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STEAM Dec. 2016- Thus Crom decrees: Clear Thy Backlog & Uncover The Riddle of Steel

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I may have released a plague across the lands. I am kind of a shitty Witcher.

But I did bag another magic woman. I have needs don't judge me.

Tapejara said:
Reached Anor Londo in Dark Souls PTD last week, but my motivation to play has dropped since getting to those archers. Closest I've got is taking the one on the left out, but then being knocked off immediately by the one on the right.
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You can snipe the right one with arrows by the building corner on the way up. Just inch out slowly and their arrow hits the building.

Or just take a big shield and move up to the right one, let them attack and then counter once, repeat until they die or fall off. The left one cannot even see you when you are there.

EDIT - Hey slabs! New thread.
 
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Tapejara said:
Reached Anor Londo in Dark Souls PTD last week, but my motivation to play has dropped since getting to those archers. Closest I've got is taking the one on the left out, but then being knocked off immediately by the one on the right.
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just gotta learn that they can't hit you if you run
 
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Tapejara

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uncredited male said:
I may have released a plague across the lands. I am kind of a shitty Witcher.

But I did bag another magic woman. I have needs don't judge me.



You can snipe the right one with arrows by the building corner on the way up. Just inch out slowly and their arrow hits the building.

Or just take a big shield and move up to the right one, let them attack and then counter once, repeat until they die or fall off. The left one cannot even see you when you are there.

EDIT - Hey slabs! New thread.
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Anteater said:
just gotta learn that they can't hit you if you run
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Thanks for the tips guys. I think I might just head back to Sen's Fortress or Undead Parish and see if I can stock up on arrows.
 
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jorma

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Added a bunch of games to my wishlist that i was thinking about buying.
Then I bought total warhammer for much more than i planned to spend, and kinda forgot everything else. Worth it though.
 
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MadGear

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After partially replaying Darksiders 2 just recently I'm really looking forward to replaying the imo better Darksiders 1. Darksiders 2 is by far no bad game, there is so much I enjoy about it, but I underestimated how repetitive this game gets after a while. This game just loves making you repeat tasks and due to its somewhat slower pacing progressing in this game feels like a drag at times. I don't know if I used to be more resilient towards repetition in games but this time I just had to stop playing this game (iirc I was almost on my way to earth). Now I just hope that the Warmastered Edition performs well on PC.
 
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The_Super_Inframan

"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
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https://www.humblebundle.com/tycoon-simulator-bundle


edit: beaten *shakes fist*
 
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Ascheroth

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Got this ages ago in the Carpe Fulgur collection, in those dark times where japanese games on Steam were as common as diamonds on my front yard, played it a little at that time and decided to finish that sucker off recently.

The short version: it's a fun little 7-8 hour long action-RPG with a surprisingly interesting story, somewhat basic but very challenging gameplay, a neat magic system, a fishing-minigame, and it has graphics that are a mix of sprites and PS2-level 3D environments.
It's a little rough around the edges but overall pretty fun.

The long version:
Gameplay is essentially battling through a number of dungeons, each divided into a few levels with a boss at the end. A dungeon needs to be completed in a single run and to complete a level you need to kill every single enemy to unlock the exit. However the exit stays unlocked permanently, so if you die midway you can just run through the levels on the next try. Much appreciated.

You can attack with your trusty sword, where proper timing on the last attack of a combo (or in the air) does a more damaging attack, cast magic by gathering magic gems from dropped enemies and dodge.
There's no leveling system, instead you have 3 inventory slots for equipment and there are items to permanently increase your max health.
Every stage has a secret treasure as well for which you need to do some obscure stuff. You can buy hints (which cost you max HP, yeah...), but tbh I just used a guide.

Balancing is usually very tight. Challenging, but not impossible, but it kinda falls apart for the end boss (that has 3 stages).
There's one item you can get in one of the secret treasures that's essentially required to have any reasonable chance at beating the boss without either grinding out max HP or being ridiculously skilled. But if you get that item, chances are that you also have all the others and there's one that makes the 3rd stage a joke. The other 2 were still pretty challenging though!
 
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data

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Zeeman said:
I'm guessing it's because OOTP18 will be launching in March of next year or so, so they want to grab any last minute stragglers
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According to Steamspy it sold 22k copies on Steam... so it's probably just because of bad sales.
 
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Grief.exe

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data said:
According to Steamspy it sold 22k copies on Steam... so it's probably just because of bad sales.
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We need to get people out of this mindset.

