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Looking at grabbing Final Fantasy VIII, IX, and the X / X-2 HD remasters but I've heard certain Final Fantasy releases on Steam (mainly the SNES versions and VII) should be avoided and instead emulated. Anyone able to vouch for the quality of 8 through 10?
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Jedit posted:And this is going to be an unpopular opinion I know, but cut Darkest Dungeon. For my money there are much better games in the same vein to spend your time on. Such as? Just interested in recommendations.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:12
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Mystic Stylez posted:I know they have absolutely nothing to do with each other, but if you guys had the budget to choose one between Hitman, DOOM or Fallout 4, which one would it be? I'm a fan of the three franchises. DOOM. It's basically flawless. Please don't get Fallout 4. If I can convince you not to, it might undo the evil of my buying it in the first place.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:14
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If you're a fighting game casual, I wouldn't really recommend Street Fighter V. There's basically no single player content. The mechanics of SFV are also pretty specific and you need to be pretty specific with timing and button pushes, so you can't really button-mash your way to victory. That makes it a good fighting game, but with the lack of single player content, there's no real easy way to learn the mechanics of the game. Also, if you're in Australia, good luck finding a match.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:14
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Krazyface posted:DOOM. It's basically flawless. too orange
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Dec 24, 2016 01:15
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Ugh Origin is such poo poo. They discount their games but not the DLC. And they use that point based currency too, drat.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:15
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Krazyface posted:DOOM. It's basically flawless. I would, but I'm kinda worried it's nowehere near as replayable as the other two.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:24
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Mystic Stylez posted:I would, but I'm kinda worried it's nowehere near as replayable as the other two. Fair enough. I'm at the point where I'm suspicious of replayability, because that's less time I can spend on the rest of my backlog.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:26
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I only have Doom from the 3 but while I loved it - you can probably get the most mileage from Hitman. It's both good and offers a variety of possible playthroughs.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:28
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Finally bit the bullet on Subnautica and it turns out, I don't like it! First purchase and refund of this sale. I played for an hour and looked up a few videos on useful tips for new players, and I guess I've just grown out of love for survival games. Collecting parts to make subparts to make gear and also having to cook food. One video told me that if you eat too much of one type of food it's bad for you? No thanks I'll try something else.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:28
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DOOM is lots of fun. The mechanics are nicely designed to encourage an aggressive run and gun (and punch) play style. My main gripe was that on a lot of levels you can't backtrack all the way to the beginning, which is annoying in a game with lots of hidden secrets. Play it on Hard difficulty though, otherwise it'll become too much of a cakewalk once you've got a bunch of upgrades.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:34
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If you are one of the 4 people (Not including myself) who has Witcher 3 on GoG but doesn't have the expansions, they are selling the expansion pass for $15 as a part of their year end sale. I have been wanting to get back into that game. Was considering getting the GotY edition on steam for the expansions before seeing that. A question though: I am still trying to decide if I want to restart my game or not, but how do the expansions work? Do you start them from the main menu, or are they integrated into the campaign, somehow (No spoilers, plz)
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Dec 24, 2016 01:36
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Integrated with the main game (not separate launch, etc), recommended to do them after beating the main campaign.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:41
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Awesome! posted:i am just hesitant to get d:os because it was clearly made with co-op in mind and i dont know how interested i am in "arguing" with an npc ...You want to play a cRPG and don't want to engage in dialogue with NPCs?
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Dec 24, 2016 01:42
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theres a difference between reading npc dialog and talking to yourself in parts that were clearly made to be played with 2 people. at least in my mind.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:45
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Awesome! posted:theres a difference between reading npc dialog and talking to yourself in parts that were clearly made to be played with 2 people. at least in my mind. I think they have AI personalities for the player NPCs if you don't want to roleplay against yourself.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:48
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fenrif posted:...You want to play a cRPG and don't want to engage in dialogue with NPCs? Not what he meant. There are two main characters you play as and they argue against each other. In co-op this is a silly mechanic. In singleplayer this is weird.
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Dec 24, 2016 01:58
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Awesome! posted:theres a difference between reading npc dialog and talking to yourself in parts that were clearly made to be played with 2 people. at least in my mind. Yeah there is a difference. But "arguing with an NPC" isn't talking to yourself. I played the entire game solo and didn't have a problem. The game doesn't require two people. It works perfectly fine in singleplayer. You don't have to talk to yourself but you will have to argue with NPCs. Like in every cRPG.
