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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 IV - For me it was Tuesday
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It's been a while since the last indie royale bundle I bought. Here are the leftovers.
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Ittle Dew --MB-E365B8E06CE44568- Taken by FiveElementNinja
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
not quite 
HalfwayOrb
Member
In brief:
It feels like a greatest hit album rather than having it's own soul. There have been some really great moments but overall it just feels like they tried to take the best parts of Dark Souls and smash it together without much planning. Many of the bosses are either a rehash in idea of bosses in Dark Souls or straight up copy/paste. I'm only coming up on 30 hours so it's entirely possible this assessment is premature but yeah.... very mixed bag at this point.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I am so mad right now. The CPU cooler I ordered had the worst fastening system imaginable and even when I finally got everything lined up, the clips would only come within 1/4" of latching. It was so difficult and took so many retries that I used all the thermal paste from cleaning it off and reapplying, and I ultimately ended up switching back to my old cooler and didn't have enough paste to do a proper reapplication, so I'm sure it has bubbles now. I played D3 for an hour and it reached 73 degrees. Now I have to watch it like a hawk until I can get some new paste to do a proper application and there is no way of returning this piece of shit cooler that won't even install. Fuck Cooler Master.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I'm just curious but have you played through Demon's Souls? I'm asking because I'm wondering if you felt differently coming into Dark from it, or if you might be feeling like this because it's your first Souls sequel experience.
Mugatu
Member
Those new animal games like "My Pet Hotel" are really pissing me off, since their "release date" on the store pages even list today - even though the first "My Pet Hotel" game came out on PC in March 2006 (8 years ago!).
So much for my new button in Enhanced Steam to hide this stuff. I guess the data is only as good as the publishers provide, like always.
If you have Enhanced Steam installed, you should be able to browse to http://store.steampowered.com/steamaccount/addfunds and add a custom amount (as long as it's over the minimum).
Oh this is awesome, thanks!
TuckingFypo
Member
Heyo guys, you might know me as the guy who randomly jumps in here and screams about games you should try.
There is this really neat post-apocalyptic turn based survival sim that screams for more publicity, called NEO Scavenger. I also made a thread for it if you want to read up on it:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=700141
The game is on Steam early access and can be currently had for $1 during the Humble Weekly sale (even including the good and challenging puzzle game Offspring Fling if you buy it yourself):
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
Thing is, this game is way, way, way too good to be overlooked and I'd love more people to check it out. I'll gift 15 copies of this game over in the thread (linked above) to the first people voicing their interest in that thread (I wont monitor the Steam thread closely so make sure to post over there) in return for you guys posting some impressions in that thread & maybe also in here to help bumping the thread/raising awareness of the game or even telling the world that you believe it is utter crap after you tried it
If we have a deal, head over here and let me know:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=700141
I'll send out the links by tomorrow as buying the games might take me a while.
This game seems rather interesting. I wasn't going to, but I decided to purchase the bundle.
Thanks, but the code has been used already.
FiveElementNinja
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Thanks for Ittle Dew!
I had the same issue with a Hyper TX3 Evo and AM3+ mobo. In the end I gave up and went back to my old cooler. I've just gotten an i5 and 1150 socket mobo so hopefully it fits better on that when I get round to building it.
Oh man, why? Use SAM. Unless you like things old-school.
toddhunter
Member
Need that Arcade mode:
I felt the same way about Dark Souls for a while after Demon's. Did you play that one?
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Is there any software that is good at measuring bandwidth (highest usage, lowest usage, and average usage)? I am asking for the Origin vs Steam download test that I'll run tomorrow.
I have not played Demon's yet.. I bought my ps3 back in september with the intent of playing gta5 and then Demon's Souls immediately after. I got distracted and it didn't end up happening. I still plan on playing it one day but I think I'm objective enough to not let one experience bleed over into another.
they should really give us the option to disable/enable DLC :/
I have the base game.. and buying each DLC individually is more expensive :/
TuckingFypo
Member
Has anyone else experienced any problems with Offspring Fling? It keeps crashing on me, twice as the splash screen was loading and once in the tutorial.
Ah, nevermind. I unplugged my controller and it seems to be fine now.
Ah, nevermind. I unplugged my controller and it seems to be fine now.
