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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Thanks, appreciate the feedback! So, the new list's order is: That list looks good, but I'd also warn you: Shovel Knight is really, really difficult in its later stages, and if you don't have the patience/skill for precision jumping under pressure, it could put a stopper on finishing it. (Thinking of you, Propeller Knight!) It's really good otherwise, just be warned that when you tackle it, it won't be as forgiving as Mark of the Ninja.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:It always bugs me when Fart of Presto nulls a super awesome game and then talks about how he finished 3 bargain bin grandma games. I am a nerd. Everyday Genius: Squarelogic, a bargain bin grandma game? 
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Pikestaff posted:Oh man, I loved Steamworld Dig and hearing that another game in the series is XCOM inspired has got me sold It's incredible - 2D XCOM where you make all of the shots yourself instead of praying to the RNG. The hat collection is a grind, so don't get into it too much, but the rest of it is absolutely worth your time and fun.
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I don't think I ever finish games, just move onto the next shiny one. Nulled: Super Time Force Ultra - booted it up, played a mission, realized that every mission in the game is timed and it's a fairly strict limit. No thanks, I don't like playing under pressure. I might get back to it later, but it's off now. Beaten: Renowned Explorers - and kind of nulled. I've beated several campaigns, one on the classic/permadeath difficulty and I'm happy with that. I'd like more cheevos, as it's a fun game, but I bombed a previously very successful run up against one of the final bosses and that killed my interest in going again. I might be back, but not today. (ps don't go up against the raptor queen if you don't know what you're in for, it's not a good time!) Playing: Invisible Inc. It's back on the roster after several months of not touching it, here to replace Renowned Explorers as a lovely turn-based game I can think about when I'm not playing. I've beaten the main campaign before, but I'd like to do it on experienced and expert mode if I can, and play around in endless mode some more. Basically I've got this marked as complete, but I'm still hunting cheevos and having a fun time with it.
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InevitableCheese posted:Someone showed me BundleStars and I now own 91 more games on top of my 1000. Ugh. Have you been through IsThereAnyDeal? It's my favorite place to check prices before going in on any bundles.
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Better to...shop responsibly? Sorry!  InevitableCheese, if you can, try to boot up every game you purchase and take it for a spin for at least 10-15 minutes to see if you want to play more. I've been...somewhat successful in curbing my impulse purchases by trying to think of if I'll have fun with it for more than a few hours. Some purchases are worth it with a low price and for a few hours of fun, but it helps curb the 10$+ ones when I realize I could wait for a better deal or spend that money on a book or something.
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BEATEN: The Fall. Interesting dark little sci-fi adventure game, but really short and it ends on a cliffhanger. I...got attached to several of the characters so I'm sad it's over, and I'll be looking for part two whenever it drops, but - gameplay wise the game did not work for me. Combat was tacked on, and the adventure game logic puzzles destroyed the atmosphere for me. I was reduced to rubbing objects against each other in multiple sections, which isn't fun. So yeah, I broke out a walkthrough and finished it. Ultimately - a decent game. I got it for really cheap and had fun, so hey. BEATEN: Invisible Inc, finally. Kind of. I had this already marked as finished but pulled it back out to go cheevo hunting and I had a blast - but now I'm burnt out again. I don't want to even look at the expert plus difficulties now, so back on the shelf it goes. I am quite satisfied, though, as I finished an expert mode campaign with the dlc enabled, and turned the final level into a ridiculously easy thing, even though it handed me one of the worst layouts for it I've ever seen. So, uh, if you ever play Invisible Inc please don't play something like 4-5 runs back-to-back while also working on an endless mode run. I can't unhear "investigating!" - "must be my imagination" now. With luck I'll be ready to pick it back up in a few months, though, so I can step up to expert plus. Phew, the shortlist of games I'm currently playing is finally down to...eight. Brigador, Everyday Genius: Squarelogic, GALAK-Z, Hyper Light Drifter, Paint it Back, Quell Zen, Stardew Valley, Train Valley. Three of these are essentially endless puzzle games that I work on slowly, I haven't actually put more then ten minutes into GALAK-Z yet, and Brigador is one of those games I'll permanently leave in there given how fun it is to boot it up for a quick whirl and here, so - PLAYING: Hyper Light Drifter - really, really good weird zelda with combat that has the rhythm of Dark Souls. Is that a cliche to say? It's a good game but really hard and I'm still figuring out how to beat the bosses. This...might wind up like Shovel Knight where I make it far in and then shelve it due to not wanting to batter myself against the difficulty, but we'll see. PLAYING: Stardew Valley - I'm screwed. This game is great and I love playing it in short bites as I chip off a day here or there. This might wind up like Brigador where I just abandon any idea of ever finishing it. Which is fine! PLAYING: Train Valley - I don't know if I like this game yet. It's got an interesting puzzle mechanic, but I don't yet know if they're my jam. With luck, I'll dig into it and go on a puzzle-solving spree as I sort those trains. Without luck...I'll shelve it and pick out something more compelling. ...Egh, I need to set aside a category for games I'm really close to finishing but it'd take actual work to conquer those last few hours so I keep putting them off. Shovel Knight, Axiom Verge, etc.
