brotkasten
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Does the Definitive Edition have an interesting city?
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Does the Definitive Edition have an interesting city?
It does require uPlay.
Mutant Mudds is not generic. It actually has some unique ideas about what makes a platformer, coupled to some tight core mechanics and good level design. It doesn't come through in screenshots, which is half the game's problem in sales, but it's worth playing.
mad jelly
DJSebolski
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Dear Gaming Industry,
Enough with the Definitive Edition crap.
Enough with the Definitive Edition crap.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Tried to get into Scourge: Outbreak (3rd person UE3 shooter bundle fodder).
Then they throws these bullet-sponge alien bugs at me.
Infinite re-spawning + big guys that one-shot you = fuck this shit.
Not even worth keeping it installed to get cards.
Then they throws these bullet-sponge alien bugs at me.
Infinite re-spawning + big guys that one-shot you = fuck this shit.
Not even worth keeping it installed to get cards.
I'm fine with them making them, not fine with the prices they're charging.
Crimsonclaw111
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No more Pc versions then?
Beelzebubs
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No more Pc versions then?
I'd laugh but then I remember purchasing Saints Row 2
FiveElementNinja
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Yeah I'm curious what makes it "definitive". Is there anything new or different?
Are there any differences between the Steam version and a regular non-steam version?
Like I'm assuming the Steam version track your stats, etc while the other one doesn't. (I know there are no achievements)
PetriP-TNT
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What to learn from this situation: Wait for the definitive editions and skip the "kinda shitty but all right" editions.
The Steam version tracks your playtime, if you want to be generous and count that as a stat.
MMBosstones86
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But both X-Men Legends were good! And you can use Magneto in the second one.
Hell yeah. Would love for a Steam release of these.
Playfire is good if you have a hard time deciding which game to play next. Most time frames are 7-14 days.
someguyinahat
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Okay, folks, up for more impressions of a point and click? As promised, since I won it here (thanks again!) here are my impressions of The Samaritan Paradox:
The story: I used the word "engaging" yesterday, and upon finishing it, I'll happily upgrade it to "gripping." In turns, you'll be intrigued, enchanted, excited, shocked, downright disgusted, happy...all in the space of 5 or 6 hours (a healthy length for a point-and-click.) Without giving away too much, you play Ord Salomon, a Swedish cryptologist - so solving puzzles makes sense for you - and Ph.D. student in the 80s who finds a code in a book and sets off a mystery that branches from familial connections into international intrigue and local religious corruption. You also get to play a story within a story, as he finds chapters of a book. His "reading" them is your playing them.
The graphics: Not the best, but hand-drawn. There are antialiasing features that I strongly recommend. It's very easy to believe that it's the 80s in this game: the very first scene shows a television presenter wearing a brown jacket with an orange shirt and a green tie, complete with a small moustache, before you get loud static as the TV goes on the fritz. Then the main character's bright green rotary phone rings. A lot of the little details were correct. So it gets points for atmosphere in that respect. How strange that I go from one point and click set in the 80s in a foreign country to this one, and how one felt so wrong and one felt so right. Take note, Detective Case and Clown-Bot.
The dialogue: Very well done. It was set in Sweden, but they wisely decided to let everyone speak normally and not give anyone Swedish accents as they spoke English. I think it was enough that they give people typically Swedish names and left it at that. The voice acting was superb, and for a guy who's played his share of point and clicks, a lot of the names were familiar. A handful of spelling errors but nothing too egregious, and a handful of points where names are pronounced differently and they really shouldn't have been. "My name is Freja (pronounced Fray-ya.)" "What can I do for you, Fray-ja?" But that was probably the only jarring thing about it. Everything else was great.
The gameplay: What you'd expect from a point and click. The worst things about it are the floating inventory bar that pops up when you're trying to leave a room, and occasionally items get sticky - you think you've stopped trying to use an inventory item on something when it tells you that you can't use that item on "To Village." But overall it's good. There is one achievement that is broken for some people (including me) and a second one that rewards you for taking a moral choice you might not necessarily agree with, so be aware of that.
The puzzles: The meat of the story. One particularly good one happens early on. Obviously I won't spoil, but I found a clue, thinking I needed to use it for this one thing. I did, but the clue was in fact for two different (but linked) things. Once I saw it, it was quite remarkable how it was done. There are a few puzzles which require precise timing, and I'm not a fan of those. But overall it's a good puzzling experience.
