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In the interests of Science, I bought Farming Simulator 2013 in the Steam Sale, basically to find out whether it was going to be the abysmal cacophany of rural nerdery that I suspected it would be, or whether it would be another excellent niche simulator like Euro Truck Simulator 2.

I've put about 3 hours in so far, and have watched about the same in Let's Play videos to work out the game's structure and a general direction to get started.

So far I'd summarise it as "kind of clunky", "wonderfully nerdy", "full of necessary busywork", "bizarrely addictive".

The game's engine is pretty good. Looks OK. Does the job. Doesn't glitch or crash. So far so good, it's "good enough", but isn't as polished as Euro Truck Sim 2 (comparing a low-budget indie studio title with another). However, it is good enough to support a very wide range of farming components, from animals to all the various tools and gadgets, shops/depots/silos etc. and the farm machinery models are actually pretty good with all the necessary working bits being animated and functional.

Playing it as an outsider to farming, you do realise how much "laborious time-consuming crap" there is in that industry. For example, having to make a dozen trips to and from the silo in order to empty your combine harvester as it harvests a field of wheat. This is emphasised when you have to make a long journey to sell products with only a small trailer and a slow tractor for transport. In many ways it's similar to getting up and running in mining or hauling in Eve Online. This obviously gives you a drive to get your farm running profitably so that you can buy larger, more expensive, toys that will save time and increase efficiency.

And I think this is where the addictiveness comes in. There is a shop full of Cool Stuff to Buy, and a range of farming types to get in to - you can get in to cattle, sheep, chickens, or do wheat, barley, corn, beets etc. So there is that "next big thing" temptation, whether it's a bigger trailer or tractor, buying a new field to increase your cash, or explore a new type of farming.

It actually seems like quite a simple game, which if you removed the barrier of cash and the fact that doing anything takes so bloody long, all the interest and anticipation would immediately vanish. However, as a way to spend an hour or two to just potter around and plough some fields with Big Boy's Toys, it's actually pretty good.

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Bought Rogue Legacy last night, was going to wait for the holidays Christmas but couldn't wait. So far I'm enjoying it. It is rock-hard though, which seems to be Roguelikes all over, I guess. One thing I think may sully my enjoyment of the game are those bloody platforms you have to attack. Either I'm doing it wrong or it either doesn't attack when I want it, my character bounces left or right rather than straight down, or it doesn't attack long enough (rather than keeping the attack going all the way down it does it briefly). Hopefully with more play I'll get the hang of it. It's a minor thing but when I see a roomful of those platforms right now I'm all "oh no!".

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Wow, er, does Rage really not have any graphical options? Not even v-sync?

It does have v-sync but it's a bitch to get working. I had to force it on from Catalyst Control Centre (you have an NVidia card don't you, so you may need to use that card's equivalent) where I had to set it up as a separate executable. Then in game, set it to smart rather than on. This seemed to sort it out.

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Bought Rogue Legacy last night, was going to wait for the holidays Christmas but couldn't wait. So far I'm enjoying it. It is rock-hard though, which seems to be Roguelikes all over, I guess. One thing I think may sully my enjoyment of the game are those bloody platforms you have to attack. Either I'm doing it wrong or it either doesn't attack when I want it, my character bounces left or right rather than straight down, or it doesn't attack long enough (rather than keeping the attack going all the way down it does it briefly). Hopefully with more play I'll get the hang of it. It's a minor thing but when I see a roomful of those platforms right now I'm all "oh no!".

Yeah the down strike takes a while to get the hang of. If your starting fresh I'd recommend turning the option on in the err options that allow you to press down to down strike. Do it now rather than later, as you'll be all thumbs like me because your used to pressing down and the attack button.

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Sorry should have been clearer, that was about the Conquistador price, expected it to be at it's community sale price which it didn't get as it lost.

SSFIV is just me grumbling about deciding a few days after the daily deal at 75% I wanted it, and then the game not getting a similar deal in the Summer sale.

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Yes and the interesting thing is the trailer shows a steam powered logo and no sign of GFWL at the end. So the question is if they'll be dropping GFWL and swapping to Steam to handle the multiplayer, but there's been no comment on it as far as I can see.

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Silly question maybe, but if I was to buy The Bureau: XCOM Declassified from Greenman Gaming, would I be eligible for the Steam pre-order bonuses. I'm mostly after XCOM: Enemy Unknown as I've still yet to play it.

Alternatively, feel free to point me in the direction of a cheap XCOM! (£26.99 with £7 GMG credit sounds like a bargain if you do get the XCOM collection from Steam, too. :o)

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As I understand offers like Steam/GMG are store specificz

Pre-order bonuses from games/publishers ( e.g. Saints Row 4 content) isn't source specific

For Xcom GMG are (were?) running the exact same 3 level preorder deal as Steam though - but it didn't have a tracker when I looked so you didn't know which was more likely to reach level 3

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As I understand offers like Steam/GMG are store specificz

Pre-order bonuses from games/publishers ( e.g. Saints Row 4 content) isn't source specific

For Xcom GMG are (were?) running the exact same 3 level preorder deal as Steam though - but it didn't have a tracker when I looked so you didn't know which was more likely to reach level 3

Ah, you're right, they are running the same offer. Cheers. :)

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As a new gaming PC owner going from the 360 and now being able to play games in 1080p 60fps is amazing. I've already got a silly number of steam games in the summer sale I've yet to even download and install never mind play in full bells and whistle modes. I am a little concerned over the lack of Japanese games I cannot play like re4. I'm encouraged that games like Dark souls 2, Castevania 1&2, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance are coming. The next gen consoles are more PC like than consoles have ever been. We've yet to know whether Metal Gear V is coming. Going forwards is the PC likely to be getting more Japanese love especially from the likes of platinum games and Cave?

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As a new gaming PC owner going from the 360 and now being able to play games in 1080p 60fps is amazing. I've already got a silly number of steam games in the summer sale I've yet to even download and install never mind play in full bells and whistle modes. I am a little concerned over the lack of Japanese games I cannot play like re4. I'm encouraged that games like Dark souls 2, Castevania 1&2, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance are coming. The next gen consoles are more PC like than consoles have ever been. We've yet to know whether Metal Gear V is coming. Going forwards is the PC likely to be getting more Japanese love especially from the likes of platinum games and Cave?

Hard to say. If it does, then it'll be almost entirely for benefit of the Western market - in Japan PC gaming is still dominated by 'visual novels' and hentai 'games'.

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Deep Silver Humble Bundle

Saints Row: The Third

Saints Row 2

Risen 2: Dark Waters

Sacred 2 Gold

Beat the average for:

Dead Island GOTY

Saints Row: The Third all DLC

http://www.humblebundle.com

Worth noting it comes as two keys one for the standard bundle and one for the beat the average titles.

What happens if you already own some of the games then?

EDIT- Fuck all, just adds the games you haven't got

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Deep Silver Humble Bundle

Saints Row: The Third

Saints Row 2

Risen 2: Dark Waters

Sacred 2 Gold

Beat the average for:

Dead Island GOTY

Saints Row: The Third all DLC

http://www.humblebundle.com

Worth noting it comes as two keys one for the standard bundle and one for the beat the average titles.

I have to admit, I'm tempted to spend the flat $25 rate to get Dead Island: Riptide with a bunch of keys alongside it.

EDIT: Oh, apparently Riptide is shit from a quick peek. Never mind, I'll take the Beat The Average bundle!

Uzi: If it's anything like the latest Humble Bundles, all of the keys are separate. Never used to be the case, though. As Blu3flame says though, if you're after using the SR3 Full Package to upgrade the core game, it should work.

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I have to admit, I'm tempted to spend the flat $25 rate to get Dead Island: Riptide with a bunch of keys alongside it.

Uzi: If it's anything like the latest Humble Bundles, all of the keys are separate. Never used to be the case, though.

Apparently it is only a few keys according to a few folks on GAF. Obviously Deep Silver doing it on purpose, they probably just want more people to play Saints Row 3 before 4 comes out this month.

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As is the tradition with Humble Bundles I expect these will be the extra games added in a week.

http://steamdb.info/sub/29407/#section_apps

Deep Silver Bundle C

Sacred Citadel
Metro 2033
Risen

Delving into the database a little more it appears as if the 'beat the average' key only contains Saints Row Third DLC. So I wouldn't gift it away expecting the recipient to get the base game. http://steamdb.info/sub/29351/#section_apps

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Loved Saints Row 3 but never played 2. With all the other bits thrown in this is a stone cold bargain.

Just to note a few things - the Saints Row 2 PC port is a disaster but the as always dedicated idolninja has a patch for it - the Gentlemen Of The Row patch.

It doesn't make the port perfect or anything but it does a lot to make it playable. Hopefully with the mod tools coming in the future they can do more to fix it up too.

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Just to note a few things - the Saints Row 2 PC port is a disaster but the as always dedicated idolninja has a patch for it - the Gentlemen Of The Row patch.

It doesn't make the port perfect or anything but it does a lot to make it playable. Hopefully with the mod tools coming in the future they can do more to fix it up too.

Cheers for that! I'll check it out once it's finished downloading on steam.

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