes everything from the original and then some.

 

[marrec]

And that sometimes is easier to suffocate things than fight them.

Also sometimes, it's easier to suffocate part of your crew than to let those Mantis into your shield system.

Sorry Steve Austin, I'll always remember you.

 

[Cheddahz]

Fire and Sword worth it? Or is Warband enough?

I've heard Fire and Sword just plays out like a really bad mod

 

[itllgrobak]

Got a Don't Starve Booster pack a few hours ago, opened it and got a foil.
Sold it for $1.40

 

[nacimento]

The 1 negative "Critic" review is Tom Chick's wildly ridiculous 40. User score for this one reflects my own opinion, as well. Buy this game.

Neocore should do King Arthur 3 (like King Arthur 1)...

 

[Huevos de Oro]

Fire and Sword worth it? Or is Warband enough?

Warband is enough, judging by most accounts. That's the one I own and it was pretty fun.

 

[Prophane33]

Fire and Sword worth it? Or is Warband enough?

Warband is enough. Might also want to grab the Napoleonic Wars expansion.

 

[marrec]

Got a Don't Starve Booster pack a few hours ago, opened it and got a foil.
Sold it for $1.40

Ugh, you probably fart leprechauns as well.

 

[super-famicom]

Fire and Sword worth it? Or is Warband enough?

Other posters say Warband seems to be enough, especially since it's the base for all the mods you can use. I heard Fire and Sword wasn't really meaty enough.

But I just started playing Warband yesterday and am liking it so far!

Edit: read this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=625961
It made me buy the game and spend over my summer sale budget!

 

[antitrop]

Not that I think there's a lot of value in Metacritic, but Tom Chick is becoming more and more difficult for me to defend. His CoH 2 and Brave New World reviews are Armond White levels of contrarian ridiculousness, but without all of the good stuff (invented words, out-of-place Spielberg and Tyler Perry comparisons) that makes Armond entertaining.

His 3/5 for The Last of Us makes me kind of butthurt, since it's my favorite game of the last 16 years.

 

[~Kinggi~]

Is Van Helsing actually a good game? It looks like Diablo, i like that stuff.

 

[hlhbk]

Is Resident Evil 6 worth $20?

 

[Mr. Poolman]

Also sometimes, it's easier to suffocate part of your crew than to let those Mantis into your shield system.

Sorry Steve Austin, I'll always remember you.

Now you are a true fleet commander my friend

 

[The Super Bob]

I've also become a bit better at FTL. I have reached the 6th sector but what usually kills me is that I can never strike balance to have a well rounded death machine. When I have a lot of crew, I end up having shit weapons. The opposite is also true.

I got it when it was special offer at their own site a few weeks ago. Managed to get to the end and roundly got my ass handed to me.

Super addictive though and a lot of fun.

I've tried some of the mods as well and there are loads of great ones.

 

[jshackles]

Is Van Helsing actually a good game? It looks like Diablo, i like that stuff.

If you like Diablo (especially Diablo II) you'll like Van Helsing.

 

[itllgrobak]

Ugh, you probably fart leprechauns as well.

haha, I've only gotten three foils since the beta (and two booster packs).

 

[GK86]

Order I quoted, is the order of the winners. So pick between Max Payne 1, Max Payne 2 or Portal 2.

Nope, still in Romanian. I'm not using a proxy and I didn't hit anything, just randomly happened this morning. Not sure whether it's Enhanced Steam but when I go to my page in Steam itself, it's in English and so is my page in an incognito window.

Warband is pretty much the one thing you need. Fire and Sword were apparently made by a different dev team and wasn't as well received while Warband effectively overwrites the original by being a standalone expansion that includes everything from the original and then some.

Nope, I needed 1 or 2 votes left to get a new getaway card.

Nope.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

I got it when it was special offer at their own site a few weeks ago. Managed to get to the end and roundly got my ass handed to me.

Super addictive though and a lot of fun.

I've tried some of the mods as well and there are loads of great ones.

mods, you say? like what?

 

[Prophane33]

Wondering if I should take the gamble and open this booster for a chance to get a foil I can sell for $.54~.64. Sell the booster for $.43 or open it and get three $.08 cards. I need Kenny Rogers.

 

[antitrop]

I was pumped for the game when it went on sale but I read earlier in this thread that the co-op is completely broken?

I wanted to play it with the wife but if the co-op is broken then I think I will pass.

As far as I know it's only online co-op that's broken? I think local co-op is fine.
I'm not sure, though, I could totally be wrong, I played the game in single player.

If someone has had poor local co-op experiences with Van Helsing by all means say so.

 

[Odrion]

Is Van Hellsing any better than Path of Exile or Torchlight 2? How's the "feel" of the combat, do the hits have the same sort of "oomf" as Diablo? How deep and balanced is the looting and skill system?

 

[jshackles]

Nope, still in Romanian. I'm not using a proxy and I didn't hit anything, just randomly happened this morning. Not sure whether it's Enhanced Steam but when I go to my page in Steam itself, it's in English and so is my page in an incognito window.

