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As somebody who's not really a big player in arpgs like this, I had WAY more fun with Van Helsing than I did with Torchlight 1 or 2. I played and beat both VHs, but gave up 1/2 way through T2. Torchlight felt so spiritless and unengaging. Van Helsing seems to be very much an arpg that you'dplay once and put away - unless you're one of the crazy people who newgame++++++. I thought its production values were really drat good - it looks good, it's pretty fun (for an arpg) and the banter is plentiful. There are fun little breaks in the standard arpging so you can go do neat little tower defense type levels if you so choose - simplistic, but fun. You can get a dog and level it up and have it bring you some nice gear every so often. It's not a revolutionary or evolutionary example of the genre, but it's nice.
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Not sure if it was mentioned, but a number of Valve games got their soundtracks available for download. Looks like most HL and Portal games, also something called Free to play. Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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Sep 24, 2014 23:47
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Free to Play is a movie about Dota pro players. I always say I'll watch it but I keep forgetting to. Didn't even know it had a soundtrack. Any opinions on Gas Guzzlers? Just played the demo, seems fun.
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Sep 25, 2014 00:33
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Whoa Steam Music is a thing now.
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Well, it sounds like I'd enjoy it to play through at least once. I'll pick up 2 maybe next week after playing through the first game, the voucher doesn't expire until something like October 10th anyway.
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Sep 25, 2014 01:25
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So... How does one actually ADD external music to Steam music?
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So has anyone given Defense Grid 2 a try? I can't imagine it's worth the price their asking so definitely waiting for a sale, just wondering how it is and how improved it is over DG1
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Sep 25, 2014 01:35
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ElegantFugue posted:So... How does one actually ADD external music to Steam music? Go to settings, go to music, add the folder where all your music is hidden and tell it to start scanning
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Sep 25, 2014 01:39
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Lord Lambeth posted:Go to settings, go to music, add the folder where all your music is hidden and tell it to start scanning Thanks! They should probably make that a liiiiittle more obvious, I think.
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Huh, this is actually a pretty good player. Works in game and everything. All Steam needs to do is start selling music and I guess I won't need to use iTunes at all.
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Lord Lambeth posted:Whoa Steam Music is a thing now. By 2020 I will have no reason install any program but Steam. edit: Am I missing something, or does it not scan folders recursively? Pomp fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 01:55
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The Steam music player doesn't work with the media buttons on my keyboard (or at least, it doesn't yet) so I'll stick to Spotify for now. The feature has existed in the beta for a while, by the way.
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Kibayasu posted:Huh, this is actually a pretty good player. Works in game and everything. Well they do, but it's all video game music. I just need a bit more ability to modify my music inside steam and I'll be happy. Pomp posted:By 2020 I will have no reason install any program but Steam. I would legit be fine with steam aping vlcplayer next. 
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Sep 25, 2014 01:57
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Pomp posted:By 2020 I will have no reason install any program but Steam.
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Sep 25, 2014 01:58
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Pomp posted:By 2020 I will have no reason install any program but Steam. Given that they're still apparently working on their SteamOS Linux distro, that might not be too far from the truth.
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Sep 25, 2014 02:00
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Oh, it's not a scanning issue, it just doesn't support FLAC 
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Pomp posted:Oh, it's not a scanning issue, it just doesn't support FLAC Get that hippie poo poo out of here. Not really, why does no actual company support FLAC.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Not sure if it was mentioned, but a number of Valve games got their soundtracks available for download. And you have to install the games to get the soundtracks it seems, what the gently caress man. 
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Just noticed that another bit of DLC was released for Sword Of The Stars: The Pit.. It's the usual stuff - another character, another bunch of enemy and item types, some new features, etc for ~£1.50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0dWBsqwcY Much like the original Sword Of The Stars, The Pit started out really wonky and bare-bones, but has grown into a genuinely good and remarkably meaty roguelike. The new DLC requires you to have the Gold Edition upgrade, which was a pretty chunky bit of DLC in of itself. It's a bit confusing, but it's generally best to have everything anyway. Dominic White fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 02:27
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ElegantFugue posted:Thanks! They should probably make that a liiiiittle more obvious, I think. More obvious than putting the music settings in the Music section of Settings?
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There should probably just be a button for it somewhere on the main UI.
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Is there anyway to list games that you haven't installed but that have soundtracks?
