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[Mikurden]

But, I mean, are those games that fans generally agree are JRPGs? It's like with anime where a lot of people won't recognize Korra as an anime because of where it was produced.

I think expanding the meaning of JRPG is important personally, because as "game from geographical region" it's useless. But I still think for most people it requires the game to be made in Japan.

I think the only way these terms have any useful meaning is if you read them as standing for "Japanese-style RPG" and "Western-style RPG" (this of course assumes you understand the distinction between the respective styles). I know there are people who insist a JRPG is simply one made in Japan, but I agree that's totally useless.

 

[PandaPedinte]

is she even equipped to handle a UFO crisis

If they are dinossaurs controlled UFO, she can handle it.

 

[Se7enSword]

Steam Sale ARG...CONTINUES?

Here we go again!

 

[ThirtyFour]

Went and spent about £13.

Finally bought Styx, looking forward to playing it actually once I get done with Tomb Raider 2013.

 

[freshVeggie]

For all the flak I gave TR13, credit where credit is due. I didn't experience any technical problems. In RotTR I have. There was a Tip-UI element which didn't go away, the map doesn't show anything from time to time and performance got very inconsistent in the

Spoiler

Russian Base

. I had a very stable 60 all the way to that point but then, wammy! It goes from 35-60 without sense or rhyme.

Besides that I can imagine this game being a blessing/torture for completionists Hub areas have a lot of places and caverns to explore, which I enjoy in RotTR more than in TR13. I think I figured what makes combat a bit iffy for me. The camera is way too close to Lara. Would have preferred a more distanced look ala Uncharted.
I'll probably skip listening to audio logs from now on though, it's just not fun (please patch that CD!).

Other than that, RotTR is definitely a better game than TR13. I'm having a much better time with this.

Danke Zensursula.

Yeah, it's stupid. Dying Light also is not visible here :/

lunar new year sale

http://store.steampowered.com/app/302510/

Why is Dragon's Dogma listed in the sale.... but has no discount? Haha.

ARK: Survival is the one game not hidden in the next humble. $12 for that and whatever else might not be too bad.

That sounds good, gotta ask around a bit and might get the monthly this time only. So, what were the February games?

So this just happened...

Perfect description of events.

You game in SLI? Nice. How come the clocks are so low?

 

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Dropsy -- MB-53D24A2A61BB5D47 - Taken by Spirited. 24 entrants total.

If you're not into cyclops girls with scars.

 

[Smash88]

http://i.imgur.com/Xa7rDfd.png[img][/QUOTE]

That picture is very unsettling.

 

[PranooY]

Is D4 worth getting? I mean wasn't there another season planned but cancelled, since this didn't sell well. I just don't want a cliffhanger or an unfinished story.

 

[Arthea]

noooooooooooooo!
here we go again

the hell volvo?

 

[Tizoc]

I don't need this ish

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What's under your blanket?! -- MB-9F783BAE99568F11 - Taken by madjoki

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[jshackles]

Nah. The sales have been mostly underwhelming since Valve got rid of daily/flash deals. And maybe even before that.

This could also be a function of price normalization across the platform. Back in the prime of Steam sales, publishers would routinely put their games up for 75% off or more (especially those that were featured as part of the "daily deals" or "flash deals", as you say) and those discounts were more profound because there were less games on the platform. Like, way less. When I started using Steam in 2011, there were only about 2,000 games on the platform, and everything was 100% curated by Valve.

Around the winter sale 2014 (after the latest "store update" went live) we started seeing a shift in Valve's priorities when it comes to sales. This was, I think, the tipping point where a number of factors converged to make the Steam sales overall worse than they were previously. We have Valve officially giving up on curating their own store with the advent of the "discovery queue", we have a swell of users joining the platform, we have an absolute shitload of new games and content available on Steam, and all of these factors converged to create sales that are much more lackluster than they were previously. The Winter Sale 2014 was the last time we saw flash sales, and the following sale (Summer 2015) was the last time we saw daily deals, presumably because of other Steam features that would interfere, such as refunds.

