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Palladium posted:You are talking about a country where almost the entire telco industry thought the iPhone will never be successful there. One of them, however, tested the waters and it became a runaway hit and into complete, utter domination. VN's are slowly getting ported over to Steam, and once the other VN companies see the insane sales they can expect during the Steam sales they'll probably translate and dump their entire portfolio onto the marketplace. Honestly, I'm still amazed that the Touhou guy hasn't done it. It's literally just him, and for a small pittance for translation (I'm sure Carpe Fulgur would do it) he'd probably make close to a million in a few weeks.
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Jerusalem posted:If by some remote chance you don't already own Fallout New Vegas, it really is worthy of the high praise it so often gets, and has the best DLC of any major game I can think of in the last few years. If you didn't like Fallout 3, this game is much better. If you DID like Fallout 3 (I did), this game is still much better. 100% agree. With the mods to fix the bugs and the save issues, it's the best open world CYOA you could ever want. You can play the game through multiple times and never have the same experience.
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Jul 20, 2014 00:06
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computer parts posted:EA doesn't even discount the DLC for ME3 on their Origin store so I doubt we'll see a complete pack on any platform anytime soon. The only thing you can do is wait and hope they do a GOTY/Complete edition for $40 after all the DLC is released. For some reason they didn't do this with the ME Trilogy edition, even though Lair of the Shadow Broker was essential to the ME3 plot. So you can buy the trilogy for $50, then spend another $50 for all the never discounted DLC.
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Jul 20, 2014 17:17
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Manatee Cannon posted:Alternatively, just skip ME3 like you would DA2. Ending aside, ME3 was still pretty amazing. The only major downfall was how much content you were locked out from without a save carried over from ME1 and ME2. If EA/Bioware wants to continue doing the "epic game trilogies" they need to implement a app to let people manually set the major plot flags that the saves would trigger.
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Manatee Cannon posted:Like I said, it has its moments. The best parts of ME3 were - Javik, and taking him everywhere to hear his amazing dialogue - The main quest line dealing with the Genophage - Leviathan's backstory revelations (still a dick move to make it $10 though) - Citadel DLC just being a blast to play - Multiplayer - The Asari homeworld quest line - The Geth/Quarian conflict So 1/3 of it was paid DLC, but after being invested in the series since the start it was still worth it to me to play through the entire game.
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Jul 20, 2014 17:42
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Manatee Cannon posted:Game series can have bad sequels, that doesn't mean you have to play them. Yeah, but its like reading a book series, no matter how bad it gets once you start most people really want to see the story to its completion. The GRRM thread is full of people who hate him and his books, but the day Winds of Winter comes out 99% of them will buy it at midnight to read it.
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Orv posted:You know, where you're Vanguard 4 lyfe.
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Jul 21, 2014 06:04
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quote:Ground-breaking story about a group of children who try to save the world quote:Ground-breaking story about a group of children quote:group of children The official Dungeon Defenders artwork. 
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Zedd posted:That is a ridiculous humble bundle. The EA and THQ bundles make like $4-5 million, so despite the internet rage over "These aren't indies!" people still jump at the chance to buy the 2-3 year old games and the publishers get a massive single payout. We might see more like this when a company is nearing the end of its fiscal quarter/year, needs an influx of cash, and knows from past experience digital sales and bundles will generate a minimum six figures.
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Jul 22, 2014 19:48
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Zombie Samurai posted:I'm super tempted to just buy it and start a thread about it (assuming it isn't poo poo). It's one of the most interesting-looking games on my wishlist, yet I only have three friends out of 187 that own it, and only one has played it. When it came out it got a lot of dismal reviews, lack of content etc. Maybe once it exits EA it might be worth it.
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Jul 22, 2014 22:15
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Dominic White posted:Origin has only just started to add support and features on par with Steam, and it took them a long, LONG time to reach that point. Back before EA rebranded it, it was a lovely little app called EA Downloader, and anything you bought through it had an expiry date. You could pay an extra $6 on top of your premium direct-from-publisher price for 'download insurance' so that you'd be able to access the game for another two years. Origin's customer service is miles ahead of Steam in terms of accessibility and ease of use, in addition to EA offering a 24 hr window to return a game if you regret the purchase.
