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Kibayasu posted:I wouldn't say its weak as much as more... generic I guess? Where Escape From Butcher Bay had you doing sidequests and talking to a variety of colourful characters and having things at least feel like you're actually able to explore the prison (before causing a riot) Assault on Dark Athena is more of a straight FPS with the same kind of stealth from Butcher Bay that occasionally has small throwbacks to the more open feeling of Butcher Bay. You still do plenty of guard punching, shooting, and there's still mech suits. Riddick himself also goes a overboard with the whole "warrior poet" schitck. So I've already ranked the games I played from top to bottom. I'll probably make an effort post about it at some point. The bottom 10 games weren't even necessarily BAD games (although three of them were TERRIBLE). I think when you start running through this many games, you don't have time to waste on a lovely game. So I often shelved games quickly if I didn't enjoy them even marginally. My Steamcompletionist went from 27.4% beaten to 49.3% during this insane quest to play through my backlog. I'll never get to 100%, but I will keep chipping away. And then like Tim Buckley i will become the king of all gamers and transcend my physical form.
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RadicalR posted:Hate to ask this, but all of these are steam related. If you like the LEGO games and want a pretty okay co-op brawler that's fairly boring when played alone $10 isn't bad. Guardians of Middle Earth is bad though.
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Ryuga Death posted:Does it run well? Seems like it may need some beefy parts. I have an i5 2500k (OC'd to 4,3 GHz), 8 G RAM, and a GTX 670, and had no issues with the game on max (or close to) max settings.
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 The Challenge Games 1. Alien: Isolation 2. Year Walk 3. Deadlight 4. Adventures of Shuggy 5. Atom Zombie Smasher 6. Alan Wake's American Nightmare 7. Infected: The Twin Vaccine - Collector's Edition 8. How to Survive 9. 1953 - KGB Unleashed 10. Burn Zombie Burn! 11. Home 12. Huntsman: The Orphanage (Halloween Edition) 13. Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi 14. Scarygirl 15. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream 16. Closure 17. Alien Breed 2: Assault 18. F.E.A.R. Online 19. Ghostship Aftermath 20. Hell Yeah! 21. Eldritch 22. The Path Bonus Games A. Painkiller: Black Edition B. The Void C. Shadowgrounds D. Haunted Memories E. Serena F. The Forgotten Ones ----------------- 23. Shadowgrounds: Survivor (No screenshots, I had a terrible time getting this running on my current system and the store page ones are no good.) I've talked plenty about Shadowgrounds, one of my favorite near-mindless alien shooting games ever. I was pretty excited to dig into the sequel as soon as I finished the original, but sadly that excitement didn't last long. Where the original followed the tense adventure of on ridiculously capable, wise-cracking mechanic, Survivor splits its attention between several, well, survivors. Just about every level shifts your perspective to a new character, each with their own weapons and traits. This might sound interesting but all it does is limit your options in combat when the original gave you nearly a dozen weapons to swap between by the end of the game. Some of the scenarios really make it sting, too. One of the characters is a military sniper, armed with a powerful, single-shot rifle, pistol, and bombs. The second time you get control of her, you have to fend off waves of numerous aliens in a cramped sewer level. Who the hell thinks something like that is a good idea. Really it's the levels that drag Survivor down the furthest. Gone are the open, sprawling maps of the original colony, replaced with linear levels punctuated with cutscenes. There are secrets to be found but never far from the main path (and the upgrade system is less interesting this time around anyway). The game never captures the scope of its predecessor, instead focusing more on a limited cinematic experience. Again, I don't know who thought this was a good idea because Shadowgrounds had excellent combat and exploration but a thin, corny story and Survivor doesn't get any better. The new characters in particular are pretty weak... the sniper I mentioned earlier is one of the worst hardass female archetypes I have ever seen. On the plus side, the graphics are more polished and the combat is still just as good, assuming you like your character. It's just not nearly as tight a package, and I can't really recommend it even to those that appreciate Shadowgrounds as much as I did. 24. Ghost Master    Are you one of those people who played The Sims just to torment your little residents? Because I think someone made Ghost Master just for you. As the titular master of ghosts, you take an assortment of spooks and specters into different homes and buildings with the intent of driving out the residents. Each ghost has specific things it can haunt, like electronics or damp things, and several powers that unlock as you scare more and more people. There are also ghosts you can recruit during missions by completing certain tasks, foes to overcome like police and ghostbuster-types, and high scores to shoot for in each level. There are some clever locales to haunt too, like sorority houses, mystery mansions, cabins in the woods, schools, and more. The game plays like a cross between real-time strategy and puzzle. You can give your ghosts orders and have to manage your spooking power between them, but scaring off mortals and completing tasks is more a matter of getting the right ghost in the right place. It's a terribly charming little game that is unfortunately starting to show its age, and can be a bit frustrating if certain people or ghosts don't path the way you need them to. Since you have no direct control over movement, tasks that require specific placement can be a chore to complete. Minor gripes aside, this a is perfect lighthearted game for the season, and one that most likely anyone can enjoy.
