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MysterD said:
Or maybe the game stop making $, gets its plug pulled, and its toast forever.
Hold on, while I go stare at my retail copy of Tabula Rasa, w/ it disc being a nice coaster and all.
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Why would you think they would make support to play an MMO offline singleplayer? I realize people scare you and playing with others is frightening to most here.....

Also I'm sure there are ways to play it on private servers, yes I know that's probably also too complicated for you being a pc gamer
 
Drabelincoln said:
Why would you think they would make support to play an MMO offline singleplayer?
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If a game supports AI bots & the game's been built in such a way that the main quest + many side-quests can be finished just fine w/ AI bots alone, then I see no problem w/ the dev's + publisher wanting to keep their game officially going so that they patched it to work offline. Especially even more so true, once the MMO's gonna get its plug pulled.

Of course, it's up to them if they want to take this route.

Also I'm sure there are ways to play it on private servers, yes I know that's probably also too complicated for you being a pc gamer
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Uru actually got its Uru Online content got patched into the SP-side and re-worked into a SP expansion-pack, before it got its plug pulled (for its first time before it got later resurrected), back in its early days.

I realize people scare you and playing with others is frightening to most here.....
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And if I was really scared of "playing with others" & against others online, as you say - then, I just wouldn't play full-blown competitive MP-portions of COD series; BF series; Quake series; UT series; & co-op or competitive for the Left 4 Dead series.

Also, if I was really scared of "playing with others" & against others online, as you say - I'd also not have tried ESO Beta; TSW Beta + then bought TSW when it went out of sub-mode; bought Guild Wars 1 + all expansions; & tried GW2 in Beta + then bought the full version of GW2.

 
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motoki said:
I don't really consider D3 the same thing as SimCity 2013 with regard to always online.
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I completely agree. Diablo 3 online plays just like you would expect a Diablo game to play regardless of its connected status. The major changes are additive and optional.

SimCity online is not the same gameplay you would expect given experience with the previous titles. While some changes are additive, none were optional, and several were very, very negative.

I like your comparison to a Facebook game with a AAA budget. Would read again.

 
If a game isn't an MMO, it doesn't need to be always online. Diablo isn't MMO but it's typical Blizzard trash so who cares.

 
You wouldn't be caring about Blizzard so much if you played the trash that is Heroes of the Storm.  That game blows.  It's a half hearted MOBA that sucks you dry.  Yea you can win a character a month playing it over and over every day..... that's the "new" stuff they're coming out with.  Anything to make a buck.  That's where their games are heading.  Hearthstone and HOTS.

 
MysterD said:
If a game supports AI bots & the game's been built in such a way that the main quest + many side-quests can be finished just fine w/ AI bots alone, then I see no problem w/ the dev's + publisher wanting to keep their game officially going so that they patched it to work offline. Especially even more so true, once the MMO's gonna get its plug pulled.

Of course, it's up to them if they want to take this route.

Uru actually got its Uru Online content got patched into the SP-side and re-worked into a SP expansion-pack, before it got its plug pulled (for its first time before it got later resurrected), back in its early days.
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It's exceedingly rare that an MMO makes a single player option before shutting down. The Uru example you gave is just about the only one I can think of.

Granted MMOs that actually put significant emphasis on stories with voice acting and the whole 9 yards instead of just generic cookie cutter fetch crap are for the most part a fairly recent thing. I would hope that SWTOR, TSW and ESO would find some way to preserve that content when they inevitably pull the plug someday but I am honestly not optimistic.

Bruticis said:
If a game isn't an MMO, it doesn't need to be always online. Diablo isn't MMO but it's typical Blizzard trash so who cares.
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I think Diablo 3 is a good Diablo style game. Either you like that sort of game or you don't but for what it sets out to be I feel like they did a good job with it. Never really did get into WoW and Hearthstone doesn't do anything for me but I like Diablo 3. *shrug*

I would argue that it's an MO game, but that's semantics I guess.

It's soloable but the multiplayer has always been one of the main thrusts, and I say this as someone who has played the series solo 90% of the time. D3 in particular also has a number of MMO influences that the old games didn't have such as continuing on post end game and seasonal content.

The cheating issues aside which itself is reason, there are reasons it's always online which make more sense to me than Sim City's 'Oh you can visit your friend's town if you want'.

