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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!
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SSFIV AE is not getting gfwl removed. You either go Ultra or be left in nothingness.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
DF Vic said they were being held back by microsoft and their contract with them on this one, so we really need to start throwing stones at the Big M's windows to get this ball rolling. I love the shit out of Iron Brigade and I only just started playing it late last year! Now it's going to be gone
Watch a really good lets play of MGS4?
dark_inferno
Member
DF Vic said they were being held back by microsoft and their contract with them on this one, so we really need to start throwing stones at the Big M's windows to get this ball rolling. I love the shit out of Iron Brigade and I only just started playing it late last year! Now it's going to be gone
Good for you... i cant start the game because of GfWL.
Mostly sad that Microsoft hasn't even bothered to say anything regarding their GFWL games. Also sad that there is a company which sole purpose is to create and maintain Halo content hasn't said anything about it either.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
All the more reason to get it removed, I say.
MGS4 really is one of those games. I enjoyed the gameplay, but there wasn't enough of it, and the singleplayer was so unbalanced. (Since money was easy to get and you could purchase boss weapons at any time to murder the lovely faces of the war economy) And lord, did they take the obtuse narrative vomit to the extreme. The MGS series needs a viable script editor.
YianGaruga
Banned
Got an answer from joystiq on twitter that it is an official reply from Namco Bandai.
PRAISE THE SUN
PRAISE THE SUN
Great news!
Widdly Scuds
Member
That's like complaining that vanilla SF4 isn't getting gfwl removed either. Very few people will be playing AE once Ultra is released; Ultra will be a $15 upgrade for super/ae owners. Everyone should be getting Ultra.
Plus Ultra has Poison
Yeah, I'm blind and missed the opening part of that the article that said Joystiq contacted the developers/publishers itself.
They drive on the wrong side of the road in Sleeping Dogs, while you don't even need to drive in Saints Row 4.
Saints Row 4 ends up being the better game, obviously.
dark_inferno
Member
Bulletstorm and Iron Brigade are games that should not stay dead-with-GfWL.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I was just assuming the worst in that they didn't actually contact everyone and did a mix of combining known information and some actual reporting.
Amazing news! I wonder if they'll actually try to swap in Steamworks. I guess we shouldn't be too greedy here.
It was originally intended to be a DLC for SR3. It's a better game if for that fact that side quests are actually kinda decent, though still repetitive. SR3's were buggy and bull pucky.
That's like complaining that vanilla SF4 isn't getting gfwl removed either. Very few people will be playing AE once Ultra is released; Ultra will be a $15 upgrade for super/ae owners. Everyone should be getting Ultra.
Plus Ultra has Poison
Of course any one who plays regularly will most likely get Ultra, but it says no such thing on the article and if someone didn't know about this could get confused.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Posting my Winter Holiday impressions of Deadly Premonition, to convince you all to get the IndieGala bundle that just got Deadly Premonition added to it.
Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut released on Steam almost a couple of months ago now, and its not a perfect port. While a patch has been released since launch, and Durante has fixed some stuff about the game, it still has problems, and the solutions are often weird things like changing compatibility mode or restarting your computer after running it once. I want to get this out of the way as the port has its problems. Much like the game in question, it is in no way some sort of technical beauty and has a lot of flaws. On a personal level during the 18 hours I have played the PC Port, the only issue I have run into is the game crashing on me twice, but I digress.
From the get-go, Deadly Premonition is a game one has to ask how it exists. Its a 2010 game, and the graphics look worse than some PS2 games. The animation is laughably jankey. The game was in development hell for several years, with a super small studio behind it, so its surprising to hear it even eventually came out. It doesn't feel like a game that came out this generation at all, and in many ways it seems like an amateurish effort at making a game.
But that's just it, because Deadly Premonition is actually not a bad game. It sometimes treads on a thin line of being so bad it's good, but it's not just a good because its bad, if that makes any sense. It's a game that does some things wonderfully, and other things terribly.
