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Steam Winter Sale 2016 thread of hoping for better deals elsewhere
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AngmarsKing701
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Both of my sons picked up KOTOR 1 and 2 last night. Son #1 fired up KOTOR 1 only to realize, no controller support. Ugh. He ploughed through regardless, created a character, and then the game froze.
Ugh o rama.
Ugh o rama.
SquirrelWide
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Get the game you spoiler tagged. You won't regret it.
Yay, definitely, one of the best games of the current generation. What a ride.
someguyinahat
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The only thing I ended up buying for myself was the Sierra classic bundle. But hey, that's okay.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I really hate it that you need to look up a guide for better scores, and how your early games could only scratch 50%
Servizio
I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
PCgamingwiki has some instructions on getting gamepads to work, and some common crash solutions. They also have links to Steam and GOG community forums which can be helpful.
If I remember right, KotORs got some pretty good mods too for various additional content and quality of life stuff. KotOR 2 has a lot cut content that can be patched back in as well.
AngmarsKing701
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Thank you so much!
Kotor needs a lot of work unfortunately, but KOTOR 2 has been updated recently by Aspyr to run properly on modern OS, resolutions, control methods, and even added in Steam Workshop support for convenience.
Tizoc
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feel free to Post about the PC games you've beaten or played in the Steam OT when it goes up. We always appreciate impressions on games from fellow GAFfers :3
Oh and start with Oath in Felghana before Origin if you could~
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Started playing BioShock Remastered. The world-building is really good, and the mix of powers + gunplay can be fun. I dislike how they limit your use of said powers by making EVE kinda hard to come by though. I'm always low on it. And I dunno... FPS games get on my nerves really easily for some reason. I'll try to see it through to the end but I had to stop playing this morning because I was starting to get annoyed for no particular reason.
I only bought Paint It Back and Sethian for myself, everything else was like $60 worth of Christmas gifts. Really loving Paint It Back, though. And Sethian has just been on my radar for a while now. I was gonna buy Strata, but it's never on sale (been on my wishlist for literally 2 years now), so next I have CDN$4.49 lying around at the end of my budget, I'll buy it, I guess. 😂
someguyinahat
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Are you sure that reason wasn't "the pipe dream minigame?"
DarkChronic
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Definitely yay! I loved it. Ending left me pretty shook
HungOverOnATues
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Barring any last minute purchases, I ended up with:
Endless Legend - Tempest (DLC)
Twilight Struggle
Ikaruga
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
The Witness
Resident Evil 4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
FINAL FANTASY XIV + Heavensward (DLC)
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear (DLC)
XCOM 2 - Shen's Last Gift (DLC)
Stronghold Crusader HD
I don't think I've spent more than 10 hours playing an MMO in the past, but I've been interested in trying out FFXIV for a while now. I figure I'll at least give it the free month to see how it goes.
Endless Legend - Tempest (DLC)
Twilight Struggle
Ikaruga
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
The Witness
Resident Evil 4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
FINAL FANTASY XIV + Heavensward (DLC)
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear (DLC)
XCOM 2 - Shen's Last Gift (DLC)
Stronghold Crusader HD
I don't think I've spent more than 10 hours playing an MMO in the past, but I've been interested in trying out FFXIV for a while now. I figure I'll at least give it the free month to see how it goes.
Last Baron
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Trying to reign in my spending only got INSIDE, Broken Sword 3 & 4, and Verde Station thanks to trading in some old 360 games to Gamestop
ASilentProtagonist
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The House in Fata Morgana - Chapter VII (no this isn't over yet)
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
And soulcrushing.
Going on my GOTY-list for sure.
Damn, this game looks very interesting, and atmospheric.
More_Badass
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Who's doing the OT this month btw? I usually try to submit monthly release blurbs
Last Baron
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Still looking for 2x Just 5 More Minutes cards, have lots of others from the set, please send offers
EDIT: Too late, I got impatient and bought them instead
EDIT: Too late, I got impatient and bought them instead
Tizoc
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MRORANGE has been posting the OTs for the longest time and he already has Jan's thread written up. It might go up in about an hour though I'd rather it go up already
Head of Vengarl
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No I don't think I've done that yet. Unless this is a reference/joke I'm missing. :S
MulderYuffie
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are there any games like cook,serve,delicious currently out on Steam?
More_Badass
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Ideally, Darkest Dungeon trains you to be ruthless. Use your party until they break and then abandon them for fresh fodder
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It depends what element you're looking for. Cook, Serve, Delicious descends from the time management genre that goes back as far as Tapper (1983). There are dozens of games broadly in this genre on Steam, including the Dash series (Diner Dash, Wedding Dash, Fitness Dash, etc.) Chubigans' other game, The Oil Blue, is also a time management game. A brief search even says there's dozens of Cooking-related time management games on Steam like Cooking Academy Fire and Knives, The Cooking Game, Cooking Dash.
