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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!
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I have a category called GOAT. Currently populated by FTL, Hotline Miami, XCOM, and Mount and Blade: Warband. I have more games that can probably be in this category, but I need to play them first!
GFDJAN25 (or GFDJAN25UK if you're in the UK).
I follow the genre convention as well, but I do so for what I consider to be the main mechanics and means of control or presentation instead. Basically the "what is the main type of game play I take away from this title".
F.E.A.R. and Dead Space can fit in as horror genre for story telling, but I'm far more comfortable with placing them as FPS and Third Person Shooter instead. Tomb Raider reboot also fits as a Third Person Shooter to me.
Point and Click Adventure for Sam & Max, while Stacking is a puzzle game.
Platformer 3D for Psychonaughts and early Tomb Raiders, Platformer 2D in regards to Thomas Was Alone or Joe Danger.
A few oddities just due to the main focus of what I'm playing for, such as Survival for Don't Starve and Shelter. Likewise Waking Mars is an Exploration game to me.
Sometimes I will make an exception though for a franchise, such as all the Sonic The Hedgehog games simply being in the Sonic category. Likewise Fallout.
I don't do a generic "Action", but I will do a Side-Scroller Linear" for things like Zack Zero or a "Side-Scroller Open World" for Cave Story or La-Mulana. I've come to accept the idea of Character Action for Marlow, Dante, and Raiden's adventures.
In the end I really never force anything too hard, as it's all about helping me find a game faster rather than being a "perfect categorisation". I know quite well if I gave into making everything "just right", I would spend time classifying everything and never being fully happy on numerous titles, when I could instead use them to be playing games.
That said, still no idea where to put AaAaAA!!!.
F.E.A.R. and Dead Space can fit in as horror genre for story telling, but I'm far more comfortable with placing them as FPS and Third Person Shooter instead. Tomb Raider reboot also fits as a Third Person Shooter to me.
Point and Click Adventure for Sam & Max, while Stacking is a puzzle game.
Platformer 3D for Psychonaughts and early Tomb Raiders, Platformer 2D in regards to Thomas Was Alone or Joe Danger.
A few oddities just due to the main focus of what I'm playing for, such as Survival for Don't Starve and Shelter. Likewise Waking Mars is an Exploration game to me.
Sometimes I will make an exception though for a franchise, such as all the Sonic The Hedgehog games simply being in the Sonic category. Likewise Fallout.
I don't do a generic "Action", but I will do a Side-Scroller Linear" for things like Zack Zero or a "Side-Scroller Open World" for Cave Story or La-Mulana. I've come to accept the idea of Character Action for Marlow, Dante, and Raiden's adventures.
In the end I really never force anything too hard, as it's all about helping me find a game faster rather than being a "perfect categorisation". I know quite well if I gave into making everything "just right", I would spend time classifying everything and never being fully happy on numerous titles, when I could instead use them to be playing games.
That said, still no idea where to put AaAaAA!!!.
Tesseract
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corrosivefrost
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I agree with AaAaAA and games like it. It's why I have a BIT.TRIP category -- it was easier to lump all their games together than to force round pegs into square holes.
I've found that I started putting things like Dear Esther and Gone Home into CASUAL... not sure how I feel about that.
I do have a HORROR category and it has things like Amnesia and Outlast as well as Dead Space, Resident Evil, and Dead Rising.
However, F.E.A.R and it's series slotted into FIRST PERSON SHOOTER.
Trying to find the perfect method of categorization is so damn annoying.
I also don't do anything such as GOAT (why would I celebrate a goat when ducks are far better and have more games on Steam?) mostly because I forever have a hard time choosing my favourites at any given moment and replay most everything.
If I truly want a title to remain somewhere I will constantly see it, I simply leave it without a category with the various titles I haven't played yet (only titles I've played and mostly completed/I feel finished with go into a category).
For Dear Esther, Gone Home, To The Moon, etc, I went with "Pure Story" as that's really just what I'm going into them for.
Amnesia and Huntsman are two titles I've yet to play and I'm not sure where I'll end up placing them. Perhaps I'll do Horror after all, but separate it in Horror First Person and Horror Third Person. Lord help me if Capcom ever releases Sweet Home on Steam though.
A BIT.TRIP category or something to that affect might work. Though I'll have to pick a catch-all name since I don't want to name it after one title unless it's a franchise collection. For example instead of "Katamari Damacy" as a category I went with Pick-Em-Up for titles like The Wonderful End Of The World.
