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

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Instruction Manuel: May 15, 2007; Yes, it is what it looks like!

Morter posted:

This looks like this is the cheapest it's ever been. How long does this game last? I've been itching for a quality shooter for a while, and I've been eyeing this game, but I'm not rushing it, especially if it's short.

I got it when it released from GreenManGaming with a 25% deal and it was worth it even then. Straight up fun, solid shooter. There's 2 timelines to follow but I'm just warning you that there isn't a whole lot of deviation between them. Even though I've said that, even once through the game is very worth it. I did it once, set it down then came back and did the second timeline. Still just as fun.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 01:31

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 23:10

Instruction Manuel: May 15, 2007; Yes, it is what it looks like!

Morter posted:

I'm rarely one to play a linear game repeatedly for the hell of it, but I did play Darkness 2 for the sake of full achievements and junk, because it was a solid shooter.

Granted, I payed like...6 bucks for it on steam. Still, I'll heavily consider it--as I've been holding back on other vices lately.

That said, I remember hearing people having a tough time getting this game to run smoothly.

I know each game works differently, but I happen to run Shadow of Mordor on High rather smoothly. Radeon 7850 HD, 8 gigs of ram, 2.9GHz.

How much trouble will I have running it smoothly at 1600x900? I don't need super ultra graphics, but at least any "medium" template would be nice

Good news, the game still looks pretty good on medium settings and if you played Darkness 2 for the cheevos then you would most likely do the same for this! Bad news, I remember there being a hub bub about it not playing nice with AMD cards. I have Nvidia. Maybe someone else can chime in?

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 01:44

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Quest For Glory II posted:

All you guys have really proven is that you'll find some nerd who is angry at something no matter what year

This is true no matter what game it is. Even new ones.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2014 04:58

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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

i dunno I'm just completely apathetic towards it. I get the joke, it just fails to register as clever or funny to me. Apparently this makes me stupid or something. Nice.

The first step to recovery is acceptance.

The game is silly and I had fun with it. Plus the developers are involved with post release support. What more could anyone want?

We're all just nerds arguing over our dumb chosen form of entertainment anyway

Just go with it.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2014 17:57

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Zeether posted:

Geometry Wars 3 has its Steam page up. Watched the trailer, looks like a worthy sequel (it's by a company with ex-Bizarre guys). Shame we may never see 2 on Steam though to complete the trifecta.

Only thing I don't like is they ditched the pseudo-vector graphics look for the HUD.

Oh neat. I didn't realize that there were some ex-Bizarre members on the team. I thought it was going to be a cash in on the name. Maybe one day there will be a The Club 2. :allears:

Of course SEGA probably has the IP rights to that. Call it "The Lodge" or "The Bunch"

# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 05:33

Instruction Manuel: May 15, 2007; Yes, it is what it looks like!

Don't worry nerds will knee jerk hard first then buy it anyway. Re: Dark Souls 2.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2014 20:23

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Yourlifesayshi posted:

So I purchased Wolfenstein a couple days ago as part of this fall sale. I'm about an hour into the game and I'm getting ready to uninstall. I'm playing on the hardest difficult which I do for pretty much every game. I expect to die a few times and to re-do parts. However, the load times from when you die in this game are off the charts. This is my biggest issue with the game. It completely takes me out of the experience. Is there any way to improve this or am I just going to have to wait until I get a solid state hard drive?

Try lowering the difficulty. You're depriving yourself of a fun game if you're frustrated with the handicap you're giving yourself. The lethality of the enemies in that game is no joke.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 23:48

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Ddraig posted:

For Shadow of Chernobyl, the main bug fix patch and the one I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND is the Zone Reclamation Project.

http://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/

Stalker Complete is several years out of date and uses a very, very old version of ZRP as its basis. Since then it's gone through several revisions, multiple updates, and is still in completely active development. It fixes all the bugs it can fix, and contains several ease of use features that you can choose and customize at will using a dedicated program so you can customize the game however you want, either getting as close to vanilla as possible with only bug fixes, or modifying certain aspects to make it easier/harder.

There's also updated shaders:

https://sites.google.com/site/kingo64ssite/Home/optimised-game-shaders/stalker-shaders-max

This will make the game look more modern and fix some issues with graphics. There's many texture mods out there, but if you like you can just copy the textures folder over from Complete and it will make it look pretty.

