Woo! Birthday sometime this week, so it's time for my usual hobbit giveaway: Gifts for everyone!!! (Well, some of you at least). Funds are almost nonexistent so I had to resort to whatever I had in my inventory/keys.txt/cardmonies. Hope you guys enjoy!
I also have these games to giveaway, but I can't create steamgifts giveaways for them for some reason. Just shoot me a PM if you are interested in any of these:
Really I've only barely scratched the surface but I'm already finding the game easy to get into and very engaging.
Goddamnit.
Me too, although it clearly has a similar difficulty curve to Endless Space wherein suddenly, the combat difficulty ramps up a bit. Not as bad though.
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CheesecakeRecipe"Should not be allowed to post in the Steam Thread" - IsornSqualor Victoria, Squalor Victoria!Registered Userregular
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I have been asked about Fract OSC and I will get around to answering the question but I wanted to save my steam brothers: Do not buy Daylight. Don't give the people who made this thing money. In all my years of being a horror game fan I have yet to play a game that so completely, utterly misses the point of everything it attempts so feebly to copy while also failing to have any game systems that work on any fundamental level.
I was able to avoid the ghost in the game by simply standing still whenever it spawned and it went away. Every. Time.
I would say don't even spitegift it to @CorriganX , but I'm too late for that apparently.
So been playing a bit of Daylight and Amazing Spiderman 2 this evening, they're both pretty terrible so save your money! Disappointed in both, I was getting excited about them
So I broke down and got that trading card bundle. Still waffling on whether or not to redeem all of the games, but in the meantime, here's some giveaways for those I already own.
Bad Hotel and To the Moon should include soundtracks, but I'm not sure if I can send them with? So assume I can't.
So been playing a bit of Daylight and Amazing Spiderman 2 this evening, they're both pretty terrible so save your money! Disappointed in both, I was getting excited about them
Awww Spider Man is bad? I was thinking of getting it for my PS4 only because I know I'll probably only play through it once and trade it in.
Ok, wow. So I just logged into Steamgifts for the first time in ages to break my "no entering any more giveaways" rule for Jragghen's awesome Endless Legend giveaway, and what do I see? I've won a giveaway! wait what
That's weird, I don't remember entering any giveaways. Oh. Turns out that "random" copy of Surgeon Simulator I was gifted a while back was from a giveaway I won...that I didn't remember entering....4 months ago.
My bad, whoever that was from! I obviously need to log into Steamgifts more often because my memory sucks; who knows what I get up to. Anyway, I checked "gift received" finally. Better late than never......
So been playing a bit of Daylight and Amazing Spiderman 2 this evening, they're both pretty terrible so save your money! Disappointed in both, I was getting excited about them
Awww Spider Man is bad? I was thinking of getting it for my PS4 only because I know I'll probably only play through it once and trade it in.
From what I've played so far it's worse than the first Amazing Spiderman. Yes you can now choose which hand to shoot web swings from and they have to attach to buildings but if you're standing on top of a building you can still shoot straight up as if you're grabbing the sky, collision detection is all over the place so it feels like you kind of bounce around the geometry goat simulator style, the graphics for everything but Spiderman are pretty awful and the writing for everyone but Spiderman is awful. First game I've bought in a while that I regret buying, but at least it was only £13! Probably going to play some more of it as at least the fighting has a combo building thing and I like trying to get higher numbers in stuff like that, also swinging on the web is still kind of fun. It's just weird how they still can't get close to what Spiderman 2 was like.
Yeah... Why can't anyone make a Spiderman game of the same quality as Spiderman 2? It was like... perfect. They got everything right with that game, it should be the centre of all inspiration for future games of the franchise.
I mean, it had deep moral choices and everything. Sure, saving that lady from getting mugged seems like the heroic choice, but that child let go of his balloon! If it flies away he'll be so disappointed
I'm about to rip off someone's head at Utopia Management because they keep calling me for a work order put in before I moved in, I tell them I can't take time off from work so they need to come when I'm not home, they say they'll check with maintenance and call me back, the next day they call me about the work order and have completely forgotten the previous conversation.
REPEAT. AD. INFINITUM.
Gonna get my laundry started then play some games. Maybe Dark Souls 2 in Belfry Luna so that I can wield this wrath on the poor fools who will invade. C'MERE AND SATE MY BLOODTHIRST. I'm Rat Covenant too though so some nice tail farming also sounds good.
