Steam Thread: you're not a kid any more and you want what you had when you were a kid

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Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Accordion Man posted:

Not to mention making sure that NOLF never sees the light of day again.

I replayed the first game the other week for the first time in at least 10 years and frankly, they're doing you a favour.
The game's stealth doesn't work. The shooting sucks. The story really isn't worth mentioning.

I passed NOFL basically while screaming at it. Then I tried to start on 2, got as far as the soviet installation and just gave up on it. It's not fun. It's not worth it.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2016 06:18

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 00:56

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Here's George explaining some things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcT7DjSzphk

# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 11:40

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

FirstAidKite posted:

Yeah. It gets spooky and also very mean towards hobos

In Condemned 2 you ARE the hobo

# ¿ Jun 18, 2016 08:14

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

victrix posted:

What the heck man, Petroglyph are bad at marketing, I never even heard of this and it looks rad.

Shame it's not amazing. It's not bad but it's no CnC

# ¿ Jun 28, 2016 11:18

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It-mM69OQH8

Jim Sterling did a video on that game a few months ago. I couldn't make it more than like 3 minutes in

# ¿ Jul 5, 2016 13:26

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Ularg posted:

Just finished Red Faction 1, probably the first game in a long while I outright did not enjoy playing. The first half of the game was fine, fun even. But it was buggy as hell. The forced stealth section in the executive offices didn't work right until the 5th try. Your escort just didn't care to follow you and I kept trying to stealth it instead of setting off an alarm like the game apparently wanted you to.

Then half way into the game the regular enemies get replaced by higher health enemies. These guys are aimbot bullet sponges and are not fun to fight. Spent most of the game just hugging a wall corner and peaking out to snipe. Then they introduce enemies using a railgun sniper that can penetrate through walls so now you have wallhacking aimbot bullet sponges. Basically spam auto save and try to cheese the ai. The two boss fights that had shields I still don't understand if I was supposed to do something but shoot them and hope their attacks don't land twice.

Overall, it wasn't a lot of fun after the first half. I had a lot of encounters that were basically "Open door, woops I got 1 shot by the boss".

Now I get to choose whether to keep it chronological and play Red Faction 2 next, or skip it for a hopefully good game in Guerrilla.

Oh, I also beat Call of Duty 1, United Offensive and Call of Duty 2. Those games are awesome and still hold up. I like United Offensive a little more than Call of Duty 2. Because I think the non-regenerating health lead to more interesting fights.

Red Faction 2 is even worse. Red Faction was only ever "revered" because you could deform the map. It was a gimmick though that was never utilised in single player. I guess it was good in multiplayer?
My memories of Red Faction 2 is stuff is no longer destructible, forced lovely vehicle sections and no multiplayer (bot match only.... on PC)

# ¿ Jul 6, 2016 06:53

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

mutata posted:

2K published and was in charge of marketing for Battleborn too.

2K is also the reason Mafia 2 got so hosed up

# ¿ Jul 7, 2016 10:29

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Kennel posted:

Has there been any worthwhile VR games yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6frKRN2HzI

# ¿ Jul 17, 2016 06:33

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

HardDisk posted:

Speaking of superhot, how do I get past of the part where they lock me up in a cell and show pictures of them arriving at my apartment? I think that I have to keep watching the web chat for clues on how to get past this, but they just repeat the bit about replay controls and I get bored and leave

that web chat is just flavour. It has nothing to do with the actual plotline progression

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 16:11

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

HardDisk posted:

Yeah that happens and then they make you swear that you won't access superhot.exe again and then I'm booted back to the DOS menu, and then nothing else happens. If I boot it back again, the same cutscene plays, including the swearing bit. I know that there are challenges that unlock when you complete the story, but since the challenges haven't unlocked I still think I'm missing something in the story.

Theres a part where you have to physically quit the game you bought IRL and relaunch it for a story bit, maybe that's the part

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 17:08

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Rookersh posted:

loving lol at EA again. Jesus.

I set up App Auth through my phone for Origin, because I barely use the drat thing, and Origin seems to get hacked like twice a year. Finally went to gently caress with it today, and it asked me for my Auth code that's been sent to my device. Only problem is, nothing got sent.

