So I was getting ready to head out to the border crossing out in glorious Arstotzka, when suddenly, I came under a hail of fire I'd never seen the likes of! I had to quickly seek cover while the bombardment hit, and when I peeked out from under the giant rock, well... what did I find...?
Well, besides a couple of cats looking at me like I'd lost my mind as I crawled out from under the bed...
First is the Cthulu Saves the World/Breath of Death VII Double Pack. Two great games that I can't wait to play through.
Yes, yes... everyone's playing it, peer pressure and all that.
This looks interesting, and I could use a good puzzler!
The EverQuest expansion I wanted! New stomping grounds for my characters to get up into!
Followed by the EverQuest II expansion I didn't have!
Finally, the InFlux soundtrack.
All in all, @Darmak is a rather classy individual who deserves nothing more than hot, flaming gift barrages raining down on them. Thanks!
I can has cheezburger, yes?
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HalfazedninjaAuthor of Jake Howard: Multiverse 101!Behind YouRegistered Userregular
Pffft. Fuck Easy. I have the game on Hard, but turned on Free Play so I can get a feel for the stages. I might start on Normal when playing for real again though.
DoDonPachi or Mushihimesama/Bug Princess this is not. But man is it fun and something totally different.
(And Dual Play mode, like that Video, is native and supported by the Steam release. But man, that's too crazy. :P)
The real trick is to beat it as a pacifist on hard.
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HalfazedninjaAuthor of Jake Howard: Multiverse 101!Behind YouRegistered Userregular
So $10ish for the same Plague game I already have on my phone? That seems odd.
Yeah, that's why I never bought it. Doesn't seem worth it at that price
Seriously. It's fun, but it's a ripoff of a free flash game from years ago. I'd buy it if it were like...$3, because I enjoy it and it is better than the flash game, but 33% off to $10? Come on.
Is Dynasty Warriors worth 50% off? I've never played one before.
I loved the DW games back in my PS2 days (university). Basically, do you remember that scene at the beginning of Lord of the Rings where Sauron is swinging that mace and people just go flying?
Well basically that's every dude you play as in DW. You swing your weapon and your enemies just go flying!
The basics of the game are that there are 3 kingdoms (And some independents) fighting for control of China (it's based off Romance of the Three Kingdoms). You pick a champion who belonged to one of those kingdoms and you play them through the campaign. Depending on who you're playing as you will fight in different battles, or from different sides of the same map, etc. You'll also unlock upgrades and new characters. I haven't played a DW game in years, they can be repetitive but a lot of fun, I'm not sure how much has changed in the series but I suspect it's remained largely the same. At 50% off I'm not sure how great of a deal it is. I'll probably wait for it to get cheaper, but it's basically a 3rd person beat-em-up on a huge scale.
So I was getting ready to head out to the border crossing out in glorious Arstotzka, when suddenly, I came under a hail of fire I'd never seen the likes of! I had to quickly seek cover while the bombardment hit, and when I peeked out from under the giant rock, well... what did I find...?
Well, besides a couple of cats looking at me like I'd lost my mind as I crawled out from under the bed...
First is the Cthulu Saves the World/Breath of Death VII Double Pack. Two great games that I can't wait to play through.
Yes, yes... everyone's playing it, peer pressure and all that.
This looks interesting, and I could use a good puzzler!
The EverQuest expansion I wanted! New stomping grounds for my characters to get up into!
Followed by the EverQuest II expansion I didn't have!
Finally, the InFlux soundtrack.
All in all, @Darmak is a rather classy individual who deserves nothing more than hot, flaming gift barrages raining down on them. Thanks!
if the steampunk option wins this community vote (and it should, right? I mean the grim darkness of the near future vs. puzzles?) I think I might buy all four of the things
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
if the steampunk option wins this community vote (and it should, right? I mean the grim darkness of the near future vs. puzzles?) I think I might buy all four of the things
I think you mean cyberpunk, which is a totally different thing from steampunk.
And yes, everyone vote for the sci-fi/cyberpunk one! Frozen Synapse alone is worth it, the game is amazing with an amazing soundtrack. It is literally one of my most listened to soundtracks ever, even over non-soundtrack albums.
Can I only install one game at a time via the mobile app?
I think it will only install one at a time but they will be queued on your computer if you try to install more than one. I could be wrong but I seem to recall that happening to me earlier this week.
Snagged the State of Decay DLC as my first purchase of the sale.
