Steam Thread 2019: hey, Half-Life 3 is here *monkey's paw curls* as a VR exclusive

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Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

I'm here. Let's be cool in this here new thread.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 21:13

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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 12:40

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

A round of applause to all the fresh new posters soon-to-be regulars that will surely arrive to make great posts...right?

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 21:18

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Goodpancakes posted:

At your service!

Hello, grab a cup of hot cocoa and make yourself comfortable in this poster-friendly and nice thread on all things Steam.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 21:24

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

AfricanBootyShine posted:

The Witcher 3.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2017 15:19

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Watch_Dogs_2 is pretty cool though.

I'm looking forward to AC: Egypt somehow strictly because of the setting and because they copied everything from Witcher 3.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2017 15:59

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

SWAT 4 is amazing.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2017 20:48

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

I thought Dear Esther was ok but to me its storytelling strength lied more in the environment design and not in the narration. There have been definitely better walking simulators made since its release but at the time the idea was pretty fresh especially when it was still a free mod for HL2. I liked the execution of the ending.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2017 09:59

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Fake Games :sad:

# ¿ Aug 17, 2017 19:21

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Prey is one of the best games I've played this year. More people should grab it at the current sale price.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2017 10:18

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Phlegmish posted:

Game stores still exist?

I remember the PC section, at least, getting increasingly anemic over the years as Steam and other digital distribution platforms gained in popularity.

Sometimes game stores have surprisingly low deals that you can't get digitally (and the game is an empty box with a digital key anyway) so I always drop by and check out the discount shelf when I'm coincidentally near one.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2017 09:19

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Guess what, a new Anno set during the industrial age is coming, it looks great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMsFL7W-IGA

# ¿ Aug 22, 2017 09:10

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

I guess I enjoyed Alien: Isolation.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2017 20:28

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Guy Mann posted:

For every person with a legitimate criticism against a popular and successful game there has to be an equally loud opposing force that completely misunderstood the game's gameplay or plot on a fundamental level and then spends the next half of a decade loudly complaining about how objectively terrible it is on every level whenever even the flimsiest opportunity to do so presents itself.

But enough about your posting. I can only hope you won't spend the next half of a decade loudly complaining about how much you're hurt by what other people think whenever even the flimsiest, most irrelevant opportunity presents itself :qq:

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Anyway, this thread has actually been pretty good so far and I'd like to keep it this way so talk about games and don't obsess about other people's posting and we should be good. Don't start this toxic poo poo in here.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2017 08:51

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Overwatch is enough to over-saturate the market of games that play like Overwatch.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2017 12:39

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

There are several different FPS niches for Real Gamerz� including survival games or tactical shooters but nobody wanted to play Overwatch with Gears of War aesthetics, that's a product nobody was waiting for. People would flock to a new incarnation of an Unreal/Quake-like arena shooter with high production values but that's not what Lawbreakers is either.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2017 15:06

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

It's definitely going to do better than Lawbreakers. The FPS arena genre comes with its own set of hurdles though including how polished the gunplay and movement is, cut some corners and you're out even if your game is the only one on the market.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2017 15:11

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Phlegmish posted:

Counterstrike never appealed to me the few times that I've tried it, it seemed like a game where you could get one-shot almost immediately and then have to wait out the rest of the round.

Counter-Strike just isn't a game that you can pick up and immediately play, it has a steep learning curve and the appeal is in overcoming it. I don't blame people who don't have the patiance/time for it but it absolutely isn't a game where you get one-shot almost immediately if you know what you're doing.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2017 16:45

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

One thing that Unity did good were the co-op missions which imo feature the most fun gameplay in any AC game but you need other people to play them.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2017 17:22

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Hell yeah, Yakuza 2 remake.

Edit: Ok, I guess this is the ~~McDonald's drive-thru~~ Steam thread. Well then, I'm kinda indifferent about the cancellation of HL3, it's been so long since the last one that ehh.

Palpek fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Aug 25, 2017

# ¿ Aug 25, 2017 15:16

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Orv posted:

in Crew you are the car

# ¿ Aug 25, 2017 17:21

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

So what are the prices on those paid mods? Can anybody grab a screenshot?

