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Steam Holiday Sales 2014 |OT3| : DIE HARDEREST (HAPPY NEW YEAR WOOHOO!!)
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someguyinahat
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I've played the "Years 1 - 4" game. I liked it a lot. If you've played a Lego game before, it's exactly what you'd expect and want from a Harry Potter version. If you haven't, it's a good entry into the Lego series of games, it's fun in single or co-op, it's a character collectathon, and the "feel" of being in Hogwarts is astounding - they did their homework on it.
Was CSD a community vote/flash or was it a daily?
DJSebolski
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Company of heroes 2 Yes or No?
Cloudius12
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Flash.
This game is a pretty neat score attack game, and is pretty cheap. So here are a few free copies!
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Savant Ascent #1 --MB-F69143EA66E11587- Taken by Tesseract
Savant Ascent #2 --MB-D4692011E5CCCC61- Taken by Camel Master
Camel Master
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Thanks for Savant Ascent! Will be installing now (only 62mb), I'll try to write some impressions of the game as soon I get around playing it, definitely at the latest this weekend
dreamer3kx
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Can you change the resolution in the full game, couldnt in the demo.
Tesseract
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thanks a million for savant, gonna play it right now!
Crimsonclaw111
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So tomorrow's dailies should be the final ones? And then the 4th will see Steam return to normal?
EdibleKnife
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So what's up with Forced, guys? Any impressions from anyone who's played it?
oipic
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Ah, I'm glad you picked that up too, dear Monk - I thought maybe I was imagining things when the game wished me a happy New Year! Nice little touch.
I take it you mean NS2?
It includes:
Custom Marine Skin/Model
Official Soundtrack
Digital Art Book
Exclusive Steam Avatar.
Steam will return to normal on the 3rd.
I got no clue how you add your monthly paychecks to You Need A Budget's budgeting... D:
This demo is pretty short and to the point and then throws you in the deep end on figuring out how to add something like that.
This demo is pretty short and to the point and then throws you in the deep end on figuring out how to add something like that.
Phew, I'm glad you heard that too, dear oipic! I thought this small celebratory Sangria was taking the best of me tonight.
Nice little touch indeed.
Super cheap and looks pretty cool, thanks for posting about it!
Haunted
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Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Hammerwatch short phone-written impressions:
It's fun! You need to open a port to host an online multiplayer game, but multiplayer is a lot of fun. I've only played the campaign mode so far (there's another tower defense-type mode and something else I believe), but think of it as a dungeon-crawler rogue-like, not randomized (camapign isn't at least), but it's challenging and fun. You go throw dungeons composed of three floors, trying to locate three buttons (one on each floor) to open the boss door. You go around collecting keys, pressing switches, fighting enemies, getting gold, finding secrets and item merchants, and upgrading your character with gold at merchants. Gold is shared the more players you have, and you get overall less with the more people playing. There's also lives that are shared, but you can use money to buy lives instead of upgrades if you desire, as well as potions with benefits like refill health and magic, limited invincibility, limited strength increase, etc. There are four different classes of character, which have different attack styles, special attacks (which use up magic), and amount of health and magic total they have. Upgrades can increase things like health, magic, strength I attack, strength of specials, speed, radius of distance attacks (only applies to two classes), combo time, and more, but it's different character to character and a fully maxed out character of one class will have different stats and abilities still to a different class on Max levels. I play a wizard, who has low health but strong distance attacks, and can learn more magic attacks that the other classes and has a high magic bar.
Game is hard at first, but you get better. There are buffs and blows that you can mix and match with each other to optimize your gameplay difficulty, though won't earn achievements with buffs on. Things like, infinite lives, regenerating health, one heart only, magic that doesn't automatically regain over time, you deliver double damage, enemies deliver double damage, etc.
I have enjoyed my time with it, and it's a fun rogue-like which shares a lot with Gauntlet. Recommend it if you have people to play it, and a rogue-like Gaunlet sounds fun to you.
It's fun! You need to open a port to host an online multiplayer game, but multiplayer is a lot of fun. I've only played the campaign mode so far (there's another tower defense-type mode and something else I believe), but think of it as a dungeon-crawler rogue-like, not randomized (camapign isn't at least), but it's challenging and fun. You go throw dungeons composed of three floors, trying to locate three buttons (one on each floor) to open the boss door. You go around collecting keys, pressing switches, fighting enemies, getting gold, finding secrets and item merchants, and upgrading your character with gold at merchants. Gold is shared the more players you have, and you get overall less with the more people playing. There's also lives that are shared, but you can use money to buy lives instead of upgrades if you desire, as well as potions with benefits like refill health and magic, limited invincibility, limited strength increase, etc. There are four different classes of character, which have different attack styles, special attacks (which use up magic), and amount of health and magic total they have. Upgrades can increase things like health, magic, strength I attack, strength of specials, speed, radius of distance attacks (only applies to two classes), combo time, and more, but it's different character to character and a fully maxed out character of one class will have different stats and abilities still to a different class on Max levels. I play a wizard, who has low health but strong distance attacks, and can learn more magic attacks that the other classes and has a high magic bar.
