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Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri is a game I didn't know a thing about until I got into playing the original System Shock (it's really fun and plays well on my modern laptop!) - and well! This is just as good, if not better! It's basically the System Shock team making a squad-based tactical fps, with a really neat comm system that lets you order your team about as you run around hunting pirates. There's hilarious FMV videos - you're playing as kind of a dork, but he's good at shooting pirates. I'm enjoying it so far for being a blast to the past, and for how smooth the laser-fire feels. Best part: it's 1.49$. 
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-Blackadder- posted:Furi +DLC -0% $11.88 Furi DLC is just the soundtrack. You can listen to it for free here. The music does a lot to drive the game, so if you don't like songs like "You're Mine" and "Wisdom of Rage" you'll probably not have a great time. It's a handful of pretty interesting boss fights with a cool story and music that I loved, so I had a great time with it. The first boss fight is just a tutorial, so it's not much to judge the game on, while the 2nd boss isn't very challenging. The 3rd-9th bosses were super satisfying, some of the most fun fights I've had in gaming.
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Anyone have any thoughts on Behemoth's Pit People? The reviews all sound very positive, and it sounds like there's a decent amount of content.
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How's Monolith, if anyone's played it? It looks kind of neat, but it's also not on sale. 
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Steam daily deals were really fun. I don't think I buy the theory that their refund system negated the possibility of daily deals though. It would be easy enough to alter the refund policy so that you could still have daily deals. Valve could just say "no refunds given for anything until after the sale ends. All games bought during the sale will be eligible for a refund AFTER the sale ends if a refund is requested within two weeks after the ended sale and has less than three hours played." I think Valve did away with the daily deals because they didn't want to miss sales from the store being flooded with purchase requests on the last day of the sale immediately after the last set of daily deals are revealed, instead of a nice even pace of sales throughout. Besides, Valve doesn't need daily deals anymore. Daily deals were an incentive for people to keep checking the store in the name of the Steam brand recognition, which Valve doesn't really need to promote that hard anymore.
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I've never played any of the Atelier games; is Atelier Sophie a decent place to start, or should I get a different one?
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Plastic Goldbaby posted:Late to the party, but I'm the guy who liked Transistor more. The story felt more personal and just grabbed me more, the art style is just fantastic, music is at least on par with Bastion with an even better narrator, and combat is flat-out awesome and much more versatile. Really this game just hit all the right notes for me. $2.99 is a steal for one of the best indie games I've played in a long time, I say go for it. A more personal story is a boon; maybe it's just me but Bastion is pretty hard to follow. Sure is pretty, though. Thank you Brother Baur for Undertale, Brothers, and Guacamelee. I'll start with the silliest one (Guac).
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Jun 29, 2017 02:47
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I don't have a controller to use with PC and when I run overwatch on my laptop (only computer) sometimes I get lag when the ping shoots up. Also Hyper Light Drifter lags a ton for me even though it was working ok before for some reason. Should I buy Nier: Automata?
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hostess with the Moltres posted:I don't have a controller to use with PC and when I run overwatch on my laptop (only computer) sometimes I get lag when the ping shoots up. Also Hyper Light Drifter lags a ton for me even though it was working ok before for some reason. Should I buy Nier: Automata? I wouldn't worry about the performance issues too, too much with nier but the mouse control in it during the 2D twinstick sessions is so hosed up to be a hair's breadth from unplayable and framerate problems would make it worse, so I can't recommend it
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I've got a couple games in my Steam inventory I'd like to get rid of. They're a bit old, but if anyone's interested: Portal (2 copies) Mercenary Kings King Arthur - the Roleplaying Wargame First come first serve, just message me: http://steamcommunity.com/id/celebrity-ghost/ Celebrity Ghost fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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Celebrity Ghost posted:I've got a couple games in my Steam inventory I'd like to get rid of. They're a bit old, but if anyone's interested: Got Mercenary Kings, thank you Ghost!
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Jun 29, 2017 03:30
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Thank you, Celebrity Ghost, for Zeno Clash!
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McCoy Pauley posted:Anyone have any thoughts on Behemoth's Pit People? The reviews all sound very positive, and it sounds like there's a decent amount of content. I played it in the beta. It was really dull.
