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TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEONRegistered User regular
edited April 2015 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 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.
HiT BiT wrote: »
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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PA G&T Friday Night Game Fever!
@CorriganX had this crazy idea of getting some folks together to play games and thus Friday Night Game night began. Each week a game is posted as the Friday selection and at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific we all get online and fire up some multiplayer action. If there is a big enough reception, a second round of the game is usually played on Saturday or Sunday at Noon Eastern/6pm Central European so our friends from across the big drink can join us without needing to pull an all nighter. The games are typically streamed by at least one or two folks for viewing as well.
Thanks to @HiT BiT for this awesome banner!
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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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Oh, and if you quote text that has an @alert in it, please take a moment to remove the @ (unless you really want that person to get another notification.) Sometimes we get to chatting and someone will get 3, 4, 5+ notifications all at once.
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.
Has Game X ever been Price Y? How can I keep track of all the sales and discounts?
http://isthereanydeal.com/ is your friend. You can sync your Steam wishlist to it if you like and get notifications when prices drop. Double check that you are getting a Steam key from a 3rd party site before buying.
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. Oh, and you must be a certain level to get your card drops.
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 need. Oh, and join the Steam group we created for trading cards: PA Card Sharks
Also check this handy tip:
HiT BiT wrote: »
A little Steam trading trick some of you may not be aware of:
-Go to your Steam Inventory
-Click on the "Trade Offers" button
-Then click on the "Who can send me Trade Offers?" link
-Below you will find a "Trade URL"
You can share this URL with other Steam users to allow them to directly send you a trade offer even if they aren't on your friends list.
You can share this URL anywhere, including your forum sig.
If you have shared or posted your URL and would like to stop receiving trade offers from it use the "Create New URL" button. A new Trade URL will be created turning the previous one inoperative.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 to try and get free games.
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.
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 Rainslick Precipice of Darkness series. Also developed Breath of Death VII and Cthulu Saves the World, two RPGs that, along with the Rainslick games, are available on Steam.
Also, sometimes shit gets real. Like that time we all murdered each other for bloodsport games. And there was a kabob conspiracy and a kind of Cthulhu bunny. @akajaybay took us down that particular rabbit hole. ;)
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.
Classy Christmas
We raised $11,903 dollars for charity in December 2013 and another $9,248 in December 2014!
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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! How do I get cards without playing them all?
Try out Idle Master which will farm card drops for you without even having to install the game, let alone play it! How convenient.
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
Steam Cleaner also available through GitHub!
Okay that helped. Now I have more room for stuff. Free stuff.
Isorn wrote: »
Someone on a steam forum made [url="http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/29711524/#Comment_29711524"a nice list of all free DLC you can add to your steam account[/url] if you have the base-game but that thread is currently not available so I figure I post it here. Since it is pretty easy to miss some of these.
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.
I enjoy watching video game streams. Where can I find some streamers that call the Steam Thread home?
@Houn has made a hub for finding Steam Thread Streamers.
The Steam thread has a proud tradition of marrying our love of Steam and Penny Arcade in comic edits:
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    TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited March 2015
    From the old thread:
    JUST BEFORE THE NEW THREAD:

    Out of nowhere @Iolo gifted me... A STEAM KEY in a PM and I am about to redeem it. Are you on the EDGE OF YOUR SEATS?! I know I am.

    Aaaaaaaaaaaand it's Heavy Bullets! Hooray! I've been looking for a new rougelite FPS jam since Paranautical Activity wore out its welcome and also threatened to kill The Newell. Heavy Bullets also has the advantage of being pretty instead of ugly like Paranautical Activity. Thank you @Iolo!

    edit: It's doubly appropriate because Heavy Bullets is an 80s-ish neon thing and I just spent the last few hours listening to 80s music so there you go.

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    ElementWrathElementWrath Perplexingly Soft MichiganRegistered User regular
    Well, since my last posts will die with the old thread...

