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Xander77 posted:Hellpoint an actual RPG-looking RPG (edit - ah, a "Souls-like", that makes sense) that came out last year (!) but I've never heard about is free on GoG. Nice! Been wanting to try this out.
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# ? Jun 14, 2021 20:12 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 05:33 |
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Gaben seems to not know what "free" means. EDIT: Or I guess they meant ended this morning, which is a dumb way to say it. Just say it ended June 13 then.
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# ? Jun 15, 2021 02:06 |
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Xander77 posted:Yeah... yeah, it's definitely that thing you said. Makes perfect sense.
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# ? Jun 15, 2021 08:39 |
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Fuzz posted:
Check the first row of text, it clearly says game discount: posted 12 jun / ended 14 jun
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# ? Jun 15, 2021 11:48 |
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SlowBloke posted:Check the first row of text, it clearly says game discount: posted 12 jun / ended 14 jun And see the date I posted on/my edit. It was the 14th, they just ended it at 12:01 AM instead of 11:59 PM which is dumb. Generally speaking you set the end date of a thing as the last day you can claim it, not the day after when it's already gone.
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# ? Jun 15, 2021 13:10 |
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Fuzz posted:And see the date I posted on/my edit. It was the 14th, they just ended it at 12:01 AM instead of 11:59 PM which is dumb. Generally speaking you set the end date of a thing as the last day you can claim it, not the day after when it's already gone. Their shoutouts on Twitter and other channels said that the offer was valid only on the 12-13th which is coherent with the promo interval, it started on the first minute of the 12th and finished on the first minute of the 14th. Unless stated otherwise, announcements on steam are on midnight of the indicated date SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Jun 15, 2021 |
# ? Jun 15, 2021 13:52 |
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Yeah, Steam does that for big sales too and it’s incredibly stupid. How hard is it to put your times with your dates if your going to use “through the Xth” in a non-standard way?
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# ? Jun 15, 2021 14:44 |
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Fuzz posted:And see the date I posted on/my edit. It was the 14th, they just ended it at 12:01 AM instead of 11:59 PM which is dumb. Generally speaking you set the end date of a thing as the last day you can claim it, not the day after when it's already gone. No, they end it at 10AM Pacific US. I agree it's annoying the way they do that, but it's not a one minute thing. It's the time all deals and offers flip on the store.
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# ? Jun 15, 2021 15:28 |
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Absolute Drift is free on GOG! Apparently we might get Sonic Mania and Horizon Chase Turbo later today on Epic too. Looking forward to that if true.
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# ? Jun 17, 2021 14:53 |
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Overcooked 2 and Hell is Other Demons are free on EGS this week Next week is Sonic Mania and Horizon Chase Turbo, as leaked
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# ? Jun 17, 2021 16:11 |
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Dang, I've been wanting horizon chase turbo
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# ? Jun 17, 2021 16:26 |
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JammyB posted:Apparently we might get Sonic Mania and Horizon Chase Turbo later today on Epic too. Looking forward to that if true. Looks like those are next week.
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# ? Jun 17, 2021 16:28 |
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The original Operation Flashpoint, under the name ARMA: Cold War Assault, is free on Steam and GOG for 48 hours to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary.
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# ? Jun 22, 2021 20:34 |
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Sonic Mania and Horizon Chase Turbo are free on EGS this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_L8rBNedC0 The Spectrum Retreat next week
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 16:39 |
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https://twitter.com/videogamedeals/status/1408410349649502208?s=20 The three HBS Shadowrun games are free on GOG
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 14:06 |
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Goddamn that's a steal
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 14:22 |
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I played through the entire series back in December and had a good time. The first title is a bit rough around the edges, but the sequels are solid.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 14:35 |
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Yeah, Shadowrun Returns/Dead Man's Switch is alright but completely skippable. There's also a way to import it's campaign into Dragonfall's engine if you end up wanting to play it (if it's not already set up I dunno).
