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Steam Summer Sales 2014 |OT2| The valiant never taste of death but once
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CoD: Ghosts, CS:GO, etc.
AstuteClass
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Yay! Site finally updated for me. Just Gone Home it is. It's finally happening... I'm not wanting like 3-8 games with every new flash/community/daily cycle.
Financial disaster averted!
Just need my boy Fallout 3 GOTY to drop on the daily now, and it will be a very successful Summer Sale for me!
Financial disaster averted!
Just need my boy Fallout 3 GOTY to drop on the daily now, and it will be a very successful Summer Sale for me!
derExperte
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Did he mention the alien abduction? No? Then you're fine.
Thatoneguy64
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I think it's a useful barometer, in that if a game has a lot of downvotes I will check the negative reviews to see what people didn't like about it. A lot of the time there are legitimate, offputting criticisms of a game.
Most of the negative Gone Home reviews I skimmed were very angry, and mostly just about it being a "non-game." So, yeah, then you know to ignore them.
But most of the time they're a fine barometer to use as one part of your consideration of a game.
Ah, that would make sense.
I decided the second tier of the Humble wasn't worth it, considering the sale price on Steam.
Kentucky Route Zero can be described in this way - 90% thumbs up
Stanley Parable can be described in this way - 94% thumbs up
Dear Esther can be described in this way - 82% thumbs up
Gone Home - 96% thumbs down
All of these games fall into the interactive story genre more than anything else. To think the extreme negative reaction to Gone Home isn't most significantly due to its subject matter rather than its gameplay style is fairly naive, frankly.
Haunted
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You have my bat.
I think it's safe to say that with the sale a lot of us are buying it...
You mean the ghosts right? Oops, I've said too much.
Same thing for me. Was hoping for for it to Hitt 75% off or at the very least $5. It had a 50% discount at the winter sale. You would think it would go cheaper by now.
DaBargainHunta
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I didn't know anything about the game, other than it was a "walking simulator" or whatever. If not wanting to know what seems like an important plot point makes me a "terrible person," then so be it.
Well, that's slightly annoying. What if I wanted to see which of my friends have the cards in case I want to collect them again?
HP_Wuvcraft
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Buy games or craft badges. Hm.
We're going to win anyway.
We're going to win anyway.
yea, i don't understand the backlash Gone Home got compared to the titles you listed.
PolarBearsClub
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Does buying a game really only give you 1 xp? Or it based on how much money you spend?
fluffydelusions
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I liked both but yes I prefer Gone Home more but I grew up in 90s so nostalgia etc etc
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Gone Home is also the only one among those that got any sort of "mainstream" attention. It was the only game on that list that you couldn't really avoid hearing about if you follow any sort of games media. The immediate reaction from people who were actively looking for the game was a lot more positive, but as time went on and more people tried it (who likely didn't try those other games listed) the reaction turned sour. Dear Esther gets the same sort of over the top negative backlash from random people who buy it during a Steam sale without knowing what the game is.
Bioshock Infinite is very similar in that way. It's not the worst shooter out there last year, it's just the only one played by a lot of people who hate shooters to begin with.
thorsilver
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Is the Lego Movie game any good? The visuals look kinda gorgeous, and I've only ever played about 5 minutes of a Lego game before so I'm a bit curious about them.
Come to that, which of the previous ones might be worth my time? I've heard the Marvel one is fun, is that the best choice?
Come to that, which of the previous ones might be worth my time? I've heard the Marvel one is fun, is that the best choice?
Gintoki313
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This gif gets me everytime it gets posted lol.
Also, just bought Spec Ops The Line. I'm tired of all these 1st person shooters I got during the sale. I need a 3rd person shooter to mix it up.
Shorty11857
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Gone Home is great for what it is, I don't really care whether or not it's a "game" it was a very enjoyable way to spend 2 hours I thought
cartman414
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More adequate to skim the comments themselves. Weed out the one line "Expected..."/"This game sucks!" reviews.
Kerbal increased in base price, the 40% off discount is the same. The others vary a lot from sale to sale, we've seen Fallout some sales at 66% and others at 75%. But the cliché for the past few sales is that 66% is the new 75%, but we've seen quite a few 80% and up sales this year which is pretty cool.
