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STEAM | August 2014 - Everybody loves iDLEM@STER
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FF8 is good, but it's an awful first jRPG! I agree with what everyone else is saying -- try FF6 and Chrono Trigger! FF7 is amazing if you're just looking at PC releases, though.
Crimsonclaw111
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True but you'd think they'd already done it in that case
Then again it is Capcom...
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Warhammer 40K Space Marine is 75%, both the base game AND with the DLC included so I picked it up. Game is bloody incredible for a third person shooter/action game. It's one of the few games that gets the sensation of feeling like an all-powerfal tank on legs right. Movement is beefy feeling with an amazing feeling hover/ariel attack that makes you essentially effective on all types of terrain, the weaponry feels spot-on and satisfying, and the melee combat is fucking fantastic, and the sound design is brilliant. Can't recommend this game enough, it's totally taken me by surprise just how good this is.
Multiplayer is meant to be really bloody good too, so hopefully the sale revives the online play a little. Even has a horde mode like Killing Floor and Gears Of War.
Multiplayer is meant to be really bloody good too, so hopefully the sale revives the online play a little. Even has a horde mode like Killing Floor and Gears Of War.
Play Chrono Trigger if you haven't before! It's one of my favorite games of all time and not grindy in anyway whatsoever. Everything about the game is so well done, and since you will be playing the DS version you will be good to go. But play this game as soon as you can, it's that good!
HalfwayOrb
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Maybe REmake Remastered turns out successful enough on current gen consoles and PC that they consider remastering RE2. Who knows.
Imagine how large of a shitstorm would explode if REmake turns out to be just an official Dolphin build, HLEing the GameCube game.
Not gonna happen, I know, QLOC are good people
Robert J. Sullivan
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they started adding weapons regardless of balance and too fast
the first weapon they ever released was for the stealth class and was basically a free air shot weapon (in a game where air shots are one of the things requiring the most skill), it was completely and utterly OP and was nerfed a couple of days later
they kept doing this bait&switch bullshit until almost every regular left, leaving community servers empty and thus driving more people out, when hi-rez saw what they had done they just dropped support completely and moved on to smite
and it's a fucking shame because when tribes ascend was released up until the first weapon updates the game had a strong community with a regular influx of new players despite being not an accessible game, i had almost had as much fun on ascend than on vanilla TF2 and that's saying a lot
Hopefully the REmake rerelease drums up enough success that RE2 and 3 get the full REmake treatment down the line.
Dusk Golem was saying CV is probably next to be ported. Capcom already ported the game to their MT Framework engine, so the majority of the legwork, and cost, has already been completed.
Shalashaska
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8, but yeah, play Chrono Trigger.
OTOH, this is Capcom we're talking about.
Both Dragon's Dogma and Phoenix Wright 5 use MT Framework, and well.. no PC versions...
Jawmuncher
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Wouldn't surprise me if PC lucks out and gets REmake and CVX around the same time. Just like how RE4 and CVX came out the same day on consoles.
Warhammer 40K Space Marine is 75%, both the base game AND with the DLC included so I picked it up. Game is bloody incredible for a third person shooter/action game. It's one of the few games that gets the sensation of feeling like an all-powerfal tank on legs right. Movement is beefy feeling with an amazing feeling hover/ariel attack that makes you essentially effective on all types of terrain, the weaponry feels spot-on and satisfying, and the melee combat is fucking fantastic, and the sound design is brilliant. Can't recommend this game enough, it's totally taken me by surprise just how good this is.
Multiplayer is meant to be really bloody good too, so hopefully the sale revives the online play a little. Even has a horde mode like Killing Floor and Gears Of War.
Too bad the story was trash.
Indeed, clearly the most important part of a third-person action game set in the 40k universe.
Chance Hale
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OTOH, this is Capcom we're talking about.
Both Dragon's Dogma and Phoenix Wright 5 use MT Framework, and well.. no PC versions...
