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ioloiolo ioloRegistered User regular
edited April 2014 in Games and Technology
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Welcome to the Steam thread!

This is a pretty neat community of people who like to talk about video games, sales, digital distribution, hat economies, classiness and classholery. We enjoy long walks on the beach, digital hoarding, gifting, the suffering of longtime members, and raising money for charity.

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This is a big, busy thread. There are some guidelines to keep things nice and orderly:
  • Be civil.
  • This thread is for Steam-related discussion. Try to look for other, more appropriate threads before discussing games or other topics in here. Let's not drain other threads of precious content!
  • If you feel someone's acting inappropriately, then quietly report the responsible parties to forum mods.
  • Don't post links to active kickstarters without prior mod permission. Forum-wide rule.
  • Linking your Steam profile in your sig will help community members find you, see what kinds of games you like, invite you to MP games, etc.
  • Do not beg for games.

We have two core Steam groups: Both of these groups have chat, and both are used sometimes to try to limit giveaways to community members. If you've just arrived, hang out here in the thread for a while and talk games with us before you ask for membership. When you do ask, include a link to your Steam profile. Steam name search is poop from a butt.

Penny Arcade is a general Steam group for folks from the PA forums.

PA G&T Adventure Team is a group that was originally created to get multi/coop going without having to make a million game-specific groups, especially for smaller or older titles. Because it is actively moderated a lot of folks use it as a giveaway group (to avoid problems we've had in the past with non-forumers scooping up gifts intended for the community.) Membership is locked during major sales.
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Occasionally we also go on quests to slay a dragon and win the heart of a princess
The Newell needs those hearts (apparently they are used as power supply for the Steam servers).

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Sometimes people gift games.
  • Don't feel that you have to gift games to be a part of this community. It's just one of many things that go on. Some people can give lots of games. Some people can give a game or two a year. Some people make amazing images. Some people find hidden indie gems and report about them. Some people relay amazing gaming moments. Some people report sales. Some people are hysterical. Etc. There are many ways to participate in this community. Gifting is just one of them and is not required.
  • If you run a contest, have entries PMed to you. The thread gets too cluttered otherwise. You can, however, post the winning entries.
  • If you receive a gift, then take a moment to thank the gifter. Use the notification system so they can see your thank you post! ( @NAME. Use quotes around names with spaces.) See below for an example.
  • If you win a Steamgifts giveaway, in addition to thanking the gifter, be sure to mark the gift as received on Steamgifts. You tie up a gift 'slot' for the gifter until you do.
  • In addition to contests, wishlist gifting, ninja gifting, revenge gifting, pile-on gifting and Steamgifts.com giveaways, we have the new [ codes ][ /codes ] tags which can fire off one or more Steam codes (or activation links). More info about [ codes ] below.

A Steam thread participant preparing for gifting...
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If you want to @ someone with spaces in their name, use quotation marks around the name so it looks like this:

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Which will then turn into this:

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Rare footage of a gift fight in action...
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Steam sales are legendary. From small to honking massive:

Daily Deals: One game a day goes on sale at 10am PT for 24 hours.

Midweek Madness: Starts 10am PT Tuesday and ends Thursday afternoon.

Weekend Sale: Starts midday Thursday and ends with the sale rollover Monday. Sometimes accompanies free play weekends for MP titles.

Publisher Sale: Many of the publishers games will get a modest discount with a single title or franchise getting a featured day with a deeper discount. Follow the big sale guidelines.

Seasonal Sales: Mardi Gras time here in the thread. Huge swaths of games go on discount, with daily specials, flash sales, community vote sales, and whatever else the evil geniuses at Valve cook up to separate us from our money. There are often metagames such as sale achievements or collectibles or other madness that rewards buying, playing and gifting games and participating in Steam's community. The summer sale usually starts in the last week of June and runs for two weeks, and the Winter sale usually runs for two weeks across Christmas and New Year's.

Other retailers like Amazon and Green Man Gaming get into the act now too, so there are often great values to be had during sales for Steam-activatable games from other sites.

Seasonal Sales are basically a big deal around this thread.

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Important Note: If you are waiting for a particular game, be sure to mind the countdown timer on the game's store page. Starting Winter 2013, the last day of the sale was just a recap of top sellers. Most games went back to full price.

