It definitely feels like not a lot of people know about it. Out of my entire friends list that has over 100 PA people, only one person has it on their wishlist
It was made by the people who made Mercenary Kings and Wizorb, and was mainly on my radar because Paul Robertson did all the boss sprites and that dude is super talented
Hell, here's the trailer in case anyone else hasn't heard of it
It definitely feels like not a lot of people know about it. Out of my entire friends list that has over 100 PA people, only one person has it on their wishlist
It was made by the people who made Mercenary Kings and Wizorb, and was mainly on my radar because Paul Robertson did all the boss sprites and that dude is super talented
Hell, here's the trailer in case anyone else hasn't heard of it
See, I'm a bit cautious about Curses n Chaos, because I did NOT enjoy mercenary kings, Plus when you tell me the title of a game is "Curses N Chaos" I immediately think of Ghouls 'n ghosts, and then get REALLY disappointed when it's not like ghouls 'n ghosts.
Yeah I played Mercenary King's for like 16 hours and came away with the conclusion that it's actually not that good a game. As for being disappointed that it's not ghouls n ghosts, there's nothing I can really say about that since it's nothing like it.
What it IS is a simple, solid little arcade game with wave-based levels. You got a button for punching, a button for jumping, and a button for using items. There's also mario style run button that powers up your punches slightly if you punch on the ground while running.
Getting through levels really depends on how good you are at twitch based action like in something like megaman, but also on how well you can juggle the various item drops. You can only hold one at a time and they only have one use, so a lot of the times success depends on knowing when to use items and when you should save them for later. You can also press a button to have your owl friend take any item you're holding and store it for later. Pressing the button again will have him bring the item out. The owl's name is Owly.
I don't know, it's not a super big or deep game, but it's a fun and challenging arcade style deal. Watching a gameplay video on youtube will basically show you what you'll be doing the whole game, but I think it's solid and enjoyable.
EDIT: AND HOW COULD I FORGET? You can hold down to dance. Dancing gives you points. If you have your multiplier up from killing a bunch of monsters in a row without dying, your dancing gives you even MORE points. It's pretty great.
So the account is attributed to your son's email and credit card info? No? The credit card and email are owned by you? All the identifying information for this account points to it being owned by an individual whose account was penalized and that you're trying circumvent the penalty. The standard response when an individual is identified as creating a new account to dodge a ban or other penalty is to apply the ban to the new account.
The situation sucks and you've been screwed over in general, but you walked right into getting the second account locked down.
If it were an automatic ban, done by a computer, sure. But from what I've seen they have people doing this. A person should be able to review the details of the original account lockdown, note that Sir Carcass has spent $2500 on Steam games, see if it's even likely that he's trying to grief or scam using goddamned Farming Simulator 15, and make a judgment call to fix this. Instead it seems like their human staff doesn't do anything that couldn't be handled by an autoresponder; it would cost less, respond much more quickly and it would take someone ten minutes to write some nice polite replies for the autoresponse to use. I don't care if their CS staff is in India being paid $1.50/hr, they're not getting their money's worth.
Yeah, that's what's bothering me. Is it for their protection or to punish me? What are they protecting themselves from, an additional FS15 sale? What are they punishing me for, asking for a refund before they were allowed? idgi
So the account is attributed to your son's email and credit card info? No? The credit card and email are owned by you? All the identifying information for this account points to it being owned by an individual whose account was penalized and that you're trying circumvent the penalty. The standard response when an individual is identified as creating a new account to dodge a ban or other penalty is to apply the ban to the new account.
The situation sucks and you've been screwed over in general, but you walked right into getting the second account locked down.
If it were an automatic ban, done by a computer, sure. But from what I've seen they have people doing this. A person should be able to review the details of the original account lockdown, note that Sir Carcass has spent $2500 on Steam games, see if it's even likely that he's trying to grief or scam using goddamned Farming Simulator 15, and make a judgment call to fix this. Instead it seems like their human staff doesn't do anything that couldn't be handled by an autoresponder; it would cost less, respond much more quickly and it would take someone ten minutes to write some nice polite replies for the autoresponse to use. I don't care if their CS staff is in India being paid $1.50/hr, they're not getting their money's worth.
