Oh ok, so is that why they added pop up achievement progress tracking for things like kills with weapon types and headshots.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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What you say may be right on the mark, but even so it could have been improved. Within the pantheon of third-person gameplay, there's plenty of room to cover between Spec Ops and Vanquish.
jim-jam bongs
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yeah I'm with pablito. the game does a great job of feeling like a standard middle-of-the-road shooter then it turns around and sticks a flaming stick up your pee-pee hole. the storytelling and the mindless gameplay are kind of the same thing in some respects.
for sure. I dont think they made it bad or not-that-good on purpose, I just think they made it very familiar and easy to get into. Core mechanics could have been tighter without sacrificing what the game set out to do
yup
Not fair, Vanquish probably has the best gameplay of any 3rd person shooter in the last couple of years. I enjoyed spec ops but the game is just a generic shooter with a weird twisted crazy story. I'd take gameplay mechanics over story any day.
I tried to snap up a RoW version from GMG UK when it was on sale and the discount code of the time stacked (converted to around AUD$17). Despite my best efforts it didn't take, yet plenty of people bought XCOM (at least I think it was XCOM) with the help of a VPN during the Winter Sale period. I suppose this is the price I pay for never running into any problems when purchasing from GMG AU.
Precisely why it sits at the other end of the scale.
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Please tell me this fate befalls somebody in the game.
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Man Saisoiruse Ronann isn't looking great in that new avatar.
If the planes can't land on Rihanna's forehead we will redirect them to hers.
If the planes can't land on Rihanna's forehead we will redirect them to hers.
Goddamn it, I just wiped that image from my mind after reading that thread last night.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I made it on the scoreboard of posts from the previous thread, so mission accomplished for me.
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Something similar happens to me when trying to play any game in fullscreen using DOSBox. I solved it by playing in a window, though I've read there's a way to force it to use OpenGL instead of DirectX (or the other way round, or something like that).Maybe someone here knows,
I'm trying to play Ultimate Doom and when I start it up and play it runs fine but then at some point all the colors get messed up like this
anyone know why?
Google tells me that a possible solution would be opening the file dosbox.conf and changing the line output=surface to any of these 3 options: output=ddraw, output=overlay or output=opengl.
Wow you're right, I played for 80 minutes (according to Steam) and it didn't feel like that at all! So far it's really good, though I suck at it. I still can't get the hang of walljumping and all those acrobatics, but I guess it's a matter of practice. The force is strong with this one, indeed.
jim-jam bongs
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well the main character does get a flaming metaphorical stick jammed into his flaming metaphysical pee-pee hole. it's all deep and whatnot.
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It's an accurate description of what it feels like to play the game, that's for sure.
One of these achievements ruined a particularly good scene for me, popping up
right after Lugo was hung and I mowed down the angry mob in self-defense.
It's not that bad. Only thing I didn't like was those DAMN FUCKING ACHIEVEMENTS INTERRUPTING THE DEEP AND EMOTIONAL SCENES.
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and the fact that it forced me to use the white phosphorous, when I didn't want to. Where's my (illusion of) choice, dammit?
AngmarsKing701
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I just made it to sector 2 in FTL for the first time.
jim-jam bongs
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as a fine-arts graduate I want more masochism in my games so I can only assume that this is a ringing endorsement
toddhunter
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They should patch in a "I bought this game cheap after reading all the hype and just want to skip to the end where the interesting things happen without slogging through the rest of the game"
... difficulty level. Would have been handy for me.
Its part of the experience. FC2 had similar premise and you were supposed to feel like the main character did, hopeless, depressed and whatnot.
Deputy Dangle
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I am ready for my first full on year of PC gaming. The second half of 2012 treated me well so here's to a great year!
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Make sure you play on Suicidal/FUBAR then. The manly difficulties.
Which is so damn annoying because part of the reason they chose to dumb it down was to focus on this stupid cinematic narrative and nothing happens. I'm 16 missions in and all that's happened is a standard kidnapping and ransom thing. Such a waste.
toddhunter
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Yeah but only really in the second half of the game. The first half just had nothing for me personally, experience or gameplay wise.
i played maybe 7 hours today. so good.
Jables Swan
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Sleeping Dogs is amazing. I don't normally buy DLC but I jumped on it in the sales.
After enjoying Deadlight more than most people apparently (after the first act it did get worse but it was never as terrible as some made it out to be), im having the exact same experience with I am Alive.
I gather that most people found it disappointing since the first reveal showed a much more ambitious game, but im really having fun with it for what it is.
