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I've been using the hell out of Steam's "watch people play games" thing, it's a pretty strong competitor for twitch, especially since it's built right into the client. Anyway I want more friends so I have more games to watch, add me, steam name same as forums name
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Hesh Ballantine posted:Anyway I want more friends so I have more games to watch, add me, steam name same as forums name You don't need to be friends with someone to watch that person's stream.
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A good poster posted:You don't need to be friends with someone to watch that person's stream. Oh neat, how do I find people that are online and playing that are not my friends?
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Mar 6, 2015 13:21
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Gestalt Intellect posted:After all that I had some unrelated and unexpected problems getting windows 7 to validate because it was an upgrade-only copy, but my new hardware was incompatible with my old hard drive that had XP on it, while my new hard drive wouldn't let me install XP on it. Not mocking you or anything just curious why you ended up going to such lengths.
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Hesh Ballantine posted:Oh neat, how do I find people that are online and playing that are not my friends? Community->Broadcasts to get a general list of active streams ordered by number of viewers, or go to a game's community hub and click Broadcasts to see the active streams for that game.
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Mar 6, 2015 13:23
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Pre-ordering is good when there's financial incentive to do so, and you were probably going to buy and play day 1 anyway. I don't regret pre-ordering Shadow of Mordor based off week-prior hype. I got a great deal on GMG, and it was a great game. I beat Hotline Miami right after it released last year, and some discount is better than no discount, considering it'll be a day 1 buy for me no matter what. No harm in waiting until the last minute to pre-order though. Retailers discount too much to take it for granted that this is as good as it gets.
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Mar 6, 2015 13:54
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I wish I could pre-order HM2
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Mar 6, 2015 14:01
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 Hmmmmm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sVSy8GuBsI HMMMMMMM!
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Orv posted:That's not upsetting to hear, it's a completely valid point. The part where someone comes into a thread and says "Hey guys I've watched a ton of videos and this seems like something I'd personally enjoy, I'm gonna buy it" and nine people say "Never preorder." and usually not a single word more, that's annoying as gently caress. Sounds like pretty good advice I dunno why you have such a negative reaction to it
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:Sounds like pretty good advice I dunno why you have such a negative reaction to it VVV Now that is actual advice. Which is different from 'Never pre-order anything' which what was the other poster was complaining of. Darkhold fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Mar 6, 2015 14:55
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Lots of people get caught up in a new release and join in with all the people online just to notice months down the road that it's now offered on a significant discount and they have not played it in the interim. Then they get all upset and feel like they wasted money. Ofc its your money to spend how you want, but if you aren't going to play whatever in the next few weeks you might as well hold off buying it until then bc poo poo goes on sale constantly. 
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Mar 6, 2015 15:01
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Hesh Ballantine posted:I've been using the hell out of Steam's "watch people play games" thing, it's a pretty strong competitor for twitch, especially since it's built right into the client. It's really cool that friends can watch without any kind of setup, but I don't think it can really be considered a competitor to Twitch. The top stream right now has 24 viewers. That's nothing.
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I don't think people who preordered can't be swayed to cancel, so it's not pointless to mention the disadvantages. There's usually hardly any incentive to preorder and a lot of risk. I've bought a lof of games for full price but never preordered anything, gently caress that poo poo. As the old saying goes, the fool and his money are soon parted, especially when it comes to the "lol it's just  " crowd.
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Mar 6, 2015 15:08
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Orv posted:
So an ultra-stylish Rogue Legacy?
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simcity 5 is definitely going to be good, im going to preorder it
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Mar 6, 2015 15:13
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The Zelda Souls game is apparently being made by Shadowrun Returns devs Harebrain, I just found out
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lordfrikk posted:As the old saying goes, the fool and his money are soon parted, especially when it comes to the "lol it's just Go to any mid-level restaurant, any bar, two tickets to a movie and you've 'risked' just as much yet nobody wrings their hands and calls people fools for buying those without some careful screening process. Yet gaming it's some kind of weird shaming process if you think 'looks interesting I'll plunk my money down'.
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Mar 6, 2015 15:17
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If anyone's been waiting for Dreamfall: Chapters to come down in price, the Special Edition is currently up on the GoG Insomnia Sale for 60% off.
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Mar 6, 2015 15:18
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Peewi posted:It's really cool that friends can watch without any kind of setup, but I don't think it can really be considered a competitor to Twitch. The top stream right now has 24 viewers. That's nothing. But on the other hand Twitch is terrible and most of their popular streamers are terrible. Last time I glanced at their front page it was full of chicks with their tits hanging out playing ftp garbage and racking up the views.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:So an ultra-stylish Rogue Legacy? I can dig it.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:So an ultra-stylish Rogue Legacy? Arnold of Soissons posted:The Zelda Souls game is apparently being made by Shadowrun Returns devs Harebrain, I just found out Seems like it. Dunno how deep it'll go, but that trailer doesn't go too much into the apparent level mechanics, which supposedly shift and reconfigure as you play. As someone who loves roguelikes even I will freely admit most of them have garbage combat, so I hope this turns out alright.
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lordfrikk posted:I don't think people who preordered can't be swayed to cancel, so it's not pointless to mention the disadvantages. There's usually hardly any incentive to preorder and a lot of risk. I've bought a lof of games for full price but never preordered anything, gently caress that poo poo. As the old saying goes, the fool and his money are soon parted, especially when it comes to the "lol it's just Yeah that was definitely the case when Indie Bundles were red hot. You'd buy any of them and quality almost didn't matter since they had one marquee title in it. Considering most of them are unplayable indie messes, I feel kinda foolish for buying into that hype. I think preordering is fine - its 'riskier' than getting all the information and then making a purchase, but honestly part of the fun is playing a game before anyone has evaluated it so that you're unbiased and have minimal expectations. The anti-preordering thing is just a way for TotalBiscuit to justify you viewing his videos before you make a purchasing order.
