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Yeah, I also swapped the first time around. Made a second runthrough recently to get all the secret rooms and get the other ending, though. I gotta say, the hidden rooms are really the only thing that bugged me about the game. I had absolutely no problem using a a guide for them, as there's no way in a million years I would have found a single one of them. Having to swap through random seemingly-solid walls is just BS design.

The fact the game doesn't let you load your last save after you beat it so you can

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hunt the secret rooms

. creating an artificial point of no return with no sort of warning and making you restart from scratch if you want to 100% is my biggest peeve in an otherwise excellent game. I did replay and completed it though.

Unfortunately, the decision was intentional too, which I think is a misstep because the meat of the game are the puzzles and that sort of thing actually discourages people

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to go after the extra ones

. I guarantee whoever wasn't interested in getting all achievements just

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watched the other ending on Youtube

, so that kind of design decision only does harm anyway.

But like I said, excellent game regardless and it says a lot about it that this is the only complaint I have.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Hopefully Alien Isolation preorders will open up in the next few days now that they announced the bonuses. Will preorder in a heartbeat

Yep I'm really looking forward to it.
It following more in the footsteps of Alien rather than Aliens is great. Always liked the idea of the Xenomorph as a hunter over a overwhelming numbered force.

 

[ANuclearError]

Any news about the price?

Amazon have it at £32, though that'd be physical I believe. It'll probably be £40 on Steam.

 

[Turfster]

Yep I'm really looking forward to it.
It following more in the footsteps of Alien rather than Aliens is great. Always liked the idea of the Xenomorph as a hunter over a overwhelming numbered force.

I'm still kinda leery about some of the things I've read about it.
Will see how it pans out on release.

 

[billmcdougal]

I played the witcher 1 very recently.

Don't bother with it. It's stuff to the gills with backtracking, the battle system is really shallow and not enjoyable, and the pacing is terrible.

Either read a synopsis or watch the official animated summary from CDProject Red. I put 20 hours into it before I just tapped out, whereas I've been hooked to the Witcher 2 and can't wait to finish it.

Yeah, I believe it was your comments that made me hesitant, haha.

That does sound like I would not like it, especially after having already played Witcher 2. I generally don't love many games or shows that people defend by saying that you have to get X far into it before it gets good. It is often true, but I'd rather start something new if it fails to keep my interest.

 

[Sub Zero]

Any news about the price?

Doubt it will be lower than 49.99€

 

[Atraveller]

 

[Jawmuncher]

I'm still kinda leery about some of the things I've read about it.
Will see how it pans out on release.

Can't be worse than Colonial Marines and I liked that game.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Okay, new game search system is deployed, so you should see better art matching and better HOT tag matching assuming you don't screw up the name of the game you send. Note that giveaways are still capped to 4 banner images by design.

 

[Sub Zero]

I'm still kinda leery about some of the things I've read about it.
Will see how it pans out on release.

I had my doubts as well but I was sold on it after watching Angry Joe's interview from E3

 

[billmcdougal]

I just tried the training in Blade Symphony. Interesting.

Attempted to play an online game, and it crashed with something like "thread handle to idmap overflow"

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

Yeah, I believe it was your comments that made me hesitant, haha.

That does sound like I would not like it, especially after having already played Witcher 2. I generally don't love many games or shows that people defend by saying that you have to get X far into it before it gets good. It is often true, but I'd rather start something new if it fails to keep my interest.

If you're really just looking to get into the story then just put it on the easiest possible setting and dont bother with side stuff. The game has no means of changing the difficulty once you started and went even so far as to try a mod that would supposed let you change the difficulty by drinking a potion to get it down to easy but i didnt notice any differences.

I just wish there was an adventure game version of the first game because the story and the lore behind that world were the only things that kept me going.

I now hate swamps with the same, no even more, passion that I hate sewers with thanks to the Witcher 1.

 

[Turfster]

4PM is releasing in 5 hours.

 

[Jawmuncher]

I just tried the training in Blade Symphony. Interesting.

Attempted to play an online game, and it crashed with something like "thread handle to idmap overflow"

Haven't tried a actual online game myself but I had no issues when I hosted. They might have been playing on a custom map.

 

[RionaaM]

I'm working on a new way for ModBot to detect steam game names to make the game art and HOT tag detection a little better. Since this seems like a fairly generalized problem, I thought I'd share my process here.

Currently, ModBot uses the Steam search function to search for the exact name you've entered. If it finds no results, you're SOL. If it finds more than one result, it attempts to figure out which is the best result by removing punctuation, converting everything to lower case, and trying to find the closest match between the possible results. This is not bad, but it also requires a lot of searches to go out to Steam unnecessarily, and it's not super fast, and there are a few issues.

