FlamingHobo

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#1 Posted by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 1 month, 18 days ago

@ghostiet said:

It all serves to reinforce the ending - there are variations even on the same stories in the multiverse, but they are outweighed by the constants.

This pretty much sums up the significance of the "choices."

#2 Posted by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 1 month, 27 days ago

The uncompromising love this community has for the site's hosts is both inspiring and very, very creepy. (Probably why I keep coming back!)

#3 Posted by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 1 month, 27 days ago

I've only ever really been into the Heroes side of the Might & Magic franchise, and by that I mean that I love Heroes of Might & Magic III to death, but I really dug the style of this trailer. Consider me mildly intrigued.

#4 Edited by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 1 month, 27 days ago

From what I've read, I understand that it's similar to Aliens: Colonial Marines (i.e. cool ideas buried beneath a rushed product.) That in itself is largely surprising to me since I thought the game would pretty much be the very definition of bland or straight up garbage.

#5 Edited by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 1 month, 27 days ago

@savage said:

You could try restarting Steam, and see if it appears then. That often resolves issues with pre-orders and pre-loads.

I've found this to be the case. Either that or I only have 'Installed' games appearing in my library rather than all of it.

#6 Edited by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 2 months, 8 days ago

@flaminghobo said:

@salad10203 said:

@flaminghobo said:

The success of the SteamBox will be measured by how it affects the success of the Steam platform against its costs to Valve. How should they go about it? I'm not sure but Valve is a smart company and I'm 99.9% sure they certainly have a plan as to how.

Exactly, that was sort of my line of thinking. Making Half-Life 3 a Steam exclusive would be the ultimate marketing tactic to bring console-gamers onto Steam.

I don't think that makes a lot of sense. The Half-Life franchise is predominantly identified with PC gamers with the only massive exceptions being those console gamers who really attached to The Orange Box. Making Half-Life 3 a SteamBox exclusive would cause more outrage than sales from PC gamers too imo. Customers have invested a large stake in their rig and the majority of those customers will continue to do so unless SteamBox offers something that conventional towers never can.

They're talking about making it exclusive to Steam not Steambox, PC gamers will also be able to play a steam exclusive.

Well, this is embarrassing.

In terms of it solely being a Steam exclusive, I don't think Valve would see a massive increase and/or decrease in sales by doing so.

#7 Posted by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 2 months, 8 days ago

When I can get up early enough to have it, I don't think there's any meal as satisfying as breakfast really.

#8 Posted by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 2 months, 8 days ago

@flaminghobo said:

The success of the SteamBox will be measured by how it affects the success of the Steam platform against its costs to Valve. How should they go about it? I'm not sure but Valve is a smart company and I'm 99.9% sure they certainly have a plan as to how.

Exactly, that was sort of my line of thinking. Making Half-Life 3 a Steam exclusive would be the ultimate marketing tactic to bring console-gamers onto Steam.

I don't think that makes a lot of sense. The Half-Life franchise is predominantly identified with PC gamers with the only massive exceptions being those console gamers who really attached to The Orange Box. Making Half-Life 3 a SteamBox exclusive would cause more outrage than sales from PC gamers too imo. Customers have invested a large stake in their rig and the majority of those customers will continue to do so unless SteamBox offers something that conventional towers never can.

#9 Posted by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 2 months, 8 days ago

The success of the SteamBox will be measured by how it affects the success of the Steam platform against its costs to Valve. How should they go about it? I'm not sure but Valve is a smart company and I'm 99.9% sure they certainly have a plan as to how.

#10 Posted by FlamingHobo (4433 posts) - 2 months, 27 days ago

@kidavenger said:

@flaminghobo said:

I was born in '94 and spent a lot of my early gaming on a PC and didn't actually own a console until early 2000, when I bought a PlayStation from a friend.

You bought a console from your friend when you were 6?

Kids nowadays, huh.

We grow up so fast.

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