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I tried, I tried, I tried...
This is probably easiest. The remaining Origin/Sims 3 keys I have are going to be listed below. They are random, and will be one of the following:
Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box
Dead Space
MoH
Sims 3 (this is a thesims.com key; whoever gets this one, contact me for the expansion pack code I have)
Populous
BF3
Crysis 2 ME
I have 15 platformers (well, one isn't but I like it and thought maybe someone else would want it so shut up) to give away to those that enjoy them and might have missed some of these. Alright, now let's get this party started! To participate, just PM me with the name of the game(s) that you would like and then send me a friend request on Steam if we aren't friends already. The games are:
To reiterate, just PM with the name of the game(s) you want and add me as a friend on Steam! If there are any games that aren't claimed by tomorrow night or maybe the next day then I'll just have to find random people to give them to!
I think the only shooters I own are ones that are RPGesque and are single player. So, Bioshock, Fallout, etc. I should look at getting Borderlands; perhaps if I still have money and it doesn't dip below 75%, I'll get it before the sale goes off on the GOTY edition.
♪♫ What do you do with a BA in English? What is my life going to be?
Four years of college, and plenty of knowledge. Have earned me this useless degree! ♪♫
Answer:
Work for the state, teach, or flip burgers.
Or give a shot at becoming a writer.
I wasn't meaning to tease - I just can't see the phrase "a BA in English" without this popping into my head:
I found Alan wake to be pretty, haven't beaten it yet I think I'm on the chapter after the national forest type place. It's in the backlog, but overall the only thing that I don't like a great deal is the combat, the dodge is easily the more clunky part about the combat, but the story, and atmosphere have made it so worth it.
The combat is serviceable at best in my experience with the game. I left off at pretty much this exact point too. The presentation is so good though. It also draws some inspiration from Twin Peaks which gives it a lot of mileage in my book. The Stephen King inspirations are plain and well done too. It's a linear, story driven and atmospheric experience with combat that isn't as good as their Max Payne games. I think they really nailed the tone and setting though, as really only Remedy does. If you enjoyed stuff like the TV shows in Max Payne then you will find a lot of similar world building in Alan Wake to enjoy.
Opinions on Alan Wake are pretty much an unknown
When you play it, your feelings on it will then be shown.
It's certainly something my taste on it have grown.
Also, I really dig their TV homage to Twilight Zone.
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BeryllineOne Tiara to rule them allRegistered Userregular
edited December 2013
So, talking about games is dangerous. It's also dangerous to mention how silly it is that a game is cheaper in a package than by itself, yet you can't add that package to your wishlist. @Ultrahonky: Lord of the Jive Turkeys solved my conundrum by gifting me the package before I put any of it on the wishlist. Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to getting my Katamari on, and will now have the chance for some free-falling, too!
Also if you play Alan Wake, playing Deadly Premonition afterwards is like... I don't know, if Alan Wake ended up being that open-world thing it was originally going to be, but made by some Japanese people?
Belated thanks (due to holiday travelings) to @Jragghen for the sweet Holiday Choo Choo for Train Simulator, and to @SniperGuy for Natural Selection 2!!
I looked and thought there were quite a few good deals at the moment, then I realized that I have most of the ones I consider good deals.
It's happening you guys, soon I'll be trying to buy things and finding that I already own them.
As it stands, I see some good gifting fodder today as well. YAY FODDER!!!
Nope. (As someone who bought it 'back when', I'm pretty sure that's at or near the price I paid; which suggests that they don't want to "cheat" the early backers, like many other early access / Kickstarted games.)
And let me confirm what others have said, with the added perspective of having watched this grow from "consult a sheet of numbers to see if your rocket is in a stable orbit" to a whole solar system full of SCIENCE, with more on the way: it's definitely worth it.
This is why I attempt to mainly focus my talk towards games I already have, or games that have yet to go on sale?
Another good technique is to be as vague as possible...and/or keep some of the games you want off your wishlist! That sometimes works!
Many people just do a <redacted> thing for any games they mention by name in posts. Seems to work. But if @Big Classy's around, you run the risk of him buying your entire fucking wishlist, of course... ;-) I say this knowing he's done. I've been told he's done. Right? Oh, god, what have I done! REDACT! REDACT!!
