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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:This is absolutely not the case. Very little starcraft style micromanagement is required. You aren't controlling individual soldiers, managing health values, managing base building while in combat, scouting, and so on. APM means almost nothing. It's all about large scale tactics. You can pause whenever, too. I think there's a miscommunication here, because the TW series doesn't have much micromanagement at all. If the game feels overwhelming, just take it more slowly. You're probably overthinking things and aren't using the pause button. Is Shogun 2 or Fall of the Samurai better for a first-time player? It looks like Fall of the Samurai is a standalone expansion, which often means the old game's skeleton with more polish and features.
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Is there any way to set WASD to move camera in Tropico 4? It seems like you can only bind quick-build hotkeys, no fully remappable controls. Having arrow keys control the camera is the most outmoded design, and when you can't change it...looking at you, Civ 5.
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Aug 16, 2014 22:47
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Phenotype posted:Is Shogun 2 or Fall of the Samurai better for a first-time player? It looks like Fall of the Samurai is a standalone expansion, which often means the old game's skeleton with more polish and features. They're both very similar in terms of gameplay. FOTS has citizens' unrest become more important, which can be a little challenging, but neither game is easier to learn than the other, and if you know how to play one you'll quickly grasp the other.
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Aug 16, 2014 22:48
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Phenotype posted:Is Shogun 2 or Fall of the Samurai better for a first-time player? It looks like Fall of the Samurai is a standalone expansion, which often means the old game's skeleton with more polish and features. Play Shogun 2 if you want to fight with melee and archers, FOTS if you want to fight with guns and cannons.
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Aug 16, 2014 23:10
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Phenotype posted:Is Shogun 2 or Fall of the Samurai better for a first-time player? It looks like Fall of the Samurai is a standalone expansion, which often means the old game's skeleton with more polish and features.
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Aug 16, 2014 23:13
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Deakul posted:Robin Atkin Dowes or whatever is the best voice, sorry. French Boss for life. And in SR3, Russian Boss.
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Aug 16, 2014 23:23
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RBA Starblade posted:French Boss for life. And in SR3, Russian Boss. This guy knows what's up 
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Aug 16, 2014 23:49
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Holy poo poo, this plants vs zombies game is the most charming and fun shooter I've played in forever. I might actually even buy this once the free trial weekend is over.
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Aug 16, 2014 23:55
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kevin mung posted:Holy poo poo, this plants vs zombies game is the most charming and fun shooter I've played in forever. I might actually even buy this once the free trial weekend is over. I am having a very hard time trusting pvz after what they did with the sequel on the ios. There might be positive impressions but I really need to be impressed and convinced that it's going to be some kind of slog/pay to win skinner box.
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Aug 17, 2014 00:21
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So is anyone else not getting their Tropico 4 activation emails?
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kanonvandekempen posted:So is anyone else not getting their Tropico 4 activation emails? Yup. Scroll up and look at the guy's post about bypassing the lovely, non-functional DRM. Edit: What's the best way to play Tropico 4, anyways? Campaign, or just sandbox? Anonymous Robot fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Aug 17, 2014 |
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Aug 17, 2014 00:24
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Anonymous Robot posted:Yup. Scroll up and look at the guy's post about bypassing the lovely, non-functional DRM. Campaign. Tropico 4 is like really, really easy and the campaign actually has limitations/conditions that make the game more interesting/challenging.
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kevin mung posted:Holy poo poo, this plants vs zombies game is the most charming and fun shooter I've played in forever. I might actually even buy this once the free trial weekend is over. You can use a Mexico proxy to buy it for 40% off if you don't feel like waiting for a sale, EA/Origin literally don't give a gently caress unlike Steam/Valve. Just turn off the proxy before you enter payment info on paypal.
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Aug 17, 2014 00:31
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Apparently the correct way to play Tropico games is to pick the Rum Trader background and trade a lot of rum. This will give you infinite funds with which to pursue any other playstyle you desire.
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I always choose alcoholic. My el Presidente is that lovable drunk who spreads the euphoric joy of constantly being shitfaced to the masses. If I could change the currency to booze in those games I would. I kind of wish they'd go deeper with the absurdity, like the aforementioned currency changing. Alcohol, as you know, gets better with age. Soon alcohol would eclipse all other world currency and before you know it alcohol would be the standard and el Presidente would be Supreme Drunk of Humankind.
