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I started that town over.  I'm spoilering an example of the starter city I build.  It's identical to the last one.  

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It looks as though you have houses starting so that's good.  Are you saying that no one is moving into them?

Also, there's a Skylines thread in the PC forum here.  It might be best to move the conversation there before people get all huffy about missing 66% off Codemaster games due to thread spam.

 
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The difference is that the whole point of TWAU is the story, and it's very interesting, well written, etc. Something like Revengeance when you get interrupted by constant cut scenes you want it to stfu so you can get back to gameplay. Personally I prefer games that are gameplay centered to delve out their story primarily in environmental context with minimal cut scenes. With some games, this approach actually makes the story more interesting (Dark Souls is an extreme example given how minimal the story presentation is in the game, but it adds to the interest, I think). Even in games with really good stories, if cut scenes drag on too long I tend to lose interest. If the story is the primary focus it's a totally different situation though. With something like TWAU I'm really invested in cut scenes.

That being said, I really liked TWAU. Personally I enjoyed it a lot more than TWD.
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Yeah, I felt exactly the same. I really don't mind a cut-scene in a game occasionally (the Mass Effect trilogy is a prime example of well-done and placed cut-scenes imo) - but like you I prefer it to be integrated into the gameplay. In Revengeance even when they tried to 'integrate' it (via holo-communications) they still disabled your ability to do anything other than super-slow-walk so it might as well have been a movie.

As for TWD - as a fan of both the comic and (to some extent) the show, I never finished the first game. I got as far as finishing episode 2 and needed a break from it's unrelenting grimness. While I thought it was/is a well-done game and do intend to go back to it someday I found it a bit too depressing as I tend to play games for fun. It's the same with movies for me. My gf rented Foxcatcher from netflix this past week and I was done with it in less than 10 minutes. She tried to finish it on her own and couldn't.

 
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Souffrir said:
Wait, are you suggesting Steam's customer service is actually good?
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Admittedly I haven't had to rely on Steam's customer service before... I'm just letting people know not to trust the BBB just because they used to be reputable.

Clearly from the tone of this thread, Steam's customer service is not very popular.

 
eulogywerd21 said:
Anyone know of a good website that tracks pricing history on graphics cards?
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PCPartPicker shows pricing history also (mostly Amazon and Newegg, but also Mwave, Dell, NCIX, etc.), but doesn't seem to have as much data as camelcamelcamel. They also show the price trends for general video card models too.

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Neuro5i5 said:
Edit: PCPartPicker has a generic trend history based on relative model, but not specific brand/model.
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If you browse by individual cards and click the model you want, they'll show its price history, but less popular models won't have as many data points.

 
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- Glenn - said:
Yeah, I felt exactly the same. I really don't mind a cut-scene in a game occasionally (the Mass Effect trilogy is a prime example of well-done and placed cut-scenes imo) - but like you I prefer it to be integrated into the gameplay. In Revengeance even when they tried to 'integrate' it (via holo-communications) they still disabled your ability to do anything other than super-slow-walk so it might as well have been a movie.

As for TWD - as a fan of both the comic and (to some extent) the show, I never finished the first game. I got as far as finishing episode 2 and needed a break from it's unrelenting grimness. While I thought it was/is a well-done game and do intend to go back to it someday I found it a bit too depressing as I tend to play games for fun. It's the same with movies for me. My gf rented Foxcatcher from netflix this past week and I was done with it in less than 10 minutes. She tried to finish it on her own and couldn't.
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You should play TWD with your girlfriend and argue over all the decision making. I did that with my ex and it was really great gaming experience. You learn a lot about your relationship, too...maybe too much. We broke up a couple months later. I've been meaning to finish 500 days and get on with Episode 2, but honestly, playing it with someone else was so much fun that the prospect of single-player pales a bit in comparison - and I'm normally a singleplayer type of guy.

 
cyrus386 said:
You should play TWD with your girlfriend and argue over all the decision making. I did that with my ex and it was really great gaming experience. You learn a lot about your relationship, too...maybe too much. We broke up a couple months later. I've been meaning to finish 500 days and get on with Episode 2, but honestly, playing it with someone else was so much fun that the prospect of single-player pales a bit in comparison - and I'm normally a singleplayer type of guy.
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You should probably not want to do that if you want to keep having sex.

