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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates VII: Known bug with library game count.
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likewise!
not having steamgaf working while I try to get work at the office done is like trying to run with one leg.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I... voted no on more of those games than I voted yes on. (Speaking of which, I just broke 1900 Greenlight votes. Anyone else?)
did you buy the groupees be mine 9? it was in that one
Nice, then I have no reason at all to buy this bundle ^^ I was going to buy it for Splatter
You will get another chance getting Splatter in another bundle
D'oh, sorry, I meant have already bought (I always make stupid mistakes like that when using the internet in the wee hours of the morning
). On the subject of buying things, today's Daily is 66% off Towns ($5.09).Edit: Bah, it happened again. "Using the internet", not "using the".
I'm at 1272 votes, still a long way to reach you.
MakeshiftChef
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I'm right behind your tally... with 28 votes. >.>
NingenJanai
Member
No extra games on the WB bundle ;_;
When Greenlight first went live I made a point to sift through everything, but it wasn't long before I fell behind and these days there are just far too many games to look at, so I more or less only upvote things people recommend or that I've purchased in bundles. I think I'm sitting at around 230 votes.
I'm currently standing at... um... 5? Maybe I ought to vote on more Greenlight games. >.> (So far, I've pretty much just upvoted stuff that people here brought to my attention.)
MMBosstones86
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Burial @ Sea may be short as hell, but damn it's good to be back in Rapture. Such a 'darker' environment than Columbia with crazy ass splicers
....did gog.com just go all 'woot off' on us?
Did you guys see these Gog Sales?
There are only a limited quantity for a low price. 150 copies of Duke Nukem 3d just went up for $1.50.
http://www.gog.com/
....did gog.com just go all 'woot off' on us?
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Man, all these Full Bore deals are making me regret buying it when it was $5.
Well, almost.
Well, almost.
cicero
Member
It is a bit draining trying to keep up. I had to run to the bathroom and back and I missed a deal.
EDIT: Pun not intended.
Maxwood
Oh rock of ages, do not crumble, love is breathing still. Oh lady moon shine down, a little people magic if you will.
That GOG sale is awesome. I already own almost all the games i'm interested in, but seeing those games sell like crazy and the uncovery of the next title is really exciting.
Like flashdeals on steroids. Great stuff.
Like flashdeals on steroids. Great stuff.
poopninjamvc3mk
I sucked six dicks to get this tag.
Not even 2am est yet. There will be bonus games. Maybe not now,later, or even today but there'll be bonus games.
MMBosstones86
Member
ugh it's so bad. Makes me actually have to work
edit : ok wtf GOG.com. Sometimes the 'deal' box flips upside. anyone else?
193 or so, that's close enough right?
Humble Bundle won't update for another 45 minutes or so.
That game has had issues since launch. One of the stronger proponents for Valve having a little more control of what is in their store.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Couldn't get Deadly Premonition working today so I played some more Papers Please, what a great game. DP is my favorite this year, but the constant crashing can be a bit overpowering. I bought the game for my brother and he doesn't have any crashes :/
Also bought Fallout Collection, only need Fallout 3 (GOTY) to complete my collection which I never have time to play. yay
Also bought Fallout Collection, only need Fallout 3 (GOTY) to complete my collection which I never have time to play. yay
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Ok creative review time:
VS.
I beat both these games in the last 30 days. This means that I played through both career modes to completion and did all of the extra races barring the fifteen 24 min repetitions of Le Mans and the shitty final 1v1 race in Grid 1. Codemaster racing games are kinda gaming crack that I like to have available for when I don't have anything else to play. That said, let's see what they did better than each other.
What Grid 1 is better at:
Conclusion
Grid 2 is great. If you like the Codemaster school of arcade realism physics (as seen in Dirt 2/3), definitely check it out. I had a blast and really enjoyed the track line up. Grid 1 is still worth it if you are jonesing for more, but it just lacks the refinement that they packed into Grid 2. It's just a lesser game that is way to content to make you feel the lack of visual and track layout variety.
