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

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Blu(e)

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Overwatch has gotten it's hold on me and I haven't played anything on steam for a while :/

Does anyone know if the Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma OST and Premium Booklet will be available down the line? Danganronpa 1 and 2 both had preorder items but you can't buy them anymore. Will it be the same with Zero Escape?

Also with 999 coming to steam, should I wait for that and play that first and wait for VLR down the line before playing Zero Time Dilemma? I heard ZTD can be played by itself or would I be missing a lot?
 
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mp1990

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Blu(e) said:
Overwatch has gotten it's hold on me and I haven't played anything on steam for a while :/

Does anyone know if the Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma OST and Premium Booklet will be available down the line? Danganronpa 1 and 2 both had preorder items but you can't buy them anymore. Will it be the same with Zero Escape?

Also with 999 coming to steam, should I wait for that and play that first and wait for VLR down the line before playing Zero Time Dilemma? I heard ZTD can be played by itself or would I be missing a lot?
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You can play ZTD by itself alright, there are enough self contained arcs in there for you to enjoy, to be but it's kinda pointless considering how many plot points rely on the player having the experience of the prior games. Keep in mind, I've yet to beat it, and by what I've heard from a few friends, it'll be pretty tough for you to figure out the ending without 999 and VLR, so you're better off waiting for them.
 
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Creamium

shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
To people who've played Alien Isolation on hard: is there a big gap between normal and hard difficulty? Would you recommend starting on hard, or is it too frustrating for a first run?
 
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Psychoward

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Creamium said:
To people who've played Alien Isolation on hard: is there a big gap between normal and hard difficulty? Would you recommend starting on hard, or is it too frustrating for a first run?
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Yes there's a gap, I recommend normal personally and I play most games on hard nowadays.
 
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Mr. Doop

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I just ended up getting Lovely Planet and a bunch of shitty bundle trash I can hopefully make a profit out of. Hope you guys all had better sales than I did.
 
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Tizoc

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I'm just messin', enter away Rhaky

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Please let me know if you encounter any issues redeeming the games. Oh and this isn't Free for All so you can only enter for one game :X
 
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Nillansan

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I have pretty much picked up everything that I wanted from this sale - the only exception is actually just State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition (it only had a mere 15% discount. I will buy it when it goes lower. I am not trying to be cheap, I already own the original release and all the DLC, all of which I bought as soon as they were released).

Bought
DOOM
Dying Light: The Following Enhanced Edition
Wolfenstein: The New Order (I recently played through The Old Blood, looking forward to dive into the main game)
Invisible Inc. Contingency Plan
Fran Bow
Dex
Dishonored Game of the Year Edition (I bought it for the DLC, I bought the base game on release day)
Prison Architect
The Room
Legend of Grimrock 2
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Heroes of Might and Magic 5: Tribes of the East
Bioshock 2: Minerva's Den
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Pre-ordered
INSIDE
Phantom Brave

Good sale overall, I was really surprised to see Doom with a 40% discount, I only expected it to be 10% off.
 
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Momentary

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Second Chapter
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Grandia II
SAMURAI WARRIORS 4-II (Took me 3 hours to figure out how to actually get this game to run... You have to use Windows 7 compatibility)
The Bug Butcher
Stardust Galaxy Warriors
Murasaki
GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-
Phantom Brave PC: Digital Chroma Edition
 
Tizoc

Tizoc

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Righty-o then
Spent $150 on these
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Spent a total of 11.76 Gaben Dollars on
ORCS, Shadowgrounds bundle, Ikaruga, Cynaide Studios' Game of Thrones bundle

Spent around $50-55 on gifts otherwise :3
 
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FoneBone

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Only thing I bought was a bundle of The Moon Sliver and The Music Machine (nicely eerie walking simulator fare) for around $1.50. I'm not sure if this sale was actually worse than previous ones, but I did see more games than I'd expected that weren't matching previous Steam lows, or (surprisingly) weren't discounted at all.

I miss daily deals and flash sales, even if I'm in the minority there.
 
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KenOD

a kinder, gentler sort of Scrooge
When I beat a game on Steam, I put them into a category to mark it off as complete and easily look back when someone asks me for a suggestion in a genre. I'm having trouble with Rock Of Ages though and I'm still not sure what to call it.

Suggestions I've gotten thus far.

Tower Defence.
Racer.
High Score.
Platformer (I don't understand that one).
Action
Puzzle
RTS-lite (confused by that one as well)
?
 
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Ascheroth

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I've bought

Gurumin
Trails in the Sky SC

for a grand total of ~23€ on the first day of the sale.

Have completed Gurumin yesterday and started with TitS SC today.
I think I did alright.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
KenOD said:
When I beat a game on Steam, I put them into a category to mark it off as complete and easily look back when someone asks me for a suggestion in a genre. I'm having trouble with Rock Of Ages though and I'm still not sure what to call it.

Suggestions I've gotten thus far.

Tower Defence.
Racer.
High Score.
Platformer (I don't understand that one).
Action
Puzzle
RTS-lite (confused by that one as well)
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I played a few hours of it, and I would put it as Ball Rolling (if you have a category) or Arcade (i.e. not story driven, replayable content focused on improving skill). It's clearly in a weird space genre-wise. I would say Tower Defence is not super helpful because despite that element of the gameplay, when someone asks for Tower Defence they probably don't necessarily want this as a recommendation.
 
