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A pretty significant thing happened today. Jason "This Game Will Never Go On Sale" Rohrer put one of his best games on sale at a crazy 75% off. https://store.steampowered.com/app/249570/The_Castle_Doctrine/ The Castle Doctrine is a drat good game despite the reviews, and those negative reviews are mostly because the game has been lacking players for a long time. This is a really good chance to get in on a game that made me a huge fan of Jason Rohrer or come back to it.  From his email: Jason Rohrer posted:"This game will never go on sale."
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Fallom posted:Remake Skyroads this is like a nostalgia speedball and I'm going full John Belushi
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May 29, 2020 18:32
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The music is hosed and the screen flickers in Slimjet, a lightweight fork of Chrome, but it seems to work alright with Chrome itself.
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May 29, 2020 18:39
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ultrafilter posted:It's still early. Lots of games don't go on sale right at the beginning. Maybe like 10 years ago? There haven't really been daily additions or flash sales since the early days, have there? Either way, I can't tell if this sale is disappointing or if I'm just spoiled by the unmanageable number of super cheap/free games I've been collecting lately.
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Jun 26, 2020 17:43
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Dusk is the best FPS of the decade.
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Jun 26, 2020 18:15
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I decided to finally redeem a game pass promo that was about to expire, and Metro Exodous has stolen my heart only for me to learn that it's being removed in a couple days. I just finished Winter as a hardcore ranger. Please tell me the game gets really lovely in later chapters so I don't have to buy it, or tell me if the DLC is worth it, I guess.
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Jun 29, 2020 01:40
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Look Sir Droids posted:I have an actual Steam client question. How the hell do you get more than one friend in to voice chat? Each time I tried to conference someone in, a new chat window opened and cut off voice chat with the other person. I haven't used it in a long time, but my buddies and I would use the chat room of our steam community group and start voice chat from there rather than the 1-on-1 chat windows. Steam's had about 4 or 5 major updates since then so I'm not sure if it still works the same way.
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Jun 30, 2020 00:42
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These demo festivals are the best thing Steam has done in a long time. It feels like I'm 13 and getting demo discs in the mail again.
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Oct 10, 2020 00:45
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Serephina posted:Eh, that option didn't exist at the time. Also the magic's gone, can't put that genie back into the bottle after I've had to jump around staring at a baddie more concerned about how his AI script works rather than the mood he's setting. It's like asking a haunted house staff to go through the venue as a guest; it doesn't work. If you'd powered past it, you might have discovered that you'll never have to deal with that monster again. Every enemy encounter in the game is unique and every one of them behaves differently. Losing the magic after dying to the same monster several times isn't really an issue when the next one you run into forces you to totally retool your expectations and the way you deal with it. Easy mode is also legit, because while the monsters were the big thing in Frictional's previous games, the plot/environment/atmosphere/storytelling in Soma is so outrageously good that the monsters (which are still the most diverse and interesting Frictional have made to date) turn out to be the weakest part.
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Oct 12, 2020 06:42
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Look Sir Droids posted:Forgot to add good multiplayer and/or co-op too. Check out Intruder. It's got a small but dedicated cult following and it had been going strong for several years pre-steam. The multiplayer will probably survive as long as any current AAA shootman game.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:52
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I thought Remnant was more like a hack & slash action RPG than anything. How much you enjoy Diablo solo vs multiplayer will probably reflect how much you enjoy Remnant the same way.
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Oct 24, 2020 21:53
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What you're not understanding, Anonymous Robot, is that resisting Chinese censorship is a just cause, so that means it's correct and good to call CDPR "commie cucks" while that would otherwise be a rude thing to say. I think it's fair to criticize the response to this by western gamers--who are supposedly distinguishable from Chinese gamers by virtue of not being bots--being embarrassing in the way gamers are want to be when it comes to anything tangentially related to China (or just in general, about all things, all the time). For further reading, see: Epic Games Store thread
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Dec 16, 2020 18:37
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Lightningproof posted:The way people discuss China
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Dec 16, 2020 20:40
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Can anyone recommend a good single-player dungeon crawler where you control a party of characters that isnt turn-based? Yeah, Grimrock 1/2 are exactly what you're describing but might not be the kind of Might & Magic-esque dungeon-crawler games you're thinking of? Also, StarCrawlers is in the same vein but sci-fi, and Aeon of Sands is post-apocalyptic with some CYOA stuff.
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Dec 28, 2020 22:52
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Probably, my only experience with it is watching it sit on my wishlist for ages.
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Dec 28, 2020 22:55
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Count Uvula posted:Garbage! Is Hugh an rear end in a top hat as well? He's been nice in the brief few interactions I've had with him. Hugh comments about it in that thread, he's the next reply down if you show more.
