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[Steam] April showers bring May Birthdays

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    JazzJazz Registered User regular
    Which also shows if Epic have any certification or testing procedures. Guess not!

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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    Which also shows if Epic have any certification or testing procedures. Guess not!

    To be fair, Steam's just amount to "does the .exe actually run." It's one of the biggest areas in which Steam drops the ball.

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    KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    I've been forgetting to do it when I see it but from time to time Indiegala gives away free games that are direct downloads.

    This time it is Another Lost Phone

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    JaysonFourJaysonFour Classy Monster Kitteh Registered User regular
    @Karoz decided to throw some codes around. He dropped a literal rock on me- Rock of Ages 2, to be exact!

    Many thanks!

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    Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    Which also shows if Epic have any certification or testing procedures. Guess not!

    I mean, the problem didn't show up until you reached the area where the sound effect was needed, so even if you started up the game and played for a bit to check if it was working you might not encounter it. Expecting a storefront to test if a game starts and runs is one thing, expecting them to play everything from start to finish before allowing it to release is another.

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    vamenvamen Registered User regular
    gBAZ wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqlIUPBeoKo
    Upcoming game that looks ...

    also more videos uploading to that devs channel

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/792120/FIGHT_KNIGHT/

    Also, Stormwatcher told me to mention ShadowCaster, well there it is, mentioned.

    edit: also appears free demo on kickstarter page



    I loooove gridder dungeon crawlers.
    But I hate when they are real time combat instead of turned based.
    And yet, I MUST have this. It looks amazing.

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    KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    Never turn your back on a cat, even when you're out walking a dog.
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    Thanks for the Valkyria Chronicles 4 DLC! It really seems to be a return to form as 1, anime as fuq, hitting serious subjects, fun gameplay with mortars now added in.

    I'm sure I won't be brought to tears again, nope. No siree.

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    bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    In something out of an episode of talespin, package dropoff for station a got sent to b.

    No way to get a package to a but i think i got money for both.

    Woot?

    #rebelgalaxy

    Also got 900k mission that was marked very high, but it was only a few waves of fighters and weak corvettes

    Easy money

    That reminds me, Talespin NES is on Steam via Disney Afternoon Collection.



    On the indie game theme. I'm nearing the end of Steam World Heist. I've got just a couple missions to finish 3*ing, before hitting the final mission(s?). After bouncing off it the first time I played it, I'm really hooked. It's such "one more mission" crack.

    One thing that is really fun for me personally is that the soundtrack is by Steampowered Giraffe. They are out of San Diego and I remember seeing them at the zoo years ago. Fun to not just hear them, but also see them as background characters in the bars.

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    HiT BiTHiT BiT 🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man's Registered User regular
    SanderJK wrote: »
    Edit: I thought imgur converted gifs to gifv's nowadays but I don't remember how and this is too large, so you have to click it
    Just use the same link that imgur generates and change the .gif extension for .gifv :
    https://i.imgur.com/YW1yBha.gif -> https://i.imgur.com/YW1yBha.gifv
    


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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Donnicton wrote: »
    Picked up Starcrawlers during the sale because it looked interesting - a sci-fi gridder/roguelite dungeon crawler.

    I think I like it already.

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    I kickstarted Starcrawlers, and yes - it's fantabulous.

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    HiT BiTHiT BiT 🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man's Registered User regular
    Looks like it was the dev that did it:
    Ironically:
    -The issue had to be crowdsourced on the Steam forums, due to the lack of support forums in the Epic Store
    -The developer forgot to delete a file actually related to Steamworks:
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    KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited February 2019
    http://store.steampowered.com/steamawards

    Spoilers:
    GOTY - PubG (lol)
    VR GOTY - TES: Skyrim
    Labor of Love - GTA5
    Best Developer - CDPR
    Best Environment - Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
    Better with Friends - R6: Siege
    Best Alternative History - AC: Odyssey
    Most Fun with a Machine - Rocket League

    KoopahTroopah on
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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Why are games that came out years ago getting awards? That makes no sense.

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    Jazz wrote: »
    Which also shows if Epic have any certification or testing procedures. Guess not!

    To be fair, Steam's just amount to "does the .exe actually run." It's one of the biggest areas in which Steam drops the ball.

    Games have launched on Steam outright missing their executables before.

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    MugsleyMugsley DelawareRegistered User regular
    Fuck yeah Rocket League!

    Also I bought Euclidean Skies this morning. Expect a gushing review later tonight because good God damn that looks so fun.

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    Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Pubg? Seriously?

    I think I threw up in my mouth a little...

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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    KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    Pubg? Seriously?

    I think I threw up in my mouth a little...

    It's what happens when you have a 10mil Chinese player base that up-vote it to all hell.

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    McMoogleMcMoogle Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    Why are games that came out years ago getting awards? That makes no sense.

    "On going services"

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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Depends how you determine what deserves to be GOTY I suppose. Whether or not you like the game or BlueHole as a dev, PUBG has had a massive cultural impact, both directly and through making the Battle Royale genre into a thing and allowing Fortnite to become the media juggernaut that it is.

    Like 'em or hate 'em, those games are the most successful games to have ever existed.

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Steam Awards are inherently wack because not all PC games are even on Steam (lol)

    Also it's a huge fan-run popularity contest.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Also they are just finally getting on sale enough that the larger population are buying them.

