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Meow Tse-tung posted:Ys origin is easily my favorite in the series. Totally worth getting if you're on the edge about bumping up to the BTA tier.
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Geoff Keighley just linked this which might be relevant to Steam: http://www.sierra.com/ Sierra is back apparently? I'm skeptical because it's part of Activision so there's no telling what could come of this.
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Zeether posted:Geoff Keighley just linked this which might be relevant to Steam: http://www.sierra.com/
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Aug 8, 2014 04:48
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Sierra was responsible in some way for Half-life I think. I'll always nod my hod in silent approval when I think of that.
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Aug 8, 2014 04:49
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The MSJ posted:Didn't this turn out to be the same thing Steam was doing when it surveys your hardware and installed software? Yes. And basically the same thing hundreds of other programs use for the exact same purpose, advertising. I hope everyone who complained about Origin is using Linux because they would be god drat horrified to learn what kind of data Microsoft and Apple scrape from their computers.
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Aug 8, 2014 04:51
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Sankis posted:Steam updated for me earlier. It has a new icon in the task bar, a blue circle with the usual steam logo within it, and the UI itself has streaks of blue near the top. However, now Steam (Particularly "bootstrapper") simply hangs as soon as the program loads. How do I fix this? I've had issues today too. New icon, new UI, but Steam is sluggish as poo poo and when I try to launch some games (DOTA is the best example), the games load really slow and when they start they stutter and are not usable.
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Aug 8, 2014 04:53
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InfiniteZero posted:I've had issues today too. New icon, new UI, but Steam is sluggish as poo poo and when I try to launch some games (DOTA is the best example), the games load really slow and when they start they stutter and are not usable.
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Aug 8, 2014 04:55
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Zeether posted:Geoff Keighley just linked this which might be relevant to Steam: http://www.sierra.com/ Did sierra publish anything that wasn't complete garbage. I guess I enjoyed the lode runner reboot in the 90s but that is all that comes to mind.
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Aug 8, 2014 04:58
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The Kins posted:It's because you're in the beta client. Yeah I know that, but the beta client normally at least works. EDIT -- the download queue is getting stuck. Open it up and remove everything. InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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Aug 8, 2014 04:58
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Did sierra publish anything that wasn't complete garbage. Off the top of my head Space Quest series Police Quest series Kings Quest series Quest for Glory series Leisure Suit Larry series That is a bunch of stuff they themselves made (IIRC), they also published a ton of other great stuff.
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Aug 8, 2014 05:01
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Like I said, anything that wasn't complete garbage? oh wait...I guess they published original half life or something. Meh but who cares now. Sierra's backlog of IPs is poo poo in an outhouse so who gives a poo poo if they're "back"
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Aug 8, 2014 05:02
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They also made Gabriel Knight. There's a remake of the first game coming out headed by Jane Jensen but after how utterly mediocre Moebius was, I'm not filled with the confidence I had when the remake was first announced.
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Aug 8, 2014 05:03
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Sankis posted:Steam updated for me earlier. It has a new icon in the task bar, a blue circle with the usual steam logo within it, and the UI itself has streaks of blue near the top. However, now Steam (Particularly "bootstrapper") simply hangs as soon as the program loads. How do I fix this? If anyone else has a similar issue I seemingly fixed it by opening the windows run prompt and typing steam://flushconfig and re-logging into Steam.
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Aug 8, 2014 05:03
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Like I said, anything that wasn't complete garbage? I'm going to legit stab you in the brain if you think Space Quest was garbage, because something is seriously wrong with you edit: okay thats harsh and violent, but still.
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Aug 8, 2014 05:03
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Like I said, anything that wasn't complete garbage?
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Aug 8, 2014 05:04
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You must have been a retarded and easily impressed child to enjoy a single "quest" game.Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:SWAT 4 oh woops. Too bad that could never be done again.
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Aug 8, 2014 05:05
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They also did SWAT, of which the fourth entry is completely missing from any digital download service. If they can deliver on that with this "new" Sierra that would be cool. e: beaten, but they also published Earthsiege and I'd love to see that back but since it's part of what became Tribes the IP is probably in the hands of Hi-Rez or something Zeether fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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Aug 8, 2014 05:05
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markgreyam posted:Steam has the ability to limit max download speed
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Aug 8, 2014 05:06
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SelenicMartian posted:Where is it hiding?
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Aug 8, 2014 05:08
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The Quest for Glory series was genuinely good. The entire King's Quest and LSL series were total garbage. There was like one good Space Quest game, maybe two. There's a reason people have way more reverence for the LucasArts stuff.
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Aug 8, 2014 05:08
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Sierra also published the Homeworld series. Though the past doesn't matter really. This is the equivalent of when Interplay tried to get people to fund a game for them just because they decided to call a new studio "Black Isle."