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How do I join the Steam groups?
Membership to the two Steam groups is for reasonably active community members. If you have been on the PA forums for a while and have participated, post a link to your Steam profile here in the thread and a Steam group mod will take care of you.

If you've been on the forums for three days during a major sale and your only posts have been to casually express your strong desire for certain games, your request is unlikely to find a positive reception. Ditto if your very first post on the forum is to ask for group membership. Sadly this does happen sometimes.

The best parts of this community are available to you now just by showing up. Read some posts, make some posts, ask to be invited as a guest to chat, buy some games, play some games, etc. Group membership is modest icing on delicious cake.

Warning: This guy's going to make you buy games. All the games.
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Where are you guys getting those nifty Steam Signatures?
Check out Alabaster Slim for his lovely signature generator. Also, don't click the Calculator link in the top bar unless you want to discover how much money you've put into your Steam account. Because there'd be absolutely no reason you'd want to know that.

How do the new [codes ][ /codes] tags even work?

Put a series of Steam activation codes (or activation links, or movie quotes, or winning lottery numbers...) inside the tags, each on its own line like this (without the spaces inside the brackets, of course):
[codes ]code 1
code 2
code 3
...
code n[/codes]

That will create a little box with a clickable link and a number. Each forumer who clicks the link will get a popup and a PM with the next line. Each line can only be sent out once and each forumer can only click once. It was originally designed to allow developers to hand out lots of codes for a game without some goose grabbing the lot.

Just one code thingy per post!

Note: [ code ][ /code ] is a different tag. Be sure to get that "s" up in there!

Trading cards? Badges? Steam profile levels? Boosters? FOILS?! What the hell?
Some games (more every week) now have trading cards. You can earn some of these cards by playing/idling the game. Some of them you'll need to get by trading or buying them from the Steam community market. Completing a set lets you craft a badge, which gives you an emoticon, a profile wallpaper, a coupon (usually) and profile experience. Leveling up your profile increase your friend cap, earns you customization options for your Steam profile and, allegedly, increases your chances of getting a booster. Boosters are packs of three cards that show up in your inventory sometimes. You can open them or sell them on the market. Sometimes cards are foil. Each game has a regular badge with five levels and a single-level foil badge.

But that's pure, diabolical evil!
Yes, that's right.

Can we trade cards in the thread?
You can but it's inefficient. Use the Steam feature that shows you which of your friends has the cards you are looking for. Oh, and join the Steam group we created for trading cards: PA Card Sharks

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Is Steam down?!
Is it Tuesday? It's probably scheduled maintenance.

It's not Tuesday. Is Steam down?!
http://issteamdown.com/

What are you people talking about? Why hats and what is an "Isy?"
Check out the handy Steam Thread Primer, written by @Smokestacks!
Steam Thread Primer:

Gaben/The Newell - Gabe Newell, Director of Valve Software. Called "Gaben" because in the commentary for older Source Engine games he would tell players to email him at "Gabe N. at valvesoftware.com" with user feedback. Used to be the subject of a lot of weight-related jokes, but those have sort of fallen out of fashion.

Serve the Newell - To buy games on Steam, to give Gaben your money. From this comic edit.

Bad Rats - An incredibly awful 'physics' based puzzle game, available on Steam, notorious for being as awkward as it is broken. Will haunt your dreams. Popular gift to give to people.

Gifting - Buying a game on Steam and giving it to another person.

Class - An attribute demonstrated by people who will generously purchase games and then give them to internet strangers.

Class War - When two or more forumers buy each other games back and forth until one of them gives up. I know this sounds really crazy, but it happens.

Bundle - Originally the Humble Indie Bundle, which was a "pay what you want" system for a group of games, now usually means any website selling a group of games (usually able to be registered on Steam) for a low price.

The Group/The Steam Group - The Penny Arcade Steam Group. Although this usually refers to the main PA Steam groups, there are many PA groups on Steam for various games (for example, PA Crime Time for Payday: The Heist).

Giveaway/A Giveaway - Usually refers to a giveaway on Steamgifts.com, a website where you list a game you want to give away, people enter, and then a winner is randomly decided among all entrants after a set time period.

