Jesus, what a needlessly frustrating piece of shit Mirror's Edge is.
Let's combine finicky, poorly responsive controls with level design that kills you for jumping a nanosecond too late or too early or a millimeter to the left or the right.
Yes, of course my character won't even try and grab onto the pipe right in front of her fucking face, she'd much rather plummet to her death for the twentieth fucking time in a row. Thanks!
At least I only blew $5 on this garbage rather than $20+
the game could definitely be improved and it can be frustrating, but it's still a very good game.
you are just bad at it. there's nothing wrong with that, mind you, because it's hard to get good at it. but this is a game that you have to practice to be good at.
This is pretty much how I feel: it's a good game that has some extremely frustrating qualities to it that will hopefully be ironed out in Mirror's Edge 2.
Like, I spent ten or so minutes trying to jump from a pipe to a platform at the end of the sewer level. This was because I was pressing the move forward button in addition to the jump button. As it turns out, the jump only works if you don't touch your movement keys and only press the jump button.
And immediately after that section there's a fucking frustrating part with five shotgun wielding cops. Jesus motherfucking christ that was annoying.
Shotgun cops were annoying, but not as annoying as those ninja police fuckers at the end. Since my first instinct is to hit dudes in the face I tried fighting those guys. 10 mins of getting kicked in the back of the head by multiple foes from all directions is not fun.
The one thing I did like is that the game instilled a fear of those guys in me. Every time I saw them I would panic and run like chicken with its head cut off.
I got Mirror's Edge. It downloaded I think most of the way (currently 7.2 GB on my HDD), and now it's updating, but the update never completes. It starts, goes at a low speed for a few seconds before quitting. The updating doesn't seem to be cumulative, because one time it said updating 100% and then the next time it dropped back to 0%. Any tips to getting this working?
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reVerseAttack and Dethrone GodRegistered Userregular
edited December 2009
Try restarting Steam?
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edited December 2009
Where do I go to find out the monetary value of my Steam account?
Rock Paper Shotgun has a love affair with ZC, and while I'm certain my computer can't run it, $5 isn't bad for a present to my future self, like Riddick was a while back.
Stupid Steam! Midweek sales now, too? Eventually we'll have 7AM Wednesday sales and 4:07 Thursday sales, and my wallet will be hooked up by a tube.
EDIT: Also, I'm addicted to leaving PvZ open to the Zen Garden, and letting my snail collect coins. Please send help.
On a more positive note, Batman: Arkham Asylum was totally worth $25.
I'd probably feel vaguely ripped off if I'd plunked down $50, but like L4D, $25 seems like the right price point.
Maybe I'll just assume I paid $30 for AA and got Mirror's Edge for free.
You have to at least play through the whole of Mirror's Edge so you can also appreciate the forced fighting sections in a game completely built around running away. My favorite bits are spots where you don't have to knock anyone out, but if you try to hit them while running past them the camera will lock onto them instead of letting you just keep running. So great.
Mirror's Edge 2 really needs to do away with things like pipes and ledge crawling to get anywhere. They just horribly break up the flow of the game when some boxes or extra ledges would let you keep moving quickly. And the sections where you're required to fight, too.
Also, I wish that Steam calculator was capable of telling you what you actually paid for the games as well as what they cost right now. The most I've paid for any individual game on Steam so far is STALKER: Clear Sky for about 35 bucks. Nearly everything else has been purchased on sale for a fraction of even the current prices.
On a more positive note, Batman: Arkham Asylum was totally worth $25.
I'd probably feel vaguely ripped off if I'd plunked down $50, but like L4D, $25 seems like the right price point.
Maybe I'll just assume I paid $30 for AA and got Mirror's Edge for free.
You have to at least play through the whole of Mirror's Edge so you can also appreciate the forced fighting sections in a game completely built around running away. My favorite bits are spots where you don't have to knock anyone out, but if you try to hit them while running past them the camera will lock onto them instead of letting you just keep running. So great.
Mirror's Edge 2 really needs to do away with things like pipes and ledge crawling to get anywhere. They just horribly break up the flow of the game when some boxes or extra ledges would let you keep moving quickly. And the sections where you're required to fight, too.
Also, I wish that Steam calculator was capable of telling you what you actually paid for the games as well as what they cost right now. The most I've paid for any individual game on Steam so far is STALKER: Clear Sky for about 35 bucks. Nearly everything else has been purchased on sale for a fraction of even the current prices.
The only way I could tell you what you actually paid is if you gave me your login and password. http://www.ddgamer.com/faq.php?go=14#faq_14
So, I don't think too many people would really go for that option.
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FiggyFighter of the night manChampion of the sunRegistered Userregular
edited December 2009
You can see what you've paid by adding up the transactions in your account page.
