Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order, currently gaming’s proudest parents, have today revealed that Cities: Skylines, the critically and commercially acclaimed city simulation game for PC, Mac and Linux, has sold an incredible 250,000 copies, including pre-orders, in its first 24 hours on sale, shattering sales records for every previous game in the Paradox catalogue released within the same period of time.
How did Valiant Hearts end up? I have it on my list based on the artstyle and theme, but did the gameplay end up decent too?
It's a decently engaging light puzzler. It contains some of the DNA of the old-school point and clicks, but will never really challenge your brain due to the simplicity of the puzzles. However, if you're unfamiliar with WWI or how fucked up and horrible it was, then I'd say it's mandatory just so you can experience the absolute depths of humanity's loathing for itself through a fun, cartoonish lens.
Along with Cities: Skylines a few days ago, Pillars of Eternity in two weeks and Episode 2 of Life is Strange at some point, March is turning out to be a pretty good month game-wise.
Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order, currently gaming’s proudest parents, have today revealed that Cities: Skylines, the critically and commercially acclaimed city simulation game for PC, Mac and Linux, has sold an incredible 250,000 copies, including pre-orders, in its first 24 hours on sale, shattering sales records for every previous game in the Paradox catalogue released within the same period of time.
Finished A Bird Story last night. It's a nice, short (79 minutes start to finish for me) story about a lonely little boy with a big imagination, who finds a wounded bird in the forest.
I gather it's intended to serve as a prologue of sorts to the next full chapter in the To The Moon series as well, where the boy is probably the patient this time?
Although it doesn't have the feels of To The Moon, and isn't intended to, it's charming in its own right. The fact that it tells a full story without a single word of dialogue is impressive as well. If you have it and haven't played it, it's definitely worth spending an evening playing through.
If you don't have it yet, then it's $5 on Steam, or since it was in a bundle recently, you'll almost certainly see it on sale this summer.
Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order, currently gaming’s proudest parents, have today revealed that Cities: Skylines, the critically and commercially acclaimed city simulation game for PC, Mac and Linux, has sold an incredible 250,000 copies, including pre-orders, in its first 24 hours on sale, shattering sales records for every previous game in the Paradox catalogue released within the same period of time.
Just played the first bit of Ori and the Blind Forest. Everybody should put whatever they are playing aside and play this instead. It is wonderful.
The visuals are breathtaking, perhaps the best I've seen in a game. The gameplay is great so far, and there appears to be a lot of depth in there. And the story, or at least the telling of the story, is very compelling. I generally don't like story in my video games, and am almost always very impatient as a game slogs through its intro to get to the actual game. I sat here in awe completely forgetting that I was waiting to play a game as the intro unfolded.
Unless you hate platformers, or hate yourself, this is something that shouldn't be missed, and it is a steal at $20.
Don't do this to me. Do you know what this kind of 2D artstyle does to me? I still giggle to myself in glee when I think of Child of Light!
They released a bunch of hotfixes and relaunches last year, but I honestly don't know what's changed. I've been meaning to load it up and see if I am still disappointed or not, but other things on the backlog take priority so who knows if I will ever get back to it.
Also it appears be having a free play weekend starting tomorrow.
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What a bad week for my wallet. Bought Cities, Ori, and Hotline Miami, and now am tempted by Burnout Paradise, Trials Fusion, and Rayman Legends. Why did all of those games have to go on sale this weekend.
I am disappointed that I'm not moving forward in the interview process for a job I really wanted. I love the art of Guacamelee and punching things in the face. Giving that away should make me feel better. Ends tomorrow at midnight and open to Adventure Team.
Many thankies to @Drascin for Dungeon of the Endless! It's had so many plaudits around these parts, I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl. Thank you for your generosity!
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So, I'm about to head in to work for a dead night shift till early in the morning (ughhh) but before I go I see I got a PM Indiegala link from @Talus9952 for A Bird Story! I love games with teh feelz, many thanks!