Yeah, that's what's bothering me. Is it for their protection or to punish me? What are they protecting themselves from, an additional FS15 sale? What are they punishing me for, asking for a refund before they were allowed? idgi
Honestly, they've just lost a customer. Bravo, Valve you dumb fucks. This has happened to too many people I know and I'm kind of done rewarding bad customer support. I know it's silly after spending over 10k on the store but I just can't keep giving then money if they keep testing friends of mine like this.
So the account is attributed to your son's email and credit card info? No? The credit card and email are owned by you? All the identifying information for this account points to it being owned by an individual whose account was penalized and that you're trying circumvent the penalty. The standard response when an individual is identified as creating a new account to dodge a ban or other penalty is to apply the ban to the new account.
The situation sucks and you've been screwed over in general, but you walked right into getting the second account locked down.
If it were an automatic ban, done by a computer, sure. But from what I've seen they have people doing this. A person should be able to review the details of the original account lockdown, note that Sir Carcass has spent $2500 on Steam games, see if it's even likely that he's trying to grief or scam using goddamned Farming Simulator 15, and make a judgment call to fix this. Instead it seems like their human staff doesn't do anything that couldn't be handled by an autoresponder; it would cost less, respond much more quickly and it would take someone ten minutes to write some nice polite replies for the autoresponse to use. I don't care if their CS staff is in India being paid $1.50/hr, they're not getting their money's worth.
Yeah, that's what's bothering me. Is it for their protection or to punish me? What are they protecting themselves from, an additional FS15 sale? What are they punishing me for, asking for a refund before they were allowed? idgi
Honestly, they've just lost a customer. Bravo, Valve you dumb fucks. This has happened to too many people I know and I'm kind of done rewarding bad customer support. I know it's silly after spending over 10k on the store but I just can't keep giving then money if they keep testing friends of mine like this.
Yeah, its getting pretty ridiculous. They're the largest online digital distribution platform. This doesn't fly.
Which is WHY I say you should bring the story to someone well known. Someone who can give the story the attention it deserves. Because it just KEEPS PILING UP and getting worse and worse.
Figured I should play something for Halloween. Was gonna play something scary but I'm just not up to it.
I guess I'll try out Costume Quest since I've never played it and my best friend tells me it's really good.
It better be really good.
Whhhaaaatt, you've never played CQ?
It is really good. I'm pretty sure if you don't like CQ you're a monster. Don't be a monster.
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@DeMoN is right about Curses n Chaos being tough. I'm having a hard time getting past the first stage solo as well. I discovered a couple of other moves during my session. As well as the running punch, you also have a jump kick (A+X) and an uppercut (Up+X) that do double damage. The uppercut is great for dealing with frogs and ghosts and anything that attacks from above and the jump kick is great for taking out frogs and birds too.
The game demands really tight timing and keeping the combos up while juggling the gear drops and not getting hit is super demanding but pretty fun. A nice thing is that money and drops are kept whether you win a stage or not, so it's not an all or nothing proposition. You can farm up some money and items for the alchemy stuff even if you aren't a for srs pro gamer.
On the technical side the controls are sharp, the action is easy to pick up and understand and it look and sounds really good. It feels like nice, solid coop single screen brawler. I'm looking forward to playing this with my kid.
I got me some codes for the Deponia trilogy, and since I've already played it and it's fantastic, Ima make up some of them contest type things.
Disclaimer: It's highly recommended you play them in order since they directly lead into the next game and you'd be lost of you don't, but that aside, it's a good chance to freeload at least one of 'em.
Open to PA G&T Adventure Team group members.
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Currently play Spooky's house of Jump Scares.
