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Vulgarr




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 03:29    Post subject:
What's with the camera and the game feeling like it pulls to the left all the time? Is there a fix or just shitty design? Story and all seems awesome. The camera and awkward controls are annoying though. I mean, why the hell can't you run straight? Odd.
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Sin317
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 03:30    Post subject:
TheRaccoon wrote:
sabin1981 wrote:
Those BIKs are really bugging me, just like they did in DX:HR, there's just no need for it and - IMO - detracts from the enjoyment of the game far more than some dodgy camera placement. Bah!


AFAIK Bink compressor is one of the worst choices nowadays. The colours are usually washed off plus there are blocking artifacts all over the video. (I haven't played Alan Wake yet but I guess that's the case here as well. Rolling Eyes)

Bink was cool in 2004 but not anymore. I wish devs just switched to H.264/VC-1 already.


Bink was cool back in 2000 ^^, when games still came on CD's. And i agree, i dont see any reason why NOT to use x264 (720p) these days.

a gb or 2 more , who cares lol. (not being sarcastic)
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b0se
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 03:32    Post subject:
Vulgarr wrote:
What's with the camera and the game feeling like it pulls to the left all the time? Is there a fix or just shitty design? Story and all seems awesome. The camera and awkward controls are annoying though. I mean, why the hell can't you run straight? Odd.


Here's the best fix :




[spoiler][quote="SteamDRM"]i've bought mohw :derp: / FPS of the year! [/quote]
[quote="SteamDRM"][quote="b0se"]BLACK OPS GOTY[/quote]
No.[/quote][/spoiler]
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Headi2611




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 03:33    Post subject:
just finished act3...only one crash so far shortly after the beginning
runs pretty smooth with everything maxed + 4xaa@1920x1080 on my phenomII x4 955 +hd6950@6970bios
mouse control could be better but with this console autoaim "feature" its pretty hard to miss ^^
but one thing really bothered me...i just cant seem to run in a straight line...you always have to look a bit to the side if you want to run straight forward but after some time i didnt really notice it anymore
the story/atmosphere is awesome and i really liked the game so far
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 03:34    Post subject:
No no, it's not just the quality of the binks that are annoying.. it's that they exist in the first place! I had the same issue with DX:HR and it's incredibly frustrating and jarring to be playing a gorgeous looking game only to have it constantly switching between beauty/native res and hideous/HD"ready" res. What's the point of it? Just have the game engine render the cutscenes using in-game assets! It would take less space by skipping the large rendered movies and it would look however your in-game settings looked.

Bah, BAH I SAY! It really spoils it, especially on the PC that is looking outstandingly gorgeous and running at significantly higher resolutions than the 360 version.

b0se wrote:

Here's the best fix :




That is god damned hideous! Who on earth would ever benefit from a pad with the d-pad on the right and the face buttons on the left? Nice PS d-pad though, leaps and bounds better than the 360 disk bullshit >_<
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Sin317
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 03:38    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
No no, it's not just the quality of the binks that are annoying.. it's that they exist in the first place! I had the same issue with DX:HR and it's incredibly frustrating and jarring to be playing a gorgeous looking game only to have it constantly switching between beauty/native res and hideous/HD"ready" res. What's the point of it? Just have the game engine render the cutscenes using in-game assets! It would take less space by skipping the large rendered movies and it would look however your in-game settings looked.

Bah, BAH I SAY! It really spoils it, especially on the PC that is looking outstandingly gorgeous and running at significantly higher resolutions than the 360 version.

b0se wrote:

Here's the best fix :




That is god damned hideous! Who on earth would ever benefit from a pad with the d-pad on the right and the face buttons on the left? Nice PS d-pad though, leaps and bounds better than the 360 disk bullshit >_<


if the cutscenes are done using the game anyway, i agree, its quite a waste to use anything like bink hehe.
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Radicalus




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 03:52    Post subject:
Man, I'm loving this more and more - and it's 5 AM!
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b0se
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 03:59    Post subject:
5:07 AM and I'm just launching the game again Laughing


[spoiler][quote="SteamDRM"]i've bought mohw :derp: / FPS of the year! [/quote]
[quote="SteamDRM"][quote="b0se"]BLACK OPS GOTY[/quote]
No.[/quote][/spoiler]
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Raccoon




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:13    Post subject:
So, what's the deal with SKIDROW's release + THETA crack? Does this combo work like it should? Any crashes?


