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STEAM | June 2015 - Wait for the Steam Sale Thread You Bastards!

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Deitus

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I think a lot of people (such as myself) go in expecting a fun/wacky action game. But it really is a puzzle game, where aiming for perfect scores and solving mind-bending problems are the core of the game, rather than mowing down hordes of enemies with weird anachronistic heroes. It's just not what I expected, and for that reason I couldn't enjoy it much.

Plus it's short. And that writing... eugh.

I mean, I was expecting somewhat of a puzzle game. It's just that for the base game, the solution to every puzzle is "rewind and kill that guy first." Also some classes are just so good that you rarely need to switch to a different class to overcome a challenge.

The challenge maps though, I quite enjoyed those. Because they were designed around forcing you to use your time travel powers in creative ways, in order to simultaneously complete multiple objectives, rather than just being a way to spray more bullets on the screen at a time until all the things are dead.

The medals where you had to get to a certain point within a certain amount of time though, fuck those things. I was able to complete them all, mostly by brute forcing them, but it just wasn't fun to do.
 

chronomac

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Has anyone, in the last 12 hours, tried to leave their game, start a new one, and then stay in that new game until it hits 10? I'm curious if that spawns a card. If so, I wonder if you can do it again. I've only gotten one since then and it was for joining a friend's game but it only worked once (and I quickly rejoined the GAF game before it got 10 levels beyond me)
 

Deitus

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Has anyone, in the last 12 hours, tried to leave their game, start a new one, and then stay in that new game until it hits 10? I'm curious if that spawns a card. If so, I wonder if you can do it again. I've only gotten one since then and it was for joining a friend's game but it only worked once (and I quickly rejoined the GAF game before it got 10 levels beyond me)

I tried that right at the start of today's game, and I didn't get anything. I haven't tried again since then though.
 

Lain

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Has anyone, in the last 12 hours, tried to leave their game, start a new one, and then stay in that new game until it hits 10? I'm curious if that spawns a card. If so, I wonder if you can do it again. I've only gotten one since then and it was for joining a friend's game but it only worked once (and I quickly rejoined the GAF game before it got 10 levels beyond me)

I started a game after they reset the games. I made it to level 10, killed the boss and didn't get a card. Then I joined the GAF group, didn't get a card. Now, more than 12 hours and 2 thousand levels later, I'm still at 0 cards. This is simply bullshit.
Naturally, it could be that we'd have to wait 1 hour after the reset (so when the store actually updates) before more cards drop, but then that would be some big oversight on the part of Valve in letting people start new games right away and still, just playing a game should still drop those damned cards.
 
Kinda sad to see what FB did to Oculus:

But one thing that has no place is Oculus’ brave new world is virtual sex. A company representative reiterated the Oculus position on the matter when we asked about it on Friday: “Oculus only distributes developer content that meets their terms of service, which forbid pornographic content from being a part of the Oculus Store,” the spokesman said.

I remember Palmer said before adult games wouldnt be a problem on the Oculus service.
He said there wont be any headset specific games.

It seems everything he said was either a lie or FB changed its stance from "We will let Oculus do what they have in mind and be free" to "We make the rules now".
 

wilflare

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Chris Patt is the only reason to watch the movie.
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ditto

For the action RPGs lovers The Umbra kickstarter is drawing to a close, just 14 hours left before it ends.

I'm still thinking on this
 
Kinda sad to see what FB did to Oculus:

I remember Palmer said before adult games wouldnt be a problem on the Oculus service.
He said there wont be any headset specific games.

It seems everything he said was either a lie or FB changed its stance from "We will let Oculus do what they have in mind and be free" to "We make the rules now".

Oculus is still open. Those games just won't be sold on the Oculus store. That's really not surprising.
 

baterism

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Kinda sad to see what FB did to Oculus:



I remember Palmer said before adult games wouldnt be a problem on the Oculus service.
He said there wont be any headset specific games.

It seems everything he said was either a lie or FB changed its stance from "We will let Oculus do what they have in mind and be free" to "We make the rules now".
Do OR limit stuff that can be displayed on their VR now? If so, Vive has won before competition has even started.
Isn't VR comparable to monitor screen aka nobody can tell me what I want to watch?

Oculus is still open. Those games just won't be sold on the Oculus store. That's really not surprising.
Oh this. It is pretty normal then.
 

