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[Teggy]

Don't worry about karma in New Vegas, it's used a few times for flavor but Faction Relationship is much more important.

Obsidian would have scrapped that system and the game would be the same.

karma is not like a reputation system or anything like that, it's just that if you do bad shit you create some sort of aura around you that's noticeable but not necessarily gonna have a much bigger effect that shaping someone's first impressions of you (with a few exceptions)

Hm OK. I will try not to let it give me a complex. The other thing that happened was, right after the early ambush in the tutorial town I was cleaning up loot and saw that the saloon owner was dead with her leg blown off. Felt bad She was all happy that I fixed her radio, too.

 

[LurkerPrime]

part 2 of that chris avellone interview: http://sugarbombed.com/forums/threa...s-the-chris-avellone-interview-part-ii.21180/

he retweeted this, so he must agree with what's in the interview, but it really is kind of a shame to see him throw obs under the bus

this sucks, it's like seeing your mom and dad have a fight

children should never see that

man my parents' divorced sucked

Old World Blues is supposed to be... funny? Huh.

Honestly, the only FNV DLC I enjoyed was Dead Money. It managed to be thrilling in spite of how self-contained it was. Dunno what people see in the others.


And while Avellone's words are a bummer, the bigger bummer to me is the reminder that he's working on Prey. What a waste of his talents. Bethesda is like a black hole in terms of writing--no matter what you put in, nothing ever comes out.

 

[zkylon]

tried the new dishonored patch, at least in the tutorial i see some big performance improvements, tho the cellar (which was the most intensive area for some unknown reason) still can't hit 60 even on very low

i'm capping it at 30 and playing it on ultra and settling with that

clearly this game is not very well optimized

 

[Tizoc]

Happy Wars is shutting down. On Steam only. Because it's launching on Windows 10 Universal Windows App Store next month.

. . .

They'll come back once they see no one is playing it on W10.

 

[Corpekata]

They'll come back once they see no one is playing it on W10.

I imagine they are moving it to the W10 version for cross play maybe? Easier to manage if everyone's together.

It was never very popular on Steam, so honestly this actually might be a smart move for them.

 

[Tizoc]

I imagine they are moving it to the W10 version for cross play maybe? Easier to manage if everyone's together.

It was never very popular on Steam, so honestly this actually might be a smart move for them.

Ive heard much about happy wars years ago but was unaware it wasnt that popular on steam

 

[abracadaver]

XCOM 2 looks like it's at an all time low

$22.79 after coupon "PCgames5off"

http://www.wingamestore.com/product/4917/XCOM-2/

Was 14,97€ yesterday on amazon.de

 

[Knurek]

Was 14,97€ yesterday on amazon.de

That was a boxed copy, available for shipping only in Germany, Austria and Poland AFAIK.

 

[Pixieking]

GMG have XCOM 2 for £16.79 (52% off) if you're signed in, which is just under $20. Not sure if other countries have a similar price, though, considering their territory pricing and sales are a bit uneven.

 

[Rockin' Ranger]

GMG have XCOM 2 for £16.79 (52% off) if you're signed in, which is just under $20. Not sure if other countries have a similar price, though, considering their territory pricing and sales are a bit uneven.

In the US it's $28.57 with the VIP discount.

 

[Ghazi]

GMG have XCOM 2 for £16.79 (52% off) if you're signed in, which is just under $20. Not sure if other countries have a similar price, though, considering their territory pricing and sales are a bit uneven.

$28.57 in the US

 

[Tapejara]

GMG also has Mafia 3 Deluxe Edition (game + season pass) for $35.79 USD.

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/mafia-iii-digital-deluxe-edition/

 

[Atraveller]

GMG also has Mafia 3 Deluxe Edition (game + season pass) for $35.79 USD.

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/mafia-iii-digital-deluxe-edition/

Still not worth it.

 

[morningbus]

Still not worth it.

What other game gives you a sneak peek at President Trump's cabinet?

 

[Uzzy]

Factorio Video Player.

Not sure what song he's got it playing though.

 

[Atraveller]

What other game gives you a sneak peek at President Trump's cabinet?

People hyped the Klan member killing part of the game so much before release, turns out there's only that one mission you get to catch them at Klan rally. The rest of the missions are just like every other mission except there are trucks with Confederate flags painted on parked in mission area. Very disappointing.

 

[jorma]

Congrats on your new PC. And no, it depends on a game-by-game basis whether the developers add the option to scale the UI.

Ah ok. Is that something you can figure out before a release or is it something that will help me curb my bad preordering habits? It's kinda gamebreaking for me.

