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Steam Summer Sales 2014 |OT| Day of Luigi
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But you dont play games...
Just purple...
dunno about risk of rain (looked interesting but not my kind of thing) but papers please is basically a story-driven not-quite-serious-game bureaucracy simulator
people show up at a border control point with their passports and ask for transit and you deny/accept them based on the validity of their papers plus a lot of rules that go happening along the game. some days you won't be able to accept foreigners, some days people with work visas will need to show an special permit, etc.
you get payed if you get the deny/accept thing right and you need that to feed your family, buy medicine for your kid, maybe get him a present for his birthday, etc.
it doesn't sound like much but the design is super clever in that it really makes you feel like you're trapped in that shitty ussr era booth with like the stress of handling tons of documents on a running clock while everyone has a super depressing story to tell and you know, you get to participate a bit in some casual humans rights violations
game goes pretty deep in story too with tons of recurring characters with their own storylines and tons of endings and secrets and whatnot. game's usually pretty sad and whatnot but there's also humor and weirdness and it's very much enjoyable specially when you're given agency (like do i let this woman pass so she can meet her dying sister even if her passport's expired? do i detain some people so i can get some bribe money that i can use to move my family to a better apartment?)
it's really great, not something that's easily explained cos much about it is on the presentation and that you have to experience it yourself
i'd 100% recommend it to anyone, and i would love a us-mexico border version <3
MakeshiftChef
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Well said Mannerbot. 
jshackles
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runnin_blue
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Garcia
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Thanks for the info. I really had no idea that the "rogue-like" genre had such a deeply established root. I can see why people can get confused by both terms, especially given the most recent wave of games that take the element of permanent-death and adhere it to any sort of variation to the formula.
Your reply brought me to this article I found on Google, and just as you mention, it really is the turn-based nature what separates the "likes" from the "lites".
Interesting!
GringoSuave89
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Fun, for Halo fans, good in short bursts, twin stick shooter at its finest.
thanks for the write up, that sounds really interesting especially the part with the recurring characters, and the heavy focus on story, I'll give it a try, probably going to skip risk of rain since it seems like one of those 4player games where I rarely could get my friends to play at the same time.
Holy cow I almost forgot about 100% Orange Juice. I will be hoping for a daily.
Get it your a Halo fan, If you just want a twin stick shooter get Nation Red instead.
Halo: SA has it's flaws but its a good little game. If it helps cards for it are 25cents each at the moment so you can make some good money back.
NingenJanai
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Finished Cognition episode 2, it was great, such a good graphic adventure, shame on all you guys who got it from a bundle and never gave it a try.
Pickles Spill
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Yeah, I mean, obviously people can figure out what you mean even if you're not using the precise correct term, but it's a bit like a grandmother calling every video game console a Nintendo.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
GringoSuave89
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your guess is as good as mine. I've been using Game-Debate for that.
BinaryPork2737
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Ahem!
You're a monster.
Soyongdori
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Da fuck??Ahem!
sweet, glad i convinced you to get it
i want to see a ton more games with more human focus like papers please or cart life that actually deal with these pretty messed up themes by blending story and mechanics
like the people making these games is super smart, it amazes me
If anyone has Fallout New Vegas on their wishlist from before the 25th of june this year, and you provide me your steam name (in a PM or in this thread) I will gift you a copy of the base game.
Same goes for terraria
(unfortunately the games have been added to my inventory so I dont think I can use ModBot)
Same goes for terraria
(unfortunately the games have been added to my inventory so I dont think I can use ModBot)
bobnowhere
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I finished the first episode, really enjoyed it. Got to
The Morgue
You can!
Just send it to yourself per e-mail and follow the steps: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=72143371#post72143371
I didn't start experiencing save issues until Black Flag. I lost about 100 hours between two incidents (96 hours and then later another few hours as I hadn't backed up my saves in a while).
My Liberation HD playtime is low because I moved to Win8.1 early into the year and at the time GameSave Manager only had an entry for the game's config file, a fact I didn't realise until it was too late. If your program is called GameSave Manager you probably shouldn't add a game to the database until you actually have its save file path...
Soyongdori
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Welp, I purchased Risk of Rain over Papers plz. Hope I made the right decision.
You can use ModBot, you just email yourself the games and submit the link that that generates. There are instructions for that in the ModBot thread.
Ahem!
can't believe you played 150 hours of ass creed 3
i beat it at 50 and got all side quests but like the trading and challenges shit
Ahem!
525,600 kill prompts.
Garcia
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I hadn't seen anything like that game before. A card combat / board game with heavy kawaii-style characters.
Would you recommend it?
Let's play it sometime. I've sitting since weeks on the game and haven'T had anyone to play with :<
I hope so as well. I've been waiting for it to go cheap or become bundled.
There were a few occasions where I quit the game but forgot to close Uplay, so Steam would consider me in-game overnight.
thoseAREmySHOES
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Edit: Nevermind
Cynic
Soyongdori
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All you fellow steamers getting gifts, I be jelly.
Gonna send you a gift and:
ModBot said:Instructions for participants:
I am giving away 2 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below that corresponds to the key you want (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering).
Rules for this Giveaway:
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:
Fallout New Vegas --MB-BF88C2B3F125F81E- Taken by GringoSuave89
Terraria --MB-589ED3F77650C77D- Taken by Kamion
thoseAREmySHOES
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Thanks, I realized it right away. For some reason I thought it was a setting on your library page. Durrrrr
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