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Solid-Snake-Eyes said:
All this talk about Arkham Origins being a disappointment... I played the first 90 minutes last night and thought it was great! :(
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I've put in 70 minutes and I'm having a blast thus far. In my experience whenever a new game comes out anymore people complain its a disappointment. If your having fun don't worry about what anyone else thinks.

 
Solid-Snake-Eyes said:
All this talk about Arkham Origins being a disappointment... I played the first 90 minutes last night and thought it was great! :(
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I completely agree. I played about the same amount of time and my initial early assessment is this is great fun.

From the early impressions of Origins, WB Montreal seems to have kept and just tweaked what Rocksteady did in Arkham City. It feels safe. I like origin stories, so it's cool to see a younger Gotham before Arkham City and a less refined Batman in his second year as the Bat.

My one gripe is detective mode is rather bland and too easy. Just look for the yellow glowing object basically, but that's my only dislike so far. I just wish that aspect was more challenging. There's an overhaul to the gadget upgrade progression tree which is a nice touch, adding more variety and choice.

One thing I noticed is that my Batman combat skills are really rusty, but I can't wait to dive back in (see what i did there?) this weekend. ;)

 
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New Get Loaded is up.  

In less boring news:  WRC 4 is out!  Rally fans seem to be enjoying it so far, I might have to scratch up some pandabux.

In other other news: GMG25-3P6V5-3Q850 and GMG20-50Z66-SCTEU are your weekend GMG codes.  First one is 25% off most things (including the aforementioned WRC 4, making it $29.93).  The latter is the typical 20% off sale items voucher.

Feel free to pretend this post is filled with MIND LINKian graphics and slang. 

 
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spuffin said:
The GTS 450 was $130 at release 3 years ago

Admittedly I'm not too familiar with the AMD/ATI cards but that's a fairly low requirement for the NVidia card. If you paid more than $300 for a card 3 years ago that is below that, I'm very curious what you bought.
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Sure, hopefully they jumped numbers or whatnot... I've never ran into anything it won't run... Granted, I've been playing some older games since my return to PC gaming. (I built this three plus years ago and never did much with it.)

Anyhow, its a Sapphire Radeon HD 5850. I got it on 5/30/2010 (So closer to 3.5 years now) for 298.99 from newegg.

Edit: Well. something seem real fishy here...

Stats from videocardbenchmarks.com:

GeForce GTS 450 benches at 1540 (on avg)

Radeon HD 5850 benches at 2277 (on avg)

My card benches about 33% better, both are DirectX 11 cards...

Why would I need a Radeon HD 5870 or better to run this game?

 
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indef said:
New Get Loaded is up.

In less boring news: WRC 4 is out! Rally fans seem to be enjoying it so far, I might have to scratch up some pandabux.

In other other news: GMG25-3P6V5-3Q850 and GMG20-50Z66-SCTEU are your weekend GMG codes. First one is 25% off most things (including the aforementioned WRC 4, making it $29.93). The latter is the typical 20% off sale items voucher.

Feel free to pretend this post is filled with MIND LINKian graphics and slang.
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I think I'm going to grab WRC 4, I'm really feeling a rally fix.

 
Should I bother getting both the game and DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2? I have no experience with the game at all. I'm just really curious.

P.S. I am also kinda busy game-wise so I am not exactly rich in terms of free time.

 
In for Whispered World for $1. If the base price of Roach is $20 I'll bta, but the rest I already have.


Eldredpe said:
Then perhaps a game simulating long-haul freight transportation in real time isn't necessarily the best game for you at this time.
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It's not really real time. 1 mile in game is probably about 1/10 of a real mile.
 
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pasports31 said:
I think what it really comes down to is how hard you milk a title. If you're pushing a new game any more often than once every three years, you better do a REALLY good job with them, or else the lack of improvements or major changes will look really glaring.
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I pretty much agree with this... And if you look at the games mentioned Arkham Origin and DA2 you can see how people would view them as cash grabs... DA2, very short development cycle and ridiculous amounts of reused environments (Maybe more than any other game since the 8 Bit era) and Arkham Origin was made by a developer other than Rocksteady... All clear signs of cash being the most important factor.

DA2 also suffered from an avg story, nothing real epic but nothing outright horrible, and Bioware trying something new with story telling... The frame narrative. Sadly, it also made the game very linear.

 
INMATEofARKHAM said:
Sure, hopefully they jumped numbers or whatnot... I've never ran into anything it won't run... Granted, I've been playing some older games since my return to PC gaming. (I built this three plus years ago and never did much with it.)

Anyhow, its a Sapphire Radeon HD 5850. I got it on 5/30/2010 (So closer to 3.5 years now) for 298.99 from newegg.

