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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    FTL is a game that dangles the idea of a game infront of you, while mercilessly going FUCK YOU, PLAYER pewpewwooshkaboom goodbye ship.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    I remember liking Rainbow Six when I watched a friend play it on his 360, but I don't know which one it was. It was probably Vegas?

    It's standard squad shooter gameplay, right? Breaching doors, you go here, you go there, tango down, etc?

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  • Mercutio87Mercutio87 So build that wall and build it strong cause We'll be there before too longRegistered User regular
    @Ruiner999 wanted to teach me a lesson about the proper care and handling of our young, and gifted me Offspring Fling! I look forward to playing this educational title.

  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    On that note, how's that Worms game? Worth it?

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    FTL is a game that dangles the idea of a game infront of you, while mercilessly going FUCK YOU, PLAYER pewpewwooshkaboom goodbye ship.

    Is this the sort of game where you're better off going in blind, mess up, and learn new things with each experience? Or should I start on an Easy setting or consult a few hint guides to avoid a pre-emptive level of frustration that puts me off the game?

    Based on what I've read, it sounds like it's the former. There is some intrigue in venturing into the unknown (I know it gets tossed around a lot, but I'm thinking Dark Souls).

  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    The question is do I buy FTL or FTL plus the soundtrack?

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  • PodunkPodunk Registered User regular
    After seeing better deals have happened I think I'm going to take a wait and see on Sleeping Dogs. I'd rather get more bang for my buck with my Christmas steam bucks. Why are people buying Fairy Bloom Freesia? And to re-ask are there any good brawlers on Steam?

    I grabbed Kung Fu Strike for a brawler. It's like $2.50. It's not too bad.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    FTL is a game that dangles the idea of a game infront of you, while mercilessly going FUCK YOU, PLAYER pewpewwooshkaboom goodbye ship.

    Is this the sort of game where you're better off going in blind, mess up, and learn new things with each experience? Or should I start on an Easy setting or consult a few hint guides to avoid a pre-emptive level of frustration that puts me off the game?

    Based on what I've read, it sounds like it's the former. There is some intrigue in venturing into the unknown (I know it gets tossed around a lot, but I'm thinking Dark Souls).

    Go in blind then read up on what you have to do to unlock all the other ships when you get sick of the other ones exploding.

  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    So earlier this morning, we were all talking in chat and I mentioned that I was tired because over the last few nights this guy (the one on the right)

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    has decided that he no longer wanted to sleep in four hour blocks during the night, but instead decided that he's going to wake up every hour, on the hour, and only drink an ounce of milk at the hour thus ensuring that he wakes up hungry in another hour. (I say this with love).

    So a little bit ago @Lord_Snot aka Gonzo Snot sends me this message:
    Docarch,

    Hey man, sorry to hear that minidocarch is keeping you awake at night, so have this game which (as I understand) manages to tell a good story in a short time

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    attached to Thirty Flights of Loving. Thanks Snot!

    Unfortunately, @Drake also wanted to be classy at the same time and also sent me Thirty Flights of Loving to enjoy. My apologies Drake, but I must decline your wonderful gift as Snot beat you to the punch by about fifteen minutes.

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  • LawndartLawndart Registered User regular
    For the life of me I cannot decide if you have a very tiny child or a very large cat.

    Seriously, your baby is this close to riding your cat around the house like He-Man.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    wanna squeeze yo cat

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  • CatalaseCatalase Registered User regular
    Wanted to thank @Corpekata for his Civ 5 giveway. Thanks, you good classy sir :)

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    Lawndart wrote: »
    Lawndart wrote: »
    For the life of me I cannot decide if you have a very tiny child or a very large cat.

    Seriously, your baby is this close to riding your cat around the house like He-Man.

    I can see how it can be confusing.

    The child is 12 pounds.

    The cat is 20 and honest-to-God huge and not fat.

    But I like the He-Man idea.

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  • Mike DangerMike Danger "Diane..." a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
    edited December 2012
    Karoz wrote: »
    The question is do I buy FTL or FTL plus the soundtrack?

    Get the soundtrack. One of the combat tracks is clearly a riff on the TAIKO DRUMS EVERYWHERE battle themes from Battlestar Galactica. It's great.

