BinaryPork2737
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It gets easier once you figure out how you failed those checks and what you need to do to pass them up on subsequent playthroughs.
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STEAM | July 2014 25TH THREAD EDITION (2008-2014)
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It gets easier once you figure out how you failed those checks and what you need to do to pass them up on subsequent playthroughs.
I finally beat DmC. The last boss was a joke once I realized I could wreck his shit after his jump kick.
Played a little bit of The Swapper and Blood Dragon. I'm kind of feeling a sci-fi vibe at the moment. Not sure which I'll stick with.
I'm also kind of tempted to dust off the ps3 and finally get around to The Last of Us. But who knows what I will end up with? Too many games.... too little time.
Played a little bit of The Swapper and Blood Dragon. I'm kind of feeling a sci-fi vibe at the moment. Not sure which I'll stick with.
I'm also kind of tempted to dust off the ps3 and finally get around to The Last of Us. But who knows what I will end up with? Too many games.... too little time.
CosmicQueso
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but you enter into new circles, filled with people with more life experiences and who know themselves better.
you also become more comfortable with yourself, and spending time alone becomes more fulfilling.
getting older is the best. You give fewer shits, make better money, know what you like more and you do that stuff more often.
venture forth and conquer!
This may sound dumb, but are you logging in with your account name not profile username. I was doing that, and couldn't figure out why the hell it would not log me in. Also only applies if you have different names anyways.
Today I learned that you guys are incredibly young.
Thanks for making me feel old yet again!
Ha you're old
MMBosstones86
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Yes it was. Especially if you enjoyed the show. It was a shit ending.
brofist.
new name for the show
How I asked for Permission to bang your aunt robin
seeing a steam thread without JaseC as the top poster will be....different.
Nostalgia posts and the start of "goodbye" posts make me sad. I don't want any of you to leave, even if you end up being more busy, it's always nice to come back after some time only to see some familiar faces.
I don't want to come back here one day and feel I can't identify myself with many of Steam-GAFfers. Life is full people we forgot and time isn't kind for this sort of things.
I don't want to come back here one day and feel I can't identify myself with many of Steam-GAFfers. Life is full people we forgot and time isn't kind for this sort of things.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Had to say but I bought Grand Budapest Hotel on DVD, great film, definitely the best I've seen of the year
That's probably the only element I'll praise that finale for, I'm still very pissed off over that ending!! >_<
That's probably the only element I'll praise that finale for, I'm still very pissed off over that ending!! >_<
MMBosstones86
Member
Thanks for this. I've been waiting for a sale on 15. OOTP is my favorite sports sim series. Severely underrated.
You can pound out The Swapper in a few hours, plus its a pretty sweet game.
Don't focus on those checks-- most of them can be bypassed if you have the right set of skills/make the right decisions. Just pick a theme and go with it.
Had to say but I bought Grand Budapest Hotel on DVD, great film, definitely the best I've seen of the year
What's it like in 2002?
Chance Hale
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Two games weren't taken, free for all so if you won one already you can enter again for the +1
Thunder Wolves -- MB-F579D84ACA92106B
Iron Grip: Warlord(pm for dlc) -- MB-C317AACEB7E059D3
Thunder Wolves -- MB-F579D84ACA92106B
BinaryPork2737
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AssCreed Unity, Mordor and Borderlands Not-So-Sequel are the only time wasters that are coming up on my side of the fence. A big part of the reason why I decided to do this giveaway is that I intend to hit Uni pretty hard this semester (I'd like to do my MFA in the US), so come a few weeks from now I'll likely begin to post only sporadically. End of an era, in a way.
It's already weird not seeing you as the top poster in the Steam thread. Soon Rhaknar will have a Saoirse face shopped onto Laharl's body :/
Yeah The Swapper is very dope. I'm a fan of how the game is designed.
CosmicQueso
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That's a rather long-winded way of saying "You replace friends with Steam games."
nah man when I was in your spot I didn't play games for years. Backpacked for a year (including 4 months in your homeland...) got a grad degree, figured things out.
it'll all work out. Like a finger pointing to the moon, never look at the finger... That kind of thing
AHA-Lambda
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AssCreed Unity, Mordor and Borderlands Not-So-Sequel are the only time wasters that are coming up on my side of the fence. A big part of the reason why I decided to do this giveaway is that I intend to hit Uni pretty hard this semester (I'd like to do my MFA in the US), so come a few weeks from now I'll likely begin to post only sporadically. End of an era, in a way.
My god
Haha, I've been busy. I'm not sure where I'm sitting currently but I know I've posted a lot over the past couple of days.
Also:
GAF is my Mam's Sunday Roast.
I'm also gonna put my gaming life a little on the back burner soon. Already sold my 360, PS3 and Vita and 3DS is probably next.