So I checked the security page. Nobody has hacked the account, but it deleted my phone. So I have NOTHING that it can App Auth through. So I go in to add my phone, or an email, or something. Nope! To add a App Auth item you need to first Authenticate it with a code. We just sent another one into the ether.

Obviously this'd be easily fixed by talking to EA support right? Nope! You need to enter your Auth code to access Support. They've apparently removed Live Chat, which is the only way I can imagine actually getting through to EA.

A hacker didn't lock me out of my Origin account. EA did. I can't loving believe how incompetent all this is.

Why didn't you set up google auth and get a list of one time use recovery codes? You don't set up 2tier without recovery codes being provided, especially on origin

# ¿ Aug 20, 2016 11:34

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Mr Underhill posted:

If you're into retro-sexy shmups in space, Starr Mazer DSP is the thing for you.

It's out now on Early Acces. I've played recent builds and, though I really suck at bullet hell type things, it's super satisfying.

My favorite part about it are the pilots - everything from their features to their likes and dislikes is procedurally generated, and they're all excellently voice acted. That's huge for me, because I tend not to relate as much when it's just a tiny ship representing me on screen. Ten bucks.

A lot of what im seeing here reminds me of UN Squadron, which is a good thing

# ¿ Aug 26, 2016 09:51

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

FirstAidKite posted:

I personally haven't played it, so I don't know how much it goes into parkour stuff, but Marc Ecko's Getting Up always looked neat (albeit rough). If someone here has actually played it, feel free to chime in with actually useful info!

Sure it isn't specifically "Parkour Simulator" but from what I gather, it's a lot more exploration oriented maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cQIAZCneg

This game was banned in my country

# ¿ Aug 27, 2016 09:56

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Im surprised no one made a game from CS surf maps sooner

# ¿ Aug 29, 2016 16:51

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

The Kins posted:

It got Gearboxed and the team moved on to make the kinda-decent Rise of the Triad remake, and the not very good Bombshell.

This is the one scenario where being Gearboxed was to everyone's benefit. That ROTT remake wasn't remotely as good as you rate it there.
Not even when compared with other remakes or re imaginings of contemporary games at the time, namely Wolfenstein and Shadow Warrior (and more recently Doom).
It just gets thoroughly unfun really really quickly

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 13:33

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

anilEhilated posted:

Thing is, the RotT remake is very faithful. Down to the second half of the game being poo poo.

hahaha I don't question the faithfulness at all.
ROTT has always been something of a frustrating irony to me. There's so much content for it. So many levels and more just kept coming out.
And it's all poo poo

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 13:59

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

duckfarts posted:

well, you're clearly wrong on this one

Yo, for FEAR 1, make sure you go download Creative ALchemy

This restores the EAX audio that used to be hardware based.
You'll need to find a restriction remover if your soundcard isn't by Creative. It works on any sound setup given its software emulation.

Here is a list of games that support it and the configuration you'll need to do if ALchemy doesn't detect your game

And here's why you should care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO4WWOJbGX8

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 14:44

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

WirelessPillow posted:

any idea where to find a restriction remover? all I can find are people mentioning its a thing

I had to go digging around on the VOGONS forum for it. I'll give you the filenames for what I've got

Creative_alchemy_1.45.03.zip (5255kb)
CreativeALchemy14503RestrictionRemover-MST.exe (108kb)

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 18:51

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

RBA Starblade posted:

You can whip things at him, there's a hidden uzi in there, or you can get a sledge or jumpkick him to stagger him. You can also do hit and runs if you don't have a lot of hp; there's loads of healing items in there including a shitload of wine.

The thing about Dead Rising is you're supposed to suck and lose a few times or just screw around; your level-ups and unlocks are persistent.

There's a very specific reason that fight is set in the FOOD COURT

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 18:29

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Accordion Man posted:

Not really. I never felt like, "Why am I not just playing through this?", while playing.

Even one major section that actually got gutted from the game and thrown into DLC, Joe's adventures during the time Vito is doing time didn't feel like the game was really missing a major part of it while I was playing it.

The ending is rather abrupt though, clear, but abrupt.

The only real thing to do while wandering around is find Playboy Centrefolds. The game times how long you spend "looking" at them, too.
Robbing stores and getting money is pointless because as soon as you die or finish the day (given every mission starts with you waking up and taking a phonecall) you lose the money.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2016 10:08

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Grapplejack posted:

It was a C130, iirc, and the segment was two bored airmen totally annihilating scores of dudes and entire buildings and just not giving a gently caress.