Or as I like to call it, Heart Attack Simulator 2015.
Small cute cardboard cutouts are fucking with my nerves.
Is it possible there is anyone here that doesn't own Costume Quest? Inquiring minds need to know.
My greasemonkey script has fallen behind the times a little so the tag-parsing stuff no longer works properly. But it is still pretty good at finding people who don't have a particular game. People who don't have Costume Quest (and are on my friends list):DyasAlure, quote]
Hey, I was trying to play it cool. You had to go and call me out. Although, that being said, That is a nice script.
Anyway, I feel compeled to play witcher 1 now that I was gifted 2. And I have to play 1 before 2, but. . . so many games. . .
After Pixie helped me make my boob-related purchase decision during the sale the other week by dropping Sakura Fantasy into my library, I still had the five bucks in my account to buy Sakura Beach.
It wasn't very good. Well, I mean, the story was an incredibly flimsy excuse to show girls in bikinis, but that's expected. It fell down in some other areas, most of which would probably have been caught by an extra pass or two through QA.
Unlike some of the other games from Sekai Project, it actually has decisions you can make to alter the story and change who the main character winds up with at the end. This is good! It gives replay value! It's not so great when you hit the dialogue that obviously changes depending on your choice, and the dialogue refers to a choice you didn't make! This happens quite often! I love exclamation marks!
Notably, the game has four endings - wind up dating one girl, wind up dating the other girl, wind up dating both girls, or wind up forever alone. Regardless of which ending you GET, there's a line of text at the end that implies you've gotten the mega happy ending.
Also, it has some really silly damn-you-autocorrect-style word choice errors, my favorite coming when one of the characters proclaims that she "has a reputation to upload!"
I mean, there are probably worse VNs on Steam, even worse ones that are just excuses for fan service, but this wasn't great.
I know some people don't have it. I guess it is only in this thread you would have that question, and steam doesn't have a fast way to figure the answer out, unless it is on a wishlist.
I started Red Alert 2 as I got it free on origin. I used to think the graphics were so great, although I admit it held up better than one might guess. Is there a way to speed the gameplay up? It was so slow.
@DyasAlure its under game options after you start the game up.
Well I was going to spend this evening playing spooky games with friends, but they all bailed on me.
Plan B was to stream me playing the park so anybody here could watch me become terrified.
Then I remembered that my machine crashes for some reason whenever I try to stream, so now I'm just playing The Park alone (which is probably the most spooky way to play it. I had wanted friends and strangers as a way to chicken out of playing spooky games, because I can't handle the spook).
Saints row 4 is too powerful for me, so jumping back into STALKER and System Shock 2, attempting to mod the shit out of both right now since their age and quirks made them bothersome to play in the first place.
I don't think I've ever seen someone that likes the Sakura games in the wild. Even most of the hardcore VN fans seem to thumb their noses at them.
That would be because they aren't really VN games, since most of those have actual branching stories and such and the Sakura games are straight lines that you are just reading along as an excuse to ogle the pictures.
At least, that's what I gathered from when Game Grumps was playing Sakura Spirits. There was no player interaction other than pressing the button to advance to the next bit of text.
I made it to the ferris wheel and called it quits for the night...I can't take spooks. Now to play something where I can hide behind an assault rifle or a multi-ton war machine.
I reached a section where I probably could have explored further, but I couldn't bring myself to do so.
The girl behind the window freaked me out. I could only faintly see her as the busted light fixture sparked. I couldn't tell if it was a person, an animatron, or a corpse. There was a stuffed teddy bear on a shelf in front of her. The bear may have some significance. This is the second time I've seen a bear at a spooky spot, and I think the kid raced into the park looking for a bear.
I think I could have gone inside that shack to investigate. But NOPE. NOPE NOPE NOPE.
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Or as I like to call it, Heart Attack Simulator 2015.
Small cute cardboard cutouts are fucking with my nerves.
Up to room 615 now.
Shit is getting weird.
