Jawmuncher
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Papers Please is about to be added to my "games I was wrong about list" it's gotten so much better the farther along I go.
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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!
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Here's a question for you. Dynasty Warriors 7 I guess never had an official Steam release or I assume a limited one due to language. Are there any other games that were only available by purchasing g and redeeming a retail copy
I'm sure you've scoured the database by now for any.
I don't keep a list, but Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight prototypes, Disciples Reincarnation, East India Company: Gold Edition, Pirates of the Black Cove: Gold Edition, and The Rockin' Dead come to mind, not to mention various region-specific apps (Darksiders RU, Duke Nukem Forever RU, Take on Helicopters RU and so on). Unfortunately, SteamDB's search functions aren't very robust -- there's no way to, say, filter out non-Steam 2010/Valve CD key subs.
NingenJanai
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It's the ultimate game mode, even more trolling and frustration
I bought that DF bundle but have yet to redeem the keys - What is it exactly lol
Cheers chaps. Yeah I remember you saying about the retail specific apps for some Asian/Japanese releases. When the day eventually comes and I succumb to Steam collecting in a hardcore fashion I can see it costing a small fortune chasing the white whales of retail copies.
Those damn strip club flyers always get in my way. I've since learnt that the bottom right of your desk is the best place to put your junk as you can virtually get it off the screen.
They're basically proof-of-concept demos.
Yeah, the Korean Football Managers, FM 2013 Asia, and the Japanese retail copies are going to all set me back at least $30+.
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
Well SteamGAF sure is tetchy recently :/.
Are we all having our period at the same time or something?
When I feel especially grumpy I tend not to post as I know I'll probably say something I would regret later.
YMMV however.
Are we all having our period at the same time or something?
When I feel especially grumpy I tend not to post as I know I'll probably say something I would regret later.
YMMV however.
Backlogger
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This was a planned sale. The DLC is also on sale I believe. If you have any $5 credits left it will work on this bringing it down to 4.99 USD
Speaking of stuff not on or missing from Steam, there's a fair few Mac ports that are available in the App Store but not listed as either SteamPlay or on their own. I'm sure there's something to do with publishing rights and what have you but Company of Heroes Complete on got a Mac release last year and I'm surprised it never transitioned to Steam. There's probably loads on Linux indie titles as well.
Hahaha you make it sound smaller than what it might become.
A gaggle of GAFfers all in sync sounds like a nightmare. Actually what would be the collective noun for GAFfers?
Hahaha you make it sound smaller than what it might become.
A gaggle of GAFfers all in sync sounds like a nightmare. Actually what would be the collective noun for GAFfers?
Rickenslacker
Banned
I was continually impressed with the things they kept throwing my way as the days passed.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I know the pain of losing a save to GFWL, but you weren't using Durante's mod? It makes backups for you.
An argument?
Gamersgate has 50% off Sir, you are being hunted and Van Helsing, including the DLC (also sold separately)
DSFix makes 5 minute backups if you tell it to. Check that.
GameSaveManager saves both your saves AND your profile. That's important, you need both. Doublecheck that.
Games for Windows creates unique ids every time you create OR retrieve a profile. So, if you reinstalled your system, for instance, and retrieved your GFW profile, all your salves would be useless. You need to keep a backup of both your profile files and save data. GameSaveManager does both.
Frank Jaeger
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm my profile? I have to check my save games, STAT!
ussjtrunks
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Anyone know why ff7 has a black bar at the bottom sometimes, it doesnt have it in the menu but all other times
Also Skullgirls is on sale
http://se.gamersgate.com/skullgirls
You'll also get 15% back in blue coins
Yep, it was nice learning this with GTA IV after I formatted my hard drive backing only my saves :/
Atraveller
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If you are familiar with Romance of the three kingdoms, or the history, or simply the previous games, you can play it just fine.
Holy fucking shit really?
I did both DSfix and manual backup of everything inside my Documents/DarkSouls folder (or whatever it was).
The stuff related to my GFWL profile are stored somewhere else or I should be fine?
This is just the second time the Helsing DLC has been on sale, haha.
Good to know, I'm starting to be scared about my own save right now.