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Fuck Polish government for oppressing women!

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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:16    Post subject:
TheRaccoon wrote:
So, what's the deal with SKIDROW's release + THETA crack? Does this combo work like it should? Any crashes?


I've been playing for around 2hrs using the Skidrow ISO and Theta crack; no problems whatsoever =)
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Raccoon




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:19    Post subject:
Thanks! Smile Will download soon then.


"Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world there is a duck watching you."

Fuck Polish government for oppressing women!

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Gtamatte




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:25    Post subject:
I crashed once when entering the lighthouse with Theta crack, just started the game up again and now i've been playing to episode 2 and no crashes.
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Radicalus




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:41    Post subject:
How important is exploring the forest's non-main paths? I do it a lot, and barely found anything. The hidden caches mostly.
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:43    Post subject:
Radicalus wrote:
How important is exploring the forest's non-main paths? I do it a lot, and barely found anything. The hidden caches mostly.


At the start it's mainly just hidden caches of weapons/ammo/batteries (yanno, useful stuff Very Happy) but as the game progresses you start finding manuscript pages.. and THOSE are what you want in this game. I swear, two thirds of of the story is told via manuscripts and without those you lose a lot of important information. It annoyed the hell out of me that you could only find certain pages by playing on Nightmare difficulty..... and then locking Nightmare so that you can't play it until you've beaten it on Normal first >_<
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BLuNT318




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:46    Post subject:
there's something wrong with Skiddies crack... I haven't had any crashes as of yet, what happens?


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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:49    Post subject:
Well hey, if you're not experiencing any issues; great! enjoy it Very Happy Right now I'm off to bed, gonna binge the fuck out of AW tomorrow Very Happy
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Radicalus




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:50    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
Radicalus wrote:
How important is exploring the forest's non-main paths? I do it a lot, and barely found anything. The hidden caches mostly.


At the start it's mainly just hidden caches of weapons/ammo/batteries (yanno, useful stuff Very Happy) but as the game progresses you start finding manuscript pages.. and THOSE are what you want in this game. I swear, two thirds of of the story is told via manuscripts and without those you lose a lot of important information. It annoyed the hell out of me that you could only find certain pages by playing on Nightmare difficulty..... and then locking Nightmare so that you can't play it until you've beaten it on Normal first >_<


Right. The only hazard in going in the deadly side places is, that they have respawning mobs - and you have only so many bullets. It already happened once, that I ran out. Wasn't cool.
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ace2kx




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:51    Post subject:
Thanks KaSssss. Sweet site! Very Happy
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:54    Post subject:
@Radicalus

Aye, the #1 downside to higher difficulties in a game like this; you get less ammo and enemies get more health. I'm playing on Normal and it's not so bad at the moment.. but I'm only halfway through Episode 2, later eps get MERCILESSLY difficult due to HP/ammo thing.
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 04:55    Post subject:
Radicalus wrote:

Right. The only hazard in going in the deadly side places is, that they have respawning mobs - and you have only so many bullets. It already happened once, that I ran out. Wasn't cool.


a console port thats challenging? Aww Yeah


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Radicalus




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 05:31    Post subject:
WaldoJ wrote:
Radicalus wrote:

Right. The only hazard in going in the deadly side places is, that they have respawning mobs - and you have only so many bullets. It already happened once, that I ran out. Wasn't cool.


a console port thats challenging? Aww Yeah


Since I like to explore every square inch, yes, it's challenging Smile
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BKarza




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 05:38    Post subject:
swebarb wrote:
sounds def like bad crack too me.. not the first time either they screw up.

