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What? COD2?
jediyoshi
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I skipped world at War as well. Not convinced BO/2 or MW3 stand up to MW1.
\Steam\userdata\#####\config is where your shortcuts are kept. Back it up when you make them and replace when Steam kills it.
Fixed that for you.
Just played a bit of Shadow Man, it's been so many years!
Bought on PC at launch, and really loved it, I almost managed to finish it but... things happened, time passed... as soon as I saw it on Steam I told myself that this could be the right time to get to the ending!
A couple of bullets to read, if you're interested in it:
PROS
- A lot to do, a lot to see
You're Shadow Man, and you go on a quest to save the world from evil, wandering in Deadside and Liveside, slaying strange/horrible creatures and strange/horrible persons while you gather souls and powers. Simple plot, but interesting to follow its development.
Think abount Shadow Man as a third person "metroidvania" - I know it's an abused term, but I think this time should be appropriate: you start with almost no powers, and as you get stronger and more skilled you can go back to places that were not accessible before, discovering new places, powers, etc. You teleport here and there, there are puzzles, there are bossfights, there's exploration.
- Very atmospheric
I don't know if it's a rose-tinted-glasses matter (probably it is), but the vibe of graphics and soundtrack is still charming to me.
- One of the minions is Jack the Ripper
And he is an architect.
- DRM Free
You can launch it outside Steam.
CONS
- Little technical nuisances
No downsampling, no antialias - had to force supersampling via nVidia inspector. No Steam overlay (I thought it was a requirement for Steam?), a few other minor issues.
- Weird mapping / control problems
Controls are pretty outdated / weird. It requires a bit to get used to them, and it's better to map the strafe (which isn't mapped by default!).
No gamepad triggers, no digital pad, and no gamepad right analogue stick (360 gamepad emulated via Xinput Wrapper using a Dual Shock 3) are recognized by the game.
- Graphically very outdated
Very lowres texture and barebone polygons structures, dull animations. They're worst in real time cutscene, since you look at them more closely and the way characters move in cutscenes is pretty er.. bizarre at best.
SUMMING
An interesting, fascinating game with outdated graphics and controls. It's very cheap (3.69€ / 4.99$), it's well suited for Halloween.
Link to the steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/251770
toddhunter
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The "We may not always pay full price, but we pay for our games here" bundle.
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Really? I could use more people playing it, aha. It's a pretty decent game. May I DM you my UN? We could play Co-Op!
Also; play BO2. It's very very good.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Tell me more about
Ghosts is just a weird one to return on. You skipped over the ones where Treyarch snatched the COD Crown and ran with it. No other COD can catch up.
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"unless they're shitty, but we still don't steal them"
Thanks for the giveaway and good luck to all!
Oh snap, toddhunter setting the record straight. Great giveaway, entered.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Anyone heard anything on How to Survive? Releases tomorrow.. the one metacritic review is bad. (and in French).
It looks interesting, and crafting + zombies sounds like fun.. but that one review scares me.
It looks interesting, and crafting + zombies sounds like fun.. but that one review scares me.
SonicXtreme
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Just played a bit of Shadow Man, it's been so many years!
Bought on PC at launch, and really loved it, I almost managed to finish it but... things happened, time passed... as soon as I saw it on Steam I told myself that this could be the right time to get to the ending!
A couple of bullets to read, if you're interested in it:
PROS
- A lot to do, a lot to see
You're Shadow Man, and you go on a quest to save the world from evil, wandering in Deadside and Liveside, slaying strange/horrible creatures and strange/horrible persons while you gather souls and powers. Simple plot, but interesting to follow its development.
Think abount Shadow Man as a third person "metroidvania" - I know it's an abused term, but I think this time should be appropriate: you start with almost no powers, and as you get stronger and more skilled you can go back to places that were not accessible before, discovering new places, powers, etc. You teleport here and there, there are puzzles, there are bossfights, there's exploration.
- Very atmospheric
I don't know if it's a rose-tinted-glasses matter (probably it is), but the vibe of graphics and soundtrack is still charming to me.
- One of the minions is Jack the Ripper
And he is an architect.
- DRM Free
You can launch it outside Steam.
CONS
- Little technical nuisances
No downsampling, no antialias - had to force supersampling via nVidia inspector. No Steam overlay (I thought it was a requirement for Steam?), a few other minor issues.
- Weird mapping / control problems
Controls are pretty outdated / weird. It requires a bit to get used to them, and it's better to map the strafe (which isn't mapped by default!).