Made a summer badge and got an epic puirple...Hatzilla? From BattleBlock Theater? There are none to compare prices to in the market. The hell is battleblock theater?
A big thank you to L Ron Howard for the gifts of The Pit - Mind Games DLC and Take On Mars! He says it's for a gift I gave him a while back, but I think that's just an excuse to be classy. Not that he needs one, but still.
I didn't want you thinking I forgot about you. Especially because I didn't come here and sing your praises, like a classy fellow should. I hope this can make up for it.
Is Dynasty Warriors worth 50% off? I've never played one before.
I loved the DW games back in my PS2 days (university). Basically, do you remember that scene at the beginning of Lord of the Rings where Sauron is swinging that mace and people just go flying?
Well basically that's every dude you play as in DW. You swing your weapon and your enemies just go flying!
The basics of the game are that there are 3 kingdoms (And some independents) fighting for control of China (it's based off Romance of the Three Kingdoms). You pick a champion who belonged to one of those kingdoms and you play them through the campaign. Depending on who you're playing as you will fight in different battles, or from different sides of the same map, etc. You'll also unlock upgrades and new characters. I haven't played a DW game in years, they can be repetitive but a lot of fun, I'm not sure how much has changed in the series but I suspect it's remained largely the same. At 50% off I'm not sure how great of a deal it is. I'll probably wait for it to get cheaper, but it's basically a 3rd person beat-em-up on a huge scale.
Thanks. Hmm... i'll probably wait, I guess. $25 is still a lot for a game I have no direct experience with. It did just come out recently, right? It'll probably go down more this winter or next year.
Can I only install one game at a time via the mobile app?
I think it will only install one at a time but they will be queued on your computer if you try to install more than one. I could be wrong but I seem to recall that happening to me earlier this week.
Awesome, that's what I thought would happen but when the app to me that only one game was downloading I got a little worried.
Thank God for 2TB hard drives because I'm installing all the games.
@Berylline sent me an invite on Steam and asked me a question. Normal stuff, nothing suspicious.
But then I was hit with Kick Beat Steam Edition! Thank You!
Also, that front page is FULL of things I can heartily recommend, for varying reasons. Those are some decent deals.
Is Dynasty Warriors worth 50% off? I've never played one before.
I loved the DW games back in my PS2 days (university). Basically, do you remember that scene at the beginning of Lord of the Rings where Sauron is swinging that mace and people just go flying?
Well basically that's every dude you play as in DW. You swing your weapon and your enemies just go flying!
The basics of the game are that there are 3 kingdoms (And some independents) fighting for control of China (it's based off Romance of the Three Kingdoms). You pick a champion who belonged to one of those kingdoms and you play them through the campaign. Depending on who you're playing as you will fight in different battles, or from different sides of the same map, etc. You'll also unlock upgrades and new characters. I haven't played a DW game in years, they can be repetitive but a lot of fun, I'm not sure how much has changed in the series but I suspect it's remained largely the same. At 50% off I'm not sure how great of a deal it is. I'll probably wait for it to get cheaper, but it's basically a 3rd person beat-em-up on a huge scale.
Thanks. Hmm... i'll probably wait, I guess. $25 is still a lot for a game I have no direct experience with. It did just come out recently, right? It'll probably go down more this winter or next year.
Yeah, that's wise. Also, it's best to have a controller. The games are a ton of fun but kind of niche. I'll probably grab it once it drops under $10.
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is there a consensus on Winter Voices? I won't pull the trigger on anything til it hits sale or it's the last day, I know the rules haha, but it is one among about 6 games that are low enough for me to grab whether they hit a daily or not. full pack is like $5.
and it seems like a pretty cool strategy game? but somehow I am worried the screenshots are misleading me or I am misinterpreting them
1962. The Cold War is at its height. In great secrecy, President John F. Kennedy has ordered the founding of the Bureau of Operations and Command, code-named XCOM, which will coordinate the defence of the American homeland in case of a Soviet invasion. When Earth instead falls under clandestine attack by alien forces, XCOM's brief is changed to defend against the incursions. CIA Special Agent William Carter is recruited by XCOM as the alien attacks intensify and has to lead the fight back.
The Bureau is a prequel to the critically-acclaimed 2012 turn-based strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Unlike that game, The Bureau is a real-time action game played in third person, with emphasis on shooting from cover. You command a squad of three soldiers (one of them is always Agent Carter) who are each equipped with different weapons and powers to be used against the alien threat. At the start of the game you are using contemporary weapons, but as the game goes on you can recover alien weapons and turn them against their creators.
