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KoldPT posted:How poo poo is Pixel Piracy? Skip it.
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yegods posted:Thanks, man, but still confused. I fresh installed Dragonfall, and already have the dead_mans_switch content pack. Should I copy over it, with the one from the Shadowrun folder? The dead_mans_switch content pack contains a bunch of assets originally made for DMS which get reused in Dragonfall, which is why it's there.
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Eruonen posted:No! If you want to play DMS in the updated engine, sure. Like Lemon said, that folder just has a few assets that are a holdover from the original game. But you can't play DMS without copying everything over.
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ZearothK posted:E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy is the game that art games should aspire to be. This, but for Kane and Lynch 2
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Mr. Fortitude posted:If you want to play DMS in the updated engine, sure. Doesn't it mess with the existing files?
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Grey Elephants posted:How do I make Divinity 2 DC not crash as soon as the launch credits stop
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Eruonen posted:Doesn't it mess with the existing files? Not really. You're just copying and overwriting the exact same files + a little bit more as well as making the game register DMS as a playable campaign.
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Palpek posted:Making Sleeping Dogs 2 a F2P title is just an enormously idiotic management decision that everybody knows will flop except for the board of directors that is waiting for that sweet F2P money to start rolling in (lol). That was one great game and it's really sad to see its sequel go like this. I'm reeeeeally eager for the F2P cash in idea to die. Literally every company sees the few examples that are Puzzles and Dragons or Candy Crush and immediately shifts their AAA development team to F2P games thinking they'll make millions a day in profits. Square Enix is especially late on the bandwagon but after blaming their most successful franchise game releases to date (Tomb Raider 2013, Hitman Absolution, plus Sleeping Dogs sold fantastic for a new IP) for "under-performing" last year they need another hail mary this year to convince stockholders the company isn't the next THQ. I can picture the PP presentation being pitched to a room full of executives, listing the profits of Candy Crush and pointing out it was made a tiny company, so obviously a major studio with more money and marketing backing it could get triple those numbers. It's like that line in the facebook movie "Why make millions when we could make BILLIONS!" cue confetti cannons and dance music starts.
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I am really enjoying Zombies Monsters Robots. Co-op action games are one of my favorite types and the only online multiplayer I can get into. It is very similar to games like God Mode, Gears of War (same dev team) and Warframe. I have not played the PvP yet and doubt I ever will but the PvE is super robust with four very distinct modes. The movement is a little clunkier than most modern games but it is part of the mechanics. People are bitching about the weapon rental system, but honestly it doesn't bother me. You make enough Gold completing missions and objectives to keep a steady arsenal. The costumes and other flair items that can be purchased with real money are ridiculously overpriced though. The game has a internal clan system if anyone is up for some slaughtering add me -> http://steamcommunity.com/id/bottled_water/ Fair warning, there are some major ping issues at the moment. For me, this has just meant an occasional 1 minute stretch where I am jumping all over the place. Developers have acknowledged and rectifying the problem. Hopefully soon. Other than that matchmaking has been very smooth and I have not had any trouble getting into a game.
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nodadchad posted:I am really enjoying Zombies Monsters Robots. Co-op action games are one of my favorite types and the only online multiplayer I can get into. It is very similar to games like God Mode, Gears of War (same dev team) and Warframe. I have not played the PvP yet and doubt I ever will but the PvE is super robust with four very distinct modes. I've been looking for a PC game with something similar to GoW co-op for years. I'm kind of sick of all these zombie titles, but I'll give this a shot at least and see if I can get past it's seemingly "lol so wacky" marketing. The price is right, at least. Edit: Does it have controller support at all?
