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[Steam] Thread: Halfway through the year already? Backlog down or growing?

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  • CoffeyCoffey Farmington, MIRegistered User regular
    @Coffey as you get more popular and stream more common games, I suggest looking into turning on Stream Delay or switching screens while queuing to prevent sniping. It is rarer, but it does happen more often than you'd expect.

    Yeah, I've been watching TruTalent stream Dead By Daylight and it's a big issue for him. Right now, I'm more concerned with being able to interact with the few peeps I have in chat than losing at video games. I'm not super competitive at anything anymore but if trolling ever became an issue, I'd look for ways to stop it, for sure.

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  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
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    guys I was blindsided in a @Grove hit-and-run
    did anyone catch that gentleman's plates

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Jaunty wrote: »
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    guys I was blindsided in a @Grove hit-and-run
    did anyone catch that gentleman's plates

    2CLASSY I think it was?

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    Whoever said that winning wouldn't get me over Into The Breach was totally right. I have to do it now on 3 and 4 islands and with a whole bunch more teams. This game is seriously great.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    Holy crap I slept 14 hrs! Painkillers doing their job right. Woke up to a code for Last day of June from the amazingly talented and generous and good looking @HiT BiT! Thanks buddy!

  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    Played a little bit of Dungeon of the Endless yesterday after a very long hiatus. It's good to be back in the saddle :smile: I never really gave the TF2 or Rescue Team DLC a good shake, or the Organic Pod for tha matter, so there's plenty there for me to get back into.

    I just realised I forgot to install it on my laptop however and I'm off to work today. Whoops. Oh Well, more Into The Breach and Dying Light then!

    Speaking of the latter, is the story in Dying Light good at any stage? I'm about 3 hours in (finished work with Rais) and I'm already spamming through the conversations because it's all garbage. Can I continue to do so ad infinitum without missing much?

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  • ReverseCreationsReverseCreations Registered User regular
    @Stabbity Style decided to gift me with Phantom Brave, retaliations will occur! and when he least expects it! mwahahah...wait I mean hahah!..I'm not some kind of giftmonster or giftvillain, that's uhm hm <_< >_> That's @Pixelated Pixie She's the GiftMonster! #GiftPixie #Pixie's3KChristmas

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  • HardKaseHardKase Registered User regular
    I just started playing Dead by Daylight, am super getting into it. Just had my first complete wipe as the killer :)

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  • Mr_GrinchMr_Grinch Registered User regular
    Apparently I didn't have @Big Classy as a friend, which is just wrong given we only live about thirty minutes away.

    Anyway, I should have known better than to add him:

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    You best own this yourself man so we can coop! Massively appreciated, I love the Far Cry games.

    I actually think you gifted me Far Cry 3 back on release!

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    Mr_Grinch wrote: »
    Apparently I didn't have @Big Classy as a friend, which is just wrong given we only live about thirty minutes away.

    Anyway, I should have known better than to add him:

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    You best own this yourself man so we can coop! Massively appreciated, I love the Far Cry games.

    I actually think you gifted me Far Cry 3 back on release!

    I'm pretty sure I got at least 30 people with that one at release. :lol:

    Also, I only have Far Cry 5 on PS4 and there are far too many games to get through to justify buying it twice. Plenty of people in here have it though!

  • HerothHeroth Registered User regular
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    Loading...? - Frozen Synapse

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    Last day so i figured i'd re-link'em.

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    God the characters in Nier Automata are endearing.

    I didn't think I would like the machines but they're so friggin amusing when they're acting like humans.

    One particular machine sniffed me because they could smell the scent of another that they love.

    "Sniiiiiiif!"

    :lol:

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  • PixiePixie They/Them Registered User regular
    I played some Infernium for a while last night. This is Pac-Man meets Dark Souls, which ultimately just made me want to reinstall Dark Souls 3 and try that yet again, so apparently I just hate myself, so there's that.

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    The kids are all over (all of them, 6 little demons running around screaming) and they're watching movies through the steam link so PC can't be used. Boo.

  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular


    Awesome price for a great game. If you've ever wanted to play an FPS roguelite with a sort of Heretic/Hexen vibe, this one might be worth looking at. I've had a lot of fun with it, but I've also never beaten the game because it gets tough pretty quickly.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eDCkxSchzI

  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    Finished up Ni No Kuni 2 over the weekend. I would say overall it was "OK", I enjoyed my time with it, but it wasn;t particularly engaging in mechanics or story. There were some elements in the mechanics that seemed like the seed of something much better, but they just didn't quite line everything up in a way that clicked. I liked the little army battles, but the progression on those was pretty squirrely. There's a lot of depth to the rpg stuff. Equipment details are in depth, lots of tweakable resisitances and bonuses, but the majority of it never really mattered. I had fun with the kingdom building element, but that to seemed a bit too disconnected from everything else.
    So yeah, there's good stuff in there, but overall it gets a Fine. Nothing to get too excited about, certainly not bad. Not nearly as charming as the original unfortunately.

