These are best rated games on Steam so pick one
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_237_237__12#sort_by=Reviews_DESC&page=1
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STEAM | October II 2014 - PC Gaming: Getting a D in Yoga class
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These are best rated games on Steam so pick one
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_237_237__12#sort_by=Reviews_DESC&page=1
Well... I do care.. that's why I asked which games you guys considered 10 out of 10 that are must play on Steam? Just trying to find out which ones I don't have and keep an eye on them.
Like if someone ask me which game is an absolute must play on PS3, I would most likely tell them The Last of Us or Uncharted.
Yes I realized that.. thank you.
These are best rated games on Steam so pick one
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_237_237__12#sort_by=Reviews_DESC&page=1
I wouldn't say Saints Row 3 is 5 out of 5 in my book but I did play it on PS3 and loved it quite a lot. Easily one of the best games I've play within the last 4 years. Imo.
Thank you. It seem like Lain and dex are the only one truly understand what I was asking for.
I see. Wasn't aware of that. My rec for SR3 stands then, since it seems to have 5 stars too.
uhm... let's see.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (a must have if you're an Indy fan and/or like point & click games);
The Longest Journey (one of the best point & clicks and one of my favourite games ever);
Max Payne 1&2 (the first one is my favourite, but the second has better combat);
Deus Ex & Deus Ex Human Revolution;
The Witcher 1&2;
Dark Souls;
Saints Row The Third and Saints Row 4 (I prefer 4, because superpowers
);Just Cause 2 (probably the most fun I've had in a non-RPG sandbox game);
Batman AA;
Dragon Age Origins (it has some flaws, but it's a great party based RPG);
Mass Effect
There are others, to be sure, but these are just at the top of my head and are all games that I loved and can play through multiple times.
edit: I forgot Mass Effect... it's just one of my favourite games (so much so that I played it more than 12 times) and I forgot it :/
Tesseract
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imo, off the top of my head :
teleglitch
volgarr
wazhack
tower of guns
terraria
sword of the stars: the pit
the swapper
speedrunners
super house of dead ninjas
skullgirls
king of fighters 13
ultra street fighter 4
our darker purpose
oniken
tales of maj'eyal
nosgoth
nether
natural selection 2
metro 2033
mirror's edge
might and magic x
lunar flight
la mulana
inquisitor
hotline miami
fallout new vegas
eldritch
dark souls
dark souls 2
deus ex human revolution
devil may cry 4
don't starve
depths of fear knossos
dead space
blade symphony
binary domain
alpha protocol
abyss odyssey
Did you really list games off the top of your head in pretty much reverse alphabetical order? That's some crazy filing system you have up there, ha.
Ah thank you for your list! I have Max Payne 1&2 but haven't play them yet. Have Witcher 1&2, playing through 2 right now. Already beat Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect and Batman AA. finished Saints Row 3 and working on 4 right now. I gotta say though I liked Mass Effect 2 more than I did 1. But 1 was amazing on its own. It's just the story for Mass Effect 2 and the characters was just more epic.
So I guess the ones I gotta keep an eye on will be Dark Souls, Just Cause 2, both Deus Ex games, Indiana Jones and The Longest Journey.
I don't think he has anything left up there... *gulp*
derExperte
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Can't unsee 'Heroes of Asschair'.
You find that odd? He said "off the top of my head" and... he doesn't even have a head!
EDIT: Lol, beaten by Shadow.
Anyway, Shadownet, to answer your question that will really, really depend on your tastes. People can post their favourites for you to keep an eye on them but they may not fit you style or genre at all, so take that in count. I'm not going to list-posting as it becomes huge walls of text with little explanation on why but I'm also posting my impressions from the games I am playing so if you see something you might be interested in, keep an open mind.
Tesseract
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You find that odd? He said "off the top of my head" and... he doesn't even have a head!
EDIT: Lol, beaten by Shadow.
Anyway, Shadownet, to answer your question that will really, really depend on your tastes. People can post their favourites for you to keep an eye on them but they may not fit you style or genre at all, so take that in count. I'm not going to list-posting as it becomes huge walls of text with little explanation on why but I'm also posting my impressions from the games I am playing so if you see something you might be interested in, keep an open mind.
this is true, now i kinda regret posting that wall of suggestions
AntiFacebook
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Steam has 25 years of pc gaming in it. There are probably hundreds of must play games in it.
