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frumious

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6 hours ago, Moz said:

You're in luck chum its 2.99 at cdkeys.com right now. 

 

http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/deus-ex-human-revolution-pc-steam?mw_aref=74dth566

 

Careful, although it doesn't say "Director's Cut" in the title the description sounds more like the later version:

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Choices and consequences: shoot your way through the enemies, sneak up behind them without being traced, hack systems to retrieve crucial information, or use your social skills to extract information from key characters – there are always choices, multiple approaches, multiple paths and multiple tools at your disposal. Choose your playing style and face the consequences of your actions: you decide how the story unfolds in his enhanced storyline featuring the full integration of "The Missing Link" and "Tongs Mission". Find more ways to defeat the new and improved Boss Fights, use the Newgame+ feature to replay the story with your previously acquired augmentations. Learn more about the game with the developers commentaries in ENGLISH ONLY and the original "Making of"video.

 

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DogEyedBoy

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That's the issue really, a lot of sites don't list it as the Director's Cut when it almost certainly is.

 

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Pre-Order - Key will be available on or before 25th October 2013

 

That's when the Director's Cut came out.

 

I think I'll have to try to find an old retail copy with the key intact to be sure.

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3 hours ago, Radish said:

 

Fuck you, Telltale.

 

For those curious, if you run both the Game (Game of Thrones) and Steam in admin mode then the Xbox One pad works (wired at least, I've not tried it wireless). Now my only problem is that the game actually shows you the wrong input for the QTEs: it will tell you to press RT when it should actually be LT. Telltale really are a joke. 

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17 hours ago, strider said:

Right. I've changed it to 15 big abuts from automatic and its miles better. The latency isn't the best, but I've dropped everything g to 720p and that seems to have helped it a smidge. Basically I can now play the best version of sonic transformed at a stupid frame rate and that makes me happy.

i just wish I had outrun 2006 on steam :(

 

You can stream non steam games.

 

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3 hours ago, Radish said:

Telltale really are a joke. 

 

It does feel they get quite an easy time, especially considering all their games on all platforms seem to run into some sort of technical issue and the same issues can pop up in multiple games. 

 

I see they've got new engineers in and working on the engine for Batman, hopefully that means improvements and not just new bugs.

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5 minutes ago, Illyria said:

The Walking Dead was bloody amazing foo.

 

Although I got to play both seasons within one weekend and didn't have to wait for the episodes, thank fuck

 

"Bloody amazing" doesn't stop it also being "a clunky mess". Which it definitely was.

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Illyria

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6 minutes ago, Gizamaluke said:

I liked that bit where you walked around a field deciding who to give a chocolate bar to...

 

Life is Strange came out and made the attempt at interactive storytelling Telltale have been peddling for the last 7 or 8 years look so poor.

 

I loved both games. 

 

And that scene you're referring to, I actually didn't mind. It put you into the shitty position of deciding who gets to eat and who has to go hungry, and the game continuously put you into those sorts of situations that you're unlikely to ever face in real life. Some of them made you question your own sense of morality.

 

I guess some people prefer more action, I liked the very heavy focus on story that turned it into more of an interactive movie. 

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1 hour ago, Illyria said:

 

I loved both games. 

 

And that scene you're referring to, I actually didn't mind. It put you into the shitty position of deciding who gets to eat and who has to go hungry, and the game continuously put you into those sorts of situations that you're unlikely to ever face in real life. Some of them made you question your own sense of morality.

 

I guess some people prefer more action, I liked the very heavy focus on story that turned it into more of an interactive movie. 

 

I'm struggling to understand your suggestion that the almost entirely dedicated to conversation and exploration game that is Life is Strange has more 'action' than the QTE-fests that are Telltale's.

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I was all set to grab Colin McRae Rally for a quick 99p blast around the forest, until I read the mostly negative reviews and I'm put right off. Oh PC gaming, you've created a world where 99p is too much to pay for a potentially bad game. :lol:

 

Also amusing: the installer for GoG Galaxy is a 135MB download. That's over a quarter of the size of the System Shock 2 download I'll be grabbing with it! Amazing.

 

Looking forward to SS2. The last time I played, it was a shonky download from Home of the Underdogs with a lot of the assets stripped out. Back in the days before publishers realised it might be a good idea to make some money from their back catalogues...

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I picked up Tennis Elbow 2013 when it was on sale last week, the French Open reawakening my periodical desires for a tennis game. This one really seems the business though - I've longed for something with a proper career mode, rather than giving you an immediate top 100 ranking and tossing you into the Australian Open's last 32 within minutes. Nope, here I'm crashing out in the qualifiers for a Futures event in Germany.

 

That's what I want - something to spend time on, and build towards success so even appearing in the first round of a slam feels like a reward. You can set the length of a match in each type of tournament, as well, so you can blitz through the minor tournaments playing single set matches, but play two or three for major finals, and the whole of the slams. 

 

There are a lot of stats kept - results of tournaments, your career record, and you can go off and view any other player in the tour and see their records too. That really gives you a feeling of participating in a fully realised tour, rather than the whole thing revolving around you like most other games do. You can even play doubles alongside your singles career, in those same tournaments. Rather more successfully, I've found, though I'm getting annoyed at my partner as she's just not as reliable on her serve. I might ditch her. 

 

The last tennis game I sunk any real time into was Top Spin 3, and this plays totally differently. Timing of your button press is irrelevant, it's all about positioning and shot choice instead. You hold the relevant button throughout the shot, aiming as you do so. The earlier you start holding, the more accurate your shot, but while holding your player can't chase down shots so you need to be well positioned before you start. A tap and release will play a safe shot to the centre of the court - often necessary on the stretch but can leave an easy shot for your opponent. In all, it leads to satisfying rallies where you try to take control and keep your opponent guessing, before going for the audacious pass or drop shot to finish them off. 

 

On the downside, the menus are seriously atrocious. They basically haven't changed since the 2006 version, and are pretty clunky. There's pad support, which works well in the game but is a chore in the menus as it seems to only move back and forward between things - a Steam controller really sorts that out, but I hope the next version gives it a modern overhaul. A lot of effort has gone into the gameplay, the front end really lets it down there. Also, you can't play mixed doubles on the world tour, only in one off games, which is a shame. Indeed, the two tours don't play simultaneously, it's one or the other. In an ideal world, you could have a male and female career on the go at any one time, partnering up for any mixed tournaments.

 

Still, the front end doesn't detract from the gameplay, which is providing plenty of fistbumping moments when that cross court forehand just finds the line to break serve.

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16 minutes ago, Punished Smitty said:

I was thinking of buying MGS5 but I read somewhere that the Steam summer sale might be starting soon. Is that right? Is it likely to be discounted?

 

It's worth keeping an eye on CDKeys for it. I got it pretty cheap a few weeks ago. Out of stock at the moment though

 

http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/metal-gear-solid-v-5-the-phantom-pain-pc

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