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Anyone played March or War? It's a free to play strategy game. I assume it'll either be amazing but under-rated or a pay2win piece of crap.
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Mans posted:Anyone played March or War? It's a free to play strategy game. I assume it'll either be amazing but under-rated or a pay2win piece of crap. It is exceptionally poor, even amongst the genre that it inhabits.
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Oct 12, 2014 19:47
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The PC version of Final Fantasy 13's size is apparently because they included Japanese audio and cutscenes, which is pretty great. I totally wish they allowed you to select it via Steam like most games do it but I guess this is still a huge advancement.
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Oct 12, 2014 19:51
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Anonymous Robot posted:Did you maybe not get to this part in MGR??? My mind was so focused on the latter half of the game when typing that post I forgot about that.  Still gonna say it takes itself way more seriously than DMC.
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Oct 12, 2014 19:53
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lordfrikk posted:The PC version of Final Fantasy 13's size is apparently because they included Japanese audio and cutscenes, which is pretty great. I totally wish they allowed you to select it via Steam like most games do it but I guess this is still a huge advancement. It's both that and that S-E doesn't know how to compress audio at all. Seriously the audio files are ENORMOUS for no real reason.
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Oct 12, 2014 19:56
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Tezzeract posted:Apparently it needs a Brazilian VPN to add to cart. GMG might be more convenient for people who don't want to muck around with that. But will the game still be region locked somehow?
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Oct 12, 2014 19:58
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How is Forced? It looks like some really fun local co-op but the 72 Metacritic rating and the fact that almost nobody on my friends list has played it makes me dubious.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:06
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I played a bit more of Alien: Isolation and it gets better. It's a true Alien game as long as you keep it on hard. The big complaint I can agree with is that the game has several moments where you think it's supposed to end now but it doesn't and this somewhat makes its impact smaller and makes it drag on too long. Also: Yep, that's the protagonist getting jumped from a vent while walking too casually down a corridor.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:20
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Head Hit Keyboard posted:My mind was so focused on the latter half of the game when typing that post I forgot about that. Oh, the latter half of the game, when an American senator is literally turned into a gigantic hulking monster by the military-industrial complex and writes it off with a sneer by saying he played football at Yale.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:33
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I don't know how someone walks away from any MGS game thinking that they are trying to play it straight. The few serious moments only serve to accentuate how silly the rest of it is.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:35
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Anonymous Robot posted:Oh, the latter half of the game, when an American senator is literally turned into a gigantic hulking monster by the military-industrial complex and writes it off with a sneer by saying he played football at Yale. Nanomachines would explain the year they're having...
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Oct 12, 2014 20:35
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Sloppy posted:How is Forced? It looks like some really fun local co-op but the 72 Metacritic rating and the fact that almost nobody on my friends list has played it makes me dubious. Last time I checked, the netcode was pretty lovely. For a game that's all about positioning, timing, and precision, many players found it to be a fairly inexcusable flaw in an otherwise very enjoyable game.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:38
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404notfound posted:I didn't know they did this: I wish they had something like that for my actual birthday. But they wouldn't know it's today because I keep putting 1/1/1967 in all of the age prompts 
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Oct 12, 2014 20:42
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Anonymous Robot posted:Oh, the latter half of the game, when an American senator is literally turned into a gigantic hulking monster by the military-industrial complex and writes it off with a sneer by saying he played football at Yale. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SON
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Oct 12, 2014 21:00
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fatherboxx posted:UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SON No, Raiden wrote it off as him playing football at Yale, but it was Texas. Could've gone pro too. edit: can't spell Dias fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Oct 12, 2014 21:06
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fatherboxx posted:UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SON Boomer Sooner motherfucker
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Oct 12, 2014 21:10
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UT lost this weekend 
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Oct 12, 2014 21:11
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The White Dragon posted:Last time I checked, the netcode was pretty lovely. For a game that's all about positioning, timing, and precision, many players found it to be a fairly inexcusable flaw in an otherwise very enjoyable game. I'd be interested to know if they ever got around to fixing that. I really liked FORCED, but even on computers literally next to each other my husband and I were having enough lag issues that it was causing us to fail. When we tried to get our buddies to join in the lag was even worse, and we ended up quitting before even starting the second set of challenges. We were going to come back later and hope they had improved things but then we got distracted by hundreds of other games...
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Oct 12, 2014 21:16
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Orv posted:It is exceptionally poor, even amongst the genre that it inhabits. Really? It looks kinda interesting 
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Oct 12, 2014 21:17
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fatherboxx posted:UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SON Nothing involving Texas should fill you with that much pride.
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Oct 12, 2014 21:19
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Orv posted:Nothing involving Texas should fill you with that much pride. Texas Beef and their barbeque in general is pretty goddamned solid.
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Oct 12, 2014 21:24
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Drifter posted:Texas Beef and their barbeque in general is pretty goddamned solid. A happy accident.
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Oct 12, 2014 21:28
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Orv posted:A happy accident. Texans appropriated good cooking from the Mexicans that originally* settled there and then spent the rest of forever trying to kick them out from Texas. *blahblah blah nobody cares about the Native Americans.
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Oct 12, 2014 21:45
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What happened to the Xcom thread? I redownloaded it and was wondering if I should get The Long War.