The music and sound: Limited. Not a lot of tracks to speak of. None particularly bad.
The verdict: Damn good. A story with brain, heart, and a little something to churn the stomach. Best point and click I've played since Blackwell Deception, and I don't make that comparison lightly. For a studio's first effort, I'm truly excited to see what they've got in store for us next. GET IT. Currently ten bucks on Steam. Worth it at that price? ...Probably! But keep an eye on it for a sale, just in case.
The story: I used the word "engaging" yesterday, and upon finishing it, I'll happily upgrade it to "gripping." In turns, you'll be intrigued, enchanted, excited, shocked, downright disgusted, happy...all in the space of 5 or 6 hours (a healthy length for a point-and-click.) Without giving away too much, you play Ord Salomon, a Swedish cryptologist - so solving puzzles makes sense for you - and Ph.D. student in the 80s who finds a code in a book and sets off a mystery that branches from familial connections into international intrigue and local religious corruption. You also get to play a story within a story, as he finds chapters of a book. His "reading" them is your playing them.
The graphics: Not the best, but hand-drawn. There are antialiasing features that I strongly recommend. It's very easy to believe that it's the 80s in this game: the very first scene shows a television presenter wearing a brown jacket with an orange shirt and a green tie, complete with a small moustache, before you get loud static as the TV goes on the fritz. Then the main character's bright green rotary phone rings. A lot of the little details were correct. So it gets points for atmosphere in that respect. How strange that I go from one point and click set in the 80s in a foreign country to this one, and how one felt so wrong and one felt so right. Take note, Detective Case and Clown-Bot.
The dialogue: Very well done. It was set in Sweden, but they wisely decided to let everyone speak normally and not give anyone Swedish accents as they spoke English. I think it was enough that they give people typically Swedish names and left it at that. The voice acting was superb, and for a guy who's played his share of point and clicks, a lot of the names were familiar. A handful of spelling errors but nothing too egregious, and a handful of points where names are pronounced differently and they really shouldn't have been. "My name is Freja (pronounced Fray-ya.)" "What can I do for you, Fray-ja?" But that was probably the only jarring thing about it. Everything else was great.
The gameplay: What you'd expect from a point and click. The worst things about it are the floating inventory bar that pops up when you're trying to leave a room, and occasionally items get sticky - you think you've stopped trying to use an inventory item on something when it tells you that you can't use that item on "To Village." But overall it's good. There is one achievement that is broken for some people (including me) and a second one that rewards you for taking a moral choice you might not necessarily agree with, so be aware of that.
The puzzles: The meat of the story. One particularly good one happens early on. Obviously I won't spoil, but I found a clue, thinking I needed to use it for this one thing. I did, but the clue was in fact for two different (but linked) things. Once I saw it, it was quite remarkable how it was done. There are a few puzzles which require precise timing, and I'm not a fan of those. But overall it's a good puzzling experience.
The music and sound: Limited. Not a lot of tracks to speak of. None particularly bad.
The verdict: Damn good. A story with brain, heart, and a little something to churn the stomach. Best point and click I've played since Blackwell Deception, and I don't make that comparison lightly. For a studio's first effort, I'm truly excited to see what they've got in store for us next. GET IT. Currently ten bucks on Steam. Worth it at that price? ...Probably! But keep an eye on it for a sale, just in case.
Sharkiller
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playfire redone the rewards page listing all the rewards and which is completed
https://www.playfire.com/a/rewards
https://www.playfire.com/a/rewards
I wonder what's considered the best Console Version - I've done some research, but I couldn't find anybody comparing them.
Well it's Square Enix, everything comes to PC/Steam eventually (even more so their Western stuff). Of the big hitters that they has released recently that only really leaves Hitman Absolution as not getting a Directors Cut/Definitive Edition (Thief is already on the new consoles so no idea if that would get the same treatment) so I guess once they have done with that we might get to (re)buy them. You get some +1's I get to ride around Northpoint and terrorise an island of pirates again!
Hahaha well my reasoning aside from loving the concept and promo art of Sleeping Dogs is that hopefully more sales might mean more of a push for Sleeping Dogs 2. It's been very quite on that front, even that Triad Wars game (well apart from that tweet at Christmas with someone's TV in the background a tiny bit in view).
