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STEAM | January 2016 - Out of cash, out of cache
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Leafhopper
Banned
I'm not evil lol.
Jawmuncher
Member
The jury is still undecided on that.
I tried using the IndieGala trade system to swap some unwanted games for other games I missed. I found it to be mostly a waste of time. The reason is that most of the other people trying to trade are one of:
1. Scammers who just put in a fake key like QQQQQ-QQQQQ-QQQQQ to steal your game
2. People who think they should get a AAA new release in return for their bundle game they got for 15 cents
3. People who post a trade, forget about it, and never come back to check for offers
4. People who ask for any game that don't have (reasonable), but they already have every game that's ever been bundled, so you can't ever make a trade with them unless you give them an expensive un-bundled game for their bundle junk game
5. People who grab free keys from IndieGala giveaways and use them for trade fodder
All of those combined with the poor searching ability make it really hard to actually make a trade that benefits both parties.
1. Scammers who just put in a fake key like QQQQQ-QQQQQ-QQQQQ to steal your game
2. People who think they should get a AAA new release in return for their bundle game they got for 15 cents
3. People who post a trade, forget about it, and never come back to check for offers
4. People who ask for any game that don't have (reasonable), but they already have every game that's ever been bundled, so you can't ever make a trade with them unless you give them an expensive un-bundled game for their bundle junk game
5. People who grab free keys from IndieGala giveaways and use them for trade fodder
All of those combined with the poor searching ability make it really hard to actually make a trade that benefits both parties.
Citation required
I think it won't be so hard to find Toren with a good price. Anyway it's not expensive at all from start!
This is the problem with just about every internet trade forum. And the people who exploit the systems the most are the most active ones with the most +Rep or whatever, so they are able to shout down any suggestions for reform.
WinterDemons
Member
First game I finished this year was Trails in the Sky FC. It was a great JRPG experience and looking forward to start SC once I get settled in at work. Totally recommended.
In the meantime, I went through a bunch of short point and click games.
Machinarium
Botanicula
Samorost 1 (Free browser game)
The Journey Down: Chapter One
The Journey Down: Chapter Two
The Dream Machine
I recommend all these as well. Each of the games has its own charm. The last parts of Journey Down and The Dream Machine haven't been released yet though. I just about started Samorost 2 too.
In the meantime, I went through a bunch of short point and click games.
Machinarium
Botanicula
Samorost 1 (Free browser game)
The Journey Down: Chapter One
The Journey Down: Chapter Two
The Dream Machine
I recommend all these as well. Each of the games has its own charm. The last parts of Journey Down and The Dream Machine haven't been released yet though. I just about started Samorost 2 too.
Leafhopper
Banned
My sale luck was kinda bad this year. Last Word and Mystik Belle I had to refund.
Yeah okay.
Yeah okay.
Oh they are great co-op games, just not for me haha. I'd love to see a new Valve IP, a shame they cancelled that space game.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I am going to play through the Nancy Drew series during January on a stream.
Do you guys want me during this to post my impressions of each Nancy Drew game as I go through them? There's 24 games I plan to try and go through.
Do you guys want me during this to post my impressions of each Nancy Drew game as I go through them? There's 24 games I plan to try and go through.
someguyinahat
Member
I liked just about all of these, but couldn't get into Botanicula. I respect what it was trying to do, but I guess it just wasn't for me. One of those rare games where I *should* like it but for whatever reason I simply *don't*.
Absolutely yes. I saw the Game Grumps try to get through one of them and it actually looked pretty competent as a point-and-click adventure. Are you planning to save the streams on youtube as well?
MMBosstones86
Member
SteamGAF.....we're home.
Shit Stump was on fire at the end of the sale thread.
Dammit! I lost my Stump Thumbs up Gif! ugh
Shit Stump was on fire at the end of the sale thread.
Dammit! I lost my Stump Thumbs up Gif! ugh
Dsyndrome
Member
Just noticed, any reason off the top of your heads that there's nine less achievements in the DC?
I'm also posting this as a thread on the Gaming GAF side (which you can find here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1166169 ), but I'll be talking about older and newer horror games through 2016 to recommend to you guys, and I'm starting with...
Except in the technical department. The game naturally had a few bugs, but they're worse on newer machines, that can give some people trouble with running or it crashing on PC. My recommendation is to use this patch: http://dcotetools.sucklead.com/2012/10/version-15-available.html / And for some issues encountered, this may help: http://videodiscthings.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/glorious-glitches-call-of-cthulhu-dark.html
Thanks for these writeups Dusk, is there a way around the 4:3 lock?
WinterDemons
Member
Dsyndrome
Member
Does this mean, that both the original and the enhanced edition will be listed in my library now?
bobnowhere
Member
Dead State: Reanimated
Very nice survival zombie game. Tried just a bit but the premise and the way it works are very exciting. I've raided a shop in a town, a not seen zombie suddendly attacked my party and we managed to kill it. We moved carefully and got everything, then we moved out. Too many zombies to try anything else, we changed the destination. We approached a market. No zombies, we started getting materials and useful items. We decided to explore the city. F**K!!!! A group of angry people started screaming to us that they didn't stand scanvengers! We run for our lives and managed to get back to our base. But resources are scarce. What will we do next?
Yep other people are the real threat in Dead State!
