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STEAM | December 2015 - _ Diretide Greetings and Happy Holidailies
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Chance Hale
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Did anyone ever figure out the game that gave Holy a panic attack?
TheAutomator
Banned
HolyBaikal. I can't forget his username. Legendary member.
Saints Row 3 I think.
Jawmuncher
Member
Saints Row 3
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Saints Row 3
Ah there you go. I'm happy for HolyBaikal.
TheAutomator
Banned
probably Call of Duty
Mr. Luchador
Member
All because of dildos. I admire his standards.
HolyBaikal died for us so we could remove those games that are a stain on our Steam accounts. So much bundle tier shit is getting axed from my account. You could say it's wasteful but hey money still went to charity and the devs.
I think the top rated Steam review at the mo reflects my initial thought 'So what's all the fuss about then? *gets to second room* oh Oh OH OHHHHHHHH!'
Trivia quizzes have doomed us all!
Don't worry, I'm giving in to the peer pressure too
I think the top rated Steam review at the mo reflects my initial thought 'So what's all the fuss about then? *gets to second room* oh Oh OH OHHHHHHHH!'
Trivia quizzes have doomed us all!
This is new? Now you can automatically get games removed from Steam account without refund. It even lets you select package to be removed.
Great, I recently sent a ticket to have 3 garbage games removed from my account but never got an answer. This will make it much easier and quicker.
Those 3 were Superfrog HD, Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan, Canyon Capers. Awful games that were only played because of Playfire rewards.
I probably have more shitty games but still haven't played them.
The store page mentioned February 2016 when it was accidentally published, but at this point it's safe to assume that was a placeholder.
MMBosstones86
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that was the GOAT SteamGAF breakdown.
He's American, it's okay.
The announced release window is 2016 but I have a feeling it's going to slip.
Jawmuncher
Member
Why am I lumped with NA when being SA gets cheap SFV? Unfair
The plight of our people wanting to be a commonwealth. All we are left with now is high priced milk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Made this post in best console this year for game releases, someone asked for PC exclusives, I named horror ones, and thought to share the post here:
Oh boy, it's hard because there's so many. In this year alone, for example, there were literally about 25-50 games releasing every week on Steam alone, and this number is absolutely no exaggeration. And the surprising thing is a high number of them were actually really good.
I am a horror enthusiast, so I'll focus on that, but this year there were multiple really good titles for every taste and genre. I'm sure someone else will answer more generally, but there's a HIGH number of games that releases on PC.
On Steam alone, there are 326 games that have releases this year so far with the horror tag. This includes basically every horror game on consoles, and most come out months before their console counterparts and with better all around versions, but a high number of other titles.
For comparison quickly, checking, there were (So far, as December is not done yet) 2,784 games that have released on Steam alone this year. And this is straight-up games, not including DLC or other things. A lot of those titles were exclusive to PC, and a surprising number of them were actually really good.
For my horror enthusiasm, a few I want to point out from this year that didn't show up on other platforms:
Here's just a few misc horror games, one genre alone, and some exclusive games definitely worth checking out that came out this year:
Sunless Sea
You are the captain of a ship off to sea. A unique horror rogue-like with Lovecraftian tones where you can do anything to survive, eat your crew, discover secrets of the deep, all told with amazing writing and a unique narrative.
Screens:
[URL="http://store.steampowered.com/app/342350"]
Into The Gloom
Simplistic style, but featuring an extremely tense atmosphere, effective scares, and twisted puzzles. Into the Gloom also has a branching storyline and is up there as one of the scarier games I've played despite its simplistic style.
Screens:
Lakeview Cabin Trilogy
An episodic horror-comedy game where you can do whatever you want, mess around with random items in the environment, survive a killer, become the killer, kill you friends, streak naked, summon the devil, get eaten by wildlife, kill yourself, ride a motorcycle, a zipline, jump into a wood chipper, play different group of friends, etc. It's basically an open-world sandbox stylized like horror movie sequels, currently 5 out of 6 of the episodes are released, very fun, dumb, funny, and sometimes tense.
Screens:
DreadOut
Indonasian horror game inspired by Fatal Frame, quite good, low-budget, but makes up for it in design and ambition. Second half of the game released this year, included some unforgettable horror scenes. One of the best modern 'classic' styled horror games to release.
Screens:
The Music Machine
A stylistic narrative-driven experience about a girl who either has split personalities or is possessed by the spirit of an adult killer who travel back to a campsite she once stayed at now long abandoned to learn a hidden truth. Quite interesting, I liked it quite a bit.
Screens:
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Kholat
Atmospheric game based on the Devils Pass incident in Russia, go through an open would mountain range where strange occurences occur. Includes vocal tracks by Mary Elizabeth of Silent Hill fame and voice acting by Sean Bean. Some pretty interesting moments and gorgeous visuals.
Screens:
Sylvio
Very unique horror game starring a psychic woman going to talk with ghosts in an abandoned amusement park surrounded by mystery. Use audio recordings you pick up to record and decipher ghost messages by editing them, drive around, survive ghosts, solve puzzles. Has won some recognition, including one of Rock, Paper, Shotgun's top 25 horror games of all time, and is incredibly unique.
