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Enemy Within is entirely suitable for a first playthough. It broadens your options and adds a bunch of things in that feel entirely natural.ceaselessfuture posted:E: Also, is the Infinite DLC any good? The long answer is a spoiler-filled rant about how it lowered my opinion of the base game.
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Aug 21, 2014 06:28
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I must experience Burial At Sea for myself so I can see how bad it is. Just like Deus Ex the Fall. I need that magical experience
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Aug 21, 2014 06:37
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the crusader kings 2 tutorial keeps insisting that my dear wife (who I am not plotting to assassinate!) is dead. she is not dead. I do not appreciate this dissent against the crown.
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Aug 21, 2014 06:42
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What is the proper channel through which to notify Valve their new Steam client looks like assbutt?
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Aug 21, 2014 06:44
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Counter-opinion activated!Doctor Spaceman posted:Enemy Within is entirely suitable for a first playthough. It broadens your options and adds a bunch of things in that feel entirely natural. Doctor Spaceman posted:Nope.
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Aug 21, 2014 06:53
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Awesome! posted:the crusader kings 2 tutorial keeps insisting that my dear wife (who I am not plotting to assassinate!) is dead. she is not dead. I do not appreciate this dissent against the crown. The tutorial LP thread is pretty great and certainly much better at teaching strategy. There was a Youtube series posted in this thread recently too.
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Aug 21, 2014 07:00
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Sober posted:I dunno, it throws a lot at you compared to EU. I would say play EU until you get bored of what it has to offer, then restart a new game in EW. If you install EW but play EU do you still get the benefit of the international voices and the extra maps? quote:Well, Infinite's DLC was at least fun to play. I guess I would need to read up on what BAS did in terms of the whole Bioshock canon though, because I am sure something got retconned somewhere, somehow because of BAS.
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Aug 21, 2014 07:02
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Lance Streetman posted:A season pass is something you buy that will guarantee you all of the DLC for a game. Think of it like pre-ordering or buying a DLC megapack. There are advantages to it, but if you're not interested in the DLC then don't bother. It guarantees all the DLC except when it doesn't, at the whim of the publisher. Take a look at Borderlands 2. The Season Pass gets you the 4 large game expansions (Captain Scarlett, Torque, Hammerlock, and Tiny Tina) and the first level cap upgrade. What it doesn't include is either character class add-ons, the mini-expansions released after Tiny Tina, the second level cap upgrade, the "Creature Salughterdome," or any of the customization DLC. Always make sure you know exactly what the Season Pass is going to get you before you buy it. Bioshock Infinite's Season Pass isn't nearly as confusing as Borderlands 2 but it also doesn't include the "Columbia's Finest" DLC. While that is still just a bunch of small in-game bonuses and not really substantial content its still something listed as DLC that buying the Season Pass will not get you.
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Borderlands 2 is exceptionally lovely in this regard, because the GOTY doesn't include all the DLC either. Not buying unless it's complete, 2K!
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Aug 21, 2014 09:15
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I personally got bored with vanilla XCOM pretty quickly. The Complete version added just enough to the mix to keep things interesting for me.
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Aug 21, 2014 12:15
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Quest For Glory II posted:Whatever. I've just beaten my 28th game since the end of the summer sale (Darkness II). And I've replenished my wishlist. Play what you feel like. I'll probably never finish games like Assassin's Creed IV or Far Cry 3, because while getting all the optional little relics and collectibles grows old real quick, it bothers me to load up a save and see them littering the world map. Tomb Raider I was actually able to finish because the overall pacing of the narrative was done so well that I just wanted to get on with the story and going 100% didn't seem important at all. But somehow with ACIV/FC3 I feel the need to "get the most" out of my save the first go-around, which means probably never completing them. You can very easily put 40-60 hours into those two.
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Awesome! posted:the crusader kings 2 tutorial keeps insisting that my dear wife (who I am not plotting to assassinate!) is dead. she is not dead. I do not appreciate this dissent against the crown. The tutorial is broken and badly written and maybe even outdated. Just pick Dublin, read the wiki and learn as you go.
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Aug 21, 2014 13:00
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I always thought the implication of a season pass was that it would get you all the DLC that came out during the first "season", whatever that's considered to be.
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Aug 21, 2014 13:27
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And now all of Ubisoft's future games has disappeared from the Steam store here in the UK. Guess they inked a new exclusivity deal with Game or something.
