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Silver Falcon posted:Hey, guys! I ran across something in my Tumblr feed, of all things, that I wanted to share. It's a Steam Greenlight game called Five Nights at Freddy's. I haven't seen it mentioned here yet. Apologies if it has. It's really good, there's alot of little things that really add to the atmosphere/horror. Well worth buying it on desura for 2.50 while waiting for the steam release.
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Aug 17, 2014 16:55
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Kragger99 posted:Is there a way to get rid of all my $0.03 backgrounds/emotes? I've added trashbot, but it's always offline now. Is there another one? EDIT: Figured it out. Looks like it was Trashbot(2).
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Aug 17, 2014 17:10
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Just been surprised by the 'Glyph' universal patcher that Trion Worlds have introduced to Rift/Defiance. Just coincidentally, it has a 'store' page and can't be deinstalled, although you can set it to exit once the game has launched. Slightly annoying that something I *bought* now has a store front-end tacked on, but given the move towards microtransactions in full price games, I'm not entirely surprised.
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Aug 17, 2014 17:50
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For the past few days, every time I open up Steam it runs the self-updater and tells me that there was an update on August 14th that I should apply. I've applied the update three times and it continues to pop up. Is there a way to clear it so I don't have an extra popup to close whenever steam runs?
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Aug 17, 2014 18:35
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It's pretty great how much Freddy's took off once people saw the game in action. Last I checked it was in the top 25, so it'll almost certainly be in the next greenlit batch.
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Aug 17, 2014 18:35
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Are any goons still playing Entropy? Or has that crowd shifted back to Eve/money-pit-kickstarter-game?
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Aug 17, 2014 18:36
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LibbyM posted:I've gone on a rant about this too many times in steam threads, but whatever problems LFD1's scoring had, it was actually viable as a fun competitive experience unlike lfd2's. The game is almost always decided if one team survives a map with three survivors and the other fails. Catching up is incredibly hard and people know it, teams drop as soon as a full team makes it to the end, because you will never have fun catching up, and expect to be endlessly taunted by the other team. I don't remember if the AI on your team probably don't even add to your score, so having openings also work against you. So what did the few remaining purists decide on how to improve the scoring system? By having health packs add to the score and further inflate the advantage the winning team would get. L4D2 did it right by making the points difference be much smaller. I would have L4D4 be decided based around the number of times they get to the safe room. Drops don't matter and AI still make a difference to scoring.
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Aug 17, 2014 18:37
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Speaking of Steam updates, have the recent ones been throttling anyone else's cpu? I was around 97% usage on my i5 760 with Steam running; after I killed the process I went down to 22%. I'm running Chrome and Photoshop at the moment as well, but Steam is just going bananas.
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Aug 17, 2014 18:58
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(edit: My) steam client and steam web processes combined take up under 1% CPU and under 200k memory used so I dunno about your steam
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Aug 17, 2014 19:09
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I'm busy blazing through Deus Ex: HR, but GMG has Dishonored GOTY for $7.49 and Fallout 3 for $2.49. http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/dishonored-game-year-edition-na/ http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/rpgs/fallout-3/
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Aug 17, 2014 19:30
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Ninkobei posted:Are any goons still playing Entropy? Or has that crowd shifted back to Eve/money-pit-kickstarter-game? It's super bad-awful.
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Aug 17, 2014 19:30
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Any goons playing AirMech? I'm trying it out, and thought I'd put someone as my referral if they want. Can't promise I'll play the game for long though.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:I joined the SA Steam group hoping for this but everyone just sits in there trying to be ironically funny. I've looked for public groups like this but could never find anything. You kinda have to either hunt for them or literally just create your own out of your steam pals. I'm sure you could find some buds to play with in this thread, or in the thread for a particular game. PS - I sent you a forum PM.  Justin_Brett posted:It's pretty great how much Freddy's took off once people saw the game in action. Last I checked it was in the top 25, so it'll almost certainly be in the next greenlit batch. Last night I tried another experiment for my private 'steam clubhouse' group. A few of my friends met up in the group chatroom, and we played a game of what I like to call 'greenlight roulette.' Basically, we all refresh our greenlight lists and look for cool gems or laughable stinkers. Last night was the first time I saw Five Nights at Freddy's, when it came up on my greenlight list, and it made me flip the gently caress out. Definitely THE standout cool game of the ones we saw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4UTOek0-Y As for the worst, there we a few. Here's one, and it wasn't even the worst: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=295659971 Basically someone got a terrain/tree generator for unity and now is an 'idea guy' for a survival game. Their amazing original model work: 
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Aug 17, 2014 19:43
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Hav posted:Just been surprised by the 'Glyph' universal patcher that Trion Worlds have introduced to Rift/Defiance. Just coincidentally, it has a 'store' page and can't be deinstalled, although you can set it to exit once the game has launched. I just saw it, but I'm OK with it because it seems a bit more robust than the previous defiance launcher, the ads don't really bother me because I figure after playing it for a month you'll be done with it. It doesn't seem like the kind of game where additional transactions are essential to complete it.
