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If by some remote chance you don't already own Fallout New Vegas, it really is worthy of the high praise it so often gets, and has the best DLC of any major game I can think of in the last few years. If you didn't like Fallout 3, this game is much better. If you DID like Fallout 3 (I did), this game is still much better.
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I'm installing Deadly Premonition but I recall there was some kind of issue with the PC port? Has it been patched up or is there a recommended 3rd party patch/fix I should be using with it?
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Origin is fine to use and it was nice that I was able to use my Mass Effect CD keys to get digital versions of the games, and the free games are a nice bonus. Their regional pricing is pretty atrocious though, far worse than most of what Steam does, and as far as I know they don't have any gifting capabilities yet. I got a retail copy of Mass Effect 3 for Christmas a couple of years back and the DLC pricing for those games is still ridiculous, tied up as they are in "Bioware Points" and never given any kind of discount or package deal that I've seen. Until they have more reasonable pricing I'm unlikely to ever use Origin, but the platform itself is stable and unintrusive and has nowhere near the issues that something like Uplay does in terms of updating (and certainly it is far superior to GFWL). From a purely selfish convenience point of view I'd prefer everything to be on Steam, and I quite often am left unaware of the existence of games that EA are producing that AREN'T on Steam (Titanfall or Syndicate for example), just because I don't feel like opening up more than one gaming platform just to keep up to date with upcoming titles/new releases.
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Jul 24, 2014 00:49
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Speaking of free Origin stuff, I just loaded it up to redeem Sims 2 and it also gave me a free copy of Peggle AND automatically downloaded the Collectors Weapons/Armor set for Mass Effect 2.
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Head Hit Keyboard posted:Peggle's been free all month and isn't the Collectors Weapon/Armor set free for ME2 anyway (part of the Cerberus Pack that comes with every new copy)? It's been so long since I played that I couldn't remember if I had it or not, but in the Mass Effect thread they said that Origin has changed the way DLC works for ME2 and that you no longer need to download individual DLC packs from Bioware's Social website, so I guess it was just updating my version of the game. Edit: Looking at the game details in Origin now, a bunch of free DLC that I already had installed as part of the Cerberus Pack or were free from Bioware are now re-available for "purchase". Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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Jul 24, 2014 02:00
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HelmetCheese posted:How's the Arkham Origins season pass? Recently beat the game and really enjoyed it. Cold, Cold Heart is good. The Initiation DLC is literally just a couple new areas with some pretty  cutscenes around them. The skins you get are purely cosmetic. If it is as cheap or cheaper to get the season pass over CCH by itself then get it, otherwise just get CCH.
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Jul 24, 2014 04:55
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Deadly Premonition keeps crashing on me  I've rebooted Steam, rebooted the computer, confirmed I have the correct folders in my physx folder, changed compatibility mode on the dp.exe and the launcher, verified gamefiles etc and it just keeps crashing. ANY ideas? I only got through the prologue but I loved how bizarre it was.
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Jul 24, 2014 05:45
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Just to be clear, I got through the prologue because the first time I played it the game launched without issue. It's just every time I've tried to play since then it crashes immediately before the game can even start. Nothing has changed on my computer in-between, so I don't know why it is suddenly crashing now.
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Jul 24, 2014 05:58
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mr. nobody posted:Doesn't getting an everest permit require some sort of questionnaire to the person attempting the summit? Based on the annual Everest thread, the questionnaire appears to consist of: Do you have <x> amount of money? Y/N
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Jul 25, 2014 03:07
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Palpek posted:Also I wanted to say that I liked Tomb Raider. I would also like to express my fondness for that particular game.
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Jul 27, 2014 01:40
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I took the opportunity during the last sale to get Steam versions of the GTA games to replace my old retail box copies. It means I got to play GTA3 for the first time ever (I didn't have a computer capable of the ENORMOUS graphical requirements at the time) which put me on a GTA kick and caused me to replay Vice City and now San Andreas (as if I haven't played that enough already in my life) and then redo GTAIV/The Episodes. It's kinda neat seeing the evolution of their 3d games, particular their growing confidence in plot development and cutscene direction. I'm sure many would argue they've since gone overboard (Max Payne 3 comes to mind) but I think by the time they got to San Andreas they had found a great balance between storyline and open sandbox gameplay. GTA3 suffers for having your character's actions so detached from the overall "plot" which is kind of all over the place - Catalina makes essentially 4 brief appearances in the game and they never really sell her as the main antagonist or the depth of the personal relationship between her and Claude. Supporting characters come and go, some being killed unceremoniously and others just disappearing from the story entirely. The ending feels really off too, and I think it's as a result of leaving Claude a blank canvas. I guess the idea was that you would direct your own feelings onto his attitude and seeming passivity, but for me he ended up feeling like an utterly directionless character. Vice City shows improvement but suffers from a very unlikeable protagonist in Tommy Vercetti, and the same issues with characters disappearing from the storyline or exiting the narrative with their stories feeling half-complete (Avery and Cortez, for example). They don't build the relationship between Tommy and Lance at all and so the big twist when it comes lacks any real impact, and Sonny is so absent from so much of the story that he has absolutely no impact as the supposed antagonist. Tommy only reveals his bad feelings towards Sonny with a single line right at the end of the game, and the supposed weight of the 15 years he served in prison and the circumstances that put him there go not only unexplored but almost entirely unrevealed at all. Kudos I guess to Rockstar for making Tommy unambiguously a horrible human being though, particularly in his attitude and treatment of Mercedes (she goes from rich daddy's girl to gangbang groupie to porn star to street prostitute, most of which takes place after Tommy promises Cortez he will look after her for him). It makes the ending with his decision to basically run all organized crime in Vice City (and the state?) less a,"Yes, I won!" thing for the player and more a,"Oh my God.... I won?  "San Andreas, however, even after all these years remains close to gaming perfection for me. The graphics are a little dated and ugly and not all the mechanics are as polished as they could be, but the marriage of gameplay, story, art direction, voice work etc is just phenomenal. If I could have a complete remake in the Euphoria engine (or whatever it is that GTAV uses) I would be in heaven.