For a super niche, low development cost, high margin game that is a solid performance. Games don't necessarily need to sell millions of copies, or even hundreds of thousands to be profitable. Evaluated on a case by case basis intrinsic on development and licensing costs.
Conclusion supported by the Out of the Park 15 sales numbers being similar, yet they have continued to release titles.

Steamspy is as much a blessing as a curse.
 
Lashley

Lashley

Why does he wear the mask!?
Phawx said:
I thought the WarMastered edition was supposed to be free for people who owned the previous stuff?

Edit:... Nm, it said $3.99 and then when I clicked on it, it says it's in my steam library now.
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Same happened to me
 
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Knurek

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Grief.exe said:
We need to get people out of this mindset.

For a super niche, low development cost, high margin game that is a solid performance. Games don't necessarily need to sell millions of copies, or even hundreds of thousands to be profitable. This would be supported by the Out of the Park 15 sales numbers being similar, yet they have continued to release titles.
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Yeah, both 15 and 16 sold the similar amount:

15: 37,731
16: 27,323

(15 was in a $1 Humble Tier as well).
Worth noting for collectors, 17 is an officially licensed game and as such runs into delisting probability.
 
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Jadax

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I've never played OOTP, is it any good?

I'm into sports management games (FM, Cricket, Motorsport, American Football) but I've never watched a game of baseball before.
 
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Knurek

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Jadax said:
I've never played OOTP, is it any good?

I'm into sports management games (FM, Cricket, Motorsport, American Football) but I've never watched a game of baseball before.
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OOTP is like an American version of FM.
Same breadth, scope and simulation quality.
 
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Shalashaska

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Zeeman said:
Yeah, I own OOTP 14 from a Humble Bundle as well, but I checked and that was after 15 went on sale.
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Knurek said:
Yeah, both 15 and 16 sold the similar amount:

15: 37,731
16: 27,323

(15 was in a $1 Humble Tier as well).
Worth noting for collectors, 17 is an officially licensed game and as such runs into delisting probability.
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Guess I've missed the previous games being in $1 territory before!

Grief.exe said:
We need to get people out of this mindset.

For a super niche, low development cost, high margin game that is a solid performance. Games don't necessarily need to sell millions of copies, or even hundreds of thousands to be profitable. Evaluated on a case by case basis intrinsic on development and licensing costs.
Conclusion supported by the Out of the Park 15 sales numbers being similar, yet they have continued to release titles.

Steamspy is as much a blessing as a curse.
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I agree, plus they sell the game on their own site as well so that doesn't fully take into account the number of games sold.

Jadax said:
I've never played OOTP, is it any good?

I'm into sports management games (FM, Cricket, Motorsport, American Football) but I've never watched a game of baseball before.
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It's by far the best baseball sim you can find. The amount of depth can be overwhelming if you're not into baseball.
 
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Vlad

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r3n4ud said:
Hope it's not to attract new members here when the sale is over.

Because that never happens and when it does, they stay for a day or two and disappear lol
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I gave it a fair try the last several sales. See no point in closing the community thread anymore. Let there be two and people decide where to go.
 
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The Dear Leader

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My Steam controller carrying case arrived, really nice quality for $18, protects my precious controller from the insane amount of dust in my house.
 
SkinnerSw33t

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Anyone know what happened with Uplay and Shadows of Mordor? Is Ubi sending out keys or refunding?

Jadax said:
I've never played OOTP, is it any good?

I'm into sports management games (FM, Cricket, Motorsport, American Football) but I've never watched a game of baseball before.
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It's very good, but I doubt you'll like if you don't appreciate baseball.
 
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Tizoc

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Hmm not sure if I'd get it but I'll consider it thanks for the info.

Oh and if anyone is planning on playing Yaiba make sure you play it on Easy, on Normal the tougher enemies take forever to kill @_@
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CheDominik

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OOTP is such a time sink. It's great but if you don't know about baseball you'll find yourself lost or you have some serious reading up to do.


btw: Youtuber's Life sounds terrible.
 
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Monooboe

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I think I'm going to try and save up all my card money towards a Steam controller. Sure I might have thought it every time and the moment a game is on sale that I want to play it's hard to resist but THIS TIME I will try.:D

So, seeing as I don't really have many carddrops left I need to start bulking up on bundles and save up cent by cent. So winter sale 2017!
 
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