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Dead Island was incredible... for the first 20-30 minutes. Then you realize you've seen the whole game. Both serious efforts to complete the game stop around the time you leave the resort area. Even with co-op buddies it just wasn't fun after a while.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Dead Island was incredible... for the first 20-30 minutes. Then you realize you've seen the whole game. Both serious efforts to complete the game stop around the time you leave the resort area. Even with co-op buddies it just wasn't fun after a while. True that. I had a lot of fun for about an hour when I played it co-op with Jivjov back in the day. But man, it's a chore to have a good, non boring, time with it.
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Aug 3, 2014 06:20
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I was so excited for Dead Island and thought it was fun until the repetition got to me...bummer.
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Aug 3, 2014 06:24
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Has anyone had any luck installing GTAIV onto Steam using their retail disc copy? I really, really, really don't want to download all 15gigs of the game when they're sitting on discs already, but installing the game and shifting the files to the downloading folder and running the verify files check doesn't seem to do anything, so it's trying to download the entire game instead.
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Aug 3, 2014 06:52
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Yourlifesayshi posted:I never played any of the Dead Rising games. Do they still hold up? If so, which one should I get? The first Dead Rising is probably pretty dated now, but it's not on PC, the story doesn't really matter, and the sequels kept basically everything good about it so skip it. Only Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record are on PC and they both hold up. Dead Rising 2 and Off the Record are the same game in most ways. OTR adds a small new area (otherwise it is the same map as 2), new weapons, and has a different main character and story. Either is good, probably play DR2 first, there's not really much difference (aside from plot) where anybody will really hate one, but love the other. Heard mixed things about Dead Rising 3, but the PC version isn't out yet so who knows.
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Aug 3, 2014 07:17
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Jervas Dudley posted:Heard mixed things about Dead Rising 3, but the PC version isn't out yet so who knows. The weapon combos though <3  The best yet.
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Aug 3, 2014 07:20
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Jerusalem posted:Has anyone had any luck installing GTAIV onto Steam using their retail disc copy? I really, really, really don't want to download all 15gigs of the game when they're sitting on discs already, but installing the game and shifting the files to the downloading folder and running the verify files check doesn't seem to do anything, so it's trying to download the entire game instead. Generally speaking: -Install fully from disc(s) -Add game (cd key) to steam -Install from steam, until the point it begins to download -Pause download -Move files from retail location to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv -Verify integrity of files through steam -Steam will redownload the missing/changed files to make it the steam version and not retail disc version -It might look like a full download at first, let it run for a short bit and it should be a few hundred mb worth of files once it gets going
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Aug 3, 2014 07:24
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Dead Island was incredible... for the first 20-30 minutes. Then you realize you've seen the whole game. Both serious efforts to complete the game stop around the time you leave the resort area. Even with co-op buddies it just wasn't fun after a while. I've got over 120 hours in it and a further dozen in Riptide when it was a free weekend and had great fun the whole time, both solo and 2-player co-op. There's a few of us out there that enjoy it, but I think we're heavily outnumbered.
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Aug 3, 2014 07:27
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Croccers posted:3 tried to be serious.
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Aug 3, 2014 07:32
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The meat of the game was a lot less tongue-in-cheek than the other DR games. But they still had a lot of weird costumes and weapons and poo poo on the side.
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Aug 3, 2014 07:36
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mr. nobody posted:Generally speaking: I'd actually tried doing all of this before posting and none of it had worked. I let it download close to a gigabyte on the last stage just on the off-chance it suddenly jumped ahead but nothing happened. I don't know if it has something to do with the game downloading to a specific downloading folder instead of creating the steamapps/common folder like it usually does, but I'm resigned to just downloading the whole thing now. Thanks anyway.
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Aug 3, 2014 07:45
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Jerusalem posted:I'd actually tried doing all of this before posting and none of it had worked. I let it download close to a gigabyte on the last stage just on the off-chance it suddenly jumped ahead but nothing happened. I don't know if it has something to do with the game downloading to a specific downloading folder instead of creating the steamapps/common folder like it usually does, but I'm resigned to just downloading the whole thing now. I tried googling before I posted and just about everybody ended up in the same situation as you it looks like. I was hoping you'd get it to work. Sorry 
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Aug 3, 2014 08:00
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Fat Care-Bear posted:I'm looking at the steam screenshots for it and I'm not sure if this is true. I've played a bunch of the game on the Xbone just the city alone is a major shift in tone, It's a dark and gritty shithole instead of a whacky brightly coloured shithole.