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Starhawk64 posted:BEATEN- Featherpunk Prime - Side scrolling Abuse-style run 'n' gun shooter where you are a cyborg flamingo ascending a tower with randomly generated floors. Excellent controls, awesome soundtrack, and good boss battles. My only complaint is that the randomized levels are very samey and the game gets very repetitive quickly. That's two games that sound wicked cool added to my wishlist, thank you! Super Star Path looks extremely up my alley. 
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al-azad posted:I haven't played Brigador, and now I want to if you're comparing it, but I latched onto Galak-Z's combat so hard that I actually wanted more. The dodge move made early battles trivially easy because you can pretty much out boost all the empire enemies. Then you get the mech which has a shield to use against the faster-but-weaker pirate ships. The most exciting fights ended up being me kiting the big ships into a chokepoint where they couldn't escape and just wailing with the sword. They naturally want to put some distance between you but can't and just succumb to your sword. The pirates are even more fun because you can use them as shields against the shotgunners then just grab and slash them. They'll run away to recharge before zooming in again and you just grab and slash once more. With Galak-z leaving off the content for season five I keep deciding not to play it which is a bummer, because I enjoyed what little I played of it. I'll get to it someday, hopefully. Brigador: depending on what mech and weapons you have, you spend a lot of time deciding which squads of enemies you want to fight and which you're avoiding as the quickest way to get killed in the game is to fight every enemy on the map all at once. Playing as something light and fast often means you need to be a jerk with hit and run tactics and set up bottlenecks and so on. If you bring smoke you can set up mobile cover, or you could bring camo, and so on. It's a good game!
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:Beaten: Westerado - Only got one ending, but it was an enjoyable short game. Maybe I'll play more later. How long did this take you, for reference?
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:108 minutes from starting to finishing it once. This includes a lot of wandering around I didn't need to do. Brilliant, thanks. Sounds like I can knock it out of my backlog easily.
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Tomapella posted:Might as well post here, since this was the thread that got me to get this together. Made a spreadsheet of my Steam library the other day to keep track of this. Currently playing Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight and enjoying it quite a bit! Recommended for any Metroidvania fans. Reading your comments, and - Company of Heroes isn't a shooter, it's an RTS. Throwing in intense love for Mark of the Ninja, especially if you like metroidvanias - I mean, it's not one, but it's similar gameplay and it's just incredibly good at what it does. It's a neat idea to make a gdoc of your backlog, and I should probably try that, but I've pretty much given up on clearing my backlog and I'm instead focusing on just playing what's fun... Nulled: Western Press: got it in the humble monthly bundle and while typing dueling is fun, I don't feel compelled to beat all of the AIs or even play more of it. I've got stuff to work on already. Nulled: Minion Masters - same deal. It's some kind of multiplayer game? Nah. Beaten: Spaera - it's multiplayer match-3 tetris and weird - very early access. I beat the story mode (what there is of) and several other folks in PVP, so now I've shelved it to wait out the Devs bringing it to 1.0. I liked it a lot! Nulled: Anodyne - it's good atmospheric gameboy Zelda, and I love how weird it is, but... jumping puzzles. No. I'll find an LP and finish it that way. On Hold: KeeperRL. I love it, but I want to wait until the dev works on it more before I dig back in. Not a fan of dying without realizing why, and hopefully that'll be addressed in future patches. (It's still in EA) Nulled: Westerado - I'm not going to come back to it for now. It's a neat Western mystery with arcade-y shooting, and while it's really pretty, I don't care for westerns, and there are cooler things to play at the mo. I might be back in the future, but I don't know. Playing:  Okay, here's what's on my current list: Broforce, Burnout Paradise, Cook, Serve, Delicious!, Dragon's Dogma, Escapists (aiming to break out of at least one prison, then probably shelf it for a while), Flame in the Flood, Hacknet (need to boot this up and check it out), Luxor HD, Mordheim (probably won't win it, but I want to win at least one warband match before I decide if I'll go the distance), Rebel Galaxy (might be shelved for a while as I don't feel like playing what's Firefly: the game at the mo), Resident Evil 4, Titan Quest AE.Mostly aiming to beat story modes and see the credits scroll, but I might lose interest before then and let the game go back on the shelf. We'll see! I'm having fun with it! e: Nearly forgot, I shoved all of my puzzlers into a category. Uh, there's a lot. I'm working on Paint it Back and picking away at Infinifactory, but those could take years. Same deal with the HOGs I'm slowly pushing through. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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strategery posted:I played it, but since there is no tutorial to speak of, it is hard to tell what the hell I am doing regarding special powers, etc. Spaera: it's a little tricky - look at the controls, then hold whatever button lets you look at special abilities, then experiment. It's a fairly simple game so it's easy to pick up after that? I mean, match-3 with falling tetris blocks, line up the colors and you're golden. But moving on - there's just so much to play, man. I keep getting stuck in indecision loops and settling on Cook Serve Delicious, which....ehh, alright. I like it a lot, but I can't do more than a few days at a time. Nulled: Flame in the Flood. Underwhelming, horrible inventory management, and the core gameplay didn't grab me. If my backlog weren't so huge I'd stick with it, but as is, nah. Glad I didn't pay for it, so to speak. Nulled: Escapists. Tedious grinding for stats got to me, along with the...rule-breaking with the logic systems? Like, I can open a vent and sneak out of my cell, but the instant a guard spots that open vent I'm magically teleported into solitary, no guard chase, nothing. Same deal with stealing a key from a guard. That's...really breaking with the inherent logic of the premise and I don't care for trying to break out of a magical puzzle box. Not at the moment, at least. Added: FEZ. This is actually a magical game. The story is pretty bad, as are the character designs, but everything else is great - a glitchy world, beautiful if generic locations, and my goodness the platforming/puzzling is satisfying. Find orange cubes by climbing and exploring and it's just... I really love this game. Shame about the window dressing, as that's all it would have taken to make a good game great. Added: The Swapper. Another good one! I hate that the blurry graphics are the default, as they look terrible, but at least they're optional. The story is weird and compelling, the main gimmick is thought-provoking, and the puzzling so far is satisfying. This is a good time, guys. Exploring an abandoned space station while teleporting around by leaving clones of yourself everywhere is a good time. On Hold: Mordheim. Something about this game keeps me wanting to come back to it despite the tedious combat and emphasis on losing, but...man. I don't know. Shelving it for now, but not writing it off. It scratches a specific itch but not well enough to make me want to play it at the mo. It is quite pretty for what's essentially a glorified tabletop wargame.
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Beaten: The Swapper! A short, good puzzle game with a weird story! And I actually went through all of it instead of getting distracted and letting it sit for weeks!  ... I still don't know how to feel about the story. I also admit I used a walkthrough for two puzzles, because my goodness, those were hard. But I did everything I could, and had a blast doing it - clever puzzle mechanics, clever controls, clever puzzles. A good time. Playing: Toki Tori - I didn't realize I had this, then I found it while organizing my steam library and installed it and it's a cute puzzler game with single-screen puzzles, so into my puzzles it goes and I'll pick it apart over the next year.
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Beaten: Escape Goat! Just the base game, not the hellish bonus levels or any of the challenges - sixty five rooms was enough, and I'm not a huge fan of reflex based puzzles after that, which was where the difficulty curve seemed to go. That said, the base game is incredible - lots of variety, rock-solid puzzles with excellent controls, and a cute, non-intrusive story. I got this from the Steam gift train by a kind goon, and I'm very grateful to them for it! I'd also safely rec it, if anyone else wants a short yet good puzzler - it took me roughly three hours and I had fun with it.
