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STEAM | July 2014 25TH THREAD EDITION (2008-2014)
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Well despite your damning criticism of neoThief I still bought it thinking it can't be that bad and by golly it pretty much is. I'm wondering if you're going to do Round II when GTAV comes to Steam
See, people never believe me, but I always end up being right!
As for a second round of GEETAV, I think I've said pretty much all I want about it.
Of course, this was like... 6 threads ago
(I'm not rebuying it though, I felt a deep sense of satisfaction when I resold my copy for only a 10% ding, which I gladly paid as learning money.)
Maybe I missed something? Explain.
Hero Prinny
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Some leftover keys I found on my humble bundle account.
ModBot said:Instructions for participants:
I am giving away 2 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below that corresponds to the key you want (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering).
Rules for this Giveaway:
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It's ModBot's birthday! Celebrate by giving out something other than bundle garbage today!
- If you are a lurker you are not eligible for this giveaway. You need five or more posts in either the current Steam thread or the previous one to be eligible
- I really appreciate thank you messages, but please send them to me (Hero Prinny, not ModBot!) via PM instead of in thread.
- This giveaway is a raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 3 hours after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.
- This giveaway has a manual blocklist. The giver has identified members who abuse giveaways and restricted them from participating.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:
(origin) Populous -- MB-2BD243F3508993C9
(Origin) Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Uprising --MB-72291D641D26C998- Taken by cyrok
ya thats really cool, And this modbot is the coolest thing since slice bread here haha
Agreed completely.
I also always wonder why Stump seems to be so hard on bundled games. Some of my favourite games have already been bundled (Edna & Harvey: The breakout, for example). Sure, there can be a lot of trash in bundles, but there are also tons of very enjoyable games in them. They wouldn't be as popular otherwise.
DaBargainHunta
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Can you link me to Stump's impressions? I missed those and would love to read them. Even though I had more fun with it, I will probably end up agreeing with most of what he said because the game is a hot mess from a technical standpoint (broken menus, bad optimization, etc.).As for your 8 Bit Commando impressions, I specifically remember reading them because they seemed sort of at odds with Stump's impressions of the game, where your's were more forgiving and you seemed to have more fun with it than he did, and it was interesting to see another perspective. So people do read them
Is it the type platformer to get frustrating at all? You did say it was short, so maybe not. I'd seen the logo somewhere before but hadn't looked into the game yet.
SteveWinwood
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its hard to miss
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
I'm not really into puzzle games, but I've heard a lot of good things about Spacechem.
This old thread has a few titles in it too.
I searched around for it, but I can't seem to find it at the moment, but I think it was in either the May or June thread.
Pupo
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I finished the 2nd & infinite, but i don't have the 1st one D;
I pre-ordered Bio2 on Steam back in the day but didn't finish it until ~mid-2010... on the PS3. At the time I had trouble getting into PC games that weren't CS and preferred consoles instead for multiplats. Minerva's Den I haven't played at all, but I'd like to get around to doing so one day.
ya but the best and worst part is playing harcore mode haha. thats the ONLY way to play
Thank you so much. The gift worked and the next 30 minutes can't pass quickly enough. Your are truly generous.
Garcia
Member
And this is exactly why impressions and feedback are so important. I didn't know a thing about that game you mentioned and I'm now looking at it on Steam.
Thank you so much. The gift worked and the next 30 minutes can't pass quickly enough. Your are truly generous.
My pleasure, don't know what went wrong with my giveaway. Enjoy the game!
Sgt.Pepper
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Stump, since I'm lazy as hell, can you make the ModBot to link to the giver's profile so we don't have to manually add or search the user when making a PM?
ModBot said:Instructions for participants:
I am giving away a Steam key. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below containing the key.
Rules for this Giveaway:
-It's ModBot's birthday! Celebrate by giving out something other than bundle garbage today!
- I really appreciate thank you messages, but please send them to me (Nibiru, not ModBot!) via PM instead of in thread.
- This giveaway is a LIGHTNING raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 15 minutes after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:
Larva Mortus -- MB-A7E2A97493A11EC7
Try this again
It's not a matter of quality. With regards to giveaways, there's a pretty big difference between buying a $15+ game specifically to give away and just dumping leftover duplicate bundle games into ModBot.
People aren't questioning whether impressions should be allowed here, they're saying that the thread SHOULD mostly be impressions and instead they're drowned away in giveaways and chat room type stuff.
Thank you so much. The gift worked and the next 30 minutes can't pass quickly enough. Your are truly generous.
damn, i wish i could download 11gb in 30 mins ;_;
DaBargainHunta
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Looks like I actually have Spacechem and Swapper already, likely from bundles. Thanks!
Same here. True, there is a lot of crap in bundles, but I've gotten some great games from them. I guess it "means more" if someone pays real money to give away a game outside of a bundle - I can't dispute the awesome generosity of that - but I've scored some cool bundle stuff too. Even the "crap" has someone who is interested.
It could just be Steam being goofy or something happening with the gift URL.
Godus is complete shitwere! It was obviously designed with iOS in mind and the gameplay boils down to clicking on each individual house over and over again. There's no way to click on them all.
It's no more than those time-gated iOS games of touching things to get improvements, IMO.
Last I heard of it, it was still pretty meh and nothing more than a glorified terrain-smoother.
Of course, this was a few months ago, and these things evolve quickly.
The fact that I haven't heard any buzz at all about it doesn't really make me think it's suddenly gotten amazing, though.
