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I got: Heat Signature - Haven't played it a lot, yet I like what I've played so far. They are Billions - I've always liked RTS games but I'm terrible at them, so a single player one you can pause is right up my alley. Haven't played it more than a few minutes yet. Planet Coaster - The price was right and it just looks like a lot of fun even if I just play around with other people's parks. TW: Warhammer 2 Tomb Kings expansion - I will probably buy and love everything they release for these games, and this looks like one of their best expansion races yet. I have a long long list of games to play before I seriously get to any of these, but I got a steam card for Xmas and I just couldn't resist.
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I bought Passpartout - The Starving Artist during the sale and thought it was a really cool idea that wasn't that well implemented and felt a bit grindy I think it's the kind of game I'd much rather play on a mobile platform because drawing with the mouse certainly wasn't helping my enjoyment of it. Now that I think of it a Switch port would actually be perfect for something like that. Also I was hoping for Factorio to go on sale, it didn't go on sale and then I bought it anyway under pressure from friends and lost many good days over Christmas to it
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So, between Black Friday and Winter Sales, I've gotten: PS4: Bloodborne Complete Wipeout Omega Horizon Zero Dawn Yakuza 0 Until Dawn Journey Stardust Ultra Uncharted 4 PC: Night in the Woods Prey Rez Infinite Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Caves of Qud Open Sorcery What Remains of Edith Finch Dark Souls 3 (Gifted to me by Kragger99 who is a God walking amongst mere mortals) This is not even counting my gigantic backlog, so I think I got enough games to last me until forever. Only thing I'll buy before next winter sale is Nier: Automata which I didn't buy during Black Friday/Halloween because I thought it'd go on sale again and surprisingly didn't  .
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Edmond Dantes posted:So, between Black Friday and Winter Sales, I've gotten: Nice. Bloodborne and HZD alone justified my PS4 purchase. You have a lot of great games there.
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Jan 6, 2018 17:39
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John Murdoch posted:Valve became a hypercapitalistic hell company a long time ago. In some ways it's even sadder because instead of naked greed like you'd expect to see from such a huge rear end company, they've seemingly deluded themselves into thinking that everything they do is towards some higher purpose of "giving the customers what they want" but mysteriously almost every project they've done since then has involved more ways to suck money out of users, a whole lot of it in the form of gambling-lite, blind box horseshit. IE, the same stuff that's (finally) getting other companies raked over the coals this year. Meanwhile it took years of begging for them to finally realize that a handful of Valve employees on their coffee breaks couldn't be the entire support team for a userbase of millions, and they only started offering refunds because EU regulations forced them to.
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Jan 6, 2018 18:01
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bring back amazon tony
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Jan 6, 2018 18:02
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I hope I'm not late to this whole Steam sale thing.
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Jan 6, 2018 18:19
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Oh well. Happy New Year everybody!
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Palpek posted:Oh well. Happy New Year everybody! Don't worry, there'll be more sales soon, and the big summer sale isn't that far away! 
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Jan 6, 2018 18:42
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I picked up dead cells late into the sale. What an amazing rogue like. Everyone should have picked it up.
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My haul. Favorites are in bold. 4 Different Total Warhammer (I) DLC. This turned out to be a mistake because after playing the DLC dwarf campaign for about 20 hours I'm 90% certain that I'm bored of the Total War game series now. Fiddy cent games: PARTICLE MACE: I've played mission mode a bunch, it's definitely worth fifty cents. (I had to disable steam controller support in order to get this to work with my PS4 controller) Snuggle Truck: Meh. Bot Vice: I haven't played it much, but it's already been worth it. Ground Pounders: I tried this but couldn't figure it out, I'll come back to it sometime. DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon - Haven't really tried this yet. AuroraRL: Hugely disappointing. I love the free roguelike Prospector, and this seems similar but with Star Control 2 stuff like a storyline, meeting cool aliens, research, etc. It sucks though and hasn't been updated for a year even though it's early access. I rarely bother refunding cheap games but I made an exception in this case. Approximately one dollar club: One Finger Death Punch: Way better than I was expecting. Weebish Mines: Brings back good feelings in me. Playing this feels like exploring an old school handcrafted world like the first Zelda, or Pitfall 2. Because that's exactly what it is. Approximately ten dollar club: Pyre: I love Bastion and love Transistor even more. I also love this, but not as much as their past two games. It took a long, long time for the game to get hard enough for me. I didn't lose a single fight on normal difficulty until about halfway in. Even then I was just activating all the titan stars to bump up the difficulty. Copy Kitty: Goons recommended this. I played for about an hour, beat the fire ant thing and got to the stage with the shield guys. It seems like a good game, but I just wasn't feeling it.
