Still kinda choppy on medium settings, pretty playable on low on my GTX 645. They've definitely made progress :)

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I might pick this up once it's out of Early Access. Definitely looks like a fun game to play with friends.

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Quoting: laveinstead of an exclusive release they could bundle halflife3 with their first generation of steamboxes

Now that I can get behind ;)

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Quoting: HadBabitsI've found the best approach (for me) is to find specific reviewers you trust. Also, someone with similar tastes (in my case, the fellow from IndieStatik) or someone who can be objective enough to recommend a quality game that doesn't fit their own taste (e.g. TotalBiscuit).

I agree with this advice. Also, especially on releases that's not received a very high metarating, it's wise to read reviews and see what exactly it is that pulled the score down, and if those elements are important for you.

But my experience is that the metrascore is an as reliable source of ratings as it can be, for a very quick indication of overall quality.

Well, that being said, I'm not really a fan of Metacritic, or scores in general myself. They're all right in a pinch, but a bit too broad a tool in my opinion. Applying numeric value to something so subjective seems shaky at best.

However, I do like the Rotten Tomatoes approach of giving a film a score based on the percentage of critics who recommended it. In that context you're playing with binary values ('yea' or 'neigh') as opposed to something much more complex like visual design. I do like the steam review system for this reason, problems aside.

On top of that, I'm just much more fond of language than I am numbers. A good writer should be able to convey their experience through the use of language, without the need of arbitrary rating systems. Though I do appreciate writers who sum up their feelings at the end because sometimes I'm in a rush ;)

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Quoting: EKRboiWell that's awesome. Ill just be over here in my corner waiting for the official announcement of source2 and that HL3 will be a linux/steamOS exclusive.

While I assume this comments not too serious, I have seen many penguins put forth this very idea and it perplexes me. Linux enthusiasts are supposed to be about openness not exclusivity. Platform exclusives are one of the reasons I stay away from consoles nowadays; it's anti-competitive and bad practice imo. I think Linux will continue gaining popularity through it's own merits as a platform. :)

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Admittedly I don't have much interest in this game, but I will join in on this reviews conversation :D

I feel I'm more towards the middle. While I do occasionally scan the user reviews on Steam because there are some very adequate voices on there, there is, as Beam points out, loads of trash. I've seen absolute garbage get recommendations just because the reviewer thought "Let's you walk around 10/10 lolzrofllmao" was such a comedic boon. It's pretty much the same problem I have with Greenlight (see Grass Simulator [External Link].

On the other hand, there's plenty of "professional" gaming sites whose writers come of as shills or just very dim (See *gag* Kotaku [External Link]. I've found the best approach (for me) is to find specific reviewers you trust. Also, someone with similar tastes (in my case, the fellow from IndieStatik) or someone who can be objective enough to recommend a quality game that doesn't fit their own taste (e.g. TotalBiscuit).

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I noticed they put some extra goodies on the flash drive this time :)

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The full trailer makes it look interesting, but then so did Spate's, and that game I found very boring. I'll pass for now.

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Not digging the camera, looks like a real eye-strainer.

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I get an error when trying to run it: ./Super\ Scrapped\ Robot ./Super Scrapped Robot: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Tried installing the libudev packages to no avail. Might just play the browser version.

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