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tinaun posted:kentucky route zero has a new thing We can only hope
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It looks more like a short spin-off like Entertainment. Still cool, Cardboard Computer can do no wrong.
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Oct 30, 2014 09:07
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Zombie Samurai posted:
This man is wrong, do not buy, play, or think about Organ Trail. It Is Bad.
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 The So it's done. 31 + 1 spooky games played and reviewed for the month of October, and a bunch of extra games reviewed in between. Since the Steam sale is starting tomorrow and I've covered a ton of ground, I'm going to provide a final list of everything I've reviewed, sorted by recommendation. As usual, the titles in this list will link to my reviews, and the titles within the review will link to the Steam store page. GOOD games worth picking up: 1. Alien: Isolation 2. Year Walk 4. Adventures of Shuggy 7. Infected: The Twin Vaccine - Collector's Edition 8. How to Survive 13. Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi 15. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream 21. Eldritch 24. Ghost Master 25. Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut 26. Amnesia: The Dark Descent 29. Betrayer 30. Afterfall InSanity Extended Edition 31. Organ Trail: Director's Cut A. Painkiller: Black Edition B. The Void C. Shadowgrounds G. Blood I. Anodyne J. Vlad the Impaler OK games you might enjoy: 3. Deadlight 5. Atom Zombie Smasher 6. Alan Wake's American Nightmare 14. Scarygirl 16. Closure 19. Ghostship Aftermath 20. Hell Yeah! 27. Paranormal State: Poison Spring D. Haunted Memories E. Serena H. Shadows: Price For Our Sins K. Doorways: Chapters 1 & 2 N. White Noise Online BAD games you should avoid: 9. 1953 - KGB Unleashed 10. Burn Zombie Burn! 11. Home 12. Huntsman: The Orphanage (Halloween Edition) 17. Alien Breed 2: Assault 18. F.E.A.R. Online 22. The Path 23. Shadowgrounds: Survivor 28. Evil Pumpkin: The Lost Halloween 32. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs F. The Forgotten Ones L. The House M. Depths of Fear :: Knossos O. Eleusis P. Master Reboot Q. Coma:Mortuary R. Montague's Mount Let's wrap this up with the drive-in totals: 23 days elapsed, 50 games reviewed, 32 played, 12 streamed, 3 borrowed via Steam Sharing, 2 gifted, 1 bought, 16 walking sims, 3 2D walking sims, 2 free-to-play games, 4 hidden object games, 5 aliens, 5 zombies, 10 ghosts, two kinds of alien dismemberment, three kinds of mutant-bashing, vampire-staking, satyr-stabbing, corpse-roasting, statue-fu, broom-fu, color-fu, tentacle-fu, sawblade-fu, three stars, check 'em out. Thanks for reading, and happy Halloween!
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Oct 30, 2014 09:14
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Zombie Samurai posted:Let's wrap this up with the drive-in totals: 23 days elapsed, 50 games reviewed, 32 played, 12 streamed, 3 borrowed via Steam Sharing, 2 gifted, 1 bought, 16 walking sims, 3 2D walking sims, 2 free-to-play games, 4 hidden object games, 5 aliens, 5 zombies, 10 ghosts, two kinds of alien dismemberment, three kinds of mutant-bashing, vampire-staking, satyr-stabbing, corpse-roasting, statue-fu, broom-fu, color-fu, tentacle-fu, sawblade-fu, three stars, check 'em out.
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Oct 30, 2014 09:35
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Well I finally got around to playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown and I just captured an alien and I'm worried about the injury status of my go-to squad leader. It begins 
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Oct 30, 2014 11:08
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Jerusalem posted:Well I finally got around to playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown and I just captured an alien and I'm worried about the injury status of my go-to squad leader. Injured means alive; you haven't hit peak  yet.
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Oct 30, 2014 11:17
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I should probably finally play the new XCOM.
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Oct 30, 2014 11:23
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duckfarts posted:Injured means alive; you haven't hit peak Yes, but what if he's not healed up in time for the next mission?  Actually I have a sniper who has been with the squad since the second mission and she'll step up to the plate.... but it just won't be the same if he's not there to blast rockets at stuff when poo poo gets hairy!