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Jul 24, 2014 01:03
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Insert name here posted:I'm eagerly awaiting the Protoss campaign for SC2 so I can find out who get corrupted Clearly everyone but the noble hero protagonists. Or Raynor will turn evil then Kerrigan will turn him back in an act of true love. While the head Protoss guy narrates about how those 2 represent the future of sentient races, UNLESS THEY FALL TO THE XEL-NAGA! *cue dramatic music
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Jul 28, 2014 00:28
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No less then 10% of their development was devoted to making sure every "Friend" has a physically accurate swinging bulge.
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Manatee Cannon posted:Riptide is more of the same but a little worse from what I understand. The game designers seemed to have gone "How can we make overworld travel more tedious? Oh, let's add boats, long winding river passages, and huge sections of the map you can only get to by boat! Plus all the bullshit driving you have to do as well to get to boat docks" Really, getting a sequel out of Dead Island was extremely lucky. That they released a game that was literally a re-skin of the previous one without fixing any of the major problems and adding more should've been a huge red flag that they developers were incompetent hacks. Dead Island: Wow, loving amazing trailer. Okay, the game isn't great, its got some major issues, but its the only FPS zombie hack'n'slash on the market so it'll get a pass. Dead Island Riptide: ...this is the exact same loving game with the same problems as DI in addition to a new set of problems from all the generic poo poo they added. Dead Island 2: Being hyped as more comical (so like Dead Rising) and in a different engine , so at the minimum it'll have to look better and have a different UI. Still probably going to be a bug ridden mess on release. It did give a great gamer journalism moment from IGN though. quote:IGN's Greg Miller stated that although he found it to be 'great gory fun', it still contained bugs and glitches that were found in the first game. He also said that 'it was tempting to simply paste the original Dead Island review on the page and call it a day'. He praised the gameplay, co-op and the ability to import your save from the original, noting that the enemies you face are at scale with your level, so that the game gives you an appropriate challenge. He criticized the storyline and the overall look of the game. He went on to say that the game didn't do much to improve itself from its predecessor in terms of overall performance. However, he stated that the lackluster graphics and performance could be overlooked by how much fun the game is to play. He gave the game a 7.2 "Same essential game, recurring bugs from previous version, lovely story, bad graphics, more or less exactly the same as predecessor. GREAT FUN TO PLAY!"
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At 90% off its only a little less then $400!
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Aug 7, 2014 05:03
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Orv posted:To wit, PCGamers review of Risen 3. 83. Anything from PCGamer is almost certainly bullshit. quote:But I didn't want to stop playing. Fifteen hours in, I faced my toughest challenge yet in the form of giant spider-thing that spouts giant insects from what looks like Galactus's large intestine. At last she falls.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:35
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FadedReality posted:I just noticed that Fable Anniversary is $35. Is it only a graphical overhaul? I thought it was some HD update of Fable 1/2, given that 2 has never been released on PC. Nope, just Fable 1, a game that still looks really good today because of the specific aesthetic design used.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:40
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Palpek posted:Bioshock Infinite is not the revolutionary jaw dropping game that the reviews made it out to be but it also isn't the irredeemable garbage people describe it as. It's a mediocre game with great environment design and really bad story if you actually stop and think about it. Its an interesting super polished AAA shooter with more focus on story then 99% of other AAA games (save Deus Ex HR). It's worth a play through for the experience, but via a rental or $5 at most. It's also got the 1999 mode for people obsessed with the superhard FPS PC games of the late 90s.
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Aug 20, 2014 18:21
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KillHour posted:The story was poo poo, but some of the humor was entertaining. I just couldn't get over how unsatisfying the weapons were. You'd think they would focus on making them look and sound visceral, but they were just so drat bland. There were some really bad weapon designs. The rocket/dart feature some guns had made them almost useless unless they did an obscene amount of damage relative to your current weapons. It shouldn't be that hard to just get a good, well powered gun that shoots regular bullets rather then slow moving projectiles.
