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Family View and Family Sharing are separate things?
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STEAM | July 2014 25TH THREAD EDITION (2008-2014)
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I'll play but I need Frosty to vouch for me first.
The Dear Leader
Banned
I'll play if theres still a spot open.
Yeah, fortunately he agreed to let me authorise his PC remotely as I wasn't overly fond of the idea of handing over my log-in info.
Family View is basically a parental lock system.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Flashback. It's a piece of shit though.
Nabs
Member
I'll send you an invite next time I have a friendly AE lobby going, and hopefully we can have another Skullgirls lobby soon.
He can have it, I don't want to put Frosty on the spot.
Skyfireblaze
Member
I know I'm slacking off a bit but the Astebreed OT is still being worked on 
Here's a test version of a banner:
And I already work on the character panels too
Here's a test version of a banner:
And I already work on the character panels too
The Dear Leader
Banned
Sorry, I didn't see your post, didn't mean to impose.
It isn't a platformer either. The closest I could think of is Swapper, and that's more of a puzzle game. Then I looked in the tags and it just doesn't seem to exist. Either that or I don't understand how to search steam tags. This is a possibility.
we usually play in the morning too if you wanna play then
no need for vouching. its all fun and game!Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Proof the people tagging games are a failure.
The Dear Leader
Banned
I'm on Payday 2 right now, send me an invite when you guys are ready.
Don't worry about it. Go ahead and jump in with them.
we usually play in the morning too if you wanna play then
No, you don't understand. I need Frosty to give me recognition. I feel like he's been avoiding me ever since I came over here like an older brother would do to his younger brother in high school.
I don't have a dad complex, I swear.
Chairmanchuck
Member
Come on. They show the arcademachine. Where is the VR mode?
I still can't think of any. The only one I have in my own library is more of a shooter than anything. Bionic Commando rearmed might be the closest example, and you can't have a platformer without a jump button.
Oculus Rift support.
Banner
Whichever goes on sale first.
well now im bummed out :/
KillerDark
Member
Banner Saga, it's awesome! Great story and gameplay
Valiant Hearts because the story is awesome and you actually learn some real history of the First World War.
I know I'm slacking off a bit but the Astebreed OT is still being worked on
Here's a test version of a banner:
And I already work on the character panels too
Can you make the corners round? I think that would fit well and if you are using photoshop should be quick to make.
DaBargainHunta
Member
Amen to that!
Neon-edged Q*Bert graphics with a thumping electronica soundtrack? I'd... really like that, actually.
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.
Putting the finishing touches on Enhanced Steam 6.4 for Firefox. Hopefully I'll have it published tomorrow.
Strangely enough, it will only work with Firefox 17 through 27, or 30+. (Won't work in FF28 or FF29, due to a bug that exists in those versions).
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up, in case you haven't already updated to Firefox 30, you should do so now.
EDIT: also I'll have a bug-fix version for Chrome also probably released tomorrow.
Strangely enough, it will only work with Firefox 17 through 27, or 30+. (Won't work in FF28 or FF29, due to a bug that exists in those versions).
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up, in case you haven't already updated to Firefox 30, you should do so now.
EDIT: also I'll have a bug-fix version for Chrome also probably released tomorrow.
KevMan1815
Member
The Banner Saga
Spoiler Free Ending Impressions from the Bunny Avatar You Love
So tonight I finished a normal difficulty playthrough of The Banner Saga, and since I've seen very little said about this game recently, I thought I'd give some thoughts I had about the game. I probably won't get super detailed about all aspects, but hopefully this gives you an idea of how the game works generally.
Battle Basics
The Banner Saga is a strategy RPG that reminded me of a Final Fantasy Tactics with less customization and less focus on leveling. Battles are pretty simple. Each character and enemy has armor (blue stat) and strength (red stat also your HP). The more armor you have, the less damage you take to your strength. So if you want to do more damage to an enemy's health, you can have a character choose to attack their armor instead so that they can take more damage in another turn. Another factor of strength is not only as your health, but the less strength you have the less damage you deal.
One mix up to the normal strategy formula I noticed was that each side automatically alternates turns. Basically, you will get a turn, and the enemy will get a turn and this continues until one side has one character remaining (then it becomes Free for All basically). You select the order of your characters before the battle, and from there it cycles the same way unless a character gets knocked out. However, even if a side loses a character the turns still alternate. This changes the strategy a bit. If you decide to take out all of the enemy's weaker units quickly, you are allowing the enemy's stronger units more frequent turns to take down your own forces. So you have to balance if killing an enemy is the best option at that time. It might be better to wound an enemy to 1 strength so they can do minimal damage than to take him out and let the guy with 14 strength get extra turns.
