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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates VIII - Don't ask when the sales are starting.
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That'd be true even if the only game releasing next year were The Witcher 3.Everything about it seems amazing.
This is a true statement and is worth repeating.
I am pretty excited about this game but will likely wait for reviews. I am also excited about how it portends for Torment which I backed...
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
you ever hear back from valve re: a job?
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Nope, not yet.
"One of the <x> ever" is pretty effete for a recommendation. Peter Dinklage is one of the tallest men ever. Easily in the top hundred trillion.
Ghost Trick! Ghost Trick!
999 is basically an interactive book with some mild puzzles. While the story is very intriguing (but I wasn't really amazed by it like probably everyone else in the world), it has a huge issue: to fully get it you need to "play" the game several times - and by playing I mean holding B for literally dozens of minutes to fast-forward all the story you already read, until you get to some fork in the plot (and the only way to know it is having a preferably non-spoilery guide handy) where you pick a different answer and proceed with the new bits of story.
Stuff like these are always super annoying to me, but anyway I wanted to know all the aspects of the story, so I endured it all, and I have to say it was worth it.
TWEWY is an interesting take on JRPGs, full of skills to collect, and with a refeshingly original setting (granted you're somewhat interested in Shibuya fashion).
It's problem, for me, lies in what would arguably its main pro: the combat system. It's a real time system, where you at the same time control the character on the lower screen while chaining combos with the character on the upper screen.
I don't remember it really well, but fuck it, it was extremely difficult, like I needed four hands to do all the stuff I was supposed to do.
Ghost Trick instead is overall extremely good.
It's from the same guy of Ace Attorney series, so if you like that kind of story, you should love this one.
Differently from AA, this one is basically a puzzle game, where you have to interact with objects on the scene to rewrite the course of time. Very fun to play, very fun to read. Super recommended & Copons approved.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Glad U55 is still kicking.
Steam doesn't seem to want me to update Typing Of The Dead: Overkill. It just sits there, not a single byte coming in for it while four other games quickly went by. Why must I suffer like G did?
Exciting. As Wasteland and Fallout 1 and 2 are some of my favourite computer RPGs from back in the day, I'm looking forward to this quite a bit. Just looks right.
The World Ends With You is a title I highly recommend, one of my favourite RPGs of all time and enough I played it in both Japanese and English (I didn't think it would be localised) and still have a small desire to go back to it.
It's biggest hurdle is the strange battle system of using two screens at once or depending on an A.I. to try and do a decent job, but once you get a handle on either of those aspects it's quite involved and rewarding when it's all done right in the same way a 40x combo in Arkham Asylum was AND doing well at DDR/Rock Band/Guitar Hero.
All the stickers to give various boosts, abilities, and minor changes offer a lot of incentive to try out different things and tactics, to do numerous battles for the fun of it all.
Ghost Trick I also love very much, but it is a title like many Adventure titles or visual novels, treated as something to have a very fun time the first go around and not something you may touch again until it's been forgotten from your memory or you want to revisit it like a familiar episode of a show that makes you laugh.
Strong sense of humour, right up there with the Ace Attorney series (but less weird), proper comedic bent of noire traditions out of Japan for story telling, and decent puzzles that are amusing to solve and figure out.
I can't speak to 999 as I don't care for Visual Novels, but it is generally regarded as one of the best out there. So if you really want a visual novel, go for this one.
Exciting. As Wasteland and Fallout 1 and 2 are some of my favourite computer RPGs from back in the day, I'm looking forward to this quite a bit. Just looks right.
The World Ends With You is a title I highly recommend, one of my favourite RPGs of all time and enough I played it in both Japanese and English (I didn't think it would be localised) and still have a small desire to go back to it.
It's biggest hurdle is the strange battle system of using two screens at once or depending on an A.I. to try and do a decent job, but once you get a handle on either of those aspects it's quite involved and rewarding when it's all done right in the same way a 40x combo in Arkham Asylum was AND doing well at DDR/Rock Band/Guitar Hero.
All the stickers to give various boosts, abilities, and minor changes offer a lot of incentive to try out different things and tactics, to do numerous battles for the fun of it all.
Ghost Trick I also love very much, but it is a title like many Adventure titles or visual novels, treated as something to have a very fun time the first go around and not something you may touch again until it's been forgotten from your memory or you want to revisit it like a familiar episode of a show that makes you laugh.
Strong sense of humour, right up there with the Ace Attorney series (but less weird), proper comedic bent of noire traditions out of Japan for story telling, and decent puzzles that are amusing to solve and figure out.
I can't speak to 999 as I don't care for Visual Novels, but it is generally regarded as one of the best out there. So if you really want a visual novel, go for this one.
Not difficult at all. You don't need to control the 2nd character if you don't want to. Plus the difficulty options are brilliant and can cater to absolutely anybody.
Its an amazing, amazing game. Never played anything else like it.
Just hard. I was never a fan of slowmo, hence I'm always forgetful to use it. Though I'm sure the game is designed around the skill, so I'll have to adapt. I've turned it down to moderate difficulty for the time, until/if I get a grasp on the gameplay.
