That's what I thought awhile back and was giddy as hell. Unfortunately, Kenji Eno has passed and we won't be seeing Laura again.
RIP Kenji Eno and Warp.
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STEAM | September II 2014 - Ride the Lightning
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That's what I thought awhile back and was giddy as hell. Unfortunately, Kenji Eno has passed and we won't be seeing Laura again.
RIP Kenji Eno and Warp.
AHA-Lambda
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For anyone interested in A Bird Story, it's bee delayed by a couple of days to the 7th November, according to the game's Facebook page.
teehee
AHA-Lambda
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Just saw the 6gb vram for Mordor, holy hell! How many cards out now even have that?
Damn
Damn
Tizoc
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No thanks, it'll be a bunch of indies nobody wants that aren't on Steam.
Chance Hale
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200 griffon feathers.
Tizoc
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...but the damn birds'd still not come to help me waste these orcs.
Productivity goes down next month with Beyond Earth
Well I guess anyone following the this years big budget multiplats should have expected as much due to going happy with the VRAM due to the newer consoles having lots to play with. 1, 2 and 3 is a nice spread for the options within the game but 6 is quite crazy as there's not that many cards that have that now or more importantly will do in the future. It's not like this is going to be a Crysis where it's used for benchmark runs for years to come. Be interesting to see if it does actually need 6gb of VRAM before the engine chokes and locks up or if it's like CoD Ghosts or Wolfenstien and lock you out if you don't have a 6gb card installed.
Still options are nice and I'm eyeing up a Titan Black if one pops up for £500 (used) and can flog my two for that anyway.
For gaming GPUs? 3 all named Titan somethingorother.
How do you think I felt went I walked into a thread with someome with, bar the space, has exactly the same user name? It's not like I can demand the chap a pretender as they were here first. Even more so they're quite famous in the Fighting Game Comunity both here and on places like Shoruken. Let's say I've recovered a few PMs by mistake over the years. Did contemplate a name change but I'm way to lazy for that and after trying to sever Doogie Houser from my avatar I got enough grief in here let alone fucking around with my name.
CheesecakeRecipe
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The stuttering is pretty much there to stay I think, same thing that plagued stuff like Bioshock: Infinite. Unreal Engine jank.
Fantastic game, really enchanting. Something truly special which will appeal to those looking for a bit of a mystery and those who enjoy the laid back type of experiences that something like Gone Home can do. Since my editor kinda dicked me out on being able to publish a review for it, I think I'll dump it here after I finish writing it all out.
That's quite unfortunate. I was hoping it might get fix in a future update. But thankfully it's not really noticeable once you emerged yourself into the game.
Also feel free to dump your review:
And yes Snake. I was able to run it on max setting without any difficulty except the slight stuttering that seem to persist no matter what settings you're on.
Bubbavelli
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I beat my first mission in Tropico 3 and wow did I feel accomplished. The learning curve is a bit high right? Or am I just a nub at strategy games?
Atraveller
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Did a little bit of research, there's very little amount of details on F1 2014, I expect it to be a slightly updated version of F1 2013 because it's last gen only.
ashecitism
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Ethan Carter? UE3.
Tried running from an non-system SSD?
Helped immensely with my BioInf playthrough.
Quick impressions of The Journey Down: Chapter 1 - game looks amazing, has rocking jazz-reggae soundtrack, some easy but logical puzzles and pretty much a Saturday Morning Cartoon story.
Takes about 2 hours to complete, so definitely not worth the asking prices, but if you got it from a bundle or something, give it a go if you're into adventure games.
Oh, and I had to run the game from an SSD, else I had terrible stuttering when the game loaded a new area. Pretty weird for a game using pre-rendered backgrounds/sprites.
Glass Rebel
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This is what years of being able to run games at max settings on a toaster do to you
Some gif of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
It's one of the most beautiful games I've ever played.
I think I read that they used some sort of technique to present the game as if you're looking at a photo. So the environment look really realistic. Though unfortunately the character models. From what I've seen so far. Does not look on par.
It's one of the most beautiful games I've ever played.
I think I read that they used some sort of technique to present the game as if you're looking at a photo. So the environment look really realistic. Though unfortunately the character models. From what I've seen so far. Does not look on par.