Damn! I messed up and wrote the keys here instead of in the message for Modbot, realized my mistake and edited in less than a split second. I hoped no one would have noticed. Really sorry.
hmmm. I was concerned about the possibility of my account being banned ><
cause this is quite a hack right?
how exactly do I go about it?
toddhunter
Member
Can't speak for DS2 (so it could just be bad), but I had the exact same reaction to DS1 initially. The magic was gone, so I wasn't in to it as much and some areas like the last few felt awfully simplistic and rushed.
You have probably seen a lot of this in the "Demon's souls was better" arguments.
Will be interesting to see how it plays out this time given a lot more people know the series now.
Don't use it to unlock achievements. Just double-click on one of the games in the list that has cards and idle away. Quite simple
User recommendations for upcoming games in April - How to submit
Know about a game that is coming out next month on Steam? Then tell us by posting in the steam thread on why it deserves to be on Gaf's radar, each month the games with the the best reviews will put on the OT.
We are doing this for the first time, so don't worry if it's not fantastic, as long as it's 50-100 words we should be good.
PM the post you want to submit so I know.
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
Alright, thanks. I suppose I'll give this a go before I dig into these vvv
:O Thanks for this. I'm gonna try some of these out. That arcade mode one... I might give that sort of setup for KOF13 or something, but Dark Souls? Ehhhh.
I am a massive sucker for scanlines and CRT filters though.
It's fantastic, best driving game ever made.
toddhunter
Member
Well
+ Great graphics for the time. Compare it to something like SR3 and the difference is huge
+ Interesting setting and characters
+ Better combat than usual in an open world game.
+ Fun driving and variety in the cars.
+ lots of customisation options for your character.
- Not much to do in the world
- Gets very repetitive (missions and combat) and runs out of steam about half way through
- Story fizzles out
- Nothing really new to the open world genre.
So basically it is just a highly polished open world game that does everything "right" until it runs out of ideas.
SteveWinwood
Member
Sleeping dogs is super duper fun
And huge eye candy
And huge eye candy
BoosterDuck
Banned
how do our eyes eat candy though
Wei Shen, motherfucker
PixyJunket
Member
Well, they were in the first game as well.
"Hat Trick in the Library" was my favorite, that was crazy.
I'm currently taking a snack break after getting a headache on 9-9.
And I guess I have a dozen more secret rooms to locate.
What a sequel.
BoosterDuck
Banned
The combat is like Arkham Asylum but more rhythmical/punishing since Wei isn't Batman.
And the Kb/M controls are great, especially with driving since there's an arcade-y sense to them.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
The mouse and keyboard controls are reeeally good, even for driving. The setting is quite interesting in addition to the combat also, I had a great time with Sleeping Dogs.
its got karaoke and cockfighting too
PixyJunket
Member
I can go back and forth without any qualms.
Although I guess I rarely play big graphics game (and I'm not sure my card could push much more than Valve's stuff at 1080/60).
Garcia
Member
Man, great link!
More_Badass
Member
Life Goes On - April 16th
As its core, Life Goes On may seem like just another platformer. You dodge spike and fire traps, jump gaps, and all manner of other traps and hazards. But in Life Goes On, death is not the end, but a tool at your disposal. Your demise leaves a corpse in your wake, allowing you to build safe passage across danger with your dead bodies or use your corpses on pressure plates. This mechanic gives this a puzzle platformer a great sense of black humor and allows for interesting puzzles not possible in other games
Fract OSC - April
Fract is an open world exploration puzzle game set in a world built on sound. This abstract landscape of abandoned machinery and looming mechanisms is your playground to manipulate and discover, using music and sound to activate machines and solve puzzles. You can even create and share your own musical masterpiece in an in-game studio
Plenty of open minded people can go back and forth between platforms. I guess you're just not one of them.
I urge you Dark Souls fans to play Demons Souls. It's great, I promise.
More_Badass
Member
Haven't played a game on my PS3/360 in months. So yes, I approve this statement
But I probably should finish GTA V and my TLOU Survivor playthrough
toddhunter
Member
I've been looking forward to this game for a long time. When I played the demo, my first thought was "ok this is garbage". But once I realised the main mechanic (which isn't actually explained from memory) everything suddenly clicked and I started to enjoy the puzzles.
Certainly one to look out for.
I will buy this and name my star Saoirse.
I can. Steam never corrupted its installation when it was updating, meanwhile Origin did it twice. Didn't bother reinstalling it after the second time.
Dog Problems
Banned
This is my most anticipated game right now. So excited for it.
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