arts&crafts
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Just got back from the bar. Any game pump?
Edit: just checked my Email....never mind.
Edit: just checked my Email....never mind.
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STEAM | January 2017 - Time to get GAMEDUMPED
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They (those 2 games) used to be published by KISS ltd. Seems like ASW got the rights to publish them on STEAM. Most other ASW games are self-published though.
The Dear Leader
Banned
As a consumer, I like GAMEPUMP's policy to maintain no release date schedules on games.
My first finished game of 2017 goes to:
28 hours and some counting. Reopened the entire gallery, jumped to the 2016 US Federal Election set, now I'm doing The Archives to wrap it all up properly outside the Mystery Paintings or whatever.
Really enjoyed my time with this one. Music was mellow, but it's repetitive enough I just drowned it out with a chill Spotify mix and played in peace. Was great to ignore my lectures with. Gonna keep it installed and do all the pro and master paintings now to properly finish it through the year. ¯\_(ツ
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B U Y I T.
28 hours and some counting. Reopened the entire gallery, jumped to the 2016 US Federal Election set, now I'm doing The Archives to wrap it all up properly outside the Mystery Paintings or whatever.
Really enjoyed my time with this one. Music was mellow, but it's repetitive enough I just drowned it out with a chill Spotify mix and played in peace. Was great to ignore my lectures with. Gonna keep it installed and do all the pro and master paintings now to properly finish it through the year. ¯\_(ツ
_/¯ B U Y I T.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
My SSD from Dell got canceled. Think I can hit up support and maybe get a backordered one? Worst case I'll just wait for a new deal to show up.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Got a last minute prepaid card for XMas.
Watch Dawgs 2 or Turbo Tax?
Watch Dawgs 2 or Turbo Tax?
I would say Turbo Tax if you usually get money back. If you always owe... then Watch Dawgs 2.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Well, it's my first year making money with my business. Which is why Tax is on the table.
I'll prolly get Turbo Tax.
For what it's worth I consider it the best deal in gaming. Especially if you have an open mind - it's an eclectic bunch of games for sure, and I sometimes get repeats, but on the whole I've had zero complaints so far and I've been a subscriber for six months or so.
XCOM2 might be the biggest featured game so far, but I have a feeling the other games in the bundle won't be super disappointing. When Dragon's Dogma was the featured game, maybe the only comparable triple-A so far, we still got stuff like Hacknet, The Escapist and The Flame In The Flood.
More_Badass
Member
Refunded Gamepump, it was a sure-why-not thing anyway for the price, but with the messiness on display today and overall, the money seems better well spent towards Humble. There, I know the games will be at least high quality, going by their past months. Will try it out for a few months
I have eclectic tastes, and will play pretty much anything (Hell, I've even been warming up to finally trying a visual novel), so yeah, seems like a good fit
Atraveller
Banned
I was never pumped.
The Dear Leader
Banned
I ordered one less pizza a few weeks ago, thats how afforded a year of Gamepump.
Backlogger
Member
Good luck but generally, once the order is canceled for price errors, you're pretty much out of luck
real talk (which isnt new as Ive said this before), but those few days or whatever when people were just absolutely shitting on humble monthly were some of the most baffling shit ive read on Gaf.
Their "showcase" game or whatever you want to call it is usually worth, lets say, half the $12 alone as they pick from either high profile semi-indies (Vermintide, SOMA, Rocket League, Stardew Valley) or straight up "triple A" games (Mad Max, XCOM 2, Dragons Dogma), and the rest of the stuff is usually high quality indie stuff, Flame in the Flood, Jotun, Hacknet, Styx, Rebel Galaxy, TitS, Broforce, Slime Rancher, etc etc), its not like they pick from the fodder pile.
There have been some stinker months sure (the BLOPS3 multiplayer one springs to mind) but overall, value wise, how can you beat what they offer? I felt like I was in bizarro world for those few days.
im surprised you of all people havent been subbing badass, you're all about the high quality indie stuff which they primarly offer.
edit: also, I was browsing previous months Monthlys, and I just noticed its always 8 games >_>
Their "showcase" game or whatever you want to call it is usually worth, lets say, half the $12 alone as they pick from either high profile semi-indies (Vermintide, SOMA, Rocket League, Stardew Valley) or straight up "triple A" games (Mad Max, XCOM 2, Dragons Dogma), and the rest of the stuff is usually high quality indie stuff, Flame in the Flood, Jotun, Hacknet, Styx, Rebel Galaxy, TitS, Broforce, Slime Rancher, etc etc), its not like they pick from the fodder pile.
There have been some stinker months sure (the BLOPS3 multiplayer one springs to mind) but overall, value wise, how can you beat what they offer? I felt like I was in bizarro world for those few days.
im surprised you of all people havent been subbing badass, you're all about the high quality indie stuff which they primarly offer.
edit: also, I was browsing previous months Monthlys, and I just noticed its always 8 games >_>
Yeah, did the same thing. They don't seem to have their stuff under control.
I just would like to see the face of the guy when Steam explained to him he had to greenlit his games and that his whole plan just went down the drain. Not because they won't be approved, they will but the approval schedule is erratic and quite random.
Backlogger
Member
Xcom 2 is the first game that has tempted me to sign up for the Humble Monthly. I'd have bought Xcom 2 for $12 during the winter sale had it been that price. All the other games they've bundled I've been able to pick up for $7 or less from BST thread or I already owned them. I'll likely sign up for this month and then cancel again
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
How did you get my porn hub channel?
Maybe it was something that should have been established before they started taking money from people? Just sayin.
