Steam Thread: you're not a kid any more and you want what you had when you were a kid

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The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Quest For Glory II posted:

Some leftover Humble keys:

Cortex Command - 3KTY5-W8KLJ-9HXK2
Humble Indie Bundle #3 Key - YCQCX-5CRVX-CCRKH
Aura Fate of the Ages (lovely adventure game??) - https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=bTBwcpVAC87r2ktB

These'll get lurked, what can ya do

I somehow grabbed Cortex Command just now. Like, an hour later. Thanks! It's been my white whale.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 20:27

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 15:23

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Who's ready for some uproar: http://store.steampowered.com/app/312970/

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# ¿ Jul 22, 2014 07:56

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Jimbot posted:

I think the game looks pretty great. The combat looks like a solid upgrade from previous games as it looks like you can go from magic to sword on the fly and create your own specialized combos with both. I did get a laugh at the kata the guy was using to shoot magic, look like something out of Equilibrium. But it does look like a return to form. I enjoyed the first Risen and thought Risen 2 was pretty disappointing but still kind of fun (it helped I got it cheap).

I don't think they're going to fail on delivering what they said in that video. They have done it before, it simply looks like they're just doing what they've always been doing but with more polish. I do love that one of the factions is "Voodoo Pirates". It's going to be tough choosing between the mages and them. I do like fabulous hats in my RPGs.

I noticed a bunch of reused assets but who cares. It'll be great eventually but I'd hold off on preordering (unless super cheap) because there's a 99% chance it's going to be buggy as poo poo on release.

Jimbot posted:

What gets me is Risen 1 hardly had any bugs that broke the game in the way it did in Gothic. I played through the entire game, upon its release, and didn't encounter a single gamebreaking bug. I think one of the side missions ended up breaking and of course some weird jank and glitches but besides that it was very pleasant to play through.

Risen 1 was surprisingly solid, yeah. R2 was just a retarded mess though.

The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jul 25, 2014

# ¿ Jul 25, 2014 22:34

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Zeether posted:

Nobody's put one up for sale. I set the baseline at $13 since others were going for around that much.

That's a good number in most cases if you're the only show in town. The thing is though that since it's "an anime game," you can charge more and it'll sell. People are retarded so you might be able to get like $20+ for it.

Guaranteed there's ONE DUDE out there who can't live without that new anime foil badge.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2014 21:51

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

NeoSeeker posted:

Horror

My recommendations:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/22180/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/3730/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/238210/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/283290/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/211600/

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 00:21

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Just noticed Dynasty Warriors 8 pop their DLC into new releases:

I think they've taken the crown from SFxT.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2014 04:50

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

If you like really old-school RPGs with a user-friendly UI and lovely background art, Lords Of Xulima was just released: http://store.steampowered.com/app/296570/

Currently Early Access (yeah I know) but I think they said it'll be finished around October. It's more bug-testing than anything.

Sidenote: I did the majority of voicework and convinced them to let me sneak in a Macho Man Randy Savage voice:

# ¿ Aug 10, 2014 03:50

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Drifter posted:

Since you did the voices, how'd the story turn out? I'm not sure I can deal with exposition as conversation poo poo like Amalur.

Hell, Divinity Original Sin has pretty boring writing as a whole.

I can't spoil anything but it's decent. There's several large, multi-tiered main quests that you work on throughout the game (with a large amount of sidequests too) but honestly the main focus is on exploration, dungeons/riddles, and combat mechanics. It's more about playing the game than reading it (if that makes any sense).

EDIT: I should also note that it's hard as balls.

The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Aug 10, 2014

# ¿ Aug 10, 2014 04:43

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Deakul posted:

Yeah, I suppose little touches like that could be neat.
I've been eyeballing the Enhanced Editions for a while but I'm waiting until they get below $5 I think.

$5 should be your "buy now" price, for sure. I snagged them both for $5 each (BG1 legit through Steam sale, BG2 due to a pricing error) and I don't think they're going to get any cheaper or ever show up in a bundle.

BG2's still buggy though so you have time to hold off.

GreenNight posted:

Can you still start BG1 with a character, take him through Tales of the Sword Coast, import him into BG2 and then Throne of Baal? Cause that poo poo owned, even taking with you the various pantaloons.

