zerokoolpsx
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It didn't drop as a daily deal for the Indie V bundle. That's the lowest it'll go.
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Steam Summer Sales 2012 Thread: we still like you Tony
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I have 9 hours in that game! It's fun to play while watching videos.
Haha, I got on that too. Haven't actually played it, though XD
No shame, Faerie Solitaire is the bee's knees.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Honestly, the "game"'s marketing hype is unfitting of what it really is.
A repost of my recommendation on PA:
For $2.50, it's easily worth it. The soundtrack is especially touching and I would suggest going that route if you like modern classical mixed with some glitch electronics here and there.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
You are and aren't. There is a free version of the game, but the Steam version is updated with it's music (slightly), content, and graphics.
For graphics comparision:
Free version:
Steam Version:
Dear Esther is also a free mod. I'm not sure if it's 100% the same content, but it definitely doesn't look as nice.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/dear-esther/
I have those two games in my inventory ready to be gifted if anyone want them.
ChoklitReign
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Trackmania. It's even free.
Looks like it includes DLC as separate in the count. My community page says 452, click to show all games and there's only 348, and the number drops well into the 200s if you take out individually listed DLC (Borderlands counts as 5, for example, and Magicka counts as 8) and all the Telltale stuff that is split out into individual episodes.
scorpscarx
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Buy it, possibly skip Vietnam, MoW is a really good game but you have to spend some time getting to know it.
ElectricBlue187
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Burnout Paradise
Koroviev
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Yep, that's why I was willing to pick it up. Positive reinforcement, lol.
Betta Lines
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Damn, you're quite right. No such problems in DX9. Hmmm... bit of a shame, looks considerably nicer in DX11...
zerokoolpsx
Member
I wouldn't mind the gift.
Taco_Human
Member
Aw what the fuck, I bought FEAR 1 but it didn't show up in my games list. I'll give it a day before I contact steam support.
sorijealut
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Really? me too! (i would want them too!)
Chaos
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fluffydelusions
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dragonlife
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For anyone that's interested, PixelJunk Eden is $2.00. I always hear it come up in PS3 threads. Is it that good? What is it, anyway?
Koroviev
Member
You, Sir, are a god among mere mortals.
fluffydelusions
Member
Try restarting steam. Happened to me with another game.
I H8 Memes
Member
Wow, they really did pull the Ghostbusters game. I have no idea why companies do this. Did the publisher go out of business or something? That is the only reason I could see them not just making more keys available.
Yeah the paid version was made through additional funding.
legacyzero
Banned
It's worth one playthrough. Noteworthy is a level about halfway though the game that is seemingly ripped right out of the Condemned franchise. Other than that, nothing too spectacular.
I bought Dear Esther on a sale a while ago and I really loved it. But it's definitely not for everyone, far from it. You literally only walk around looking at things without interacting with anything, it's all about relaxing taking a stroll through this mysterious island. I really enjoyed the feeling of "real place" the level/visual design offered, and the sense of journey/trip when you look back into the distance at the places you've been to, or the places you're going (like in Alan Wake).
kept it interesting too
ghost sightings
Need yay or nay on Race Injection for 12.49 ? Know nothing about the series but I like Forza 
and I'll play with a 360 controller.
and I'll play with a 360 controller.
Koroviev
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I would buy it. Looks cool to me.
I've played all the F.E.A.R. games, so here's my brief take on them if anyone's interested:
F.E.A.R. 1
An excellent shooter. It has very satisfying gunplay and the enemy A.I. is still unparalleled. None of the sequels have come close. The game plays up the horror aspect with Alma, the scary little girl, but the uncanny cleverness of the faceless soldiers is what actually makes the game so eerie and unique. You constantly feel like you have to look over your shoulder. It's rare in games that you're up against a scary, smart and worthy enemy.
F.E.A.R. 2
This is a much more straightforward shooter and the gunplay isn't quite as satisfying as in the first one. It's still fun though, and the few Mech sections are pretty cool. The enemies are now largely disposable cannon fodder, however. There are more "cinematic" moments and more scares and horror elements, many of which are a bit excessive in their flashiness. They all feel like unnecessary distractions from the shooting, really. You're also best off ignoring or skipping over the expanded story and cutscenes wholesale. They're a total mess.
F.E.A.R. 3
At first this seems like more of the same. The primary solo campaing is a very generic shooter with some fairly frustrating sections. Added in are some RPG light features. You go for achievement-like challenges and upgrade your character's stats in the process. You get ranked at the end of each level. Some of the challenges are actually quite fun to do. I always like an added incentive to work toward these normally pointless profile "badges". But let me tell you why this game might really be worth your time: Paxton Fettel...
You can either play the game in co-op with two characters that have vastly different play styles or, sadly only after completing a chapter with the generic "dude with guns and slo-mo", you can play alone as the amazing Paxton Fettel. Paxton is a spirit who can posess any enemy's body, then use it as a vessel to cause maximum mayhem, dispose of it and cause some further mayhem with his telekinesis powers (available in spirit form) by throwing everything he can find at his enemies, then jumping from body to body again, warping and zooming around the level with ever changing weapons at his disposal. Bodies are just as disposable as weapons here and both can and often are dropped at a moment's notice. It's a joy, and if done right it almost always borders on glorious, nearly unintelligible chaos.
