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STEAM | August 2014 - Everybody loves iDLEM@STER
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Pay $1.89 or more
Super Cyborg（Desura)
Aeon Command
Famaze
Dinner Date
flight of the icarus
The Sun at Night
Dead Hungry Diner
Pay $1.89 or more
Super Cyborg（Desura)
Aeon Command
Famaze
Dinner Date
flight of the icarus
The Sun at Night
Dead Hungry Diner
Sun at night is a awesome game for that price.
The Sun at Night was released last week and it's already in a bundle for $2. Damn
PandaPedinte
Member
I can't talk about the others but it's fun game, you build subway lines, connect stations, improve it with various upgrades to attend the population's necessity. It's a simple game but it does very well what it propose.
You can play the Alpha version and try it by yourself.
Blak_Status
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Hero Prinny
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Wool I'm going back to NYC tonight! That means by tomorrow I'll be reuinited with my steam account after nearly a month + I have a reason to come back here :3 everyone can stop crying for me now.
To be fair, it was in at least two bundles before.
Jawmuncher
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Dinner Date is horrible not even worth playing.
The premise sounds cool but its nothing more than press on buttons until the character tells his shitty story and throws a pity party. It's not worth anyone's time.
So like most real-life Gaffer dates?
Gianni Merryman
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If you like "Cook, serve, delicious" you may also like this one, it's very good.
Oh well, I may elaborate a little more.
You run a restaurant and there are some monsters - who are your customers - waiting in line outside.
Basically you have to let them sit and serve them quickly - otherwise they leave and don't pay you, affecting your final score -, besides there are some monsters who don't go along well ith others so they have not to sit near to each as they tend to brawl.
Another element is combos, if you streamline all the workflow you get higher scores so there's a lot of multi-task action going on.
Jawmuncher
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Remember me
FiveElementNinja
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Happy Monday
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I don't follow bundles but this explains why so many people already own it
Giant Bomb did a video on the game ages ago, it must have been released on other services or direct from the developer.
It's a good Diner Dash clone with zombies and monsters, it's really nothing like CSD.
trailmix16
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dot, I am enjoying your screenshots wholeheartedly.
Gianni Merryman
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Yeah, I know that Cook, serve, delicious is a different game, maybe I mentioned it as you have to serve quickly your customers, anyway I have edited my previous post elaborating a little more.
Stallion Free
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Insta-purchase day pre-order. Fucking loved Remember Me.
Jawmuncher
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the true Game of the Century
The idea that the game is about cheating has me interested. Good to see that oculus rift is just supported and not the only way to play.
Think you're confusing it with Human Element.
Not much info aside from it having time travel of some kind.
Looks pretty. Looking forward to all the PC screenshots.
Maybe also looking forward to playing it.
Though I don't know about the episodic approach.
the true Game of the Century
Dolphin School is now in session.
BinaryPork2737
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Oh yeah! Mini Metro is releasing today!
That actually looks sort of cool. For some reason I'm getting nostalgic for riding on the metro again.
Those were before the Steam release. How can you put your game on Steam for 15$ and then put the game in a cheap bundle one week after? There should be 'ethics' for those kind of stuff. Don't put your newly released game in a bundle until after X months\weeks. You are screwing your most important supporters. Game didn't sell well on Steam in the first week? So do a discount there. The Sun at Night didn't have any sales - put it in a weekend\midweek\all week sale.
arts&crafts
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Anyone else notice that Beyond Good and Evil and Half Life 2 have a lot of similarities in style and design?
i still ride on the metro everyday and hate it. have to squeeze like sardines with other people.
cannot afford a car and probably will never be able to
Stallion Free
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Not really, no. Mind expanding on the actual similarities?
XD "How do I submit my answer without submitting the whole test? This is the real quiz fuck this."
Pig Uncle > Alyx though.
Jawmuncher
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I broke my sword in divinity since I wanted to break a level 5 chest and didn't see the lock pick right by it. Thank god I found this hammer.
The only similarity that I can find is that Alyx looks a lot like the chick from Beyond Good and Evil
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I rest my case.
Incidentally, while searching for a picture of Alyx, I came across way more hooker-clothing mods than I cared to see.
I wanted to make literally the same joke, word by word, > symbol included.
I didn't, but anyway I feel I'm kinda entitled to at least a 30% of all hypothetical laughs it will generate.
Thank you.
arts&crafts
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It has been a long time since I played BG&E but i Keep remembering a part where you are in a hoverboat (like HL2) and have to break into a building with patrolling guys but after looking at screen shots that is only a small part of the game. Great game BTW.
I didn't know anything about it until today. It looked pretty neat, so I went ahead and pre-ordered. I feel it'll be a fun little timewaster, and seems like it'll be my wife's kinda game too.