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Aug 21, 2014 13:30
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lordfrikk posted:Borderlands 2 is exceptionally lovely in this regard, because the GOTY doesn't include all the DLC either. Not buying unless it's complete, 2K! You're not really missing anything if you just get the GOTY. The Headhunter DLC is meant for people who want to farm gear and fight more raid bosses.
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exquisite tea posted:I'll probably never finish games like Assassin's Creed IV or Far Cry 3, because while getting all the optional little relics and collectibles grows old real quick, it bothers me to load up a save and see them littering the world map. Tomb Raider I was actually able to finish because the overall pacing of the narrative was done so well that I just wanted to get on with the story and going 100% didn't seem important at all. But somehow with ACIV/FC3 I feel the need to "get the most" out of my save the first go-around, which means probably never completing them. You can very easily put 40-60 hours into those two. I'm only ever bothered by it if there's some reward for it, then I feel compelled to collect them, but if they're there just for you to find then I don't really care. Luckily most of the collectibles in AC falls into the latter category. I kind of disliked the riddles in the Batman games because you can't do them as soon as you find them unless you have the required gadget/upgrade. I never completed them all for this very reason.
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Aug 21, 2014 13:32
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lordfrikk posted:I kind of disliked the riddles in the Batman games because you can't do them as soon as you find them unless you have the required gadget/upgrade. I never completed them all for this very reason. I kind of liked them in Asylum, because some of the perspective tricks could be kind of clever. I barely bothered with them in City because the city itself sprawled so much it was a chore to bother looking.
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Bieeardo posted:I kind of liked them in Asylum, because some of the perspective tricks could be kind of clever. I barely bothered with them in City because the city itself sprawled so much it was a chore to bother looking. In Asylum, they encouraged you to explore every inch of the island, but in City it seemed like they lost sight of that in order to just pad the city full of things to collect. It's been a while since i did the Riddler Challenges in City, but don't most of them consist of just collecting trophies from cages or smashing cameras and balloons? At least in Asylum, you had some interesting variety. Yeah you had the hidden trophies, but you also had aspect challenges, prisoner recordings, character reference scans and joker teeth to collect. I hope Knight has some more creative Riddler puzzles that are a bit more than just a collectathon, but we're getting races i think so who knows...
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I really hate that ArcheAge has such an appealing-looking splash image but is just yet another dull high fantasy freeplay MMO bullshit. I'd play a RPG that had that sort of colored-pencil aesthetic. Too bad the SaGa series is pretty much defunct those days, it'd be the sort of IP to try that poo poo out.
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Tezzeract posted:So should we be ashamed? Do we need better strategies when it comes to dealing with our backlog? Is it time to get our spending under control and try to play the games we own? Of course not. The system is working just fine, thank you, and it's time to stop pretending otherwise. It's always really weird when the idea of being responsible with money or whatever comes up seriously during Steam sales. Even if you spend like $200 per sale, you're basically engaging in a cheap as gently caress hobby. That's maybe $600 per year if you only go crazy during big sales and buy a couple of more expensive games in between, which is still less than buying one $60 game per month. People end up with backlogs because PC games are currently sold so far below any reasonable measure of their value that there's no reason not to buy a gently caress ton of them during sales.
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Paradoxish posted:It's always really weird when the idea of being responsible with money or whatever comes up seriously during Steam sales. Even if you spend like $200 per sale, you're basically engaging in a cheap as gently caress hobby. That's maybe $600 per year if you only go crazy during big sales and buy a couple of more expensive games in between, which is still less than buying one $60 game per month. People end up with backlogs because PC games are currently sold so far below any reasonable measure of their value that there's no reason not to buy a gently caress ton of them during sales. Yep. I spend far less than $200 during the major sales. In fact, I haven't spent my own money on steam in over a year (card sales, etc.). I buy a lot of bundles but usually spend $20 or less per month on them. I have over 700 games on a 3 year old account. This is incredibly cheap entertainment.
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"I spent almost the price of 2 release games and got 20 MY WALLET drat YOU GABEN"
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For the price of 4-5 full price games you knew you would enjoy, you could have 50 that you'll play for 15 minutes and put down forever, or never even install. Economics, bitches.