Tuftoo - A corruption of "TF2" (Team Fortress 2)

Hats/The Hatconomy - The purchase and sale of in-game hats or sometimes other items in TF2. Some hats are very valuable, which is funny because they are just hats for videogame characters. People who have valuable hats or other items in their inventories sometimes get messages from random people on Steam begging for those items.

Boner Toots - Bientôt l'été, a game on Steam. Super artsy-fartsy pretentious "art" game. Also sometimes gifted as a joke.

Backlog - The list of games you have purchased, but have not gotten around to playing yet. Tends to grow over time, often to immense proportions. If you do not have a backlog yet, between the thread and the sales you will get one.

Spies/Russian Spies - People who lurk the thread or try to get into the various PA Steam groups not to participate in the community, but instead in order to try and get free games from the classy people here.

Steamsigs - Custom forum signatures that display a link to your Steam profile, as well as an image of a game you are currently playing, have played the most in the last two weeks, or have played the most over all time (if you haven't played any games on Steam in the last two weeks). Available here courtesy of forumer Suds. Having a Steam sig (or some sort of clickable link to your Steam profile in your signature) makes it considerably easier for people to add you to their friends list.

Child's Play - A charity started by the writer and artist behind PA that raises money for videogames/toys that go to children's hospitals, originally started in '03, has grown every year. Helps sick kids feel better about their time in the hospital while simultaneously refuting the idea that gamers are antisocial jerks.

Isy - Big Classy, a forumer. Formerly known as "Big Isy", he was granted the new name after donating a hefty amount of money to Child's Play during a fundraiser. Sometimes referred to as Isy, which might cause confusion to people who haven't been around very long.

The Sale/Summer Sale/Winter Sale/etc - Seasonal Steam sales. Home to absolutely ridiculously good deals. We are edging closer to the Summer Sale right now. I recommend saving up a few bucks because there will be deals galore. Seasonal sales have their own general guidelines to follow to maximize your purchasing power, they are posted in the thread often before and during the sales.

Summer Dale - A phone's auto-correction of "Summer Sale", which through some sort of internet voodoo produced an actual entity, a smooth voiced funk loving man who lives in a world where the 80s reign eternal and supreme. Also sometimes used to describe the upcoming Summer Sale itself.

Rainbow and/or Slash - Two forumers by the name of Rainbowdespair and slash000 who are notable for developing the third and fourth installments of the Penny Arcade: On the Railslick Precipice of Darkness series. Also developed Breath of Death VII and Cthulu Saves the World, two RPGs that, alone with the Rainslick games, are available on Steam.

Why are you people obsessed with Bad Rats and Amnesia?
A moment of ill-advised swagger from anoffday turned into a horrifying LP of Bad Rats which, because reasons, turned into over $6000 raised for Child's Play.

CorriganX raised over $1100 for Child's Play via Amnesia.

We raised $11,903 dollars for charity in December!. Wowzers!
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For our Christmas fundraiser to restore TychoCelchuuu's threadmaking privileges (and help the kids), I donated to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. This week I received a nice letter from them! I figured I'd share part of it with y'all, since this applies to all of you at least as much as it does to me.

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What is this Steamgifts site? I wish to create a giveaway! I cannot enter a giveaway!
Steamgifts is a neat site that lets people create giveaways for games on Steam. Points for entering giveaways are accumulated over time, so just wait a bit if you need points. Entry to giveaways can be limited by Steam group membership to prevent mooches from getting games.

How do I make one of those cool Steam Gifts signature giveaway banners?
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What are all these bundles you people keep talking about?
In addition to Steam sales and sales of Steam keys on other sites and gifts, we live in a golden age of bundles! Bundle sites sell batches of games for modest amounts of money, often as low as a few dollars. Many, but not all, contribute to charity and many, but not all, give you Steam keys for the games. Sometimes you'll buy an indie gem that isn't even on Steam, and later when arrives on Steam you will get a key through the bundle site. Be careful if you plan to gift some of the games, as sometimes the bundled games will come in a single Steam key. We have a separate bundles thread.

I have too many games! Which do I play?
Steam Roulette randomly picks a game for you to play.

I have too many games! How do I move them to my new hard drive?
Steam Mover makes transporting your massive library much easier.