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nodadchad posted:I am really enjoying Zombies Monsters Robots. Co-op action games are one of my favorite types and the only online multiplayer I can get into. It is very similar to games like God Mode, Gears of War (same dev team) and Warframe. I have not played the PvP yet and doubt I ever will but the PvE is super robust with four very distinct modes. For some reason, it's called Hazard Ops in Europe. Slightly less silly marketing, no less silly a game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvyHjFQ_odk It's pretty fun, especially with friends, although it totally feels like an F2P asian knockoff of Gears of War. Which is pretty understandable, given that it's by the team formerly known as Epic China. They're adding missions to it at a pretty impressive rate. Lots of co-op stuff to do. Not even touched the PvP stuff. Edit: It looks like while you can bind some stuff to gamepad, it doesn't really work properly. Keyboard/mouse only. Dominic White fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Dead Man's Switch is pretty bad and should be ignored but if you own Dragonfall and haven't played it, why are you even considering not playing the DC instead? It's got a better engine, better UI and more content, it's a straight upgrade. Never actually bought Dragonfall as it turned out! So I went ahead and picked up the director's cut, $15 is well within my "oh gently caress waiting for a sale" line.  Anything I should know going in? I remember some vague talk that deckers kinda sucked in DMS, is that still true here? Decking was always my favorite thing to do in the (vastly superior to SNES  ) Genesis version of the game.
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pentyne posted:I'm reeeeeally eager for the F2P cash in idea to die. Literally every company sees the few examples that are Puzzles and Dragons or Candy Crush and immediately shifts their AAA development team to F2P games thinking they'll make millions a day in profits. Okay, so going on a tangent to help an out of touch soul here (and opening a can of worms...), what's the deal with Candy Crush? I've never played it but from what I can tell from screenshots, its just Bejeweled with a candy theme and a really predatory F2P mechanic tacked on? You can only try a level X times in a day or you can pay for another go. Do I have that right? Why would anyone play that instead of Bejeweled? The only F2P I've ever seen done right was Hearthstone, and that was Blizzard so I assume they know what they're doing. I've thrown a couple bucks (5 bucks total?) at it to get a few card packs but I've never felt like the experience is hindering me for not paying (or setting up pay walls to stop me from progressing). Ciaphas posted:Never actually bought Dragonfall as it turned out! So I went ahead and picked up the director's cut, $15 is well within my "oh gently caress waiting for a sale" line. Its not that Deckers sucked. Its that they never had an opportunity to shine in DMS. To a lesser extent Shamans and their spirit summoning had the same problem. There just weren't enough opportunities in the environment to use the class specific abilities: In the case of Deckers hacking points, Shamans summoning points. If you picked a decker you were basically an OK shootymans who occasionally got a chance to shine every other mission. Dragonfall fixes this. Almost every mission has a Matrix side mission built in where you can score additional pay data, hack open doors, take control of turrets. Tons of dialogue and keypad/chest/lock hacking opportunities too. Snuffman fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Ciaphas posted:Never actually bought Dragonfall as it turned out! So I went ahead and picked up the director's cut, $15 is well within my "oh gently caress waiting for a sale" line. Nah, a decker's perfectly feasible. Doesn't hurt to have something to do in combat as well, though - a gun skill or some drones would be good to have alongside your decking.
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They've got an obscene amount in their marketing budget which is utterly dwarfed by the income they're making. The game isnt anything special but they're now in general awareness and can just coast on poo poo and still make a ton. If only they had more marketable characters, like some kind of pissed off avian.
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Ciaphas posted:Anything I should know going in? I remember some vague talk that deckers kinda sucked in DMS, is that still true here? Decking was always my favorite thing to do in the (vastly superior to SNES No, you're fine to go with whatever. Decking is necessary in most missions but you get permanent NPC companions with actual personalities in Dragonfall, one of whom is a decker, so you can not deck if you want, or you can be a decker yourself so you can help him in cyberspace. There's also a pool of personality-less mercs to hire from if you have a skill gap in your party for some reason. You probably still want to grab a combat skill (and rigger is the obvious choice since it goes off the same stat as decking, plus drones are great).
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Palpek posted:How exactly do photorealistic skulls and fish fit into Millennium 4? It's by Adorlea games, the dudes who did Laxius Force. They put out nothing but lovely and bland RPGmaker games that have insanely obtuse puzzles designed to sell strategy guides.
