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Stratosphere said:
Divinity: OS EE or Pillars of Eternity for someone relatively new to CRGS?

I tried out Shadowrun form last years steam sale, and had some fun with it for a while, but for whatever reason I just lost interest/burnt out.

I'm really interested in these games, but afraid of the same thing happening again.
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Divinity OS. I imagine turn based will gel better with newcomers over real time with pause.

And the combat is fantastic.
 
Nzyme32 said:
I always find it amusing when I see posts like this and I somehow end up getting more games than I have in the Sales for many years. Seems like back in 2007 to about 2010 I spent quite a lot on tons of great stuff, and then had a lull between 2011 to mid 2014. Now I'm actually finding games I want with a really nice discount; not quite rock bottom prices of 2007 when the £ was worth so much more than the $ and Steam was still not regional, but still great deals.

Your aggravation about region locks and gifting issues on point though. I'm lucky to be in a place that hasn't got as many of the problems, but it is infuriating to me that they exist at all.
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Well, I used to be like that too, bought tons of games every sale, etc. Another part of my issue aside from gifting is the currency changes made on Steam. It's great for some games, not great for others but it bothers me that little by little publishers are charging more or using it as an excuse to charge retail prices, considering my local currency is weak against the dollar and any variance is great for them to hike prices, but of course they never reduce them once the exchange rates normalize.

I know there are other storefronts and options, but it's more of the same shit that keeps me from enjoying using Steam for the sales.

So, bad discounts, worse prices and region locking. Yea, sorry if I'm not enjoying Steam as much as I used to.
 
Stratosphere said:
Divinity: OS EE or Pillars of Eternity for someone relatively new to CRGS?

I tried out Shadowrun form last years steam sale, and had some fun with it for a while, but for whatever reason I just lost interest/burnt out.

I'm really interested in these games, but afraid of the same thing happening again.
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Do you want more story-dialog-characters (Pillars) or mechanics (Divinity)?

For Shadowrun get Dragonfall, it's great.
 
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Stratosphere said:
Divinity: OS EE or Pillars of Eternity for someone relatively new to CRGS?

I tried out Shadowrun form last years steam sale, and had some fun with it for a while, but for whatever reason I just lost interest/burnt out.

I'm really interested in these games, but afraid of the same thing happening again.
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Which Shadowrun? If you tried Returns then you should really try Shadowrun Dragonfall as it's a much much better and more engaging game.

In general though, I'd try OS EE, more fun, doesn't take itself as seriously as PoE and has insane and cool combat environmental interaction (throw some oil under mobs, fire off a fireball, ignite the oil, throw poison cloud, blow up even more, call rain, create steam, throw lightning to create lightning cloud).
 
Purkake4 said:
Do you want more story-dialog-characters (Pillars) or mechanics (Divinity)?

For Shadowrun get Dragonfall, it's great.
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Well I am typically drawn to games with interesting lore/atmosphere. At the same time, I worry about being overwhelmed with walls of text in a game like PoE. How much dialog is voice acted in these two games comparatively?
I don't mind reading, but there's a limit.

Another note is that I am typically big into loot games like Diablo. Which game has the better loot system?
 
Stratosphere said:
Divinity: OS EE or Pillars of Eternity for someone relatively new to CRGS?

I tried out Shadowrun form last years steam sale, and had some fun with it for a while, but for whatever reason I just lost interest/burnt out.

I'm really interested in these games, but afraid of the same thing happening again.
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Both are really, really good RPGs, and offer multiple difficulty levels for you to choose. Divinity is friendlier to beginners, imo. Both are way, way better than Shadowrun.
 
i seriously can't believe i am going to say this..

i miss flash sales.... It was exciting to go on steam every 8 hours to see what the new items where on sale... now it is just... meh.
 
Stratosphere said:
Well I am typically drawn to games with interesting lore/atmosphere. At the same time, I worry about being overwhelmed with walls of text in a game like PoE. How much dialog is voice acted in these two games comparatively?
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Well Pillars certainly has more lore and atmosphere, only a bit is voiced though. I think Divinity Enhanced Edition is fully voiced now.

Divinity's story is much more lighthearted and the setting never really made too much sense to me personally. It is probably easier to get into coming into the genre.
 
YianGaruga said:
Anyone else feel like the discovery queue is completely useless? It recommends only garbage I don't care about. The best thing is "this is in your queue because it's on sale". oh really
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Prior to this sale, I had ~200 games marked in my queue, and during the sale, I felt 1/3 of the games it was showing me were looking to my games library as reference.

To my surprise, I found maybe 5 or 6 games I haven't heard of that caught my eye and wishlisted them. Got many more BETTER recommendations from this thread though, so GAF > Steam Queue confirmed.

I'm going over what I will actually play and my budget tonight before I pull the trigger and buy the games en masse.
 
30IR said:
Noob question is noob.. but is Killing Floor 2 worth it even on sale?
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Yes. I paid for it day one of Early Access and think it's worth the cash. My only complaint is Tripwire's slow trickle of content updates for it. "EARLY ACCESS DONE RIGHT!™" my ass. DiRT Rally stomped all over their ass on that tagline.
 
