Keyrock

Holy ****, my man rocks a recorder and a flute at the same time, then breaks out a saxophone, because, why the **** not? Meanwhile his band is dropping down jazz deliciousness. I can get down with this.

♫ And so it was that later As the miller told his tale That her face, at first just ghostly, Turned a whiter shade of pale ♫

I almost pledged, but I didn't. I was not fully convinced, plus the $25 entry fee put me off. I do hope the game is a success, though. I'll buy it when it comes out if it turns out well.

Is there supposed to be a New Game+ ? I just continued and kept doing challenges, side missions (which are, for the most part, much better than the main story missions anyway), and just parkouring around Harran. I'd read on the internet there was. Apparently you can play through the story again, but with all your weapons/inventory you've amassed, and with tougher zombies. But I can't see a way to do it. I'm waiting for that first DLC to become available to non-Season Pass holders, the one with the 2 new extra hard quarantine zones. I like quarantine zone challenges. The other 2 DLCs that will come in the future (one with a bunch of outfits and weapons, and the other with an arena horde mode) don't interest me in the least bit.

Is there supposed to be a New Game+ ? I just continued and kept doing challenges, side missions (which are, for the most part, much better than the main story missions anyway), and just parkouring around Harran.

The Dschingis Khan goodness doesn't stop there. That fact that these songs exist gives me a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, the human race isn't completely ****ed.

My timeline was off. My bad.

The greatest song in history?

As a long time Linux user, the one rule of thumb to follow if you plan on gaming on Linux (SteamOS in this case) is to stick with Nvidia. Hopefully AMD gets their **** together before the "official" SteamOS launch and gets their driver in shape, but, as it stands, the Nvidia Linux driver is in much better shape than the AMD Linux driver. Nvidia's Linux driver is pretty much on par with their Windows driver, AMD's Linux driver, not so much. That's not to dsay that you can't game on and AMD GPU on Linux, you'll just have more problems to deal with. Hopefully Valve will light a fire under AMD's ass and this will be a non-issue by November and you can choose whatever manufacturer's card you want without caveats.

Not liking what I'm seeing here, but I don't know what I was expecting to begin with. Might just do a $4-500 build myself and save on OS costs with Steam OS. If you know what you're doing you're almost certainly better off building a rig yourself. Even if you add in the cost of the controller, you can still build a better rig for cheaper.

More Pier Solar and the Great Architects. One thing that really bothers me about this game is the complete lack of instructions. There is nothing resembling an in-game tutorial, there is no in-game manual, no manual on GOG, and no manual on the developer's website. Supposedly there was an actual physical manual for the original SEGA Genesis version, but I guess the developer never bothered making one for the new versions. Now, I've played plenty of jRPGs, so I'm not completely clueless, but you look on the character page and the stats are PP, DP, AP, LP, MA, and MD. How the **** am I supposed to know what any of that means? Plus there is a gather system in the game that's never explained in the least. How do you release a game with no instructions whatsoever? Anyway, after searching for about an hour, I managed to track down a GameFAQ someone wrote up that explains all this stuff, but I shouldn't have to do that, there should be a manual included with the game. As for the game itself, I'm having fun with it. Combat is a lot better now that I actually understand how the system works (imagine that). Also, the characters in the game have tons of charm and the game has a good sense of humor. It also helps that the game hasn't fallen into the YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE THAT MUST SAVE THE WORLD FROM A GREAT EVIL trope, at least not yet.

That flak didn't stop them from breaking the Kickstarter video game record, though, did it? Plus, when they did the TToN Kickstarter, the Wasteland 2 beta was out to the backers at that point, so at least some that backed it had seen what they had funded (in an unfinished state) and the feedback was generally positive, if I remember correctly. You are correct, though, that Wasteland 2 had not released fully yet at that point. All the more reason for Obsidian to have confidence they can get good funding through crowdfunding again if they do so after PoE is fully released. On topic: Underworld Ascendant is past the 800k mark with 11 hours to go. 850k is almost a sure thing, 900k is very reachable, 1 million is not out of the question if they get a big final push.

While working with Khronos on the new Vulkan API, Valve made a Vulkan driver for Intel graphics. This is a very preliminary driver running an alpha version of the Vulkan API running on Linux, running DOTA2 on the Source 2 engine: The driver will be open sourced by Valve. Since it will be open sourced there will be nothing stopping Intel, or anyone else for that matter, adapting the driver for Windows and Mac. No doubt Nvidia and AMD will have Vulkan drivers too in the future.

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/4C4C46ED941185102281209991168_32c6607bfd5.1.5.12318846076656858204.mp4?versionId=dmFL85tZYVXvpZF1UlU9eciKyMG_1gZc Ferocious dunk is ferocious

I didn't mind the climb since parkour and platforming is my jam, but the QTE boss fight was horrendous. That's a trend that needs to die a fiery death right away.

Filming in portrait I take it this is a RTS of some sort?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzgAhPffWsM Yikes

Keyrock I may be missing something but it seems to me you don't want us to discuss Bioware anymore..if thats the case then just say so. I prefer brutal honesty I get that stuff in Random Video Game News will go off on tangents, that happens, but it's usually 3 or 4 posts, then we get back to game news. This has gone on for multiple pages now. Look, I've been a member of this forum for 2 1/2 years and in my time here this argument has happened at least a dozen times, likely a lot more. I've even engaged in it once or twice in the past. I could understand if someone new had initiated this and there was a fresh perspective, but this is literally the same exact argument involving the same exact people as has been had time and time and time again. Frankly, it's ****ing annoying.

Steam Machines and the Steam Controller are now listed on Steam. They won't be available until November.

Would it be possible to please **** off with BioWare Fanboys vs BioWare Haterz Part 875,027,213,435, or at least can you take it to a BioWare game thread? Can we get back to Random Video Game News in this thread? So there's a new Rock Band game coming out. I wonder if music games can make a comeback?

This one's for LadyC:

Will it be as absurdly expensive as the predecessor? If it comes in at $999 like the previous Titans that actually won't be that bad, considering the utterly absurd specs on it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the $1200-$1500 region. Top of the line cards are usually rather overpriced.

More Pier Solar and the Great Architects. The combat is pretty uninspired so far, granted I'm early in so I have barebones abilities, but the story and characters have me interested and wanting to continue playing.

Nvidia just surprised everybody by pre-announcing (the full announcement will come soon) the Titan X http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x,28694.html A whopping 12 GB vRAM and 8 billion transistors. If this is indeed a single GPU card then this is an INSANE monster of a card.

Presumably the final Steam Controller design Available November (I imagine that this is when "official" Steam Machines will also become available) for $49.99. I won't lie, I want to caress those trackpads with my fingers (possibly other body parts too ).