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Oct 30, 2014 11:28
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Quash any and all emotional attachment before it can form. Dress all soldiers in anonymous, faceless helmets. It'll spare you, trust me.
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Oct 30, 2014 11:29
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Jerusalem posted:Yes, but what if he's not healed up in time for the next mission? Best part of X-Com is when all your barely trained soldiers are injured and you are forced to take the first Terror mission with an all-recruit team  poptart_fairy posted:Quash any and all emotional attachment before it can form. Dress all soldiers in anonymous, faceless helmets. It'll spare you, trust me. I use the bright red, mirror helmet uniform for the rookies, they need to earn their cool beret priveleges.
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Oct 30, 2014 11:31
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poptart_fairy posted:Quash any and all emotional attachment before it can form. Dress all soldiers in anonymous, faceless helmets. It'll spare you, trust me. So uhhh... recreating the cast of Tour of Duty in the game would be a BAD idea then?
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Oct 30, 2014 11:33
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Jerusalem posted:So uhhh... recreating the cast of Tour of Duty in the game would be a BAD idea then? Don't be like me and name all your first soldiers after friends and family!
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Oct 30, 2014 11:34
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poptart_fairy posted:Don't be like me and name all your first soldiers after friends and family! So sad. So..... sad
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Oct 30, 2014 11:40
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I'm playing the first Hitman, and apparently you can't save during missions?
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Oct 30, 2014 11:54
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Kurtofan posted:I'm playing the first Hitman, and apparently you can't save during missions? IF you want to play the first Hitman then play Contracts which is more or less a remake/retelling.
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Oct 30, 2014 11:59
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poptart_fairy posted:Quash any and all emotional attachment before it can form. Dress all soldiers in anonymous, faceless helmets. It'll spare you, trust me. No no no, they have to earn the right to have names and faces. Sergeant and below are just Drone #1, Drone #2, Drone #3 with red armor and the paintball helmet.
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Oct 30, 2014 12:23
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Kurtofan posted:I'm playing the first Hitman, and apparently you can't save during missions? I can put up with a lot of poo poo in old games, but Hitman: Codename 47 is where I draw the line. The game was a pain in the rear end when it came out and it's only worsened with time. Weirdly Hitman 2 has aged pretty well.
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al-azad posted:IF you want to play the first Hitman then play Contracts which is more or less a remake/retelling.
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Steam is recommending Dungeon of the Endless to me, but none of my usual review sites seem to have noticed the game. Is it any good? I usually like roguelike stuff, but I'm unsure of how the tower defense fits in. I enjoyed Endless Space, if that helps.
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Oct 30, 2014 12:41
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Xander77 posted:Wait, contracts is on steam now? Since when? They sorted out the rights issue with the nightclub track by removing it from the game.
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Cicadalek posted:Steam is recommending Dungeon of the Endless to me, but none of my usual review sites seem to have noticed the game. Is it any good? I usually like roguelike stuff, but I'm unsure of how the tower defense fits in. I enjoyed Endless Space, if that helps. I have played it for 30 min or so, it is quite good and challenging. It is a mix of roguelite and tower defense: your goal on every level is to plot your course through various rooms to the exit. Every time you open a new room, it serves as a time unit - the abilities of your heroes get cooled down a bit (like in Binding of Isaac) and your stations generate their resources. One of the resources that you can find in a new room is dust (energy) - it is used to light up dark rooms. Once you light up a room, you can put a resource generator and turrets there. Rooms that are left dark spawn monsters when you open new rooms - monsters rush to your base and you need towers to defend it while your heroes are exploring far away. The hook is that you will never have enough energy to light up all rooms on the level and you need to plan the directions that you can defend when one of your heroes carries the base crystal to the exit. Unlike most roguelites you don't control your characters directly - you direct them to the room and they act as they see fit. When poo poo goes down it has a distinctive FTL feel of managing your crew in a crisis situation.