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    The way they use strikethrough makes $9.99 games look like $0.00 games are being marked down and somehow ending at $2.49

    Aaaand everyone who enjoys shooters even remotely and likes a good story that makes them feel morally bankrupt should get Spec Ops: The Line from the 2K sale for $5.99

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    Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Also from the old thread:

    Re: Rising through the ranks to gain power, etc.

    The problem with a game starting with the player at the top is where do you go from there. It was mentioned that SR3 did it (I'd argue that they did it wrong.), but Saints Row was never really about hewing to reality. Despite its tonal shifts.

    Since we're playing games, we basically need that sense of accomplishment. Of getting somewhere. And game design has changed over the years. Games with plots will very nearly always be about working your way up because it's easier to tie that into a character arc and to introduce new gameplay elements as the game goes on. Especially since straight up tutorial missions are viewed so poorly.

    So if you start the player off at the 'top' then all you have left is an ever increasing amount of enemies. If I wanted that, I'd enjoy bullet hell games. Or you go outlandish in your content and we get things like Saints Row 3. Anything else just becomes a management sim because what fucking mafia don is actively participating in street level activities. And we all know that was the best part in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood/Revelations, right?

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    StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
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    TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    New thread musing - I'm surprised and disappointed by how much I'm not enjoying Wrack. Functionally it's fine but mechanically it's dry as bleached bone.

    The melee attack feels like a very short-range rocket launcher, or an explosive-tipped pool cue (which sounds more awesome than it is, sadly). The shotgun doesn't feel punchy and will barely keep your combo going if you hold down the left-mouse button. I've ran out of ammo a bunch of times because I'm focusing on running around and getting a big combo, which is not indicative of picking up health/armour/unique ammo pick-ups, let alone finding secrets. The enemies don't feel threatening at all, they're nonreactive gofers that you whack down. The story is incessant and boring. I can't dig the music because it reminds me of Tower of Guns and how much I ended up not enjoying that game either. Combo-breaking shots feel underwhelming for how much the game hypes them.

    Just, urgh. This was #1 on my wishlist for bloody months. Maybe I'll get some Doom maps for it and see how it feels. Otherwise I see that a new Brutal Doom update was released not long ago...

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Man, FarCry 3 can be a little overwhelming at times. There's so much to do!

    Also, I did so much side-story stuff that I crafted almost all of the bags before I even went the Medusa.

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    DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    edited March 2015
    Wrack is all about a lot of unrealized potential. I had high hopes for it, and I absolutely adore moving through the levels. The slope jumping and speed is just great. But yeah, combined with the stiff enemy animations and poor performance introduced right before it left early access this was a frustrating experience for me in the long run. I keep hoping that maybe it can get tuned up somehow but I just don't think there is the interest.

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    KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    Also from the old thread:

    Re: Rising through the ranks to gain power, etc.

    The problem with a game starting with the player at the top is where do you go from there. It was mentioned that SR3 did it (I'd argue that they did it wrong.), but Saints Row was never really about hewing to reality. Despite its tonal shifts.

    Since we're playing games, we basically need that sense of accomplishment. Of getting somewhere. And game design has changed over the years. Games with plots will very nearly always be about working your way up because it's easier to tie that into a character arc and to introduce new gameplay elements as the game goes on. Especially since straight up tutorial missions are viewed so poorly.

    So if you start the player off at the 'top' then all you have left is an ever increasing amount of enemies. If I wanted that, I'd enjoy bullet hell games. Or you go outlandish in your content and we get things like Saints Row 3. Anything else just becomes a management sim because what fucking mafia don is actively participating in street level activities. And we all know that was the best part in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood/Revelations, right?

    Actually, I kinda liked managing my assassin recruits. I hate that bullshit tower defense game, though. But if I could both assign certain areas or buildings to build me, like, more guns or more troops, and have an open world Red Faction/Saint's Row-type open world experience? I would totally be hip on that. Throw management sim and open world together, please.

