TouchMyBox
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There is a "Steam-Powered" logo that i've seen indies putting on their sites. It's just valve is never going to ask anyone to use it.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them
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There is a "Steam-Powered" logo that i've seen indies putting on their sites. It's just valve is never going to ask anyone to use it.
I think it's implied, if there's no GFWL, EA, or Ubisoft logo on the box.There is a "Steam-Powered" logo that i've seen indies putting on their sites. It's just valve is never going to ask anyone to use it.
The Grim Heaper
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Fucking Valve, man. I finally got rid of my last Dota 2 invite and not a few minutes later they send 4 more.
Hey, I got the top one, thanks!
That's 4 cents of valve monies on the marketplace, man!
How connected are the games? Do you need to play the first two to "get" the third one?
jediyoshi
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Well, I also have some spares from previous bundles.
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Got splice, thanks! Been meaning to check it out since the gb quicklook of it.
Well, when released Nights HD had really stiff 8(?)-way movement, and they eventually patched in 24-way movement. It made the game so much more fluid. The PC version came out after the console versions were patched, so I'm having trouble finding out whether or not it launched with the improved controls.
dark_preacher
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Well, I also have some spares from previous bundles.
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thanks, i got sword and sorcery.
Leon Belmont
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Well, I also have some spares from previous bundles.
Darksiders
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Splice
Dungeon Defenders + DLC
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Someone took Dungeon Defenders
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Yessss. Thanks to you (and HoosTrax).
I'm glad they finally got the patch out.
People were starting to get worried about the overall health of Egosoft and whether we would ever see a sequel.
I haven't ever dipped into this game yet since its so damn deep, but with Star Citizen on the horizon I might finally take the plunge.
Stallion Free
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So I just beat Rochard's DLC pack:
It's currently half off with the main game on Steam, at 1$. It's been a while since I finished Rochard, but I did enjoy it quite a bit. I had some Steam credit and an afternoon to kill so I decided to give this puzzle-focused DLC a whirl.
And damn they were not kidding with the title. If it's been a while since you played the original campaign, jumping into the game again with this pack is like running into a brickwall at full speed. It assumes the player remembers all the tricks to the mechanics from the main game and rediscovering all of those probably accounted for about half of my hour long play time.
As far as the actual puzzles go it was a pretty solid experience across the board. The game demands far more of the player when it came to executing solutions which is something I generally dislike in a puzzle game, but I never hit the point where I put the controller down and walk away. The visuals are clean and present the information relevant to the puzzle pretty clearly. There is no story content (understandable with the cost of voice acting), you just get four clear cut trial rooms with pure puzzle content.
At the end of the day, I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone except people who are working through the game and wouldn't mind a bit more difficult content tacked on as a post game experience. The re-learning curve is too steep to bother with if you put the game down a while ago as I did especially with the amount of actual content to go through.
It's currently half off with the main game on Steam, at 1$. It's been a while since I finished Rochard, but I did enjoy it quite a bit. I had some Steam credit and an afternoon to kill so I decided to give this puzzle-focused DLC a whirl.
And damn they were not kidding with the title. If it's been a while since you played the original campaign, jumping into the game again with this pack is like running into a brickwall at full speed. It assumes the player remembers all the tricks to the mechanics from the main game and rediscovering all of those probably accounted for about half of my hour long play time.
As far as the actual puzzles go it was a pretty solid experience across the board. The game demands far more of the player when it came to executing solutions which is something I generally dislike in a puzzle game, but I never hit the point where I put the controller down and walk away. The visuals are clean and present the information relevant to the puzzle pretty clearly. There is no story content (understandable with the cost of voice acting), you just get four clear cut trial rooms with pure puzzle content.
At the end of the day, I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone except people who are working through the game and wouldn't mind a bit more difficult content tacked on as a post game experience. The re-learning curve is too steep to bother with if you put the game down a while ago as I did especially with the amount of actual content to go through.
I really really really want to keep playing Blood Dragon, but even with everything on min it still runs rather bad on my machine. It'd probably be better to wait until I get a new one, whenever that may be.
So... finish Prototype? Start Brütal Legend? Try my (awful) skills at point & click adventures with The Longest Journey? Or maybe replay the first episodes of Sam & Max Season 1? So many games, so little time to play them all.
So... finish Prototype? Start Brütal Legend? Try my (awful) skills at point & click adventures with The Longest Journey? Or maybe replay the first episodes of Sam & Max Season 1? So many games, so little time to play them all.
I vote for S&M.
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If you have progress in a game, finishing it should always take top priority.
Just bought Unmechanical. I hate myself.
Guess I could try to finish Prototype, and then jump to S&M. And start saving money so I can buy a new rig and play Blood Dragon the way it's meant to be played.
