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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
FeedMeAStrayCat said:
I've really wanted a Steam Link, but just spent $30 in credit on Hellblade and I'm poor. I have a long HDMI cable I use to play on my TV, so it's really not necessary for me to have, yet I really want it. Blarghhh.

If this was the Steam Controller though, I would have cried.
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Don't bother with it if you already have an HDMI cable run.
 
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Orakio Rob

Member
FeedMeAStrayCat said:
I've really wanted a Steam Link, but just spent $30 in credit on Hellblade and I'm poor. I have a long HDMI cable I use to play on my TV, so it's really not necessary for me to have, yet I really want it. Blarghhh.

If this was the Steam Controller though, I would have cried.
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I want one, but Valve won´t sell Steam Links to Brazil :(

I game on a notebook, so I can easily hook it to my TV. However, I'll buy a desktop next year. I'm curious: so you use a long HDMI cable, but how do you control the games?
 
Endruen

Endruen

Member
arbok26 said:
Just buy and start playing! I think the first game hasn’t aged well so just start with 3.

Also I don’t think it’ll get cheaper this holiday season, it’ll probably be 60% for the Nov, Dec sales.
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Yeah, no way I'll do this, not my style. At least I'd play the second one, I've heard it's pretty good.

zkylon said:
the previous games are not necessary but they're very good and there's good payoff for playing them all

if i were you i'd buy witcha 1 and start there
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Well, good news since I already have the first one.

Anyway, I ended up deciding to buy it and that way I'll be motivated to read the books even faster, so thanks all.
 
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Mavromatis

Member
Free game from humble ending at 4th of November.
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LurkerPrime

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I played and beat Cave Story+ in a single sesion today and man... that game is really good. It's a masterclass in using what you have to full effect. I played the freeware version ages ago and got stuck on the final boss--I'm glad to have finally seen it through fully. It's so charming.

I do wish the + version was a little closer to the freeware one, though. Original music and visuals are not enough--I missed the original translation, if only for Balrog's "HUZZAH!" Also, there was some weird, glitchy visual bug for the entire game, where certain tiles of the world would blink out of existence for a split second; it didn't affect gameplay or performance at all but it was annoying. And I dunno that I exited out of the end credits properly? Oh well.

But still, everyone should play Cave Story+. No excuses. Some real GOAT game design on display. It's incredibly fun.
 
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Nzyme32

Member
Zeneric said:
Civ 6's reception on Steam is bad. Is it really that bad?
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I love it. It's getting better with each update.

Only things Civ V has over Civ VI is William Morgan Sheppard, and the same issue as the Civ IV to V shuffle - it's hard to move to a new system that doesn't behave the same as the old one, so it can feel comfortable to just go back to the old one you know.
 
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Chairmanchuck

Member
Is there something wrong with Steam releases lately? Every time a game is supposed to release at xx:00, it always takes a while now instead of directly releasing at that time.
 
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Nezzhil

Member
Free Civ3 for anyone that doesn't have a HumbleBundle account or don't want to make login ;)

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Arthea

Member
bobnowhere said:
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/676430/header.jpg?t=1508351938[/IMG[/URL]

Another fantastic short puzzle game from the creator of Klocki, Zenge and Hook. In this one your job is to push all the buttons in each puzzle in a specific sequence on the 3D surface.

In each puzzle you could be matching numbers, shapes, following numerical sequences, following directions and more. In later levels parts of the puzzle can be rotated and moved as the puzzle appears on on all surfaces. New concepts are usually introduced well in short puzzles before expanding the concept to more complex ones and there was only one early on that involved counting up and then down that was a little unclear.

At about an hour of so the game doesn't outstay his welcome and is a steal at the low price.[/QUOTE]

That looks nice, thanks, wishlisted
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bbd23

Member
did dawn of war 3 bomb?

i swear it was like 80 canadian dollars at release. base price shows as 47.99 now with the weekend deal bringing it to 23.99 already. dang
 
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Zeneric

Member
Nzyme32 said:
I love it. It's getting better with each update.

Only things Civ V has over Civ VI is William Morgan Sheppard, and the same issue as the Civ IV to V shuffle - it's hard to move to a new system that doesn't behave the same as the old one, so it can feel comfortable to just go back to the old one you know.
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Good to know updates make it better. I'm considering buying it (gotta ask my wife - she might say no); I have a coupon (50% off) on Steam for Civ 6 that brings the base price down to $40 CAD.
 
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Orakio Rob

Member
LurkerPrime said:
I played and beat Cave Story+ in a single sesion today and man... that game is really good. It's a masterclass in using what you have to full effect.
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There's also Ikachan, from the same dev. It's way smaller in scope, but man, it's such an enjoyable game. I bought it on the 3DS because it was really cheap and I beat it in less than an hour, but it's so delightful that I probably finished it five or six times.
 
J

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
C4rter said:
It's missing some songs of the soundtrack which apparently was the reason it got removed back then.
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The licensed tracks were just replaced with 6KB files of nothingness rather than removed from the game entirely, so that's easily fixed:

JaseC said:
Reinserting the licensed tracks may just be a simple matter of replacing the modified ab.dta with the original version. I've uploaded it here if someone wants to give that a go.

Edit: Try overwriting the files in SOUNDS\MUSIC with these versions.
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
bbd23 said:
did dawn of war 3 bomb?

i swear it was like 80 canadian dollars at release. base price shows as 47.99 now with the weekend deal bringing it to 23.99 already. dang
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was thinking the same, its 39.99€ base price now.
 
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The Dear Leader

Banned
Mafia I still holds up, had to download a couple mods to get it looking and running right for me but it's still an impressive looking game for how old it is and it plays really nice too. With this and SWAT 4, I gotta give GOG props for helping to bring back some real classics lost to time and licensing issues.
 
AHA-Lambda

AHA-Lambda

Member
Damn, if you thought the
D&D
scene from Ep 1 was good in Life is Strange BTS, wait until you see the
play
scene
 
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Hektor

Member
AHA-Lambda said:
Damn, if you thought the
D&D
scene from Ep 1 was good in Life is Strange BTS, wait until you see the
play
scene
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Gonna finish South Park first, but very much looking forward to it. Based on the first episode alone i liked BtS more than the original, hope they can keep that quality to the end.
 
C

Creamium

shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
Oh shit, I just unlocked the record ability in Talos Principle. This is going to get crazy. Already did one puzzle where I had to use a phantom node to redirect a beam, which is basically the tutorial for way more complicated stuff later on I guess
 
me0wish

me0wish

Member
LurkerPrime said:
But still, everyone should play Cave Story+. No excuses. Some real GOAT game design on display. It's incredibly fun.
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Did you do the true ending? I don't want to spoil, but the process of obtaining it made it become from a great game to one of my favorite games of all time.

If you liked CS, give Kero blaster a try, made by the same guy and plays beautifully.
 
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LurkerPrime

Member
me0wish said:
Did you do the true ending? I don't want to spoil, but the process of obtaining it made it become from a great game to one of my favorite games of all time.

If you liked CS, give Kero blaster a try, made by the same guy and plays beautifully.
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Wasn't good enough for the true ending, but I'm looking forward to it in a replay sometime.

And, Kero Blaster... I don't remember what disinterested me in it anymore. I think it was something to do with the controls. But right now it's hard not to add it to my wishlist, so I will.
 
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