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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
MrTeachwell
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Sweet, I've been waiting on this all day
thank you.exmachina64
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Does this apply to the CK2 DLC also? If so, glad I held off on purchasing more of it.
Nah, the CK2 stuff is back in stock.
Rawket Lawnchair
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How have the classic X-COM games aged?
42 for me if you really want to count Family Feud as four (it is four entries, I guess--thanks Baha, best gift ever). I don't have any of the Football Managers like Jase.
Of those I don't have I'd like to have Wik, Anno, Indigo Prophecy and even Dragon Age II (lol).
Is there a thread for which on the list are Steamworks or have keys floating around? I know the Football Managers do because of Jase.
I made a series of posts about this a few months back where I was awaiting 3 games in the mail, games no longer on steam which I theorized would redeem on steam. Games that are not listed on the retail keys list
the 3 games were
- 007 Legends
- Legends of Pegasus
- Saw: The video game
(and the Football Manager games which JaseC was collecting which sparked my interest.)
007 Legends (available on Nuuvem or retail) and Legends of Pegasus (I'm only aware of retail at the moment) redeemed on steam no problem. I still think that Saw will redeem but my copy did not come with a code so I could not test this.
Someone already posted the link to the thread about steamworks games. I used these lists to compare against games that no longer existed on steam and emerged with those 3(6). I've likely overlooked one or two but my inital conclusion was the 3 I listed and the results noted.
(bonus was Disciples: Reincarnation - not available on steam, only through Gamersgate.
HP_Wuvcraft
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What's your threshold level for restarting?
STAB-Gatekeeper
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Rawket Lawnchair
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Depends on how unfair the game is.
HP_Wuvcraft
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After 20 turns on a mission, the computer turns on cheats.
toddhunter
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Heh, it not only fucks you over by cheating, but it lets you play for hours and hours after the point in time in which you are completely fucked without telling you.
In that regard, it still holds up great
It (terror from the deep especially) is still worth a bit of a play, but only if you either want to invest heavily into it, or just want to get kicked in the balls.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
And the latest X-COM?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Stallion Free
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Bullshit free if you so choose.
Rawket Lawnchair
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OK, thanks for the info.
HP_Wuvcraft
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X-Com is the first game where the options at the start menu actually felt like the devs were asking me if I was a pussy.
And I said yes.
And I said yes.
exmachina64
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Ah, okay.
A friend of mine with way too much disposable income gifted it to me last night. I'll give it a shot probably tomorrow (if I have time).
In the meantime you can check out the semi |OT|
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=560354
Friend gifted one to me.
I tried it and quit pretty quickly.
It's awful. I like the new X-Com but holy shit I found the old one(s) unplayable.
I can play classic Fallout/Diablo/Army Men/Jagged Alliance/Planescape Torment/Baldur's Gate just fine enjoyable, and I find old X-COM games to be bad.
Definitely not aged well.
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Close your eyes and click. They are both awesome experiences.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
For Black Ops 1 that is still more than it should be.
I don't see it being more than 66% off during the Summer Sale, but I hope Tony manages to convince Acti to allow a single-day 75% discount.
snoopeasystreet
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I looks fantastic. I can't wait to pick it up somewhere down the line.
I'm playing through stacking at the moment, it's cool I guess. I'm having the same problem I had with Costume Quest, it's a game that feels like it was designed by an artist or maybe an adventure game designer rather than a video game designer.
You have these really cool characters who can manipulate the world and other characters in funny and interesting ways but then the solutions to the puzzles seem so static and prescribed that I'm using adventure game logic rather than video game logic to solve them. It's still fun coming up with the solutions but every now and then I come up with a solution that I think should work according to the rule set that's given to the world, but it doesn't because a designer didn't program it in. It's just frustrating.
I think I'm more accepting of this in a point and click adventure game because there's way less implied agency to the player. You can't mess around in Monkey Island in the same way you can in an open game like Stacking. That said, I think it is a better game than costume quest which sort of showed off it's gameplay-hand in the first five minutes and relied on art and charm to carry it through the next four or five.
MMBosstones86
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Ahahaha. No one wants them because everyone got tricked into buying the game.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Dishonored isn't a stealth game, just a game with stealth mechanics.
Although who knows how action oriented the new Thief will be.
The great thing about Dishonored is that it gives you the option for it to be a stealth game and even rewards you for being a "ghost" but if you choose to go crazy and just slice everything to bits you are well equipped to do that too.
Because considering how rudimentary the stealth mechanics are in Dishonored we're pretty much talking about two different genres. Dishonored is a good game, but not a good stealth game. I think I'd rather put ice picks under my fingernails than do a full stealth playthrough.
I think the enemy AI is pretty forgiving but I'm playing on normal. I would imagine on a higher difficulty this wouldn't be the case. I could be wrong though.
I think doing a stealth playthrough could be fun, just doing the powers and sleep darts could make things very interesting.
that hyperbole lol. The stealth isn't amazing but it's hardly "so bad I'd rather endure physical pain". The only problem with the stealth is that it's never really sure how and when enemies will see you since shadows don't mask you so securely, but it's strong enough that you can creep around, above and behind enemies all day and they wouldn't even know.
I did my first playthrough as a "no kill, never spotted" run and it wasn't that bad at all. The only thing I found annoying is that so many of the the games alerts, the violin shrieks and shrills blend into the background noise a lot so there were times I was unsure if I had been spotted and reloaded just to be cautious.
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Derrick is that you??!
RibbedHero
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Dishonored wasn't shit as a stealth game, but it certainly wasn't good. Far too simple stealth gameplay, even hitman absolution is a better stealth game.
ugh. hitman absolution was awful.
I could only last 2 hours in that stupid game. It punished you so hard if you were anything less than perfect in terms of stealth. And that game was so busy with all of the civilians running around it was hard to tell who was a guard and who wasn't.
What happened to him by the way? Is he banned or did he just leave? Reading these Steam threads without a game being called utter shit on every other page feels weird. I rather miss it.
Lord British
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At first with Hitman Absolution I was like "Yeah, finally, an accessible Hitman!" then after a couple of hours I was like "satan take this game to the arsehole of the pit"
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Huh yeah, I haven't seen Derrick at all.
lol, exactly. it's kind of like LA Noire in that it LOOKS good and has good ideas but in the end it's just a chore to play.
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
My thoughts exactly. I got it for $10 and thought "man, even if the game sucks the graphics alone makes this a good deal" but nope, I gave up after a few hours.
I picked it up for $5. Anything more than that and I would have been PISSED.
Yes. I evolved to waiting until I've actually played a game to hate on it, and thus needed a new identity.
Dishonored is a great game and I've always said as much though; I just answered his question in the context of, "Why we need Thief?"
SteveWinwood
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I do! Civ V figured out the only dlc I'll buy is viking themed.
So Thief is more hardcore in the sense of... if you get spotted you're fucked?
I guess I can see how that's more rewarding. I think seeing all those negative thousands of points in Hitman Absolution were what really put me off that game.
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