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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 3 -
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ROBOKITTYZILLA
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4 year old game, $14.99, DLC not included, no 4-pack, and not even a release day discount. SMH
I said I would get this day one to support games like this coming to Steam but I'm going to have to wait for a 4-pack or a discount.
It's been a while and it's only for games using the new content system. A lot of promised features won't be released until they've migrated everything over, such as bandwidth throttling and scheduling.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I'm picking up Resident Evil 5. I really liked it on 360 and I've heard the PC version is great.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Castle Crashers 4-pack is up. Anyone want in?
PM me! $11.25 Paypal gift each.
Edit: 2 spots left. I already purchased the pack so I'll send the game as soon as payment is received.
PM me! $11.25 Paypal gift each.
Edit: 2 spots left. I already purchased the pack so I'll send the game as soon as payment is received.
QuantumBro
Banned
Contact Steam for a refund so you can rebuy the game, it's the only way. I agree that prices should be listed with the pre-order page, cause otherwise there's no point to having it.
Also, I would've totally bought Castle Crashers if it were $10, but since the Behemoth wants to charge $15 for a game that should've come out on Steam two years ago and not even include all the dlc fuck em.
The game also went from 13.99 euros to 11.99 here, the US price seems to have stayed the same so I assume it was an issue with the conversion. Pretty bad mistake of whoever made it, and would had been entirely avoidable if they had done what you suggested.
Either way at least it's fixed now.
If you didn't play yet I would try to do what QuantumBro suggested, otherwise I'd Tweet something to the developer to see if they throw some free DLC or something your way.
Think I'm just going to tweet the dev's, I've played a bit of the game and I actually like it, but the price miss match is silly, I could have easily got all the DLC with the money I could have saved in the first place.
im in
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Still waiting on payment for one, but I think this is done. Thanks everyone!
zerokoolpsx
Member
$14.99 for a 4 year old game with no DLC? This has to be a joke? Right?
Family Fry
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Man I don't know if it has already been mentioned but only just discovered Lucius is hitting Steam in October, currently has 15% off pre-order price.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218640/
Tricycle around knocking your adoptive mum over a balcony.
I have high hopes for this.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218640/
Tricycle around knocking your adoptive mum over a balcony.
I have high hopes for this.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Man I don't know if it has already been mentioned but only just discovered Lucius is hitting Steam in October, currently has 15% off pre-order price.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218640/
Tricycle around knocking your adoptive mum over a balcony.
I have high hopes for this.
I just saw this in "Coming Soon" and added it to my wishlist. Looks interesting! Little kids are creepy. lol
fluffydelusions
Member
Reminds me of the shining lol
SteveWinwood
Member
Man I don't know if it has already been mentioned but only just discovered Lucius is hitting Steam in October, currently has 15% off pre-order price.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218640/
Tricycle around knocking your adoptive mum over a balcony.
I have high hopes for this.
So it's The Shining: The Game.
Edit: fuck beaten
a secret-boss
Banned
Sounds like Shinning with mix of Omen
Kryptonite
Member
It just crashed for me too! And it was right after it logged on again after losing the connection.
Syphon Filter
Member
I think that big pic mode caused lots of problems, i have been noticing more problems from various people lately.
Yeah, that's been the case for a while now.
Chiaroscuro
Member
Is Steam working ok for you guys? Here is extremy slow (really) both client and web. Cannot buy anything.
Syphon Filter
Member
Yea it is.
"Additional:Supports Microsoft® Xbox 360 controller or Direct Input compatible controller"
indigo-cyclops
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Man I don't know if it has already been mentioned but only just discovered Lucius is hitting Steam in October, currently has 15% off pre-order price.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218640/
Tricycle around knocking your adoptive mum over a balcony.
I have high hopes for this.
Thanks for posting, been following this game for a few years now, can't wait! It's more like The Omen, than the Shining though
Steam really needs to keep up on their labeling. Game pad support isn't listed.
Hearts of Iron III is 75% off until October 4th to celebrate the release of the Their Finest Hour expansion (excluded from the discount). The Hearts of Iron III Collection (everything bar the aforementioned TFH and the recent Sounds of Conflict) can be had for $7.49.
Man I don't know if it has already been mentioned but only just discovered Lucius is hitting Steam in October, currently has 15% off pre-order price.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218640/
Tricycle around knocking your adoptive mum over a balcony.
I have high hopes for this.
This actually sounds pretty cool. Besides looking like the shining, the concept reminds me of that one Genesis game where you possessed random shit around the house trying to scare the people away. Only this time you kill them...even better!
Are you thinking of Ghost Master? Because you do that too.
SteveWinwood
Member
No kidding. Fuck my wallet.
