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[PandaPandaPanda]

The Walking Dead: Season 2 includes 3 episodes?

Season 1 had 5 episodes, or am I crazy?

I didn't play either of them, but I'm quite interested.

havent kept up with season 2 but yes season 1 had 5 episodes and i'm assuming it's following the same model

so how many remaining episodes are left, you'll be able to play them as they are released(assumign you bought the game)

 

[liezryou]

Is Rage really that bad?

Not at all. It's actually a decent game (However horrible it was at release). Especially at this price point, its a definite pickup for any FPS fans.

 

[Vibranium]

The Walking Dead: Season 2 includes 3 episodes?

Season 1 had 5 episodes, or am I crazy?

I didn't play either of them, but I'm quite interested.

It's episodic like Season 1. S2 has released 3 episodes of content so far, by buying it you get the last two whenever Telltale feel like releasing them.

 

[Zeliard]

Man, this thread moves too fast for me.

Am I the only that keeps mistaking Zeilard's new tag as a penis when ever I catch it out of the corner of my eye?

All according to penis

 

[marrec]

Man green team sucks... it's also the team I'm on though I guess it's also my fault since I'm not buying or crafting anything.

We lead for half the day yesterday. It was a glorious time.

 

[oti]

Was thinking about TWD but naw, that game can wait. State of Decay and Gunslinger for now.

 

[VikasNarula]

And ye shall receive..

Awesome giveaway man !

 

[Xanathus]

So is the FarCry pack a good enough deal? I've seen the Blood Dragon daily, but the pack seems to reflect that price.

Yeah the Far Cry series is great though you have to immerse yourself a bit into it.

 

[Halo 2]

weren't pink people laughing yesterday?

yeah, feels good being in the pink

 

[Enco]

I think I think GOG's sale system better. Just rotate everything out every hour or so.

Agreed.

Wish they tried something new with their rotation.

I think I'll wait for TWD. I want all episodes available. Trying to stay away from episodic games. Too risky and annoying.

 

[Sera O]

Man green team sucks... it's also the team I'm on though I guess it's also my fault since I'm not buying or crafting anything.

We're obviously conserving all our resources for a bit push tomorrow.

Spoiler

disclaimer: I have no resources

 

[Crayons]

Seriously paying a $4.95 fee for a $20 prepaid debit card is bullshit.

 

[BearPawB]

The Walking Dead: Season 2 includes 3 episodes?

Season 1 had 5 episodes, or am I crazy?

I didn't play either of them, but I'm quite interested.

only 3 episodes have been released, there will be 5

 

[Jopie]

I have no idea what this 'team color' stuff is at all.... :/

It's kind of like going to Midieval Times. Except without the chicken legs, and horses, and knights.
Other than those differences, it's exactly the same. Team purple.

 

[Locke Lamora]

I have no idea where all the points for the 'Summer Adventure' team challenge come from. Sure, I know the theory behind it, but I got 4 trading cards and am far away from crafting my first badge, and in the meantime ~200.000 badges must have been crafted at Day 1. What the.... All the money that must have been spent. My brain.... explodes... out of words I am. Yoda off.

 

[Village]

today's sales suck

 

[wrowa]

That's the psychology of Winning.

No matter the cost, people always want to be on the winning team.

That's kinda scary, honestly. Though Steam's economoy is starting to freak me out, anyway. It's weird how many people are really into those meta-games that really are just about getting you to spend as much money as possible.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with that if you like that kind of stuff. It's just kinda scary (and yet fascinating) how much money Valve makes with practically nothing.

 

[liezryou]

Where was the page which shows the games given away for yesterday's winners?

 

[Starwolf_UK]

Okay, seriously, what's the deal with the teams? I thought only a selected few of the winning team get a few games from their wishlist for free, but there's got to be more to it, right? I mean, people aren't paying 20€ just to be on the winning team... or are they?

People are paying for the tokens. Weather they use them or not is hard to tell.

