I did that last sale, the same problem and it actually is worse on Chrome (like everything!), inventory loading after gemifying is even longer and it crashes more.
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I did that last sale, the same problem and it actually is worse on Chrome (like everything!), inventory loading after gemifying is even longer and it crashes more.
ramoisdead
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Jimmyfenix
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hello
Bucket-o-roadkill
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No day deals or flash sales really sap the life and interest out of these sales. Who ever thought it was a good idea to stop this must be nuts.
lol wtf does that even mean?
Thank you. Maybe I'll do that later.
Mass_Pincup
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I'll keep an eye on it then, thanks.
ramoisdead
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nice thread btw
Well, at least you're not getting five million ugly top down dodge projectile games. I think they are the new indie 2d pixelart plattformers.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Well we only have ourselves to blame, as the removal of flash and daily sales are likely the direct result of refunds being possible on Steam now. Personally I think it sucks, but I'd rather have consumer protections like that year round then better sales a few weeks out of the year.
Jimmyfenix
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Yeah i can see that but at least i know Dark souls 2 won't randomly appear in a sale now so i can get it in before the sale ends
Yeah, it's pretty good. It's a very old school RTS, with a well designed single player campaign. Lots of beautiful cutscenes that hark back to the glory days of C&C, just with a lot less cheese. It's not got a whole lot of tactical depth or micro-management, so if you can attack move with your horde of units you'll win 99% of engagements with the AI. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, hell, it might be exactly what you're looking for.
Just don't play the Goo first. They're a very, very different style of faction, and you need very high micro skills to properly manage them.
Giant Panda
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Anybody have any feedback for any of the following?
The Talos Principle
Besiege
Legend of Grimrock 2
Darkest Dungeon
The Talos Principle
Besiege
Legend of Grimrock 2
Darkest Dungeon
Caffeine
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just made me buy it lmao rip wallet. now damage is at $88.50
You could have both. Valve just decided it wasn't worth the effort.
Sweet.
Hacknet is my Surprise Hit of 2015.
The game makes you feel like a bad-ass hacker thanks to a real command-line interface.
Wickedly intelligent and sophisticated. Great writing too.
Here's one game I'm going to copy and paste things I previously wrote to try to get some people to try this severely underlooked quality game:
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Here's a game I'm currently playing on Steam that is way too overlooked for its own good:
Why Am I Dead At Sea
I'm about 3 hours in right now, and it's been getting very gripping. This game obviously has some Earthbound inspiration, but to explain it briefly, you're a ghost on a ship who is brought to consciousness by a spiritually gifted passenger on the ship to help prevent some sort of terrible occurrence that he senses is approaching the residents of the ship. You can possess people, but only if you know them well and reach a level of understanding how they work. Come to completely understand a person, and you can take full control of them. Each person you possess has a different personality obviously and recognition/relationship with others to allow different dialogue stuff to talk about, but each also has a special ability, ranging from being able to see what's in peoples pockets to being able to tell the tone of the voice someone's voice is in for a line of dialogue (okay, aggravated, hiding something, etc.). Even your spirit self has a special ability to peek into the mindscapes and thoughts of others (which is actually done in a pretty cool way). Featuring multiple endings and branching story possibilities, the game has enjoyable characters, an interesting and twisting story, and actually delivers many unexpected feelings of a range of emotions throughout, and has a really good soundtrack.
And yet it's barely gotten over 1,000 in sales and most don't even know it exists. Deserves WAY more attention.
Here's some screens:
Sold. Thanks for shining a light on this.
This is always cited as the reason and it makes some sense, but couldn't Valve just enforce a "no refunds on the $5~ you would have saved if you had waited for the daily, you bastard"? Or a "refunds only accepted after the sale period" or something. Between the no dailies or flash sales and the increasingly piss poor discounts themselves it makes me think there's more to it than just refunds.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I suppose you could have both, but even if you did have daily deals I doubt the publishers would be on board - considering they could expect to lose the majority of the difference in their profits from the previous two week's sales if they were featured.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I'm in the mood for a KOTOR... I played KOTOR1 a decade ago but really didn't click to it, being a total jRPG head at the time.
I think now after playing Fallout I'm more tolorant to the wRPG concept. New Vegas especially has me interested in Obsidian's take on Star Wars.
Can I skip to KOTOR2? Is it advisable? Or should I play through KOTOR1 first? It's probably a brand new game to me anyway... It's been so long and I remember nothing about it.
