I really need to replay AssCreed 1, I really dont remember it being as bad as everyone here says it was. Especially since I remember liking it more than the subsequent AssCreeds.
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Yeah, I already read all that. I'm going to send in a support ticket just to make sure, but I'm assuming there's not much to be done until Valve gets some more keys, since one of those situations really blatantly obviously applies here and none of the others do.
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Ouch, that sucks.
But the payoff will be worth it once you do get it fixed.
So @R0land1188 just dropped a bomb on me. Last night he asked if I wanted his extra key for Diablo 3. This morning I find it sitting in my inbox when I get back from work, Eid Mubarak indeed!
But the payoff will be worth it once you do get it fixed.
It wouldn't be so bad if FTL wasn't so frustrating in the meantime.
I mean, yeah, that's the point, but when a drone downs the mothership for the last time a fraction of a second after the mothership kills my ship off...
So @R0land1188 just dropped a bomb on me. Last night he asked if I wanted his extra key for Diablo 3. This morning I find it sitting in my inbox when I get back from work, Eid Mubarak indeed!
Top Classhole!
I really need to find something you don't own. On the plus side, it's pay day today.
Unrelated: I finally finished Jade Empire! Adding a voice to the "it's a crime this property didn't get a sequel" crowd. I mean, I seem to remember it sold very well on the original Xbox when it came out. And it does manage to swing a few serious plot hits in there to throw the player, an activity i heartily endorse. Also quite liking the morality meter - it's trying to be less good/bad and more help people/make them help themselves - though the latter sadly tends to drift into "I'm a bad guy and I kick puppies!" territory.
Anyway, it was good. I might get around to a proper Bad Guy playthrough at some point, but now...to the backlog!
(Actually, I'm packing this weekend, so probably just try and do Episode 4 of The Walking Dead).
Oh, and thanks again to @Chocobolicious for giving me JE to play in the first place, waaaaaay back in February!
If I remember correctly, Jade Empire has a few spots where you can't go back into certain areas after something happens in the story, so you might want to make sure you do everything in an area before you take off to the next big thing in the plot.
I haven't played it in a long, long time, so I'm sure someone who has a better memory can chime in as to whether I am wrong, but that is one thing that sticks out in my mind about that game.
I have it. It'll hide DOTA even if I don't have it? All I've seen is the option to hide games that I already have.
edit: I just tried it. Oh my god, yes! It hides all instances; I thought the Ignore button would just hide that particular giveaway.
Awww. I HAVE Dota 2, but it's not hiding it. Maybe because it's not installed?
Steamgifts has no way to know what you have installed.
That's...dumb them, since it's still not getting rid of DOTA2 giveaways, even though DOTA2 is in my game list.
Well steamgifts own filter works pretty well as well. Thing is. You have to actually play Dota 2 and have some playtime on your steam account for them to pick up you actually own Dota. And then resync your account and whatnot.
Anyone know of a game with good black characters in the lead? I might have some leftover scratch this week and I'm feeling ambitions and hopeful I missed something.
Why Borderlands of course!
There's always room for more loot. It's like Christmas.
Full season of Sam & Max (Devil's Playhouse), Home, and MacGuffin's Curse on Steam. Also get Pathalogic (game from Icepick, and it's super weird) and EvilQuest. Haven't heard much about that last title but the rest all have pretty solid reputations.
The battle with my gaming PC continues. I got a new power supply and installed it. No go. I tested it with a paper clip and the cooling fans run, so the PSU is good. I tested the power switch on the front panel, and that's good. So that means new motherboard.
Get my motherboard last night and install it, only to find I'm out of thermal paste and can't mount the CPU. Awesome. A trip to Radioshack tonight to grab some and then I cross my fingers. If this doesn't work, I'm at a loss.
I would have liked to see Skyrim a little cheaper, but as one of the last few people who didn't have it yet for PC it was a good price. Good timing too since I just got a new video card.