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 15:32 |
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TGLT posted:Yeah, Shadowrun Returns/Dead Man's Switch is alright but completely skippable. Xander77 fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jun 25, 2021 |
# ? Jun 25, 2021 15:48 |
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Not in any story sense, and I don't think the other two campaigns are too hard to pick up as to require playing DMS. At least not all the way through. edit: Plus hacking changes a bunch between campaigns anyways so DMS isn't that helpful for that.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 15:52 |
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I downloaded Horizon Chase Turbo and then remembered why I didn't buy it after trying the demo. You just hold down the accelerate button and then hold left or right to turn and the game pretty much plays itself aside from avoiding some of the cars. I don't remember if the old top gear games were like this, but it's really simplistic.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 16:11 |
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Cojawfee posted:I downloaded Horizon Chase Turbo and then remembered why I didn't buy it after trying the demo. You just hold down the accelerate button and then hold left or right to turn and the game pretty much plays itself aside from avoiding some of the cars. I don't remember if the old top gear games were like this, but it's really simplistic. The game is simplistic, but not "drive itself" simplistic. Best way to think of it is as a not too hard puzzle game. As you unlock cars and upgrades you find what works for you and then in the races you figure out when to use boost and how to handle certain turns. The first two stages have piss easy tracks, but they get a bit more interesting after. It's never a hard game, but it does take some effort if you want to collect all the coins and win every race. The AI rubberbands a bit which is annoying, but never too bad. If you want drifting and precision steering then it's not the game for you, but as a chill "choose wisely when you use boost and where to pass" racer it's fine.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 16:47 |
It’s a mobile game ported to console and it shows. There’s not much too it and free is a good price.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 17:30 |
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Cojawfee posted:I downloaded Horizon Chase Turbo and then remembered why I didn't buy it after trying the demo. You just hold down the accelerate button and then hold left or right to turn and the game pretty much plays itself aside from avoiding some of the cars. I don't remember if the old top gear games were like this, but it's really simplistic. As someone who lost years of my life playing Top Gear 3000 on the Super Nintendo, this has been an amazing nostalgia trip. It's great because it's simple, but there's still timing involved and I'm having a great time trying out different cars and getting the hang of passing cars. Definitely worth the price of free.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 21:09 |
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not having played the game, i didn't want to dunk on that post, but "hold A and push left and right once in a while" made me think yep, that's a 1980s racing game
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 21:58 |
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I'll have to dig out my SNES classic and check out the old racing games, to make sure, but were they that easy? Maybe I was just being too smart for my own good as a kid and letting off the gas to turn like you would with a real car. I don't remember if I was able to just hold A and turn without having to brake or let off or anything. I know I have to do that with the Nigel Mansell racing thing I have on my SNES classic, I'll have to check out Top Gear again.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 22:05 |
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Cojawfee posted:I'll have to dig out my SNES classic and check out the old racing games, to make sure, but were they that easy? Maybe I was just being too smart for my own good as a kid and letting off the gas to turn like you would with a real car. I don't remember if I was able to just hold A and turn without having to brake or let off or anything. I know I have to do that with the Nigel Mansell racing thing I have on my SNES classic, I'll have to check out Top Gear again. I wasn't ever any good at those games, but that's definitely how I played. I think it's not that it's easy when you can beat it by holding A and turning left or right, it's that you need to memorize the track if that's what you're doing.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 22:08 |
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If Yakuza 0 is accurate then Outrun was punishing as gently caress. Horizon is excessively forgiving unless you're trying to do everything in a single race
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 22:12 |
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Lutha Mahtin posted:not having played the game, i didn't want to dunk on that post, but "hold A and push left and right once in a while" made me think yep, that's a 1980s racing game If I could be playing Al Unser Jr's Turbo Racing right now, I would be.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 01:20 |
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revtoiletduck posted:If I could be playing Al Unser Jr's Turbo Racing right now, I would be. I liked Super Sprint
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 02:14 |
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revtoiletduck posted:If I could be playing Al Unser Jr's Turbo Racing right now, I would be. This post reminded me of al unser jr arcade racing for the PC, which I loved
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 01:30 |
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~Coxy posted:It is repeatable, though I do have to question how much effort it actually is to earn 6800 points a month every month. I don't mean to start the Bing derail again, but I had the ABS firefox plugin running this month, and earned 7200 Microsoft funbux to keep my Game Pass PC sub rolling.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 05:54 |
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It's very little effort, you can just make a couple folders with search bookmarks (searching the numbers 1-40 for example) that you open to get the searches done, and reddit has the quiz answers every day. Supposedly ABS can get you banned.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 13:52 |
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ZombieApostate posted:Supposedly ABS can get you banned.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 14:08 |
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My impression was banned banned, like can't access your account at all, but I don't know for sure.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 14:14 |
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You cant even download ABS anymore. I imagine it will break soon enough.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 14:52 |
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I earned enough points but couldn't find the PC gamepass as a possible reward. Think they're clamping down on this game.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 15:30 |
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The offer comes and goes
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 15:34 |
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It was gone for... 3 weeks maybe? But it's back now if you still have those points. Apparently that happens once in a while.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 17:19 |
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Bioshuffle posted:As someone who lost years of my life playing Top Gear 3000 on the Super Nintendo, this has been an amazing nostalgia trip. It's great because it's simple, but there's still timing involved and I'm having a great time trying out different cars and getting the hang of passing cars. Definitely worth the price of free. There's a similar game which was also originally a mobile game called Agent Intercept. In that one you can boost, turn left and right (but can't really go off the track) and shoot various weapons. The car will also turn into a boat or a sled or what have you but the player has no control over that. Challenge only really comes from meeting the star conditions so you can earn enough stars to unlock the final level of the chapter, for example finishing in a certain time, doing certain maneuvers, drifting a certain amount, killing a certain amount of enemies, etc.. It's not really a racing game at all, more like an endless runner that happens to feature car. But it's not bad. Skwirl posted:I wasn't ever any good at those games, but that's definitely how I played. I think it's not that it's easy when you can beat it by holding A and turning left or right, it's that you need to memorize the track if that's what you're doing. Those old SNES racing games were way harder than these games were, no doubt. You could still get going too fast and go off, completely slowing you down so there was quite a lot of skill as well as track memorization going on.
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