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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    Banzai5150 wrote: »
    Someone sell me on this Burnout, I've not played a driving game since, urm, yeah.. Need for Speed 1? My GameBank(™) is still Ginormous but, this game intrigues me for some reason.

    Um, ok. It has...uh, cars what go fast.


    ....honestly, I just bought it earlier and I haven't played it yet. I fail at enabling.

    You make cars die.

    The sound of eight hooves reaches his ears, comes from the heavenly light, two wolves howls fills his heart with fear, and he sees two ravens fly. Down from the sky a warlord rides, like fire his one eye glows, and just before the preacher dies he knows his god is false.
  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    It's a fun racing game. I'm usually not into racing games at all, but I love Burnout. Games like GT bore me.

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    I am totally getting the itch for Crusader Kings 2, but Newell help me, I just can't bring myself to buy it until it goes on sale.

    Go on sale soon!

    Is it on sale yet?

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  • heenatoheenato Registered User regular
    Well, with my luck, the fact that it's on my wishlist means it will be on sale tommorow, cause I wouldn't be able to get it.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    Burnout isn't a racing game. You'll race people, but it's a purely incidental occurrence. You just happen to be going the same direction as they are because you're trying to run them off the road.

  • Banzai5150Banzai5150 Registered User regular
    Cantido wrote: »
    Banzai5150 wrote: »
    Someone sell me on this Burnout, I've not played a driving game since, urm, yeah.. Need for Speed 1? My GameBank(™) is still Ginormous but, this game intrigues me for some reason.

    Um, ok. It has...uh, cars what go fast.


    ....honestly, I just bought it earlier and I haven't played it yet. I fail at enabling.

    You make cars die.

    ooooooooh....

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    heenato wrote: »
    Well, with my luck, the fact that it's on my wishlist means it will be on sale tommorow, cause I wouldn't be able to get it.

    I say it now, if by some eldritch manner our laments manage to make Crusader Kings 2 on sale tomorrow, I will buy it for you.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    I'm pretty sure I only have 1 game in my steam library that wasn't on sale when I bought it.

    Even the HL2 boxed copy that started it all was off ebay.

    Best advice I ever received from the steam thread: Don't buy anything that isn't on sale.

    anoffday on
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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    Banzai5150 wrote: »
    Cantido wrote: »
    Banzai5150 wrote: »
    Someone sell me on this Burnout, I've not played a driving game since, urm, yeah.. Need for Speed 1? My GameBank(™) is still Ginormous but, this game intrigues me for some reason.

    Um, ok. It has...uh, cars what go fast.


    ....honestly, I just bought it earlier and I haven't played it yet. I fail at enabling.

    You make cars die.

    ooooooooh....

    I don't really care for the crashey stuff. It's nice, but it's completely unnecessary to me.

    What I love about Burnout (even the ones in the series I don't like as much) is how fast it feels. No other racing game has ever quite captured the sense of speed that Burnout has, racing into oncoming traffic at absurd speeds, weaving between cars, then going sideways around a corner and staying sideways for hundreds of metres. Coming up to an intersection, there's traffic crossing in front of you and you just pick a gap and blast straight through.

    No other game has ever given me an adrenaline rush like that time I did three full laps of Big Surf Shores, boosting the entire race. Boosting continuously means never crashing, never slowing down, and driving very dangerously. Paradise wasn't the game I wanted, but goddammit you go so fast I don't really care.

    Any game can tell you you're driving fast by putting a speedo that says "80000000000 kph!" down the bottom, but Burnout makes you actually feel that speed.

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  • AdditionalPylonsAdditionalPylons Registered User regular
    Banzai5150 wrote: »
    Cantido wrote: »
    Banzai5150 wrote: »
    Someone sell me on this Burnout, I've not played a driving game since, urm, yeah.. Need for Speed 1? My GameBank(™) is still Ginormous but, this game intrigues me for some reason.

    Um, ok. It has...uh, cars what go fast.


    ....honestly, I just bought it earlier and I haven't played it yet. I fail at enabling.

    You make cars die.

    ooooooooh....

    I don't really care for the crashey stuff. It's nice, but it's completely unnecessary to me.

    What I love about Burnout (even the ones in the series I don't like as much) is how fast it feels. No other racing game has ever quite captured the sense of speed that Burnout has, racing into oncoming traffic at absurd speeds, weaving between cars, then going sideways around a corner and staying sideways for hundreds of metres. Coming up to an intersection, there's traffic crossing in front of you and you just pick a gap and blast straight through.

    No other game has ever given me an adrenaline rush like that time I did three full laps of Big Surf Shores, boosting the entire race. Boosting continuously means never crashing, never slowing down, and driving very dangerously. Paradise wasn't the game I wanted, but goddammit you go so fast I don't really care.

    Any game can tell you you're driving fast by putting a speedo that says "80000000000 kph!" down the bottom, but Burnout makes you actually feel that speed.

