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[billmcdougal]

edit: oh and Wolfenstein is a game better experienced blind. Trailers give away too much stuff. Seeing new locations that you weren't expecting is a great feeling.

I feel this way about everything. Trailers suck, man. They ruin the sense of discovery for all of the cool stuff in a game/movie/etc.

Once I am sold on a game, I no longer watch trailers for it...generally. I like early/teaser trailers, but once it starts getting closer to release and the trailers are showing all the goodies, I will cover my eyes.

 

[zkylon]

I recommend using Steam Card Exchange for something like that. Looking around for anime games shouldn't be too hard, plus it lets you see a preview of what the backgrounds look like.

Trails has some good backgrounds, specifically this one and this one, though the latter is way too expensive.

hmm

that seems like an awful lot of work tho

Someone posted a ton of them in one of the July threads, it starts here and goes on for a few pages:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=122078764&highlight=#post122078764

I got a foil for Suguri yesterday that I'm hoping will actually sell but I'm kinda regretting not taking the $1.25 buy order that was up yesterday because it's gone today (though no sales show as happening, I assume they just pulled the offer). I went 90 games before I got my first foil ever (from Stealth Bastard Deluxe) and it was worth so little I just kept it.

thanks

some of these are so fucking awful lol

love it

 

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[Jawmuncher]

I wish you could just rate a game you like just like you could before reviews. I don't want to write a review to say its good on steam. But I also don't want to write basically nothing to get my rating on there.

 

[spindoctor]

Oh yeah, and we should contact Valve support to get a refund. Yes because OBVIOUSLY Valve will refund gifted games. ugh.

You could ask Steam support to remove the game from your inventory and make it a gift copy in your inventory. They'll do that no questions asked and then you could trade it away. So not exactly a refund but not a total loss either right?

Anyone know what price Path to Thalamus will be?

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

And yet no word for Resident Evil 5's GFWL, which I'm anxiously waiting for before I buy the damn thing.

 

[Parsnip]

Copons, you didn't finish Dark Souls yet, right?
You should continue that journey and post about it.


Everyone should.

 

[Jawmuncher]

And yet no word for Resident Evil 5's GFWL, which I'm anxiously waiting for before I buy the damn thing.

Well you'd wanna wait regardless.
Game hasn't been on sale in ages. Keys is the only wait to buy it at a decent price.

 

[user237]

I wish you could just rate a game you like just like you could before reviews. I don't want to write a review to say its good on steam. But I also don't want to write basically nothing to get my rating on there.

Go for the plus minus format:

+ Minimal effort required
+ Gets the point across
+ People will read the entire review

- No room for detailed points
- Probably won't be highest rated review

 

[GaussTek]

I was checking out the Windows 8 Store (for PC), and found that Modern Combat 5 was released there last week.

I kind want to play it, as the game looks really good for being a mobile game. It would be cool if Gameloft decides to release some of their games on Steam in the future too. Yeah I know we don't need more mobile-to-PC ports, but some of them look and play really great, like Asphalt 8.

Anyway, it's there, just in case you don't mind about it not being on Steam, but still want to play it on your PC.

 

[Vuze]

You could ask Steam support to remove the game from your inventory and make it a gift copy in your inventory. They'll do that no questions asked and then you could trade it away. So not exactly a refund but not a total loss either right?

Anyone know what price Path to Thalamus will be?

Oh that'd be atleast something, thanks for the info I didn't know that! But thinking about it - there have to be some requirements to meet right? I mean, you could basically play through a game, ask them to remove it from my library and gift it away.

It will be 13€, not sure about $ or other currencies.

 

[billmcdougal]

Go for the plus minus format:

+ Minimal effort required
+ Gets the point across
+ People will read the entire review

- No room for detailed points
- Probably won't be highest rated review

Plus minus format review of the plus minus format of reviews. So meta.

 

[iosefe]

Go for the plus minus format:

+ Minimal effort required
+ Gets the point across
+ People will read the entire review

- No room for detailed points
- Probably won't be highest rated review

.

 

[ArjanN]

The better news is that that means the basically broken multiplayer (laaaaaag) could be resurrected.

Well, this means they're replacing GFWL which should help with that as well, yeah. It was pretty laggy.

I wish you could just rate a game you like just like you could before reviews. I don't want to write a review to say its good on steam. But I also don't want to write basically nothing to get my rating on there.