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Dec 29, 2020 03:14
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Mordja posted:I love Brigador and Synthetik, they remind me of the Crusader games but here's the joke: I've never played the Crusader games. But I did have a CD with a trailer for Crusader: No Regret and Syndicate Wars and they looked like the coolest loving things. Years later I'd actually try and play both games but could never get into them. Brigador looks and feels the way I remember some PC or arcade games from the 90's being, but they're games that don't exist or that I never actually played. It's some weird sort of pseudo-nostalgia that I don't understand, but it feels like home.
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Dec 29, 2020 19:00
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This is important so lets clear this up right now: are you implying there's a cut where all the cats have human/house cat hybrid buttholes showing?
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Jan 11, 2021 03:19
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BigRed0427 posted:Yeah, i've played Slay the Spire. I love it but I think I got all the mileage out of it I can. I'm hoping for more content down the road. Or a Slay the Spire 2. Slay the Spire just added a 4th character recently if you weren't aware, and there are a good number of really excellent mods that add a dumptruck of new content if you haven't tried them out yet.
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Jan 18, 2021 21:17
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Fruits of the sea posted:It's been a slow and depressing slide downhill for that site. It's like they're actively self-destructing. Nate Crowley's Five Nights at Freddy's article is brilliant though, and his Age of Empires 2 series is p good. On the bright side, he'll probably be laid off within the year and I can finally stop checking the site entirely, or in the next few weeks when I find it impossible to navigate to his pieces with this lovely layout.
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Jan 26, 2021 22:23
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StrixNebulosa posted:Are there any good alternatives to RPS out there? Or is it the last of the great game blog coverage websites? Not with the same areas of focus and sense of humor, that I know of, at least. Here are some sites that I think you, specifically, might like though: http://warpdoor.com/ and https://indiegamesplus.com/
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Jan 26, 2021 23:03
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1 cool bird, 2 cool bird, red cool bird, blue cool bird
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Jan 30, 2021 17:56
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Cursed. I watched this for 15 minutes waiting for the bird to land.
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Jan 31, 2021 16:50
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:I looked up myst to see if it was on GOG or anything and apparently there's a 3D version from 2014 but also a more 3Der version in development, I guess I should just wait for that? The original RealMyst kinda blows, though I haven't played the 2014 version so maybe it's not as clunky. Myst Masterpiece Edition is the more vanilla way to play and is generally more convenient because you can quickly click through areas instead of having to walk (honestly the atmosphere in Myst isn't great, there's not much reason to "drink it in" walking sim style). If you really care about a flashy new & updated experience, just wait for the new one to release--but if you want the best Myst experience around? Buy Riven. Here's a good review of the currently available versions though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIzPuUuOq0Q
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Jan 31, 2021 20:56
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"Walking sim" is lovely and stupid but also there hasn't been a single video game genre invented in the last 25 years, or ever, that wasn't given the dumbest name possible so gently caress it.
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Jan 31, 2021 23:48
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Veotax posted:I recoil every time I see someone try to actually make "0451 game" a thing. First Person Frobbers
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Feb 1, 2021 04:15
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Prey is System Shock 3 and Dishonored is Thief 4 and I will not hear other wise Those games are nothing alike, you don't pick up or use things with right click. You absolute charlatan.
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Feb 2, 2021 00:00
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So I've played about enough Hexceed now to realize how different from Hexcells it is. It's got different mechanics but the big deal is the difference in execution. Where Hexcells tends to be about expertly difficult puzzles--at least later in the franchise, Hexceed seems to be a lot more about the flow of speed-minesweepering. Hexceed drops some tricky spots requiring solid deduction here and there, but most of the time it's pretty laid-back and simple with ENORMOUS interconnected puzzles that flow together in a satisfying way. The very last puzzle in the tutorial set has 130 mines and about 500 or so cells, it's wild. They're both excellent games with their own place in my library. The jury is still out on the Hexceed expansion season-pass thing but it's cheap enough and the game slick enough that even if it doesn't introduce enough new mechanics and puzzles months down the road, it's probably still going to be worth it.
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Feb 2, 2021 05:27
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I picked up a steam controller during that blowout sale when they were $5 and immediately fell in love with the exquisite haptics and the pad feeling 1:1 with a physical trackball--I was blown away. Then Steam automatically updated the controller and made the pad haptics way weaker thanks a lot gaben. e; wow trash rear end snipe. have a better post instead, The 7th Guest posted:so I mentioned demos for this week's Steam Festival from the youtube trailers but I wanted to point out some more that'll be in the festival (which starts tomorrow)
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Feb 3, 2021 04:40
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Det_no posted:THQ Nordic bought Gearbox. That's some mindblowing poo poo. Every time I read about a thing being bought by another thing I can feel another tiny little bit of my spirt being sucked right out of me. I have no skin in this game and I'm still somehow exhausted by it. I can just see Randy sitting on a handsome chunk of cash while the rest of Gearbox's employees worry about how hosed up things are about to become despite being explicitly told that nothing concerning them will change.
