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[Stumpokapow]

Had a great bit of fun for an hour or two playing through You Have to Win the Game. I had played maybe 50% of it when it was just random freeware on the web, but didn't remember enough that it interfered with the replay. It's especially good when you turn on EGA graphics and turn off the CRT simulation. It's a nice little platformer with a few neat ideas, and it's pretty original in how it puts things together so it doesn't feel like a retread of other retro platformers. Went ahead and beat the game -> Bad ending; Beat the game -> Good ending; Played in Cat Mode (you only have nine lives) -> good ending. Now I'm trying to conquer YOLO SWAG mode, which is proving difficult because there are just enough screens that I can't reliably do without dying. Given that I didn't play a dime, a really good little experience.

And now comes the name-and-shame. 12 people on my friends list from GAF have added the game to their account.
corrosivefrost: Played for an hour, did not complete game with either ending, 6/14 achievements Has completed the game.
wetflame: Played for 50 minutes, 10-15% completion
spin: Launched game, got achievement for dying once.
Volcynika: Played for 20 minutes, got through three quarters of the game Comleted game.
JaseC: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards cash.
Blade: Played to the completion of the bad end, 5.6 hours. Get the good ending, dude! Got the good ending.
nexen: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
KenOD: Played for 20 minutes, got through half the game
Mavromantis: Launched game, got achievement for dying once
toddhunter: Played less than 5 minutes, got 10-15% completion
RionaaM: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
Kurdel: Launched game, got achievements for dying once.

It's a free game! You don't need to pay anything! You can finish it in one sitting!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/286100/

 

[Tizoc]

Eh I overall didn't like You have to win the game much. It just felt needlesly hard and the dodging bullets thing was driving me bonkers.

 

[didamangi]

Had a great bit of fun for an hour or two playing through You Have to Win the Game. I had played maybe 50% of it when it was just random freeware on the web, but didn't remember enough that it interfered with the replay. It's especially good when you turn on EGA graphics and turn off the CRT simulation. It's a nice little platformer with a few neat ideas, and it's pretty original in how it puts things together so it doesn't feel like a retread of other retro platformers. Went ahead and beat the game -> Bad ending; Beat the game -> Good ending; Played in Cat Mode (you only have nine lives) -> good ending. Now I'm trying to conquer YOLO SWAG mode, which is proving difficult because there are just enough screens that I can't reliably do without dying. Given that I didn't play a dime, a really good little experience.

Tried the yolo swag for playfire, nope.

I know that screen will cause me grief to no end if I somehow managed to get there in that mode.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Eh I overall didn't like You have to win the game much. It just felt needlesly hard and the dodging bullets thing was driving me bonkers.

There are only bullets in like 5 of the screens, and then bullet-like things to dodge in another 3 or so.

 

[tjohn86]

Has anyone picked up Lichdom: Battlemage?

Impressions? Cheap RU price?

 

[JaseC]

Has anyone picked up Lichdom: Battlemage?

Impressions? Cheap RU price?

$12/$12.50 or 7 keys.

 

[OldAsUrSock]

Has anyone picked up Lichdom: Battlemage?

Impressions? Cheap RU price?

Too much Chromatic Aberration.

Spoiler

Any Chromatic Aberration is too much.

 

[JaseC]

Too much Chromatic Aberration.

Spoiler

Any Chromatic Aberration is too much.

The opening scene of AssCreed LibHD is murder on the eyes.

Edit: At least I think it had CA turned up to 11. My memory is a little fuzzy.

 

[Stallion Free]

Damn dat name and shame

 

[YianGaruga]

Had a great bit of fun for an hour or two playing through You Have to Win the Game. I had played maybe 50% of it when it was just random freeware on the web, but didn't remember enough that it interfered with the replay. It's especially good when you turn on EGA graphics and turn off the CRT simulation. It's a nice little platformer with a few neat ideas, and it's pretty original in how it puts things together so it doesn't feel like a retread of other retro platformers. Went ahead and beat the game -> Bad ending; Beat the game -> Good ending; Played in Cat Mode (you only have nine lives) -> good ending. Now I'm trying to conquer YOLO SWAG mode, which is proving difficult because there are just enough screens that I can't reliably do without dying. Given that I didn't play a dime, a really good little experience.

Yep, good game. Really enjoyed it. Brag incoming:

£0.50 gave me enough motivation to go for it.

I know that screen will cause me grief to no end if I somehow managed to get there in that mode.

Wait at the place with the bell until the lower left shrimp has shot its bullet, and then just head straight for the exit, using the left two ledges. Nothing will hit you.

