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Azran posted:How does the FFXIV free time deal work? Is it just create an S-E account or is it linked to Steam? I remember making use of the 14-day trial thing on my Steam account a couple years ago, so maybe I'm not elegible for that? Steam is a weirdly technically separate ecosystem for XIV, if you have it on Steam you have to get all of it through Steam unless you wanna start over and make a new SE account for it. (  ) They have gotten better about that but I'd still recommend making a new SE account for the purpose of;The entire base game (A Realm Reborn, 2.0-2.5.5(?)) and all of the first expansion, Heavensward, are now entirely free to play forever. You'll be missing a couple of the later classes, you obviously can't reach max level and you probably (I haven't looked) have some mild account restrictions but it's hundreds of hours of JRPG with very good MMO content on the side. The game is also purpose built to ensure that people who are doing old content will always be able to do it, with some occasional queueing problems for rarer or undone stuff, so even if you never buy the game you can still do all the stuff in the free portion just by queueing up.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:When I first activated 2FA on Steam a few years back, the window that popped up with the recovery code was blank where the alphanumeric code should have been. Customer support fixed it after a couple of days but my butthole sure was puckered while I sorted it out, lemme tell you. The universe sent you a sign, a clear message that you should do something else with your life
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HopperUK posted:It's a word for that thing where someone from the real world goes through a portal or whatever and enters a fantastical world and has to operate there. In NNK2 this happens to the young, sexy president of the USA. I'm legitimately disappointed that they took a concept like this and flubbed it so badly.
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Sep 26, 2020 00:20
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why did they not only replace the VO but changend the entire staging of the intro? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZljaCZcoNQ&t=780s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_mUquU6mZo&t=193s weird design choices, let's see where this goes.
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How's the pc version of Nier Automata these days? I remember reading that it wasn't a good port when it came out, but recent reviews on Steam are positive, sooo?
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Sep 26, 2020 01:03
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Edmond Dantes posted:You mean on steam? The Steam and Squeenix stores are separate for FF14, so whichever client you're using/creating the account on, you're gonna have to buy the game/expacs on there if you don't want to start over (and steam has way better prices for ff14 for our region) Oh, I'd forgotten all about this! Thanks for the reminder. I lost access to my original S-E account (forgot my security question  ) that I created like three years ago so I decided I'd just create a new account and give the game a spin, if I like it I'll just contact support and see if they can restore my old account. when I last played it, the trial was only 14 days long and life got in the way before I got out of the first city.
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Soul Glo posted:How's the pc version of Nier Automata these days? I remember reading that it wasn't a good port when it came out, but recent reviews on Steam are positive, sooo? I don't think they ever officially patched it, but the special k mod made it run perfect for me
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Morter posted:Is the hack/slash/loot/exploration enough to carry me in this game? Most people say its fun, some people say it's terrible/shallow. I'm not expecting Monster Hunter level technicality, but the game clips I've seen remind me of Rogue Galaxy, which I enjoyed a lot. I was incredibly confused about what it had in common with Black Flag’s Naval Combat In Space but then realized that’s Rebel Galaxy, not Rogue Galaxy. NNK2 is okay but forgettable on the level of “I clicked the store link and was surprised that I own it, let alone played it for a few hours”.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:It solves a problem that only exists if you don't have money (can't buy a console or PC to play games), but if you don't have money you can't make use of this solution (which requires high priced internet and some base level of device to play it on) I have such a loose sense of what the internet situation is like outside the US, but maybe there are places where good internet is cheap enough to make this a decent proposition? It does seem like people who only want to have to own a non-gaming laptop or something it could fill a potential need.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:58
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Is there a way to speed up the action in SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS ? I feel like a game with a million billion units and characters to upgrade and customize should be fast and snappy, not slow as balls
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I keep finding out about games that have been out for a bit and then discovering they're EGS exclusive. And I end up not playing them because of that. I just discovered Spellbreak and I'll probably never check it out. I'm wondering if I'm old and don't want to keep up with games anymore. A younger me would use all these platforms, but I don't seem to care nowadays. Back Alley Borks fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Sep 26, 2020 03:14
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Almost all of the actually good EGS games are on Steam now
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Codeacious posted:I keep finding out about games that have been out for a bit and then discovering they're EGS exclusive. And I end up not playing them because of that. I just discovered Spellbreak and I'll probably never check it out. There are so many good games that exclusives don't work on me because there is someone else to play that's just as rad.
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nearing the end of black mesa, ready for it to be over (though the xen expansion is very good, can't deny that) i'm surprised the HECU troopers weren't mentioned as a black mark against it more on release, i can't remember the last time i hated a single enemy type so much. even on the lowest difficulty setting they're a loving nightmare to deal with and that's not even getting into their turrets and tanks
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Sep 26, 2020 03:27
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Hwurmp posted:Almost all of the actually good EGS games are on Steam now I think THPS 1+2 is the last really good exclusive that hasn’t made it to Steam.
