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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed
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Suddenfly I feel oh so much better for spending $50 on a pad.
Only thing I don't really like about it are the smallish Select/Start buttons. Rest is peaches.
Only thing I don't really like about it are the smallish Select/Start buttons. Rest is peaches.
Nabs
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I just switch those buttons to my touchpad when they are used a lot like in OlliOlli.
It's happened again: in order to get your Race for the White House Steam key, you had to generate your unique game key using Desura and supply that in an e-mail, however the devs have since taken the game down, which disallows key generation for users. That was ~12 hours ago and there hasn't been a word from Eversim about what's going on, so it's not looking good.
Desura allows games that people paid for to be removed?
I don't know if the key is required to play, but if so, then yes (in cases like this), which is one tremendous oversight.
Spare:
Edit: D'oh.
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Edit: D'oh.
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Post Apocalyptic Mayhem is coming back under Next Level Games' banner.
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I know how much it is. It adds up fast. I'm asking if it's worth it as a roguelike.
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Meltdown --
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Lead?
Yes.
Stumpokapow
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Yes, super beta. I do not recommend anyone uses it yet (it's possible that a key might be totally unclaimable, it's possible that the person could claim the key without getting it right, it's possible the edit might fail, it's possible the main post format might be totally mangled, it's possible the answer will totally backfire, it's possible ModBot will crash, the format is super exacting, the debug log doesn't record things properly so I can't easily diagnose it if it doesn't work, answers with numbers in them will almost certainly fail, etc etc etc), but the tutorial has been updated with some basic instructions in case anyone is feeling risky. I have tested wrong and right answers so far and a few giveaways have occurred where it's worked.
Thanks for the impressions, sounds like I really need to play it so put it in my "playing next"-que.
They need to redo the human models. Otherwise it looks quite promising.
Huh, Captain America/ DS Luigi's mansion devs are branching out. Good for them.
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SIR LANCELOT
Ugh, I'm really mad about corrosivefrost's ban right now.
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Anyway. Here are some impressions about Recettear.
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale combines arpg-style dungeon-crawling with a shopkeeping simulation game.
In the shopkeeping-part you play as Recette Lemongrass, whose father has gone off to become an adventurer and left her with a gigantic debt. Tear, the fairy representative of the Terme Finance Company who comes to collect this debt, suggests Recette opens up an item shop to earn the money she needs to pay off her fathers debt. You only have 5 weeks to pay it off completely.
In order to make the weekly money goals, you have to try to buy items at a low price from other shops and then sell them for a profit, or pay an adventurer to take you into one of the dungeons in the hope of finding rare expensive items to sell.
Inside the dungeon, you take control of the adventurer you paid to slay monsters and open treasure chests.
There are 8 adventurers with different attack-styles, but you start with only one of them available.
After you have managed to pay off your fathers debt, you can either continue on in endless mode from where the game ended, or start a new game plus with harder conditions. I've only played endless mode so far, as it continues the story of the main game.
I really liked how you have to change your shops interior design to attract different customers and thus trigger new events. Some customers may only be interested in visiting your shop if you display cheap items in your window, others only enter if your shops atmosphere is dark, others are attracted by displaying books or certain weapons.. it was a lot of fun to just try out different things and get new adventurers to offer you their business card and try to unlock new dungeons.
The dungeons start small, but get bigger and bigger. I'm currently on the 76th level in a dungeon during endless mode. The map size has gotton more elaborate as well. Every fifth level of a dungeon consists of a boss fight. If you win, you can either decide to continue onwards, or go back into town with your loot and continue on from there another day. If you lose, you can only bring one item you've found back with you into town, the rest is lost forever.
I really liked how some floors have special conditions. Once you enter the floor, a message might appear at the top of your screen, informing you that all the enemies are twice as strong as usual, that your walking speed is increased on this floor, or that you'll encounter more traps than usual. I felt this really helped keep things interesting.
I have played 18 hours so far and can see myself playing countless more, as this game is just a ton of fun.
Thanks a lot to the generous vegetable who gifted me this game
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Anyway. Here are some impressions about Recettear.