But wait! I have ALL OF THE GAMES installed! I need more space on my hard drive! wat i do?
You download Tikione Steam Cleaner and clean up that shit

The sale prices aren't right! What's going on?! Oh God, the darkness is closing in...
During the seasonal sales, you are one of a million monkeys hammering F5 at 10am PT to see the new sales. The system is always borked for 5-20 minutes. Take a deep breath. The Newell will deliver, and the new dailies will be available for 48 hours.

Why are some games not available in my region?
Publishers determine what countries get what games. Someone in a suit decided that it wasn't worth the money to make the game available to your region, so it isn't available on Steam. This also applies to cases of games having edited/censored versions showing up on Steam in certain countries. The good news is that you can generally get around this by having someone from another region gift or trade you the game.

Steam is downloading slowly. What gives?
You can head to Steam -> Settings -> Downloads + Cloud and change your download region until things improve. Since other regions are typically less populated, you will probably get somewhat better results even if the new server is in another country.

The Steam thread has a proud tradition of marrying our love of Steam and Penny Arcade in comic edits:

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GALLERY OF EDITS:
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  • HalfazedninjaHalfazedninja Author of Jake Howard: Multiverse 101! Behind YouRegistered User regular
    Oooooh a fresh new thread! And DOTA 2 is pretty awesome.

    My debut novel, JAKE HOWARD: MULTIVERSE 101!
    Switch FC: SW-7588-7027-0113, Steam/PSN: Halfazedninja

  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    say whaaaaaaaaa?
    I heard I could get some cards here, on the down low
    <.<
    >.>

    Shade on
  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    Mmm new thread.

    Steam: offday
  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    Re-asking here. Is there a reason Steam Roulette wouldn't work for me? I enter my name, click the "spin the wheel" button and nothing happens. All the buttons grey out like it's processing something but then it just . . . sits there.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Nothing like getting your stink on a brand new thread.

    Also, can someone suggest me more games like Cook Serve Delicious and Game Dev Tycoon?

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • ioloiolo iolo Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    So Hack n' Slash coming soon from Doublefine looks pretty swell (thanks Kotaku!) Your sword lets you hack items in-game, like blocks, chests, doors, mobs, bosses, etc. and change their attributes. But the changes are actual changes to the game's code and it's possible to break the game (and retcon it with some sort of narratively coherent rollback)?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iv3K3ikSdsM

    That sounds pretty awesome.
    "Double Fine says the game will be out in the first half of 2014"

    Dammit.

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  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    Re-asking here. Is there a reason Steam Roulette wouldn't work for me? I enter my name, click the "spin the wheel" button and nothing happens. All the buttons grey out like it's processing something but then it just . . . sits there.

    Don't feel bad, doesn't work for me either.

    But for me it just spins on endlessly, like a list of my exgirlfriends.

  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    Re-asking here. Is there a reason Steam Roulette wouldn't work for me? I enter my name, click the "spin the wheel" button and nothing happens. All the buttons grey out like it's processing something but then it just . . . sits there.

    Just a cursory poke, the script trips a JavaScript error in Firefox that prevents it from correctly running. It works in Chrome.

  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    I'd like to promote this little tidbit that I still find amazing
    Iolo wrote:
    We raised $11,903 dollars for charity in December!. Wowzers!

    That is what happens when just about all the regulars in the Steam thread have all the games yet still want to put their money into brightening someones day. Preeeeetty epic, you guys

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    Zxerol wrote: »
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    Re-asking here. Is there a reason Steam Roulette wouldn't work for me? I enter my name, click the "spin the wheel" button and nothing happens. All the buttons grey out like it's processing something but then it just . . . sits there.

    Just a cursory poke, the script trips a JavaScript error in Firefox that prevents it from correctly running. It works in Chrome.

    Ah! that would be why. I hate Chrome, but I have it for things Firefox trips over. Like HTML5 coding, for example.

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  • vegeta_666vegeta_666 CanadaRegistered User regular
    @Iolo‌ Thank you so much for your giveaway of Lichdom: Battlemage! I loved Dark Messiah of M&M and this game seems right up my alley. Thank you!

    Speaking of giveaways, I have an extra Steam key for Giana Sisters, The Swapper, Dust: An Elysian Tale, Antichamber, Monaco, Fez and Starseed Pilgrim from Humble Bundle 11 if anyone wants one!