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    The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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    JaysonFourJaysonFour Classy Monster Kitteh Registered User regular
    It's like every developer saw what was happening with PUBG and Fortnite and suddenly lost their fucking minds chasing after all that $$$ and dumping eighty different ones on Steam all at the same time.

    But yeah, Koopah is right. No way that should have been GOTY for Steam. There are bargain-bin porny puzzle games that deserve that title more than that- about the only thing I think PUBG's good for is keeping Bluehole- and through them, TERA- afloat. Maybe it- and Fortnite- they're also good for keeping all the asshole Twitch streamers and their toxic fanbases out of other games.

    AC: Odyssey, or any of the other titles nominated- deserves it more than a two-year-old BR game.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    JaysonFour wrote: »
    It's like every developer saw what was happening with PUBG and Fortnite and suddenly lost their fucking minds chasing after all that $$$ and dumping eighty different ones on Steam all at the same time.

    That's how it goes in the industry in general, though. Few years back every game was gonna be a MOBA, before that, MMOs, etc....

    Whatever is a breakout hit is gonna get clones.

    There's no plan, there's no race to be run
    The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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    McMoogleMcMoogle Registered User regular
    Anyone have a rough estimate of time for CrossCode completion? Trying to plan out stuff to buy for this sale to celebrate a newer year, though really it's probably just the same year with a new paint of coat.

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    Dac VinDac Vin S-s-screw you! I only listen to DOUBLE MUSIC! Registered User regular
    Pubg? Seriously?

    I think I threw up in my mouth a little...

    It's a pure popularity contest, PUBG is still among the most popular non-Valve games on Steam, what the hell were you expecting?

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    AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    McMoogle wrote: »
    Anyone have a rough estimate of time for CrossCode completion? Trying to plan out stuff to buy for this sale to celebrate a newer year, though really it's probably just the same year with a new paint of coat.

    It took me 57 hours to get 100%

    Though I think they added stuff since then? I'm waiting for NG+ to be added so I can play through it again.

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    bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    Axiom Verge is an amazing game for a one man labor of love.

    I have a hard time faulting a guy that build the game by himself for having a little slip up.

    I mean, Dead Space has a config file in the folder "Electrontic Arts"

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Max Payne released on Steam with some "warez haxor" text still in its readme files, because it used some sort of fan crack to make it run.

    Aliens: Colonial Marines apparently had busted AI due to a typo.

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    Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Dac Vin wrote: »
    Pubg? Seriously?

    I think I threw up in my mouth a little...

    It's a pure popularity contest, PUBG is still among the most popular non-Valve games on Steam, what the hell were you expecting?

    Look, I also had faith that Trump wouldn't win in 2016 and that Kavanaugh wouldn't be confirmed for SCOTUS.

    I'm an eternally disappointed optimist.... :lol:

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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    KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited February 2019
    I'm not a big fan of PUBG being labeled as GOTY because a)it was released in 2017, and b)it's the barebones version of a battle royale, even if it is the first of it's kind. Like Apex Legends came out on Tuesday and it already has a million concurrent players while PUBG floats around 500k, but people will circle jerk on both sides both for and against PUBG without a proper reason for either just because it's cool to bandwagon.

    If we were going for most popular game of 2018, why not just call it that instead of Game of the Year? I would not disagree that PUBG is the most popular game on Steam, the graphs are right there.

    But again, these are the Steam awards, not the PC Gaming awards so can't really expect anything else.

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    KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    The issue I have is that when I think of a "game of the year", I think of something released within that year whose quality outshines other products released within the same year.

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    Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Is this where we complain about the results of fan vote gaming 'awards'?

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    KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    Why are games that came out years ago getting awards? That makes no sense.

    Going to be honest, a lot of times I actually have a hard time nominating things that came out in the right year due to being so far behind/waiting for good sales.

    But yeah, could have limited it to stuff that actually came out in 2018. Crazy notion I know.

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    JazzJazz Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    I wonder what the results would be if Steam had restricted eligible titles to those with a release date, listed in the store, of somewhere in 2018.

    Edit: beat'd :lol:

    Fake second edit: Edits work again!

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    Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    I don't even remember what I voted for. I was just doing it for the cards.

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    SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    I bought Voidship.

    I feel so bad for devs that have a passion project game and then it doesn't even go to the New Releases tab. I had to go to "all new releases" for it to even show up.

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    OrogogusOrogogus San DiegoRegistered User regular
    Karoz wrote: »
    But yeah, could have limited it to stuff that actually came out in 2018. Crazy notion I know.

    Eh, it seems to me that stuff releasing in the tail end of the year would be at a disadvantage, not having had a chance to get reviews, streamers, and word of mouth out. Nothing released in December could even get nominated.

    PUBG did release in in late December 2017, but obviously it was already super popular in Early Access and won a Steam Award in 2017. Valve didn't have GOTY awards until this time, though.

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Steam Awards have always been nonsensical and bad. (Well, "always" being since they came around in 2016)

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    AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    Crosscode was never anywhere on those lists even after the prelims so they're all illegitimate by default.

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    Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    McMoogle wrote: »
    Anyone have a rough estimate of time for CrossCode completion? Trying to plan out stuff to buy for this sale to celebrate a newer year, though really it's probably just the same year with a new paint of coat.

    https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=24970

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