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STEAM | May 2017 - Praeying for Dino Crisis
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ramoisdead
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Judging from the looks of this game, we're in the wrong timeline.
Why aren't the statues animefied?
jediyoshi
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I like how the top description can't have formatting, so 'Welcome to North Korea.' is kept intact.
GrinningColossus
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These guys have a patreon for making (and I quote) "Offensive Visual Novels~" and they're making $351 a month based on that pitch. How do people like this subsist?
Edit: toned down language. Maybe I was being harsh.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I'm actually surprised there's still no Monopoly in Steam.
I know most probably have this game at this point but people have gifted me games from the Steam thread so I thought I should at least offer this.
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Due you mean the game or within the Steam app itself?
Because the -patented and branded- game is right here, and has been since 2012:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/221300/Monopoly/
ramoisdead
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Wrong thread.
Well I will comment and say I haven't played XG2 in the longest. It'll be nice to relive those times I played it on the N64.
Well I will comment and say I haven't played XG2 in the longest. It'll be nice to relive those times I played it on the N64.
now this lady looks like kat
btw thx for the game xeteh, i kind of wanted a game to murder stuff in so that feels like it'll do
Xtreme G is tight
Chance Hale
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I thought I remembered Psychonauts being one of the few Double Fine games that are actually fun to play but God damn it feels like you're jumping through molasses
Art design is the main appeal which makes going from crisp 4k to 420p cutscene constantly really jarring. Real time cutscenes forever
Art design is the main appeal which makes going from crisp 4k to 420p cutscene constantly really jarring. Real time cutscenes forever
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
fuck, how come I never saw this
those mixed reviews though... goddamnit popcap
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Oh man. My childhood!
Freeza Under The Shower
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Completed SOMA, and while I appreciate it sticking to its premise story wise, I also can't help there is missed opportunity for making things more complex that would make it favorable to replaying it more often (
. At the same time, the fact that its achievements are not empty badges of 'do this x times' is something I really do like, particularly in hindsight after completing it.
also, thank god for
or at all, unfortunately
also, thank god for
there being a godmode switch in the user config settings.
someguyinahat
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Your impressions for Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition (Well, they might be new HOG makers, but they've sure done their homework in making titles for them.)
The story: Hooboy, where to begin? You play Mary (no last name directly given but you have a grandfather with the last name Creek, so there's a 50% chance your last name is Creek,) a mother of indeterminate profession who receives a letter from said grandfather. She's told she's not an orphan and to come to his estate in India immediately. When she gets there, her husband is injured and her daughter is kidnapped by a ripped dude on a winged buffalo. You have one objective: save your daughter. (You leave your husband in the care of some stranger. He'll be fine. He doesn't show up until the endgame, and your daughter only cries out for her mamma, not her papa, so you know, no biggie. Fish and bicycle and all that.) The opening cutscene shows that same ripped dude in 1750 BC being chained up and tortured, and some other chick casting an immortality spell on him, killing herself in the process. So there's Indian mythological stuff going on, past life stuff, love triangle stuff, plot holes, it gets kinda weird.
In the bonus chapter, you play a literal Deus Ex Machina who resolves what happened in the main story.
They tried to make it a little deeper and more epic than the average hidden object game, and to some extent they succeeded, but at the same time the genre is kinda constraining. If they had gone full-on point-and-click adventure, it might have been more effective. There are some collectible "memories" that show off some of your daughter's past, and the developers really captured the mind of a precocious six-year-old. (A Christmas wish list asking for an iPad, an iPhone, a computer, an Xbox and a WiiU? A note asking mom that if she gets her a Pepsi, will she unlock the door - check yes or no? A picture of her wearing a fake moustache and boxing gloves coupled with a note asking to take karate? Yup, this kid's in grade one alright.) So while it wasn't perfectly well-told, you can see lots of effort put into this, and I can respect that.
The audio and dialogue: Rare is the hidden-object game where there's good voice direction, and Darkarta...is no exception. The protagonist voice actress sounds like she's done dozens of these kind of games and just trots out the same voice over and over. As a result, some of the emotion gets stripped away. Would it kill someone to say, "Okay, try that line again, but now keep in mind you just saw a vision of your daughter in a cage like an animal, crying out for you to save her, and you're filled with sadness and cold determination to do just that?" That sort of thing separates the good games from the great ones. Well, that, and making sure all the characters pronounce the names the same way. There were three different pronounciations of "Nagin." Also, the daughter's character voice seemed to change halfway through the game, like maybe it was done on different days and the actor forgot what she sounded like? I dunno. It was okay overall, but a little wooden.
Mary sure does jump into everything with both feet though. Apparently the daughter had foreknowledge that she'd be kidnapped by a "dark king" on a winged buffalo and asks Mary if she'd save her. Then Mary is all "Why didn't I take her seriously?" Um...because you're a rational human being? She takes her past life in stride, as if it was a given, but it could be interpreted as Mary's just going with the flow and being all "okay, fine, whatever, just want to save my daughter."