I'm interested in expanding my Steam library. So far it's just Deus Ex GOTY. With the way my hands work, KBAM action games, where reflexes matter, are generally a no-go. I willed myself through DX, but parts definitely felt more like work than fun. So, what cheap ($10 or less), fun point-and-click games exist? I've already had my fill of:
Bejeweled 3
Peggle
Plants vs. Zombies
Pizza Frenzy
through other means.
Also, from a physical/accessibility POV, how are Gemini Rue and To the Moon? Both look cool.
Thanks in advance, guys.
Puzzle Quest (1) is fantastic. Greed Corp didn't consume quite as much of my life, but is still enjoyable.
How beefy is your rig? If you can eun Civ V I would highly recommend that. Other Civ games are a solid bet too.
Frozen Synapse might be worth a look. A definite change of pace from the other games you listed.
Basically any game with a timerless "end turn" button should be worth a look.
Seconding the earlier Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes recommendation.
Turn based:
- King's Bounty, Hero Academy, and Dungeons of Dredmor are all worth your time. Anyone's time. They're essential "your library is not complete without them" type titles, imho.
- Galactic Civilizations II is like Civilization in space. It doesn't have multiplayer, so there are a lot of super cool (yet completely unbalanced) things that can happen, like (very rarely) alien progenitors returning and annihilating half the galaxy mid-game.
- RUSH, Disciples II, Cogs, and Cthulhu Saves the World might be worth a look.
Real time:
- DEFCON is an RTS, but you can set it to super slow speeds. It has an "Office Mode" where things travel at realistic rates. Games can run over an 8 hour period, with the window minimized most of the time. I've never tried this, but it sounded neat.
- Osmos is slow to start with, and it has a time control slider. You can slow down time to a crawl the entire game, if you like. I'm somehow still terrible at it.
- The KOTOR games, and also the Baulder's Gate games are real time, with a mash-space-to-pause-and-issue-commands feature.
If I remember correctly, Jade Empire has a few spots where you can't go back into certain areas after something happens in the story, so you might want to make sure you do everything in an area before you take off to the next big thing in the plot.
I haven't played it in a long, long time, so I'm sure someone who has a better memory can chime in as to whether I am wrong, but that is one thing that sticks out in my mind about that game.
This is true, but they're signposted and absurdly obvious. When the main character is told like ten times that if he takes on a certain quest, "everything you know will change," you know that something is up. Another point of no return is obviously a point of no return because common sense, and a dialog box actually comes up and explicitly tells you that you won't be able to complete any quests in a certain area if you proceed.
Edit: oops, double post. I'd merge, but there doesn't seem to be a delete button.
Greenmangaming are rolling out the cashback thing across the globe. Buy Hitman Absolution for £26.99 and they'll give you either £4 in cash back or £6 in credit back! That is a crazy good deal. Now watch me be responsible and not give a shit. BOOYAH!
Winner of the "asked for something other than Alan Wake" category is @cardboard delusions who wins the F3:NV everything pack.
This is a nightmarish tale via my girlfriend, not that I don't have any fears, but I hardly remember my dreams and she does (which is a constant source of entertainment for me). To preface, my girlfriend is scared of going down stairs and ET. Stairs, she has to overcome, because literally we are faced with them everyday. She fell down a flight once and hurt herself pretty bad (which is not funny) but now, is always super cautious. ET, not sure where this stems from, but she is crippled by the mention or sight of him. She is especially freaked out by the image of his neck stretching and the noise he makes.
Last week we were drinking at her friend's apt and she lives on the 5th floor of an NYC walk-up. We got a little high and when we were leaving, I was 'enlightened' to the idea of combining her two greatest fears. I only pondered the question, and asked what she would do if she was faced with them in this scenario since we were looking at going down a tremendous flight of stairs. That night she had the most torturous dream and kicked the shit out of me. She woke me to recount that she envisioned running down that staircase from earlier, but she slipped and fell and tumbled for what felt like forever while being chased with ET and his extended neck screaming the whole time. When I say irrational, I mean she literally cannot function or move, so I had to spend the rest of the early morning talking about penguins and ponies and magical places where ET and stairs don't exist.