Definitely weird. If you temporarily disable Enhanced Steam, is it still in Romanian?

 

[PixyJunket]

where the hell did the rarest cheevo box run off to?

It's been busted since the beta.

 

[Dingotech]

As far as I know it's only online co-op that's broken? I think local co-op is fine.
I'm not sure, though, I could totally be wrong, I played the game in single player.

If someone has had poor local co-op experiences with Van Helsing by all means say so.

Local co-op as in a LAN connection between two PCs?

 

[chugen]

oh boy

 

[Prophane33]

oh boy

This isn't a competition.

 

[antitrop]

Local co-op as in a LAN connection between two PCs?

That's what I was assuming you would be doing.

 

[Chance Hale]

Max Payne 2, whoever quotes me first can have it.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

mods, you say? like what?

I remember reading there was one that takes away the progression and endgame stuff, so you get to hop among the stars FOREVER.

I might have read that wrong, though.

 

[Cth]

Max Payne 2, whoever quotes me first can have it.

me?

 

[TheExodu5]

So how bad is Risen 2? I loved the first game. It was one of the few RPG worlds I actually enjoyed exploring.

 

[Rickenslacker]

Order I quoted, is the order of the winners. So pick between Max Payne 1, Max Payne 2 or Portal 2.

I have all of those and would hate to be a regifter, you can give the unpicked game to someone else. Sorry! Thanks a lot for the giveaway though!

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Nope, still in Romanian. I'm not using a proxy and I didn't hit anything, just randomly happened this morning. Not sure whether it's Enhanced Steam but when I go to my page in Steam itself, it's in English and so is my page in an incognito window.

are you using any region price checker or some similar plugin?

 

[Borman]

Long shot, but I have an extra copy of Star Wars Battlefront II that I would trade for XCOM. PM me if you happen to be interested

 

[chugen]

This isn't a competition.

gee thanks for reminding me

 

[Momentary]

Good to see Van Helsing outselling Infestation.

 

[Chance Hale]

Definitely weird. If you temporarily disable Enhanced Steam, is it still in Romanian?

It is, so I suppose it's unrelated. Very bizarre, tried my actual PC(was on my laptop) and it's in English but switching back to English doesn't fix on the laptop.

Still loads the English store and everything.

 

[-tetsuo-]

So how bad is Risen 2? I loved the first game. It was one of the few RPG worlds I actually enjoyed exploring.

It fails to live up to that. Like, a lot. Get Gothic 2 if you haven't played that. It is hella janky but it shares that same amazing world design. I think it is actually better.

 

[Sullichin]

Played a couple of my new games...

- Combat in Mount and Blade Warband is not making a good first impression. I just suck at it though. I'm going to try again with a 360 controller maybe, I'm not a fan of kb/m in third person games usually.
- DMC4 is fun but it crashed on me
- Problems with Serious Sam 3. The game locks up for several seconds at a time and then goes back to normal. Any ideas?
- Really impressed with System Shock 2. Excited to get into it

 

[Spazo]

does any know why I'm unable to see witch game I own on the front store page with enhanced steam addon for firefox ?

I tried to reinstall it and clear cache data...

 

[The Super Bob]

mods, you say? like what?

Here you go. There's a variety of mods, including new weapons, ship designs, random encounters, basic graphic changes and game re-writers (added sectors and removing the chasing fleet etc).

I've only tried a couple of them so can't vouch for them all. Sorry if I've now give you an excuse to spend the rest of the day on this.

I remember reading there was one that takes away the progression and endgame stuff, so you get to hop among the stars FOREVER.

I might have read that wrong, though.

Yeah that's one, but I haven't tried it yet.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

So how bad is Risen 2? I loved the first game. It was one of the few RPG worlds I actually enjoyed exploring.

Never played it, but seems to me it's pretty hard to top this:

edit: I'm not even joking, I adore that pic!

 

[antitrop]

Come to think of it, I don't even know if Van Helsing has local co-op or not, I'm not a good source of information on that, as I said I played single player.

 

[~Kinggi~]

The incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is 20 gigs?! What the fuck.

 

[Socreges]

So, Half-Life 2 is a great game and I'm having a lot of fun

 

[Vecks]

This isn't a competition.

That's one way of making us

Spoiler

losers

feel better.

 

[Prophane33]

Played a couple of my new games...

- Combat in Mount and Blade Warband is not making a good first impression. I just suck at it though. I'm going to try again with a 360 controller maybe, I'm not a fan of kb/m in third person games usually.
- DMC4 is fun but it crashed on me
- Problems with Serious Sam 3. The game locks up for several seconds at a time and then goes back to normal. Any ideas?
- Really impressed with System Shock 2. Excited to get into it

This game is really meant to be played with mouse and keyboard. You just need to practice blocking and sword movement.

 

[El Odio]

oh boy

They still have almost a forth of this thread left to assert their dominance over the wall of shame.