    Will probably try and play the second TellTale Batman season next since the final episode is out. Next week the PS4 is going to steal me away from Steam for a while, with not just one angry papa, but two.

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Cybertronian Paranormal Eliminator Registered User regular
    edited April 2018
    SteevL wrote: »


    Awesome price for a great game. If you've ever wanted to play an FPS roguelite with a sort of Heretic/Hexen vibe, this one might be worth looking at. I've had a lot of fun with it, but I've also never beaten the game because it gets tough pretty quickly.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eDCkxSchzI

    I fell off before I cleared out the game, and I don't think I ever beat it on hard, but I got a good 20+ hours out of it. It's a pretty good podcast game. (Low on story, high on action.)

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Started up FFXII Zodiac Age over the weekend and made it up to out of Barheim Passage. Let's see if I can manage to actually complete this game, because I tried about three times on PS2 and got to the highlands before getting distracted away from it.

    Party setup is going to be:

    Vaan - Monk / Archer, Big Punch Man
    Penelo - Shikari / White Mage, Ultramurder Healing Ninja
    Balthier - Uhlan / Time Battlemage [throwaway]
    Fraan - Foebreaker / Machinist [throwaway]
    Ashe - Black Mage / Red Battlemage, "EXA-SPLOOOOOOSION!"
    Basch - Knight / Buschi, "EXCALIBAAAAAAAAH!"

    I like Balthier, but the main party is going to be Basch, Ashe, and Penelo so there's no room for him. Vaan will probably never leave the bench unless I need to steal shit. And I have never, ever liked Fraan's character design so she's never seeing the field outside of cutscenes.

    Penelo is going to be extremely hard to hit as a healer with something like a Main Gauche in her hand. However, the setup also allows her to equip ninja swords and go from evasive healer to bringer of death instantly. Imagine something like a +Dark ninja sword combined with a +Dark mystic armor. Or other elements, though not sure how many types of ninja swords are in the game.

    Ashe will be the magical firepower and she'll be bringing a TON of it. She'll have access to some White Magic through Red Battlemage to serve as healing but her primary focus once she picks up Black Mage is going to be unleashing apocalyptic top-tier Black Magic spells at anything and everything in her way until all is naught but ash. "Nice bakuretsu."

    Basch will be the tank in the trinity and he'll be a damn good one too. With Knight he gets low rank White Magic, tons of health, and plenty of ways to make sure the enemy is focused on him. With Buschi though he goes from damage sponge to destroyer of worlds by virtue of being able to equip katanas and mystic armor.

  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    I played some Infernium for a while last night. This is Pac-Man meets Dark Souls, which ultimately just made me want to reinstall Dark Souls 3 and try that yet again, so apparently I just hate myself, so there's that.

    Between you and scratchy I don't believe this anymore. All waving around the whip but never really getting into that self-flagellation.

  • PixiePixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Karoz wrote: »
    I played some Infernium for a while last night. This is Pac-Man meets Dark Souls, which ultimately just made me want to reinstall Dark Souls 3 and try that yet again, so apparently I just hate myself, so there's that.

    Between you and scratchy I don't believe this anymore. All waving around the whip but never really getting into that self-flagellation.

    Usually, I install it, make a mad dash past that first fire-breathing dragon, get pwned by the knight on the other side, and ragequit/uninstall. Total elapsed time: 7 minutes. No wonder you never see it happen. :lol:

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Karoz wrote: »
    I played some Infernium for a while last night. This is Pac-Man meets Dark Souls, which ultimately just made me want to reinstall Dark Souls 3 and try that yet again, so apparently I just hate myself, so there's that.

    Between you and scratchy I don't believe this anymore. All waving around the whip but never really getting into that self-flagellation.

    Usually, I install it, make a mad dash past that first fire-breathing dragon, get pwned by the knight on the other side, and ragequit/uninstall. Total elapsed time: 7 minutes. No wonder you never see it happen. :lol:

    Wait I thought you were still stuck at the first boss

  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
  • PixiePixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Karoz wrote: »
    I played some Infernium for a while last night. This is Pac-Man meets Dark Souls, which ultimately just made me want to reinstall Dark Souls 3 and try that yet again, so apparently I just hate myself, so there's that.

    Between you and scratchy I don't believe this anymore. All waving around the whip but never really getting into that self-flagellation.

    Usually, I install it, make a mad dash past that first fire-breathing dragon, get pwned by the knight on the other side, and ragequit/uninstall. Total elapsed time: 7 minutes. No wonder you never see it happen. :lol:

    Wait I thought you were still stuck at the first boss

    I have a save after that point. I did ragequit on that idiot a few times, but I've made it past him with two characters now.