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Ghost Master's pretty baller. I don't like the Sims at all and I had a lot of fun with this game. I last played it, like, 2 years ago or something.
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I don't play tons of roguelikes, but I am really enjoying Sproggiwood.
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Ghost Master takes me back, as it was one of the first non-Valve games I owned on Steam, as I grabbed it and several other cheap games during the first Steam Winter Sale I bought games from. Shame it locked at a low resolution or I wouldn't mind trying it again.
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Oct 25, 2014 08:57
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Rirse posted:Shame it locked at a low resolution or I wouldn't mind trying it again. http://steamcommunity.com/app/6200/discussions/0/846945411142280262/ You can unlock higher resolutions. quote:Go to:
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Oct 25, 2014 09:06
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Freak Futanari posted:It got changed by some sorta weirdo like three times in the span of two days. I'm getting trolled pretty bad. It's messed up. I feel you 
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Helith posted:Sorry, I worded it badly. It will clear it in the Steam client too, but you can only access the feature in the browser version. So use it on the web page version of steam then open the client and it will be gone there too. Awesome! posted:just send a coupon to trashbot and it will clear the notification
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Oct 25, 2014 09:19
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I remember buying Ghost Master for like a dollar several halloweens ago. I ended up playing 10 hours of it. Not bad. It is very much a puzzle game though.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Gamefly has iD games on sale today: WTF is the story with their verification process? Ugh.
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I can't believe Faerie Solitaire 2 still isn't out. e: vvv Isn't that one of the things Lowtax covered on Gaming Garbage a while back? e2: Guess not, but close enough. MonkeyforaHead fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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mr. nobody posted:
2: The police car does get replaced with your personal car when you buy one but it's stupid to keep spawning the cop car everywhere you go and not allowing you to use it. Look down for more on that though. 3: What?  4:  No 4k res megatexurrreees, wtf game. Eh, I really do not give a gently caress about graphics. People look like people, cars look like cars, roads and buildings and trees look like their respective things. I dunno, I just down get hung over this stuff. YMMV5: Eh, they function, same as 4. 6: Get over it. It's meant to be a sim, not a twitch shooter. Harminoff posted:The map is super tiny, like 6 streets total. The game is good to laugh at, but far from enjoyable. It's a huge mess. The devs did say that they will listen to feedback and try and improve it so hopefully they do. Harminoff posted:Let's just say you can't drive your police car off duty. A new car is like $20k, but you start with $3k. You have to end your shift at the police station, and have to sleep at your house. So as far as I see you have to walk home and to the station for a while before you get funds to buy a car to drive home. You hunger also drains way to fast, and when it does your character grabs his stomach in pain.  But the issue is mostly with the pissweak money you earn. $100 per rank per shift. So at rank 3 you get $300 per shift. However most of these values and stuff is just in .xml files. Same with your saves so you can just edit and save. Ranking/leveling up seems to be done through points so if you keep loving up and losing points it will take longer. Doing things the right way earns you points, doing bad things loses you them. Higher rank, more dangerous missions you apparently get. eg: Ticketing an illegally parked car gets you +50. Ticketing a legally parked car loses you -50. Sadly enough you don't get any extra money from ticketing cars (Or any action) in general so there's no gain to being a bent cop. When to arrest and not to arrest people is a little confusing at times too. Am I arrest the driver if his car's licence is expired (:???  ? But there seems to be no punishment for lenience so if you were meant to arrest someone, it doesn't bust your chops for not doing it.