I want Dragon's Dogma so bad Capcom, why did you not port it ;-; WHY WHY WHY
Spent around 100 hours with the PS3 version, but it really is a technical mess. Just imagining the game with good AA, steady 60 FPS, and so on is just.....ugh
The less-shooty parts were fun as hell. Some of the shooting not so much.
Oh man, a forced march from the zombie horde, with permadeath. Sweet
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Thank god I'm not an involved fan of the 40K lore. The story seems pretty generic from what I've played through so far. Only low point so far.
Now I want to play it again. Brb!
I just had the craziest game of 100% OJ ever. It was my turn and my home space was right in front of me. I finished my 5th Norma so I just needed to land on it to win the game. I decided before moving to use the card that does 2 damage to a random person because there was someone else with only 2 HP and I figured I might screw with them one last time. But then the card hits me and I get KO'd! I didn't know the card could hit me, too! And then that other person lands on a check space the next turn and wins the game! I was so close! Oh well, lesson learned.
billmcdougal
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I had a great amount of fun with Tribes Ascend. I actually paid for some starter pack or something when it came to steam. I haven't even played it since then, but felt they deserved the money as I had a good time with it so far. That sucks to hear, though. It did seem like weapons were being released a bit fast, and I certainly heard that they were OP. Does seem super bait and switch to constantly release OP weapons so people will buy them, just to balance them back down the next week.
Wok
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There were 105 entrants and I won! Wow!
There are more than 26 actually. The total is 108.
Yeah, I know. It hope Modbot is not turning into SteamGifts with all kinds of complex rules to determine who is the most entitled giver. I mean, what is this arbitrary 90 days count? How come previous giveaways are completely forgotten?
Well, if you ask, Shuggy is actually a good game. It is not because something is cheap that it is bad.
Apart from this remark, this is the list of games I have given away with Modbot: http://pastebin.com/GxrUTQ3C
Congrats Wok and thanks Sub Zero for the great giveaway. I hope he chooses wisely
Choosing is hard, especially with so much attention. Actually, these are the games I am looking forward to play:
- Tales from the Borderlands (which should be released this summer)
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (which benefits from a game engine without Adobe Flash)
- The Witness (2014? 2015? Never?)
- Assassin's Creed: Unity because it takes place in Paris (the gameplay will be most likely boring though)
- Grand Theft Auto V because it will look so good on PC (hopefully it runs more smoothly than GTA IV)
- Divinity: Original Sin (I will wait for some Steam sales though, so a buddy of mine can buy the game as well and we play together)
I am enjoying Spelunky and Dota2 these days. I should be playing FTL again pretty soon.
On spot.
Ahah!
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Warhammer 40K Space Marine is 75%, both the base game AND with the DLC included so I picked it up. Game is bloody incredible for a third person shooter/action game. It's one of the few games that gets the sensation of feeling like an all-powerfal tank on legs right. Movement is beefy feeling with an amazing feeling hover/ariel attack that makes you essentially effective on all types of terrain, the weaponry feels spot-on and satisfying, and the melee combat is fucking fantastic, and the sound design is brilliant. Can't recommend this game enough, it's totally taken me by surprise just how good this is.
Multiplayer is meant to be really bloody good too, so hopefully the sale revives the online play a little. Even has a horde mode like Killing Floor and Gears Of War.
been wanting to get that for some time but i passed on it for now. Just gotta stay laser focused on my backlog. But yeah, i actually picked up some warhammer 40k ebooks when this game came out because it got me interested in the series.
jshackles
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Yeah I'm open to helping you set things up, and have a few changes in mind myself. Unfortunately I'm out of town at a work conference until Saturday and can't really do much until then.
Jawmuncher
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I need to recover some data off a HDD. The thing is the OS went to crap and the HDD is fine. How can I do this? I'm guessing there's no simple way like just plugging it in with a cord and getting what I need off of it.
Boot from an ubuntu live cd if it's still in the system.
If it's not, hook it up either via SATA or with an USB breakout box.
(It has to be connected somehow
There were 105 entrants and I won! Wow!
There are more than 26 actually. The total is 108.