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Does it make sense that I liked Fraan's character but not her outfit designs?

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Does it make sense that I liked Fraan's character but not her outfit designs?

    Never played a FF game after 7 so I had to google the name. Yup, standard female character design fare right there. Sad and disappointing.

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  • PixiePixie They/Them Registered User regular
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Does it make sense that I liked Fraan's character but not her outfit designs?

    Never played a FF game after 7 so I had to google the name. Yup, standard female character design fare right there. Sad and disappointing.

    I just did a google image search.

    At work.

    I'm probably in trouble now. :lol:

    That character sure is something...

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    Anyone wanna run through ghost recon Wildlands with me? Stuck on this stupid mission the AI buddies keep tripping on.

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Does it make sense that I liked Fraan's character but not her outfit designs?

    Never played a FF game after 7 so I had to google the name. Yup, standard female character design fare right there. Sad and disappointing.

    I just did a google image search.

    At work.

    I'm probably in trouble now. :lol:

    That character sure is something...

    In all fairness, "didn't like female outfit design" should be a pretty clear indicator.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Does it make sense that I liked Fraan's character but not her outfit designs?

    Never played a FF game after 7 so I had to google the name. Yup, standard female character design fare right there. Sad and disappointing.

    I just did a google image search.

    At work.

    I'm probably in trouble now. :lol:

    That character sure is something...

    In all fairness, "didn't like female outfit design" should be a pretty clear indicator.

    "female outfit design" is probably all you need to say.

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Does it make sense that I liked Fraan's character but not her outfit designs?

    Never played a FF game after 7 so I had to google the name. Yup, standard female character design fare right there. Sad and disappointing.

    Look, I've got hundreds of pages of backstory on why my world needs an all-female race of stripper bunnies. :D

    Also, all the other female characters are much more reasonably designed.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Does it make sense that I liked Fraan's character but not her outfit designs?

    Never played a FF game after 7 so I had to google the name. Yup, standard female character design fare right there. Sad and disappointing.

    I just did a google image search.

    At work.

    I'm probably in trouble now. :lol:

    That character sure is something...

    Also she is very tall. The other characters are not. So when the camera is panning around behind the crew guess what you mostly see of Fraan.

    Her character is fine, it's actually kind of interesting, but that outfit is why JRPG's need to have optional costumes.

  • QanamilQanamil x Registered User regular
    The x2/x4 really helps FFXII. Particularly if like me you dislike the combat quite a bit. Pretty easy going game to play though once you're used to it's idiosyncrasies.

  • QanamilQanamil x Registered User regular
    Big Classy wrote: »
    Anyone wanna run through ghost recon Wildlands with me? Stuck on this stupid mission the AI buddies keep tripping on.

    Would happily, but didn't pick it up on discount last time :/

  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    Big Classy wrote: »
    The kids are all over (all of them, 6 little demons running around screaming) and they're watching movies through the steam link so PC can't be used. Boo.

    All you have to do is start playing a game on your PC, then give the kids a controller that isn't plugged into anything (tell them it's "wireless"), and then tell them that they are actually playing the game on the steam link screen.

  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    Big Classy wrote: »
    The kids are all over (all of them, 6 little demons running around screaming) and they're watching movies through the steam link so PC can't be used. Boo.

    All you have to do is start playing a game on your PC, then give the kids a controller that isn't plugged into anything (tell them it's "wireless"), and then tell them that they are actually playing the game on the steam link screen.

    Mate that worked when we were kids in the 90s, not do much now. They've evolved! :lol:

  • LD50LD50 Registered User regular
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Does it make sense that I liked Fraan's character but not her outfit designs?

    Never played a FF game after 7 so I had to google the name. Yup, standard female character design fare right there. Sad and disappointing.

    Look, I've got hundreds of pages of backstory on why my world needs an all-female race of stripper bunnies. :D

    Also, all the other female characters are much more reasonably designed.

    That's the thing that I don't get. Ashe and Penelo are both dressed fairly reasonably. Then you have Fran, who's entire race are playboy bunnies. Their feet are even naturally contorted into stiletto heels. It's ridiculous and gross and super out of place.

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Someone really wanted Chewbacca to be a bangable rabbitlady, okay?

  • MassenaMassena Registered User regular
    I just got my steam link and controller from the last sale set up. Working exactly like I'd hoped it would. Except that after 10 years of never using them, I realized I am total crap at playing games with a controller. Any suggestions for good games to rediscover controller skills on?

  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Someone really wanted Chewbacca to be a bangable rabbitlady, okay?

    You've seen my Tumblr!

    You're muckin' with a G!

    Do not engage the Watermelons.
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