 
- Glenn - said:
Wow this game sounds more and more like something I would never, ever, want to play.

I never did see the appeal of these micromanagement simulators in the first place.. but damn.

So.. I'm finally playing The Wolf Among Us and enjoying it a lot. I know this may sound weird to those of you that remember me complaining about all the cut-scenes in Metal Gear Revengeance a couple weeks back - but I think the difference is that tWAU isn't a twitchy action game interrupted constantly with cut-scenes (more the opposite, actually). That, and the fact that the cut-scenes in tWAU are well written and voice-acted and that the story is actually interesting to me.
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Sims: I haven't played Skylines, but I do enjoy a good city sim (been rare lately). I don't, however, enjoy boring, pointy-headed micromanagement sims (though I buy them anyway because people tell me I am supposed to like them). To me, SimCity and the like don't fit that mold. Yes, there are menus and buttons to fool with if that's your thing, but so much of the interface is translated to what you see in the game. It's a more friendly sim. Try one if you haven't already (SimCity 4 is a good place to start).

TWAU/TWD: I have yet to play TWAU, though it's high up in my queue. I just finished Episode 2 of TWD and I really really enjoyed it. I thought that the main character was more interesting to play and the episodes seemed a little shorter and tighter -- more to the point. It continues the storyline of 1, so definitely do them in order. But do give them another chance because the complete story arc is very enjoyable. I get that the grimness of the situation can be a little heavy -- too heavy at times -- but it does get better, in my opinion. I'm very glad I got around to catching up on the series.

 
I think TWAU is the best game Tell Tale has done so far. Tales from Borderlands might beat it, but the 2nd episode isn't even out yet so we'll see. 

 
TWAU might have the most style out of all the TellTale games, but it keeps going downhill after the first episode. I preferred TWD 1 & 2 over it.
 
Are you a fan of Fables? I think that matters a lot. 

I think it stays the most loyal to the series, and that kicked it above the first season of the Walking Dead for me. I couldn't stand the 2nd season at all, though the ending was pretty good. 

 
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cyrus386 said:
You should play TWD with your girlfriend and argue over all the decision making. I did that with my ex and it was really great gaming experience. You learn a lot about your relationship, too...maybe too much. We broke up a couple months later. I've been meaning to finish 500 days and get on with Episode 2, but honestly, playing it with someone else was so much fun that the prospect of single-player pales a bit in comparison - and I'm normally a singleplayer type of guy.
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Please please please please please hire an escort and then tell her all you want to do is have her play TWD with you.

 
MysterD said:
ACU has a horrible rep b/c of how it had so many technical & performances issues upon release; very stiff PC requirements; and is said to be more like an AC step backwards gameplay-wise (ACU looks more like AC2, BH, and Rev territory) w/out even bringing much new to the table.
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Yea, the rep is almost entirely down to the tech issues and rightfully so, but it has gotten a little better at least, depends on hardware really. I really enjoyed Unity's story for the most part. Its just another AC game at the end of the day, but there are a few steps in the right direction. The co-op missions can be a lot of fun and Paris is very well done, as its almost nihilistic how true to the real places the digital representation are. The biggest drawbacks is the amount of superfluous shit they introduced with Unity. From Initiates, to the app, and just layers of needless garbage. Underneath it all is a pretty strong story though and I found a lot of the story missions to be well designed and executed, and of course it has the handful of annoying ones that appear in every AC game. I've not played through the Dead Kings DLC yet, but plan to at some point. I'd say Unity is worth a playthrough when its cheap if you're a fan of the series and have strong enough hardware to keep up with it. It has gotten better, but its still got bugs that will likely never be fixed. I think the ambition was in the right place, but they didnt do enough to get it to where it needs to be.