Winner of the fiction category is @MOVE IT WITH BUNMASTER!!! who wins nothing due to owning over 700 games and a wishlist that doesn't line up with my inventory.
I shift uncomfortably from foot to foot, glancing down at the slip of paper in my hand: thirty-six. The usual traffic of the entrance is somewhat more congested today. Passers-by hesitate midstride to gawk, at the red balloons, at the red bags, at the figures flitting from chair to chair, before they regain their stride and speed toward the elevator bank. A few slow, stop, and amble to the table, covered in forms, behind which something resembling a woman smiles widely and blankly. The banner overhead, stretched from column to column across the width of the lobby, roars its message: blood drive.
I vaguely remember the paperwork. It was all the usual things: how old was I? Was I healthy? Was I sure I was healthy? Have I engaged in sexual relations with members of my own sex? How indelible are the stains upon my soul? I feel my brow creasing. Were those usual questions? The concern fades as my number is called.
The chair looms.
I sit. "Make yourself comfortable," the shadow darting around my vision whispers, and I immediately become incredibly uncomfortable. "Let's see," the sibilant voice continues. "Ah! It's you."
Me?
"Number thirty-six. You're giving all your blood, yes?"
Am I? I squint at the paper as it is snapped in front of my face. Oh. So I am. I don't recall writing that, specifically, but there it is. Why did I do that? Isn't that unsafe?
"Oh, you're a doctor?"
Er, no.
"Well, then."
I nod, satisfied with that logic yet unable to shake the sensation of something deep within my mind screeching in alarm.
The shadow is continuing to zip about, while next to the chair a contrivance of sharp metal and twisted piping gradually rises. "There's a special t-shirt for giving all your blood," the voice mentions. "It's nice."
That sounds good. I grin as, beside the chair, the machine begins bearing down toward me, whirring louder, louder, louder.
The prize for best traditional nightmare goes to @testsubject23 who wins Ys Origins.
When I was a kid, I would have incredibly vivid dreams and nightmares, and would frequently sleepwalk. Sometimes I'd appear to be awake, but wouldn't know who I was or who my family members were, and would babble nonsense or talk about insensible/unknown things. (This is pertinent to the later details of the story.)
As a child, I was fond of this stop-motion animated TV show featuring a red and white stuffed bear who had a machine that could turn into just about anything - different configurations for different situations. I don't remember the name of the show, but I THINK this show was real - I remember watching it on TV a lot, so hopefully that part wasn't a dream too (though it's entirely possible it was all in my head).
In the dream, I had that machine, or maybe I was the bear from the show. Anyway, the dream started out fine - we made the machine be a car and drove it around for a while (I don't remember who was with me but I did have a companion). Things were dream-normal.
Then I found myself in a dark forest. The trees were close, but tall, so you could see fairly well without undergrowth because of the high canopy, but it was oddly still and somehow disturbing.
It was night in the forest, and we came to a clearing and stopped there. Suddenly my companion announced in a hushed, terrified tone that "the hunt was coming". Despite not knowing what the hunt was, I knew (as you do in dreams) that this was a Bad Thing, and a wash of fear came over me. For some reason, the only thing I could think of to do was to change the machine into a tower in the middle of the clearing. We hid at the top of the tower, while a procession of deer came into the clearing, and started running in a circle, in orderly single-file, around the tower. To my dream self, these deer were terrifying. The beating of their hooves in the dark was somehow awful and unnatural, and it was clear that if we weren't in the tower, we'd be in trouble somehow.
Then a man came into the clearing. His face was covered in a mask that had antlers attached to it. He walked up to the circle of running deer, and produced a long blade from somewhere, which he stuck out at neck level to the deer. They ran on, past where the man stood, and as they ran past the blade their heads were struck off, but the bodies of the deer ran onward, so that after a while there were a pile of decapitated deer heads near the man, and a circle of running, headless deer surrounding my tower.