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Aug 17, 2014 00:45
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Mortimer posted:I played through Fog Island in like 2 hours. Pretty neat, return of a few people from Risen 2 but maybe not worth $5. Lots of unique gear though. I've been burned on so many preorders now that I skipped it on this one and regret it, bought it without DLC and have sunk a couple of hours into it. Love it so far, shouldn't have doubted myself.
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Aug 17, 2014 00:59
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Metro Last Light Complete is 5$ if you get a 75% off coupon from Alienware. The redux version is coming out soon enough, but for 5$ of card money I'm willing to take the plunge.
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Sober posted:They are vastly different even though they use the same map. Shogun 2 is spears/horses/bows/swords whereas Fall of the Samurai is Victorian-era armies with guns and cannons. At the battle level they engage differently, though on the campaign level they are probably similar in that regard. I guess what I was really after is which one is the better game? In addition to Shogun 2 on sale at Humble, Fall of the Samurai is on sale directly on Steam.
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Jordan7hm posted:Metro Last Light Complete is 5$ if you get a 75% off coupon from Alienware. Owning the original gets you 50% off the Redux version too, which makes it still cheaper than buying Redux by itself. I'm really looking forward to playing 2033 Redux. Interested to see what gameplay and engine tweaks they've made to Last Light too, although that should be a significantly less impressive upgrade than the full remake treatment they gave the first game.
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Phenotype posted:I guess what I was really after is which one is the better game? In addition to Shogun 2 on sale at Humble, Fall of the Samurai is on sale directly on Steam.
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I think base Shogun 2 also has better tutorials. Get Fall (and the Rise of the Samurai) campaigns later. Both are really well done. EDIT: \/ Yeah. Rise is just fun if you want further variety. The DLC armies are actually pretty well done too. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Aug 17, 2014 |
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Aug 17, 2014 01:39
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That is true as well. Most of the Fall of the Samurai tutorials are basically video tutorials. Not really sure if you get the Shogun 2 tutorials, nor would I expect them to help for Fall anyway. And Rise is basically Shogun 2 but somewhat different setup.
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Rise is actually a remake of Shogun 1 and a complete game for a buck or so, but you need Shogun 2 to play it.
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Replaying Left 4 Dead 2 I forgot just how much I don't like playing as half of the zombies in L4D2 and how much I hate how the scoring works.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Rise is actually a remake of Shogun 1 and a complete game for a buck or so, but you need Shogun 2 to play it. One of my greatest regrets with the rapid advancement of Total Wars tech is that I love the Shogun 1 boardgame style map. I wish it was a toggle on the newer ones.
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VodeAndreas posted:I've been burned on so many preorders now that I skipped it on this one and regret it, bought it without DLC and have sunk a couple of hours into it. Any tips on not sucking completely in combat? My attacks always seem to get interrupted, even when they start before my enemy's.
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Orv posted:One of my greatest regrets with the rapid advancement of Total Wars tech is that I love the Shogun 1 boardgame style map. I wish it was a toggle on the newer ones. That would be very cool and they so at least do like a dlc of it. Call it a "Nostalgia pack" or some dumb poo poo.
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The Lone Badger posted:Any tips on not sucking completely in combat? My attacks always seem to get interrupted, even when they start before my enemy's. Dodge a lot, if the enemy is going for a strong attack you can generally interrupt it with a quick attack... Just practice and your timing will be better, it took me a while to get back into the swing of things and all I'm having trouble with now are the really fast enemies where I think I'd probably be better off with a firearm and avoiding the issue entirely. It's one of the games where combat will be easier later on when you've got magic options to help you out.
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RBA Starblade posted:Replaying Left 4 Dead 2 I forgot just how much I don't like playing as half of the zombies in L4D2 and how much I hate how the scoring works. If you've not played L4D1 you do not know the half of the series history with really silly scoring systems.