Sadly there is no solution for that problem at the moment. Maybe Valve will tackle that issue in the future.

That's weird. Achievements do pop up unless you disable the Steam Overlay. Hm.

Try Big Picture Mode, it scales properly and the notifications are much larger. Click the controller in the top right corner of Steam's window.

It's still small but yeah it did help a lot, thanks. Don't really like the big picture mode, so i hope they fix it for the normal mode as well. I can't exactly be alone in this boat.

And trophies do indeed pop now. I think maybe they were just to small to notice before.

Thanks for the help.

And i'm only 4.995 steam-games away from joining the demi god-club now!

 

[ArjanN]

Any tips for the Salamander in Xanadu Next. I just got off for the night, and am thinking what to do. I'm assuming I should just buy the Ice spell since he's fire? Or should I keep grinding the area?

I ran around until i gained another level and bought the hat that has fire resistance. Pretty easy after that.

 

[derFeef]

Happy Wars is shutting down. On Steam only. Because it's launching on Windows 10 Universal Windows App Store next month.

. . .

"We allow/support cross-network if the publisher allows it"
Well I geuss MS does not allow it, lol.

 

[zkylon]

played a bit of disho2, not sure how i feel about it

capping it at 30 feels awful, everything feels so sluggish and delayed, nothing resembling how smooth the first one felt.

it's weird cos witcher 3 at 30 feels super ok, but maybe cos this game is in 1st person it's just really unpleasant

i'm also bummed out that it seems to not have learned anything from disho1 in terms of setting up the story, giving you less than 10 minutes before everyone gets murdered and you're onto your revenge. it just feels really gamey, like a double dragon kind of thing lol, just two lines of dialogue and you're up. would've been awesome to see emily as an empress and to take a peek into her relationship with corvo and actually build some tension before the inevitable betrayal, but you literally get some lady show up at your door 5 minutes after starting telling you "ok consider yourself betrayed" and that's it

gameplay wise i've just gotten my powers so i'm not sure how it'll feel later on. the first bits were kind of tedious classic quicksave spams but it was fun messing up with the ai. took me like 2 chokes to start murdering everybody and w/e, why would you ever choke somebody out when slicing them up is so much more satisfying

first thing i did was like choke some dude out, then murder throw him from a window right next to another guy, then drop murdered his frightened face, slide murdering other random guards that were chasing me and just parry murdering the last one

murder murder murder murder

 

[Pixieking]

I'm playing through Disho1 finally (got fed-up of waiting for my wife to feel like playing it with me, so just started it when she was at work). I swear, never been as sociopathic/violent as this in any other game. Sleep-darted a mission target, killed another one by steam-burning him to death, then went back to the guy I sleep-darted and dropped him off a balcony into the sea.

Because why would I leave him not-murdered?

Blink-stab kills are so satisfying.

 

[bobnowhere]

Just rage quit Half-LIfe 2, could not beat that damn train across the bridge. I'd either not make the gap, go too shallow and still hit the train or turn too much and fly off the cliff. I can't remember it being this hard the last time I played, long long time ago!

 

[zkylon]

I'm playing through Disho1 finally (got fed-up of waiting for my wife to feel like playing it with me, so just started it when she was at work). I swear, never been as sociopathic/violent as this in any other game. Sleep-darted a mission target, killed another one by steam-burning him to death, then went back to the guy I sleep-darted and dropped him off a balcony into the sea.

Because why would I leave him not-murdered?

Blink-stab kills are so satisfying.

yeah i just love torturing the stupid ai in a ballet of carnage

like idk, it just makes it more fun if i knock someone out, then throw them out a roof. if i kill them first it's not as fun

cos i kind of want the ai to see someone get crushed and die in front of them

before i take all their lives

hahHAHahahAHhahah

 

[dex3108]

Is BF1 only big AAA game that didn't underperformed in second half of the year?

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Is Michael Pacher still a thing?
He's like a 99 cent store version of Nate Silver.

 

[texhnolyze]

Is BF1 only big AAA game that didn't underperformed in second half of the year?

No Man's Sky sold pretty well despite all the hate. Mafia III sold well too, and FIFA must be selling pretty good as usual. But that's all I guess.

 

[Ucchedavāda]

Happy Wars is shutting down. On Steam only. Because it's launching on Windows 10 Universal Windows App Store next month.

. . .

I thought you were kidding, but no, they really are doing that:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/happywars/announcements/detail/710835733874371375

I wonder how their PC player-base is going to look after they make the leap.

 

[Corpekata]

Steam Charts has the game peaking at like sub 300 concurrent on average, so they are probably already used to Windows 10 numbers.