 
Waggles said:
My Four in February: Peasant Edition (which comes with extra costume DLC, brand new 20 minutes of story content, and bug fixes for the modest sum of $39.99 $49.99 $69.99 for the eXclusive steelbook edition)

PS4

Wolfenstein: the New Order - surprisingly fantastic.

Shadow Warrior - Again, tons of fun

The Order: 1886 - Better luck next time, Sony.

Infamous: Second Son - pffffffttt. Uncharted 4 better not suck, too, god damn it. I will cry into my Wii-U tablet.
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CAT FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MEOW!

 
motoki said:
D3 in particular also has a number of MMO influences that the old games didn't have such as continuing on post end game and seasonal content.
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What features? Diablo 2 had ladder only content (and still does to this day) and PvP, along with the ability to grind for hours on end for more/better gear just like D3.

 
Bruticis said:
What features? Diablo 2 had ladder only content (and still does to this day) and PvP, along with the ability to grind for hours on end for more/better gear just like D3.
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It also had item duping other things that ruined the ladders

I think you don't care that d3 is always online. You just want to hate on it because you worked for them and blizzard sucks Blah blah blah I can't plus one my steam count with s blizzard game.

I know I'm right
 
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MysterD said:
MachineGames (who developed Wolf: TNO) are a bunch of the core Ex-Starbreeze dev's that worked on Riddick: Butcher Bay.

And well - yeah, Riddick: Butcher Bay was awesome.
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I didn't know that actually. Big fan of Starbreeze, liked Butcher Bay a lot even if I only played the version that came with Dark Athena.

 
Bruticis said:
What features? Diablo 2 had ladder only content (and still does to this day) and PvP, along with the ability to grind for hours on end for more/better gear just like D3.
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It honestly has been a long ass time since I played D2 and I didn't do any ladders or PvP or any of that and quite frankly I don't even think I knew it existed so if I missed mentioning that then my bad.

I just know that after having played some MMOs and then playing D3 while it's definitely not an MMO in the Massive sense, there were certain aspects of it that really reminded me of an MMO.

I think the only MMO I played prior to D2 was Ultima Online which was a whole other beast and kind of a dinosaur compared to modern MMOs, though somehow they still keep that damned game on life support.

 
Drabelincoln said:
It also had item duping other things that ruined the ladders

I think you don't care that d3 is always online. You just want to hate on it because you worked for them and blizzard sucks Blah blah blah I can't plus one my steam count with s blizzard game.

I know I'm right
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I never ran into a single item duper, ever. Of course, I'm sane so I'm not going to play with random idiots that I don't know. I honestly don't see the need for D3 to be online only. I've been stuck waiting in a queue to play the game I just paid $60 bucks for one time too many to give a shit about the "benefits" of being online only.

 
Man that was back in the day when the internet was like 5 minutes old. I didn't know not to trust random people. Plus I hardly knew anyone on the internet then unless I just talked to random people anyway. There was like 103 people on the net or something and people thought internet was for nerds so it was all stigmatized and stuff. This was way before Grandmas were posting food selfies of their lunch on Facebook and shit.

As for the queues, I think I only ever got one once or twice and it was really short. Admittedly though I didn't play D3 when it first came out and a shitton of people were trying to get in. *shrug*

I swear this damned Diablo game stirs more shit here than just about anything else. It's probably because the DRM piece of it is like a dinner bell for Pavlov's dogs to 'D.

 
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Bruticis said:
I never ran into a single item duper, ever. Of course, I'm sane so I'm not going to play with random idiots that I don't know. I honestly don't see the need for D3 to be online only. I've been stuck waiting in a queue to play the game I just paid $60 bucks for one time too many to give a shit about the "benefits" of being online only.
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Everything was duped in Diablo 2...if you traded for something..odds are it was a duped item. I was running around with an inventory full of poison charms and everything i touched just melted.

 
motoki said:
Man that was back in the day when the internet was like 5 minutes old. I didn't know not to trust random people. Plus I hardly knew anyone on the internet then unless I just talked to random people anyway. There was like 103 people on the net or something and people thought internet was for nerds so it was all stigmatized and stuff. This was way before Grandmas were posting food selfies of their lunch on Facebook and shit.