That Shadow of Mordor thread is hilarious. It's like Watch Dogs all over again
This post is so spot on about the reaction of most people in there haha http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=131719154&postcount=392
This post is so spot on about the reaction of most people in there haha http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=131719154&postcount=392
That Shadow of Mordor thread is hilarious. It's like Watch Dogs all over again
This post is so spot on about the reaction of most people in there haha http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=131719154&postcount=392
The Evil Within thread was even more funny as someone said due to the 'recomended' specs for PC they were getting the PS4 version as they couldn't live without 1920x1080 @ 60fps despite the PS4 version being confirmed to be running @ 30fps.
xBladeM6x
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Tizoc
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Please tell me you told him that it is 30 FPS.
Gipsy Danger
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It's downright atrocious. People still don't really understand how PCs work and that you don't have to be able to max a game to have a good time. Ridiculous.
There's going to be a lot of those now with the growing PC gaming population.
On one hand some people might flip out when a certain game won't be playable at their beloved 1920x1080 @ 60fps. Which for me is really setting you ambitions low. No game should ever have its resolution of framerate locked and should be able to run free as long as you have the power behind it. But then there are sometimes posts where people talk about current technology is facing deminishing returns. pfft far from it. I won't be happy until 7640x4320 240hz OLED panels are kicking around and with VR making bigger and bigger strides there's masses of room for improvement over even the latest tech. If demanding games help push that forward sooner then all the better.
I don't really blame people for wanting to play a game "maxed out" when they pick up their new cards or whatever.
What's ridiculous is people are complaining when the developers are offering an option and they are questioning "why put in the effort when only small amount of people uses it?" as if it's a bad thing.
This is probably why some devs don't care and will just leave a resolution cap, don't bother releasing the higher resolution textures they have on their hands, people will be happy with straight console ports with no graphical options just cuz "it runs better than consoles".
Gipsy Danger
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I totally get that. But I just bought a new card and I'm not too bothered if I can't max it as long as I know that the Ultra textures are designed as a future-proof scenario so that I can play the game again in a few years and it's like a mini-remaster.
But yeah, it's the people who say they're going with the inferior PS4 version because they can only run the PC version on medium-high. That's weird.
Discovery Queue is stupid. It's predicated on you saying 'NO' to games rather than 'YES'. The only real choice you have is to skip to the next game. Why isn't there an 'Interested' option that would mean more games of this ilk are going to pop on your pages?
I don't want to 'follow' every game and have its announcements on the activity feed for every game that i think i might like. And that's why i'm not going to choose 'Not interested' for the vast majority of games.
I don't want to 'follow' every game and have its announcements on the activity feed for every game that i think i might like. And that's why i'm not going to choose 'Not interested' for the vast majority of games.
oh god that one post in the Vane thread
That's enough internet for me for today
For those who missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXe5t7iIzoQ
That's enough internet for me for today
For those who missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXe5t7iIzoQ
The Red Wizard
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I really want to get Shadow of Mordor thanks to those review scores but Smash Bros is out next week so I doubt that I'll be able to give them both the time they deserve.
Game devs, why u no spread out releases?!
Game devs, why u no spread out releases?!
oh wow
I missed this trailer somehow, thanks for posting it here
edited: Shadow of Mordor is actually good? I don't believe it... I want to, but I don't (><)
toddhunter
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I'm more interested to know why select "no" doesn't take you to the next item in the queue.
"Here is this game I'm not interested in, but please make me click "next game" and keep showing it to me until I do"
Oh my. I didn't even realise the release date was that close. Eeep - I'm going to have to keep resisting!
Full media blackout for you till you're done with TitS.
Discovery queue is pointless, yes, I already stopped even laughing at it, it's just useless, more recommendations at the bottom of store page are somewhat better, idling screws it too, though.
I am on full blackout anyway, so no worries
I was so sure it'll be bad, as to decide not to preoder it and get at winter sale at the earliest. I hope I won't regret this choice (><)
CheesecakeRecipe
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For those still on the fence about Ethan Carter and if you should pick it up for a Friday treat, my review:
Very recommended. You probably know my taste and that I love what many call "walking simulators" but this is something a little bit more. It's a very special short story that isn't the most original idea around, but it certainly makes for a really good trip.
Paul Prospero, a detective with a unique skillset, is called towards a piece of fan mail as though the sirens themselves would emerge the moment he sliced the licked adhesive apart. A boy named Ethan Carter writes to him, detailing some dark happenings in the hidden countryside town he resides in. Paul realizes that Ethan wouldn't have chosen him if these dark things wouldn't require his particular abilities. His last case shall be this one, Paul decides, and sets out to the breezy hillsides of Red Creek Valley. Within minutes of arriving, he comes across a series of potentially deadly traps in the woods just on the outskirts of town. This case will be anything but ordinary for most people, but Paul Prospero is used to it.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter takes some elements out of Murdered: Soul Suspects playbook and gives the player the ability to piece together crime scenes through supernatural ability. Whenever an important element is visible, you can interact with it to see Pauls thoughts on how it may all fit in with the current scene. Sometimes hell even be able to locate a missing object by peeking through a magic mirror-like thought process. By arranging the scene to be exactly as it was at the moment of death, Paul can see the entire final minutes of the dead through a series of flashbacks. All of this is taught to the player by letting them discover each of the functions on their own. With no tutorial some players may find themselves a bit lost at first, but once you've gotten the first case down you've pretty much gotten the hang of all the skills youll need to progress.
