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STEAM | August 2014 - Everybody loves iDLEM@STER

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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
I dont understand some bundle decisions. For example, what were they thinking pricing the latest humble BTA at $15. Why is The Last Federation supposed to be a "big deal" (at least bundle wise) to justify a $15 BTA instead of $10 for example. it looks fine, but its just another indie space game in a sea of other indie (and not indie) space games.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
...I wonder how long it'll take for a Lego Guardians of the Galaxy game to show up.

That's actually an interesting question, given Disney's disinterest in video games that aren't Infinity. I suppose it depends on whether or not WB thinks it'd be worthwhile.
 

Kanhir

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TAKE MY THINGS.

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A New Beginning - Final Cut -- MB-D215C2B8DA0F929C - Taken by Gurthang
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Warehouse and Logistics Simulator -- MB-A68F6D0C3BCCCDCB - Taken by Dutch Patriot. 8 entrants total.
Bridge It Plus -- MB-BC60F6B3315C2DD5 - Taken by danhese007. 5 entrants total.
Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming -- MB-138D043046520369 - Taken by lukiluk. 2 entrants total.
Woodcutter Simulator 2013 Gold Edition -- MB-E5C503CE40C08034 - Taken by TheMadMan007. 2 entrants total.
Airport Simulator 2014 -- MB-C7A9F8EFB245BFC0 - Taken by Egamer. 3 entrants total.
Roller Coaster Rampage -- MB-1790616339C6E73C - Taken by Jmanunknown. 2 entrants total.
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Professional Farmer 2014 -- MB-4B63C04F9A59358C - Taken by drakaenae. 7 entrants total.
Trainz: Settle & Carlisle -- MB-8A47ED37D106A87A - Taken by nightstorm. 2 entrants total.
Freddi Fish 2 The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse -- MB-A8B778316BF53919 - Taken by diablogod. 7 entrants total.

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So on the UK humble store LA Cops is only $8.99 instead of £8.99 so I picked up a copy for my self and one for the thread <3!

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good luck!
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Fuck me. Why is it that? is it because Lucasarts/Disney published them? I see that Lego Marvel was WB so i'm guessing that's the reason why the Indy/Star Wars don't get price drops.

Fucking disney. I've also been waiting for price drops on the Monkey Island remakes, dammit.

It simply boils down to the fact that Disney earns too much money through film production, merchandising and licensing for it to give a shit about video games. Infinity is the obvious exception because it blew up and turned into a billion-dollar franchise... as it's the perfect platform for Disney to leverage its merchandising due to the NFC element. I'm hoping that, once Valve moves to a Google Playesque system, someone at Disney will make the few-click effort to send the digital versions of its games it sends Amazon to Steam, but I'm not expecting it.
 
Just got an email from Ubisoft with the subject of 'Help us improve the next Watch_Dogs game'. Yeah that's opening a can of worms right there Ubisoft asking me that. I guess that means Watch_Dogs 2 is gearing up then.


Edit: Ha! Was pretty generic survey but when it asked me what platform I played Watch_Dogs on as soon as I clicked PC it immediately stopped and came up with a messages 'Sorry you are not eligible for this survey'. Gee I wonder why?


I actually had far more fun in my NG+ play through as an action game.

I didn't think it worked very well as an "action" game.
From my experience with the game, I would compare playing Transistor without planning phases to Fallout 3/NV without VATS. You can do it, but the developer obviously intended you to use it as a core gameplay mechanic and the game doesn't feel quite right without it because it wasn't designed to be played without it.

And this kind of thing is why I'm terrified that DR3 is going to suck for me, because I want to play it as a true DR game with clock enabled and all... and I'm pretty sure the core of the game wasn't designed around it, so it won't be as good of a game as if I was okay with playing it as the develoepr intended.
 

lashman

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It simply boils down to the fact that Disney earns too much money through film production, merchandising and licensing for it to give a shit about video games. Infinity is the obvious exception because it blew up and turned into a billion-dollar franchise... as it's the perfect platform for Disney to leverage its merchandising due to the NFC element. I'm hoping that, once Valve moves to a Google Playesque system, someone at Disney will make the few-click effort to send the digital versions of its games it sends Amazon to Steam, but I'm not expecting it.