I love puzzle games, from times of first Tetris, I believe that Puzzle games are real ones, and others are distractions in between (><)
only partly kidding here
Puzzle Quest games (especially first one Challenge of the Warlords is masterpiece)
Might and Magic: Clash of heroes (it's more of a mix of genres, but I still consider gameplay mostly puzzle based, same as Puzzle Quest)
Peggle games
Bejeweled 3 is very nice game
10,000,000 is hilarious in a way
Hexcells
The Bridge (it's very different type of puzzle game)
Kairo
I'm into Mensa Academy now, it has bad parts, but a lot of good ones too.
There are probably much more that I'm forgetting now.
I've not played it myself, but I don't think I've ever read an overly positive review of the game. You'd probably be better off grabbing the Populous titles on Origin instead.
In my opinion no it's not really worth it.
The game felt like a massive grind and that's after I only played it for two hours. Repetitive levels, enemies and missions meant I was bored really quickly, and that was me playing in coop.
Somebody else might recommend it but it was the first PS+ game that I've played and won't be going back to.
Godus is complete shitwere! It was obviously designed with iOS in mind and the gameplay boils down to clicking on each individual house over and over again. There's no way to click on them all.
It's no more than those time-gated iOS games of touching things to get improvements, IMO.
Yeah, that was the impression I got from the videos. So much for a new Populous
SteveWinwood
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Kiru
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Godus is complete shitwere! It was obviously designed with iOS in mind and the gameplay boils down to clicking on each individual house over and over again. There's no way to click on them all.
It's no more than those time-gated iOS games of touching things to get improvements, IMO.
Those are also my thoughts from seeing a video a long time ago. Looked horrible.
derExperte
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And there's been a lot of that. Especially some recent arrivals seem to think that this is their new personal chatroom or lifeblog and keep posting the most random shit that's even more random than what was going on before. I've put some on my ignore list and it helps and I know that we've had 'going to bed' running jokes or the like in the past but the faster this thing moves anyway the more a little self restraint would help.
Or maybe I just need a GAF break.
Nope.
phoenix296
Member
I've been thinking of setting up a playtime for Counter Strike:GO on the weekend (possibly week days as well). Judging by the number of responses I've had and the number of people I've played with I think we can do some 5v5 matches. If there aren't enough people we'll just use bots to fill the empty holes or play in the public queue.
To judge interest in this, please PM me on GAF that you are interested and what times you are available. Do not worry about skill level, anyone is welcome.
If I can garner enough interest, I will formally create a time where people from GAF can play together and I will post in this thread every time we start to play so it's open to everyone.
To judge interest in this, please PM me on GAF that you are interested and what times you are available. Do not worry about skill level, anyone is welcome.
If I can garner enough interest, I will formally create a time where people from GAF can play together and I will post in this thread every time we start to play so it's open to everyone.
Shadowrun Dragonfall is great, but requires the basic game. It's also the lowest price it's been.
Party of Sin is shit and certainly not worth that money.
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
Rogue Legacy is $3.74, same as it was during the summer sale. Shadowrun: Dragonfall, the DLC for Shadowrun Returns, is $5.99, which is around the same price as it was in the summer sale too. It's supposed to be better than the base game. Hotline Miami is $1.99 if you don't have that yet.
Wasteland is $2.99. It's an old scifi RPG that's basically the forerunner of Fallout.
DaBargainHunta
Member
Didn't even realize these were on Steam! I played the shit out of the first one on DS (which is the system that rekindled my love for the puzzle genre).
Thank you for the rest of your list too. Going to look into all of them.
The only one I could never get into was Hexcells. Don't know why. I know everyone else speaks of it fondly. Guess it's just not my thing, or maybe I just don't get it...who knows?
It's a shame! I really like the kind of game is was pretending to be.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
RE: 140
I would say it's challenging, but there are checkpoints every few seconds and when you die you respawn instantly, so the design is built around making the challenge not frustrating. The three bosses are quite hard but it's very satisfying to figure out their patterns and respond accordingly. The game is fair, when you die it's because you didn't stay on rhythm properly.
I elaborated a little more on the game in my Steam review:
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Well, I mean, when I am hard on bundle dumps, it's not because I'm against them (I dump my bundle keys into ModBot as well, and I normally leave commentary on the games I actually like from the bundles). There are tons of great games in bundles. There's no shame in a game being in a bundle. Most of my favourite releases of the last 5 years have ended up in bundles. The message shouldn't be that bundle games aren't worth playing, the message is more that bundle games have relatively low worth because they're easily available for basically no cost and they're given away largely by people who place little-to-no value in them and would otherwise let the keys rot.
I would say it's challenging, but there are checkpoints every few seconds and when you die you respawn instantly, so the design is built around making the challenge not frustrating. The three bosses are quite hard but it's very satisfying to figure out their patterns and respond accordingly. The game is fair, when you die it's because you didn't stay on rhythm properly.
I elaborated a little more on the game in my Steam review:
Done
Well, I mean, when I am hard on bundle dumps, it's not because I'm against them (I dump my bundle keys into ModBot as well, and I normally leave commentary on the games I actually like from the bundles). There are tons of great games in bundles. There's no shame in a game being in a bundle. Most of my favourite releases of the last 5 years have ended up in bundles. The message shouldn't be that bundle games aren't worth playing, the message is more that bundle games have relatively low worth because they're easily available for basically no cost and they're given away largely by people who place little-to-no value in them and would otherwise let the keys rot.
sotodefonk
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Rogue legacy is 3.74 and Hero Siege its 0.89
Tizoc
Member
Thank you so much. The gift worked and the next 30 minutes can't pass quickly enough. Your are truly generous.
Follow the guides on the Steam community/forum for the game and you're set for 60 FPS no screen tearing gigolo goodness.
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