Large Professor
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Such as stressful week with regards to world events. I think I'm going to buy Stardew this weekend and take care of a virtual farm.
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STEAM | July 2016 - Post Sale Hauls, Post Sale Blues
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TheVoidDragon
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I don't see how that comment supports what you're saying. He wasn't allowed to sell the Steam keys, meaning Valve for some reason decided that he wasn't allowed to tell you when you bought the game that you'd get a Steam key as part of your purchase. That doesn't change anywhere in that comment. The Steam greenlight FAQ clearly says he can give them away after the game is out, which is what he said he was going to do there, that's not the same as selling them when they aren't available. When he said "that's why I don’t promise keys" he meant when you buy the game.
You're going for the explanation that requires the biggest stretch, as well as pretty much accuses him of lying even though he'd gain nothing from doing that instead of just saying he didn't want to.
See my edit.
Sorry, but I find it incredibly hard to buy that Valve mistakenly told him or there was otherwise a misunderstanding that he couldn't promise keys after a certain date only for this to be followed with another identical mix-up that resulted in the assertion of something that is also wildly incorrect. I don't think I'm being foolish, and that I'm not convinced of the veracity of his comments is not unreasonable.
TheVoidDragon
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What? Where are you getting a 2nd mistake from? You seem to be seriously misunderstanding what he's said.
It doesn't change at all, what you're saying makes no sense. They didn't say "You can't promise keys after x date" that date was just when he was asked to stop, so that's when he stopped. Promising keys when you make a purchase is the same as selling them. The Greenlight FAQ clearly says he would be allowed to give them away, which is what he said he'd do once he game was out. That is not the same as including them as part of a purchase.
texhnolyze
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Aaaand.. it's not available here. ¯\_(ツ
_/¯I hope the RPG ones will be. I love T2 arts.
Bah, sorry, that was a brain fart on my part. But it doesn't change anything: as I've said before, there has never been a case of a developer being asked to stop distributing/promising Steam keys, "Valve’s standard Steam distribution agreement does not allow us to sell Steam keys to a game that isn’t also up for sale on Steam" is patently false, and the reason I consider his blog post comment peculiar is that there is no tangible difference between a promise in an FAQ and one elsewhere on the site.
Edit: To be perfectly clear, I don't believe he's been telling little white lies; rather, I merely consider it the more likely possibility than multiple instances of miscommunication/misunderstanding. I'm not convinced of either scenario.
Castlevania Lords of Shadow is seriously one of the highest rated shittest games i have played. How this has a 81-85 meta is beyond me.
Don't get me wrong it has amazing music, great art style, monsters and is a super optimised PC port but this is not a Castlevania game. Its boring to play, linear, platforming is shit, i don't give a fuck about Gabriel or his dead wife and the combat is a snoozefest. If i wanted a great character spectacle fighter i would player Marlow Briggs (this isn't a joke).
Don't get me wrong it has amazing music, great art style, monsters and is a super optimised PC port but this is not a Castlevania game. Its boring to play, linear, platforming is shit, i don't give a fuck about Gabriel or his dead wife and the combat is a snoozefest. If i wanted a great character spectacle fighter i would player Marlow Briggs (this isn't a joke).
Jawmuncher
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I was pretty content just on normal. Though the only real challenge was the cyber demon for me.
I don't use input mapper or DS4windows, but I think there's an option to "hide DS4" or something like that in there.
How far are you in it?
I mean I like the game a ton, but it really doesn't get going until like after the first titan fight.
Also the combat is great.
Disgusting. Modders better fix this.
Ban Puncher
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Atraveller
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Plenty of people in overclock.net's massive owners' thread have claimed that units with QC stickers are actually worse in quality, and the fact that Asus has only announced stricter QC in the NA region, you gotta wonder where did the monitors that didn't pass went. (To other regions probably)
Get a XB271HU, same panel, but presumably with less backlight bleed.
LurkerPrime
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Whoa. Thea's devs are fording new territory here.
Hope it does well for them. Thea: the Awakening is a really great game, filled with fresh ideas.
Ban Puncher
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I chose the Asus because I heard the Acer was even worse in terms of build quality.
Plus it looks ugly as fuck.
I too found quite a bit of charm in Deadfall Adventures. I wish it had either tweaked conventions a bit more, but it was good for what it was.
Atraveller
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Acer actually owns the company that manufactures the panel for both Asus and Acer.
Also, thinner bezel = better looking.
Stumpokapow
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Looking for good 12 hour flight game recommendations in the genres of light adventure or puzzle that will run on a Macbook Air (suggestions must run on Mac). Mini Metro is my go-to. I will also be playing 80 Days, and probably some Knights, and maybe 12 Labo(u)rs of Hercules. I have like 3000 Steam games. I'm going to install Broken Age, although the last 3 or 4 full day flights I took I never got to it. I will not be taking a controller or mouse, so nothing that requires precision moves or w/e.
Stuff I have installed:
12 Labours of Hercules
80 Days
The Beginner's Guide
A Boy and His Blob
Broken Age
Contradiction (still have like 1 hour left)
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and the Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
Knights
Keep Talking and Nobody Tell The Air Marshall I'm Playing This Game Or I'll Get Sent To Guantanamo Bay
Mini Metro
The Westport Independent
Stuff I have installed:
12 Labours of Hercules
80 Days
The Beginner's Guide
A Boy and His Blob
Broken Age
Contradiction (still have like 1 hour left)
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and the Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
Knights
Keep Talking and Nobody Tell The Air Marshall I'm Playing This Game Or I'll Get Sent To Guantanamo Bay
Mini Metro
The Westport Independent
Maybe with a bit better writer and few more levels it could be great Uncharted alternative on PC. Maybe we will see Deadfall Adventures 2 one day.
