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[WinterDemons]

I searched the thread hoping to find impressions of Joylancer because I was considering getting it from the IndieGala bundle. Instead, I found a giveaway with a key no one had taken. (Thank you, FiveElementNinja!)



Joylancer is basically an action platform that pays homage to the 8-bit NES era, but it's a lot smoother than an actual 8-bit game from back then would have been, I think. Everything looks, sounds, and controls very well.

The game is still in Early Access, and there are a couple of indicators of that (such as a sign showing no text when you're prompted to read), but it's surprisingly solid and polished so far.

I got through the first area, and it didn't auto-save, so I'm not sure if it has a save function at all (I hope there is!) or if it's meant to be played old-school and beaten in one sitting. I'm guessing it auto-saves at some point, because there are other modern concessions included - such as a hit count (which can be disabled). If anyone knows, please respond. (Edit: Saving was taken out, but it's coming back in.)

There's also a 4-color mode you can select to give the game even more of a retro feel, but I haven't tried that yet.

It's fun so far! Easily worth the ridiculously low Gala asking price (and you get other games with it as well).

Go for it, people.

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The Joylancer: Legendary Motor Knight -- MB-B5D22A6B04DF2F93 - Taken by Blu(e). 2 entrants total.

 

[DaBargainHunta]

Go for it, people.

This is awesome, LOL.

 

[derExperte]

I thought that the difficulty level personally was a really satisfying curve that kept each puzzle feeling like an accomplishment without getting too hard...until the last level; I had to actually look up that single solution. My girlfriend watched and helped with some puzzles, so it only took about 2 hours or so to complete the main game.

The 'alternative' puzzles are muuuuch harder, try those if you want more.

 

[Messiah]

I'll stop you!

I bought the game on a 40% off sale I think. I have been really looking forward to it and happened to buy a couple nice dance pads on black friday.

I still haven't started the game. It's just because it's early access and they haven't even released the 4th/final level/boss. As soon as they release it, I'm going to play, but wouldn't you hate to finally beat level 3 and then have the game end immaturely? That's what's keeping me from it anyways.

Ah thanks. I will take some more time to consider.

 

[HoosTrax]

the PoE bug floodgates have opened.

wouldn't have expected an Obsidian game to have bugs

Yeah I'm actually waiting for a while before I start the game. I remember running into some annoying broken quests and/or broken achievements in Divinity OS, so I'm happy to let other people beta test and get the kinks worked out before I make the plunge.

 

[Bubbavelli]

Ive been helping my girlfriend move her stuff into a storage unit the past couple days and found these babies in the "free to a good home" section. The expansions is still sealed and bd2 pretty much has everything in it. The disks are in pretty great condition too. I might just buy bd on gog and get this quest started

 

[ExoSoul]

Go for it, people.

That's what I get for playing games xD
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Should keys that I'm not certain if they've been used go to the "FREE to a good home" thread with a warning about it?

Cool stuff

Please quote the image =c

 

[Blu(e)]

Reposting this because it got absolutely buried and crushed under all of the

Spoiler

silly

mystery giveaways.

Thanks for the impressions. Joylancer easily looked like the most interesting game in that bundle. I just won a copy,

Spoiler

(<3 thank you WinterDemons)

but I'll most likely play it when it's fully out.

 

[Sarcasm]

I sinned. Bought GTA5

I got it gifted ^.^

 

[Salsa]

I got it gifted ^.^

you're welcome btw

 

[Tizoc]

tODAY I came to the SHOCKING realization that my Plus sub on EU PSN had expired 2 weeks ago, time to drop 40 Pounds for this sucker...

 

[Bubbavelli]

Please quote the image =c

Ahhh sorry about the friends. Im posting from my phone

 

[Jawmuncher]

Ive been helping my girlfriend move her stuff into a storage unit the past couple days and found these babies in the "free to a good home" section. The expansions is still sealed and bd2 pretty much has everything in it. The disks are in pretty great condition too. I might just buy bd on gog and get this quest started

Finding good conditions PC boxes is always a treat especially for cheap or for free.
Reminds me of when I found a perfect box for Phantasmagoria. I still kick myself for not buying it since I think it was like 2 bucks.