    Damn. Now i feel like playing Burnout Paradise,and i dont play a racing game in years!

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  • BullioBullio Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    anoffday wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure I only have 1 game in my steam library that wasn't on sale when I bought it.

    Even the HL2 boxed copy that started it all was off ebay.

    Best advice I ever received from the steam thread: Don't buy anything that isn't on sale.

    Indeed. Everything on Steam goes on sale eventually, especially during the big seasonal sales.

    Except Jade Empire, which goes on sale once and then never fucking goes on sale ever again! God damn you, Jade Empire.

    And Prey, which goes on sale and then gets removed from Steam forever because apparently no more CD keys exist. Argh.

    Bullio on
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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    I don't know if you ever tried it, but I played Prey on the 360 and it was horrible, so that might be a good thing.

    Jade Empire on the other hand I would like to get. Someday Jade, someday...

    But seriously, I'm not running out of anything to play anytime soon.

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  • oakkeoakke Registered User regular
    Don't know if this has been posted already, but the Indie Face Kick bundle is now open for preorders.

    8 dollars for: Booster Trooper, Dead Horde, Sol Survivor, Avencast, Runespell, Still Life 2, PAM and Greed Black Border.

    All Steam redeemable, apparently.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu ___________PIGEON _________San Diego, CA Registered User regular
    For those on the fence about Orcs Must Die!, check out my recommendation.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Wait, I thought Face Kick was supposed to have Dustforce?

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Bullio wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure I only have 1 game in my steam library that wasn't on sale when I bought it.

    Even the HL2 boxed copy that started it all was off ebay.

    Best advice I ever received from the steam thread: Don't buy anything that isn't on sale.

    Indeed. Everything on Steam goes on sale eventually, especially during the big seasonal sales.

    Except Jade Empire, which goes on sale once and then never fucking goes on sale ever again! God damn you, Jade Empire.

    And Prey, which goes on sale and then gets removed from Steam forever because apparently no more CD keys exist. Argh.

    Same with Sacred 2.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Someone needs to make a full conversion mod for Jade Empire and turn it into an Avatar the Last Airbender game.

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  • ShimshaiShimshai Registered User regular
    Does Burnout Paradise have multiplayer? I bought it ages ago when it was on sale sometime, but I never really gave it the attention it deserved.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    Shimshai wrote: »
    Does Burnout Paradise have multiplayer? I bought it ages ago when it was on sale sometime, but I never really gave it the attention it deserved.

    It does, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before EA shuts the severs down, if they haven't already.

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  • pablo_pricepablo_price Registered User regular
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Wait, I thought Face Kick was supposed to have Dustforce?

    the rumor is that their second bundle will have dustforce and snuggle truck

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  • PluffPluff Registered User
    I just found out that there is a game called "All Zombies Must Die!".
    Is this a joke, or did they really copy OMD name with no shame at their faces?

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu ___________PIGEON _________San Diego, CA Registered User regular
    Pluff wrote: »
    I just found out that there is a game called "All Zombies Must Die!".
    Is this a joke, or did they really copy OMD name with no shame at their faces?
    They got beat twice: in 2006 and 2009.

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  • DrakeDrake Blow it all up ForeverRegistered User regular
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    So question about Dawn of War II, Last stand (retribution or no, doesn't matter). Is there any games I don't know about similar to this mode?

    This is similar to Exterminatus mode in Space Marine, right?

    I have not played Space Marine.

    Maybe someone who's played both can answer. :D

    Last Stand is you (+/- team-mates) against waves of enemies, seeing how long you can survive, and getting persistent unlocks as you do better, allowing you to last longer, etc.?

    If so, then Exterminatus mode is similar, from a 3P Shooter / Meleeish point of view.

    That's pretty much exactly right. A team of Spess Muhreens slaughter enemies, gaining unlocks and leveling up after the match is over. That's the short and simple of Exterminatus mode and it's a blast. You can choose what type of Spess Muhreen and all that too. Devastators, Tacticals, and so on. As you you play you unlock perks and weapons, giving you better chances to see the Exterminatus all the way through to the end.

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Funny enough, the only time I've ever completed Last Stand was with a level 1 character. (My teammates happened to be awesome, and I managed to stay fairly useful with the gear setup I had)

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  • Banzai5150Banzai5150 Registered User regular
    Man, I keep forgetting I got the ability to play as a TAU in Last Stand. I only fired it up once, and played one round before being distracted to something else. So If anyone wants to play some Last Stand, hit me up!

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  • starmanbrandstarmanbrand Registered User
    Picked up IFK even though I have no interest in anything in it.

    Heres to hoping the next one is better and their charity is a valid one!

