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Steam Summer Sales 2014 |OT2| The valiant never taste of death but once

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Yakkue

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DaBargainHunta said:
WOW at all of the instant, enthusiastic responses (hope I didn't miss anyone).

Only thing I'm not sure about is the random aspect. How does that work?

When you say there's a way to pay to make it less random, does that mean DLC using real world currency or are we talking about fake game money?

Thanks for the video link. Going to take a look now.
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There's an NPC you can unlock (costs you ingame money you find during your play), that locks down the layout of the castle when you ask him to. If you don't use this NPC (he is called "The architect" btw), the castle will always be completely different in every run.
 
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antitrop

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famfrit said:
Need ask: you played the Demon/Dark Souls ?
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Never finished Demon's Souls, but Dark Souls is one of my favorite games ever. If a PC port of DeS was ever possible, I would definitely finish it on that, but ya know, Sony owns it and all and I put my PS3 away for good.
 
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Pickles Spill

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PandaPandaPanda said:
have you tried running it in direct9 mode? I'm currently playing the main story for bioshock 2(will be playing minerva's den after) and it was crashing for me randomly(say every ~20 minutes or so)

forced it to run in dx9 and 0 crashes since
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Dang. I wish I knew that earlier. Oh well.

CreepingFear said:
It's been a while since I played 2. I remember hacking being better, weapon mods, plasmids, etc.
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I dunno. I kind of liked the pipe hacking from the first one. It required a little thought, vs the "land the needle in the zone" carnival game. The plasmids were better in 2, but the weapon sound effects were weaker compared to the first one, which made them not as fun to use. (I'm a stickler for good sound effects.)
 
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CreepingFear

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antitrop said:
I still think Bioshock 1 is the better game. Much of the gameplay is improved for 2, but the story did aaaaaaaaaaaaabsolutely nothing for me at all, couldn't have possibly cared less about it.

And Bioshock's introduction to Rapture alone makes it better than 2.
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Don't get me wrong, Bioshock 1 is superior, but Bioshock 2 is not as bad as the hyperbole that some people have given it.
 
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Kusagari

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Man all this Rising talk is making me want to buy it, but I can't justify 15 bucks on a game I already played endlessly on 360.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
is X05 ok? I havent seen his gigantic wall of recaps all day
 
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someguyinahat

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DaBargainHunta said:
WOW at all of the instant, enthusiastic responses (hope I didn't miss anyone).

Only thing I'm not sure about is the random aspect. How does that work?
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For anyone who didn't want to look at the video link:

Let's say you die. Next turn, you can choose between (for example) a fighter with gigantism - sprite is bigger - and color blindness - game is in black and white - OR you can choose a wizard who has no pulse in his feet so ground spikes don't activate, but he's nearsighted so everythng beyond a certain radius is blurry; OR you can choose a paladin with ADHD (moves faster) but is gay (seemingly no effect.)
 
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antitrop

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CreepingFear said:
Don't get me wrong, Bioshock 1 is superior, but Bioshock 2 is not as bad as the hyperbole that some people have given it.
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Yeah, I just kind of have a bit of a backlash about it because of the plentiful amount of game reviews at launch trying to prove it better than the original.

Caused me to go in more skeptical than the game deserved to have me be. Infinite is my favorite of the 3, though. Controversial!
 
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GuardianE

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natertots said:
If I remember correctly it ran great on consoles. The dlc included is a bonus that is news to me. I'll be picking it up in the am. Thanks for the input.
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Yeah, it ran great on consoles, but it also started chugging when you cut a things into hundreds and hundreds of pieces. On PC, that's not an issue.


Junko said:
Best Steam thread ever! Now I want to buy DMC4. Should I just beat Rising first since I already have that?
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Do both!
 
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CreepingFear

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antitrop said:
Yeah, I just kind of have a bit of a backlash about it because of the plentiful amount of game reviews at launch trying to prove it better than the original.

Caused me to go in more skeptical than the game deserved to have me be. Infinite is my favorite of the 3, though. Controversial!
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You still playing Titanfall? I played a few rounds a week or so ago under the influence of whiskey. Not a good idea, but I still had fun.
 
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PandaPandaPanda

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Pickles Spill said:
Dang. I wish I knew that earlier. Oh well.