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Oxxidation posted:nearing the end of black mesa, ready for it to be over (though the xen expansion is very good, can't deny that) I do recall people complaining about them ages ago, specifically in the ways they were diifferent from in Half Life.I definitely found them a real pain in a way I can't remember feeling in the original game.
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Sep 26, 2020 04:27
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I remember playing an earlier Black Mesa version and they were so accurate and so quick to aim at you that it was less like they were shooting a gun and more like they had a magical damage aura that dealt <x> damage per second to you whenever there wasn't a solid object blocking line of sight.
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Sep 26, 2020 04:40
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It's always funny to see that kind of thing. The trick about enemies in video games isn't to make them dangerous, it's to make them believably flawed while still being dangerous.
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Sep 26, 2020 04:48
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I also remember people complaining about them a while back when the game first launched for the reasons mentioned here. I can't believe it's been 16 years since the project was started. I remember being so hyped for it when it was first announced.
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Sep 26, 2020 04:49
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They also made the bee gun next to useless (not that it was actually all that great before) because it's secondary fire is so innacurate. I also never used the gauss gun when I got the tau cannon but that might have been accurate to its inspiration.
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I remember the gauss gun was incredible in multiplayer, but I don't recall using it much in the original HL campaign.
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Sep 26, 2020 05:01
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Helical Nightmares posted:I'm seeing Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom as 75% off, reducing it to the very tempting $15. Anyone played it? My daughter inhaled it and loved it. It's decent, same aesthetic as the first and way less tedious story.
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Sep 26, 2020 05:30
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GreatGreen posted:So this might not be the perfect place to ask this but since it's one of the major default "video game" threads here... Kragger99 posted:With the Gamepass subscription going up next month, wasn't there a way to get a years worth by buying a Live Gold pass or something? I thought a few goons posted about that a week or two ago. If you have a costco membership https://www.costco.com/xbox-live-24-month-gold-membership-digital-download.product.100375009.html https://www.costco.com/xbox-live-12-month-gold-membership-digital-download.product.100374986.html Final price can be as low as $4.20~/month depending on your local taxes.
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Strike Vector EX is another one of those "yeah maybe when it came out but kind of pointless now" games. It's a 6 degrees of movement aerial dog-fighting arcade game with futuristic space mechs, like if Virtual-On but with flight. Nothing impressive after the first few missions and the constant leaderboards being shoved in my face just condition me to think the game was expected to have a thriving online community and the single player stuff was just shoved in to make it more of a game.
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Triarii posted:I remember playing an earlier Black Mesa version and they were so accurate and so quick to aim at you that it was less like they were shooting a gun and more like they had a magical damage aura that dealt <x> damage per second to you whenever there wasn't a solid object blocking line of sight. this was my experience with black mesa as well, and it was such an enjoyment/pacing killer that I didn't end up finishing it (as it was at the time) despite having a lot of fun with the game before they showed up, & reading that it hasn't changed has made me pretty much write off the finished game
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There's either a mod or an easy INI tweak (or both) out there to make the marines less insane.
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pentyne posted:There were still people frothing with anger that Steam "forced" them to use a smartphone for 2FA. The guy who made one of the major card idle programs ceased support for it for that reason. Bieeanshee posted:I honestly couldn't afford a smartphone when it launched, and the best I could when I did was a damned Windows phone. Not a huge thing, given I didn't work the marketplace, but still frustrating. If anyone's actually stopped from setting up 2FA for things by not having a mobile device, WinAuth works with Steam authorization codes, Blizzard 2FA codes, and the Google authorization codes used by uPlay, EGS, and whatever else. It's made starting Steam kind of cumbersome in that I have to do the following: 1) Start KeePass and type in its password 2) Start WinAuth and go back to KeePass to grab its password and paste it into the WinAuth window 3) Start Steam and go back to KeePass to grab its password and paste it into the Steam window 4) Go to the WinAuth window and grab the authentication code for Steam and paste it in to the Steam window It beats grabbing a phone or tablet when I want to open Steam, though.
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Don't they also still have the option of sending you a confirmation code by email if you don't have or don't want to use the smartphone 2FA with SteamGuard?
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:This would be better done with Steam's controller interface, you can use it to set action layers. Is there a reason it needs to be AHK? Actually, no it doesn't need to be AHK. It just needs to be something that works. Does Steam support HOTAS setups?
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GreatGreen posted:Actually, no it doesn't need to be AHK. It just needs to be something that works. Oh my bad, I didn't realize you meant HOTAS. I don't think so? What do you currently use to assign keys?