I also just picked up Crazy Plant Shop, since the sale is over today. My wife has a huge love for botany, so any game that she'll spend time with is a purchase for my account.
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Dammit! Where did my 30 minutes go!?
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I rest my case.
Incidentally, while searching for a picture of Alyx, I came across way more hooker-clothing mods than I cared to see.
#teamnogreenlipstick
Jawmuncher
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I was recently playing it about a year ago and it. Definitely holds up. If you want a Zelda like game but with a unique scifi setting and look its well worth your time.
Can't say if the technical quality still holds up (nor how is the PC conversion, as I played it on Gamecube back in the day), but I firmly think it's the best Zelda-like game ever together with Okami. Of course themes couldn't be more different, but the actual gameplay is the same.
I'd love to play it again but evry time it goes on sale I miss it (or it likely doesn't go down enough for me to justify a double dip on a game I already own, I've already played and this version isn't some kind of HD remaster).
Thanks to the generous gift from a frosty gaffer, I was able to play through Transistor today, so here are some impressions:
Transistor takes place inside a digitized reality. You play as a woman named Red and are thrown right into the game (no menus or options, the game just starts). Visually, the game is incredibly beautiful. It has a very pleasing art style that creates a great atmosphere through its use of colour. You can control Red with either keyboard + mouse or with a gamepad. They both work very well, so what you choose is simply a matter of preference.
As someone who loves turn-based combat, I had quite a bit of fun in this game. You can either run around and engage the enemies in real time, or freeze the game and carefully plan your moves, before unfreezing and unleashing your plan on your foes. Most of the time, I used a mix of both. You acquire different abilities and are able to modify them to your liking, so that you can greatly vary your strategy by trying out different combinations. Like in Bastion you can change the difficulty of the combat to your liking by using different limiters.
I liked how you temporarily lose an ability every time your life bar hits 0, which forces you to experiment with different abilities and play styles. What I didnt like is that you can only look at what functions youve equipped at access points, I would have liked to inspect them whenever.
Scattered around the world are lots of terminals, through which you can access some backstory, take part in polls or even order delivery. I thought this part of the world building was very well done.
Apart from fighting and reading texts you find, there isnt a lot to do in this game. I thought it was a shame that there doesnt seem to be a lot of exploration. The level design pretty much just makes you move from one battle to the next (and those battles could have been a bit more varied).
The story in this game is told in a very vague way, so that the players can come to their own conclusions. Although I like not having everything spelled out for me, I would have appreciated a few more titbits about the world of this game, its characters and their motivation. There are quite a lot of things Im confused about after finishing the game. For example, Im still not sure what exactly the Transistor is or where it came from and how
. If the Transistor
, how the hell is she humming? That was a charming feature, but it didn't make any sense to me. Maybe those things are explained somewhere in the game and I just missed it.
Overall I really enjoyed my time with this game, even if there are some areas it could improve on.
Transistor takes place inside a digitized reality. You play as a woman named Red and are thrown right into the game (no menus or options, the game just starts). Visually, the game is incredibly beautiful. It has a very pleasing art style that creates a great atmosphere through its use of colour. You can control Red with either keyboard + mouse or with a gamepad. They both work very well, so what you choose is simply a matter of preference.
As someone who loves turn-based combat, I had quite a bit of fun in this game. You can either run around and engage the enemies in real time, or freeze the game and carefully plan your moves, before unfreezing and unleashing your plan on your foes. Most of the time, I used a mix of both. You acquire different abilities and are able to modify them to your liking, so that you can greatly vary your strategy by trying out different combinations. Like in Bastion you can change the difficulty of the combat to your liking by using different limiters.
I liked how you temporarily lose an ability every time your life bar hits 0, which forces you to experiment with different abilities and play styles. What I didnt like is that you can only look at what functions youve equipped at access points, I would have liked to inspect them whenever.
Scattered around the world are lots of terminals, through which you can access some backstory, take part in polls or even order delivery. I thought this part of the world building was very well done.
Apart from fighting and reading texts you find, there isnt a lot to do in this game. I thought it was a shame that there doesnt seem to be a lot of exploration. The level design pretty much just makes you move from one battle to the next (and those battles could have been a bit more varied).
The story in this game is told in a very vague way, so that the players can come to their own conclusions. Although I like not having everything spelled out for me, I would have appreciated a few more titbits about the world of this game, its characters and their motivation. There are quite a lot of things Im confused about after finishing the game. For example, Im still not sure what exactly the Transistor is or where it came from and how
many of them there even are
stole Reds voice
Overall I really enjoyed my time with this game, even if there are some areas it could improve on.
It's Zelda + stealth. Story is about fighting a powerful organization that is corrupt. Has good gameplay with a bit of freedom. Also good characters and music.
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