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  • David WalgasDavid Walgas Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Stregone wrote:
    I feel like a lot of us are hitting critical mass where "here's a gift." Oh no thanks I have too much of a backlog already.

    There's time to play my backlog after my body is unfrozen when they learn how to transfer my consciousness to a machine.

    This is the reason I've been entering considerably fewer PA Steamgifts giveaways lately. That, and I feel kinda guilty.

    That reminds me, should I play Dawn of War: Soulstorm now, or should I wait until after I've played Dawn of War? I don't really know a huge amount about the 40k series, just some pieces of fluff from its backstory.

    If soulstorm is the last expandalone, you can just skip it. The story isn't that great, and the new units don't add much. Dark Crusade was muuuuch better, and has the Necrons, which means it's awesome.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    If soulstorm is the last expandalone, you can just skip it. The story isn't that great, and the new units don't add much. Dark Crusade was muuuuch better, and has the Necrons, which means it's awesome.

    Soulstorm is the only one I have. I won Kafka's sg giveaway for it, but I didn't know if I should start it now or wait until I had played through the earlier games. I'll probably wait, although I'm kinda interested in the Sisters of Battle since they look like homicidal space nuns.

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  • KafkaAUKafkaAU Western AustraliaRegistered User regular
    They are homicidal space nuns!

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  • David WalgasDavid Walgas Registered User regular
    I'd pay to see that movie.

  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    If soulstorm is the last expandalone, you can just skip it. The story isn't that great, and the new units don't add much. Dark Crusade was muuuuch better, and has the Necrons, which means it's awesome.

    Soulstorm is the only one I have. I won Kafka's sg giveaway for it, but I didn't know if I should start it now or wait until I had played through the earlier games. I'll probably wait, although I'm kinda interested in the Sisters of Battle since they look like homicidal space nuns.

    Both Soulstorm and Dark Crusade have pretty standalone stories

    the first DoW and Winter Assualt give some nice backstory and have much stronger stories themselves but are hardly vital to understanding Soulstorm

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  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    I liked the campaign mode for Dark Crusade more than vanilla or Winter Assault. I think Soulstorm does something similar?

    Vanilla and WA had traditional linear RTS campaigns. Dark Crusade had a Risk-style territory map that you had to conquer. Most battles were typical 1v1 RTS matches, but enemy strongholds were bigger, tougher, and somewhat scripted.

  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    captaink wrote:
    I liked the campaign mode for Dark Crusade more than vanilla or Winter Assault. I think Soulstorm does something similar?

    Vanilla and WA had traditional linear RTS campaigns. Dark Crusade had a Risk-style territory map that you had to conquer. Most battles were typical 1v1 RTS matches, but enemy strongholds were bigger, tougher, and somewhat scripted.

    Yeah its a cool way to do it

    then DoW 2 manages to do the risk type map as well as a good story

    I love DoW 2

  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    captaink wrote:
    I liked the campaign mode for Dark Crusade more than vanilla or Winter Assault. I think Soulstorm does something similar?

    Vanilla and WA had traditional linear RTS campaigns. Dark Crusade had a Risk-style territory map that you had to conquer. Most battles were typical 1v1 RTS matches, but enemy strongholds were bigger, tougher, and somewhat scripted.

    Yeah its a cool way to do it

    then DoW 2 manages to do the risk type map as well as a good story

    I love DoW 2

    I liked in Dark Crusade that it meant you could campaign as anyone, not just Space Marines.

  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    Even though the first two games in the DoW series are linear, they tell pretty cool stories as far as RTS games go. And the missions are pretty fun, with good maps. I picked up DoW Gold and Dark Crusade this weekend, just so I could have them on Steam with Cloud support and all that. Played a bit of the very first DoW today and really enjoyed it. DoW II is fantastic stuff, but sometimes the micro is a bit much for me. It was refreshing to just call up a shit load of Space Marines, throw them some Heavy Bolters and Flamers and just watch them bend some Orks over.

  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    I'd pay to see that movie.




    IN A WORLD

    WHERE NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS
    I've never played Dawn of War

    ONE MAN

    WILL STAND UP FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES IN
    Yeah, that can't stand


    Starring

    Christopher Walken as @David Walgas
    In the, ahh, GRIM darkness, of the fahr futcha, there is only war. That's all there is, you know, all there ever could be.