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Mehuyael posted:Any goons playing AirMech? I'm trying it out, and thought I'd put someone as my referral if they want. Can't promise I'll play the game for long though. I haven't played in a while. You can hit me up if you want to play with someone during the weekend or whatever. My referral link if you also want it.
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Quest For Glory II posted:I'm busy blazing through Deus Ex: HR, but GMG has Dishonored GOTY for $7.49 and Fallout 3 for $2.49. As someone who absolutely adored Dishonored, would it be worth it to pick up the GOTY? I just played the base game, no DLC and no Daud aaaand uit's sold out. :I
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Kin posted:I just saw it, but I'm OK with it because it seems a bit more robust than the previous defiance launcher, the ads don't really bother me because I figure after playing it for a month you'll be done with it. It doesn't seem like the kind of game where additional transactions are essential to complete it. There's two or three DLC packs, but the launcher is destined to become another storefront. Amusing thing is that it doesn't understand Rift installed via Steam (and I bought Defiance before it hit Steam). Re: Entropy Orv posted:It's super bad-awful. http://steamcharts.com/app/255500 - Players are down to single digits, which is bad for an MMO. They've announced that they're re-working a lot of it, but the developers went dark a couple of months ago. Much like Starpoint Gemini II, it started as one thing and has drifted to something slightly different. Every month or so I fire it back up, but it's pretty drat terrible. spider wisdom posted:Speaking of Steam updates, have the recent ones been throttling anyone else's cpu? I was around 97% usage on my i5 760 with Steam running; after I killed the process I went down to 22%. I'm running Chrome and Photoshop at the moment as well, but Steam is just going bananas. It spikes when it starts downloading updates in the background, sometimes this happens after loading, sometimes a little later. Just make sure that you haven't set it to spider for music, or be aware that will churn through processor.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:As someone who absolutely adored Dishonored, would it be worth it to pick up the GOTY? Yes. It's frequently on sale, and the DLC is uniformly great. Feels like a proper expansion with big, interesting levels and some fun new gameplay mechanics.
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Aug 17, 2014 22:42
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The combined Daud DLC campaign is better than the vanilla game. Get it, get it, get it.
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It was nice to play a character that spoke and had thoughts about stuff. It helps that Daud is cool and has cool stuff to use.
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Duad's dlc also starts at end game difficulty and ramps that poo poo up in interesting ways. Those loving statues.
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I just noticed that Fable Anniversary is $35. Is it only a graphical overhaul?
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FadedReality posted:I just noticed that Fable Anniversary is $35. Is it only a graphical overhaul? For the most part yea, and a really lovely one that ruins a lot of the games atmosphere too.
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Tardcore posted:For the most part yea, and a really lovely one that ruins a lot of the games atmosphere too. Well that's a shame to hear. Fable 1 & 2 were some of my favourite games, flawed as they were. Does the original version still hold up? I'm fairly certain I own it on Steam.
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FadedReality posted:I just noticed that Fable Anniversary is $35. Is it only a graphical overhaul? I thought it was some HD update of Fable 1/2, given that 2 has never been released on PC. Nope, just Fable 1, a game that still looks really good today because of the specific aesthetic design used.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:40
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That HD update always baffled me. It's just the game (and its expansion?) with better graphics. You figured they'd rework the game and let you choose your hero's gender like in the later titles and maybe add some things to the game.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:46
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Hav posted:Much like Starpoint Gemini II, it started as one thing and has drifted to something slightly different. Esplain Lucy. I liked what I've played of Gemini 2, but the last time I did that was months and months ago, I was just waiting for it to be finished. What's up with it?
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Jimbot posted:That HD update always baffled me. It's just the game (and its expansion?) with better graphics. You figured they'd rework the game and let you choose your hero's gender like in the later titles and maybe add some things to the game. That's how 99% of HD updates are. I'm struggling to think of any that aren't just a graphical update.