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BEATEN: Pony Island! - Short and interesting. I don't know if I liked it or not, but a buck for a few hours is about right, and honestly - it was better than the Beginner's Guide, a similarly short and weird game. (Vastly different themes, though.) I'm not going to bother going for the bonus stuff - that's what the internet is for, and I have other things on my plate. Still, worth the experience. I can't spoil anything, so - check it out yourself!
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BEATEN: The Talos Principle! After over a year of playing it on and off - I blitzed most of it when I got it, but somewhere around the last world I just lost all interest, especially as the puzzles were an intense slog by then. I don't mind stopping to figure out puzzles, but getting my timing down perfectly? And with the time-double mechanic? Ughhh no, that was not fun. The story, thankfully, is what carried the day. The ending was worth it, and there's a lot to chew over. I rescued the AI because of course I did. Even if it is a voice of doubt in my mind, it deserves to be in the world! That all said, I'm not interested in the star puzzles, or doing it all over to get the rest of the achievements. Too much work for too little reward, especially when I get motion sickness if I play the game for too long. Ultimately a brilliant game, even if it drags on at the end. I'll check out the DLC when it goes for sale, but eh: I'm done with the Talos Principle, and happy I finished it. NULLED: Everything from the latest monthly Humble bundle, basically: Abzu doesn't run smoothly on my laptop, Okhlos is so shallow it's boring, I'm not interested in Ryse, Husk has bad reviews - and I already own and beat Steamworld Heist! XCOM 2's still on the to-play roster though. I enjoyed what I've played of it, and I'm waiting for my mood to roll around into full alien-hunting so I can give it the same love I did XCOM EU/EW. PLAYING: Lots, but let me highlight Stellaris, Endless Legend, and the Silver Case. I'm aiming to complete a game of Stellaris (or at least get so far in it's obvious I've won), and play Endless Legend until I have all of the difficulty levels beaten / until I get bored - working on a Normal Difficulty game with the Allayi now, and I really, really love it as a podcast game. The Silver Case, meanwhile, is like a book that is determined to be as boring and nonsensical as it possibly can, but it also sports a thick atmosphere and a mystery I'm curious about, so I keep pushing through an hour here and there because darnit, what the heck is going on -
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John Murdoch posted:What a weird coincidence. I too wandered off from the game, albeit right at the end of the bonus stuff rather than the main game (though I hadn't completed the tower yet either), and then came back to it this week to put it to bed. Though I also sped through an entire second replay so I could get all the achievements I missed. Ultimately I'm a bit sad I waited so long. The conclusion(s) would've rocked my socks off if I had kept up the momentum of my first playthrough, but basically speed running it again made everything feel small and tidy, the exact opposite thing I wanted out of such a philosophical game. Oh well. If they'd trimmed the amount of puzzles you have to complete to climb the tower, the pacing would have been just about perfect, I think. I would have blitzed it, adored it, and would have been singing its praises for all of last year instead of looking at it guiltily and playing something else.
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John Murdoch posted:I think for me it's less about the total number of puzzles and more the uneven difficulty curve. There's just a few too many puzzles that require information you're not given/isn't intuitive (like the nuances of the recorder mechanic) or rely purely on reflexes instead of any kind of logic, not to mention the red herrings. It also sucks when you screw up completely and need to totally reset instead of having some kind of rewind/undo function. That's fair! I think a good compromise would involve the locks needing fewer puzzle pieces to solve, while keeping the same amount of puzzles in the game. You can skip the ones that are frustrating for you, and get what you need - and if you want to be a completionist, come back for 'em. Basically Super Mario 64 had it figured out years ago and all Talos P had to do was copy them, but nope. edit responding to your edit: The tower sequence was fine except that it needed to ditch the timer and include checkpoints between puzzle areas, because come on!
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BEATEN: Mushroom 11! God, what a tedious game. It has an interesting idea - you're a mass of endlessly regrowing goo out to explore a ruined post-nuke world - but the controls are, hmm. They're fun at first but the puzzles get so intricate and tedious that they're just not fun to do. You can figure out what to do, then try to coax the physics into working so you'll actually get to continue on. Rinse, repeat for seven levels, and yikes. I was ready to stop by level four, but at that point....well. I decided to beat the game. And it was tedious. At least it paid off in pretty imagery and neat music? So yeah, check it out if you have it, but skip it if you don't. Not worth it. edit: I beat the game, but you can't pay me to go back and do the rest of the achievements. Lord no.