The account history isn't complete. I've been purchasing games on and off from Steam since late 2005 and my history only goes back to late 2007. The vast majority have been since 2k7 though, and I've only paid full price for 5 things on steam including the initial release source pack.
It's fun looking at my steam community page and seeing a big list of
Friend X now owns Mirror's Edge/Evil Genius/Chronicles of Riddick
Friend Z now owns Mirror's Edge/Evil Genius/Chronicles of Riddick
Friend Y now owns Mirror's Edge/Evil Genius/Chronicles of Riddick
Also Zeno Clash for £3, sold. I heard good things when it was released but never did get around to it.
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Also, I wish that Steam calculator was capable of telling you what you actually paid for the games as well as what they cost right now. The most I've paid for any individual game on Steam so far is STALKER: Clear Sky for about 35 bucks. Nearly everything else has been purchased on sale for a fraction of even the current prices.
It's fun looking at my steam community page and seeing a big list of
Friend X now owns Mirror's Edge/Evil Genius/Chronicles of Riddick
Friend Z now owns Mirror's Edge/Evil Genius/Chronicles of Riddick
Friend Y now owns Mirror's Edge/Evil Genius/Chronicles of Riddick
Also Zeno Clash for £3, sold. I heard good things when it was released but never did get around to it.
Even more fun if a friend gets the LucasArts pack:
"You now own Star Wars Republic Commando, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast, The Dig, Armed and Dangerous, Star Wars Galaxies, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Loom, Star Wars Starfighter, Monkey Island Special Edition, Starwars: Knights of The Old Republic, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Lucidity."
A few friends weren't in town during most of the sale, so I think they missed out on some of the better deals.
So Zeno Clash is 66% off until December 3rd. While I still havent been able to play it, from what I've heard 5.10$ sounds like a good deal.
How does this game hold up past the demo levels? The demo was pretty visceral and had a really good feel to beating things. Does it last the whole way or does it get dumb?
Also, D2D has beaten Steam's price on Mirror's Edge:
Man, I really need to check the steam store more often. I barely made the Mirror's Edge deal, and probably would have missed Zeno Clash if I hadn't wandered in here. Oh well, two more games off my "to get eventually" list.
My main strategy with police thus far has just been to run like hell. If one gets in front of me, he gets a face full of feet and I keep on running.
It's been working pretty well, so far.
Exactly - the entire game's built around keeping momentum. At speed, you can 1) jump kick and knock people out of the way in a single hit (mostly), 2) run to cover faster than bullets can track you, 3) make a mockery of most of the game's jumps. It still has some annoyingly designed sections, but people call this hard?
Also, Zeno Clash - its only crime is being short. It is strange, interesting, different, and worth absolutely anyone capable of running HL2's attention! You won't be getting it on your fancy consoles, that's for sure.
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edited December 2009
The only part about Mirror's Edge I remember being tough as nails involves a certain escape scene from a certain container-y thing. Christ that was hard. Doubly so without using guns.
My main strategy with police thus far has just been to run like hell. If one gets in front of me, he gets a face full of feet and I keep on running.
It's been working pretty well, so far.
Exactly - the entire game's built around keeping momentum. At speed, you can 1) jump kick and knock people out of the way in a single hit (mostly), 2) run to cover faster than bullets can track you, 3) make a mockery of most of the game's jumps. It still has some annoyingly designed sections, but people call this hard?
Also, Zeno Clash - its only crime is being short. It is strange, interesting, different, and worth absolutely anyone capable of running HL2's attention! You won't be getting it on your fancy consoles, that's for sure.
Except on XBLA next spring. I guess it depends on how fancy you consider the 360 to be.
Also, I wish that Steam calculator was capable of telling you what you actually paid for the games as well as what they cost right now. The most I've paid for any individual game on Steam so far is STALKER: Clear Sky for about 35 bucks. Nearly everything else has been purchased on sale for a fraction of even the current prices.
From the sale, I nabbed Evil Genius, KotOR, and ME. There were some other borderline calls, but I ended up backing down. I'm already practically out of space on my Bootcamp partition, and that's without this round installed.
Some people have been mentioning having Steam stuff stored on an external drive. How's that work out? Are you doing the backup option, then restoring them when you want to play, or is there some way to actually play from another drive?
If the former, is the process pretty streamlined, or is there a lot of back and forth on it?
Lastly, since others are asking too, can I get a PA group (or Armadeaddon, or whatever the cool kids are doing these days) invite? Steam id is MrHeist
Some people have been mentioning having Steam stuff stored on an external drive. How's that work out? Are you doing the backup option, then restoring them when you want to play, or is there some way to actually play from another drive?
