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Oct 23, 2016 22:12
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It's even worse on 3DS, dude. I think I own at least 4 copies of that game over multiple platforms.
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Oct 23, 2016 22:13
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monster on a stick posted:Game companies could upload the cinematics to YouTube and just open up a browser window instead of having you download them. Isn't that literally what the cinematics in Quantum Break are? It would have been like 100+ GB with all the videos.
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Oct 23, 2016 22:42
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I do love this digital download age, but there are some downsides as mentioned here. It would be great to be able to run games off my ssd but these sizes are out of control. It's not like I can blame the game companies alone for it. When you have a highly vocal user base that will poo poo your social media up if your game doesn't hit 60 FPS, I'm not surprised that uncompressed audio and textures are used. I've got a blazing loving SSD that I can only use for pixel games 
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Oct 23, 2016 22:43
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Just keep your games on a HDD and use your phone to shitpost in the Steam thread while games are loading.
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Oct 23, 2016 22:53
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So, when does Danganronpa get good? I'm about two hours in and so far it has been fairly unremarkable with overlong cutscenes that over explain a fairly thin plot in between lovely dating game stuff. Should i keep going?
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Oct 23, 2016 23:01
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spudsbuckley posted:So, when does Danganronpa get good? "It's anime, so never", I'd expect someone to say
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Oct 23, 2016 23:06
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spudsbuckley posted:So, when does Danganronpa get good? Dangan Ronpa as a series is really bad.
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Oct 23, 2016 23:06
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Yeah, i just gave up. My guy said the exact same thing 4 different ways in 4 consecutive sentences. The whole loving thing is padding. Yet another Goon recommendation that has me asking myself the question: "Why the gently caress do i listen to Goon recommendations?"
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Oct 23, 2016 23:17
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Yikes A Zombie! posted:When you have a highly vocal user base that will poo poo your social media up if your game doesn't hit 60 FPS, I'm not surprised that uncompressed audio and textures are used. Compressed textures are faster than uncompressed ones afaik, since uncompressing has less performance impact than memory swapping.
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Oct 23, 2016 23:22
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Today's game is another free one, a Half-life 2 mod in fact that holds up better than I expected. 1. DISTRAINT 2. Shadowgate 3. Miasmata 4. SOMA 5. Haunt the House: Terrortown 6. Oxenfree 7. Vlad the Impaler 8. Condemned: Criminal Origins 9. The Last Door: Season 2 10. Shadowgrounds 11. The Last NightMary 12. Kholat 13. Fran Bow 14. TRAUMA 15. Alan Wake 16. Dark Fall 1: The Journal 17. Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart 18. Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition 19. Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion 20. The Swapper 21. Monstrum 22. Serena 23. Cry of Fear    It's a shame modern games don't really have the kind of modding scenes older FPSes did. The Half-life games in particular spawned some quality mods and conversions across quite a few genres, horror included. Cry of Fear is just such a project, with so much work put in that it's barely recognizable as a Half-life 2 mod save for the familiar movement mechanics. And while it may have some rough edges, you might be surprised how spooky this one can get. You play Simon, a hoodied inhabitant of Stockholm, on his way home for the night. Through a mysterious and sudden event, he finds himself roaming deserted streets and buildings while assailed by nightmarish figures. Using the few meager weapons you find, you'll have to battle through the countless monsters to reach whatever lies at the end of your journey. In contrast with most first-person shooters, Cry of Fear has you fighting small handfuls of enemies with a very limited arsenal. During the first hour of the game, you'll have naught but a pocket knife and a weak pistol to guide you through. It's enough to overcome the mostly melee-focused monsters in your way, especially since you tend to encounter them one at a time. There's also a stamina bar used for dodging that's going to get a lot of use, because you're soon going to find there's only one good way to fight monsters in the cramped quarters of the game. I give Cry of Fear credit for crafting environments that look very much like real places, but this is one of those times where realism eats into the actual fun. Real-world alleys and hallways are VERY narrow, cutting off a lot of tactical options. Most of your encounters are going to be in tight hallways where you can't get around or past your foe. This leaves you doing the old duck in, stab, duck