Absolute horror is the best way to describe my emotional state, at that point. I was just a child, after all, and had never seen anything decapitated before, let alone survive it to continue on in some mockery of death.
Then the man *looked up at me*, right into my eyes, and it was like he saw into me. It felt like a violation, cold and menacing. Then I woke up.
I woke up in the hallway of our house, just outside the walk-in closet. My mother was holding me with a fearful look on her face. I was still scared, but mostly relieved to be away from the dream, so I let her put me back to sleep in my room. The next morning she told me she had found me inside the walk-in closet, rummaging through things and apparently trying to get toward the back of the closet. She tried to get my attention, but I wouldn't look at her, and when she asked why I told her it was because there were spiders on her face. Eventually, for lack of other options, she grabbed me, at which point I started failing my limbs and screaming, and then woke up.
To this day I have absolutely no memory of being in that closet, and I have no idea why I dreamed of this, but it still freaks me out to think about it. It was YEARS before I was able to get the image of those deer out of my brain.
To my adult mind, decades later, the dream reminds me of the myths of Hern and the Wild Hunt, but as a child I had no idea about these things. I don't even think I'd seen a deer before, apart from pictures. Even at the time I had no idea where such disturbing images had come from. Much of my dreaming as a kid was like that - as adults we can rationalize our dreams as reflections of our current inner state, but to dream of things as a child, things you haven't ever encountered, or even conceived of before, was really really strange, even at the time.
Finally, the grand prize winner of an all expenses paid trip to Alan Wake's package is @shdwcaster:
Until a month ago, I have never had a recurring dream, at least not that I can remember, much less a recurring nightmare. I should also add that my wife and I have four children, the youngest of whom is 18 months old, and do not plan on having more.
So while not a nightmare in the "Oogy-Boogy" sense, waking up out of a deep sleep because in my dream, my wife rolled over, looked at me and said "Guess what, Honey, I'm pregnant again!" has been far more terrifying than any other nightmare I've ever had.
Thank you to everyone who entered. Prizes and friend requests will be sent out shortly.
I think that the internet has been for years on the path to creating what is essentially an electronic Necronomicon: A collection of blasphemous unrealities so perverse that to even glimpse at its contents, if but for a moment, is to irrevocably forfeit a portion of your sanity.
Xbox - PearlBlueS0ul, Steam
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Well steamgifts own filter works pretty well as well. Thing is. You have to actually play Dota 2 and have some playtime on your steam account for them to pick up you actually own Dota. And then resync your account and whatnot.
Thanks for Oil Rush, rikdaly! You are the true classy oil tycoon.
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143999Tellin' yanot askin' ya, not pleadin' with yaRegistered Userregular
Anybody have a decent estimate on the typical response time from first contact for a Steam support ticket? I've never had a support-worthy issue, so I have no idea what their reputation is on that front.
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Anybody have a decent estimate on the typical response time from first contact for a Steam support ticket? I've never had a support-worthy issue, so I have no idea what their reputation is on that front.
I sent them a support ticket last month on a Friday evening. I got an answer next Monday morning.
I would have liked to see Skyrim a little cheaper, but as one of the last few people who didn't have it yet for PC it was a good price. Good timing too since I just got a new video card.
I'm interested in expanding my Steam library. So far it's just Deus Ex GOTY. With the way my hands work, KBAM action games, where reflexes matter, are generally a no-go. I willed myself through DX, but parts definitely felt more like work than fun. So, what cheap ($10 or less), fun point-and-click games exist? I've already had my fill of:
Bejeweled 3
Peggle
Plants vs. Zombies
Pizza Frenzy
through other means.
Also, from a physical/accessibility POV, how are Gemini Rue and To the Moon? Both look cool.
Thanks in advance, guys.
Puzzle Quest (1) is fantastic. Greed Corp didn't consume quite as much of my life, but is still enjoyable.
How beefy is your rig? If you can eun Civ V I would highly recommend that. Other Civ games are a solid bet too.
