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Steam Holiday Sales 2014 | OT | !
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Sounds good, buying it now. Can anyone recommend Bound by Flame for $9.99? Just finished Dragon age and looking for another RPG.
The dailies seem alot worse every year.
Complete bull in my opinion. While it certainly isn't the best if you own almost all the good stuff, my friends are having a whale of a time, being between completely new and 3 year veterans to steam.
onetoescape
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Can you play on controller? I'm living room based now.
How long does it usually take modbot to send a code?
Seriously, such a fantastic game. Can't recommend it enough.
The Shogun
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Hows Age of Mythology HD
ModBot's been slow since the sale started. Too many generous users for it to comprehend. Took a few hours before I received a code yesterday.
Haunted
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I didn't fall in love with OlliOlli either despite all the raving reviews here on GAF.
If Lords of the Fallen is a poor man's Dark Souls that makes up for gameplay shortcomings with graphical superiority, Bound by Flame is a poor man's Lords of the Fallen without making up for it in any area.
I can easily tolerate jankiness and a low budget if a game makes up for it with ambition, heart or personality, but there's not much to like in Bound by Flame, tbh.
Nah. Either 2007 or 2008 (can't remember which) was like being a kid in a candy store in the UK. Everything is in $ and the $ was doing so poorly vs the £. Bought entire catalogues from developers for an absolute steal
Wark
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same feeling.
wish I could go back in time and spend all my money again
Was that the year where you had to play games and get holiday achievements that gave you free games/coal/coupons? That was probably my favorite Steam Holiday Sale.
OK thanks, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.
I havent played the hd edition (still have the original) but the game is fantastic. Read the post I quoted right above you.
How does mod to work, are you guys entering multiple times with it for the same game?
CMojicaAce
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I bought the Mass Effect collection without knowing that it doesn't have controller support :/ How hard is it to play with keyboard and mouse? I'm still relatively new to PC gaming so I'm not used to using them yet.
DJSebolski
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Thinking about getting Spin Tires and Never Alone. Are they any good?
My biggest issue with the sales is really how limited they are compared to the Steam catalog, we have considerably more games than before and yet the number of dailies seems to be as limited as it ever was (or even more so).
They should really have a secondary page for more obscure titles to be put on "daily" sales (they did this a few years ago for Indie titles).
Thanks, may just wait for Lords of the Fallen to get down under $20 then.
Haven't played the console versions but using K/M is a blast. So easy and enjoyable to use your abilities/powers.
I've tried both on console and PC and I actually found mouse and keyboard to be far more preferable. I think it all works better in ME2 but both are good. You'll probably need a little while to get acclimated to it, but once you are it is really nice
TekGryphon
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Ok, champ - you tell me what RPG elements Valkyrie Chronicles has.
Aside from the complete lack of dialogue options which would allow you to define your character, the actual statistical advancement mechanics are abstracted, linear, and pointless. You advance troop "types" and the advancement is done on a linear line with no selection or divergence. It's just Level 1 -> Level 2 -> Level 3. You have zero opportunity to specialize your troops in any way and the most you can do is watch their numbers go up and assume they're getting better at something.
This isn't opinion. Nothing I'm saying is up for debate, because it's how the freaking game was made.
You can argue whether or not you LIKE bare-bones RPG mechanics that can barely be deemed such, but you can't lie and pretend this game actually has depth.
A christmas miracle happened. In these times of cheap games and plenty of downloading to try them out, I have found that for 15x the price I currently pay for 10/10mbit internet, I can upgrade to 100/10!
I currently pay 5 cents a month, so I'd be paying bout 7 euros a month for 10x faster download speeds, totally worth it
I will answer myself, just found this:
https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app&q=empire+earth
does it mean they were on steam or that they may come?
DJSebolski
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Aliens: Colonial Marines $2.99 - Worth it?
You can enter as many raffles as you want. But if one has multiple games and doesn't have the flag for it being a free for all, you can only go for one in that specific raffle. The game I won in question yesterday, though, The Last Remnant, was the only game in that raffle. Took a good 3 hours to get the key. You can read up more on ModBot - there's a link in the OP. And from that link there's another leading to the updated thread.
Picked up How To Survive, holy shit that game is a blast! Played 2 hours and felt like it was 10 minutes.
Ended up buying 5 more copies for gifts.
Definitely.
I would also say to pick up The Bug Hunt DLC for $2, since it's undoubtedly the best piece of the game, but I dunno that you could reliably find an online game these, so probably not worth it.
Ended up buying 5 more copies for gifts.
Definitely.
I would also say to pick up The Bug Hunt DLC for $2, since it's undoubtedly the best piece of the game, but I dunno that you could reliably find an online game these, so probably not worth it.
His Majesty
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So my 'You've played: x hours' in Alien: Isolation just went from 6h to 53h over a session of 30 minutes. Money well spent!
At that price, sure? It's not a particularly well made game, but I cannot say it's a bad one either. It's just another forgettable, linear shooter.
EdwardTeach
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1999? Don't you mean 2006.
haha, I did a double take on that as well. I was like, "fuck, time sure has flown." since I played that shit towards the end of high school.
Haunted
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Now those are two games that don't have a lot in common, content-wise.
But they're both very straightforward games that do what they set out to do very well. There's basically no chance you're going to be disappointed if you know what these games are, respectively.
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zero shift
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When does Amazon start their digital game sales?
Yeah I am really interested in any impressions.
Mr. Luchador
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Card drops stopped working? Idled in a game for 2 hours and not a single drop.
opticalmace
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Thinking about LA Noire... what say you, Steam-gaf?
chrominance
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Those Dark Messiah GIFs look pretty goofy, maybe I sho--
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is already in your Steam library
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is already in your Steam library
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Bl@de
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Lol my bad. Crusaders was 1999. Dark Messiah is 2006^^
Haunted
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Apparently Crysis 3 is $4 over on Amazon? Might be the craziest deal I've seen so far.
I always forget how many games I already own are getting great deals I really should be recommending to newcomers. Just looking at the first page of cheapshark, there are so many great games (Hotline Miami, Shadow Warrior, Battleblock Theatre, both Portals, Defcon, Darwinia, Spacechem, Super Hexagon, Runner 2, Puzzle Agent etc etc etc) available for next to nothing.
edit: also, I just realised looking at the Pixeljunk games, that Shooter 2 never came to the PC. Huh, I wonder if the PC ports of Monsters, Shooter and Eden didn't really work out for them.
I always forget how many games I already own are getting great deals I really should be recommending to newcomers. Just looking at the first page of cheapshark, there are so many great games (Hotline Miami, Shadow Warrior, Battleblock Theatre, both Portals, Defcon, Darwinia, Spacechem, Super Hexagon, Runner 2, Puzzle Agent etc etc etc) available for next to nothing.
edit: also, I just realised looking at the Pixeljunk games, that Shooter 2 never came to the PC. Huh, I wonder if the PC ports of Monsters, Shooter and Eden didn't really work out for them.
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