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Ningyou posted:How's Monolith, if anyone's played it? It looks kind of neat, but it's also not on sale. As someone who really doesn't care for roguelikes and could never get into The Binding of Isaac, but who loves shmups, I had a lot of fun with Monolith. It's a bit on the shorter side by roguelike standards as it took me about 9 hours to defeat the true final boss and you could definitely get there much faster if you're good enough. The developers have said that they're working on adding content to the game to significantly extend its duration, including adding a second playable character. Unlike in most roguelikes, all permanent upgrades are passive things like damage up or turning your dash into a teleport. Otherwise, you can only have 1 weapon at a time and weapons work on ammo; you can try to hold on to a single weapon for the long-term by finding ammo refill or swap weapons around for healing and money boosts. The combat's really smooth, there are some basic quality of life elements (ex: you can instantly teleport to any room you've previously been to), and I think only having access to a single weapon at a time means you can never become too overpowered nor too underpowered. Every room is handcrafted as well, which means you sometimes run into the same room multiple times on the same floor, but you don't have the common issue of 'millions of procedurally generated rooms' which all feel like they're made from the same handful of copy/pasted components. It also gets pretty challenging on the later floors, though not to such a degree that you need to be some sort of bullet hell prodigy to beat it. Basically, I'd recommend it if you like shmups and/or if you're looking for a roguelike that's not trying to be another Binding of Isaac ripoff and you don't mind the fact that you can probably see everything the game has to offer within about 10 hours. If you're on the fence about it, I'd be surprised if it doesn't go on sale within the next month or two; it's not part of the current Summer Sale because it just came out on June 7th, but I suspect there will be a sale when the major content update hits.
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Celebrity Ghost posted:I've got a couple games in my Steam inventory I'd like to get rid of. They're a bit old, but if anyone's interested: You must be reading my mind. Thanks goons, for all the game recommendations and doing intervention on my steam deal habit. Here's some games I have from my inventory and past bundles. See something you like, just hit me up on Steam. http://steamcommunity.com/id/-blackadder-/ Death to Spies: Moment of Truth Alien Breed Trilogy Fable: Lost Chapters Shadow Run Returns Trine 2: Complete Story + Goblin Menace Pack Orbital Gear X3 Dungeon of the Endless - Crystal Pack I am Bread Switchcars JumpJet Rex Volume Penarium Stikbold GRAV Vertical Drop Heroes HD Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche Teddy Floppy Ear - Mountain Adventure X2 Between Me and the night bonus game X2 200% Mixed Juice Bonus Game -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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Big thanks to Brother Baur for Valdis Story, Pony Island, and an out of nowhere Wasteland 2 and Celebrity Ghost for Mercenary Kings! You guys are just too good for this world! Oh dear, it's happened. Mercenary Kings was already in my library and I didn't know it.... I think I'm going to go lie down now. Thanks anyways! Plastic Goldbaby fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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GreatGreen posted:Steam daily deals were really fun. I don't think I buy the theory that their refund system negated the possibility of daily deals though. It would be easy enough to alter the refund policy so that you could still have daily deals. Valve could just say "no refunds given for anything until after the sale ends. All games bought during the sale will be eligible for a refund AFTER the sale ends if a refund is requested within two weeks after the ended sale and has less than three hours played." Valve didn't put in refunds out of the kindness of their heart, though. They added them because the EU basically made them. And that could mean they can't attach any strings like that to them.
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Quest For Glory II posted:i'm not making my next batch purchase yet but i know what it'll be: fairy fencer f, magic circle, last door S2 and quantum conundrum you'd have a better time with sublevel zero than with quantum conundrum, unless you really enjoy first-person precision jumping puzzles -Blackadder- posted:Sooo, a few more games crept into my cart that I need some goon opinions on to whittle down... these are good things at gooder prices Zetsubou-san fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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7 Days to Die has been at 60% before, but that two pack is a better deal if you get that.
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Zetsubou-san posted:you'd have a better time with sublevel zero than with quantum conundrum, unless you really enjoy first-person precision jumping puzzles i cant screencap my batch #4 but i already said the games so it's no big deal. Giveaway #4: One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 reply and I will PM a gift link. yo ho ho he took a bite of gum gum
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Since I have seen requests of play though lengths pop up here a few times, everyone should be aware of https://howlongtobeat.com/ . I use it fairly often when deciding what games to buy or when choosing what to play next.
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Quest For Glory II posted:i do thank you for the crazy shonen pirate game Zetsubou-san fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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Hurm. As I've talked myself out of getting the Division (my poor laptop can't play it well enough for it to run smoothly and look good), that leaves a nice 20$ sized hole in my budget, so! Battle Brothers or Factorio? I might talk myself out of both of these, but... I keep circling back to stare at them. Could I have some goonpinions to help me out?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Hurm. As I've talked myself out of getting the Division (my poor laptop can't play it well enough for it to run smoothly and look good), that leaves a nice 20$ sized hole in my budget, so! Factorio and it's not even close. There's at least 100 hours of getting your sperg on in that game.