As for the queues, I think I only ever got one once or twice and it was really short. Admittedly though I didn't play D3 when it first came out and a shitton of people were trying to get in. *shrug*

I swear this damned Diablo game stirs more shit here than just about anything else. It's probably because the DRM piece of it is like a dinner bell for Pavlov's dogs to 'D.
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I'm not anti-DRM though, a company should be able to do what ever they feel is necessary to protect their product so long as they warn the consumer up front, before they purchase the product. What I'm anti is forced, always online in my single player games.

 
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I'm not anti-DRM though, a company should be able to do what ever they feel is necessary to protect their product so long as they warn the consumer up front, before they purchase the product. What I'm anti is forced, always online in my single player games.
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If you don't have access to the internet everywhere you are you don't live in the United States.....Texas = Mexico

 
I just finished DA:I. My life feels a little emptier now knowing that I'm done. I was going to play a mindless action game to cleanse my palette prior to jumping back into Skyrim, but I think I'll just use the time to getting all the mods sorted. So, between ME2, ME3, DAII and DA:I, that's about 440 hours straight of Bioware RPGs. Wow, I have no life.
 
Neuro5i5 said:
I just finished DA:I. My life feels a little emptier now knowing that I'm done. I was going to play a mindless action game to cleanse my palette prior to jumping back into Skyrim, but I think I'll just use the time to getting all the mods sorted. So, between ME2, ME3, DAII and DA:I, that's about 440 hours straight of Bioware RPGs. Wow, I have no life.
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Heh, they've got a big patch coming out for DA:I soon. ;)

I've got a kajillion hours in from my first character and then part way through my second but I stopped at the ball because it was just making me go ugh. I really like the idea of it, but somehow the implementation just comes across like this games version of the fade. Playing it once is okay but the idea of doing it a second or third time is just not thrilling.

I'll probably go back once the patch hits though to try out the changes. For one having storage would be nice. That's such a duh thing and they did that with the first game too. I don't know what the hell is wrong with them.

 
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motoki said:
Heh, they've got a big patch coming out for DA:I soon. ;)

I've got a kajillion hours in from my first character and then part way through my second but I stopped at the ball because it was just making me go ugh. I really like the idea of it, but somehow the implementation just comes across like this games version of the fade. Playing it once is okay but the idea of doing it a second or third time is just not thrilling.

I'll probably go back once the patch hits though to try out the changes. For one having storage would be nice. That's such a duh thing and they did that with the first game too. I don't know what the hell is wrong with them.
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I tend to play games like that for 200+ hours and do every single thing possible. After I finish, I'm so sick of the game, I don't even want to think about it, such as DAI. If they come out with more SP content, I'm gonna cry.

 
Neuro5i5 said:
I just finished DA:I. My life feels a little emptier now knowing that I'm done. I was going to play a mindless action game to cleanse my palette prior to jumping back into Skyrim, but I think I'll just use the time to getting all the mods sorted. So, between ME2, ME3, DAII and DA:I, that's about 440 hours straight of Bioware RPGs. Wow, I have no life.
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It's okay. I blew off a girl this weekend to play baldurs gate.

"Oh my god I'm so sick no you can't sleep over"

no i'm not

 
motoki said:
Heh, they've got a big patch coming out for DA:I soon. ;)

I've got a kajillion hours in from my first character and then part way through my second but I stopped at the ball because it was just making me go ugh. I really like the idea of it, but somehow the implementation just comes across like this games version of the fade. Playing it once is okay but the idea of doing it a second or third time is just not thrilling.

I'll probably go back once the patch hits though to try out the changes. For one having storage would be nice. That's such a duh thing and they did that with the first game too. I don't know what the hell is wrong with them.
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Damnit. When am I going to have time to get back to Borderlands or D3 or a couple of those games I fakeybro'd over the holidays because I was going to play them immediately? I never even fished my Season 1 D3 characters.

But, yeah, that ball just sort of stuck out in a not good way. At first I thought it was going to be one of those 5 minute watch-this-cutscene, move to a new area, watch-that-cutscene and be done missions. It definitely overstayed it's welcome. I just tried a bit of the multiplayer and while I can see it might be enjoyable once leveled up, the grind there seems a bit monotonous solo. The slow as molasses combat jog-walk makes solo kiting a level one character frustrating enough that I'll probably just redo the campaign again to get my fill. Probably start up either a DW Tempest/Assassin or a 2H Reaver next.
 
motoki said:
I'll probably go back once the patch hits though to try out the changes. For one having storage would be nice. That's such a duh thing and they did that with the first game too. I don't know what the hell is wrong with them.
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Dragon Age 2 had storage in your house.