IMO It's not a bad idea that they put the bar for rating a game a bit higher. Pretty much every user rating system that's just stars or a number is garbage. Now you at least need to provide some sort of reasoning.

 

[dani_dc]

100% Orange Juice finally on a bundle again, glad I skipped buying it on the last few sales.

I probably won't play it today, but if anyone wants to play the game with me in the future feel free to add me.

Bit distracted with my recent Wii U purchase, lots of new games to play there.
If anyone around here wants to race at Mario Kart 8 feel free to add me, my NNID is dani_dreamcast
I'll probably be playing that onlinet a lot in the coming weeks.

 

[derExperte]

The geo-lock for Dead Rising 3 will apparently remain. Somebody received an email reply by the costumer """support""" of Capcpom.

Just read this, they really don't know what they're doing. *sigh* The shit I put up with for games, VPN it is then.

 

[BHK3]

And yet no word for Resident Evil 5's GFWL, which I'm anxiously waiting for before I buy the damn thing.

All I want for christmas is PC Gold Edition and cards for Unreal Tournament 3.

 

[Copons]

Lots of amazing giveaways and I won Divinity Original Sin from shadownet, many others won arkham knight and shadow of mordor, quite possibly the best week ever on gaf, I'm sad you missed them

That's pretty much the average SteamGAF week, though.

oh yeah someone beat dunder at speedrunner

don't think anyone left, shadownet has surgery today, waifu was posted once by Tizoc yesterday and there were 25 pages of backlash

!
And here I was, wondering how the heck did you manage to get to 100 pages in 4 days. Turns out it was all Tizoc's fault!

(Also Shadownet! I honestly can't remember (or don't know?) why you're undergoing surgery, nor I know what I'm supposed to say in English, but I guess break a leg and be better ASAP, man! I really mean it!)

Copons, you didn't finish Dark Souls yet, right?
You should continue that journey and post about it.


Everyone should.

Yup... I actually let it fade out months ago: I went on a temporary hiatus because the Darkroot wolf boss had too much hair for my old computer to keep a decent framerate, and then I beat it right after I bought the gaming rig. But meanwhile I broke my Sixaxis L2, and it's very hard to play DS accidentally parrying every three steps.
So, until I get a new controller, I'm on a forced hiatus again.




Meanwhile, Idlemaster is BEAUTIFUL.
It's like I've finally found the will to play Broken Age!

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Well you'd wanna wait regardless.
Game hasn't been on sale in ages. Keys is the only wait to buy it at a decent price.

Yea it's been suspiciously absent from Steam sales for about a year now.

Probably because they'll never remove GFWL or give the Gold Edition DLC, which is why I refused to buy it to begin with.

 

[spindoctor]

Oh that'd be atleast something, thanks for the info I didn't know that! But thinking about it - there have to be some requirements to meet right? I mean, you could basically play through a game, ask them to remove it from my library and gift it away.

They'll only do it for pre-orders (same goes for refunds). You probably can't get them to do it after the game has released unless there are extenuating circumstances (like the game being utterly broken and the publisher authorizing post release refunds).

 

[Parsnip]

Regarding RE5, what did the Dev Comp change in Steamdb few weeks ago mean? Nothing/anything? Teach me Steamdb.

 

[dani_dc]

Can you buy the same bundle in Groupees under the same account and get multiple keys rather than making it a gift?

 

[Vastag]

The geo-lock for Dead Rising 3 will apparently remain. Somebody received an email reply by the costumer """support""" of Capcpom.

Man, the censorship in games that you germans have to put up with really sucks.

 

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100% Orange Juice -- MB-9AA4AC50ED3414D0 - Taken by fernandes. 17 entrants total.

100% Orange Juice (Desura) -- MB-7E293394075F0B33 - Taken by S1n1st3r

 

[derExperte]

...

While you're here.... better start praying for the safe arrival of your SSD because mine came today in a rather flimsy cardboard envelope and the packaging of the drive itself took a nice hit. Nothing's damaged inside I guess but any more abuse and who knows what would've happened, they need to invest in some padding. Well, at least after complaining Amazon is offering me 32€ rebate which makes the drive an even better deal.

 

[iosefe]

Who's up for some OJ!