    Then again, I'm a little weird, and I enjoyed Actraiser, so . . .

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    Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    Also from the old thread:

    Re: Rising through the ranks to gain power, etc.

    The problem with a game starting with the player at the top is where do you go from there. It was mentioned that SR3 did it (I'd argue that they did it wrong.), but Saints Row was never really about hewing to reality. Despite its tonal shifts.

    Since we're playing games, we basically need that sense of accomplishment. Of getting somewhere. And game design has changed over the years. Games with plots will very nearly always be about working your way up because it's easier to tie that into a character arc and to introduce new gameplay elements as the game goes on. Especially since straight up tutorial missions are viewed so poorly.

    So if you start the player off at the 'top' then all you have left is an ever increasing amount of enemies. If I wanted that, I'd enjoy bullet hell games. Or you go outlandish in your content and we get things like Saints Row 3. Anything else just becomes a management sim because what fucking mafia don is actively participating in street level activities. And we all know that was the best part in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood/Revelations, right?

    The steel level stuff WAS fun in Brotherhood. You had the ability to walk into an arena of enemies, raise your hand, and call down an air strike in the form of an arrow storm from your abstracted minions waiting around and then start ordering your assassitants to pop out of whatever hay bale or ledge was nearby and start helping you stab things. You actually felt like you were in charge of a small cell of assassins and could get help from them even if your organization in the area was still so small that you had to help out in person.

    In contrast, Revelations removed your ability to call for help, your recruited assassins basically took part in a mini-game where you had them do stuff and then did nothing but wait to see if they succeeded or not in the manner of some early Facebook games, and there was a shoehorned tower defense minigame.

    Brotherhood is a good example of a game starting you in a position of authority doing it well. You're still struggling and definitely not all powerful so you have to get involved but get perks of leadership. Saints Row 2 did something similar in that you were the boss of the Saints within the first few story missions and could recruit minions to help you out but were still a street level gang. Revelations is a good example of how not to do things.

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    JeixJeix Registered User regular
    Well it's 4:30 AM and I have class in a few hours, but I just completed Shadowrun: Dragonfall and it was totally worth it. Seriously, it is like 5x better than Shadowrun Returns, that was one hell of a ride. Thanks again to @HyphyKezzy for the game!

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    CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    Legends of Grimrock is pissing me off. How do you get out of the cage?

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    Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    @TychoCelchuuu ... you forgot to carry over Jragghen's very awesome card post from the old thread.

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    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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    JazzJazz Registered User regular
    Jeix wrote: »
    Well it's 4:30 AM and I have class in a few hours, but I just completed Shadowrun: Dragonfall and it was totally worth it. Seriously, it is like 5x better than Shadowrun Returns, that was one hell of a ride. Thanks again to @HyphyKezzy for the game!

    Speaking of Shadowrun, for those who might miss it from the end of the last thread:
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    Not Steam, but so amazing I had to share: Shadowrun promo video from circa 1990.

    (Discovered via this article on io9.)

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    DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    ah that new thread smell, gives you those butterflies like a seasonal sale is coming.

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    HalfazedninjaHalfazedninja Author of Jake Howard: Multiverse 101! Behind YouRegistered User regular
    So it looks like the Xbox 1 may have outed a second guest kombatant in MKX:
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    My debut novel, JAKE HOWARD: MULTIVERSE 101!
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    Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Daimar wrote: »
    ah that new thread smell, gives you those butterflies like a seasonal sale is coming.

    Butterflies?

    More like cold sweat, heart palpitations, and a general feeling of dread.

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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    HyphyKezzyHyphyKezzy The Best On MarsRegistered User regular
    Jeix wrote: »
    Well it's 4:30 AM and I have class in a few hours, but I just completed Shadowrun: Dragonfall and it was totally worth it. Seriously, it is like 5x better than Shadowrun Returns, that was one hell of a ride. Thanks again to HyphyKezzy for the game!

    Hooray! Also, a little something to help with school...

