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Zombie Samurai posted:...and honestly it's a pretty solid game. The combat is good, there's a wild variety of enemies... You are literally insane.
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Ugh does The Witcher ever get interesting? The game seems to be essentially trundling from NPC to NPC on endless fetch quests.
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Eruonen posted:
All those other games were part of the Origin Humble Bundle.
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Pretty sure Origin detects games added on Steam and shows them in your Origin client, because I had a bunch of games appear despite buying them on Steam.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:So is Valve going to let us disable this loving moronic linkfilter bullshit they added? It was annoying enough having to click a button everytime I wanted to click on something I was linked but now half the time their linkfilter fucks up and it gives me a service error. I don't know how Valve gets away with bogging down the steam experience so much. Its bullshit
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Jul 24, 2014 17:00
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Ugh does The Witcher ever get interesting? The game seems to be essentially trundling from NPC to NPC on endless fetch quests. 1 or 2? 1 no, 2 shouldn't have that problem at all.
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Orv posted:1 or 2? 1 no, 2 shouldn't have that problem at all. The first Witcher. So the fetch quests have been toned down for the second game?
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blakelmenakle posted:All those other games were part of the Origin Humble Bundle. I feel incredibly silly.
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The most important tricks to making Witcher 1 more fun: - Set difficulty to easy - Skip any side quest that sounds tedious or hard - When you are in any area that lets you draw your sword, always have your silver sword drawn in Fast style, it makes you move faster than normal.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:The first Witcher. Yeah, most people recommend jumping straight to The Witcher 2. It's massively improved in every way, and includes a video at the start to get you up to speed story-wise.
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Orv posted:You are literally insane. The gameplay, taken in a vacuum, is... okay I guess? Obviously not totally polished but serviceable. If I can take Metro 2033's shooting then I can take Afterfall's shooting/melee system. Afterfall Insanity's main problem is that the whole game is utterly boring. Yeah it goes into pretty crazytown in a few places but it blows through it so fast or without any comment, or both, that its all meaningless. So what if you've got an underground fake movie set city full of cannibals complete with fake weather that your character thought was the surface because he was previously living even further undergroud than that in a sterile white fallout bunker? If you just treat it as another shooting/bashing gallery without exploring any of it there's no point.
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:The most important tricks to making Witcher 1 more fun: I think I'm going to try this speed mod and see if it improves the experience. http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/256/ If not then so long Witcher.
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Kibayasu posted:The gameplay, taken in a vacuum, is... okay I guess? Obviously not totally polished but serviceable. If I can take Metro 2033's shooting then I can take Afterfall's shooting/melee system. Afterfall Insanity's main problem is that the whole game is utterly boring. Yeah it goes into pretty crazytown in a few places but it blows through it so fast or without any comment, or both, that its all meaningless. So what if you've got an underground fake movie set city full of cannibals complete with fake weather that your character thought was the surface because he was previously living even further undergroud than that in a sterile white fallout bunker? If you just treat it as another shooting/bashing gallery without exploring any of it there's no point. I liked the melee combat for a couple hours but yeah, the game got extremely boring.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I think I'm going to try this speed mod and see if it improves the experience. If you do stop playing it but are still interested in the sequel (and perhaps Wild Hunt), look up the ending cutscene for Witcher 1 on YouTube. It's basically the main connection to the second game if you don't care about losing character connections.
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Did Steam just die for anyone else? The store frontpage loads, but both the old and new communities are down and I can't sign in now.
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Rirse posted:Did Steam just die for anyone else? Yes.
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Rirse posted:Did Steam just die for anyone else? The store frontpage loads, but both the old and new communities are down and I can't sign in now. Yeah, it looks like Steam's community servers has croaked. 
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Sober posted:Is it something I can mute all the sound on and just play while listening to podcasts? This is important. Definitely. Quest For Glory II posted:That's because it's a Good Game. So here's a question, do you ever get to take multiple guns in to the tower or get alt-fires or anything? The whole one gun that does one thing in a playthrough gets a little old and the items you can use are almost all completely terrible from what I've found. I also kinda don't like how 95% of the secrets require you to have the multiple jump perk selected from the beginning. e: also the end boss is a motherfucker
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Ugh does The Witcher ever get interesting? The game seems to be essentially trundling from NPC to NPC on endless fetch quests. By the end I just cheated and made myself max level. The story is awesome but the game is just too hardcore just for the sake of being hardcore. I do love the lore, character and dialogues though. You really do feel like an outsider in some shithole medieval world where everything wants to kill you.
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Yodzilla posted:So here's a question, do you ever get to take multiple guns in to the tower or get alt-fires or anything? The whole one gun that does one thing in a playthrough gets a little old and the items you can use are almost all completely terrible from what I've found. I also kinda don't like how 95% of the secrets require you to have the multiple jump perk selected from the beginning. Weekend sale is Dead Island franchise and Ace Combat something or other free weekend Bioshock Infinite is $7.49 on Gamefly if you thought $20 was too much to pay for it on Humble Bundle (it was) The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:Weekend sale is Dead Island franchise and Ace Combat something or other free weekend Anyone who likes the old Ace Combat series should at least give Assault Horizon a try since its free. While it is most definitely Call of Duty in terms of narrative tone and characters (and the super-weapon is literally just a not-nuke) I think it retains enough of the old to be fun. After experiencing it in practice I don't think the Dog Fight Mode is as nearly as "RAIL SHOOTER MODE" as most people on the internet will proclaim it to be as you do in fact still need to speed up/down and pitch/yaw around so you aren't knocked out of of it (although there is still a fair amount of auto-guidance) and it is only really required on boss jets. Just be aware that the first level will, in fact, confirm all fears the internet has about the DFM as your plane flies through buildings all on its own and control is taken away so you can watch explosions happen. It does get better after that... until you hit an overly long helicopter door gunner level but it gets better after that! ...until you hit an overly long Apache gunship levels but I do think the jet fighter/bomber levels really are just as good as anything the older Ace Combat's have.