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Sep 2, 2014 20:36
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Awesome! posted:I'm so glad I have no desire to play dishonored at all stealthily or try for a no kill game. I did a no kill game first time through, which was crazy fun because rather then save scumming I'd just get caught, shoot 2 or 3 guards with tranqs then blink all over the place until I lost them. It would be really hard to do a no kill run without checking how to properly do it though. Any unconscious bodies that fall too far or get eaten by rats count against you, and allegedly the intro when you defend the Empress will also count against you. Plus, there's a problem with one of the no-kill missions where you have to instantly knock out and drag another NPC away before he kills your target, so going in without knowing its going to be frustrating. Everyone in the thread kept recommending that for the first time through go nuts, full high chaos, use all your powers indiscriminately rather then a Thief style play-through. Ddraig posted:I think the developers even pretty much said that the game was built around the idea of killing people and the non-lethal options were just there as a token appeasement to the crazy people who don't want to stop time and slaughter everyone at the party before exploding into the body of someone else and making good your escape. I think the original play-testers didn't like having to kill everyone, so the devs made a token effort to give every assassination a no kill option and ended up loving it so much they went back and made it really good. Most of the no-kill options are arguably worse then death. pentyne fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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Sir Shion posted:I've been asking myself this since about 2006. Currently at 846 Steam games every time I see a great bundle deal or sale offer I have to wait and check my library first. I don't buy any actually good bundle sales lately because I own on average 2 of the games in them. On the upside, I haven't impulse bought a bundle in months and don't spend any money(<$40) on games until steam sales.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Overlord II is $2.50 today. Is it the same kind of fun as the first? I'm guessing I can use joy2key or something to play it with my 360 controller. There is an infuriating feature where you can either convert or harvest each villager in the towns you conquer, and to get all of them you have to approach every house and smash up the doors to see if they are in the houses (there are close to 100 in the starting village) and then make sure to 'enthrall' them rather then kill them. It was a massive pain in the rear end and trying to get all of them is what finally made me stop playing. It's pretty cool, the enthralled villagers work at forges and churn out gear your minions can pick up and arm themselves with, but the rest of the game is fairly bland and the new additions don't really make it more fun or better then the original Overlord. The first game is still fun and absolutely worth $1.25. The expansion is just "Hell" versions of the regular game levels, which are harder and have more complex puzzle solving.
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Quest For Glory II posted:You'd think they could have parlayed some of their crowdfunding or whatever into hiring a better artist Yeah like this guy http://www.huniepop.com/ NSFW  It's still anime waifu but at least it doesn't look like something a 12 year old drew. pentyne fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Yodzilla posted:Oh good that image in the non-Steam game includes the dry state and underwear version as well. "If Huniepop was rated M on steam, the non-steam version would be rated AO" -the dev. It's literally match 3 to see hardcore pornography.
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Most of the base endings are just "you never find the truth, bad things happens". Even the S endings have always been cliffhangers to the next game in the series.
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Jerusalem posted:Psychonauts is so, so, so, so, so, so good. For $1 or whatever it is, it's a no-brainer to buy. Goddamn this is a good loving game. Someone hasn't experienced Meat Circus yet.
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huh, Heileen 1:Sail Away. Don't remember buying this. ...got it, simple anime lesbian love sim set on a Dutch slave ship featuring your female servant, your uncle's kept woman(prostitute) and some random male deckhand. First steam game I've ever 100% though. pentyne fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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Awesome! posted:medieval 2 total war is good right? it + expansion 75% off at gmg Easily my favorite of the entire series. Shogun 2 is close, but Med. 2 just has way more potential for fun.
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I may have dreamt this, but isn't there a Steam game that's kind of like a space 4X, but instead of running an empire you're a single hyper advanced ship and basically play the factions against each other to push your personal agenda (capitalism, anarchy, robot supremacy, push them all into a war of annihilation)
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Rookersh posted:The Last Federation? That's it. Last I recall it was getting savaged pretty heavily at release as a typical Arcen game. Anyone still playing it? The top steam review maxed out the character content in a review and even after patches its still a glitch ridden confusing mess.
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Huh, Ringrunner, looks like a short game, I'll check it out quickly before going to bed and probably toss it into the "mediocre" category. Wait, why is the sun suddenly coming up?