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Dec 24, 2016 02:02
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Big thanks to Bumpy Johnson for Grim Dawn. Now I'll be finally able to see if it's better than Diablo 3  .
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Dec 24, 2016 02:08
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Bruce Boxlicker posted:Returned Vermintide. Didn't realize it was crappy L4D:Warhammer Edition. I mean I'm not gonna tell you you're wrong for not liking something but I can guarantee you that you didn't even scratch the surface of the melee system's depth.
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Dec 24, 2016 02:15
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I mean I'm not gonna tell you you're wrong for not liking something but I can guarantee you that you didn't even scratch the surface of the melee system's depth. It had a solid weapon feel to it. What is it that gives it enough depth that compels you to say that? Just curious what you like about it. It was within my two hour window so I'm not even going to pretend I scratched the surface of any aspect of the game. I guess the blatant theft of mechanics that I wasn't prepared for kind of killed it for me.
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Dec 24, 2016 02:22
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Unlucky7 posted:If you are one of the 4 people (Not including myself) who has Witcher 3 on GoG but doesn't have the expansions, they are selling the expansion pass for $15 as a part of their year end sale. Thanks for the heads up!
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Dec 24, 2016 02:37
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Bruce Boxlicker posted:It had a solid weapon feel to it. What is it that gives it enough depth that compels you to say that? Just curious what you like about it. It was within my two hour window so I'm not even going to pretend I scratched the surface of any aspect of the game. There's just a lot involved in how the weapon patterns work, the difference on charged attack patterns, and the stamina system allowing for blocking and shoving. It gets really important against Stormvermin (the armored rats that hit like trucks), large hordes, and the Rat Ogre. There's people that can run the game on the hardest difficulty with garbage tier beginner weapons and no trinkets. Like my favorite character and loadout is the Dwarf with the Axe/Shield combo. Against Stormvermin, I go for shield bashes (charged attacks) when I can get in free strikes and follow up the stagger with ordinary strikes to the head while they're staggered. Depending on difficulty, I might have to then put up block, shove them away and dodge to the side to make sure I don't catch an overhead strike. Put me in a team of beginners against a Rat Ogre and there's a pretty strong chance they'll be dying on the ground by the end of the fight and I won't have been hit. I don't mean that to pretend to be hot poo poo or anything. Just using it as an example that the melee system really gives back to those who learn it. But it's not super apparent right away because you can cruise through Easy and Normal difficulties just kind of waving a sword at roughly head height and being forgiven for mistakes by the absolute deluge of health items the director throws at you.
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Dec 24, 2016 02:50
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Thank you Kragger for Street Fighter V. 
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Dec 24, 2016 02:56
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Steam people, did you guys get the Witcher 3 GotY edition for having the base game plus expansions? I did on GoG, and I thought it was a nice gesture.
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Dec 24, 2016 03:00
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Looking at grabbing Final Fantasy VIII, IX, and the X / X-2 HD remasters but I've heard certain Final Fantasy releases on Steam (mainly the SNES versions and VII) should be avoided and instead emulated. Anyone able to vouch for the quality of 8 through 10? All of those work great on pc, I never had problems with VII either. The Xx-2 remasters run great too, they look really good. The pre psx games are the ones to avoid, 3 especially. 6 is just ugly as all sin.
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Dec 24, 2016 03:19
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Does anyone want to trade a copy of Cities: Skylines for something off my wish list? I picked it up last sale to gift it, but the idiot IRL friend it was for bought it on their own.
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Dec 24, 2016 03:26
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King Vidiot posted:I mean, where's the lump of coal meta-game, where's the exploitable raffle ticket system or the deluge of trading cards and the clusterfuck of hourly flash deals? It used to be a grotesque nightmare circus of cheap gimmicks and mindless consumerism but now it's like a legitimate business and storefront. That's just totally not in the Holiday Spirit. I agree, having to do objectives in games was the best, especially when they had tangible rewards like the TF2 treasure hats or the summer DLC rewards.
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Dec 24, 2016 03:27
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Grabbed Slime Rancher and lost hours to cute blobs being fed carrots and bouncing around 
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H13 posted:If you're a fighting game casual, I wouldn't really recommend Street Fighter V. There's basically no single player content. The mechanics of SFV are also pretty specific and you need to be pretty specific with timing and button pushes, so you can't really button-mash your way to victory. That makes it a good fighting game, but with the lack of single player content, there's no real easy way to learn the mechanics of the game. They added a proper single player campaign (and I think AI sparring?) to SFV a while ago. Unless you're saying even that is inadequate?