It's a great game, and I love the sense of humor it has. It's a solid choice, yeah!
Well, strictly speaking I do have progress in S&M, though it's on the Wii version
Guess I could try to finish Prototype, and then jump to S&M. And start saving money so I can buy a new rig and play Blood Dragon the way it's meant to be played.
Im thinking about getting it from gmg too tonight as its waaaaay cheaper. Heard some horror stories about gmg and delayed codes though. Did you happen to get your code already?
jediyoshi
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Instantly.
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Delete S&M and pretend you never started it. It's a soul-sucking experience at best.Well, strictly speaking I do have progress in S&M, though it's on the Wii version
Guess I could try to finish Prototype, and then jump to S&M. And start saving money so I can buy a new rig and play Blood Dragon the way it's meant to be played.
The Jagged Alliance: Back in Action guide isn't on sale.
How many guides do you have, just out of curiosity?
Just as well I sold my soul to THRILLHO.
I actually did a count two weeks ago as I was making note of which guides aren't on Steam AU. I have 20.
But I liked it
Oh well, I still need to finish Borderlands, I may get to that. And afterwards I should attempt a complete run through the Serious Sam franchise, starting with The Second Encounter (I already played TFE). I may ask Glass Rebel for a co-op run through the former
(or were you the one who hated it? My memory is failing)
Feel free to hit me up if you want an additional BL coop partner (level 50ish)But I liked it
Oh well, I still need to finish Borderlands, I may get to that. And afterwards I should attempt a complete run through the Serious Sam franchise, starting with The Second Encounter (I already played TFE). I may ask Glass Rebel for a co-op run through the former, and Morningbus for a hand with the latter.(or were you the one who hated it? My memory is failing)
Baron_Calamity
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Cool, episode 3 has been on my wish list for awhile!
I see what you did there!
Having spent roughly as much time with Hitman Absolution as I did with LA Noire I had exactly the same reaction.
It's impressive looking and has good ideas but when it comes down to actually playing the thing it's just awful.
I may try Blood Money one day but this left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. It's far too trial and error for it's own good.
I'm going to play Dishonored now.
It's impressive looking and has good ideas but when it comes down to actually playing the thing it's just awful.
I may try Blood Money one day but this left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. It's far too trial and error for it's own good.
I'm going to play Dishonored now.
Not too sure. I played the first two a while ago, and this is a completely different play style. I never started it. Maybe someone else could answer it.
MMBosstones86
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I'm going for a mix of both right now and really enjoying it. Blink is so OP though.
There's a lot of creativity and fun to be had with an action playthrough, but it reduces the game to an easy murder sandbox
Yep, 4 here today. I was all excited that maybe my Don't Starve idling paid off, but no cards and 4 invites.
On another note, DARK, a game in which you play a vampire, brought to you by the people who gave you Ceville. I am not ultra intrigued: http://store.steampowered.com/app/225360/
Which reminds me: I need to play the DLC.
On the flipside, a stealth playthrough is simply an exercise in "save scumming".
Refreshment.01
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Most stealth games (to not talk in absolutes here), even the best of the best, are based in a "trial an error" aproach from the player.
But this is what i find weird. So, IO designers take some decisions to make the game less trial and error to gamers (hence Instinct mechanic) yet anyways they get slammed. To top it off, that's a complete optional mechanic for the game XD
The problem with the game is not so much related to say... IO selling themselves or something similar to what happened to Splinter Cell. As i see it, is just that the level/mission design is so inconsistent, you get 1 or 2 interesting levels others are hit or miss. Plus the scale is reduced, but imagine if people nowadays complain about trial and error, what about a level like Shogun Showdown which was massive. Something like it will create a wave of suicides around the world.
But the traditional Hitman gameplay is there, for example, the other day i spend close to 5 or 6 hours figuring out how to ghost play the Orphanage Hallway. Takes a lot of patience, like the old games.
I couldn't disagree more, but I think this is one of those "arguing matters of taste" things.
Absolution's "instinct" got slammed while Mark of the Ninja's UI got praised. If Absolution wasn't a Hitman game, nobody would have bitched about instinct, for franchises are holy properties not to be tampered with lest they be ruined forever.
Joe Molotov
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They're only good for epeen growth. The cards are actually worth more than the emoticons and backgrounds you get for making badges now. Unless you want XP, just sell the cards.
zerokoolpsx
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If you have the set, you can craft a badge and get 100 exp. There is a chance to get discount coupons, emoticons and background themes too.
spindoctor
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And yet when I told you the exact same thing while you were playing the game, you ignored me and went for a full stealth playthrough anyway
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