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    NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    Then there's Longhaul, because "Fuck Sleep (tm)".

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    Ed GrubermanEd Gruberman Registered User regular
    I just grabbed the Humble Weekly Roguelike bundle and it seems that when you buy the top tier of Heavy Bullets for $8, you get a giftable copy as well. So for anyone that's kind of on the fence about that one, it's a little food for thought.

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    TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    @TychoCelchuuu ... you forgot to carry over Jragghen's very awesome card post from the old thread.
    Whoops. Luckily I have the second post in this thread too, so once I get the chance I'll edit the post back in.

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    CorriganXCorriganX Jacksonville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited March 2015
    Woo! Finished Resident Evil: Revelations 2: Episode 4

    I really really loved this game. It is more of a shooter (even more so than 4 5 and 6) than the other REs, but it also plays MUCH BETTER as a shooter. Played through the entire game with kbam, and had a great time. It bugged out a bit for me in a few places, but otherwise I had next to no problems with it, its not a bad port. If you have a history of Resident Evil games, you'll like a lot of the twists and turns. If you like shooters and know a bit about Resident Evil you'll enjoy this game. If you have absolutely no idea about Resident Evil, a lot of the big plot points will fall very flat for you, and the characters will have no draw for you which can be very disappointing.

    The "raid mode" of this game is also pretty good. Its got 200+ Levels of increasing difficulty, new mods for enemies, etc. You'll be running the same basic level designs for normal, hard, insane difficulty missions, but the monsters will have new improved abilities, like pulling you towards them, or being invisible until they take damage (I suggest shotguns). I really enjoy the raid mode.

    Raid Mode is supposed to have online gameplay, but I'm not really 100% sure that the online mode has been added in yet.


    I STRONGLY SUGGEST PLAYING THIS IF YOU HAVE ANY GOOD MEMORIES FROM RESIDENT EVIL.

    So great.


    Edit - Its also less than the "normal" price of new games. Amazingly worth the price, but if you can hold out for a cheaper discount it'll still be great.

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    HiT BiTHiT BiT 🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man's Registered User regular
    Apparently you can praise The Newell in Cities: Skylines using its heighmap editor:
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    shdwcastershdwcaster South DakotaRegistered User regular
    To carry over the MechWarrior discussion from the past thread a little bit;

    I agree with what @Buttcleft said, the Oosiks are usually pretty active every night. I usually run with a different merc Corp that I joined around the same time as the Oosiks formed, but regardless, the game is pretty active. For that matter, solo drops have improved thanks to voice comms finally being in-game. Not everyone uses them, but they've helped make coordination a lot easier.

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    bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    HiT BiT wrote: »
    Apparently you can praise The Newell in Cities: Skylines using its heighmap editor:
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    Looks like the cover to a Lennon solo album

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    SteevLSteevL What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    Oh man, I completely forgot about that tower defense game in Assassin's Creed Revelations. It was not great. It's too bad it didn't work out.
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    Then again, I'm a little weird, and I enjoyed Actraiser, so . . .

    I don't think there's anything weird about enjoying Actraiser. It's too bad the sequel completely removed the simulation-lite stuff. I've tried to go back and play it, but just can't get any enjoyment out of that game.

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    KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    Woo new thread. PS4 is taking over me this month(add me on PSN people!) but I recommend Ori and the Blind Forest and Tales from the Borderlands as episode two just came out. Both fantastic games on Steam.

    Go forth and serve!

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    PS4 has a blockbuster month. Type-0 and Bloodborne one right after the other. I'm having a ton of fun with Type-0 and so far I think my favorite character to use is King, though I haven't tried everyone yet because goddamn game usually you drip feed me new party members not toss the whole lot at me and say, "TRY THEM ALL!"

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    CorriganXCorriganX Jacksonville, FLRegistered User regular
    I am going to bloodborne the shit out of everything next week. So happy I had Revelations2 and GTAV Heists to tide me over until release. Otherwise i'd be fiending so hard.

