freshVeggie
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FYI it made me pay in Canadian Dollar. 0,50$ ~0,34
I think pretty good price. Hopefully I'll post some impressions here soon. (If my laptop doesn't hit the crapper)
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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed
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I think pretty good price. Hopefully I'll post some impressions here soon. (If my laptop doesn't hit the crapper)
They'll also bring the final controller, from what I heard. (I'm too lazy to even skim over the article, so slap me if it's in there)
DaBargainHunta
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Five CENTS? Where are you seeing that, BTW? All I'm seeing is "pay what you want."
Game looks rad.
50 cents (canadian) =p
It's lowest that makes sense for them with the processing fee, apparently.
freshVeggie
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No, it is 50 cents. Canadian cents.
You buy it by clicking Download and then scroll down to Check out via Paypal.
someguyinahat
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Are indie games finally at the "low-polygon 3D" stage? Just when you'd had enough of 8- and 16-bit platformers, they're ready to evolve...
ashecitism
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Can't wait for the impressions again where the press spend 10-30 mins with it on badly picked games.
TheMadMan007
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And where do I actually purchase Sky Rouge? I can't find it. Also, what is .50 cents canadian in US currency?
Yeah, I have no nostalgia for those low poly days. Looks hideous.
Clicking download now takes you to the payment window
freshVeggie
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^^ Dammit Turfster. You beat me the second time this page by one minute.
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I picked up a few games during the sale to give away, but I hadn't gotten around to it until now. I hope you guys can find a good home for these.
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Reminds me of the fact that I've spotted atleast 5 of the, what, 200? Steambox & controller testers that've outright refused to actually test it at all, and simply kept the great hardware, installed windows and ditched the controller without giving it a chance.
Sigh.
This, according to my taste and wishlist, is probably one of the best giveaways ever. Thanks! :*
Kiru
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Awesome Giveaway Deitus!
The Red Wizard
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Thanks for posting this. I had no idea that it existed but it looks cool. It reminds me of F-22 Lightning but with a lot more action. Hopefully it works well online.
The Red Wizard
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This makes me a sad panda. I really wish that there was a chance for people outside NA to have been included in the testing. I would have loved to set this up in my living room for comfy couch gaming. In-house streaming is a good alternative though. But dat controller.
BorntoPlay
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Great giveaway!!, i miss Shovel Knight sale...
Where on the website can I buy it?
Haunted
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I honestly think it depends on the age of the developers and which era they want to honour with their retro game.
We've had the 8-bit look, the 16-bit look, early PS1 3D, a clean take on isometric games and even specific Dreamcast-era references. (indie diversity etc etc)Anyway, if you like the low poly 3D look (which can look very nice when cleaned up properly) check out Drift Stage, possibly the best example of that style I've seen so far
Cracking giveaway sir!! Hope they go to a deserving home!!!
The button that says download now click it and it should show the name your price options.
I honestly think it depends on the age of the developers and which era they want to honour with their retro game.
Anyway, if you like the low poly 3D look (which can look very nice when cleaned up properly) check out Drift Stage, possibly the best example of that style I've seen so far
Drift Stage in no way resembles low poly 3D, it's pixel art combined with 3D to create a pixel art effect to make graphics that are reminiscent of 80s arcade racers. If anything I'd consider Drift Stage's style to be everything low poly 3D isn't. While I guess there are people out there with nostalgia for that PS1/Saturn era poly stuff, I think the general majority look back at it as a primitive stage that was mostly awful. Just like for the most part people don't go back to Atari era graphics, intentionally going back to early low poly graphics is just intentionally making something ugly.
I think the idea of taking what that era was trying to do and doing it right is a valid one. But you can also argue that we have had 20 years of refinement of that early stuff, whereas only in recent years did we see a return to 2d art and some evolution in those genres. I think what Drift Stage is doing, in taking that 80s arcade style of Outrun and Afterburner and making it a game that plays in a modern way is a great idea and I hope more developers go in that direction. But just like poor quality pixel art is more ugly than retro, poor quality polygon art is even more so.
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I like it. Not because I have tons of great memories from those days, but because I have a lot of memories of dissatisfaction. Shitty draw distances, bad shading, weird clipping, poor performance, annoying controls. Technology wasn't ready for it and so it was a step back from stuff like After Burner. Well, now technology is way beyond it, so we can do those arcade concepts in a cool and fun way. It's like scratching an itch that was tucked away in my memory somewhere.
That train doesn't look like it's going anywhere though.