To play them, they have to be in your steam folder. You can either use the back-up feature from Steam (which will back games up into one or several executables, which you can run to extract the stuff in steam folder) or swap out the files in the steam folder yourself.
For Armadeaddon jump into the groupchat and an officer will invite you eventually.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
edited December 2009
It'd be nice to get a solid state drive and put all my Steam games there, but the size of the SSD I would need for my Steam folder is out of my price range.
I mean, there are cops shooting at you just because.
That tends to imply the lack of elections, or the lack of popular support, or the absence of civil institutions, or even the absence of meaningful political change, which isn't really true. A clean, efficient state with minimal corruption or violent crime doesn't lose popular support that easily, for instance.
I mean, the practical problem with 1930s fascism was not that the trains ran on time; they actually didn't, and fascism turned out to be deeply corrupt. Now imagine that a careful government actually does "make the trains run on time", and there you have it. Benjamin Franklin only said that those who traded 'essential liberty' for security didn't deserve either; he never said it wasn't possible.
America and Western Europe are typically labeled "liberal democracies" in academia; in the popular discourse 'liberal' tends to be taken for granted, which is really too bad - it leads to the assumption that one's civil liberties can't possibly be under threat because it's the result of a vote.
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Well, concerning corruption, whenever a group of people manage to obtain absolute power with no accountability, they will most definitely take personal advantage out of it.
Go on, go find out who the world's highest-paid government executive is.
Being transparent about it is what pushes Singapore corruption down, I guess; no shady millions to build palaces for the Prime Minister whilst pretending it's 'for the people' or fleets of imported luxury cars. This is a government willing to stand up and publicly advocate a 'meritocratic' civil service and other elements of its ideology, and apparently a culture willing to buy into it.
Some people have been mentioning having Steam stuff stored on an external drive. How's that work out? Are you doing the backup option, then restoring them when you want to play, or is there some way to actually play from another drive?
To play them, they have to be in your steam folder. You can either use the back-up feature from Steam (which will back games up into one or several executables, which you can run to extract the stuff in steam folder) or swap out the files in the steam folder yourself.
For Armadeaddon jump into the groupchat and an officer will invite you eventually.
That doesn't seem bad at all. Now to just get past the psychosis of "OMG what if I'm out traveling with my computer and suddenly need to play Lost Coast?! I can't not have it on my drive- better keep it around, just in case"
Some people have been mentioning having Steam stuff stored on an external drive. How's that work out? Are you doing the backup option, then restoring them when you want to play, or is there some way to actually play from another drive?
To play them, they have to be in your steam folder. You can either use the back-up feature from Steam (which will back games up into one or several executables, which you can run to extract the stuff in steam folder) or swap out the files in the steam folder yourself.
For Armadeaddon jump into the groupchat and an officer will invite you eventually.
That doesn't seem bad at all. Now to just get past the psychosis of "OMG what if I'm out traveling with my computer and suddenly need to play Lost Coast?! I can't not have it on my drive- better keep it around, just in case"
One problem with steam backup would be you need to be online to install them. Once your installed, you can then run offline mode and close steam. Then when you're out and about just run steam back in offline mode and your fine.
Holy crap. I've spent 649.76 in just under a year on steam games.... I need to disconnect my computer from the interwebs.
I hope you got most of those on deals, because I've spent less than that in the 6 or 7 years (I don't remember exactly how long) I've had steam. Granted, when I first started steam was just an annoying program I had to put up with for no apparent reason to play Counterstrike, and not the awesome download service it is today.
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Shotgun cops were annoying, but not as annoying as those ninja police fuckers at the end. Since my first instinct is to hit dudes in the face I tried fighting those guys. 10 mins of getting kicked in the back of the head by multiple foes from all directions is not fun.
The one thing I did like is that the game instilled a fear of those guys in me. Every time I saw them I would panic and run like chicken with its head cut off.
It's been working pretty well, so far.
I'd probably feel vaguely ripped off if I'd plunked down $50, but like L4D, $25 seems like the right price point.
Maybe I'll just assume I paid $30 for AA and got Mirror's Edge for free.
Stupid Steam! Midweek sales now, too? Eventually we'll have 7AM Wednesday sales and 4:07 Thursday sales, and my wallet will be hooked up by a tube.
EDIT: Also, I'm addicted to leaving PvZ open to the Zen Garden, and letting my snail collect coins. Please send help.
EDIT2: Wake up you little bitch, I'll smack you!
This has been happening since yesterday through several restarts and trying different Steam download servers.
a series of tubes actually
I almost forgot I bought that thing because it was so ...obvious of a thing to do.