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 Murder Miners -Coming soon This picture sounds like trollbait, which in turn makes this post trollbait. I'm so sorry. Anyone with hands on this thing?
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The perfect first person shooter would be like Popular Game that plays nothing like Popular Game. Also Minecraft.
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It's funny about all the hate Witcher 1 gets, however hyperbolic, but loving hell how awesome a game it was when it was released.
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All its quotes are making my eyes roll out of my head. "This game is just so fantastic, and I have such high hopes for it. I could see it becoming my main shooter for a very, very long period of time. I'm 24 years old, and it hasn't been since my highschoo days that I've found myself this passionate, inspired, and flat out hyped the f*** up about any game whatsoever." - Hello Mr Lion It reads like a ED ad. "Even in beta, this game is hands down more fun than any of the FPS I've played over the past 2 years." -SoloXIII Aka this game is better then others like it in the last couple years. More steam games need gamer quotes over their screenshots.
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Drifter posted:It's funny about all the hate Witcher 1 gets, however hyperbolic, but loving hell how awesome a game it was when it was released. The Witcher games both own for good reasons but boy do they both have their share of problems. Also 
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tripwood posted:By the end I just cheated and made myself max level. The story is awesome but the game is just too hardcore just for the sake of being hardcore.
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Humble Weekly Bundle: $1 Ethan Meteor Hunter Finding Teddy Mechanic Escape $6 Legends of Persia Kill the Bad Guy Freaking Meatbags Project Temporarity $10 WRC 4 FIA World Rally Championship I have no clue about any of these games
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Mechanic Escape is a bad game. It's supposed to be a twitch platformer but it has really slippery and floaty controls.
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Kibayasu posted:Just be aware that the first level will, in fact, confirm all fears the internet has about the DFM as your plane flies through buildings all on its own and control is taken away so you can watch explosions happen. It does get better after that... until you hit an overly long helicopter door gunner level but it gets better after that! ...until you hit an overly long Apache gunship levels but I do think the jet fighter/bomber levels really are just as good as anything the older Ace Combat's have. Assault Horizon seems like a really cool game until you realize the final target on just about every map is functionally immortal until you engage DFM because you HAVE to end the mission with a cinematic close call explosionfest. It's a cool mechanic but the way they force it on you is very souring.
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Darkrenown posted:You could try the Long War mod for XCOM:EW, it's functionally a bigger expansion pack than EW was. I really like it so far, and LW has basically taken over the XCOM thread here. Could I have a link to the thread? For the life of me I can't find it with search.
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The Iron Rose posted:Could I have a link to the thread? For the life of me I can't find it with search. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529135
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Accordion Man posted:You got a link for that? It's probably going to be the only way I'm going to get through it because there's no real easy difficulty like in Witcher 2. Use the save editor. Give yourself some raven armor too because even when maxed out you can still get hosed easily. The last fights are just that difficult.
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New Bundle Stars bundle: Vector - looks like Canabalt but with more than one button? Rush For Glory Montas Steel & Steam: Episode 1 Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory Ionball 2: Ionstorm Clockwork Tales: Of Glass & Ink - some adventure game, it won't say if it's point&click. Growing Pains Any opinions on any of these? Is it worth €3,19 for essentially the canabalt clone?
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Zombie Samurai posted:Assault Horizon seems like a really cool game until you realize the final target on just about every map is functionally immortal until you engage DFM because you HAVE to end the mission with a cinematic close call explosionfest. It's a cool mechanic but the way they force it on you is very souring. I think the only boss fight in Ace Combat I ever liked was in Ace Combat Zero where you wind up literally jousting the final enemy. Every other one was really just flying at a big target multiple times. While it is repetitive at times I just don't really think DFM wound up any worse than any of the other level quirks the older games threw at you. I will say that I think the only time the DFM really came into its own as an awesome mechanic was when you used it to make attacks on the enemy fleet. Its still pretty scripted and linear but the camera angles while explosions and bullet tracers fly past you is pretty awesome. Otherwise I just think it winds up being pretty inoffensive, and at least the very least a lot better than HAWX's "OFF" system.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Humble Weekly Bundle: I haven't purchased a Humble Bundle in about a week and I normally buy these as impulse purchases... but lately.. "Games as Art" "Humble Cancer Bundle (Squenix)" and now this. Blegh.
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Kibayasu posted:I think the only boss fight in Ace Combat I ever liked was in Ace Combat Zero where you wind up literally jousting the final enemy. Every other one was really just flying at a big target multiple times. While it is repetitive at times I just don't really think DFM wound up any worse than any of the other level quirks the older games threw at you. I will say that I think the only time the DFM really came into its own as an awesome mechanic was when you used it to make attacks on the enemy fleet. Its still pretty scripted and linear but the camera angles while explosions and bullet tracers fly past you is pretty awesome. Otherwise I just think it winds up being pretty inoffensive, and at least the very least a lot better than HAWX's "OFF" system. I hated that you were forced to use it, and the only way you knew you had to use it was that all of your missiles would mysteriously miss this one particular target. At least with gimmick bosses in the previous games AWACS would tell you exactly what to do. In AH you just run into magically invincible planes.
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