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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!
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Today's Daily is 80% off Retro City Rampage ($2.99).
thesaucetastic
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So we switch threads every 200 pages?
corrosivefrost
Member
Daily is Retro City Rampage... ick.
Edit: Damn you, JaseC.
Edit: Damn you, JaseC.
Why the heck does Metal Gear Rising have so many damn optional codec conversations?
The obsessive side of me wants to hear them all but most of them are....boring and very long winded.
Fuck it, the gameplay is good enough - time to ignore
If you want to listen to them I suggest you press Y to skip and just read the captions.
Would take a ridiculous amount of time otherwise.
NeoGAF has a 20,000 post limit.
Jawmuncher
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You won't be missing anything substantial at all from skipping them.
It's more just interesting tidbits here and there.
20k posts is the cut-off point, yes.
Haha, I even had to switch from the Russian store to the Aussie store in order to get the price.
STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - Sorry, no refunds accepted.
STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - Truly the year of the Steambox
STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - Cheer up, Steam is gifting you games
STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - SEGA not included
STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - It's pronounced Sharsha.
Not actually, is just a convenience limit
corrosivefrost
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20k posts is the cut-off point, yes.
Haha, I even had to switch from the Russian store to the Aussie store in order to get the price.
I didn't care about the price, figured I'd edit it in later... just wanted to beat Turfster and Jshacks to the punch if possible since nobody put it up.
What a disappointing daily.
DiscoShark
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One day Long Live the Queen will go on sale again.
One day ...
One day ...
Why the heck does Metal Gear Rising have so many damn optional codec conversations?
The obsessive side of me wants to hear them all but most of them are....boring and very long winded.
Fuck it, the gameplay is good enough - time to ignore
Hey at least they're optional. MGS 2 upon release you had to sit through about 8 hours of them.
MMBosstones86
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and on that day. I'll buy the hell of it
That's an overexaggeration. I think my latest MGS2 playthrough was like 10-12 hours, and I listened to pretty much all the codec conversations available.
Jawmuncher
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Speaking of new releases:
20% off for the first week ($11.99).
That's not the Army Men I remember.
All the games were hot garbage but they had charm.
EDIT: Confused this with the other army men game....point still stands.
yaaaay good luck but I'm sure you'll build it like a pro and your cat will purr with satisfaction
Freeza Under The Shower
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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - The Half-Life II..wait a m- Stop! Thief!
STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - HL3 PS4 BUNDERUH not coming. Again.
eh, I suck at this.
STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - HL3 PS4 BUNDERUH not coming. Again.
eh, I suck at this.
Hahaha well of course. Saying that though I can do both Tanker and Plant skipping cutscenes and codec calls in about 3 to 3 and half hours and the record over at Speed Demos Archive is 1:37.
I expect this to be bundled with Prey.Speaking of new releases:
20% off for the first week ($11.99).
Just tried out the in-home streaming beta, streamed AC4 to my sisters computer. She doesn't have it at all and was able to play on her own computer while it was running on mine. We could both use the controls at the same time as well. Fun stuff, worked REALLY well.
Steam stepping it up. Now use this technology for twitch streaming.
Steam stepping it up. Now use this technology for twitch streaming.
FiveElementNinja
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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - New thread next month
Backlogger
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Sold out it looks like
most of it isnt steam :/
Shame I know. It seams to the the most low key one they've done as only 4 of them are Steam keys. But hey I'm sure everyone wants Bridge Constructor.
What criteria would you apply to determine whether a game is objectively good or bad, then? Once we move beyond pure functionality (How stable and feature-complete is this game? How well does it perform on the platform it was coded for?), we're firmly in the territory of individual taste. There are no absolute metrics to measure play mechanics and overall "feel", aesthetics, or the amount and quality of story-related content (if any) by. The best we can do there is to point to the things that enough of us like, based on the properties they possess, and call those things "good". Of course it's not as simple as that - some opinions are weighted more highly than others in our culture (critical vs. popular opinion, for example) but in the end it's very much a subjective judgment regardless.
Backlogger
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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - The Game Count Saga® Continues, now with Streaming
corrosivefrost
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Dammit, I need 4 xp. :|
Are there 4 cheap games I can pay $1 for or something? I think I have all the humble stuff... I suppose I should check indiegala and indieroyale.
Are there 4 cheap games I can pay $1 for or something? I think I have all the humble stuff... I suppose I should check indiegala and indieroyale.
