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AngryBooch posted:Games your Following will post updates about patches, DLC, early access updates, etc. to your Activity feed, the place where your friends shared screenshots and reviews show up. Thanks. I didn't think to look there. I also think it's a bad place, between about a thousand posts a day of who owns what now. On the plus side, the news in question that I couldn't read fast enough was about the release date of Dreamfall Chapters 1 
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Drifter posted:Just because nobody has bought a game doesn't make it bad. Had there been a large number of players the first day with a tremendous drop, that would be more telling of the state of the game.
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Ragequit posted:EVGA goes on my "Great support staff/policies" list along with ASUS now. I assume most of you built your own gaming computers, so go with EVGA for parts in the future if you don't already are care about really generous warranty/return windows. I'll second this. I seem to blow a video card every three years or so, and EVGA's warranty (which has been lifetime for all the bits I've bought from them) has kept me from blowing a significant portion of my tiny budget when it happens. Have to look into cross-shipping the next time it happens. Using a spare, antiquated card while waiting for the replacement to arrive is a drag.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:No. Do you really want the steam client and every Valve game from now on to be programmed in Java? And also he wears a stupid hat. And we're not having TotalBiscuit, either. GoG do regional pricing now as well. Even for the games they develop - Witcher 3 is $80AU. They do however give you the difference between the regional price and the US price back as store credit so it's better than nothing.
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So apparently I ended up with a few russian friends from TF2 or something and thanks to NuSteam I get stuff like this now: Thanks Gaben Pierson posted:So the Falling Skies game just appeared on my front page and wow is that XCOM I see? Anyone else know anything about this, it came outta nowhere for me. Dominic White posted:Released silently without any review copies going out to press, too! And it looks like a low-budget XCom clone, complete with wobbly animations and super blurry textures. Palpek posted:Nah, peak 20 is the number that says the game's poo poo. All the worst titles out there are somewhere close to this number. 
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Pierson posted:So the Falling Skies game just appeared on my front page and wow is that XCOM I see? Anyone else know anything about this, it came outta nowhere for me. it's xcom 
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Oct 1, 2014 15:36
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Cardboard Box A posted:So apparently I ended up with a few russian friends from TF2 or something and thanks to NuSteam I get stuff like this now: that's just how it works when you have friends who speak other languages on Steam, recommendations have always gone that way
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RE gender, I don't think this Steam Upcoming F2P Borderlands thing even has male playable characters http://store.steampowered.com/app/319750/?snr=1_7_7_comingsoon_150_1
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So what is it about Shadow of Mordor that makes it GOTY material to lots of Goons? From the pre-release it just looked like a half assed Assassins Creed meets Batman clone, with a gimmicky respawning enemy system and I had no interest in it. What is it that makes it so great because I don't want to spend the money on it only to find out it is just a half assed ACxBatman clone.
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Cardboard Box A posted:So apparently I ended up with a few russian friends from TF2 or something and thanks to NuSteam I get stuff like this now:
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Mr. Fortitude posted:So what is it about Shadow of Mordor that makes it GOTY material to lots of Goons? From the pre-release it just looked like a half assed Assassins Creed meets Batman clone, with a gimmicky respawning enemy system and I had no interest in it. From what I understand, it's a Middle-Earth orc political management game. Except orc politics involves a lot of violence, which you do by Arkham-Asyluming in combat and Assassins-Creeding when not in combat.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:So what is it about Shadow of Mordor that makes it GOTY material to lots of Goons? From the pre-release it just looked like a half assed Assassins Creed meets Batman clone, with a gimmicky respawning enemy system and I had no interest in it. The Nemesis system creates emergent narratives of the sort that many open-world games aspire to but don't achieve. I don't know if you would find this to be of value, but I found it extremely satisfying to finally kill Ghrul the Slaughterer (who was basically a writhing mass of scars at this point) after we'd gone back and forth a half dozen times (me killing him, him killing me) throughout the first act. He was particularly irritating because he started out as some dumbshit no-name Orc who landed a lucky spear in my chest while I was fighting some other Captain. Also, there's nothing half-assed about it. It's clearly using the Arkham engine and the combat feels great. Animations are not Assassin's Creed-smooth but in my experience, no one has animators quite like Ubisoft (Splinter Cell and Assassin's Creed have some amazing animations).