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale combines arpg-style dungeon-crawling with a shopkeeping simulation game.
In the shopkeeping-part you play as Recette Lemongrass, whose father has gone off to become an adventurer and left her with a gigantic debt. Tear, the fairy representative of the Terme Finance Company who comes to collect this debt, suggests Recette opens up an item shop to earn the money she needs to pay off her fathers debt. You only have 5 weeks to pay it off completely.
In order to make the weekly money goals, you have to try to buy items at a low price from other shops and then sell them for a profit, or pay an adventurer to take you into one of the dungeons in the hope of finding rare expensive items to sell.
Inside the dungeon, you take control of the adventurer you paid to slay monsters and open treasure chests.
There are 8 adventurers with different attack-styles, but you start with only one of them available.
After you have managed to pay off your fathers debt, you can either continue on in endless mode from where the game ended, or start a new game plus with harder conditions. I've only played endless mode so far, as it continues the story of the main game.
I really liked how you have to change your shops interior design to attract different customers and thus trigger new events. Some customers may only be interested in visiting your shop if you display cheap items in your window, others only enter if your shops atmosphere is dark, others are attracted by displaying books or certain weapons.. it was a lot of fun to just try out different things and get new adventurers to offer you their business card and try to unlock new dungeons.
The dungeons start small, but get bigger and bigger. I'm currently on the 76th level in a dungeon during endless mode. The map size has gotton more elaborate as well. Every fifth level of a dungeon consists of a boss fight. If you win, you can either decide to continue onwards, or go back into town with your loot and continue on from there another day. If you lose, you can only bring one item you've found back with you into town, the rest is lost forever.
I really liked how some floors have special conditions. Once you enter the floor, a message might appear at the top of your screen, informing you that all the enemies are twice as strong as usual, that your walking speed is increased on this floor, or that you'll encounter more traps than usual. I felt this really helped keep things interesting.
I have played 18 hours so far and can see myself playing countless more, as this game is just a ton of fun.
Thanks a lot to the generous vegetable who gifted me this game
NingenJanai
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Yeah, me too, seems to me like he was just banned out of spite because he said gaf moderation is inconsistent, it's not like he insulted anybody, dunno, don't wanna talk too much in case a mod bans me too just for voicing my opinion.
Thanks a lot for your Recettear impressions, it's on my backlog, but reading your impressions really makes me wanna play it soon
Trivia giveaway is not recognising right answers
Edit: separate but valid question, what's to keep people from being dicks and putting something than the right answer (ex: obscure reference to the right answer; but straight out wrong answers are also a possibility) as the answer for the giveaway?
In that case they might as well not be giving a game away so what's the point of intentionally putting the wrong answer?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I see some people who entered correctly but got throttled (throttle rules still apply) and I see that you entered multiple times. Not sure why you didn't win the first time, because I don't have the debug log fully set up for the trivia stuff yet. The default is that when a giveaway has multiple games, you can only enter for one. So if your first answer was wrong, you wouldn't be able to enter again--correctly or not--for any game in the set.
What would be the advantage to doing so? If someone doesn't want to give away a game, wouldn't they just not give away a game? If someone wanted to give it to one person in specific, wouldn't they just send the code? If they wanted to give it to someone in specific and get ModBot credit, wouldn't they generate the giveaway, send the ModBot code to a friend, and have the friend redeem it? It doesn't seem like there'd be an incentive to do what you're saying.
What, Endless continues the story? I think it was the same only... endless. Oooooohh. Need to play it sometime again!
Huh, I just wanted to test if the trivia giveaway really didn't recognize the right answer, but it did... oops.