    Edit: Also, he's not in this thread (if he is it would be kind of creepy), but I gifted my friend-in-real-life Superbrothers when I was buying a gift copy for another friend, and he gifted me back the new Penny Arcade game. So that was cool!

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  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    So.

    I get to work this morning, and I'm sippin' at a coffee-machine mocha with a couple marshmallows melting in the top, goin' through e-mails and browsing the forums, when I notice this little red envelope icon up top. Curiously, I click it, and within I find a cryptic message from @Jclast about saving Dubai with a sequence of letters and numbers attached.

    I accept this code with humility, but had to wait all day just to get home and find out what it is.

    Top Engineers were able to devise that it unlocks Spec Ops: The Line directly into my steam account. What a classy fellow!

  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    So I just traded a bunch of old TF2 garbage hats I had lying around for keys which I then sold on the community marketplace and used that wallet money to buy The Walking Dead.

    I think it's pretty goddamn cool that I turned hats that I earned while enjoying TF2 into a new game.

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    Scosglen wrote: »
    So I just traded a bunch of old TF2 garbage hats I had lying around for keys which I then sold on the community marketplace and used that wallet money to buy The Walking Dead.

    I think it's pretty goddamn cool that I turned hats that I earned while enjoying TF2 into a new game.

    I just hope one of those items wasn't Bill's hat.

    No matter what they offer or how much, I will never give up Bill's hat.

  • SaarutoSaaruto Registered User regular
    @Mercutio87 ninja'd me The Binding of Isaac. The scoundrel. I will have my vengeance.

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  • Al BaronAl Baron Registered User regular
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    18 more hours left.

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  • BroncbusterBroncbuster Registered User regular
    Scosglen wrote: »
    So I just traded a bunch of old TF2 garbage hats I had lying around for keys which I then sold on the community marketplace and used that wallet money to buy The Walking Dead.

    I think it's pretty goddamn cool that I turned hats that I earned while enjoying TF2 into a new game.

    I guess I should try this as I don't hatfortress.

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  • ElinElin Registered User regular
    @Banzai5150 decided I needed to be a Fairy Princess and gifted me Fairy Bloom Freesia. Thank you, maybe a beat-em-up will improve my mood (along with the chocolate my husband just brought home.)

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  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    So earlier this morning, we were all talking in chat and I mentioned that I was tired because over the last few nights this guy (the one on the right)

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    has decided that he no longer wanted to sleep in four hour blocks during the night, but instead decided that he's going to wake up every hour, on the hour, and only drink an ounce of milk at the hour thus ensuring that he wakes up hungry in another hour. (I say this with love).

    So a little bit ago @Lord_Snot aka Gonzo Snot sends me this message:
    Docarch,

    Hey man, sorry to hear that minidocarch is keeping you awake at night, so have this game which (as I understand) manages to tell a good story in a short time

    ,
    attached to Thirty Flights of Loving. Thanks Snot!

    Unfortunately, @Drake also wanted to be classy at the same time and also sent me Thirty Flights of Loving to enjoy. My apologies Drake, but I must decline your wonderful gift as Snot beat you to the punch by about fifteen minutes.

    No sweat, I'm sure I can find a good home for this swell game.

    Hope your little duder lets you get some sleep. :)

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited December 2012
    WHOOPS GUESS I SPOKE TOO SOON ON HOTLINE MIAMI

    The devs decided "Shit, let's make sure the player isn't having fun!" and made the end of the game a chore that sucks.

    Sterica on
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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    Away from my computer for 6 days, 2500 new posts. Yeah, no, I'm sure it's full of amazing cheer and generosity though. I tried to keep up with Steam sales on my phone, but I'm sure I missed a few. Haven't really been interested in much this sale though. Not sure if it's because I feel absolutely crushed under my gamebank or because I'm so used to cheap games they all still seem expensive even if they're $6...

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    Alright, apparently everyone I know and have asked has Cave Story already. Surely someone here wants it and does not have it, right?

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    Please let me know when this is activated!

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  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    WHOOPS GUESS I SPOKE TOO SOON ON HOTLINE MIAMI

    The devs decided "Shit, let's make sure the player isn't having fun!" and made the end of the game a chore that sucks.

    yeah its weird

    I don't get why they decided to randomly lock away most of the mechanics and force you to just stick with one weapon and its so dumb

  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    edited December 2012
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    WHOOPS GUESS I SPOKE TOO SOON ON HOTLINE MIAMI

    The devs decided "Shit, let's make sure the player isn't having fun!" and made the end of the game a chore that sucks.