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Unlucky7 posted:Putting aside the angst about the DR timer, is OTR Still worth playing? I played a bit of DR2 but have not completed it due to gamer ADHD. Absolutely, way better then vanilla DR2 by far. Plus with the co-op one can be Frank West and the other can be Chuck. Caveat: You have to let the ADHD thing go until you progress and level up your character a bit. Rescuing easy to get survivors, avoiding random bosses, and playing through the story until you die 2-3 times is the best method. Also, find all the Gambling skill books, hit the casinos and rack up the $$$ to easily unlock all the cars/bikes to make travel way less tedious(pawn shop unlocks are permanent). In the first mall alone you have everything you need to make a couple of light sabers and knife gloves, some of the best weapons, and there's a hidden area down one end with a sniper rifle, katana, extra zombrex(I think) and a drop box key. Also, getting all the survivors is achievement completion/combo cards only. To unlock all the endings you just have to beat story mode and make sure to always have some extra zombrex. Once you've unlocked the utility tunnels its crazy easy to get 4+ when the game starts. pentyne fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Sep 13, 2014 |
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Manatee Cannon posted:You don't need to do anything special to beat those games, mindless violence works fine. It does, but there's something magical about pulling off 20+ combos, tossing gadgets left and right and never missing a step. It's almost like you're really Batman in those moments.
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corn in the bible posted:the best character in ff13 is the literal child who cries in every cutscene and never does anything proactive at any point Hey, his mom died. ...but named him Hope, and her name was the same name as the ragtag terrorist group, NORA. SYMBOLISM!
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Yaws posted:How is Xenonauts? Play either XCOM classic or XCOM Enemy Unknown. I think someone in this thread described it as a nice attempt to modernize the old XCOM UI but still failed to fix a lot of problems or make the game engaging in any way other then "get missions, kill stuff, repeat" This is from the top Steam negative review, seems to be someone who loved the old XCOM games quote:The ground combat really kills it.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Pretty sure part 2 of Broken Age is early 2015? Brutal Legend is at its best driving around the overworld, listing to amazing rock music, hit sweet jumps in your roadster and running over enemies. The RTS-like battles? Pretty lovely, and usually just some variant of spam X troops, jump in to help, win.
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botany posted:So how is Space Marine? I've always been vaguely interested in it, but never got around to playing it. Does the gameplay get stale after a while or do they manage to keep "here's some more guys to kill" fresh? It's a great 3rd person shooter that doesn't focus on cover based firing and encourages you to charge into the mobs and hack your way through, shooting only when you need to hit a ork who's cowardly running away from you. Essentially, if you're not running towards enemies and shooting at them until you're in melee range, you're not play the game right. Multiplayer is pretty dead, but if you can round up some people the Horde mode is a lot of fun. The grinding MP exp to unlock the weapons, not so much. Breadallelogram posted:Are those Watchmen games absolutely terrible? They're pretty cheap in the current WB sale. I bought the first game when the movie came out, and after the first 5 minutes of "Woah, Rorsach is awesome!" you realize the game is immensely tedious and repeats the same basic combat over and over again.
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Joshlemagne posted:Looks like FFXIII has a store page up. None of the other parts of the "trilogy" yet though, that I can find at least. A bit less than 15 bucks seems like a surprisingly reasonable price. Holy poo poo, $15 base price for FF13? That's an extremely reasonable price for a 4 year old game. It's literally cheaper then Final Fantasy IV, what is going on?
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Poopinstein posted:I'd be interested in trying out 13-2 and -3, but there's just way too much hallway fighting in the first half of 13 vanilla before it opens up. By the time I got there on the 360 version, I was so burnt on gray walls, I gave up. I never mastered how to properly use the paradigms, so I found a spot to easily grind, and went through the game like that, until the final boss wrecked me. Then I checked online and saw how you were supposed to used the paradigm system and beat the boss effortlessly. It was a dumb system that wasn't properly explained, plus all the post endgame poo poo they tempted you with expecting you to to want to kill them to grind up your weapons. Really, a lot of FF13 was stuff that would have appealed to MMO players, but made for a lovely single player game.
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Kly posted:Sort of related to the trading card selling app, is the idlemaster program ok to use? It needs info from my cookies for steam or something and i was a little concerned that information could be used to hijack my account or something. 2 step authentication. Really, as simple as it is to add that extra layer of security all you need is a secure email (also with 2 step auth) and no one can ever crack your account. I think.
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