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Where is the best place to buy Shadows of Mordor from? I couldn't get nuuvem to work.
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Even without the Nemesis system it'd still be a rock solid beat'em up Batman in Middle Earth game. That extra layer adds a ton of personality to the game though. Just all the little details of walking around hearing Orcs comment on things you've done and are doing is just amazing. ^If Nuuvem is out GMG with the 25% voucher would be my next guess. That or someone like Captain Inviticus who'll give you 15% off the Steam price at the very least.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:So what is it about Shadow of Mordor that makes it GOTY material to lots of Goons? From the pre-release it just looked like a half assed Assassins Creed meets Batman clone, with a gimmicky respawning enemy system and I had no interest in it. It's definitely not half-assed. Sure, it plays a fair bit like AssCreed and Batman, but it's done really well, for starters. As someone who doesn't have any particular love or hate for any of the three, it's easily as good as any of the assassins creed or batman games, as far as the gameplay is concerned. Looks great, feels great and has a whole bunch of really fun ways to gently caress with the enemy. The stealth stuff is as good as assassin's creed and if you get into a bigger fight the open combat is every bit as good as arkham city. What brings it up and above those is the nemesis system. Essentially, the game has a whole bunch of orc officers hanging around. If a standard guy kills you, he can be promoted into a spot and then get more powerful as he continues to kill you, getting more powers. If you beat them but don't necessarily kill them properly, he'll come back and it'll show. They come back covered in burns and scars and keep going after you and getting progressively more powerful and more hosed up, with dialogue to match. All the static bosses in asscreed and batman are fun to fight for sure, but when they're done, they're done. In this, they're going to get scarred and then recruit their own army and come back hating you. As time passes, they'll also end up fighting each other even if you're avoiding them. A lot of games try to make it seem like your decisions and actions matter, but it usually ends up being fairly binary switches on morality meters. Shadow of Mordor is really good at building stories through your encounters. If you fight one guy enough, over the course of hours of play he'll go from being a no-name mook who got off a lucky shot to a war chief with his own army and captains, with a rapidfire crossbow shooting exploding fire bolts, and you'll have learned his name and hate him. Then you finally get into his stronghold, release and tame some monsters to help, turn half his army against him, burn his face off and finally explode that shitlord's head. The rest of them will remember it. Half an hour will go by and all of a sudden you'll hear some dude you're about to throw off a ledge complain to his buddy about someone you helped into power. The gameplay creates it's own stories and then makes it great fun to pursue them through to the end. Deformed Church fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Mr. Fortitude posted:So what is it about Shadow of Mordor that makes it GOTY material to lots of Goons? From the pre-release it just looked like a half assed Assassins Creed meets Batman clone, with a gimmicky respawning enemy system and I had no interest in it. Just from the hour and a half I've played, SoM feels a lot more responsive and fluid compared to an Assassin's Creed game, where I always felt like I was wrestling with clunky controls. This frequently lead to a lot of awkward fuckups during assassinations, combat, and platforming. SoM just lets me focus on where and how I want to take out enemies and it's a lot more fun. I really enjoyed the smooth stalk-and-kill outpost clearing in Far Cry 3 and SoM feels a lot like that but in 3rd person. The whole army thing may turn out to be gimmicky window dressing but a lot of people are praising it for having depth and adding character to the game.
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Lethemonster posted:Where is the best place to buy Shadows of Mordor from? I couldn't get nuuvem to work. I'm guessing at this point it's probably hiddenmovement's thread
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Trip report on the new Sherlock Holmes game: Yeah, this is pretty drat great. Disclaimer, I'm a bit of a Holmes fanboy, and these guys really capture the spirit of the characters really well. Holmes is the spergy, drug addled manchild he always has been, Watson is the silently suffering partner. All is as it should be, and the game looks gorgeous at times and the new features they've added make you feel like you're actually doing proper detective work. It's sort of akin to the timeline/crime scene reconstructions from Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper that the latest games really don't have enough of. All the puzzles I've come across so far make sense and are theme appropriate. Highly recommended game.