-For some reason the in-game year starts in 2004. -Seems to only be one house. You can dress it up with mirrors and tables and fridges and such but seems to mostly be a money sink/ROLE PLAY thing. You do want to spend money on a TV though. It refills your Stress meter the most AND it refills your energy, you never need to sleep again because justice never sleeps. -When you get out of your car as you're chasing someone the game defaults to having your pistol out, not your taser. I've accidentally shot three fleeing people so far.  -The male cop pronounces ambulance as Amber-lamps. -Not turning up for work loses you more points than shooting a fleeing unarmed suspect. -You get to play Pimp My Police Car at rank 3. There's a couple of options and it's free to change.  $15 feels like a fair price to me. $20... eh... if you're really looking for this kind of thing maybe. It's niche, it's one of those weird simulator things don't grab this if you want something like a Third-person SWAT or whatever. But if you like odd little sim games like this tickle your fancy you might have some fun with this. And if you were expecting GTA:Cops, why the gently caress were you expecting GTA:Cops? It's from a bloody publisher known for stupid janky simulator titles. The developers are Brazilian that previously only made iThing/Android app games. Why the gently caress were you expecting GTA:Cops? 
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MonkeyforaHead posted:I can't believe Faerie Solitaire 2 still isn't out. I can, if only because their current project, FaeVerse Alchemy, is a tire fire.
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:I can, if only because their current project, FaeVerse Alchemy, is a tire fire. a what?
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Oct 25, 2014 11:11
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A trainwreck, if that metaphor works better for you. The game hasn't been updated in a while (not publicly, there are changelogs and "beta builds" mentioned on the game's hub nobody gets to see), they added stuff to it which they are now trying to spin off into its own, secondary game, and it's a huge fragmented mess that doesn't seem to know what it wants to be and is probably going to fall victim to their last in-development game's pitfalls where they made builds, didn't quite grasp what was going on with it, and then shoved it in a pit to die. This one will probably have less shoving, but it wouldn't shock me if it just vanished at some point.
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:A trainwreck, if that metaphor works better for you. That's a shame, I kinda like SupSoap for Solitaire and I kinda wanted to see more fairie arse.
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Harminoff posted:So I decided to do a let's play of that enforcer game. Never did a let's play before so hope I did okay. If not let me know. The game is just too goofy not to share! That game looks quite boring and an LP probably needs pre-planning before playing to make it more interesting. You could try post your video here if you want to get some serious feedback: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3485255
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Oct 25, 2014 11:27
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Some Codemasters stuff on simplycdkeys.com for 49p. Fuel, Operation Flashpoint etc. Previously bundled stuff basically.
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saucerman posted:That game looks quite boring and an LP probably needs pre-planning before playing to make it more interesting. I think he meant LP in the sense that he talked over an awful game on YouTube for twenty minutes.
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grancheater posted:Son of a bitch i got the Nosgoth Veteran pack. I got Victim of Xen
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Junkenstein posted:Some Codemasters stuff on simplycdkeys.com for 49p. Fuel, Operation Flashpoint etc. Previously bundled stuff basically. Uh, looking at this, when did Fuel and Jericho got taken out of Steam?
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Saoshyant posted:Uh, looking at this, when did Fuel and Jericho got taken out of Steam? They're both GfWL games, aren't they? Probably the big scare last year over GfWL closing.
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It will still close at some point eventually. SimplyCD should add a disclaimer about GFWL somewhere, but eh, 50p for games that can only be played now and later will require a crack -- that's fine.
