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Nathyrra posted:Rumoured 23/06 date for Steam sale confirmed.
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Origin as a download service is totally fine and their tech support has always been super prompt + helpful to me whenever I had a problem. The main issue is remembering to use Origin.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:01
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The Origin experience as a whole is probably better than Steam if only because of support actually existing. You even get free classics every once in a while. Its definitely no Uplay. But it doesn't have all the animes, or that gay mini game collection so what are you going to do besides play ball.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:08
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It had Nox as the free download a couple weeks ago, which is pretty much worth the price of admission.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:11
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Origin is ok but one of the reasons for that is because it's not as huge as Steam. If it got hit by the amount of people that go on Steam every day you'd start seeing the same problems Steam has.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:15
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Palpek posted:Origin is ok but one of the reasons for that is because it's not as huge as Steam. If it got hit by the amount of people that go on Steam every day you'd start seeing the same problems Steam has. It's also pretty easy (though a bit janky) to get Origin games to launch through Steam.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:17
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Mr. Flunchy posted:It's also pretty easy (though a bit janky) to get Origin games to launch through Steam. Actually, how do you mean? I remember trying to get Syndicate and it was a mess (putting the whole Origin as the shortcut on Steam) and it didn't work very well in the end.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:19
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Most origin games don't actually need to be launched through Origin.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:28
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sauer kraut posted:EA finally got me, DA:Inquisition GOTY for 20 bucks was the key to installing Origin and even giving them money. GOA edition 20 dollars. If I want to buy all the Story DLC currently on sale? 30 dollars. I don't understand these prices.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:28
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Saoshyant posted:Actually, how do you mean? I remember trying to get Syndicate and it was a mess (putting the whole Origin as the shortcut on Steam) and it didn't work very well in the end. I do this, which seems to work fine: Step 1. Open Steam and click 'ADD A GAME / Add a Non-Steam Game'. Browse for the game .exe. Click Open and hit Add Selected Programs. Step 2. Copy the path to the Origin exe. Step 3. Open Steam and find the shortcut you made and select properties. Under 'Target' paste the file path BEHIND the path that was there when you opened properties in the first place. Make sure there's a space in between the paths and quotations(" ") that appear. Example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\GAMENAME\GAMENAME.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Origin.exe" and hit close. Step 4. Go the Origin Application Settings. Under General, Uncheck 'Automatically Launch Origin When I log into Windows'. Now Under the Advanced Tab, Check 'Automatically Exit After closing a game'. That's mostly nicked from a reddit post, but it's what I use for Origin games. edit: Mokinokaro posted:Most origin games don't actually need to be launched through Origin. This too - especially the older games they give away.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:29
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WirelessPillow posted:GOA edition 20 dollars. It's so you feel compelled to buy the complete edition to get what you want because its cheaper and EA/Ubisoft/WB/Activision/etc gets to add a tick mark to their "copies sold" column.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:30
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Mr. Flunchy posted:That's mostly nicked from a reddit post, but it's what I use for Origin games. Thanks, going to use that whenever I get the chance to play the Mass Effect games.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:32
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Kibayasu posted:It's so you feel compelled to buy the complete edition to get what you want because its cheaper and EA/Ubisoft/WB/Activision/etc gets to add a tick mark to their "copies sold" column. Funny, all it does is make me go "Welp maybe it will be cheaper next year".
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Jun 16, 2016 14:34
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Saoshyant posted:Thanks, going to use that whenever I get the chance to play the Mass Effect games. The first two Mass Effects can still be bought and launched directly from Steam, iirc. You still have to hunt for all the DLC through the kooky Bioware network thing unless you buy the complete editions, however.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:36
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Palpek posted:Origin is ok but one of the reasons for that is because it's not as huge as Steam. If it got hit by the amount of people that go on Steam every day you'd start seeing the same problems Steam has. This to me is a pretty poor excuse for bad service.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:43
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WirelessPillow posted:Funny, all it does is make me go "Welp maybe it will be cheaper next year". This policy's also made me swear off buying any Bethesda product until the GOTY edition is out. Except Dishonored 2 
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Jun 16, 2016 14:45
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Underwhelmed posted:This to me is a pretty poor excuse for bad service. Valve could definitely use another customer service rep bolster the number up from zero, that's for sure.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:45
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Origin Access doesn't look like a bad deal, I'd be tempted to try it out if I didn't already own almost everything on that list that I would be interested in.exquisite tea posted:The first two Mass Effects can still be bought and launched directly from Steam, iirc. You still have to hunt for all the DLC through the kooky Bioware network thing unless you buy the complete editions, however. There are no complete editions for the Mass Effect games. It's really dumb and the DLC never goes on sale.
