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STEAM | July 2014 – 25TH THREAD EDITION (2008-2014)

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abracadaver

abracadaver

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Red Faction Collection -- MB-EE204052C960A72A - Taken by Sub Zero. 22 entrants total.


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It seems like the code will only work outside of germany
 
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billmcdougal

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Sendou said:
Yay! <3 Everybody knew this was coming but it's always good to have a confirmation!
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I can't remember the last game I was willing to double-dip on across platforms, but STF is so much fun, that I'll have to get the steam version...at least when it drops to $5 or so.

AHA-Lambda said:
What is Super Time Force and why should I get it? :p
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It plays like a Contra game, but you can go back in time. It's not like a usual game time-rewind, in that it doesn't just replace your last attempt, but ADDS to it.

So you can get to a boss, shoot at him for 30 seconds, die, "rewind" to the beginning of the boss fight, choose a 2nd character, and now BOTH characters are shooting at the boss for that 30 seconds. Repeat enough and you're playing "coop" with a ton of characters that are all your individual "attempts."

You can even kill an enemy before he gets a chance to kill your last guy if you're fast enough. Then it creates a time paradox and that guy turns into a powerup, which effectively makes it so you're playing as both at once, kind of overlapping to combine their power.

It's pretty awesome.
 
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The One Who Knocks

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Li Kao said:
Manus down.
Grass Crest Shield and Mask of the Child are my new best friends.
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Congratulations! The Grass Crest Shield is particularly useful for any 'lighter build' (which, to be fair, tends to be most PvP builds where mobility is a very important factor) as the Stamina Recovery effect it provides is invaluable when paired with two-handing a weapon. It's effectiveness is further increased by having the ability to parry. As a shield, it is inferior to some others as it doesn't have the best stability or damage reduction in your arsenal, but the effect it provides, be you one-handing or two-handing a weapon, is really useful defensively and offensively. Hopefully the final few bosses you face are less of a challenge.

EDIT: Also, I'm assuming you didn't need it since you didn't mention it, so the item I had been referring to was: http://darksouls.wikia.com/wiki/Silver_Pendant. It's useful for the DLC at times, but it isn't really an essential item at all as you've proved (assuming you didn't use it, if you didn't please ignore this).
 
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JaseC

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Sendou said:
Yay! <3 Everybody knew this was coming but it's always good to have a confirmation!
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Yeah, Capy made that as clear as possible without outright saying it:

At CAPY, our goal has always been simple: Create unique, beautiful video games that we love&#8230; and bring them wherever there is an audience (and ideally, a great controller) to play them. This is our goal with Below. This is our goal with Super TIME Force. This will be our goal with whatever crazy idea we do next.
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This was mentioned in a post clarifying Below's X1 "exclusivity", no less.
 
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Panda Rin

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just finished up Wolfenstein. really enjoyed it. solid gameplay, characters were likeable, and had a ton of little details sprinkled throughout.

only thing that irked me was the ending though.
 
AHA-Lambda

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billmcdougal said:
It plays like a Contra game, but you can go back in time. It's not like a usual game time-rewind, in that it doesn't just replace your last attempt, but ADDS to it.

So you can get to a boss, shoot at him for 30 seconds, die, "rewind" to the beginning of the boss fight, choose a 2nd character, and now BOTH characters are shooting at the boss for that 30 seconds. Repeat enough and you're playing "coop" with a ton of characters that are all your individual "attempts."

You can even kill an enemy before he gets a chance to kill your last guy if you're fast enough. Then it creates a time paradox and that guy turns into a powerup, which effectively makes it so you're playing as both at once, kind of overlapping to combine their power.

It's pretty awesome.
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ok, sounds pretty cool :p
 
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MMBosstones86

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billmcdougal said:
It plays like a Contra game, but you can go back in time. It's not like a usual game time-rewind, in that it doesn't just replace your last attempt, but ADDS to it.

So you can get to a boss, shoot at him for 30 seconds, die, "rewind" to the beginning of the boss fight, choose a 2nd character, and now BOTH characters are shooting at the boss for that 30 seconds. Repeat enough and you're playing "coop" with a ton of characters that are all your individual "attempts."

You can even kill an enemy before he gets a chance to kill your last guy if you're fast enough. Then it creates a time paradox and that guy turns into a powerup, which effectively makes it so you're playing as both at once, kind of overlapping to combine their power.

It's pretty awesome.
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whoa.

Want.
 
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FiveElementNinja

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KevMan1815

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billmcdougal said:
I can't remember the last game I was willing to double-dip on across platforms, but STF is so much fun, that I'll have to get the steam version...at least when it drops to $5 or so.



It plays like a Contra game, but you can go back in time. It's not like a usual game time-rewind, in that it doesn't just replace your last attempt, but ADDS to it.

So you can get to a boss, shoot at him for 30 seconds, die, "rewind" to the beginning of the boss fight, choose a 2nd character, and now BOTH characters are shooting at the boss for that 30 seconds. Repeat enough and you're playing "coop" with a ton of characters that are all your individual "attempts."

You can even kill an enemy before he gets a chance to kill your last guy if you're fast enough. Then it creates a time paradox and that guy turns into a powerup, which effectively makes it so you're playing as both at once, kind of overlapping to combine their power.

It's pretty awesome.
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I have never heard of this, but you make it sound pretty cool. I'm going to look into this when I get home later.
 
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gabbo

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LostAtLife said:
Yeah, but the violence actually fitted like a glove.
It's not on GOG either. Is it abandonware already? It's not buyable first-hand anymore.
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The violence did fit like a glove. It's not abandonware. It, like many Activision titles from the mid to early 2000's is just no on sale anymore. Might be due to a)it being a hassle to run on modern machines b)the reboot tanking utterly and completely scared them off
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
gabbo said:
The violence did fit like a glove. It's not abandonware. It, like many Activision titles from the mid to early 2000's is just no on sale anymore. Might be due to a)it being a hassle to run on modern machines b)the reboot tanking utterly and completely scared them off
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The Solider of Fortune name was licensed from the US military magazine of the same name -- this is why Payback is no longer sold on Steam (Acti's contract expired). I can't imagine the rights are expensive, though, and so I think it'd be wise of Acti to get them back and not only return Payback to Steam but also re-release the original two games. Sadly, though, that will almost assuredly never happen.
 
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Cromulent_Word

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I came here to talk about Super Time Force Ultra but after seeing that GIF I think I'll have to leave before I pee myself.

Here's a less terrifying GIF:

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Freedom = $1.05

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Grief should make a petition for the REAL earth defense force games to come out on PC/steam. I want to kill giant ants and I want to do so in 1080p AA vysnc 60fps.
 
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freshVeggie

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Cromulent_Word said:
I had to lurk in the Steam thread until we announced cause it was hard to not spoil the news :)

Rest assured I'll get some codes to the GAF crew ;)
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Very nice of you! The pixel animations look really detailed even though it's so minimalistic.
Care to post some more gifs for hype?

Freedom = $1.05 said:
Grief should make a petition for the REAL earth defense force games to come out on PC/steam. I want to kill giant ants and I want to do so in 1080p AA vysnc 60fps.
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Got EDF Insect Armageddon Bundle on sale. Is that not a REAL EDF?
 
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