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Aug 3, 2014 08:12
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Yourlifesayshi posted:I never played any of the Dead Rising games. Do they still hold up? If so, which one should I get? Both 2 and Off the Record are what you're going to want, but honestly if you have to pick one, get Off the Record. They're basically the same game with thematic and mechanical differences, 2 shifts slightly towards a more serious tone coupled with a mechanic some people found annoying, while Off the Record is a similar experience but more stupid silly and smoothed over mechanics.
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Aug 3, 2014 08:35
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Oh hey Eidolon looks pretty cool:     Is it? Has anybody tried it?
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Dead Island was incredible... for the first 20-30 minutes. Then you realize you've seen the whole game. Both serious efforts to complete the game stop around the time you leave the resort area. Even with co-op buddies it just wasn't fun after a while. I played it for a while and it seemed fun, but not something to bother with alone. It's kinda like Borderlands, though it trades some problems those games have for different ones.
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Aug 3, 2014 10:45
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Borderlands 2 is perfectly playable and fun in singleplayer though.
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Aug 3, 2014 10:52
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It's playable, on that we agree.
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Aug 3, 2014 10:52
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Palpek posted:Oh hey Eidolon looks pretty cool: Yes another walking simulator?
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Aug 3, 2014 11:01
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Palpek posted:Borderlands 2 is perfectly playable and fun in singleplayer though. No, it's really tedious and unfun. Especially in SP. On another note, Divinity: OS is fun, though a bit janky and lacking in sass.
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Aug 3, 2014 11:27
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Wow. I went into Divinity: Original Sin expecting good writing. I don't know why, I think I'd heard from random people it was well written. It's one of the worst written games I've ever played. The dialogue is clunky as hell and very shallow. There are lots of opportunities to make your two main characters respond to things and it's always a choice between polar opposites that don't represent any relatable thinking; 'We are important we should be allowed to steal everything'/'No one should steal ever we are good guys put that painting back', 'Humans are superior and should kick every animal they see'/'Animals are precious and humans unworthy scum' One of my choices at the beginning was to say whether men commit most crimes and abuse therefore should be feared, or that you shouldn't paint a whole gender with one brush. This couples with a quest later on in a Lighthouse where you have to decide whether a ghost should forgive her husband for murdering her because he really loves her after all, or say 'no gently caress you I'm gonna go do my own ghost thing' with the latter option being 'heartless'. One or more of the writing team has a really weird view of women/relationships/what women think of men. They decided to bring on one female writer during the process and apparently it improved their script. I hate to think of what state it was in before. You can have archetypal characters without making them as flat as paper and predictable as the sunrise, but they have not achieved that here. The two current companions read like an excited 16 year old wrote their dialogue thinking 'I'm so clever'. It's a shame because I didn't come across anything like these in Divinity 2 (that I remember). One of the first quests in that game was finding out a women was having an affair, deciding to blackmail her about it, and having her reply 'Oh no you don't if people find out it's because I've told them' and storming off to tell her husband and lover. On other attempts the man she was cheating with got angry and tried to hit me on the head with his spade. It wasn't Jane Eyre but I don't remember any outright 'wait, what the gently caress?' moments. HOWEVER. The gameplay is excellent. You can't watch a couple of videos to see if it's your thing. The design is gorgeous and character development (stats and equipment) is fun. I do recommend the game, but do not go in expecting an RPG with anything approaching good writing. Even for a videogame. If that's the most important thing for you, wait for Project Eternity and play New Vegas in the meantime. Or some Baldur's Gate. If you play it get 'Pet Pals' as a perk during character creation. You can talk to every animal and the sheep and chickens are much better written than any human characters. Chickens are arseholes though. Eat them. I'm hoping in the future they take the writing standard of Divinity 2 and the gameplay of Original Sin and smoosh them together. Oh one final thing I did like: one character creation you actually have some viable darker skintones. You don't have the Souls games or Bethesda games issue where trying to be 'not white' results in a weird red or green person who looks like they've been left in the sun. Not important to most, but my friend was chuffed to play an RPG where he could have a main with his skin tone. I'm pasty as hell so I just need to leave all the characters on the default 'ghost' skin colour to feel immersed.
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Aug 3, 2014 11:28
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:No, it's really tedious and unfun. Especially in SP.
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Aug 3, 2014 11:39
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FrickenMoron posted:Yes another walking simulator?
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Aug 3, 2014 11:41
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Palpek posted:Yes, my favorite genre. How good is it at walking though? I also love me some walking simulators, I might pick this up.