At its heart, Deadly Premonition is like some strange blend of Resident Evil 4 meets Shenmue, with huge Twin Peaks, Silent Hill, and Harvest Moon overtones. But with 10x more jank. While it is pretty obvious that this game pulls inspirations from elsewhere, it also is in a unique position is is unlike any other game you'll ever play. The game at its heart is an open-world set in the pacific northwest of the USA, in a small town called Greenvale. You play as Agent Francis York Morgan, who is an FBI Agent coming to check in on a murder of a local girl, Anna Graham, who was a local beauty. Fans of Twin Peaks will sense this all sounds very familiar. Around town, there are various townsfolk who go about their daily lives, even having their own day-by-day cycles that you can track if you so desire. They go to work, eat out, go home, sometimes visit neighbors, etc. Sometimes they offer side-quests, which offer various tasks (really, they're pretty varied) that have side-stories (cutscenes and all) and rewards (some pretty useful, like quick travel or new cars or new side areas can now be accessed). There's a total of 50 side-quests, and they are completely worth your time. Between doing side-quests, you can also do a variety of things around town, varying from strange checkpoint car races, sleeping in sheds down by the river, going out to eat, driving around aimlessly while you listen to York talk about movie trivia, go fishing in a QTE minigame, and a variety of other activities.
At its heart, this is what draws all of Deadly Premonition together. It builds a strange but enjoyable world you can experience at your leisure. There's odd things in every corner of this world, with a variety of quirky characters to meet and get to know.
But if you stay out after midnight, or follow the story path or do some certain side-quests, you'll come to another element of the game, which is these otherworld nightmare sequences.
These sequences control somewhat like a poor-man's Resident Evil 4, set in something very akin to Silent Hill's Otherworld segments. The sky goes orange and starts moving very rapidly. Blood, flesh, red vegetation, and just a lot of red and purple begins to get smudged on everywhere. You fight off enemies, collect items, witness strange and often surrealistic sights, while looking for your escape out of here (often found by collecting clues towards the case, or if out past midnight, finding safety and letting time fly by or sleeping). While on majority these sections aren't quite as enjoyable as the main game, they have their own janky charm to them that makes Deadly Premonition what it is. And it should be noted that the nightmare sequences actually get more enjoyable later in the game in my opinion, as more elements (like puzzles) get introduced in them. There's other mixes to the nightmare scenarios in the game as well, but won't spoil them. While combat is better in the Director's Cut version of the game than the original, its nothing to write home about (again, poor-man's Resident Evil 4), and the enemy selection isn't super great.
And occasionally, there are sections with the Raincoat Killer. An ambiguous figure draped in a red raincoat who's killing people around town, you occasionally encounter the Killer in these nightmare scenarios; either in a quick QTE run-by, in a section where you have to find a hiding spot before the Killer comes to get you, or in a chase sequence.
But all I have mentioned doesn't explain all the elements of why Deadly Premonition is amazing, as some of what it lacks in budget and sometimes shanty gameplay it makes up for spades in some of the game's other elements.
Firstly, it's music is downright something else.
Deadly Premonition has a story to tell. At its heart, the story is very Twin Peaks-inspired, but it goes in a completely different direction. The story is sometimes ridiculous, the game ends up being somehow both intentionally and unintentionally hilarious at the same time. How you could watch a cutscene like this or this without smiling is beyond me. But its not just funny. The game has quirky characters with flaws, and who develop over the course of the game. They're all a bit off-beat, and possibly none more so than our own agent, but its hard not to fall in love with them over the 15-20 hours it takes to complete the game's story campaign (with an additional 20 hours easily if you take on the sidequests, which will get you even more familiar with the characters). A lot of people on GAF say that Agent York is one of the best protagonists to ever exist in a game, and I tend to agree (it's okay if we say that, right Zach?)
And the story actually packs quite a punch all the way to the very end. The last three hours of the game are unforgettable, and having the game come to a close and having to say farewell to York and Greenvale may be one of the hardest things I've had to swallow in a game. There's hardly ever a game that makes me so attached to its characters and world so much so that its hard to leave it, for me personally.
And somehow, between going lazily about town, growing beards and investigating rumored haunted mines around town, to watching characters like York grow, to how many times the game will make you laugh, roll your eyes, and even touch you emotionally, and somehow through its jank that becomes oddly charming, you may end up coming to love Deadly Premonition too.
That or think its a messy, overpraised piece of garbage, but its definitely a game you need to try for yourself to see if you love it or not. But just know it gets better after the initial nightmare sequence at the beginning.
So yeah, Deadly Premonition.
Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut released on Steam almost a couple of months ago now, and its not a perfect port. While a patch has been released since launch, and Durante has fixed some stuff about the game, it still has problems, and the solutions are often weird things like changing compatibility mode or restarting your computer after running it once. I want to get this out of the way as the port has its problems. Much like the game in question, it is in no way some sort of technical beauty and has a lot of flaws. On a personal level during the 18 hours I have played the PC Port, the only issue I have run into is the game crashing on me twice, but I digress.
From the get-go, Deadly Premonition is a game one has to ask how it exists. Its a 2010 game, and the graphics look worse than some PS2 games. The animation is laughably jankey. The game was in development hell for several years, with a super small studio behind it, so its surprising to hear it even eventually came out. It doesn't feel like a game that came out this generation at all, and in many ways it seems like an amateurish effort at making a game.
But that's just it, because Deadly Premonition is actually not a bad game. It sometimes treads on a thin line of being so bad it's good, but it's not just a good because its bad, if that makes any sense. It's a game that does some things wonderfully, and other things terribly.
At its heart, Deadly Premonition is like some strange blend of Resident Evil 4 meets Shenmue, with huge Twin Peaks, Silent Hill, and Harvest Moon overtones. But with 10x more jank. While it is pretty obvious that this game pulls inspirations from elsewhere, it also is in a unique position is is unlike any other game you'll ever play. The game at its heart is an open-world set in the pacific northwest of the USA, in a small town called Greenvale. You play as Agent Francis York Morgan, who is an FBI Agent coming to check in on a murder of a local girl, Anna Graham, who was a local beauty. Fans of Twin Peaks will sense this all sounds very familiar. Around town, there are various townsfolk who go about their daily lives, even having their own day-by-day cycles that you can track if you so desire. They go to work, eat out, go home, sometimes visit neighbors, etc. Sometimes they offer side-quests, which offer various tasks (really, they're pretty varied) that have side-stories (cutscenes and all) and rewards (some pretty useful, like quick travel or new cars or new side areas can now be accessed). There's a total of 50 side-quests, and they are completely worth your time. Between doing side-quests, you can also do a variety of things around town, varying from strange checkpoint car races, sleeping in sheds down by the river, going out to eat, driving around aimlessly while you listen to York talk about movie trivia, go fishing in a QTE minigame, and a variety of other activities.
At its heart, this is what draws all of Deadly Premonition together. It builds a strange but enjoyable world you can experience at your leisure. There's odd things in every corner of this world, with a variety of quirky characters to meet and get to know.
But if you stay out after midnight, or follow the story path or do some certain side-quests, you'll come to another element of the game, which is these otherworld nightmare sequences.
These sequences control somewhat like a poor-man's Resident Evil 4, set in something very akin to Silent Hill's Otherworld segments. The sky goes orange and starts moving very rapidly. Blood, flesh, red vegetation, and just a lot of red and purple begins to get smudged on everywhere. You fight off enemies, collect items, witness strange and often surrealistic sights, while looking for your escape out of here (often found by collecting clues towards the case, or if out past midnight, finding safety and letting time fly by or sleeping). While on majority these sections aren't quite as enjoyable as the main game, they have their own janky charm to them that makes Deadly Premonition what it is. And it should be noted that the nightmare sequences actually get more enjoyable later in the game in my opinion, as more elements (like puzzles) get introduced in them. There's other mixes to the nightmare scenarios in the game as well, but won't spoil them. While combat is better in the Director's Cut version of the game than the original, its nothing to write home about (again, poor-man's Resident Evil 4), and the enemy selection isn't super great.
And occasionally, there are sections with the Raincoat Killer. An ambiguous figure draped in a red raincoat who's killing people around town, you occasionally encounter the Killer in these nightmare scenarios; either in a quick QTE run-by, in a section where you have to find a hiding spot before the Killer comes to get you, or in a chase sequence.
But all I have mentioned doesn't explain all the elements of why Deadly Premonition is amazing, as some of what it lacks in budget and sometimes shanty gameplay it makes up for spades in some of the game's other elements.
Firstly, it's music is downright something else.