Another stat in the game is Willpower. This fuels your character's special moves like MP would in many other RPG games, but it also allows your character other benefits as well. One added bonus is additional movement spaces. You can spend willpower to move further in a single turn if you need that extra spot to make the perfect shot. You can also spend willpower to strengthen an attack against armor or strength. So instead of doing 5 damage you can bump it to 6 or 7 or even 8 if you put your skill points correctly.
Story Presentation
So how about between the battles? How is that? For starters, I found the art style to be amazing, but don't expect any fancy cutscenes. There is very minimal voice acting and the story is told in, what my wife said, almost like an animated storybook. Basically, you will see the characters and they may blink, shift their eyes, their hair also might blow in the wind, but other than that there is very little animation in the story scenes. This also means you do have to read along with the story. Personally, none of the above bothered me, but I feel it is worth pointing out in case someone might have issue with it.
Many of the story sequences have dialogue choices to either inquire about certain things or move the story along with your decisions. Be careful though, some of the choices you make can have consequences that might not happen immediately.
Other less important story events might happen on the road, but again your choices can alter your journey in many ways. Helping villagers you meet might lead to battles. Trusting strangers can lead to supplies being stolen. Several of these events will occur during your travels, but it is up to you to decide how to react and lead your caravan. After all, some of those following you aren't soldiers, but women and children as well. And they are all looking to you for guidance and protection.
Overall Impression
I enjoyed The Banner Saga a lot. I found the story to be interesting, especially with the decisions you make along the way and the many characters you meet in your travels. There were also some surprises along the way.
The battles were challenging to me, even on the normal difficulty setting. There were a few fights that frustrated me because they felt unfair, but once I figured out the differences between this game and other strategy RPGs I felt I started to become much better at it. I definitely recommend it to people who enjoy strategy RPGs, but for newcomers I would probably bump the difficulty down, at least at first. You can adjust it anytime in the game without it changing the story.
Thank you taking the time to read this post! If you have questions about The Banner Saga, don't hesitate to message me on Steam or PM and I'll help you the best I can. Thanks again for reading!
Spoiler Free Ending Impressions from the Bunny Avatar You Love
So tonight I finished a normal difficulty playthrough of The Banner Saga, and since I've seen very little said about this game recently, I thought I'd give some thoughts I had about the game. I probably won't get super detailed about all aspects, but hopefully this gives you an idea of how the game works generally.
Battle Basics
The Banner Saga is a strategy RPG that reminded me of a Final Fantasy Tactics with less customization and less focus on leveling. Battles are pretty simple. Each character and enemy has armor (blue stat) and strength (red stat also your HP). The more armor you have, the less damage you take to your strength. So if you want to do more damage to an enemy's health, you can have a character choose to attack their armor instead so that they can take more damage in another turn. Another factor of strength is not only as your health, but the less strength you have the less damage you deal.
One mix up to the normal strategy formula I noticed was that each side automatically alternates turns. Basically, you will get a turn, and the enemy will get a turn and this continues until one side has one character remaining (then it becomes Free for All basically). You select the order of your characters before the battle, and from there it cycles the same way unless a character gets knocked out. However, even if a side loses a character the turns still alternate. This changes the strategy a bit. If you decide to take out all of the enemy's weaker units quickly, you are allowing the enemy's stronger units more frequent turns to take down your own forces. So you have to balance if killing an enemy is the best option at that time. It might be better to wound an enemy to 1 strength so they can do minimal damage than to take him out and let the guy with 14 strength get extra turns.
Another stat in the game is Willpower. This fuels your character's special moves like MP would in many other RPG games, but it also allows your character other benefits as well. One added bonus is additional movement spaces. You can spend willpower to move further in a single turn if you need that extra spot to make the perfect shot. You can also spend willpower to strengthen an attack against armor or strength. So instead of doing 5 damage you can bump it to 6 or 7 or even 8 if you put your skill points correctly.
Story Presentation
So how about between the battles? How is that? For starters, I found the art style to be amazing, but don't expect any fancy cutscenes. There is very minimal voice acting and the story is told in, what my wife said, almost like an animated storybook. Basically, you will see the characters and they may blink, shift their eyes, their hair also might blow in the wind, but other than that there is very little animation in the story scenes. This also means you do have to read along with the story. Personally, none of the above bothered me, but I feel it is worth pointing out in case someone might have issue with it.
Many of the story sequences have dialogue choices to either inquire about certain things or move the story along with your decisions. Be careful though, some of the choices you make can have consequences that might not happen immediately.
Other less important story events might happen on the road, but again your choices can alter your journey in many ways. Helping villagers you meet might lead to battles. Trusting strangers can lead to supplies being stolen. Several of these events will occur during your travels, but it is up to you to decide how to react and lead your caravan. After all, some of those following you aren't soldiers, but women and children as well. And they are all looking to you for guidance and protection.