Strange. I owned a copy of Half-Life (1) on Steam for quite some time now, I've played the copy of Half-Life a couple of times, but now Steam says I don't own it at all? It's not in my library list and when checking out the store it acts as though I need to purchase it for the first time.
I've going through the Steam support requirements, but who knows if that will result in anything.
I've going through the Steam support requirements, but who knows if that will result in anything.
There was that recent bug with Valve games having their names switched. Don't know if anyone found a solution a few pages back but it's was clearing some preferences out via a browser link.
I checked, but nothing else seems renamed and nothing appears to be Half-Life when I look into it's files or properties.
http://store.steampowered.com/searc...gory1=998&sort_by=Price&sort_order=ASC&page=1
I recommend Fortix if you don't have it, Super Sanctum TD is a good small Tower Defence.
http://store.steampowered.com/searc...gory1=998&sort_by=Price&sort_order=ASC&page=1
I recommend Fortix if you don't have it, Super Sanctum TD is a good small Tower Defence.
Must have missed that. Just took a look and I no longer have Portal, but I am a...uh...proud...new owner of Counter Strike Source.
STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - Papers, Please. Roguelike of the Year
Hope this works~
Instructions for participants:
I am giving away a Steam key. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below containing the key.
Rules for this Giveaway:
- If you won a game from ModBot in the last day, you are not eligible for this giveaway.
- This giveaway is a raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 3 hours after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:
GTA Vice City --MB-CCE9A2506ACCDEF1- Taken by webrunner. 23 entrants total.
corrosivefrost
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Rougelike, I believe.
I have a giveaway coming up... but I'll wait til the new thread is open.
Bit of a noob question: I want to buy the Indie Gala January bundle as a gift, but the gift option on the page kinda confuses me. It seems like to buy the bundle as a gift, I should put the email of the person I want to gift the bundle to and ignore the gift option. Is that right?
Buttonbasher
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I really want to check out The Inner World, but I think I'll probably wait. I'm one card away from getting The Raven, and am finally going to start Broken Age today, now that I finished Metal Gear Rising.
Metal Gear Rising was a really great experience. I've been struggling to learn how to play the genre right, after playing Bayonetta wrong when that first came out, and probably not getting my fullest out of DMC4. DmC was a nice primer for getting my head in the right place, but I think Rising is my favorite character action game I've played so far.
Taking the time to learn all of the systems, and observe enemy "tells", and such was a super rewarding experience. Playing it on Hard really was the way to go, too. It was a really nice balance of forcing you to play the game right, and fair difficulty. I died a bunch, but it was always productive, since I was learning more about how the enemies function. Also the Codec stuff was really good. I'm looking forward to going back, and finally playing the rest of the series.
So yes, I had a great time with that, and everyone should play it.
Back to adventure games.
The gift option costs an additional dollar for some reason, so yeah I believe your option works. That person will probably get the receipt from PayPal, or where ever though, so maybe take that into consideration.
Metal Gear Rising was a really great experience. I've been struggling to learn how to play the genre right, after playing Bayonetta wrong when that first came out, and probably not getting my fullest out of DMC4. DmC was a nice primer for getting my head in the right place, but I think Rising is my favorite character action game I've played so far.
Taking the time to learn all of the systems, and observe enemy "tells", and such was a super rewarding experience. Playing it on Hard really was the way to go, too. It was a really nice balance of forcing you to play the game right, and fair difficulty. I died a bunch, but it was always productive, since I was learning more about how the enemies function. Also the Codec stuff was really good. I'm looking forward to going back, and finally playing the rest of the series.
So yes, I had a great time with that, and everyone should play it.
Back to adventure games.
The gift option costs an additional dollar for some reason, so yeah I believe your option works. That person will probably get the receipt from PayPal, or where ever though, so maybe take that into consideration.
Yeah don't make my mistake, made one and the thread closed like 3 posts later.Rougelike, I believe.
I have a giveaway coming up... but I'll wait til the new thread is open.
Backlogger
Member
That works. You just have to make sure if you use your same email that you check the gift box, otherwise the amount you pay gets applied to your previous purchase and you won't get the second set of keys.
The FAQ also states you cannot add a gift to your profile, so if your friend has an Indie Gala account already and you just want to buy it for them probably better just to use their email.
NingenJanai
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I kinda want Car mechanic simulator, what have you made me Steam?
Mugatu
Member
I kinda want Car mechanic simulator, what have you made me Steam?
Hahaha. That was the first thing that caught my eye and I clicked on when I opened Steam this morning!
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