Platy

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Those flash deals are full of "ALMOST got this" .... road redemption, korra, metal slug, apotheon ....all "if was X more I would buy" with each X being diferent
 

wilflare

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As that Shia fellow says, DO IT!

which tier are you on

I watch it for Bryce Dallas Howard.

she's beautiful - I'll give you that
and I did not know she's a mother and suffered from post-natal depression

That's the way the licensing ball bounces. However since you pinpoint that time frame, I'll just wait for the Winter sale to hoard.

it's really cheap now though - almost made me regret buying a spare copy previously

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I bought STFU, it's gonna be Humbled soon :/
I bought Cities Skyline - hope I'm not too late to the party

EDIT: Steam downloaded Cities Skyline at 45.2MB/s - come on, you can go faster
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
How many extra copies did you buy

Haha, it's been a quite a while now since I've done that.

That's the way the licensing ball bounces. However since you pinpoint that time frame, I'll just wait for the Winter sale to hoard.

The licence won't expire soon, but Acti may give it up voluntarily, which is why its licensed games generally disappear in late December/early January (i.e. at the very end/very beginning of its financial year).
 

Shadownet

Banned
I feel like JaseC just work for Activision and all those companies.

He's telling us to buy all these games that supposedly will expired soon..

He's their market manager or something.
 

Amzin

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Still missing summer card drops so submitted a ticket. Hopefully they can fix it. Should have 3 more dropped than I do right now :/
 

Ventara

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Haven't bought much so far. Just VC from the Day 1 sale. Most of the games I was looking to pick up haven't received the 75% discount I've been waiting for (indie bundles have spoiled me), though I am tempted by a few. Namely, Korra, Apotheon, Unrest, eden and This War of Mine.

What's the general consensus on Unrest? Good game?
 

BinaryPork2737

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What's the general consensus on Unrest? Good game?

It was okay, but it's definitely a budget game. There's a lot of variety in the choices you can make, and the writing is pretty decent. The music loops a bit too much and gets irritating after a while. If you don't enjoy games where the main thing you do is read, then you should probably avoid it. If you don't mind reading copious amounts of text, go for it*.

*At the end of the sale if doesn't show up as a daily deal, flash sale, or metagame unlock.
 

wilflare

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I had to go in at the cheapest level for this one, given all the other kickstarter ending this month that I backed, so just the 12$ one.

missed the $9 early bird.. wondering if I should go for the soundtrack

anyway - are soundtracks on Steam MP3 or FLAC or?
 

Lain

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What's the general consensus on Unrest? Good game?

Turfster would say it is great. I'd say that it's a good +1 because I didn't play it.

missed the $9 early bird.. wondering if I should go for the soundtrack

anyway - are soundtracks on Steam MP3 or FLAC or?

Yeah I wish I didn't miss the 9$ tier.

Soundtracks on Steam can be either or. I don't remember which game it is that gave me both FLAC and MP3. Totally depends on what the devs decide (and contracts allow them I guess?). No idea if they'll do it FLAC or MP£ or both though.
 

Ventara

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Just found out I have Apotheon through PS+, so I can scratch that off my list. Good thing I checked, lol.

It was okay, but it's definitely a budget game. There's a lot of variety in the choices you can make, and the writing is pretty decent. The music loops a bit too much and gets irritating after a while. If you don't enjoy games where the main thing you do is read, then you should probably avoid it. If you don't mind reading copious amounts of text, go for it*.

*At the end of the sale if doesn't show up as a daily deal, flash sale, or metagame unlock.

Turfster would say it is great. I'd say that it's a good +1 because I didn't play it.

Hmm, gonna think it over some more. The premise and art is what pulled me to it, but it sounds like there really isn't much you can do to affect the story despite being able to make so many choices, plus some other annoyances. I guess it'll come down to if the story it tells is interesting/if I think it'll be in a bundle.
 

wilflare

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Turfster would say it is great. I'd say that it's a good +1 because I didn't play it.



Yeah I wish I didn't miss the 9$ tier.

Soundtracks on Steam can be either or. I don't remember which game it is that gave me both FLAC and MP3. Totally depends on what the devs decide (and contracts allow them I guess?). No idea if they'll do it FLAC or MP£ or both though.

Depends on game. Compressed for the most part, though.

KS devs have been very random - some choose Humble, some choose Bandcamp :/
it's rather messy
 
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