Steam Top 10

Here's the list of the 10 bestselling games on Steam for last week:

  1. Batman: Arkham Origins
  2. The Stanley Parable
  3. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN Ultimate Ninja STORM 3 FULL BURST
  4. Football Manager 2014
  5. Saints Row IV
  6. Call of Duty: Ghosts
  7. How to Survive
  8. Space Engineers
  9. PAYDAY 2
  10. Mass Effect Collection
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Oct 27, 2013, 18:27
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HoSpanky wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 18:25:
What puts people off of Arkham Origins is that it feels...lazy. I've found two locations that I had to reload from checkpoint on, and there's a fast travel tower that bugs permanently (until it hopefully gets patched) if you solve it slightly differently than they expected you to. There's a combat maneuver that counters two enemy attacks at the same time, and while I see batman going through the motions, he always, ALWAYS fails to grab one of the goons and I get knocked out of my combo. The combat managed to get broken when all they did was copy Rocksteady's game.

But what bothers me the most is that they recycled Arkham City quite a bit. No, it's not the same map exactly, but like Crackdown and its sequel, it's too familiar. If it were polished to perfection, I could look past the recycling, but it's not.

It's not a terrible game. Really, I don't hate it. But it doesn't feel like a new game, where AC did, even tho it was "still Batman", and it's buggier than a NYC basement apartment.


Based on reviews (and your comments as well), it sounds like it was shipped to hit a deadline.

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Oct 27, 2013, 18:25
 
What puts people off of Arkham Origins is that it feels...lazy. I've found two locations that I had to reload from checkpoint on, and there's a fast travel tower that bugs permanently (until it hopefully gets patched) if you solve it slightly differently than they expected you to. There's a combat maneuver that counters two enemy attacks at the same time, and while I see batman going through the motions, he always, ALWAYS fails to grab one of the goons and I get knocked out of my combo. The combat managed to get broken when all they did was copy Rocksteady's game.

But what bothers me the most is that they recycled Arkham City quite a bit. No, it's not the same map exactly, but like Crackdown and its sequel, it's too familiar. If it were polished to perfection, I could look past the recycling, but it's not.

It's not a terrible game. Really, I don't hate it. But it doesn't feel like a new game, where AC did, even tho it was "still Batman", and it's buggier than a NYC basement apartment.
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Oct 27, 2013, 18:04
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Oct 27, 2013, 18:04
 
Wolfox wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 16:26:
For the record, I'm playing it and it's awesome. The way the graphics work is mesmerizing - it's all fully 3D, but it feels 2D - I've never seen anything quite like this before.
After looking at some footage as well as screenies from it's Steam page, the game looks beautiful.

Wish there was a demo, because I'm really, really not into Japanese style gameplay in general.
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Oct 27, 2013, 17:03
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Jerykk wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 16:21:
The Mass Effect Trilogy is actually missing most of the DLC. Not sure why EA even put the bundle together. The only way to get the DLC on PC is to use Bioware points, which never go on sale. If you want to buy all the DLC for ME3, you'll probably end up spending around $50, which is ludicrous considering that you can often find the base game for $5.

Yes, I'd heard that also. For what it did include, it felt like decent-ish value for money, but honestly, Mass Effect...DLC...digital retail, feels like a perfect storm, or clusterf*ck, whatever is most applicable. I'm single player only (again, probably an age thing), so I'd only be up for that, not any completionist type buy-a-thon.

Jerykk wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 16:21:
As for the lack of controller support, I imagine that has to do with the revamped UI in the PC versions of ME. They'd have to switch between UIs based on your active controller and apparently that's too much effort for them.

Indeed.

I don't doubt they did some work to tailor for the PC, and there's nowt wrong in that in my book - kudos to them. I think the fact that this isn't some tiny, budget strapped developer, nor a publisher without some spare cash, and a feature many have asked for, the fans have 90% hacked in through enabling what's there already, yet still neither dev nor publisher can summon the will to just patch it in properly, smarts enough to put me off.

Anyway, Deus Ex:HR had the boss battles upgraded out of existence, who knows, maybe there will be some Mass Effect:Anthology, at some point.
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Oct 27, 2013, 16:57
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Clever Caviar wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 15:34:
I've played Mass Effect 1, twice, loved it both times: the music, the story, the atmosphere - brilliant. My tastes nowadays are to play 3rd person games with the controller: age, proximity to a couch, something else. Due to this lack of controller on the PC versions, I've yet to get around to Mass Effects 2 & 3. I think Gamefly currently has the trilogy with all the DLC etc for £20, Origin has done a similar deal before as well. Very tempting, but the stubborn refusal of BioWare to add in controller support, when by all accounts the games have about 90% of the code already in, just really rankles me.

That a company the size of EA, or Bioware can't assign an intern or junior developer to do the, at a max, weeks worth of work to wire in the remaining code to have full controller support on the PC is unbelievable to the point that the only logical reason is that neither *wants* to, for whatever arrogant reason or other. That kind of attitude, on one of their flagship brands no less, I find hard to pay for, so for now I'm not.

