The Valve and Steam Discussion Thread

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Well actually... That isn't hard to do.

Laughing so hard now, holy shit.

Now I know the plot to this vidya game there's no reason to play it. I figured out a bioware game will have 4 things I can do in any order at the beginning, a betrayal, and then an epic climax where I learn about the villain's daddy issues. I'm a fucking genius.

If only...

No, what's really going on is glorification of a shittily-made cutscene that's apparently deep and cool and mysterious while it has all BioWarean qualities about it. Lulz.

don't complain if the quotes get broken

had this tab around for a while, too

Only reason I see for not sticking around is getting bored in the middle of the conversation or plain ignoring content

What's fundamental? The difference Page being a background character would make? I fail to understand how would the game be much different, considering Page's "presence" only starts becoming less sparse by the time you get to HK(IIRC he's only mentioned as a philanthropist a couple times until you get back to NY, then shit gets obvious)

Unless this single person is the fucking boss.[/quote]
what that doesn't contradict my argument, FFS man that's almost a theme inth egame

Expecting adverse consequences later on would be a good reason and I fully did expect them on my first playthrough.

As the result I wasn't around when WS actually started his little chat and wasn't around when he stopped talking and started popping moles.

Page's presence starts with the end of the fucking training course. It doesn't take an Albert fucking Einstein to connect the dots if the the obviously influential person showing up to congratulate you at the end of the training course and presumably holding UNATCO's strings is also the supremely evil fucker from the intro.

Why do you volourn at me, don't volourn at me.

HL has better AI than predecessors. Better placement of enemies. Well designed maps (but that's there in other Contemporary FPSs as well). I personally consider the AI controlling enemy behavior revolutionary. Not to mention the enemy types that vary drastically, not that it affects gameplay a lot.

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why u no save scum

Hey guys the villain showed up at the first scene of the game now it's ruined. This is the first time I've noticed such a thing happening. I have no idea why they'd do that.

The opening movie in Deus Ex is pretty much the equivalent of the opening narration in the non-director's cut version of Dark City. They don't ruin them, but they're much better off without them.

in my opinion medal of honor and halo had much more influence on the fps genre than half life

Well, like I said, if the cool thing about your scenes is that you can skip (or outright ignore) them, I don't see what makes them that awesome...

If the shit thing about scenes is when you not being able to skip them, then yes, being able to not just skip them but completely ignore them and continue gameplay without being interrupted is the polar opposite and therefore cool AND awesome. Stop being a retard.

Settle down, Kaiserin. No need to rage over content that is so good it might as well not be there.

No comment.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-11-why-devs-owe-you-nothing

Why is this video timelessly delicious?

You know, I actually agree with the idea that developers don't owe their customers anything beyond the games the customers bought. But calling fans self-entitled whiners just because they don't approve of the direction their favorites developers are going in? That's crazy. It's not like fans threaten or blackmail developers. They just express their wishes. Nothing wrong with that.

Exactly.

as far as I'm concerned serious sam is the new king of shooters, who cares about a 3 hours, source based expansion pack revolving on walking very slowly, reloading after 2 shots, and watching lots of cutscenes that will come out god knows when?

At least the next serious sam is going to be out in the next 20 years, a matter of decades, while with ep3 we are in the realm of infinities

They are using nazi crowd control tactics. Witht he shit direction all games are going they kind of have to. Or, you know, they could stop making retarded games that are all the same as every other retarded game, but that won't happen unless kwans become too dumb to operate a console at all.

In the search for a decent "realistic" shooter, I decided to finally try and finish HL2. And I can't bros, it's just not very good. And it's not like I'm some super monoclean FPS grognard, I finished shit like Crysis and Modern Warfare 1 and even had some fun with them. But HL2 is just too much. It feels like half of the game is running around linear environments and doing everything that is not shooting. And when the shooting does happen, it's kind of poor. So I guess what's left is the story and the atmosphere. The former is pretty nonexistant, but I'll give the game the latter, it does Orwell pretty decently. But best FPS ever? Come on.

at what chapter did you give up?