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Started playing Battlefield 4 campaign and then rage quitted it. Reason? They fucked up the FOV. FOV slider does fucking nothing. And my eyes start to literally bleed after looking at that narrow tunnel like screen for just few seconds. How can you make a game in this time and age, actually include the FOV adjustment and then don't give a fuck making it actually functional. 1 year has passed and it's still broken. WHAT THE HELL EA !?!?!?!?!?! OMFG
 
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I am playing Styx. The thing seems immensely long. After 14 hours, I'm just trying to figure out how to get into the prison (chapter 4, I think). @RCoon how ling did the game take you? With as much time as I have put in, I am determined to finish. I go really slow, killing everyone. I got the Serial Killer achivement last chapter, LOL!

I ballsed it up a few times and things went a little rough more than just a few times, I didn't do full completion with collectibles, but it still took around 25 hours all round to complete, but that was with repeated levels and goblin mode :D
 

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Finished Life is Strange first part, back to Skyrim and soon finishing Van Helsing II.
 
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I'm going to try Farming Simulator 15 tomorrow. BF4 is pissing me off lately and my skills are going downhill. Time for a break I guess.
 
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After tossing fucked up Battlefield 4 into a bin, I've bought myself Life is Strange yesterday. And I must say it's really cool. And I especially love the main character, Max. She is so cute :D
 

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I'm going to try Farming Simulator 15 tomorrow. BF4 is pissing me off lately and my skills are going downhill. Time for a break I guess.

Well that's quite the opposites in game type!
 
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Well that's quite the opposites in game type!
I know, lol. I've already downloaded almost 4GB worth of mods. It will be nice change I hope.
I also plan to go back to heavily modded Skyrim in a few weeks time.

In fact, I will probably stream both.
I can see the first series: Let's play Farming Simulator - Becoming a redneck, episode 1: I don't even know what a cow is.
 
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Life is Strange yesterday. And I must say it's really cool. And I especially love the main character, Max. She is so cute :D

I finished it twice already, this game is meant using a controller and a large Projector Screen really. Cliché chars, I hate the hipster style and slang(also dislike hippie stuff), but it is too early to judge the game, every char is kind of gray, but Max is cute okay, don't like Chloe thou. I like the fun with ingame car number plates and the whole time travel concept. We need more of that.
 
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I'm not really judging the game by that. I just take it for what it is (I've seen lots of complaints over that on Steam reviews). Maybe in that fictional world, they do talk like that and is normal for them...
 
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I'm not really judging the game by that. I just take it for what it is (I've seen lots of complaints over that on Steam reviews). Maybe in that fictional world, they do talk like that and is normal for them...

Steam forums cannot be taken serious as such... very poor work of mods, infant public and this Gamergate stuff for this game... no thank you :D

The seconds we pay for that, well I want a good bullet proof plot line and character development especially for this game type and I like to analyze it just as I do with reading books. It ain't a simple zombie slaughter where the more meat the better, who cares from where they came from and how :D. And if you calculate the price for all 5 parts, it won't be a cheap and it ain't a indie game also where you can excuse it.

I would rather be cautious with recommending it to others, I liked it a bit, but it may be just based on my subjective likes or dislikes since I played JRPG's a lot during PS1 era, and it kind of reminds me plot structure with some games like Chrono Cross with looks and mechanics from Shenmue mashed with slice of life school anime - girl with sudden magical powers and overall Japanese vibe, no wonder it is SquareEnix.

But still I have to finish that Van Hellsing II, man it has become more tough than the first part, I guess it is the veteran mode. I laughed seeing Half Life sign, and Ripley reporting from Nostromo and other real life replicas, nice touch.
 
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Steam forums cannot be taken serious as such... very poor work of mods, infant public and this Gamergate stuff for this game... no thank you :D

The seconds we pay for that, well I want a good bullet proof plot line and character development especially for this game type and I like to analyze it just as I do with reading books. It ain't a simple zombie slaughter where the more meat the better, who cares from where they came from and how :D. And if you calculate the price for all 5 parts, it won't be a cheap and it ain't a indie game also where you can excuse it.

I would rather be cautious with recommending it to others, I liked it a bit, but it may be just based on my subjective likes or dislikes since I played JRPG's a lot during PS1 era, and it kind of reminds me plot structure with some games like Chrono Cross with looks and mechanics from Shenmue mashed with slice of life school anime - girl with sudden magical powers and overall Japanese vibe, no wonder it is SquareEnix.

But still I have to finish that Van Hellsing II, man it has become more tough than the first part, I guess it is the veteran mode. I laughed seeing Half Life sign, and Ripley reporting from Nostromo and other real life replicas, nice touch.

Not sure why you brought GameGate into it... nd i wasn't talking forum, but the game revies where users review and rate them on the actual game store page.
 
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Not sure why you brought GameGate into it... nd i wasn't talking forum, but the game revies where users review and rate them on the actual game store page.

Steam reviews are being tampered by GamerGate, they suddenly invaded there in forum section (fishy user accounts that even doesn't own the game) and thus drowns the game down and such reviews occur.
 
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but the game reviews where users review and rate them on the actual game store page.

Steam reviews are largely untrustworthy. Most of them are written by people who don't own the game, or have a total playtime of 0.2hours.
 
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Steam reviews are largely untrustworthy. Most of them are written by people who don't own the game, or have a total playtime of 0.2hours.
I thought you couldn't review the game unless you owned it? Or is this only true for reviews that show up on the store page?
 
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I thought you couldn't review the game unless you owned it? Or is this only true for reviews that show up on the store page?

Family sharing shenanigans. People don't own the game, but play it briefly through Family Sharing methods. To write a steam review you merely have to have "used" a game for a period of 1 second basically. It's one of those things that dubious people use to write good or bad reviews for dubious purposes. Whether they're just crazy-ass zealots for a game franchise, or foreign people tasked with saturating reviews for a dodgy game to improve sales.

It all sounds very tinfoil hat-esque, but sadly that stuff does happen.
 
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Steam reviews are largely untrustworthy. Most of them are written by people who don't own the game, or have a total playtime of 0.2hours.

You cannot review the games that you do not own. And you can exclude opinions of those with small play times. Works like a charm...
 
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Wait, there are forums on Steam? Must be comparable to Youtube comments I guess?
 
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Wait, there are forums on Steam? Must be comparable to Youtube comments I guess?

Extremely compartmentalised forums.
Some games have super nice forum communities, others are a stark difference. It would be like comparing the SPGII community to the DotA community.
 

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BTW, hi I'm new to the forums. I work in IT and love it.(and yes, I am female)! hehe
 

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I play WoW...I'm addicted...is there a WoW rehab facility somewhere? LOL

BTW, hi I'm new to the forums. I work in IT and love it.(and yes, I am female)! hehe

Welcome and yeah the ITchick part is what clued me in that you were a female. :)
 

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