[steam] manual says to cut the third wire, but only if it's not blue!

Cantido

RoyceSraphim wrote: »

Ah, if only I could use this USB to store a partial download at the library, and transfer that to my steam pc, and fill in the gaps with my slow ass internet.

I miss South Korean intertubes dearly.

EDIT - Except the part where I have to VPN to an American server just to appear American. Also, Korean internet is so heavily censored I had to VPN out just to watch a Youtube playthrough of Silence of the Sleep.

TeeMan

RoyceSraphim wrote: »

Ah, if only I could use this USB to store a partial download at the library, and transfer that to my steam pc, and fill in the gaps with my slow ass internet.

*cough*GOG*cough*

chris: waffle king

Random controller issues...

So...picking away at the backlog. Topaz on Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved is still proving a touch too tough for me, so i set that aside, and glancing through the easy to jump into stuff in my backlog decided to give Not a Hero another go. Only to discover it doesn't want to play well with the XBox1 controller i've got...saa...so that'll go back on the backlog backburner for awhile.

So, just incase anyone else was thinking of it (and isnae a KBAM'er or using a different controller), that might be a point to consider.

Maybe i'll give Saviours a try.

[addendum] Saviours is hard. And reminds me of something i played way back on the Genesis, though i couldnae for the life of me tell you what it was called[/addendum]

iolo

CorriganX wrote: »

Okay guys, which games on steam do you play that you were like "I sure wish this worked online!"

I've already been playing Lego games with @jeix is there any other local only games you can suggest?

Hey, @CorriganX and Jeix, how about Crawl?

Store page wrote:

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s your turn to inhabit the monsters. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!

User reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive (936 reviews)

It's on sale at Gamesrocket for $7.

Ed Gruberman

I'm not sure if it's coming to Steam eventually but Gearbox's new game, Battleborn, is having a closed technical test. For anyone interested, you can sign up here: http://rsvp.battleborn.com/

Undead Scottsman

Gearbox and Take 2 2K Games don't seem to have any Steam or Origin like service, so it'll probably be on Steam.

Descendant X

Yeah, when you register your platform it sez PC (Steam) or something like that. I registered this morning, 'cause I loves me some Gearbox.

Pixie

Ed Gruberman wrote: »

I'm not sure if it's coming to Steam eventually but Gearbox's new game, Battleborn, is having a closed technical test. For anyone interested, you can sign up here: http://rsvp.battleborn.com/

Battleborn?

/cue the lawsuit-happy lawyers at Bethesda suing over use of the name

mere_immortal

Made a humble account and realised I had a bunch of keys for stuff I already had, lemme know if you want any!

Coin Crypt
Freedom Planet
Outland
Screencheat
Stanley Parable
Frozen Synapse Prime
Bit Trip Runner 2
To the Moon
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY
Batman Arkham City GOTY
FEAR
FEAR 2
FEAR 3
Amnesia
Botanicula
Aquaria
Broken Sword: Director's Cut
McPixel
Nightsky
Organ Trail
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Waking MArs
Canabalt
Swords and Soldier
Avadon, Cogs, Snuggle Truck, and Zen Bound 2 (all in one)
Cortex Comman

Alice Leywind

Rami wrote: »

Shutting down GFWL would demonstrate a serious commitment to PC gaming as far as I'm concerned.

Not really. Microsoft have already all but abandoned it. Any new games coming out from them don't use GFWL. They either come out on steam, or annoyingly only the windows marketplace. shutting down GFWL would only lead to the loss of games. Most great games have already been stripped of GFWL, but there are still a few.

Granted, most of them are bad, but you still have games like Bulletstorm.

Jazz

I've been offline (bleurgh, meatspace) for a couple of days so I'm working my way through the new thread...

DarkPrimus wrote: »

xiears wrote: »

There must be something in the water, quite a few steam thread babies on the way!!!

We found out the sex of our baby this week, we're having a boy! I began thinking of game related names, then my gf reminded me that he will grow up to be an actual human who probably won't appreciate being called Link or Waluigi so I guess I'll think of something more traditional (boring).