You continue right were you left off, there are new events, new dungeons and you can finally recruit that adventurer you had to explain how money works to
You continue right were you left off, there are new events, new dungeons and you can finally recruit that adventurer you had to explain how money works to
Amazing. Looking at your screenshots, I feel like I left after the prologue and missed the actual game.You continue right were you left off, there are new events, new dungeons and you can finally recrute that adventurer you had to explain how money works to
http://www.vg247.com/2014/12/04/free-200000-steam-keys-for-run-and-gun-shooter-chaos-domain/
Chaos Domain free for that one person who didn't get it from previous giveaways. (Facebook required, I think)
Chaos Domain free for that one person who didn't get it from previous giveaways. (Facebook required, I think)
I find myself enjoying Alphadia Genesis maybe even too much (><)
It looks nice, I really like how mouse controls work, not as great as in Trails, but still nice and I'm interested in what will happen next. So yeah, so far seems like money well spent.
Also it seems to have bombed horribly, haven't even appeared in best sellers list. A pity really.
Also enjoyed reading Yakkue's impressions of Recettear, made me want to replay it.
I also like to point out that Pac-man Championship is great, buy it, people! And no, I'm not talking about nostalgia. I don't know what is it about pacman, it is walking simulator, when you think longer about it, but I still enjoy it immensely (><)
That's how you do walking sims
It looks nice, I really like how mouse controls work, not as great as in Trails, but still nice and I'm interested in what will happen next. So yeah, so far seems like money well spent.
Also it seems to have bombed horribly, haven't even appeared in best sellers list. A pity really.
In other news, just bought Pier Solar too, thanks Deques for pointing that nice price to me.
Also enjoyed reading Yakkue's impressions of Recettear, made me want to replay it.
I also like to point out that Pac-man Championship is great, buy it, people! And no, I'm not talking about nostalgia. I don't know what is it about pacman, it is walking simulator, when you think longer about it, but I still enjoy it immensely (><)
That's how you do walking sims
I kid, I kid
True, I did consider that it was the wrong answer (there's two possible answers for Pixel Junk Monsters and for Knights of Pen and Paper), but ModBot isn't as full proof as that. I know for a fact that it's possible to enter in a multi entry (not free for all) giveaway for game A and if someone wins that game there's a chance you'll still win if you enter for game B.
Doesn't work all the time but it has therefore might again.
What I had in mind is things that are known by two names (see above) or the official vs the culture name for a artwork (ex: The Big Lewbowski vs The Dude)
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Yeah, ultimately that's a problem with any kind of trivia game handled by a robot. ModBot is smart enough to ignore articles, so it'd accept "Big Lebowski" for "The Big Lebowski", but it can't do alternate stuff. I admit that the monster question above has a variant name and so may not have been all that well chosen.
I don't think it was heavily advertised and it certainly didn't help that the first review was a negative one. It does look like a fun game from your screenshots though.
I'd actually love to play Pacman again, but DX just seems too...neon for my liking.
Launcelot du Lac and the "Sir" variation for both are valid answers, as for monsters it's either Ogopogo or Naitaka, the others are truly one answer only.
But I had no interest in them =P
As shown above you can also go with Lancelot's common name or his proper name (Launcelot du Lac), would ModBot be able to ignore the presence or abscence of the title "Sir"?
(Just to be clear: this isn't about the prizes, I just want to help make trivia giveaways as fair as possible)
That review really got under my skin for some reason, why would that reviewer assume it is high budget game in the first place? Horrible review, says nothing about the game and complains about it being a cheap game?! reviewers... (><)
Ya, it is a tad too neony, but it's still a good ol' pac-man.
NingenJanai
Member
That's really a pity, might deter other japanese companies from bringing their games to steam
I'm glad you are having fun with it tho
Any list with Divinity Original Sin on top is a nice list by default. I really should get back to Wasteland 2 and Dragonfall.
Never heard of NEO Scavenger before, but I'll have to check it out.
Tizoc
Member
If the game were discounted til the end of the month I would've picked it up.
...but man $5 in RussiaLand...I miss he glory days T.T
Looks awesome - will wishlist either way
Great addition will give it a go with another giveaway later!!!
Steam has its first set of digital activity books (excluding the Secret of the Magic Crystal DLC).
Pacman DX is great and really satisfying. I only playing it sporadically though when I'm bored. That *spark spark spark*, and bullet-time are tight. Controlling it only with arrow pad is also neat (not like pacman need many control to begin with).
I just realized that there is game called PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures. Looks cool, wish listed.
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