Worst character? EASILY the grandmother. You use a magic McGuffin to summon her ghost, and she's all "You done goofed in your past life and that's why all this is happening now." You rightly ask, "What did I do?" and she responds, "Time will disclose." Bitch, I summoned you from the other side and all you can tell me is to wait and see? If you're not gonna be helpful, why even bother answering the summons?
The graphics:The environments look great, there are some neat cutscenes with water effects that are really good for a HOG, there are flying scenes reminiscent of King's Quest VI, so far so good. Then...there are the characters. Some are passable (the caretaker at the beginning, the ripped dude, the sorceress,) and some are...yeesh! (The husband, and ESPECIALLY the daughter. She has some serious uncanny-valley creep factor. Almost made me not want to save her.) Never understood why developers of HOGs hardly ever stylize their characters in different ways.
The gameplay: Stays true to the holy trinity of inventory puzzles, minigames and hidden object scenes, although there were a few minigames I hadn't seen before which is always nice. Some of the hidden object scenes contained items that were behind other items so you couldn't see them until you clicked something in front of it. That makes for a more realistic scenario, but a less fun one. In future, developers, if you do that, make sure the ones you can't currently see are in a different colour in the word list.
The game has more achievements than most HOGs, which is fine, but they had some crummy ones. "Play the game without a tutorial." This should never EVER happen. There are two achievements for "collect all the missable items." (Yes, there are TWO types of missable items.) There are so many ways to make this less annoying and they blundered on all of them: allow backtracking to every area so things aren't truly missable. Say: "You're about to leave this area and haven't collected everything. Are you sure you want to continue?" Allow you to replay the game without having to re-find all the missables you already found. Nope, nope, and nope. You miss? You gotta replay the game from scratch. Hopefully they live and learn on this one.
The length: Well in my first go-through I got the achievement for "beat the game in four hours," even though my Steam profile said 5. Not sure which to go with. Either way, slightly longer than average.
The verdict: As far as hidden object games go, it's actually pretty good. It's not perfect, but for a new company's first try it's great. It feels like Artifex Mundi with an Indian twist. Lots of potential here. I'd recommend it.
The story: Hooboy, where to begin? You play Mary (no last name directly given but you have a grandfather with the last name Creek, so there's a 50% chance your last name is Creek,) a mother of indeterminate profession who receives a letter from said grandfather. She's told she's not an orphan and to come to his estate in India immediately. When she gets there, her husband is injured and her daughter is kidnapped by a ripped dude on a winged buffalo. You have one objective: save your daughter. (You leave your husband in the care of some stranger. He'll be fine. He doesn't show up until the endgame, and your daughter only cries out for her mamma, not her papa, so you know, no biggie. Fish and bicycle and all that.) The opening cutscene shows that same ripped dude in 1750 BC being chained up and tortured, and some other chick casting an immortality spell on him, killing herself in the process. So there's Indian mythological stuff going on, past life stuff, love triangle stuff, plot holes, it gets kinda weird.
In the bonus chapter, you play a literal Deus Ex Machina who resolves what happened in the main story.
They tried to make it a little deeper and more epic than the average hidden object game, and to some extent they succeeded, but at the same time the genre is kinda constraining. If they had gone full-on point-and-click adventure, it might have been more effective. There are some collectible "memories" that show off some of your daughter's past, and the developers really captured the mind of a precocious six-year-old. (A Christmas wish list asking for an iPad, an iPhone, a computer, an Xbox and a WiiU? A note asking mom that if she gets her a Pepsi, will she unlock the door - check yes or no? A picture of her wearing a fake moustache and boxing gloves coupled with a note asking to take karate? Yup, this kid's in grade one alright.) So while it wasn't perfectly well-told, you can see lots of effort put into this, and I can respect that.
The audio and dialogue: Rare is the hidden-object game where there's good voice direction, and Darkarta...is no exception. The protagonist voice actress sounds like she's done dozens of these kind of games and just trots out the same voice over and over. As a result, some of the emotion gets stripped away. Would it kill someone to say, "Okay, try that line again, but now keep in mind you just saw a vision of your daughter in a cage like an animal, crying out for you to save her, and you're filled with sadness and cold determination to do just that?" That sort of thing separates the good games from the great ones. Well, that, and making sure all the characters pronounce the names the same way. There were three different pronounciations of "Nagin." Also, the daughter's character voice seemed to change halfway through the game, like maybe it was done on different days and the actor forgot what she sounded like? I dunno. It was okay overall, but a little wooden.
Mary sure does jump into everything with both feet though. Apparently the daughter had foreknowledge that she'd be kidnapped by a "dark king" on a winged buffalo and asks Mary if she'd save her. Then Mary is all "Why didn't I take her seriously?" Um...because you're a rational human being? She takes her past life in stride, as if it was a given, but it could be interpreted as Mary's just going with the flow and being all "okay, fine, whatever, just want to save my daughter."
Worst character? EASILY the grandmother. You use a magic McGuffin to summon her ghost, and she's all "You done goofed in your past life and that's why all this is happening now." You rightly ask, "What did I do?" and she responds, "Time will disclose." Bitch, I summoned you from the other side and all you can tell me is to wait and see? If you're not gonna be helpful, why even bother answering the summons?