I know there are some people on here who love S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I just read about the Lost Alpha mod and it sounds pretty awesome. I just bought STALKER:SoC so I haven't even tried the vanilla version yet but I would be interested to hear what the veteran players in this thread think of it.
Looks pretty neat. If the world needs anything, it's more STALKER.
Post-collapse (local or worldwide) first person exploration games are something I wish we had more of. Come on Urbex Simulator 2014.
I think that the internet has been for years on the path to creating what is essentially an electronic Necronomicon: A collection of blasphemous unrealities so perverse that to even glimpse at its contents, if but for a moment, is to irrevocably forfeit a portion of your sanity.
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Taking the day off tomorrow so should have some time to sink into Steam. Except the roof will be being torn off and replaced above my computer. So my guess is that's gonna be kind of loud. And I have some fears about the ceiling just collapsing in the process. Hmm. Hearthstone via ipad or some more 999 DS time may win that battle over Steam.
Motherfucking Wasteland - a game that came out in 1988 - is on Steam/GOG.
PC gaming is essentially immortal.
I dunno; find me a legit copy of Prey or Cryostasis. The issue with PC games is the same one haunting the consoles: we're pretty good at the really old stuff, but really terrible at archiving the recent stuff.
Motherfucking Wasteland - a game that came out in 1988 - is on Steam/GOG.
PC gaming is essentially immortal.
I dunno; find me a legit copy of Prey or Cryostasis. The issue with PC games is the same one haunting the consoles: we're pretty good at the really old stuff, but really terrible at archiving the recent stuff.
RIP Outrun 2006
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It's going to get more and more strange when physical stuff gets increasingly endangered. When a digital game gets pulled, that's it, game over. You can't go to a mom and pop shop and find a dusty copy sitting on the shelf. Hell, look at shit like Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where there are two characters that you literally cannot get now (and thus cannot use nor practice against) because all its DLC and digital versions got pulled.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
It's going to get more and more strange when physical stuff gets increasingly endangered. When a digital game gets pulled, that's it, game over. You can't go to a mom and pop shop and find a dusty copy sitting on the shelf. Hell, look at shit like Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where there are two characters that you literally cannot get now (and thus cannot use nor practice against) because all its DLC and digital versions got pulled.
It's going to get even stranger when old physical media reaches the end of it's lifespan and millions upon millions of games just stop working.
It'll be interesting to see if the predictions of the lifespans of CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays are accurate or not. Will our game collections outlive us or we will outlive our game collections?
It's going to get more and more strange when physical stuff gets increasingly endangered. When a digital game gets pulled, that's it, game over. You can't go to a mom and pop shop and find a dusty copy sitting on the shelf. Hell, look at shit like Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where there are two characters that you literally cannot get now (and thus cannot use nor practice against) because all its DLC and digital versions got pulled.
It's going to get even stranger when old physical media reaches the end of it's lifespan and millions upon millions of games just stop working.
It'll be interesting to see if the predictions of the lifespans of CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays are accurate or not. Will our game collections outlive us or we will outlive our game collections?
You know how the Library of Congress has that thing where they archive certain movies deemed "culturally significant", and so they make backups of these movies so that our society as a whole should never lose them? We don't really have that for games yet, as video gaming is a relatively new medium in comparison to film, but think about it....can you imagine the internet jabronis arguing about whether or not something Gone Home is/is not a game and thus is/is not worthy of being archived? People still argue about early Mario titles and which one(s) are sucky and which one(s) is/are good.
Air Control is coming out on Steam. I showed up during a Giant Bomb live show a bit ago... and it doesn't look like it has improved.
There are several roles you will play as in this game:
You start the game as an engineer and prepare the airplane for takeoff. It will be your duty to make sure everything is in perfect working order and that all the luggage is on the plane.
You then take on the role of a stewardess, making sure that every compartment on the plane, from the TVs to the toilets, are clean and that the plane is fully stocked with food ready for the passengers.
You then finally get to the heart of the game: Playing as the pilot. Not only will you be in charge of steering the plane to its destination properly, but also having to make sure nothing goes wrong with the equipment. In short, you carry the fate of everyone on the plane on your shoulders. Watch out, though! The threat of terrorists is always looming over you. You must do all you can to protect the passengers and yourself while foiling the terrorist’s plot.
Try the best flight simulation in the history of computer games today!
It's going to get more and more strange when physical stuff gets increasingly endangered. When a digital game gets pulled, that's it, game over. You can't go to a mom and pop shop and find a dusty copy sitting on the shelf. Hell, look at shit like Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where there are two characters that you literally cannot get now (and thus cannot use nor practice against) because all its DLC and digital versions got pulled.