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Looking at grabbing Final Fantasy VIII, IX, and the X / X-2 HD remasters but I've heard certain Final Fantasy releases on Steam (mainly the SNES versions and VII) should be avoided and instead emulated. Anyone able to vouch for the quality of 8 through 10? The SNES version is a phone port and doesn't look great, but you can mod it some of the way back. It's kinda overpriced for an ancient game though. I think VII benefits from some modding as well, I think you replace some of the textures and models? I played VII and VIII on steam and I didn't notice any problems.
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Unlucky7 posted:If you are one of the 4 people (Not including myself) who has Witcher 3 on GoG but doesn't have the expansions, they are selling the expansion pass for $15 as a part of their year end sale. As one of those 4 people, thanks for the heads up! I had to stop playing when my graphics card went bad, then just haven't picked it back up yet. This is as good an excuse as any. I've got some fun games to suit whatever mood I'm in now. My latest acquisitions have been Grim Dawn, Dragon's Dogma, and Final Fantasy IX (never played it). This gives me a pretty decent spread, I think. Might do it for me until the Summer Sale.
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nerdz posted:Ugh Origin is such poo poo. They discount their games but not the DLC. And they use that point based currency too, drat. Specifically Bioware with Mass Effect 2 & 3 and Dragon Age 2. It's really loving annoying for the ME games, yeah. At least they dropped it and you can get the middling Dragon Age Inquisition DLC for a discount!
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How are the God Eater games? Will it scratch a Monster Hunter itch?
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Leper Residue posted:All of those work great on pc, I never had problems with VII either. The Xx-2 remasters run great too, they look really good. Spiderdrake posted:Eight you need to replace the music. It's easy to do, but you NEED to do it apparently. It worked fine. Thanks to both of you guys, I'll take that as the go-ahead for them not being bad ports! Yeah, one of the Steam reviews for VIII was absolutely livid about it using midi music instead of wave or something similar so I'll look into replacing it I guess.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Thanks to both of you guys, I'll take that as the go-ahead for them not being bad ports! also 3 isn't really a bad port but just a really bad game. the original wasn't all that great as it was but they somehow made it even less fun. If you want to play 6 get the gba remastered version which is the gba extra dungeon poo poo but with the way better snes music. edit: Also all those hd retextures for vii are ugly as gently caress.
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Not really Steam Sale related, but opinions on Dragon Age: Inquisition? Also are the incremental deluxe editions worth it? Mystic Stylez fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Dec 24, 2016 |
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John Murdoch posted:They added a proper single player campaign (and I think AI sparring?) to SFV a while ago. Unless you're saying even that is inadequate? Pretty much... There's no overall story mode, and each character story is anywhere between 2-4 fights long (usually only 1 round) depending on the character. They were also shamefully easy. I was able to score perfect KOs in a fair few of them. So I jumped into VS the computer which are just random 1v1 fights. On difficulty 4, I was slaughtering everything. Never lost a round. On difficulty 5, suddenly they were pulling things out of their rear end left right and center and I couldn't even get close to winning a round. Sure, I know "git gud" and all. But it doesn't have a learning curve as much as it does a learning brick wall. That combined with how fussy the game is with it's commands (again, makes it a good fighting game because of how deliberate you have to be) means that filthy casuals like me kinda hit the ceiling early without much way of breaking through.
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super sweet best pal posted:I agree, having to do objectives in games was the best, especially when they had tangible rewards like the TF2 treasure hats or the summer DLC rewards. Agreed, and even worse, sometimes the price of these games on sale can go UP from what they started at. I was eyeballing Stellaris at $20 but they decided to up it to $27 and out of my price range, just because they can. Bah humbug to you, Gabe
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Mystic Stylez posted:Not really Steam Sale related, but opinions on Dragon Age: Inquisition? It's the best character writing and performances Bioware has done yet, but probably the worst designed zones for any free roaming RPG. The DA thread can give you some tips for avoiding the most tedious side quests. It helps if you've played the previous ones (or at least 1. I wouldn't bother with 2) because they track an enormous number of decisions from 1 and 2 to make the world state for Inquisition. The deluxe edition might be worth it if it includes the expansions, as one of the expansions has a much better ending than the main game.
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