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Steam Summer Sales 2014 |OT3| Sale over, new thread tonight/tomorrow
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General_Frags
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Its more of a third person corridor/cover shooter with forced in arbitrary RPG mechanics. The first Mass Effect was a proper RPG in the sense, however since the game was aimed at the console/Xbox 360 marketplace the controls for the game were not the best for all the RPG mechanics. So in the sequels they just went full shooter/dialogue choices/interrupts gameplay.
Edit: And as Gravelord_Nito above says the story/dialogue is atrocious, the ending of the game is incredibly weak, so much so that they had to patch in a directors cut version of it which did nothing.
You can make your own character, it has a massive amount of dialogs, main & side quests, your actions change the story, you can collect stuff, upgrade your equipment, there is a skill tree, it's open world and you can chose where to go.
Classic elements of a RPG?
Cool, entered. :lol
Valdis is at a good price and so is Bioshock. CS:GO was like 3.74 on a previous sale tho.
Is Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row RPGS? Nop.
I like RPGs, I'm playing Mass Effect 3 right now. The dialogues are kind of weak in Fallout.
But I will give it a try. I want to like this game
Must... Resist... Urge to say... "You should have bought New Vegas"...
but CS: Go will never be that cheap again most likely. They dont want the price too low to help prevent the amount of cheaters and smurf accounts.
General_Frags
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The first Mass Effect is like that, the others are not.
I'm kinda glad and sad at the same time that I don't have any money left.
Because now I know for sure I cant afford Banished and Gary's mods. I was on the fence about them. Not knowing if I buy it I will enjoy it or not. But this way I guess I wont waste any money, but goddamn... they keep staring at me :[
Because now I know for sure I cant afford Banished and Gary's mods. I was on the fence about them. Not knowing if I buy it I will enjoy it or not. But this way I guess I wont waste any money, but goddamn... they keep staring at me :[
Well, it usually depends on how one defines an RPG, but yes, most would define ME3 as an RPG.
The thing is that it's not a great RPG. Shepard here doesn't really seem your character, as she/he talks without your input most of the time, has emotions and cares about things that the player didn't decide and nothing she/he does actually matters at all.
At least, gameplay-wise, is funnier than ME2. edit to add that ME2 is certainly not an RPG, but mostly a tactical shooter with RPG elements and romances.
ME3 is more of an RPG than ME2.
Thanks
So many games... and I thought I would be relatively high up there with 143 games... anyways congratz!
Ahah, congrats on the 3K
Cheers.
Haha, sadly, no, not yet.
I'm curious, whats the one game you reviewed lol
The first episode of Kentucky Route Zero. I haven't played the others yet despite thoroughly enjoying the first part; at the time the other episodes were scheduled to release over the course of the next 12 months, so I figured I'd wait... and here I am almost 18 months later, still waiting.
MMBosstones86
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Hot Damn dude. Congrats. What % of the Steam catalog to you now own?
Mass Effect 3 devolved most of the great RPG aspects from the first two games. I really enjoyed the series, but I consider ME3 to be a strategic shooter w/ RPG elements. Not and RPG with shooter elements.
I'd say its more like that.
Shooter [--------|-------------------------] RPG
While it takes RPG elements, the RPG aspect can be completely ignored.
Cheers.
Haha, sadly, no, not yet.
I wish I could give you like a certificate to fly out and meet Saoirse in person. come home and tell me all about it. <3
Dammit I did it! Bought 8 TF2 keys... now I just have to find a trader to get that Divinity Original Sin!
...I might have to jump onto the boat with you.
corrosivefrost
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Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
When I'm unbanned from Market I'm hopping on this boat too, lets hope it don't capsize
No, but only because there are missing a lot of things that I listed.
I have. Should I play New Vegas instead?
I loved Mass Effect, played it through 3 times. And yes they scaled down the RPG aspects of the game, but it's still a RPG. Maybe not as good as Mass Effect 1, but at least the combat makes more fun.