Clear Sky is a bit of a mixed bag. There is the Sky Reclamation Project that is attempting to do to Clear Sky what the ZRP did to Shadow of Chernobyl but it's not quite there yet.

http://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-clear-sky/downloads/sky-reclamation-project-v103a

Call of Pripyat doesn't need any bug fixing mods really, but there is a Russian only unofficial patch that fixes a few minor logic errors, but you can play that completely out of the gate with no mods other than graphics if you like.

The standard for Call of Pripyat graphics is Atmosfear and Absolute Nature, both of which can be found on moddb.

Clear Sky is a bit of a mixed bag.

Doesn't Clear Sky have a faction wars mod that supposedly makes it even better? I think it's done by a goon. I'll have to look for a link later.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2014 20:17

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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

Just give him an mmo like wow and watch him destroy his entire life.

The gift that keeps on giving!

# ¿ Dec 14, 2014 08:37

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King Vidiot posted:

Then maybe people who spend a lot of time discussing and playing games should start calling themselves "game buffs" or "jeuxphiles".

I prefer the phrase: "Stupid, dumb, shithead."

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 17:03

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Anonymous Robot posted:

Y'all guys that wanna play anime porn games know you can just set your steam status to offline, right?

gently caress that, be proud and display your status to everyone.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2014 05:12

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This friggin sale. I've been staying away from the big releases but have been buying up the little gems here and there. If anyone wants to add me, feel free to. I like to give away my extra steam keys to my Steam friends before dumping them in the thread.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/firefox357

# ¿ Dec 24, 2014 04:27

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saucerman posted:

I just finished Gone Home. Took me about 3 h and some more for the interesting audio commentary.

Loved it. Totally my kind of experience - lots of details to discover and a small, personal story. To me, it deserves all the praise it received. I am a 90's kid, though not in the US but I could still relate to it. But even if I couldn't there is still the wider story. It boggles my mind how people can finish it in less than half an hour because it means they missed the point and that is sad.

I absolutely do not understand the hate the game gets. I knew about it beforehand but I went to the Steam forums, as I am wont to do after finishing a game and this time also to check if the hate train is still going. It is. Some of the people still act like Gone Home is bringing the end of games. It is bizarre that a game about love and acceptance gets these vile comments.

Haven't played Gone Home yet (I plan on it) but I've found that people who take their chosen form of entertainment too seriously are terrible.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2014 10:54

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corn in the bible posted:

Just buy MOORHUHN TIGER AND CHICKEN, the best game of all time, and then you wont need any of those.

Oh what!? That series has come a long way from it's simple shooting gallery origins.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2015 01:11

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Cialis Railman posted:

So what do people think of CS:GO? I used to play CS:S for a while and wasn't very good at it, but I still enjoyed myself.

I boot it up every once in a while. I usually just go through deathmatch so I can just go and shoot dudes and not have to worry about loving up the team aspect of the game. If you're terrible jump into the competitive playlist and gently caress up everyone's game :downs:

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 06:35

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Mr E posted:

I hope goons get mad.

I'm ready for it! The rage and anime! :f5:

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 04:44

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Orv posted:

For dinner I have seared colon.

Speaking of which. Don't scratch the ol brown eye after cutting up jalape�os. Yowch! :supaburn:

Also, drat I want to get Nuclear Throne but I' holding off for now. Bought too much during the Christmas sale. :doh:

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 04:04

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I Am Frick posted:

Has anybody who ordered Gat Out Of Hell from Gamestop gotten their key yet?

I believe those don't go out until the game is released.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2015 18:10

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computer parts posted:

The difference in cost is basically whatever you value your time. I value it pretty highly.

If you did you wouldn't be playing videogames in the first place.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2015 20:08

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Eruonen posted:

The "in this time" section is great.

I'd rather eat a bullet with a side of lit dynamite. It would be faster and I wouldn't have to listen to PDP.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2015 23:43

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mr. nobody posted:

They'd rather be playing video games than putting together a computer. Not everybody is good at or isn't filled with anxiety at the thought of being 100% responsible (edit: ok not 100%, parts can fail) for their computer turning on for the first time. Doesn't seem fair to look down on preferring one over the other.

I built my own computer too. Every time I upgrade, I still get that anxiety of "Will this work?" I was also just shitposting. It's what I do :buddy:

Also, everyone play Wolfenstein TNO.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 04:08

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Phobophilia posted:

Thanks for your huniepop gift I've already put 30 hours into it and have climaxed 8 times.

Ok, is that total or one right after the other?