I dunno. I kind of liked the pipe hacking from the first one. It required a little thought, vs the "land the needle in the zone" carnival game. The plasmids were better in 2, but the weapon sound effects were weaker compared to the first one, which made them not as fun to use. (I'm a stickler for good sound effects.)
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it apparanelty has to do with the vram or something(i forget)

the options were to increase the amount the game uses or something or take a slight graphics hit and run it in dx9
 
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famfrit

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antitrop said:
Never finished Demon's Souls, but Dark Souls is one of my favorite games ever. If a PC port of DeS was ever possible, I would definitely finish it on that, but ya know, Sony owns it and all and I put my PS3 away for good.
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Okay, good taste detected :) .

But, I will wait the game become very cheap because have soo many games here that I need finish... and Pokemon R/S is coming !
 
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I prefer Bioshock 2's weapons, design (especially for traps), security modules (because fuck Pipe Dream) and pacing of the story. The largest caveat I place with the main story is the binary approach to morality (an issue the original also faces).

Besides that, the only things it lacks from the first are Andrew Ryan and the initial take of Rapture. Story is far more consistent that the shit drop that takes place in the first title, though it never reaches the weight of the infamous Andrew confrontation.
 
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Sober

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Speevy said:
So can someone tell me more about Early Access games?

If the developer puts out a final build that boots to black for everyone, do the buyers get a refund?
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No dev would push a build out if it didn't at least work on their end, if that's what you're wondering. Which means it'll likely work on someone else's end most of the time.

If you mean they push a build, it crashes for everyone in a predictable way and they don't fix it, not sure. Might have to look into the laws on your end if you get a refund. But are we talking about hypotheticals or we talking about a specific game? Because if that were the case there would've been a huge shitstorm.
 
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antitrop

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CreepingFear said:
You still playing Titanfall? I played a few rounds a week or so ago under the influence of whiskey. Not a good idea, but I still had fun.
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I got frustrated with the Regeneration requirements and gave it up a while ago. Still one of the best games I've played this year, though, I got 100 great hours out of it.
 
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Please give us Murdered Soul Suspect.
 
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CreepingFear

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antitrop said:
I got frustrated with the Regeneration requirements and gave it up a while ago. Still one of the best games I've played this year, though, I got 100 great hours out of it.
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I understand that. I still prefer it's game play to BF4 and COD. I played the BF Hardline beta the other day and I found myself trying to run on walls. I just love the feel and pace of things in Titanfall.
 
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Ostinatto

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Rickenslacker said:
The idea is that you use all the money in your previous life to give yourself permanent upgrades going forward.

Dying is progression.
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someguyinahat said:
Buy as many upgrades as you can before entering the door.
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Chinese Cartoons said:
You spend all your time grinding for new upgrades and getting stronger and stronger, it has many game design flaws but a good game once you understand the mechanics.
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Haunted said:
Welcome to roguelikes.

Check how much money you need for upgrades and make every run into the castle count. Spend as much as possible on the keep and new weapons/runes since Charon takes most of it away from you again.

Your character will get stronger with each run, your skills will get better with each run and you'll make it deeper and deeper into the castle.
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Oh, now i get it. thanks :)
 
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Ampersands

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Pickles Spill said:
I dunno. I kind of liked the pipe hacking from the first one. It required a little thought, vs the "land the needle in the zone" carnival game. The plasmids were better in 2, but the weapon sound effects were weaker compared to the first one, which made them not as fun to use. (I'm a stickler for good sound effects.)
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The pipe hacking in Bioshock 1 was what brought it down from a perect game for me. It interrupts the flow of the game, especially in combat and gets old fast.
 
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Speevy

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Sober said:
No dev would push a build out if it didn't at least work on their end, if that's what you're wondering. Which means it'll likely work on someone else's end most of the time.

If you mean they push a build, it crashes for everyone in a predictable way and they don't fix it, not sure. Might have to look into the laws on your end if you get a refund. But are we talking about hypotheticals or we talking about a specific game? Because if that were the case there would've been a huge shitstorm.
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Hypotheticals, but there is a game I'm playing and every time I fall down into this specific valley, I can't get back up again. I have to restart. It seems like something that may or may not be fixed.
 
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