Playing with anything else just wouldn't be right.
Don't forget the $150 TrackIR, the $200 pedal set that goes with it, and an extra ~$500 for two more monitors!
Well. I really didn't need to buy anything for next 6 month anyway.
Might almost be better to save up and buy a full motion movable simulator thingy. You know the ones I'm talking about, that move with input and make you feel like you're actually moving.
I appreciate the kind words, but sadly I've since found a few mistakes with my list. Apparently the wiki I used to gather the list of Steamworks games doesn't mention how some games are only Steamworks when purchased on Steam directly and not when bought from another distributor. It's very odd, and I wish there was a better clarification for these games, but I haven't found any way to identify when this is the case.
For instance, the wiki shows Anomaly: Warzone as a Steamworks game, but when bought from D2D earlier today it couldn't be added. Same with Fate of the World. So who knows at this point. I need to do more reading.
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For this, I desire reasons. Succulent bullet points will do fine.
I wish I could explain it. I know Singularity was a Bioshock ripoff on its best day, but maybe that's what I loved about it so much. It was as if they took Bioshock, gave me a different setting/story/characters, handed me a neat little timegun thing for my wrist, and set me loose. Almost felt like a spiritual sequel. There was a collectible resource that I could gather and use to upgrade my gear, and the time device thing was a LOT of fun if not a bit restricted.
I loved every minute of it, to the point that I'm willing to call it my sleeper hit of the decade. Metro's gunplay doesn't feel as polished or as responsive as some of the other shooters I've played. The atmosphere is pretty much second to none though, but for me that's not really enough to win my affections. As I said earlier, I'm still pretty early on in the game, so maybe my feelings will change as I progress.
That said, I was in love with Singularity from the moment I loaded it up.
Also, if I can get something clarified...what exactly quantifies a game as a Steamworks game? I've always been able to add pretty much any game I've bought to my Steam library, so I'm assuming its more than that.
Metro's main flaw, for me, was the difficulty settings. Ammo gets less common higher up, which is great....but the enemies also get weaker.
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Minor addition to the "I'm an asshole" thing, spoilered for, well, spoilers in Fallout: New Vegas.
Both in Fallout 3 and in Fallout: New Vegas, I have (for whatever reason) been drawn to playing a type of character I have never played in any other game before. Imagine a character whose one parent is an 80's style movie maniac (Jason, Michael Myers, etc) and the other is a painfully stereotype german doktor in the "we haff ways of making yuo talk" vein... Glasses, balding, lab coat (haven't found one in Vegas yet), hockey mask, likes to stab people with knives or at least cut them with a razor.
So this guy, Dr Steiner, gets hired by a rancher to find his son, who mysteriously disappeared in the Ultra-Luxe casino run by the White Glove Society. With hints being about as subtle as bricks to the face, it turns out that some of the White Gloves are reverting to their old wicked ways, which involve kidnapping people and eating them. They're not your average wasteland cannibals, though. The White Gloves have a proper chef, Phillipe, who will prepare and cook the victims according to his collection of recipes.
One way to resolve this mission, is to get rid of chef Phillipe in some way and cook the meal yourself without any human bits in it. I wasn't sure how this would play out, but as I talked to the (very rude) chef, my character's high Medicine rating (70+ points) gave me conversation options to do an on the spot analysis of his background and childhood! In just a couple minutes, I made him feel so depressed about himself and his life that he threw his collection of recipes at me and walked out of the kitchen. I cooked the food, hid in a closet as the waiters came to pick it up (they will attack if they see you instead of the chef in the kitchen), and then snuck the almost Happy Meal boy out of there.
Jowood! NOOOOOOOOOO! The Guild 2 was so much fun! I attack the queen with one character and some henchmen, ran back to the family's hospital, then had the young daughter take her mother's sword, run up to the unconscious queen and take the crown... AND HER LIFE!
and Torchlight! How could a company go bankrupt after dropping Torchlight?
Jowood! NOOOOOOOOOO! The Guild 2 was so much fun! I attack the queen with one character and some henchmen, ran back to the family's hospital, then had the young daughter take her mother's sword, run up to the unconscious queen and take the crown... AND HER LIFE!
and Torchlight! How could a company go bankrupt after dropping Torchlight?
