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

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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
mp1990 said:
New trailer for The Turing Test. SE also unveiled the release date, August 30th. This one looks somewhat portal-like, and as someone who just went through Portal 2 for the fourth time I couldn't be more excited.
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Ohh. This is one of those Square Enix Collective games where developers get to give Square Enix money because they have a financial domination fetish.

Looks neat, though.
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
bobnowhere said:
It ends when Deckard turns up and puts a bullet in you.
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Grid Masters -- MB-2BD520BA99DFBA58 - Taken by OmarYusaf. 3 entrants total.
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Envoy 2 -- MB-16DC935A18E2FA86 - Taken by Kuroyume. 2 entrants total.
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) -- MB-9528B670299433A0 - Taken by Sammichu. 7 entrants total.
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pantsattack

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Here's a little game I like. Party Saboteurs. It's a take on the Spy Party style where there are party goers trying to get away with nefarious deeds and snipers trying to spot the players out of the AIs. The twist is that you control a party goer and a sniper of your own, at the same time!

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Black Soma

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I recently started playing the first Neptunia game and I'm surprised to see I'm enjoying it a bit more than I expected. I actually regret not buying the second and maybe even third game during the sale, since the price was a hystorical low, I believe. The series is currently on sale on WinGameStore, but it's not as cheap as during the Steam Summer Sale.
 
Tizoc

Tizoc

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Black Soma said:
I recently started playing the first Neptunia game and I'm surprised to see I'm enjoying it a bit more than I expected. I actually regret not buying the second and maybe even third game during the sale, since the price was a hystorical low, I believe. The series is currently on sale on WinGameStore, but it's not as cheap as during the Steam Summer Sale.
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IIRC the 2nd and 3rd games are more of the same with refinements.
 
Dice

Dice

Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Does anyone else hate how so many games put their save files into My Documents instead of My Documents>My Games? Is there a way to remedy this without fucking up the games?
 
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someguyinahat

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Some impressions for The Dreamatorium of Dr. Magnus 2 (wow, no subtitle for a sequel? That's a bold choice.)

Disclaimer: I never played the first one, nor is the first one even available on Steam. The developer assures me the stories are independent and I didn't have trouble following it.

The story: You play Iris Birdwood, a private investigator specializing in the paranormal, when you witness a supernatural abduction in broad daylight before your very eyes. (I guess ghost sightings have so little credibility now, ghosts don't have to give a fuck about witnesses anymore.) She was on her way to see Dr. Magnus, her dad's employee and the inventor of the Dreamatorium, a sort of dream-entering device. Your main goal is to rescue the girl and stop the ghost, but along the way you learn who the ghost is and what his motivations are. And it's only in a few notes you can find, but it's FUCKING CREEPY. I'll put it in spoilers, if you really care.

The ghost is Mr. Graves, a co-worker (or employee, it's unclear) of the inventor Dr. King and Dr. Magnus, who invented the Dreamatorium. He blackmailed Dr. King into giving him a larger cut of the profits by threatening to leak the blueprints, and demanded to be the first to try out the Dreamatorium, hoping to enter the dreams of Dr. King's daughter and make her love Graves. So...basically Graves wanted to mentally rape his co-worker's or possibly boss' daughter. Fortunately, something went wrong and the guy died in the Dreamatorium. So of course, first thing his ghost does is abduct said daughter.

Like I said, it's pretty much glossed over, so they could have made this game a lot darker if they wanted to. But it's an okay story as is.

The story is apparently set in 1925, so they do have some things that are true to form (art deco buildings and cloche hats) and some anachronisms (a green LED dot-matrix display, easily 50 years before that was a thing...and a mechanical typewriter that somehow has memory and can retype the last thing that was written on it. Yeah, I don't get it any more than you do.)

The gameplay: Most of the minigames and puzzles are dreadfully easy. There was one thing they got right and which I would love to see in more hidden-object games: Custom difficulty. Set your hint recharge time or turn it off, turn on or off the hidden object scene glow or the pertinent area sparkle, etc. It's great if you like some aspects of expert difficulty while finding others too annoying.

The hidden-object scenes sometimes had bad conveyance. The absolute worst offender was a scene where you asked to find a "Number." There was a clock with numbers on it...nope. A dollar bill with the 1 on display...nope. Two post it notes, one with a "5" and one with a "22" clearly shown on them...nope. The correct answer was to unfold a piece of paper to reveal "XIIX." That's not a number, not even in Roman numerals!

