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

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Eila

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What were some of the best bundles that Groupees had? I've only started paying attention this year and they probably had like 1 or 2 I'd consider decent.

I liked their doujin bundles. Other than that the Be Mines were often decent.
I also get the Greenlight bundles as you can get a good amount of the cost back with the trading cards.
 
I moved up from 8GB RAM to 16GB last year...don't think I've played anything that absolutely needed that much but it's nice to not have to worry I guess

plus RAM these days is relatively cheap (at least in the US)
 
The whole deal with bundles in the last years is that Steam gets a lot of shit, that can be bundled now.

Anyone remember the first Humble Bundle? These were the times there was like nothing else on Steam besides AAA games and the quality of the indie-games were great.
Also there were like 2 bundles each year and not 10 bundles each week.

If you compare it to the "old times", Groupees, Indiegala etc. still put out nice bundles. Its just that they put up bundles with the worst games ever or just bad games. But if you say like "every 4-5 months there is a bundle with good games", I think IG and Groupees have those.
 

bloke

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ampere

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I've got some Steam games that have been rotting in my inventory. Not going to use Modbot because I have to add people to my friend's list and gift them manually since they aren't keys.

Just quote this post and say what you want, no more than 1 item per person, except in the case of HL2 and episode 1 if you don't have either

Half-Life 2
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Super Hexagon

Terraria (2 copies available) [1 left]

Have one copy of Terraria left

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Articalys

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When I go and do the sum, I can only say that, from my point of view, the sale was bad. Not because I don't have games to buy (my wishlist went up and not down by the end of the sale, sitting at 1361 -a little less after buying the majestic bundle 10 minutes ago-) but because the whole sale experience feels less involved, less interesting, less exciting and more of the same.
When I see numbers like this, I kind of wonder -- how do you people all use the wishlist? Admittedly, up until now (and still somewhat so), I wasn't much of a PC gamer, so I only really used it for stuff I was absolutely sure I would want to play someday but wasn't ready to buy right now. Recently I've started to add things that I was more strongly considering but not as definitely as the former category, but even with that I only have 17 things listed right now. Are the power users basically just using the wishlist as a way to collect/track things they notice once, thing "hmm, that might be neat someday" and throw it on the pile, or what?
 
Am I weird for thinking that DRM is fine and important these days? I've never had a problem with Denuvo, never made any noticeable impact on performance for me... Never really thought the whole games preservation thing was a very strong argument either.
 

Diedac

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I'm still on 4GB and I use Chrome, I like to suffer. ;_;

On topic, I should start playing some of the game I bought on the sale. I'm thinking about starting with A Boy and His Blob.
 

derExperte

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4 and 8GB peasants, have you looked at RAM prices lately? They kinda collapsed. Upgrade ffs.

Am I weird for thinking that DRM is fine and important these days? I've never had a problem with Denuvo, never made any noticeable impact on performance for me... Never really thought the whole games preservation thing was a very strong argument either.

Ideally we'd have DRM that deletes itself after five years so everyone is happy, I'm sure it has its uses and don't begrudge publishers using what works but then I've seen so many of those systems causing trouble down the line and PC gamers enjoying very old games that I hate games getting lost due to this.
 
I've got some Steam games that have been rotting in my inventory. Not going to use Modbot because I have to add people to my friend's list and gift them manually since they aren't keys.

Just quote this post and say what you want, no more than 1 item per person, except in the case of HL2 and episode 1 if you don't have either

Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
Super Hexagon

Terraria (2 copies available) [1 left]

Terraria if you still have it?
 

~Kinggi~

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You know 8 GB is from an ancient time when the new Cyan Worlds game requires 8 GB minimum, and recommends 16 GB of RAM.

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If you go and read the results of their benchmarks, the recommended specs should really be the minimum specs. With minimum specs, I am not even sure you can run 720p without stuttering.


Well, i backed this, never got the impression this was gonna be some bleeding edge tech game like Star Citizen when backing, so im sure lots of people are gonna be pissed. Luckily i have a 980ti and 16 ram so im set, but those specs seem really unacceptable. Unless the game really is some hot tech shit.
 

redlacs

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200 hours in Rocket League now and still having fun. best purchase of the year!
but its sad that its the closest thing to actual hockey game on pc right now
 

Soulflarz

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counting sonicomi as beat
got one ending
the way to get the true ending is to replay the game with different outfits

...do I count it as beaten? I uh...don't really see the appeal of replaying the main story over and over for different endings if I beat the main thing
 
A Boy and His Blob is really cute, there is a button dedicated to huge the Blob! So far I only have three jellybeans and it seems to be pretty straight forward, but I guess the game will get harder as I progress.
 

D3RANG3D

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Eww, using pictures of 3D girls? I'll stick to Huniecam.

On a side note, why did they go with 3 boobs for their logo? Tycoon is spelled with 2 "o" and a girl normally has 2 boobs. Why add a third? Makes no sense.

Cuz apparently the company is called third tit studio or something.

I agree though 3DPD.
 

derExperte

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Many thanks to Speevy for Lumo, that one doesn't look like anything special but the GB QL piqued my interest (forgot to check the price during summer sale). We don't get many isometric platformers these days, dev is even doing a series of commenatries if you're into that.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Not unsurprisingly, 10000000 (and IMBAB I assume since its basically the same) works better on a phone than a PC.
 

neonglow

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data

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You don't have to send me thank you messages, forgot to put that in.
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GaussTek

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Hrm, extra $10 on the Windows store I could be putting towards Inside instead of Steam. Must resist.

Is it going to be available in the Windows 10 Store? I was also going to do that, but I didn't find anything about it being released there, only Steam, so I spent my $10 from the Falout 4 error on Oxenfree lol
 

Lomax

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Not unsurprisingly, 10000000 (and IMBAB I assume since its basically the same) works better on a phone than a PC.

I played 10000000 exclusively on PC and once I got the rhythm down it was fine, I think it was easier to get a good overall view on the game than it is on a phone. I've been playing YMBAB on phone and there's no doubt the slide style match 3 method is designed for that touch interface, but I think there's more of a tendency to just tunnel on the first thing you see rather than making more selective choices. But 10000000 long term depended heavily on the items you brought into a run whereas YMBAB doesn't have that mechanic, so I'm not sure what the end game playstyle of YMBAB is going to be. Both are great though and very addictive on both PC and mobile.
 

Mikurden

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I wanted to answer your question but I thought people had already found out.

What about Dex?

Edit: Actually, it really sounds some crude understanding of Ghost 1.0's mechanics.

Definitely not Dex -- in my recollection, it was pretty action-focused with little-to-no story beyond the basic setup of you vs. some kind of Sci-Fi fortress. Whatever it was, I think I only looked at its store page, and Ghost 1.0's screenshots and description feel like less of a match to my vague memories than CRYPTARK does, but thanks anyway.
 
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