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:If you've not played L4D1 you do not know the half of the series history with really silly scoring systems. I've gone on a rant about this too many times in steam threads, but whatever problems LFD1's scoring had, it was actually viable as a fun competitive experience unlike lfd2's. If you play a capture the flag game you get 10 points for scoring, 0 points if someone stops you from capturing the flag just before you score. In left for dead 2 if you stop someone from scoring just before they score, they still get 9.9 points instead of 10. In a capture the flag game it's really exciting and fun to stop someone from scoring at the last second. In left for dead 2 it's meaningless. It takes out the tense fun moments of a competitive game and makes it just a boring grind where everyone's kind of close all the time. LibbyM fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Aug 17, 2014 |
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Got Haggis? posted:so I'm trying out Steam Big Picture Mode and it was working pretty good - played Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider...I have 2 monitors hooked up with DVI and a HDMI cable going to my TV. I setup autohotkey so when I press the back button on my 360 controller, it switches the main display to my tv and the audio output to HDMI - and when quitting big picture mode, resets everything back to normal....has been working great. I am also a fan of big picture mode. I have noticed that turning off your monitor usually solves these odd quirks, and if all else fails use Windows + P to select your GPU to either mirror screens or to select the TV exclusively.
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Is there a way to get rid of all my $0.03 backgrounds/emotes? I've added trashbot, but it's always offline now. Is there another one?
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Kragger99 posted:Is there a way to get rid of all my $0.03 backgrounds/emotes? I've added trashbot, but it's always offline now. Is there another one? I just added Trashbot as a friend and a message window popped up immediately. Did you pick the right one? I could start a trade request with no issues, but didn't actually complete a trade to check it works to completion.
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Something I'm experimenting with on Steam lately: Basically, like many people, I have gotten into a rut of only playing about 2 games regularly and ignoring all the other great games I'd bought previously. So, as an experiment, I created a small special 'clubhouse' steam group for just myself and a small pool of my steam friends who are interested in gaming together. As an extension of that, rather than buy more games for myself that I'm not going to play much, I'm finding discounted copies of games I need being sold by a dude on SA mart to buy (or free copies from other steam friends) to give for free to my various gaming pals. For example, copies of Monaco so more of my pals can do the 4player stuff. I use my normal gaming budget money to buy more players in to game with me, basically. (Usually around 4-7 bucks per head.) It sure beats the hell out of wasting money on DLC and ingame micro-transactions too. So far it's worked out fantastically - I've basically created an online equivalent of a group of people I have over to play multiplayer games on the couch together. In the future I also plan on building a secondary gaming computer that actually WILL be a living room couch gaming PC (basically a gaming console I built) for my steam library too. For now, this does nicely. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Aug 17, 2014 |
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Hey all, got a question about Divinity: Original Sin: Do the 'Fabulous Five' come back into the game, after buggering off with my money, upon completing their quest to destroy Arhu's death-machine? Since I've got some unfinished business with them...
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Kragger99 posted:Is there a way to get rid of all my $0.03 backgrounds/emotes? I've added trashbot, but it's always offline now. Is there another one? To my bewilderment, I actually sold a 2013 summer sale background some weeks ago. I thought it would stay on the market forever. Spacedad posted:clubhouse steam group That's a great idea.
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Spacedad posted:Something I'm experimenting with on Steam lately: I joined the SA Steam group hoping for this but everyone just sits in there trying to be ironically funny. I've looked for public groups like this but could never find anything.
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Major Isoor posted:Hey all, got a question about Divinity: Original Sin: Do the 'Fabulous Five' come back into the game, after buggering off with my money, upon completing their quest to destroy Arhu's death-machine? Since I've got some unfinished business with them... Might be better off in the Divinity Thread but ... In my play-through - No.
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I think one of the Fabulous Five turned up as a corpse but haven't ran into them other than that.
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Hey, guys! I ran across something in my Tumblr feed, of all things, that I wanted to share. It's a Steam Greenlight game called Five Nights at Freddy's. I haven't seen it mentioned here yet. Apologies if it has. Here's the Steam Greenlight page about it. Basically, you're the night-time security guard in a Chuckee Cheese kind of place. Problem is, during the night, the animatronic animals aren't so friendly... I watched some videos about it last night. It is legitimately the most terrifying game I have ever seen. I had a couple nightmares about it last night, and I wasn't even playing it! Here's a pretty good video that highlights what the game is like: Five Nights at Freddy's by Achievement Hunter
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