It's going to get even stranger when old physical media reaches the end of it's lifespan and millions upon millions of games just stop working.
It'll be interesting to see if the predictions of the lifespans of CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays are accurate or not. Will our game collections outlive us or we will outlive our game collections?
You know how the Library of Congress has that thing where they archive certain movies deemed "culturally significant", and so they make backups of these movies so that our society as a whole should never lose them? We don't really have that for games yet, as video gaming is a relatively new medium in comparison to film, but think about it....can you imagine the internet jabronis arguing about whether or not something Gone Home is/is not a game and thus is/is not worthy of being archived? People still argue about early Mario titles and which one(s) are sucky and which one(s) is/are good.
Dude, there ARE rom and PC iso backup sites, there already are plenty of digital backups of all the old games. The abandonware stuff is a bit more 'legit', but still not exactly legal. Sort of like MAME stuff. Not something to talk about here, but trust me, archives DO exist, just not in a legal sense.
Air Control is coming out on Steam. I showed up during a Giant Bomb live show a bit ago... and it doesn't look like it has improved.
There are several roles you will play as in this game:
You start the game as an engineer and prepare the airplane for takeoff. It will be your duty to make sure everything is in perfect working order and that all the luggage is on the plane.
You then take on the role of a stewardess, making sure that every compartment on the plane, from the TVs to the toilets, are clean and that the plane is fully stocked with food ready for the passengers.
You then finally get to the heart of the game: Playing as the pilot. Not only will you be in charge of steering the plane to its destination properly, but also having to make sure nothing goes wrong with the equipment. In short, you carry the fate of everyone on the plane on your shoulders. Watch out, though! The threat of terrorists is always looming over you. You must do all you can to protect the passengers and yourself while foiling the terrorist’s plot.
Try the best flight simulation in the history of computer games today!
So much for that video talking about how the new Spiderman game has webs that don't stick to the sky. The web zip tutorial shows them sticking to nothingness within the first few seconds.
Shame =\
I'm going to need some evidence that a game that apparently consists of Roman legionnaires with tommyguns defending an airplane from terrorists is anything but great.
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BeryllineOne Tiara to rule them allRegistered Userregular
It's Eve Online week and every time I see it on sale I almost buy it before remembering that pretty much everything I have ever read about it scares the shit out of me and makes the game seem like more work than fun.
I'm going to need some evidence that a game that apparently consists of Roman legionnaires with tommyguns defending an airplane from terrorists is anything but great.
I don't really know if the game is just super unpolished and awful, or if the devs are going for the Goat Simulator broken on purpose goofiness approach.
Or if it will release at $59.99 just to troll the hell out of the Steam audience.
If it ends up being the first one I think maybe it will completely destroy any of the "Steam should be a completely open, noncurated platform" arguments.
SmokeStacks on
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KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
I personally think that each game that's greenlit should have to be played for at least 30 minutes by, like, 20 random community members that voted yes on the game before it is released in full on Steam or something.
Something to test the game's viability other than, "well it looks good".
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DrakeEdgelord TrashBelow the ecliptic plane.Registered Userregular
Everything on Steam.
/sings "He's got the whoooooole world... in his hands... he's got the whooooole world..."
I personally think that each game that's greenlit should have to be played for at least 30 minutes by, like, 20 random community members that voted yes on the game before it is released in full on Steam or something.
Something to test the game's viability other than, "well it looks good".
You don't need to convince the people who said "yes," you need to convince the people who said "no."
Then again, that isn't a solution either because I know some entire genres where I would vote "no," no matter how good the game is within that genre.
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Goddamnit.
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Me too, although it clearly has a similar difficulty curve to Endless Space wherein suddenly, the combat difficulty ramps up a bit. Not as bad though.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I was able to avoid the ghost in the game by simply standing still whenever it spawned and it went away. Every. Time.
I would say don't even spitegift it to @CorriganX , but I'm too late for that apparently.
For the midday folks.
....what's this? A wild game appears!
e: It's the Founder Pack, btw.
I am not a smart man,.
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Awww Spider Man is bad? I was thinking of getting it for my PS4 only because I know I'll probably only play through it once and trade it in.
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Still waiting patiently on your FRACT OSC travelogue, @CheesecakeRecipe.