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Aug 3, 2014 12:42
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Palpek posted:Oh hey Eidolon looks pretty cool: The steam description describes one of the things you can pick up as 'zines' 0/10 would not buy
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Aug 3, 2014 12:48
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cat doter posted:The steam description describes one of the things you can pick up as 'zines' 0/10 would not buy 
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Aug 3, 2014 12:53
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Only play Borderlands 2 singleplayer if you hate yourself
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Aug 3, 2014 12:55
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Have there been any walking sims more fun than the good old Noctis?
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Aug 3, 2014 13:04
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I love Early Access reviews http://store.steampowered.com/app/246880/ quote:“One of the most anticipated games Greenlit by the Steam community” Looks a bit like Cannon Fodder.
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Aug 3, 2014 13:18
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Fat Care-Bear posted:Only play Borderlands 2 singleplayer if you hate yourself I actually enjoy them singleplayer over multiplayer. The key is to minimize your time playing the sidequests.
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Aug 3, 2014 13:19
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Dunno if saying the key to enjoying the game is to not play it is a great argument, but if it works for you more power to ya. My way of enjoying that game is to mute it any time Handsome Jack or Tiny Tina have something to say.
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Aug 3, 2014 13:21
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Dunno if saying the key to enjoying the game is to not hear it is a great argument, but if it works for you more power to ya.
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Aug 3, 2014 13:25
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Borderlands 2 is the worst game ever because it has lol random humour in it and internet memes and grrrr I hate internet memes so much I wish internet memes were illegal because they are silly and stupid and ruin my immersion when I'm trying to get no scope headshots in my shooter man game. 7/10 IGN
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Aug 3, 2014 13:28
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Can't say I didn't see that one coming.
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Aug 3, 2014 13:28
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smenj posted:I'm quite sure they will be fixed. The game's been receiving regular patches every day or so, and they've all helped improve things. For what it's worth, after the second or third patch, I haven't had a single issue. No crashes or anything. From what I've seen there's a few small lingering issues (I think there's a chest somewhere that causes a lock if you search it after it's been emptied), but most people have had a problem-free experience after the last few patches. Take a glance at the Steam forums. Just because you don't have any big issues doesn't mean there aren't any. A lot of people are constantly reporting serious issues/regular crashes. Note that there's a sticky that for serious issues and only seven out of twelve have been closed. Like I said, this game IS really good but people should be cautious because there's a very real chance of it not running properly/at all on their system.
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Aug 3, 2014 13:35
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Jesus Christ, I forgot about the "fun" of trying to play GTAIV and having to log in to Rock Star Social Club first. It crashes my game every time and every solution I've looked up involves downloading 3rd party dlls - I kind of assumed if they were putting it on Steam it would be a version that just works, even if I had resigned myself to having to use Social Club (and GFWL as well I think?) in addition to Steam.
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Aug 3, 2014 15:02
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Jerusalem posted:Jesus Christ, I forgot about the "fun" of trying to play GTAIV and having to log in to Rock Star Social Club first. It crashes my game every time and every solution I've looked up involves downloading 3rd party dlls - I kind of assumed if they were putting it on Steam it would be a version that just works, even if I had resigned myself to having to use Social Club (and GFWL as well I think?) in addition to Steam. The latest patch removes it, is the steam version not updated? Also good luck at getting it to just work. They don't even support windows 8. It works if you trick it into thinking you have XP, but they won't let you install normally if you have windows 8. Rockstar is straight up the worst PC developer there is.
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Aug 3, 2014 15:10
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ElProducto posted:The latest patch removes it, is the steam version not updated? Social Club or GFWL? It crashes after clicking play on the Social Club thing that pops up after clicking play in Steam, with a "Critical runtime problem" error message. I just installed it today so I assume it's the most up to date version. Googling the problem lists a lot of suggestions that don't seem to resolve it and then the person who reported the problem never comes back. Edit: I'm on Windows 7.
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Aug 3, 2014 15:12
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Jerusalem posted:Jesus Christ, I forgot about the "fun" of trying to play GTAIV and having to log in to Rock Star Social Club first. It crashes my game every time and every solution I've looked up involves downloading 3rd party dlls - I kind of assumed if they were putting it on Steam it would be a version that just works, even if I had resigned myself to having to use Social Club (and GFWL as well I think?) in addition to Steam.
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Palpek posted:You can just hit cancel when the Social Club thing comes up. At least in the Steam version. Tried that.... nothing happened at all 
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