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Captain Invictus posted:hmmm, no, it says firefox is the default, so it's not that. there's nothing in steam itself to set that? Can’t recall how I did it, but try to get your steam game shortcut on the desktop to open with steam’s browser. Not by changing your pc’s browser default.
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So Dragon Age Inquisition is finally available on Steam: how has it held up in a post-Witcher 3 world? Worth playing still? I loved Origins, never played 2, and I remember people raving about Inquisition when it first came out.
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Jerusalem posted:So Dragon Age Inquisition is finally available on Steam: how has it held up in a post-Witcher 3 world? Worth playing still? I loved Origins, never played 2, and I remember people raving about Inquisition when it first came out. Characters good, gameplay bad
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Jun 5, 2020 04:22
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if you like the bioware "here's a couple crew members, get to know them and their nuances" sort of thing there's some meat there for you but the actual game itself is just shy of a hotbar mmo, up to you whether that's worth it
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Jun 5, 2020 04:24
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Cross-Section posted:Characters good, gameplay bad efb
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Jerusalem posted:So Dragon Age Inquisition is finally available on Steam: how has it held up in a post-Witcher 3 world? Worth playing still? I loved Origins, never played 2, and I remember people raving about Inquisition when it first came out. If you're an obsessive completionist, don't even think about playing the game. Everyone says to make sure you don't get stuck grinding out the first zone forever, but what they usually don't tell you is that other zones are full of filler quests that'll take forever and bog you down doing poo poo that doesn't matter too. If you're not an obsessive completionist, I think there's fun to be had there.
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Jun 5, 2020 04:24
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Inquisition is fine. It has some of the same problems as Andromeda in that it has a lot of meaningless quests in its open zones - some are okay though - but not as many of those problems and the main quest and characters surrounding it are much better.
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Jun 5, 2020 04:28
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Sinteres posted:If you're not an obsessive completionist gently caress.
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Jun 5, 2020 04:36
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Inquisition is good if you do the quests that sound fun and don't bother with the rest. install a mod that makes war table quests complete automatically if you want. The DLC is all worth it, in my mind. I got a lot of mileage out of the character creator in that game, it was insanely good.
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Jun 5, 2020 04:50
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Yeah it's fine, but there's a bunch of ullage you should skip if you don't want to get bored
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Jun 5, 2020 04:55
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By forgetting to pause a month for Humble, I've actually ended up with a really cool looking game that I never would have heard of otherwise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT581--ewYI It appears to tick a lot of my personal boxes for a video game.
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Jerusalem posted:gently caress. Dragon Age Keep (if it still is up) lets you decide every major and most minor choices all the way back to DA1 for you DA:I game. The area map where you have to go to cash in your collected bear asses (magica tablets or something) is the worst designed open world level I've ever seen with like 4 layers you have to navigate around tunnels and poo poo just to get to the special temple entrance every time. I went hard on a do-everything run but by the 2nd reward for turning those in being so hilariously poor I stopped collecting them ever. Everything else to 100% is significantly better and more fun, expect maybe the alchemy/plant farming part. Story has a lot of ties to the franchise, is definitely worth it if you liked the first two and a few stellar characters who make it all better. Download the "more interjections" mod though, somehow the original timer for squad interjections meant you'd rarely ever hear from them when they have a ton of lines to say. Combat is fun as hell and easy to break with a twitchy teleporting sword mage or a assault cannon of an archer raining arrows down like that scene from 300 plus many other options. Lots of unique dialogue and interjections based on character and class. You can cheese the war table timed missions by changing your system clock ahead and just knocking them all out once they show up. There's quite a bit of flavor text to them to so just spamming them and not reading all the way through you can miss some fun stuff. Also, keep multiple save files. There's a few weird persistent glitches you'll run into sometimes that are fixed by just loading a slightly older save and trigger the scene again. Cole is particularly notorious for a certain one. pentyne fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jun 5, 2020 |
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Jun 5, 2020 05:38
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pentyne posted:You can cheese the war table timed missions by changing your system clock ahead and just knocking them all out once they show up. There's quite a bit of flavor text to them to so just spamming them and not reading all the way through you can miss some fun stuff. There's also entire war table mission chains that can actually be failed/cut short if you pick the wrong advisor. Some of them actually pay out pretty well if you handle them right.
