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corn in the bible posted:Gold Edition is often on sale and includes most of the dlc (not Morrowind or the dungeons... but the dungeons suck so whatever). Not sure if it's on sale right now though? It is: for 30 bucks...which is 3 times more than the tentative purchase I'm merely thinking about
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Morter posted:It is: for 30 bucks...which is 3 times more than the tentative purchase I'm merely thinking about Well to hell with that then
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 03:11 |
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The basic edition is like eighty hours of content if you do all of the original quests and stuff, and while some of the DLC is really neat, a lot of it is incredibly shoddy, like the Dark Brotherhood stuff giving you an instakill sneak attack but then having to rely on stealth AI even shittier than Skyrim's. If you really want more content, it'd probably behoove you to see how much you like the base content and then wiki up the expansions and see which ones you want, if any.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 03:22 |
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Cool, thanks for all the helpful responses! Edit: Do people sincerely have fun doing this? Morter fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Aug 25, 2017 |
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In order to give back, MF4X7-KCIIZ-Q9WKM For those that like levelling cities by yelling at them. Puzzles! HNNBM-0XPAK-XIIVW G4R5T-NXGX3-FBBB8 Steamworld Dig, already have on my Wii. H768E-AI3IM-R57W6
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 04:10 |
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Morter posted:Cool, thanks for all the helpful responses! Why in gods name are you wanting to grind to 50 in a game where levels are meaningless.
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Rookersh posted:Why in gods name are you wanting to grind to 50 in a game where levels are meaningless. Because at level 50 the champion point system kicks in on a new character, so depending on what you intend to do with the character being level 50 is actually necessary. All of the things that require champion points are MMO/multiplayer focused however, so ignore that bit of insanity for your purposes, Morter.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 05:24 |
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You're welcome for lurking me from the Trump thread
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 05:29 |
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:
i did too, sorry. it's just that good of an image
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 05:32 |
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Mark Laidlaw, head writer for HL1+2+Episodes, put up his version of HL2 Episode 3's ending with the names changed, as a letter from Gordon Freeman, but obviously intact structurally. http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/ , or http://archive.is/8aDmx, or heres a paste with the names fixed : quote:Epistle 3
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 05:52 |
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That is a good quote.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:05 |
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Everyone knows Gordon can't write.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:11 |
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lovely Wizard posted:Mark Laidlaw, head writer for HL1+2+Episodes, put up his version of HL2 Episode 3's ending with the names changed, as a letter from Gordon Freeman, but obviously intact structurally. http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/ , or http://archive.is/8aDmx, or heres a paste with the names fixed : this reminds me of the mega64 episode of how shenmue 3 was supposed to go down, so basically i hope that the crowdfunded shenmue 3 also features the villain escaping to the moon, so you go to america to smoke weed with some hippies, which makes you really high, which allows you to reach the moon
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:13 |
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Did he have this planned out years ago? Or did he just recently write this? The fact that Valve never finished that story is really annoying. I know it's played out to wish for HL3, but the argument that no one wants single player shooters anymore is just wrong. Doom and Prey are prime examples of single player shooters that people love. But I guess Valve doesn't make games anymore.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:26 |
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prey has sold horribly
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:30 |
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Cojawfee posted:Did he have this planned out years ago? Or did he just recently write this? The fact that Valve never finished that story is really annoying. I know it's played out to wish for HL3, but the argument that no one wants single player shooters anymore is just wrong. Doom and Prey are prime examples of single player shooters that people love. But I guess Valve doesn't make games anymore.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:31 |
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Cojawfee posted:Did he have this planned out years ago? Or did he just recently write this? The fact that Valve never finished that story is really annoying. I know it's played out to wish for HL3, but the argument that no one wants single player shooters anymore is just wrong. Doom and Prey are prime examples of single player shooters that people love. But I guess Valve doesn't make games anymore. There is a place for the single player shooter still but valve has its eyes set on dollar signs many orders of magnitude larger these days.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:37 |
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Cojawfee posted:But I guess Valve doesn't make games anymore. valve just announced a new game though!
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:43 |
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Steam is a good service but its runaway success early on has stifled competition and made valve extremely boring Gabe Newell is literal Satan
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:45 |
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Awesome! posted:prey has sold horribly Probably because no one knew it was even coming out. I had no idea until Giant Bomb posted quicklook of it. Most people I've seen who have played it have enjoyed it. I'd say it did decently well for zero advertising and people either having never heard of it or assuming it was a remaster of the original Prey. Half Life 3 wouldn't have to be some AAA masterpiece. Just finish the story, and make it look decent. Just the fact that it's Half Life 3 would make it sell well by default. Doorknob Slobber posted:valve just announced a new game though! It's probably just a modded Hearthstone to have Dota stuff instead of HOTS.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:46 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:Everyone knows Gordon can't write.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:47 |
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lovely Wizard posted:Mark Laidlaw, head writer for HL1+2+Episodes, put up his version of HL2 Episode 3's ending with the names changed, as a letter from Gordon Freeman, but obviously intact structurally. http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/ , or http://archive.is/8aDmx, or heres a paste with the names fixed : Parts of this are cool to imagine as action game set pieces, but in terms of a story, it's sort of a let down.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:50 |
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Nonsense, he's carved tons of dirty words into walls with the crowbar.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:50 |
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Megasabin posted:Parts of this are cool to imagine as action game set pieces, but in terms of a story, it's sort of a let down.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:52 |
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Scalding Coffee posted:Gordon can't speak.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:56 |
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I haven't cared about the idea of HL3 in over 10 years, we've got hundreds of better games that we can actually play instead of vaporware based on first-person platforming.