Deadly Premonition has a story to tell. At its heart, the story is very Twin Peaks-inspired, but it goes in a completely different direction. The story is sometimes ridiculous, the game ends up being somehow both intentionally and unintentionally hilarious at the same time. How you could watch a cutscene like this or this without smiling is beyond me. But its not just funny. The game has quirky characters with flaws, and who develop over the course of the game. They're all a bit off-beat, and possibly none more so than our own agent, but its hard not to fall in love with them over the 15-20 hours it takes to complete the game's story campaign (with an additional 20 hours easily if you take on the sidequests, which will get you even more familiar with the characters). A lot of people on GAF say that Agent York is one of the best protagonists to ever exist in a game, and I tend to agree (it's okay if we say that, right Zach?)
And the story actually packs quite a punch all the way to the very end. The last three hours of the game are unforgettable, and having the game come to a close and having to say farewell to York and Greenvale may be one of the hardest things I've had to swallow in a game. There's hardly ever a game that makes me so attached to its characters and world so much so that its hard to leave it, for me personally.
And somehow, between going lazily about town, growing beards and investigating rumored haunted mines around town, to watching characters like York grow, to how many times the game will make you laugh, roll your eyes, and even touch you emotionally, and somehow through its jank that becomes oddly charming, you may end up coming to love Deadly Premonition too.
That or think its a messy, overpraised piece of garbage, but its definitely a game you need to try for yourself to see if you love it or not. But just know it gets better after the initial nightmare sequence at the beginning.
So yeah, Deadly Premonition.
Just played it, and yeah, it feels like it.
Kaleinc
Banned
GFWL was part of unforgiving experience Dark Souls offered. Now it's casual.
God, I have the most annoying guy ever on my friend list. He's always trying to hook me on giveaways, looking for people to trade things that probably no one wants (he was trying to sell me a Battle.net account right now, I told him that I didn't think you could and he started talking about EULAs, ToS, that all games will be able to be detached from your account and all that crap). God, I want to block him, but I don't want to because I'd feel bad for him. Ugh.
That's nothing. I still haven't finished MGS3! How am I supposed to finish it on 3DS, if the controls aren't really comfortable?
Fb and imgur compression really.
of a jpeg in the first place
suarez was butchered
So what stops working when live is shut down. Multi-player and achievements but what else? Can you at least just play single player with out online parts I've dark souls without invasions.
You mean, that in the future, i should be able to invade with relative ease? Praise the sun indeed.
You guys wanna win Deadly Premonition? First to post a cup of coffee with FK in the coffee (Can be photoshopped) wins the whole indie gala bundle.
EDIT: 12:56pm here if no one post by 1:05pm I will do something else with the bundle. Maybe check if I can give a whole bundle via Modbot.
EDIT: 12:56pm here if no one post by 1:05pm I will do something else with the bundle. Maybe check if I can give a whole bundle via Modbot.
Why can't you complain that you're being forced to pay an extra $15 to be able to keep playing the entirety of a game you already own?That's like complaining that vanilla SF4 isn't getting gfwl removed either. Very few people will be playing AE once Ultra is released; Ultra will be a $15 upgrade for super/ae owners. Everyone should be getting Ultra.
Plus Ultra has Poison
MMBosstones86
Member
I'm not sure where they got that information. If they based it off the fake facebook update, then they're obviously mistaken.
I haven't really heard them talking about the future of the game, and I feel I follow the Dark Souls games more than just casually.
Edit: To edify:
...what was in the front pocket?
I'm fairly certain you can just watch the cut scenes on Youtube and get the jist of it. Most of the game is cutscenes anyway.
I'm not kidding.
edit : hahaha
ClassyPenguin
Banned
I don't think photogs generally release uncompressed files.
wait this doesn't 100% mean steamworks tho, right?
they still might remove gfwl and just disable multiplayer altogether
this is bamco we're talking about
Why am I even alive.
MGS3 to MGSV would be the best way to play. They follow each other in the timeline, while 4 skips to the future.
I think their information is off anyways, no one has confirmed that release.
I was going to say Viva Pinata, but nice email tag.
I would like to see Gears of War, Halo 2 on Steam of course. I don't think they would be as fun with M/KB though, TTK might be too fast.
YianGaruga
Banned
No it doesn't. But that would be the only sensible option.
But they're a Japanese dev/publisher combo and have no idea how to develop for PC so idk
I'm not that interested on it really, it's yours.
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Seriously? I didn't mean to intend to sound like I was complaining, contests are all in fun. But I'd love it if the offer is good.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Steamworks.
well, if they're doing steamworks for dks2 maybe they have some technology already set up
but hard to have any faith in bamco
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