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LLCoolJD posted:I wouldn't call him a nice guy, or likeable. But then again I always act like an rear end in a top hat when I play so it blended well. They did snag a good voice actor, too. Maybe it's because I rarely go off on rampages (unless I need to let off steam after loving up a mission too many times) but I just found him to be a really horrible person and somebody I wanted to see die (Scarface understands that Tony Montana is a monster and that his death is inevitable) as opposed to coming out victorious. CJ I loved because for all his trash talk towards the likes of Tenpenny and Pulaski, he's at heart a guy who wants to look after his family and friends. Sure, even just following the basic storyline he's got one of the highest non-war bodycounts in history, but he's still a guy I found had at least some sense of a moral code. Tommy, on the other hand, is completely self-serving, even when he comes to the rescue of allies he almost always berates them or complains that they forced his hand or hosed up his planning. Claude is just a complete blank, which works in its own way for allowing the player to insert themselves into his place and feel like he's doing particular things for whatever reason they choose (is he handing over that money to get Maria back, or just as an excuse to get at Catalina, for example). As for Niko, you're basically playing GTA with Eeyore as the main character.
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Jul 31, 2014 03:18
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Has anyone had any luck installing GTAIV onto Steam using their retail disc copy? I really, really, really don't want to download all 15gigs of the game when they're sitting on discs already, but installing the game and shifting the files to the downloading folder and running the verify files check doesn't seem to do anything, so it's trying to download the entire game instead.
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Aug 3, 2014 06:52
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mr. nobody posted:Generally speaking: I'd actually tried doing all of this before posting and none of it had worked. I let it download close to a gigabyte on the last stage just on the off-chance it suddenly jumped ahead but nothing happened. I don't know if it has something to do with the game downloading to a specific downloading folder instead of creating the steamapps/common folder like it usually does, but I'm resigned to just downloading the whole thing now. Thanks anyway.
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Aug 3, 2014 07:45
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Jesus Christ, I forgot about the "fun" of trying to play GTAIV and having to log in to Rock Star Social Club first. It crashes my game every time and every solution I've looked up involves downloading 3rd party dlls - I kind of assumed if they were putting it on Steam it would be a version that just works, even if I had resigned myself to having to use Social Club (and GFWL as well I think?) in addition to Steam.
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Aug 3, 2014 15:02
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ElProducto posted:The latest patch removes it, is the steam version not updated? Social Club or GFWL? It crashes after clicking play on the Social Club thing that pops up after clicking play in Steam, with a "Critical runtime problem" error message. I just installed it today so I assume it's the most up to date version. Googling the problem lists a lot of suggestions that don't seem to resolve it and then the person who reported the problem never comes back. Edit: I'm on Windows 7.
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Palpek posted:You can just hit cancel when the Social Club thing comes up. At least in the Steam version. Tried that.... nothing happened at all 
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And now it is suddenly working! I won't question why and just be glad it is, though it isn't locating any of my old retail disc savegames. I really haven't got a clue what the point of GFWL (or Social Club for that matter) is if they can't (or deliberately won't?) even recognize savegames, but at least the game actually runs.
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Ha, so it turns out that putting an 80kb replacement xlive.dll file into my GTAIV folder in Steam removes GFWL, which is great, AND immediately gives me access back to all my old retail disc save games that the new install insisted didn't exist (because of multiplayer or something, which I've never touched and never will). It was a nightmare getting everything running but now it seems like everything works as it should. Though for some reason Episodes From Liberty City installs as a completely separate install despite using most of the same files as GTAIV, so I'll have to install 15gb all over again if I want to play it again.