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Aug 8, 2014 05:09
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I remember those Quest games as just being frustrating because you'd invariably get stuck and it wouldn't give you any idea on how to proceed.
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Aug 8, 2014 05:10
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Yep. Basically I remember sierra sold bottom of the barrel crap while lucast arts games were where it was at. Late 90s sierra was okay I guess as long as they weren't the in house devs.
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Zeether posted:e: beaten, but they also published Earthsiege and I'd love to see that back but since it's part of what became Tribes the IP is probably in the hands of Hi-Rez or something I think Dynamix's IPs are in someone else's hands, cause we've already seem some of their games (namely Red Baron series and The Increadible Machine) on GoG, but not others. Then again, those were from before when Sierra acquired them, so who knows. Either way, I would LOVE to see the Earth/Starsiege series finally see the light of day on GoG. Oh, Sierra also published the Impression Games series, aka Caesar 1-3/Pharaoh/Zeus/Emperor.
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Aug 8, 2014 05:11
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Sierra also published FEAR and No One Lives Forever if I'm not mistaken.
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PostNouveau posted:I remember those Quest games as just being frustrating because you'd invariably get stuck and it wouldn't give you any idea on how to proceed. The puzzles in the Quest for Glory games were usually pretty fair and tended not to have the obtuse "you didn't pick up the unrelated object an hour ago, time to die" problems that most of the others did.
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Sankis posted:Steam updated for me earlier. It has a new icon in the task bar, a blue circle with the usual steam logo within it, and the UI itself has streaks of blue near the top. However, now Steam (Particularly "bootstrapper") simply hangs as soon as the program loads. How do I fix this? I had a 0 byte Dota 2 update that was switching between being queued and not queued. I managed to pause it and the hangs stopped.
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So besides the poo poo quest games, what IPs could sierra possibly bring back that any non-retard would care about?
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Kibayasu posted:Sierra also published the Homeworld series. If you want to get technical, the Sierra brand/title still existed after it was sold to Vivendi, and all of the original people left. Sierra also published the later Crash Bandicoot & Spyro the Dragon games, which (in my opinion) were not as good the ones developed by Naughty Dog & Insomniac. It's possible they still have those IPs. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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I'd kill for a new SWAT in the vein of SWAT 4, but we'd just end up getting a lovely cover shooter.
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Just a quick note--I purchased A Story About My Uncle today, just because the grappling mechanic looked really fun, and I liked the overall look of the world in the vids. I've been playing it for about 90 minutes or so, and I'm really enjoying it! I just got to the village, which is the first major area past the starting house. Pros: -grappling/momentum/physics feels really good to me -pretty areas so far...big, and a decent sense of vertigo when you're flying/falling -gameplay ramps up really nicely, explains things well, and is overall friendly -some decent effort was put into the story telling, set dressing, etc. Cons (all pretty minor): -some of the word choices and phrasing in the dialogue is slightly iffy. -the NPCs are a little janky--it would have been nice if they were *slightly* less cartoony -the village was cool, but there was nothing to do there, other than travel through it. Some collectibles tucked away would have been nice (or maybe there were, and I just suck?). Watch the vids, and if it looks like fun to you, you'll probably like it. It's currently on sale for $6.50 (50% off), and at this point, I'd be happy at having paid full price. 
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:So besides the poo poo quest games, what IPs could sierra possibly bring back that any non-retard would care about?
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Casnorf posted:Shadow of Yserbius? hahahahahahahahhahaa
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Basically every good series that Sierra published was made by now-extinct studios. Impressions (Caeser, Pharoah, Zeus), SWAT, Homeworld, Tribes. Silent Thunder (the A-10 plane games), Lords of Magic and their adventure games are basically all they have left of their own.
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Orv posted:Basically every good series that Sierra published was made by now-extinct studios. Impressions (Caeser, Pharoah, Zeus), SWAT, Homeworld, Tribes. Silent Thunder (the A-10 plane games), Lords of Magic and their adventure games are basically all they have left of their own. It's more a matter of who owns the rights to what rather than if the studios still exist. They almost definitely don't have the rights to Homeworld, for example.
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Aug 8, 2014 05:39
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:hahahahahahahahhahaa
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:So besides the poo poo quest games, what IPs could sierra possibly bring back that any non-retard would care about? BC's Quest for Tires.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's more a matter of who owns the rights to what rather than if the studios still exist. They almost definitely don't have the rights to Homeworld, for example. Well yeah, but we've seen how different studios handle old IPs. I don't exactly have a lot of faith.
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I pray it's just the name of activision's new digital distribution platform or something similar.
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:I pray it's just the name of activision's new digital distribution platform or something similar. Like how EA co-opted the Origin name? Yeah I'm thinking this might be right.
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