out shuffle for virtually every creature you come across. It's not quite as easy as it sounds but it can get very tedious very quickly. Despite the flat combat, the inhabitants of the game do a fine job of spooking you. There's a wide variety of horrors to battle, from eye-gouged murderers to spike-armed puppets and all the way to flying hospital bed monsters. They'll often come screaming at you from down a dark hallway or behind a door they just smashed down, and I had a few good jolts from them including the ones I kinda knew were coming. Cry of Fear's horror is very shock-centric, with herky-jerky creatures barreling out of the shadows and disembodied heads screaming at you in the cutscenes. It's not just monster mashing, either. You'll come across a number of puzzles, each one more grounded than hunting crests and some of them actually being pretty clever setups, like hacking a PC cafe terminal for a padlock code. There are also keys, health syringes, and other important items to collect and keep in your mostly unnecessary inventory screen. This screen lets you assign items to your three paltry hotkeys and use things like keys on doors, but honestly the game would flow a lot better without it. The game would also flow better with less backtracking in some of the larger levels, like the nigh-endless apartment complex. I also have gripes with the monsters sometimes glitching out and doing no damage, and the bosses being pretty underwhelming and a bit sloggy. Honestly though, I'm prepared to forgive all that for the excellent atmosphere and craftsmanship that went into this game. What you're getting is like a looser, less-polished Condemned, right down to the melee focus and decrepit setting. The dark, cramped, detailed levels establish a very grimy, oppressive feel that lends terror to the already freaky enemies. The soundtrack takes cues from Silent Hill in the best ways, going for grinding, pounding songs and effects when the action peaks. It's a long, long game as well, so if you're digging the grunge feel and stabby combat, there'll be plenty of it, and that's not even touching the custom story and co-op support. Cry of Fear trips on a few fronts but still clears the bar for an excellent horror game, thanks to some choice atmosphere and amount of content.
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Oct 23, 2016 23:33
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Yo has anyone played "Feel the Snow" ? I probably wouldn't be that interested in it, but I just watched the trailer and the music is super chill and good.
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Oct 23, 2016 23:48
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Too Shy Guy posted:Cry of Fear is just such a project, with so much work put in that it's barely recognizable as a Half-life 2 mod probably because it's a half-life 1 mod 
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Oct 23, 2016 23:52
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Drifter posted:I went in not knowing anything about the game. I'm not really a fan of the TV show, and the last GoT book I read was like 11 years ago. The writing was messy, and the general mood of the game was just tryhard. I'd've been hard pressed to recommend it based on those criteria. But the way it ended was just the poo poo in a poo poo sandwich. A couple pages old, but the best Games of Thrones game by far is Crusader Kings 2, the GoT mod isn't even necessary.
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Oct 23, 2016 23:55
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ShadowMar posted:probably because it's a half-life 1 mod Real impressive what they did with the Goldsrc engine, though.
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Oct 23, 2016 23:57
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gohuskies posted:A couple pages old, but the best Games of Thrones game by far is Crusader Kings 2, the GoT mod isn't even necessary. Yeah but it's pretty niche...number of people who know how to loving play CK2 is pretty low. 
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Oct 24, 2016 00:05
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Scalding Coffee posted:If gamers cared about storage space, they should uninstall old games WOAH WHAT BUT MY BACKLOAG
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Oct 24, 2016 00:11
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Yeah, Cry of Fear is a Half Life 1 (GoldSrc) mod, which is even more impressive, given the resulting visuals. I was following the project on ModDB, but then other stuff happened I guess, and I missed its release. It's good to know that it can stand on its own as a decent horror game.
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Oct 24, 2016 00:12
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Can anyone tell me how long it takes to get a response time from Steam Support? I can't get into my email to get the verification code, because I forgot that I'd change my password for my email, and I can't get back in
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Oct 24, 2016 00:13
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Really, the fat sizes are a problem for people that have to download that in terrible areas of the world since they must deal with data caps and/or Sanic speeds.
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Oct 24, 2016 00:17
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Yeah, I remember on my old at&t connection, it took about 53 hours to download Wolfenstein TNO back then. What a nightmare that was.