It simply comes down to this: Valve doesn't want to give publishers the illusion that they're being curated in any way. Valve says: "Enter your sales prices, and those games will be on sale for the entire sale", then picks some of the better more popular deals to be "featured" on the homepage each day and I'd put money on the fact that even that selection process is automated. Valve wants publishers to feel like their sales will rise and fall based only on the merits of their games and the price point they're selling at. It's crucial to their ecosystem, because if new developers or publishers feel like the deck is stacked against them from the onset, they're much less likely to want to become part of the ecosystem.

The developers of Turbo Pug using the old rules had exactly 0% chance of being featured on the Steam homepage for any longer than it took their game to get removed from the "new releases" list, especially during a sale. Using the new format, there is a chance (however low) that they could be. Publishers know this and it drives them to create content and continue releasing it on Steam.

The current sales are still subjectively good, but are nowhere near what they were in the "glory days" of Steam. On July 1, 2011 I bought this pack for $4.99. Today, on sale, it's $14.98. Tons of other stuff I bought in 2011 is either more expensive now or the same price as it was on sale back then, and we're talking about games there are now over 5 years old.

I know it's popular to say "well Steam sales are just worse now because you own more stuff" but I think that there are quantifiable reasons why we can say "these sales suck" and be unequivocally correct.

 

[Se7enSword]

Is D4 worth getting? I mean wasn't there another season planned but cancelled, since this didn't sell well. I just don't want a cliffhanger or an unfinished story.

YES YES YES IT IS!!!!!

Season 2 is planned, but Swery was sick recently.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Is D4 worth getting? I mean wasn't there another season planned but cancelled, since this didn't sell well. I just don't want a cliffhanger or an unfinished story.

Then you don't want to buy this right now. He's still working on more D4 I believe but who know's when we'll see it.

 

[Arthea]

so... how I buy anything? If I can't stay logged in even for 10 minutes...
I should I take a hint, shouldn't I?

 

[PranooY]

Then you don't want to buy this right now. He's still working on more D4 I believe but who know's when we'll see it.

That is news to me. Any ways if there is hope for completion then ill get it.

 

[GaussTek]

Oh well, at least not everything is bad in this sale, Raiden III is 80% off, cheapest I've seen it.

 

[Kiru]

oh not bad, free key for steam version of borderless gaming:
https://andrew.im/greenlight/

courtesy of madjoki

 

[Lone_Prodigy]

Wolfenstein not on sale. Guess Bethesda isn't participating?

 

[Maniac]

is she even equipped to handle a UFO crisis

If piloted by space-dinosaurs; certainly.

 

[Ludens]

Happy birthday Uzi!

 

[PandaPedinte]

That is news to me. Any ways if there is hope for completion then ill get it.

And iirc Swery tweeted about having some health problems so he was going to focus on getting better.

 

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Titan Souls -- MB-06FC22F78F20C6D2 - Taken by UnderWaterTree. 6 entrants total.

 

[Jawmuncher]

oh not bad, free key for steam version of borderless gaming:
https://andrew.im/greenlight/

courtesy of madjoki

I voted didn't get shit.

 

[yuraya]

Wow this past months humble monthly was very good. Broken Age + Titan Souls + Alien + volume.

And this upcoming month has ARK??? Well damn that is impressive. That is probably the most popular early access game atm and I don't think its ever been below 20$. Very impressive Humble good shit. I might just consider subbing for the first time.

 

[r3n4ud]

I voted didn't get shit.

Reload. Worked for me.

 

[madjoki]

I voted didn't get shit.

It's near top of screen after you close greenlight tab.

 https://andrew.im/greenlight/key.php

This might work directly too.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Reload. Worked for me.

Looks like it is just finicky with mobile.

 

[Red Hood]

ITAD is out again. Sigh, what's new.

 

[Wok]

Wow this past months humble monthly was very good. Broken Age + Titan Souls + Alien + volume.

And this upcoming month has ARK??? Well damn that is impressive. That is probably the most popular early access game atm and I don't think its ever been below 20$. Very impressive Humble good shit. I might just consider subbing for the first time.

Honestly, it has been the case since the start.

 

[Mikurden]

I voted didn't get shit.

maybe wait a bit -- it took a while for it to generate the code at the top of the screen...

 

[GaussTek]

 https://andrew.im/greenlight/key.php

This might work directly too.

That link worked for me. Thanks a lot!!

 

[Ozium]

Sorcery 1 and 2 is 65% off.