 

[ashecitism]

The opening scene of AssCreed LibHD is murder on the eyes.

Edit: At least I think it had CA turned up to 11. My memory is a little fuzzy.

Yeah, just watched it.

Oh dear...

 

[BruteUA]

And now comes the name-and-shame. 12 people on my friends list from GAF have added the game to their account.

-: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
-: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
-: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards

My favorite kind of shame.

 

[JaseC]

JaseC: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards

Actually, I just left it running for about 10 minutes to unlock the "Play for the first time" reward on Playfire (as I said a couple of weeks ago, I'm hoping to eventually pre-purchase Murdered: Soul Suspect for less than $10). I knew it wasn't going to drop cards, being a sub 0 game, and had earlier instructed the dev to remove it from the sub and use a no cost sub instead, which would have allowed people to "buy" it and therefore unlock drops (or so I'd assumed as this is what Valve did with the L4D2 giveaway), but understandably Valve doesn't allow card drops for free games (DLC/in-game purchases aside) due to concerns regarding mass farming.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Idling for cash without playing the game is even more shameless than idling for cards without playing the game!

 

[Zafir]

Hah i did a stupid thing last night. I accidentally left Bound by Flame running over night because I alt + f4'd it but it was still running in the background despite no window. xD

Has anyone picked up Lichdom: Battlemage?

Impressions? Cheap RU price?

I gave it a shot, and it seemed like it had potential. Looked nice and the combat seemed to perform fairly well. Performance needed some work, but it is still in Alpha so I can't complain too much. At this stage there isn't that much combat, and some features were missing. I know when I played it there wasn't any voices, and the story wasn't really explained, but they've apparently fixed that in Alpha 2 which came out the other week. I think it's worth the investment anyway. I got it for 6 keys.

 

[JaseC]

Idling for cash without playing the game is even more shameless than idling for cards without playing the game!

I gotta do what I gotta do. I did unlock all the achievements for Goat Simulator, though!

 

[didamangi]

Yep, good game. Really enjoyed it. Brag incoming:


£0.50 gave me enough motivation to go for it.

Wait at the place with the bell until the lower left shrimp has shot its bullet, and then just head straight for the exit, using the left two ledges. Nothing will hit you.

Good job! Hm, I know it's just 8 minutes to get it right, but the deaths quickly adds up to that.

Besides, after getting some Strike Suit Zero rewards today, I'm going back to playing Bound By Flame, which I very much enjoy so far anyway, even if your ally AI is dumb as a brick most of the time.

 

[Deques]

...
And now comes the name-and-shame. 12 people on my friends list from GAF have added the game to their account.
corrosivefrost: Played for an hour, did not complete game with either ending, 6/14 achievements
wetflame: Played for 50 minutes, 10-15% completion
spin: Launched game, got achievement for dying once.
Volcynika: Played for 20 minutes, got through three quarters of the game
JaseC: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
Blade: Played to the completion of the bad end, 5.6 hours. Get the good ending, dude!
nexen: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
KenOD: Played for 20 minutes, got through half the game
Mavromantis: Launched game, got achievement for dying once
toddhunter: Played less than 5 minutes, got 10-15% completion
RionaaM: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
Kurdel: Launched game, got achievements for dying once.

It's a free game! You don't need to pay anything! You can finish it in one sitting!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/286100/

You forgot me! Oh wait... we are not steam buddies :/

Anyway, I got to the bad ending.. It's probably enough for me

 

[derExperte]

11/14 achievements after completing it already before it got on Steam, great game I would have had no problem paying for.

 

[Stumpokapow]

You forgot me! Oh wait... we are not steam buddies :/

There's no harm in changing that!

 

[Turfster]

Daily Assassin's Creed Liberation HD 33% off

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

I'm not sure, but have you tried going into Control Panel and erasing the controller profile? Replugging it in after should create a new profile, hopefully with Player 1 as default.

But before you do that, check the settings. May be a simple issue there.

Just Steam settings? I went in there but to my untrained eye I wasn't able to see anything crazy or out of place. I really don't know what I'm looking for though.

Do you have anything else that could be detected as a gamepad? If you have the SCP DS3 Service running for making your DS3/DS4 work with your PC, your xbox 360 controller will always be 2nd as long as that service is running.

Nope, don't have anything except for my 360 controller. It's a wireless controller running through a receiver I bought on Amazon on recommendation from somebody in this thread a few months ago.

Honestly, I don't PC game much so I don't really know much about advanced stuff/anything beyond the basics so spell it out like I'm a five year old and I'll be happy haha.