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GrandpaPants posted:Unfortunately the game peaks at the isekai president shooting a rat guard in the head with a pistol, but this is like literally the opening cutscene. The gun instantly stops being special after that and is just that character's ranged attack, and there are a bunch of other guns to upgrade to and so forth. Edmond Dantes posted:You mean on steam? The Steam and Squeenix stores are separate for FF14, so whichever client you're using/creating the account on, you're gonna have to buy the game/expacs on there if you don't want to start over (and steam has way better prices for ff14 for our region)
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I'd have expected it to be the other way around. GMG and such are mostly Steam resellers, after all.
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Cardiovorax posted:I'd have expected it to be the other way around. GMG and such are mostly Steam resellers, after all.
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Orv posted:Steam is a weirdly technically separate ecosystem for XIV, if you have it on Steam you have to get all of it through Steam unless you wanna start over and make a new SE account for it. ( I spent ages the other week there trying to go back into FF14 with the copy i bought 6 years ago. I used the 14/30 day trial or whatever i had and managed to make it to the endgame of whatever access i had at the time. So if i want to play the free stuff or just access the game world i've gotta start again with a brand new account?
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Kin posted:I spent ages the other week there trying to go back into FF14 with the copy i bought 6 years ago. I used the 14/30 day trial or whatever i had and managed to make it to the endgame of whatever access i had at the time. Yes. Key thing is the free stuff is a free trial for new accounts, they haven't just made the base game free. If you own the game in any form (like when Twitch gave the base game away for free last year) then you can't play for free, you do get the first expansion for free though, even if you never brought it before the last patch came out. If you make a new account you can play all of the base game and the first expansion for free (which is all the story content up to the end of level 60) but with some restrictions: FFXIV free trial restrictions posted:Free Trial Players are not required to purchase licensed software to use the Free Trial. EDIT: And of course, if you own the base game but not the expansions you still need to pay the subscription. Veotax fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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haldolium posted:why did they not only replace the VO but changend the entire staging of the intro? From what I've seen so far they've changed the staging / dialogue of pretty much all the cutscenes and dialogue to be more... naturalistic and gritty, I guess? I'm mixed on it myself, the original had this deliberate quality of being like a stereotypical old-timey gangster movie, sorta anachronistic for the time when it was made and naive, while the remake feels like something contemporary, less stiff, more expressive, but also quite different in tone. Some cutscenes suffer from changes to pacing and cinematography, where the original intent has not been transferred to the remake, most often because slow paced scenes with lingering shots have been remade to be more "dynamic", for the worse. Personally I'm also not a fan of the new models for the main cast, mainly Don Salieri and Paulie, Tommy to a lesser extent. In general it just feels like a different concept than what Mafia was trying to be.
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Helical Nightmares posted:I'm seeing Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom as 75% off, reducing it to the very tempting $15. Anyone played it? I'm not seeing anyone else saying this, so: It feels like ~66% of a game. It feels incomplete in major ways, almost all of them back-loaded - which is the primary reason why I think it got a full pass in most reviews, people simply hadn't hit the point needed to see it was an unfinished/rushed game. You traveling the globe to meet with cities/countries and entreat with their guardian spirits and there's two full MASSIVE continents that are for all intents empty, at most hosting some throwaway side-content or filler story stuff. These two continents feel like they were absolutely slanted for big set-piece cities/nations/spirits but were cut for whatever reasons saw the game released as it was. The game barrels to the ending as soon as the last complete city/spirit is experienced. Further evidence; remember how Diablo 3 had, even during the main story campaign, these copy-pasted side-caves (and sometimes plot-calves) that were always the same single loop first floor + straightforward 1 magic pack and 1 rare pack second floor? NnK2 is FULL of these, almost every single side cave is a clear tile-based copy-paste in like 3 flavors and it shows they weren't really able to fully flesh out side content like that. The season pass took a full year to deliver anything at all and right now all content from there is deffo not worth full price. Likely the team had been reduced to a skeleton crew by that point tbh. Having said all that if the price is reduced to 15 dollardoos and you're not shelling for the season pass I think it can be justifiable. Just remember, it's a fairly grindy game and it feels very unfinished by the end. A real shame, too.
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My friend recommended I finally play Firewatch and man, that was a pretty enjoyable game. I especially liked the fact that it only took two playing sessions to get through. Any recommendations on similar story-heavy games that don't take too long to beat?
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bagmonkey posted:My friend recommended I finally play Firewatch and man, that was a pretty enjoyable game. I especially liked the fact that it only took two playing sessions to get through. Any recommendations on similar story-heavy games that don't take too long to beat? What Remains of Edith Finch is probably at the top of the list besides Firewatch if you'd like to check out the progenitor of the whole walking sim genre, Dear Esther can also be cleared in an hour
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Edith Finch got a prequel(?)/side-story of sorts recently in The Unfinished Swan, so there's also that for those who that game appealed to.
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