Red Blaster
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finally got around to playing gone home
pretty ok but this shit was 20 bucks when it launched? damn what a rip.
pretty ok but this shit was 20 bucks when it launched? damn what a rip.
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STEAM | January 2016 - Out of cash, out of cache
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thesaucetastic
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I just got it for my fake birthday on there. I tested it out on Lightning Returns and it seems like it worked. I maybe should not have clicked through on the email they gave it in though, if that's the case.
Hopefully it works for someone, in any case. I don't have the funds to buy anything right now, and it expires in a month.
Crimsonclaw111
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Oh, I count plays and [some, based on a completely arbitrary page length requirement], novellas.
My personal list has 2 of the last 3 you mentioned there listing, in terms of PC games and overall GOTY, actually. It's definitely been a pretty good year, though. I project battle of the indies for #1, I dunno about anyone else. To me it seems like the AAA titles we've seen, with the exception of remasters that already had their original version on Steam since they're exempt from voting, were pretty lack lustre. We'll see.
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.
Thanks. Picked up Tomb Raider and Dragon's Dogma. I don't know why exactly, I still have a ton of stuff I want to play.
I guess I'm looking forward to putting my new graphics card through it's paces with these two.
looks like new achievement feature.
still no "random" option in showcase like badges have, still nothing that can compel devs to fix the broken ones, but i appreciate that valve didnt forget about them completely
It'll help the people going "hey how come these achievement numbers don't add up?" at least. There's always one.
LurkerPrime
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Because you already have more games than you can play, so why not add some more you want to play right away?
It's a backlog crisis I'm also experiencing due to Dragon's Dogma and, some weeks, later XCOM 2!!!!!!!!!
Ugh.
freshVeggie
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Wait, the 25% and the 20% can be used for one game and stack?
EDIT: They don't stack
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MMBosstones86
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Vocal Minority. Me being one of them.
Chapter 1 was GOTY material. Chapter 2 blew hard. Chapter 3.....oh wait....
Wait, the 25% and the 20% can be used for one game and stack?
Negative. Unable to add the second one.
Still....$45 for Tomb Raider seems a bit more than I'd like to spend.
Nyteshade517
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Wait, the 25% and the 20% can be used for one game and stack?
no...can only use one voucher at a time
starting Thursday (Jan 7) NVIDIA is bundling RotTR with certain cards...pretty sure the BST thread will have prices a lot better than $45
freshVeggie
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Yes, I tried immediately and realized it doesn't work.
Belgarion's "Extra" made me hope, haha.... :'(
Belgarion's "Extra" made me hope, haha.... :'(
Wait, the 25% and the 20% can be used for one game and stack?
Tried and didn't work
laserlaser
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Starwhal my only purchase. Can't wait to play w/ the homies
corrosivefrost
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Voting for the SteamGAF GOTY starts in
Here is the selection criteria. If you choose a game that doesn't meet these guidelines, your vote for that game will be disqualified.
- Game must have have been released on Steam in 2015.
Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition are not eligible because they are both remasters of existing Steam games.
As I just IM'ed you, SotFS is not some simple "remaster". It should not be disqualifed from voting in the least. I cannot speak to Divinity OS: EE, but with the remixed enemy placements, more enemies in mobs, remixed item locations, additional players over network play, etc. -- it was more than just a "let's port this to DX11 and include all the DLC".
Tempted to pick up RotTR. After Shadownet's removal of most, if not all, of GAF from his Steam friends list and his subsequent disappearance, holding out hope for that long lost modbot win seems silly when I can get the game for $45 or less.
MMBosstones86
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LurkerPrime
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Even still, a complicated remaster is still a remaster. The whole point of yearly awards is to give room for new stuff to shine.
It's time for Life is Strange to shine.
Divinity's EE is pretty substantial too, lots of major changes aside from adding DX11.
I was going to vote for it until I found out it wasn't qualified.
corrosivefrost
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You haven't heard?? He's back.
There's still hope!!
He is? News to me. I rarely wander in here and haven't had any instances of "where has Frost been" to report lately. Still working on too many games (I did 100% Year Walk, but that didn't seem impressive or worth of a post saying so at the time) and nothing worthy of showing off.
Even so, I don't know that shadownet posting on GAF would guarantee RotTR showing up on my steam account before the game launches. ¯\_(ツ
_/¯I'll take your word for it. You usually know what you're talking about. I know they streamlined a bunch of the co-op features for the console release and those got ported back... but whatever it was, it seemed it fit best in a *new* steam library entry rather than a patch like some other games get when the games have been ported to the current consoles.
I did not play many games that qualify over the course of 2015. And even so, I wouldn't put LiS on that list -- y'know, opinions and all that.
Guess I'll probably have to stuff those Telltale games into my top 5 or I'll vote for DS2:SotFS even if jshackles leaves it out in the cold. I gladly paid the $20 upgrade price on day one and then proceeded to spend another 70+ hours with the game because it wasn't the same game I finished playing in 2014.
http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=572102
That's the entire changelog of the original release vs the launch version of EE, if you're curious.
One of the more interesting changes is the EE now requires a DX11 vid card where as before you could play the original in DX9, probably another reason why it got a new entry, so people without DX11 cards / mobile GPUs could still play.
