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STEAM | July 2014-2 In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming

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Fellow Gaffers, where do I check what games are redeemable / available to your region / country? I am interested in Metal Gear Rising but it is not available to purchase in my region (Asia).
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Was just thinking this. I think I'm going to drive myself crazy on the morning Witcher 3 comes out. I thought we can preload games right now?

Pre-loading is up to the publisher and generally the period is no longer than a few days.
 

BinaryPork2737

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Garbage? Come on... Heileen?

I'm assuming part two gets better, because it looks like it has more content due to a morality system or something like that, but how can you defend part one? o_O

It's a cookie cutter VN. The background music, when present, is very forgettable and loops. Artistically it's okay, nothing special. VNs live or die by their writing, and Heileen 1's writing is pretty bad. I mean, it's not broken English like Sakura Spirit, but it's just boring and uninspired. I get that it's a relatively early Winter Wolves game and all, and that the writer is Italian and has admitted that his English isn't the best, but it's just not a good translation. The narrative portion is sort of fine, but the dialogue is just not good. It feels lifeless. It's also a really short VN. There are only three achievements, one for each of the three paths you can complete. You can skip text that's already been on screen and fast forward to new stuff, so it's not that hard to 100%. I mean, at the very least it's got different paths and choices, so that's a plus. But it just feels so unpolished and devoid of content that it's hard to believe it's an actual release on Steam. I would be more understanding towards it if all three parts of the series had been combined into one, but as its own singular product, it's just not very good.

Rude.

I'm pretty sure this "garbage" is better than that one game Nito keeps hyping.

I look forward to the screenshots :p

I'm saying if anyone in GAF, other than me, has played it.

I'm sort of interested to see what other H games people have played. You know, for science.
 

Hugstable

Banned
Was just thinking this. I think I'm going to drive myself crazy on the morning Witcher 3 comes out. I thought we can preload games right now?



:p Dat Collector mentality.

The morning Witcher comes out is gonns be like a second Christmas. Doesn't Bloodborne also come out in February? Gonna be the best gaming month ever if so.

Also lol my brothers playing Marlow Briggs. It's not all that bad yet. A lot B-movie cheese but it looks fun so far
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
"Early 2015" is the only date the game has at this juncture.

so fall 2015 then, gotcha

also Jay Sect The Crocodile Wrangler, do you know if bound by flame is russian locked?
 

Jawmuncher

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Forgot to mention I played Ridge Racer Unbounded. Dunno if It was the car but the drifting seems broke. Its nothing like a real RR game. It was like poor mans Burnout 3.
 

Benedict

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wilflare

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I assume you won't be upgrading your GPU again for quite some time? I'd stick with AMD for the extra VRAM if you can't swing a 4GB 770.

yeap... I don't have any budget for stuff like this until I graduate.. and get a job.
(everything is like spoiling, first it's the monitor, next the MBP battery, now this GPU artefacting)

if I'm gonna stick to 1080P gaming with Downsampling.. is the VRAM that important?
my current one is a ASUS R9280X-DC2T-3GD5 - 3GB VRAM
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
meh

Thanks Putin!

edit: Seahorse looks purdy in that avatar

I wanted to use this or this but they're both watermarked up the wazoo.

yeap... I don't have any budget for stuff like this until I graduate.. and get a job.
(everything is like spoiling, first it's the monitor, next the MBP battery, now this GPU artefacting)

if I'm gonna stick to 1080P gaming with Downsampling.. is the VRAM that important?
my current one is a ASUS R9280X-DC2T-3GD5 - 3GB VRAM

Especially if you're downsampling, yes. We're already beginning to see games that require more than 2GB VRAM for the highest texture setting and this will only get "worse" as the PS360 are left behind.
 

aku:jiki

Member
Oh, totally forgot about Magic 2015 tomorrow. We should get some 4 player action going! Might be hard due to time zones but maybe for the weekend? Who's getting it?

meh

Thanks Putin!

edit: Seahorse looks purdy in that avatar
Can't ever be as pretty as this though.

CZm3sbp.png
 

Deques

Member
I wanted to use this or this but they're both watermarked up the wazoo.



Especially if you're downsampling, yes. We're already beginning to see games that require more than 2GB VRAM for the highest texture setting and this will only get "worse" as the PS360 are left behind.

With some magic photoshop work the watermark can be removed :)
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Oh, totally forgot about Magic 2015 tomorrow. We should get some 4 player action going! Might be hard due to time zones but maybe for the weekend? Who's getting it?

Can't ever be as pretty as this though.

CZm3sbp.png

fuck you

:(

edit: ack why did I quote that, now its 2 of them >_<
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Oh, totally forgot about Magic 2015 tomorrow. We should get some 4 player action going! Might be hard due to time zones but maybe for the weekend? Who's getting it?

I pre-ordered the Complete Bundle earlier. But I have never played a Magic game and don't intend to change that any time soon. ;)

With some magic photoshop work the watermark can be removed :)

On a scale of 1 to 10, here is how familiar I am with Photoshop:
 

Hugstable

Banned
Yay finally got my copy of Teslagrad! Set up some trade offer so someone I found on TF2outpost doing the game for 3 keys, and it took awhile so I was assuming he wasn't doing the deal anymore or something, but after a whole day it finally went through and I got the game!
 

wilflare

Member
I wanted to use this or this but they're both watermarked up the wazoo.



Especially if you're downsampling, yes. We're already beginning to see games that require more than 2GB VRAM for the highest texture setting and this will only get "worse" as the PS360 are left behind.

okay I'm not updated w the GFX stuff at all.

so for the single card solutions
the 290X and Titan are at the top?
followed by 290 and 780
and then 280X and 770?

will topping up for 780 w 4GB be worth it?
 

Xclash

can't grow facial hair
Oh, totally forgot about Magic 2015 tomorrow. We should get some 4 player action going! Might be hard due to time zones but maybe for the weekend? Who's getting it?

I just got it and I really hope that it won't take a very long time to get all of the cards.
 

CheesecakeRecipe

Stormy Grey
okay I'm not updated w the GFX stuff at all.

so for the single card solutions
the 290X and Titan are at the top?
followed by 290 and 780
and then 280X and 770?

will topping up for 780 w 4GB be worth it?

I believe a 780ti is currently accepted as the best $$ to performance ratio for high end cards, Titan's overpriced.
 

Milamber

Member
okay I'm not updated w the GFX stuff at all.

so for the single card solutions
the 290X and Titan are at the top?
followed by 290 and 780
and then 280X and 770?

will topping up for 780 w 4GB be worth it?

For the next 2 years? Most definitely. Unless you want to play Watch_Dogs, even a Titan can't save you.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
will topping up for 780 w 4GB be worth it?

If you can live with your current issues for a while longer I'd see how the 8xx rumours continue -- if the cards are to launch near the end of the year then you can pick up an 880 instead.
 

Tellaerin

Member
Forgot to mention I played Ridge Racer Unbounded. Dunno if It was the car but the drifting seems broke. Its nothing like a real RR game. It was like poor mans Burnout 3.

Yeah, RRU doesn't feel like a real Ridge Racer at all. I've sunken a fair bit of time into it, mostly because I was jonesing for another arcade-y racer after Burnout Paradise and pickings seemed pretty slim on Steam. It's okay for what it is, once you get your head around the whole "drift button" thing, but I kind of wish Namco had saved the money they paid Bugbear and put it towards a PC port of Ridge Racer 2 (PSP) instead.
 

aku:jiki

Member
Speaking of cards, I've got a 780 and since I am stupid with money, I'm entertaining the idea of having 2. Will that make me a wizard?

I just got it and I really hope that it won't take a very long time to get all of the cards.
I'm assuming it'll take about the same time as always. First you have to find the deck you want to use, and you probably have to unlock all of those, then you have to sit down and win 20 matches with the one you pick. So pretty much probably have to do the 2-3 hour campaign to get the decks, 2-3 more hours to get all the cards for one deck.

Don't need all the cards to play some 4-player, though! Multiplayer also unlocks cards.
 

Jawmuncher

Member
Yeah, RRU doesn't feel like a real Ridge Racer at all. I've sunken a fair bit of time into it, mostly because I was jonesing for another arcade-y racer after Burnout Paradise and pickings seemed pretty slim on Steam. It's okay for what it is, once you get your head around the whole "drift button" thing, but I kind of wish Namco had saved the money they paid Bugbear and put it towards a PC port of Ridge Racer 2 (PSP) instead.

Well guess that answers that . Shame they didn't try to give it something closer to its heritage. Definitely would like to see a real RR game on steam. A port of 2 at a cheap price would be good enough for me as well.
 

Seanspeed

Banned
yeap... I don't have any budget for stuff like this until I graduate.. and get a job.
(everything is like spoiling, first it's the monitor, next the MBP battery, now this GPU artefacting)

if I'm gonna stick to 1080P gaming with Downsampling.. is the VRAM that important?
my current one is a ASUS R9280X-DC2T-3GD5 - 3GB VRAM
280X is still a fine card man. Wouldn't be in a rush to upgrade.
 

wilflare

Member
280X is still a fine card man. Wouldn't be in a rush to upgrade.

not upgrading. it's a great card for sure... but I really don't want to live with random artefacting thing. it happens like when I'm surfing on Chrome, watching videos.. and the odd game or two :/
 
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