Edit: Well. something seem real fishy here...

Stats from videocardbenchmarks.com:

GeForce GTS 450 benches at 1540 (on avg)

Radeon HD 5850 benches at 2277 (on avg)

My card benches about 33% better, both are DirectX 11 cards...

Why would I need a Radeon HD 5870 or better to run this game?
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That is a bit odd. The 5850 and 5870 are both roughly twice as powerful as a GTS 450. The GTS 450 is roughly equivalent to a 5750/6750. Unless the game is extremely optimized for Nvidia, I'd expect either a 5750 to work, or a GTS 450 to not work. If a 5870 is really the minimum then 460, 560, and 650 Ti cards shouldn't be enough either.

 
warreni said:
Boo. With Chaos on Deponia and Dark Eye in the BTA, this would have been an insta-buy, but Journey of a Roach? They must be scraping the bottom of the back-catalog for that one.

EDIT: Okay, apparently the roach game is new. But it'd be better if it were Chaos on Deponia.
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I'm waiting for Idiotekque to try to sell Journey of a Roach for $.01 and for it to take 4 months to do so.

Okay maybe two cents since it's 3D and not 2D.

context: He had a Radical Roach key up on the buy/sell thread for a penny for 4 months before someone bought it.

 
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I loved Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. I thought Asylum started off strong and City innovated and expanded upon the original, keeping the experience fresh. When I found out Rocksteady was not on the project, alarm bells went off in my head immediately as that's a popular move by publishers - put a series on autopilot while the original studio works on a new project. So it was with interest that I began to read comments and freshly un-embargoed reviews last night. 

The anti-anti buzz crowd seems to have picked up on the critical theme that the game is more of the same and have hung their hats on the notion that more of a good thing ain't bad, right? Almost every review points this out. 

One of the better negative reviews I've read is from EGM which does a much better job of detailing why it's not just "more of the same" - it's "a lot of the same plus not-so-great stuff"

+ Great script

+ A great template from Rocksteady

+ New XP system works well

- Pointless boss battles sully a few great ones

- New Detective Mode a dud

- Game breaking gadgets (Remote Bat Claw and Shock Gloves)

- Irritating new Dark Knight System

- Glitches

- Horribly executed and unnecessary multiplayer

- Mixed opinions on voice work

It sounds to me like it could be a decent game, but certainly not a must-play game like the other two. I will wait for a deep discount on this one.

 
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Just saw a note on steam about today being the last day for steam beta requirements for the hardware beta.  Anyone else in need of some friends to qualify? I could use some. Im not sure if there was a thread for this. I looked for one, but didnt see anything.

I'm under praehard on steam too, incase anyone's interested.

 
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MysterD said:
Here's my ridiculously long-winded Resident Evil 6 (PC Version) REVIEW:

http://www.xfire.com/blog/mysterd/5003880

It's WAY too long for my Steam-recommendation section, so I took a portion of it and threw it up there in my Steam-recommended section.

I had to put it somewhere in its entirely - namely, since I don't feel like chopping it down, so it's up on my XFire account, like most of my long-winded reviews.
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Nicely done, MysterD. Makes me want to play RE6. I'll consider picking it up next time it's 75% off.

 
Thanks Guys who friended me on steam. The badge ticked over!  appreciate it!  Anyone else needs a friend to tick over the badge hit me up!

 
I got RE6 during capcoms steam sale. It's not perfect but I paid $10 and I will get my moneys worth of enjoyment out of it and more.

 
RE6 is one of the best co-op games I've ever played.

In comparison.. Lost Planet 2 is one of the worst co-op games I've played (and no, I'm not joking).

 
I've yet to find a co-op game that I didn't enjoy to some degree; to that extent, I find it to be a poor judge of game quality. Anything played with friends is fun for a short while.

 
taylort3 said:
I've yet to find a co-op game that I didn't enjoy to some degree; to that extent, I find it to be a poor judge of game quality. Anything played with friends is fun for a short while.
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The thing is, RE6 lasts around 30 hours or so. It was fun the entire time for me, but the game was designed for co-op so I don't see how it's not a valid way to judge its quality. If co-op was tacked on or something, I'd agree, but it wasn't.

