Steam Winter Sale 2016 thread of hoping for better deals elsewhere

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It's not exactly struggling to change the resolution. What I mean is changing the primary display, the icons and the OS gets all weird and ginormous or tiny.

You can change the size of icons and text manually in the display settings (right click on desktop in Win10)
 
Thanks for the info so how long would you say a first timer would take before they could do a perfect run of sorts? 10ish hours?

I don't know. I have never succeeded. There is a maze near the end. For my first runs, I have made it to the maze, and for all the subsequent runs, I have failed earlier. I think 10ish is a good guess.
 
So... what is Reverie? A remake of 1?
It's Momodora 4 for all intents and purposes as far as I recall, they just didn't put a number on it.

Yeah, I do. I forgot to mention it though ^^. I don't have Momodora 3 though, so I'll check it out.
This is my current backlog/ what I'm playing
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Of the top of my head I can really only think of Elliott Quest. I haven't played it, but I've seen a bunch of Steamgaffers recommend it in the past.

It's not exactly struggling to change the resolution. What I mean is changing the primary display, the icons and the OS gets all weird and ginormous or tiny.
That sounds like Windows trying to be smart and do some DPI scaling stuff for you.
 
My favorite roguelike platformer post-Spelunky, Catacomb Kids, is $12.79/20% off and just got a major update that added a new region, new weapon types, and new NPCs that you ally with (or fight as a relentless enemies)

Made a thread about the game last year



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Finally! That update has been long in the coming. The game is amazing though, very innovative with the enemy AI, physics, environmental interaction and level generation. Really happy to see this come together piece by piece.
 
23 cards and I'm still missing the 6th card to make the sale badge. Blasted random number generators. Hopefully it'll pop with this next round of voting/queue.

When that happened to me, I just sold the dupes and bought what I was missing. Not like you're gaining or losing money, the cards are all free to start.
 
Don't know what to buy. I have most of the good cheap games. Any recommendations for 2d obscure but really fun single player stuff? Catacombs kids looks cool.
 
Anyone has recommendation for a rouge like ftl or risk of rain? Can't find anything that's so well designed and fun to play like either of these games
 
I'm currently looking at:
- Subnautica
- Kerbal Space Program
- The Age Of Decadence
- Mad Games Tycoon
- Thea: The Awakening

Is there anything I can live without?? I'm not sure on what to buy...
Of course suggestions on stuff I might have missed are welcome

Kerbal is fun, but it does have a bit of a learning cliff. There's a pretty helpful GAF community for it here
 
Picked up

Knights Of The Old Republic 1 & 2
Lucas Arts Adventure Bundle
Dark Forces
Undertale

Any recommendations on games under five dollars.

Witcher 1 - $1.49
Witcher 2 - $2.99
Life is Strange Complete - $4.99
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare - $2.49
Portal 1 - $1.99
Portal 2 - $3.99
Costume Quest 1 & 2 Bundle - $1.99
Electronic Super Joy - $0.79
Hotline Miami 1 & 2 Combo Pack - $4.99
Jade Empire - $3.74
Psychonauts - $0.99
Saints Row 2 - $2.49
To the Moon - $2.49

Unreal Deal Pack for $4.79 includes:
Unreal 2: The Awakening
Unreal Gold
Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition
Unreal Tournament 3 Black
Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
 
You can change the size of icons and text manually in the display settings (right click on desktop in Win10)

Yeah, I guess this small inconvenience isn't worth paying 30€ for the Steam Link. I'll see what I can do until I buy a new card. Just bums me out that Ori is unplayable on my 4K TV but that's the trade-off I had to take with an UHD TV.

Too bad the TV can't even handle the Xbox One Slim too. The picture tears, goes away and all that in 4K. But it was cheap so eh. I was playing on an HD Ready Plasma before that for years. I'll manage.

Playing Ori on the monitor doesn't sound too bad either.

Getting a 970 should solve the main issue easily. Hopefully it will hit <200€ in 2017. :)
 
Well then SteamGAF, I've decided to at least buy me 1 game on the, comparatively, more expensive/low discount side of life and after careful consideration my choice fell on...


Since it's very unlikely to be bundled or discounted lower any time soon (it's only sold on Steam after all).

Let's see if it lives up to the hype :p
 
The cutscenes on YouTube are free.
yeah i feel that's probably the way to go with that game, right?