Jowood! NOOOOOOOOOO! The Guild 2 was so much fun! I attack the queen with one character and some henchmen, ran back to the family's hospital, then had the young daughter take her mother's sword, run up to the unconscious queen and take the crown... AND HER LIFE!
and Torchlight! How could a company go bankrupt after dropping Torchlight?
Still, morrowind > both of em... so Ill just play Skyrim? Ha Ha Ha.
Seriously, talk about a gold to crap ratio. Wait, you like G3? Was Risen really that bad? Because I heard G3 killed everything that G2 hadn't bruised in the original and was in general, some of the laziest animation in a game that people had seen.
Jesus Christ, I wish I could lime this every day for a century. Before I read what you had to say, I was going to post "Serves them right for making Arcania.", but I think I like your way much, much better. It sucks that people will be unemployed, but you have to admit, it's better for gaming in general that a horrible studio is not making horrible games anymore.
edit: I'm very bitter about what they did to Gothic. Maybe I should try the Risen demo.
Or yeah...I think I'll just wait for Skyrim. Elder Scrolls never sucks.
I look at Gothic 2 the same way I look at Postal 2, there was a good game here, a good foundation to start with. But you had to write something crappy and kept going downhill from there. Its so very depressing. Time to murder me some royals and push my family to the highest echelons of power.
Jowood! NOOOOOOOOOO! The Guild 2 was so much fun! I attack the queen with one character and some henchmen, ran back to the family's hospital, then had the young daughter take her mother's sword, run up to the unconscious queen and take the crown... AND HER LIFE!
and Torchlight! How could a company go bankrupt after dropping Torchlight?
I haven't played any of these RPG's you're talking about (Other than Torchlight, which I never finished) But the way I see it... They were involved in all of the awful painkiller sequels...So I second the "They should have stopped making bad games" sentiment.
It's not like they were even involved with the development of Torchlight in any way. They simply handled publishing of retail copies, which came out quite a while after the initial release.
Jowood! NOOOOOOOOOO! The Guild 2 was so much fun! I attack the queen with one character and some henchmen, ran back to the family's hospital, then had the young daughter take her mother's sword, run up to the unconscious queen and take the crown... AND HER LIFE!
and Torchlight! How could a company go bankrupt after dropping Torchlight?
i heard that the gunplay out of vats was vastly improved for this iteration, as compared to FO3 - is that true? is it a decent shooter? i might even buy it at full price, because that was what made me stop playing FO3.
It is improved quite a bit. At mid-to-long-range or against one or two enemies, VATS is fantastic, but anywhere near melee range against a group of enemies it is a bit of a death wish.
One thing no one has pointed out yet is that New Vegas lets you use iron sights, which work pretty well!
I'm not sure if I'd call it a "decent shooter" though. Aiming still feels pretty floaty to me. It's improved, but I think the engine shows its limitations there. That being said, it was one of my favorite games of last year.
Let me put it this way: I was trying to find out what China's dependance on Oil was, and one of the stats in there was something to do with shale.
Well shale is one place from where oil is gleaned, so I like where that's heading. When I get around to playing it when I fly home from work I'll chime back in here to letcha know if I'm floundering.
TBH the idea of satisfying victory conditions isn't all that interesting to me. Like DEFCON, sometimes in games I just want to see what it's looks like when the world burns.
Who buys them anyway? I'm sure it must be a very niche and somewhat profitable market but I can't see why anyone would want to buy these agonizingly boring looking games.
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RoshinMy backlog can be seen from spaceSwedenRegistered Userregular
How is Fate of the World anyway? When I saw it first I thought it was some crappy earth day cash-in.
Its a pretty good game, you have to manage fossil fuel supplies and economies and decide which regions to focus on and which to let fall into decay. You can't possibly save every region but you can stave off war and famine for a while until you get the tech to transition their economies into renewables. If you build them up too quickly you just exhaust whats left of the oil too early and the whole world collapses.
Its wonderfully strategic and one of the better games I've played this year.
Let me put it this way: I was trying to find out what China's dependance on Oil was, and one of the stats in there was something to do with shale.
Well shale is one place from where oil is gleaned, so I like where that's heading. When I get around to playing it when I fly home from work I'll chime back in here to letcha know if I'm floundering.
TBH the idea of satisfying victory conditions isn't all that interesting to me. Like DEFCON, sometimes in games I just want to see what it's looks like when the world burns.