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This is a good writeup but even with the criticisms I think you were too kind of Survivor. I really don't know why they did what they did to that game but it was worse than the original Shadowgrounds in every way. But then the team went on the make Trine. 
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I don't recall this being brought up but Deadly Premonition is on sale for $2.50 until Monday. From what I've heard the PC port is still jank but DP is still a great game and for that price its a steal.
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Accordion Man posted:I don't recall this being brought up but Deadly Premonition is on sale for $2.50 until Monday. Deadly Premonition is insanely good, and everyone should play it. It is also a very good halloween game.
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Freak Futanari posted:Deadly Premonition is insanely good, and everyone should play it. It is also a very good halloween game.
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Freak Futanari posted:Diablo 4 is out already?
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How's The Forest? It looks like a decent survival type sim and I really like the graphics and aesthetics.
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It's half-baked and glitchy and there's not much to do in it.
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So I'm digging Styx: Master of Shadows quite a bit so far. I think it'll appeal to anyone who's a fan of old-school stealthing like what you would get in the classic Thief games. You have sprawling levels that allow for multiple paths to an objective, shadow-based sneaking around, and you're definitely not powerful enough to take on more than one guard at a time. Garrett has his arrows, Sam Fisher has gadgets and Styx has abilities powered by amber. They allow you to do things like turn invisible briefly or activate "amber vision" (which is just like detective vision from the Arkham games). The most significant ability though is that you can create clones who can do a limited set of activities for you - for example, they can run past guards and make a bunch of noise; when the guard kills it they'll turn back and go to their post, leaving them open for a shanking. They can also jump on a guard and distract them while you sneak away and they can even sit in a closet or chest and kill the nearest guard who walks by. There's no option for knocking out guards. You either kill them or avoid them. It's been described as "janky" - although I didn't notice many bugs, some things are weird. Sometimes when killing a guard, they'll go flying off nearby, I guess if the geometry isn't to their liking. The shadow system is also a bit strange...although I'm stealthed here (Styx's tattoo is lit up), it looks like I'm in a pretty bright area:  Although it's not the main attraction, some of the scenery is nice:  If you're into exploration, though, this game will frustrate you. It seems like the developer put cool looking areas in the game that you can't reach. I found this first on the second level, but it looks like there's one in every zone:  The maps so far are pretty cool, although I've heard that there are levels later on that you backtrack through, except in reverse order. One thing that's neat is that they'll often show you an interesting area that you wind up visiting later, like this neato outdoors staircase:  And then here you are!  So far, the game meshes well with my preferred stealth playstyle of "take out a bunch of guards and dump them in a corner"  I missed five guards apparently...oops! 
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Red Mundus posted:How's The Forest? It looks like a decent survival type sim and I really like the graphics and aesthetics. It's got potential but there's not much going on yet. The list of things you can actually build needs to be filled in quite a bit before it's really worth 10 bucks, but you might still enjoy it if you like wandering around in a forest being attacked by cannibals while felling trees.
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Palpek posted:Somebody once gave me a KKK avatar... Palpek posted:I saw this in Civilization: Beyond Earth's screenshot hub: Hmmmmmm.... Just messing with you Palpek Malek fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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Xander77 posted:Trashbot? use the link near the top of that info section
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Palpek posted:I saw this in Civilization: Beyond Earth's screenshot hub: I'm not racist, I don't even see the color of a man's skin.
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Croccers posted:1: The flipping cars thing seems to be clipping/jointing issues with the map. There's one area near a gas station that spins cars around all the time. Not that hard to fix right? Just to be clear, that was not a screenshot of a review by me, it was a screenshot one of the negative reviews that looked funny to me. I haven't played the game at all. I think #3 was saying that he found it funny that you could witness car crashes, but not have the ability to perform any police duties related to it(?).
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Good news idiots, your stupid loving mistake of not buying MGR Revengence will be briefly overlooked because its 50% off today.
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