Max?

I have a couple of friends who have given their respective kids game-related names (confirmed to me to be deliberate) but managed to do so with great subtlety. One has a surname beginning with S, and so named her son so his initials were NES. The other named his first son with the first name Max, middle name Samuel, in honour of the Sam & Max games.

So there are in fact ways to do it without being horrible to your kid!

Steev

mere_immortal wrote: »

Made a humble account and realised I had a bunch of keys for stuff I already had, lemme know if you want any!

Coin Crypt
Freedom Planet
Outland
Screencheat
Stanley Parable
Frozen Synapse Prime
Bit Trip Runner 2
To the Moon
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY
Batman Arkham City GOTY
FEAR
FEAR 2
FEAR 3
Amnesia
Botanicula
Aquaria
Broken Sword: Director's Cut
McPixel
Nightsky
Organ Trail
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Waking MArs
Canabalt
Swords and Soldier
Avadon, Cogs, Snuggle Truck, and Zen Bound 2 (all in one)
Cortex Comman

Huh, I didn't know that Canabalt had a Steam release. I enjoyed playing the flash version in my browser years ago.

Big Classy

Yay I got four hours sleep! Attributing it to Mad Max right after work. I was all gung ho about getting a story muffin done. It'd been days since I'd last done one, getting sidetracked by all the distraction and filler.


So I cleared out a couple scrap locations and scarecrows.

mere_immortal

Story muffins sound delicious.

Karoz

mere_immortal wrote: »

<Massive Classy Humble Bundle giveaway>

Wow, that is a lot easier than trying to keep track of a dozen emails. Wish I thought of doing that before.

Seems I have a few unredeemed gifts as well.

bloodatonement

As much as I am glad to be done with GFWL, and as cool as it was for WB to put out the Steam GTOY of Arkham City and give it to anyone who owned the GFWL version, I'm really bummed they killed the leader boards in the switchover.

The Steam version has no leaderboards (which is kinda lazy), and the GFWL version can't be activated anymore because it was removed from Securom, and you can't get a key. I put hundreds of hours into the challenge rooms. I made it to the top of a few predator room leader boards. All those... records... will be lost, in time, like...tears in the rain.

rikdaly

Big Classy wrote: »

Yay I got four hours sleep! Attributing it to Mad Max right after work. I was all gung ho about getting a story muffin done. It'd been days since I'd last done one, getting sidetracked by all the distraction and filler.


So I cleared out a couple scrap locations and scarecrows.

I'm pretty much the same, I head off towards a mission and then there are 5 scrap locations on the way so I figure I might as well do those first, then there are only 5 scrap locations left in that region so I might as well do those and by that time I've forgotten all about doing a muffin mission

Big Classy

rikdaly wrote: »

Big Classy wrote: »

Yay I got four hours sleep! Attributing it to Mad Max right after work. I was all gung ho about getting a story muffin done. It'd been days since I'd last done one, getting sidetracked by all the distraction and filler.


So I cleared out a couple scrap locations and scarecrows.

I'm pretty much the same, I head off towards a mission and then there are 5 scrap locations on the way so I figure I might as well do those first, then there are only 5 scrap locations left in that region so I might as well do those and by that time I've forgotten all about doing a muffin mission

I mean, I'm not even mad cause I'm having fun but at the same time I wanna finish it already! :P

I still gotta start up Metal Gear Solid V and next month is doing another load of games on me. What a time to be a gamer.

Bigity

I am a very bad Steamgifts.com user and forgot about last week's giveaway - to be fair though, I had family in town and we all got to suffer together watching Arkansas lose to Texas Tech (I live in Lubbock these days)



A winner is @cooljammer00!

(Friend invite sent)

Isorn

System Shock 1 showed up on GOG. Bunch of enhancements. No need for DOSBox. So that is neat. And given that Night Dive is behind it I am guessing it will be on Steam in the near future as well.