Well there is the Dr Apocalypse Scenario for that, including bonus cards that let you make the energy sector less efficient, build statues of you for people to adore or make endangered species into meals since "It would be a shame to let them go without knowing what they taste like."...
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...Why the hell does it need a 512mb video card? It looks like an interactive power point presentation. Unless Im missing something.
It could just be the engine they're running it on. Like our game is a 16-bit style RPG, but since we're using XNA (which can do far fancier things), the requirements have to take that into account.
Speaking of your game. Hurry up and release it already. I've been putting off buying it just because I heard it was going to PC.
You must have missed, a few pages back, him talking about how he submitted it to Steam a couple months ago and they've just left him hanging.
Yeah, we're still working on distribution. Oh and the improvements to the game itself (although those should all be done by the end of the month).
I've been meaning to say that I hope this gets worked out for you soon. I've been trying to get in touch with their press people for a little while with no results, so maybe not getting responses is an across-the-board thing right now somehow.
I really don't get why my steam isn't working... It started with being unable to connect to the network even though my internet works fine. Then I deleted the client registry .blob and that didn't work. I just got exception errors whenever it tried to update. Now I'm on the scorched earth plan. Deleted everything but the steamapps folder and the .exe. It failed the first time I tried to launch it but now it's updating.
I don't get why it had this problem. I just installed a new motherboard and that's the only possible thing it could be besides just the app messing up.
Edit: It seemed to work. have to add it to the new security system though
So I think after I finish portal I am going to attempt to right a wrong vs gaming that I can never seem to complete.
I've never finished HL 1,2,ep1, or ep2. I am a huge fan of valve's environmental design, but the actual game and the story seem just so so bad to me. *ducks*
Jowood! NOOOOOOOOOO! The Guild 2 was so much fun! I attack the queen with one character and some henchmen, ran back to the family's hospital, then had the young daughter take her mother's sword, run up to the unconscious queen and take the crown... AND HER LIFE!
and Torchlight! How could a company go bankrupt after dropping Torchlight?
I saw predictions of this happening after the failure of Gothic 4. Apparently the old Gothic dev's now get the license back as well, or so i've heard. Though they probably wont make another gothic game, and just stick to Risen.
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Don't forget the $150 TrackIR, the $200 pedal set that goes with it, and an extra ~$500 for two more monitors!
Well. I really didn't need to buy anything for next 6 month anyway.
Might almost be better to save up and buy a full motion movable simulator thingy. You know the ones I'm talking about, that move with input and make you feel like you're actually moving.
I appreciate the kind words, but sadly I've since found a few mistakes with my list. Apparently the wiki I used to gather the list of Steamworks games doesn't mention how some games are only Steamworks when purchased on Steam directly and not when bought from another distributor. It's very odd, and I wish there was a better clarification for these games, but I haven't found any way to identify when this is the case.
For instance, the wiki shows Anomaly: Warzone as a Steamworks game, but when bought from D2D earlier today it couldn't be added. Same with Fate of the World. So who knows at this point. I need to do more reading.
I wish I could explain it. I know Singularity was a Bioshock ripoff on its best day, but maybe that's what I loved about it so much. It was as if they took Bioshock, gave me a different setting/story/characters, handed me a neat little timegun thing for my wrist, and set me loose. Almost felt like a spiritual sequel. There was a collectible resource that I could gather and use to upgrade my gear, and the time device thing was a LOT of fun if not a bit restricted.
I loved every minute of it, to the point that I'm willing to call it my sleeper hit of the decade. Metro's gunplay doesn't feel as polished or as responsive as some of the other shooters I've played. The atmosphere is pretty much second to none though, but for me that's not really enough to win my affections. As I said earlier, I'm still pretty early on in the game, so maybe my feelings will change as I progress.
That said, I was in love with Singularity from the moment I loaded it up.
Also, if I can get something clarified...what exactly quantifies a game as a Steamworks game? I've always been able to add pretty much any game I've bought to my Steam library, so I'm assuming its more than that.
Both in Fallout 3 and in Fallout: New Vegas, I have (for whatever reason) been drawn to playing a type of character I have never played in any other game before. Imagine a character whose one parent is an 80's style movie maniac (Jason, Michael Myers, etc) and the other is a painfully stereotype german doktor in the "we haff ways of making yuo talk" vein... Glasses, balding, lab coat (haven't found one in Vegas yet), hockey mask, likes to stab people with knives or at least cut them with a razor.