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    Zxerol wrote: »
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    Re-asking here. Is there a reason Steam Roulette wouldn't work for me? I enter my name, click the "spin the wheel" button and nothing happens. All the buttons grey out like it's processing something but then it just . . . sits there.

    Just a cursory poke, the script trips a JavaScript error in Firefox that prevents it from correctly running. It works in Chrome.

    Ah! that would be why. I hate Chrome, but I have it for things Firefox trips over. Like HTML5 coding, for example.

    Also, it appears we both hit the older version of the webapp. The proper version is steamroulette.heroku.com (no hyphen), which seems to work fine (though it requires you to login and auth with Steam now). Dunno why www.steamroulette.net redirects to the older one.

  • DyasAlureDyasAlure SeattleRegistered User regular
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    New CPU is here, also more RAM.

    Posting from my laptop, about to do the install. My first post in the new thread should be from a considerably more powerful desktop than the desktop I am looking at.

    I'll see you on the other side, Steam Thread.

    It's always useful to have more RAM.

    :flushed:

    Could you tell that to my work? Can't say what I work on, but they think that little ram is a good thing :confused:


    Also for new thread, how do you buy shops in saints row II? I never saw answer in old thread.

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  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    Could someone regale me with tales of Betrayer? It's getting released shortly and from what I've been able to surmise from scattered first impressions is that it's a cross between S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Miasmata with a death system that works similiarly to Dark Souls

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  • msmyamsmya Being Fabulous Registered User regular
    thanks buddy. <3<3@Ashe

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    Are Spore's servers gone? I just want to know so I can stop it from asking me to sign on if they are gone.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    New CPU is here, also more RAM.

    Posting from my laptop, about to do the install. My first post in the new thread should be from a considerably more powerful desktop than the desktop I am looking at.

    I'll see you on the other side, Steam Thread.

    Alright, went from a C2D E6400 with 4GB of RAM to a C2Q Q6600 with 6GB of RAM.

    Everything works, I fired up a few games and holy shit I'm seeing huge framerate increases. Still lightyears behind the bleeding edge, but it's a massive upgrade from half an hour ago.

    This was nice to see:
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    This CPU is running a little warmer than the last one, but that's to be expected and it should drop a little once the break in period for the thermal paste is over.

  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    Re-asking here. Is there a reason Steam Roulette wouldn't work for me? I enter my name, click the "spin the wheel" button and nothing happens. All the buttons grey out like it's processing something but then it just . . . sits there.

    I'd assume that things that ping Steam shit the bed when Steam has shit the bed first. Kind of a cavalcade of bed-shitting starting with the Newell and he damnable non-scheduled maintenance!

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  • ScratchyScratchy Registered User regular
    Ahhh new thread!

    One way heroics: beat the demon lord down again as a new character and unlocked a new character doing it. That's not the end of the game.... There is sooo much more. Beating the demon lord is just the icing on this awesome cake of a game. The true ending requires a very very long walk.

    Playing through Castlevania LoS2 Thank you again @chocobolicious‌ and I'm enjoying it quite a bit but the story and lore are kind of lackluster compared to the original. Everything besides that is improved in every way. For the one really crappy part you can turn to mist not only to avoid stuffs but to confuse someone.

    Tower of Guns: Don't kill hugbots because they love and hug you! They may also help you at a later date.

    Awesomenauts: @Burtletoy‌ sorry for being awful but let's play more! I'm usually three sheet's to the wind or eating while playing because it's my wind down game. Best dota game ever because I can still win at times all of that considered.

    Pixel Piracy: very tall order but updated quite frequently. It's a rough, rough stone that definitely needs polish but it seems like it's getting it. I'd recommend waiting a bit til the price goes down a tiny bit or the features go up a tiny bit but with what is available and what is planned it's going to be something to look out for.

    I think I've caught up with steam and can disappear for a while!

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  • DaringDirkDaringDirk Daddy CEO Oakland, CARegistered User regular
    vegeta_666 wrote: »
    @Iolo‌ Thank you so much for your giveaway of Lichdom: Battlemage! I loved Dark Messiah of M&M and this game seems right up my alley. Thank you!