If I truly want a title to remain somewhere I will constantly see it, I simply leave it without a category with the various titles I haven't played yet (only titles I've played and mostly completed/I feel finished with go into a category).
I agree with AaAaAA and games like it. It's why I have a BIT.TRIP category -- it was easier to lump all their games together than to force round pegs into square holes.
I've found that I started putting things like Dear Esther and Gone Home into CASUAL... not sure how I feel about that.
I do have a HORROR category and it has things like Amnesia and Outlast as well as Dead Space, Resident Evil, and Dead Rising.
However, F.E.A.R and it's series slotted into FIRST PERSON SHOOTER.
Trying to find the perfect method of categorization is so damn annoying.
For Dear Esther, Gone Home, To The Moon, etc, I went with "Pure Story" as that's really just what I'm going into them for.
Amnesia and Huntsman are two titles I've yet to play and I'm not sure where I'll end up placing them. Perhaps I'll do Horror after all, but separate it in Horror First Person and Horror Third Person. Lord help me if Capcom ever releases Sweet Home on Steam though.
A BIT.TRIP category or something to that affect might work. Though I'll have to pick a catch-all name since I don't want to name it after one title unless it's a franchise collection. For example instead of "Katamari Damacy" as a category I went with Pick-Em-Up for titles like The Wonderful End Of The World.
Basically, if you purchased the BTA bundle in the first week and buy again (as a gift), you get four bundles; if you purchased during the second week, you get three bundles; and finally, if you're a new purchaser, you get two. (Indie Gala does bump up the BTA price by a few bucks, though.) Also, it was less a typo and more a Simpsons reference.
>< how big is your SSD?
Don't do that. Join me in the "not even bothering with categories #yolo" group!
Oh yeah, I just played a little BF3. This is probably not news to any of you, but oh man the browser Battlelog system is so bad.
Wait, how do you get the grid images that close together? I'm also using Air.
corrosivefrost
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Version 3 showing installed only.
How did you get the spacing so tight? I tried editing the layout file, but it seems not to have had any effect.
Basically, if you purchased the BTA bundle in the first week and buy again (as a gift), you get four bundles; if you purchased during the second week, you get three bundles; and finally, if you're a new purchaser, you get two. (Indie Gala does bump up the BTA price by a few bucks, though.) Also, it was less a typo and more a Simpsons reference.
Shame on me for not knowing that it was a Simpsons reference.
I don't quite get what's going on with HH -- so I can buy Indiegala again at a new rate and get 4 more bundles? Weird.
So this would apply to the new bundle today, eventually? Indie Gala January or whatever?
You need to edit Steam's general gamespage_grid.layout in Steam\resource\layout, not the one in the skin's folder.
If you purchased the bundle within the first week, yes.
After playing Revengence and seeing Darksiders 2 show up on sale again, I might jump back into DS2 and finish all the DLC I didn't bother to wait for when I bought it at launch.
Also the only good part of that game is the combat so I'm going to see if I can clear the 100 wave gauntlet challenge in the game.
Also the only good part of that game is the combat so I'm going to see if I can clear the 100 wave gauntlet challenge in the game.
Hotline Miami has sold, at least, 1 million copies
How is the combat in that game compared to MGR?
For those that still have Dark Souls installed, can I get a screenshot for the water in question?
How is the combat in that game compared to MGR?
For those that still have Dark Souls installed, can I get a screenshot for the water in question?
Yeah, if you bought the bundle now you'd receive four bundles when buying it again during Happy Hour. To reiterate, the Happy Hour purchase must be a gift and you must use the same e-mail address as earlier (I stuffed this up once when I was buying up bundles for the big giveaway just before the Autumn Sale -- I accidentally used @internode.net rather than @internode.on.net).
Ban Puncher
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Hotline Miami has sold, at least, 1 million copies
Make that 1000001 copies.
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Hotline Miami -- MB-143ACA03BB65C084
I'm quoting this again because I think I know what happened. There seems to be only one backer sub and while the soundtrack was originally included, it was later removed. My guess is that DF sent out keys pertaining to the aforementioned sub to every backer and needs to make a new one for those pledged at $30 or above, inclusive of the soundtrack (or hand out keys tied to just the soundtrack itself). Can somebody who pledged below $30 check to see if their account history says "Broken Age - Backer Key" also?