If they're both the new EE versions? Yeah of course.

The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Aug 11, 2014

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 02:34

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Stan Taylor posted:

quote:
Sacred 2 and Risen 2.

...maybe mess around with a cool combat system and not have to deal with RPG bullshit? Are either of them worth it?

Uhhhhhhhhh pick something else.

EDIT: Why are you asking if you should play an RPG when you don't want to deal with an RPG?

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 05:15

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Major Isoor posted:

EDIT: Got another D:OS question, actually. Do those "inert stones" ever get a use (another use?) later on? Or are they useless, and instead just something to sell off ASAP - or not pick up at all?

Thanks

Hang on to them if you're a completionist and want to count how many you have/how many you're missing.

Also yeah, don't buy the DLC, at least not for in-game content purposes.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2014 01:09

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

I haven't been able to log in since the Beta update today. Is this a thing?

# ¿ Aug 27, 2014 06:04

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Weird question but is it worth it to replay Painkiller on hard for the extra levels that are locked off or should I just jump into the remake?

# ¿ Aug 27, 2014 08:16

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Jonathan Yeah! posted:

Nah, they're having a big sale. Alpha Protocol is $2.99 for the goon who wanted it cheap.

Uh, no, that's a pricing error.

(and it owns, thanks for linking it astral)

# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 09:32

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

KillHour posted:

I've been avoiding Thiaf, since I'm a huge fan of the originals and I've heard a ton of bad things (and I don't want to ruin Stephen Russell's voice for myself). I have heard there are a few redeeming parts that might be entertaining, if nothing else. It's the Midweek Madness game on Steam. Is it worth ?

Wait for 75% at the least, or even better, 75% off Gamefly with an additional 20% promocode.

I loved the originals too and unfortunately, the sound engine is (apparently) unfixably broken.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2014 20:26

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Palpek posted:

That's dumb as hell though.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/03/the-elder-scrolls-online-developer-suffers-layoffs

I give it a year, tops.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2014 23:05

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Cialis Railman posted:

Does anybody know anything about Lords of Xulima?

Yeah, I did most of the voice work for it. It's definitely worth the price if you like late-80's/early-90's RPGs and should be completely finished around late-October.

The devs are extremely committed to the project and it's mostly just bug-fixing & polish at this point.

EDIT: Here I'll just quote myself from earlier

The Joe Man posted:

If you like really old-school RPGs with a user-friendly UI and lovely background art, Lords Of Xulima was just released: http://store.steampowered.com/app/296570/

Currently Early Access (yeah I know) but I think they said it'll be finished around October. It's more bug-testing than anything.

Sidenote: I did the majority of voicework and convinced them to let me sneak in a Macho Man Randy Savage voice:

The Joe Man posted:

Drifter posted:
Since you did the voices, how'd the story turn out? I'm not sure I can deal with exposition as conversation poo poo like Amalur.

Hell, Divinity Original Sin has pretty boring writing as a whole.

I can't spoil anything but it's decent. There's several large, multi-tiered main quests that you work on throughout the game (with a large amount of sidequests too) but honestly the main focus is on exploration, dungeons/riddles, and combat mechanics. It's more about playing the game than reading it (if that makes any sense).

EDIT: I should also note that it's hard as balls.

The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Sep 11, 2014

# ¿ Sep 11, 2014 04:22

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Turtlicious posted:

Please help me try and tame this down a bit, I can't really afford 50$ right now, but I don't know which games to let go of.

You shouldn't buy any of them and instead pick up Volgarr: The Viking while it's 75% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/247240/

For that matter you probably shouldn't buy anything unless it's 75% off.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2014 11:09

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

A Bystander posted:

Real Deadly Premonition fans 100% percent the game.

I did this the other night and well I guess I can die now.

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

The Quake, boys? is it good?

Yes, it is (unless they've changed poo poo in the past few months). Plus you can import your legacy profile into the Steam version.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 00:20

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

A Bystander posted:

How was getting the very last trading card?