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I've been playing it some this week. Started a new game so I'm not far in, still doing introductory and tutorial types of things, but it's way more stable and it has way better performance. I'm enjoying it for totally goofy 80s space opera complete with electro soundtrack. I don't know if it will ever convert any of the X core fanbase but Egosoft appears to doing their usual thing of releasing a total trainwreck and then putting it back on the rails with patches content expansions and TLC from their modding community.
So yeah, stability and missing content has been added, but I've yet to really determine if the base game is fun. The X series has always been a hard sale for me because the flight simulation and AI has always been pretty terrible. I have had fun with the games as a big space tycoon kind of game with some exploration and stuff but I've never gotten as deep as some posters on these boards. I'm finding it a decent Xbox controller light space sim though, it's fun enough flying around and stuff in this game, much more so than their previous X games.
If you have it and are curious I'd say it's a good time to reinstall it and give it another go. I won't recommend spending money on it though until I've spent a lot more time with it. All of the improvements I've seen could be superficial while greater fundamental flaws wait to reveal themselves. Considering this games history I'd suggest the buyer beware.
Nah, I want the digital gold version the one with "all the trimmings", and it's hit 15 bucks before. I have more than enough games to keep me busy until it hits that again, I assure you.
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Speaking of Assassin's Creed, I got an email informing me that a game on my wishlist is on sale: Assassin's Creed - Rogue. Cool, I thought, I doubt it's discounted very much since it just came out, but I'll click on the link and see what the sale looks like.
Apparently, it's not actually on sale at all? I'm probably not getting the game for another year anyway -- I still need to play through Freedom Cry and Liberation.
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I had not realized that they had removed our ability to keep games from updating. I suppose I'll need to back up my hex-edited Darksiders II just in case Nordic Games devotes time to making an update for it . . .
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Speaking of Assassin's Creed, I got an email informing me that a game on my wishlist is on sale: Assassin's Creed - Rogue. Cool, I thought, I doubt it's discounted very much since it just came out, but I'll click on the link and see what the sale looks like.
Apparently, it's not actually on sale at all? I'm probably not getting the game for another year anyway -- I still need to play through Freedom Cry and Liberation.
Speaking of Assassin's Creed, I got an email informing me that a game on my wishlist is on sale: Assassin's Creed - Rogue. Cool, I thought, I doubt it's discounted very much since it just came out, but I'll click on the link and see what the sale looks like.
Apparently, it's not actually on sale at all? I'm probably not getting the game for another year anyway -- I still need to play through Freedom Cry and Liberation.
Man...that's a LOT of sailing. As much as I enjoyed Black Flag, I don't think I would have been ready to jump into more of that stuff right away with Rogue. It probably also explains why I haven't played Freedom Cry yet. I bought it on sale a while back, but probably won't touch it until the summer.
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One thing I've found intriguing about Rogue in what I've read thus far is that once you switch sides, you are not penalized for killing civilians through desynch, but instead if you kill enough of 'em you get bounty hunters after you.
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One thing I've found intriguing about Rogue in what I've read thus far is that once you switch sides, you are not penalized for killing civilians through desynch, but instead if you kill enough of 'em you get bounty hunters after you.
Although it sounds to me like a reworked version of the system that was already in Black Flag. Attack enough ships and you get bounty hunter ships after you. Early on it can be a cause for concern, but eventually you get so powerful that taking them out is like swatting a fly.
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Where does BloodRayne Betrayal fall in the whole BloodRayne story? I remember beating the second one (via copious amounts of cheating) but then the story just cliffhanged like mad.
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It's a decently engaging light puzzler. It contains some of the DNA of the old-school point and clicks, but will never really challenge your brain due to the simplicity of the puzzles. However, if you're unfamiliar with WWI or how fucked up and horrible it was, then I'd say it's mandatory just so you can experience the absolute depths of humanity's loathing for itself through a fun, cartoonish lens.