Overall Impression
I enjoyed The Banner Saga a lot. I found the story to be interesting, especially with the decisions you make along the way and the many characters you meet in your travels. There were also some surprises along the way.
The battles were challenging to me, even on the normal difficulty setting. There were a few fights that frustrated me because they felt unfair, but once I figured out the differences between this game and other strategy RPGs I felt I started to become much better at it. I definitely recommend it to people who enjoy strategy RPGs, but for newcomers I would probably bump the difficulty down, at least at first. You can adjust it anytime in the game without it changing the story.
Thank you taking the time to read this post! If you have questions about The Banner Saga, don't hesitate to message me on Steam or PM and I'll help you the best I can. Thanks again for reading!
Battle Basics
The Banner Saga is a strategy RPG that reminded me of a Final Fantasy Tactics with
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Skyfireblaze
Member
Oh that's a interesting idea, I didn't think of trying that
Will do it and post the result tomorrow Thanks for the feedback!
Though I'm already almost asleep for today so good night SteamGAF!
Oh that's a interesting idea, I didn't think of trying that
Thanks for the feedback!
Though I'm already almost asleep for today so good night SteamGAF!
Goodnight!
Beelzebubs
Member
Hmm figured I'd craft some badges whilst I put some money in steam wallet. Think I may have to pick up Portal 2 and 100% Orange Juice now.
90% off Portal 2
66% off 100% Orange Juice
50% off Nihilumbra
33% off Blade Symphony
90% off Portal 2
66% off 100% Orange Juice
50% off Nihilumbra
33% off Blade Symphony
Good advice.
Hmm figured I'd craft some badges whilst I put some money in steam wallet. Think I may have to pick up Portal 2 and 100% Orange Juice now.
90% off Portal 2
66% off 100% Orange Juice
50% off Nihilumbra
33% off Blade Symphony
sn't blade symphony 1.50 right now via bundle?
Today I got a message back from Steam involving my account being locked out of any new purchases. Basic "we are looking into it, things you can do to help, etc etc", but then at the end they offer me a link to visit while I'm waiting for my issues to resolve.
Sometimes they make it hard to like the company.
I'm not one to be that detailed in tags (I really just go for straight gameplay genre), but I can recommend several that fit for games where the main focus is the platforming. If several people, which is what it takes to get those tags to start coming through, want to start tagging like they were GG's in Tokyo-to, perhaps these would help.
Constant C
Mechanic Escape
Pid
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Volt
VVVVVV
Cloudbuilt
Not to mention all the Sonic the Hedgehog games.
For those that make the argument to include puzzle platformers there are titles such as Gateways and Portal titles.
I rather have a Space Invaders Extreme route myself.
No wait, Space Invaders Get Even route, where the game play is switched around. Play as those things that chase Q*Bert. Yes, that would be something.
Sometimes they make it hard to like the company.
I'm not one to be that detailed in tags (I really just go for straight gameplay genre), but I can recommend several that fit for games where the main focus is the platforming. If several people, which is what it takes to get those tags to start coming through, want to start tagging like they were GG's in Tokyo-to, perhaps these would help.
Constant C
Mechanic Escape
Pid
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Volt
VVVVVV
Cloudbuilt
Not to mention all the Sonic the Hedgehog games.
For those that make the argument to include puzzle platformers there are titles such as Gateways and Portal titles.
I rather have a Space Invaders Extreme route myself.
No wait, Space Invaders Get Even route, where the game play is switched around. Play as those things that chase Q*Bert. Yes, that would be something.
Thanks for the detailed impressions! It sounds really intriguing, though the way you describe turn order working in combat seems terribly broken. >_<
Beelzebubs
Member
sn't blade symphony 1.50 right now via bundle?
Probably but have no interest in it unless someone recommends it.
Thanks so much for this!
Everything you've said about the game makes me almost afriad to play it, because it sounds too good to be true to me, lol. Everything aspect of everything I love, wrapped up into one game. I really need to jump on this next time it goes on sale.
awesome! think i might have to finally go ahead and preorder it. they should be paying you for this advertising
I did all my gaming on the Atari 2600, I assume it was a terrible port like all Atari 2600 ports.
Hadn't heard of about half of those, and bought Cloudbuilt but was thinking more 2D plattformers. Thanks for the suggestions, some of those look like they might be worth a look.
awesome! think i might have to finally go ahead and preorder it. they should be paying you for this advertising
It would help considering I haven't been working since March. LOL
Atlus has been poor in terms of giving promo to the game.
Atraveller
Banned
Why is that?
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