    WAIT WAIT WHAT WHAT??? Why the fuck is there NOT ALREADY a sequel to DMoMM anyhow? I've not heard of this Lichdom whatnot, but you've just about sold it by association. Also, erryone needs to play DMoMM if you haven't already, so many metric fucktons of fun, and it holds up very well. On sale it goes for $5 or $2.50, wishlist it now if you don't hate fun!

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  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    I pretty much spent all day playing Batman: Arkham Origins. I am enjoying it a lot more than I expected. I really hate the way you unlock some of the stuff, though. There are different tiers of challenges that have to be met in a specific order, and you don't get credit for doing stuff that's in a particular tier unless you're on that tier. This makes the predator-specific challenges a pain in the ass because predator rooms don't respawn and you can't use the training maps to meet these challenges.

    I'll probably beat the game tomorrow. I had the day off today and logged about 12 hours into the game (20 hours total), with the majority of that time spent collecting Enigma stuff.

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  • BroncbusterBroncbuster Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    @Kalnaur‌
    Speaking of DOTAs, I have Guardians of Middle-earth and some DLC if anyone wants it. send PM.

    EDIT: also The Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack

    Asking what is Guardians?

    The information you seek is the key I have.

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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Finished Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

    It was really good. Wrapped up that story neatly, but left plenty of room for something more down the road. Gameplay was a LOT tighter than the original.

    Actor/Actress didn't sell it at the end, though.

  • CorpekataCorpekata Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    SteevL wrote: »
    I pretty much spent all day playing Batman: Arkham Origins. I am enjoying it a lot more than I expected. I really hate the way you unlock some of the stuff, though. There are different tiers of challenges that have to be met in a specific order, and you don't get credit for doing stuff that's in a particular tier unless you're on that tier. This makes the predator-specific challenges a pain in the ass because predator rooms don't respawn and you can't use the training maps to meet these challenges.

    I'll probably beat the game tomorrow. I had the day off today and logged about 12 hours into the game (20 hours total), with the majority of that time spent collecting Enigma stuff.

    I loved Origins and thought it got shat on way too hard, but the challenges thing is sort of mind boggling stupid and I think the one thing everyone can agree on. Especially the predator ones given those encounters are limited. I'm flabbergasted someone thought that was a good idea. Should've at least patched it in so they were unlockable via challenge maps.

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  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    I'm really just looking for an excuse to share this song after watching the new Muppet movie, but I suppose the random listing of gifts could apply to our precious classholes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4g4oV8lK4s

    Anyways, I'm counting Lords of Shadow as done, and trying to tie up Tropico 4 after a long break and hopefully Hitman: Absolution after that. There are some games I'm near the end but just meeeeh so either push through and finish it or just go ahead and uninstall.

    DMoMM is one that I was reaching towards the end but I think a computer crash caused the loss of the game and I got sidetracked. Will have to have a fun romp through there again.

  • TheClapTheClap Registered User regular
    What happened to Iolo's ass shake? Time constraints forced me to skip the past 500+ posts...

  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    emp123 wrote: »
    What happened to Iolo's ass shake? Time constraints forced me to skip the past 500+ posts...

    He died.

  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    @Kalnaur‌
    Speaking of DOTAs, I have Guardians of Middle-earth and some DLC if anyone wants it. send PM.

    EDIT: also The Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack

    Asking what is Guardians?

    The information you seek is the key I have.

    Actually, after checking the Wikipedia article, I am not interested.

    I don't like MOBAs. Or the multiplayer component of RTS games. ;)

    But I hope it goes to a good home!

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    emp123 wrote: »
    What happened to Iolo's ass shake? Time constraints forced me to skip the past 500+ posts...

    The emperor is dead.

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  • DaringDirkDaringDirk Daddy CEO Oakland, CARegistered User regular
    edited March 2014
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    emp123 wrote: »
    What happened to Iolo's ass shake? Time constraints forced me to skip the past 500+ posts...

    The emperor is dead.

    I'd had to ask this too. More specifically, in the gladiator battles his ass got nailed to the wall and the wiggle-jiggle has come to an end. All hail the wiggle-jiggle.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    oh shit I forgot I need to do a comic edit. One is on the way...