Jazz

Isorn wrote: »

System Shock 1 showed up on GOG. Bunch of enhancements. No need for DOSBox. So that is neat. And given that Night Dive is behind it I am guessing it will be on Steam in the near future as well.

I would do unspeakable things for them to add similar enhancements (upped resolution, mouselook) to Ultima Underworld I & II.

Quical

Iolo wrote: »

CorriganX wrote: »

Okay guys, which games on steam do you play that you were like "I sure wish this worked online!"

I've already been playing Lego games with @jeix is there any other local only games you can suggest?

Hey, @CorriganX and Jeix, how about Crawl?

Store page wrote:

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s your turn to inhabit the monsters. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!

User reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive (936 reviews)

It's on sale at Gamesrocket for $7.

I played crawl at a friends house once and it was such a blast. Been dying for it to have a proper sale price so I can own it so hard. One day my precious. One day. Not sure I'd pay a fiver for it right now tho.

Undead Scottsman

Jazz wrote: »

Isorn wrote: »

System Shock 1 showed up on GOG. Bunch of enhancements. No need for DOSBox. So that is neat. And given that Night Dive is behind it I am guessing it will be on Steam in the near future as well.

I would do unspeakable things for them to add similar enhancements (upped resolution, mouselook) to Ultima Underworld I & II.

Shit, I'd buy those at full price in a heartbeat.

cooljammer00

So I guess that weird new episodic Hitman game got delayed to March

jclast

@mere_immortal is awesome. Now I can withdraw from all those SteamGifts giveaways for Freedom Planet - thank you so much!

DoctorArch

Isorn wrote: »

System Shock 1 showed up on GOG. Bunch of enhancements. No need for DOSBox. So that is neat. And given that Night Dive is behind it I am guessing it will be on Steam in the near future as well.

I haven't played System Shock 1 since I was 16. Very very good game that was ahead of its time, but now it might suffer a bit due to modern control sensibilities.

Zxerol

DoctorArch wrote: »

Isorn wrote: »

System Shock 1 showed up on GOG. Bunch of enhancements. No need for DOSBox. So that is neat. And given that Night Dive is behind it I am guessing it will be on Steam in the near future as well.

I haven't played System Shock 1 since I was 16. Very very good game that was ahead of its time, but now it might suffer a bit due to modern control sensibilities.

I believe this is patched to include a more modern mouselook-based control scheme as well, so you don't have to deal with ASDX tank controls, Z-X strafing, RFV pitch, QWE lean, and all that other sorts of crazy (albeit inventive) stuff.

AdditionalPylons

For someone that never played might&magic games other than dark messiah, what would you recommend ?

Karoz

AdditionalPylons wrote: »

For someone that never played might&magic games other than dark messiah, what would you recommend ?

Clash of Heroes is $2.50. It is a fun match three game with interesting mechanics and an engaging enough story using the younger characters of the heroes from 4 or 5? I found it rather fun.

I have no experience with the rest.

Undead Scottsman

Hmm.. Dying Light + Season Pass is only $40 on Steam right now. Worth it?

Ed Gruberman

Not steam but of interest to this thread: Dragon Age: Inquisition is going to have a GOTY edition released October 6, 2015.

https://twitter.com/dragonage/status/646353298002460672

Does anyone know if any of the DLC is any good?

RoyceSraphim

There are a lot of people on these boards that have made promises that Nightdive is really nice not to have collected on.

All that parenting talk yesterday reminded me of diving over the couch to liberate the remote from my niece before she could use OnDemand. I failed and she watched the lion documentary with her parents. Thinking of this inspired me to do something.....

But that's not important

What is important is.....fuck @mere_immortal is already giving out two of them.



Meh

Custom Special

Well then. I've been out of the Steam loop for a while (Destiny got me good!) but, uh, it appears the generous @Ketar gifted me a copy of Gauntlet a few days ago! Hadn't been checking my email (or logging on Steam) lately and just noticed today.
Thanks so much! I have lots of memories from Gauntlet Legends on N64 (many a late night birthday party was had) and look forward to firing up this new iteration.

tsmvengy

Quical wrote: »

Iolo wrote: »

CorriganX wrote: »

Okay guys, which games on steam do you play that you were like "I sure wish this worked online!"

