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Samuringa posted:Those 3 are all showing on my client as from "9 jul to 16 jul" so I wonder if they miswrote it or if its really going to be later today? huh, it's not the 9th that's next week
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Sleeveless posted:SR2 is the rare multiplatform game where playing it on console is preferable because the PC port is basically unplayable outside of an obscure combination of clock speed, operating system, mods, and the alignment of the planets so don't sleep on it. Though it has some weird balance and difficulty problems due to its age (sometimes your reward for completing a chain of activities is infinite ammo for a type of weapon, other times it's a coupon to save five bucks on healing items) so you might want to look up a guide or something if you get frustrated or stuck. the gentlemen of the row mod basically fixes all of that, or did the last time i booted it up a few years back. who knows if the march of operating systems has invalidated that.
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Sleeveless posted:Volition announced a year ago they found the SR2 source code and are working on fixing the PC port but it's a two-man team doing it in their spare time and not an actual official remaster so who knows when or if we'll get it. Iirc Gentleman of the Row is what gave that modder a job at Volition, and that's probably one of the people behind the code fixing so I'm sure it'll get done
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Coolguye posted:the gentlemen of the row mod basically fixes all of that, or did the last time i booted it up a few years back. who knows if the march of operating systems has invalidated that. It's being done "on-the-side" in both guys' spare time, so it was slow-going even before Covid complicated matters. I dunno when it's gonna come, but I'm looking forward to it.
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yeah, he's a goon too, his name escapes me at the moment but he's quality people. to the best of my knowledge his old work on gentlemen of the row still works, though.
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HopperUK posted:I think it was Idolninja? Correct.
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repiv posted:huh, it's not the 9th I have no idea why I believed the Hue banner saying its the 9th instead of looking down on my own PC screen, my bad
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Coolguye posted:the gentlemen of the row mod basically fixes all of that, or did the last time i booted it up a few years back. who knows if the march of operating systems has invalidated that. Still works for me. For whoever was correctly talking up British Male and Hispanic Female voices, some of the coop mission stuff is extra hilarious with both of them saying stuff the whole time. Truly two great tastes that taste great together.
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HopperUK posted:I think it was Idolninja? Yeah, Mike "Idolninja" Watson was hired to work as Community Manager during the development of Saints Row 4 and he's the reason the game had Steam Workshop support. He's in a good amount of videos that Volition puts out as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_-3xb7FNc
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But will they make the tow truck side progressions actually beatable?
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Discendo Vox posted:But will they make the tow truck side progressions actually beatable? I never had a problem with those. Heli missions involving power lines on the other hand...
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Also modern versions of Windows don't suffer from the CPU bug in the first place.
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All this talk about Volition just makes me wish FreeSpace was coming back....
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A bunch of new games for Twitch/Amazon-Prime-havers: Turok 2, Dark Devotion, Kunai, Melbits World, Dear Esther, and Grip.
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oh dope posted:All this talk about Volition just makes me wish FreeSpace was coming back.... I would love this. FreeSpace was so good. I hope theres a resurgence of the space dog-fighter genre with the star wars game coming out.
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ACValiant posted:I would love this. FreeSpace was so good. I hope theres a resurgence of the space dog-fighter genre with the star wars game coming out. Thaaaaat looks to be PVP-focused and is even going for the e-sports 5v5 thing. Would be very surprised if the campaign was anything more than a perfunctory sideshow.
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Mordja posted:Thaaaaat looks to be PVP-focused and is even going for the e-sports 5v5 thing. Would be very surprised if the campaign was anything more than a perfunctory sideshow.
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ACValiant posted:You are probably right about those guesses. One can hope though! I backed Everspace 2 to scratch adjacent to that itch in the meantime. Did you play the demo? It's way more Freelancer than 'Space. It's also still available on Steam, actually.
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Mordja posted:Did you play the demo? It's way more Freelancer than 'Space. It's also still available on Steam, actually. I've completely given up hope there'll ever be a Freelancer-worthy game again. And Freelancer was a miracle considering its hellish development.
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Stickman posted:A bunch of new games for Twitch/Amazon-Prime-havers: Turok 2, Dark Devotion, Kunai, Melbits World, Dear Esther, and Grip. Dear Esther is a game I’ve always wanted to try but could never quite pull the trigger on, so this is nice
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Dear Esther is a game I’ve always wanted to try but could never quite pull the trigger on, so this is nice
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It's alright. I think it's a very pretty game and a nice experience, but it's one of the games that caused people to get very lovely about the idea of "Walking Simulators" and I think it doesn't hold up as well as Gone Home does, for example. For free it's definitely worth playing through.
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I love Dear Esther. I feel like anyone's fun with it is going to entirely depend on whether they like the writing style.
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Dear Esther is an experimental type of game. The story fragments you get may vary from playthrough to playthrough and in some cases they may allude to a different series of events -- they also used to somehow contradict themselves in the same playthrough, but that might have been a bug or intentional, I am unsure. It's a good game though (that started off as a free mod) and it was stunning at the time, what they did with the Source engine, especially for the standalone game. Jessica Curry's soundtrack is really good too. I really like the idea behind the "This Godforsaken Aerial" piece. which is perhaps my favorite of the set. The tones are supposedly morse code for "Esther" repeating.
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The thing to realize about Dear Esther is that it's a mood piece first and foremost. Approaching it even like other walking sims like Gone Home is going to leave you frustrated. There is something of a concrete narrative you can piece together if you really want to, but that's better left to reading forum posts laying out theories after the fact than trying to puzzle it out in-situ.
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I played it recently-ish and I didn't really have trouble following the narrative. I mean it's fragmented at first but then the threads start to tie together, and you start to realise what things are actually a reference to. It's definitely an art piece but I feel like that's more about how it presents and explores its story (which is more of a small, mundane, personal tragedy at the heart of it - but those moments can be bigger and more meaningful for the person affected by them, and that's what the game's expressing)
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Also Dear Esther has an element of randomization which unfortunately means whether you have a legible story is literally up to chance unless you're willing to at multiple times or do homework afterward.
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Watch Dogs 2 will be free for a very limited time - you have to have Uplay running during their presentation on the 12th. https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1280172277406076928
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Remind me on the 12th
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repiv posted:Watch Dogs 2 will be free for a very limited time - you have to have Uplay running during their presentation on the 12th.
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I'll be at work so I'll just hire someone to log in for me
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repiv posted:Watch Dogs 2 will be free for a very limited time - you have to have Uplay running during their presentation on the 12th. This is asking for trouble.
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The servers will 100% get hammered
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And so, after a presentation with way more clicks than usual, they make the game free for a week as an apology.
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Can't you just leave Uplay open? That's their launcher isnt it?
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I'm not leaving my laptop open while I'm at work, I have a cat.
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Len posted:Can't you just leave Uplay open? That's their launcher isnt it? They have to ask you to log in because nobody willingly uses it
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Waffleman_ posted:I'm not leaving my laptop open while I'm at work, I have a cat. Turn off the thing that makes it go to sleep when you close the lid? Like people going "that's such a weird time frame that's impossible" are creating a problem that doesn't exist
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Waffleman_ posted:I'm not leaving my laptop open while I'm at work, I have a cat. Make your cat log into uplay.
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