Along with Cities: Skylines a few days ago, Pillars of Eternity in two weeks and Episode 2 of Life is Strange at some point, March is turning out to be a pretty good month game-wise.
Wasn't that series out on YouTube for a while now? Or are they celebrating that the videos are on Steam? I'm so confused.
A little bit of an untapped market for city builders, and a little bit of Paradox knowing how to properly leverage Steam.
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-VALKYRIAC/valkyria-chronicles
I gather it's intended to serve as a prologue of sorts to the next full chapter in the To The Moon series as well, where the boy is probably the patient this time?
Although it doesn't have the feels of To The Moon, and isn't intended to, it's charming in its own right. The fact that it tells a full story without a single word of dialogue is impressive as well. If you have it and haven't played it, it's definitely worth spending an evening playing through.
If you don't have it yet, then it's $5 on Steam, or since it was in a bundle recently, you'll almost certainly see it on sale this summer.
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Didn't know Skylines was by the Cities in Motion 2 devs. I always thought they were pretty damn close to a city sim, anyways. :P
Hmmm. I don't often go for beautiful in my wallpapers, but let's see what I have...
Green-on-Black bash shell, browse with Lynx? :P
Default Windows theme. Looks nice enough since I'm not looking at my desktop except when booting my computer up.
They released a bunch of hotfixes and relaunches last year, but I honestly don't know what's changed. I've been meaning to load it up and see if I am still disappointed or not, but other things on the backlog take priority so who knows if I will ever get back to it.
Also it appears be having a free play weekend starting tomorrow.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
@Antoshka figured I would like to construct complex machinery and maim everything in my way. Thank you.
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There is one thing I remember. I'll see if I can find it when I get home.
Sir Terry Pratchett has passed away today at the age of 66.
Now I realise none of the Discworld games is available on Steam.
I've been playing it some this week. Started a new game so I'm not far in, still doing introductory and tutorial types of things, but it's way more stable and it has way better performance. I'm enjoying it for totally goofy 80s space opera complete with electro soundtrack. I don't know if it will ever convert any of the X core fanbase but Egosoft appears to doing their usual thing of releasing a total trainwreck and then putting it back on the rails with patches content expansions and TLC from their modding community.
So yeah, stability and missing content has been added, but I've yet to really determine if the base game is fun. The X series has always been a hard sale for me because the flight simulation and AI has always been pretty terrible. I have had fun with the games as a big space tycoon kind of game with some exploration and stuff but I've never gotten as deep as some posters on these boards. I'm finding it a decent Xbox controller light space sim though, it's fun enough flying around and stuff in this game, much more so than their previous X games.
If you have it and are curious I'd say it's a good time to reinstall it and give it another go. I won't recommend spending money on it though until I've spent a lot more time with it. All of the improvements I've seen could be superficial while greater fundamental flaws wait to reveal themselves. Considering this games history I'd suggest the buyer beware.
Nah, I want the digital gold version the one with "all the trimmings", and it's hit 15 bucks before. I have more than enough games to keep me busy until it hits that again, I assure you.
I've been bummed about this all day. The world seems a bit darker today.
Apparently, it's not actually on sale at all? I'm probably not getting the game for another year anyway -- I still need to play through Freedom Cry and Liberation.
Thank you!
It's in a "sale" via the Rogue/Unity pack:
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/62786/
Man...that's a LOT of sailing. As much as I enjoyed Black Flag, I don't think I would have been ready to jump into more of that stuff right away with Rogue. It probably also explains why I haven't played Freedom Cry yet. I bought it on sale a while back, but probably won't touch it until the summer.
Although it sounds to me like a reworked version of the system that was already in Black Flag. Attack enough ships and you get bounty hunter ships after you. Early on it can be a cause for concern, but eventually you get so powerful that taking them out is like swatting a fly.
I know I haven't been posting much lately, but this is much appreciated.