The new system will do this:
- First, I store the name, appid, and price of every single game on Steam by screen scraping Steam's search results one by one.
- I store the name in the following format:

- If there is a / in the name, take only what's before the /
- Replace all Roman numerals (XIV) with Arabic numerals (14)
- Convert game name to all lower case
- Replace the text string "two" with "2"
- Remove any of the following text from game names:

- Game names starting with "a " or containing the word "a"
- "a post nuclear role playing game"
- "the "
- "of "
- "and "
- "deluxe edition", "complete", "collector's edition", "ultimate edition", "gold edition", "game of the year edition", "extended edition"
- "tom clancy's", "sid meier's"​

- If there's a ": " in the game name, store the full name and also store the portion behind the : as an "alternate name"
- Strip all non alphanumeric characters remaining, including spaces, so the result looks like "splintercellblacklist"​

- Store all of the full names
- Store alternate names only when they do not conflict with full names or overlap with other alternate names (for example, series that have a bunch of subtitle games like Hitman: Blood Money versus Hitman: Absolution clearly can't guess what you mean if you just type Hitman)

When you submit a game, it will do the same conversion on what you've submitted and check against the local database to get the information. Only if it doesn't find a hit will it send the search out to Steam, and then it'll use the old system.

I'll be rolling it out over the next day or two

Whoa, this is a lot of work, thank you so much Stump. Will this work with the game Retro/Grade?

 

[wagamer]

4PM is releasing in 5 hours.

So in Brazil it actually releases at 4pm?

Look interesting, do we know its price?

 

[StrongArmSteady]

Whoa, this is a lot of work, thank you so much Stump. Will this work with the game Retro/Grade?

it will resolve to retro

 

[NingenJanai]

4PM is releasing in 5 hours.

The camera in the trailer is nausea inducing

 

[Kanhir]

4PM is releasing in 5 hours.

I had a browse of the store page and I don't really get this game. The trailer doesn't really give much info on how it works either, apart from...press Q to dance?

 

[Milamber]

So I played about 10 minutes of High School Dreams...

*Shudders*

Look at this army of women you can become!

Hope I can change my resolution...

Fuck!

Oooh! A character creation screen.

What is the sluttiest cutest outfit I can muster up?

Unfortunately, my starting outfits are lacking and you have to unlock more ingame.

Perfect!

New place.

Pretty standard story, new town, new friends, new enemies.

First day of school.

Befriending!

Darn tootin' it's cute!

Okay, the standard Jock...

Token hip guy...

Can't forget the emo-kid...

and the class clown.

That slut!

Where I choose to sit determines the guy I go out with first. Got it!

Obvious choice.

Small talk...

More small talk...

Ooh, gained some points with that! Now he wants to hang out with me

Let's see, I can either go with him now...

Wut!?

I'll play a little bit more of this later after dinner.

 

[MMBosstones86]

So I played about 10 minutes of High School Dreams...

I'll play a little bit more of this later after dinner.

You truly are doing god's work. Bravo.

 

[ItsGeeMcGee]

What the hell is the girl in the foreground wearing?

 

[Vlad]

Not as good as Cain though! Guaranteed good pills 4 life.

Gotta respectfully disagree there. While yes, good pills can be useful, Being able to re-roll any item can lead to some amazingly overpowered runs, especially if you plan it out right. Hit the boss and treasure rooms as soon as possible, maximizing the number of unfinished rooms to recharge the D6 for even more re-rolling.

The fact the game doesn't let you load your last save after you beat it so you can

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hunt the secret rooms

. creating an artificial point of no return with no sort of warning and making you restart from scratch if you want to 100% is my biggest peeve in an otherwise excellent game. I did replay and completed it though.

Unfortunately, the decision was intentional too, which I think is a misstep because the meat of the game are the puzzles and that sort of thing actually discourages people

Spoiler

to go after the extra ones

. I guarantee whoever wasn't interested in getting all achievements just

Spoiler

watched the other ending on Youtube

, so that kind of design decision only does harm anyway.

But like I said, excellent game regardless and it says a lot about it that this is the only complaint I have.

Well, on the plus side,

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once you know how to solve the puzzles in the game it really doesn't take that long to run through it again. I did it in one short sitting yesterday, and that was with looking through a guide for the secret rooms.

 

[Turfster]

What the hell is the girl in the foreground wearing?

Never mind that, she looks possessed.
Is there a Buffy-style exorcism minigame?

 

[CassSept]

Not as good as Cain though! Guaranteed good pills 4 life.

Eh, I don't know, it takes more time to get going but Isaac is superior to Cain. Though honestly, usually when I wanted a quick start I just went with Judas.

 

[Stumpokapow]

I added two new creepy mystery game images to the rotation (not to take away from alr1ght's wonderful LeskoBot at all!) Only by giving away mystery games will you unlock their secrets.

Whoa, this is a lot of work, thank you so much Stump. Will this work with the game Retro/Grade?

It will, yes, I have some safeguards against stuff that will prevent that kind of thing from being an issue. The rule exists because of Capcom / Ubisoft's nonsense. Search for Valiant Hearts and you'll see what I mean.

 

[Jawmuncher]

So I played about 10 minutes of High School Dreams...









I'll play a little bit more of this later after dinner.

Wondering why this hasn't hit steam yet.
Throw that sucker on greenlight and add trading cards.
Game would be the best.