The ones where you have to replay a "dungeon" weren't bad since you can just sprint through them. However, the ones where you have to replay a chapter to get are a bitch simply because they can take forever and you're hoping the whole time that the game doesn't crash (no saving allowed).

The literal very last trading card isn't required for the achievement and it takes about 2mins in a special options menu.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 05:41

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

A Bystander posted:

It's been a long time since I've done it, but I'm pretty sure the All Achievements Unlocked achievement popped once I got that card and not a moment before.

Which is super strange since the achievement actually pops when you finish the quest, not when you get the card. You can only finish the 64 card quest within the game (ie, not in a special main menu). If the 64 card quest is the last achievement you have to solve, then the all achievements...achievement pops at the same time. Nothing additional happened for me when I got the 65th SWERY card.

I know on launch that their achievements were buggy though so who knows.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 05:48

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

I wish I could sort by "percent discounted" like on the Humble Store.

(Also this whole thing is poo poo)

# ¿ Sep 23, 2014 07:29

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Occultatio posted:

People talking about Only If -- are there jump scares? I can handle general creepiness, but I am a giant wuss about actually scary things.

No.

EDIT: It's not a horror game.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 04:47

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Nordick posted:

I'm not even sure when it arrived in Steam, but I haven't seen it until now:

Darkstone is on Steam and half off, for a pittance of 2,49 euros.
It's an ancient Diablo clone (from 1999, so before D2) and it's absolutely a hidden gem (so indeed a dark stone ) of a game.

In a time when ARPGs weren't really much of a thing yet, it shamelessly mooched the core idea and features from the first Diablo, heaped a bunch of its own nifty ideas on top and made the whole thing 3D. It's ridiculously low poly, to the extent that it kinda passes for its own kind of pixel art nowadays. It's actually aged much more gracefully than old-rear end 3d games usually do, imo. There are some graphical glitches with AMD cards, but they're easily fixed by a single launch command line in Steam.

To this day the game's still remarkably fluid to play (at least once you figure out some rather obscure things about the UI) and absolutely a worthy buy for a few bucks if you feel like bashing some monsters and taking their shiny things, but don't have/want/feel like Diablo or PoE or whatever.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/320320/

I dislike Diablo-types but Darkstone owns and the best part is that you can keep forcing your co-op buddy to listen to this by repeatedly clicking the town bard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ImTQuIpPOw

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 23:02

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Nordick posted:

I assume that was on PS1? On PC the bard sadly doesn't appear in multiplayer games. Though that didn't stop me from firing the game up in singleplayer during breaks at LAN parties, just to play that song. I actually think it's a legit nice ballad.

I just played the game for a bit, cleared the first dungeon. Got trashed a few times, but then got lucky and found the Berseker spell book.

Whaaat? I could've sworn he did. Coming from an original boxed PC copy.

It's been over a decade though so I could very well be misremembering.

BTW: The music video file is hidden in the install folder (at least on the original, no idea about Steam/GOG versions).

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 23:20

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

This is the second time I wished I had IGN prime. Or be like that one guy who cancelled ages ago but still gets all the free stuff inexplicably.

You could technically just buy the monthly for $7 and cancel it after you get your key.

I mean I'm not actually going to but that's doable. Or join Steamgifts and try to win a few contests for it that'll inevitably sprout up.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 18:17

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Sober posted:

Shadow of Mordor seems to have captured this gameplay loop that works really well with the open world setting that the game has, and I hope other devs making open world games take notice. Last one I really liked was Black Flag.

Exploring the open world and getting sidetracked by stuff that isn't simply just collectibles is something I wish most devs would stop doing.

Shadow of Mordor also runs into the problem where the story missions are actually worse than just getting lost on tangents in the open world, which is also something Black Flag did for me while sailing the Caribbean.

I finally broke down and bought the deluxe pack from Nuuvem and it gave me the pre-order bonuses too. I thought AC4's open world was extremely repetitive and the entire main campaign was mostly escort/follow missions so basically I'm hoping SoM is nothing like it.

EDIT: Also Brutal Legend owned really fuckin hard in a ton of ways, sorry nerds.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2014 08:00

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Acquire Currency! posted:

AC3 is only good for the boat parts. And guess what ACIV is allll aboutt~

Escort/follow missions?