I don't remember the name. You were some kind of green ghost dude but it was typical early 90s cheese. He was dressed in some corny "cool" outfit and the game was more kid friendly because you'd just scare the people not hurt them. The only shitty party was that the scare parts were timed and then when you ran out of juice you had to do awful dungeon crawling parts to refill it.
EDIT: I found it! Haunting...Starring Polterguy (lolz). Probably the best game EA made.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunting_(video_game)
Cramoss
Member
WHAT
http://store.steampowered.com/app/214830/
I'm hoping it's $10 with (at least) a 10% early bird discount.
Cramoss
Member
Playism has it for $10 on their site, will also be providing a 10% discount until Oct. 5th.
Steam redemption, select songs from the soundtrack, and an entry to win a themed watch.
http://playism-games.com/games/halfminutehero/
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
First time hearing about this game, looks pretty interesting. I might pick this up during winter break.
Ah, cheers. I'll buy it from there if the discount goes live before the Steam version itself does. (It has to be before because I'll be on auto-pilot when the Steam Store updates.
)The Syberia games have really cool art/architectural style -- prerendered backgrounds and such.
So tonight's story: Javaman, Botolf, Joe Molotov, and myself tried Soldiers: Heroes of World War II in 4-player co-op. It turns out that on easy, the game is still super difficult. Control is very arcane and particular...there is a bit of RTS control, but with 4 players everyone is typically a single soldier and if you die, you're out (unless someone managed to save a revive kit).
Inventory is confusing, like something out of ARMA II...to revive someone we figured out you had to inventory screen, double click the revive kit, then click on someone. I'm not sure I ever figured out how to pick up a new gun. Sometimes I would start with my gun unloaded or unactivated and had to figure out the screen or keyboard shortcut for that. Your guy would tend to stand up and get shot unexpectedly, so we had to move while prone and then switch to direct control to actually try to aim. Botolf was the best at actually figuring out how to arc grenades and properly blow things up. One cool thing is that everything is supposed to be destructible, so you can knock down walls and buildings, but the downside is that in the maps we tried, the odds are stacked against you (like 50 vs 4) and artillery will occasionally shell your position and kill half of you.
The game itself was oddly comforting in an old-PC-game way with lots of controls, volume options, etc. -- and direct IP LAN play still worked (Gamespy Arcade apparently doesn't even support the game anymore). Not sure if lag was an issue or not...control was very janky. Also one stupid decision was not letting you view/edit controls or options while ingame, so we had to keep a webpage open (only like one webpage on the internet seemed to have controls, and not even all of them).
Overall it feels like a game that has some interesting ideas, like the direct and RTS control, and looting corpses with inventory screens (items take up space), and equipping weapons/clips/helmets, but the janky control and very high difficulty/learning curve make it tough to pick up, at least for a single co-op vs AI round. In campaign it sounds like you can keep soldiers and items from the previous round to help your odds (plus saving and reloading, maybe).
So tonight's story: Javaman, Botolf, Joe Molotov, and myself tried Soldiers: Heroes of World War II in 4-player co-op. It turns out that on easy, the game is still super difficult. Control is very arcane and particular...there is a bit of RTS control, but with 4 players everyone is typically a single soldier and if you die, you're out (unless someone managed to save a revive kit).
Inventory is confusing, like something out of ARMA II...to revive someone we figured out you had to inventory screen, double click the revive kit, then click on someone. I'm not sure I ever figured out how to pick up a new gun. Sometimes I would start with my gun unloaded or unactivated and had to figure out the screen or keyboard shortcut for that. Your guy would tend to stand up and get shot unexpectedly, so we had to move while prone and then switch to direct control to actually try to aim. Botolf was the best at actually figuring out how to arc grenades and properly blow things up. One cool thing is that everything is supposed to be destructible, so you can knock down walls and buildings, but the downside is that in the maps we tried, the odds are stacked against you (like 50 vs 4) and artillery will occasionally shell your position and kill half of you.
The game itself was oddly comforting in an old-PC-game way with lots of controls, volume options, etc. -- and direct IP LAN play still worked (Gamespy Arcade apparently doesn't even support the game anymore). Not sure if lag was an issue or not...control was very janky. Also one stupid decision was not letting you view/edit controls or options while ingame, so we had to keep a webpage open (only like one webpage on the internet seemed to have controls, and not even all of them).
Overall it feels like a game that has some interesting ideas, like the direct and RTS control, and looting corpses with inventory screens (items take up space), and equipping weapons/clips/helmets, but the janky control and very high difficulty/learning curve make it tough to pick up, at least for a single co-op vs AI round. In campaign it sounds like you can keep soldiers and items from the previous round to help your odds (plus saving and reloading, maybe).
Huevos de Oro
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Dang M&B Warband had a pretty heavy update.
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