Hard to say exactly due to all the stuff that's been pulled over the years, but looking purely at the numbers, I have 3036 games in my library (includes free [not F2P] games and F2P for which I own DLC) and there are currently 3299 on the AU store.
That would be living the dream.
InfiniteNine
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Well one steam sale down! Spent a lot more than I thought even though I didn't get much for myself.
This.
ME3 is not a bad game per se (although some people here will disagree), but it's more of an cover based shooter with adventure game elements.
corrosivefrost
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I don't even want to know what portion of the damage was spent on what.
If you guys are serious, get your keys and find a trader now.
(1) When the discount is gone, the price will go back up.
(2) When the sale is over, the prices of keys will re-stabilize at a higher value.
(3) No clue telling what can happen with region locks. This should probably be #1 in the list in terms of importance. So listen up: A GAME CAN BE LOCKED AT ANY POINT IN TIME, IF YOU WANT TO TRADE FOR A GAME, DO IT ASAP AND ADD IT TO YOUR ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.
To further stress point 3, I have personally had at least 3 games turn on the region locks within 24 hours of my acquiring it through trade vectors: [Bound by Flame, Valiant Hearts, Dark Souls 2 Season Pass come to mind immediately]
With the amount of people trading for Divinity and Witcher 3, I would not be surprised to see these get tagged in the not too distant future (JaseC, correct me if I'm way out of line here.)
TheSlySoul
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So from the sales, I picked up:
- Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
- BattleBlock Theater
- Castle Crashers
- Long Live the Queen
- Final Fantasy 7
Spacecowboy77
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Thanks dex3108 for Fez!
Been wanting to play this for a while but always forget to pick it up. Cheers!
Been wanting to play this for a while but always forget to pick it up. Cheers!
Skyfireblaze
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GAF, we have a mission during the winter sale we should make sure that this honorable man or woman acquires the remaining 263 (+ whatever comes out in between) games they are missing to achieve the ultimate goal of Steam which I just randomly declared!
Thank God, uninstall 3 and never look back. New Vegas is just much better.
Huh what the heck... Besides not taking my M&M's card, now Steam won't even take my debit card? What the heck?
Edit: Telling me "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance."
Please Gaben just take my money..
Edit: Telling me "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance."
Please Gaben just take my money..
Am I the only one on this Earth that actually liked the combat in ME1? Seems like it, ahah.
I finished at least a dozen playthroughs of ME1. Ah, the times when I didn't work a full-time job...
Uni on Everything!
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Hmm, ok. I just went through the past few pages and found the steamdb site. According to them $7.49 is the lowest CS:GO has been. Am I looking at the wrong thing?
http://steamdb.info/app/730/
you surely jest! as I said before, BioInf is a point and click adventure game.
corrosivefrost
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Your steamDB kung fu is weak, grasshopper.
Current Lowest Price: $7.49 at Steam (Info)
Historical Lowest Price: $3.74 at Steam on Fri Nov 29 2013 (Info)
Come on dude. You shouldn't be so strict about these genre definitions.
I can't think of any other RPG-shooter that came out in the last 10 years with more RPG elements than Mass Effect.
Egads, haven't you heard? BioShock Infinite has a massive amount of dialog, main & side quests, your actions change the story, you can collect stuff, upgrade your equipment, there is a skill tree, it's open world and you can chose where to go.
General_Frags
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The price has been cheaper in previous sale however every sale brings in a new influx of hackers in the game. So by having a slightly higher price they want to discourage the hackers away and keep the game clean.
GAF, we have a mission during the winter sale we should make sure that this honorable man or woman acquires the remaining 263 (+ whatever comes out in between) games they are missing to achieve the ultimate goal of Steam which I just randomly declared!
Haha, it's fine. I wouldn't want people to spend money on something I'm unlikely to actually play.
SteamDB's pricing history isn't very comprehensive at the moment. You're better off looking at Steam Sales, which has data going back to the Winter Sale of 2010.
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