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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 IV - For me it was Tuesday

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natertots

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Quick, guys, before the dailies change, convince me Arkham Origins is worth its current price.

Are you a fan of the previous entries in the series? If so then you will most likely enjoy this one. The Arkham series are some of my favorite games. In my opinion Origins is not as good as the previous entries, but I do not think that it is a bad game. I am having a lot of fun with. I paid 20 dollars for the game and I do not regret my purchase at all. I have not encountered any bugs and the game runs perfectly for me. The game has a lot of awesome moments and I love that Batman is angry the majority of the time. If you are a fan of the series I'd recommend it. 10 bucks is a good deal for this game.
 
I decided to pursue a career of digital artist accidentally

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Terra_Ex

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Such a bummer you can't play in classic mode with voice-acting enabled. I want to hear Dominic Armato talk about Threepwood's rubber chicken in 16 glorious bits. Or, well, Curse's artstyle. But ye can't have it all, apparently.
Glad they fixed that in the SE for LeChuck's Revenge. The redone graphics where a whole lot better as well.
I haven't tried it, but I think it's possible with this:
http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey1.html
 

Kiru

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Nice of steam to take a dump while in the middle of an Awesomenauts sessions. Thanks!
I activated The Orange Box on my account today. Got Half Life 2 and Episode 1 gift copies. Right when Steam went down I got a new item in my inventory. Another Episode 1 gift, just with the plain steam art. WTF.

STEAM PLEASE GO DOWN AGAIN!! :D
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
I activated The Orange Box on my account today. Got Half Life 2 and Episode 1 gift copies. Right when Steam went down I got a new item in my inventory. Another Episode 1 gift, just with the plain steam art. WTF.

STEAM PLEASE GO DOWN AGAIN!! :D

The only logical explanation is that it's actually Episode Three in disguise.
 

X05

Upside, inside out he's livin la vida loca, He'll push and pull you down, livin la vida loca
Oh yes, actually it's better to play in Classic Mode in Monkey Island 1.
MI2 is better with the enhancements though.
Huh, I haven't played the SE edition of MI2 yet, guess this excuse is good as any.

On the bright side, we now have a genuine reason to let games sit in our backlogs and never play them.
Ha, true that.
 

Turfster

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Two things:

(1) Why can't I get my controller to work with FF7? What black magic is necessary?

(2) I just got another response from the GMG/Playfire support team. I'm starting to get irritated now. I received a blanket response about the scraping issue that affected things recently... when my credits that are missing (the vast majority of) were from prior to this issue even occurring. I noted as much in my last update, where I took the time to be honest and save them them some work by removing the credits which had actually shown up when the scraper went back to correct the missing data for participants:

Ok, so here's the latest update: new credits are working with my account -- I have a bunch of the rewards showing up from March 16th and after. It looks like the scraper that went back to fix the missed credits from 3/16 til now got a few of the ones I listed above... so I wanted to amend my list to remove these -- I'm not out to get any more than I've actually earned.

Ben (radMonkey on NeoGAF) has been helping look into it as well, that's why I'm aware of the "bug" and thought to check my account today after someone in the Steam thread over there mentioned having a support ticket open.

Anyway, I've taken the things that were credited to me in the last day or two off the list and adjusted the total:

After posting this, I'm not quite sure why I got the "canned" response about the credits missing for the last two weeks unless they just spammed it to anyone in the subset of open requests dealing with missing credits...
 

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.

Ruruja

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Some of them are in a bundle it seems.
 

Parsnip

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Anyone have any Age of Wonders III impressions? I'm intrigued by the screenshots, getting some Heroes of Might and Magic vibes from them.
 

Turfster

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Yeah, but it's not even a year old so you can wait for a deeper discount is $5 isn't cheap enough.

Dunno, RIPD was a really, really, really shit movie.
If I was in any way involved in anything related to it, I would want it to disappear as quickly as possible ;)
 

Sub Zero

his body's cold as ice, but he's got a heart of gold
Some more spare keys I had lying around. Enjoy

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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Are you ready for some GFWL2.0?

New Xbox head, Phil Spencer

My understanding is that he's retrospectively acknowledging Microsoft forgoing PC gaming in favour of perpetually propping up projects as Xbox exclusives wasn't the brightest of ideas; in other words, he's not speaking to the intention of Microsoft to establish another platform within the PC gaming space but rather how the Xbox platform shouldn't preclude internal PC gaming efforts.

Or maybe my joke about the WinStore Client will come to pass. ;) But seriously, Microsoft "tried" and failed spectacularly with GFWL; another similar effort would be met with intense cynicism and disinterest from consumers and publishers alike.
 

Jawmuncher

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Just finished a route in Magical Diary. While I won't go back anytime soon for the others I had fun with it. Took about 3 hours for one route. If you like corny VNs and the like you'll get a kick out of this. Well worth the dollar I paid for it on the weekly bundle.
 

morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
The only slack I'll give Microsoft is the bit that makes the noose properly snap a neck on the way down.

Everything that reverberates from its walking corpse should be taken as a threat.
 

Grief.exe

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My understanding is that he's retrospectively acknowledging Microsoft forgoing PC gaming in favour of perpetually propping up projects as Xbox exclusives wasn't the brightest of ideas; in other words, he's not speaking to the intention of Microsoft to establish another platform within the PC gaming space but rather how the Xbox platform shouldn't preclude internal PC gaming efforts.

Or maybe my joke about the WinStore Client will come to pass. ;) But seriously, Microsoft "tried" and failed spectacularly with GFWL; another similar effort would be met with intense cynicism and disinterest from consumers and publishers alike.

Jase is being optimistic! Generally you take a more pessimistic stance in your speculations than I do.

This is a good sign, excitement intensifies.
 

Vyse24

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(1) Why can't I get my controller to work with FF7? What black magic is necessary?
If you mean why you can't get past the screen with the keyboard controls, it's because SE wanted to be dicks and have you use the keyboard only for that one part. Other than that, the controller should work everywhere else.
 
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