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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed
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Cool thanks! I like free stuff.
I might buy Life Is Strange and finally use some of my GMG Credit...
Weird. Should work for another half hour or so.
Same with me forgot to enter the group
Tizoc
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How long are these gonna be up? I want to get LiS and RE HD at least, but I worry Nuuvem will get them for cheaper =X
Indie Gala "FRIDAY SPECIAL" Bundle #9
https://www.indiegala.com/friday
Pay $1.99
Runes of Brennos
Cloning Clyde
Five Nights at Freddy's
The Desolate Hope
Theatre Of The Absurd
9th Company Roots Of Terror
Lunnye Devitsy
Hunters Of The Dead
Mythos The Beginning
Wake
https://www.indiegala.com/friday
Pay $1.99
Runes of Brennos
Cloning Clyde
Five Nights at Freddy's
The Desolate Hope
Theatre Of The Absurd
9th Company Roots Of Terror
Lunnye Devitsy
Hunters Of The Dead
Mythos The Beginning
Wake
Nyteshade517
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No idea...they've done VIP deals a couple times before and they lasted a few days then either change to new deals or go away altogether. It's been a few weeks since they've had the VIP section up.
jshackles
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So was just trying to finish off the last 6 story missions of Mordor to get the first notch on the backlog bedpost for the year when I noticed my framerate had shockingly dropped off a cliff. Though it could be I've just swapped over this PC to Win 8 (only one PC in the house is on 7 now) but fired up Afterburner and it was showing 40-50fps where I was pretty much 60 Rock solid. Faffery about with various options and it only stabilised by pairing pretty much everything back to medium.
Finally thinking that it might be running in full screen instead of borderless I went to check and noticed the resolution scaling option was set to 150%. Yeah that will do it alright! Great that more games these days have higher than native rendering resolution support included but please, please, please include it as a seperate option from presentation resolution. That and variable HUD scaling options for various screen sizes and aspect ratios.
Don't know about digital keys but retail copies more than likely won't be Steam keys. Rockstar have some of the most crackers distribution practices for retail goods I've ever seen when trying to sort out my battered physical MP3 copy.
Finally thinking that it might be running in full screen instead of borderless I went to check and noticed the resolution scaling option was set to 150%. Yeah that will do it alright! Great that more games these days have higher than native rendering resolution support included but please, please, please include it as a seperate option from presentation resolution. That and variable HUD scaling options for various screen sizes and aspect ratios.
Don't know about digital keys but retail copies more than likely won't be Steam keys. Rockstar have some of the most crackers distribution practices for retail goods I've ever seen when trying to sort out my battered physical MP3 copy.
Kiru
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derExperte
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That's probably due to Nvidia's DSR and not the game itself.
Happy birthday AHA-Lambda
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Good to see SteamGAF's 2014 Film of the Year leading the nominations at the BAFTAs.
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That gif is from my dropbox! I took the gif from Misc, it's quite popular on that forum so maybe you can find the origin there.
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Good to see SteamGAF's 2014 Film of the Year leading the nominations at the BAFTAs.
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That gif is from my dropbox! I took the gif from Misc, it's quite popular on that forum so maybe you can find the origin there.
So, anyone actually making progress on their Winter Sale purchases?
After beating Ethan Carter and Valiant Hearts, I seem to be spending all my time on Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (which I purchased in the Fall Sale), rather than playing any of the other half-dozen games I purchased in the Winter Sale.
On the plus side, I'm up to 49% of achievements in Rebirth and seem to be starting to get better at the game.
After beating Ethan Carter and Valiant Hearts, I seem to be spending all my time on Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (which I purchased in the Fall Sale), rather than playing any of the other half-dozen games I purchased in the Winter Sale.
On the plus side, I'm up to 49% of achievements in Rebirth and seem to be starting to get better at the game.
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Yep, I only bought Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes and have finished it as well as all the side missions and most of the achievements (13/16). The remaining 3 are kinda time consuming, but I might do them at some point in the future.
Sale accomplished.