That said, I'm playing Rogue right now and it's really outstanding if you're an AC fan. Story is interesting and it seems to be the perfect marriage between the good of AC 3 and AC IV. Characters from both appear and its a nice bridge game. There's nothing really special about it in respect of gameplay adding other than the storyline and its created from older tech, but its definitely more polished than Unity.

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spoderman said:
TWAU might have the most style out of all the TellTale games, but it keeps going downhill after the first episode. I preferred TWD 1 & 2 over it.
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I agree. The ending in particular was a mess (because fans immediately guessed who the killer was and they had to rewrite the script, which is why there were delays) and the episodes felt shorter and shorter. First episode was really great though.

Edit: Also, those of you having issues buying from Nuuvem, it's not just you. Hola's Brazil VPNs were most likely blacklisted by Nuuvem (took them long enough to be honest, with everyone flaunting it on social media). Hola may or may not opt to get new IPs, but it's only a matter of time before they get blacklisted again.

If anyone finds a new option, I'd recommend keeping it to yourself and close friends.

 
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Edit: Also, those of you having issues buying from Nuuvem, it's not just you. Hola's Brazil VPNs were most likely blacklisted by Nuuvem (took them long enough to be honest, with everyone flaunting it on social media). Hola may or may not opt to get new IPs, but it's only a matter of time before they get blacklisted again.
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I blame Foxhack
 
Preedatore said:
I'm running a 10 mile trail race today. Whichever regular(determined in some arbitrary manner by me) that guesses closest to my finishing time in the following format HH:MM:SS will win a copy of the interesting looking Heroes of Kendrickstone.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/356000/?snr=1_7_7_204_150_2

PMs only for entry please to prevent lame Price is Right bidding tactics
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If it were in anyways like I'd participate in a 10 mile race... I'd start... get about 30 ft in, wheeze, and decide that I had games on my Steam list that I could stare at and not play and do that instead.

So I vote, you didn't. You got bored (because running is boring... and tiring).

 
IkedaTeramusa said:
If it were in anyways like I'd participate in a 10 mile race... I'd start... get about 30 ft in, wheeze, and decide that I had games on my Steam list that I could stare at and not play and do that instead.

So I vote, you didn't. You got bored (because running is boring... and tiring).
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eat another cannoli, fat ass

 
Blade said:
You should probably not want to do that if you want to keep having sex.
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HitlerCat said:
If he's single now, the only thing keeping him from having sex is a serious injury to both hands.
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Cheaplikeafox OS X said:
Please please please please please hire an escort and then tell her all you want to do is have her play TWD with you.
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I'm actually married now. But I suppose I would have to hire an escort to play TWD with me, as my wife is skittish around blood and zombies. We tried a bit of TWAU, but I think we're just not a gaming couple. Which is fine with me; I've decided that for the most part I have no problem keeping that part of my life separate.

 
cyrus386 said:
I'm actually married now. But I suppose I would have to hire an escort to play TWD with me, as my wife is skittish around blood and zombies. We tried a bit of TWAU, but I think we're just not a gaming couple. Which is fine with me; I've decided that for the most part I have no problem keeping that part of my life separate.
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That's the perfect set up:

Cyrus: I need you to come over and do something my wife won't.

Escort: That'll cost extra.

Cyrus: No problem, just keep an open mind.

Of course, she'll probably be a little pissed when she shows up with every orifice lubed up and you ask her to sit down and play a video game, but it's probably better than what she was preparing herself for.

 
Well, Fry's had my cards for me and they activated without a hitch so at least ONE of my "buy a physical version of a digital code" adventures ended as planned.... Looking at you, Amazon...

 
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Well, Fry's had my cards for me and they activated without a hitch so at least ONE of my "buy a physical version of a digital code" adventures ended as planned.... Looking at you, Amazon...
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You got lucky lol I bought Assasins Creed Unity and Far Cry 4 and the Far Cry 4 code I get this error, either it was used or an error Invalid promo code

 
TWD and TWAU would've been better had they been written by people involved with the comics and not Telltale's. In TWAU especially, someone needs to learn that gratuitous use of "fuck" does not equate to mature writing. The voice actors were generally pretty good, but they made an awful choice for Bigby. Supposed to be the Big Bad Wolf, not the Big Bad Mattress Salesman.

