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Steam reviews are pretty useful. was going through some hugely discounted games in my wishlist an totally avoiding all the negative and mixed ones. got no time for shit games
 
Corpekata said:
It will. There's no way they're sitting out games like Far Cry 4 and the Crew, and probably not Asscreed Syndicate when the latter two have recently released DLC they want to push.
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I dunno. It took Ubisoft 3 years to discount Ghost Recon 2002. I wouldn't say it'll happen.
 
chrominance's impressions of Sublevel Zero ($11.99) sold me on the game
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In hindsight, it feels obvious. The joy of single-player Descent was always about tumbling through space, trying to get a bead on the vicious robots trying to kill you while dodging laser fire and spoofing homing missiles. But the most tense moments--and often the most thrilling ones--were when you were down to a sliver of life, desperately trying to stay alive long enough to find a shield powerup and hoping the robots around the next corner wouldn't flay you alive. Imagine a Descent successor that distilled the single-player campaign down to the moments where your life hangs in the balance, and you have Sublevel Zero.

The biggest thing Sublevel Zero gets right is the feeling of movement. Like the official modernization of the Descent formula, Descent Underground, but unlike so many other six-degrees-of-freedom games, Sublevel Zero nails the sensation of zooming through claustrophobic mine tunnels in a zero-g fighter ship. The second biggest thing Sublevel Zero gets right, though, is in carving out its own unique identity. It's a roguelike, you see, so death is permanent. There's that desperation again, built right into the game design. Randomness is part of Sublevel Zero's DNA as well: all the levels are procedurally generated, and your arsenal of weapons is completely dependent on what you find scattered about and what you can craft. Even the nanocarts you earn at the end of a level are randomized, meaning you can never be quite sure what benefits will be open to you each time.

Because there's so much uncertainty to each run, and because you only have one life to live, improvisation is the name of the game. This helps solve one small issue with Descent's campaigns, which is that sometimes the variety of weapons feels superfluous. The bread and butter weapons like the plasma, quad lasers and vulcan/gauss were often all you needed, leaving the more exotic weapons to collect dust. In Sublevel Zero, sometimes you have no choice but to pick up that Firebolt or those grenades and figure out the best way to use them.

I've played a bunch of roguelikes in my time, but most of them never managed to click with me. Either they felt too much like the product of luck, or they required skills that I didn't really have and didn't feel like training for (hello, every platformer roguelike ever). Sublevel Zero is the first roguelike where I felt like I could reach the end even from the very beginning of the game, once I learned the patterns and remembered how to fly properly. It never once felt unfair, and even when I made dumb mistakes (ask me about my RAGEQUIT achievement) it was easy to start again and hope this run would be the one. More than any other game to date, Sublevel Zero is the inheritor to the Descent legacy. Sigtrap should be proud.
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I wonder if you still get cards if you have viewed all available products on Steam through the Discovery Queue. If this becomes a thing to get cards during sales, then I need to stop using the Discovery Queue as I've already viewed 5000 titles so far...
 
So, since so many great hidden gems have popped out of this thread, as a big local multiplayer/co-op guy, any underrated games that would fit that mold?

I have a good chunk of them, but i'm always looking to expand the collection out!

This is what i already have: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Gunstarheroes/games/?tab=all


I did grab Undertale of course, but otherwise, i'm waiting it out a bit and seeing what games i'm feeling after Christmas.
 
TheSeks said:
I dunno. It took Ubisoft 3 years to discount Ghost Recon 2002. I wouldn't say it'll happen.
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They did it with the Black Friday sale already. Would be one thing if those games never saw sales, but we've already seen Syndicate get like 40 percent off within the first month of release.
 
LurkerPrime said:
If you're wondering, Shadowrun Dragonfall is the very best Shadowrun game on Steam, by a fair margin. Hong Kong would be the runner up, and Returns isn't really worth it.

I hated Transistor so I'm probably not the person to ask about it. I utterly disliked the repetitive combat it had--just never really felt free-form or challenging enough, just a bother. Overall it was really a step down from Bastion in all ways possible, as if the studio just completely lost touch with reality while making it.

... I really hated Transistor.
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While I didn't hate Transistor, I felt let down by it. I really liked the idea of the combat, combining various program for effect but once you hit upon one or two combos that stunned, healed and did big damage, the combat became quite trivial.

Also the story was so vague that the immense style couldn't outweigh the almost complete lack of substance.
 
MilkyOctave said:
I wonder if you still get cards if you have viewed all available products on Steam through the Discovery Queue. If this becomes a thing to get cards during sales, then I need to stop using the Discovery Queue as I've already viewed 5000 titles so far...
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Yes, Steam just generates another set of games, so you will see the same games and get your cards.
 