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Jerusalem posted:gently caress. I did the whole loving thing and I regret it. It's really bad because this quote is dead on: Sinteres posted:...but what they usually don't tell you is that other zones are full of filler quests that'll take forever and bog you down doing poo poo that doesn't matter too. Play the best one in the series,  Dragon Age 2 , instead.
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Jun 5, 2020 06:22
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Burnout Paradise Remastered question: HOW DO I DISABLE WEBCAM FROM SWITCHING ON
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Nyaa posted:I had the opposite trouble when I deleted edge awhile ago. Steam game shortcut immediately lost all their desktop icons and will ask for browser to open them. The solution I found was to set it back to steam browser, which is call Browser on the list along with firefox, chrome, IE, etc. I don't use desktop shortcuts to open games, I open them via steam library directly. this issue is when I click links in chat and it automatically opens in Edge. There's no "Browser" in the list, it's just firefox, chrome, IE(for some loving reason still), and edge. I can uninstall edge? the option's greyed out when I go to it. I'd love to get rid of it and keep it gone because I hate how it keeps setting it as the default for random things every few updates.
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The Joe Man posted:Don't do it. There were definitely some interesting things going on in the story and if you can tough out the gameplay for it then more power to you but telling people to play DA2 to avoid DAI's c/p design is something well beyond galaxy brained. I don't think I've ever seen a AAA game with so much asset reuse, never mind the fact that everything in the game is flat, hideous, and boring. Say what you will of DAI but at least there were points in which it looked interesting.
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DrNutt posted:There were definitely some interesting things going on in the story and if you can tough out the gameplay for it then more power to you but telling people to play DA2 to avoid DAI's c/p design is something well beyond galaxy brained. I don't think I've ever seen a AAA game with so much asset reuse, never mind the fact that everything in the game is flat, hideous, and boring. Say what you will of DAI but at least there were points in which it looked interesting.
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Jun 5, 2020 07:24
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I remember enjoying DA: Origins. Fond memories. I liked the Golem buddy.
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The Joe Man posted:Oh don't get me wrong DA2 loving sucks too but at least the levels are short and it's the action game it always wanted to be instead of a lovely MMO or terminally boring Baldur's Gate rip-off. Yeah but like, if you are in the mood for an action game and pick DA2 then something has gone terribly wrong. If I'm playing an RPG for story and characters I would much rather play DAI or DAO again before DA2 again. Although like every attempted replay of DAO I'm sure it would come to a screeching halt the second I hit the Deep Roads.
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Jun 5, 2020 07:34
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If there was ever a book called "How not to gently caress up the opening hours of your open-world RPG", Inquisition's Hinterlands would be like half of it.
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Orv posted:A collectors edition for a remaster is certainly a thing.
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Jun 5, 2020 07:48
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I enjoyed Kingdoms of Amalur, the combat was fun. The point about there being too many boring side quests is valid and true, but as a whole I thought the game was fine.
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Inquisition was an MMO they clumsily attempted to turn into a single player game once they realised The Old Republic wasn't a World-of-Warcraft-style money replicator
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All I know about Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is that it has amazing music by Solar Fields and that you apparently won't hear half of it when running through the levels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZrif1uQ8GM You know, the thing you are doing most of the time.
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Cartoon Man posted:All of those criticisms are correct but it’s still worth $10. just a reminder here that EA has a 1year sub for $25 with a huge catalogue of their games too. It might be worth checking out instead sind a lot of their games are not that great to play twice but maybe worth 1 playthrough.
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haldolium posted:just a reminder here that EA has a 1year sub for $25 with a huge catalogue of their games too. It might be worth checking out instead sind a lot of their games are not that great to play twice but maybe worth 1 playthrough. Supposedly it’s going to also carry over onto steam “soon”. Right after everybody buys them on steam first and they milk those sales...
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haldolium posted:just a reminder here that EA has a 1year sub for $25 with a huge catalogue of their games too. It might be worth checking out instead sind a lot of their games are not that great to play twice but maybe worth 1 playthrough. Is it Origin Access? The Basic is $35 and the Premier is $130 per year, but maybe there's a deal somewhere that I didn't see. As far as I can tell, the main difference between the two subscriptions are "new" games: stuff like NFS Heat, Anthem, Star Wars Fallen Order, C&C Remastered, and, oddly, A Plague Tale. So the Basic definitely seems like a great deal if you're into Fifa, Madden, Battlefield/Battlefront, the rest of the NFS catalogue.