Game is hard at first, but you get better. There are buffs and blows that you can mix and match with each other to optimize your gameplay difficulty, though won't earn achievements with buffs on. Things like, infinite lives, regenerating health, one heart only, magic that doesn't automatically regain over time, you deliver double damage, enemies deliver double damage, etc.
I have enjoyed my time with it, and it's a fun rogue-like which shares a lot with Gauntlet. Recommend it if you have people to play it, and a rogue-like Gaunlet sounds fun to you.
I personally enjoy it, though it is not without its flaws. Played it for a few hours yesterday. It's a dungeon crawler through and through, though I guess that definition is rather vague.
You set out in a dungeon (first act is set in a Prison), and you have to progress up and down floors to unlock secret areas, kill monsters, get gold, acquire treasure, buy upgrades, and ultimately find the three runes that unlock the boss door. I suspect this pattern repeats throughout the game, as I am on the 2nd Act and it is much the same, just higher difficulty and variety of monsters.
There are three starting classes: Paladin, Warlock, and Archer. I only played as the Archer so I can't attest to the other two classes, but for my time it was pretty fun. Killing everything at range was great, though I couldn't run and shoot, which was disappointing.
Firstly, it's not a roguelike. I for some reason was under the impression it was, so for any that may think it is, it's not, at least not in the traditional sense. You earn 1-ups and whatnot as you progress, so you can die, and do so pretty often, either to traps or getting mobbed by dozens of enemies... Though I didn't start dying that frequently until the boss on Act 1 and the monsters in Act 2. Fyi, I was playing on Medium. I know there's a Hard mode, but I don't recall what, if anything, is beyond that.
You can upgrade several factors about your character including: weapon damage, weapon penetration, health, mana, move speed, combo timers, etc, using gold you earn from killing enemies. You spend this gold at various NPC's scattered throughout the Act you're on. There isn't experience gain, which kinda felt strange to me. There are also keys to earn in any given Act which unlock doors for you to either progress or earn more loot. Bronze, Silver, and Gold keys. Lots of hidden areas and nooks and crannies to be found as well. You can break pots and objects for gold, like various games of old.
The combat gets a little monotonous after the first half hour or so, though I did only play solo. I think it would be advantageous to play with friends if it all possible, as it doesn't really have that replayability I would hope for. Or at least, not when there's so many other excellent games to play.
Combat is quick however, enemies are plentiful, treasure is all over the place, and I'd say my purchase was justified. But definitely try it out co-op. It's enjoyable by yourself, but it's definitely a bit of a slog through the floors.
Sorry for the long post, hope this helps some people still on the fence about it!
derExperte
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You'll lose a lot of the details on lower resolutions. Imo it should be played on PC/TV.
That's all I needed to hear to pull the trigger on the first one at least, if I like it enough I'll probably grab the second as well. Thanks!
EmergentFocus
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Phew, I'm glad you heard that too, dear oipic! I thought this small celebratory Sangria was taking the best of me tonight.
Nice little touch indeed.
Definitely heard it here too. Of course the guy then went straight on to complain about the damage I do to "his" cars during the races so that rather spoiled the effect...
Chance Hale
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I wonder if my fan or videocard is about to die. Used to get a pretty steady 60 FPS in Bioshock Infinite(with some minor fluctuations here and there) but now it seems to be running anywhere from 45 to 60 at random, and my fan is getting worked hard :/
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Have you cleaned the inside of your computer recently?
Bucket-o-roadkill
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Is anyone interested in doing a trade, I have a few games I'm willing to swap.
I have: Arkham asylum goty, Arkham city goty, Mortal kombat kollection, Gotham city imposters professional,
I'm looking for: Castlevania Los, Outlast, Sim city 4
Please PM,
I have: Arkham asylum goty, Arkham city goty, Mortal kombat kollection, Gotham city imposters professional,
I'm looking for: Castlevania Los, Outlast, Sim city 4
Please PM,
Well, I was playing yesterday at night and I was hearing some sirens every now and then and was thinking, man, it's a busy night, lot's of ambulance cars driving by my street. Some people must have drank way too much. After all it was in-game when you are in your garage (I was using headphones). Lol :/
I could really do with another day of r&r but I'm back to work tomorrow. Unless Volgarr makes a triumphant return I think I'm easy with what I got. And more than enough in the backlog for 52+ to put to bed this year.
redfirm
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derExperte
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Derrick is banned, you should buy Valdis, Humble Bundle X is coming and Infinite's DLC had another price error. That's all.
If you don't have them already.
Just Cause 2 for a fun open world third person shooter with one of the best ways to travel such a world, all in a relaxing tropical paradise when you aren't blowing things up or getting LOST.
Multiplayer with friends is a lot of fun. Truly a sandbox of "do whatever you want", be it a game of tag on top of two jumbo jets, an island long race, helicopter deathmatch of a 100 people, or most anything else you can imagine.
HammerWatch, as explained in some posts prior.
Then my own personal recommendation.
Buttonbasher
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I had the same thing with Bioshock Infinite. I wondered if it was a memory leak.
It got super choppy near the end.
Widdly Scuds
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I'm surprised people found my review of SFxT helpful.
Yep, amazing game.
And, for an extra $1 you also get the Android version (which is $2 itself from Google Play) if you buy directly from the game's site (select Humble Store). Includes a Steam key
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