There is more to it. For contributing points (i.e. crafting a badge) you normally get one card drop at the end of the day (for each day you contribute points), but the winning team gets two!!! No, the card drops are not worth €20 in the slightest.

 

[Acccent]

Can't keep us down purple

man what's up with the font rendering! :s

 

[8 X 11 Printer Paper]

10 points for Blue and got a Badass Duck Float.

 

[Rhaknar]

I change to a Gamora avatar and team green is dead last?

Guardians of the Galaxy confirmed bomb

 

[Cru]

After CS Go what is the next cheapest badge to level?

 

[Vibranium]

today's sales suck

Yep, they could have at least put a few big games on the Dailies. Going to have to hope we get some good stuff on Flashs and Community choice.

 

[Silky]

Wait, wasn't Bulletstorm taken off the marketplace? When did it get back on?

 

[Enco]

That's kinda scary, honestly. Though Steam's economoy is starting to freak me out, anyway. It's weird how many people are really into those meta-games that really are just about getting you to spend as much money as possible.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with that if you like that kind of stuff. It's just kinda scary (and yet fascinating) how much money Valve makes with practically nothing.

Valve is great at getting money from people and giving very little in return.

They hire psychologists and all.

Users don't care and keep on going. Valve is good at what they do. That's why they get away with so much.

 

[Levyne]

Awesome, was on the fence on Rage, and then I saw someone gifted to me

Now just whether to bite on CoJ

 

[Ultimadrago]

Not big on today's sales. I'll be available for voting though! Hope the Flash/Community choices are good.

 

[jakomocha]

How much better is FC3: BD on PC compared to PS3? I own it on the PS3 but have never played it and the Gunslinger + Blood Dragon deal is really tempting.

 

[AstuteClass]

I have no idea what this 'team color' stuff is at all.... :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4

 

[Thatoneguy]

I have state of decay breakdown. Is lifeline any good?

I am also wondering this. I'm curious on breakdown too. It sounds more interesting than lifeline.

I get addicted to State of Decay for about 2 or 3 days, then forget about it for a couple of months, so the DLC would have to be pretty good for me to pull the trigger.

 

[liezryou]

Valve is great at getting money from people and giving very little in return.

They hire psychologists and all.

Users don't care and keep on going. Valve is good at what they do. That's why they get away with so much.

This is the first time I'm hearing of valve hiring psychologists. Proof?

Are you sure you are not talking about economists?

 

[C4rter]

Should I buy Max Payne 2 right now?

No, Max Payne 3 could be a daily and MP2 will be discounted as well.

 

[Mozendo]

Wait, wasn't Bulletstorm taken off the marketplace? When did it get back on?

About 2-3 weeks ago I think.

 

[Big Chungus]

damn...missed out on spelunky.

anyone have it for trade?

 

[Gangxxter]

excellent mechanics, groovy ai, shit story. singularity and bulletstorm and rage, best shooters of last gen maynes.

buy dat shit.

Thanks, just bought it along with the DLC.
And I also put Gunslinger into my cart, while I'm at it.

 

[X05]

Crafted the Arkham City badge, got a Summer foil!
Sells for about 3.50 too, nice!

Puzzle - Platformer tier is superior. Gimme Teslagrad.

This is true.

I loved that movie, haven't seen the sequel yet though.

 

[arts&crafts]

really hope platformers win, Tesla is one of the games I want

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

So is the FarCry pack a good enough deal? I've seen the Blood Dragon daily, but the pack seems to reflect that price.

Far Cry 1 was wonderful in its time, possibly one of the best open worldish shooters ever. However, it's aged like shit so I can't really recommend it. Plus, it gets REAL cheap by the end.

FC2 is considered a flawed gem. It has wonderful open world shooter gameplay but it also features constantly spawning enemies and boy, does that suck after a while.

FC3 is what happens when you fuse assassin creed into far cry. it's good, but it's not really difficult and it also loses some open world features that its predecessor has.

Haven't played Blood Dragon but i've heard that it's a great experience.