I think it was done on purpose but honestly who knows with that series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsA9VtQ_uLg

# ¿ Sep 15, 2016 19:02

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

codo27 posted:

I find it kinda sad that steam has no built in voice chat between friends/groups. That I can find anyway. Whats the best/simplest option out there? I got my nephew playing Terraria with me but we are skyping while we play and thats just inconvenient. Should I go with teamspeak even though its just one to one?

But it does?

# ¿ Sep 19, 2016 15:33

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

So everyone always just talks about Bioshock 1 but I care more about 2.
How does the "remaster" compare with the original here?
Is the audio still dogshit? I don't want to spend 3+ days downloading it to find it's no different

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 08:39

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

GhostDog posted:

If by dogshit you mean the specific issue where sounds are at completely wrong volumes, i.e. you and the splicer shooting each other at ten feet sounding like you're both two rooms away while the security drone going off two rooms away pierces your ears, that's still present. It was really the only thing I hoped to be fixed in this release since I can't play a game like that and I never played Minerva's Den because of it (I played 2 itself back on the 360).

If you mean other audio issues - since it looks like they did nothing on the audio engine I would assume those are also still present as well.

Yeah, I should have given a bit of a timeline for that post. oops.
Back in 2010 (the only time I played through the whole game) the sound was fine.
Every time I've tried to play it since, the sounds seem to just clip and cut each other off or not play at all. I think, as you note, it gets worse in Minerva's Den.
When you have a few splicers around, a hacked turret and drone all firing at each other and you shoot, you end up not hearing stuff like all the turret rounds and your guns have no impact.
To me this is dogshit, as when you try to google the problem, you find ancient threads that complain about it but don't offer up any solutions.

I don't know if those are the same audio problems in the base game, as I haven't tried to replay that (only Minerva's Den when it was added on steam post GFWL collapse)

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 10:23

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Accordion Man posted:

The episodes are streamed on the site because they would be too big to download in a reasonable amount of time.

75GB download. On release reviewers mentioned you got the option to download if the game detected you buffering a whole lot

ShadowMar posted:

battleborn is totally not going F2P, as you can see randy pitchford explaining to twitter user BigDickDaddyDom

https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/781630229299142656

He calls this a "reckless story". That language fuckin steams me.
How do you perceive this to be more damaging overall than the entirety of Aliens and the deceit

Goddammit Randy.

He also claims DLC (paid, obviously) will bring new people to the game :stare:

# ¿ Sep 30, 2016 07:43

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

MMF Freeway posted:

What some (all?) of those gambling sites offer is the ability to cash out your skins for a percentage of their value as real money. The site in turn can change those steam bux into actual cash via buying popular new game releases and selling them to key re-seller sites. That's my understanding at least.

opskins and bitskins haven't been indicted.

The process is largely the same as pachinko.
You go on steam market, buy a skin/s (where valve takes a cut)
You go on the gambling site of your choice and place your bet and send your skin to a bot -or- send your skin to a bot and get credited with an imaginary currency (like diamonds)
If you win you get random skins to the value of your winnings -or- cash out the currency to the same effect

THEN

You open the account on opskins (sign in with steam), send along your drivers license to verify you as someone they can send money to (I think they still need this) and you list your skin for LESS than the valve marketplace (unless it's worth more than the valve market max, which I think is $400). You send that bot the skin and the listing is made. Someone buys your skin and you get a paypal cashout.
All prices on the valve marketplace are inflated to cover the valve cut so that the seller gets the price they actually want. Remember when Valve put a discount on all marketplace purchases and they covered the difference? Sellers covered that off too

edit: also, to know values, you visit csgostash and it gives you a complete market overview for example

# ¿ Oct 6, 2016 13:43

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Awesome! posted:

can you call it crossdressing when the only clothing is a collar?

clearly it's a man's collar :stare:

# ¿ Oct 11, 2016 07:15

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

RBA Starblade posted:

For me because it was really touchy about when it wanted you to grab the ledge and when it wanted you to fall five stories to your doom.

You have to look at the ledge you want to grab on to. It wont automatically mantle just by being near

# ¿ Oct 29, 2016 20:19

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

pentyne posted:

It also references a lot of stuff from Blood Omen 1 that I don't think is possible to play at all anymore unless you have an original copy or a PSP/Vita.