  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    I'm going to ask again about the Spore servers. Are they gone, or are they just bitchy when interacting with Steam? Because it doesn't seem to like my Spore game or something.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    okay that turned out to be straightforward

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    That's doubly awesome because he's wearing an Origin shirt.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    Check the original comic...

  • vegeta_666vegeta_666 CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2014
    @DaringDirk‌ Lichdom: Battlemage is definitely a lot like Dark Messiah! The magic feels great and everything is quite visceral. The game looks great too on the newest CryEngine.

    However, this is game is super in Alpha. UI is basic/minimal, no story or voice acting really, poor optimization and only two elements (fire and ice) so far at least, it seems like there will be 6-8 maybe?

    Keep an eye on it for sure. The game just feels great to play, and its at the point already which is a good sign. The core of the game is there, all that's missing is the various bits and bobs and decorative stuff.

    I think they need to add a kick button though.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    vegeta_666 wrote: »
    @DaringDirk‌ Lichdom: Battlemage is definitely a lot like Dark Messiah! The magic feels great and everything is quite visceral. The game looks great too on the newest CryEngine.

    However, this is game is super in Alpha. UI is basic/minimal, no story or voice acting really, poor optimization and only two elements (fire and ice) so far at least, it seems like there will be 6-8 maybe?

    Keep an eye on it for sure. The game just feels great to play, and its at the point already which is a good sign. The core of the game is there, all that's missing is the various bits and bobs and decorative stuff.

    I think they need to add a kick button though.

    See, someone who really understood the appeal of Dark Messiah would know that the spells are the faff. The kick button is the one and only thing you need.

    It should be called BattleKicker and have only 1 attack button that is always kick.

    I don't know, maybe let you equip different boots too.

    shryke on
  • vegeta_666vegeta_666 CanadaRegistered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    vegeta_666 wrote: »
    @DaringDirk‌ Lichdom: Battlemage is definitely a lot like Dark Messiah! The magic feels great and everything is quite visceral. The game looks great too on the newest CryEngine.

    However, this is game is super in Alpha. UI is basic/minimal, no story or voice acting really, poor optimization and only two elements (fire and ice) so far at least, it seems like there will be 6-8 maybe?

    Keep an eye on it for sure. The game just feels great to play, and its at the point already which is a good sign. The core of the game is there, all that's missing is the various bits and bobs and decorative stuff.

    I think they need to add a kick button though.

    See, someone who really understood the appeal of Dark Messiah would know that the spells are the faff. The kick button is the one and only thing you need.

    It should be called BattleKicker and have only 1 attack button that is always kick.

    I don't know, maybe let you equip different boots too.

    That's true, the daggers/staff/sword+shield were some of the most fun in that game. Though the ice spell let you trip guys and have them fall over ledges which was pretty great.

    The Kick was the best. It also had Rope Arrows which was rad.

    I'm going to reinstall Dark Messiah.

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  • jeffinvajeffinva Koogler coming this summerRegistered User regular
    The iOS app appears to have gotten a facelift, but the response times are higher.

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    vegeta_666 wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    vegeta_666 wrote: »
    @DaringDirk‌ Lichdom: Battlemage is definitely a lot like Dark Messiah! The magic feels great and everything is quite visceral. The game looks great too on the newest CryEngine.

    However, this is game is super in Alpha. UI is basic/minimal, no story or voice acting really, poor optimization and only two elements (fire and ice) so far at least, it seems like there will be 6-8 maybe?

    Keep an eye on it for sure. The game just feels great to play, and its at the point already which is a good sign. The core of the game is there, all that's missing is the various bits and bobs and decorative stuff.

    I think they need to add a kick button though.

    See, someone who really understood the appeal of Dark Messiah would know that the spells are the faff. The kick button is the one and only thing you need.

    It should be called BattleKicker and have only 1 attack button that is always kick.

    I don't know, maybe let you equip different boots too.

    That's true, the daggers/staff/sword+shield were some of the most fun in that game. Though the ice spell let you trip guys and have them fall over ledges which was pretty great.

    The Kick was the best. It also had Rope Arrows which was rad.

    I'm going to reinstall Dark Messiah.

    I've been calling the game "The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot Deathboot in the Land of the Conspicuously Placed Spike Racks" for awhile now, it's great fun

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