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Oct 12, 2014 22:07
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Azran posted:What happened to the Xcom thread? I redownloaded it and was wondering if I should get The Long War. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529135
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Oct 12, 2014 22:11
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Azran posted:What happened to the Xcom thread? I redownloaded it and was wondering if I should get The Long War. Of course you should get long war. They're also about a week away from releasing their latest B14 update, which sounds like it'll be amazing. Just ctrl-F and go back a few pages, it's on page four or five, I think. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529135
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Oct 12, 2014 22:13
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Azran posted:What happened to the Xcom thread? I redownloaded it and was wondering if I should get The Long War. There should be a massive new version of the mod out in the next few days. They've got their list of 'bugs to fix' down from dozens to just two now, and neither are major. They've even managed to fix a lot of bugs from the original game. About 90% of the chat in the thread is about LW now. Just about all the players swear by it at this point, and while some take issue with some of the balance changes it makes, it also externalizes almost all those into an INI file that you can tweak to personal preference.
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Oct 12, 2014 22:14
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My admittedly short experience with The Long War can be summed up as thus: Do you want to be kicked in the balls harder than the worst moment that ever happened to you in vanilla EU/EW but on a regular basis? Then The Long War is for you!
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Oct 12, 2014 22:16
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Thanks! Search Function was dropping me bitcoin and Let's play results instead of the actual thread. Nice to hear LW is shaping up, it was fun last time I tried it.
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Oct 12, 2014 22:19
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Kibayasu posted:My admittedly short experience with The Long War can be summed up as thus: When did you last play? The early game is somewhat easier than vanilla XCom now, as you're given a ton of tools to begin with.
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Oct 12, 2014 22:25
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Yeah, Long Run is really fun, and has a lot more going on than just vanilla. I really enjoy it. In my opinion it's a large improvement over vanilla, but it's still XCOM.
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Oct 12, 2014 22:26
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I would like to try Long War, but as much as I played Vanilla I have not beaten it once. I feel like I probably should, or is that not the case? Also, doesn't even Jake Solomon, the head of the team for the base game, not only approves of but also plays with that mod? Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Oct 12, 2014 22:43
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SynthOrange posted:otoh one of the characters is loving Claptrap. Quoting this from a few pages back but I don't think you realize that this is actually a good thing. Claptrap being a player character in TPS means that he cannot have any actual place in the story, meaning that if you or your buddies aren't playing as him, he doesn't exist. It's the perfect way to solve the divide of people who do or don't like Claptrap in Borderlands 2: If you don't like him, pretend the game only has 3 player characters. If you like him, he's right there to be your buddy for 20 thousand hours of gameplay. If you like his gimmick but don't like him, it doesn't matter because you wouldn't have played as him anyway. Win/win.
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Oct 12, 2014 22:43
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I thought there was only one Claptrap left in Borderlands 2, but that was a fairly recent development in the timeline. There are probably tons of Claptraps in 1.5, just like there were in BL1.
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Oct 12, 2014 22:46
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CL4-trap or whatever is a model. There're tons of him.Unlucky7 posted:I would like to try Long War, but as much as I played Vanilla I have not beaten it once. I feel like I probably should, or is that not the case? You don't have to have beaten vanilla to play with LW. And Jake Solomon mentioned he liked it, yeah, but I've not heard that he plays it more or less than any other.
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Unlucky7 posted:Also, doesn't even John Solomon, the head of the team for the base game, not only approves of but also plays with that mod? Not sure if he actively plays it, but he has certainly sung its praises. It's grown into effectively a second expansion at this point. The next update is bringing UI overhauls (including a proper PC-style free camera mode), a new mission type and a rework to battle maps that means that human and alien forces can start out in a much wider range of locations, which should help make some older maps fresh again.
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Oct 12, 2014 22:49
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Dominic White posted:When did you last play? The early game is somewhat easier than vanilla XCom now, as you're given a ton of tools to begin with. Probably a couple version ago. I'm also pretty bad at and have only played a single campaign each of EU/EW so its most likely just me. Giving me more options and time to think about it just confuses me sometimes 
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Oct 12, 2014 22:50
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The White Dragon posted:I thought there was only one Claptrap left in Borderlands 2, but that was a fairly recent development in the timeline. There are probably tons of Claptraps in 1.5, just like there were in BL1. Hmm, that is true. According to Claptrap himself, Jack didn't commence wiping out all the Claptraps until after his takeover of Pandora, and TPS takes place before that. Let's hope the writing team forgot about that then.
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Oct 12, 2014 22:50
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Dominic White posted:Not sure if he actively plays it, but he has certainly sung its praises. It's grown into effectively a second expansion at this point. The next update is bringing UI overhauls (including a proper PC-style free camera mode), a new mission type and a rework to battle maps that means that human and alien forces can start out in a much wider range of locations, which should help make some older maps fresh again. Apparently that is a week away. Should I wait for it so that any saves I have won't get trounced? I really like the new Xcom. I am simply just really bad at it  Then again, I insist on playing on Classic after steamrolling normal for quite a bit, so....
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Dominic White posted:When did you last play? The early game is somewhat easier than vanilla XCom now, as you're given a ton of tools to begin with. From what I've seen from Beaglerush's stream, it's way easier except for a few missions here or there, but your mistakes keep cascading until you're irrevocably hosed. Which means a lot in a couple hundred hour long campaign. To me most of the changes just seem really tedious and annoying, but it's fun to watch someone else go through it. e: The giant aliens are hilarious though. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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