But I'll stick to Wii U (for family/party games and Nintendo exclusives), PS4, PC and iPhone.
I realize I never bring my handheld devices anywhere and only take my phone with me which also have a number of sweet quick games.
Actually I'm probably gonna end up rocking the PC games real hard for the rest of the year. I just love SteamGAF and having this social element on the internet with a wide variety of people is great for me.
Also I can't seem to complete an education for the life of me. =;(
But I'll stick to Wii U (for family/party games and Nintendo exclusives), PS4, PC and iPhone.
I realize I never bring my handheld devices anywhere and only take my phone with me which also have a number of sweet quick games.
Actually I'm probably gonna end up rocking the PC games real hard for the rest of the year. I just love SteamGAF and having this social element on the internet with a wide variety of people is great for me.
Also I can't seem to complete an education for the life of me. =;(
I can agree with all of this aside of the "make better money" but that may be because I live where I live and it's the most harsh thing to get a positive perspective (I'm always open to some advice/words on this matter for reference, by PM, to avoid big off topic). I don't mind the rest and I even like it, to be honest. It's just, getting financial stability could give me much things that said money can't "buy".
Like, I want to become a father one day but I can't right now.
AHA-Lambda
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What's it like in 2002?
It's not ok to own DVDs anymore then?
I didn't see the benefit of Bluray and for the few films I do buy I like to have them on disc, the rest I rent
AScotAbroad
Member
Hmmmm, I've tried twice now to nuke a Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition key from Modbot - I set the giveaway up wrong during the sale (no duration), and I wanted to clear it before making a new one.
It still shows up in my myloot message from modbot, any ideas?
It still shows up in my myloot message from modbot, any ideas?
I finished Lonesome Road last night, which brings my journey through the New Vegas DLC to an end.
Overall, I'd have to give LR a B+. It was a solid, enjoyable adventure with a few blemishes that held it back from true greatness. Storywise,
felt a little anticlimactic, especially after the other expansions kept foreshadowing some kind of epic clash in the Divide. Though they tried to build him up as some kind of personal nemesis, his motivation (once I managed to wring it out of him - dude's a graduate of the Kreia school of unnecessarily vague conversation ) rang a little hollow to me. To be honest, the B-story about ED-E's past resonated with me a lot more - it left me feeling genuinely fond of the little eyebot.
One thing I really enjoyed about Lonesome Road is that it revolves around exploring the ruins of the Old World, something I really enjoyed in FO3. There wasn't enough of that in vanilla NV, IMO. (I just wish there had been more functioning terminals and the like. Gleaning bits of lore about what the FO world was like before the bombs fell is the kind of thing that can keep me exploring well after I'm at the level cap, when xp and loot no longer have much appeal.) And while the story's pretty linear, there is some significant decision-making that takes place. Very interested in seeing whether my choices will factor into the ending when I finish this playthrough.
So yeah, if you have FO:NV but not the DLC's, they're all worth picking up, both for the extra perks and level cap increase and for the side-story they tell about the Courier.
And now I just have to finish up a little House-cleaning for the NCR and tidy a few loose ends
, and it's off to the end game for me.
(Oh, and if I'm spamming up the thread with this stuff, let me know and I'll stop. ^^; )
Overall, I'd have to give LR a B+. It was a solid, enjoyable adventure with a few blemishes that held it back from true greatness. Storywise,
the endgame encounter with Ulysses
) rang a little hollow to me. To be honest, the B-story about ED-E's past resonated with me a lot more - it left me feeling genuinely fond of the little eyebot.One thing I really enjoyed about Lonesome Road is that it revolves around exploring the ruins of the Old World, something I really enjoyed in FO3. There wasn't enough of that in vanilla NV, IMO. (I just wish there had been more functioning terminals and the like. Gleaning bits of lore about what the FO world was like before the bombs fell is the kind of thing that can keep me exploring well after I'm at the level cap, when xp and loot no longer have much appeal.) And while the story's pretty linear, there is some significant decision-making that takes place. Very interested in seeing whether my choices will factor into the ending when I finish this playthrough.
So yeah, if you have FO:NV but not the DLC's, they're all worth picking up, both for the extra perks and level cap increase and for the side-story they tell about the Courier.
And now I just have to finish up a little House-cleaning for the NCR and tidy a few loose ends
(off to visit the Enclave Remnants with Egon Spengler Arcade Gannon next)
(Oh, and if I'm spamming up the thread with this stuff, let me know and I'll stop. ^^; )
You gotta keep up the pace, that 16k post record won't defend itself.
Chance Hale
Member
It's not ok to own DVDs anymore then?
I didn't see the benefit of Bluray and for the few films I do buy I like to have them on disc, the rest I rent
How do you game on the PC and not see the benefit of blu-ray? It's like comparing PS2 quality to current PC games. Not to mention they're usually the same price or cheaper.
I rip blu-rays/back up documents to blu-rays
It's not ok to own DVDs anymore then?
I didn't see the benefit of Bluray and for the few films I do buy I like to have them on disc, the rest I rent
Blurays are nicer than DVDs, but they really mismanaged the whole situation by being greedy pigs...
and now Bluray is dying as a format and we're probably looking at another new format that isn't a datacube.
Thanks for the review, have been looking at sports management games recently and was curious about the series given the praise. OOTP 8 is available free from the developer and I've been meaning to take a look too see if it clicks with me despite not knowing a damn thing about baseball.
Chance Hale
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How are they greedy? Blu-rays are incredibly cheap and the cost is far less than DVDs were around the same lifespan. And overall sales still go up every year, but of course physical media in general is losing out to terrible digital services like itunes but blu-ray itself isn't dying yet.
lashman
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Haha, yeah, I understood what you were getting at.
Speaking of Australia, I watched Tracks the other day (I do enjoy Mia Wasikowska) and it made me wish I made more of an effort to travel locally. The frustrating thing is that it's cost-prohibitive -- it's literally cheaper to fly to Indonesia than it is to travel to northern end of the state.Glad you missed my PC specs this morning, I still have floppy.
PM Stumpokapow?
Don't worry; episode 2 is probably the weakest in the series so far. It really picks up with 3 and 4!
lashman
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freshVeggie
Member
All these talks about early/mid twenties taking big steps in their lives, leaving gaming and gaf slowly behind.... makes me realize how messed up my RL is...
Good luck fantomena, jasec, madrista with your future. Don't forget those of us stuck in the past.
Good luck fantomena, jasec, madrista with your future. Don't forget those of us stuck in the past.
Jedi holocrons are the future, man. >.>
Chance Hale
Member
on the topic of DVD VS blu-ray ... this is all I have to say about that:
Looks exactly the same, blu-ray is a scam.
just got back from my dad's
watching argieland game was fucking tense, i think my baby brother could feel the tension in the air cos he was moody as fuck (and the little guy got all frightened at his crazy family jumping and screaming when we finally scored lol)
phew
ok since i'm pretty vain and search for my own name in every page here's some quote replying
why do you ask
i'm not a fan of adventure games of this kind
i feel like the genre works better when it's crazy like the lucas arts games, but that might be me not really playing sierra games
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also holy shit this wc game
watching argieland game was fucking tense, i think my baby brother could feel the tension in the air cos he was moody as fuck (and the little guy got all frightened at his crazy family jumping and screaming when we finally scored lol)
phew
ok since i'm pretty vain and search for my own name in every page here's some quote replying
who knows, probably not
why do you ask
i got tired of it very early
i'm not a fan of adventure games of this kind
i feel like the genre works better when it's crazy like the lucas arts games, but that might be me not really playing sierra games
yea i think there's a story in there that's worth telling but it was just not the right way. i totally appreciate the effort, i just think this needed a totally different gameplay
...
also holy shit this wc game
MMBosstones86
Member
I try and pick a theme....and then I take an arrow to the knee.
4 computers. no optical drives. I've actually taken the optical drive out of my work laptop because it's annoying as shit.
DD 4 lyfe.
SteveWinwood
Member
r u blind
Chance Hale
Member
Blu-ray came out 8 years ago so it is old as a tech format.
And it continues to far surpass any digital format outside of the film studios that offer 4K downloadables. The bitrates are so much higher than any other service that it will remain the best option for viewing films and TV for a while.
And it continues to far surpass any digital format outside of the film studios that offer 4K downloadables. The bitrates are so much higher than any other service that it will remain the best option for viewing films and TV for a while.
AHA-Lambda
Member
I game on PC due to the variety and cheapness off games not the graphical quality
(also my PC isn't very powerful, I need a new one)
So for me, dvd quality is good enough when a Bluray costs 50% more. That's how I pc game
Plus frankly if I enjoy the movie enough and get immersed I don't notice resolution on films. Hell if I'm drunk enough I could watch vhs :/
I cannot stand it
I actually have like a CD/DVD folder thingie with old backups
burning 700 megs of stuff as if I was gonna look at it again
what was I thinking
I would die if I heard that fucking noise
even hard drives can be annoying
fuck shit that spins in general
I meant the BDA. Nobody wanted to pay their licensing fees. Noticed how we only got bluray in the PS3 last gen, and there are hardly any separate drives being sold, keeping the media costs high?
But you know who does have Second Sight? Imagine there's a animated gif here doing the 'this guy' motion.
It's no Wheelman, but it's something.
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