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Yeah Kerbals could be fully released right now, and be a complete game. It's already super fun, challenging, hilarious and can be very beautiful. That it's still in beta with plenty more content to come just makes things all the sweeter. I usually skip updates, and it's like I'm getting a whole new game every two updates. But with the career mode patched in, and a whole bunch of goals to achieve and things to find, and rocket parts to unlock, it's become pretty deep and actually more accessible to new players (due to being less overwhelming with rocket parts).
Many people just do a <redacted> thing for any games they mention by name in posts. Seems to work. But if @Big Classy's around, you run the risk of him buying your entire fucking wishlist, of course... ;-) I say this knowing he's done. I've been told he's done. Right? Oh, god, what have I done! REDACT! REDACT!!
It doesn't even matter if you have a wishlist or not, he'll find you.
Just curious, I can't go to Steam itself to ask (work) but was wondering does anyone have the list of badges available for being a terrible Steam game hoarder and how many games you have to own to get them?
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KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
It's been pointed out that Alan Wake is more of a thriller, and not exactly horror per se. Supernatural elements notwithstanding, it's an action game through-and-through and it doesn't try for jump scares or anything.
That said, I loved the hell out of the series, including the DLC and especially American Nightmare. It has a nice self-aware quality to it, where it's almost a plot point that the story sounds like something a third-rate hack would come up with. Alan starts off as kind of a knob, but he and his friends grew on me throughout the game, and the acting is pretty well done across the board. It'd be remiss not to mention the soundtrack, which is one of the best uses of licensed music outside a game with a dedicated radio station; Remedy probably has a red phone in their office that connects to Poets of the Fall at a moment's notice.
It is, unfortunately, quite repetitive. Most of the game is wandering around eerily dark forests, using your flashlight to tear away the shadows protecting out-of-focus bad guys and then blasting them with guns. Occasionally it mixes things up with a driving sequence, or depriving you of the gun or flashlight, but overall combat wasn't anything special - it wasn't bad, just unremarkable. That said, if you've got a good computer the forests and environments look really nice, especially when shit starts getting real and the shadows close in.
On sale, the whole series is four bucks, which is a goddamn bargain if you had even a passing interest in checking it out. If you're not flat broke, I say go for it.
Did I mention the soundtrack is awesome? It bears repeating.
So I saw the logo for Outlast on the Steam main page, and sort of glossed over it a few times. On about the 5th or 6th glance I noticed the eyes and face and almost shit myself.
Watched the trailer afterwards. Damn game looks terrifying. I will never touch it.
I walked right into a trap, @Berylline sends me a friend request and I think, It's a cute bunny, how bad could it be? BAM I wake up on a Martian round table. Thanks for the Mars and Excalibur Pinball FX tables!
I meant to ask yesterday, but should I pick it up for its local Co-opness? Been trying to find games that the kids and I can play together on the same screen. I saw it tagged as that, whats the learning curve / difficulty of it if a 6 year old were playing?
Is it strange that I've never heard of the Wizardry games?
Edit: No, really, I just had to look them up, and I'm still trying to figure them out.
Re:edit: So, Roleplaying Dungeon Crawlers? Interesting. Seems a bit like Etrian Odyssey and the like from the pictures I found. How hard are they?
The early ones came out in the late 80s, early 90s, with the D&D gold box games, early Ultimas, and the like. I remember them back in high school when I was devouring all the PC rpgs I could.
Is it strange that I've never heard of the Wizardry games?
Edit: No, really, I just had to look them up, and I'm still trying to figure them out.
Re:edit: So, Roleplaying Dungeon Crawlers? Interesting. Seems a bit like Etrian Odyssey and the like from the pictures I found. How hard are they?
The early ones came out in the late 80s, early 90s, with the D&D gold box games, early Ultimas, and the like. I remember them back in high school when I was devouring all the PC rpgs I could.
See, I was a Nintendo kid. We had that, not a computer. So that explains my dearth of knowledge on the subject.
It seems they were influential in the format of the Dragon Quest games. Damn if they aren't grindquests, but I do love me those games.
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Just curious, I can't go to Steam itself to ask (work) but was wondering does anyone have the list of badges available for being a terrible Steam game hoarder and how many games you have to own to get them?
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This is probably easiest. The remaining Origin/Sims 3 keys I have are going to be listed below. They are random, and will be one of the following:
Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box
Dead Space
MoH
Sims 3 (this is a thesims.com key; whoever gets this one, contact me for the expansion pack code I have)
Populous
BF3
Crysis 2 ME
Good luck!