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 05:52

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

I'd advise people not to buy Boiling Point, Xenus 2 (Boiling Point 2), and The Precursors, as much as I want to like them (especially for $30, jesus).

Even after the fan patches, BP2 & Precursors crash so frequently that they're basically unplayable. Great ideas but absolutely busted, incompetent execution.

EDIT: This was as of a couple years ago but I highly doubt anything's changed. The guy doing the main Bloodlines patches has also been working on these games forever, and if he can't fix them, well...

The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Oct 10, 2014

# ¿ Oct 10, 2014 21:59

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

corn in the bible posted:

I don't mean this as a joke: if you want more Dragon Age-ish stuff and don't want to play Dragon Age again then check out the Drakensangs. The combat is similar, and you'll get to do some neat fantasy stuff without having to replay the loving deep roads again

Seconding. Both Drakensangs are wonderful and are basically charming, good versions of what Dragon Age was supposed to be.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2014 03:12

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Anyone who hasn't played this already probably should: http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/adventure/bad-mojo-redux/

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 04:15

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

A better tip is to get the infinite flamethrower. It sucks for everything but works great on the crawlers. They take forever otherwise.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2014 11:15

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

I'm not buying it but GMG sent me an email about Valkyria Chronicles being $13ish (USD) in the "VIP Section"

# ¿ Nov 7, 2014 22:02

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Lords of Xulima was just officially released out of early access today:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/296570/

I haven't dived in yet but the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. A true AC4 sequel:

# ¿ Nov 14, 2014 23:17

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Arnold of Soissons posted:

Looks like I missed the Rise of Nations 4pack

I'd be happy to buy one, if three more people want to split it up

http://steamcommunity.com/id/minifigs/

Save one for me and I'll shoot over the $3.75 tomorrow when I wake up. PM me your Paypal so I'll see it/remember!

http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheJoeMan/

# ¿ Nov 19, 2014 10:14

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Arnold of Soissons posted:

Looks like I missed the Rise of Nations 4pack

I'd be happy to buy one, if three more people want to split it up

e:
Rise of Nations 4 pack
1- me http://steamcommunity.com/id/minifigs (buying)
2- Joe http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheJoeMan/
3- Nuramore http://steamcommunity.com/id/nuramor/
4- ???

vv cool will do

I ended up just buying this for myself since I didn't want to miss the sale and there was no 4th.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2014 03:42

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

BigRed0427 posted:

How is Divinity Original Sin? Is it worth paying full price for now or should I wait for the sales in a month?

Really good but runs out of steam around the 70% mark. It's worth it but grab a copy from this dude for $22: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3599565

:frogsiren:

DO NOT BUY THE DLC, IT SUCKS AND YOU'LL NEVER USE IT :frogsiren:

# ¿ Nov 23, 2014 01:12

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Agent355 posted:

Looks p cool. I'm making a notepad of all the suggestions so I can pick em up when they either go on sale or I get bored. Currently I'm trying ot get through wasteland 2, which is fantastic, but makes me realize how much I like turn based content and collectable sidequests.

I don't want to keep shilling Lords Of Xulima but it has JRPG blobber combat with overland exploration: http://store.steampowered.com/app/296570/

There's also Septerra Core (http://store.steampowered.com/app/253940/) but I'm not sure if there's still technical issues with newer hardware. It's also extremely slow.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2014 01:41

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Drifter posted:

^^^ - yeah, it's about 39% to real american money, so I always like going to nuuvem.

Van Helsing 2 is a game meant to be played once by normal people, and twice by the crazy arpg treadmill people.

It's a really well polished game and I agree with all the good stuff said about it last page. If you even moderately enjoy arpgs and you don't buy it for that $4 price, you're kinda loving retarded.

You can also get the complete pack for like $1 more.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 09:12

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 15:23

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

McCoy Pauley posted:

I hope it does well enough that they do a version of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. I can see it now -- parting my hair behind in first person, wearing white flannel trousers and walking upon the beach, getting a high score by daring to eat a peach.

That game actually exists already: http://store.steampowered.com/app/229600/

# ¿ Dec 1, 2014 04:28

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