I'm asking about the climaxing, by the way.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2015 04:06

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mr. nobody posted:

I just bought Cosmic DJ and well it's a weird but fun arcady create your own music game that feels like it was created on, around or during a lot of drugs.

It also makes me smile for some reason at how approachable and fun it is.

edit: done broadcasting only one person watched and they left during some trippy voiceover animation thing

Just wanted to say thanks for bringing this too my attention. Quirky and music games are extremely my poo poo and this game has both

In case anyone was wondering, it's more a music toy than game right now. I just played for a moment so I don't know if it opens up more. It's like sequencing music in a DAW but the beat and instruments are already provided. At the end of the stage it puts all the stuff you created into a little remix song and you can export it to mp3 and unleash your ~~ear splitting travesty~~ creation onto other people

Don't click this:

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 00:30

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CJacobs posted:

The plot hole I mentioned earlier is pretty goddamn huge so I'll just explain it for people who have pushed the game out of their minds because it really is loving incredible that this managed to slip past the writers. But I will put it in spoiler tags because there are some people in 2015 who have not played it.

Basically, Scott Shelby, gruff but washed-up detective and Lauren Winter, former prostitute-whose-son-was-killed-by-the-killer turned investigation assistant, are looking into clues and leads on who is the Origami Killer. Shelby obtains a lead that the killer uses a certain kind of typeface to type out his ominous messages, the spacing and lettering of which can only be found on one kind of typewriter. So he, with Lauren tagging along, goes to the local Curio shop with intent to view the purchase records to see if anyone has bought or sold such a typewriter in recent years. There, he meets Manfred, the kindly old owner who used to be buddies with Shelby back in his detective days. Shelby and Manfred share a drink for old times' sake while Lauren looks around the shop doing basically nothing because she's a woman in a David Cage game.

Eventually Shelby brings up the purchase records and Manfred helpfully goes into the back room to go get them, encouraging Shelby to have a look around. So you do, you go around having a look around the shop with Lauren and maybe go pee because it's a David Cage game and he likes to let you do that and then Lauren and Shelby are looking at this quaint music box, when Shelby notices that Manfred has not returned for a while. You steer Shelby in the direction of the back room and, of course, he's dead, having been killed by persons unknown. Shelby runs over to the nearby window and peers out into the rain, assuming the culprit left that way. A nearby phone hangs off the hook, the police already on the line. He tells Lauren they've been made and after he grabs the records that Manfred had just fished out, they scrub away their fingerprints and leave.

Now, absolutely none of this, not a single bit of this scene makes any sense if you know the twist, that being that Shelby was the killer all along. Later, when Shelby is disposing of the evidence that he obtained over the course of his sections of the game, it shows him sneaking up behind Manfred to kill him. Remember that you were PLAYING AS HIM when Manfred was killed and the window was open and everything implying an escape. First of all, Shelby would've had to set himself up to be captured and that's not even considering the fact that him having killed Manfred is impossible because you are in control of him when it happens. It's seriously annoying that Cage leaves plot holes like this in the games he makes because even if you did like the story up until that point, it's impossible to think of it as whole after the reveal because of inconsistent poo poo like that.

And it would have been so easy to tie it into the slimy rich dude plot that Shelby is also involved in. There's a rich guy (an oil baron I think??) whose equally rich but also nutso bonkers son claims to be the killer and knows Shelby's personal life way too closely, and by this point in the game they've already met at least once. It would have been simple to make it so that one of his goons killed Manfred to keep Shelby from finding out the truth (the truth being that he isn't actually the killer and is just pretending because he's certifiably insane and likes the publicity)... but they didn't do that because then it wouldn't tie in as well to the actual twist from a plot standpoint which again is stupid because you are literally playing as Shelby lying to himself about it at the exact moment when it happens.

I was actually enjoying the game right up until the reveal and the aftermath. A plot hole big enough to drive a MACK truck through.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 01:41

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Red Mundus posted:

Quick reminder that you can get Dying Light for 25% off at GreenManGaming using voucher code: HYEHZ0-GNKD1A-GFNGMQ for those looking for a sale.

GAh, I'm this close to getting it but I don't think my system is up to snuff.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 02:01

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Jamfrost posted:

I'm running it on low below minimum spec.

They are a glorious 10-20 frames per second though.

