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Oh I had them mixed up, crisis averted.SalsaShark said:
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STEAM announcements & updates 2011 Thread 3 | Buy now, play later.
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Snuggler said:
Everybody says it : Gay Tony is what GTA IV should have been. More ACTUAL fun. It felt so good to get batshit weapons, crazy missions, meeting insane people and having to drive/fly military vehicles severals times. It was so good and so shameless that I felt it was a direct pun in the face of Niko's story.
I really need to get my ass to finish the episodes, left it at lost & the damned after 35 hours of GTA IV. I was a bit burned out.
What pisses me off is that since then i upgraded to a (stock) i5 2500k + gtx 560ti, and the game still wont run at 60fps with everything on the highest.. and im playing at 1360x768 :S should that be expected or am i doing something wrong? i literally just tried it the day i upgraded though, to test.
In other news i just played the first level of Hard Reset and totally forgot how fucking pretty the game was from the demo.
What pisses me off is that since then i upgraded to a (stock) i5 2500k + gtx 560ti, and the game still wont run at 60fps with everything on the highest.. and im playing at 1360x768 :S should that be expected or am i doing something wrong? i literally just tried it the day i upgraded though, to test.
In other news i just played the first level of Hard Reset and totally forgot how fucking pretty the game was from the demo.
SalsaShark said:
I think vanilla GTAIV is locked at 50fps. Maybe there were some optimizations with Gay Tony, but it actually ran quite well for me. My only tech issue is the complete lack of AA. The jaggies are a major eye sore, and I could force AA through my drivers, but my frame rate would take a hit.
Ugh, just started The Lost and Damned and I'm not feeling the film grain and filters after playing Gay Tony. It was so clean and crisp.
I really enjoyed what i played of Lost & The Damned, though i havent finished it (and now its so far away that i'll probably start again).
That has a lot do with the theme and how its basically Sons of Anarchy: The Game. Seriously though, they rip it off baaaaaad, down to the plot points. No complains though.
That has a lot do with the theme and how its basically Sons of Anarchy: The Game. Seriously though, they rip it off baaaaaad, down to the plot points. No complains though.
wilflare said:
Truth be told, I didn't have any issues with it, but now that I own the Steam version of the game, there's no need for the Origin version to be sitting there.
I also ordered the art book about an hour ago:
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(I had to push the order total to £25 for free shipping.
)Ah, yes, of course! Thanks, Xeno.
Edit: Bah, missed the 'Edit' button.
The Broken Ska Record
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Gay Tony was the better GTAIV. Lost and the Damned was good, too, and GTAIV was just pretty good.
I'll probably replay the GTA games sometime early next year after the crazy that is the next few months.
I'll probably replay the GTA games sometime early next year after the crazy that is the next few months.
jaundicejuice
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I forced me way through the first half an hour of The Lost & The Damned, so far it's been the typical this-generation-Rockstar game design where the player pushes forward and holds the gas for five to ten minutes while people talk. Had to re-drive the opening segment to get the dude's bike back because The Lost path finding failed, they drove off of a dock into the water and died. I had to re-do the drive and listen to another banal conversation. Got to one awkward gun fight that lasted maybe a minute or two, terrible controls, terrible a.i. then back to gameplay segments that may as well have been cinematics. These games feel like they're made by frustrated filmmakers. I forced my way through GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption, I don't know if I can do it again with the episodes.
xenoflux2113
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JaseC said:Ah, yes, of course! Thanks, Xeno.
No worries. Glad things worked out!
JaseC said:Truth be told, I didn't have any issues with it, but now that I own the Steam version of the game, there's no need for the Origin version to be sitting there.
I also ordered the art book about an hour ago:
(I had to push the order total to £25 for free shipping.
Alice does have some pretty impressive art
a sidenote, anyone ordered Job's biography?
wilflare said:Alice does have some pretty impressive art
The first time you're transported to Wonderland is nothing short of amazing. I hadn't been so mightily impressed with the artistry of a game's world since Portal 2. (Granted, I haven't played many games since Portal 2.
)You guys are too kind. <3
I forgot to mention that my Steam library was playing silly buggers the other night. I had two Doom 3s - one was Doom 3, of course, and the other Commander Keen. At first I thought Steam was going to go as crazy as it did on Salsa the other week, but, fortunately, that's the only anomaly I could find.
I forgot to mention that my Steam library was playing silly buggers the other night. I had two Doom 3s - one was Doom 3, of course, and the other Commander Keen. At first I thought Steam was going to go as crazy as it did on Salsa the other week, but, fortunately, that's the only anomaly I could find.
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Indeed. GrrImASexyFridge.
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Nobody wants to be needed, but hey, we all need to be wanted.
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Another 2 pages of games lists incoming as well?SalsaShark said:
Love you Salsa, best looking woman in here.
3chopl0x said:http://i.minus.com/ibv5GKQuau1HH3.jpg
with a bit more effort i could probably make it look half decent
Now I'm half-expecting her to leap from the image and cut me with the Vorpal Blade.
jim-jam bongs
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While not strictly a Steam related topic, Big Picture Mode isn't anywhere to be found so it's kinda helpful. I got tired of always keeping a keyboard and mouse around to control my TV PC. It wouldn't have mattered as much except that I've always had a laptop sitting nearby my TV since before I hooked the PC up to it all the time.
So I decided to finally take the plunge and install Synergy, which I've used before for work but never thought to use in my living-room. Basically it lets you share a keyboard and mouse over a network. The result is that I now have a laptop sitting directly in front of me on the coffee table while I recline about 3m from the set, and I use that to handle the non-360 controller aspects of operating my TV PC.
It's a freaking revelation. Wii U ain't got nothing on my controller with a screen in it.
So I decided to finally take the plunge and install Synergy, which I've used before for work but never thought to use in my living-room. Basically it lets you share a keyboard and mouse over a network. The result is that I now have a laptop sitting directly in front of me on the coffee table while I recline about 3m from the set, and I use that to handle the non-360 controller aspects of operating my TV PC.
It's a freaking revelation. Wii U ain't got nothing on my controller with a screen in it.
I play on my TV as well, and have no problem with keyboard/mouse from couch (all you need is the right stand). My only problem is text being too small to read. I'm really considering getting a second monitor, putting it closer, and then just using that for the hard-to-read text and playing everything else on the big screen.
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