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lovely Wizard posted:Mark Laidlaw, head writer for HL1+2+Episodes, put up his version of HL2 Episode 3's ending with the names changed, as a letter from Gordon Freeman, but obviously intact structurally. http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/ , or http://archive.is/8aDmx, or heres a paste with the names fixed : The last paragraph is so heartbreaking : Cojawfee posted:Did he have this planned out years ago? Or did he just recently write this? The fact that Valve never finished that story is really annoying. I know it's played out to wish for HL3, but the argument that no one wants single player shooters anymore is just wrong. Doom and Prey are prime examples of single player shooters that people love. But I guess Valve doesn't make games anymore. That's kind of a naive argument about why HL is never gonna be made. Half Life is never gonna be made because it's just not in the corporate structure of Valve any more, or in their interests. The company is explicitly set up in a pseudo-anarchy where devs can literally wheel their desks (like actually, everyone's desks are on wheels) and work on whatever projects they want to. A lot of their recent game development has been done by companies out of house (e.g. Turtle Rock) because nobody in Valve actually has any real interest in doing game dev anymore. That's why SteamOS is dead, that's why Steam Box is dead, and that's why Half Life's dead.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 06:57 |
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Awesome! posted:prey has sold horribly because of poo poo marketing
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 07:00 |
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So if Valve has deemed it worthy to bite Hearthstone (and I guess Gwent, and on a more fundamental level, MTG) with their new DOTA poo poo, are they just going all in on being a trend follower? Are we going to see Team Fortress 3 as a Battlegrounds style elimination survival shooter?
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Shima Honnou posted:I haven't cared about the idea of HL3 in over 10 years, we've got hundreds of better games that we can actually play instead of vaporware based on first-person platforming. The last episode did kind of end on a cliffhanger, with you-know-who dying. I kind of want a third episode just to see what happens. I only played the Half-Life series for the first time last year, so I don't mind waiting another ten years.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 07:12 |
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Cojawfee posted:Did he have this planned out years ago? Or did he just recently write this? The fact that Valve never finished that story is really annoying. I know it's played out to wish for HL3, but the argument that no one wants single player shooters anymore is just wrong. Doom and Prey are prime examples of single player shooters that people love. But I guess Valve doesn't make games anymore. the catch of "18 months" being the catalyst and marc laidlaw retiring from valve in january 2016 kind of points to it being a project that was pursued but ultimately discarded, for some reason
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 07:13 |
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The really sad thing about that post is that it's clear that there were plenty of people within Valve who were desperate to get the game made. I mean, Laidlaw stuck around for years and years, probably hoping that one day it might actually happen, and it never did. quote:It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew, and surprising to see how much the terrain has changed. Enough time has passed that few remember me, or what I was saying when last I spoke, or what precisely we hoped to accomplish. At this point, the resistance will have failed or succeeded, no thanks to me. Old friends have been silenced, or fallen by the wayside. I no longer know or recognize most members of the research team, though I believe the spirit of rebellion still persists.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 07:37 |
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Awesome! posted:prey has sold horribly So? HL3 would sell loving gangbusters, let's be realistic here. It's just that the dev time/profit ratio is absurdly higher for a DOTA 2 compendium or a few CS:GO crates, compared to a fully-fleshed out single player experience.
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This makes me feel sad.
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ishikabibble posted:That's why SteamOS is dead, that's why Steam Box is dead, and that's why Half Life's dead. See also: Mobile App; Voice chat in friends; Streaming via overlay
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ChickenHeart posted:This makes me feel sad. I have never played the Half Life games, but that paragraph...
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 07:51 |
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SteamOS served its purpose though, it was just a hedge against Microsoft locking down the Windows platform. Also it's still getting updates.
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# ? Aug 25, 2017 07:51 |
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I mean, I can understand that if you can crap out a few gun skins for CS:GO and make just as much money as a full game would make, it would be hard to financially justify making that game. It just sucks so hard that they're sitting on one of the most beloved IP's in gaming and doing nothing with it. There are plenty of awesome dev teams out there who could probably do an amazing job with that IP and give us the game we've been waiting for all this time. Especially with the recent resurgence of actually good single player shooters (Doom, Wolfenstein, Prey etc), the appetite is there. I don't know enough about IP law to know if it would be realistic for Valve to farm it out, or come to some sort of arrangement with one of those dev teams, but I really wish they would.
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ChickenHeart posted:This makes me feel sad. Same. Outside of compendiums, DOTA is basically cosmetics and implementing Icefrog's specific hero ideas like once a year. TF2 is on maintenance mode despite being one of the most popular steam games around while CSGO is more fortunate but still pretty neglected. And Steam's development can't be taking up too many of the man hours/resources that are required for actual video games so it's not like that's affecting it. Hell, we don't even have any signs of L4D3 which has had some leaks over the last few years. WHAT THE gently caress IS VALVE EVEN DOING? Valve is literally succeeding DESPITE their self organization kick. Without any need 'publish or perish', they have no need to get things done or to innovate because they have infinite time as long as they can salvage some of their work towards microtransactions or bettering steam.
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