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Jun 16, 2016 14:58
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exquisite tea posted:The first two Mass Effects can still be bought and launched directly from Steam, iirc. You still have to hunt for all the DLC through the kooky Bioware network thing unless you buy the complete editions, however. Mind linking me to the latter? Last time I checked they had a Mass Effect Trilogy that lacked the big DLCs except for the first game. e;f,b on the answer
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Jun 16, 2016 14:59
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Veotax posted:There are no complete editions for the Mass Effect games. It's really dumb and the DLC never goes on sale. I thought the Mass Effect trilogy got you all the relevant DLC from ME1+ME2. I guess that's only for consoles?
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Jun 16, 2016 14:59
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Palpek posted:I'm gonna make a thread. It's still too early though. Heck yes, I look forward to seeing the same posts in two threads.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:13
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exquisite tea posted:I thought the Mass Effect trilogy got you all the relevant DLC from ME1+ME2. I guess that's only for consoles? quote:you'd have to get for ME2: basically all the story heavy DLC's except one or two
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Jun 16, 2016 15:17
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Underwhelmed posted:This to me is a pretty poor excuse for bad service.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:21
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WirelessPillow posted:basically all the story heavy DLC's except one or two From Ashes I think you get just for buying ME3 new, and the Extended Cut is free. So for those getting these games for the first time, I'd say the order of importance for ME2 is Shadow Broker (must have), Kasumi (must have), and Overlord/Arrival being good but skippable. For ME3 you'd absolutely want Citadel, and Leviathan is good, too. But Omega is its own self-contained storyline and is totally skippable unless you just totally love the combat and Aria.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:23
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Ragequit posted:Heck yes, I look forward to seeing the same posts in two threads.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:23
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Palpek posted:Me too, it's double the excitement. I'm doing endurance training, it's not gonna be easy to double my shitposting.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:25
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The Bramble posted:Ugh, something really upsets me about that PayPal dweeb. Me, I'm just disturbed by the fact that he kind of looks like if Reggie Watts lost almost all of his weight and shaved his head.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:27
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Seems like customer service reps should scale by customer. In fact, it seems like in theory smaller businesses would have a harder time accurately resourcing customer service reps because of load balancing dynamics and more costly redundancy producing slack that probably necessitates them performing other roles in addition to customer service. There are other factors like having the resources to capitalize on reusable work like knowledge bases etc /wage cuck
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Jun 16, 2016 15:27
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exquisite tea posted:I thought the Mass Effect trilogy got you all the relevant DLC from ME1+ME2. I guess that's only for consoles? Not even then, you just get whatever DLC came packed-in with the game at release. The PS3 version is the best value, since ME2 released on the PS3 so late it comes with all the DLC apart from Arrival (which launched after the PS3 release) and the weapon/costume packs (which they decided to sell rather than pack in with the game). No matter which format you buy the trilogy pack on ME3 come with none of the DLC.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:30
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Edmond Dantes posted:I'm doing endurance training, it's not gonna be easy to double my shitposting. 
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Jun 16, 2016 15:42
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exquisite tea posted:From Ashes I think you get just for buying ME3 new, and the Extended Cut is free. So for those getting these games for the first time, I'd say the order of importance for ME2 is Shadow Broker (must have), Kasumi (must have), and Overlord/Arrival being good but skippable. Deluxe edition / collectors edition only. I played without Javik since I got the normal edition and apparently he was a really big deal in the story.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:44
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Javik fills in a ton of details about the Prothians and their war with the Reapers, but he doesn't really add anything to the main story of the game.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:49
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So does One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 just not work with xbox one controllers? I'm on Windows 10 and have seen other people complaining about the same thing. All it does is spin my camera in a circle and still show all the keyboard prompts. The controller works fine with Rocket League, etc. so I don't think that's the issue. I could try it on a 360 controller I guess? But if the controller support is this bad then I'll just refund the game today I suppose.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:50
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I think Javik is a really important character. I've never played through the game without him but I think it would feel incomplete without his presence there, especially since he reverses your entire conceptions around who the Protheans were and their motivations for "uplifting" the other races. He also owns as a squadmate in general.
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Jun 16, 2016 15:53
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Oh, sure. He adds a ton and I would never play the game without that DLC installed, but he isn't 100% vital to the story. If you didn't know the DLC existed and played the game without it you wouldn't really notice anything missing apart from his room in the Normandy being locked.
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Jun 16, 2016 16:01
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Elvis_Maximus posted:So does One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 just not work with xbox one controllers? I'm on Windows 10 and have seen other people complaining about the same thing. It's an Xbox One controller specific problem, the right trigger is kept pressed in and I haven't been able to fix it. 360 should be fine. There's no button prompts tho, unfortunately
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Jun 16, 2016 16:03
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exquisite tea posted:I think Javik is a really important character. I've never played through the game without him but I think it would feel incomplete without his presence there, especially since he reverses your entire conceptions around who the Protheans were and their motivations for "uplifting" the other races. He also owns as a squadmate in general.