Through scraps of Ethans writing laying around, we learn that hes a pretty creative kid. If youd ever asked him, hed probably tell you his inspirations were Poe, Chandler, Lovecraft, and Verne. With this talent comes the evidence of a disturbed mind and a town with a secret underground some people are all too eager to get to. Some of his writing fits in with the events in town that you learn about through the paranormal mystery puzzles and newspaper clippings sitting around. There was an ever-present sensation in the pit of my stomach that something was up and it probably didn't want me here.
There was a lot of time to ponder the events of each case and how they related to the big picture, thanks to the sheer size of Red Creek Valleys map. While not a fully open world, you can get to most places through a handful of paths and practicing a little mental triangulation as you work your way around. Nooks and crannies leading to quiet spots in the shade of the forest or some tossed away rotted wood planks that once upheld something or other are all over the place. I had the option to run everywhere, but I found myself utterly entranced by the almost photorealistic, if slightly dreamy, visual work done by The Astronauts. Every few steps was another gorgeous vista overlooking a lake. Every rock looked sharp enough to scrape my skin on. Its hard to believe that this was all done in Unreal Engine 3. If you've ever looked at a single screenshot of the game, the visual fidelity remains that consistent for every backdrop.
Several times I sat down under a tree for a few moments, watching as the knee-high grass whipped around in the wind. I closed my eyes and took in the soundstage. So perfectly crafted, small sonic details most games dont have the time, money, or the will to reproduce so crisply. Had I not been watching the vivid countryside dancing before me just seconds before, I would have sworn I was listening to a Chris Watson sound collage. Positional audio is one thing that developers rarely get right, but it is one of the most essential elements in establishing a truly enveloping sense of place. When a crow cawed above my head, the sound moved realistically as I turned to face the source. Bug screeches, bending branches, rattling metal constructs, all represented with care. Headphones are an absolute must.
It isn't all purely idyllic, only a handful of shortcomings stain the pages of Ethans story. The first issue comes from the voice acting, which is about as stale as moldy bread. Paul himself performs the gravely-voiced detective role just fine and Ethan sounds much like a kid his age would, but any of the other supporting characters sound very off. The character models are another problem, their design and models not matching up to the picturesque backgrounds. They are stiffly animated, weirdly textured, and lack a lot of depth which would help them blend in more with the backgrounds. I wont say its something like the toons sitting in a bar with Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but it is very noticeable. Some may find the game length too short, but I personally did not find this to be a big deal.
At a short 3 to 5 hours, Ethans adventure is over relatively shortly. But the game is always presenting you with something beautiful to look at, something suspicious to chew on, or some puzzle to solve. It even changes up the mechanics here and there to help keep things feeling fresh, avoiding too much repetition in the more game-y mechanics. This is a game which can be enjoyed by those who want a little meat on the bones they find leaning against a tree in the forest, reminding me a lot more of Ether One (a game you must check out if you enjoy Ethan Carter, by the way) than Dear Esther. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is meant to be taken slowly, absorbed like a good book dripping with detail. The ending may not exactly be the most surprising and some may find themselves a little disappointed. But the journey towards it is full of heart and imagination. Much in the way that Ethan Carter himself is.
Very recommended. You probably know my taste and that I love what many call "walking simulators" but this is something a little bit more. It's a very special short story that isn't the most original idea around, but it certainly makes for a really good trip.
Hahaha, it's hillarious.
All you're left is visiting the game pages of the games you do feel strongly about not wanting and choosing 'Not interested'.
The Dear Leader
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Some people are so clueless, people who have no idea how a PC works talking bullshit like their Carmack at a keynote lol.
Well the issue is two fold.
Firstly the last console generation lasted too long and company's got complacent with their pc ports. That meant people could max most games. People aren't used to it.
Then you've got the issue of the new cards not even offering enough vram for it. That leads to more annoyance especially when considering the previous point.
Either way we really need comparison shots. I can't imagine the ultra textures being worth that amount of vram personally.
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