Nyteshade517
Member
yep...they said on Twitter they shouldn't have made the assumption about getting Steam keys like that
so they advertised something that they couldn't even guarantee and hadn't bothered to even get real information about and yet still took people's money without saying a word about anything until they finally had to today
Someone in B/S/T buying XCOM2 for $8...I mean why not just go the extra $4 and sub for the rest of the games then? That $8 will have the paypal tax on it too from sending money to people so...whut?
I really don't think this is a scam so much as a personal project from a guy who has had experience working on this stuff with other people and failed to realize how he was in over his head when he tied to pull it off mostly alone.
That doesn't excuse that how the failed launch so far has been handled really poorly. If people feel they have no faith in the service they should definitely get a refund. But yeah, I don't sense any malice or intent to cheat here!
Wozzer
Member
GOTY:
(5 Points) - The Witness
(4 Points) - DOOM
(3 Points) - SUPERHOT
(2 Points) - XCOM 2
(1 Point) - Firewatch
The Witness - A genre defining masterpiece of a game. Unaware of what to expect I had high hopes going in, and after 40 hours of puzzle solving bliss I put the game down with my expectations surpassed. The world design and attention to detail throughout is stunning; everything from a rock on the beach to a treeline in-land can have purpose and be part of a series of meta puzzles coming together towards the end of the game. The only downside being that the strands of a story, pretentious and nonsensical, does little to compliment the world it inhabits and the ultimate mystery of the island is either still yet to be discovered or lackluster. The journey more than makes up for the destination though.
Tektonic
Member
The paypal seller was "SUPER VILLIAN INCORPORATED"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont think its a scam at all, just completely amateurish.
Also, Epistory looks super cool. Next game? Next game (after Doom that is).
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
If they give me a PC version of Monster Party or Sweet Home Game Pump is all forgiven.
FiveElementNinja
Member
STEAM | January 2017 - GAMECHUMPS
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So with Gamepump being GOG first, Steam eventually, is there a possibility a game might not get a Steam release for whatever reason, or are they promising Steam keys? Is this basically a Greenlight bundle?
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So with Gamepump being GOG first, Steam eventually, is there a possibility a game might not get a Steam release for whatever reason, or are they promising Steam keys? Is this basically a Greenlight bundle?
Ban Puncher
Member
The owners of GamePump.
guys,i think i did something really stupid now,i went to pcmasterrace on reddit,
and i think i got cancer.
WARNING,YOU MAY GET CANCER IF YOU SEE THIS IMAGE
and i think i got cancer.
WARNING,YOU MAY GET CANCER IF YOU SEE THIS IMAGE
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.
I actually really liked Epistory, but I wish I would have known beforehand of it's "adaptive difficulty". I type about 60 wpm without even trying, and so the game basically said "alright fucker let's do this" and started giving me ridiculously long words with ridiculously short time. I was still able to beat it, but it was a lot more challenging than I thought it was going to be. My suggestion, start out typing slowly and perhaps slowly work up to typing faster(?)
thats actually good to know, I didnt know about that. How does the game handle typos, does it fuck up the whole word or what happens?
Also do you remember if you can play WASD like a normal person? That weird ass EDJI control system they have going is...not good.
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.
Yes, if you mistype a word you have to start over (if I remember correctly)
I also changed the controls to wasd although I'll admit that there were more than a few times where I'm moving around in WASD mode then... oh fuck there's a battle here / switch hand positions.
What..shame on them.
yeah doom is pretty cool
i get a similar feeling as with wolfenstein, i appreciate all the cool stuff the game's doing and how it actually managed to capture a lot about the original games while modernizing in a pretty intelligent way but at the same time i find myself tired from playing it and kind of wishing it was shorter
like i just got to hell in doom and i'm kind of hoping it'll end already
idk what is it about these "modern old fpses" but i just don't have the patience for em i guess
i get a similar feeling as with wolfenstein, i appreciate all the cool stuff the game's doing and how it actually managed to capture a lot about the original games while modernizing in a pretty intelligent way but at the same time i find myself tired from playing it and kind of wishing it was shorter
like i just got to hell in doom and i'm kind of hoping it'll end already
idk what is it about these "modern old fpses" but i just don't have the patience for em i guess
Mikurden
Member
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
so I did some reading on this game pump thing, but basically it's a vaguer humble monthly but for old games?
If its the
first time you went to hell
yeah
it's weird, i like the game but i also don't want to spend too much time with it
it's weird, i'm weird
speaking of weird, doom kind of made me want to replay rage
i love rage
Rockin' Ranger
Member
Won't be voting for DLC or Early Access, but my GOTY voting will be.
1. Dark Souls III
2. DOOM
3. Stardew Valley
4. VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
5. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Dark Souls III is just fantastic and DOOM is the best FPS I've played since Half-Life 2. Building my farm in Stardew Valley has taken over Terraria as my relaxing game to build things in while going beyond Terraria in having an interesting town full of villagers and goals to keep me going forward (so close to completing the community center). VA-11 Hall-A's cast of characters kept me interested all the way through even though mixing drinks was about my only interaction with them, and it was an absolute joy to finally have Dragon's Dogma on PC.
1. Dark Souls III
2. DOOM
3. Stardew Valley
4. VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
5. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Dark Souls III is just fantastic and DOOM is the best FPS I've played since Half-Life 2. Building my farm in Stardew Valley has taken over Terraria as my relaxing game to build things in while going beyond Terraria in having an interesting town full of villagers and goals to keep me going forward (so close to completing the community center). VA-11 Hall-A's cast of characters kept me interested all the way through even though mixing drinks was about my only interaction with them, and it was an absolute joy to finally have Dragon's Dogma on PC.
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