DJSebolski
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Looks like this gen is the Definitive Edition era.
MMBosstones86
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Hopefully it's better than the Steam Backgrounds.
Did you start it?
Sometimes this happens when an exe fails to stop, go into your task manager and kill the process.
The Steam version tracks your playtime, if you want to be generous and count that as a stat.
for me playtime is a stat
Does the game launch directly from Steam or does it still uses SE launcher?
KainXVIII
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If only they process my achievements, have tons of games that does not counts and i can't get my rewards (like in Killer is Dead)
I believe this if from an old GameSpot review (I played on GC and had not complaints):
The Dear Leader
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Thanks, CS:GO knife.
Woah cool, what knife did you sell?
An $80 one
MMBosstones86
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Dawn of War Franchise for $20 (via Putin) sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
Hope it comes back around for the winter seal.
Hope it comes back around for the winter seal.
Some urban flip thing. It was the first crate I'd ever unlocked, haha.
No, it's a run-back-and-forth adventure game. Collectables exist but can be almost completely ignored. It's not Starfox Adventures.
You did it wrong, man. You don't buy separate keys, you buy the master key that's available from Shoppington right off the bat. I didn't end up using flowers at all. Just smash every pot you run past on your quests and you'll be more than fine (unless you're a completionist who needs to spend like 20,000 gold maxing out the stealth necklace even though it's useless).
The Dear Leader
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That's awesome, I don't play a lot of CS but god damn do I really want to get a knife or some rare item in a case.
How else is the company going to charge full price 12-24 months after initial launch?
They are a bit meh but I've held on to the one I got
Sleepy Dawgs Background said:
I was going to flip my Tomb Raider one too as it goes for around 9p but I'm oddly attached
Tomb Raider Background said:
I'm probably a bit overprotective of it (ha!)
Gunstarheroes
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I might be able to grab some Talisman DLC for cheap, awesome
guys, I had such a funny moment right now, gotta share this. I was playing T.E.C. 3001, having fun more or less... until I hit 6th level, I think it was 6th, so it has triple barriers at the start and after lots of walls and a battery on the right, I tried maybe 10 times, if not more, I hit the wall every single time, if I don't hit the wall, I leave track, I decided finally not to go for battery, result is the same, I'm literally laughing out laud here. This game is definitely too fast for me
. Anybody is playing it?
, or I'm not seeing something
The alpha keys that have been/will be given out will be revoked later; those who purchase the game, however, are entitled to the full release.
Pretty sure the Gamecube version was considered the best but I doubt there's a huge difference. Personally I preferred the original to the sequel as well.
Well I thought maybe they'd still have the X-Men license since it was typically dished out separately over the years and has had more consistent success. Guess not. Didn't realize their last X-Men game was tied up in all the Silicon Knights mess as well. But good news, a mobile game is in development!
Sometimes the game industry makes my soul hurt.
You can't. You'll have to ask. There's going to be quite the shitstorm if those who'd previously purchased the non-Steam version are asked to buy the game again once it hits beta.
corrosivefrost
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StAidan
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Thanks for the writeup, this game wasn't on my radar until the recent bundle, but I managed to win a giveaway copy here last week. Glad to hear it's as fun as it looked to me.
These days I can't read "Prague" without thinking of Hanna, haha.
There's only one app. In the here and now, you own the game, but from the sounds of things it seems as though the devs may consider the Steam keys given to owners of the non-Steam alpha version a gift, one that will be revoked once the game moves to the beta phase. Best contact the devs and seek clarification.
Jawmuncher
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I was amazed when I saw I had Dawn of War 2 and the expansion from amazon for 5 bucks back in the day . Sure hasn't been that price in ages.
There's got to be a system. Usually I'd say "oh, well everyone will go for the top one so I'll pick a different one" but then I think "oh wait, what if everyone's saying that?" and second guess myself. It's worse when they're like this:
Game #3
Game #1
Game #2
Oh god, which is the first one? What do I do? I struggle with Modbot game theory often.
corrosivefrost
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I was sorta kidding.
In your case, I would email the person who sent you the key and ask them if you're affected by the alpha/beta news you just told us about.
hahaha, if it's for mine, I'm sorry I forgot the FREEFORALL tag.
Sorta like how I thought that LEGO Star Wars/Indiana Jones weren't on Steam because I'd never seen them on sale with the rest of the LEGO games? :lol
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