 

[Hektor]

If I buy a dlc for happy wars now, will it forever remain downloadable in my steam library as collectors item so to speak? Or is telling steam version closing server side anyways?

 

[JaseC]

If I buy a dlc for happy wars now, will it forever remain downloadable in my steam library as collectors item so to speak? Or is telling steam version closing server side anyways?

It'll remain in your library but to continue playing the game after the "shutdown" in February you'll have to migrate to the WinStore version.

 

[KainXVIII]

GAF, recommend me some VN games from my steam backlog
I have this:
Analogue: A Hate Story
Cinders
Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~
Sakura Spirit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Shan Gui
Which one try first, which one don't bother at all?

 

[Corpekata]

Analogue is good and somewhat short (though I haven't played the others, they might be short too), and I think the storytelling methods (lots of reading other people's correspondence, the whole computer AI stuff) sets it apart a little from others in the genre.

 

[Hektor]

It'll remain in your library but to continue playing the game after the "shutdown" in February you'll have to migrate to the WinStore version.

So it's rather pointless, got it.

 

[NingenJanai]

GAF, recommend me some VN games from my steam backlog
I have this:
Analogue: A Hate Story
Cinders
Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~
Sakura Spirit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Shan Gui
Which one try first, which one don't bother at all?

Analogue is quite good. be warned tho it doesn't have fancy graphics, it's mostly just text you have to read.

 

[JaseC]

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[Arthea]

GAF, recommend me some VN games from my steam backlog
I have this:
Analogue: A Hate Story
Cinders
Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~
Sakura Spirit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Shan Gui
Which one try first, which one don't bother at all?

I vote for these, liked both a lot, unfortunately Dysfunctional Systems never will be finished...

if you want really short one it's Shan Gui, like an hour or so long and not bad.

 

[Jimrpg]

GAF, recommend me some VN games from my steam backlog
I have this:
Analogue: A Hate Story
Cinders
Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~
Sakura Spirit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Shan Gui
Which one try first, which one don't bother at all?

Go Go Nippon and Sakura Spirit are both terrible but they are only 2-3 hours long each.

Try one of Steins;Gate and/or The House in Fata Morgana for an awesome VN.

 

[shira]

I can't recall but are Black Friday Steam Sale and Humble Bundle specials any good?

 

[Wok]

I can't recall but are Black Friday Steam Sale and Humble Bundle specials any good?

Hard to say: nowadays, the devs choose the discount themselves ; for some, it will be the same discount for Black Friday and Christmas, for others, the discount won't be as attractive for Black Friday.

 

[Sendou]

GAF, recommend me some VN games from my steam backlog
I have this:
Analogue: A Hate Story
Cinders
Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~
Sakura Spirit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Shan Gui
Which one try first, which one don't bother at all?

I liked Analogue. No idea about others but that one is a winner. Very unique and interesting premise.

 

[Tizoc]

iOS/Android ver. of Final Fantasy Tactics: WoL is 70% off
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1318660
Grab it if you got a good phone or ipad to play games on.

 

[derFeef]

You folks have any tips to RC your PC at home while you are mobile? Would be neat if that works in a browser. Is teamviewer suitable for that?

 

[oipic]

Apologies if old: Limbo added to GOG Connect.

 

[Wok]

Apologies if old: Limbo added to GOG Connect.

It is not old, it has just happened.

 

[NingenJanai]

Apologies if old: Limbo added to GOG Connect.

Thanks, added.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

At my graduation today

Just to keep it relevant though there is a guy here receiving an honorary PhD, and he's the CFO of Unity (and former exec for both EA and Microsoft) :O

EA was called THE leading games company in the world though which ain't true ofc
Interesting listen though as he talked about knowing Bill Gates, and on VR and AR

 

[KainXVIII]

Try one of Steins;Gate and/or The House in Fata Morgana for an awesome VN.

They are in wishlist (hope for cheaper price on black friday steam sale)

Thank you all for answers!

 

[Ucchedavāda]

At my graduation today

Just to keep it relevant though there is a guy here receiving an honorary PhD, and he's the CFO of Unity (and former exec for both EA and Microsoft) :O

EA was called THE leading games company in the world though which ain't true ofc
Interesting listen though as he talked about knowing Bill Gates, and on VR and AR

Congratulations on graduating!

Also, which company could conceivably be considered the leading games company? I can think of many big players, but I am not sure I would describe any as the leading games company.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Wasn't there a YuGiOh game coming to Steam?

 

[CecilRousso]

Inside avalaible on GOG now, without Denuvo? Maybe finally time to try it.