If you are looking for something recent,then I guess Divinity: Original Sin and Wasteland 2 are a good place to start if you like RPGs.
I can understand why so many prefer Mass Effect 2 to 1. But besides the good characters, it felt like a disappointment to me. The suicide mission, Lair of the Shadow Broker and some of the companions' missions were great, but overall I didn't feel the charm, mystery and epicness of the first game
Oh, there's also Divinity Original Sin, of course. Time will tell if I'll consider it among my favourites, but it's a great game for sure
jeez thanks, now I can't unsee either (><)
You know I always keep an eye out for any of your post in Steam thread MonkYou find that odd? He said "off the top of my head" and... he doesn't even have a head!
EDIT: Lol, beaten by Shadow.
Anyway, Shadownet, to answer your question that will really, really depend on your tastes. People can post their favourites for you to keep an eye on them but they may not fit you style or genre at all, so take that in count. I'm not going to list-posting as it becomes huge walls of text with little explanation on why but I'm also posting my impressions from the games I am playing so if you see something you might be interested in, keep an open mind.
normally I consider myself pretty easy when it come to games. So most of the games people suggested so far are either things in already interested in or have already played. heck I'm willing to try Dark Souls again. I remember not liking it after 20 mins on PS3.I can understand where you're coming from but for me personally nothing will be more epic when it come to Mass Effect thanThe suicide mission, Lair of the Shadow Broker and some of the companions' missions were great, but overall I didn't feel the charm, mystery and epicness of the first game
the Suicide Mission and at the end cinematic where you see hundreds Reapers coming. And you know its just the beginning. That was truly epic.
Games For Windows Live: Prepare to Die Edition. Not much left that's still has that zombie tethered to it now.
Happy B'day Gromit!
This should serve you (anybody for that matter) well. Stop treating companies as homogeneous entities and realise that employees and often the ones responsible for games you like can not be involved in a certain title or move on entirely. Some of the key guys behind previous Bioware CRPG's either moved on or weren't involved in Dragon Age 2. Brent Knowles left, James Ohlen moved up and Ross Gardner went over to The Old Republic team. And those are just a few off the top of my head but had been around and involved since Baulders Gate. If folks realised how many people had left and joined CD Project Red since The Witcher 2 they might be talking about The Witcher III differently. It goes the other way too and every time a Grasshopper Manufacture game is announced it's all about Suda despite him having only a tiny part to play in the production. When games go the way of films and we have 'From the Texture artist that brought you Assassin's Creed' or 'From the Executive Non Commercial Producer of Gears of War' as selling points then games marketing will really have reached the pits of just trying to brand everything.
Happy B'day Gromit!
This should serve you (anybody for that matter) well. Stop treating companies as homogeneous entities and realise that employees and often the ones responsible for games you like can not be involved in a certain title or move on entirely. Some of the key guys behind previous Bioware CRPG's either moved on or weren't involved in Dragon Age 2. Brent Knowles left, James Ohlen moved up and Ross Gardner went over to The Old Republic team. And those are just a few off the top of my head but had been around and involved since Baulders Gate. If folks realised how many people had left and joined CD Project Red since The Witcher 2 they might be talking about The Witcher III differently. It goes the other way too and every time a Grasshopper Manufacture game is announced it's all about Suda despite him having only a tiny part to play in the production. When games go the way of films and we have 'From the Texture artist that brought you Assassin's Creed' or 'From the Executive Non Commercial Producer of Gears of War' as selling points then games marketing will really have reached the pits of just trying to brand everything.
So let me guess this right. You're telling me I should be damn exicted for Witcher 3 since quite a few talented people left BioWare and joined CD Projeckt Red?
Because I don't think I can be anymore excited than I already am
my heart won't be able to take more.Eheh, I agree it was a good moment. My favourite Mass Effect moments are
on Virmire, when we first talk to Sovereign and it has that amazing and intimidating voice; the whole mission on the planet Ilos, especially when we find Vigil and learn the fate of the Protheans and what they accomplished; and of course the final mission at the Citadel, with Sovereign trying to open the Citadel Mass Relay, while we're fighting outside trying to reach the Presidium
I could talk about how much I love Mass Effect 1 all day
Kiru
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I don't mind doing that one dayI could talk about how much I love Mass Effect 1 all day
nothing wrong with that at all!I'll give it about 30 minutes before lashman avatar quote you. If he does not, I'll
play
I'm going to try and keep a close look to those posting impression on this game, playing from day one since I'm very interested in the theme. Seems like such a great game to play on PC.