Frozen Synapse might be worth a look. A definite change of pace from the other games you listed.
Basically any game with a timerless "end turn" button should be worth a look.
Seconding the earlier Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes recommendation.
Turn based:
- King's Bounty, Hero Academy, and Dungeons of Dredmor are all worth your time. Anyone's time. They're essential "your library is not complete without them" type titles, imho.
- Galactic Civilizations II is like Civilization in space. It doesn't have multiplayer, so there are a lot of super cool (yet completely unbalanced) things that can happen, like (very rarely) alien progenitors returning and annihilating half the galaxy mid-game.
- RUSH, Disciples II, Cogs, and Cthulhu Saves the World might be worth a look.
Real time:
- DEFCON is an RTS, but you can set it to super slow speeds. It has an "Office Mode" where things travel at realistic rates. Games can run over an 8 hour period, with the window minimized most of the time. I've never tried this, but it sounded neat.
- Osmos is slow to start with, and it has a time control slider. You can slow down time to a crawl the entire game, if you like. I'm somehow still terrible at it.
- The KOTOR games, and also the Baulder's Gate games are real time, with a mash-space-to-pause-and-issue-commands feature.
Baulder's Gate (2 at least) also had auto pause breaks you could set (such as when a party member is low on health, when a weapon runs out of ammo, when a party member dies, after everyone's performed an action, etc).
I have also received a Steam Key for Anamoly from @rikdaly and a MYSTERY KEY from @DoctorArch which I can't redeem until I get home from work in about ten hours.
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But the payoff will be worth it once you do get it fixed.
@Gregalor is the Winner.
Top Classhole!
That's me, hehe. Thanks, Banzai! I will indeed report on how it plays.
It wouldn't be so bad if FTL wasn't so frustrating in the meantime.
I mean, yeah, that's the point, but when a drone downs the mothership for the last time a fraction of a second after the mothership kills my ship off...
I really need to find something you don't own. On the plus side, it's pay day today.
Unrelated: I finally finished Jade Empire! Adding a voice to the "it's a crime this property didn't get a sequel" crowd. I mean, I seem to remember it sold very well on the original Xbox when it came out. And it does manage to swing a few serious plot hits in there to throw the player, an activity i heartily endorse. Also quite liking the morality meter - it's trying to be less good/bad and more help people/make them help themselves - though the latter sadly tends to drift into "I'm a bad guy and I kick puppies!" territory.
Anyway, it was good. I might get around to a proper Bad Guy playthrough at some point, but now...to the backlog!
(Actually, I'm packing this weekend, so probably just try and do Episode 4 of The Walking Dead).
Oh, and thanks again to @Chocobolicious for giving me JE to play in the first place, waaaaaay back in February!
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I haven't played it in a long, long time, so I'm sure someone who has a better memory can chime in as to whether I am wrong, but that is one thing that sticks out in my mind about that game.
Well steamgifts own filter works pretty well as well. Thing is. You have to actually play Dota 2 and have some playtime on your steam account for them to pick up you actually own Dota. And then resync your account and whatnot.
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Why Borderlands of course!
There's always room for more loot. It's like Christmas.
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
Critical, biatch!
Man, classy people be classy in this thread.
Switch: SW-3515-0057-3813 FF XIV: Q'vehn Tia
You are most welcome. Welcome to the, "That wasn't really 12 hours that I just played it, was it?" club!
Full season of Sam & Max (Devil's Playhouse), Home, and MacGuffin's Curse on Steam. Also get Pathalogic (game from Icepick, and it's super weird) and EvilQuest. Haven't heard much about that last title but the rest all have pretty solid reputations.
Get my motherboard last night and install it, only to find I'm out of thermal paste and can't mount the CPU. Awesome. A trip to Radioshack tonight to grab some and then I cross my fingers. If this doesn't work, I'm at a loss.
Seconding the earlier Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes recommendation.
Turn based:
- King's Bounty, Hero Academy, and Dungeons of Dredmor are all worth your time. Anyone's time. They're essential "your library is not complete without them" type titles, imho.