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Stuff I got this sale. A lot of them were from the gift train Gonna be playing very soon tier: The Sexy Brutale Pyre Night in the Woods Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Ladykiller in a Bind Life is Strange: Before the Storm Still high up there but not something I'll get to immediately tier: Vanquish Dead Cells Cuphead West of Loathing Prey Open Sorcery What Remains of Edith Finch Already played before but now they aren't a pain to patch/just grab tier: Planescape Torment: Enhanced Umineko Question Arc Day of the Tentacle Remastered Gotta play the first game still tier: The Banner Saga 2 Grow Up Company of Heroes 2 Been on the middle of the wishlist forever tier: Stray Cat Crossing Rebel Galaxy MagusDraco fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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My haul was: Early sale cheap games: Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon - First mission seemed OK but I'll probably wait until I can play it coop. Deathstate - Need to go back to this, so far it's interesting. Christmas gifts: Night in the Woods - Beaten already, amazing game. Perfect blend of funny, cute and depressing. Momodora 4 - Working through this slowly, very satisfying gameplay. Gift train gifts: Unexplored - I'm doing one or two runs a day, since they're fairly short at the moment. Fun, some really cool ideas but hard to make meaningful progress in so far. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger - Fantastic gunplay, the shotgun is amazing, this game is good. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon - I enjoyed this when it first came out on the 360, will enjoy going through it again when I've cleared some of my backlog. Ori and the Blind Forest - Looks beautiful and controls really smoothly. Caves of Qud - Probably the best "traditional" roguelike I've played, addictive and wonderfully weird. Also I keep dying, a lot. Cuphead - I've beaten a bunch of the famously hard games but Cuphead is really making me work for it. Fun to play, so satisfying to beat a level, very very hard. Xander77 gift: Tempest - I did a mini-review of this in the Steam thread, I like what it's trying to do but the melee combat is really bad. Last minute "I just got some money and can't wait until the next sale to play these" panic buys: Battle Brothers - This is really good and exactly what I hoped. I'm losing a lot of brothers. This sale has made me feel like I'm worse at video games than I thought. Darkwood - I love the atmosphere and the systems seem interesting. I played up to the start of the first night so I'm curious if that will manage to not be boring. The Sea Will Claim Everything - The writing and amount of stuff to click on seem great, but I'm putting this off until I've finished some other stuff.
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Jan 7, 2018 00:00
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Everyone in this thread has excellent taste! 
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Oh yeah I bought a bunch of stuff in the PSN sale too like uhhhhh Persona 4 Dancing All Night The FF9 port for PS4 The MGS2/3 HD collection for Vita MGS1 PS Classic Batman Return to Arkham Momodora Probably some other stuff I forgot too
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My choices were kind of eclectic I guess: Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Torchlight Neon Chrome Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition Distant Worlds Steam Link Bot Vice Pyre Naturally I haven't touched any of them yet. But I wouldn't have looked at Bot Vice without this thread, and Distant Worlds moved up the list because of the chat about it too. I think it's still a good thread.
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Deathstate The Cave Jydge Sniper elite 3 And a friend gifted me Doom I have too much in my backlog already, and I just keep playing the division.
