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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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I was going to say stop speaking for Stallion but he already beat me to it.
Mr. Luchador
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Good to see good people got games. Enjoy 'em!
Refreshment.01
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What the... Quantum is not a bad game.
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Calling it bad would be too kind, I agree.
What the... Quantum is not a bad game.
The game gets boring, fast.
Refreshment.01
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Your gaming diet most be out of this world then.
Ok, but bad...BAD?
Lots of games do. Is that its only sin?
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QC is puzzle game with garbage puzzles and nothing to save it. When you have issues that fundamental you are a bad game.
balladofwindfishes
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It's repetitive, slow moving and the dialog is not interesting at all
Wok
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This is why there will be a sequel: to correct the mistakes of the first game.
Refreshment.01
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AH! AH! AH! You said all.
So the game isn't actually bad, is just that doesn't measure up to other game. XD
I'll leave QC alone... bad games don't warrant much disscussion just a lot of moking.... like BR.
Glass Rebel
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You'll inevitably get compared to the game you're trying to shamelessly ape, yes.
So it's like a blind date.
How are they garbage? One solution fits all, or existing in a binary state of either requiring a guide or being numbingly easy?
'Cause I mean even the Layton games have garbage puzzles, but they're usually puzzles about garbage.
Half-Life 2?
SteveWinwood
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I don't think QC is bad, but qube is better than it easily.
jediyoshi
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I don't remember having to solve much.
Wok
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Or Antichamber is far better than QC.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Now that's crazy talk. QUBE succeeds where Quantum Conundrum fails because the people making it knew their limitations. They couldn't afford/properly do a voice over/narrative?: it isn't there. They felt they explored the game's mechanics to their fullest: they finish the game instead of boring you with levels upon levels of the same puzzles.
Quantum Conundrum fails, not because we're comparing it to Portal, but because it attempts to be Portal and never, ever reaches it.
It's like if McDonalds started selling steaks, but really they were just bunless BigMacs with steak sauce slathered on top of it. Sure, it's not that bad. Sure, it is still food. But it isn't a steak and you sure as hell wouldn't suggest someone eat it in place of the real unadulterated thing.
I think watching a gameplay video on Youtube would probably do a much better job of explaining the game than I can, but if you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them.
But yeah, being a multiplayer only game, I also am a bit worried the online community will die out if it doesn't catch on. However, two things stop me from really worrying about that. First, the MSRP is only $10, so worst case scenario, you get a month's worth of fun out of it and then it dies. That's still pretty good value if you ask me. Second, even right now in closed beta with a very small community, you'll always find at least one person to play with. Even 1v1 is a pretty fun experience in that game.
SteveWinwood
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It's only retail as far as I know. The port is great btw.
Wok
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Fixed that for you.
The master of analogy strikes again. Good point though.
Fuck! Hate having to find retail copies of PC games. I like what I played on the PS3. Was kinda hoping for a sequel as it had some great ideas.
I'll see if I can hunt it down for a reasonable price.
Thanks
jediyoshi
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I don't really care for narrative in puzzle games so it never bothered me either way. I wouldn't mark it against the game unless it took away from playing it, but it doesn't actually affect it either so it's easy enough to ignore what I'm not paying attention to.
Just don't agree with the rest, QC has a more varied amount of mechanics to work with and they throw in just enough mechanic specific puzzles to teach the player what's going on before they transition it with the rest of your abilities. They're varying the puzzles up so that you're still doing new combinations of things towards the last levels.
It's preference at this point but I prefer a game like QC or antichamber where puzzles are more contingent on your ability to piece together a wider range of concepts you've previously picked up rather than tearing into every aspect of a particular mechanic.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001PTN5ZW/?tag=neogaf0e-20
9 bucks seems ok to me.
Edit: If you don't live in the US (like me), you're probably screwed then (like me).
Wtf am I looking at there? Seriously a PC game that came out within the past three years with no DD?
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I guess that's another place where we diverge then, QC's voice over actually got me to stop playing the game a few times.
Here's video footage from the last time this happened:
But to each their own.
Unless it is Serious Sam.
Since it's a licensed game, if the deal wasn't made back then, I doubt it will ever be.
There's a lot of those. Tell me where one can digitally buy Web of Shadows or Shattered Dimensions for PC.
You can't (afaik). And they're both ok games.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It's especially common with old licensed Activision ports. Even games up until a year ago were just dumped off at Walmarts with no other physical retailers getting copies, let alone DD retailers.
And this is why I began the whole thing commenting about how morningbus should be grateful someone else took the Twin Sector key. =P Though I'm not actually sure he can see my posts.
What's bad is that I probably still ended up getting Twin Sector on a super discount at some point, even though I remember the demo being pretty terrible. I thought the girl was pretty but that was like my only positive association.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Oh, I sees them.
I'd still have taken Twin Sector, just to try it out. I worked my way though Borderlands 2. Pain no longer hurts me.
I'd still have taken Twin Sector, just to try it out. I worked my way though Borderlands 2. Pain no longer hurts me.
Nah, I'm Canadian. I think amazon.ca has it, but it's pretty expensive for an old game.
Tizoc
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I just beat it on PS3 and whie I enjoyed it, playing at a more smoother framerate (can it go up to 60 FPS?) would make it more enjoyable.
Tizoc
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Excuse the double post but since has EDF: Insect Armageddon always been on Steam or is it a new release?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/23530/?snr=1_7_7_204_150_1
http://store.steampowered.com/app/23530/?snr=1_7_7_204_150_1
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Always been on Steam--launched a few months after the PS360 release, I think. Launched at 25% off 19.99 (14.99), dropped to 9.99 regular, is rarely part of holiday/seasonal sales.
SapientWolf
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Yes, it's always been there and you can make it run at 60fps by changing the exe with a hex editor.
Joe Molotov
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Origin Jake is Garry's arch nemesis.
Pretty sure it can go even higher since it uses UE3.
Of course, I already said that Flux is a day-one purchase from me. And probably a day-one beat too (not 100%, I'm nowhere near that good, though I made it to Meta on the first level a couple of times).
To anyone with interest in The Showdown Effect, in today's closed beta update they made it so that the server waits for four people where before it would start a 20 second countdown immediately after two people were together. It's a major improvement that makes for some much more intense matches. Still very recommended!
Because it'll be like 99 cents during the summer sale.
Dead Prince
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i don't know when but gamersgate finally got more steam keys for those that bought the Bethesday Pack for $27 which included dishonored.
About two weeks ago.
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