RIP Knurek

 

[Unai]

Style of combat, story content and character design, open ended quest structure, etc.?

I swear that I'm not trying to be an ass, but I really can't see it.

Style of combat: In Final Fantasy XII you can program the AI to execute commands based in a given situation or you can give the commands all by yourself, and you do that by pausing and choosing the commands. The same as Baldur's Gate. Xenoblade doesn't even have you choosing your actions through menus.

Story content: Somehow I think that BG is even more anime-y in it's story than FFXII. I mean, in FFXII you have a dark fantasy setting heavy in politics. In BG you are a kid from a small town who go in a quest and end up killing a god.

Character design: Yeah, the characters faces, clothes and armors in FFXII are more japanese-like in the main cast at least.

Open ended quest structure: Both games have a main quest that you can stick with or you can also go around doing lots of side quests.

I'm not saying that Baldur's Gate is a JRPG. I'm just saying that there are a lot of games that don't follow the Pokemon formula and are being used in that thread, not only the souls games. If you change the faces of the characters in Divinity: Original Sin so they look like anime, that game would be closer to Pokemon than Xenoblade or Final Fantasy XII.

 

[Regginator]

huh, when did we start having lunar sales? i don't mind. keep em coming.

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

If piloted by space-dinosaurs; certainly.

If they are dinossaurs controlled UFO, she can handle it.

Only short redheads named Dana

I ask because when we actually had dinosaurs in space, she was nowhere to be found. no one even called upon her for assistance

so we must ask these questions because all the evidence suggests otherwise

 

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Riddled Corpses -- MB-7CC91585F1087BBE - Taken by Purkake4
Two Steps Back -- MB-A688E37B0681F7C2 - Taken by Costa1774

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[Maniac]

I ask because when we actually had dinosaurs in space, she was nowhere to be found. no one even called upon her for assistance

so we must ask these questions because all the evidence suggests otherwise

Pretty sure they put her in Curiosity's trunk in case of Mars-dinosaurs.

 

[Ozium]

Grief.EXE notified me of this. Pretty cool dinosaur games have their own header.

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/lunardinosaurs

grief notified me about DRAGON sale

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/lunardragons/

still looking out for his fam when banned

 

[madjoki]

huh, when did we start having lunar sales? i don't mind. keep em coming.

This is first time.

It's pretty soon after winter sale, so looks like many games skipped it or have worse deals than winter.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

What to buy, what to buy. I broke my guitar string so idk if I'll buy Rocksmith DLC yet.

Looking at Transformers Devastation, Oniken, and This War of Mine.

 

[Teggy]

The official xcom2 steam controller profile is...not very good. The xcom controls were really good, is the controller not flexible enough to replicate that? I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm going to use the keyboard.

Most of the slowdown I'm seeing is closeups of characters. The menu screen when you boot up the game and you see the female soldier looks like maybe 10fps. But everything else looks good 60fps+. I need to get my gpu monitor back up and running to see if SLI is working but my hunch is that it's not.

 

[IcyRhythms]

How is the performance for Assassin's Creed Rogue?

 

[LurkerPrime]

Looks like I'm still waiting for the mythical 75% off Avernum 2 sale.

One day, Spiderweb Software. I will not forget you.

The official xcom2 steam controller profile is...not very good. The xcom controls were really good, is the controller not flexible enough to replicate that? I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm going to use the keyboard.

 

[MaxiLive]

oh not bad, free key for steam version of borderless gaming:
https://andrew.im/greenlight/

courtesy of madjoki

I think Neogaf is hugging the site a little too much. Mine has just got stuck on "Loading key".

 

[Ozium]

I voted didn't get shit.

i just clicked the vote link and then closed the greenlight page without voting and it gave me a key

 

[Sub Zero]

If I subscribe to Humble Monthly do I only get Ark or all the other stuff as well?

 

[Morgan Blackhand]

I still need to play the first xcom before thinking about buying the second one..

 

[dave is ok]

If I subscribe to Humble Monthly do I only get Ark or all the other stuff as well?

Just ARK, until March and then some other stuff

 

[Teggy]

If I subscribe to Humble Monthly do I only get Ark or all the other stuff as well?

You get Ark plus whatever comes out in March. Not the Feb stuff.