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I used to poo poo on haul posts but since we're feeling nostalgic, I'll play along. I actually only bought one thing for myself this sale, Omegaland, for all of $0.89. A bunch of super generous goons and other folks made sure I had plenty to play... pretty much indefinitely, though: The End is Nigh Wuppo Life is Hard Grim Legends: Song of the Dark Swan Memoria Hitman GO Stellaris Dark Scavenger Darkwood Virginia Aviary Attorney Dogolrax Hidden Folks Dungeon Souls To The Capital Omega Strike Clash Force Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Bit Blaster XL Orbt XL Diamo XL Bot Vice Super Star Path Strikey Sisters Shotgun Legend Broken Armor Y'all will hear what I think of all these eventually, but drat I don't know how long it's going to take. I got like 10 games last winter sale and it took the whole year to review all of them.
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My haul: Hidden Folks (beaten) Old man's journey Cryptark Xanadu Next Ray Gigant Cat Quest (iOS) Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon House of Da Vinci (iOS) Skylar & Plux Drawn the Painted Tower Cold Fear Call of Juarez Bound in Blood Alicemare (beaten) 1bitheart (beaten) Elminage Gothic Stray Cat Crossing Midnight @ the Celestial Palace Leaving Lyndow Asemblance The Fidelio Incident Dead Secret Nothing Ever Remains Obscure Empathy: Path of Whispers Haven Moon Costume Quest 2 Rhiannon Barrow Hill: The Dark Path Recursed Arkham Knight (PS4) Final Fantasy Type-0 HD (PS4) Suikoden IV (PS3) Nioh (PS4) Lightning Returns (PS3) DA: Inquisition (PS4) Torin's Passage (GOG)
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Lowen posted:Weebish Mines: Brings back good feelings in me. Playing this feels like exploring an old school handcrafted world like the first Zelda, or Pitfall 2. Because that's exactly what it is. The combination of "exploring", "handcrafted world" and "Zelda" made me look this up and it looks like a proper hidden gem, something I'd be unlikely to run across on my own. One for the next sale. Haul-postin' justified!
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Weebish Mines looks like it's inspired more by Legacy of the Wizard. I hope it's much better than that game, because the level design in Legacy of the Wizard is WAY too convoluted and the amount of backtracking is inexcusable.
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Yeah the store page straight up mentions Legacy of the Wizard. I never had an NES so I don't know, but looking at it I definitely don't expect Zelda gameplay. I just like exploring large, detailed worlds, and handcrafted is often preferable to procedural, so that hooked me.
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Hollandia posted:Deathstate If you ever get around to it (and are in the mood for a "twin-stick"-style shooter), for some reason I really fell in love with Deathstate. It's actually more of a "one-stick" shooter, and the initial difficulty (or lack thereof) suggests it's a game you can sleepwalk through. But then you realize that it's the lowest of 4 or 5 difficulty settings, that things can get a lot harder, and that there's a decent amount of content hidden in the game. The tiny community never really reached the critical mass necessary for players to painstakingly catalog every secret, so there are still quite a few mysteries surrounding the game. Beyond that, I really adore the weird convergence of Lovecraftian elements and pixel art and the large selection of characters to choose from.
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Since I had to go add Weebish Mines to my wishlist anyway, my tiny haul: Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon Open Sorcery Stories: Path of Destinies Bot Vice Strikey Sisters Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition Pre-Dynastic Egypt American Truck Simulator + DLC And finally, Diablo 3 the complete package, which is what's been actually sucking up my time.
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Former Human posted:Weebish Mines looks like it's inspired more by Legacy of the Wizard. The fact that Legacy of the Wizard and Trails of Cold Steel are technically part of the same series is insane
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:If you ever get around to it (and are in the mood for a "twin-stick"-style shooter), for some reason I really fell in love with Deathstate. It's actually more of a "one-stick" shooter, and the initial difficulty (or lack thereof) suggests it's a game you can sleepwalk through. But then you realize that it's the lowest of 4 or 5 difficulty settings, that things can get a lot harder, and that there's a decent amount of content hidden in the game. The tiny community never really reached the critical mass necessary for players to painstakingly catalog every secret, so there are still quite a few mysteries surrounding the game. Beyond that, I really adore the weird convergence of Lovecraftian elements and pixel art and the large selection of characters to choose from. Yeah I already took a brief crack at it and had a lot of fun, good to hear it has some depth. I'm looking forward to giving it the time it deserves.
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