I have the soundtrack on my humble page but not in my DLC. This is true for everyone who pledged $30 and over?
Kiru
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*brofist* The only order I need is alphabetical order.
(Then again, I don't use skins and look at my library in detail view, so what do I know? >.>)NingenJanai
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*brofist* The only order I need is alphabetical order.
I do the same, detail view and alphabetical order.
It seems so.
ashecitism
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Anyone here got into streaming?
Maybe Cook, Serve, Delicious is better suited to your current state.
What is amazing about the newest Indie Gala bundle is that all games featured (except those Desura ones) are not older than three months.
Two Brothers: Dec 2013
Ballpoint Universe: Dec 2013
Gravity Badgers: Nov 2013
Tales of Maj'Eyal: Dec 2013 (older game, but just added to Steam)
RavenSword: Dec 2013
I mean... Who puts their game in a bundle that soon? After not even being in one Steam Seal? Who?
Two Brothers: Dec 2013
Ballpoint Universe: Dec 2013
Gravity Badgers: Nov 2013
Tales of Maj'Eyal: Dec 2013 (older game, but just added to Steam)
RavenSword: Dec 2013
I mean... Who puts their game in a bundle that soon? After not even being in one Steam Seal? Who?
*brofist* The only order I need is alphabetical order.
I like you people
(but I do use the Pixelvision skin).
The reason why I don't use categories is because I tried to categorize my games once, but I couldn't come up with a category system that satisfied me. I find genre categories particularly bad: there are games that fit in more than one genre and others that flatout defy genre categorization, so trying to order your library by genres is just a pain in the ass.
Rickenslacker
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I've been trying to insert this Genesis copy of OutRun into my A: drive in the hopes that it would somehow transfer a copy of OR2k6 to my account but that didn't work. I even enabled Big Picture mode so that it couldn't possibly go anywhere else. Alas...I was hoping by some dumb luck that the code on the back of my 007 manual would work on Steam but it didn't
I did. Can't get it to work, opting into beta on my laptop gives me a build from dec 17..
Oh, definitely. Far too many games that don't fit snugly into one category or another to get put off when something isn't perfect.
I ended up putting the Aaaaa[...] games into my Sports category.
It's a very loose fit, but I figured that they're kind of base jumping, and that is almost a sport.
These all ended up in Adventure/Adventure 2D for me.
I've avoided adding categories like Horror category because I've been using mine to indicate the style of game rather than the theme/story.
corrosivefrost
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Oh, definitely. Far too many games that don't fit snugly into one category or another to get put off when something isn't perfect.
I ended up putting the Aaaaa[...] games into my Sports category.
It's a very loose fit, but I figured that they're kind of base jumping, and that is almost a sport.
These all ended up in Adventure/Adventure 2D for me.
I've avoided adding categories like Horror category because I've been using mine to indicate the style of game rather than the theme/story.
I totally understand -- I just have this issue where I can't bear to put something as awesome as Dead Space or Dead Space 2 into a category as generic as THIRD PERSON SHOOTER (or to follow your example, SHOOTER - THIRD PERSON).
I think I just need to delete the categories and continue to rely on the search field when I'm sorting through games looking for something in particular.
Speaking of views... is there any way to clean out some of the games from the "Recent" view?
charlequin
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Escape Goat.
Categories are a trap. The only one I have is called "MAC CRAP" and it's for useless extra Mac versions of GTA/Civ games.
Sub-categories would be great! Even being able to add a game to multiple categories would be a huge improvement
Real people use Detail view. Grid view is for weirdos and hippies.
This sounds like the only category worth having.
This sounds like the only category worth having.
And weird hippos.
Edit: The Next Car Game DDE just dropped in price from $50 to $35. Time to jump in.
PedroPanache
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Loving XCOM : Enemy Unknown. Didn't play the original, nor is it a genre that I dabble with all that much. But, this game is a ton of fun. Plus naming and customising your soldiers adds to the immersion, particularly when you fuck up and Captain Mike Tyson dies before he got a chance to make a name for himself in my unit. He should have stuck to boxing. Sydney Bristow, on the other hand, is tearing shit up.
WHAT?! There's a game called Rectaltear ? (Looks again) Oh, Recetear. So close to being my GOTY.
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WHAT?! There's a game called Rectaltear ? (Looks again) Oh, Recetear. So close to being my GOTY.
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