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So the list of just now released games that are apparently good: The Vanishing of Ethan Carther, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, Shadow of Mordor, Starport Gemini 2. Anything else good out there (and I'm asking about the recent period and also not about upcoming releases)?
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wdarkk posted:So I saw Warmachine Tactics. I've been semi-interested in Warmachine but don't have space/time for a physical army. How's the computer version? Alpha. Don't even go there for a while. They're working on it still, and there have been some rumblings about the pricing going forward (ie you buy your units with realmoney).
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if you need another reason to play shadow of morder: your son's name sounds like diarrhea
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Mr. Fortitude posted:What is it that makes it so great because I don't want to spend the money on it only to find out it is just a half assed ACxBatman clone. It's a loving awesome ACxBatman clone that has you stabbing orcs in the head, and there's a fairly complex system of manipulating the Orc clan structure and the individual orcs themselves. It's polished and extremely well done without being entirely derivative of the games that came before it. If you don't believe Goon hyperbole, the reviews are pretty much gushing as well. Edit: Due to an early fuckup in wading into a group of orcs, Azrog the Puny got elevated to the level of captain and headed to his stronghold to recruit more Uruk. I followed him, and managed to locate him, but I wasn't sure what you needed to do with the strongholds. Turns out that dropping caragor bait into the stronghold leads to Caragor's attacking _everything_. Unfortunately, Azrog has a fear of Caragors, so the last time I saw him, he was heading for the black gates at a rate of speed. You can create set pieces. Use you arrow to turn uruks to alert under fly nests, then drop the nest. Use Caragors to distract the majority of the orcs while you separate a worm to interrogate. Attract single orcs to areas that are dangerous (there's at least one bad tempered cave troll)... Hav fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Hav posted:It's a loving awesome ACxBatman clone that has you stabbing orcs in the head, and there's a fairly complex system of manipulating the Orc clan structure and the individual orcs themselves. It's polished and extremely well done without being entirely derivative of the games that came before it. I hate fantasy and I especially hate the stupid made up names in LoTR - should I be skipping this or does it transcend all the blah blah fantasy bollocks?
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:I hate fantasy and I especially hate the stupid made up names in LoTR - should I be skipping this or does it transcend all the blah blah fantasy bollocks? Well if you hate fantasy I got bad news for you: it's fantasy. Not just any fantasy, but the granddaddy of modern fantasy.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:I hate fantasy and I especially hate the stupid made up names in LoTR - should I be skipping this or does it transcend all the blah blah fantasy bollocks? I have an Orc named Uguu the Singer who shows up every once and awhile and just sings to me about how he wants to kill me. I helped him become Warchief, and now every time we fight the nearby Orcs start chanting UGUU, UGUU over and over again. It's GOTY is what I'm saying here. ( It's Assassins Creed platforming done right, mixed with Arkham combat done right, mixed with Tomb Raider/AssCreed 2 collectibles, mixed with Orc Politics. The big draw is the emergent gameplay stuff, but the fantasy trappings are pretty heavy. If you don't like LOTR it's fine because whatever it shits all over LOTR, but if you don't like fantasy, I guess does the above gameplay system mix sound appealing enough to you that you'd enjoy it? )
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Palpek posted:So the list of just now released games that are apparently good: The Vanishing of Ethan Carther, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, Shadow of Mordor, Starport Gemini 2. If you play Payday 2, they just released a new paid DLC heist that's a crossover with Hotline Miami. You get to shoot the poo poo out of a seedy motel and use a whole bunch of HM weapons and masks. The teaser site should give you a pretty good idea of how faithful they are with it.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:I hate fantasy and I especially hate the stupid made up names in LoTR - should I be skipping this or does it transcend all the blah blah fantasy bollocks? No, it's not for you.