One way to resolve this mission, is to get rid of chef Phillipe in some way and cook the meal yourself without any human bits in it. I wasn't sure how this would play out, but as I talked to the (very rude) chef, my character's high Medicine rating (70+ points) gave me conversation options to do an on the spot analysis of his background and childhood! In just a couple minutes, I made him feel so depressed about himself and his life that he threw his collection of recipes at me and walked out of the kitchen. I cooked the food, hid in a closet as the waiters came to pick it up (they will attack if they see you instead of the chef in the kitchen), and then snuck the almost Happy Meal boy out of there.
and Torchlight! How could a company go bankrupt after dropping Torchlight?
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Maybe they should have stopped making bad games. Admittedly I was waiting on the spellforce expansion, but Ill live without it.
Course gothic 3 > Risen, but maybe risen 2 > gothic 3.
Still, morrowind > both of em... so Ill just play Skyrim? Ha Ha Ha.
Seriously, talk about a gold to crap ratio. Wait, you like G3? Was Risen really that bad? Because I heard G3 killed everything that G2 hadn't bruised in the original and was in general, some of the laziest animation in a game that people had seen.
this game is fucking hard. I know that's sort of the point, but damn.
Jesus Christ, I wish I could lime this every day for a century. Before I read what you had to say, I was going to post "Serves them right for making Arcania.", but I think I like your way much, much better. It sucks that people will be unemployed, but you have to admit, it's better for gaming in general that a horrible studio is not making horrible games anymore.
edit: I'm very bitter about what they did to Gothic. Maybe I should try the Risen demo.
Or yeah...I think I'll just wait for Skyrim. Elder Scrolls never sucks.
JoWood?
Silent Storm!
It's so complex. Your head will explode.
I wonder if that means The Guild II games are gonna disappear. Sucks, I was waiting for some crazy sale...
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One thing no one has pointed out yet is that New Vegas lets you use iron sights, which work pretty well!
I'm not sure if I'd call it a "decent shooter" though. Aiming still feels pretty floaty to me. It's improved, but I think the engine shows its limitations there. That being said, it was one of my favorite games of last year.
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I'm a big fan of Spacechem, will this help me?
Well shale is one place from where oil is gleaned, so I like where that's heading. When I get around to playing it when I fly home from work I'll chime back in here to letcha know if I'm floundering.
TBH the idea of satisfying victory conditions isn't all that interesting to me. Like DEFCON, sometimes in games I just want to see what it's looks like when the world burns.
Steam | XBL
One day, they will reveal their cunning master plan and release a MMO or something that combines all these sims into one game.
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I am a freaking nerd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lICcfdftF0
Its a pretty good game, you have to manage fossil fuel supplies and economies and decide which regions to focus on and which to let fall into decay. You can't possibly save every region but you can stave off war and famine for a while until you get the tech to transition their economies into renewables. If you build them up too quickly you just exhaust whats left of the oil too early and the whole world collapses.
Its wonderfully strategic and one of the better games I've played this year.
Well there is the Dr Apocalypse Scenario for that, including bonus cards that let you make the energy sector less efficient, build statues of you for people to adore or make endangered species into meals since "It would be a shame to let them go without knowing what they taste like."...
I've been meaning to say that I hope this gets worked out for you soon. I've been trying to get in touch with their press people for a little while with no results, so maybe not getting responses is an across-the-board thing right now somehow.
I was going to take advantage of the Civ 5 deal on D2D, got distracted, went to check out and the price went back up while it was in my cart!
It's ok (sort of) I just bought Portal 2, plus 2 other games for my PS3, so this is probably a sign that I dont need any more games.
BUT IT WAS ON SALE.
I don't get why it had this problem. I just installed a new motherboard and that's the only possible thing it could be besides just the app messing up.
Edit: It seemed to work. have to add it to the new security system though
EDIT 2: oh god so many game updates
is that...is that someone being ironic?
I saw predictions of this happening after the failure of Gothic 4. Apparently the old Gothic dev's now get the license back as well, or so i've heard. Though they probably wont make another gothic game, and just stick to Risen.