So it's 3 TWEWY vs 1 999 vs 1 GT vs 1 TWEWY and GT. And even though they are on iOS (I only knew about the Ace Attorney games, thanks for the heads-up Grief!), I don't have any Apple product, and I don't think I'd play them there even if I had.
Guess I'll go with TWEWY then, it seems like the one I'll have most fun with (plus it's the one that won). Thanks!
Guess I'll go with TWEWY then, it seems like the one I'll have most fun with (plus it's the one that won). Thanks!
I kinda have a love-hate relationship with Incognita.
I love most of it, but the
bloody short turn/time limit
I'm a careful person, dammit, I don't want to rush!
LIFE DOESN'T WAIT FOR YOU!
Play-time: The World Ends With You > 999 > Ghost Trick
Story: 999 > Ghost Trick > World Ends With You
Gameplay: Ghost Trick > World Ends With You > 999
So... there ya go! That should answer everything.
How is it, if you don't mind me asking? I'm not usually keen on jumping in this early in a game's development, but it does look tempting.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
BWACKFRIDAYSAELOMGBRBBBQ
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Calm before the storm.
We wait.
Playing games in our library?
Quaint.
But when it comes...
As the sale drums pulls us from our comfortable slums...
Wait for the daily deals.
My wallet is not ready.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Ghost Trick is a puzzle game, and honestly the best of the ones I've played (haven't touched 999). Fun writing, good puzzles, great soundtrack.
TWEWY is a good RPG, but the battle system is kind of hit-or-miss, the soundtrack is pretty subjetive too, if you like/tolerate jpop, it is great. It is like 20 hours to complete plus some post game and NG+.
EDIT: Ghost Trick is $9.99 in iOS, and it is a great port.
You could be thinking of Conception? But I think Agarest also has touches of it.
Yep!
How is it, if you don't mind me asking? I'm not usually keen on jumping in this early in a game's development, but it does look tempting.
Its great, they only have one demo level live right now so there isn't that much other than a proof of concept.
I will just be waiting until the full release to play it next year.
Yeah I'd like to know what that is too. Probably yet another game forcing me to download DLC I likely don't want.
No, there was one SRPG that was HIGHLY perverted and had like upskirt shots and stuff on Playstation 3 this past generation. I think Aksys published it and it was about dating the females to make stronger units in "future generations" or something like that. I don't think Agrest is it, but I know there's a title that had a similar ring...
Wait what?? Where the DW keys at?
So, I was running GameSave Manager, as I usually do, to backup my saves to dropbox.
Anyway, it's getting stuck when looking for the saves for 3079, a game that was recently added to steam.
I went to the folder to check it out and.. it has more than 2000 files, named .chunk of 1kb each. The game is auto generating the terrain, but as you move around, it saves a new 1kb file of what I guess is the surrounding area.
What the fuck is up with this? Who would design something like this?
Anyway, it's getting stuck when looking for the saves for 3079, a game that was recently added to steam.
I went to the folder to check it out and.. it has more than 2000 files, named .chunk of 1kb each. The game is auto generating the terrain, but as you move around, it saves a new 1kb file of what I guess is the surrounding area.
What the fuck is up with this? Who would design something like this?
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
China.
Man, I'm a huge heavy metal fan and despise Jpop but I thought the soundtrack was actually pretty cool. Its more like some weird, Japanese electronic indie music than typical Jpop.
In that case I'll put my money towards increasing my backlog in the next Steam sale instead.
All I can think of then is Conception, which was an SRPG on PSP where you seduced various girls, impregnated them, then took the babies into dungeons to fight for you. It has a sequel on 3DS and Vita.
TC McQueen
Member
You might be thinking of Conception, but Agarest does have romance elements that are supposed to produce kids IIRC.
Gah I was pretty psyched to pick up a PS4 eventually (Infamous was my ticket). But local pricing on software showed up at the SEN store & retail. It's a fucking 60% increase. So yeah not picking that shit up anytime in the near future. Funny enough something like Black Flag goes Cheapest on PC > then like a 20% increase to PS3 .. then a 60% increase to PS4. In fact I can Buy almost three newly PC releases before I get one PS4 title lol
Publishers can kiss me where the sun don't shine, I'm done with consoles.
Publishers can kiss me where the sun don't shine, I'm done with consoles.
Right...
Tesseract
Banned
a day in the life of alfred dlc megaquest for tangerine sandwiches.
Oh, no. I'm right. It wasn't Aksys or NISA or Atlus. It was Ghostlight. (Edit: Okay it was Aksys in the US.)
Well... I dunno if i want to get that on sale for $11 now...
trailmix16
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this will be my first big sale. Excited
so scared
HalfwayOrb
Member
I have... 10 bucks! For the special Steam sales! Yay!
For a game or two
Might buy a steam gift card this Friday.
For a game or two
Might buy a steam gift card this Friday.
Lovely, especially for people with 64kB cluster.
And here I thought The Witcher 2 had large savegame folder...
Grampa Simpson
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