Console release does not necessarily mean controller support on PC <side-eyes at Mass Effect series>
(I know "it's better with KBAM" but damnit, my couch is way more comfortable with the big TV and the fact that controller support was removed just irks me)
So now it's had time to shake out a bit, does Consortium hold up to its early promise? The conceit of how the player controls a character sounded...interesting, but does the game carry itself?
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It does. I did a nearly complete run when it came out. I held off on completing it because there were technical issues with some of the endings that I didn't want to run into. It's a pretty stunning first person adventure game. If you go with the shooty approach don't expect a great shooter, but then there isn't a whole lot of that going on.
I'd say it's worth it for the bundle price just to experience the amazing conversation system. It makes Mass Effect look like a Weeble set in that regard.
rikdaly, provided it handles like the demo does, the Van Helsing controller controls are good. Also, at least within the demo there was plenty of humor and some simple sidequests to go along with all the monster killing, and all the monsters have Eastern European names to add to the flavor. It's like Torchlight but with more snark, great graphics (for an ARPG) and abundant action.
Which is why I'd feel bad only paying a buck for it.
it's downloading now so I'll see what it's like soon my favourite ARPG is probably Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 so if it plays anything like that I'll be really happy
I just played an hour of Betrayer, so far I've only seen a few enemies but that game seems to really know how to make me feel unsettled! I think I'm going to like it
Yep, the HBJ lists it as complete. Still though, I'm almost out of space right now and it's still twenty gigs no matter how it's packed for downloading.
Man... I really wish the Starship Troopers fps was worth a damn.
Starship Troopers feels like it was just made for a co-op horde mode shooter. You get a bunch of troopers together, and you shoot bugs. Then you get drunk with the rest of your mobile infantry buddies and shoot deathstares across the bar at fleet because they do the flying while you do the dying.
You do it in something like the Serious Engine that is good at rendering large environments with tons of enemies effectively, and you only have to model like five or six enemy types based on what we saw in the movies. Have people play as dropship pilots, you drop players into open areas for exploration missions (maybe even in the walker armor from the books/later movies), have them delve into tunnels for search and destroy missions, or have them bunker up in bases for defense missions. Include different classes, loadouts, and the Klendathu Drop theme and a bada bing a bada boom you've got my money.
There have been a bunch of Half Life 2 Starship Troopers mods, but as far as I know they've all been abandoned, which makes me SadStacks.
rikdaly, provided it handles like the demo does, the Van Helsing controller controls are good. Also, at least within the demo there was plenty of humor and some simple sidequests to go along with all the monster killing, and all the monsters have Eastern European names to add to the flavor. It's like Torchlight but with more snark, great graphics (for an ARPG) and abundant action.
Which is why I'd feel bad only paying a buck for it.
So pay more than a buck
Or pay a buck and donate donate fourteen dollars to Child's Play
Man... I really wish the Starship Troopers fps was worth a damn.
Starship Troopers feels like it was just made for a co-op horde mode shooter. You get a bunch of troopers together, and you shoot bugs. Then you get drunk with the rest of your mobile infantry buddies and shoot deathstares across the bar at fleet because they do the flying while you do the dying.
You do it in something like the Serious Engine that is good at rendering large environments with tons of enemies effectively, and you only have to model like five or six enemy types based on what we saw in the movies. Have people play as dropship pilots, you drop players into open areas for exploration missions (maybe even in the walker armor from the books/later movies), have them delve into tunnels for search and destroy missions, or have them bunker up in bases for defense missions. Include different classes, loadouts, and the Klendathu Drop theme and a bada bing a bada boom you've got my money.
There have been a bunch of Half Life 2 Starship Troopers mods, but as far as I know they've all been abandoned, which makes me SadStacks.
rikdaly, provided it handles like the demo does, the Van Helsing controller controls are good. Also, at least within the demo there was plenty of humor and some simple sidequests to go along with all the monster killing, and all the monsters have Eastern European names to add to the flavor. It's like Torchlight but with more snark, great graphics (for an ARPG) and abundant action.
Which is why I'd feel bad only paying a buck for it.
So pay more than a buck
Or pay a buck and donate donate fourteen dollars to Child's Play
Jesus man do I have to live your life for you
I personally have $1.21 to my name. Giving any more, regardless of amount, will require talking my wife into it.
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Is there any way to turn off the new font smoothing/Cleartype in the updated client? It's off in Windows. I turned off Direct Write in the Steam options, which fixed the dropdown menus, but everything in the main window is still blurry.
Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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I remember leaving the computer on all night, connected tenuously to the internet by my smoking hot 56k modem so I could download the Quake demo, which was a whopping 20Mb file. Imagine my sorrow when I found out the connection had dropped and I had to start over again. This is what led me to learn of Getright.
The fiendishly classy @Corsini noticed that Deadlight was on my wishlist and made sure that the wish was granted! Cheers to you and many thanks you classy person you.
I remember leaving the computer on all night, connected tenuously to the internet by my smoking hot 56k modem so I could download the Quake demo, which was a whopping 20Mb file. Imagine my sorrow when I found out the connection had dropped and I had to start over again. This is what led me to learn of Getright.
Dark times.
Holy shit, Getright. Now that brings back memories!
Ah memories. One of my birthday presents was going from 8MB to 16MB of RAM. Yes, megabytes. Good times. That computer would be a surprisingly good DOSBox machine if I could ever find it.
I remember leaving the computer on all night, connected tenuously to the internet by my smoking hot 56k modem so I could download the Quake demo, which was a whopping 20Mb file. Imagine my sorrow when I found out the connection had dropped and I had to start over again. This is what led me to learn of Getright.
Dark times.
I would just buy the issue of PC Gamer with the disk.
Ah memories. One of my birthday presents was going from 8MB to 16MB of RAM. Yes, megabytes. Good times. That computer would be a surprisingly good DOSBox machine if I could ever find it.
I remember stuffing 8 250k sticks of ram into my 486. 2MB baby!
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DrakeEdgelord TrashBelow the ecliptic plane.Registered Userregular
I remember leaving the computer on all night, connected tenuously to the internet by my smoking hot 56k modem so I could download the Quake demo, which was a whopping 20Mb file. Imagine my sorrow when I found out the connection had dropped and I had to start over again. This is what led me to learn of Getright.
Dark times.
I would just buy the issue of PC Gamer with the disk.
That shit sold out so fast in my tiny rural town in Alabama where I lived off a red clay dirt road and I had no shoes and there were cows in the front yard. But I had internet goddamnit. Kinda.
I remember actually finding a copy on the back of a shelf in a drug store. The plastic had been ripped open and the disk had been stolen.
Steam and broadband internet is the sweet fucking Land of Milk and Honey.
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now processors have more L3 cache than the entire system ram of my then-bleeding-edge 486 man. a tiny fingernail-sized microsd card can now be 256x larger than that big 5.25" hard drive it had. what the fuck is a 14.4k modem can you send telegraphs with that. technology be cray.
Zxerol on
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ShimshaiFlush with Success!Isle of EmeraldRegistered Userregular
Man, back in my day, my games came on cassettes, none of your high tech disk nonsense!
I remember leaving the computer on all night, connected tenuously to the internet by my smoking hot 56k modem so I could download the Quake demo, which was a whopping 20Mb file. Imagine my sorrow when I found out the connection had dropped and I had to start over again. This is what led me to learn of Getright.
Dark times.
For me it was the trailer for Star Wars Episode I.
Ah memories. One of my birthday presents was going from 8MB to 16MB of RAM. Yes, megabytes. Good times. That computer would be a surprisingly good DOSBox machine if I could ever find it.
My 486 was the PC I've upgraded the most, I think. Supplemented its 80MB hard drive with a 426MB one (a weird number, but it sticks in the mind. More than big enough for everything, too), took the CPU from a 486SX 25MHz to a 486DX2 66MHz (holy fuck did that supercharge it), bunged a CD-ROM drive in it (dual-speed, baby!) and went from 4MB to 8MB RAM (which took Wing Commander III's loading times from five minutes per mission to about fifteen seconds).
I think that computer is still in my mum's attic somewhere. I know the CD drive crapped out but the rest might still work...
'Course, I'd had computers for years before that because I am old, but that 486 was my first PC, as in IBM-compatible. My first computer had 48K of RAM. My second, 128K (although only 96K was user-accessible, IIRC). They both used audio cassette tapes for storage. My third computer had 1MB and a 3.5" floppy drive. That was a whole new world...
Console release does not necessarily mean controller support on PC <side-eyes at Mass Effect series>
(I know "it's better with KBAM" but damnit, my couch is way more comfortable with the big TV and the fact that controller support was removed just irks me)
Ugh... I hate that. It's always the same thing. "Why do you want to use a controller? How is it better than KBAM?"
Because couches and TVs. KBAM on your lap is uncomfortable as fuck and not pet friendly.
It really sucks when a console port happens but controller support isn't retroactively added to the original PC game.