 

[Gianni Merryman]

Tried the yolo swag for playfire, nope.

I know that screen will cause me grief to no end if I somehow managed to get there in that mode.

Same here, I somehow managed to reach that same point at 77%, but then I lost interest in finding out what comes next, as I have other games that are waiting that are equally worth my time.

I have finished VVVVVV that has some pretty much hard levels too, but overall I enjoyed that much more than You have to win the game; not saying that is a bad game, on the contrary, but I don't know whether I will bother to finish the game.

 

[Tizoc]

Same here, I somehow managed to reach that same point at 77%, but then I lost interest in finding out what comes next, as I have other games that are waiting that are equally worth my time.

I have finished VVVVVV that has some pretty much hard levels too, but overall I enjoyed that much more than You have to win the game; not saying that is a bad game, on the contrary, but I don't know whether I will bother to finish the game.

After that segment comes the End game, or the last few screens and then the end of the game.

 

[StAidan]

As for You Have to Win the Game, I did all the achievements except #yolo, which I'll probably attempt some time this week. I died 3 times in my combined cat mode/speedrun attempt, they were totally avoidable deaths though (that 4-prawn section at the end isn't too bad, actually -- dire crab gave me a lot more trouble for some reason).

 

[RavenValor95]

Daily Assassin's Creed Liberation HD 33% off

I'm really interested in buying this game but I have a question here for anyone who has finished it, in the PS Vita version of the game, there is an annoying maze-ball puzzle where you have to rotate a maze to move the ball along it and get it to the other end, it was ridiculously difficult on the PS Vita because it used the gyroscope thing that the vita has and urgh it was terrriibble.

How does that work on the PC version? and how difficult is it?

 

[Backlogger]

It's $7.50 on Amazon. Some people can even get it for $2.50 with a coupon, if you find a kind Gaffer to help

Sorry if this is old news I haven't been able to follow GAF as much lately but I just used my $5 credit to buy this and I ended up getting a $1 mp3 credit and a $5 amazon App Store credit (android). Pretty good deal for only spending $2.50

 

[louiedog]

The Humble Store has Stick It to The Man 75% off ($3.74), which is the cheapest it's been, and Retro/Grade is 90% off ($0.99).

 

[MUnited83]

I'm really interested in buying this game but I have a question here for anyone who has finished it, in the PS Vita version of the game, there is an annoying maze-ball puzzle where you have to rotate a maze to move the ball along it and get it to the other end, it was ridiculously difficult on the PS Vita because it used the gyroscope thing that the vita has and urgh it was terrriibble.

How does that work on the PC version? and how difficult is it?

There is no puzzle at all. HD version basically fixed most annoying things that were on the Vita version.

 

[Gianni Merryman]

After that segment comes the End game, or the last few screens and then the end of the game.

Yeah, since I am aware that I am almost there - I watched a Youtube video with a 100% completion

Spoiler

and I know there's a bad ending and that afterwards there's another nightmarish room that put me off

- so I feel too little motivation to sink too much time into that segment; I tried a few times, then I felt it was just not worth it and started playing The last express and Kingdom rush instead.

 

[RavenValor95]

There is no puzzle at all. HD version basically fixed most annoying this that were on the Vita version.

There is a god!
It took me AND my brother about 45m just constantly trying to rotate that damn thing, argh it was so unresponsive and annoying!

Will definitely pick it up now that I know that next time it's on sale(no $$ atm, but thanks for answering my question <3)

 

[DaBargainHunta]

Had a great bit of fun for an hour or two playing through You Have to Win the Game. I had played maybe 50% of it when it was just random freeware on the web, but didn't remember enough that it interfered with the replay. It's especially good when you turn on EGA graphics and turn off the CRT simulation. It's a nice little platformer with a few neat ideas, and it's pretty original in how it puts things together so it doesn't feel like a retread of other retro platformers. Went ahead and beat the game -> Bad ending; Beat the game -> Good ending; Played in Cat Mode (you only have nine lives) -> good ending. Now I'm trying to conquer YOLO SWAG mode, which is proving difficult because there are just enough screens that I can't reliably do without dying. Given that I didn't play a dime, a really good little experience.

And now comes the name-and-shame. 12 people on my friends list from GAF have added the game to their account.
corrosivefrost: Played for an hour, did not complete game with either ending, 6/14 achievements
wetflame: Played for 50 minutes, 10-15% completion
spin: Launched game, got achievement for dying once.
Volcynika: Played for 20 minutes, got through three quarters of the game
JaseC: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
Blade: Played to the completion of the bad end, 5.6 hours. Get the good ending, dude!
nexen: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
KenOD: Played for 20 minutes, got through half the game
Mavromantis: Launched game, got achievement for dying once
toddhunter: Played less than 5 minutes, got 10-15% completion
RionaaM: Attempted to idle for cards, failed because the game doesn't drop cards
Kurdel: Launched game, got achievements for dying once.