I'm not sure I could do Sen Fortress again... so painful...
You could have saved your saves (I Think. I'm not 100% sure on the GTA IV save files, as they were encrypted, if I remember correctly).
You an always get the save files and hexedit the new profile ID in them.
Yeah, that's not enough. That's just the DarkSouls save files. IF they have the GFWL Profile assigned to them (not all games do) and if you reinstall and retrieve a new profile from Microsoft's servers, that profile will have a new unique identifier, and the save files (again, if assigned to that profile, not all GFWL save files are profile specific) won't be available.
Everybody should use Game Save Manager to keep a backup of their saves. However, here are the GFWL Profile files that should be saved:
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\XLive
chrominance
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Wait a second, you can redeem the DF prototypes on Steam? Was this available even at launch? I thought they were just standalone executables for some reason.
Mh mh.
As soon as I get home tonight I'm gonna install GSM hoping that everything will work right.
I mean, I just uninstalled DS, but I never touched GFWL, so everything should still be where it's supposed to be.
My god, anyway, if dear good old fantomena didn't screw up his saves leading to all this GFWL talk, I'd have freshly installed it on my incoming new PC and then BAM! starting DS again from scratch.
I think the savegames are encrypted to the online account but I'd love to be proven wrong!
You're fine. Uninstalling a game on Windows never removes the saves. If you run GSM, it'll most likely detect both the GFWL Profile and the Dark Souls saves. Just make sure that GSM actually backups the GFWL profile (it'll even tell you it has to, but I don't remember if it comes checked by default).
You are not fantomena
A respec system would have been nice in dark souls. I myself also made quite a bit of errors with my build when I first began the game.
Backlogger
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The problem with prototypes is that the protoypes I have don't have grid images, so if you are OCD you have to upload your own. But they do increase game count.
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
A drama of GAFers
.Anyone know why ff7 has a black bar at the bottom sometimes, it doesnt have it in the menu but all other times
The game is saving your eyes from even more punishment.
Hope you're enjoying the game .Not really. You can always grind your ass on stupid enemies and build up on souls. There's nothing preventing you from having 40 on all stats at any given time, so.... just find some grinding spots appropriate to your level and waste a couple hours on it. You'll be good to go.
Stat's don't really matter in Dark Souls. It's all about weapon choice and weapon upgrades.
Just to be 100% sure: on the new PC I'll have to restore the GSM backup BEFORE installing GFWL and DS in order to make GFWL think that there is already a profile to use instead of creating a new one screwing up everything?
Well. you can install GFWL afaik. What you can't do is install dark souls, install GFWL, retrieve your profile on GFWL and then restore the backups. It would work, but you would have two copies of your profile, with different unique identifiers (and I think the older one wouldn't be able to go online).
To be on the safe side, yes, the first time you boot up your new computer, just install GSM and restore all your save files.
Rickenslacker
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Honestly I think that's an element that could use streamlining in the Souls games. Instead of wiki crawling to feel like you need to plan out a character path from the start with stat allocation it would be better I think to select from classes and having stats auto-allocate per level based on that. Probably wouldn't be a popular idea.
It's been too long without a steam sale
Tizoc
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IT'LL BE LONGER UNTIL A NEXT ONE TOO!
Perfect. You're a savior!
It would have been a bit harsh having to start over DS. Harsher than the huge re-entry wall I'll find, as after all these months I totally forgot how to play and also, I've broken L2 playing Guacamelee so I'm bound to play with some sort of parry randomizer.
Atraveller
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That or they are actually playing games.
I rather have a respec, so I could experiment with different builds without needing to grind. I suppose that's too soft core for some people.
Nope, but the first Costume Quest prototype is included, as is the prototype for DF-9, their Early Access title.
- Autonomous
- Black Lake
- BRAZEN
- Costume Quest prototype
- Hack n Slash
- Happy Song prototype
- Spacebase DF-9 (not the full one)
- The White Birch
Thats true but trying out a new build in the game basically means starting a new character. Otherwise you have to grind for a very long time. It would have been nice if they let you spend maybe like 400k or 500k souls to fully respec your character. or something along those lines without players exploiting ofc.
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