Well, if you ask, Shuggy is actually a good game. It is not because something is cheap that it is bad.
Apart from this remark, this is the list of games I have given away with Modbot: http://pastebin.com/GxrUTQ3C
Choosing is hard, especially with so much attention. Actually, these are the games I am looking forward to play:
Other games I would like to try are of course:
- Tales from the Borderlands (which should be released this summer)
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (which benefits from a game engine without Adobe Flash)
- The Witness (2014? 2015? Never?)
However, I don't like the idea that whichever game I would choose, then everyone on Steam would be poking me if I am caught playing some other games, or I will feel as if.
- Assassin's Creed: Unity because it takes place in Paris (the gameplay will be most likely boring though)
- Grand Theft Auto V because it will look so good on PC (hopefully it runs more smoothly than GTA IV)
- Divinity: Original Sin (I will wait for some Steam sales though, so a buddy of mine can buy the game as well and we play together)
I am enjoying Spelunky and Dota2 these days. I should be playing FTL again pretty soon.
Ahah!
My remark about Shuggy was self mocking, didn't mean to offend you or anything. Anyway, PM me with the game you want and your Steam id, I don't think I have you as a friend
Robert J. Sullivan
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yeah it's really a waste, the game had as much value as 60$ games out there and a lot of people were personally fine with paying 20-30$ to unlock stuff right out of the bat (i did and almost everyone i know did too)
they just had to work with cosmetics or something akin to TF2 and they would have raked in the cash since Tribe's fanbase was very devoted (how many memes and comical youtube vids the game spawned ?) but nope, they went for the worst of the worst of monetization
You can plug it in with a cord and get the data off of it. You just need to do it on a machine with a working OS. It can be another windows machine, the same machine with a linux distro booted off USB, or anything like that. The only thing you might run into is dealing with file permissions but you should be able to google for some help with that.
electroflame
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Actually that will probably work. Just make sure that when you plug it in that you go into your BIOS and make sure that it isn't set as the boot drive. You should be able to recover files off of it if it isn't too badly damaged. You can either trying using a SATA cable (if you have a spare and a spare slot in your computer) or get a USB hard drive dock. The dock should make it mountable. Do note that SATA will probably be the fastest for file transfers, so keep that in mind.
This is also another post where I recommend having an automatic off-site backup solution.
Jawmuncher
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Boot from an ubuntu live cd if it's still in the system.
If it's not, hook it up either via SATA or with an USB breakout box.
(It has to be connected somehow
Thanka for all the help guys. Going to try all of this out and tell you which works. Thankfully it's not my HDD.
I won 99 spirits but it says invalid code?
Bought Pure Pool on a whim and cause it's been a long time since I played billiards. The multiplayer in this game is both awesome and brutal. There are a few crashes here and there but it's easy to get back into a game.
Did I say how beautiful it looks?
Played a few holes got some trading cards and a foil...
Did I say how beautiful it looks?
Played a few holes got some trading cards and a foil...
...selling at $17! Marketplaced that sucker asap. Game paid for itself twice over.
chixdiggit
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Oh wow forgot about that one. That game was crazy fun.
Are you inputting the code into desura?
corrosivefrost
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A few thoughts -- JaseC covers it below, but only giveaways in the last 3 months count toward your "giver" status. In this case, you had 26 eligible games toward the requirement of 25. So you did indeed "just sneak by".
Please let us know what you choose. Remember, with great giveaway winnings come great responsibility.
As for Divinity:OS -- depending on how you like to play games like that, it can become very annoying to try to work out in co-op. Rhaknar and I put an hour or two in together and it just wasn't working for us... one of us would wander off, or would spend too much time figurin gout menus and such... and the other would be off checking something else out. When it worked well (such as in combat) it was a bunch of fun... but it's got too much exploration based gameplay to work for everyone in co-op.
Well, it depends. I'll steam chat you.