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Oct 30, 2014 13:06
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Zombie Samurai posted:
I really enjoyed all the posts in this series, thanks.
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He says of his new Early Access MMODerek Smart posted:Smart also says that his team is working on a public roadmap website so that players can track release progress and vote on new features. He thanks his testers for their patience with the "staggered" test schedule. " It is for the greater good," he writes. "Been doing this a very – very – long time, so you just have to trust that I know what I'm doing." 
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Oct 30, 2014 13:34
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Early Access and MMO sounds like two things that shouldn't coexist as descriptors to one game.
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Oct 30, 2014 13:38
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How do you guys keep tabs on sales? I've been adding stuff to my wishlist and periodically checking it to see if anything's on sale, but with vouchers and everything it's starting to get quite long.
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Oct 30, 2014 13:39
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HardDisk posted:Early Access and MMO sounds like two things that shouldn't coexist as descriptors to one game. To boot it looks like it was made in 2003. 
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Oct 30, 2014 13:40
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Kuule hain nussivan posted:How do you guys keep tabs on sales? I've been adding stuff to my wishlist and periodically checking it to see if anything's on sale, but with vouchers and everything it's starting to get quite long. http://isthereanydeal.com/ the email notifications will account for vouchers etc
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HardDisk posted:Early Access and MMO sounds like two things that shouldn't coexist as descriptors to one game. You've obviously missed the age of the Eternal Beta and the Soft Release. Most MMOs these days are out in 'open beta' for six months to two years before they 'launch'. It's drat common now.
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Oct 30, 2014 14:09
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Tempest_56 posted:You've obviously missed the age of the Eternal Beta and the Soft Release. Most MMOs these days are out in 'open beta' for six months to two years before they 'launch'. It's drat common now. I'm glad I'm over MMOs
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Arnold of Soissons posted:http://isthereanydeal.com/ the email notifications will account for vouchers etc
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Oct 30, 2014 14:20
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Top sellers list is topped by... Farming Simulator 15? Is it an improvement on the previous iteration? I actually legitimately enjoyed it with some pals of mine but the price is a bit high for a simulator about farming. Edit: It has the best achievement at least. "Out of Debt". That's something I wish to achieve in real life too..
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Oct 30, 2014 14:32
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Orv posted:He says of his new Early Access MMO Yeah, because his track record of doing this a very - very - long time is stellar.
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Ragequit posted:Yeah, because his track record of doing this a very - very - long time is stellar. I genuinely do not know of another human being who could be said to be a true Soda Machine Fighting Master.
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Oct 30, 2014 14:37
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Less than a week until Binding of Isaac Rebirth comes out. And lucky me, it falls on Melbourne Cup Day so I get the day off to play it.
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Tempest_56 posted:You've obviously missed the age of the Eternal Beta and the Soft Release. Most MMOs these days are out in 'open beta' for six months to two years before they 'launch'. It's drat common now. World of Warcraft started this, right? MMO's change so frequently that it's near impossible to release one in any kind of complete state. A ready-for-release MMO is ideally playable and has content up to its level cap/whatever.
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al-azad posted:World of Warcraft started this, right? MMO's change so frequently that it's near impossible to release one in any kind of complete state. A ready-for-release MMO is ideally playable and has content up to its level cap/whatever.  WoW released with content up to and through level cap. Two full raids (depending on how you look at Onyxia as "full").
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Orv posted:I genuinely do not know of another human being who could be said to be a true Soda Machine Fighting Master. He's the hero the Steam forums deserves, not the one it needs.
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Oct 30, 2014 14:41
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Orv posted:
But the state of the game at launch was wildly different a year later and it was in beta for 6 months prior to launch. "Beta" has completely lost its meaning, it's a marketing term at this point. And MMO's change so drastically over the course of months that it's hard to call any kind of launch a "complete" launch. And that's my point. A finished MMO is one that doesn't crash instantly and gets you up to whatever the level cap is. They're going to radically alter it down the road so it's never truly complete.
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Orv posted:
Yeah, the only MMO I can think of offhand that actually had significant content gaps was Age of Conan.
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