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Do they fix the controls at all? I recently got the original during the Steam sale out of nostalgia, and found that the controls made it fairly unplayable. Also: anyone tried Hands of Fate? It looks promising, but it's also early access. sector_corrector fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Manatee Cannon posted:That's how 99% of HD updates are. I'm struggling to think of any that aren't just a graphical update. Well to be fair, that is what an HD re-release is, as well as what they're advertising it as; not as some major gameplay overhaul re-release. I agree that the price-point seems a tad high (and whoever commented that the graphical style of Fable TLC still stands up relatively well is right, so I'm not sure why this was necessary other than to milk F:TLC dry), although as far as I'm aware they have actually delivered on what they've claimed by calling it an 'HD re-release' - which is actually a first, for Lionhead!
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"HD re-releases" for PC games that have been "HD" for over a decade now are really lame. They couldn't have just released a widescreen patch for the original game? But then they couldn't get people to buy the same game again for literally no upgrade.
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Scalding Coffee posted:The game is almost always decided if one team survives a map with three survivors and the other fails. Catching up is incredibly hard and people know it, teams drop as soon as a full team makes it to the end, because you will never have fun catching up, and expect to be endlessly Agreed. Time for disjointed words about L4D scoring systems! L4D1's scoring system really heavily weighted certain things such that one team finishing with two people alive rather than three resulted in a gently caress huge points difference that's hard to come back from. Two teams in L4D1 where one is a bit better than the other will not appear to be close according to the numbers so it's a little disheartening to play through. L4D2 did right as far as I was concerned by making surviving bestow a flat bonus rather than a modifier. The problem with the L4D2 scoring system is that instead of weighting some things too heavily, it just based everything on distance which promotes rushing and especially promotes the dickhead tactic of abandoning your teammates when things go tits up to squeeze an extra couple hundred points out of a round that may or may not have been salvageable, I don't think people should be rewarded for that sort of poo poo but this scoring system makes that the best option for the lone player who didn't get pinned and there will always be one player who didn't get pinned because you can't have more than 3 pinning Special Infected at any one time. L4D1 by contrast doesn't weight distance enough IMO since a team who makes it 99% of the way before wiping and a team who barely makes it out the door will have a completely negligible points difference between the two. Both systems have different but glaring problems, L4D1 weights survival heavily to a fault where a minor play difference can result in a huge score discrepancy where there really shouldn't be while L4D2's system is transparent and as such kind of easy to game. They both kinda sucked dick at the scoring, lets be honest.
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I just finished Van Helsing 2 and I think it was was pretty fun. I really liked the banter between you and your hunting partner, it helped flesh out the world and prevent things from getting boring. The presentation of the story was done really well (for an arpg). I liked the opportunities, if you chose, to go do those tower defense things. Of course, you could always send some of your troops with a hero general to take care of them for you if you didn't want to do any TD stuff. There was some nice mini-base building(not quite) stuff and one of your quests gets you a giant hellhound you can train up and have as a companion. The arpg combat was pretty nice, but I admit I was pretty loving confused by a lot of the inventory things like the forging of wearables and whatnot. The stuff I found and then enchanted seemed to do me just fine. Oh well, it's there for people who like that type of thing. But yeah, pretty fun game and if you enjoy arpgs I'd totally suggest you pick it up. I was at level 31 by the time I beat it, but by the skill trees it looks like you need to import your character and run through the game again in order to access a lot of them. There were a lot to access in my one playthrough, too, I'm not at all complaining. The ending...I didn't realize it ended until the credits popped on screen. Look forward to VH3 in the near-ish future, I guess. Haha. Overall, I thought they improved upon the first game in every way. Also, you could really tell the game was made by Eastern Europeans because holy poo poo there's references to every loving movie and random pop culture shlock. It's not annoying at all and passing enough to be amusing, thankfully. Drifter fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 03:13
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The biggest problem with the Fable HD release is that the graphics are actually worse than they were in the original version. People's faces, specifically, look really loving terrible. The environments look a little better overall I guess though?
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Aug 18, 2014 03:22
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I guess I'm in the minority here but I thought Fable 1 looked really loving grody when I tried it, and I hated the keyboard controls. I like the look of Fable: Anniversary and would really appreciate controller support, so I'll probably pick it up when it goes on sale.
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I wonder if they'll tweak the aging system so my character isn't 50 years old before I'm halfway through the game?
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