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Artelier posted:Is it Origin Access? The Basic is $35 and the Premier is $130 per year, but maybe there's a deal somewhere that I didn't see. All this talk makes me think that we're finally approaching an era of games-as-a-service, then what you said just hit me. Of course it's going to be lovely subdivisions and lockouts and vendor exclusives, it's cable all loving over again. Or console wars, or streaming media fragmentation, or whatever. gently caress those people and their attempt to sink their own goddamn industry to make a quick buck. I think that thing with NVIDIA's G-play (?) having vendors panic-withdrawing is a good highlight of this; god loving forbid someone gets good-faith value out of it.
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The music industry went there, wouldn’t surprise me to see video games trend that way too over the next decade.
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Yeah, it is unfortunate. Things like Xbox Gamepass are a good deal for customers now, but that’s always how streaming starts. It always ends as a series of walled gardens that end up costing the customer more in total, with the ugly additional effect of being really bad for media accessibility and preservation.
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The music industry (mostly) has it figured out, video games should too. But there’s going to be a lot of pain and bullshit first before they do.
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Cartoon Man posted:The music industry went there, wouldn’t surprise me to see video games trend that way too over the next decade. The music industry isn't really a great comparison here, imo. The major platforms are mostly independent from labels and artists, there's only a few major exclusives and I can't think of anyone major who's holding out from streaming entirely. What I do think is cool is that at least for the moment, the industry seems to be able to accommodate multiple platforms. I do worry that it will eventually homogenise into one industry dominating megacorporation but for now I think it's cool that you can choose between Apple or Spotify or Amazon or Tidal (lol) and you're choosing the service rather than the content. Video games are following the TV streaming model, where every dickhead has his own platform and I pick and choose which evil corporations I'm willing to deal with in exchange for the content they are hoarding and I have to let ten different people siphon money from my back account indefinitely if I want to enjoy a full range of content.
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Seeing this thread finally understand why I refuse to rent games and I want to own them warms my heart.
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Angry Lobster posted:Christ, he hasn't aged a bit. Of course he hasn't, he's the Messiah! But yeah, I guess the shaved head+goatee look goes a long way towards self-preservation.
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I think Origin Access Basic is still a pretty good deal, and maybe dipping into Premier is okay if there are a couple new releases you want to play. The only extras you get are Fallen Order, NFS Heat and season pass content for Battlefield V and Battlefront 2, and I guess Command and Conquer plus Plants vs Zombies. Basic even gets you 10 hour demos of whatever is on their "Play First" section, which right now is NFS Heat. If you're not the kind of person to put tons of hours into individual games and like just dipping into a bunch, these subscription services are a godsend. Just comes down to a difference as to how you consume content. I'm never going to finish Gears Tactics, but I've had plenty of fun with it. Wouldn't buy it for £50, but I'd definitely play it now and then for £5 a month, along with a whole host of other games through Game Pass. Same with games like Frostpunk, or Nex Machina, or Bomber Crew and A Way Out, which are all on Origin Access Basic, which is just £20 a year. It even lets me try games I'd never buy like any of the recent NFS games, and heck, I've had fun with Payback trying to be a shittier Fast and Furious ripoff or Mass Effect Andromeda actually having decent combat. Cool if folks don't like it, but it's still great value for a lot of people.
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Just wanna say that I bought Steam DA2 because it said full controller support. Which a game released in 2011 and on consoles should have had, anyway. But this is apparently a lie. I'm very glad I just returned it and got refunded. DA2 was not made for KB&M. I can't imagine it is any more fun with DAI. Then again, DAI 's gameplay was never fun so you aren't missing much with an inferior playing method.
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Insert name here posted:Just lol if you didn't slam buy the C&C Remastered Collector's Edition I did not because I learned a long time ago that no matter how cool the tchotchke in a CE looks it's always gonna be made out of some resin bullshit or have some other massive defect when you get yours and be garbage. Though granted maybe that has changed since the days of MMO CEs.
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