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Kibayasu posted:Get that hippie poo poo out of here. I'm sure steam will change their mind if you whine at them long enough
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Lord Lambeth posted:I'm sure steam will change their mind if you whine at them long enough FLAC/OGG/etc. support has been requested since they added the player in February or whatever.
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Kibayasu posted:Not really, why does no actual company support FLAC.
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LiftAuff posted:FLAC/OGG/etc. support has been requested since they added the player in February or whatever. Steam Music FAQ posted:What file types does the Steam Music player support? I suppose that's better then nothing.
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Guild Wars 2 free trial is going on if anyone had interest in it. I think I might be interested since I heard combat is supposed to be more action oriented instead of WoW where you just target an enemy and spam hotkey abilities. I could be wrong though.
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Deakul posted:Guild Wars 2 free trial is going on if anyone had interest in it. A lot of goons seemed to think GW2 was some kind of second coming MMO, but I found combat only slightly more interesting than WoW and thought it was a really ugly game.
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Reason posted:A lot of goons seemed to think GW2 was some kind of second coming MMO, but I found combat only slightly more interesting than WoW and thought it was a really ugly game. No one thinks this anymore.
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Reason posted:A lot of goons seemed to think GW2 was some kind of second coming MMO, but I found combat only slightly more interesting than WoW and thought it was a really ugly game. Every new MMO is the Second Coming, and it always falls short before collapsing into a pit.
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I have only ever heard extremely positive or extremely negative opinions on GW2. The positive seems to be that it changes up the MMO formula and makes it so classes aren't strict roles, the negative being that it has really half-assed encounters due to every player basically being DPS. Or so I've heard.
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I mean, I bought it when it came out because a friend wanted me to play it with him except that failed to happen, and honestly it might just be because I played WoW for years on end but a non-trinity MMO? I didn't even get to the end game but apparently it wasn't that great, probably because of that.
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Then I'll be the person who gives a mixed impression of GW2. I really liked it at first and I did manage to get a character to the level cap which I almost never do in MMOs. But then nothing happened, ArenaNet doesn't seem interested in releasing expansions or substantial content patches. And the PVP wasn't as fun as I thought it would be, so it has no replay value for me. I still think I got my money's worth out of it but I gave up on it way sooner than I expected. edit: I think the combat is sort of in an awkward middle ground between Tera and WoW. I enjoy it more than WoW's combat but not by much and its more twitch style features like dodge rolling don't actually work very well. I also don't like the general dungeon design, nor do I like how inconsistent and lovely doing personal story quests with your friends are (some of them allow for parties to join, some don't). But I do really love the world design and all the stuff they have promoting exploration. And I'm okay with their other quest systems. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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So I caved and tried creating one of these fancy schmancy curator pages everyone's goin' on about in hopes of encouraging people to make ones that are less general "games I like" and more specific to a category of games or a niche, like I assumed this whole curation thing was going to help people with. On that note, here's a linky to my page about games with unique settings in case anyone's interested: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/6865396/#p1
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GW2 is a very good casual MMO. Everything is easy, all the PvE and most of the PvP encounters are zergfests, trinity doesn't exist so you have zero responsibility in anything you do. On the other hand it looks pretty, has no subscription so you can come and go as you please, has lots of cool places to explore, and has a neat story up until the halfway point of the game (and then it turns to poo poo.) It's the MMO I play in between actual MMOs.
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A more resounding endorsement you shall not find.
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Does the Music thingy have last.fm integration? This is important!
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Lance Streetman posted:I have only ever heard extremely positive or extremely negative opinions on GW2. The positive seems to be that it changes up the MMO formula and makes it so classes aren't strict roles, the negative being that it has really half-assed encounters due to every player basically being DPS. Or so I've heard. The problem is the other way around, because the bosses are so poorly designed, the only real mechanic for them is raw DPS so that's all anyone ever runs. I think Vafthrudnir got it covered pretty well, but I'll also add that if you like playing dressup in your MMO, GW2 is also really drat good for that. I think GW2 is a ton of fun to play casually on and off myself, definitely worth trying the free trial if it interests you at all.
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bigass jncos posted:I made a curator page for bad video games that can easily be facecammed by sociable gamers in their 20s. I'm also looking for other gamehunters to add bad games to the list!! It's over here buddies. nice curator descriptoin, and good choice of sa avatar source
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Just rename the Steam thread to Pewdiepie. Yogscast. Jontron. Notch.
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