 
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spoderman said:
The thing is, RE6 lasts around 30 hours or so. It was fun the entire time for me, but the game was designed for co-op so I don't see how it's not a valid way to judge its quality. If co-op was tacked on or something, I'd agree, but it wasn't.
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I mean that I've yet to find a co-op game that I didn't enjoy with friends, so I think it's a bit pointless to say that a co-op game is fun, that's all. It's sort of just a given, I think, and there is no need to state the obvious. For example, I am not fond of RE6, but I would still certainly have fun in co-op with my friends. Same goes for Lost Planet 2 ;)

 
taylort3 said:
I mean that I've yet to find a co-op game that I didn't enjoy with friends, so I think it's a bit pointless to say that a co-op game is fun, that's all. It's sort of just a given, I think, and there is no need to state the obvious. For example, I am not fond of RE6, but I would still certainly have fun in co-op with my friends. Same goes for Lost Planet 2 ;)
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Well, that theory doesn't work for me.. Lost Planet 2 isn't fun for me in co-op lol.

 
pasports31 said:
Has anybody played Lego marvel superheros? Any good? Any better than the same old same old lego gameage?
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LEGO Marvel has some weird marketing gimmick to help you decide to give them your moneys. They're calling this thing a "demo". It's available for download here.

Eldredpe said:
You're right.

Joyce's Ulysses 2 and Michelangelo's Chapel Again: Ain't Yo Mama's Sistine were both unfairly panned by critics in their day.

But really, if you're just putting out "more of the same" several years after the initial product, it deserves mixed reviews. Mixed means some people still want it and some people have moved on. You'll know which one you are before you read the review.
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On the other hand, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer 2: Huck Finn Boogaloo was a critical and commercial success.


INMATEofARKHAM said:
Stats from videocardbenchmarks.com:

GeForce GTS 450 benches at 1540 (on avg)

Radeon HD 5850 benches at 2277 (on avg)

My card benches about 33% better, both are DirectX 11 cards...

Why would I need a Radeon HD 5870 or better to run this game?
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Guessing it has something to do with the name of the company that wrote the requirements. ;) AMD may not have had a chance to optimize drivers for the game yet, which would certainly hamper performance.
 
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Eldredpe said:
You're right.

Joyce's Ulysses 2 and Michelangelo's Chapel Again: Ain't Yo Mama's Sistine were both unfairly panned by critics in their day.

But really, if you're just putting out "more of the same" several years after the initial product, it deserves mixed reviews. Mixed means some people still want it and some people have moved on. You'll know which one you are before you read the review.
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On the other hand, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer 2: Huck Finn Boogaloo was a critical and commercial success.
 
Guys and gals, do you know if there's some kind of region restriction on the GameStop keys? I want to get Ghostbusters and Riddick steam keys from someone on the USA, but I don't now if I can redeem them here, on South America. Thanks for the help!

 
soulkyo said:
Guys and gals, do you know if there's some kind of region restriction on the GameStop keys? I want to get Ghostbusters and Riddick steam keys from someone on the USA, but I don't now if I can redeem them here, on South America. Thanks for the help!
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No, it has no region restriction.

 
taylort3 said:
I've yet to find a co-op game that I didn't enjoy to some degree; to that extent, I find it to be a poor judge of game quality. Anything played with friends is fun for a short while.
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Exactly. Whenever I see a game being praised as being 'great for co-op,' I discount it. Most every leisure activity is fun in a group.

 
DarenDF said:
I got RE6 during capcoms steam sale.
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I did, too. :D

It's not perfect but I paid $10 and I will get my moneys worth of enjoyment out of it and more.
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I agree w/ this 100%.

I got 33 hours w/ RE6 on my first play-through of finishing all 4 campaigns.

I do wish there were less areas of the overall boss-fights w/ the same exact fighting methods and repetition (namely it can happen within the same campaign and in other campaigns - unless players are given different roles entirely in a boss-fight; and/or players should be given the option to skip a boss-fight b/c the game notice's they done that boss fight in another campaign); and that the in-game objects in the game-world had better overall texture-quality.

Other than that above stuff - I had a blast w/ most of the game.

I think one thing that helps matter for me is this game does TONS of different things - and that I like different types of games and genres. It has COD-style gameplay (Chris campaign); the RE4/RE5 style of gameplay (Leon campaign); and Jake's campaign and Ada's campaign both have some of the RE4/RE5 style of gameplay with also a mixture of stealth and hand-to-hand combat, while Ada's campaign also actually has some actual puzzles - hell, what didn't this game have for content? This game threw the kitchen sink - and for the most part, I dug it.

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Mooby said:
Exactly. Whenever I see a game being praised as being 'great for co-op,' I discount it. Most every leisure activity is fun in a group.
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I didn't do any co-op when playing RE6 PC in my first run-through of the 4 campaigns.

The only thing I did allow was gamers to invade my game and be a monster, if they so wanted.

I'm curious - since you can play solo w/out even an AI parner, did you like Ada's campaign?