 

[Fuu]

Well, on the plus side,

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once you know how to solve the puzzles in the game it really doesn't take that long to run through it again. I did it in one short sitting yesterday, and that was with looking through a guide for the secret rooms.

Yeah, same here. Did it one sitting and used a guide for

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the room locations

. I still thought "...are you serious right now?" when the game didn't let me load the save though. :lol To be honest, in the end my peeve is more about the principle of the matter than the actual inconvenience it may have caused. Just felt like an unnecessary design decision.

 

[fantomena]

4PM is releasing in 5 hours.

Game is incredible weird.

 

[dark_inferno]

So I played about 10 minutes of High School Dreams...
I'll play a little bit more of this later after dinner.

Looks like a Non-Nude Bonecraft game.

 

[PandaPedinte]

So I played about 10 minutes of High School Dreams...


I'll play a little bit more of this later after dinner.

Looks like a Persona a game.

*Panda runs away*

 

[Chariot]

So I played about 10 minutes of High School Dreams...

I'll play a little bit more of this later after dinner.

Thanks for this, having a good laugh, hoping that you play the whole game through.

 

[rtcn63]

Those High School Dreams screenshots would fit in a Taylor Swift music video.

 

[Dambrosi]

So I played about 10 minutes of High School Dreams...

I'll play a little bit more of this later after dinner.

*insert creepy Omen music here*

I shall pray for you, Milamber. May your soul soon see relief from this torment.

 

[Hugstable]

Good morning SteamGAF. I'm still happy I beat O&S last night, honestly what an amazing battle it is. My hands were literally shaking for like 2 minutes after the fight was done and I was just yelling "YAAAAAAS" for like a minute after I beat them. Today, the adventure continues! I'm a bit sad that everyone says the rest of the game is super easy now, even if I did get stuck on one area of the game for a week. Seeing that Victory Achieved after beating that fight might have been the greatest two words I'd ever seen.

I shall pray for you, Milamber. May your soul soon see relief from this torment.

XD Oh lordy... How many actually bought this hahahaha

 

[kevin1025]

I'm about to jump on the Deponia deal through trading. There hasn't been a sudden region change overnight, has there?

 

[spindoctor]

Extra copy of Bioshock if anyone wants it.

 

[billmcdougal]

Good morning SteamGAF. I'm still happy I beat O&S last night, honestly what an amazing battle it is. My hands were literally shaking for like 2 minutes after the fight was done and I was just yelling "YAAAAAAS" for like a minute after I beat them. Today, the adventure continues! I'm a bit sad that everyone says the rest of the game is super easy now, even if I did get stuck on one area of the game for a week. Seeing that Victory Achieved after beating that fight might have been the greatest two words I'd ever seen.



XD Oh lordy... How many actually bought this hahahaha

I think I remember at least one more relatively difficult part.

 

[Nabs]

Good morning SteamGAF. I'm still happy I beat O&S last night, honestly what an amazing battle it is. My hands were literally shaking for like 2 minutes after the fight was done and I was just yelling "YAAAAAAS" for like a minute after I beat them. Today, the adventure continues! I'm a bit sad that everyone says the rest of the game is super easy now, even if I did get stuck on one area of the game for a week. Seeing that Victory Achieved after beating that fight might have been the greatest two words I'd ever seen.



XD Oh lordy... How many actually bought this hahahaha

Super easy? I wouldn't say that. You have a lot of great content to experience.

 

[rtcn63]

Yes no?

 

[PandaPedinte]

I think I remember at least one more relatively difficult part.

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The four kings?

 

[ItsGeeMcGee]

Yes no?

And that's why we have sunscreen

 

[Tizoc]

Does Deponia Complete trilogy also unlock the cards for the 3 deponia games?

 

[Dambrosi]

Good morning SteamGAF. I'm still happy I beat O&S last night, honestly what an amazing battle it is. My hands were literally shaking for like 2 minutes after the fight was done and I was just yelling "YAAAAAAS" for like a minute after I beat them. Today, the adventure continues! I'm a bit sad that everyone says the rest of the game is super easy now, even if I did get stuck on one area of the game for a week. Seeing that Victory Achieved after beating that fight might have been the greatest two words I'd ever seen.

XD Oh lordy... How many actually bought this hahahaha

*Amazing chest ahead*

 

[Jawmuncher]

Does Deponia Complete trilogy also unlock the cards for the 3 deponia games?

Has it's own set of cards.

 

[Tizoc]

Has it's own set of cards.

Well time to idle for quick cash~

 

[Dambrosi]

Actually...

OMG A GERUDO IN UR HIGHSCHOOL THAT'S SO WEEEEEEIIIIIIRRRRDDDD

 

[MMBosstones86]

Well I definitely learned some new slang thanks to that short lived Telltale Games logo thread.

 

[Vuze]

Hm, is there a way to see an exact list of all subs I have on my Steam account? SteamDB is able to show AppIDs but I haven't found a way to list the exact SubIDs.

 

[Shadownet]

Good morning GAF did I miss anything?