That's weird, I don't remember entering any giveaways. Oh. Turns out that "random" copy of Surgeon Simulator I was gifted a while back was from a giveaway I won...that I didn't remember entering....4 months ago.
My bad, whoever that was from! I obviously need to log into Steamgifts more often because my memory sucks; who knows what I get up to. Anyway, I checked "gift received" finally. Better late than never......
From what I've played so far it's worse than the first Amazing Spiderman. Yes you can now choose which hand to shoot web swings from and they have to attach to buildings but if you're standing on top of a building you can still shoot straight up as if you're grabbing the sky, collision detection is all over the place so it feels like you kind of bounce around the geometry goat simulator style, the graphics for everything but Spiderman are pretty awful and the writing for everyone but Spiderman is awful. First game I've bought in a while that I regret buying, but at least it was only £13! Probably going to play some more of it as at least the fighting has a combo building thing and I like trying to get higher numbers in stuff like that, also swinging on the web is still kind of fun. It's just weird how they still can't get close to what Spiderman 2 was like.
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
I mean, it had deep moral choices and everything. Sure, saving that lady from getting mugged seems like the heroic choice, but that child let go of his balloon! If it flies away he'll be so disappointed
PSN: TheBrayster_92
REPEAT. AD. INFINITUM.
Gonna get my laundry started then play some games. Maybe Dark Souls 2 in Belfry Luna so that I can wield this wrath on the poor fools who will invade. C'MERE AND SATE MY BLOODTHIRST. I'm Rat Covenant too though so some nice tail farming also sounds good.
Looks pretty neat. If the world needs anything, it's more STALKER.
Post-collapse (local or worldwide) first person exploration games are something I wish we had more of. Come on Urbex Simulator 2014.
But sir, the President of NAMBLA is on line one and he says it's urgent.
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On some level, it amuses me to have a giveaway for a game I have explicitly given a thumbs down recommendation.
I dunno; find me a legit copy of Prey or Cryostasis. The issue with PC games is the same one haunting the consoles: we're pretty good at the really old stuff, but really terrible at archiving the recent stuff.
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RIP Outrun 2006
Was. Looks like it got removed. Glad I picked it up when I did, I guess.
It's going to get even stranger when old physical media reaches the end of it's lifespan and millions upon millions of games just stop working.
It'll be interesting to see if the predictions of the lifespans of CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays are accurate or not. Will our game collections outlive us or we will outlive our game collections?
You know how the Library of Congress has that thing where they archive certain movies deemed "culturally significant", and so they make backups of these movies so that our society as a whole should never lose them? We don't really have that for games yet, as video gaming is a relatively new medium in comparison to film, but think about it....can you imagine the internet jabronis arguing about whether or not something Gone Home is/is not a game and thus is/is not worthy of being archived? People still argue about early Mario titles and which one(s) are sucky and which one(s) is/are good.
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It looks... uh... interesting terrible.
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Dude, there ARE rom and PC iso backup sites, there already are plenty of digital backups of all the old games. The abandonware stuff is a bit more 'legit', but still not exactly legal. Sort of like MAME stuff. Not something to talk about here, but trust me, archives DO exist, just not in a legal sense.
Does it still have that assuredly illegal Proleter soundtrack? Cause if not, no dice.
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Shame =\
I'm going to need some evidence that a game that apparently consists of Roman legionnaires with tommyguns defending an airplane from terrorists is anything but great.
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I clicked on this, thinking it was for Remember Me!
Thanks Berylline! And, uh, sorry! If I like the game I'll buy a copy to give away in the thread, seems only right.
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I could also imagine someone doing this with that Two Brothers game thinking it was Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.
No worries! It was just an extra key from a bundle, not something I bought specifically for giveaway purposes, so it's really no big deal.
Speaking of extra keys from bundles with possibly confusing names, here is Postmortem. This one, I think.
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I don't really know if the game is just super unpolished and awful, or if the devs are going for the Goat Simulator broken on purpose goofiness approach.
Or if it will release at $59.99 just to troll the hell out of the Steam audience.
If it ends up being the first one I think maybe it will completely destroy any of the "Steam should be a completely open, noncurated platform" arguments.
Something to test the game's viability other than, "well it looks good".
/sings "He's got the whoooooole world... in his hands... he's got the whooooole world..."
You don't need to convince the people who said "yes," you need to convince the people who said "no."
Then again, that isn't a solution either because I know some entire genres where I would vote "no," no matter how good the game is within that genre.
So, Greenlight is unsolvable... problem solved!