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djdahren




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 05:45    Post subject:
well, it crashes for me too when i arrive at the lighthouse
skidrow release+skidrow crack
ati 6870
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Radicalus




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 06:15    Post subject:
BKarza wrote:
swebarb wrote:
sounds def like bad crack too me.. not the first time either they screw up.

Whitney Houston's last words....


Too soon ...
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Radicalus




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 06:15    Post subject:
What I don't get is this: howcome this game didn't pick up some serious GOTY awards?
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pikachupi




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 06:16    Post subject:
i just woke up and looks like alan is wake too Very Happy

so...it came to pc afterall lol

this is too much,i have new android phone (xperia play) and all the day i pop bubbles and i have the darkness2 installed with 30 min's of gameplay progress and now alan is awake...don't know what to play first Very Happy
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Cedge




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 06:38    Post subject:
De_TURK wrote:
It's just 1 copy? Starting a petition or spamming their forums with an angry mob behind you has more effect, for better or worse. But 1 copy = no effect. Wouldnt you agree?

Sure, one copy isn't much, but it's the best one person can do. Likewise, one signature on a petition means a hell of a lot less. And besides, not every person needs to start a petition or spamming campaign. After one person starts it, everyone else is basically just a "me-too," and that definitely isn't worth as much as a copy sold. Thus, yes, buying a copy is better than being part of a petition.

As pretty much any rational person knows, petitions are pretty much worthless. 10,000 people buying copies of the game will have infinitely more effect than 10,000 signatures on a petition. To give an example, they're not going to bring American Nightmare to PC if they get a huge petition with 250,000 signatures demanding AWAN on PC, but they only end up selling 5,000 copies of AW1 on PC in the meantime.

When that kind of shit happens (lots of vocal display of demand from gamers for something, but low sales when the developer actually makes it available), it's kind of hard for them to not interpret as people just wanting the game available on a platform that they own and can easily pirate on.

Developers need to be shown that people will buy a game when it's on their platform, not just that they want it. When tons of people demand something, but only a tiny fraction of them actually buy it, it sends the developer the message that people just want the game available for them to pirate more easily. Can you really blame the developer for seeing it that way, or even deny that it's true, in a lot of cases? Be honest: do you really think that everyone who signed that "Dark Souls on PC" petition was planning on actually buying the game if it came out on PC, or were a lot of them perhaps just wanting to pirate it, but didn't own a modded PS3 or 360?

Consumers need to hold up their end of the bargain, too. If you demand something, be ready to buy it when they meet your demands. It's only fair. You can't get everything you want just by punishing the developer alone. They should be rewarded when they do what you want and it's done well, even if it's not perfect. You can't just use the excuse of "well, they gave me the game I wanted, but the PC release was late, so I'm going to pirate it to punish them for their disrespect," and expect that to encourage them to treat the PC audience better next time. You'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar, every time. Even if they don't do it perfectly the first time, progress is worth rewarding. It's still a two-way street, and you have to understand that your behavior is part of a collective whole that influences how developers will handle this platform.

Or, whatever, just pirate AW1 and go sign a petition demanding AWAN and their next games on PC, and if you really want to believe it, then sure, keep telling yourself that that does as much good. I don't give a fuck.
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 06:43    Post subject:
Just reached EP3, love the game so far.

Love it .


[spoiler][quote="SteamDRM"]i've bought mohw :derp: / FPS of the year! [/quote]
[quote="SteamDRM"][quote="b0se"]BLACK OPS GOTY[/quote]
No.[/quote][/spoiler]
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Sertorius




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 06:54    Post subject:
so, the game is not so bad, right ? seriously considering to buy it when out on Origin, but if the game is "too" consolish, maybe I could pass it.
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Radicalus




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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Feb 2012 07:05    Post subject:
Sertorius wrote:
so, the game is not so bad, right ? seriously considering to buy it when out on Origin, but if the game is "too" consolish, maybe I could pass it.


Honestly, I think it's very, very good. Skipped this night playing it. And I love every second of it.
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