    Keanu Reeves as SmokeStacks
    THERE'S A BOMB ON THE TANK

    Kate Winslet as Gabe Newell
    Draw me like one of your orc girls.

    IN

    THE MOVIE EVENT OF THE YEAR


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    SmokeStacks on
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  • DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    baaaaaaaaahahaha

    Draw me like one of your orc girls

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Gotham City Imposters, a game you cannot buy yet, is in the top ten best sellers.

    Kinda...making me question the legitimacy of that tab there, Steam.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    I could put it in my cart, I didn't bother trying to buy it though.

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  • starmanbrandstarmanbrand Registered User regular
    i really want to buy imposters.

    someone tell me I shouldnt

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  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    KafkaAU wrote:
    They are homicidal space nuns!

    They may be that in the future, but I'm sure this is how the Adepta Sororitas began...

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    i really want to buy imposters.

    someone tell me I shouldnt

    How will you play that multiplayer shooter when you are already playing SMNC

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  • starmanbrandstarmanbrand Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    but what if imposters is betterrrrrrrrr

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    Oh. That's coming out soon? Goddamn. Why is it this time when there's stuff coming out that I want? I kinda wish the only releases on steam for the next two months would be railworks DLC, then I wouldn't even THINK about wanting them.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    But

    Super MNC is free

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  • CorpekataCorpekata Registered User regular
    Wow that is a poopload of midnight releases.

  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Corpekata wrote:
    Wow that is a poopload of midnight releases.

    Including The Darkness II, so nice they released it twice!

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    "Come for the darkness"...stay for the absence of light.

    Gaslight on
  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    What is the gameplay style of Gotham City Imposters?

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Smoke Stacks takes it for most humorous gift acceptance post

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    It's kinda odd that Gotham City imposters doesn't have a 4 pack.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • HyperionHyperion Registered User regular
    I feel like a lot of us are hitting critical mass where "here's a gift." Oh no thanks I have too much of a backlog already.

    That's certainly where I'm at. I couldn't resist going for the Witcher 2, though. And thank god I did, that game is the balls. The rest of my backlog will have to wait 'till I'm done with that sumbitch.

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    You might know me as D'Brickashaw on Steam.
  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    So many games are about to come out! Do we have an anti-Steam thread where I could be reliably talked out of buying them all?

    Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    What is the gameplay style of Gotham City Imposters?

    Objective based Team vs Team FPS, with persistent leveling, gear, upgrades. All that stuff. Made by Monolith, who has made some of the finest, most underrated FPS around.

  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    Drake wrote:
    What is the gameplay style of Gotham City Imposters?

    Objective based Team vs Team FPS, with persistent leveling, gear, upgrades. All that stuff. Made by Monolith, who has made some of the finest, most underrated FPS around.
    And now I want it even more. Cause I like Monolith. Just gotta keep telling myself "Fortune summoners comes first. Fortune summoners comes first"

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • busfahrerbusfahrer addict GermanyRegistered User regular
    I'd pay to see that movie.




    IN A WORLD

    WHERE NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS
    I've never played Dawn of War

    ONE MAN

    WILL STAND UP FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES IN
    Yeah, that can't stand


    Starring

    Christopher Walken as @David Walgas
    In the, ahh, GRIM darkness, of the fahr futcha, there is only war. That's all there is, you know, all there ever could be.

    Keanu Reeves as SmokeStacks
    THERE'S A BOMB ON THE TANK

    Kate Winslet as Gabe Newell
    Draw me like one of your orc girls.

    IN

    THE MOVIE EVENT OF THE YEAR


    movieposter.png


    Ignoring all the other super-hilarious stuff for a second, I love how you managed boil down most movie posters to their essentials, i.e. some sort of orange/blue contrast :)

    Also, there can be no mention of Christopher Walken without me linking to this wonderful video:

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Excuse the pixels!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saj53p9NA_8&amp;feature=related

    Speaking of pixels: It occurs to me that the indie games scene has given us the ultimate tribute to old-school top-down shooters with Jamestown, and with Titan Attacks we seem to also have the zenith of Space Invaders clones.

    Now all we need is for some indie developer of, say, Final Form Games' caliber to take on the task of making a love letter to run-and-gun shooters like Metal Slug.

    Gaslight on
  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    Gaslight wrote:
    So it occurs to me that the indie games scene has given us the ultimate tribute to old-school top-down shooters with Jamestown, and with Titan Attacks we seem to also have the zenith of Space Invaders clones.

