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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed
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The DS3 gets too much flak for a fully functional pad that gives you a plethora of options on PC. I'll be holding on to mine for PCSX2 purposes.
Anyway, I voted Alien Isolation as my GOTY. The nightmare difficulty was recently added, and that's a nice incentive for a replay.
Had the same feels. Get the combat rebalancing mod for TW2. It's better than default.
Chairmanchuck
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What is featured in the animesale?
WinterDemons
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Chairmanchuck
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Thanks. Blade Kitten and Hatoful are on my wishlist.
InfiniteNine
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I own almost all of those! Too bad I'm broke or I'd double up on Korra.
I might grab quite a lot of stuff this weekend.
% pending
I'm crazy but I still think it was a good game and a MOBA that actually worked well with a gamepad. I might have to re-install it one day and see how wrong I actually am. 23% positive, 77% negative on Steam? I have to read some of those negative reviews to see what's actually wrong with the game because I didn't see any major issues.
Anyway, Guardians of Middle-Earth was originally developed by Monolith. I guess Zombie Studios did the PC port.
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It'll begin at 10am PT, like usual. You asked a very similar question earlier, which was answered.
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Not this again....
It'll begin at 10am PT, like usual. You asked a very similar question earlier, which was answered.
Sometimes it's worth to actually read 1 or 2 pages back in the thread. But I guess asking is easier than look for the answers yourself
Someone should post this countdown every page
Steam Anime sale starts in
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It'll begin at 10am PT, like usual. You asked a very similar question earlier, which was answered.
9ish hours from now, let's how generous I feel this time...
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ramoisdead
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Judging from the pic about the Steam anime games sale, guess I'll pick up Blade Kitten and the Analogue series. Even though it's not anime, I wish Ikaruga was a part of this sale. =[
Tizoc
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Yeah, I'm still waiting for a drop on that one. Shmups kick my butt, but I still like to play them once in a while.
In preparation for the sale:
Ys: I've heard a lot of praise for the Ys series, where should I start? I usually prefer to go by release order but if you convince me there's a good enough reason to start by a later entry (mostly plot) I may start my journey there.
Agarest: Are these in any way related with the Tales of series? What sort of game can I expect (setting)? What are the dlcs for? What are the differences between Zero and non Zero?
Trails in the Sky: What's the premise for the story? It mentions a Trails saga but there doesn't seem to be any other entry on the store, is it simply because they're not on steam?
99 Spirits: Wut? Can anyone shed some light in this game for me?
Human Tanks: Is it just a grid strategy game?
Ys: I've heard a lot of praise for the Ys series, where should I start? I usually prefer to go by release order but if you convince me there's a good enough reason to start by a later entry (mostly plot) I may start my journey there.
Agarest: Are these in any way related with the Tales of series? What sort of game can I expect (setting)? What are the dlcs for? What are the differences between Zero and non Zero?
Is it as waifu intensive as the trailer made it seem to be?
Trails in the Sky: What's the premise for the story? It mentions a Trails saga but there doesn't seem to be any other entry on the store, is it simply because they're not on steam?
99 Spirits: Wut? Can anyone shed some light in this game for me?
Human Tanks: Is it just a grid strategy game?
I'd actually consider KoF, I really want to buy it, I'm just no good at fighting games.
I begin to doubt we'll see it released this month. Ghostlight blog wasn't updated since before Christmas!
DillonMabry
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I haven't actually bothered with CQC yet (I only just started Op. Snake Eater moments ago), so I can't speak to those issues. My problem is that it's all just so... clunky. Random snaps from 3rd to 1st person view while crawling, can't crouch sneak, aiming is bad, none of it is the least bit intuitive. Took me all of 5 minutes to get used to GZ controls, but I'm still getting used to SE controls 1.5 hours in. Now obviously the newer game is gonna be better, but still.
Admittedly it does sound like the DS definitely has the 360 beat, but... I absolutely loath the DS. I'd have a worse time with a DS and all it's nifty features than I am with my 360. Save for the d-pad, the Xbox controllers are far superior as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, considering that GZ only had 360 support right off the bat, I imagine the 360/Bone will be the only officially supported controller should the Collection actually hit PC. Also, does the DS4 even have official support at this point? I thought I heard talk of it getting drivers and all that back when it first released, but it sounds like people still have to use 3rd party software.