"What's steam?" ~Disney execs
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
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Velocity Ultra -- MB-5BF1E3E1E246249B - Taken by Shalashaska

giveaway overload all of a sudden
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
I believe that Q.U.B.E is in fact vanilla qube, which isnt for sale anymore, making it...rare? I guess?
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
I believe that Q.U.B.E is in fact vanilla qube, which isnt for sale anymore, making it...rare? I guess?

QUBE has been bundled a few times now. To put this in perspective, it's possible to find copies of Cryostasis for less than 10 keys and it was only bundled once.
 

Jawmuncher

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I detect a hint of bias.

You got me.

Yeah that would be so awesome! How's the Telltale one, playable?

I enjoyed it. It's not perfect but if put it on par with the 90s comic books which were just fun. Game plays like a lighter version of heavy rain since it's all pretty much QTE based aside from a puzzle here and there. I had no issue with it on 360 and I got it to work on PC just fine. While others had issues. I'd say if you see it in the camp of 5 dollars you should grab it.

That would be amazing. And given the new movie coming, seems somewhat possible as well.

Thus far since 1993 we've gotten at least 1 jurassic park game per gen. If this gens JP game was Lego JP id have no complaints.
 

Grief.exe

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His comment and your comment from yesterday is definitely making me interested about NG+. Since I've heard first Playthrough is better with planning while the second is more enjoyable as action since you have access to everything.

One of the biggest criticisms you can levy at Transistor is the rate of progression early on.
Super Giant trickles in the abilities all the way until nearly the end of the game when they dump them on you. Giving the player more choices nearer to the beginning of the game would have been appreciated.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
QUBE has been bundled a few times now. To put this in perspective, it's possible to find copies of Cryostasis for less than 10 keys and it was only bundled once.

im not saying to sell it, just that its nice to have in your account if youre into that kind of thing assuming the bundled ones will be the directors cut from now on (im surprised this isnt)
 

BinaryPork2737

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My Steam profile is proudly saying I've played quite a lot of hours in the past 2 weeks. Hahaha yeah, no that's not really the case. To be fair at this rate of my drops I probably will have the maximum 336 hours until I got everything.

That's the one thing I hate about idling for card money. If only Valve would let users reset time spent in-game.

I can't wait till we can stream something people would actually watch rather than just switch tabs and listen to.

To be fair, I watched the ending of 2 last night just to see what it was. Watching the rest of the ending on youtube wasn't worth the effort of searching for it :/

why the flying fuck is Blackbay Asylum 20€? o_O these devs need to start taking a good hard look at their indie prices

gots to wait for Dusk to buy it I guess, since he is obligated by law to buy every horror game on steam, and post some impressions which I will then wait for a 75% sale to use >_>

I was expecting $9.99 at most.

Oh well, it wasn't like I was going to buy it on release anyway :p
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
im not saying to sell it, just that its nice to have in your account if youre into that kind of thing assuming the bundled ones will be the directors cut from now on (im surprised this isnt)

My point is that it won't be rare. Just like Cryostasis isn't all that rare.
 

Tellaerin

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Epigenesis is out of Early Access and now includes HATS.

Fuck yes.

Space Basketball baby

Hats don't matter to me one way or the other, but if people are actually playing it now, I may go ahead and install it to mess around when I find the time.
 

Ozium

Member
Hats don't matter to me one way or the other, but if people are actually playing it now, I may go ahead and install it to mess around when I find the time.

HATS!

We should set up a GAF game night for epigenesis, I'm sure enough people have it from bundles...

Start up the game during the launch weekend and get the exclusive Trench Insignia skin for Omani and Argos! The Insignia skin is a sign of your support for Epigenesis and will only be available on selected events. The Trench Insignia skin is available to players who start up the game during the launch weekend, ending on Sunday the 3rd of August at 24:00 CEST. Access the skin from the Skin Manager in the Main Menu.

Complete daily missions and earn Mission Points to spend in the store! Get some swag for your favourite team and show it off in-game! No micro-transactions, only cool hats.
 

MRORANGE

Member
OT should be up between now and when we start. Still trying to figure out what to write. I'm a terrible wordsmith.

- usual games on rota
- nights on when games are occurring
- who is in charge of each region (Hosting games for continent)
- link to steam group
- how to participate
- sever details

that should be enough, you might want to do a google spreadsheet for timetabled games.
 
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