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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!
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don't bother, keeping backlog and track of played games takes too much time! you can spend playing games and buying them.
If I had to estimate I started about 50 games this year, probably more, but finished may be 10 of those. As Jasec, when I like a game I'm unreasonably thorough and I'm one of very few people that like long or infinite.games too.
That reminds me, how many people here do like puzzle games besides myself, I think we never talked about it.
woo and indeed hoo
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That many!
My trouble is I start a lot of games, dump them in my "meh, I'll try this again another time when my backlog is lower and I've got the patience for what irritated me about it this time" category but then I hit one that I really click with and I play it obsessively to the exclusion of all else :/. FTL, XCOM, MOTN and so on. Still, if I like games that much I shouldn't really complain I suppose
. It doesn't help with the backlog though. Oh well, XCOM is on the home-ish straight so I'll discipline myself to play something else after that although I'll probably be very tempted to re-start it again .Pretty much this. I game a lot, its just that most of it is some F2P timesink or online game.
I've always been a fan of online multiplayer games over single player games. I think it's because in most games I find the normal difficulty to be too easy, but a lot of developers increase the difficulty in cheesy or cheap ways (nade spam in CoD campaigns, for an example.) whereas in online games the difficulty normally lies in coordination or adapting on the fly, which I prefer.
This exact reason is why I'm going to try my hardest to get away from MMOs.
In all honesty, I wouldn't think that Dust is an indie game. let alone made by one person. I think Dust and Mark of the Ninja raised my standards for indie games too. Dunno is it good or bad (><)
Just noticed you have finished 7 Grand Steps. I dropped it, even if I liked idea, a game was surprisingly boring. I played may be 2 hours, does it get more fun later on?
PandaPedinte
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When you start the game you just know you can use the whistle to attract the animals to you and the stomp to make things fall, as you progress through the game you start to discover new ways to interact and solve the puzzles with the same two abilities you have. The game is a big well crafted puzzle and deserve more attention.
Wok
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There is not much you have missed. The game is more or less fun depending on your personal strategy to success. I find the clicking aspect is part of the pleasure in this game: it is both a slot machine and a small strategy game.
Just keep track of finished games, it does not take much time.
woo and indeed hoo
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Apparently I completed 26 games in the last six months. More than I would have thought so that's cheered me up a bit .
.Mark of the Ninja definitely raised my standards too but yeah, I'm a bit iffy on the entire "indie" label. It's practical to use in conversations but the definition is getting vague these days with bigger studios having a hand in some smaller games.
Madrugador
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Just finished Bioshock Infinite. This is pretty much how I feel about the ending.
Also, over 51,6% of everyone who has played the game has finished it. I'm impressed.
Also, over 51,6% of everyone who has played the game has finished it. I'm impressed.
Have fun!Just finished Bioshock Infinite. This is pretty much how I feel about the ending.
Also, over 51,6% of everyone who has played the game has finished it. I'm impressed.
That reminds me, I still need to finish working my way throught the blue ribbons in the Clash in the Clouds DLC. Still missing a few in the last level.
Well, I actually would like to keep track of that stuff, I need to justify to myself that I'm actually beating some of the games that I buy.
That and I generally like to know that kind of information. I feel the need to know that stuff, in all honesty I'm a bit surprised that I don't keep track of that stuff already.
I used to add games to my "beaten" category on Steam, but when it came to games that also feel in other categories that I had on steam(like RPG), well, that posed a conundrum, so I just stopped doing it. Please add a tag/multiple-categories already steam.
Madrugador
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Go for Burial at Sea first, it's story-focused and relatively short. Mind you that the second chapter isn't released yet though.
Clash in the Clouds is a series of combat-focused levels with challenges and things to unlock, only recomended if you really enjoy the gameplay in Infinite and playing around with Vigors and combinations (I do).
Apparently I completed 26 games in the last six months. More than I would have thought so that's cheered me up a bit
Let me tell you, those lightspeed hyperspace jumps leave you too much free time!
also, FTL update please come soon, and someone inject it directly in my veins, thanks
Madrugador
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runnin_blue
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Here's the full list
Some of them are short indies, true, but then there's Kingdom of Amalur, Mass Effect trilogy, etc... What can I say, having insomnia helps a lot.
That's truly impressive. Your link's not working for me btw.
No prob! Definitely one of my favorite games from last year.
Yeah, it really shouldn't be used as a genre to define a game. Anyway, it's pretty cool to see a lot of them being high quality and popular, I'm happy about how digital stores not only opened the way for these endeavours but also encourage it.
Counter Strike GO is surprisingly one of my favorite pickups of the sale. I've never played a CS before so I thought it might be stupid to try one now, but it was like $3 and I figured there would be lots of new players. I really like it. Playing a multiplayer FPS that doesn't hinge upon ADS is refreshing. I don't really understand the item drop system though. It looks like you have to buy the keys to open cases, so I assume they don't drop in the game, but people are also selling the keys on the marketplace for more than they cost in game... how/why?
runnin_blue
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Wow that's great. What stood out to me was The Lion King on the Genesis lol.
woo and indeed hoo
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Let me tell you, those lightspeed hyperspace jumps leave you too much free time!
also, FTL update please come soon, and someone inject it directly in my veins, thanks
I'll do it if no-one else steps up
.The upcoming FTL update is actually making me yearn for an iPad :/. I may get the update free because I already own FTL but the saving on buying that won't cover the cost of an iPad unfortunately. No amount of mental gymnastics can justify that purchase.