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    Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    There is a lot of console talk o in this here Steam thread. I like it. :D

    GTA V is brilliant when poorly. Jumping into a game with a bunch of mates and wrecking shit helps offset nausea brilliantly. You just sorta forget to be sick. Until you hit the first person view.

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    VeganVegan Registered User regular
    SteevL wrote: »
    Oh man, I completely forgot about that tower defense game in Assassin's Creed Revelations. It was not great. It's too bad it didn't work out.

    Every now and then I'll start up an old AAA game and find a shoehorned tower defense minigame in it and I go, "Oh, right. THOSE couple of years."

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    Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    edited March 2015
    I thought I'd be just going PC and Wii U this generation but now I really want a PS4 (especially now that Rockband is announced.) I think I'll end up getting a PS4 once my money isn't going straight into fixing my credit score. Ah to be young and not have responsibilities again! :)

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    Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    I didn't accept it cause he's being nuts but @SmokeStacks sent me a trade request with over 150 cards in it! I won't decline in account of it taking forever to set that up but he sure as shit better cancel it cause I'm not taking that. D:

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    Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    The joke was they were all Bad Rats cards.

    And speaking of games the thread loves to hate - there's a big sale on Boner Tots going on over at Bundlestars:
    http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/zen-bundle/
    You also get something called the Pretentious Game which sounds intriguing.

    In more useful info - they also have Gauntlet for $5.99.

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    bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    The joke was they were all Bad Rats cards.

    And speaking of games the thread loves to hate - there's a big sale on Boner Tots going on over at Bundlestars:
    http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/zen-bundle/
    You also get something called the Pretentious Game which sounds intriguing.

    In more useful info - they also have Gauntlet for $5.99.

    Isn't the pretentious game a free flash game?

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    ShimshaiShimshai Flush with Success! Isle of EmeraldRegistered User regular
    Whoops, forgot to bookmark the thread and almost lost it!

    Anyway, free weekend for Tropico 5, the game that's banned in Thailand!

    Steam/Origin: Shimshai

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    chuck steakchuck steak Registered User regular
    I'll also have a PS4 in about 2 weeks. I had no idea what Bloodborne is, but looks like I'll be going for that instead of re-buying Dark Souls 2. It's going to be tough getting used to buying full priced games again though. I feel really foolish for not "buying" all of the free games for PS4 each month. At least it's not like I'd have the free time to play them all anyways, but just throwing away all those free games is making me feel like an idiot.

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    KandenKanden Registered User regular
    Thanks to @Ed Gruberman for Heavy Bullets!

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    KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    SteevL wrote: »
    Oh man, I completely forgot about that tower defense game in Assassin's Creed Revelations. It was not great. It's too bad it didn't work out.
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    Then again, I'm a little weird, and I enjoyed Actraiser, so . . .

    I don't think there's anything weird about enjoying Actraiser. It's too bad the sequel completely removed the simulation-lite stuff. I've tried to go back and play it, but just can't get any enjoyment out of that game.

    As an added bonus, I'm not much of a fan of Tower Defense.

    Also, yeah. Actraiser II took out the sim elements and made the controls and movement through the side-scrolling stages even more wooden. It was . . . not a good follow-up.

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    Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    I forgot to mention that I played a little Hektor yesterday, after Pixie gifted. It was the first pc game is played in quite some time (I've been idling a lot, gotta get them sweet sweet cards for dosh). My word, it's unsettling! the map is procedurally generated AFAIK so it got confusing fast when I couldn't get past a door and I swear it changed as I ran through the corridors, like I would turn back and it's an entirely different corridor.

    Digging what I've played of it so Far, though admittedly I couldn't give it a ton of time. First person plus nausea is a bad combination.

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    f3rretf3rret Registered User regular
    Aw, I was looking forward to Dungeons 2:
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/262280

    But apparently it's like, $44 CAD, and comes with the "Kalypso Launcher" DRM. I guess I'll wait for some reviews before buying...

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