Overcooked is maybe the hottest game that's at all connected in design to Cook, Serve, Delicious right now. It's couch co-op oriented, has a top-down view, but it is themed around cooking and mechanically designed around efficiently trying to put recipes together while juggling jobs. Local multiplayer only, btw.
I believe Job Simulator VR has a cooking mode too, but there's an upcoming first-person line cook game that looks really good. I just can't remember the name. A GAF member works on it.
Finally, Cook Serve Delicious 2 is coming out soon!
CecilRousso
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I also thought it was tempting, until I read that it takes about 80h to beat it, and the new planned "short mode" the devs are doing will still take 40h.
purseowner
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Made my final small purchases of the sale.
Pony Island
Hot Tin Roof
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
Heard plenty of praise for Pony Island, any impressions for the other two?
Pony Island
Hot Tin Roof
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
Heard plenty of praise for Pony Island, any impressions for the other two?
GamePnoy74
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Ok, I got Varstay...Jesus Chirst I swear I should have gotten hit by 99.9% of the bullets thrown at me...I have no Idea how I survived the first 6 levels on normal arcade mode in my very first play lol
Great game, exactly what I needed. Thanks for the rec! =)
Gunblade47
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Got the Age of Empires 2 HD Bundle as a last minute purchase. Enjoy that game a lot and hopefully the expansions can keep me busy.
Nabs
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I liked Max for the most part. The first half was kind of a drag, because they kinda drip feed you your skills. The game gets much better when you're given all your skills. It's about a 4.5 hr game, so it's worth checking out.
Tizoc
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sTEAM Thread January 2017 - Frankly Absurd Total Amount of Meticulously Organized Random Games Amassed Next to Advent
So I've adopted a new philosophy for big Steam sales this year. I noticed that in the past I was gobbling up titles of interest simply because they were so deeply discounted for a limited time. The idea being that I would get to them some time down the road when my current rotation freed up a bit. It took me a long time to realize that this basically never happens. By the time I was ready to try something new sometime later, my interests were already elsewhere. So that big collection of Steam Sale games I picked up for a rainy day just sat there 90% untouched.
I decided that for the moment I'm only willing to buy games that I'm ready to play Right Now. It's reduced my purchasing dramatically yet also increased my buy to play ratio to 100% over the past couple sales. I couldn't be happier with the results. No pressure to stockpile. No guilt over a dusty, unplayed pile. Feels liberating.
So the only purchases I made for myself this time around were;
Darkest Dungeon
Subnautica
Lakeview Cabin Collection
I've already put significant time into each and look forward digging deeper. Esp. Darkest Dungeon (** swoon **).
There's a number of games I did want to pull the trigger on...Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, Orwell, Even The Ocean, Lisa, Firewatch and more. But I just knew I wouldn't be playing them anytime soon. But who knows? With the money I'm saving I just might pick any of these up individually at full price when I'm ready to actually sit down and enjoy them.
Anyway, great sale overall. Quite enjoyed reading everyone's activity and "should I or shouldn't I?" queries. This is always one of my favorite forum topics of the year.
I decided that for the moment I'm only willing to buy games that I'm ready to play Right Now. It's reduced my purchasing dramatically yet also increased my buy to play ratio to 100% over the past couple sales. I couldn't be happier with the results. No pressure to stockpile. No guilt over a dusty, unplayed pile. Feels liberating.
So the only purchases I made for myself this time around were;
Darkest Dungeon
Subnautica
Lakeview Cabin Collection
I've already put significant time into each and look forward digging deeper. Esp. Darkest Dungeon (** swoon **).
There's a number of games I did want to pull the trigger on...Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, Orwell, Even The Ocean, Lisa, Firewatch and more. But I just knew I wouldn't be playing them anytime soon. But who knows? With the money I'm saving I just might pick any of these up individually at full price when I'm ready to actually sit down and enjoy them.
Anyway, great sale overall. Quite enjoyed reading everyone's activity and "should I or shouldn't I?" queries. This is always one of my favorite forum topics of the year.
ASilentProtagonist
Member
Ori time!
general dan
Member
Pretty good Sale this year.
ramoisdead
Member
Steam | January 2017 - GET PUMPED! GAMEPUMPED!
OnionPowder
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last thing i bought was a copy of bad rats the show for a friend
Nabs
Member
GAMEPUMP |OT| IT'S LIT
CecilRousso
Member
Pretty good Sale this year.
Pixeljunk Shooter Ultimate, you did well there.
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