SCP weird.
Spookys caught me off guard. "Oh it's very silly looking, silly pumpkin popouts and the like. Spooky looks like an Adventuer Time character this will be fun and silly." and ah. No, no.
Okay, game is playing fun, top setting graphics run fine, now to find a graphics pack for it....is this Autumn Aurora 2 just graphics or is it changing the game as well? I just want a standard experience that just looks nicer.
Using this reddit page, using absolute nature and structures....now just monster and NPC's left.
somehow @Shade got free again and has decided to attack me with Lilly and Sasha: Curse of the Immortals and Dracula Legacy and The Howler
Thank you you crazy drunk you
I'm not sure what the consensus was at the time, but to me Portal 2 is starting to feel way, waaaay too long. I'm only up to the start of Chapter 8 and it already feels about 2 chapters too long.
I don't think I've ever seen someone that likes the Sakura games in the wild. Even most of the hardcore VN fans seem to thumb their noses at them.
I make no excuses; I like games with cute girls and can easily be swayed into poor purchasing decisions based on that alone.
While my train of thought isn't that simple, I too am easily swayed. A few people in this thread have unironically said that Sakura Spirit was decent, and that was enough to make it an impulse buy during a sale. The Neptunia games look like standard JRPGs with the wrapper of cute girls reenacting the Console Warz, which piques my curiosity something fierce.
Other entries are harder to explain and, I assume, are where this empty bottle of rum gets involved.
Glad to hear you are such a fan of the Divinity series @Elvenshae . Reminds me that I really need to get round to reinstalling Divine Divinity at some point and giving it the good ol' college try!
Also, I really do need to get more of you lovely people onto my friends list.
For reasons. /shifty eyes
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I love the way this game looks.
Yeah I played Mercenary King's for like 16 hours and came away with the conclusion that it's actually not that good a game. As for being disappointed that it's not ghouls n ghosts, there's nothing I can really say about that since it's nothing like it.
What it IS is a simple, solid little arcade game with wave-based levels. You got a button for punching, a button for jumping, and a button for using items. There's also mario style run button that powers up your punches slightly if you punch on the ground while running.
Getting through levels really depends on how good you are at twitch based action like in something like megaman, but also on how well you can juggle the various item drops. You can only hold one at a time and they only have one use, so a lot of the times success depends on knowing when to use items and when you should save them for later. You can also press a button to have your owl friend take any item you're holding and store it for later. Pressing the button again will have him bring the item out. The owl's name is Owly.
I don't know, it's not a super big or deep game, but it's a fun and challenging arcade style deal. Watching a gameplay video on youtube will basically show you what you'll be doing the whole game, but I think it's solid and enjoyable.
EDIT: AND HOW COULD I FORGET? You can hold down to dance. Dancing gives you points. If you have your multiplier up from killing a bunch of monsters in a row without dying, your dancing gives you even MORE points. It's pretty great.
Yeah, that's what's bothering me. Is it for their protection or to punish me? What are they protecting themselves from, an additional FS15 sale? What are they punishing me for, asking for a refund before they were allowed? idgi
Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst
It's rare that someone's Amnesia playtime makes me feel "brave."
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Honestly, they've just lost a customer. Bravo, Valve you dumb fucks. This has happened to too many people I know and I'm kind of done rewarding bad customer support. I know it's silly after spending over 10k on the store but I just can't keep giving then money if they keep testing friends of mine like this.
Yeah, its getting pretty ridiculous. They're the largest online digital distribution platform. This doesn't fly.
Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst
I guess I'll try out Costume Quest since I've never played it and my best friend tells me it's really good.
It better be really good.
You could talk to customer support in valve. God, actually that might be too terrifying.
Whhhaaaatt, you've never played CQ?
It is really good. I'm pretty sure if you don't like CQ you're a monster. Don't be a monster.