-Edit-
Also balancing the new harder difficulty by hand throughout the entire game instead of simply doing a stat change and calling it a day, with new encounters and enemy types.
LurkerPrime
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Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition's changes are significant. It actually doubled as an engine upgrade for the sequel, Divinity: Original Sin 2.
I don't know what Bomb Baiter is, but I know that XCOM 2 is better.
I don't know what Bomb Baiter is, but I know that XCOM 2 is better.
corrosivefrost
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Ah, makes sense, same as SotFS.
I did a check of what I completed in 2015 that was released in 2015 and it seems only 12 games are anything I'd consider putting on a GOTY list.
Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, Mortal Kombat X, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Ori and the Blind Forest, Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition, Mega Man Legacy Collection, Tales from the Borderlands, Assault Android Cactus, Mushihimesama, Game of Thrones*, Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, Batman: Arkham Knight*
I guess if I had to do it, putting DS2 in the list will just leave me with 6 [still subject to change]: 1. DMC4:SE, 2. DS2:SotFS, 3. Batman: Arkham Knight, 4. Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, 5. Mushihimesama, 6. Assault Android Cactus
I guess if I had to do it, putting DS2 in the list will just leave me with 6 [still subject to change]: 1. DMC4:SE, 2. DS2:SotFS, 3. Batman: Arkham Knight, 4. Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, 5. Mushihimesama, 6. Assault Android Cactus
There are some great games that came out, but my general rule is if I didn't finish it, I can't vote for it (sorry Guilty Gear Xrd).
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.
In years past we've typically had about 170 people vote on our SteamGAF GOTY. And even restricting it to 5 games per vote, we've ended up with around 150 total games represented. If we expanded it to 10 games per vote, we could easily see the total number go up but we probably wouldn't see too big of a difference in the top 10 games represented overall. With literally thousands of games eligible for voting, we have to keep a pretty narrow focus, otherwise we'll end up with information overload and results that don't mean as much.
And I'm sticking to my guns regarding remasters and re-releases. I know some are upset about the decision but like LurkerPrime summed up, the decision was made to keep things fresh. Dark Souls II, Divinity, Devil May Cry 4, etc have had their time to shine. At least next year Dark Souls III will be eligible.
Jawmuncher
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Why 10, those games that get 1 point end up barely meaning anything. Plus it cuts down on 100+ games being on the list with 1 point.
Atraveller
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I totally would have voted Divinity: OS again, oh well. It does have many improvements other than graphics.
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Until it turns to shit that is.
My T key got stuck but you know what I mean. Realistically, I wonder how low Rise of the Tomb Raider is going to go during Summer Sale.
Honestly, naming-wise. its still quite dumb. "Rise of the Tomb Raider". That could have been the first game.
yeah, i see how scope might be an issue
alrite
yeah i agree
i feel like some games might end up not being represented
like, i'd like to give a vote to cibele but it's probably not gonna make my top 5, etc.
texhnolyze
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Yeah, to this day it still boggles me. How did they came up with 'Rise of the Tomb Raider'?
What a cringeworthy title. It also doesn't sound good in abbreviation, RotTR, meh I'll just call it TR2015.
Stumpokapow
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Clarification: Does the ModBot disqualification rule apply to all the ModBots or just ModBot specifically.
Does it only take just one foil card out of a set to craft a foil badge? I'm still unclear about the purpose of foil cards and badges except that they're rarer and worth more than the regular version.
So I just finished Shadowrun: Dragonfall and I have to say it's a very solid game.
If I had to bring out what it does best, I'd say that the game is very lenient in how you wish to accomplish things. You can do some missions completely pacifically using bluff and decking that could also be done shooting the first guard in the head then killing everything else in the way. You can even refuse to do missions if you are against them.
Another thing that is done very well is the feeling of 'community'. I find it funny that TitS declared it does so, tried hard and yet failed while this game aces it without it even being a selling point of the game.
I'm way more tempted to get Hong Kong next sale now.
EDIT: Any good workshop campaign I should be playing?
Tizoc
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Atraveller
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I didn't get the druid's brother now he hates me forever ;_;
texhnolyze
Banned
Tizoc
Member
It has always been 5
Shackles explained it before but i umm. Forgot the reason
2016 voting should be more than 5 though what with a lot of interesting jp games releasing on steam.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
They seem quite pleased.
Is there a Modbot 4? I haven't seen it.
We have ModBot E3 Temp 1, ModBot E3 Temp 2, ModBot E3 Temp 3 as well
A Look at the biggest visual novels that are looking to be released or re-translated in English in 2016. From Fuwanovel
The age of waifus is upon us.
Looking forward to the If My Heart Had Wings retranslation. Will put off playing the remaining routes until that releases.
MMBosstones86
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I don't read fam.
I'll watch 50 movies on my own and document the ordeal and not feel bad about reading 0 books.
Unless Art work books count...then it'd be about 2. Maybe.
Well... crap.
That's what I get for working and not checking the thread I guess.
Your grasp of stock British phrases is a little shaky, old bean.
ramoisdead
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We have ModBot E3 Temp 1, ModBot E3 Temp 2, ModBot E3 Temp 3 as well
A whole army of ModBots, waiting to go rogue.
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