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STEAM | August II 2014 - Kept you waiting, huh?

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Dr Dogg

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2014 is truly the year that the RPG is/has ruled supreme. I'm swimming in them at the moment and there's still some corkers to come this year and early 2015.

Dead Rising 3 was a lot of fun. Just beat it recently on Xbox One.
It's easily my second favorite DR title after the 1st. It adds a lot to the formula while still keeping a lot of what fans loved in the first place. If you were someone who liked the time mechanic I still say Normal is worth a playthrough first and then Nightmare.

Actually how much did the Smart Glass integration matter to the gameplay? The stuff I remember seeing at the E3 demo looked like it was hooked in pretty tight. Wondering if that will be dropped for the PC release or there will be some sort of work around.
 
My fiancee saw me doing some of the trading/crafting stuff last night and about the only thing she took away from it was 'people pay the most for anime lady cards.' She also asked me what a waifu was. She felt reassured when I let her know I did not have one.

She thinks you're lying!
 
Anyone else having some weirdness with their Steam Community game count? I was at 340 last week, activated the Ultra SF4 upgrade which brought me down to 339 (?) then redeemed Van Helsing for the DLC in the Humble Bundle just now which brought me down to 337, then I activated KOF13 which brought me up to 338. What?
 

Jawmuncher

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Actually how much did the Smart Glass integration matter to the gameplay? The stuff I remember seeing at the E3 demo looked like it was hooked in pretty tight. Wondering if that will be dropped for the PC release or there will be some sort of work around.

All Smart Glass did was give you acess to these locked areas with good items.
Never even bothered with the air strikes since they are more of a hassle to use than anything. Game has more than enough content without having to mess with the smartglass stuff.

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Chariot

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Crusader Kings 2 has a Game of Thrones mod I think?
No. Crusader Kings HAS Game of Thrones. Instead of a mod it feels like a whole new game. You should get it. It's fantastic.

But never play as Frey. Micromanaging all the shitty brats is another game for itself.
I kept wanting to go back and pick it up but the UI is so confusing :(
Watch these tutorials and play around in vanilla a bit. Takes some time, but you will eventually understand and love the game.
 

Pupo

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Anyone else having some weirdness with their Steam Community game count? I was at 340 last week, activated the Ultra SF4 upgrade which brought me down to 339 (?) then redeemed Van Helsing for the DLC in the Humble Bundle just now which brought me down to 337, then I activated KOF13 which brought me up to 338. What?

Free weekend games?
 

Evrain

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Sheesh, one can't post a giveaway that we move to the next thread... wait, did I also witness a Milamber post devoid of gifs? *raises eyebrow*
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Jokes aside, I think the game is quite worth both its standard price and the time to play throug
 
No. Crusader Kings HAS Game of Thrones. Instead of a mod it feels like a whole new game. You should get it. It's fantastic.

But never play as Frey. Micromanaging all the shitty brats is another game for itself.Watch these tutorials and play around in vanilla a bit. Takes some time, but you will eventually understand and love the game.
Thanks!
 
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Didn't notice the other thread was closing >_>
 

Mono

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No. Crusader Kings HAS Game of Thrones. Instead of a mod it feels like a whole new game. You should get it. It's fantastic.

But never play as Frey. Micromanaging all the shitty brats is another game for itself.Watch these tutorials and play around in vanilla a bit. Takes some time, but you will eventually understand and love the game.

Does it go into book spoilers?
 

Chariot

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Does it go into book spoilers?
When you start a new game you'll given a choice at what year to start and every year is tagged with the associated book it would spoil.
So just choose the A Game of Thrones scenario and you should be fine. Ingame events and such happen random.
 
Yeah, at the very least nobody expects me to speak it.

My fiancee saw me doing some of the trading/crafting stuff last night and about the only thing she took away from it was 'people pay the most for anime lady cards.' She also asked me what a waifu was. She felt reassured when I let her know I did not have one.


Haha, I noticed this too. I think that's because you can use them to unlock anime girl backgrounds for your Steam page, but that's just a guess.
 
You can now hide games from your library and categorize more than one game at a time. Thank Gaben!
I don't really have much use for hiding games because I only view what I have installed, but the funny thing is that they recently included anything you have under tools installed in view now as well. So I have this awkward categorization of games and tools in my installed view, but the tools I have installed are the Source SDK Bases for mod dependencies, they're just annoying and in the way but I can't hide those because they don't count as games.
 
Jokes aside, I think the game is quite worth both its standard price and the time to play throug

I had one major issue at the end, when the platforming becomes a time-trial with little room for error. The game feels clunky but you get used to it and it becomes part of the puzzle. If not for that one part, I'd have thought it was intentional.

Also, I wish the cutscenes were done with in-game models. The comic book feel was cool and all, but completely incongruous with the moody visuals the rest of the game carried.

Worth giving a go, though.
 

Jawmuncher

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Murder Miners isn't bad at all.
It really is like Halo Lite mixed with minecraft world destruction.

I think I was playing with kids or REALLY serious fans.
It is MP only though for anyone who doesn't know.
 

Terra_Ex

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Grabbed the groupees bundle for Consortium (kinda glad Steam screwed me over by not featuring it the last big sale) and Betrayer. Procrastinated over the new humble bundle for a while since I only need the Van Helsing dlcs and King of Fighters and ultimately gave in and bought it, steam sales and bundles have really altered my perception of the value of games, it's crazy, it costs me more to park my car than it does for some of these games... GalCiv2 and Crusader Kings 2 alone make the humble more than worth it for anyone without them in their library.

And it's a new thread, yay. Looking forward to playing Wasteland 2 when the full thing rolls out and keeping the year of the rpg rolling, hopefully we'll see another one on the horizon soon.
 

Elija2

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So I heard about the few F2P games with trading cards but when I add them to my library and start up Idle Master it doesn't idle any of them (it doesn't even detect them). Do I really have to download the games just to idle for cards?
 
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So I heard about the few F2P games with trading cards but when I add them to my library and start up Idle Master it doesn't idle any of them (it doesn't even detect them). Do I really have to download the games just to idle for cards?

They fixed it so that cards don't drop for these games any more. You can double check by looking on your Badges page on Steam, which will tell you how many card drops you have left for any particular game.
 

AsylumX

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So I heard about the few F2P games with trading cards but when I add them to my library and start up Idle Master it doesn't idle any of them (it doesn't even detect them). Do I really have to download the games just to idle for cards?

You can't idle F2P games unless you buy something in-game. I think the ratio is 9 dollars for 1 card... More or less...
 
So I heard about the few F2P games with trading cards but when I add them to my library and start up Idle Master it doesn't idle any of them (it doesn't even detect them). Do I really have to download the games just to idle for cards?

f2p games require purchases to get cards. there was a glitch for a while where you could get the cards without making a purchase but that's been sorted out.

AITD

ooooh .. would you look at that :) my money's on a mobile f2p game ;)

it's been rebooted twice to mixed and terrible results. third time has to be the charm.
 
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