I've already been playing Lego games with @jeix is there any other local only games you can suggest?

Hey, @CorriganX and Jeix, how about Crawl?

Store page wrote:

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s your turn to inhabit the monsters. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!

User reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive (936 reviews)

It's on sale at Gamesrocket for $7.

I played crawl at a friends house once and it was such a blast. Been dying for it to have a proper sale price so I can own it so hard. One day my precious. One day. Not sure I'd pay a fiver for it right now tho.

A PC dungeon-crawling version of Pac Man VS? Awesome.

Jazz

tsmvengy wrote: »

Quical wrote: »

Iolo wrote: »

CorriganX wrote: »

Okay guys, which games on steam do you play that you were like "I sure wish this worked online!"

I've already been playing Lego games with @jeix is there any other local only games you can suggest?

Hey, @CorriganX and Jeix, how about Crawl?

Store page wrote:

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s your turn to inhabit the monsters. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!

User reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive (936 reviews)

It's on sale at Gamesrocket for $7.

I played crawl at a friends house once and it was such a blast. Been dying for it to have a proper sale price so I can own it so hard. One day my precious. One day. Not sure I'd pay a fiver for it right now tho.

A PC dungeon-crawling version of Pac Man VS? Awesome.

Pac-Man Vs was so brilliant.

Krummith

Sorry if this was mentioned earlier.

Bundlestars and PC Gamer are giving away steam keys for 8Bit Boy.
I'm not sure if Facebook, ect are required, but you do need to give your email address.

Link

Steev

Somehow I missed this news that we're going to start getting Cave's bullet hell shmups on Steam! I only know their DoDonPachi series, and it's not really a game I play. I prefer just to watch a youtube clip of its insanity every few years, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHqN_fH2S7k

Jazz wrote: »

tsmvengy wrote: »

Quical wrote: »

Iolo wrote: »

CorriganX wrote: »

Okay guys, which games on steam do you play that you were like "I sure wish this worked online!"

I've already been playing Lego games with @jeix is there any other local only games you can suggest?

Hey, @CorriganX and Jeix, how about Crawl?

Store page wrote:

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s your turn to inhabit the monsters. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!

User reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive (936 reviews)

It's on sale at Gamesrocket for $7.

I played crawl at a friends house once and it was such a blast. Been dying for it to have a proper sale price so I can own it so hard. One day my precious. One day. Not sure I'd pay a fiver for it right now tho.

A PC dungeon-crawling version of Pac Man VS? Awesome.

Pac-Man Vs was so brilliant.

I really need to get some friends over and dust off my Gamecube copy of Pac Man VS. one day. I had a blast with it when it came out, and it's a lot of fun showing it to people who have never heard of it before. And there are a LOT of people who haven't. It's a great little casual game, though, and I'm not sure if Crawl fits into that. I can't honestly say either way since I haven't played it, but it strikes me as a little more advanced compared to Pac Man VS.

Zxerol

Crawl is mechanically straightforward. You have two buttons (attack and special) with some very light RPG mechanics, and even the most casual of gamers can quickly grasp it. Figuring out what the monsters's abilities do is the hardest part, but that's part of the fun, really.

Iblis

Today "Rivals of Aether" entered Steam Early Access.

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

Essentially it is a very competent Smash clone with a lot of crazy ideas and GBA style graphics. Both local and online multiplayer (though I haven't tried the online yet myself). Pretty solid and fun so far, the gameplay is more reminiscent of melee, fairly quick and combos are a distinct possibility, but it also seems pretty easy to pick up and play. All the characters seem pretty fun and have their own particular gimmick (though Zetterburn is probably the easiest to pick up and play). Think they want to have eight characters by launch (six currently).

cooljammer00

Now we wait and see if Smash holds up without licensed characters