 

[Jawmuncher]

Go for the plus minus format:

+ Minimal effort required
+ Gets the point across
+ People will read the entire review

- No room for detailed points
- Probably won't be highest rated review

Thanks took your advice for the steam review. I'll be writing actual impressions for SteamGAF though.

 

[corrosivefrost]

wasn't modbot. the modbot poop list doesn't have any divisive calls on it. there is one game that has like a 40 metacritic that someone told me has since been patched a bunch and doesn't suck anymore, and jshackles posted a moderately positive review of unearthed: the trail of ibn battuta, but besides that i don't imagine anyone will actually serious contest anything on the poop list. if you see a poop next to a game people actually like, it's probably the giver manually overriding it.

Yes it does. Yaiba is in there.

Every person I've gifted it to has liked it and said it's totally better than the critics gave it credit for. Fuzzi liked it so much he's started giving it away as well too.

 

[MarcoZombieCannon]

Well you'd wanna wait regardless.
Game hasn't been on sale in ages. Keys is the only wait to buy it at a decent price.

How long is ages? It was 4.99 during the winter sale.

 

[Dr Dogg]

While you're here.... better start praying for the safe arrival of your SSD because mine came today in a rather flimsy cardboard envelope and the packaging of the drive itself took a nice hit. Nothing's damaged inside I guess but any more abuse and who knows what would've happened, they need to invest in some padding. Well, at least after complaining Amazon is offering me 32€ rebate which makes the drive an even better deal.

Ah great news, especially considering mine has quite a long way to go. Fingers crossed they use better packaging. I'm still waiting on a dispatch email as it's been saying dispatching now for about a day.

 

[lashman]

Yes it does. Yaiba is in there.

Every person I've gifted it to has liked it and said it's totally better than the critics gave it credit for. Fuzzi liked it so much he's started giving it away as well too.

Fuzzi gonna fuzz

 

[Vuze]

They'll only do it for pre-orders (same goes for refunds). You probably can't get them to do it after the game has released unless there are extenuating circumstances (like the game being utterly broken and the publisher authorizing post release refunds).

Thanks, I guess I'll wait two more weeks until I submit a ticket. There's still some hope. Atleast I'm telling me that

Man, the censorship in games that you germans have to put up with really sucks.

Game isn't censored at all and I could put up with some minor cuts unless they don't make (parts of) the game unplayable (Sleeping Dogs says hello).

What Capcom did is outright fraud. They put the game on sale without the IP restriction and applied one without any legal reason claiming they were just following what their lawyers said (who probably aren't based in Germany at all). A Capcom representative even said he isn't aware of any plans to lock the game for Germany, so we can "happily buy it and play with our friends".

Two weeks later they add the PRIC-Tag, rendering the game unplayable in Germany and if it wasn't for SteamDB they wouldn't even have told us so we couldn't get our money back via the way spindoctor described.

Well, enough ranting for tonight. I'm just so sad and angry as I was really looking forward to the game.

 

[pahamrick]

Yes it does. Yaiba is in there.

Every person I've gifted it to has liked it and said it's totally better than the critics gave it credit for. Fuzzi liked it so much he's started giving it away as well too.

Yep. Yaiba is an amazingly fun ride, I'm pretty close to finishing it but I had a nasty game crash right before I finished the final (I'm guessing) boss, and haven't gotten back to it yet.

 

[billmcdougal]

Yes it does. Yaiba is in there.

Every person I've gifted it to has liked it and said it's totally better than the critics gave it credit for. Fuzzi liked it so much he's started giving it away as well too.

I appreciate the thought you put in to your impressions. I'm officially interested in Yaiba and have not bothered playing my PS+ copy of Strider, haha.

 

[Ryne]

Yes it does. Yaiba is in there.

Every person I've gifted it to has liked it and said it's totally better than the critics gave it credit for. Fuzzi liked it so much he's started giving it away as well too.

I also just started playing Yaiba, it is pretty good.

It's another game that was just overpriced at launch and had it's name tied to a bigger franchise with lots of loyal fans, so it got shitted on (Yaiba -> Ninja Gaiden franchise, Sacred 3 -> Sacred franchise)

 

[Jawmuncher]

How long is ages? It was 4.99 during the winter sale.

For half the winter sale. They brought it back up to 20 during the sale out of the blue and didn't bother to discount it at all since then.

 

[Volimar]

I've been gone most of the day. Anything going on? Have we heard back from Shadownet yet?