With all these games popping up in sales years after release nowadays I'm not sure if there is a "limit" on spoilers. It's always going to be someone's first time at it, particularly in the sale threads. At the very least spoiler tagging things that could potentially hurt someone's experience with a older game is the neighbourly thing to do.
CS: GO isn't bad.
But I knew this response would pop up. I'm not saying there are other games that aren't terrible that will be up on sale, this is just one of them I wanted to respond to since there was a giant sub-topic of it in this thread.
Gone Home is a wonderful game. Unfortunately I had that particular plot detail spoiled for me too by someone who was complaining that it's
, but it didn't really make much of a difference to me, knowing that information beforehand. It's incredibly grounded and...human. The music, the background details, the voice-overs, etc, all combine to create a lovely piece of storytelling. It's not a game for action-lovers, but will appeal to anyone who wants to sit back and slowly unravel a well-crafted story about human nature.
"just some dumb lesbian game that people only like because it's trying to be socially progressive" (ugh, such a horrible attitude to take)
DaBargainHunta
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Which is a damn shame. Nothing wrong with a
lesbian storyline, if that's what you mean - that's the only plot point I know about the game, per the spoiler that was dropped earlier in this thread
Again, my apologies. My post was made in response to a question as to why there was such a backlash against it, which is why I mentioned that. I thought that a year old game that was widely discussed in the gaming press because of it's subject matter was past the spoiler limit.
fluffydelusions
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Know what would be entertaining. Someone make a thread titled "Gone Home is $3 on Steam right now" Watch the haters come out of the woodwork... P.S. sorta drunk
Fornaximus
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I desperately want Kentucky Route Zero, haven't played The Stanley Parable, and didn't like Dear Esther. We'll see how Gone Home fares.
I would generally disagree with anyone who is complacent in helping advertisers make more money than they already make. That said, I do not mind reading reviews, but that's a rather different matter altogether.
Free reviews for games also seem rather exploitative. Criticism for games in particular is weird... I guess due to its history, but I'm unsure how to stop that snowball at this point.
For anyone looking to getting LEGO Movie, be warned it basically is the movie. So if you want to experience that fresh on it's own, watch the film and then play the game.
The trick is to consider context. If you are in a location, well a thread, where there is a good chance someone may not have experienced it before or people are asking if it's any good or not, best to assume that it unknown and use the spoiler tags.
Understandable if you didn't like it, but I do say that's unfair to say it's not a game.
There are goals, there is a mission, there is a win requirement and hell, one could even "speed run it". Aye more story than anything, but interaction through piercing together a story does not take away from being a game.
The fact two people of two different mindsets could find differing amounts of clues and get different levels of understanding of the full story makes for different experiences where as something as watching "The Age of the Dinosaurs" where it's the same no matter also weighs in on this.
This isn't The 39 Steps where it's all straight forward that doesn't really require you to do anything and you could still get the full experience.
The trick is to consider context. If you are in a location, well a thread, where there is a good chance someone may not have experienced it before or people are asking if it's any good or not, best to assume that it unknown and use the spoiler tags.
Understandable if you didn't like it, but I do say that's unfair to say it's not a game.
There are goals, there is a mission, there is a win requirement and hell, one could even "speed run it". Aye more story than anything, but interaction through piercing together a story does not take away from being a game.
The fact two people of two different mindsets could find differing amounts of clues and get different levels of understanding of the full story makes for different experiences where as something as watching "The Age of the Dinosaurs" where it's the same no matter also weighs in on this.
This isn't The 39 Steps where it's all straight forward that doesn't really require you to do anything and you could still get the full experience.
You get XP from badges, not buying games. You get 10 points for Summer badges, and 1 point for every other games badge. Frankly points mean shit as long as you have 1.
Azure Dream
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ModBot said I won it, but when I went to visit the link, it said it was already redeemed.
Soyongdori
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Gone home is the most overrated indie game I've ever played. It kind of pisses me off.
drunk ... but clever
Shorty11857
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I didn't know anything about the game, other than it was a "walking simulator" or whatever. If not wanting to know what seems like an important plot point makes me a "terrible person," then so be it.
It's not really a spoiler to Gone Home though, I mean sure one of the main plot lines but it's almost like saying Spec Ops being about soldiers in Dubai is a spoiler
HP_Wuvcraft
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You bring up a good point.
KillerDark
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Thanks 8 x 11 Printer Paper!! I'm excited to try this, I love shmups!
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