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Lance Streetman posted:It's by Adorlea games, the dudes who did Laxius Force. They put out nothing but lovely and bland RPGmaker games that have insanely obtuse puzzles designed to sell strategy guides. Don't forget creepy underage animu romances.
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Rookersh posted:Hey guys remember Sleepy Dogs? Me: I love Sleeping Dogs, what a great game, I eagerly await a sequel and will buy it on day one. It is literally impossible for the developer to screw this up, there is nothing they can do which will make me not want to play more of this franchise. Developer: Challenge accepted.
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Snuffman posted:Okay, so going on a tangent to help an out of touch soul here (and opening a can of worms...), what's the deal with Candy Crush?  And that's before we come to the fact that they're marketing the balls off their games.Of course, they've floated on the stock exchange, and now revenue is stagnating which means they're getting shat on by their shareholders, but  .
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I enjoyed Dear Esther, but I didn't really try to pull any meaning out of the ramblings and just treated it like a dream. It's quite pretty to walk around and let the words and sounds just flow over you. Think of it as more of a trip through a painting gallery, where you're looking for an aesthetic experience, rather than as a story to be read or game to be played. Secrets of Raetikon was... I don't want to call it bad, but some parts of it were unnecessarily aggravating, the content was too small to justify the price even at a decent discount ($7.50), and lol that ending. I'd suggest waiting for it to hit $2.50 or thereabouts if you still want to get it.
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So I went to find the new Gauntlet in my games list, and "Gauntlet Quest" was there. It doesn't have a store page, only a steamdb entry http://steamdb.info/app/229690/ So I installed it and it gave me this:  Which wound up being this:  Which is really obviously not a finished game:  And the guy with the shield is invincible or something because I made it to the 4th floor without taking a single damage:  This random youtube is about all I could find about it. It looks like they made it to test pilot the idea and dropped it for whatever reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuu-HFEVK_4
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Quest For Glory II posted:Hard Reset, Zeno Clash II, and the Tropico Trilogy can be had for $2.99 in this bundle: http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/reboot-bundle-4/ This bundle also includes the deluxe version of Inquisitor, a cool old style RPG where you can interrogate heretics in the name of God.
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Orv posted:They've done basically nothing to market it beyond quietly dropping trailer after trailer and going to a couple industry shows. I preordered it because I crave disappointment, so I'll let you know. They've made two good games out of the five games they've made, so hopefully they've learned from 2, 3 and Legends. Hopefully. Haha I'd really like to hear how Stronghold Crusader 2 is as well. Stronghold 3 was super frustrating, because I think they got the one hard part right, the economy/management side; it was a step-up in complexity of the first game but not crammed with extraneous stuff like Stronghold 2, and it worked pretty well. But then they gently caress it up with wonky castle building, terrible controls for your military units, poo poo they could've easily copied from any modern RTS. And the bugs. Oh god, the bugs. I'll fire up the original Stronghold and Crusader once in awhile, hoping for a sequel that actually does the series justice. Maybe this is the one  Oh and another way they hosed up #3 was having too many campaign missions where you're besieging a castle, instead of building & defending one, which was more of a battle with the lovely RTS controls than otherwise.
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Snuffman posted:Its not that Deckers sucked. Its that they never had an opportunity to shine in DMS. To a lesser extent Shamans and their spirit summoning had the same problem. There just weren't enough opportunities in the environment to use the class specific abilities: In the case of Deckers hacking points, Shamans summoning points. If you picked a decker you were basically an OK shootymans who occasionally got a chance to shine every other mission. Great! I finished the first shootymans mission, didn't seem to have any decker bits (besides story bits [RIP]). Nice to know it picks up. Did get introduced to the whole spirit summon thing... and got burned bad because I didn't know "Escape Chance" meant "Chance This Fucker Will Turn Around With His 4 AP And Ruin Your Day" 
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Ciaphas posted:Great! I finished the first shootymans mission, didn't seem to have any decker bits (besides story bits [RIP]). Nice to know it picks up.