I beat both these games in the last 30 days. This means that I played through both career modes to completion and did all of the extra races barring the fifteen 24 min repetitions of Le Mans and the shitty final 1v1 race in Grid 1. Codemaster racing games are kinda gaming crack that I like to have available for when I don't have anything else to play. That said, let's see what they did better than each other.
What Grid 1 is better at:
- The car variety is quite good. You get a really good sense of the power scale when moving from the lower end cars to the super cars.
- Literally everything else. I'm not kidding.
- The career mode is vastly superior. It is structured into 6 or so seasons and each season introduces a new scale of car. This does a much better job of allowing the player to get accustomed to the car genre while still having track variety, something that was very difficult in Grid 1 (you either had track variety or cohesive car sets, not both).
- Location selection is significantly better. Who picks Detroit as a city to race in? Grid 1. Who picks a bunch of exotic and interesting to look at locales to race in? Grid 2.
- Variety within location. In Grid 1 there is a full track for each location with 1 shorter version and then each of them reversed. Grid 2 does a way better job of making the track variants actually feel different.
- The driving physics feel ever so slightly tighter than Grid 1's. This is for the better when it comes to super cars that generally kill you when you slip out at a corner.
- The AI isn't a bag of dicks who make your life hell. I'm not gonna lie, I always set racing game AI to easy because I enjoy the mastery of tracks rather than dealing with a bunch of cunts on the road. I live in Connecticut, I get to deal with that every day. In Grid 2 the AI doesn't constantly fuck you over and waste your precious rewinds the way they do in Grid 1, even on easy.
- Better event variety. Grid 1 has way too much drift crap. I loved Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift, but it needed more than that. Grid 2 fleshes out Togue in a much superior way with it's track selection and adds a couple much needed event types to mix up the 20 assholes at the starting line experience.
Conclusion
Grid 2 is great. If you like the Codemaster school of arcade realism physics (as seen in Dirt 2/3), definitely check it out. I had a blast and really enjoyed the track line up. Grid 1 is still worth it if you are jonesing for more, but it just lacks the refinement that they packed into Grid 2. It's just a lesser game that is way to content to make you feel the lack of visual and track layout variety.
gaf is what I reward myself with when I get shit done.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
If y'all are too intimidated by full Greenlight, you should consider browsing collections to try to mine the creme de la creme:
This group is a collection made by Toma's indie games threads with their featured games:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=135118619
Here's a collection of some of my favourites:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=179798494
You might not 100% agree of course, but you might find it easier to look through 50-60 games that have already gone through a basic sanity check versus going through 1500+ some of which are total nonsense.
This group is a collection made by Toma's indie games threads with their featured games:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=135118619
Here's a collection of some of my favourites:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=179798494
You might not 100% agree of course, but you might find it easier to look through 50-60 games that have already gone through a basic sanity check versus going through 1500+ some of which are total nonsense.
MMBosstones86
Member
Ok creative review time:
VS.
fantastic news. Loved the first one, still need to pick up the second
dirtywhirlwind
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The Cat Lady will be released on December 4th. It's pretty good game actually. And it's been in a couple of bundles.
phantomspiker
Member
That's a real shame, I played DP for 24 hours and it only crashed 4 times.
I'm really liking the system, unfortunately I did miss out on NWN2 while I was distracted with something else.
All of the Fallout games take a long time to beat as well. The first Fallout being the shortest at 15 hours, which I would call a long game at this point.
http://www.howlongtobeat.com/search.php?t=games&s=fallout
I saw that, and they added their own image in Grid View.
Robert J. Sullivan
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If you're crashing at a specific cutscene at the art gallery there's a fix for that. If it's somewhere else maybe I can go past the scene and save just after that. We're all a family here.
Thanks, I was looking for your list to check if I missed something noteworthy.
Also, do you ever go back to games you voted "no" or do you discard anything you don't like at first glance?
I found myself changing my mind a few times. Mostly with games I was not sure about and voted NO so they wouldn't show up in my queue before the "ask again later" option became available.
PetriP-TNT
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It begun in chapter 12 and playing borderless fullscreen worked until I started playing today and absolutely nothing has worked from the usual suspects (now in c14 I think)... restarting (again) might help but Windows has some updates now and I don't have time to play today anymore.