That's an awesome group of games
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ashecitism
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Just like MS and its PC gaming promises then.
freshVeggie
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Wow. You're a good guy Deitus.
Yeah, I can see the parallels there.
KainXVIII
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Thanks! I try enter for Crypt of Necrodancer
This is first giveaway I've seen where I actually like/am interested in every single game. You're the best!
MMBosstones86
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January starts late over there?
A de_rats themed Instagib arena FPS with rocketjumping?
Oh myyy..
http://store.steampowered.com/app/338170/
Oh myyy..
http://store.steampowered.com/app/338170/
Very much agreed. The ones I don't already own are on my wishlist.
I honestly think it depends on the age of the developers and which era they want to honour with their retro game.
Anyway, if you like the low poly 3D look (which can look very nice when cleaned up properly) check out Drift Stage, possibly the best example of that style I've seen so far
This is correct. I really got into gaming with the PS1, so that kind of low-poly style is particularly attractive to me and inspired me for Malebolgia.
MMBosstones86
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Damn. You have merely 26hrs clocked in
Would have imagined you to have played DS1 in & out by now.
Yeah...I got started pretty late. Going back into it now that GFWL is gone. Made it Anor Londo with my first character and was getting demolished. Running through it again new. Feels good man
NihonTiger90
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Get on this now. Amazing game and one of my highlights of 2014.
My own impressions are (with optional video):
Imagine if Ace Combat had a baby with Rogue Legacy. That's the essence of what Sky Rogue is: an aerial roguelike with randomly generated but scaling levels, upgrades, unlocks, multiple different types of craft, and a fairly simple goal. Each level's goal is to destroy the command center, but you'll probably need to take care of the map's defenses first. Some are drones, some are missile batteries, and if you're good enough, you'll be going up against a fleet of enemy ships that can dogfight with the best of them.
It's a tough game: you will die. And you will get angry. But you'll get better and the game will push you to get better because it doesn't let up too much if you struggle.
The different craft all have different feels when piloting them, and the bomb/rocket types are different enough to be worth putting thought into. Each also has a certain point score for avionics and payload: you have a cap on both for your ship, so you have to figure out how to mix and match weaponry right. Do you want the unguided but heavy hitting bombs or the fast reloading but low damage micro missiles? How about defensive maneuvers? And will you scrap your machine gun to fit that one last guided rocket in?
now that i think about it, it's kind of a wasted opportunity space that devs don't do stuff with player "size" like that. kinda like katamari, first a rat is huge and scary and suddenly it's a barely distinguishable dot, that kind of thing is fun
i know someone was making a portal-esque game not long ago in which you could rescale the world, i wonder what happened to it
Same. I just hope they some how worked everything out to make the thing intuitive on as many games as possible. That and hoping there is a good selection of streaming options or even an android streaming app
It's more of a shelter, consistently damaged by the messy Microsoft but some how still standing. It also is a good protection from Don Mattrick, as pictured
Bought it! Sounds like a whole lot of fun
TheNamelessOne
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Thanks! Hoping to win my first modbot raffle!
SCALE? Looks like they're still working on it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1188957169/scale/posts
Well I'm quite surprised that PCSX2 runs pretty flawless natively on my Surface Pro. Smacking up the internal rendering resolution isn't really on the cards and it took a bit of work to get set up at first due to having an integrated Intel GPU. But this is on an old Ivy Bridge Ultrabook class i5 so it will be really interesting to see what the new Broadwell-U CPU's can do as going from the specs they look like little rockets. 2015 might be more about the smaller form factor PC than some folks think.
Ha! As I said in the RPJ thread I've been bunged up with flu since the start of the year and today is the first time I'm not so pale that I look like Casper the Friendly Ghost.
Ha! As I said in the RPJ thread I've been bunged up with flu since the start of the year and today is the first time I'm not so pale that I look like Casper the Friendly Ghost.
You're welcome everyone. I just hope whoever ends up with those games has as much fun with them as I have had.
In the meantime, has anyone here played Lords of the Fallen? I cannot for the life of me get the game to launch. Every time it crashes while displaying the intro logo screens (Nvidia, Alienware, etc.). I've tried google searching the issue, and found a ton of people with the same issue, but none of the fixes I've seen have worked for me.
In the meantime, has anyone here played Lords of the Fallen? I cannot for the life of me get the game to launch. Every time it crashes while displaying the intro logo screens (Nvidia, Alienware, etc.). I've tried google searching the issue, and found a ton of people with the same issue, but none of the fixes I've seen have worked for me.
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