 
Juries out on Cities.  I've been snagged a couple of times.  The last one was apparently because I didn't have a high school.  The little workers were looking for some educated people apparently.  And since I didn't have a high school, the residences weren't growing.  Such a silly little thing.

Problem was, at that point I had to choose between firefighting (10k), police (12-15K) and high school (25k).  I dunno man, maybe I'm just not made for the city-building genre anymore.  I don't have time to read all the ins and outs and youtube vid's to figure a game out.  

And that's the last thing I'm saying about Cities.

 
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I think the point of games like that is trial and error. Trying new things to see what works and what doesn't. It seems you're expecting an on rails city builder that guides you from start to finish without a hitch.
 
What I expect from games is a manual or some sort of baseline for the rules.  This goes for ANY game.  Give me the basics and I'll figure it out.  Games that fail to give you even the basics are silly.  Further, they then punish you for it.  

"What.. you were supposed to know that you were supposed to click that button 20 minutes ago..."

But the thing of it is.. it doesn't even TELL you that you're making the mistake (or made a mistake 30 minutes ago).  The screens that are supposed to give you "helpful" information aren't populated with necessary identifiers.

Let's use a brutal game.  Demon Souls.  That games brutal right?  But even the first few things it explains things to you.  

"Hey,  you're going to die.  Hey, so you're going to die alot.  Hey look a pattern.  You think you should.. you know.. take advantage of the pattern?"

When it's something with as complex mechanics as a city builder.. yea, when I click the little question mark, I'm looking for a god damned answer and not some spiele on how to color in items.  I'm looking to find out why my population has a frowny face.  If you're going to dumb it down to a happy or frowny face, don't you think I should be able to click the frowny face?  If you go into the upper menu's clicking on the face gives you whether or not they want more residences, commercial, or industrial.  That's it.

So my town... I added a high school.  Now.... every one of my industrial's has qualified educated workers... but they have almost ZERO non-educated workers.  All of them are crying.  So what does the game expect?  About 20% of my real life high school graduating class (1400... so around 280) failed to graduate on time.  But in the game, apparently all the kids are graduating.

How am I suppose to trial and error my way into forcing the game to make kids fail out of school so I can have factory workers?  It's counter intuitive.  And stupid.

Dammit, I thought I was done talking about Cities....

 
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IkedaTeramusa said:
What I expect from games is a manual or some sort of baseline for the rules. This goes for ANY game. Give me the basics and I'll figure it out. Games that fail to give you even the basics are silly. Further, they then punish you for it.

"What.. you were supposed to know that you were supposed to click that button 20 minutes ago..."

But the thing of it is.. it doesn't even TELL you that you're making the mistake (or made a mistake 30 minutes ago). The screens that are supposed to give you "helpful" information aren't populated with necessary identifiers.

Let's use a brutal game. Demon Souls. That games brutal right? But even the first few things it explains things to you.

"Hey, you're going to die. Hey, so you're going to die alot. Hey look a pattern. You think you should.. you know.. take advantage of the pattern?"

When it's something with as complex mechanics as a city builder.. yea, when I click the little question mark, I'm looking for a god damned answer and not some spiele on how to color in items. I'm looking to find out why my population has a frowny face. If you're going to dumb it down to a happy or frowny face, don't you think I should be able to click the frowny face? If you go into the upper menu's clicking on the face gives you whether or not they want more residences, commercial, or industrial. That's it.

So my town... I added a high school. Now.... every one of my industrial's has qualified educated workers... but they have almost ZERO non-educated workers. All of them are crying. So what does the game expect? About 20% of my real life high school graduating class (1400... so around 280) failed to graduate on time. But in the game, apparently all the kids are graduating.

How am I suppose to trial and error my way into forcing the game to make kids fail out of school so I can have factory workers? It's counter intuitive. And stupid.

Dammit, I thought I was done talking about Cities....
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so you were a big fan of the sim city 2000?

 
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