I don't ever vote 'no' on anything. If its something I really think looks good, I'll vote yes, but otherwise, I don't want to be negative and just move on.
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.
So unfortunately I had to add Re-CAPTCHA to the Enhanced Steam process of submitting DLC categorizations.
Some jerkoff started spamming that form with a bot and I woke up to having over 15,000 emails.
Some jerkoff started spamming that form with a bot and I woke up to having over 15,000 emails.
I'm most certainly waiting for a hardware revision or two before buying a new system. Anything less seems foolish unless you're a huge console fan. The later models of 360/PS3 were much nicer (although the loss of backwards compatibility with PS3 is kinda sad).
Yeah, I have a hard time voting "no", myself. I see games that I wouldn't play for whatever reason, but objectively, they look good. I know other people would enjoy them. If I vote "no", I'm being honest, but I'm also doing the people who would be interested a disservice. I'm torn on what to do in cases like that.
My strategy as well. Wait for the revision where they make some improvements on the inital design.
Can generally also buy in cheaper and with a better library of games to choose from.
Wok
Member
Cyberquake
Member
That is an amazing sale. If steam ever does the same, half of the planet won't sleep for a couple of days.
IcyRhythms
Member
Have they even bothered to patch Deadly Premonition since release?
TheFightingFish
Member
I'm also interested in waiting and seeing how that Gaikai stuff works out for the PS4. I've never had a PS3, so I'm much more interested in the PS4 if I could start catching up on stuff like Uncharted 2 and The Last of Us.
Ok creative review time:
VS.
I beat both these games in the last 30 days. This means that I played through both career modes to completion and did all of the extra races barring the fifteen 24 min repetitions of Le Mans and the shitty final 1v1 race in Grid 1. Codemaster racing games are kinda gaming crack that I like to have available for when I don't have anything else to play. That said, let's see what they did better than each other.
What Grid 1 is better at:
What Grid 2 is better at:
- The car variety is quite good. You get a really good sense of the power scale when moving from the lower end cars to the super cars.
- Literally everything else. I'm not kidding.
- The career mode is vastly superior. It is structured into 6 or so seasons and each season introduces a new scale of car. This does a much better job of allowing the player to get accustomed to the car genre while still having track variety, something that was very difficult in Grid 1 (you either had track variety or cohesive car sets, not both).
- Location selection is significantly better. Who picks Detroit as a city to race in? Grid 1. Who picks a bunch of exotic and interesting to look at locales to race in? Grid 2.
- Variety within location. In Grid 1 there is a full track for each location with 1 shorter version and then each of them reversed. Grid 2 does a way better job of making the track variants actually feel different.
- The driving physics feel ever so slightly tighter than Grid 1's. This is for the better when it comes to super cars that generally kill you when you slip out at a corner.
- The AI isn't a bag of dicks who make your life hell. I'm not gonna lie, I always set racing game AI to easy because I enjoy the mastery of tracks rather than dealing with a bunch of cunts on the road. I live in Connecticut, I get to deal with that every day. In Grid 2 the AI doesn't constantly fuck you over and waste your precious rewinds the way they do in Grid 1, even on easy.
- Better event variety. Grid 1 has way too much drift crap. I loved Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift, but it needed more than that. Grid 2 fleshes out Togue in a much superior way with it's track selection and adds a couple much needed event types to mix up the 20 assholes at the starting line experience.
Conclusion
Grid 2 is great. If you like the Codemaster school of arcade realism physics (as seen in Dirt 2/3), definitely check it out. I had a blast and really enjoyed the track line up. Grid 1 is still worth it if you are jonesing for more, but it just lacks the refinement that they packed into Grid 2. It's just a lesser game that is way to content to make you feel the lack of visual and track layout variety.
Definitely on my radar now. Thanks for the impressions!
They allude to it in their twitters. But nothing yet currently.
Maxwood
Oh rock of ages, do not crumble, love is breathing still. Oh lady moon shine down, a little people magic if you will.
Deadly Premonition without a big load of technical issues isn't Deadly Premonition.
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