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pre-ordering is for broken brain people
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What I don't get is why mentioning pre-ordering triggers some people into pretend smug laughter at the assumed furure whining. I'm getting HM2 for free money to get a nice little 10% off of it and I'll play it at release. I've never whined about "wasting" money on entertainment because I'm not a baby. The hypeboles and assumptions to make oneself feel good are off the charts though.
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Palpek posted:What I don't get is why mentioning pre-ordering triggers some people into pretend smug laughter at the assumed furure whining. I'm getting HM2 for free money to get a nice little 10% off of it and I'll play it at release. I've never whined about "wasting" money on entertainment because I'm not a baby. The hypeboles and assumptions to make oneself feel good are off the charts though. I mostly pre-order multiplayer games only because after like a month they'll probably be almost entirely dead, or for games that I am going to buy no matter what, like Homeworld Remastered. The rest I just wait for a sale. Even SimCity didn't end up screwing me because of this.
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The White Dragon posted:He's serious, though. Building your own PC is actually pretty easy these days. Don't buy an AMD display card for SteamOS. It's not a fanboy thing, their drivers are poo poo.
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Mar 6, 2015 15:45
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I generally don't preorder because getting burned when it turns out to suck is annoying. I still got Hotline Miami 2 because the first one was that amazing but something like Dying Light could have easily been Dead Island 2 with terrible platforming.
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Continuing with the PC building chat, I've given thought to building a PC before, but I don't trust myself enough to put one together without accidentally breaking something or buying parts that don't work. Late last year, I tried to upgrade my graphics card, but it wouldn't work since the motherboard wasn't compatible (specifically, I think it had to do with the BIOS being outdated, but there were no updates on HP that were recent enough to fix the issue).
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Dunno how accurate it is but the pcpartpicker website will tell you if stuff is incompatible and you could tell the goons in the build thread what you want and find out real fast and get called a retard as a bonus.
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Palpek posted:What I don't get is why mentioning pre-ordering triggers some people into pretend smug laughter at the assumed furure whining. I've never whined about "wasting" money on entertainment because I'm not a baby. The hypeboles and assumptions to make oneself feel good are off the charts though. 
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Darkhold posted:Yeah this is the kind of attitude that's so weird to me. So you feel smug because you don't pre-order games? There's nothing you own that you couldn't have found cheaper/better for your needs had you just done more research or waited for a few more months. Those things are cool real life fun things to do and aren't lame shut-in nerd poo poo dude
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He screamed into the void of an internet forum.
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Palpek posted:What I don't get is why mentioning pre-ordering triggers some people into pretend smug laughter at the assumed furure whining. I'm getting HM2 for free money to get a nice little 10% off of it and I'll play it at release. I've never whined about "wasting" money on entertainment because I'm not a baby. The hypeboles and assumptions to make oneself feel good are off the charts though. I guess now they get to smugly laugh about actual current whining
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Goofballs posted:Dunno how accurate it is but the pcpartpicker website will tell you if stuff is incompatible and you could tell the goons in the build thread what you want and find out real fast and get called a retard as a bonus. I finally built my first PC over Christmas after picking up all the parts during a Black Friday sale. pcpartpicker really does make it easy, as it catches any incompatibilities (your graphics card is too big for your case! your motherboard is incompatiable with your processor!). Then you can just pull the list of parts off the site with a link and paste in the thread for feedback and people will generally tell you if there's any lovely parts in your build. It really is a great way to save money and get a good gaming machine in the process. It took me a morning to build it and get Windows up and running and that's going at a glacial pace. The only scary part was fitting the microprocessor into the motherboard since that's a bit delicate, after that it's just a matter of screwing/pressing all the parts into position. If you're willing to do the research but still don't want to built it, I think even some vendors will add an option to build your computer and test it for you for a flat rate that's not awful. Only downside is you have to get all your parts with them and probably lose out a few hundred in savings depending on when you're buying your parts.
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I dunno, if HM2 turns out to be poo poo then I'll just move on with my life. You can have an active social life and enjoy playing games you know. Most normal people manage to do it.
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Orv posted:He screamed into the void of an internet forum. An internet nerd forum that costs as much as preordering Hotline Miami 2, natch.
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Gorn Myson posted:I dunno, if HM2 turns out to be poo poo then I'll just move on with my life. You can have an active social life and enjoy playing games you know. Most normal people manage to do it. I don't believe you
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hemale in pain posted:Those things are cool real life fun things to do and aren't lame shut-in nerd poo poo dude
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Darkhold posted:So you've never been to a bad movie with a friend, never had a bad time out, or been to a bad restaurant? Alright well feel free to expand my list until you think of something as lame as playing video games yet has the same possibility of disappointment. The fact that it's easy to make bad decisions with your money in many ways doesn't make it a good idea to do it in another context though? If you preorder you are taking more of a risk than not because you have less information to confirm that you're spending your money well, while buying something after release is still a risk but much less of one because you can have a much better idea what you're getting. I got incredibly lucky with borderlands 2 given gearbox's track record, but then I still have motherfucking brink sitting in my steam library, mocking me every time I scroll by it while furiously trying to avert my eyes. And the $10 I saved by preordering borderlands is a lot less than whatever I paid for preordering brink (I try to forget), money which I could have saved by waiting a single week to learn that it was a terrible game.
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Darkhold posted:So you've never been to a bad movie with a friend, never had a bad time out, or been to a bad restaurant? Alright well feel free to expand my list until you think of something as lame as playing video games yet has the same possibility of disappointment. Buying wargaming minatures? You don't get the same chance of them not working but the sheer bitter shame and disappointment lasts longer.
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