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KenOD said:
When I beat a game on Steam, I put them into a category to mark it off as complete and easily look back when someone asks me for a suggestion in a genre. I'm having trouble with Rock Of Ages though and I'm still not sure what to call it.
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"From the Zeno Clash people".
 
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Adnor

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And we're back to our regular home. Didn't buy much this time, but I'm pretty sure I'll be weak next time.
 
Regginator

Regginator

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I spent a whopping €5 during this sale, lol. Technically tree fiddy if you count the €1,50 worth of cards. Only bought Dex.

I'm proud of myself. My backlog is rather sizeable.
 
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ramoisdead

Member
Yay Steam thread is back.

Here's my haul:

Transformers Devastation
Dragon Ball Xenoverse
Flywrench
Lakeview Cabin Collection
The Longest Journey + Dreamfall bundle
Dirt 3 Complete Edition
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Not a lot since I've saving up my money for INSIDE later this week. Can't wait to try that game.
 
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ExoSoul

Banned
Tizoc said:
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Crom has deemed Rhaknar unworthy of this bounty and thus blocked him from this giveaway.
I'm just messin', enter away Rhaky



Please let me know if you encounter any issues redeeming the games. Oh and this isn't Free for All so you can only enter for one game :X
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So much hotness :eek:
 
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Deleted member 125677

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The Mercury levels of Flywrench is making me dizzy
 
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Tellaerin

Member
It's good to be back here.

I think this is the first time I didn't feel a lot of excitement surrounding one of the big annual sales. (Maybe I'm just getting jaded in my old age.) I didn't have much in ye olde wallet, so I just ended up grabbing Roche Fusion (a surprisingly good procedurally-generated shmup) and The Goddess Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (hi, Ozium!), which I haven't had time to really dig into yet, though I've enjoyed what little I've played of it so far. (I'm not normally too keen on games with a timed element where it's possible to miss things, but from what I understand, you can complete the stuff you missed in a second playthrough, so I'm going to try to relax and not get too anal about it.)
 
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Ludens

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So, I completed Kholat. This was on my wishlist from release, and I grabbed it today on Indiegala since they are running a good promotion (you get also Between me and the night for free, and this was on my wish too, plus a random game with their scratch system, and I got the first Call of Juarez).

Sadly, I'm partially disappointed. Partially because there are some very good things in the game, but there are also some very bad ones.

Pro

-very good graphics, even if it's not well optimized. The game uses Unreal Engine 4, and if you set the graphics on max, it will be gorgeous, but my 970 was on 71c, so I put it on medium (it's very good too, anyway). The game for me couldn't get 60 steady fps on max, anyway. There's also an option to cap the framerate.
-the plot is solid, since it's based upon a real event. Sean Bean did a nice job, but he doesn't speak too much anyway during the "normal" game. If you want to hear more, you need to find all hidden notes, but I'm ok with the way I beat the game, because...

Cons

-the game is very hard to navigate. The 99% of the time, you won't see anything, because there's snow everywhere, snowstorms, dark locations. Finding the way is not really an easy task, even if you have a map.
-the map. It's totally empty, so there are no point of interest, so you don't really know what to do as soon as you boot the game. You have a compass too, but the big problem is the map doesn't show a marker with your location (and it's also flipped, just in case).
There are "roads" marked from the start, but the fact is you could get lost in no time, because only "main" roads are marked anyway. When you find a note or a campfire, it's added to the map, so you have a reference. Better than nothing, but still too hard for me.
-checkpoint system sucks. The game only saves when you find a note or a campfire, so if you die and you didn't find one of those, you need to repeat the section from the last save.
-enemies. Oh my God, why there are enemies in this game. They are very dumb to avoid, the problem is they are almost invisible since they are like shadows, and in dark areas you WON'T see them. This leads to two problems:
-if you use a torch, the enemies will turn red attacking you. If you are in a pitch black location with your flashlight, there are good chances you will illuminate an enemy right in front of you, with an istant game-over.
-sometimes, and I don't know why, enemies randomly popped out of nowhere (I had flashlight turned off) and killed me. This happened a lot of times in the "church" area, it was bloody annoying.
-bugs. I got stuck into enviromental elements two times, and I had no choice if not reloading my save.

So, my advice is, wait for a bundle. The game has potentianl, but I doubt devs will add a new mode with a better save system or a map showing your location.
 
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Drewsky

Member
In this sale I got:

Life is Strange
Dark Souls
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Dishonored

Returned: Subnautica and Crysis 2. They just didn't grab me when I tried them. Unfortunately the money wasn't refunded soon enough for me to get anything else in the sale.
 
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texhnolyze

Banned
Cool, we're finally back from the dark side. It's way more cozy here. Summer sale game recommendation? NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION! (It's actually all capital).

Anyway, quoting myself from Romance of the Three Kingdom XIII announcement thread. Anyone has an idea?
texhnolyze said:
So, it's out tomorrow, right?

Regarding the Steam version, will there be a separate app other than the currently available Japanese version? Or there'll be only a patch for the English language instead?
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Nzyme32

Member
Creamium said:
To people who've played Alien Isolation on hard: is there a big gap between normal and hard difficulty? Would you recommend starting on hard, or is it too frustrating for a first run?
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Yes - but a very good one

iirc the game itself actually describes the hard difficulty as the way the game should be played - and it is. The normal and easy difficulty settings make the Alien so easy to avoid and trick. On hard I found the game genuinely tense. It was great. It was a good balance between challenging and rewarding while not be so difficult it was frustrating
 
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