You know I always keep an eye out for any of your post in Steam thread Monk
Guess I may need to take a peek at what you have been playing/played on your Profile to have a better knowledge regarding your tastes.
As for Dark Souls I can relate a bit with you, actually.
After playing Demon's Souls, my hype for Dark Souls was huge. I pre-ordered the Limited Edition for the PS3, back in the day when I had the console and while I loved it it didn't clicked with me and I never finished. Months later I was lucky to play the PC version and managed to finish it. Had a great time with the game. The secret was playing in short bursts, if I kept dying and dying I would stop and play something else. That, with my usual silly "Screenshots + Quotes" combo to show the progress of my adventure made a great time to start and finish the Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition.
I wouldn't be so sure that's the case. Inspite of being the huge team efforts, games tend to change drastically if mastermind lefts. We have seen it proven yet and again, still people keep insisting (management too), that there are no irreplaceable people. In grand scheme of things there aren't, sure. But my personal game of forever can be ruined easily this way. What I'm trying to say, people are different, some may not even notice that a game lost direction, while others will cry rivers over it and not without reasons.
CD Project Rekt
the next obvious step (><)
Hahaha no not quite like that but you should have been excited for all the little technical touches Bart Wronski brought to Black Flag and will undoubtedly bring to Assassin's Creed Unity too. So in a roundabout way I'm saying because some loved The Witcher 2 and some even love the cinematic cutscene presentation which Bart had a major hand in but they can also loathe Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed despite a guy now working for them from a previous beloved developer.
I know it's nice and easy to talk about companies and games as a whole and really that's the more concise way to talk, critique, celebrate or slam a title but sometimes the achievements of individuals or smaller teams within the developers/publisher don't get enough or any attention at all. I doubt folks are going to be singing Jude Bond's and creative team at Creative Assembly's praises for the cracking world and environment design of Alien Isolation come GOTY season.
There was an interview he did about Lollipop Chainsaw pretty much admitting that he was the catalyst for the idea and that was about his creative input and then the rest of his role in production was more promotion and company presidential. Fact of the matter one man, in this case Suda, doesn't make a game on their own but all the talk about them are just that, about one man and not even bothering to go look into who was involved in the games development. Massimo Guarini next to never gets mentioned when Shadows of the Damned gets brought up, it's always Suda, Mikami and even Yamaoka before Guarini's name is on the tip of their tongue/fingers.
derExperte
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Space Engineers has sold 1m. http://www.spaceengineersgame.com/space-engineers-one-million-copies-sold-announcement.html
Don't feel bad, we all make mistakes and don't recognize true greatness at first sight.
Don't feel bad, we all make mistakes and don't recognize true greatness at first sight.
I keep hearing about this game but what is it?
Is it like Kerbal? Is it Minecraft in space?
I didn't know about this. Yeah, not a nice person.
With me its a bit different. I have never play any game in the series before. A friend of mine knew that I loved RPG, so he suggested Dark Souls, though he did warn me that this is a lot harder than anything I've ever played before.
And of course it was. At the time I couldn't fanthom how people are enjoying this game. Where you would literally die every 10-15 minutes. The game is incredibly punishing. So I was like "I can't do this, I play games to enjoy myself not to be punished like this." So I never touch it again.
But I've grown up a bit since then and I realized I just didn't understand what the series was about and that in failures, when you finally succeed in getting past that one for, its all worth it. So hopefully soon I'll get a copy of Dark Souls and give it another chance.
Gianni Merryman
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I don't know whether all these could be regarded as 5 stars, but I would take the opportunity to mention some of my favourite Steam's gems that I reckon would deserve more love:
FLY'N
Tales from space: Blobs attack
Electronic Super Joy
Hexcells +
Dustforce
MacGuffin's curse
Reus
Beatbuddy
Element4l
Super hexagon
Pool nation
One finger death punch
Cook, serve, delicious
Lyne
Riptide GP2
Nightsky
then I would tend to think that nowadays some roguelikes - or games with randmly generated maps - may come handy in everyone's game library
Race the sun
Binding of Isaac
Luftrausers
Hammerwatch
Risk of rain
FTL
and then there's Euro truck simulator 2 and Deadly premonition
Heretic.