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credburn posted:I'm on like level 4 of this game and it's very clear that the developers ran out of level design ideas. Previously, you had to manipulate your little cloud in interesting ways, play with physics and the dispersion of weight and it was all really very clever. But now the puzzles are all like...try and launch yourself ten feet using this pully system that is really just thirty minutes of trial and error. Follow that with another random trial-and-error puzzle and it's just tedious as poo poo. I'm happy you beat it, but I think it's time to null this game. Preeeetty much. It's like they made all of the art assets for the different levels and then realized that oops, they had to pad out the levels so they could use all of it. Some trimming and this could've been a cool weird game, but....yeah. Definitely null it if you aren't feeling that bloodymindedness to finish it like I did. It's not worth it. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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BEATEN: The Silver Case. What a waste of a game. The plot went nowhere, the characters didn't have any life to them, and while it had some interesting ideas absolutely nothing was done with them, except in off-hand comments. Yeesh. Honestly the best part of the game was the side stories written by someone else - they at least had characters I grew to like! Well...whatever. It's over now, and I'm not going to spend money on the extra materials. If you're thinking about ever checking out the Silver Case: there's a longplay of it up on youtube with no commentary. It's the exact same experience, but without you doing all of the repetitive things in the game, like walking around empty corridors. Alternatively, just don't bother. It's not worth the time investment. 
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BEATEN/COMPLETED: Mini Metro! With every single achievement, including that godawful Auckland one!  98% of Mini Metro is a chill puzzler where you draw loops and lines and moves passengers to the right stations. You can practically meditate with it as you watch your trains go back and forth and untangle knots, and I really enjoyed it for that. 2% of Mini Metro is a tense hell where you're rushing to optimize your lines to their limit, so you can run triage with extra lines all over the map as you race to keep overcrowding down so you can hit the right number to score an achievement. This is the case for roughly 2-4 achievements, Auckland and San Francisco being the ones that come to mind most here, and they're hugely optional - but I did most of them and figured I'd finish it, and hoo boy. Auckland. Anyways: game is good, glad I played it! I might boot it back up here and there to go for ongoing daily challenges, or to poke at Extreme mode - but for now, I'm all trained out. gently caress you, Auckland.
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Quest For Glory II posted:BEATEN: The Witness - Excellent excellent puzzle game, the documentaries/audiologs are pure eye roll. The bonus ending actually put some stuff into context and I got it a lot, despite the wonky direction/acting of it. Does the Witness actually have a plot? I was under the impression that's all puzzles, all pretty imagery, all the time. Plus a video about...pee? Because art?
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n4 posted:Nulled: Aerannis If you have archives, there's a good LP of Aerannis here. It covers all of the story stuff and the LPer has some good criticisms of the story, too.
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Tackle any other backlogs you have running! My book backlog is worse than my games one, see. Alternatively, enjoy the freedom of purchasing a new game knowing you can play it without a backlog looming over you like a malevolent beast. Or: replay your favorite game. Up to you really!
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Beaten - Risk of Rain - Okay I mean I just beat the final boss with Acrid after lots and lots of tries, and I need to go back and try the other characters I've unlocked. Huge thanks to Spelunky for training me how to move and play in this kind of game - and of course, Risk of Rain itself is lots of fun? For once the timed stuff didn't bother me in a game, and I get a big kick out of getting new items. ...That all said, wow! This was a game I installed genuinely not expecting to ever beat it ala Spelunky, and instead - nope! I get to see the credits at least once!
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Quest For Glory II posted:I've beaten so many games since the last update that I can't really do synopses of them, just ask me sometime in the Steam thread or something if you want an opinion I'd be interested in your thoughts on these two games!
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Quest For Glory II posted:good reviews Thank you!