It's a free game! You don't need to pay anything! You can finish it in one sitting!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/286100/

Thank you to you or whoever first posted about it in this thread a few days ago.

I absolutely love the game. I can't believe it's free. It's better than a lot of games I've paid for.

Haven't put that much time into it yet, but what I did play was pure magic. Really took me back to PC gaming in the '80s.

 

[Nabs]

Nth Time's the Charm
Lost the game in any mode.

 

[Cosmic Schwung]

Had a great bit of fun for an hour or two playing through You Have to Win the Game. I had played maybe 50% of it when it was just random freeware on the web, but didn't remember enough that it interfered with the replay. It's especially good when you turn on EGA graphics and turn off the CRT simulation. It's a nice little platformer with a few neat ideas, and it's pretty original in how it puts things together so it doesn't feel like a retread of other retro platformers. Went ahead and beat the game -> Bad ending; Beat the game -> Good ending; Played in Cat Mode (you only have nine lives) -> good ending. Now I'm trying to conquer YOLO SWAG mode, which is proving difficult because there are just enough screens that I can't reliably do without dying. Given that I didn't play a dime, a really good little experience.

No regrets. I've payed for games I've had less fun with than this.

 

[The Grim Heaper]

Daily Assassin's Creed Liberation HD 33% off

I'm guessing this is still garbage like the Vita game.

 

[arts&crafts]

Anyone played reign maker? Never heard of it but it looks swell, 50% off on humble

 

[Skyzard]

Max Payne 3 is really fun, picked it up recently in some sale. Great buy. I like how the settings are bit more interesting now than before too. Bullet play still holds up for me (for what I want from it).

 

[DaBargainHunta]

Just Steam settings? I went in there but to my untrained eye I wasn't able to see anything crazy or out of place. I really don't know what I'm looking for though.

No, Windows Control Panel, and then the settings for your 360 pad.

Edit: My bad. I'm only assuming you're on Windows. But even if you're on something else, the same type of advice should apply.

 

[Nabs]

Max Payne 3 is really fun, picked it up recently in some sale. Great buy. I like how the settings are bit more interesting now than before too. Bullet play still holds up for me (for what I want from it).

MP3 is a fun time. It also has really nice kb/m controls if that's your thing.

 

[Shade]

Awesome!! Thank you Shade

Thanks for XIII Century!

Thanks

Thank you Shade for eXceed 3rd Jade Penetrate Black Package.

You're welcome!

 

[Deleted member 125677]

Going to have to buy YHTWTG now so I can make it to Stump's Name-And-Fame follow-up post

 

[arts&crafts]

Going to have to buy YHTWTG now so I can make it to Stump's Name-And-Fame follow-up post

But it's free?

 

[Deleted member 125677]

But it's free?

Invest in mouse clicks then

 

[arts&crafts]

Invest in mouse clicks then

Do it.

Also don't go through the you lose door like I did, it's not a joke and you have to start the game again

 

[Anteater]

i just started playing deus ex human revolution, i knocked everyone out, is there a penalty to that or can I just play it that way ?

 

[arts&crafts]

i just started playing deus ex human revolution, i knocked everyone out, is there a penalty to that or can I just play it that way ?

You can play However you want but there are achievements for various things. If you don't kill anyone for example.

 

[faceless007]

I played through Gone Home last night.

I almost choked up at the end.

Spoiler

Not that it was particularly sad, but I was so taken in by the character and her journey that I felt a strong rush of sympathy and excitement for her.

Beautiful way to do storytelling.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

i just started playing deus ex human revolution, i knocked everyone out, is there a penalty to that or can I just play it that way ?

Knocking out everyone is probably the best way to play the game.

 

[Anteater]

Knocking out everyone is probably the best way to play the game.

You can play However you want but there are achievements for various things. If you don't kill anyone for example.

oh, yeah I'm just knocking them out with tranquilizer or melee, I was afraid there's a penalty

 

[RavenValor95]

i just started playing deus ex human revolution, i knocked everyone out, is there a penalty to that or can I just play it that way ?

You can play it that way.
Only downside is that, IIRC anyway, Ghosting will give you more XP than killing everyone will.

Btw, get a revolver as soon as possible, there's an awesome weapons mod for it, I won't tell you what it is, but just hold onto a revolver, very awesome weapon.