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STEAM | August 2015 - Three versions of Windows since the last Half-Life

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Tizoc

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Lunaniem said:
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https://www.humblebundle.com/store/bundle/telltalegames/

Game of Thrones & Tales from Borderlands come out to pretty cheap if you bundle Poker Night/400 Days with them.
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OH THANKS SO MUCH FOR MENTIONING THIS! Now I can the 3 missing TT games for under $15!
Can you make a thread about this?
 
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Chariot

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Soulflarz said:
Hows the cherry tree high comedy club thing? That's on sale :3
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Short, but very funny and cute. It got the dating sim gameplay with managing your day, balancing school, work, hobbies and friends, without the dating aspect. You're jsut a happy go lucky girl that wants to save her club and befriends people.
 
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Caerith

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AHA-Lambda said:
Speaking personally:

Dark Souls 3
Deus Ex 4
XCOM 2
Mirror's Edge 2
Uncharted 4 (second time I turn my ps4 on in 12 months?)
Resident Evil 0 HD
Unravel
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No Cook, Serve, Delicious 2?

Leafhopper said:
For the 100th time, MOBA doesn't actually mean anything. Multiplayer Online Battle Arena means actually nothing. It doesn't play like LoL or Dota, it's not an RTS like game. I played it, it's actually pretty fun, I was in the Alpha. I don't have Windows 10, nor do I feel like installing it yet and for the beta you have to have that from that point forward.

In any case MOBA is a dumb term and people need to not just make judgments based off of hearing that. People need to actually try these multiplayer games and not just be immediately doom them because the term "MOBA" is used.
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I agree that words often don't mean what they're supposed to in video games. The literal definition of "MOBA" is so broad that it ought to be used-- well, it ought to be used not at all-- to describe games like Unreal Tournament and Brawlhalla (multiplayer and online, battling in an arena), but through usage it has come to mean something else. So just like the term "roguelike" means you're going to get hatemail from internet pedants telling you you're using it wrong, "MOBA" means "DOTA-like" and when I see something described as a MOBA, that's what I think.

Glad it's a good game, sorry it's being categorized with boring stuff.
 
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dex3108

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After playing Fallout Shelter since release i need to say that is one really, really bad game. It is not satisfying at all, there are barely any things to do. Start game, tap 5-6 times on screen, close game. Repeat every few hours. Damn i have more fun with Angry Birds 2 than this.
 
corrosivefrost

corrosivefrost

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Lunaniem said:
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https://www.humblebundle.com/store/bundle/telltalegames/

Game of Thrones & Tales from Borderlands come out to pretty cheap if you bundle Poker Night/400 Days with them.
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They're not Steam keys though, are they? GMG doesn't sell Steam keys for those two, for example, they just require a TellTale account for the DRM.

Leafhopper said:
It did. I wanna came out around the time of something else too, not to mention people not liking it as much as the first.
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Being a Nintendo exclusive didn't help anything either, I'd wager. Even if I wanted to support the game, it wasn't on PSN or Steam.
 
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Leafhopper

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Caerith said:
I agree that words often don't mean what they're supposed to in video games. The literal definition of "MOBA" is so broad that it ought to be used-- well, it ought to be used not at all-- to describe games like Unreal Tournament and Brawlhalla (multiplayer and online, battling in an arena), but through usage it has come to mean something else. So just like the term "roguelike" means you're going to get hatemail from internet pedants telling you you're using it wrong, "MOBA" means "DOTA-like" and when I see something described as a MOBA, that's what I think.

Glad it's a good game, sorry it's being categorized with boring stuff.
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No need to apologize I just blame the term MOBA more than anything ;_;.
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
L.O.R.D said:
Stealth Inc 2
12 all-time peak

i think the $15 price tag is the reason why this game bombed hard
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There are a lot of reasons.

Too high of a launch price.
5 month exclusivity to Wii U.
PC Launch Exclusivity to Humble Bundle.
Little promotion and hype around its eventual release.

The days of plopping down your indie game and making a small fortune are long over.
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
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Spirited

Mine is pretty and pink
corrosivefrost said:
Huh, I didn't think Mankind Divided was going to be so soon... same with Mirror's Edge 2 and Uncharted 4 -- I thought Uncharted 4 got pushed back a good bit already instead of launching in Holiday 2015 timeframe.
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Yup and both Stellaris and HoI4 is coming on the GSG front :(

Q1 will be really hard to prioritise what to buy in.
 
corrosivefrost

corrosivefrost

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L.O.R.D said:
wait , how did you mange to make it under $11 ?
Game of Thrones is $15
Tales from the Borderlands is $12.5
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It's not rocket science. You add poker night, poker night 2, and puzzle agent to get the max discount.

It's even listed right at the bottom of the OP of the thread he made:
Humble Bundle is running a sale if you bundle 5 TellTale games together, you can get them for 85% off. Bundling them with the cheapest games (Poker Night/400 Days/Puzzle Agent) makes it under $11.
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Poker Night at the Inventory -- MB-C50A09ABEA69DFC6 - Taken by Spirited
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A spare.
 
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Nyteshade517

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Tales From The Borderlands, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, Poker Night, and Poker Night 2 for $13.49...not a bad deal

L.O.R.D said:
wait , how did you mange to make it under $11 ?
Game of Thrones is $15
Tales from the Borderlands is $12.5
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the individual games have discounts...that bundle discount uses the games full price first then applies the bundle discount
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
jshackles said:
Never change Steam Support
Actually, please change.
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I'd just send bug reports to security@valvesoftware.com.