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Jun 16, 2016 16:16
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I played Mass Effect 3: SimCity Apology edition without that guy and the game felt fine to me. If he was that important he probably shouldn't have been DLC
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Ragequit posted:Heck yes, I look forward to seeing the same posts in two threads. I feel safe knowing the haul posts will be quarantined in their own thread.  1. Banished 2. StarTopia 3. Imperium Romanum Gold Edition 4. Port Royale 2 5. 1849 6. Cities in Motion 7. AdvertCity 8. Anno 2070 9. Big Pharma 10. Tropico Reloaded 11. The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom 12. SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition 13. Knights and Merchants 14. Patrician III 15. Stronghold HD 16. Children of the Nile    There are plenty of historical city-builders, but only two set in ancient Egypt that I know of. One is Pharaoh, an off-shoot of the classic Caesar series, and this is the other. Now over a decade old, Children of the Nile gave players the freedom to build great cities and earn prestige on vast maps, with a detailed citizen simulation that rivaled that of the Tropico series. It may be showing its age, but there's plenty more reasons to take a look at it besides it being nearly the only game in town. In Children of the Nile, you are Pharaoh, absolute ruler of your little patch of desert. From your palace you order the construction of homes and shops, direct the tasks of your citizens, and seek to raise your own prestige. That first point turns out to be blessedly easier than in most city-builders, because this game has a distinct lack of currency or building materials. Most homes are completely free to grant space to, and you need only wait for the residents to move in from whatever uncivilized village they've been grubbing around in. Basic shops and services are also free, and any key buildings beyond that require only a small amount of bricks to erect. Right from the get-go, then, you are completely open to build and expand as you see fit. There ARE resources, of course, but the important ones are very easy to keep track of. Your most basic resource is food, which feeds your people and is used in your civic buildings as a sort of currency. The peasant class farms food for you automatically, but are limited in number by how many nobles you have. And your nobles are limited only by your ability to provide them services, most of which cost you additional food. This simple balance keeps the game on a steady pace of expansion, where you're never really limited by resources and would really have to go out of your way to foul up. As you expand you'll start to run across the more granular resources, everything from papayrus reeds to obsidian quarries. Your shops need access to raw materials to make goods, and the most complex construction projects like statues and pyramids require special stone. As I mentioned, Children of the Nile operates much like Tropico where each citizen is modeled and must go about their day in real-time. This could threaten to cause bottlenecks and catastrophic failures as it does in the earlier Tropicos, but here your citizens have generous ranges of travel and stay focused on their tasks. You'll still run into some folks too busy or lazy to go pray or shop, but the consequences of irritating your citizens is very mild and usually easily rectified. There are dozens of buildings and services to construct, from temples to courts to tombs, and in most scenarios you'll need to make the most of all of them. Key to the progression systems is Prestige, a measure of how respected your Pharaoh is. Prestige is needed to recruit more educated workers, key positions like priests and overseers, and is earned by constructing grand buildings and decorations, winning military victories, and other exploits. Prestige can also degrade over time and you lose some when your Pharaoh passes on, so it's an element that requires constant attention. Usually the paths to earning Prestige in a given scenario are obvious, and the rest of the game is relaxed enough that you'll have plenty of time to focus on your fortune and glory. I did mention military victories and other exploits, because Children of the Nile is not content to give you just one plot of land to lord over. You also have a world map that shows all of Egypt and the surrounding lands, with points of interest marked. For a cost of food, envoys, and other resources, you can open new trade routes, set up labor camps for resources not found on your map (very useful for the limestone needed for pyramids), and attack barbarian encampments. Combat on the world map requires no interaction, you just send troops like resources, but in harder scenarios you may be attacked and will need to raise and outfit an army. It's a pretty sizable undertaking but again there's no real combat to speak of, your soldiers automatically seek out and destroy invaders. You'll find plenty to do in each of the game's 15 scenarios, for the maps are enormous and offer multiple locations that would suit a city. Resources are also scattered liberally so you're never really tied to a single spot except in the case of quarries. All of this is rendered in some chunky but serviceable 3D, complete with shadows and rising Nile waters, but the graphics are really where the game shows its age. Your cities can easily grow into huge, sprawling affairs that are hard to parse without the modern accoutrements of depth of field and fluid camera controls. The sound design still holds up at least, with plenty of quaint sound effects and little dialogue quips from your citizens. As long as the dated graphics don't throw you off this is a fantastically interesting and chill builder that's easy to get into and hard to put down.
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Srice posted:It's an Xbox One controller specific problem, the right trigger is kept pressed in and I haven't been able to fix it. 360 should be fine. Well, if you're fine with modifying the game files a bit, you can get the button prompts - https://steamcommunity.com/app/331600/discussions/0/520518053449569139/
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