I really, really love Max Payne 1. Can't help it
Max Payne's face while playing Max Payne.
NingenJanai
Member
Is he having an orgasm?
I really recommend giving the trailer a look and seeing their website. The game has a really nice feel to it. Coming out in 2014.
Thanks for the reminder, I noticed this at TIGSource a while back and had since forgotten about it. Looking forward to more gameplay being shown to see if the game is as great as the concept sounds. I adore the premise and I'm having to reel in my imagination of what it could be. I didn't realize it until now but playing as a 19th century gentleman exploring the great unknown is a game I need in my life.
Before I got into GAF I lurked all day, had no drive to play games. Especially not my Steam games for some reason. I just wanted to talk to everyone. Now when I can post? I play games all day. Especially Steam games
I don't know why I didn't properly start Legend of Grimrock 2 when I got it... instead I started up a second run through the first game to finish up the achievements. Hard Mode Old School!
Grimrock is one of the most intense games I've ever played. It's not that I run around not knowing what I'll meet since it's my second playthrough and I remember most of the stuff from when I played it in jan-feb. It's not the Hard Mode/Old School thing either since it doesn't actually change much of the experience yet. It's fantastic that the game still feels so intense! Good job Almost Human, I love you
Also,
I don't know why I didn't properly start Legend of Grimrock 2 when I got it... instead I started up a second run through the first game to finish up the achievements. Hard Mode Old School!
Grimrock is one of the most intense games I've ever played. It's not that I run around not knowing what I'll meet since it's my second playthrough and I remember most of the stuff from when I played it in jan-feb. It's not the Hard Mode/Old School thing either since it doesn't actually change much of the experience yet. It's fantastic that the game still feels so intense! Good job Almost Human, I love you
Also,
the quakes still seriously freak me out every time
toddhunter
Member
I think that is true, but more so in the "good old days" and now only for select titles. Games like the AC series with 17 million people working on them? They are more or less homogeneous entities. Something like Origin in the early 90s? You could take out one or two guys and it would have changed things drastically and did so, depending on who worked on what project.
The point is perfectly valid though. It is like when Rare got purchased. That meant some ips are transferred, but you can't really buy the talent that actually made those ips good.
Well you can buy them I suppose... that is what paying people is. But it is just more difficult.
derExperte
Member
Yes, the face of an action hero before he became an alcohol fueled wimp.
You're only saying you like 2 to save a little bit of face. Confess!
Yup.
In the middle of a subway station.
Draw your conclusions.
I loved 2! 2 is great! 2 is GOAT material!
1 though...
I don't think becoming an alcoholic makes you cringe so much that I'm actually concerned about your brain imploding inside the skull.
I haven't heard about this guy until today debacle. But going through his twitter, he does not sound like a pleasant person. I'm not sure if that man has an ounce of maturity in him.
Im definitely with you on that point. A lot of the time we do see developers and publishers as a whole that can't do no wrong and even the other way where they can't do anything right (I.e. EA and Ubisoft) but yeah we often forget about the individual and their contributions that make up the entire team.
Because of that I'm quite worry about Uncharted 4 because from what I remembered a lot of people left Naughty Dog to go go different teams. Though they did gain one developer who is well known for her contribution to the Halo series. (She's Asian but her name escaped me at the moment)
I hope Uncharted 4 will be out of this world.
Yup Pool Nation and Lyne are wonderful. Especially Lyne. Unfortunately while Cook, Serve Delicious is great. I do not possess the hand eye coordination needed to play the game to it full potential.
Sutton Dagger
Member
So I bought a steam key from someone in the b/t/s thread on GAF for Shadow of Mordor, and the key doesn't work. They posted a 15 digit code all lower case with no hyphens. I obviously tried it like that, then capitals with hyphens etc but it's not working.
No response in 6-7 hours, should I be worried or am I over analysing it?
No response in 6-7 hours, should I be worried or am I over analysing it?
Kiru
Member
Have they posted anything in that time? They might be asleep.
Give them at least 12 hours. People need to sleep, work/school or handle issues in real life.
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