I ran across a truck shipping place on the right side of the map and was confronted by a heavily armed posse. Ended them and it took 3 trips to bring back all the sweet loot to base.
Leafhopper
Banned
I dunno... Looks pretty evil to me
Fix ur eyes.
Khilandros
Member
welp, I managed to survive the sale.
Dsyndrome
Member
I think the only thing stretched is the UI and text in the title screen. Here's screenshots from me playing a few seconds ago:
I checked out your profile, and your screenshot actually perfectly demonstrates what's going on.
EDIT: hhmmmm
Dsyndrome
Member
Right, the text and UI. In-game, I don't think it's like that.
I may just be looking at it and rationalizing, it's not off-putting in-game at least.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
There is resolution options in the game, but I think that stretches the image out some. I tried with some other things such as outside program forced resolution applications, but the result would cause the game to crash. Oh older games. XD;
But I can say I found the 16:9 in game to be fine in practice.
Dang, there's that many of them?
Okay, expect some Nancy Drew write-ups when I get home in a couple days and roll with it. I do record, but not sure how quick I'll have them up, depends how I tackle them. I guess I'll see what's-what with the series, I've had many of them for ages.
And yes, there's a surprising number of them. There's actully over 30 Nancy Drew games, and a new one coming out this year as well. And are GameGrumps playing some of them? I've actually heard that many of the games are a lot better than you might expect, they've been made by the same studio for years who are actually pretty good at making point'n'clicks, and I hear some of them have good stories, some have good detective elements, some good puzzles, and some are actually surprisingly atmospheric/scary (I'll be the judge of that).
See what I think, hopefully don't regret this decision. XD;
Take a screenshot of that sign in 4:3 windowed for comparison.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
It's stretched, there's no native widescreen resolution support. Even with the FOV fixer, you're still looking at a 4:3 render on a 16:9 canvas.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Here were some Steam screenshots from the very beginning of Call of Cthulhu, so no spoilers.
It looked fine to me in practice, but a bit stretched. I think you quickly get used to it, though.
It looked fine to me in practice, but a bit stretched. I think you quickly get used to it, though.
Jawmuncher
Member
The way it's meant to be played
thank you kind sir!
someguyinahat
Member
Only one of them, for Christmas. They didn't finish it. At one point they looked up the details of the game and were shocked that it was the 16th in the series. But it was enough to pique my interest. It looked better than I thought it was going to.
spindoctor
Member
I'll second this. It's incredibly easy to get spoiled on the game. Just type the name into Google and the suggested searches can spoil something. The merchandise for the game can spoil stuff. Listening to the (very catchy) soundtrack on Youtube can lead to spoilers in comments or related video suggestions.
It's an amazing game and everyone deserves to play it blind.
I kind of wonder why the (sub?) genre of escape rooms and ace attorney style puzzle games are so under represented in gaming in general and almost completely missing on PC. How come no one has come up with a Kickstarter for a game like this yet?
Welcome! Yeah, all the new guys should subscribe to the thread so you don't forget about it, now that we are back in community.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I've not played a single one, but a friend has been urging me to play the, and I bought the collection because of several of them having horror themes and her urging.
I can't say how good or bad I think they are yet, but I can say it's fascinating the series apparently not only sells okay, it's actually one of the best selling point'n'click, it's gone on for so long with so many entries (it dates to the 90s), and that supposedly, a good majority of them are actually good, and apparently a few of them are even great.
Here were some Steam screenshots from the very beginning of Call of Cthulhu, so no spoilers.
It looked fine to me in practice, but a bit stretched. I think you quickly get used to it, though.
This one looks obvious, though I agree that it doesn't look that bad.
texhnolyze
Banned
Finally, the new thread..
Ugh, the price is pretty underwhelming indeed.
Noooooo...
Ugh, the price is pretty underwhelming indeed.
Noooooo...
Dsyndrome
Member
1920x1080:
1024x768:
It is stretched, didn't notice on the models until side by side.
someguyinahat
Member
I spent more buying games to modbot raffle than I did on games for myself.
It's definitely stretched. It doesn't look completely horrible like some games do because of it, but it is stretched.
edit: yep
Super Galaxy Squadron
The first time I played this game I was almost mad. Dev screamed "it's not a bullet hell game!" and that was so untrure. Played a bit then quitted, if I remember correctly I had a few words with Neogaf Rayge which considered the game not so bad. In these days I discovered it got achievements, and I played a bit of it, scoring 8/9 achievement (with the last achievement on hold because I stopped playing and saved a game). Well. It's not the best shmup ever, but it's fun. A lot of stuff has been fixed, even if the balance is out of axis according to the ship you choose.
A little spot for me, I'm making a shmup, it'll take probably forever, but my goal is to surpass this one, in fun and content, but I know it won't be easy .
Couldn't have been me. I thought the game was okay at best and it lied about not being a bullet hell. The game's BETA on the other hand is a different story. You gotta use the word "tunnelsnakesrule" to opt into the BETA. I think it releases this month and you'll get it for free if you already own the original game. It completely changed. The UI has changed, stages have changed, the ship sprites have changed. Here's an example. I think the BETA lets you try the first 2 stages.
The new game is releasing in January.
WinterDemons
Member
Hearing that they're apparently one of the best point and clicks piqued my interest. With so many entries, I am looking forward to your impressions.
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