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[STEAM] Thread 3 - Rise of the Classy Crabs
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This. The game runs beautifully, looks downright gorgeous on any setting (seriously, this is what the game looks like on all low) except for the occasionally really low res texture or low poly model. Atmosphere is top notch, the way the darkness absorbs the forest in a swirl of furious wind and unearthly howls and creaks has stuck with me long after I finished the game on 360 as one of my favorite effects in video gaming. The game captures the small town by the mountain feel incredibly well, blending together a mix of Twilight Zone and Twin Peaks.
Combat isn't the highest point of the game, some enemies feel like bullet sponges and I know some people didn't like the whole flashlight deal plus gunfire. But the reactionary combat is something I really enjoy. Watching alan stumble and tumble around while trying to dodge demonic rednecks from taking his head off with gardening tools and attack them back gives the combat a very hefty and satisfying feel.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a shorter adventure, and concentrates less on more open areas and beautiful forest setpieces and more on the combat and engagements. It even has a special Horde-like mode which really lets the improved combat shine. You're really doing yourself a huge disservice not picking up these games. Don't let the haters fool you, this is Cat approved to the fullest extent. Remedy supported the PC version incredibly well after launch, patching errors and adding new settings and improving the experience. They even added a freecam in for people who use 360 controllers, you can enable it and push in a stick to detatch the camera and visit anywhere in the world and it will stream everything in.
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It's a shame because the game could have been so good. Cut the game's length in half to reduce filler, use that time and money you saved from creating less environments to add a bit of variety & unpredictability to the enemy encounters, and polish up the writing a tad and it would have been a rather good game.
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Damnit. I already beat the game on 360. I shouldn't want it again on PC. At least not yet.
I was running it on an aging 8800GTX and an intel core 2 quad at the time that screenshot was taken. I hit 60 on the very rare occasion and was usually around 30-40. 460 GTX made it run much better and let me kick the settings up, but I think it is very much a CPU pressed game.
Fair criticisms, a lot of the horror for me really kicked in on my second play through on the hardest difficulty mode. Made every battle incredibly tense even if I knew one was going to be around the corner. I felt the balance of ammo and battery drop offs often stacked things too well in your favor which hurt the pacing of some sections. DLC wise, I felt that The Signal wasn't really worth it and highlighted some of the weaknesses of Alan Wake, whereas The Writer gave me more of what I was looking for (and some amazingly surreal setpieces).
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Summer sale is my excuse, for now.
Cutting a game as short as Alan Wake down even further would've been a pretty bad idea. I beat it in something like 6 hours without even rushing anything; even then, I felt ripped off over how short the game was. The replay value is also basically nil (locking away the hidden items on the locked highest difficulty mode so people have to play the game twice? Really?), so that's not great either when you plonk down 60 bucks for the game. And for people looking at getting the game, keep in mind that the style of story requires a certain perspective to really enjoy it. There was certainly quality in the game, but the stuff that are staples of that genre of fiction just come across to me as plot holes or bad writing more often than not.
A huge shame that the game didn't get to be what it was originally intended, though.
I never even considered it a horror game or thought it was meant to be one. I always thought of it as more of a thriller. It was never a scary game to me and when it comes to scary games I'm a pretty big baby.
$15 gets you the game on Steam.
I did a trip through the internet trying to find a site selling codes for cheap and the best I could find was around $54, and most of those were European versions, which doesn't matter for playing but I think locks your RMAH to that region.
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That really sucks. I don't have any money to donate
I love me some space sims... gonna donate. Hope it gets funded!
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Can some one explain the difference between the DLC options on the two $30 pledges?
8.5k left... this one will be a real close call.
Oooooor, get Torchlight 2 instead!
W-Whenever it gets released though... Oh fuck it, I've had zero interest in Diablo, but if the reviews are universally great, and the RMT thing hasn't destroyed the game, i'll probably buy it too...
Until maybe last year, the battlechest was 40$ for diablo 2. It was that price for 8 years. occasionally it went on sale for 20-30. Only recently is it a steady 20, for a 12 year old game and expansion. occasionally new blizzard games get sales for 35$, but you are just cheating yourself, go buy and enjoy, itill be worth the money.
so close. Pledged what I can, I don't even know what the game is.
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Also getting my ass kicked.
I played the demo. Seemed straight-forward enough. What's up?
Don't feel bad, a lot of us are going to be in the same boat.
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Huh. Never knew that.
That's what I figured, but I wasn't sure.
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http://www.pcworlddownloads.co.uk/product/lp29689/warlock-master-of-the-arcane/
Use promo code pcgamer20 to bring Warlock: Master of the Arcane down to 11.99 pounds. Which is roughly 20 bucks, which Americans are paying. Steamworks. Beats getting hosed on the regional pricing.
or I buy it on GOG for $15 and don't have the game in my Steambank
Sophie's choice right there
Add non-steam game.
Yeah, this is how I play all of my gog games.
It's still not quite the same though. Sometimes the overlay doesn't work or it acts funny.
I serve the Newell.
Alan Wake doesn't use GFWL.