    Now all we need is for some indie developer of, say, Final Form Games' caliber to take on the task of making a love letter to run-and-gun shooters like Metal Slug.
    Yes. Yes they do.

    Bonus points if we get an announcer enthusiastically yelling "RAWKIT LAWNCHAIR" whenever you pick up a rocket launcher.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • busfahrerbusfahrer addict GermanyRegistered User regular
    Apparently you North and South Americans can now purchase Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition on Steam.

    Does anybody know whether this might be one of those "ultimate" editions that isn't complete, i.e. if there will be any other DLC released after it?

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  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    busfahrer wrote:
    Apparently you North and South Americans can now purchase Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition on Steam.

    Does anybody know whether this might be one of those "ultimate" editions that isn't complete, i.e. if there will be any other DLC released after it?

    No more DLC

    so its complete yeah

  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    busfahrer wrote:
    Apparently you North and South Americans can now purchase Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition on Steam.

    Does anybody know whether this might be one of those "ultimate" editions that isn't complete, i.e. if there will be any other DLC released after it?
    They've gone on record saying there will be no more DLC for fallout new vegas. And it's been quite some time since the last one, so I'm pretty sure this actually IS complete.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • busfahrerbusfahrer addict GermanyRegistered User regular
    heenato wrote:
    busfahrer wrote:
    Apparently you North and South Americans can now purchase Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition on Steam.

    Does anybody know whether this might be one of those "ultimate" editions that isn't complete, i.e. if there will be any other DLC released after it?
    They've gone on record saying there will be no more DLC for fallout new vegas. And it's been quite some time since the last one, so I'm pretty sure this actually IS complete.

    Cool. Fallout is one of the games that I have to get off-Steam, since they only sell the German-language version, which I loathe. I already got FO3 GOTY from eBay UK, so that's cool, can't wait to get around to try it.

    Of course, I still own both FO3 and FONV on Steam, but I don't wanna play them. My name is busfahrer, and I have a problem.

    FOR THE NEWELL

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    busfahrer wrote:
    Cool. Fallout is one of the games that I have to get off-Steam, since they only sell the German-language version, which I loathe. I already got FO3 GOTY from eBay UK, so that's cool, can't wait to get around to try it.

    Of course, I still own both FO3 and FONV on Steam, but I don't wanna play them. My name is busfahrer, and I have a problem.

    FOR THE NEWELL
    If you have New vegas on steam already, then you cant GET another version. Not really. The game is steamworks.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • busfahrerbusfahrer addict GermanyRegistered User regular
    heenato wrote:
    busfahrer wrote:
    Cool. Fallout is one of the games that I have to get off-Steam, since they only sell the German-language version, which I loathe. I already got FO3 GOTY from eBay UK, so that's cool, can't wait to get around to try it.

    Of course, I still own both FO3 and FONV on Steam, but I don't wanna play them. My name is busfahrer, and I have a problem.

    FOR THE NEWELL
    If you have New vegas on steam already, then you cant GET another version. Not really. The game is steamworks.

    Well, shit.

    I hadn't thought of that.

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  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    They need to get a way to upgrade a game to a Complete or GOTY or whatever version. I mean, why not? Pretty sure Steam likes money.

    edit: Although there is a way I guess. Just buy all the DLC. Problem solved. Newell served.

    Drake on
  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    Drake wrote:
    They need to get a way to upgrade a game to a Complete or GOTY or whatever version. I mean, why not? Pretty sure Steam likes money.

    edit: Although there is a way I guess. Just buy all the DLC. Problem solved. Newell served.

    Some DLC you can't get outside of the packs, like with Oblivion.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    heenato wrote:
    Gaslight wrote:
    So it occurs to me that the indie games scene has given us the ultimate tribute to old-school top-down shooters with Jamestown, and with Titan Attacks we seem to also have the zenith of Space Invaders clones.

    Now all we need is for some indie developer of, say, Final Form Games' caliber to take on the task of making a love letter to run-and-gun shooters like Metal Slug.
    Yes. Yes they do.

    Bonus points if we get an announcer enthusiastically yelling "RAWKIT LAWNCHAIR" whenever you pick up a rocket launcher.

    Oh man I want a badass indie Metal Slug style game for the PC so bad.

    I'm gonna go learn coding and game design and soundwork and pixel art and then get started on one.

    See you guys in a year!

    SmokeStacks on
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