    I got stuck on that "you're dead meat" guy for a full half hour. Some of the levels are way more frustrating than others though; trial and error is not fun here, that disco level? They randomly assign a weapon to the guy in the one single corridor you're forced to walk down. If he has melee, great, you can proceed to the next room. If not, fuck you try again.

    ALSO!

    The Basement Bundle is all one game on Steam! Weird.

    Also Meat Boy lacks controller support, which reduces me from Golden God status down to like, Bronze Nub status. It's so much harder. Don't think I'll be 100% this. D:

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Alright, apparently everyone I know and have asked has Cave Story already. Surely someone here wants it and does not have it, right?

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    Please let me know when this is activated!

    Thanks @Reynolds ! I have corrected this deficiency in my library.

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    Huh? I rolled through that epilogue in maybe an hour. His runspeed is ridiculous stabstabstabstabstabstabstab

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    WHOOPS GUESS I SPOKE TOO SOON ON HOTLINE MIAMI

    The devs decided "Shit, let's make sure the player isn't having fun!" and made the end of the game a chore that sucks.

    Turf? Turf's not that bad when you know what to do though it is different and a pain in the ass until then.

    Turf Spoilers
    grab the cup backtrack the cats while just swinging away, as soon as the next part starts be some distance from the sword distance, whip cup at one eye, ground execute, hide behind pillar until guy finishes shooting then if you're fast enough you can get the two knifes into him if not get one and hide again.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    FTL and Space Marine on sale

    why can't I stay responsible

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    Funny, ToyD won both my giveaways during summer, too. Enjoy!

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    So, my son Luke was born on Dec 31st, and will be turning TWO in just a few days!
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    That picture was bigger than I thought it'd be.

    In celebration, it's time for some giveaways!
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    and header_292x136.jpg?t=1290635383 which I can't find on SteamGifts so PM me to enter to win!

    All giveaways end just before the new year!

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    What happened to ArmA X Anniversary Edition? Did it get delisted for some reason, or did it sell out?

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    Noooo, why is the binding of isaac expansion only 74 cents I wanted to be free of that game...

  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    I posted in the TWD thread but I'll ask here too since we sometimes discuss steam games and there are a lot of eyes here.

    I am playing through EP1 for Walking Dead and I'm noticing a slight issue with some momentary hitching during camera transitions in cutscenes. It's like the game doesn't quite have the next cut loaded up yet and takes an extra fraction of a second to catch up while the audio plays. It was really distracting during the opening scene with Walkers.

    Is anyone familiar with this issue or know a way to correct it?

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited December 2012
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    WHOOPS GUESS I SPOKE TOO SOON ON HOTLINE MIAMI

    The devs decided "Shit, let's make sure the player isn't having fun!" and made the end of the game a chore that sucks.

    Turf? Turf's not that bad when you know what to do though it is different and a pain in the ass until then.

    Turf Spoilers
    grab the cup backtrack the cats while just swinging away, as soon as the next part starts be some distance from the sword distance, whip cup at one eye, ground execute, hide behind pillar until guy finishes shooting then if you're fast enough you can get the two knifes into him if not get one and hide again.
    It's Trauma. You know, when the game decides to just stop being Hotline Miami and something completely shitty instead.

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    Scosglen wrote: »
    I posted in the TWD thread but I'll ask here too since we sometimes discuss steam games and there are a lot of eyes here.

    I am playing through EP1 for Walking Dead and I'm noticing a slight issue with some momentary hitching during camera transitions in cutscenes. It's like the game doesn't quite have the next cut loaded up yet and takes an extra fraction of a second to catch up while the audio plays. It was really distracting during the opening scene with Walkers.

    Is anyone familiar with this issue or know a way to correct it?

    Lowering the shadows fixed it for me.

  • MoosehatIVMoosehatIV Saw a blimp once Registered User regular
    @DoctorArch proved themselves to be entirely too classy by gifting me with grimrock for the simple reason "No one else on my friends list didnt have it already"

    So. Cool.

    EXPECT RETRIBUTION, DOCTOR.

  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    So work is, as expected, fucking terrible. Tell me something entertaining happened.

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