The Bureau had a rocky road to release. Begun in 2007 as a fresh reboot of the XCOM franchise, development was shared between 2K Marin and Australia. The vision for the game shifted repeatedly. The original 2010 E3 demo showed a tense, claustrophobic game based around investigation and gathering evidence of alien incursions. It was more like the X-Files and appeared to be a highly original and experimental direction to take the series in. However, it appeared to have nothing to do whatsoever with the existing XCOM franchise. The developers didn't exactly endear themselves to fans by declaring that strategy games were dead. Astonishingly, the developers of The Bureau did not know about Firaxis's Enemy Unknown game until it was revealed to the general public in early 2012, and that game's enormous critical and sales success left their more traditional (and moribund) action-shooter looking rather unnecessary.
2K seemed to agree. The game was transformed into an action shooter clone of the Mass Effect games, had some of the traditional XCOM aliens shoe-horned into it and a narrative link to Enemy Unknown rammed into its ending that is quite astonishingly unconvincing. Literally days after ushering The Bureau out of the door in August 2013, 2K announced an expansion for Enemy Unknown named Enemy Within and seemed to do everything they could to make people forget about The Bureau, including firing most of the people that worked on it.
All of this context might lead you to be expecting a truly terrible game. In fact, The Bureau is an enjoyable, competently-executed cover-based shooter with some really nice tactical options. The storyline and characters are - mostly - forgettable, but there's some great ideas going on here. Recruiting new troops and sending them on missions you can't attend yourself is a great idea (and one that could be transferred to Enemy Unknown, which suffered plausibility issues by always having the aliens attack three targets simultaneously) and the levelling stuff is a good way of differentiating characters. There is permadeath as well, although the game's use of checkpoints and quick-loads means it's easier to avoid than in Enemy Unknown. In-battle powers are chunky and satisfying, and towards the end of the game you find yourself assessing the battlefield, deploying drones and turrets and giving orders to your team-mates as much as you are firing plasma rifles. Combat may be ripped from the Mass Effect series, but frankly it's handled better. The last few missions in particular have some epic and memorable firefights.
There's some great attention to period detail, with 1962 America brought vividly to life through music, architecture, cars, aircraft and so on. This version of XCOM's Skyranger being a 1960s transport helicopter is a cool idea, and rather than having tons of Interceptors you have just the one experimental flying saucer which plays a big role at the end of the game.
On the negative side of things, there's way too much physically running around the badly-designed base and the story and characters never really gel. Dialogue is irritating as characters you can speak to have word balloons above their head, but these don't vanish or change colour to confirm you've spoken to them. This means it's impossible to tell when you need to speak to someone again to get new information without talking to every single character between missions, which gets old very quickly. That said, there is a really, really good story twist in the last couple of missions. If you keep a close eye on what's going on you can see it coming, but it's still a well-executed plot twist that hints at greater narrative strengths than the game ever really engages with. The attempts to tie in the plot with Enemy Unknown are also interesting, but ultimately unrealistic. The plot hinges on the alien invasion - complete with Washington, DC being attacked, Chicago being burned to the ground and dozens of multi-kilometre alien towers being built across the country - being completely covered up by the American government so the alien attack in Enemy Unknown still comes as a surprise, but this is ludicrously unconvincing.
Still, The Bureau (***½) may struggle to be a good XCOM game, but judged purely on its own merits it is a competent, entertaining shooter with some great combat and a decent length (clocking in at about 15 hours for the single-player campaign), and definitely a lot better than its lengthy development and its mistreatment by its publishers suggests it should be. Recommended, but preferably as a budget release. The game is available now in the UK (PC, X-Box 360, PlayStation 3) and USA (PC, X-Box 360, PlayStation 3).
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A big thank you to L Ron Howard for the gifts of The Pit - Mind Games DLC and Take On Mars! He says it's for a gift I gave him a while back, but I think that's just an excuse to be classy. Not that he needs one, but still.
Thank you!
Sir Carcass
I didn't want you thinking I forgot about you. Especially because I didn't come here and sing your praises, like a classy fellow should. I hope this can make up for it.
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Well, besides a couple of cats looking at me like I'd lost my mind as I crawled out from under the bed...
First is the Cthulu Saves the World/Breath of Death VII Double Pack. Two great games that I can't wait to play through.
