Steam/PC Mega Thread

[Dan]

I'm so excited for Cities: Skylines that it's a bit ridiculous.

Me too, lots of positve stuff being said about it too.

[Meacon Keaton]

Holy crap, I just looked that up, since I had not even heard of it. That looks awesome.

[KiddKorupt]

I'm so excited for Cities: Skylines that it's a bit ridiculous.

Ditto. Pre-ordered it yesterday. The 10th can't come soon enough.

[Whisper]

Heroes of the Storm may finally be the MOBA I lose stupid amounts of time to.

Been playing it the last few days and it's a blast. I've played a lot of League of Legends, but HotS removes a lot of the frustrations of LoL. Games are shorter, closer and the objectives style gameplay forces teamfights, so it feels like there's a lot more "action".

Plus the characters are awesome.

[apsham]

I'm so excited for Cities: Skylines that it's a bit ridiculous.

I saw it on top of a lot of wishlists and I was wondering what the deal was - I'm used to 'city' type games being focused on transportation or something of the sort but damn - this looks interesting.

[Quom]

It's funny you should say that. It's from the devs that made the Cities in Motion games.

[apsham]

I was going to guess that based off the naming convention, but I decided not to because I've heard - eh things about those games.

[Quom]

Most people think it's the Cities XL devs because of the name.

[apsham]

Okay so apparently I thought it was the Cities In Motions developers, but I think I'm mixing the reputation up with the Cities XL guys.

[Quom]

Yeah, Cities in Motion is decent but is just a traffic aim and was pretty in depth. Cities XL was the same game released each year with a different name without improvement.

[thatshortguy]

Heroes of the Storm may finally be the MOBA I lose stupid amounts of time to.

Been playing it the last few days and it's a blast. I've played a lot of League of Legends, but HotS removes a lot of the frustrations of LoL. Games are shorter, closer and the objectives style gameplay forces teamfights, so it feels like there's a lot more "action".

Plus the characters are awesome.

Word. I'm really digging the support role as a way to get my feet wet. Didn't hurt that my first game I used Malfurion and still racked up a team high 27 takedowns.

[apsham]

You guys are making that MOBA sound mighty tempting for a genre I've almost entirely sworn off.

[Ruki]

I've played a total of 3 MOBAs that I actually enjoy. League of Legends (is anyone surprised?), Infinite Crises (was a fun way to spend an afternoon), and Heroes of the Storm (it's enjoyable, but I can only play 2-3 games before I get bored).

But if you're looking to get into one? I'd suggest Heroes of the Storm, for sure.

[thatshortguy]

It is A LOT easier to get into than DOTA 2 or LoL. Haven't touched Infinite yet, but I can confirm that HotS is far more simplified than a lot of other MOBAs.

[Herr Matzat]

I don´t know how simple it is. It cuts a ton of the bullshit and because they don´t have as many champions yet you can get way faster into knowing "all". But what you loose with last hitting you gain in fast pace and different maps with different objectives.

The biggest difference is the lack of an items system, but the limited skill tree still alows variation.

[apsham]

Anyone have any impressions yet of either Cities: Skyline or Hotline Miami 2?

[Quom]

Skylines is great. Just lost like 8 hours playing it. Everything works well. Although for some reason I have no demand for commercial so would be lucky to have 1/20th the amount of commercial compared to industry and residential. No idea if it's a bug or what :/. Either way it isn't really dampening my enjoyment or anything. Oddly I haven't had any traffic problems either, although it could be because my city only has 25k people in it. Speaking of which, I think there might be an artificial cap on population based on how many tiles you've unlocked. My city is dense but I've only bothered unlocking three tiles so far. Having watched streams and stuff I feel like my city should have a bigger population.

[apsham]

Mmmmmph.

I want this to be what SimCity wasn't. I am very tempted to grab this with Hotline Miami 2 tonight.

[Quom]

Demand for commercial increased so buggered if I know what was causing it. Definitely weird. I do think the population is a bit stuffed up though, my city is massive and only has 35k citizens now. It has a cap of 1 million but I really don't think that you could get there using the 9 tiles you can buy (there is already a mod that lets you use 25 tiles).

I prefer it to Sim City 4 which is meant to be the standard bearer.

Another issue is that money is going to be too easy to come by for anyone with any sort of city builder experience.

It is pretty much everything I was hoping it would be. I'm excited that it has Workshop support and will end up buying the expansions that will inevitably come. I've been a bit jaded with games recently so it was a pleasant surprise that this one lived up to the hype.

[Dan]

You can get it for £15.75 here

I'm loving it so far, already failed one city. Got into debt far too quickly. I love the workshop support, I'm just going through downloading buildings now - already 500~ up.