The game demands really tight timing and keeping the combos up while juggling the gear drops and not getting hit is super demanding but pretty fun. A nice thing is that money and drops are kept whether you win a stage or not, so it's not an all or nothing proposition. You can farm up some money and items for the alchemy stuff even if you aren't a for srs pro gamer.
On the technical side the controls are sharp, the action is easy to pick up and understand and it look and sounds really good. It feels like nice, solid coop single screen brawler. I'm looking forward to playing this with my kid.
Eh. I played it for a bit. I ... It didn't grab me.
I hate QTEs. Having an entire battle system built around them? No thanks.
Still missed a couple achievements so I'll have to head back in some time. Thanks to @Antoshka for this Halloween gift.
Now I'm going to go murder and tame dinos, you know, something safer than damn creepy parks.
I have long loved the Divine Divinity series, and in this one I get a badass dragon? OKAY!
Thank you, Mori!
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Disclaimer: It's highly recommended you play them in order since they directly lead into the next game and you'd be lost of you don't, but that aside, it's a good chance to freeload at least one of 'em.
Open to PA G&T Adventure Team group members.
Or as I like to call it, Heart Attack Simulator 2015.
A badass dragon with a jetpack.
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After Pixie helped me make my boob-related purchase decision during the sale the other week by dropping Sakura Fantasy into my library, I still had the five bucks in my account to buy Sakura Beach.
It wasn't very good. Well, I mean, the story was an incredibly flimsy excuse to show girls in bikinis, but that's expected. It fell down in some other areas, most of which would probably have been caught by an extra pass or two through QA.
Unlike some of the other games from Sekai Project, it actually has decisions you can make to alter the story and change who the main character winds up with at the end. This is good! It gives replay value! It's not so great when you hit the dialogue that obviously changes depending on your choice, and the dialogue refers to a choice you didn't make! This happens quite often! I love exclamation marks!
Also, it has some really silly damn-you-autocorrect-style word choice errors, my favorite coming when one of the characters proclaims that she "has a reputation to upload!"
I mean, there are probably worse VNs on Steam, even worse ones that are just excuses for fan service, but this wasn't great.
@DyasAlure its under game options after you start the game up.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
and I was sold.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Plan B was to stream me playing the park so anybody here could watch me become terrified.
Then I remembered that my machine crashes for some reason whenever I try to stream, so now I'm just playing The Park alone (which is probably the most spooky way to play it. I had wanted friends and strangers as a way to chicken out of playing spooky games, because I can't handle the spook).
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http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
That would be because they aren't really VN games, since most of those have actual branching stories and such and the Sakura games are straight lines that you are just reading along as an excuse to ogle the pictures.
At least, that's what I gathered from when Game Grumps was playing Sakura Spirits. There was no player interaction other than pressing the button to advance to the next bit of text.
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http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I reached a section where I probably could have explored further, but I couldn't bring myself to do so.
I think I could have gone inside that shack to investigate. But NOPE. NOPE NOPE NOPE.
Armchair: 4098-3704-2012
Shit is getting weird.
Spookys caught me off guard. "Oh it's very silly looking, silly pumpkin popouts and the like. Spooky looks like an Adventuer Time character this will be fun and silly." and ah. No, no.
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Using this reddit page, using absolute nature and structures....now just monster and NPC's left.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Thank you you crazy drunk you
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I make no excuses; I like games with cute girls and can easily be swayed into poor purchasing decisions based on that alone.
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While my train of thought isn't that simple, I too am easily swayed. A few people in this thread have unironically said that Sakura Spirit was decent, and that was enough to make it an impulse buy during a sale. The Neptunia games look like standard JRPGs with the wrapper of cute girls reenacting the Console Warz, which piques my curiosity something fierce.
Other entries are harder to explain and, I assume, are where this empty bottle of rum gets involved.
Also, I really do need to get more of you lovely people onto my friends list.
For reasons. /shifty eyes
Ocean, tears and heartbreak soup
Half alive in a whitecap foam
Half in love with a white half moon