You're clearly overpowered, but it just doesn't matter, it's so much fun. Say you have 4 guys shooting at you and you just zoom into the guy standing at the back who had just been trying to kill you and you quickly take out his 3 friends without them even noticing what happened. Typically every shootout spawns a ton of guys and you zooming around the level will trigger many waves early on, so you'll be jumping from body to body constantly (there's a very liberal time limit/restriction in place that you don't have to worry about too much if you keep collecting the souls of dead guys). But that's the point. If you're not constantly jumping from one corner of the room to the other and picking up and launching everything that's not bolted to the ground into your enemies' faces while you're in spirit form, you're doing something wrong.
Later on the game throws some zombie-like enemies at you and it is only when you finally get to play those chapters with Paxton that you realize how these are all unique enemy types with distinct melee weapons and attacks. You posess their bodies and all of a sudden you're a zombie and you find yourself biting other guys and hitting them in the face with hammers and wrenches. Great stuff.
The only downside then is that this mode only becomes available for the chapters that you've cleared with the boring shootbang guy. Shame really. Maybe there's a completed save out there that will let you just play through the game with Paxton from the get-go.
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So, all in all, I think the F.E.A.R. collection is totally worth it at $9.99. The third one has the worst main solo campaign but the awesome secondary campaing more than makes up for it. If you only get one, make it the first one. Else just get them all.
F.E.A.R. 1
An excellent shooter. It has very satisfying gunplay and the enemy A.I. is still unparalleled. None of the sequels have come close. The game plays up the horror aspect with Alma, the scary little girl, but the uncanny cleverness of the faceless soldiers is what actually makes the game so eerie and unique. You constantly feel like you have to look over your shoulder. It's rare in games that you're up against a scary, smart and worthy enemy.
F.E.A.R. 2
This is a much more straightforward shooter and the gunplay isn't quite as satisfying as in the first one. It's still fun though, and the few Mech sections are pretty cool. The enemies are now largely disposable cannon fodder, however. There are more "cinematic" moments and more scares and horror elements, many of which are a bit excessive in their flashiness. They all feel like unnecessary distractions from the shooting, really. You're also best off ignoring or skipping over the expanded story and cutscenes wholesale. They're a total mess.
F.E.A.R. 3
At first this seems like more of the same. The primary solo campaing is a very generic shooter with some fairly frustrating sections. Added in are some RPG light features. You go for achievement-like challenges and upgrade your character's stats in the process. You get ranked at the end of each level. Some of the challenges are actually quite fun to do. I always like an added incentive to work toward these normally pointless profile "badges". But let me tell you why this game might really be worth your time: Paxton Fettel...
You can either play the game in co-op with two characters that have vastly different play styles or, sadly only after completing a chapter with the generic "dude with guns and slo-mo", you can play alone as the amazing Paxton Fettel. Paxton is a spirit who can posess any enemy's body, then use it as a vessel to cause maximum mayhem, dispose of it and cause some further mayhem with his telekinesis powers (available in spirit form) by throwing everything he can find at his enemies, then jumping from body to body again, warping and zooming around the level with ever changing weapons at his disposal. Bodies are just as disposable as weapons here and both can and often are dropped at a moment's notice. It's a joy, and if done right it almost always borders on glorious, nearly unintelligible chaos.
You're clearly overpowered, but it just doesn't matter, it's so much fun. Say you have 4 guys shooting at you and you just zoom into the guy standing at the back who had just been trying to kill you and you quickly take out his 3 friends without them even noticing what happened. Typically every shootout spawns a ton of guys and you zooming around the level will trigger many waves early on, so you'll be jumping from body to body constantly (there's a very liberal time limit/restriction in place that you don't have to worry about too much if you keep collecting the souls of dead guys). But that's the point. If you're not constantly jumping from one corner of the room to the other and picking up and launching everything that's not bolted to the ground into your enemies' faces while you're in spirit form, you're doing something wrong.
Later on the game throws some zombie-like enemies at you and it is only when you finally get to play those chapters with Paxton that you realize how these are all unique enemy types with distinct melee weapons and attacks. You posess their bodies and all of a sudden you're a zombie and you find yourself biting other guys and hitting them in the face with hammers and wrenches. Great stuff.
The only downside then is that this mode only becomes available for the chapters that you've cleared with the boring shootbang guy. Shame really. Maybe there's a completed save out there that will let you just play through the game with Paxton from the get-go.
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So, all in all, I think the F.E.A.R. collection is totally worth it at $9.99. The third one has the worst main solo campaign but the awesome secondary campaing more than makes up for it. If you only get one, make it the first one. Else just get them all.
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Agreed. Such an underrated game.
dr. apocalipsis
Banned
Plis?
I paid like 5 bucks for II. But don't want an amputate version of ACII:B either.
Got a solid $100 dollar limit placed by the ladyfriend to avoid wasting our entire life savings. :Upsh...lightweight
Taco_Human
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I tried it. Worked. Thank you good sir.
fluffydelusions
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Bad Rats is 70% off guys. Grab it before this tremendous deal is over!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/34900/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/34900/
Nabs
Member
I feel special now. I may go back and finish it.
bigace33
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fluffydelusions
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lol I understand...at $145 myself and still lots I want...
scorpscarx
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I really like the BoI soundtrack.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
WAIT FOR THE DAILY DEAL
I believe Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate follow FEAR 1 but FEAR 2 also follows FEAR 1 in a different arc. Did very much enjoy both EP and PM.
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