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Eruonen posted:It does, you just missed it. Really? I looked over the whole combat area (both of them), didn't see it. 
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Ciaphas posted:Really? I looked over the whole combat area (both of them), didn't see it. You mean the very first mission right? It has a very short optional deckers section in the first indoors area.
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Eruonen posted:You mean the very first mission right? It has a very short optional deckers section in the first indoors area. Yeah, where Monika's with you. Since I'm only like ten minutes in I'll just start again and pay more attention this time. Maybe do the first shooting bit better, too. I was thinking more XCom, being too safe, I think. (edit) Oh, there's a Rewind & Load function. Ain't that clever.
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Has anybody tried Steam streaming from a desktop to a MacBook Pro Retina display at non-native Retina resolutions? How is it?
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Snuffman posted:Okay, so going on a tangent to help an out of touch soul here (and opening a can of worms...), what's the deal with Candy Crush? I downloaded it once on my mobile to try and figure out what the hype was. As far as I can tell, the main reason it's raking in money is because of impressively skillful (and soulless) design. It is basically set up in such a way that you'll usually get a board almost entirely cleared, but then run out of moves. And you can see how you'd finish it if you just had one more shot. At which point, hey, you can buy this in-game thingy to give you more moves. Cue cash register sound fx here. That type of marketing just pisses me off, and I uninstalled it. But apparently it works really well on some people, judging by their revenue stream. Edit: Arnold of Soissons posted:So I went to find the new Gauntlet in my games list, and "Gauntlet Quest" was there. It doesn't have a store page, only a steamdb entry http://steamdb.info/app/229690/ Any chance you do the steamgifts giveaways, or did about a year ago? http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/ssqw2/dwarfs-quest-for-the-gauntlet looks like the only place it could have come from. Apparently the devs of the game Dwarfs!? were prototyping a sequel of sorts. Looks like it's long since abandoned though. BobTheJanitor fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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BobTheJanitor posted:I downloaded it once on my mobile to try and figure out what the hype was. As far as I can tell, the main reason it's raking in money is because of impressively skillful (and soulless) design. It is basically set up in such a way that you'll usually get a board almost entirely cleared, but then run out of moves. And you can see how you'd finish it if you just had one more shot. At which point, hey, you can buy this in-game thingy to give you more moves. Cue cash register sound fx here. That type of marketing just pisses me off, and I uninstalled it. But apparently it works really well on some people, judging by their revenue stream It's baffling that people utterly fall for it, but they do and its not at all a good thing for the industry, because why bother doing anything creative and interesting when you can just churn out a pay to play game on a shoe-string budget and get millions?
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PlushCow posted:I'd really like to hear how Stronghold Crusader 2 is as well. Stronghold 3 was super frustrating, because I think they got the one hard part right, the economy/management side; it was a step-up in complexity of the first game but not crammed with extraneous stuff like Stronghold 2, and it worked pretty well. But then they gently caress it up with wonky castle building, terrible controls for your military units, poo poo they could've easily copied from any modern RTS. And the bugs. Oh god, the bugs. Did Stronghold 3 ever get fixed? I avoided it because of all the bad reviews but I really liked the earlier games.
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BobTheJanitor posted:Any chance you do the steamgifts giveaways, or did about a year ago? http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/ssqw2/dwarfs-quest-for-the-gauntlet looks like the only place it could have come from. Apparently the devs of the game Dwarfs!? were prototyping a sequel of sorts. Looks like it's long since abandoned though. Ya that's got to be it then. if it's been dead for a year I'm a bit curious how many levels they made. I got to the third or fourth and they were all hand made and different, at least.
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Accordion Man posted:It works way too well, that Kim Kardashian game was making hundred of millions for example. Hey now, the Kim Kardashian game owns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLN208pqkCs
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smg77 posted:Did Stronghold 3 ever get fixed? I avoided it because of all the bad reviews but I really liked the earlier games. Not meaningfully.
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