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Tulip posted:Furi DLC is just the soundtrack. You can listen to it for free here. The music does a lot to drive the game, so if you don't like songs like "You're Mine" and "Wisdom of Rage" you'll probably not have a great time. There actually is proper DLC with some new things in it.
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I went through some hidden gems threads/posts and came out with the following list of stuff, coming to $68.01 Anyone familiar with any of these that can talk me out of any of them? The Turing Test Stories: Path of Destinies TRI: Of Friendship and Madness The Black Watchman Wuppo Drox Operative LostWinds 1 and 2 Seraph Voidspire Tactics Ara Fell Tribal Pass Westerado: Double Barreled Train Valley Gateways Tetrobot and Co Sokobond SquareCells The Floor is Jelly
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You posted a list of 20 games and I haven't heard of a single one of them so I hope they're fun. (Okay I guess I heard about wuppo like a page ago.)
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Is Civ VI worth buying or waiting on the inevitable expansions?
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So how does SOMA's atmosphere compare to Alien: Isolation or Prey (I know that gameplay is completely different)? Some people swear it's one of the best games they've ever played but others...not really. Any opinions on it?
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Palpek posted:So how does SOMA's atmosphere compare to Alien: Isolation or Prey (I know that gameplay is completely different)? Some people swear it's one of the best games they've ever played but others...not really. Any opinions on it? It's alright. Not fantastic, not terrible, just a somewhat improved Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
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Palpek posted:So how does SOMA's atmosphere compare to Alien: Isolation or Prey (I know that gameplay is completely different)? Some people swear it's one of the best games they've ever played but others...not really. Any opinions on it? While I've played the hell out of Alien: Isolation, I don't have a ton of experience with SOMA, but I believe SOMA is a lot more linear (compared to A:I I mean) and the AI is a lot more rudimentary than the Xenomorph (it engages in the typical mindless patrol loops that are similar to many other FPS horror games like Amnesia; you're not really being "hunted" by something). SOMA's got a pretty cool story and concept behind it that explores ideas like consciousness, immortality, and existential dread however, whereas A:I is basically another story in the Alien franchise.
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Palpek posted:So how does SOMA's atmosphere compare to Alien: Isolation or Prey (I know that gameplay is completely different)? Some people swear it's one of the best games they've ever played but others...not really. Any opinions on it? EDIT: Alien: Isolation's fear feels more material, whereas SOMA's was more... existential? basalt fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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DontMindMe posted:I went through some hidden gems threads/posts and came out with the following list of stuff, coming to $68.01 Drox Operative has a demo that'll let you know if you like the game or not. Seraph is fun but the levels are procedurally generated so they get samey really really fast. Squarecells is not good and I refunded it despite loving the other games the guy's made. (Well except for Sentinel) Gateways gets really, really mind-bendy in some ways that I didn't grok, so the puzzles quickly became impossible for me. Again, approach with caution.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Drox Operative has a demo that'll let you know if you like the game or not.
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is there any Shadowrun I shouldn't get?
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Also are there...*unofficial* ways to play the one time deal missions for new Hitman?
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Alan Smithee posted:is there any Shadowrun I shouldn't get? Shadowrun Returns is a good, short, and the weakest of the trilogy. Skip it if you're on the fence, but be warned that the engine improvements will make it difficult to return and play it in the future. Dragonfall / Hong Kong are both extremely good and worth your time. The other Shadowrun games out there are really bad, except for the SNES one, but it's not on Steam so it's a moot point. Alan Smithee posted:Also are there...*unofficial* ways to play the one time deal missions for new Hitman? Nope. (Don't let it be a dealbreaker for getting the game, though! They're a really tiny part of it.)
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DontMindMe posted:SquareCells is rather weak compared to hexcells, you can get LYNE and get a whole lot more puzzlegame for your eighty-nine cents
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Zore posted:Is Civ VI worth buying or waiting on the inevitable expansions? Personally, I'd pass. The AI is brain dead to the point where it can't even attempt to take a city if you've built the first level of walls. It's been broken like that since release and apparently still hasn't been fixed. The AI in Civ games has never been great and was made a lot worse with one unit per tile, but somehow they managed to make Civ VI even worse. At this point they seem to be just phoning it in.
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-Blackadder- posted:You must be reading my mind. Oh geez, I gotta pick one out of these three. Recommendations?
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