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Kennel posted:When did they introduce the library categories? I'm pretty sure it took at least 5 years to add that multicategory option. The multiple category stuff was in at launch, and they took it out a month later.
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Lance Streetman posted:Not a huge fan of that, gotta be honest. The D-pad is essential to playing a lot of games (like platformers), and having an analog stick as a replacement is kinda counter-intuitive. Isn't the whole point of the trackpads is that they're somehow supposed to be better than analog sticks for many games? Why have a stick on top of that while getting rid of the much requested d-pad? It makes no sense. I can't imagine the change will stay around.
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Hogo Fogo posted:New beta update... Holy gently caress, I know what I'm doing with my night.
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Jul 23, 2014 19:49
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Gasoline posted:Here's RPS talking about it and there's a demo of it (and their other games) on the dev's website, so you can form your own opinion. I like them, personally. The alt-text for the images in this review are incredible.
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Jul 23, 2014 19:59
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Finally I can make point n click adventures starring Gabe Newell http://store.steampowered.com/app/300280/
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Jul 23, 2014 20:10
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The Kins posted:Hey! Remember how EA gave the "Ultimate Edition" of The Sims 2 away to everyone who owned some other digital version of the game? I've said it before and I'll say it again: If EA wants people to use Origin, free games is a good way to go about doing it.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:10
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Wait a minute this is a good Indie Royale what's going on http://www.indieroyale.com/ Stealth Bastard Deluxe (good game!!) Jack Lumber FLY'N (good game!!) Oozi Mr. Bree+ Savant: Ascent (people say this is good!!) Doomed'N'Damned
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Jul 23, 2014 20:18
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Quest For Glory II posted:Wait a minute this is a good Indie Royale what's going on FLY'N is a great example of what would happen if Phil Fish and Sonic the Hedgehog hosed. Whether that's good or not is up to you.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:20
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revdrkevind posted:With the touch pads they now basically have three sticks. I do not grasp this decision. Finally that QTE in Arkham Asylum will be possible.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:21
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Everblight posted:FLY'N is a great example of what would happen if Phil Fish and Sonic the Hedgehog hosed.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:23
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Hogo Fogo posted:New beta update... loving finally. It's still a chore to categorize multiple games though right?
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Jul 23, 2014 20:25
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The Kins posted:Also in the beta files: An updated design for the Steam Controller:  .
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Jul 23, 2014 20:26
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Lance Streetman posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again: If EA wants people to use Origin, free games is a good way to go about doing it. That's how Gaben got me in the first place. Portal for free? Don't mind if I do. Four years and 363 owned games later...
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Jul 23, 2014 20:26
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Valve's solution to making the clients browser faster was.... to ditch their browser entirely. It's now running chromium entirely now, including sandboxed processes. Pros, it's blazing fast compared to the old one, cons, using a fair bit more resources than before.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:28
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Quest For Glory II posted:Eh? I thought it to be more in the Rayman ilk of games, especially with its gorgeous visual style. I have to get back to that game, I've cleared the first two worlds but like a lot of Steam games it gets discarded for the shiny new additions. Yeah, this is the problem with a lot of (indie) platformers for me. They may look loving fantastic (Giana, Flyn, etc) [mostly because it's relatively easy and cheap to make them look very pretty], but at the end of the day they're still a platformer. I usually find myself playing ~15% of it and then getting distracted with something new and more engaging, so then I don't go back to them because I've already started but forgot where I was/what was going on with the game and don't feel like starting over after not touching it for a month or longer.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:31
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Still no categories for grid view... come on, Valve.
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Xtanstic posted:loving finally. It's still a chore to categorize multiple games though right? You can select multiple games now with shift-click or ctrl-click.
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Xaris posted:Yeah, this is the problem with a lot of (indie) platformers and stuff. They may look loving fantastic (Giana, Flyn, etc) [mostly because it's relatively easy and cheap to make them look really pretty], but at the end of the day they're still a platformer. I usually find myself playing ~10% of it and then getting distracted with something new and more engaging so then I don't go back to them because I've already started, but forgot where I was/what was going on with the game and don't feel like picking it up again.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:32
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Well Strider is more of a metroidy game with action, I wouldn't really call it an platformer. I actually just started that one myself, so far it's pretty good (even though I'm confused as gently caress as to what the hell I'm doing plot/character wise)
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Jul 23, 2014 20:34
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Lance Streetman posted:Not a huge fan of that, gotta be honest. The D-pad is essential to playing a lot of games (like platformers), and having an analog stick as a replacement is kinda counter-intuitive. Can't you use the big touch pads as a D-pad? I though the touchpads were supposed to be a happy medium between sticks and d-pads.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:39
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Fly'N is a great platformer with gorgeous graphics. The learning curve felt a little steep at times but even I managed to finish the game eventually. There's a lot of fun to be had with exploration using the various forms, although the race/timed levels often went from challenging to infuriatingly difficult. Despite all that I really cannot recommend it enough.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:43
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Lord Lambeth posted:Can't you use the big touch pads as a D-pad? I though the touchpads were supposed to be a happy medium between sticks and d-pads. Not really? They're more like laptop trackpads, from what I've heard, which doesn't have the precision of a d-pad. The whole point of a d-pad is that it only has 4 physical directions, and 8 directions total, so if you press down you know the game will read it as pressing down.
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Jul 23, 2014 20:50
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ManOfTheYear posted:Okay, thank you. My last question is what are the best adventure games on steam? I found a game called Gods Will Be Watching and it looks very interesting, but it's not open yet. The Blackwell series was mentioned, but the concept isn't too interesting for me. I've been playing The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead with my friend, but those games are nearly complete, so what can I get to replace them? I've seen previews of Gods Will be Watching, and it looks more like Another World or Heart of the Alien than more traditional adventure games. You're basically learning to identify tells in real time and respond to them appropriately, while poo poo is happening all over and people die horribly over and over again. There's even a torture resistance simulator, with you as the victim. Hell of a thing, but not my cuppa.
