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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 3 -
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I eventually managed to wangle my way to a status page that confirmed that yes, live is all kinds of fucked out right now.
Anything (I include Steam in this) that is a potential barrier between a gamer and their games needs to make "not be a barrier under any circumstances" their number one priority. Steam is just a pain in the ass occasionally but GFWL and UPlay are nightmares.
*twitch*
There seems to be a bug. Either you see Half-Life 2 listed in the Top Sellers as #4 or you don't see it listed at all.
Yeah, the list is ordered by revenue, not per-unit sales.
Edit: Holy ancient browser tab, Batman.
blackMamba1187
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Madrugador
Member
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is the other Midweek Madness ($3.99, 50% off).
scorpscarx
Member
Hydrophobia lol
And to top it off, Hydrophobia is the Daily ($1.25/-75%). Monumentally disappointing all around.
Edit: Beaten.
Edit 2: And to be clear, I'm not saying that the games themselves are "monumentally disappointing", it's just that they don't tempt me (...on the count of me already owning them, aside from the GoT RPG, which is still priced too high for my liking).
Edit: Beaten.
Edit 2: And to be clear, I'm not saying that the games themselves are "monumentally disappointing", it's just that they don't tempt me (...on the count of me already owning them, aside from the GoT RPG, which is still priced too high for my liking).
Glass Rebel
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Bad Rats daily wouldn't sound so bad now, huh?
Superbrothers is a good "game" though.
Superbrothers is a good "game" though.
I recommend this game. It is neat-looking game, and a relaxing point and click I guess? It can take a little while, and if you don't like the low-resolution graphics or slow pace you might not like it.
One of my friends apparently got stuck with some sort of bug where they couldn't use their sword early though. I'm not sure if they ever managed to get past that part.
*edit* Ah, Hydrophobia. I still ought to finish playing that at some point. I seem to remember it being kind of neat and having neat water effects, but I didn't play the end which may be bad. If you buy it, take the viewpoint that you're getting it to look at water effects, just to be safe.
phantomspiker
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Learn from my mistakes people...don't buy that garbage just because it's only 1.25.
Trust me, it's nothing like the Witcher. It's closer to Dragon Age 2, except somehow worse.
I bought it a year or two ago, while on sale for a presumably higher price. I regret nothing!
Madrugador
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I'm not sure if you can split the bundle. You'll probably get both games together and not a gift for each game.
I could be wrong of course.
Yeah, you're probably right. I doubt it works like a four pack.
MMBosstones86
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something like this actually exists? awful...
Glass Rebel
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Shad'O is among the new releases but it doesn't have a price attached to it. I'm always up for a TD with a twist and this looks pretty good at least graphically. Which reminds me that I need to play Unstoppable Gorg and replay Plants vs Zombies.
Also fuck Fieldrunners.
Also fuck Fieldrunners.
The writing, dialogue and story is acceptable and/or good if you like GoT but the actual exploration and gameplay is ughhhhhh
I thought the gameplay was actually better than DA2's.
Also, it's kind of neat that they lifted Alpha Protocol's thing where doing certain things in dialog eventually gives you personality quirks that effects gameplay.
Madrugador
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
With Steam pumping out discounts on meh games I think I'll splurge my savings on finally buying a serial for GW2... dat expensiveness.
I think I'll start my new life... under the sea.
Wok
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It was in the BTA games in the last HIB. And it is a good game if you ask me.
It is Lemmings made cleaner: only four actions, 46 short levels, no crazy bridge building, quite nice visuals and music, online leaderboards (Ctrl+F Wok).
As in, everybody who didn't join the beta? (it was open beta and you could click and get it for a week or so now)
crimsonheadGCN
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And with the Community going live, the link to the Steam User Forums is now gone from the top.
Yes, Steam is entirely translated by the community now: http://translation.steampowered.com/
Yes, Steam is entirely translated by the community now: http://translation.steampowered.com/
Joe Molotov
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Home was awesome, but dammit
now I want to know what "really" happened. TELL MEEEEE.
Madrugador
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Looks like it. I can't really confirm this because I was already in the beta.
Are they keeping the old forum posts as archives so the information isn't lost, at least?
Right?
What's in the safe? I never bothered to look the code up before he changed it so everyone could get it.
The human field of view is not 45 degrees, so I don't understand why the new SPUF is only taking up half the width of my screen. Actually if you don't count the side panel, it's only taking up like 1/3.
Glass Rebel
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I really hope the SPUF are archived. They just helped me with 2 (!) launch issues I had in PvsZ.
Yeah, there is a TON of guides, patches, fixes and general help out there on that forum even if if the majority of userbase is terrible.
Good point. It's the first place I check when I have an issue with a game, wouldn't want all that precious knowledge to be wiped.
Same, also first place I look even before launching games just to see if there are any tweaks/fixes. Would not have known about the Psychonauts 360 controller UI patch if I hadn't looked through the Psychonauts forum.
I thought they made the game much better with that big patch they did?
Polishing a turd.
They Bleed Pixels is so good. Just put a few hours into it. More people definitely need to pick it up.
I'm not great at selling stuff. But it's a great platformer that'll put you in mind of SMB. It also has surprisingly deep combat and a system that reminds me of the bulletstorm diminishing returns when you spam attacks. So you'll need to vary the way you kill. The points you earn feed into a system for charging up and dropping checkpoints where you want them, which i thought was smart.
The soundtrack is also pretty nifty.
I'm not great at selling stuff. But it's a great platformer that'll put you in mind of SMB. It also has surprisingly deep combat and a system that reminds me of the bulletstorm diminishing returns when you spam attacks. So you'll need to vary the way you kill. The points you earn feed into a system for charging up and dropping checkpoints where you want them, which i thought was smart.
The soundtrack is also pretty nifty.
Glass Rebel
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Eh, I guess they'll just make SPUF: Source and everybody will complain that the original was better...
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