No gamepad triggers, no digital pad, and no gamepad right analogue stick (360 gamepad emulated via Xinput Wrapper using a Dual Shock 3) are recognized by the game.
- Graphically very outdated
Very lowres texture and barebone polygons structures, dull animations. They're worst in real time cutscene, since you look at them more closely and the way characters move in cutscenes is pretty er.. bizarre at best.
SUMMING
An interesting, fascinating game with outdated graphics and controls. It's very cheap (3.69 / 4.99$), it's well suited for Halloween.
Link to the steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/251770
damn i'm so tempted as i love dreamcast era games but....i need dat gamepad support....i think it was like $3 or 4 on CAG too
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It's going to be amazing when the Steam Controller makes this a thing of the past.
jediyoshi
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Go for it, we can experience the tragedy of GFACE together. Mostly out of commission until I get a new mouse though. My current one disconnects and Warface (and Payday 2) show the hardware cursor when they reconnect ruining everything ]:
The Groupees Doujin Bundle 2 is getting an extra bonus game apparently, that isn't a shmup or a visual novel that was added to Greenlight this month.
People seem to be thinking it'll be Vanguard Princess.
That shit's too hard for me, son.
People seem to be thinking it'll be Vanguard Princess.
That shit's too hard for me, son.
SonicXtreme
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urban chaos is tempting the shit out of me too, that's another dreamcast game that always seemed really interesting but i just never got around to buying it. but now i question that one's gamepad support too since i feel like it's probably updated like shadow man was.
Yes! That will be so amazing to sit down and play games from 1999 with full gamepad support from M/KB emulation.
Here's what More_Badass thought of it earlier today. Posted in the indie games thread
PixyJunket
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Just played a bit of Shadow Man, it's been so many years!
I remember playing that game on my good old N64 and being rather fascinated by the story and theme of the game (as a 12 or 13 year old). Never did beat it though as my cheap 3rd party memory cards were pretty unreliable with this game.
Thanks for the impressions, I'll probably buy it in a future sale.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Thanks, looks like I can hold off... especially since I just cracked and bought Last of Us off PSN just now... let's see if this 2 hour timer is correct to download it.. sounds wrong for 27gigs off PSN.
I won! Thanks Mengy! I'm in the middle of a really crappy day and I've always wanted to play this one!
RPS hands on for How to survive.
Seems to have gone over well.
Seems to have gone over well.
toddhunter
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Damn straight. One of the gamiest games I've played in ages.
Once again I find myself getting a ton of great games lately thanks to ModBot and SteamGAF, so I figured the least I could do is pay it forward. Friend of mine wanted Anodyne so I gave it to him but here's some keys from the latest Humble Bundle.
If you win Ticket to Ride, feel free to PM me and I'll send along the DLC code.
If you win Ticket to Ride, feel free to PM me and I'll send along the DLC code.
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morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Ah. If you only really care about single player then it matters a lot less which COD you jump back in with.
No joke: when I saw the Steam Controller the first thing I thought of was another Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines playthrough.
Thanks!
Many thanks to Turfster for Organ Trail. 
The early World War 2 ones have good campaigns.
The early World War 2 ones have good campaigns.
Paying it forward..
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One of the best puzzle games there is:
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Dimitri2401
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...with close to 900 posts...
There's a program called xpadder that kinda already does this. With it i can play a game like shadowman with my 360 controller no problem.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Xpadder works for many things, but it's a bit like using a cup in place of a bowl.
Steam controller is like having that shit ground up and blasted in your mouth.
I actually prefer to eat cereal out of a red solo cup... Not quite sure what that says about me.
@JaseC: Damn, I never thought about that. Using the steam community for controller profiles will either be the greatest thing or the worst thing. I guess as long as you can sort by the rating it should be pretty darn good.
The Steam Controller will streamline the process, though, thanks to Steam Workshop support -- playing a game that lacks native controller support with a controller will soon be as easy as searching Steam for a configuration file.
I've been playing (yes, even though it's hard to believe, I sometimes play stuff!) Pokemon Y (almost) non-stop and barely browsing anything else than its OT for the last week. Haven't got too far though, a little over 30 hours in and I haven't beaten the 5th gym. But it's soooo good!
The avatar is the shiny starter that I got, Braixen (actually it's Fennekin's evolution, and now it turned into Delphox). It may not have very good stats (its speed sucks, I think), but it's the first (and so far last) shiny I ever had.
Halloween isn't common here either, but this may be a good excuse to either continue playing Amnesia, try Paranormal or give Condemned a chance.
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