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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed
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My girlfriend saw me playing Hexcells Infinite over Christmas and got really into it, we've been playing through them again together off and on. She normally doesn't take an interest in any games at all, so this has been great for us to do together on the laptop while sat on the sofa. For that reason alone I give the game a million stars. The infinite mode is good, but don't expect the same level of finesse and puzzling in the levels. Good if you just want a quick five minute level to play through though.
Edit: oh, I replied to a really old post. Never mind.
kindly remind me after I done my 52 games per year
damn you are fast, just how long you play daily to go through those games like that, you finished FF13 and 13-2 like in less then a month or something and Ys in two days tops.
Shadowgate is no good?
mediocre games aren't really junk in my book, but yeah I'm not a fan of theirs. Still I'll buy Alphadia Genesis and will play it, or at least will try, as I want more japanese devs to fall for steam (><)
Alphadia are actually series, I think, so if it's not bad, getting more is good, even if mediocre.
Most games are mediocre, just reminding!
kindly remind me after I done my 52 games per year
In March, got it.
Damn, many of the solutions to puzzles in Cognition are beyond weird.
Not only are they the hardest way to tackle a problem, many of them would guarantee the PC at least a few years in jail.
Who thought it was a good idea to have a 'pull a fake fire alarm' solution to a 'how to get a tape recorder' problem?
A great solution to that problem is that Gameplay Time Tracker tool I mentioned earlier.
Unless overriden, It only counts the gametime when the game is in fullscreen. Alt-tabbing to read a guide/IM, and card farming are not counted.
Seriously, give it a try, especially if you need the times for 52games/year challenge. Works with non-Steam games as well.
Long Live the Queen is not 2 hours game! there are people that spent hundred of hours literally in that game. Not sure how, though, I finished it in 30 something I think, but it's possible to try to find slightly different ways to achieve goals, so 100 hours isn't that insane, when I think about it.
50 hours for FF13-2 is incredibly fast, well, I know that you used a guide and that speed things considerably, I just didn't think by that much.
very funny!
I need to finish Cognition too.
Telephone solution to getting a notebook
Tizoc
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It's out already?
Crab Milk Mickey
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There we go, fixed that for you. If only for the GGPO netcode.
I'm excited for how this is shaping up. Any word on the price yet?
Apparently Razer is having a CES 2015 appreciation sale. For 24 hours starting Jan 12, 6.00pm PST/UTC-8, all Razer peripherals will be on 50% off, and systems at 30% off with a code.
Get your codes here.
Get your codes here.
how could you ruin such a great and unique game as LLTQ by using a guide? it's beyond me, I'll never understand that. (><)
you are not Milamber... or are you?
Jawmuncher
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Rogue Ops was decent...
Soccer Mom Splinter Cell
Was just alerted to this by my clan buddies. Despite my many attempts to dissuade them, some of them are going to buy razer keyboards *shudders*
I'm considering a mouse or a headset, but nothing really screams to me
Chairmanchuck
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The FF13-2 DLC is shitty.
I mean to finish the Sazh DLC I have to play some gambling games...
I mean to finish the Sazh DLC I have to play some gambling games...
only, there is nothing random in LLTQ, you are supposed to learn consequences of your actions and choices as you play. You can avoid dying in any way by making right choices and learning right skills at the right time.
But if it's not your thing, it's not your thing, no words can change that.
Still it's such a waste of a great game...
which is bad, because variety and gambling in games is nice to have? am I right?
dlcs aren't very good, but it has nothing to do with having opportunity to gamble
exactly, that's called learning, experience and choices that have effect, all of them! Do you know everything before playing any game? Your complaint makes no sense, you understand that, don't you?
I agreed in my reply, that dlcs aren't good (excluding arena ones, they do what they supposed to do), I just don't agree that gambling is to blame.
Tizoc
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which is bad, because variety and gambling in games is nice to have? am I right?
dlcs aren't very good, but it has nothing to do with having opportunity to gamble
Sazh is generally considered the best of the 6 playable characters from FF13, characterization wise, the fact that the only thing you do in his 'DLC side story' is gambling minigames is extremely disappointing, unimaginative and uninspired.
Review copy. ^^
but you do complain that you have to learn what harms you and what helps you in this particular game, when almost every game requires such learning.
I don't argue about your dislike of genre, that's pointless, I argue against your motivation, you blame a game, and a game has no faults of this kind at all, nothing is random, you learn as you play how to avoid certain things and make other things to happen, like in any game.
You know what Arthea? I find that PunishedSnake is pretty much complaining everything.
Badly designed games. Mechanics that you have to learn or don't understand. Repetitive battles. There seems that nothing can please him at all. Have you seen him like something.