I guess that had to get something right w/ Dragon Age 2... ;)

I guess BioWare was thinking w/ DA:I that they could copy a good deal of DA:O's template - i.e. just put Storage in as DLC; and make The Ball the new version of The Fade.

They probably changed their mind b/c they realized a Season Pass might be too far down the line and noticed how we weren't so keen on Day 1 DLC's for DAO + DA2, so they just put Storage in for DAI as an update.

 
My 4 in Feb

* Best Served Cold

* The Heroes

* Red Country

* Mistborn: The Final Empire

The second book in the Mistborn series is so poorly written that I've turned to my backlog. I'll finish the series, but it's going to be a chore.

 
motoki said:
It's exceedingly rare that an MMO makes a single player option before shutting down. The Uru example you gave is just about the only one I can think of.

Granted MMOs that actually put significant emphasis on stories with voice acting and the whole 9 yards instead of just generic cookie cutter fetch crap are for the most part a fairly recent thing. I would hope that SWTOR, TSW and ESO would find some way to preserve that content when they inevitably pull the plug someday but I am honestly not optimistic.
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Sure, it is rare something like Uru Online gets it content re-worked + tossed into a SP - but, how many people would love the game the online game they paid $ for to actually be preserved, even if they have to play it offline?

I'm glad you mentioned games like ESO & TSW (have played both in Beta, played TSW also after Beta) and SWTOR (haven't played that one yet) - b/c those are the kind of games I think could actually translate into a SP-experience. Sure, it likely ain't going to be happen - but it would be nice, you know?

 
motoki said:
Is this $15.99 sale at Amazon the lowest Sim City (2013) Complete Edition has been?

It's got multiple entries at ITAD and I guess there's boxed and buying the base and expansion/dlc separately to consider too so I'm too lazy to sift through all that.
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Still has limited city size, right? What I'm saying is that $16 is tempting, but I'm really looking for an excuse not to buy it.

 
What have we learned today, class?

MakMan333 said:
That's actually pretty funny.

Just wrapped up RE:R2 episode 1. Can I get my money back....please?
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That this is what happens when we fakeybro.


pasports31 said:
It's okay. I blew off a girl this weekend to play baldurs gate.

"Oh my god I'm so sick no you can't sleep over"

no i'm not
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And this is what happens when you read too many MysterD posts.

 
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Motiv said:
Damn. I'm behind ~45 pages and my brain is too tired to catch up, did I miss anything noteworthy this week?
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I suspect not.

But I have been alerted to some rather nifty advertising:

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That's exceedingly clever or exceedingly stupid. I'm not sure which.

:whee:

 
I am really sorry to disappoint everyone but...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/updates/381368576/1425299448

The DVD version of Age of Barbarian is not longer available !

MARCH 2 - CRIAN SOFT

The DVD version of Age of Barbarian is not longer available, we sell them all! ;)
Many thanks to all the people who bought a copy!
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On a related note, please go vote for it on Greenlight if you already haven't. I mean I know it's hard without a DVD version, but it's a quality game and I want to play it on Steam.

Actually that last part is true. I want that game dammit!

 
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Tomasety said:
Locomotivah presents....

Pregnancy

"'Pregnancy' is an interactive short story where the player attempts to influence the decisions of a 14 year old girl about the future of her pregnancy."

http://store.steampowered.com/app/351900/

Now available on steam.
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I don't have a problem with this type of game on Steam, but it's the kind of thing that makes the reviews section devolve even faster into a cesspit of humanity not worth reading. Like YouTube comments.

 
dfg said:
I don't have a problem with this type of game on Steam, but it's the kind of thing that makes the reviews section devolve even faster into a cesspit of humanity not worth reading. Like YouTube comments.
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Yeah.

I feel the need to spoil right off the bat and give a trigger warning that the 14 year old girl in this was R APED.
This is NOT a funny game.
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That's from a review. The space is intentional since Steam's word filter censors it.

The game already mentions the situation regarding the girl's pregnancy in its description, so there's no need for a warning - unless people are stupid and don't read the description. So...

 
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