You can always go with Hexcells games including SquareCells.
someguyinahat
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The Night of the Rabbit is a delightful point-and-click. It took me 15 hours, so it's right in your ballpark, and there's a mac icon in the store page.
I'd also recommend the Hexcells games. First one takes a few hours to finish. Second one takes a bit longer due to newer play mechanics.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Beat them all and almost done SquareCells, but this is a great recommendation.
Pinball has been my go-to on flights for the past few years, especially if you can play in portrait mode.
Nyteshade517
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So the old one was cheaper and had one more game? I actually need the Quake games too.
Is it a possibility that English is a second language?
yeah...the previous bundle they offered had Quake IV included and was a little over $10
that one is just the Quake Collection that's on Steam now at a discount
Glitchesarecool
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The Swapper/The Fall? Antichamber?
edit: actually I have no idea if those are on a mac sorry
Nyteshade517
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I think The Swapper and Antichamber are on Mac...just from a quick Google search
Puzzle Games
KAMI
Snakebird
Light Puzzle Platformers (keyboard fine - I played these on my MacBook)
Thomas Was Alone
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The Floor Is Jelly
Rimworld/Factorio
Where is my The Fall Episode 2 tho, thats what I want to know
BoosterDuck
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I really need to check out Kohime as well. I have it, but I never played it.
Now that is seriously retro.
LurkerPrime
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Never heard of it, but wowser. The most-helpful review is brutal.
...and then you look at the comments.
Giant Bomb almost played this during their Warhammer stream a few weeks back (IIRC), but alas they couldn't DL it before the stream ended. Would've been interesting to see, if ever so briefly.
Kurt Russell
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Yeah, the game is really unbalanced and it suffers from horrendous performance issues as well.
I didn't play a lot, but it would seem that melee is hilariously broken, and I doubt they will be able to release the game in October, as they've been saying.
Tizoc
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These get my vote.
Servizio
I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
Not sure if youre joking, but that actually looks cool lol
These might be too outside your genre list, but Civilization 4 and SimCity 4 are both great for low-impact gaming that can burn tons of hours in a blink.
yeah ok i'm tired of raging at way of the samurai 3's combat being either very rng based (sometimes they parry your attacks, sometimes they don't, there are no tells), very stat based (which is boring since grinding shit in this game is AWFUL) or very tedium based (slowly baiting strong attacks from a distance)
the story got sort of interesting in that something happened but that something also felt completely unrelated to my personal story and it put me in the position of saving some people that i never met more than once but i also have to defeat them to save them and every time you die you have to go through 5 minutes of THIS IS HOW WELL YOU SCORED DO YOU WANT TO SAVE?
i guess i'm supposed to just let go of some of these characters and get a better sword and some more accesories and shit and fight them in later playthroughs?
i can't deal with this shit, i really dislike the structure of this game and the story is not really interesting either
kind of a real bummer that this game turned out to be so uninteresting. i really want to like it but after 5 hours of pretty much nothing i just feel really frustrated at how much time i've given this game for nothing in return
edit: also it really sucks cos there was a real cool moment not 5 minutes ago that i went "ok this game is not so bad" and then i die and it's replaying this same shitty section again and guhdsjaslajsdajsl
the story got sort of interesting in that something happened but that something also felt completely unrelated to my personal story and it put me in the position of saving some people that i never met more than once but i also have to defeat them to save them and every time you die you have to go through 5 minutes of THIS IS HOW WELL YOU SCORED DO YOU WANT TO SAVE?
i guess i'm supposed to just let go of some of these characters and get a better sword and some more accesories and shit and fight them in later playthroughs?
i can't deal with this shit, i really dislike the structure of this game and the story is not really interesting either
kind of a real bummer that this game turned out to be so uninteresting. i really want to like it but after 5 hours of pretty much nothing i just feel really frustrated at how much time i've given this game for nothing in return
edit: also it really sucks cos there was a real cool moment not 5 minutes ago that i went "ok this game is not so bad" and then i die and it's replaying this same shitty section again and guhdsjaslajsdajsl
Ban Puncher
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Found a dead pixel now.
Missions and secondary stuff (fight clubs, child worker liberations and so on), IIRC. The game has far more XP to offer than that required to hit level 10. If you have any Helix Points to waste (my spare points in Unity didn't carry over to Syndicate and I assume the same will be true of Syndicate -> "Empire"), you can buy an XP booster.
After 2 years I gave a spin to Ittle Dew to try and beat the optional boss fight I got stuck on. Something must have happened, like a patch or something which lowered the difficulty of the encounter because I managed to easily beat it.
After getting over the optional fight and finally being able to leave the optional room I got to complete the cards set, unlock the art gallery and complete the game.
This little run reminded me how nice the art in Ittle Dew is. Such a pretty game.
Also, get better shoes Stump.
The first thing I found when I bought my Asus monitor back in 2011 was a dead pixel, followed by the backlight bleed. My exchange with the Asus CS informing me that it wasn't reason enough to get a replacement for the monitor meant I swore to not buy another Asus product if I could help it.
After getting over the optional fight and finally being able to leave the optional room I got to complete the cards set, unlock the art gallery and complete the game.
This little run reminded me how nice the art in Ittle Dew is. Such a pretty game.
Also, get better shoes Stump.
Found a dead pixel now.
The first thing I found when I bought my Asus monitor back in 2011 was a dead pixel, followed by the backlight bleed. My exchange with the Asus CS informing me that it wasn't reason enough to get a replacement for the monitor meant I swore to not buy another Asus product if I could help it.
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