Yet
.Yes, only items drop from CS:GO, like cases and weapon skins, you can only buy the keys for the cases in-game or through the market but that's more expensive. Shady Russians sell keys because they got them from shady Aussies that need cheap games.
Welcome to the GO community, my humble advice is that you shouldn't buy keys, expensive weapon skins don't drop often. If I were you I would sell all the cases and weapon skins you get and then use that money to buy the skin you want, obviously you could be lucky and get a rare item drop but that's up to you to try.
MMBosstones86
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OldAsUrSock
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What is with this trend for using commas instead of periods for a decimal point?Just finished Bioshock Infinite. This is pretty much how I feel about the ending.
Also, over 51,6% of everyone who has played the game has finished it. I'm impressed.
Ive always used comma since Im saying irl 8 comma 7.
Hi-five. I beat somewhere around 50 last year myself. (My backloggery has exactly 48, but I didn't track any replays there...)
Not sure I'm going to participate in Mr. Orange's thread, but I thought a minimum of 52 for 2014 would be a nice goal.
...As much as I dislike linking to ol' icycalm because the guy's a rude bigot who may never escape the gravitational field of his own cavernous asshole, there are a couple of good points about the problem with the term independent/"indie" buried in this thing he wrote: The Myth of Independence.
I think it's the norm in Euro/Non-Murica places. Or at least more common.
Yep. I didn't mean the definition is up in the air, but that with so many downloadable titles from all kinds of sources around these days you end up seeing the word being used on less strict terms (like with Dust and Mark of the Ninja, while both are published by Microsoft Studios). The link honorless posted goes into some interesting points too. Not a big issue for me anyway.
For that reason I'm always having to remind myself to change prices from 1,00 to 1.00 when I post in this thread.
ChaoticEko
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Does anyone know if all copies of Max Payne 3 are Steam-activated? Found a deal for it for $5 online.
It's not.
When my newly formed island nation is up and running we'll use the exclamation point.
Speaking of which, if anyone wants help getting a deal on Risk of Rain our Steam Store has the ROW version for 3!44 quatloos. The conversion works out pretty well for those in NA and the UK.
OldAsUrSock
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Ahh yes I keep forgetting that. I will probably never get used to it since I correspond a point to be a dot.
Outer Heaven was already a thing bro
SparkleMotion
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It's funny how people are cheating to get the "Don't play The Stanley Parable for five years" achievement, unless there is some secret way to get it in the game.
I hate to admit this to everyone, but aside from the dialogue, I'm actually looking forward to Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. The gameplay looks so fluid and stylish. I'm hoping the gameplay helps sell the game, because It's really not looking so hot right now with the majority of Ninja Gaiden fans out there... or character action game fans in general.
I'm surprised there's not a Steam pre-order page up for it yet. It's supposed to be out in less than 2 months.
I'm surprised there's not a Steam pre-order page up for it yet. It's supposed to be out in less than 2 months.
corrosivefrost
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If I wasn't wasting tons of time by playing Soul Sacrifice after I finished it with VitaGAF or continually being hooked on games where the replay value is high, like Spelunky... and if I wasn't a damned completionist in terms of achievements/trophies, my count would be astronomical.
'06 total: 22 games
'07 total: 22 games
'08 total: 46 games
'09 total: 56 games
'10 total: 55 games
'11 total: 61 games
'12 total: 54 games
'13 total: 66 games
'14 total: 1 games
Worth noting is that in '06 and '07, I had just bought a house with my now ex-fiance and had been in a gaming lull/drought. Some of those numbers are probably tempered by playing Rockband/etc. with her too, instead of playing stuff I would play alone.
I also have months where I get burned out or interested in something else. Like I think this past March I was busy and ended up reading a lot of Game of Thrones, so my gaming time took a hit.
I like everything about Yaiba, pretty much... although I worry a little that it's not DMC/NG enough for me.
The dialogue is a plus in my opinion -- I get tired of everything being so serious and whatever -- so things like this and Bulletstorm scratch an itch for variety and something different/new.
I did not know it was coming to PC.
This is relevant to my interests.
I have that achievement.
I don't think I'd call adjusting the system clock 'cheating' though. Considering the way that game handles achievements in the first place...
Hell, people were forced to "cheat" to figure out how to get that "unobtainable" achievement. Don't mess with a completionist, I suppose.
Loved it, finished it a week ago. And yeah, that thread really helps!
SparkleMotion
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I love how I haven't been able to play Max Payne 3 in two weeks because it "Failed to contact key server"
PetriP-TNT
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Yep, cases contain rare drops and you need keys to open them, but rares also drop in-game but very rarely (well, duh, that's why they are called rare drops I guess)
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