- Galactic Civilizations II is like Civilization in space. It doesn't have multiplayer, so there are a lot of super cool (yet completely unbalanced) things that can happen, like (very rarely) alien progenitors returning and annihilating half the galaxy mid-game.
- RUSH, Disciples II, Cogs, and Cthulhu Saves the World might be worth a look.
Real time:
- DEFCON is an RTS, but you can set it to super slow speeds. It has an "Office Mode" where things travel at realistic rates. Games can run over an 8 hour period, with the window minimized most of the time. I've never tried this, but it sounded neat.
- Osmos is slow to start with, and it has a time control slider. You can slow down time to a crawl the entire game, if you like. I'm somehow still terrible at it.
- The KOTOR games, and also the Baulder's Gate games are real time, with a mash-space-to-pause-and-issue-commands feature.
This is true, but they're signposted and absurdly obvious. When the main character is told like ten times that if he takes on a certain quest, "everything you know will change," you know that something is up. Another point of no return is obviously a point of no return because common sense, and a dialog box actually comes up and explicitly tells you that you won't be able to complete any quests in a certain area if you proceed.
Edit: oops, double post. I'd merge, but there doesn't seem to be a delete button.
I will enjoy it!
twitch.tv/Taramoor
@TaramoorPlays
Taramoor on Youtube
38thDoE on steam
You can do custom filters, at least with the Firefox add-on. I have DOTA 2 filtered out.
Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst
Choose from Darksiders, Batman Arkham City GOTY, Metro 2033, Serious Sam 2nd Encounter, Darkness 2, and IL-2 Cliffs of Dover. 2 for 15 bucks.
All steam except Batman. Best deal is probably Batman + Darkness or Cliffs of Dover if that's your type of game.
Winner of the "asked for something other than Alan Wake" category is @cardboard delusions who wins the F3:NV everything pack.
Last week we were drinking at her friend's apt and she lives on the 5th floor of an NYC walk-up. We got a little high and when we were leaving, I was 'enlightened' to the idea of combining her two greatest fears. I only pondered the question, and asked what she would do if she was faced with them in this scenario since we were looking at going down a tremendous flight of stairs. That night she had the most torturous dream and kicked the shit out of me. She woke me to recount that she envisioned running down that staircase from earlier, but she slipped and fell and tumbled for what felt like forever while being chased with ET and his extended neck screaming the whole time. When I say irrational, I mean she literally cannot function or move, so I had to spend the rest of the early morning talking about penguins and ponies and magical places where ET and stairs don't exist.
Winner of the fiction category is @MOVE IT WITH BUNMASTER!!! who wins nothing due to owning over 700 games and a wishlist that doesn't line up with my inventory.
I vaguely remember the paperwork. It was all the usual things: how old was I? Was I healthy? Was I sure I was healthy? Have I engaged in sexual relations with members of my own sex? How indelible are the stains upon my soul? I feel my brow creasing. Were those usual questions? The concern fades as my number is called.
The chair looms.
I sit. "Make yourself comfortable," the shadow darting around my vision whispers, and I immediately become incredibly uncomfortable. "Let's see," the sibilant voice continues. "Ah! It's you."
Me?
"Number thirty-six. You're giving all your blood, yes?"
Am I? I squint at the paper as it is snapped in front of my face. Oh. So I am. I don't recall writing that, specifically, but there it is. Why did I do that? Isn't that unsafe?
"Oh, you're a doctor?"
Er, no.
"Well, then."
I nod, satisfied with that logic yet unable to shake the sensation of something deep within my mind screeching in alarm.
The shadow is continuing to zip about, while next to the chair a contrivance of sharp metal and twisted piping gradually rises. "There's a special t-shirt for giving all your blood," the voice mentions. "It's nice."
That sounds good. I grin as, beside the chair, the machine begins bearing down toward me, whirring louder, louder, louder.
The prize for best traditional nightmare goes to @testsubject23 who wins Ys Origins.