Great. I think most of my current ideas revolve around logging and troubleshooting... I know you were working on implementing my "re-read the queue of games needing to be idled" requirement, so if you're still on that, i'll leave it be for now. Whenever you get a chance, even if you just shoot me a PM or something. Most of the time I work on a linux laptop, so I guess keep that in mind if I need to know anything about compiling the python or whatever.
[frost@frost ~]$ python --version
Python 2.6.6
So yeah, if you clue me in, I'll see about getting to work. :3
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If you successfully sell a foil for $17 you'll have bragging rights for the rest of your life.
Oh desura.com? I thought it was a steam code.
I've been um'ing and ah'ing over the game myself... but I just realised that the Talisman Gold Pack is about $10 cheaper than I was expecting, so I think I'll buy both later. I can't get enough of pool (IRL, anyway).
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Today in suck palace, I decided to install a bunch of Mac games on my MBA so I'd have something to play on an airplane tomorrow. I used to play Sim City games on airplanes but now those need to be online need Origin. So indie games it is.
Installing Steam: Steam will not install on OSX Yosemite unless you disable basically all your application security settings. If you have higher application security settings but override them to launch Steam, it will give you a message about corrupt data. Yee-haw.
Noir Syndrome: Won't boot, because it requires that Java is installed but doesn't install Java.
Puzzle Agent 2: Won't boot, no error given.
Shelter: Performs terribly, controls terribly on laptop keyboard
Wooden Sen'SeY: Awful 2D platformer, physics feel bad, first level of 9 wasn't interesting at all (finished it in 5 minutes), default key bindings have Q as left and D as right, what the hell.
Woodle Tree Adventures: Awful 3D platformer, you move slow as hell, jumping sucks, collision system sucks, if you hit anything you restart a level (which does nothing because the game doesn't keep track of deaths or respawn enemies or items you've claimed, so you just need to walk through the level again), controls are terrible on a keyboard, and the camera is one of the worst I've ever seen in a 3D platformer. I appear to have finished one of maybe 7 or 8 levels in about 5 minutes. Pity because the bright colourful style and simple texture work actually really appealed to me.
Next batch to try: Finding Teddy, Millie, Where Angels Cry, Year Walk, Deadly 30, Derrick the Deathfin
Installing Steam: Steam will not install on OSX Yosemite unless you disable basically all your application security settings. If you have higher application security settings but override them to launch Steam, it will give you a message about corrupt data. Yee-haw.
Noir Syndrome: Won't boot, because it requires that Java is installed but doesn't install Java.
Puzzle Agent 2: Won't boot, no error given.
Shelter: Performs terribly, controls terribly on laptop keyboard
Wooden Sen'SeY: Awful 2D platformer, physics feel bad, first level of 9 wasn't interesting at all (finished it in 5 minutes), default key bindings have Q as left and D as right, what the hell.
Woodle Tree Adventures: Awful 3D platformer, you move slow as hell, jumping sucks, collision system sucks, if you hit anything you restart a level (which does nothing because the game doesn't keep track of deaths or respawn enemies or items you've claimed, so you just need to walk through the level again), controls are terrible on a keyboard, and the camera is one of the worst I've ever seen in a 3D platformer. I appear to have finished one of maybe 7 or 8 levels in about 5 minutes. Pity because the bright colourful style and simple texture work actually really appealed to me.
Next batch to try: Finding Teddy, Millie, Where Angels Cry, Year Walk, Deadly 30, Derrick the Deathfin
You guys all need to get Crypt of the Necrodancer! No joke this game is insane fun even thought I can't even get past the 3rd floor right now. Every floor has it's own track, but I haven't tried out the custom track stuff yet. Really like how you have to learn the pattern of the enemy, and that certain enemies like the skeletons have little tells like throwing their arms up into the air. Some monsters that even seem daunting like the Green Dragon aren't too bad once you realize you gotta backstep, attack, backstep attack. Even the items that you get in your runs are binded to the direction keys by having you press 2 directions to be able to use bombs and such. This is such an inventive game and I'm loving it so far. Also that daily, god damn I lasted no more than 5 seconds.
Yep, it's for Desura.
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