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37th Chamber posted:Valve's solution to making the clients browser faster was.... to ditch their browser entirely. It's now running chromium entirely now, including sandboxed processes. Pros, it's blazing fast compared to the old one, cons, using a fair bit more resources than before. If this means internal flash like in Chrome, I can finally uninstall Adobe's stand alone flash player.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Wait a minute this is a good Indie Royale what's going on Mr. Bree is a pretty solid platformer, and its soundtrack is really awesome. It's only 2.99 in the store, so it's kinda baffling how quickly it turned into bundle fodder. Already been in two. Justin_Brett fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Jul 23, 2014 21:02
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I'd like to thank Kragger99 for gifting me Halfway to test out and write impressions about. The guy is a legend, I'm playing it right now.
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Jul 23, 2014 21:15
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Velvet Sundown may be the best game ever if it stops crashing all over the place. I was Malik, a wealthy businessman with a terminal illness trying to spread my blessing to people and meditate with them. Someone gave me an orphan which was great because I'm just gonna die soon so whatever go hog wild. I refused to accept drinks or give my business card to anyone unless they accepted the word of Void Jesus. Then the game crashed and that was cool too. This game needs a thread.
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Jul 23, 2014 21:21
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Fart of Presto posted:If this means internal flash like in Chrome, I can finally uninstall Adobe's stand alone flash player. Only Google is allowed to redistribute the Pepper Flash plugin.
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Jul 23, 2014 21:24
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Justin_Brett posted:Mr. Bree is a pretty solid platformer, and its soundtrack is really awesome. It was bundle fodder before it even hit steam (one of the Groupees BAG bundles). Savant: Ascend is fun. That's a good bundle (if I didn't own them all already, except for Doomed'n'Damned).
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Jul 23, 2014 21:27
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Anonymous Robot posted:Should I play Metro: Last Light with ranger mode on or not? Unlike Metro 2033 Last Light has a better balance to its difficulties so I'd say that playing with any Ranger Mode for the first game is not necessary, and might actually be ill advisable. If you're more interested in the atmosphere of the game I found Normal on my first time through pretty easy but not so easy that I was just strolling through everything so it maintained a really good feel to it. Basically unless you're someone whose IMMERSION just gets ruined by HUD's then Ranger mode is no longer a necessity to just make it fun.
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Finished Wolfenstein 2009 finally after being motivated to finish it after being gifted New Order. Overall I enjoyed the game, but the final boss was pretty awful, with the boss lasting way too long for his own good.
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Lord Lambeth posted:Can't you use the big touch pads as a D-pad? I though the touchpads were supposed to be a happy medium between sticks and d-pads. They're actually supposed to be a happy medium between sticks and a mouse. Valve wants to think their haptic feedback is good enough to make them double as buttons as well but developers have already told them it doesn't work well enough.
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Gilok posted:Velvet Sundown may be the best game ever if it stops crashing all over the place. I just played my first game. I was a bartender and went around giving people drinks while they chatted about tranny dicks for fifteen minutes. Oh and I was simultaneously a secret corporate spy and unwittingly prevented terrorists from blowing up an oil rig. edit: Yes, this game definitely needs a thread. Trustworthy fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:They're actually supposed to be a happy medium between sticks and a mouse. Valve wants to think their haptic feedback is good enough to make them double as buttons as well but developers have already told them it doesn't work well enough. Every time some new info comes out of their controller, I cannot but think back of the Xbone controller and the absurd fortune Microsoft spent on making different iterations of it including dumb stuff like capability to detect smells. And then they just went with what worked, a decision that if taken from the start would have saved them a disgusting amount of cash.
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Saoshyant posted:Every time some new info comes out of their controller, I cannot but think back of the Xbone controller and the absurd fortune Microsoft spent on making different iterations of it including dumb stuff like capability to detect smells. And then they just went with what worked, a decision that if taken from the start would have saved them a disgusting amount of cash. This line of thought is why every AAA title is the same loving game.
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Trustworthy posted:I just played my first game. I was a bartender and went around giving people drinks while they chatted about tranny dicks for fifteen minutes. Oh and I was simultaneously a secret corporate spy and unwittingly prevented terrorists from blowing up an oil rig. VELVET SUNDOWN, SECOND GAME TRIP REPORT: I was supposed to find a responsible parent to adopt my orphaned, poverty-stricken, South American godchild. So of course I roleplayed a human trafficker, greeting everyone with "I have a tiny human child available for purchase. Would you like to buy her?" followed by showing them a photo of the girl. I started out asking for $100,000, but after ten minutes agreed to sell her for a bag of cocaine, which I snorted with a some sort of businessman who then tazed me. edit: 
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Tower of Guns trip report: I like this game.
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Jul 23, 2014 23:39
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Trustworthy posted:VELVET SUNDOWN, SECOND GAME TRIP REPORT: Bloody hell, I've been resisting getting this even after all the posts you guys have made, but Christ, I'm going to have to play this, aren't I? ...is there a goon group for it? Also, how big is it?
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I've put about 2 hours into OlliOlli today, the only thing I've discovered is that years of playing the Tony Hawk games really messes you up when you try to play a game with a different control scheme for tricks Really though, this game is rad as hell
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Yeah, Velvet Sundown is kind of fun despite the jank. I'd be totally up for playing with goons because I haven't had a proper goofy as hell game yet.
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