LurkerPrime said:
And Steam Support isn't outsourced at all, right? It's like they don't care at all.
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I'm convinced the way Valve's support system works is that a response is recommended based on certain detected keywords and the opening message isn't actually read until the ticket is bumped by the user.
 
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Caerith

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morningbus said:
There are a lot of reasons.

Too high of a launch price.
5 month exclusivity to Wii U.
PC Launch Exclusivity to Humble Bundle.
Little promotion and hype around its eventual release.

The days of plopping down your indie game and making a small fortune are long over.
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Not having the same name as the first game probably didn't help.
 
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The Red Wizard

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Edit: Thank you, sixclaws :D

Argh! I added Puzzle Agent instead of 400 days to that Humble Bundle deal. Does anyone want to swap Poker Night 1, Poker Night 2 or Puzzle Agent for 400 days?
 
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zkylon

zkylewd
Maniac said:
I totally get what you mean. FO3's world is a lot more fun, but all the intricate details in NV were just so logical that I can't help but love it.

There's no batshit crazy, illogical settlements built around nukes or inside of incredibly impractical hotel-towers, and every single settlement more or less has a logical reason as to why it's located where it's located... But it's not as fun, but I'll be damned if it isn't a lot more detailed.
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i still don't see what was fun about fo3 but that's just opinion i guess

having to skip all the poorly written dialogue because i felt like i was being stabbed in the heart made everything feel super empty

and for empty post apocalyptic lands i'd rather play stalker :>

Leafhopper said:
For the 100th time, MOBA doesn't actually mean anything. Multiplayer Online Battle Arena means actually nothing. It doesn't play like LoL or Dota, it's not an RTS like game. I played it, it's actually pretty fun, I was in the Alpha. I don't have Windows 10, nor do I feel like installing it yet and for the beta you have to have that from that point forward.

In any case MOBA is a dumb term and people need to not just make judgments based off of hearing that. People need to actually try these multiplayer games and not just be immediately doom them because the term "MOBA" is used.
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i don't know about that game but if it features most of these then it's a moba

two teams with multiple players in each side
each player picks a character with a distinct skill set
map's always the same, usually mirrored with minor differences
there's turrets and creeps to kill
you can level up and/or buy items

like, it's a good term because there's actually a ton of games that fit this description and few of them are rtses. like league is far from an rts. or smite or awesomenauts or whatever

so i think it's a pretty useful word

Maniac said:
You can call any fucking map a battle arena, it's such a nonsense term Riot coined. That's probably the one thing I hate the most about them.
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so basically you have a nitpicky random annoyance? thats a pretty good thing to hate about a company

Caerith said:
I agree that words often don't mean what they're supposed to in video games. The literal definition of "MOBA" is so broad that it ought to be used-- well, it ought to be used not at all-- to describe games like Unreal Tournament and Brawlhalla (multiplayer and online, battling in an arena), but through usage it has come to mean something else. So just like the term "roguelike" means you're going to get hatemail from internet pedants telling you you're using it wrong, "MOBA" means "DOTA-like" and when I see something described as a MOBA, that's what I think.

Glad it's a good game, sorry it's being categorized with boring stuff.
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i mean the literal definition means shit for any genre

"roleplaying game" ... you don't roleplay in other games?

"character action game" ... you're not a character doing action in other games?

"action adventure game" ... most generic thing ever, why does action adventure mean ass creed and aventure maniac mansion...

"strategy game" ... you don't apply strategy in other games? does starcraft not have action in it or whatever? (spoiler: it does, koreans do like a trillion apm)

all the genre names are flawed cos games are a mixed thing that is always a bundle of genres. i swear ppl get hung up on the silliest of things, if ppl just learned to take advantage of the usefulness of genres (easy one word broad categorizing) instead of complaining about the names...

Leafhopper said:
Exactly. You get what I mean. Its fine if you aren't interested in the game, I just said I liked what I played is all lol.

But yeah the term MOBA is just horrible, especially since people have it cemented in their mind that, that means games like Dota or League. ARTS is much better for Dota or League.
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i mean, are they really strategy games? like u only control one character in league or maybe like 10 or 12 units (sometimes) in doto but that's about it, you do mostly second-to-second stuff that's usually closer to arpgs and action games cos you have to aim, dodge, time and collaborate much more than strategize
 
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LurkerPrime

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JaseC said:
I'm convinced the way Valve's support system works is that a response is recommended based on certain detected keywords and the opening message isn't actually read until the ticket is bumped by the user.
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It'd certainly explain responses like jshackles' example.
 
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Erekiddo

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Pretty happy. I had been sitting on a coupon for 75% off Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel for months. It expires on the 31st.

I saw that it dropped to $40 on the Humble Bundle store due to the sale, so I got it for $10.
 
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Sch1sm

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NeoNess said:
Pretty happy. I had been sitting on a coupon for 75% off Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel for months. It expires on the 31st.

I saw that it dropped to $40 on the Humble Bundle store due to the sale, so I got it for $10.
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Oh, wow. I still have this coupon. Didn't realise it dropped. At $10, it's tempting. May buy and then give it away at that price.


E: All that Tell Tale stuff. Oh boy. I have to buy now. I still haven't played Ep 2 onward for GoT, and own none of the others.
 
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