And naturally it brings back the bane of existence of every hidden-object game: missables. Almost every screen has a hidden collectible ("with an i") and as the game progresses, sets of screens will be closed off to you. So basically as soon as you enter a room, look for that thing before doing ANYTHING.

The dialogue and voices: The dialogue itself was...translated well enough. I'll gloss over the fact that everyone speaks so readily to a private investigator. But the voices...wow. Iris sounds like a half-asleep stoner with a lisp: everything she says sounds slow and bored. Dr. Magnus is only slightly better. The ghost's voice tries harder, but he sounds like he's doing a bad impression of wrestler Bray Wyatt. Dr. King sounds like he should have been named Dr. Kinganovic, and looking at the credits I wouldn't be surprised if this was just somebody's dad. Nobody even seems able to pronounce "Dreamatorium." It always comes out "Drimatorium." I've heard worse voice acting in games, even in hidden object games, but this is pretty far down.[/B]

The audio: There's hardly any background music. I guess there was no budget for it. Sound effects were stock-standard but the lack of music is basically a lack of production values.

The graphics: Not bad. Probably the game's best feature. The characters look like hidden-object game characters, but there's no uncanny valley detected. The environments look pretty nice, and it shows they were trying to mix period authenticity with steampunkery, to a moderate degree of effectiveness.

The length: Took me 2.4 hours to get all the achievements...in one playthrough. So, it's pretty short.

The verdict: It's pretty telling when a game's credits contain the words "Artifex Mundi" but the game was self-published on Steam. My guess is AM were set to publish it and changed their mind once they saw it wasn't up to their standards. The game isn't BAD, I'd call it an average hidden object game with below-average production values and rock-bottom voice acting. If you got it in a bundle and you've got a couple of hours to kill, I'd say why not. Otherwise I'd say there are better offerings out there.
 
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Baron_Calamity

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What time does the Greenman gaming deals refresh or did they already? I noticed the flash deals are the same ones that have been running for several days and more of the good deals are out of stock.
 
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Eila

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Black Soma said:
I recently started playing the first Neptunia game and I'm surprised to see I'm enjoying it a bit more than I expected. I actually regret not buying the second and maybe even third game during the sale, since the price was a hystorical low, I believe. The series is currently on sale on WinGameStore, but it's not as cheap as during the Steam Summer Sale.
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I tried Fairy Fencer out of all the Compile Heart games I have and it was ok. I like how they let you skip EVERYTHING you want. They know.
 
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levious

That throwing stick stunt of yours has boomeranged on us.
pantsattack said:
Here's a little game I like. Party Saboteurs. It's a take on the Spy Party style where there are party goers trying to get away with nefarious deeds and snipers trying to spot the players out of the AIs. The twist is that you control a party goer and a sniper of your own, at the same time!
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So do the players see the whole screen during setup/selection, then it moves to scope view? How do you control your other character while in scope view?
 
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Vlad

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Dice said:
Does anyone else hate how so many games put their save files into My Documents instead of My Documents>My Games? Is there a way to remedy this without fucking up the games?
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I believe most games have that hard coded. I imagine that some might have an ini or cfg file you can edit, but otherwise you might be stuck.

But yeah, it's super annoying.
 
Tizoc

Tizoc

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Hektor said:
Played Setsuna for 6 hours now, and it seem's i'm already more than half-way through!? That's one short jprg lol.
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sO FUNNy thing
I started up the game an hour ago and
MY SAVE FILE IS BACK
I honestly don't know what happened back there but glad I could continue lol.
 
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redlacs

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dex3108 said:
That is a bit risky thing to have. If somebody gains access to your account it can terminate it and you are screwed.
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exactly my thoughts. that would be awful! there should be at least some time in which you could regain your stolen account and "change your mind"
 
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outunderthestars

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Nzyme32

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So here is something interesting.

Been playing GTA V for the first time since launch times this week, finding that everything I did is not there anymore since Rockstar Social Club + Steam doesn't support cloud saving etc, just achievements. Just started today and got this message on startup:

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With that in mind, I'm gonna take a wild guess that preparations are on going for a new Rockstar PC game / putting up older ones on RSC
 
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