I think now after playing Fallout I'm more tolorant to the wRPG concept. New Vegas especially has me interested in Obsidian's take on Star Wars.
Can I skip to KOTOR2? Is it advisable? Or should I play through KOTOR1 first? It's probably a brand new game to me anyway... It's been so long and I remember nothing about it.
Nickdogmoneycash
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Quick question, not sure if this is the place to ask.
Will Xcom Enemy Unknown run well on my Macbook Pro from 2013?
This would be my first real game that I've purchased on a laptop, so I'm kind of new to this.
Will Xcom Enemy Unknown run well on my Macbook Pro from 2013?
This would be my first real game that I've purchased on a laptop, so I'm kind of new to this.
You can skip KOTOR 1 as the second game brings you fully up to speed in the first few seconds, but it does spoil the plot twist in the first game. Sounds like you didn't get all that far in KOTOR 1.
Dedicated GPU or integrated? Resolution?
Don't you mean misery bundle?
Awesome to hear, I just discovered this today while using the discovery list feature and liked what I saw, plus it got good (user) reviews as well.
Bucket-o-roadkill
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Well I personally don't blame myself for that. I've not abused the refund system, it's a shame. They need to come up with reasons to get people to check out the sales each day.. Dull as dishwater.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Yes, again, they could do whatever they wanted to. When Valve sent out pricing notices for this sale they basically said "Price everything as if you were featured in a daily deal sale in the past" and obviously the publishers came back with a resounding "lol, no".
Also, any time you put additional rules or stipulations on the refund policy you're exponentially increasing the amount of work that needs to be done in order to enforce those rules and stipulations.
toastyToast
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It's 5 or 6 hours but the game warrants a replay or two to see everything. After the first time you could probably run through it a lot faster.
Finally had a chance to sit down, do the discovery queue for cards and look at my wishlist for sales (since it now works) and... woah, underwhelming. Watchdoge only 50% off, Asscree only 50% off, no discount on Kiwami missions, Sakura games only 50% off. Didn't feel so disappointed in a Steam sale since... the Autumn sale.
The no dailies is shit.
The no dailies is shit.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I didn't get that far.
It's fine to spoil it. It's not like it's SW canon anymore
I just want that Obsidian goodness...
Yeah, true. Well, we had a good run.
I wanted so many games on the sale that it ended up adding up to $500+. No way in hell I'm spending that much money no matter the %. So now I'm refining the list further down to the base essentials, I always set a budget every year for Summer and Winter and this went over $400. You think it's nothing with $1 here or $4 here, but BAM! $500+. Steam is a tricky bitch.
iceblade997
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It's a pretty good way to go in. You can tell it shares a lot of the DNA of the Baldur's Gate / Icewind Dale games, but improves on them in quite a few key areas (fast-forwarding is an option for example) so if you do like what you wind up getting, to like what you see it opens the doors for other titles you can explore. They also do a pretty good job of explaining what's going on, how to do what you need to, and the game does have a handy notes function you can use if you want to take notes of your own.
I'm currently playing on the lowest difficulty section, and while there are parts that are challenging, it's never been overwhelming and unlike the former two games I don't feel like using a guide has been necessary (BG and IWD thanks to relying on AD&D 2E have some obtuse things you need to get to terms with). Plus, with the next part of the expansion (out in Jan sometime) they're adding what they're calling "Story Mode" - an even easier difficulty level
I can't compare to other CRPGs since those are the ones I'm most familiar with, but IMO it's a good entry point. Watch a few Lets Plays, and see if it's something you think you could get the hand of. That said the game is rather dense in terms of reading, so be prepared for that.
It's been a while since I played Besiege and I dont't know what they have added, if anything, but I had fun with it for a while. I completed all the levels and messed with the sandbox for a bit. It was fun and the tools are easy to use and fairly robust. The problem is that like usually with games like this, I lack the creativity to come up with cool designs and experiment with all the different things you could do. But I got good fiveish hours out of it. I'd recommend it even if you are just going to beat the levels once or twice.
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Ah thank you!
Yeah I'll probably get it, watched a few videos and good to hear that it's a bit simple-ish haha.
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Kotor 1 has a bit of problems running in Windows 10. I cannot get it to show any cutscenes.
how is that even a question, more games is always better, more good games even more so
Kurt Russell
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The Homeworld Remastered Collection has some issues with AI and crashes.
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