Oof. I think my processor is the bottleneck in my configuration. Might be time to upgrade, finally :sigh:

# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 02:08

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Got a few spare keys here:

Dead Effect: XTW2I-*H60E-ZAX8D

Retro Grade: P87Q6-VM3DZ-*IWGW

*= N

Retro Grade is the real catch here but Dead Effect is fun in a janky, amateur, low rent, Dead Spacey FPS kinda way. It has cards at least.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2015 04:23

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CJacobs posted:

Posting again to say that Dead Effect is goddamn hilarious. It's like Doom 3 and Dead Space had a baby but it turned out that they were in one of those horror movies where the baby is the spawn of satan or something and so instead of being a good game it turned out to be terrible. Terrible in basically every way it is possible to be terrible! The third time I was instantly killed from across a single-file corridor by a zombie riot cop who threw a grenade, I came to the conclusion that this game was worth the price I paid for it: 0 cents. (thanks Wamdoodle, it was great fun)

Glad you liked it! :downs:

# ¿ Feb 11, 2015 15:05

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Propaganda Hour posted:

Someone else will probably have a more complete list, but Roundabout is essentially a goon project.

What!? A goon project that actually released? Is it time to try and bring back.......Zybourne Clock?

# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 05:51

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Quest For Glory II posted:

It took a really long time but Falcom's PSP ARPG Gurumin finally makes it to Steam next month after an endless delay post-Greenlight:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/322290

I would be surprised if anyone actually got their free keys though since Valve is trying to crack down on that.

Friggin' finally!

# ¿ Feb 26, 2015 16:16

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Ragequit posted:

Seems that none of the codes work with Hotline Miami 2 at GMG (as of a few minutes ago). Did anyone get 20% off successfully?

I was able to do this yesterday.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2015 16:30

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Ragequit posted:

Did you use KPMN32-6VRM69-6INRND? Doesn't work for me. I also received a popup with a randomized voucher, but that didn't seem to work either. Ah well, may as well pick it up direct from Steam then.

Yep, that's the one I used. Strange that it isn't working for you.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2015 17:08

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Dammit! I just got the Alltynex trilogy! Oh well. If any one wants it quote me with your steam profile and you'll get yourself 3 very solid shmups.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2015 02:16

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The Joe Man posted:

If you're able to split them up, I'd love ALLTYNEX Second. Otherwise it should go to someone who doesn't already have 2/3rds of them.

Thanks for the offer!

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

Oh, sorry. It's just one key for the lot

# ¿ Feb 27, 2015 02:40

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Zereth posted:

Whoa, I like shumps, but I'm pretty bad at them, so this sounds appealing.

Nobody else seems to have taken this, so... http://steamcommunity.com/id/hterez/

Great! Added you as Chief Petty Officer Wiggles.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2015 14:16

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Blackray Jack posted:

For the first time since using Steam I've been getting this error popping up..

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2117-ILZV-2837

I don't know what causes this and everything was fine until this evening. I've been using this command 'bcdedit.exe /deletevalue nx' to limited success. I used it the first time and everything seemed fine. I could play on servers again but then after a set time I get booted off again with the same error. This time I'm not being allowed back on to play VAC secured servers.

Anyone else been having this recently or something? The only thing I tried doing was running that Consortium game and having it crash on me several times.

I got this a few days ago while playing CS:GO. I thought maybe I had got VAC banned but I haven't been using anything weird other than Steam Idler. Maybe it is that? I checked my profile and it says I'm still in good standing with VAC though.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 07:32

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Blackray Jack posted:

Is steam idler some kind of add-on? I'm not using any extension programs or anything.

No, it's this silly thing: http://www.steamidlemaster.com/

Though by the sound of it, you don't seem to be running it so that can't be your problem.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 07:48

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Just wanted to give a heads up to anyone waiting for it but Cook, Serve, Delicious is $1.99 on the Humble Store and is an absolute steal for the game! It's a frantic time management arcade game. Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtsWILfZhxU

Also has Steam Cards if that's your thing.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2015 03:41

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Quest For Glory II posted:

Get in

http://yachtclubgames.com/plague-of-shadows/

Holy gently caress, yesss! :circlefap:

# ¿ Mar 3, 2015 04:20

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 23:10

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Hey look, realistic FBI agent simulator Narco Terror is on sale for $1.99. You go and investigate the kidnapping of your daughter and you can take a fellow agent along on the case for local co-op sleuthing. You go to a tropical island to interrogate suspects and pick up clues. You deal with the suspects with as little violence as possible, otherwise your agent rating suffers. Give it a try! Have a trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP-k2-ogFSU

Watch the trailer before you blind buy!

# ¿ Mar 3, 2015 06:10

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