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Ddraig posted:Trip report on the new Sherlock Holmes game: Yeah, this is pretty drat great. Disclaimer, I'm a bit of a Holmes fanboy, and these guys really capture the spirit of the characters really well. Holmes is the spergy, drug addled manchild he always has been, Watson is the silently suffering partner. All is as it should be, and the game looks gorgeous at times and the new features they've added make you feel like you're actually doing proper detective work. It's sort of akin to the timeline/crime scene reconstructions from Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper that the latest games really don't have enough of. All the puzzles I've come across so far make sense and are theme appropriate. Highly recommended game. Frogwares have always been good at characterizing Sherlock a huge rear end in a top hat. I love that the opening scene is Watson trying to dodge Sherlock's gunfire because Sherlock decided he wanted to put on a blindfold and shoot all his belongings. its better than the retarded bbc sherlock because you're supposed to know that doing these things makes him an rear end in a top hat, and not a perfect little snowflake
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:I hate fantasy and I especially hate the stupid made up names in LoTR - should I be skipping this or does it transcend all the blah blah fantasy bollocks? So, you're basically incapable of playing any games with made up names or even slightly fantastical elements? Geez man, how does it feel to be dead inside?
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Deakul posted:So, you're basically incapable of playing any games with made up names or even slightly fantastical elements? there's a difference between lotr and good fantasy. Now watch as all the goons who read the Extended Star Wars Universe fiction come in to defend LotR.
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Rookersh posted:I have an Orc named Uguu the Singer who shows up every once and awhile and just sings to me about how he wants to kill me. gently caress. I may have to get this when it goes on sale, now. corn in the bible posted:its better than the retarded bbc sherlock because you're supposed to know that doing these things makes him an rear end in a top hat, and not a perfect little snowflake I never got around to watching the new series. I guess I'll just cuddle up with my memories of Jeremy Brett as a coked-up rear end in a top hat, then.
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GreenNight posted:Ah yes, the Tolkien is a hack argument. I think the LoTR books were good. 
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As posted in the game's thread, get Mordor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSt5zJRVNIg
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Bieeardo posted:I never got around to watching the new series. I guess I'll just cuddle up with my memories of Jeremy Brett as a coked-up rear end in a top hat, then. there's a scene where watson thinks they're going to die and starts crying, and it turns out sherlock knew they were fine the whole time and starts laughing at him that's supposed to be proof that sherlock is a good friend
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If you cannot tolerate
Then do not get this game. It uses combat and traversing engines that almost blatantly rip off Batman and AC, respectively, but they mesh together world in this kind of environment. There's a lot of lore and pseudo-Medieval talk and accents, that's unavoidable in a Middle Earth game. As I've mentioned before, there are unbelievable amounts of enemies sprinkled about, and I'm talking groups of 8-12 enemies can walk around and run into you trying to interrogate a single intel-holding uruk. As such, there's going to be a lot of fighting. It's going to feel very repetitive, especially if you're trying to immerse yourself and just hoof it from one mission point to the next, rather than using fast travel or riding mounts or any other pragmatic methods to survive. If none of the above throws you off in the least GET THIS GAME. The nemesis gimmick is a rather visible one, but it adds depth and character to the events like TF2's class personality does to its shooting: It doesn't heavily change the fact that you'll be doing a lot of killing, killing, and more killing, but through politics, happenstance, and that one fucker who got that lucky shot off of you  , hopefully put some drive and motivation behind which uruk bastard you want to drive your dagger into.
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corn in the bible posted:there's a scene where watson thinks they're going to die and starts crying, and it turns out sherlock knew they were fine the whole time and starts laughing at him I took that scene that Sherlock is an rear end in a top hat still and Watson puts up with him because he's an idiot  .
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The MSJ posted:You can play Noah Wyle and a hobo? Sold! That's supposed to be Collin Cunningham. Supposed to.
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Palpek posted:So the list of just now released games that are apparently good: The Vanishing of Ethan Carther, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, Shadow of Mordor, Starport Gemini 2. Wasteland 2 is really fun so far, albeit a bit buggy still.
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