Yes, yes... everyone's playing it, peer pressure and all that.
This looks interesting, and I could use a good puzzler!
The EverQuest expansion I wanted! New stomping grounds for my characters to get up into!
Followed by the EverQuest II expansion I didn't have!
Finally, the InFlux soundtrack.
All in all, @Darmak is a rather classy individual who deserves nothing more than hot, flaming gift barrages raining down on them. Thanks!
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Now do I get it now or wait for a flash deal...
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The real trick is to beat it as a pacifist on hard.
Yeah, that's why I never bought it. Doesn't seem worth it at that price
Switch FC: SW-7588-7027-0113, Steam/PSN: Halfazedninja
Seriously. It's fun, but it's a ripoff of a free flash game from years ago. I'd buy it if it were like...$3, because I enjoy it and it is better than the flash game, but 33% off to $10? Come on.
I loved the DW games back in my PS2 days (university). Basically, do you remember that scene at the beginning of Lord of the Rings where Sauron is swinging that mace and people just go flying?
This one:
Well basically that's every dude you play as in DW. You swing your weapon and your enemies just go flying!
The basics of the game are that there are 3 kingdoms (And some independents) fighting for control of China (it's based off Romance of the Three Kingdoms). You pick a champion who belonged to one of those kingdoms and you play them through the campaign. Depending on who you're playing as you will fight in different battles, or from different sides of the same map, etc. You'll also unlock upgrades and new characters. I haven't played a DW game in years, they can be repetitive but a lot of fun, I'm not sure how much has changed in the series but I suspect it's remained largely the same. At 50% off I'm not sure how great of a deal it is. I'll probably wait for it to get cheaper, but it's basically a 3rd person beat-em-up on a huge scale.
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I think it's appropriate to use this right here:
http://soundfxcenter.com/video-games/mortal-kombat-2/8491dd_Mortal_Kombat_2_Flawless_Victory_Sound_FX.mp3
And now I'm officially out of money.
Flash will be the same price, so buy it now if you want it?
In related news, the consensus is State of Decay is awesome?
Looks like market listings which are up for a year get removed.
Just fyi.
State of decay is really really fun man.
Slightly rough around the edges, but awesome game all around.
Okay, I have no idea why it's happening, but listings can be delisted.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
It's the most fun I've had in a video game in a long time. Really great atmosphere
I think you mean cyberpunk, which is a totally different thing from steampunk.
And yes, everyone vote for the sci-fi/cyberpunk one! Frozen Synapse alone is worth it, the game is amazing with an amazing soundtrack. It is literally one of my most listened to soundtracks ever, even over non-soundtrack albums.
wait no! I took that the wrong way haha.
Summer Sale 2014 Shot Count: 3
I think it will only install one at a time but they will be queued on your computer if you try to install more than one. I could be wrong but I seem to recall that happening to me earlier this week.
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Made a summer badge and got an epic puirple...Hatzilla? From BattleBlock Theater? There are none to compare prices to in the market. The hell is battleblock theater?
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@Sir Carcass
I didn't want you thinking I forgot about you. Especially because I didn't come here and sing your praises, like a classy fellow should. I hope this can make up for it.
Thanks. Hmm... i'll probably wait, I guess. $25 is still a lot for a game I have no direct experience with. It did just come out recently, right? It'll probably go down more this winter or next year.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Awesome, that's what I thought would happen but when the app to me that only one game was downloading I got a little worried.
Thank God for 2TB hard drives because I'm installing all the games.
Also why didn't teams reset? If they don't reset everyone is just going to migrate to the same team and the whole thing will be pointless.
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But then I was hit with Kick Beat Steam Edition! Thank You!
Also, that front page is FULL of things I can heartily recommend, for varying reasons. Those are some decent deals.
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Yeah, that's wise. Also, it's best to have a controller. The games are a ton of fun but kind of niche. I'll probably grab it once it drops under $10.
and it seems like a pretty cool strategy game? but somehow I am worried the screenshots are misleading me or I am misinterpreting them
Thanks @Isorn, @The Dude With Herpes , @JaysonFour and @Ataxrxes !
Yeah. I've got one of those. I feel I should find out what it is. In case I could sell it. And use that to buy cards.
People have to pay to change teams. Valve has no reason to discourage everyone migrating.
Here's a decent review of X-Com The Bureau: Declassified.
http://thewertzone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-bureau-xcom-declassified.html
Full review behind the spoiler
No worries!
Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst