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STEAM | May 2015 - Paid Mods? We hardly Nuuvem!

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freshVeggie

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Looking forward to these.




Nice OP Mr. shackles. Really nice.

I even noticed you took out the "When is sale starting? No one f****** knows. Stop asking." part.
What a nice guy you are.
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I just realized that this month's banner image:

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kinda reminds me of this controversial Nintendo Power cover:

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I hope nobody gets too scared!
 
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louiedog

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jshackles said:
I just realized that this month's banner image:



kinda reminds me of this controversial Nintendo Power cover:



I hope nobody gets too scared!
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Hey, I'm not scared. But maybe I'll switch over to the light theme for just a bit. You know, just to check it out.
 
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freshVeggie

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pahamrick said:
Oh man, I am absolutely loving the EVGA SSC 970. Thing is so quiet compared to my old XFX 5870s with no coil whine and I've got a rock solid 1800mhz Mem speed OC and a 1500MHZ GPU OC with boost. Comparing some benchmarks I've run with it against benchmarks I'd saved from my 5870 CFX, it's just destroying it (naturally).

And while it may not be on Steam (Thank you Nvidia for free copy of base game, I'll gladly drop $25 for the expansion pass with my left over GPU funds)
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I am now ready.
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Nice. Congrats and have fun with your new card!
Hero Prinny said:
GASP I won life is strange! and its the complete season pass too :eek:oo I thought it was just the first episode. only downside is its ROW but fuck my bro, if he wants to play it he can stop being lazy and just come over to my room to play it if he's interested. I'll wait till the game is complete before playing it, I'll soon find out whats the big deal with Warren :)
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Congrats to you, too.
Very cool of you JaseC, even the whole season.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Hero Prinny said:
GASP I won life is strange! and its the complete season pass too :eek:oo I thought it was just the first episode. only downside is its ROW but fuck my bro, if he wants to play it he can stop being lazy and just come over to my room to play it if he's interested. I'll wait till the game is complete before playing it, I'll soon find out whats the big deal with Warren :)
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I thought about buying just the first episode since it was a little cheaper, but then I figured that even though I was just buying the game to test whether or not PayPal via VPN worked, I should grab the full season just in the purchase does go through, which turned out to be a wise decision.
 
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Sölf

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Subscribed. :A

Currently working with the RPG Maker 2003 which was released last week. God, nostalgia. Legal nostalgia. So gud.
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
morningbus said:
It is not May.

I do not recognize the authority of this thread.
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Currently about 25%+ of the Earth's population disagrees with you.
 
lashman

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Once upon a time, the Colin McRae Rally series was a celebration of the purity of rally driving. But over time, after adopting the Dirt monicker, it became increasingly flashier, fancier, and noisier. It developed an American accent and started chain-drinking cans of Monster. The rallying was still there, kind of, but was drowned out by rawk music, irksome announcers, and daft stunt driving.

But DiRT Rally, a PC exclusive that sneaked quietly onto Steam this week, redresses the balance. It’s the purest rally game since the earliest entries in the McRae series, and one of the most realistic simulators Codemasters Racing Studio has ever made. Their other driving games are great, but you can’t really call them sims. They’re entertaining approximations of motorsport, giving you the feel of driving a car, not the reality.

Dirt Rally, however, is as real as it gets. The developers have created a brand new engine designed to replicate the real-world physics of rally driving as closely as possible. Lead designer Paul Coleman drives rally cars himself, so he knows first-hand what it feels like. You realise just how realistic the game is when you tear away from the starting line in your first race and immediately skid into a ditch. Try to play it like a traditional racer, or a traditional Dirt game, and you’ll get nowhere.

Mirroring the knife-edge tension of real rally racing, you constantly feel on the verge of disaster when you play Dirt Rally. As you hurtle along its rugged, unpredictable courses, all it takes is the slightest mistake to send you spinning out. The cars are twitchy and heavy, giving you the feeling that you’re wrestling to keep them on the track. It’s all about balance: driving carefully and precisely, but also knowing when to push the limits, so you can shave precious seconds off your time.

The sound design is excellent, and really helps sell the weight and power of the cars. On gravel roads you hear stones ping against the metal. Your chassis creaks and groans as you trundle over bumpy terrain. They’re subtle details, but they give the game a remarkable feeling of physicality. You really do feel like you’re throwing a hefty, tangible machine around the tracks.

It’s perhaps not surprising given their racing pedigree, but Dirt Rally is impressively polished for an Early Access game. You’ll just have to decide whether the content on offer is worth £25—a price that will rise as the game approaches completion. Buying in now means you get access to all future updates, including a hill climb mode, new cars, new tracks, and PVP multiplayer.

There are 14 cars, all rendered with fine, hand-crafted detail, including rally classics like the Lancia Stratos, Subaru Impreza, Ford Sierra RS Cosworth, and Mini Cooper. From the 1960s through to the modern day, the cars on offer have their own distinct personalities. Bombing around a gravel track in a rickety little Mini Cooper feels very different from doing it in a modern rally-tuned car.

There are 36 courses spread across three distinct environments. Powys, Wales is grey, wet and muddy, with nerve-racking forest sections. Monte Carlo, Monaco features tight ice-and-snow-covered tarmac roads. And Argolis, Greece is dry, dusty, and comprised mainly of gravel roads. They all look fantastic, especially the rain-soaked Welsh countryside, and they’re packed with trackside detail. I was so distracted the first time I saw a camera drone buzz over my car, I crashed.

Throw in a career mode with vehicle upgrades and team management and you’ve got a pretty decent package. Above all, though, the real joy here is the driving, and the 36 courses offer a good variety of terrain and weather to test your skills. It's a satisfyingly back-to-basics rally game that makes up for its lack of flair with a deep, robust driving model. This is shaping up to be one of Codemasters’ best driving games. With regular updates promised, Dirt Rally might be worth investing in early.

Verdict

A welcome return to the series’ rally roots. A driving game for anyone who likes a stiff challenge, or who thinks the other Dirt games weren't realistic enough.
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Knurek

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Sigh, bought an Ipad for wife's birthday.
Kind of wish there was an IOS Steam version. I don't really want to re-buy all those games that I own already on superior platform... :\
 
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Dr Dogg

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Hey Tizoc this thread is certainly your cup of tea.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1038427

Knurek said:
Sigh, bought an Ipad for wife's birthday.
Kind of wish there was an IOS Steam version. I don't really want to re-buy all those games that I own already on superior platform... :\
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Well at least with Android there's plenty of emulators you can use on Windows. If you got a Mac and the iOS SDK you can run some unprotected apps but I'm not sure of the state of the iOS emulators theses day but they weren't great.
 
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RS4-

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Parsnip said:
Continuing from the previous thread, VAGRANT STORY on PC needs to happen.
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Never did beat that game, had the wrong weapons leveled up when I got to the last boss.

Need Front Mission on PC, just not that shit fest Front Mission Evolved or whatever.
 
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Turfster

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East Tower - Akio keys now available for Groupees BAGB 19
The Adventures of Tree keys now available for Groupees BAGB 20
 
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