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I think I burned myself out on Dirt 3. It would have happened a lot sooner, were it not for a constant stream of podcasts in the background. I have all driving aides turned off and the AI difficulty set to 5 (of 6), so there is some challenge without it turning into a frustrating slog, but I'm not quite happy with it still. I think the way the campaign is structured might be to blame for that. Every seasons so far felt more or less the same, the structure never changes. It can't, in fact. Maybe the DLC would help alleviate that with some added variety (Monaco sure is tempting), but there's no chance in hell I'll buy any of it. The way it's woven into the game just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. That's something only F2P games should do.

I spent a bunch of time in multiplayer as well, something I hadn't done in either Dirt or Dirt 2. For good reason, it turns out. I got to rank 35 or so before the never-ending supply of crash happy lepers and rear-ending bastards put me off of it for good. And then there are the cheaters, speed hacking their way to the finish so far ahead of everyone else that few can even finish the race before the timer cuts them off. And is it just me, or do the DLC cars offer a clear advantage?

And why would you not let me turn off those two jabbering fools, game? Especially the cringe worthy guy that wants me to upload every passable race to Youtube, "dude". Go ahead, taunt me with a volume slider that doesn't go anywhere near zero, Codemasters. You funny guys, you. I hope they realize that their redundant babble is nothing but an additional load time. But things need explaining, egos need stroking and you want us to to advertise for you as well. Hmm-mmh.
 
Honestly I think I started Mirror's Edge, got stuck on that blue atrium level with the two waves of cops near the end, and didn't beat the game until like months later. Since then I've probably played through even the normal game on various difficulties, doing no weapons and weapons, as fast as possible/as easy as possible, etc., like 6 times, plus playing in the editor, plus trying time trials. I have some ridiculous amount of hours on my profile if I recall correctly, so even though the main game was short, I thought it was worth it. :)
 
They need to have a Portal 2 disc, launch it and link their PSN account to their Steam account. Then they can use your code on their PC to get Portal 2.

Not really designed for sharing like that.
 
LovingSteam said:
Question: If I want to give away my Steam Portal 2 serial from the PS3 version what other steps are involved for the other person to have access to it?
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They have to have signed on to Steam on a PS3.

This is not ideal for a couple of reasons. You are linking a PSN and Steam account together, so if he has a PSN account, he'd want to link that one, but regardless you don't want to link your PSN account to his Steam account.

I have to guess at his situation, the viability of lending him the PS3 game to do it himself etc. but this is how I imagine will be best for you/him:

Use his PSN account on your PS3/make a new PSN account for him on your PS3.
Fire up Portal 2, sign in on his Steam account.
Send him the CD key to redeem on Steam.
 
StuBurns said:
They have to have signed on to Steam on a PS3.

This is not ideal for a couple of reasons. You are linking a PSN and Steam account together, so if he has a PSN account, he'd want to link that one, but regardless you don't want to link your PSN account to his Steam account.

I have to guess at his situation, the viability of lending him the PS3 game to do it himself etc. but this is how I imagine will be best for you/him:

Use his PSN account on your PS3/make a new PSN account for him on your PS3.
Fire up Portal 2, sign in on his Steam account.
Send him the CD key to redeem on Steam.
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Thanks man. I'm wanting to do a contest on GAF since there isn't anybody that I know who would want Portal 2.
 
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this shit's addicting
 
Oh, The Oddbox is on sale. I can't deny two games for $7.50. What's the consensus on Stranger's Wrath, is it playable as a result of the patches or is it still a mess?
 
Snkfanatic said:
Well Mirror's Edge was alot of fun while it lasted. Kinda shocked I beat it under 5 hours though. Gorgeous game and I will play it again down the road I am sure.
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You aren't getting the point. Now do it faster, son.
 
Blizzard said:
Honestly I think I started Mirror's Edge, got stuck on that blue atrium level with the two waves of cops near the end, and didn't beat the game until like months later. Since then I've probably played through even the normal game on various difficulties, doing no weapons and weapons, as fast as possible/as easy as possible, etc., like 6 times, plus playing in the editor, plus trying time trials. I have some ridiculous amount of hours on my profile if I recall correctly, so even though the main game was short, I thought it was worth it. :)
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........Editor?

About the Portal 2 serial: If you mean you would like to give away just the code that came with the game, I don't think you'd need to do anything special. I think I added my Portal 2 to steam first, then went on my PS3 to link the shit. The game was already in my list before finishing that. Though my memory might be failing me.
 
Team17 will never develop a Worms game that can be compared favourably to Worms: Armageddon. Worms World Party is the closest they've come yet and that was over a decade ago.

Gez said:
Anyone looking forward to that Lord of the Rings: War in the North game? It's a Steamworks title.
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I had assumed it to be a LoTRO expansion pack, which I now realise was silly considering "online" is not in the title.
 