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computer parts posted:It's because they're standalone expansions so you have to duplicate all of the stuff over again. I was positive I remembered the retail copy of EFLC making use of the GTAIV files and only being a couple of gigabytes of extra content on top of it, but maybe I was just mixing it up in my head with what the Half Life Episodes did on Steam.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I loved the poo poo out of it. The sidequests were a lot of fun even if the rewards weren't great, because they were usually full of fun little references and jokes. I played through it fully twice and sat and watched a friend play through the entire thing as well and I still found it funny and engaging. It really was tremendous fun.
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Well I just heard the news about Tomb Raider's sequel not coming out on PC (even though it inevitably will) and that sucks, I was really looking forward to that game.
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Xaris posted:It will, just give it like 6 months or something. Yeah I know, I just didn't want to wait! I'm still waiting for my PC release of GTA V too 
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Aug 13, 2014 08:27
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Shindragon posted:In terms of it's taking too long or are you not aware they are releasing it? The former.
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Aug 13, 2014 08:42
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So I assume this will be like tags and other stuff where if I just pay zero attention to it and do nothing, the store is pretty much going to be exactly the same outside of maybe a cosmetic overhaul? Same games in the featured items window, a spotlight window to the side and the daily deal below that, right?
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Metal Gear on PC is excellent news, just excellent. If they released the previous ones on PC that would be fantastic too, as I never got to play anything beyond 2.
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404notfound posted:drat, I played through Dishonored all stealthy because I can't resist when a game gives me the option, but all the videos people have been linking lately are making me want to replay as a mass murderer going for style kills. Same here. I really enjoyed my playthrough and I was mostly stealthy and relied on avoiding people, but then I watch videos like this and realize just how much ridiculous nonsense I could have been experimenting with.
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Aug 14, 2014 06:59
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Things I learned from playing GTA: The Lost and the Damned - Johnny's motorcycle is unique, there is no other Hexer like it in all of Liberty City.
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This is a little late, but anybody who doesn't have Bully should really, really get it, because it's an incredible game.
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So I finally played Bioshock and it was a lot of fun and I really dug the art deco look, and I dug the ending (apparently I got the "good" ending, which is nice). The twist seemed fairly obvious coming up, but maybe that was because I explored and listened to so many of the tapes left lying around, and also because I vaguely knew there was A twist that was supposed to come up at some point. On to Bioshock 2 I guess, though I recall hearing it is pretty bad in comparison.
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Aug 30, 2014 07:37
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Bioshock 2 is hands down the best of the three. It's a better shooter with better NPCs and a better plot and better character motivations and better levels and a way better use of Rapture as a setting than Bioshock 1. Minerva's Den is great, too. Well so far (just reached Pauper's Drop) I'm enjoying it just as much as the original, it's more of the same but with slightly improved mechanics. Whether it'll keep that up I don't know, but I don't have any complaints yet.
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Aug 30, 2014 13:48
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Ddraig posted:One thing The Stick of Truth has going for it is that it is absolutely perfect in its depiction of the South Park art style. It is literally a playable episode of the show. Everything just looks so drat true to the show it's pretty amazing. Yeah, it was like playing a 15 hour episode of the game, and I mean that in the best way possible.
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mr. nobody posted:When you get to the 'fart' tutorial, just do whatever you have to to get past it. The actual mechanics are nothing like the tutorial. I don't know what the gently caress is up with that. Oh yeah, those are awful and I don't know how the hell that got through to the final version of the game - especially since actually using those attacks in the game itself is incredibly easy and straightforward and nothing like the tutorial at all.
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Aug 31, 2014 00:19
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Wait, the Bioshock Triple Pack DIDN'T include Minerva's Den? Why the hell would they leave it out?
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Aug 31, 2014 09:46
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Yeah it definitely doesn't have it, if I go into the downloaded content it's not there and if I check the store page in Steam it doesn't say I own it. I should have checked for myself obviously when I bought it, but I just assumed that a collector's pack of the three games would include the DLC.
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Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is ridiculously stupid fun, but I've already encountered a couple of really strange bugs like the guy I'm chasing getting stuck in the floor and having to continue chasing anyway, or getting thrown so hard into a tower that it disappears from the game and leaves me stuck lying on top of nothing in mid-air.
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Sep 1, 2014 10:29
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SynthOrange posted:Yeah drop your quality settings a tiny bit til it all works. Funnily enough, I used the nvidia experience thing to optimize the game which gave me higher settings, and it ran without any problems this time Unfortunately it also can't make me not terrible at the game, Blade Wolf is beating the poo poo out of me because I just can't seem to time my blocking right, got past the halfway stage with the summons and then just got completely obliterated.
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For all the bad talk the ending gets, and the way the plot did kinda fall apart even before then, it was still great to be playing around in that game world. But after Citadel's ending I really did feel like I was good with never going back there again - it was a sweet tribute to the characters and the setting and left me feeling pretty good about the whole thing. If I never played a game in that setting again I wouldn't complain, because it ended on a pretty high note (if you played Citadel last).
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PantsBandit posted:Ok it ended up being extremely simple but they didn't know that at the time! To be fair, most of the other people in the group were so comically inept that I'd be more concerned if one of them tried to step up to the plate over the little girl.
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