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 11:15

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Wait, Bethesda actually added a "Power Horse Armor" as one of the paid mods in the update. It costs $5.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 11:24

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Too Shy Guy posted:

I know this is supposed to be them owning the controversy but maybe it's not the best idea to remind people you've had garbage business practices for over a decade and have clearly learned nothing from them.

For something that is supposed to be a joke it just ended up looking like garbage:

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 15:57

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

From what I'm reading it seems that Bethesda is commissioning those mods. No idea if the people who work on them additionaly get a cut of the sales.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 18:24

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

The Kins posted:

Humbo Jumbo Bumbo 9-bo

Pay $1:
The Flame in the Flood
Infested Planet
Human: Fall Flat

BTA:
Verdun
Samorost 3 (+ Soundtrack)
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide (+ Drachenfels DLC and Razorfang Poison Item)
More in a week

Pay $10:
American Truck Simulator

All I know is that Samorost games are amazing.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 19:57

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

The immortal scorpion-man in Serious Sam 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91q5BtlxK0

# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 15:53

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Please don't talk about politics in this thread. This includes mentioning political preferences of video game creators/reviewers. Anybody who sees something like this being mentioned please report it. People itt just can't be trusted with handling a topic like this in a civilized manner so it's off the table from now on. There are subforums better suited for this on SA, go there instead. I added this to the OP.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 08:52

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Once again - don't talk about politics in this thread. It doesn't matter if you personally think it's super fun - it always shits up this particular thread for pages at a time as people get extremely righteous, accusatory and start throwing insults left and right. The Steam thread just isn't the right environment for this as things get toxic immediately.

At the same time there are many places on SA where you can in fact discuss it, they exist specifically for this purpose and people visiting those threads expect it so nothing is being taken away from you. Focus on games here, thank you.

Palpek fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Aug 31, 2017

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 13:13

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

I told you it's good.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 16:20

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

What makes me wonder is that that game was published on the 8th of August and still hasn't been taken down by Valve. I guess as long as you can't actually buy it they don't care.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 19:55

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

strategery posted:

Humble Monthly is pretty good as usual:

KIlling Floor 2
Eterium
HackyZack
Stories Untold
Worms W.M.D
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
Banner Saga 2

That's a way worse one than the previous ones.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2017 18:29

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

I didn't know that PUBG's in-game item market already reached CS:GO levels: http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/578080/PLAYERUNKNOWN%27s%20Bandana

Ok, it's not up there yet but it's getting close.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2017 15:11

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

This looks neat: X-Morph: Defense

https://i.imgur.com/OHF3cxy.gifv

Apparently it's from the creators of Zombie Driver which was pretty cool. Anybody played it?

# ¿ Sep 2, 2017 18:38

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Ashmole posted:

Is Star Citizen playable yet?

I wouldn't hold the door open for that one.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2017 21:53

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Darkrenown posted:

Their LP of the terrible Ride to Hell: Retribution is hilarious.

To be fair just a no-commentary video of Ride to Hell: Retribution would be funny, I already forgot it existed, it's so incredibly bad but also hilarious, especially the sex scenes.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 07:06

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Jamfrost posted:

I remember them doing it in the complete opposite of in the buff.

Yeah, they're basically porn intros + a bit of the actual sex part but somehow nobody ever takes their clothes off.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 10:15

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

il_cornuto posted:

What the hell is wrong with his right arm?

Please don't make fun of him, he suffers from arm gearsofwarsitis.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 15:03

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Some of the normal cutscenes were even better than the sex scenes. They would go down exactly the way you'd suspect in a lovely direct-to-tv movie. The game is a true Exodus from the Earth experience.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 17:48

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Ashmole posted:

You pretty much need to get the alien powers to win since you don't have any good weapons, but the game penalizes you by having the robots kill you because they think you're an alien.

This is 100% wrong. A pure human run through the game still has you destroy everything with ease. Upgrade your weapons.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 08:02

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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 12:40

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Bioshock has almost as good of a story as Twilight.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 08:55

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