Stranger In The Alps said:
Well, this sale put a real dent in my wishlist!

My Haul:

Undertale
Hyperdimension Neptunia ReBirth 2
Hyperdimension Neptunia ReBirth 3
Lethal League
Windward
Oniken
Odallus: The Dark Call
Broforce
Shovel Knight
Tales of Zestiria
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds
Insanity's Blade
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy V
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC
Grandia 2


Lots of good times ahead!
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Yeahhh Odallus is a good call. So close to picking it up, but I want to wait a day or two to make sure I've seen all the deals I need to see before I lock in my non-insta buys.

I mean, they're all good games there, but I enjoy seeing Odallus get some love.
 
Corpekata said:
They did it with the Black Friday sale already. Would be one thing if those games never saw sales, but we've already seen Syndicate get like 40 percent off within the first month of release.
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Well, I'm talking just on Steam. Ubisoft is just as bad as Activision in discounting on Steam.
 
Azax said:
No discount on Arkham Knight???!

Seriously.....!!!!!??
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Yes, people can ask for a refund until the end of December, a discount means offering those people a reason to refund and (maybe) purchase again the game for cheap, or simply play the full game in a week and then ask for a refund.
 
Ludens said:
Yes, people can ask for a refund until the end of December, a discount means offering those people a reason to refund and (maybe) purchase again the game for cheap, or simply play the full game in a week and then ask for a refund.
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Oh ye. Forgot about that.

Thanks mate!
 
Ludens said:
Yes, Steam just generates another set of games, so you will see the same games and get your cards.
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I'm sorry, I probably worded it wrong. But I meant, like hypothetically speaking, if you view and label all possible Steam products as "Not Interested" via the Discovery Queue, will it then generate a new set? Technically, products labeled as "Not Interested" do not show up on Discovery Queue again.
 
MilkyOctave said:
I'm sorry, I probably worded it wrong. But I meant, like hypothetically speaking, if you view and label all possible Steam products as "Not Interested" via the Discovery Queue, will it then generate a new set? Technically, products labeled as "Not Interested" do not show up on Discovery Queue again.
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Ah, honestly I don't know :\
 
zkylon said:
finally got home, not very enthusiastic about any of these sales prices

nothing on my wishlist seems to be on the price i want it to be, i think

wish nuuvem had a way of importing your steam wishlist, that would be super useful to have

might just buy the pillars of eternity expansion pass and not much else
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I highly recommend https://isthereanydeal.com/ - It will import and sync your steam wishlist, and track prices and price drops across pretty much every digital storfront (including nuuvem). You can have it trigger email alerts based on price drop, and even set thresholds, like don't notify me unless it is at least 90% off.
 
Man it's a shame that Helldivers doesn't have a discount, I wanted to try that.

I still haven't bought anything but I think I'll get Invisible Inc. with the expansion and maybe Satellite Reign.
 
Looks like square enix have removed their dumb region locking ("can only be run in" tag) that they implemented on top of the cross region trading thingy if anyone is buying from the russian store.
 
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LurkerPrime said:
If you're wondering, Shadowrun Dragonfall is the very best Shadowrun game on Steam, by a fair margin. Hong Kong would be the runner up, and Returns isn't really worth it.

I hated Transistor so I'm probably not the person to ask about it. I utterly disliked the repetitive combat it had--just never really felt free-form or challenging enough, just a bother. Overall it was really a step down from Bastion in all ways possible, as if the studio just completely lost touch with reality while making it.

... I really hated Transistor.
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Yeah you're right about Transistor. The clunky combat would've been better if it was purely turn-based or real time, so their attempt to meld the two was a failure. The storyline is the most typical sci-fi bullshit ever. Red is literally a woman who has no voice and just follows whatever orders her boyfriend tells her, and
when given power decides to kill herself because she can't live without ~her maaaan~
agggh what a shitty shitty protagonist. Oh yeah it's also fucking four hours long.

Bad game. Cool music though.
 
Odrion said:
Yeah you're right about Transistor. The combat would've been better if it was purely turn-based or real time, so their attempt to meld the two was a failure. The storyline is the most typical sci-fi bullshit ever. Red is literally a woman who has no voice and just follows whatever orders her boyfriend tells her, and
when given power decides to kill herself ~for her maaaan~
agggh what a shitty shitty protagonist. Oh yeah it's also fucking four hours long.

Bad game. Cool music though.
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Uzzy won't be pleased. :P
 
Picked up SOMA, Dreamfall Chapters, and Axiom Verge. These seem to be the same discounts as the previous two sales, with a couple of my wishlist items being worse deals. I remember holding out, telling myself this was the sale to wait for. Disappointed, yet happy to finally play these games.
 
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