SteveWinwood
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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Stallion Free
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I don't really trust Gearbox to do anything anymore and I actually thought they made progress in the series with Hell's Highway.
But I really just want to use it as a tech demo...
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
BiA: HH is what ruined current gen 3rd person shooters for me. I keep trying to give everyone orders in other games but they never listen. Unless the order is, "Stand around like a useless asshat and block my shots."
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HH ruined BIA 1/2 for me because the shooting actually felt good so I didn't feel totally gimped anymore.
I thought the shooting was gimped so you had to suppress and flank. The improved shooting was nice though, but that just really made it a TPS where you could do those things. Also lone wolf segments were meh IMO.
Anyone? I shoot an e-mail to customer support 10 minutes after my last post, and they haven't answered yet. And I haven't got my keys either.
Am I screwed? Can I somehow make a chargeback on PayPal? What should I do?
Really? I thought the other way, the series went downhill with HH's louder narrative, better shooting mechanics and health regeneation and dumb shit like deathcams, slowmo and stuff like that.
While I can appreciate the guns were a lot more satisfying it just ruined the game's feel for me. Health regeneration and respawning teammates also took away the sense of frailty of the the first two. I dunno if dumbed down is the right term, but it feels less hardcore that's for sure, which I guess goes against the idea that WW2 was horrible and you shouldn't be really enjoying it too much.
I've played them all back to back recently and really Road to Hill 30 feels so much better IMO.
zerokoolpsx
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Any problems with installing Ubuntu on XP? Damn that tux lol.
SteveWinwood
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Yes I bought Magical Diary.
Yes it looks like it was vomited out of Newgrounds circa 2005.
No you cannot judge me.
Yes it looks like it was vomited out of Newgrounds circa 2005.
No you cannot judge me.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It doesn't seem to be working.
Hey, pantie-dropping Valentine's Day dinners of fettuccine alfredo with grilled chicken and broccoli and banana cupcakes with maple-peanut-butter-cream-cheese frosting do not make themselves. I came as soon as I could.
Others have pointed out Borderlands 2's many problems and each one is basically irrefutable fact. Borderlands 2 is a game that you must like despite itself.
You must like collecting loot, despite the fact that all the loot in the game sucks.
You must like grinding your character stats, despite the fact that each upgrade is so incremental and you never truly feel more powerful than at any other moment in the game.
You must like terrible MMO-style quest design despite the fact that the game has none of the good qualities of an actual MMO.
You must like the writing, as it is as in-your-face as the monitor in front of you, despite the fact that it is physically impossible to do so. Seriously, the worst writing ever in a game and I've played the beginning of Postal.
Charizard used LOL U mad?
It's super effective!
Enemy Scyther is Jelly. Enemy Scyther used FUUUUUUU!
Charizard fainted! The cyberpolice are on their way! Leave Charizard alone!
Yeah... No thanks.
I'm afraid to ask... was the pun intended, or is it a shameful confession?
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Considering how there is four hours from the 'Bus signal being fired to when I came into the thread, I don't think there is anything to be ashamed of at all.
Morningbus is a selfish lover confirmed.
SteveWinwood
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"F you got mine!"
PepsimanVsJoe
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Congrats on your Two Worlds 2
Still got some more games to give away.
Men of War: Assault Squad
Planets Under Attack
Bomber Defense
For all I know, you could have spent them cooking. Or eating. Or having a seizure due to the posts talking about Borderlands 2.
toddhunter
Member
Or an amazing one. I know I've spent many a time hoping to wrap things up after the main job was done.
Mind you that was more back in the day when games were good.
Crimsonlink
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Wow R.U.S.E is only $2.50, I snatched it up lol. BF3 is $12 on Origin, grabbed that as well. Deleted a couple of games oin my steam that my comp can't handle and ones I won't bother playing for a while. Freed up over 80 GB of space lol.