Screens:
Homesick
You explore an abandoned building overrun with plant life and decay, trying to figure out clues to what happened to lead to this place to become abandoned for your own personal reasons, but soon get trapped into a nightmare. Gorgeous visuals, clever puzzles, interesting scenes.
Screens:
Monstrum
Randomly generated horror rogue-like where you get a random ship layout, but also a random monster of several. You have to find an escape method of the ship, there's several ways to accomplish this, while you avoid a sinister monster on-board the ship with you, all with different behaviors. Can be very different from experience to experience based on layout, the monster chasing you, and which method (of multiple possible) you're trying to use to get off the ship.
Screens:
Her Story
By the creators of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, an FMV game where you put together the story of a woman through tapes and records you have that unveils a very interestingly woven tale.
Screens:
Spooky's House of Jump Scares
A freeware horror game where you must transverse 1000 rooms to escape a mansion full of strange designs and monstrosities. Somewhat of a parody game, but definitely has its moments.
Screens:
Fran Bow
Drawn horror point'n'click featuring a young girl locked into a mental institute after the murder of her parents she blames on a demon she saw. She believes if she can escape the nuthouse, her old cat will lead her to the saftey of her aunt's home, so she goes to make her way out. Interesting world, characters, puzzles, and up there as one of the best horror point'n'clicks I've played.
Screens:
Stray Cat Crossing
A grim dark fairytale-like story of a strange colorful surreal but dark and twisted world with strange characters, and a story that slowly unveils. Includes animated cutscenes and a 16-bit style.
Screens:
Layers of Fear
One of the best regarded horror games of this year, Layers of Fear tells a story of an artist delving into a twisted world of his own nightmares and paintings. Somewhat P.T. inspired, but very much its own thing, many consider it to have passed its source of inspiration and be one of the best horror experiences of the year.
Screens:
Undertale
More of an RPG, but it does sport the horror tag on Steam as well. One of the best regarded games of this year that has become one of the highest rated and highly acclaimed games of all time, and for good reason.
Screens:
--
AND I AM SO HOLDING MYSELF BACK. There's a bajillion other horror exclusives that released, some of which is very, very good. Including Pathologic HD Remaster, the re-translation and new artwork version of Higurashi, a game I really liked called The Coma... And it goes on and on, and this is just horror games, there's almost 3000 games that released on Steam alone this year, and many are very, very good.
Oh boy, it's hard because there's so many. In this year alone, for example, there were literally about 25-50 games releasing every week on Steam alone, and this number is absolutely no exaggeration. And the surprising thing is a high number of them were actually really good.
I am a horror enthusiast, so I'll focus on that, but this year there were multiple really good titles for every taste and genre. I'm sure someone else will answer more generally, but there's a HIGH number of games that releases on PC.
On Steam alone, there are 326 games that have releases this year so far with the horror tag. This includes basically every horror game on consoles, and most come out months before their console counterparts and with better all around versions, but a high number of other titles.
For comparison quickly, checking, there were (So far, as December is not done yet) 2,784 games that have released on Steam alone this year. And this is straight-up games, not including DLC or other things. A lot of those titles were exclusive to PC, and a surprising number of them were actually really good.
For my horror enthusiasm, a few I want to point out from this year that didn't show up on other platforms:
Here's just a few misc horror games, one genre alone, and some exclusive games definitely worth checking out that came out this year:
Sunless Sea
You are the captain of a ship off to sea. A unique horror rogue-like with Lovecraftian tones where you can do anything to survive, eat your crew, discover secrets of the deep, all told with amazing writing and a unique narrative.
Screens:
[URL="http://store.steampowered.com/app/342350"]
Into The Gloom
Simplistic style, but featuring an extremely tense atmosphere, effective scares, and twisted puzzles. Into the Gloom also has a branching storyline and is up there as one of the scarier games I've played despite its simplistic style.
Screens:
Lakeview Cabin Trilogy
An episodic horror-comedy game where you can do whatever you want, mess around with random items in the environment, survive a killer, become the killer, kill you friends, streak naked, summon the devil, get eaten by wildlife, kill yourself, ride a motorcycle, a zipline, jump into a wood chipper, play different group of friends, etc. It's basically an open-world sandbox stylized like horror movie sequels, currently 5 out of 6 of the episodes are released, very fun, dumb, funny, and sometimes tense.
Screens:
DreadOut
Indonasian horror game inspired by Fatal Frame, quite good, low-budget, but makes up for it in design and ambition. Second half of the game released this year, included some unforgettable horror scenes. One of the best modern 'classic' styled horror games to release.
Screens:
The Music Machine
A stylistic narrative-driven experience about a girl who either has split personalities or is possessed by the spirit of an adult killer who travel back to a campsite she once stayed at now long abandoned to learn a hidden truth. Quite interesting, I liked it quite a bit.
Screens:
[/URL]
Kholat
Atmospheric game based on the Devils Pass incident in Russia, go through an open would mountain range where strange occurences occur. Includes vocal tracks by Mary Elizabeth of Silent Hill fame and voice acting by Sean Bean. Some pretty interesting moments and gorgeous visuals.