I've never played Monkey Island before.
http://www.ddgamer.com/worth.php
You have to at least play through the whole of Mirror's Edge so you can also appreciate the forced fighting sections in a game completely built around running away. My favorite bits are spots where you don't have to knock anyone out, but if you try to hit them while running past them the camera will lock onto them instead of letting you just keep running. So great.
Mirror's Edge 2 really needs to do away with things like pipes and ledge crawling to get anywhere. They just horribly break up the flow of the game when some boxes or extra ledges would let you keep moving quickly. And the sections where you're required to fight, too.
Also, I wish that Steam calculator was capable of telling you what you actually paid for the games as well as what they cost right now. The most I've paid for any individual game on Steam so far is STALKER: Clear Sky for about 35 bucks. Nearly everything else has been purchased on sale for a fraction of even the current prices.
The only way I could tell you what you actually paid is if you gave me your login and password.
http://www.ddgamer.com/faq.php?go=14#faq_14
So, I don't think too many people would really go for that option.
Friend X now owns Mirror's Edge/Evil Genius/Chronicles of Riddick
Friend Z now owns Mirror's Edge/Evil Genius/Chronicles of Riddick
Friend Y now owns Mirror's Edge/Evil Genius/Chronicles of Riddick
Also Zeno Clash for £3, sold. I heard good things when it was released but never did get around to it.
Well you can see the last year history of transaction here:
https://store.steampowered.com/account
Even more fun if a friend gets the LucasArts pack:
"You now own Star Wars Republic Commando, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast, The Dig, Armed and Dangerous, Star Wars Galaxies, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Loom, Star Wars Starfighter, Monkey Island Special Edition, Starwars: Knights of The Old Republic, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Lucidity."
A few friends weren't in town during most of the sale, so I think they missed out on some of the better deals.
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If there is anyone able to take advantage of the next Zeno Clash deal due to not already owning it, I have failed in my duty as a human being.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
How does this game hold up past the demo levels? The demo was pretty visceral and had a really good feel to beating things. Does it last the whole way or does it get dumb?
Also, D2D has beaten Steam's price on Mirror's Edge:
http://www.direct2drive.com/holiday/
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If you ever see Tropico Reloaded on sale, nab it!
Exactly - the entire game's built around keeping momentum. At speed, you can 1) jump kick and knock people out of the way in a single hit (mostly), 2) run to cover faster than bullets can track you, 3) make a mockery of most of the game's jumps. It still has some annoyingly designed sections, but people call this hard?
Also, Zeno Clash - its only crime is being short. It is strange, interesting, different, and worth absolutely anyone capable of running HL2's attention! You won't be getting it on your fancy consoles, that's for sure.
Except on XBLA next spring. I guess it depends on how fancy you consider the 360 to be.
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I can see last 2 years here.
Myself: 240 eur
Gifts: 52 eur
heh
I feel so... puny.
From the sale, I nabbed Evil Genius, KotOR, and ME. There were some other borderline calls, but I ended up backing down. I'm already practically out of space on my Bootcamp partition, and that's without this round installed.
Some people have been mentioning having Steam stuff stored on an external drive. How's that work out? Are you doing the backup option, then restoring them when you want to play, or is there some way to actually play from another drive?
If the former, is the process pretty streamlined, or is there a lot of back and forth on it?
Lastly, since others are asking too, can I get a PA group (or Armadeaddon, or whatever the cool kids are doing these days) invite? Steam id is MrHeist
To play them, they have to be in your steam folder. You can either use the back-up feature from Steam (which will back games up into one or several executables, which you can run to extract the stuff in steam folder) or swap out the files in the steam folder yourself.
For Armadeaddon jump into the groupchat and an officer will invite you eventually.
My Backloggery
Go on, go find out who the world's highest-paid government executive is.
Being transparent about it is what pushes Singapore corruption down, I guess; no shady millions to build palaces for the Prime Minister whilst pretending it's 'for the people' or fleets of imported luxury cars. This is a government willing to stand up and publicly advocate a 'meritocratic' civil service and other elements of its ideology, and apparently a culture willing to buy into it.
That doesn't seem bad at all. Now to just get past the psychosis of "OMG what if I'm out traveling with my computer and suddenly need to play Lost Coast?! I can't not have it on my drive- better keep it around, just in case"
Speak of the Devil!
gog.com just added the DRM free game into their catalog.
One problem with steam backup would be you need to be online to install them. Once your installed, you can then run offline mode and close steam. Then when you're out and about just run steam back in offline mode and your fine.
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I hope you got most of those on deals, because I've spent less than that in the 6 or 7 years (I don't remember exactly how long) I've had steam. Granted, when I first started steam was just an annoying program I had to put up with for no apparent reason to play Counterstrike, and not the awesome download service it is today.
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