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The first two games were about as dumb as you could get for tactical shooters and some levels had ridiculously rigid design which just made troop placement infuriating trial and error. The shooting only made the experience more grating as you felt completely handicapped when it came to hitting targets just so you would be forced to use your troops. That to me is fucking backwards design logic.
HH wisely allowed the player to actually feel like an active participant and had a steady stream of new differently color-schemed locales.
Dimitri2401
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Well, you don't really need to install Linux, you can just use a Live USB key for example.
If you already have TF2 on Windows, you can just copy the GCF files to the Linux SteamApps folder, and then download something like 200MB.
All this can be done in 20 minutes or so.
The latter two Tomb Raider pre-purchase reward tiers have been ninja-edited:
Last month:
Now:
(Reward 2 could be considered just a simple clarification, but it's no longer "exclusive".)
Ditto for the Survival Edition contents:
Last month:
Now:
Switching an upcoming DLC release for a single MP map and the full soundtrack for a 10-track sample? How cheap can you get, Squeenix? Could've at least thrown in a hat.
Last month:
Now:
(Reward 2 could be considered just a simple clarification, but it's no longer "exclusive".)
Ditto for the Survival Edition contents:
Last month:
Now:
Switching an upcoming DLC release for a single MP map and the full soundtrack for a 10-track sample? How cheap can you get, Squeenix? Could've at least thrown in a hat.
Considering both Stallion and morningbus weren't here at the same time, I think it's pretty clear who the dinner was for.
toddhunter
Member
That is pretty scummy. Now I'm glad I didn't pay double to get it through steam.
Wok
Member
Worth it:
I want this hat! Does it prevent backstab?
Planets under attack please?
I'll take Men of War: Assault Squad if it's still available
edit: Thx PepsimanVsJoe!
Lord British
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They were a lot like Spec Ops: The Line, puzzles dressed as shooting, which I enjoy a lot. It was a matter of finding the solution to it, which always was suppress and flank, just finding out where and how. It felt really satisfying to pull off a mission with no casualties and it was really tense because one bad call could cost someone's life.
I didn't call the older BiA games deep, nor HH dumbed down, they're all pretty simple games, but I think the first two were effective at designing the game around those "puzzles" whereas HH wasn't. I also liked that they were more minimalistic with their storytelling and their set-pieces (probably a budget thing but still) and it just felt better for me.
As for the color in HH, I dunno, I'd normally agree but UE3 games have sometimes this 'look' I can't really put into words but it just looked too much like that, like artificially saturated or something.
Not saying HH is bad, I just didn't fall in love with it like I did with Road to Hill 30, a game I think is among the best shooters ever.
You love doing chores, don't you?
Nice, it wasn't on sale earlier.
There were times where I was ready to pack it in, but I got there in the end!
Dem progress bars gotta fill dem progress bars
Ubi got me with AC2 and AC:B... at least AC2 was fun
There's a zoom bar you can fiddle with.
Yeah. I find the smallest possible you can achieve with that, is still too large for my liking.
Here's a before and after using downsampling, which shows what i'm looking for.
Part of the reason I had quite a bit of fun running around while completing menial tasks in the AssCreed 2 trilogy is that the locations were superbly realised (bland countryside aside), but 18th-century America wasn't nearly as aesthetically enthralling as 15th-century Italy.
Ah. As far as I'm aware there's not a lot you can do about that, unfortunately.
Yup, that's my main reason for waiting for a killer sale for ACIII.
I'm also pretty jaded, AC:B really killed my love for the series.
OH FUCK! There was a Steam-GAF party and I wasn't invited? I'm a sad panda.
By the way, I still haven't received my Indie Gala keys, nor a response from them. Guess I'll shoot them another e-mail this evening, and if there's still nothing, threathen them with doing a chargeback. And then actually do it tomorrow if things don't change.
toddhunter
Member
AC2 did it for me. I loved the game, it was great. And I never ever want to play another second of an AC game ever again.
No.
toddhunter
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Grab linux lite, it should have steam ready to go off dvd or usb.
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