I beat both games I got from there already.
Detective Grimoire on first and Never Alone on second January.
Edit: I actually got Never Alone from Nuuvem but whatever.
billmcdougal
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Umm, I played Octodad for maybe an hour. Got a couple levels in and I'm not really sure whether I want to finish it.
I love this GIF.
Just over 7 hours to go.
Welcome to the 2nd SteamGAF GOTY Award, every year gaffers choose choose games they thought were GOTY contenders on Steam,
game with the highest point score is crowned SteamGAF's GOTY. Check out last year's nail-biting results.
Rules and deadline:
- Up to 5 games can be chosen
- 1st choice gets 5 points, 2nd choice gets 4 points and so on ... 5th game will get 1 point.
- You can write a short paragraph on why you the the 1st choice is a GOTY contender.
- Game must be on Steam and released from 2014
- Episodic games that overlap 2013/2014 can be counted as long as they have not been used in the 2013 Steam GOTY
- Re-release in 2014 are allowed in the Steam GOTY, for example FFXIII
- APS used if it's a tie, like last time >_>
- Vote thrown if the bin if you fail to follow rules
How to vote:
Copy this and send me a PM:
Code:[B]Game 5 (1 point) :[/B] INSERT GAME NAME HERE [B]Game 4 (2 points) [/B]: INSERT GAME NAME HERE [B]Game 3 (3 points) :[/B] INSERT GAME NAME HERE [B]Game 2 (4 points) :[/B] INSERT GAME NAME HERE [B]Game 1 (5 points) :[/B] INSERT GAME NAME HERE [B]Why I want this game as GOTY (Optional) :[/B] WRITE COMMENTS HERE
Gaffers who have voted so far:
All the completion stat screens being posted while the sale was still going on really made me want to pick up Ground Zeroes, but I think I'll wait until the next time it goes on sale after I upgrade my video card.
MMBosstones86
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the anticipation is killing me.
It's pretty fun for a small 'sandbox'. My first run through took an hour I think. Now i'm playing a game called 'kill everything'. It was fun, until I found out the silencer has a life expectancy which is now making things difficult.
Baron_Calamity
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Thats my favorite gif of all time as well.
Nah it's more to do with me having 2 monitors connected and a TV as well and all at different resolutions and it's sent the game hay wire. Mordor ignores DSR due to having it's own rendering scaling based on your desktop resolution but it grabbed the wrong display when it started up then when it switched to the target one it blew it up to 150%. Ryse can do the same as it will only recognise your desktop resolution but you can only scale down not up. Though you can use DSR to set a higher desktop resolution and do it that way.
PetriP-TNT
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Removed my semi-novelty vote for HARVESTER and gave that spot to Evil Within. I did love Harvester though.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Will the results be posted up at that time, or are they going to take a while to compile / format correctly / tease us Casey Kasem-style / etc?
Freedom = $1.05
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So, i'm kinda liking Watch Dogs? I'm almost done with Act 1.
The game is kind of a mess, sure, but it's at least a interesting mess. Driving feels a bit loose, I don't like that there isn't a stealth way out of every situation (sometimes, you have no choice but to go the violent route), and the main character is a complete and total fucking turd. Also, i have PTSD from bioshock's pipeworks hacking system so seeing that in this game is somewhat deflating. Then there's the whole dissonance thing of a guy wanting to avenge the death of his niece by killing hundreds upon hundreds of people and driving around like a damn sociopathic recluse.
Buttttt there is some interesting stuff happening. The skills system seems alright, the dark souls-ish thing where you can invade and be invaded is kinda neat, and the game kinda looks/runs well maxed out on my 770/4770k, nearly 60 fps @ 1080p. and it's pretty satisfying to get someone off of your tail by raising a bridge or having blockers pop up.
I'm sure it's not going to get much better as i continue, but at least it's been a kind of enjoyable mess.