 

[donny2112]

Love the new thread titles each month (and the in-month changes).

 

[pahamrick]

I also just started playing Yaiba, it is pretty good.

It's another game that was just overpriced at launch and had it's name tied to a bigger franchise with lots of loyal fans, so it got shitted on (Yaiba -> Ninja Gaiden franchise, Sacred 3 -> Sacred franchise)

I can't agree with that. Yaiba from the start was advertised as a spin-off, whereas Sacred 3 was being shown as the next big Sacred game (I mean, it's titled Sacred 3 not Boom, Sacred Z or some such.)

It might have gotten a better reception had they titled it something different and not given the expectation it was going to follow the trend that Sacred 1 and 2 set.

 

[MarcoZombieCannon]

For half the winter sale. They brought it back up to 20 during the sale out of the blue and didn't bother to discount it at all since then.

The lack of a discount since then has been weird.

 

[derExperte]

The lack of a discount since then has been weird.

Capcom hasn't discounted any GFWL games lately. Which I'm okay with honestly.

 

[Turfster]

Capcom hasn't discounted any GFWL games lately.

* Only their DLC.

 

[dani_dc]

Capcom hasn't discounted any GFWL games lately. Which I'm okay with honestly.

It's okay, but also comes off as an indication that they aren't planning to patch them.

 

[Grief.exe]

It's okay, but also comes off as an indication that they aren't planning to patch them.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!

 

[Mono]

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[Ryne]

I can't agree with that. Yaiba from the start was advertised as a spin-off, whereas Sacred 3 was being shown as the next big Sacred game (I mean, it's titled Sacred 3 not Boom, Sacred Z or some such.)

It might have gotten a better reception had they titled it something different and not given the expectation it was going to follow the trend that Sacred 1 and 2 set.

I think it's fair to say that it should have been titled something different, however there were plenty of chances for fans to see that the game was not a "Sacred" title in spirit but in name only. The devs did show off the game a lot prior to release.

I still do believe it should have been a lot cheaper, which would have helped reception.

 

[Genki]

yeah i´m not on that level of skill at all right now.
I´m not even sure if i will even attempt the speed run, it sounds really hard.

It's not so bad because you can just reload saves. That route was done in just over 50 minutes(achievement is 90 minutes) and getting more health\magic wouldn't take a significant amount of time. I was stubborn to a fault really, and got a worse time because of it. Maybe I'll go back and try to improve it once they add content.

 

[BadRamen]

So I beat Thief 2014 and honestly I can't really speak on the complaints from a veteran's perspective but my only history of playing a Thief game is about playing Deadly Shadows for about fifteen minutes and getting turned off by the UI, so here are my thoughts:

This game I would say is worth playing, not on a this game is sooooo much better a sequel than 2 or the original, but in a way that you pay less than $15 to play it because I enjoyed the story elements, and although I haven't done ANY of the sidequests, I might be interested in doing them in the next few weeks.

And the stealth wasn't horrible. I played on THIEF difficulty and I had zero problems getting both the don't use focus until the last chapter and the don't kill or knockout anyone achievements. There was at least one time where there was a scripted leap from an edge where you had to be in the exact perfect spot to actually jump, but that was during the tutorial.

All in all, the story/setting is interesting, the stealth while basic is actually pretty serviceable and allows you to do what you need to do to stay unnoticed. I would have preffered some passive skills that weren't based on the focus system (the first bow focus upgrade is actually the only one that doesn't require you to use focus to utilize it!), which could have been another way beside the custom difficulty/scoring you can do to challenge more hardened/veteran players. Maybe a mode to allow you some dangerous free-jumping?

If it is cheap and interests you, fuck it! Play it!

 

[dani_dc]

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!

I'd argue that specifically not putting GFWL titles on sale is evidence on itself though!

 

[AHA-Lambda]

I think it's fair to say that it should have been titled something different, however there were plenty of chances for fans to see that the game was not a "Sacred" title in spirit but in name only. The devs did show off the game a lot prior to release.

I still do believe it should have been a lot cheaper, which would have helped reception.

I think if the game didn't have it's more juvenile sense of humour it may have been received better, that seemed to be a point of contention with many people. From what limited amount I played of it it didn't look like it was worthy of such scorn. Not saying it's great but hardly awful.