First to install with
http://cubanraul.altervista.org/kain/index.htm

Then
http://www.nosgothica.org/index.php?id=files_eng
Bink-support for BO1 (Video-Patch)

e: also the rights are stretched between Activision, Silicon Knights (RIP), and Crystal Dynamics (who took over on all fronts for the subsequent games).

Hollenhammer fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Nov 28, 2016

# ¿ Nov 28, 2016 13:45

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

strategery posted:

If only they listened to people who hate uplay. Still, you are right. They have done a great job at listening to fans and doing really unique games.

Uplay doesn't ask me for my 2tier auth code everytime it opens anymore and it stays open when I close the window just like Origin and Steam so now it's completely inoffensive and a complete Non Issue

# ¿ Nov 30, 2016 19:58

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

END ME SCOOB posted:

Today I learned uPlay doesn't check to see if you own something before adding it to your account!

If you try to install and run the Steam version via uplay, it'll open Steam up first because of the DRM.
It's technically two different versions of the same game

# ¿ Dec 15, 2016 15:55

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

WirelessPillow posted:

https://twitter.com/SteamStatus/status/812319874718515200?lang=en
looks like something went wrong

SOMETHING HAPPENED

something happened

# ¿ Dec 23, 2016 17:10

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

anilEhilated posted:

Hey, is something wrong with Steam downloading updates? It downloads for a while, then it just loving stops.

Depending on the game it might be installing or unpacking files

# ¿ Dec 24, 2016 06:36

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

anilEhilated posted:

It's... not doing either. Came back home after a while away and there's a whole bunch of updates queued, it always downloads for a couple minutes and then any network and disk activity just stops. Same applies for downloading games to install. Clearing up the download cache didn't help, neither did changing the download location.

Oh yeah, I had that a few weeks ago. Everything I tried didn't fix it. In the end it just got on with it after a very long time.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2016 08:17

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Mokinokaro posted:

SteamOS is a perpetual alpha that will never end because Valve seems to have lost interest in it.

Go with a standard Linux. SteamOS has some weird standards breaking libraries.

If it's not DOTA2 then this is true of all Valve things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1QE6ogmSkw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_aNrzJqKg

:smith:

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 07:05

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Y1ArOTEqE&t=434s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5X643abYu8

Guess this means it sucks cos I'm using videos?

# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 06:33

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Deakul posted:

Far Cry 4 is better than 3 in pretty much every conceivable way, did you guys EVEN play it?

Mechanically it's tighter, shooting is actually great, parkouring isn't as clumsy, the locales are way more interesting, it feels like there's much more freedom in how to go about things, and there's just on the whole way more things to do.
It's just a solid sandbox playground overall.

It feels like first person Tomb Raider in the best ways possible.

While this is true, if you played 3 there is absolutely no reason to play 4. If you haven't played either I'd recommend playing 4.
Personally I passed 3 and fatigued on 4 as a result

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 07:08

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Quest For Glory II posted:

the maniac mansion man thinks bleeps are high comedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swSjr7tD8Ww

He also thinks a talking cave is high comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnh30cYZHBA

gently caress him forever for this goddamn game

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 08:28

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

Xander77 posted:

Terribly important question:

I've got two computers that run my steam account - the main one, and the one my mom uses. The steam account on mom's computer is mostly offline, but it switches from offline to online without requesting a steam guard authentication, even though I have it enabled. It also switches in one attempt, unlike the dozen or so errors it always takes the main account.

Any idea how/why this happens, and is there any way I could make the account on my main computer do that?

If you're already logged in and it has the token in the folder, why would you need another steam guard auth?
Surely your main account automatically logs in?

# ¿ Jan 22, 2017 14:38

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 00:56

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

owl_pellet posted:

I've never bought anything on Origin before but Mass Effect: Andromeda just might do it. I wish EA at least sold their games through Steam and then launched Origin when you launched the game like Ubisoft does with Uplay. I like having all my games in one place

Also I never played the original Windjammers but I played the Disc Jam beta a little over the weekend, it's fun!

They used to be but iirc EA weren't really on-board with the massive price cut sales. The schism happened between Crysis 2 and 3 (and Mass Effect 2 and 3)

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 19:22

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