The game is kind of a mess, sure, but it's at least a interesting mess. Driving feels a bit loose, I don't like that there isn't a stealth way out of every situation (sometimes, you have no choice but to go the violent route), and the main character is a complete and total fucking turd. Also, i have PTSD from bioshock's pipeworks hacking system so seeing that in this game is somewhat deflating. Then there's the whole dissonance thing of a guy wanting to avenge the death of his niece by killing hundreds upon hundreds of people and driving around like a damn sociopathic recluse.
Buttttt there is some interesting stuff happening. The skills system seems alright, the dark souls-ish thing where you can invade and be invaded is kinda neat, and the game kinda looks/runs well maxed out on my 770/4770k, nearly 60 fps @ 1080p. and it's pretty satisfying to get someone off of your tail by raising a bridge or having blockers pop up.
I'm sure it's not going to get much better as i continue, but at least it's been a kind of enjoyable mess.
I decided to vote as well then:
Game 3 (3 points) : Spintires
Game 2 (4 points) : The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Game 1 (5 points) : Metal Gear Rising
Baron_Calamity
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Some extras I had.
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Tizoc
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You must PM him with your choices, add in 2 games mate~
I'm still unsure on one thing: does The Wolf Among Us count? I see that it was listed in the 2013 GOTY list, but only 1 episode was released that year
I did. He mentions PMs in his post btw.
And I don't have anything else to add there.
I'm just posting my votes here too because people care about them.
Tizoc
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^Ugh yeah my bad, people have been also posting here just to share, sorry I'm too stressed out from work all of a sudden =_=
OK GAF, do I bite for Life is Strange and RE 1 HD off GMG for $30 combined? I could wait for Nuuvem and have a GAFfer buy the games for me though...do I wait or dive in?
OK GAF, do I bite for Life is Strange and RE 1 HD off GMG for $30 combined? I could wait for Nuuvem and have a GAFfer buy the games for me though...do I wait or dive in?
Get em.
I like the look of that, should be good.
Nyteshade517
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Hitman Collection for about $7.50 at Nuuvem http://www.nuuvem.com.br/produto/2587-hitman-collection
Just saw it there and figured I'd mention it
Just saw it there and figured I'd mention it
Tizoc
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Some extras I had.
Hmm Seems the Robin Hood key was already used, no biggy~
Some extras I had.
Thanks a lot. Velvet Assassin code was used but not a problem!
cool beans, picked up Life is Strange.
wbacon [capcom] answered me finally
http://steamcommunity.com/app/304240/discussions/0/622954023421400421/?tscn=1420809493
i guess he is right
but that doesn't explain why there is alot of threads like that and they never get deleted
heck .. some times developers for other games make thread about their game is being discount in another place
http://steamcommunity.com/app/304240/discussions/0/622954023421400421/?tscn=1420809493
i guess he is right
but that doesn't explain why there is alot of threads like that and they never get deleted
heck .. some times developers for other games make thread about their game is being discount in another place
I finally managed to beat BIT.TRIP RUNNER.
I got stuck on the level before the last boss and I kept going between this game and other stuff. I was surpised that the last boss was actually really easy.
As my first rythm game (besides the odd levels in Rayman Legends) I enjoyed it a lot. I already own the sequel (got it in the winter sale) so I'm looking forward to that one!
I got stuck on the level before the last boss and I kept going between this game and other stuff. I was surpised that the last boss was actually really easy.
There isn't even a last boss, it's just an easy level
As my first rythm game (besides the odd levels in Rayman Legends) I enjoyed it a lot. I already own the sequel (got it in the winter sale) so I'm looking forward to that one!
Naked Snake
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It's one of my favorite games, I played it on 3DS and I believe I finished it (or maybe stopped at the last level). I played a little of the sequel but it didn't grab me like the first one.
Is everyone playing as GIGN now?
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billmcdougal
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Same here. The 3DS game was cool. The sequel, which I was afraid wouldn't be as good due to its art style, actually mostly disappointed me because it started the difficulty curve from the beginning again. I was not having fun playing levels that were far easier than the levels I finished the first one on. I think they tried to make it longer too, which only exacerbates the problem.
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