Its obviously spotty and flawed at places, but the whole ordeal is interesting enough to carry the whole game. Its repetitive but in mechanics and encounters you dont ussually get to experience in games, so its still tolerable at worst.
I also like some of the "potentially frustrating" design choices and I get how that could get under some people's skin but its actually a big plus for me. Playing on the hardest difficulty and having the retries be an actual hard to find in-game item just makes you approach every situation/encounter much more carefully. Feels like a Japanese game at ponits.
between these 2 games and reading The Road last week I feel like I need to get out to the country and realize the world isnt really grey and post apocalyptic
I gather that most people found it disappointing since the first reveal showed a much more ambitious game, but im really having fun with it for what it is.
Its obviously spotty and flawed at places, but the whole ordeal is interesting enough to carry the whole game. Its repetitive but in mechanics and encounters you dont ussually get to experience in games, so its still tolerable at worst.
I also like some of the "potentially frustrating" design choices and I get how that could get under some people's skin but its actually a big plus for me. Playing on the hardest difficulty and having the retries be an actual hard to find in-game item just makes you approach every situation/encounter much more carefully. Feels like a Japanese game at ponits.
between these 2 games and reading The Road last week I feel like I need to get out to the country and realize the world isnt really grey and post apocalyptic
Tizoc
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I personally am waiting for all the DLC to be released and for the full game bundle to go for $30 or less come X-Mas 2013 Steam
...but yeah Dishonored's good gameplay-wise, although I personally prefer playing full stealth haha.
Played Poker Night at the Inventory and I suck at Poker, maybe next time I play I'll actually man up and win a round.
Glass Rebel
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I hate poker-mini games. Far Cry 3 almost made me punch my screen with the forced game but then it was only one round.
Speaking of Far Cry 3, [first half spoilers]
Speaking of Far Cry 3, [first half spoilers]
the Vaas "boss fight" was kinda stupid.
spindoctor
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You should check out Far Cry 3. I don't know how to play Poker either but the ingame tips in FC3 were the first time I actually understood what I was doing in a Poker mini game.
I played and finished Far Cry 3. I pushed buttons and won Poker on my first try.
Deputy Dangle
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GO ALL IN FIRST TRY, EVERYONE ELSE FOLDS.
Happy new year, Steam thread.
On a not super Steam related note but about a game on Steam, Mirror's Edge: I discovered in the last couple of days that the On Mirror's Edge site went down, which was unfortunately the only English language Mirror's Edge modding forum I was aware of. There might be at least one foreign language one. Someone was looking into uploading some of the old custom maps, tutorials, etc. onto moddb, and Google cache still seemed to have some of the OME content, but it was sad to see a bit of modding history sink into the gloom of the internet.
And hey, the map editor always worked better with the Steam version than the standalone version, so that's one thing in its favor.
On a not super Steam related note but about a game on Steam, Mirror's Edge: I discovered in the last couple of days that the On Mirror's Edge site went down, which was unfortunately the only English language Mirror's Edge modding forum I was aware of. There might be at least one foreign language one. Someone was looking into uploading some of the old custom maps, tutorials, etc. onto moddb, and Google cache still seemed to have some of the OME content, but it was sad to see a bit of modding history sink into the gloom of the internet.
And hey, the map editor always worked better with the Steam version than the standalone version, so that's one thing in its favor.
brokenbeans
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Damn you steam you just had to sell me football manager for £14.99 played over 20 hours already instant result makes this game so addictive.
Abomination
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Really nice opening post salsa, I like the links-to-other-threads thingy
I just copy-pasted what MRORANGE gave me. All credit to him
Glass Rebel
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Did you play the Alan Wake specials? They're really good imo, finished the Writer a few days ago.
Abomination
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Cool, TNXX MRORANGE, I hope your ban does not last too long.
toddhunter
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Hmm I felt exactly the same way about I am alive. Somewhat flawed? Sure, but a really good little game with great atmosphere.
I'm now wondering if I should try deadlight. Next sale I guess.
Fuck no! Can you imagine all the text that would appear on the achievement? It would take half the screen off!
On second thought, I don't think that cheevo descriptions appear on the notification pop-up. OK then, you can have your IBTGCARAtHaJWtSttEWtITHWSTtRotG difficulty.
(that was hard as balls to type on the phone, lol)
Glass Rebel
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cute and very wifeable if she dropped beard
ClosingADoor
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You'll have the same with Alice then. Game should have ended 2 or 3 hours before it did. Stil great and one of my favourites of last year.
Yaska
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Sadly I skipped them, guess I need to delve into those too.
spindoctor
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Well shit. Now you've got me wondering whether I actually understood anything at all or was I just pushing buttons like you to win :O
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