My favourite shmup game so far. I really should play more of it. At least be number 1 in all stages in every difficulty
Frecklestein
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YS: First two games are pretty rough to play, might be worth picking up Origin and Oath
Agarest: No relation. They're apparently pretty meh TRPG, unless they're deeply enough discounted, could be fun, but otherwise I'd pass
Trails: Not going to bother until we get more of the games. Not wasting my time on a lengthy RPG or to start a series I wont be able to see the end of
99 spirits: No clue. It's usually fairly cheap though, so no harm no foul
Human Tanks: Grid based strategy game that you'll probably play for the story. It's pretty cute and harmless fun. I'd recommend picking it up for sub $5
Annnnd of course, do some research, look up gameplay videos and try to find up reviews. Those are just MY personal opinions and are by no means right or wrong.
Anime sales?
I guess posting waifu pics will be on topic for awhile.
Hopefully there's more titles than the ones in the picture, own all of the ones that interest me already.
Remember that time that Ikaruga was up to a vote to be on sale during the summer and lost and then never went on sale again?
Good times.
I guess posting waifu pics will be on topic for awhile.
Not that that ever stopped anyone.
Hopefully there's more titles than the ones in the picture, own all of the ones that interest me already.
Remember that time that Ikaruga was up to a vote to be on sale during the summer and lost and then never went on sale again?
Good times.
It has the basic directinput support(works well for older titles) but still needs ds4windows for decent functionality in modern games. The dreaded camera spinning tends to happen a lot without that software.
I started with Ys I&II Chronicles+, and I enjoyed them much more than I expected too. The gameplay is a bit unique(bump combat), the visuals are pleasing to the eyes, and the soundtrack in phenomenal. Nightmare mode amps up the difficulty tremendously(especially in the first title), so beware in case you don't want THAT much of a challenge.
Yeah, last time I heard about them they were looking for testers. I wonder if some problem arise after testing. I hope not too long.
Ys are one of the best ARPGs out there, I don't think order is that important, but I would start from origins, just to see if you like it, it has special gameplay.
Agarest has nothing to do with Tales, it's TRPG series, waifu intense, yes. Gameplay isn't that bad, but also it's no FFT or Fire Emblem.
Trails second part is coming to steam this year, that much we know, we don't know when. Also Trails is awesome! It's GOTY and GOAT.
Everybody should try 99 spirits, concept of gameplay is interesting and it teaches you a lot about adventuring!
I don't particularly liked Human tanks, and I'm not sure how to describe gameplay, it's strategy game alright, but it's... different.
Milamber already had a fit because it was in the anime sale =)
Read what's in between the bolded parts ;D
As for the actual drawing style (imo the only thing that should determine wheter or not it's an anime) it's a mix (hybrid) between American stylised drawings and Japanese stylised drawings. The first Avatar still had a strong American presence using mostly the Japanese style for flavour (even though Japanese was still the most predominant) but in Korea the American style becomes even more of a background force.
If you wanna be a Nippon/animation purist sure, it's not. But you can't blame others for considering it as such.
Plus the game was made by Platinum, Platinum are Nippon based, the Korra game is anime. There, logic, I win xD
Give Ys 1+2 a try, they are pretty simplistic, but killing enemies still feels satisfying and the OST is amazing. They're also not too lengthy.
If those don't catch your attention, give Ys Oath a try, it's a remake of the third game, it's a much modern game and plays great, like the first two the feeling of killing enemies is very satisfying and the OST is extremely good, plus story wise its nearly a stand alone.
Origins is a prequel to 1+2 and it was released after the other mentioned titles, so I'd recommend leaving it to last.
Tizoc
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Start with Oath in Felghana, which is Ys 3, then go into Origin, then consider playing Ys 1 and 2, be advised that 1 and 2 use an archiac but fun, if you give it a chance, combat system.
Nothing to do with the Tales series since this is from a different dev, Agarest has flat chested waifus and is an SRPG, but has a neat sound track.
It's a well regarded RPG series, and is the first game of its subseries, we're getting the 2nd TitS game later this year.
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If you can play offline, get it, it's a fun game and KoF 13 is prob. the easiest KoF to get into.
TheSadRanger
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So have any of you guys tried out Depth? Steam reviews seem good and the sharks vs divers part interests me a whole lot. So is it 4v4 or does it very per game mode?
Damn this looks good.
Damn this looks good.
I was very interested in it until I noticed that there is no singleplay at all and being EA game without singleplay, yeah
Someone from steamgaf plays it, can't say I remember who... and likes it.
ricochetguro perhaps?
But it was published by Activision, if we go by your logic then it's not anime since Activision is not a Nippon company
But the store page says there is single player. Which is it?
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