The graphics:The environments look great, there are some neat cutscenes with water effects that are really good for a HOG, there are flying scenes reminiscent of King's Quest VI, so far so good. Then...there are the characters. Some are passable (the caretaker at the beginning, the ripped dude, the sorceress,) and some are...yeesh! (The husband, and ESPECIALLY the daughter. She has some serious uncanny-valley creep factor. Almost made me not want to save her.) Never understood why developers of HOGs hardly ever stylize their characters in different ways.
The gameplay: Stays true to the holy trinity of inventory puzzles, minigames and hidden object scenes, although there were a few minigames I hadn't seen before which is always nice. Some of the hidden object scenes contained items that were behind other items so you couldn't see them until you clicked something in front of it. That makes for a more realistic scenario, but a less fun one. In future, developers, if you do that, make sure the ones you can't currently see are in a different colour in the word list.
The game has more achievements than most HOGs, which is fine, but they had some crummy ones. "Play the game without a tutorial." This should never EVER happen. There are two achievements for "collect all the missable items." (Yes, there are TWO types of missable items.) There are so many ways to make this less annoying and they blundered on all of them: allow backtracking to every area so things aren't truly missable. Say: "You're about to leave this area and haven't collected everything. Are you sure you want to continue?" Allow you to replay the game without having to re-find all the missables you already found. Nope, nope, and nope. You miss? You gotta replay the game from scratch. Hopefully they live and learn on this one.
The length: Well in my first go-through I got the achievement for "beat the game in four hours," even though my Steam profile said 5. Not sure which to go with. Either way, slightly longer than average.
The verdict: As far as hidden object games go, it's actually pretty good. It's not perfect, but for a new company's first try it's great. It feels like Artifex Mundi with an Indian twist. Lots of potential here. I'd recommend it.
The Dear Leader
Banned
I'm too stupid for Stephen's Sausage Roll...
And thats why I only went for BTA. The other game sounded interesting but I've seen enough of SSR to know I have zero interest in playing it. I'm too dumb.
Jawmuncher
Member
I always see the mistakes
Rickenslacker
Banned
Ohh this takes me back. My friends and I spent a bunch of time playing it on school computers back in 7th grade.
Coreda
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Glider. There was something so simple yet challenging to the concept. Only ever played the demo on OS9. Doubt GOG would host it though, they're too picky.
Leafhopper
Banned
When is Xtreme G 3 coming to Steam?
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Glider. There was something so simple yet challenging to the concept. Only ever played the demo on OS9. Doubt GOG would host it though, they're too picky.
holy jesus flashback
Rockin' Ranger
Member
Same for me please if we've got a SteamGAF discord.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
yeah that's neat
So, does disabling the WIndows Update service lets you indefinitely defer updates on Home versions?
Asking for a friend.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Glider. There was something so simple yet challenging to the concept. Only ever played the demo on OS9. Doubt GOG would host it though, they're too picky.
Loved this game.
Chance Hale
Member
The levitation ball in Psychonauts is really frustrating to use because there are invisible walls everywhere.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Oh, and you have to listen to Se7en's puns. NON-NEGOTIABLE!
Oh, and you have to listen to Se7en's puns. NON-NEGOTIABLE!
Se7en puns are charming in an awkward dad joke way so no issues with me. Hit me up breh.
thesaucetastic
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Didn't realize there was a discord for steam gaf, but it makes sense in retrospect.
On the plus side, it does wonders for speedruns apparently.
Yep. The camera works against it too.
On the plus side, it does wonders for speedruns apparently.
Oh, and you have to listen to Se7en's puns. NON-NEGOTIABLE!
I'd sign up for a discord link as well, probably won't be much active though, I'm busy enough keeping up with the Gaf threads
The figure on the page is the total as requests are submitted through the help site (also note the low typical response time), but, yeah, provided the request isn't outside of either window and your account hasn't been flagged as potentially abusive of the system.
Backlogger
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The only game I didn't have in the Star Wars bundle was the Clone Wars game so it was only $1.15 to complete the collection
Good deal I guess
Good deal I guess
man i can't believe i didn't find that second bonfire in the undead settlement on my first playthrough
i mean, it's right fucking there, there's like a lantern drawing you to it and everything
i feel mega rusty but that level is actually quite hard if you don't find that, i guess on my serious playthroughs i play more careful but i can't believe i didn't get stuck in this level for weeks lol
i mean, it's right fucking there, there's like a lantern drawing you to it and everything
i feel mega rusty but that level is actually quite hard if you don't find that, i guess on my serious playthroughs i play more careful but i can't believe i didn't get stuck in this level for weeks lol
Oh. Cool. More anime cheesecake brawling. I only know one thing about Valkyrie Drive, and that trailer is missing it.
I heard that anime is stupid, but this is more than stupid >.<
She summoned a girl and they kissed so the summoned girl becomes fighting gloves?
Home version won't be affected by the upcoming 10S.
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