    Edit:

    Food for thought? http://www.backlogjourney.com/2012/03/face-kicking-follow-up.html

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  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    2.5 months into the year gamebank progress: SR3, Bastion, Limbo, Machinarium, Puzzle Agent, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, and as of just now Bulletstorm

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Banzai5150 wrote: »
    Man, I keep forgetting I got the ability to play as a TAU in Last Stand. I only fired it up once, and played one round before being distracted to something else. So If anyone wants to play some Last Stand, hit me up!

    This summer, when all I'm doing is working and no class, I'm your man!

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    I keep forgetting if I need a good laugh, I can just play as Da Orkz for a while.

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAH...Orkz.

    The sound of eight hooves reaches his ears, comes from the heavenly light, two wolves howls fills his heart with fear, and he sees two ravens fly. Down from the sky a warlord rides, like fire his one eye glows, and just before the preacher dies he knows his god is false.
  • Raiden333Raiden333 Doesn't Sit Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    So, uh, anyone else completely unable to launch Burnout?

    I get the initial load screen for about 10 seconds and then it just crashes with the usual "has stopped working" error message.

    Tried playing around with game configurations and verifying the game cache, no luck.

    edit: Fixed it, had to set the .exe compatibility mode to XP (service pack 2)

    edit2: only now I get a black screen that I have to control-alt-delete out of as soon as the intro cutscene ends

    edit3: had to add "-multithread" to game launch options

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  • BullioBullio Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Picked up IFK even though I have no interest in anything in it.

    Heres to hoping the next one is better and their charity is a valid one!

    Edit:

    Food for thought? http://www.backlogjourney.com/2012/03/face-kicking-follow-up.html

    The devs have apparently confirmed the bundle itself is legit, but yeah...I would advise proceeding with at least a little bit of caution. It seems to be a case of "decent bundle run by crappy people advertising a shady-looking service".

    There's a long thing on it on the Steam forums (starts at the end of this page), and there's the original blog post that the people running the bundle threatened the blogger with lawsuits over (which has since been edited). Worth a read before pulling the trigger.

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  • GaslightGaslight It's not your fault Video games are amazingRegistered User regular
    edited March 2012
    I feel the need to point out that for all the scare-mongering about those Russian Steam key sites being "illegitimate" and liable to get your account locked, not all of those sites are created equal. I would be leery of the ones that require using a VPN to activate your game and such, but there are others that just send you an activation key, no fuss, no muss; I personally got a nice deal on Batman Arkham City from one of those. I've also yet to ever hear of anyone who's actually had any action taken against their Steam account for these supposed ToS violations.

    Now I wouldn't recommend doing business with any of these places on a regular basis, the fact the people running this indie bundle seem to be shilling for one of the shadier ones does not inspire confidence, and their response to someone calling attention to it is deplorable, but there is a touch of sensationalism in the blog post which I think could be toned down. (Didn't see it before he edited it so I don't know what was in the deleted last paragraph before.)

    Really, though, with indie bundles proliferating like college football bowl games, it was only a matter of time before one came along being run by some unsavory types. I'm kind of surprised it hasn't happened already, to be frank.

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  • SteevLSteevL Registered User regular
    For anybody interested, Ys: The Oath in Felghana will up next week with Achievements for just $15. . . as somebody who's never played any of the games I believe I'll be trying this out.

    As someone who recently played through The Oath in Felghana on PSP, I can tell you that the game is pretty good! I'm not sure how different the PC version will be from the PSP game, though.

    Actually, I am watching gameplay videos of the PC version, and it looks almost exactly the same...and most importantly, it sounds exactly the same.

  • starmanbrandstarmanbrand Registered User
    so are these ys games just generic jrpgs? why is everyone all excited?

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  • GaslightGaslight It's not your fault Video games are amazingRegistered User regular
    Even if they were just generic JRPGs, that's a genre with next to no representation whatsoever on Steam.

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  • FreiFrei Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Yeah, also a lot of people grew up with old school "generic" jrpgs like Ys, so it's an exciting prospect for them. Also having a company bring a genre/group of games to Steam means we could see more crossovers or handheld games later make their way to Steam, which is a neat idea, since a lot of portables are very good. Not every gamer is hip indie gaming bundle gamer.

    But your post was "People like something I don't? what's that about?" so, you know.

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  • ZxerolZxerol Provocative Pogona Registered User regular
    Also, if your definition of "generic JRPG" is "this game is like Final Fantasy," then Ys is a bit ways different.

  • PluffPluff Registered User
    so are these ys games just generic jrpgs? why is everyone all excited?

    YS series sums ups the best of jrpgs: walk and hit. You won't need anything else...

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  • ShimshaiShimshai Registered User regular
    Does it feature random battles every time your character takes 10 steps?

    I literally know nothing about the YS series, so I'm not being funny. Random battles are my biggest irritant when it comes to RPGs.

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  • SteevLSteevL Registered User regular
    Ys games are action RPGs. No random battles.

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