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Opinions on Alan Wake are pretty much an unknown
When you play it, your feelings on it will then be shown.
It's certainly something my taste on it have grown.
Also, I really dig their TV homage to Twilight Zone.
STEAM ID: Firebird
XBOX Live: FirebirdLR
Playstation: FirebirdXR
This is why I attempt to mainly focus my talk towards games I already have, or games that have yet to go on sale?
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Don't think so. It's still worth every penny. I've bought probably 5 gift copies at 40% in various sales since I got into it.
It's happening you guys, soon I'll be trying to buy things and finding that I already own them.
As it stands, I see some good gifting fodder today as well. YAY FODDER!!!
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Fall down seven times. Stand up eight.
Another good technique is to be as vague as possible...and/or keep some of the games you want off your wishlist! That sometimes works!
Twitch/Mudzgut
Fall down seven times. Stand up eight.
Nope. (As someone who bought it 'back when', I'm pretty sure that's at or near the price I paid; which suggests that they don't want to "cheat" the early backers, like many other early access / Kickstarted games.)
And let me confirm what others have said, with the added perspective of having watched this grow from "consult a sheet of numbers to see if your rocket is in a stable orbit" to a whole solar system full of SCIENCE, with more on the way: it's definitely worth it.
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
Nope, and the only time it's ever been cheaper is a year or more ago when it was only sold through their site.
Many people just do a <redacted> thing for any games they mention by name in posts. Seems to work. But if @Big Classy's around, you run the risk of him buying your entire fucking wishlist, of course... ;-) I say this knowing he's done. I've been told he's done. Right? Oh, god, what have I done! REDACT! REDACT!!
It doesn't even matter if you have a wishlist or not, he'll find you.
If I left things I wanted off my wishlist, I'd forget which ones I wanted.
It's not my fault! There are so many shiny things on Steam! How else am I supposed to keep track of them all!
Thanks for Starbound!
That said, I loved the hell out of the series, including the DLC and especially American Nightmare. It has a nice self-aware quality to it, where it's almost a plot point that the story sounds like something a third-rate hack would come up with. Alan starts off as kind of a knob, but he and his friends grew on me throughout the game, and the acting is pretty well done across the board. It'd be remiss not to mention the soundtrack, which is one of the best uses of licensed music outside a game with a dedicated radio station; Remedy probably has a red phone in their office that connects to Poets of the Fall at a moment's notice.
It is, unfortunately, quite repetitive. Most of the game is wandering around eerily dark forests, using your flashlight to tear away the shadows protecting out-of-focus bad guys and then blasting them with guns. Occasionally it mixes things up with a driving sequence, or depriving you of the gun or flashlight, but overall combat wasn't anything special - it wasn't bad, just unremarkable. That said, if you've got a good computer the forests and environments look really nice, especially when shit starts getting real and the shadows close in.
On sale, the whole series is four bucks, which is a goddamn bargain if you had even a passing interest in checking it out. If you're not flat broke, I say go for it.
Did I mention the soundtrack is awesome? It bears repeating.
Edit: I now have a strong taste for coffee.
Watched the trailer afterwards. Damn game looks terrifying. I will never touch it.
The bundle is actually still at -75% so it only cost a dollar more than during the flash sale.
Which means that I still have another set. Watching. Waiting for the right time to send some poor soul down that terrible road.
Edit: No, really, I just had to look them up, and I'm still trying to figure them out.
Re:edit: So, Roleplaying Dungeon Crawlers? Interesting. Seems a bit like Etrian Odyssey and the like from the pictures I found. How hard are they?
It's my first giveaway, so tell me how I should handle it.
Wow. No coffee = Bad brain. I meant Spelunky.
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The early ones came out in the late 80s, early 90s, with the D&D gold box games, early Ultimas, and the like. I remember them back in high school when I was devouring all the PC rpgs I could.
Bah, OK, I can only play castle crashers and bookworm buddies so much. Ill keep an eye out for something else.
Thanks!
Trade offer sent! I love that you can do these asynchronous and via web now.
See, I was a Nintendo kid. We had that, not a computer. So that explains my dearth of knowledge on the subject.
It seems they were influential in the format of the Dragon Quest games. Damn if they aren't grindquests, but I do love me those games.
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I'm catching up on this thread and now I'm wondering where the "what in the hell?" button is.