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STEAM | July 2016 - Post Sale Hauls, Post Sale Blues

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Lain

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After more than 1 year, WoW updated and sub re-activated. Now the song and dance with updating all the mods, because I took a look with them off and I was lost. Even with some updates, the basic UI in WoW still sucks but at least I started making space in my bags because finally they have a transmog system closer to D3 and not the abomination they had before.
 
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Buraindo

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Echoplx said:
Does Murdered Soul Suspect have any redeeming qualities? Thinking about giving it a go.
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I thought it was okay. Nothing outstanding but not terrible either.
The plot's all right I suppose and the gameplay's all fairly straightforward. Stealth sections aren't too bad save for maybe one or two encounters
The game has far too much collectible garbage, it's all optional if I remember correctly so you may want to avoid bothering for the most part beyond the ones that are pretty much in your way and side investigations. Expect to run around a lot.
I wouldn't say you'd be missing much by not playing it but I thought it was enjoyable enough to beat at least.
 
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kagamin

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My Code: VFD party is shaping up nicely, so far I have me, Sch1sm, Bigzgod, Ana, NightmareTrigger, and InfiniteNine. I wonder who I'll add next...
 
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LurkerPrime

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So... I finally tried out King Arthur 2, a game I won from modbot a while back. (Thanks jshackles!) King Arthur 1 was a really fun Total War-alike that brought might & magic into the mix with Arthurian fantasy and text adventure stuff; ended up being a really fun game. King Arthur 2, however, is a technical mess that's nigh unplayable. The load times alone are unbearable, bordering 3+ minutes from desktop to menu, then again when entering/exiting the campaign map. Which you will be doing a lot. And then the performance crushes any fun out of whatever remains, with anything but the lowest settings killing performance on a 970--and even then, it's uneven. There is no joy, fun, or even entertainment to be had with it.

King Arthur 1 was a cool game so this breaks my heart. Like, Total Warhammer brings a lot of what KA1 introduced and polishes it, such as magic and asymmetrical factions, but it is still missing KA1's cooler ideas; namely text adventure segments, deeper RPG elements, customisation options, and story, and a much more in-depth campaign. There's still plenty in the series that Creative Assembly could look to for inspiration (or heck, anyone). Thea: The Awakening is the only other game I can think of mixing traditional gameplay with text adventure segments--though in Thea's case, it's 4X/text adventure.


I should mention that Total Warhammer is shaping up to bring a lot more to the table if the leaks are right. Though it's going to cost a pretty penny thanks to the licenses involved.
 
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darkwing-buck

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I can't believe a game made with fucking RPG maker invoked so much emotions from me....seriously can't get To The Moon out of my mind. That last half of the game was a goddamn roller-coaster. Haven't felt this way since playing the Last of Us for the first time and even then I think To The Moon got much more out of me.
 
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Card Boy

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Echoplx said:
Does Murdered Soul Suspect have any redeeming qualities? Thinking about giving it a go.
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+ It's short (which is great if you have a massive backlog)
+ Central story is decent enough to keep you entertained
+ Good atmosphere
+ Run well on PC (i hear the console versions are a disaster)

Its negatives which i saw are

- Pointless enemy system (game could of being done without demons)
- Character faces are not that great sort of NPC level type shit.
- Gameplay presents very little challenge
- Afew glaring plot holes
- If using the controller the mouse cursor tends to sometimes go in the center of the screen between cutscenes which annoyed me

The game is no where near as bad as the 59 metacritic score makes it out to be. It deserves another 10 points at least.
 
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Parsnip

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Echoplx said:
Does Murdered Soul Suspect have any redeeming qualities? Thinking about giving it a go.
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I think it's decent. The stealth stuff hate is a bit overblown I find. They are a bit pointless for the game, but easy enough to not really pose any kind of obstacle.
 
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Ascheroth

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Deques said:
What kind of game is God Eater?
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It's a fast-food-eating arcade action game.
You travel the world on your quest to find the best fast food restaurants in existence to conquer their bigger and bigger burgers in intense munching showdowns so that you may become worthy of the title of the 'one who ate everything', the God Eater!

Nah, it's a hunting game.
 
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Ludens

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So I have a strange issue with Idlemaster. Basically yesterday I was idling a bunch of games, I quitted Idlemaster and played Hitman, but a card for Tyler popped out even if Idlemaster wasn't running.
Now I'm idling three games, and again a Tyler card popped out, but Tyler is not one of the games I'm idling. How is this possible?
 
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texhnolyze

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D3RANG3D said:


Femix Wright?
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Nope, totally not a Phoenix Wright wannabe.
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Deques

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Tizoc said:
It is monster hunter-like
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Ascheroth said:
It's a fast-food-eating arcade action game.
You travel the world on your quest to find the best fast food restaurants in existence to conquer their bigger and bigger burgers in intense munching showdowns so that you may become worthy of the title of the 'one who ate everything', the God Eater!

Nah, it's a hunting game.
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Watched a review, and it seems not really my kind of game
 
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Jibbajabbawockky

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Have a dumb Steam question:

So I wiped clean my SSD and reinstalled Windows since after installing my new 1070, The Witcher 3 would not launch. Did that and it's working great now but I've got a different issue now. I had installed Doom on my secondary hard drive and I left that alone, so the game is still installed there.