 

[mclem]

Risky market too as there's really no guarantee or pattern yet. Besides "Purple is usually #1".

That's the psychology of Winning.

No matter the cost, people always want to be on the winning team.

When I was at university, to make a bit of money I volunteered to be a stooge for some sort of psychological research. We played a game - I don't fully understand the details of it, or if there were details - which ended up giving each of four players a score in terms of prize money (the payment for the research). At which point each of us was offered a choice: The option to choose to reduce each score by an amount of our choice. One of those selections would be chosen, and that was our prize money.

In other words, the choice was between maximising the profit among all players, or nominally 'winning'. I was second after the initial game, so I could have lopped a few pounds off the winner and ended up in first place. Note that there wasn't any prize for winning; all of us earned the amount we earned.

I always suspected that was to test whether people would be more likely to play for the win or for maximising the profit across everyone.

Spoiler

I played nice.

 

[Yakkue]

This is the first time I'm hearing of valve hiring psychologists. Proof?

Are you sure you are not talking about economists?

They're searching for one right now:
http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/job_postings.html

 

[ActStriker]

really hope platformers win, Tesla is one of the games I want

This. Please this.

 

[AstuteClass]

Valve is great at getting money from people and giving very little in return.

They hire psychologists and all.

Users don't care and keep on going. Valve is good at what they do. That's why they get away with so much.

That's a little unfair considering they practically have a monopoly on digital gaming on PC's, yet still offer some of the most amazing prices ever.

I mean, go take a look at the PSN sale Sony is putting on. The prices are crap and outside of sales, Origin, PSN, XBLA and UPlay prices are ATROCIOUS

 

[ashecitism]

This is the first time I'm hearing of valve hiring psychologists. Proof?

Are you sure you are not talking about economists?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ambinder
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-ambinder/9/aa8/578
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQwL6zh7AgA

 

[Gintoki313]

Was about to ask how was Kane & Lynch 2, since I saw it for $2.50. Then I saw a GiantBomb review, and he said "I finished it on normal difficulty in 4 HOURS." Stopped the video right there, 4hrs is way too short for me. Especially for a game that I wasn't hearing that much good about from the reviewer anyways.

 

[Chariot]

I loved that movie, haven't seen the sequel yet though.

Me neither, but I heard that it's awesome as well.
Would buy the DVD, but steamsales are murf.

 

[marrec]

Valve is great at getting money from people and giving very little in return.

They hire psychologists and all.

Users don't care and keep on going. Valve is good at what they do. That's why they get away with so much.

Psych 101, every single class, includes at least one discussion on what happens when you split a group of people into arbitrary teams. The two groups who have no knowledge of each other immediately get super competitive. Even if they've previously described themselves as non-competitive or the rewards for 'winning' are worth far less than the time they spend trying to win.

 

[BearPawB]

Was about to ask how was Kane & Lynch 2, since I saw it for $2.50. Then I saw a GiantBomb review, and he said "I finished it on normal difficulty in 4 HOURS." Stopped the video right there, 4hrs is way too short for me. Especially for a game that I wasn't hearing that much good about from the reviewer anyways.

$2.50 for four hours isn't bad....

 

[Enco]

This is the first time I'm hearing of valve hiring psychologists. Proof?

Are you sure you are not talking about economists?

I think it was talked about in one of the blog posts from a Valve economist.

Not sure if he directly said they have them but he talked about how they hire people with many different qualifications such as psychologists and so you should do what you love if you want to work for valve.

edit: here's a bit on their site: http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/job_postings.html

I think it's a sure thing. Not surprising.

 

[YianGaruga]

Was about to ask how was Kane & Lynch 2, since I saw it for $2.50. Then I saw a GiantBomb review, and he said "I finished it on normal difficulty in 4 HOURS." Stopped the video right there, 4hrs is way too short for me. Especially for a game that I wasn't hearing that much good about from the reviewer anyways.

That sounds perfect for a mediocre and cheap shooter actually. Why would you want to play it longer if it isn't very good?