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Wow already 9 hours in PoE and I didn't even realize I have been playing that long. Just finished Act 1. It's a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be.

 

[Vazra]

4K Downsampling is so cute.

 

[salazar547]

played gurumin , settings dont save if i play the game in big picture mode , also locked to 30 fps it seems ( havent checked it with fraps but it feels like a 30 fps game ) , aside from all that the game is fun

 

[zkylon]

Those are valid points.

I usually hate it when games are slow like that, but I think that the ability to rewind when experimenting so that you only have to re-do the last thing you did usually instead of restarting the puzzle made up for the sluggish controls.

Having two minds working on the puzzles at once in my case may have resulted in less trial and error as well, I'd imagine.

EDIT: I see you gave a good review to The Swapper, which is my favorite puzzle game of the past year or so probably.

personally i think that a puzzle game needs to be super quick so that it's as conductive to experimentation and deduction as possible. something like the swapper, or braid, or whatever, have a lot of immediate input and response and a quick way to reset things so that mistakes are never really punished

that way you get to discover the whole extent of the game's mechanics and apply them until you really learn them.

i feel like the bridge, because of how the whole world rotating mechanic works, forced itself to be slow and sluggish so you can't cheese your way out of puzzles by just rotating crap midair or whatever. they could've made the universe just stop while you were rotating but i guess they felt this way was better

i mean, the look of the game is fantastic, but nothing about it really grabbed me, the story didn't really have any hooks that made me feel engaged with it and i never felt like i was getting particularly good at it. it wasn't like hexcells that i felt like i had mastered the game by the end, the whole sluggishness deal just slowed me so bad that sometimes i was just content with getting through a puzzle even if i didn't quite understand what i had done right.

also yea the swapper is pretty great. kind of the opposite of the bridge for me, very intriguing story and very enjoyable and immediate puzzling that ramped up in a way that i almost never got stuck but mostly because it was perfectly paced and the difficulty ramped up in a way that you were always learning something new. and the way the story and the gameplay mixed together was pretty clever, pretty frightening too

in comparison i never quite got why you rotate the world on the bridge? or why the world is all escher-fucked up? something about experiments?

anyways, the swapper is also one of my favorite puzzle platformers, tho i don't really like all that many

Ive been helping my girlfriend move her stuff into a storage unit the past couple days and found these babies in the "free to a good home" section. The expansions is still sealed and bd2 pretty much has everything in it. The disks are in pretty great condition too. I might just buy bd on gog and get this quest started

damn cool

my dream is to someday get that fat fallout 1 box and maybe build an altar around it

would go nuts if i found that somewhere hidden in like my mom's house

 

[Messiah]

Wasn't there a bot that would trade coupons to you?

Trashbot

Thanks!

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

Wasn't there a bot that would trade coupons to you?

Trashbot

 

[Tizoc]

played gurumin , settings dont save if i play the game in big picture mode , also locked to 30 fps it seems ( havent checked it with fraps but it feels like a 30 fps game ) , aside from all that the game is fun

Some have run the game at 60 FPS, so the game can do that.

 

[WinterDemons]

If you think you're entitled to a free key of Gurumin, use this link to get it: http://top3line.com/gurumin_steam_codes/

Alright! That took quite a while though. Glad to see it finally on Steam.

Spoiler

Also, anyone want to trade the current IG Monday bundle for an IG Hump Day Bundle?

 

[Turfster]

Dragon Age Inquisition is 33% off on Amazon

 

[texhnolyze]

So, DOA5 just got a price jump for SEA region Steam.
Well played, Capcporn.

 

[Atraveller]

Dragon Age Inquisition is 33% off on Amazon

WinGameStore has Telltale's Game of Thrones 36% off if you use the coupon code 'thrones'

Steam key?