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BEATEN: Dies Irae ~Amantes amentes~ - ayep, it's one of them visual novels. This one's about a highschooler teaming up with a girl who is also the guillotine used in France to execute people during the revolution and fighting magical supernazis trying to bring Hell directly to Earth in a ritual conducted in his hometown. ... Yes, I know. It culminates with them fighting God himself. It's anime in its purest form. ....It was actually a ton of fun to read! The fights were clever, interesting conversations, the characters had their own charm, and the plot twists were engaging. It helped that the translation was very well done, too. As the first ten or so hours of it are free to read on Steam, I'd say give it a go if you want to read one of the best visual novels on steam - and there's no moe in it. Thank god. Everyone's a highschooler and generally looks it. Finally, regarding the whole time = money fallacy, this one's got a lot of bang for your buck. Reading the entire thing - all four routes, plus the bonus stories, took me sixty hours, and it was consistently a good time. (With good QoL stuff too - you can skip ahead to choices, the backlog works, etc etc.) And so, next up on my reading list VN-wise is the House in Fata Morgana or Tokyo Babel - these things are great for when I'm not up for handling actual gameplay. Just grab a drink, chill, and read.
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BEATEN: Four Sided Fantasy. Clever, clever little game where you can freeze the screen and wrap around its edges. It's short - no more than two hours - and there are a few bugs, but I conquered it and enjoyed the experience. ...Real glad I got it on sale though because ten bucks is too much for this game.
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drguildo posted:I've enjoyed following everyone's progress through their backlogs and the corresponding mini-reviews. I'd love to be able to get through mine but I have 4100 games on Steam alone. That's okay! Pick a game and start somewhere, and let us know how your journey goes! Remember, the point of this thread is not to completely conquer your backlog, but to work on it, as a journey. Make sure you're actually enjoying your backlog instead of just buying more stuff.
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drguildo posted:I've kinda been trying using SteamCompletionist.net although like a lot of tools it struggles a bit trying to load my library. Even Steam itself has that problem when I try and view my games list via the link on my profile page. At that point it may be more worthwhile to just make yourself a list of 10-20 games and get to work on those? Like, be careful before you turn the Steam Anonymous process into a job itself.
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drguildo posted:If anybody feels like recommending me some games to get started on that'd be grand. I used to use Idle Master so just because Steam shows me having a few hours in a game, doesn't necessarily mean I've actually played it. Haha, okay. I piiick... Dungeon of the Endless Analogue: A Hate Story Axiom Verge Batman: Arkham Asylum Eufloria HD Fez Gundemonium Recollection Majesty: Gold Edition Quell Shadowrun: Dragonfall Slave Zero Startopia Ubermosh (any) There should be a good range of good/bad stuff in there. Good luck, and enjoy the good ones! e: If you were to install any of them right now and start playing, I'd want it to be Quell. Easy to pick up, get going, and it's good puzzlin'. If you want a story, go for Analogue, it's pretty short.
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Breadallelogram posted:You'll probably get all you want out of Eufloria in half an hour, so that'll be a quick one. I put 28 hours into Eufloria and 23 into Euflora HD, so, uh. I found it really, really relaxing and meditative to play. If drguildo digs it, it's good! If not, he gets to null it sooner.
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Quest For Glory II posted:REMOVED: Epic Battle Fantasy 4 - It had a nazi in the main party. Obliterated it from my library. It has a what
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InevitableCheese posted:From what I can tell he was a previous boss in the series, who joins your party. And for some reason, still wears his SS uniform. Gross. Put this game into my garbage bin where it can rot with ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold !
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COMPLETED: Subsurface Circular! I wrote a review of it but the capsule summary here for thread-goers is that it's a very good sci-fi short story about robots and society and our future. Lots of interesting characters, great UI design, and the words were in turn funny and thought-provoking. The only downside is that it's two hours, but I mean, it's six dollars and I've seen worse movies for that much cash.
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COMPLETED: Sentience: An Android's Tale. Pretty good adventure game! You walk around and talk to people and occasionally fetch items - not the most compelling gameplay, but it makes up for it by having good writing and lots of choices. You can decide who lives and dies, there's lots of endings, etc. I enjoyed it! Not sure if I'll go back in to collect all of the endings, but I want to get a few more before I uninstall it. NULLED: Dead Rising. Like Resident Evil 4, it's a b-movie comedy about zombies with good gameplay, and fun, but... I'm not in the mood. These two go back on the shelf to await a time when I'm ready to sit down and really dig into them. So I'm not sure if nulled is the right category, but they're off my backlog for now.
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