How can I get Steam to recognize that Doom is already on my secondary hard drive? When I fire up Steam on my SSD, it's showing I should install Doom, so how can I point Steam to Doom on my secondary hard drive where it's already installed?
 
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spindoctor

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Some dude on reddit was giving away a Humble key for Battleborn so... I own Battleborn now. Will check it out once I have some free bandwidth to download it.

Jibbajabbawockky said:
Have a dumb Steam question:

So I wiped clean my SSD and reinstalled Windows since after installing my new 1070, The Witcher 3 would not launch. Did that and it's working great now but I've got a different issue now. I had installed Doom on my secondary hard drive and I left that alone, so the game is still installed there.

How can I get Steam to recognize that Doom is already on my secondary hard drive? When I fire up Steam on my SSD, it's showing I should install Doom, so how can I point Steam to Doom on my secondary hard drive where it's already installed?
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Steam Settings -> Downloads -> Steam Library Folders.

You can set different directories for your Steam game installations. I'm not sure if it will pick up your existing installation though. Maybe try making a Steam backup of Doom and reinstalling it when you've chosen the directory properly.
 
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Arthea

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Jibbajabbawockky said:
Have a dumb Steam question:

So I wiped clean my SSD and reinstalled Windows since after installing my new 1070, The Witcher 3 would not launch. Did that and it's working great now but I've got a different issue now. I had installed Doom on my secondary hard drive and I left that alone, so the game is still installed there.

How can I get Steam to recognize that Doom is already on my secondary hard drive? When I fire up Steam on my SSD, it's showing I should install Doom, so how can I point Steam to Doom on my secondary hard drive where it's already installed?
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steam client -> settings -> steam library folders

edited: dammit spindoctor!
 
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Chairmanchuck

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Jibbajabbawockky said:
Have a dumb Steam question:

So I wiped clean my SSD and reinstalled Windows since after installing my new 1070, The Witcher 3 would not launch. Did that and it's working great now but I've got a different issue now. I had installed Doom on my secondary hard drive and I left that alone, so the game is still installed there.

How can I get Steam to recognize that Doom is already on my secondary hard drive? When I fire up Steam on my SSD, it's showing I should install Doom, so how can I point Steam to Doom on my secondary hard drive where it's already installed?
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In Properties you can choose multiple Steam library folders.
 
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haendeul

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Jibbajabbawockky said:
How can I get Steam to recognize that Doom is already on my secondary hard drive? When I fire up Steam on my SSD, it's showing I should install Doom, so how can I point Steam to Doom on my secondary hard drive where it's already installed?
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I think you should start the installation in Steam and point it to the folder where it's already installed. Steam should start reading the files that are already there and download any files that might be missing.

Or see above ^
 
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freshVeggie

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Chairmanchuck said:
Cant you just do this yourself? Afaik there are people buying a normal GPU, then building something to connect that as an external GPU to their Laptop.
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I believe you that hobbyists have done similar things but the idea of a plug&play, external-HDD-enclosure-like GPU case sounds more convenient.
 
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hardcastlemccormick

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Mikurden said:
It was a mess but supposedly the "Ultimate Cut" makes a lot more sense.
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Yeah, no, not really. Never saw the Theatrical but the Ultimate was still pretty baffling.

A reminder: you should buy Aviary Attorney
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I've had that one on my wishlist forever. Looks really good. Is it a genuinely good game or just kind of a joke though?

EDIT:

Salsa said:
also im just gonna stick my head ocassionally to piss hardcastlemccormick. this place changed a lot, i'll just leave it at that

s' cool


edit: I underlined where the joke is jic
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someguyinahat

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fertygo said:
I'm not the only one that read this as Regenia Nope right
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Actually, the first name is Regeria. And no, the H in Hope is pretty clear to read.

Okay, so it's a Phoenix Wright-like. There's nothing wrong with clones per se. If they have original cases, written well, then great. If the cases are similar to the ones in the AA games, that's when people can cry foul. We'll also have to see how serious this game takes itself: after all, the AA games were so wacky and self-aware that by the time Phoenix called a robot to the stand in AA5, Edgeworth didn't even contest it by that point, citing all the stuff they'd done in the past. I don't think anyone would want to play a "serious" lawyer game. Maybe I'm wrong.

Edit: Wait, WHAT?

Don't like a character? You can throw them under the bus. Just be sure you're ready to watch them hang.
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They say this sort of thing would have a ripple effect in later games. Um...don't you think the ripple there would be that NOBODY would hire you as a lawyer anymore?
 
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jshackles

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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.
Tizoc said:
Yo jshackles when will u be doing the charity stream thing for. Last time?
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Typically Extra Life happens in November - this year it's on November 5th.

I suppose it's about time for me to start getting ready for that, getting sponserships in place, deciding on prizes, and picking out what games I'm going to be playing.
 
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someguyinahat

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jshackles said:
Typically Extra Life happens in November - this year it's on November 5th.

I suppose it's about time for me to start getting ready for that, getting sponserships in place, deciding on prizes, and picking out what games I'm going to be playing.
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Are there any criteria for the games? Like, they have to be relatively new games or ones you haven't played before, or what? Are you okay choosing older games if they're in your backlog, or are you showcasing 2016?
 
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