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Console release does not necessarily mean controller support on PC <side-eyes at Mass Effect series>
(I know "it's better with KBAM" but damnit, my couch is way more comfortable with the big TV and the fact that controller support was removed just irks me)
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I'm not very good at, and don't play fighters very often, but I definitely have a soft spot for them. $5 KoF13 is temping
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It does. I did a nearly complete run when it came out. I held off on completing it because there were technical issues with some of the endings that I didn't want to run into. It's a pretty stunning first person adventure game. If you go with the shooty approach don't expect a great shooter, but then there isn't a whole lot of that going on.
I'd say it's worth it for the bundle price just to experience the amazing conversation system. It makes Mass Effect look like a Weeble set in that regard.
Guess it's time to rebuild my favorite FemShep to kick more geth ass... like I needed a reason to play ME again...
Also, thanks to @Burnage for that Terraria code! I think I was the only person here who didn't have a copy... I'll have to check it out sometime!
I can has cheezburger, yes?
it's downloading now so I'll see what it's like soon
I just played an hour of Betrayer, so far I've only seen a few enemies but that game seems to really know how to make me feel unsettled! I think I'm going to like it
Also, did not realize Van Helsing was twenty gigs. Maybe I'll download it when I upgrade my rig within these next few weeks.
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@Heartfinder Van Helsing is only downloading 8.4 GB, it should be finished in a few minutes so I'll let you know the size of the folder when it's done
edit: the folder ends up as 19.2 GB
Probably due to being the complete pack vs the standard version.
Starship Troopers feels like it was just made for a co-op horde mode shooter. You get a bunch of troopers together, and you shoot bugs. Then you get drunk with the rest of your mobile infantry buddies and shoot deathstares across the bar at fleet because they do the flying while you do the dying.
You do it in something like the Serious Engine that is good at rendering large environments with tons of enemies effectively, and you only have to model like five or six enemy types based on what we saw in the movies. Have people play as dropship pilots, you drop players into open areas for exploration missions (maybe even in the walker armor from the books/later movies), have them delve into tunnels for search and destroy missions, or have them bunker up in bases for defense missions. Include different classes, loadouts, and the Klendathu Drop theme and a bada bing a bada boom you've got my money.
There have been a bunch of Half Life 2 Starship Troopers mods, but as far as I know they've all been abandoned, which makes me SadStacks.
I feel old.
Steam ID: Good Life
Man, zip disks are huge! They're, like, the future of all technology!
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Dark times.
Now playing: Teardown and Baldur's Gate 3 (co-op)
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I think it's fairly safe to say most of us here are pretty old, I'm 34 soon and I'd say that's pretty average here
Holy shit, Getright. Now that brings back memories!
Simultaneous split downloads!
I would just buy the issue of PC Gamer with the disk.
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I remember stuffing 8 250k sticks of ram into my 486. 2MB baby!
That shit sold out so fast in my tiny rural town in Alabama where I lived off a red clay dirt road and I had no shoes and there were cows in the front yard. But I had internet goddamnit. Kinda.
I remember actually finding a copy on the back of a shelf in a drug store. The plastic had been ripped open and the disk had been stolen.
Steam and broadband internet is the sweet fucking Land of Milk and Honey.
Games? Son, I didn't have games. I had cartridges. I even had cartridges that plugged into other cartridges.
Also dirt.
Played with a lot of dirt, I did.
My 486 was the PC I've upgraded the most, I think. Supplemented its 80MB hard drive with a 426MB one (a weird number, but it sticks in the mind. More than big enough for everything, too), took the CPU from a 486SX 25MHz to a 486DX2 66MHz (holy fuck did that supercharge it), bunged a CD-ROM drive in it (dual-speed, baby!) and went from 4MB to 8MB RAM (which took Wing Commander III's loading times from five minutes per mission to about fifteen seconds).
I think that computer is still in my mum's attic somewhere. I know the CD drive crapped out but the rest might still work...
'Course, I'd had computers for years before that because I am old, but that 486 was my first PC, as in IBM-compatible. My first computer had 48K of RAM. My second, 128K (although only 96K was user-accessible, IIRC). They both used audio cassette tapes for storage. My third computer had 1MB and a 3.5" floppy drive. That was a whole new world...
...god, I really am old.
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Along with various incarnations of the IBM PC and Apple II.
Ugh... I hate that. It's always the same thing. "Why do you want to use a controller? How is it better than KBAM?"
Because couches and TVs. KBAM on your lap is uncomfortable as fuck and not pet friendly.
It really sucks when a console port happens but controller support isn't retroactively added to the original PC game.
Ate alot of it, too, I'm told.