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STEAM | July 2016 - Post Sale Hauls, Post Sale Blues

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I think I'll wait and see what the bonuses are, I want Borderlands and Battleborne, but everything below that I either already own or don't want.
 
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Lol, literally just finished watching this.
 

mp1990

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Y'all +1ers can have this

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Dunno if I should go for Battleborn. Looks like it'a gonna be F2P really soon especially since Evolve went that road and they're both under the same publisher.
 

Nzyme32

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Lol! No thanks on Humble Bundle, considering either own or don't care for the games.

What would be amazing is if somehow the "more soon" games includes a return for the original Mafia on Steam - which isn't likely to happen, but it would be cool just to see what people think of it since so few have it / tried it. It's one of my favourite games for its time, even with the rather repetitive amount of driving
 

Parsnip

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I know it's not every Unity game, but it does seem like 80 percent of recent ones. Ori Definitive is the only recent one I've played that didn't have the issue at launch. This, Anima, Cornerstone, My Night Job, and one other I'm forgetting had it. Cornerstone and Night Job patched it eventually so it's clear there's some sort of fix on the development end that can be deployed, and it SHOULD be widely known enough by Unity to inform their developers about it that it shouldn't be happening for three+ months now. It's not like it would be hard to test for. The other examples I mentioned are extremely low budget games with no publishers, so it's kinda forgivable there. Shouldn't be happening to a 40 dollar Square Enix release.

Word is that it's been finally (hopefully permanently) fixed in the fast insider ring, if true then the anniversary update should bring it to the rest of us too. Guess we'll see in two weeks.
 

data

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this bundle is actually really good for me. been interested in the darkness 2 and never finished spec ops on ps3. don't think i'll be going for bta tho
 

chronomac

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Enjoy

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xist

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I'd like Mafia II from the BTA but not so much the other stuff....suppose that It'll be a wait and see kind of thing for the additions. Plus today has been a bad day for my income situation....
 

Hektor

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So lads, i just played this game called
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It's a Telltale like adventure set in Iran in 1979 during the revolution.
The game is hella unpolished, but definitely worth playing.

The story itself is fictive i think, altho the historic background it is based on is real. It's even featuring and recreating real, historical photos of that revolution, including a bunch of background information on the events, similar to Valiant Hearts which is really great.
You could even go so far as to say that it's a bit of an educational game.

While the game is rather short with like 3 hours, it's still very thrilling because the pacing is ace and the character are, even if not the deepest, fairly believable in their actions.

It's funded by some islamic film fond if that's somethign you care about. It's not the most polished experience, but compared to Telltale it definitely holds up. It's certainly not worse, save for the voice acting. That isn't very good. I think they should've gone with persian voice actors and english subs instead imho. That would've been generally more authentic and believable than everyone speaking english with some persian words in between like they do in the english Assassins Creeds dubs.

Anyways, you should pick it up. It's 3 hours long and did cost 6$ in the last sale (So probably also in the next one), and it's definitely worth it.
 

Nzyme32

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Fuck these +1ers and poopy bundles. You want a real game, with amazing writing, madness, mystery and disturbing adventures!

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Ludens

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surprised none of the Bioshock games were in that bundle (yet)

Eh, there won't be in my opinion. It's exactly what Capcom did with RE5 and DR titles after the Steamwork patch: they were uberdiscounted with 75% off or more, when they saw the Steam cure they never got a 75% off again.
Considering if 2K gives away Bioshock titles will give away the remastered too, no way they'll bundle it now.
 

Anteater

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Are your gamma values / in game brightness settings correct? And which version is it?

The original Doom 3 I had no problem with at all. It is meant to be dark but the torch you have should be bright enough to help you see enough. Your screens certainly don't seem normal, but I am making this judgement having not played the game since 2007 when a bunch of friends messed with a OG Doom mod for Doom 3. I don't recall the game be as dark as some of your screens, particularly when looking at the gun model

I just played that game today and had no problems (running on W10 and recent hardware). I have a Doom 3 HD mod installed, maybe that will fix it? http://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-3-bfg-hi-def

i'm playing the game with the redux mod

maybe it's different :0

http://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-3-redux
 
May as well crosspost from the Humble thread.

Looks like it's the Director's Cut of Mafia II instead of the Digital Deluxe version, and it will still redeem if you already have the all the regular dlc.
 

Hektor

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The Darkness II -- MB-D9E3F1A44F55C1F7 - Taken by thesaucetastic. 1 entrants total.
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Sid Meier's Civilization V -- MB-4C41F2EBFBAB52AF - Taken by kagamin. 1 entrants total.


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yoshizzle

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So lads, i just played this game called
76ca657b2bcecc03e533a04f02958f1e1f633c75.jpg



It's a Telltale like adventure set in Iran in 1979 during the revolution.
The game is hella unpolished, but definitely worth playing.

The story itself is fictive i think, altho the historic background it is based on is real. It's even featuring and recreating real, historical photos of that revolution, including a bunch of background information on the events, similar to Valiant Hearts which is really great.
You could even go so far as to say that it's a bit of an educational game.

While the game is rather short with like 3 hours, it's still very thrilling because the pacing is ace and the character are, even if not the deepest, fairly believable in their actions.

It's funded by some islamic film fond if that's somethign you care about. It's not the most polished experience, but compared to Telltale it definitely holds up. It's certainly not worse, save for the voice acting. That isn't very good. I think they should've gone with persian voice actors and english subs instead imho. That would've been generally more authentic and believable than everyone speaking english with some persian words in between like they do in the english Assassins Creeds dubs.

Anyways, you should pick it up. It's 3 hours long and did cost 6$ in the last sale (So probably also in the next one), and it's definitely worth it.

Thanks for the review, Hektor. The setting sounds awesome. Will probably pick it up in the next sale.

Anyone know if D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die is worth playing as well?
 

bbd23

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thats tempting for battleborn

but with deus ex coming out soon i probably wont touch any of those games. still need to finish doom
 
The new humble bundle does seem quite good, but it's a shame the pre-sequel is included in the highest tier only as I have no interest in battleborn.
 

Lomax

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Darkness II is well worth a playthrough. Surprised to see NBA 2K16 in the bundle, usually 2K is more stingy with those games. Seems silly to have Civ V in the BTA tier at this point though.
 
Darkness II is well worth a playthrough. Surprised to see NBA 2K16 in the bundle, usually 2K is more stingy with those games. Seems silly to have Civ V in the BTA tier at this point though.

If it was the full version of Civ V i could perhaps understand it, but not so much the base game without the DLC.
 
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