If it's on a discount, it's final.

Though I'd wager we'll see some non-discounted game pop up. In the last sale, for instance, Ubisoft didn't have Asscreed games on sale at first, but they popped up for a few days. So I'd bet on a few high profile titles doing the same, especially of Ubisoft's ilk, like Asscreed Rogue, The Crew, Far Cry 4.
 
hesho said:
i seriously can't believe i am going to say this..

i miss flash sales.... It was exciting to go on steam every 8 hours to see what the new items where on sale... now it is just... meh.
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They finally stopped repeating flash sales and then got rid of them. I want them back along with dailies. Hopefully Valve reconsiders.
 
Should I get Dying Light now or is there an enhanced version on the way? Pretty sure I remember reading about that and I can wait.
 
few questions about wasteland 2:

is the game hard? for reference I find divinity original sin to be extremely hard, like i have no idea what I'm doing wrong in that game but everything just fucking eats me in that game.

how are the side quests and main story, are they good?

easter eggs and shit like fallout?


and lastly, can I buy it over at nuuvem?
 
Hero Prinny said:
few questions about wasteland 2:

is the game hard? for reference I find divinity original sin to be extremely hard, like i have no idea what I'm doing wrong in that game but everything just fucking eats me in that game.

how are the side quests and main story, are they good?

easter eggs and shit like fallout?


and lastly, can I buy it over at nuuvem?
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It's pretty hard, especially earlier in the game when you can barely hit anything with your guns. Squad composition is also very important, you'll want to spread important skills throughout your squad members. The more you progress, the more easier the game though so don't worry too much about difficulty. Quests are pretty good, and you get to choose important decisions throughout the game.
 
Another vote for Killing Floor 2. The game has received a huge content boost recently. Probably the best time to buy. The game is addicting and the gunplay is superb.
 
Man fuck STEAM Guard. I can't use the market for 15 days... AGAIN?!?!?!? Just because I bought a new phone? This is fuckin infuriating!!!! Valve is ran by fucking idiots.
 
Beepos said:
Should I get Dying Light now or is there an enhanced version on the way? Pretty sure I remember reading about that and I can wait.
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The Enhanced Edition (free to all owners of Dying Light) is due to be released on February 9th, so yep, unless you need it right now, probably not a bad idea to hold off until then to play it anyway. It obviously may not pop up between now and then at this price, though.
 
Well, I finally did it.

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999 Games. 1 more game and I can finally complete this Steam game and move on to something better. It was terrible. Would not replay.
 
Rayven said:
My indie-heavy haul so far:
Cryptark
Axiom Verge
TowerClimb
Rack n Ruin
Enchanted Cave 2
bitDungeon 2
Phoenix Force

On the fence:
Dungeon Warfare
OreLight
Assault Android Cactus
Mushihimesama (I love DDP, but never played this one)
Mytik Belle
Elliot Quest
Laserlife
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Elliot Quest is pretty darn good if you're a fan of that kind of game. Well worth the $5.

Stratosphere said:
Divinity: OS EE or Pillars of Eternity for someone relatively new to CRGS?
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I'd go with Pillars. Divinity is a fair bit more difficult, less straightforward, and it's overwhelmingly likely that you'll end up completely lost (or at least, unaware of how to progress) at several points in the game, either by design or through the game's easily breakable story progression. Seriously, it's much harder to play through the game's story as intended than not. Hitting those roadblocks might be the exact opposite of what you're looking for.

I think I'd venture to say that Divinity is a more fun game, but Pillars is a much easier recommendation for someone who identifies as new to the genre. It basically takes all the elements that people say make old CRPGs hard to get into and files off the rough edges and/or updates them to be more immediately digestible. It's a game that pretty much anyone can get into, whereas Divinity is a bit more of a genre vet's playground.

Beepos said:
Should I get Dying Light now or is there an enhanced version on the way? Pretty sure I remember reading about that and I can wait.
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I think everyone who owns the game gets the enhanced edition upgrade for free.
 
texhnolyze said:
It's pretty hard, especially earlier in the game when you can barely hit anything with your guns. Squad composition is also very important, you'll want to spread important skills throughout your squad members. The more you progress, the more easier the game though so don't worry too much about difficulty. Quests are pretty good, and you get to choose important decisions throughout the game.
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does it take itself super srs or does it have some fun with itself like fallout?
 
The Bloodrayne games are 99c apiece, so I downloaded the demo of 2 to see if it was a decent PC port. Went into the controller settings menu to map the buttons, but it doesn't register a 360 controller's triggers and it won't let you out of the menu if you have any actions double-mapped, so I had to quit with the Task Manager.

Started it up again, decided to play with the default settings, find out it doesn't support the right analogue stick and instead uses the triggers to move the camera left and right. The menu has an option for 'Configure controller axes', and choosing that freezes the .exe so hard that I can't even Alt-Tab out of it and I have to restart my PC.

Yeah, I'm going to say this one isn't a great PC port. I'm sure it could be made workable with Joy to Key, but my backlog doesn't need this.
 
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