If I'm thinking of the same cave (in the Shadow Fort), then that should be connected to a post-game quest (and the one I was thinking of with the cool boss fight).
The mansion is part of a (missable) sidequest with the Duchess.
hmm i think i missed that quest

honestly how quests disappear and get failed because of story reasons is very hard to understand

i don't mind it so much because there's always more to do but if you miss an entire area because of it that does suck

Ya, I was also fine with the map size. I think the port-crystals are also a double-edged sword: On the one hand they make it easier to go around, on the other hand they kinda trivialize nights... and nights are just great in this game. That feeling of 'oh shit oh shit, better run to the next safe spot fast'.
But there definitely should have been more... variety, more events with the monsters in the map.
I'm not sure that just scaling them to your level would be a good idea - since seeing your progression and being able to easily handle monsters that you barely survived early in the game is great satisfaction, but you definitely outlevel them way too fast and then there's nothing 'above' that to strife for. I think your ideas would have been pretty cool.
It's definitely flawed.
yeah i actually think part of the reason the game is this enjoyable is because fast travel is very much optional (and afaik, a precious commodity in the original version), so the game doesn't have a skyrim structure of just mindlessly warping aroud

having to go somewhere (at least in the early game, when 2k for a ferrystone is a lot of money) feels like an adventure this way, you gear up and prepare and then set off in a direction without finding a place to rest or sell your stuff for hours maybe, so when you come back to gran soren you do feel traveled and that's just really satisfying

again it reminds me a lot of stalker

I'm eyeing Terraria and Starbound. I never played either, for some reason I always assumed they were sidescrolling platformers.

I tend to get bored after a while in Minecraft, once I have a home and a farm up and running I get lost as to what to do. Are these games going to be for me? What is the difference, besides the fantasy and scifi setting? Which is the better game for a newbie like me?
i liked terraria better than minecraft cos i just feel the side camera angle is better suited to building dumb shit and there's just a shit ton of dumb stuff that can happen that you don't find in minecraft. for ex. we built our home in the sky cos that sounded cool but then we found out that being in the sky also means you're constantly attacked by dragons so we kept coming back to the house and finding half our npcs dead and fires everywhere and shit. house also kept being invaded by demons, etc.

my friends liked the dungeon stuff better so they kept dungeon crawling and finding resources for me to build haunted houses and pools of honey and a really shitty ice platforming section and whatnot

terraria is great

Yes, Trails is the best JRPG on Steam.

Valkyria Chronicles is great too.

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When that happened to me, I just sold the dupes and bought what I was missing. Not like you're gaining or losing money, the cards are all free to start.

Yeah I'll probably have to resort to that. Well, buying the card, not selling my dupes. No smartphone so selling on the market is a no go nowadays.
 
My favorite roguelike platformer post-Spelunky, Catacomb Kids, is $12.79/20% off and just got a major update that added a new region, new weapon types, and new NPCs that you ally with (or fight as relentless enemies)

Made a thread about the game last year
Thanks for the heads up, gonna keep my eye on this, been trying to fully conquer Towerclimb as it definitely lived up to the expectations for me of being the next Spelunky mountain, it's fuckin amazing, but had no idea about this game prolly look deeper into it after christmas.
 
was there a humble store sale already?

i didn't think this through and didn't buy gifts :<

Disappointment of the year for me (Mafia). Really tedious game.

i'm still not sure why people were expecting it to be anything other than an assembly line open world game, story aside
 
Hi SteamGAF, just a quick question: I forgot the name of the apps to farm Steam cards. The famous one but also one to tell you how much money you own in average in steam cards. Thanks
 
Hi SteamGAF, just a quick question: I forgot the name of the apps to farm Steam cards. The famous one but also one to tell you how much money you own in average in steam cards. Thanks

farm - Idle Master
steam cards - enhanced steam addon for your browser
Both from the same developer, jshackles (may have written the name incorrectly) a mod here.
 
Which game could Dragons Dogma be best compared to? I heard a lot of good things about this and I'm a big RPG fan. Like is there a interesting main story you follow or is it more of a offline "MMO"? How's the combat system, similar to Soulsborne?
 
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I'm eyeing the Hitman game with all the episodes, is it good?

As someone who loved BM, it falls short overall, but has some excellent episodes.

1,2,6 are fantastic. 3-4 are mediocre, and 5 feels out of place.

Which game could Dragons Dogma be best compared to? I heard a lot of good things about this and I'm a big RPG fan. Like is there a intsresting main story you follow or is it more of a offline "MMO"? How's the combat system, similar to Soulsborne?

Not sure. The combat system is very unique, and I can't say it's been topped yet in terms of an Open world RPG combat system. If you're a big RPG fan, you'll adore it if you aren't looking for an excellent story with rich lore. Combat here is the priority, and holy shit it shows.

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