 

[Grief.exe]

Steam key?

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say neither.

 

[WinterDemons]

Steam key?

Went to check. Dragon Age Inquisition is Origin. Telltale's Game of Thrones requires Telltale Games account so probably not.

 

[Turfster]

Steam key?

Gah. See, totally forgot about that.
Fuck it, never doing Telltale deals again.

 

[cardinalmind]

Dead or Alive is still around 20$ here. But I still don't want to buy it. All the downgrades made it from a day one to a major sale purchase.

 

[Last Baron]

Capcporn.

What's the deal with everyone spelling it like this? I can't for the life of me figure it out.

 

[Turfster]

What's the deal with everyone spelling it like this? I can't for the life of me figure it out.

That's how they spell it.

 

[Atraveller]

Gah. See, totally forgot about that.
Fuck it, never doing Telltale deals again.

No steam, no buy.

What's the deal with everyone spelling it like this? I can't for the life of me figure it out.

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

What's the deal with everyone spelling it like this? I can't for the life of me figure it out.

I think it all started with this:

For a year or two, it seemed like every Capcom release had some hilariously obvious spelling error on the box. Hence, Capcpom.

 

[Deitus]

I didn't get a Gurumin key, but then I didn't expect to since I never joined their group. I voted for the game on Greenlight to get more Falcom games on Steam, so I'm happy that the game finally came out. Maybe I'll pick it up during a sale sometime though.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

I think it all started with this:

For a year or two, it seemed like every Capcom release had some hilariously obvious spelling error on the box. Hence, Capcpom.

Don't forget the reverations.

 

[Messiah]

The most important thing though: the game is not by capcpom.

 

[TheSeks]

The most important thing though: the game is not by capcpom.

Was coming in to say that.

 

[Atraveller]

I found a junior using my old avatar, what do?

 

[The Dear Leader]

I found a junior using my old avatar, what do?

Challenge them to a 1v1 irl fight.

 

[Thieve]

I found a junior using my old avatar, what do?

Challenge them to a dance off.

 

[NightmareTrigger]

I found a junior using my old avatar, what do?

Challenge them to a baking competition entitled Khaleesi's KhalEZ Bake Oven Cook-Off

 

[someguyinahat]

I found a junior using my old avatar, what do?

Gift him Bad Rats.

 

[Atraveller]

I'm changing it back to make him feel more guilty.

 

[iosefe]

i've seen someone with an avatar really simlar to Mono

speaking of which...where has Mono been?

 

[Kvik]

Hello SteamGAF.

Anyone knows much GTA V ROW Tier 2 worth in TF keys? I refused to pay $75 for it :-\

 

[Shadownet]

Finally finished Remember Me.

 

[dot]

i've seen someone with an avatar really simlar to Mono

speaking of which...where has Mono been?

I talk to her a lot on steam and even i don't know. Hopefully she's just busy with school and is doing okay.

 

[tmarg]

i've seen someone with an avatar really simlar to Mono

speaking of which...where has Mono been?

I think that guy might have had the avatar first actually.

I think I remember Mono saying she got a job or something.

 

[NightmareTrigger]

i've seen someone with an avatar really simlar to Mono

speaking of which...where has Mono been?

I think she was really busy with a new job or something

 

[baterism]

So, DOA5 just got a price jump for SEA region Steam.
Well played, Capcporn.

I'll never understand KT on that. It's unchanged on RU/CIS.

 

[JaseC]

So, DOA5 just got a price jump for SEA region Steam.
Well played, Capcporn.

Yeah, someone mentioned earlier that the Steam TH price doubled.

 

[iosefe]

I talk to her a lot on steam and even i don't know. Hopefully she's just busy with school and is doing okay.

unfortunately the reality seems much worse...

I think that guy might have had the avatar first actually.

I think I remember Mono saying she got a job or something.

I think she was really busy with a new job or something

god help her