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Feb 3, 2021 08:26
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There are a whole lot of twinstick shooters in this fest, and surprisingly there are at least 3 separate hex-based chill city/landscape builders without combat of any kind.
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Feb 3, 2021 20:07
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FutureCop posted:As long as I download these demos, do they stay? Or are they limited and they disappear after awhile? Festival limited demos will redirect you to purchase the game if available when you attempt to play it once the festival is over, and there's no way of knowing which ones will do this. I also want to recommend Exo One from previous festivals, I've played the demo 3 or 4 times and I'm aching for more. I'm starting to get sort of unchuffed over it not being out yet. https://store.steampowered.com/app/773370/Exo_One/
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Feb 3, 2021 21:09
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I gave Flippfly's SNES Starfox-inspired Whisker Squadron demo a couple hours and it feels like Race the Sun was retooled into a starfox game, complete with the same 3 or 4 chunks of level layout & obstacles procedurally repeated throughout every level. It's pretty undercooked, buggy as hell, and the roguelike elements just aren't well balanced. The upgrades are so expensive and health restoration items so rare that it's pretty unlikely you'll buy anything but "restore shields" from shops. The only time I could afford a mechanical upgrade and had ample health, nothing but "restore shields" appeared in the shop.  Aspects of it really have that 3D FX Starfox feel though, and I'm very into that. SNES Starfox was absolutely my poo poo and this has got me stoked on it, so I'm looking for any recommendations that ape on that game specifically. e; I answered my own wishes, and found Ex Zodiac which also has a demo up for the festival, funny enough. treat fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Feb 4, 2021 06:02
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Oh yeah, hot dog. Ex Zodiac feels real good and absolutely has that 3DFX thing going on. I'm gonna give the demo a solid recommend
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Feb 4, 2021 06:21
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I’d much rather have humble than gamepass, if only because it gives steam keys and even steams dogshit-level UI and download manager is miles ahead of gamepass’s “whatever is leaking from a terminal Ebola patient” level setup. I just had to reinstall windows and now I have 100GB of inaccessible data on D: that game pass won't recognize as being there and which windows won't let me manually delete.
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Feb 6, 2021 03:56
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StrixNebulosa posted:Don't Get Bit came out on Jan 29th this year and is a smaller bite-sized tactics/puzzle game where you guide your characters through levels and try to survive. It's explicit about how the game is meant to be played three times, and each win brings out more difficult challenges. It's also explicit about how there's no RNG, only your brain and lots of zombies. In a similar vein is HyperRogue, a hex-based roguelike in a non-euclidean world. There are an absolute rear end ton of different areas with various gimmicks and it's still being actively developed--and not in early access. You can find an older, free version on the Google Play Store. e; some of the top reviews have 100 - 1000 hours in this game  one of those reviews is by a dude I found on youtube making off-the-cuff videos on the game https://www.youtube.com/user/coldstarfish and if he's not a goon I'll eat my neckbeard to qualify all this, I'll mention I have about 30 hours logged in it and I think it's wonderful. People who like puzzle games like minesweeper or hexcells/hexceed & want something more exploration and action based might get on well with it treat fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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Feb 8, 2021 05:25
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rt4 posted:Is this a covid thread now? idgi but just in case you're actually confused, no, this is the Yakuza thread
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Feb 11, 2021 02:37
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pentyne posted:Pathologic 2 
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Feb 14, 2021 01:12
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Blattdorf posted:Demoncrawl is going to have Online Multiplayer. I was thinking of Crawl and couldn't believe the commenters on that video were taking it so well.
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Feb 15, 2021 06:48
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awesmoe posted:how so? im struggling to get worked up about it - if you want them permanently you can buy them. I got 5 months of game pass free with a CPU and the only thing I was interested in was Metro: Exodous, which was removed 3 days after my subscription started. It's great for trying things I'd never bother buying, especially since those sorts of games are almost exclusively what the service offers. It turns out that owning ever more games is a pretty weird point of stress in my life that makes me feel obligated to play them, and by not actually buying a game and avoiding that sense of obligation I am apparently a lot more likely to actually play something instead of endlessly browsing my library thinking "I should play that at some point" That said I have no idea why I'm still paying for game pass
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Feb 16, 2021 23:33
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