Screens:
Sylvio
Very unique horror game starring a psychic woman going to talk with ghosts in an abandoned amusement park surrounded by mystery. Use audio recordings you pick up to record and decipher ghost messages by editing them, drive around, survive ghosts, solve puzzles. Has won some recognition, including one of Rock, Paper, Shotgun's top 25 horror games of all time, and is incredibly unique.
Screens:
Homesick
You explore an abandoned building overrun with plant life and decay, trying to figure out clues to what happened to lead to this place to become abandoned for your own personal reasons, but soon get trapped into a nightmare. Gorgeous visuals, clever puzzles, interesting scenes.
Screens:
Monstrum
Randomly generated horror rogue-like where you get a random ship layout, but also a random monster of several. You have to find an escape method of the ship, there's several ways to accomplish this, while you avoid a sinister monster on-board the ship with you, all with different behaviors. Can be very different from experience to experience based on layout, the monster chasing you, and which method (of multiple possible) you're trying to use to get off the ship.
Screens:
Her Story
By the creators of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, an FMV game where you put together the story of a woman through tapes and records you have that unveils a very interestingly woven tale.
Screens:
Spooky's House of Jump Scares
A freeware horror game where you must transverse 1000 rooms to escape a mansion full of strange designs and monstrosities. Somewhat of a parody game, but definitely has its moments.
Screens:
Fran Bow
Drawn horror point'n'click featuring a young girl locked into a mental institute after the murder of her parents she blames on a demon she saw. She believes if she can escape the nuthouse, her old cat will lead her to the saftey of her aunt's home, so she goes to make her way out. Interesting world, characters, puzzles, and up there as one of the best horror point'n'clicks I've played.
Screens:
Stray Cat Crossing
A grim dark fairytale-like story of a strange colorful surreal but dark and twisted world with strange characters, and a story that slowly unveils. Includes animated cutscenes and a 16-bit style.
Screens:
Layers of Fear
One of the best regarded horror games of this year, Layers of Fear tells a story of an artist delving into a twisted world of his own nightmares and paintings. Somewhat P.T. inspired, but very much its own thing, many consider it to have passed its source of inspiration and be one of the best horror experiences of the year.
Screens:
Undertale
More of an RPG, but it does sport the horror tag on Steam as well. One of the best regarded games of this year that has become one of the highest rated and highly acclaimed games of all time, and for good reason.
Screens:
--
AND I AM SO HOLDING MYSELF BACK. There's a bajillion other horror exclusives that released, some of which is very, very good. Including Pathologic HD Remaster, the re-translation and new artwork version of Higurashi, a game I really liked called The Coma... And it goes on and on, and this is just horror games, there's almost 3000 games that released on Steam alone this year, and many are very, very good.
This is new? Now you can automatically get games removed from Steam account without refund. It even lets you select package to be removed.
My God, yeeeesss, I have some... embarrassing weeaboo bundle crap I've been regretting activating
Kurt Russell
Member
Amazing movie, everyone should watch it.
Nabs
Member
next gen feature
TheAutomator
Banned
I can emulate Pillars of Eternity on my PS4. WHAT NOW???
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
i'm just happy there seems to be a sane Steam Controller profile for PoE because I need to use that thing for something eventually.
Congratulations! Your chosen platform did have the best line up in 2015. Good luck next year.
I'm not a foaming at the mouth platform champion you know
.I still don't know what dirt Newegg has on SE to get that kind of sale months in advance and those Final Fantasy prices last week.
rainking187
Member
I'm curious to know if you can remove one game from your library using this new feature if you got it from a Humble Weekly where everything is tied to one key, or if it will just remove the whole bundle.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Hasn't been discounted once since it's been selling shit tons without it. It's been one of the top-selling steam games the last few months without any discounts.
Undertale was a small kickstarted game that released in August, and has quickly garnered a huge following and become one of the best reviewed games of all time. In big part it's due to a lot of things the game does quite originally. It's a game best not spoiled, but to say in basic, the game is extremely well told and meta. The game doesn't specifically end when you close it, and one of the big taglines is, "THE RPG WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO KILL ANYONE!"... Though alternatively, you can kill everyone.
It's incredibly hard to explain without spoiling elements of it, but let's say there's a LOT to it.
Though I hate Metacritic personally, here's the games Metacritic page, some of the reviews may be able to explain it better without straight-up spoiling stuff about it: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/undertale
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MMBosstones86
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Banned.
2 Piata Games I had left.
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TheAutomator
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Lol @Playstation game awards sales having some better prices.
Nah. You could already remove F2P licenses for a while. (unless you bought a dlc that made it tie to your account, that is)
Tektonic
Member
Hey everybody (apart from TheAutomator), play DOWNWELL!
PetriP-TNT
Member
Her Story looks pretty interesting, might pick that up
yeah not sure.
like, i'd like to remove games so they don't bother me in my games list but there's a hide function for that already, and if i remove games my count goes down and so it takes more games for me to level up or something and have more shots at boosters or however that shitty system works
i'd rather just hide them
is it today?
i very much recommend it if figuring out what happened and piecing together a story are things you enjoy (say, in souls games)
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