As a child, I was fond of this stop-motion animated TV show featuring a red and white stuffed bear who had a machine that could turn into just about anything - different configurations for different situations. I don't remember the name of the show, but I THINK this show was real - I remember watching it on TV a lot, so hopefully that part wasn't a dream too (though it's entirely possible it was all in my head).
In the dream, I had that machine, or maybe I was the bear from the show. Anyway, the dream started out fine - we made the machine be a car and drove it around for a while (I don't remember who was with me but I did have a companion). Things were dream-normal.
Then I found myself in a dark forest. The trees were close, but tall, so you could see fairly well without undergrowth because of the high canopy, but it was oddly still and somehow disturbing.
It was night in the forest, and we came to a clearing and stopped there. Suddenly my companion announced in a hushed, terrified tone that "the hunt was coming". Despite not knowing what the hunt was, I knew (as you do in dreams) that this was a Bad Thing, and a wash of fear came over me. For some reason, the only thing I could think of to do was to change the machine into a tower in the middle of the clearing. We hid at the top of the tower, while a procession of deer came into the clearing, and started running in a circle, in orderly single-file, around the tower. To my dream self, these deer were terrifying. The beating of their hooves in the dark was somehow awful and unnatural, and it was clear that if we weren't in the tower, we'd be in trouble somehow.
Then a man came into the clearing. His face was covered in a mask that had antlers attached to it. He walked up to the circle of running deer, and produced a long blade from somewhere, which he stuck out at neck level to the deer. They ran on, past where the man stood, and as they ran past the blade their heads were struck off, but the bodies of the deer ran onward, so that after a while there were a pile of decapitated deer heads near the man, and a circle of running, headless deer surrounding my tower.
Absolute horror is the best way to describe my emotional state, at that point. I was just a child, after all, and had never seen anything decapitated before, let alone survive it to continue on in some mockery of death.
Then the man *looked up at me*, right into my eyes, and it was like he saw into me. It felt like a violation, cold and menacing. Then I woke up.
I woke up in the hallway of our house, just outside the walk-in closet. My mother was holding me with a fearful look on her face. I was still scared, but mostly relieved to be away from the dream, so I let her put me back to sleep in my room. The next morning she told me she had found me inside the walk-in closet, rummaging through things and apparently trying to get toward the back of the closet. She tried to get my attention, but I wouldn't look at her, and when she asked why I told her it was because there were spiders on her face. Eventually, for lack of other options, she grabbed me, at which point I started failing my limbs and screaming, and then woke up.
To this day I have absolutely no memory of being in that closet, and I have no idea why I dreamed of this, but it still freaks me out to think about it. It was YEARS before I was able to get the image of those deer out of my brain.
To my adult mind, decades later, the dream reminds me of the myths of Hern and the Wild Hunt, but as a child I had no idea about these things. I don't even think I'd seen a deer before, apart from pictures. Even at the time I had no idea where such disturbing images had come from. Much of my dreaming as a kid was like that - as adults we can rationalize our dreams as reflections of our current inner state, but to dream of things as a child, things you haven't ever encountered, or even conceived of before, was really really strange, even at the time.
Finally, the grand prize winner of an all expenses paid trip to Alan Wake's package is @shdwcaster:
So while not a nightmare in the "Oogy-Boogy" sense, waking up out of a deep sleep because in my dream, my wife rolled over, looked at me and said "Guess what, Honey, I'm pregnant again!" has been far more terrifying than any other nightmare I've ever had.
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Baulder's Gate (2 at least) also had auto pause breaks you could set (such as when a party member is low on health, when a weapon runs out of ammo, when a party member dies, after everyone's performed an action, etc).
- Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (full season) for: steam (pc, mac)
- Home for: steam (pc), windows, desura
- Pathologic for: windows, desura
- MacGuffin's Curse for: steam (pc, mac), windows, mac, desura
- EvilQuest for: windows, desura
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It's not the first season, in fact I think it's the last, which is sort of a weird choice.