lumberbaron

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    I smile resignedly whenever they mention the 1000x combo. Unless something magical happens that completely changes all the combat, I'll never be able to get close. Not only is it an achievement, it's also a quest. Hmm, maybe there's some special thing... time will tell. Still liking this game, though instant enemy repopulation is super annoying.

    It doesn't end up being that hard. You just have to do the "Dust Storm" (Y Button attack) in the air when there are a ton of enemies and avoid getting hit. At one point I had over 2k combo and got hit, and had to attempt it again. Later in the game they throw tons of enemies at you and the flying fox thing's attacks do so little damage, but stun the enemies, that you can basically just let them soak up the attacks.

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    Currently, there's no point to the Summer Sale one other than to make it the number one priority of people like myself to check in on the sale constantly to make sure I vote on everything.

    If you look at the more general badge, there's one for activating Steam Guard, and ones for using all sorts of Steam functionality they want people to know about, like screenshots and Facebook linking.

    I will praise Steam Guard until the day I die.

    During the sale I kept getting emails that someone was trying to log in. This isn't a big deal because I will randomly log on at my parents house if I go to visit to play something low impact on their PC. I thought that it was just them probably restarting the computer and that I had set it to auto login or something. After the third time I got paranoid and changed the password. The next day my Origin account got hacked. They changed my name and contact information so after an hour talking to customer service I had to get my account back by giving them the serial number to a game I had linked to the account.

    If that had happened to my steam account I would have lost my mind.

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    Same, I voted in every single community choice so it obviously decided to not count some of them. Maybe because I didn't vote for anything by Valve, the bastards.

    Odd. I am having an issue with that unlocking too. Considering the stupid amount of money that I spent, and how much I am sure my hard drive hates me for installing them all, I was kind of hoping that would unlock for me.

  8. Posted

    Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is on sale for the community choice. I have it on the 360 but didn't play a ton of it... for some reason the fact that it is 5 dollars is making it oddly hard to not re-buy for the PC...

  9. Posted

    Woot! Dead Rising 2: Off the Record for dumb cheap! Considering that most of the other stuff I am looking to buy probably isn't going to go much further down in price I think I might have bought everything I was looking to get.

  10. Posted

    I think I will finally give Saints Row: The Third a shot. Are any of the DLC packs worth getting?

    For 75% off the season pass is worth a look. They aren't wonderful but there could totally be an argument made for them all being five dollars.

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    I dunno, I'm pretty belligerent when it comes to EA's Origin service, especially when they make bullish (read: dumbass) statements about not "devaluing their content" through sales and using the service as an excuse not to make the content available widely through Steam. That said, I'll still use it when it comes to getting the games I want at the level of convenience or price I want. Case in point - I recently bought Syndicate for $12.50 on PC, because I'd much rather play it with m&k and not have to deal with a physical copy laying around my house. Sure, I think Origin is a piece of garbage and I'd much rather have it on Steam, but I'm not going to let that stop me from playing a game I'm really interested in.

    Impulse is pretty terrible. I downloaded it to play Sins of Solar Empire and got a couple games through sales on it. It is slow, loves to throw pop-ups randomly out there when it is running in the background, and my roommate has an issue that they won't let him install something he bought on disc without the disc, even though he actived through that service. So four years after he bought Sins to play against me he can't download it, even though the service knows he owns and it and will show him the serial number.

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    QUICK! WISH FOR ALL THE GAMES TO BE ON SALE!

    I would but they kind of are, but i do wish all of them were on more of a sale. At this point I think Batman Arkham City, Civ: Gods and Kings, EDF, and Dead rising off the record are the only ones I am waiting to drop down to 75% ish area.

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    I initially read this as you having a girlfriend from, like, a rural part of the country or maybe a defrosted iron age female from a glacier, that you had to introduce to modern society. Teach how to hold a fork, curtsy, that sort of thing.

    I wish I could have miss read that statement as well as you did. You have made my day.

    Kind of hoping that Tropico 4 drops in prices at some point. Loved the 3rd one, would like to pay 7.50 for in instead of 15. It just seems like one of those things they will through up as a flash deal at some point during this.

  14. Posted

    Oh how wrong I was. Already I've bought Legend of Grimrock and Space Chem. I had to talk myself out of buying Terraria, Trine 2, Crusader Kings 2, Anno 2070, and From Dust. Also I was tempted to get a copy of Siberia, which I used to own but lost the disk to.

    Ugh. Steam sales. The absolute first-worldiest of first world problems.

    I am continuing to talk myself out of buying Anno 2070. Damn them for making it 24 hours.

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    I kind of don't care about the Penny-Arcade ads, they are probably one of the only sites that I visit that I will randomly click on an ad from. I think it is kind of weird that they are doing this through kickstarter as they even mention in the video that they have done exactly something like this in the past and kind of know the finer details of making it work, hell they even have staff for it at this point.

    What annoys me is that the higher the pledge the more of an insult some of the rewards are. Sure, there is the one that is the "play date" with everyone-- the next one is saying that you can spend an entire day working for them for just 50% more. It is almost like a bad movie about someone in high school trying to sell their popularity to make nerds more cool. I guess that means that the 1.4 million dollar unlock is probably, "we all learned an important lesson about ourselves" and some bullshit song plays.

    Also, how has no one said anything about that video. It was kind of painful to watch. I don't mind PA the series, but this just seemed forced.

  18. Posted

    I found myself falling into a rather deep Battlefield hole this last week when a friend bought me a SSD for my birthday and I wanted to test it out. Not only is the game loading everything stupid fast but I am suddenly thinking about picking up the season pass just to make sure future me has the expansions should this happen again.

    Anyone playing?

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    This seems likely to me too, and there may be some infrastructure work they can carry over from the 360 version which could explain them choosing it over Steamworks. I bet they'll never publically discuss this though, they'll just ignore the seething internet rage.

    Who knows, there might have been help porting it over and a small money hat for using GFWL. I can't think of another FromSoftware game that came out on the PC, so if this is the first one I am sure that any help they could receive to make it functional could be a deciding factor.

  23. Posted

    I must be the luckiest godsdamned person alive because aside from a couple initial problems when it launched, I've never had any real problems with it.

    "GFWL = No purchase" still boggles my mind, either way.

    I am kind of the same way, it has almost always worked for me. There are a couple of oddities that my friends have run into with controller issues for some unknown reason but it has always been rather stable for me. The only time that I have ever had an issue was with a second hand copy of Fallout 3 that I bought that I was promised, "The code had never been used," on. Even then the problem was that the code had clearly been used.

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    Terrible*. Another one in a series of what seem like fantastic games that are too stressful for me to be able to play them. I wish Giant Bomb would do a playthrough of this instead of that boring game Chrono Trigger.

    *Awesome

    I am going to say that this would be interesting for only two reasons:

    1. Listening to everyone flip out and just having the episode end really quickly and abruptly.

    2. It would probably be the first one that they just didn't finish the game.

    Really hoping that there is an active mod scene for this, just thinking about player created Dark Souls levels/boss/enemies is awesome.

  25. Posted

    I loved the combat system in FF12, I was just skimming through this thread because I hadn't heard anything about this game at all and am now interested.

    I Final Fantasy Combat system with a script by people who made Xenogears/Xenosaga? You should be. Also a good game on the Wii, that is kind of something that should be encouraged as much as we can.