 
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Mooby said:
Exactly. Whenever I see a game being praised as being 'great for co-op,' I discount it. Most every leisure activity is fun in a group.
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Some games aren't worth playing for singleplayer though. For example, there's no reason to play Lara Croft Guardian of Light in singleplayer, other than it being easier for collecting weapons/artifacts/achievements which isn't really necessary. The core of the game is in co-op. If I said that's a good co-op game, I genuinely mean it's a good game, but shouldn't be played for singleplayer because it wasn't meant for it, and the puzzles are scaled way down making them too easy for SP.

Another example is Renegade Ops, I don't know why anyone would play that in SP, other than for achievements (whoever implemented the achievements did a really bad job, most of them are for SP..).

Yeah, a lot of co-op games are made fun just by playing with friends.. but that's not why I say they're good games. I say they're good, because they're good, but designed for co-op more than their singleplayer.

 
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spoderman said:
Some games aren't worth playing for singleplayer though. For example, there's no reason to play Lara Croft Guardian of Light in singleplayer, other than it being easier for collecting weapons/artifacts/achievements which isn't really necessary. The core of the game is in co-op. If I said that's a good co-op game, I genuinely mean it's a good game, but shouldn't be played for singleplayer because it wasn't meant for it, and the puzzles are scaled way down making them too easy for SP.

Another example is Renegade Ops, I don't know why anyone would play that in SP, other than for achievements (whoever implemented the achievements did a really bad job, most of them are for SP..).

Yeah, a lot of co-op games are made fun just by playing with friends.. but that's not why I say they're good games. I say they're good, because they're good, but designed for co-op more than their singleplayer.
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I think that really depends on the game, though. If a game's not fun for someone alone - sure, MP could be the way to totally liven things up.

I certainly had a great time, playing both Torchlight 1 & 2; Borderlands 1 & 2; both Diablo 2 and 3 all alone; Dead Space 3; Dead Island; and Resident Evil 5 all by my lonesome-self. For me, it's worthwhile to check-out co-op and the MP after I actually do the game solo.

I did try-out Borderlands 1 and D3 w/ people later on - and yeah, that was also fun, too. :D

When it comes to gaming, I guess I'm often Mr. Solo Dolo kinda like Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi); at least on my 1st run-through.

 
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MysterD said:
I think that really depends on the game, though. If a game's not fun for someone alone - sure, MP could be the way to totally liven things up.

I certainly had a great time, playing both Torchlight 1 & 2; Borderlands 1 & 2; both Diablo 2 and 3 all alone; Dead Space 3; Dead Island; and Resident Evil 5 all by my lonesome-self. For me, it's worthwhile to check-out co-op and the MP after I actually do the game solo.

I did try-out Borderlands 1 and D3 w/ people later on - and yeah, that was also fun, too. :D

When it comes to gaming, I guess I'm often Mr. Solo Dolo kinda like Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi); at least on my 1st run-through.
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For the most part, I prefer solo gaming. I enjoy multiplayer, but probably like 99 percent of my gaming is solo. Playing w/other people sometimes pisses me off. I played a bit of borderlands 2 w/my roommate, and I was getting aggravated for some reason. Don't remember why. Had a lot more fun playing it alone.

 
pasports31 said:
For the most part, I prefer solo gaming. I enjoy multiplayer, but probably like 99 percent of my gaming is solo. Playing w/other people sometimes pisses me off. I played a bit of borderlands 2 w/my roommate, and I was getting aggravated for some reason. Don't remember why. Had a lot more fun playing it alone.
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I remember when I did some Borderlands 1 co-op - sometimes w/ friends; sometimes w/ people I didn't know; sometimes alone.

Nothing was more annoying than seeing dudes I didn't know - cheating and duping-out guns like crazy like he just won the highest jackpot on the slot machines at Vegas, where all weapons and their stats were way above both their level and mine.

{shakes my head}

Playing Borderlands 1 w/ friends playing legit - yeah, that was mad-fun! :D

 
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MysterD said:
I think that really depends on the game, though. If a game's not fun for someone alone - sure, MP could be the way to totally liven things up.

I certainly had a great time, playing both Torchlight 1 & 2; Borderlands 1 & 2; both Diablo 2 and 3 all alone; Dead Space 3; Dead Island; and Resident Evil 5 all by my lonesome-self. For me, it's worthwhile to check-out co-op and the MP after I actually do the game solo.

I did try-out Borderlands 1 and D3 w/ people later on - and yeah, that was also fun, too. :D

When it comes to gaming, I guess I'm often Mr. Solo Dolo kinda like Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi); at least on my 1st run-through.
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Yeah but you like everything. If I made a game called 'Bob Reads the Phone Book' it would be GOTY candidate. :D/

 
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