Can someone help me find the popular fix for Fallout 3's freezing issues that was posted in a thread around here? I thought it was this one but can't find it.
 
Gez said:
Anyone looking forward to that Lord of the Rings: War in the North game? It's a Steamworks title.
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The walkthroughs/gameplay snippets didn't convince me, but I'll probably grab it anyway when it's lower-priced. I still can't believe after all this time that no dev has taken up the challenge to create a decent co-op/SP RPG set in a seamless and vivid Middle-Earth overworld.
 
MNC said:
........Editor?
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Yeah, most of the Unreal Editor 3 was left in Mirror's Edge so someone found a way to enable it. There are a few custom maps floating around, and I think I made a thread about them several months back. The nicest is probably a set of pure time trial DLC in the style of the official pure time trial DLC, complete with a trailer on youtube and an installer script.

For the other guy, just try not to get too frustrated with the time trials. You can watch some videos to pick up shortcuts if you get stuck and don't like figuring it out yourself, but some stuff is really hard to do. Take breaks and come back to it, and eventually beat the 3-star ratings, that sort of thing. :)

I -did- like the campaign and exploring, even escaping people chasing me, so I'm glad it wasn't pure time trials. Does anyone else feel like the boss battles might have been more fun if they had been chases where you would have to beat a runner (like that one level where you presumably can't catch him), instead of semi-QTEs?
 
Snkfanatic said:
Well then guess I should mess around with the times in Mirrors Edge. You guys are making me feel like I am missing out lol
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Time trials are the meat of the game as was mentioned. Campaign was nice and all, but the time trials are basically everything awesome about the game, with the garbage gunplay taken out. What's not to love?
 
ShaneB said:
Time trials are the meat of the game as was mentioned. Campaign was nice and all, but the time trials are basically everything awesome about the game, with the garbage gunplay taken out. What's not to love?
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Awesome, glad I mentioned it on here. Otherwise I would have never checked it out
 
Apparently the latest Edge patch added a control option for orientation. Does that mean I can switch it so the camera isn't at that isometric angle? That angle makes the controls feel so awkward and the game (needlessly) feel harder in my opinion. If that's what that fix does, I'll prolly buy it.
 
I notice Deus Ex: HR still doesn't have a real release date on Steam. We're getting pretty close to release now. I'm hoping that they don't have any issues unlocking it on the release date. I have that entire week off (unrelated use of vacation time) and I look forward to spending all day Wed with the game. My pre-order is ready to go.
 
I bought a bunch of RPGs during the sale (Two Worlds 2, Risen and Divinity II) and I can't decide which one should I play first. Basically I'm looking for some nice dungeon crawling and interesting exploration, any recommedation?
 
ohhthegore said:
dang this is tempting
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After Techland's recent disaster in Call of Juarez 3, I think I'm going to hold out. I suspect the game would be 33.49 or cheaper in the Steam Christmas sale anyway, and by that time we should have a better idea if DI is any good.
 
Stumpokapow said:
After Techland's recent disaster in Call of Juarez 3, I think I'm going to hold out. I suspect the game would be 33.49 or cheaper in the Steam Christmas sale anyway, and by that time we should have a better idea if DI is any good.
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Wasn't CoJ 3 done by the B-Team and the proper team who made the other two games were working on DI?
 
Stumpokapow said:
After Techland's recent disaster in Call of Juarez 3, I think I'm going to hold out. I suspect the game would be 33.49 or cheaper in the Steam Christmas sale anyway, and by that time we should have a better idea if DI is any good.
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The PC version of COJ 3 isn't even out until September 13, right?
 
Blizzard said:
The PC version of COJ 3 isn't even out until September 13, right?
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Not sure, but since most of the criticism about the game was that the game was garbage, I trust that applied equally to the PC version as the console versions :p
 
Stumpokapow said:
Not sure, but since most of the criticism about the game was that the game was garbage, I trust that applied equally to the PC version as the console versions :p
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Honestly all the shit the game got in the reviews made me more interested. I suspect that I will have a ton of fun in the game in co-op when I eventually get it (at a risk-free price).
 
Stumpokapow said:
After Techland's recent disaster in Call of Juarez 3, I think I'm going to hold out. I suspect the game would be 33.49 or cheaper in the Steam Christmas sale anyway, and by that time we should have a better idea if DI is any good.
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Yeah, I was really excited for this, but after watching that 20 min gameplay trailer, I might wait for it to hit the sub 30 range
 
woohoo front page article of Joystiq :P :http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/14/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-defy-gravity-extended/

Helped sales out a good bit. Landing press is so hard for games though, we have a couple of things in the pipeline but I have no idea exactly when they're coming out.

What we're trying to get is get a bunch of things to come out at once, but it seems like its mostly just the luck of the draw when dealing with videogame journalism :\. It funny watching the sales charts though, we kinda know exactly how big of a bump we'll get based upon who puts up something about us and when.
 
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