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Oct 24, 2016 00:19
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Willo567 posted:Can anyone tell me how long it takes to get a response time from Steam Support? I can't get into my email to get the verification code, because I forgot that I'd change my password for my email, and I can't get back in
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Oct 24, 2016 00:20
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Mordja posted:Beat me to it. I really didn't like COF, too much of a chore to actually play. Plus I thought most of the monsters were more goofy than scary. Which is a shame, because Afraid of Monsters is legitimately unnerving, in part because it's also much more limited. I agree that they look goofy, but the spastic ways they come at you still unnerve me pretty bad. Coupled with the super dark environments I thought they were plenty scary, but it's very much a ymmv thing. That is bonkers that it's a HL1 mod, though. Like, holy poo poo. I guess I should have noticed that nothing was physics-enabled.
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Oct 24, 2016 00:22
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SinineSiil posted:Few days to 4 weeks. I'd expect to wait a week at least. Thank you. I heard some people have waited as long as three months; is this true, or bullshit
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Oct 24, 2016 00:26
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 PREVIOUSLY... Day 1: 100% Orange Juice Day 2: Akiba's Trip Day 3: Recettear Day 4: Agarest: Generations of War Day 5: Dragonball Xenoverse 
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Oct 24, 2016 00:34
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Freak Futanari posted:Sakura Santa Somehow, just somehow I have the sense that this review isn't being entirely truthful with us. Or perhaps they're using a different definition of the words well-developed. 
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Oct 24, 2016 00:36
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Willo567 posted:Thank you. I heard some people have waited as long as three months; is this true, or bullshit I waited 4 months once. Didn't tell about it because it seemed very out of ordinary even for Steam support.
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Oct 24, 2016 00:58
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Too Shy Guy posted:Today's game is another free one, a Half-life 2 mod in fact that holds up better than I expected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9D_sTen85I
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Oct 24, 2016 01:05
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spudsbuckley posted:Yet another Goon recommendation that has me asking myself the question: "Why the gently caress do i listen to Goon recommendations?" The Dangan Ronpa thread was a laughingstock to most of the forums, maybe you just aren't listening to the right Goons.
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Oct 24, 2016 01:30
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The Lone Badger posted:Why might the steam browser cease functioning for me? I can still use the Library tab, but the Store tab (and trying to view DLC/achievements/etc from the Library tab) just has a black screen that loads forever. This happens to me a bit, dunno why. To get it working again, try opening task manager and killing any Steam Client Webhelper processes you can see. Or just restart Steam, if you don't want to mess around in task manager.
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Oct 24, 2016 01:43
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spudsbuckley posted:Yeah, i just gave up. My guy said the exact same thing 4 different ways in 4 consecutive sentences. The whole loving thing is padding. General rule of thumb is to ignore all goon recommendations for anime games unless they come from Freak Futanari.
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Oct 24, 2016 01:45
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Furnaceface posted:General rule of thumb is to ignore all goon recommendations for anime games unless they come from Freak Futanari. Freak for President 2020.
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Oct 24, 2016 01:50
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spudsbuckley posted:Yeah, i just gave up. My guy said the exact same thing 4 different ways in 4 consecutive sentences. The whole loving thing is padding. If you've played the first hours of it but are giving up, do yourself a favor and look up the twists in the rest of the game.
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Oct 24, 2016 01:50
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Drifter posted:Freak for President 2020. I never would have discovered the Nep Nep and my life would have been meaningless if it wasnt for FF.
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Oct 24, 2016 02:03
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I hop God Eaters is on the list because its the most anime thing I've played this year. 
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Oct 24, 2016 02:10
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i've only contacted steam support once, but i'm still waiting for a reply. only been 2-3 years so far.
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Oct 24, 2016 02:12
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Synthbuttrange posted:I hop God Eaters is on the list because its the most anime thing I've played this year. I only have games i've played on the list, and God Eater is too expensive
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Oct 24, 2016 02:13
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Freak Futanari posted:I only have games i've played on the list, and God Eater is too expensive your loss  (buying ge2 gives you ge1 along with it, so I dont know why they dont emphasize that it's a double pack)
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You losers are still using Steam? I only play games that run in a browser, such as Command and Conquer: Tiberian Drawn
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