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Voted God Mode. Bulletstorm for $5 is an increase from the price i got it at LAST YEAR and EYE for $1 is just going to force impulse buys and backlog overload.
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Steam Holiday Sales 2013: DIE HARDER
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Too busy naming their kids after gaffers.
Buttonbasher
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I'm in the same place with 'Yesterday'. It's 4.99 on Steam, but it's 99 cents on iOS. I should just get the iOS version but the choice remains hard.
indigo-cyclops
Member
sent christine love my cake pic
now I'm nervous
is it a good mmo to like play on your own and make an effort not to communicate with anyone?
It's nice to play solo actually. A lot of good quests for it, especially the Investigation quests. Challenging, and well-written.
The nightmare dungeons are perfect for teaming up. Hard as hell, but very rewarding. The game may not have revolutionized the MMO genre, but I believe it brought some really unique things to the table. Adventure-style quests and difficulty, puzzles, great characters and dialogue, and an amazing atmosphere.
I think that's why it's 90% off every sale, it's become the big bigs over the road racing of incredible machine clones and the devs/publisher know all too well.
It's fun~
Winterblink
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Heh, no problem. I DO like the ball physics of Pinball Arcade better, but that's my own opinion. Note that PA is a free game to download, and comes with a free table to play. You can also try out the other tables in a demo form (score limited) in case you're curious to see whether you'd like it.
Warning: the menus are complete garbage.
thanks, that does sound really cool.
hmm
usually flash sales are on the same price as dailies but seeing as the price cut isn't too exciting and it's prolly gonna be a daily anyways (or at least a repeat flash sale at some point) I'd wait
Pinball FX is the one that was just in the humble sale wasn't it? still furious over missing that. The Marvel tables looked awesome.
VitalNerve
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1 more minute, God I hope I don't get bad rats
Interesting. It sounds alot like the good old days of Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
This is your chance to be "the beater who solos the front lines."
This is pretty much why I havn't picked up 10,000.000 yet. I understand why it's done and all that with the margins being pretty ridiculously bad on mobile platforms, but it doesn't change the bottom line that it feels like paying an artificial premium. Puts regional pricing into better perspective too. Stinks, all that. Well, unless you're in Russia
Could someone be kind enough to get me Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance from Gamefly? I don't live in the US.
Hey, I can do it!
EDIT: If I recall correctly, you don't get the key from Gamefly until the game comes out :/
One of the best Star Wars games ever made. Shame they don't make another one like it.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Just played Blade Symphony for 25 minutes. Can watch my video of it here: http://www.twitch.tv/aestheticgolem/b/489030336
I like it! More than I was expecting too, in-fact. I finished the default tutorial, and played two matches online, one in Duel Mode, one in Free-For-All Mode. The game is in early access, but it actually is fairly fleshed out as it is now. The promise of future content is promising though.
The game has four classes, one with a slower 'Drunken' style of sword-fighting, one with a focus on speed (who I played), one with a focus on combos and linking attacks, and one who focused on being good at dodging, parrying, etc. Each class also has three different battle stances, that you switch between on the fly with the mouse wheel or number keys on the keyboard. Battle Stances change how you hold your sword, how you attack with it, and how you move.
Combat is open to play-style heavily (and I compliment their balance and allowance for different play styles for what I played), but you can roll around to dodge, parry attacks, strike from different angles, charge attacks, pull together moves for combos, or even go classic samurai style and run at each other and swing your sword at the other last minute... Or jump around or whatever. The controls are simple, but have a lot of depth to them. You can see a 'sword angle' that tell you how you are going to swing your sword, based on your current movement (of keyboard and mouse), battle stance, and the like.
Online netcode seemed good, and it has plenty of people playing right now. The two modes I played were Duel and Free-For-All. In Duel, you spectate other players (either with player camera or free camera) between several different matches happening at once (there were three different matches happening in the server I was in I could freely switch between to watch). You que yourself up and get into a 'line' to fight who is the current 'king' of an arena. If you dethrone the king, you then will fight each person in line until you lose. One on one, pretty interesting.
Free-For-All puts you in a large hub-like area, with somewhere between 8-32 other people. You all can just attack each other freely, or go into standby mode to just watch others fight, or challenge someone to a duel for a one-on-one match where the other players become silhouettes and you two can only see and attack the other. This mode interests me, its also fun how the area is pretty big and has some good fun just exploring and multiple possible battle arenas.
I would say if you're intrigued, go for it for $3.
Lonewolf_92
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thanks
I was kinda interested in it because people said it had actually interesting quests and stuff
I just want a cool rpg and the setting is super appealing to me, but if it's just another mmorpg then it's no thanks
that's what I'm trying to figure out
It's a fun game and an interesting setting, my gf and I had fun playing it together.