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Delusibeta posted:And now all of Ubisoft's future games has disappeared from the Steam store here in the UK. Guess they inked a new exclusivity deal with Game or something. Guess I won't be buying any of their games then! TBH I've grown bored with the identikit and churn them out nature of Ubisoft big titles. I lost interest in AssCreed after Ezio and got bored with FarCry 3 quite quickly. Their games seem to have the same mechanics and systems in them and it makes them feel a bit interchangable. They found a formula and don't deviate from it much. To be fair their titles are well made, popular and sell well but they don't excite me any more. They're just a bit meh. I think I'm done with Ubisoft now.
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Delusibeta posted:And now all of Ubisoft's future games has disappeared from the Steam store here in the UK. Guess they inked a new exclusivity deal with Game or something. e: For XCOM I'd strongly discourage Enemy Within for your first time. Avoid Easy/Normal difficulty as well as it fudges the numbers behind the scenes and hampers the AI. EU+EW is a much better deal than EU+Bureau regardless if you think the Bureau is a good game or not. If you buy EW you can still play the base game, and I'd recommend a controller if only for precise grenade/rocket placement. Wiggly Wayne DDS fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Aug 21, 2014 |
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Helith posted:Guess I won't be buying any of their games then! Blood Dragon and Gunslinger were nice surprises, though. Be good to see more of those. Maybe Ruse: Vietnam, or something. Uplay can gently caress off, though.
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Quest For Glory II posted:I must experience Burial At Sea for myself so I can see how bad it is. Just like Deus Ex the Fall. I need that magical experience
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:What a shame, £50 for Assassin's Creed Unity or Far Cry 4 was too good of a price. You'd have to be stupid to buy a Ubisoft game from Steam at launch, but they always have some of the best sales, so if you can't buy Far Cry 4 in a year's time for £5 then that is a big shame.
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exquisite tea posted:For the price of 4-5 full price games you knew you would enjoy, you could have 50 that you'll play for 15 minutes and put down forever, or never even install. Economics, bitches. Why wouldn't you just also buy those games you know you'll enjoy when they're insanely cheap during sales? Other than a few really odd ducks like EA/Activision poo poo, absolutely nothing is immune to huge discounts.
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Just played the free DLC for Thomas was Alone. Man what a great game. Also finally got Wargame Red Dragon and it blows Company of Heroes 2 out of the water. Especially since there is no weird nazi fetish.
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Quest For Glory II posted:I must experience Burial At Sea for myself so I can see how bad it is. Just like Deus Ex the Fall. I need that magical experience It's really not bad though. I mean regardless of how you feel about the story the actual gameplay and some of the setpieces are arguably more interesting than anything found in the original game.
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Man finally playing black mesa and I'm utterly disappointed with the military. Not the least of which is the clear voice acting. Where's my barely understandable military chatter dammit 
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Mr. Crow posted:Man finally playing black mesa and I'm utterly disappointed with the military. Not the least of which is the clear voice acting. Where's my barely understandable military chatter dammit "FREEMAN. WE. WILL. -poo poo!- IN. YOUR. rear end!"
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Delusibeta posted:And now all of Ubisoft's future games has disappeared from the Steam store here in the UK. Guess they inked a new exclusivity deal with Game or something. Why would Game even care about Steam when they don't really carry PC games in their brick and mortar stores anymore anyway?
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Wasn't Game going for a boom or bust in-store digital download service to appease what's left of their shareholders?
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Delusibeta posted:And now all of Ubisoft's future games has disappeared from the Steam store here in the UK. Guess they inked a new exclusivity deal with Game or something. I wouldn't be surprised if this is less "We won't sell our games on Steam" but "Our games won't get a store page on Steam until after the console release so GAME won't get mad at us for letting those filthy PC gamers steal their pre-orders." If GAME is anything like Gamestop and just has maybe a single rotating shelf for PC games (that is nothing but The Sims and Blizzard games) then there's no benefit to Ubisoft to not sell their games on Steam at all. Though maybe they're going to be like EA and only selling their games on uPlay. Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Aug 21, 2014 |
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Kibayasu posted:Though maybe they're going to be like EA and only selling their games on uPlay. If they only started selling their games on UPlay I'd forget about Ubi so loving hard. Hahahaha.
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Finally got around to recovering my login for Burnout Paradise last night and was surprised that it still seems pretty active. Never got to play 3 online so I'm pretty jazzed. 
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