Mass Effect 1 PC Gaming Wiki
Mass Effect 3 PC Gaming Wiki
Eurogamer Article on Bioware and (lack of) PC Controller support

Yeah that's horseshit. Okay if they couldn't get it done before release, but then have someone spend a week getting it to work afterwards. If they'd had Eric Fagnan do that instead of constantly nerf everything in multiplayer, lots of people would've been much happier.
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Oct 27, 2013, 16:27
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Quinn wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 13:55:
Batman: Arkham Origins is awesome. Just like the first and second game. People who love the first two but complain about this one probably have a hard time dealing with the fact there's not much innovation. Other than that, it's just more of the same awesomeness.

Ditto. I'm really liking the game so far, though it's considerably more buggy than City was at release. I hope they patch the game soon enough.
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Oct 27, 2013, 16:26
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Slashman wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 12:54:
Wow. Naruto at number 3. Unexpected...

For the record, I'm playing it and it's awesome. The way the graphics work is mesmerizing - it's all fully 3D, but it feels 2D - I've never seen anything quite like this before.

As for the gameplay, it's pretty good and different from any fighting games I have played so far.
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Re: Steam Top 10
Oct 27, 2013, 16:21
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Oct 27, 2013, 16:21
 
The Mass Effect Trilogy is actually missing most of the DLC. Not sure why EA even put the bundle together. The only way to get the DLC on PC is to use Bioware points, which never go on sale. If you want to buy all the DLC for ME3, you'll probably end up spending around $50, which is ludicrous considering that you can often find the base game for $5.

As for the lack of controller support, I imagine that has to do with the revamped UI in the PC versions of ME. They'd have to switch between UIs based on your active controller and apparently that's too much effort for them.
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Re: Steam Top 10
Oct 27, 2013, 15:34
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I've played Mass Effect 1, twice, loved it both times: the music, the story, the atmosphere - brilliant. My tastes nowadays are to play 3rd person games with the controller: age, proximity to a couch, something else. Due to this lack of controller on the PC versions, I've yet to get around to Mass Effects 2 & 3. I think Gamefly currently has the trilogy with all the DLC etc for £20, Origin has done a similar deal before as well. Very tempting, but the stubborn refusal of BioWare to add in controller support, when by all accounts the games have about 90% of the code already in, just really rankles me.

That a company the size of EA, or Bioware can't assign an intern or junior developer to do the, at a max, weeks worth of work to wire in the remaining code to have full controller support on the PC is unbelievable to the point that the only logical reason is that neither *wants* to, for whatever arrogant reason or other. That kind of attitude, on one of their flagship brands no less, I find hard to pay for, so for now I'm not.

Mass Effect 1 PC Gaming Wiki
Mass Effect 3 PC Gaming Wiki
Eurogamer Article on Bioware and (lack of) PC Controller support
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Rockstar made $1 billion in 3 days with GTAV, yet they can't find the budget to port RDR to PC.
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Oct 27, 2013, 14:01
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Oct 27, 2013, 14:01
 
Get Games Go have The Bureau XCOM Declassified on sale for $25 http://getgamesgo.com/product/the-bureau-xcom-declassified

Couldn't pass that up.
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Oct 27, 2013, 13:55
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Oct 27, 2013, 13:55
 
Batman: Arkham Origins is awesome. Just like the first and second game. People who love the first two but complain about this one probably have a hard time dealing with the fact there's not much innovation. Other than that, it's just more of the same awesomeness.
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Oct 27, 2013, 12:54
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Wow. Naruto at number 3. Unexpected...
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Oct 27, 2013, 12:50
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Oct 27, 2013, 12:50
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Bought that one and need to play it, but so far Papers, Please is my indie pick of the year. Finally finished a 31 day game the other day, and really loved it. I think a lot of folks get hung up on the "all you're doing is look at documents" but there's a subtle, interesting story going on in the background, that changes based on what you do.

For my 31 day game: I chose to semi roleplay a person loyal to their country, despite the fact that they seem semi evil. I always laughed every time I got to detain someone (them:"What are you doing?" me: "AH-hahahaha!"), and kept ignoring the resistance, who was trying to recruit me. Finally, towards the end of the game, I was told my "review" was coming up, and I had the choice of fleeing the country (by myself, abandoning my family) or taking my chances. Since I had already adopted my niece (due to her mother being sent to prison) and had a full, healthy family, I chose to risk it and stay put. I was rewarded for my support of the country, and was told the minor indescrepencies I had would be wiped from my record.

So yes, there is a story! Highly recommended!

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Oct 27, 2013, 12:28
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Oct 27, 2013, 12:28
 
The Stanley Parable was one of the coolest "games" I've played in a long time. If you're looking for a game that honestly messes with your brain you will love this. Keep in mind it's more of a narrative & less of a "game". But it's defiantly something cool & different..imo.
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