AcceptableGhost
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Does Blade Symphony use Steamworks for multi or their own stuff?
Hmm, yeah I think one of the snow globes is from Payday 2 so it'll probably be a daily. And hopefully lower.
Intheflorsh
Banned
ModBot said:Instructions for participants:
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It saw that one of the games was Bad Rats and said "Okay, I'm not doing this anymore."
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Guess who just bought FF7?
Uh.
Yeah.
Gettin' jiggy with it,
Uh.
Yeah.
Gettin' jiggy with it,
Imagine how awful you would feel if your Bad Rats finally killed ModBot where bullets, Lawnmower Men, the cast of ReBoot, and Kyle Reese couldn't.
You are a good person.
B... But, that wasn't on your list!
Did some awesome GAFFER gift it to you or did you just buy it on a whim? Either way its only 4 bucks and one of the all time greats.
Oh damn! That's a shame. Thanks for the offer, though!
It got a copy of Bad Rats and went home in shame
Cloudius12
Member
Just played Blade Symphony for 25 minutes. Can watch my video of it here: http://www.twitch.tv/aestheticgolem/b/489030336
I like it! More than I was expecting too, in-fact. I finished the default tutorial, and played two matches online, one in Duel Mode, one in Free-For-All Mode. The game is in early access, but it actually is fairly fleshed out as it is now. The promise of future content is promising though.
The game has four classes, one with a slower 'Drunken' style of sword-fighting, one with a focus on speed (who I played), one with a focus on combos and linking attacks, and one who focused on being good at dodging, parrying, etc. Each class also has three different battle stances, that you switch between on the fly with the mouse wheel or number keys on the keyboard. Battle Stances change how you hold your sword, how you attack with it, and how you move.
Combat is open to play-style heavily (and I compliment their balance and allowance for different play styles for what I played), but you can roll around to dodge, parry attacks, strike from different angles, charge attacks, pull together moves for combos, or even go classic samurai style and run at each other and swing your sword at the other last minute... Or jump around or whatever. The controls are simple, but have a lot of depth to them. You can see a 'sword angle' that tell you how you are going to swing your sword, based on your current movement (of keyboard and mouse), battle stance, and the like.
Online netcode seemed good, and it has plenty of people playing right now. The two modes I played were Duel and Free-For-All. In Duel, you spectate other players (either with player camera or free camera) between several different matches happening at once (there were three different matches happening in the server I was in I could freely switch between to watch). You que yourself up and get into a 'line' to fight who is the current 'king' of an arena. If you dethrone the king, you then will fight each person in line until you lose. One on one, pretty interesting.
Free-For-All puts you in a large hub-like area, with somewhere between 8-32 other people. You all can just attack each other freely, or go into standby mode to just watch others fight, or challenge someone to a duel for a one-on-one match where the other players become silhouettes and you two can only see and attack the other. This mode interests me, its also fun how the area is pretty big and has some good fun just exploring and multiple possible battle arenas.
I would say if you're intrigued, go for it for $3.
Thanks for your impression. For $3, why not.
SinineSiil claimed your Mystery Game #2 key. There were 27 entrants.
xenoflux2113 claimed your Mystery Game #3 key. There were 26 entrants.
bkw claimed your Mystery Game #4 key. There were 51 entrants.
Dr.Acula claimed your Mystery Game #5 key. There were 14 entrants.
Weird. Did no one go for Game #1?
Anyway. It looks like SinineSiil is the big winner.
xenoflux2113 claimed your Mystery Game #3 key. There were 26 entrants.
bkw claimed your Mystery Game #4 key. There were 51 entrants.
Dr.Acula claimed your Mystery Game #5 key. There were 14 entrants.
Weird. Did no one go for Game #1?
Anyway. It looks like SinineSiil is the big winner.
Rickenslacker
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There's also no reason not to give it a whirl since it's free to download, comes with a complementary table, and allows you to trial every table to see if anything strikes your fancy. It's won me over between the two after playing a bit of both.
Beelzeboss
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The bad rats paradox broke Modbot
You can't have a giveaway for a game nobody wants.
You can't have a giveaway for a game nobody wants.
Lol, went for 4, most entrants.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Damn, 4 was not the one to back.
I think Nuuvem has it for pretty cheap, so you might want to try there (though I think you have to have a Brazil proxy to use it, not too sure)
It's a one time login.
chixdiggit
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Yes, amazing deal.
PandaPedinte
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The game is a shmup with some platformer parts, mostly to explore the world to collect sketches and interact with the NPC's. The controls are ok, imo the mouse control is the best option for the shooter parts (didn't play with a controller), you can cusyomize your ship and choose the parts before starting the missions. While it may not bring nothing new to the genre - gameplay wise - the game visual is excellent and unique.
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