NingenJanai
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LTTQ is not a VN per se, it's a raising game, which are quite different from regular VN, please play Katawa Shoujo, it's a free VN that you might enjoy.
I don't think that's the case, he seems to have enjoyed Ys 1, also I can understand some of his gripes with LTTQ, since it's basically a trial and error game, it's very good, but it's not a game for everybody.
I think what he means is that in (most) other games you get a sense of danger, you know that death is a possibility but instead in this game you're baited into making mistakes instead of letting the player choose if they wanna take the risk.
It's a similar grippe that some people have with Spelunker where traps kill you without you knowing they were traps and only after you die to them are you aware of the danger.
It's a valid gameplay mechanic but it's understandable if people have strong feelings against it, especially with its consequences.
Edit: looks like I wasn't quick enough, the snake himself just made it clear.
not true, to avoid dying in DS you need to know what's awaiting you, if you don't know, you can still avoid by getting lucky and moving the way to avoid spotted. If you get lucky and learn required skills in LLTQ you don't die the first time too, or you learn what awaits you and avoid it second time. There is no difference.
OK, you are not complaining, you still are blaming a game and a game is not to blame.
Looks like there is something he actually likes without complaining anything
Is it some game that I have missed under my radar
It's a trap!
NingenJanai
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Always Remember Me is also kinda a raising game, not a regular VN, play Katawa Shoujo, thank me later and
tell me which waifu did you choose
You mean it's a G.I.R.L, right?
not true, to avoid dying in DS you need to know what's awaiting you, if you don't know, you can still avoid by getting lucky and moving the way to avoid spotted. If you get lucky and learn required skills in LLTQ you don't die the first time too, or you learn what awaits you and avoid it second time. There is no difference.
OK, you are not complaining, you still are blaming a game and a game is not to blame.
Again, what he means is that (sticking with Dark Souls) it's up to the player whether or not he dies or has the skill to avoid death, in this game it's entirely up to the game.
And before you refute with the skill also being the player's: no, if the game requires you to invest skill points to be able to do something than the skill is not up to the player.
Another way to put it is two players with different builds avoid death = player's skill; one player has advantage over the other because of a specific skill tree = the skill doesn't belong to the player.
He meant old school starwars admiral ackbar trap, but that reference was pretty hilarious.
Also
Shizune
You know, gamepads are the greatest controller for playing VNs.
Just Joy2Key "Enter" to all face buttons and Dpad, and "a" to Triggers.
Seriously, no more hunching over keyboard/mouse.
Just Joy2Key "Enter" to all face buttons and Dpad, and "a" to Triggers.
Seriously, no more hunching over keyboard/mouse.
Also, if required, you can just hold the pad in one hand and forward through the... intriguing dialogue
Yeah, I meant Ackbar.
Can someone link me to G.I.R.L? I want to see if I understood the reference. I can't find it in Steam, I think I saw it before...
No one can link you to G.I.R.L. but you. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
And the G.I.R.L.
NingenJanai
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lewd
Yooooo
And of course, in a few hours time, when USGaf wakes up we're getting rants that the waifu brigade is shitting up the thread...
Jawmuncher
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What did I miss?
What the hell.
Deques just play Akiba's Trip when it comes to PC.
What the hell.
Deques just play Akiba's Trip when it comes to PC.
Tizoc
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We have a 0.01% chance that an Oneechanbara game may get a PC/Steam release.
Chairmanchuck
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Anyone knows where I could get Dont Starve Frontier together cheap? I know there is a 2 pack of Dont Starve Together, but it seems the second copy is just Together, while the first one is Dont Starve+Together.
WinterDemons
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Chairmanchuck
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I'm part of USGaf, everything looks A-OK to me.
every game is at least partly trial and error game with the exception of logic based puzzle games.
Also no game is for everybody, not a single one, well maybe with exception of tetris (><) It still doesn't stop people from saying that "this is a greatest game ever and everybody should play this". In accordance to this tradition, I won't budge! Long Live the Queen is an amazing game, everybody should play the way it was intended to play! suffer! (><)
Seriously, there is not much of trial-error in this game, all checks have multiple skills to pass, you guys make it sound like it's some complex beyond believe thing, and it only looks like this:
My sister is looking for the game. That is why I am asking
Oops I misunderstood. Your best bet would be the B/S/T thread for old copies, or spring sale?
Chairmanchuck
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Yeah. Looking for both.
I pretty much think (after todays discussion), that LLTQ is very much player skill game: skill to recognize the great game and play long enough to see that nothing is random and everything makes sense. Counter that! (><)
not true at all
You can then argue that there is limited replayability after winning the game once or twice. Though I guess that's to be expected seeing how cheap the game is.
Been looking for a good top down racer hopefully this fits the bill.
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