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

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Servizio

I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
zkylon said:
i can't deal with this shit, i really dislike the structure of this game and the story is not really interesting either
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I'd recommend looking up a guide for the game, actually. It's janky and weird and can be pretty frustrating without an explanation of what's worth spending your time on, and why certain things happen.
 
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Monooboe

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I think I have a problem, I can't stop playing Fallout 4, I don't even have much to do in the game I just mostly go around doing Minutemen missions in hopes to get the last settlement to be allied to me, since I failed the mission in the main questline that could unlock it.

I have to say though, I still keep finding new places, even after 170 hours into it.
 
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Momentary

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Lain said:
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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I had a Asus monitor with a dead pixel back in 2009 I think... Whenever Tekken 6 was first released on console... I found a dead pixel and tried to get a replacement. They told me there needed to be at lease 10 dead pixels to be able to replace it. So I didn't buy another ASUS product for 7 years.
 
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Creamium

shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
Endruen said:
That's the point were I lowered the difficulty from hard to normal. Also, nobody should ever play this game other than in the dark with headphones.
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I'm commited to it, so I'll probably keep going on hard, but damn if it isn't brutal. The Alien is glued to you, and if you pull out the motion tracker while he's close, you're pretty much fucked. I'm at mission 6 now and it's even harder than 5, I've been stuck on the last few checkpoints for hours now. Definitely one of the harder challenges I've attempted recently

yuraya said:
I picked that game up during summer sale and I had to stop playing after like 6 hours. The sound design was just making my heart shrivel up. I could feel that every and any little noise with headphones was making my health deteriorate. Fuck horror games.

Props to SEGA and CA tho. They put the audio production through an impressive amount of QA. I don't think I've ever played anything like it. Especially not in the first person genre.
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Yeah the sound design is insane.
 
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A Fish Aficionado

I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
The tension in those early missions of Isolation when you first meet the alien are intense.

I was too much of a wuss to play at night.
 
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A Fish Aficionado

I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
The only experience I have with dead pixels is the PSP 1001 which got a ton of dead pixels after a few years of ownership.
 
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Nzyme32

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Ban Puncher said:
Found a dead pixel now.

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Take a hammer and nail to the screen. If you are going to have a dead pixel, might as well make it symmetrical in both sides.

In all seriousness though, as long as it isn't central and it is only one or two, I've found that it's rare that I notice dead pixels while playing. Most companies won't take them back, but stores can if you try enough.
 
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zkylon

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Servizio said:
I'd recommend looking up a guide for the game, actually. It's janky and weird and can be pretty frustrating without an explanation of what's worth spending your time on, and why certain things happen.
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i'd rather not

i'll give it another shot tomorrow and probably will let fatso go and fully kill him on my next run or whatever

just takes me way too many tries and dying and restarting is like the worst, most backwards experience ever
 
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jonno394

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Working through my backlog at the moment, and half way through Binary Domian. Got it with a bundle and not touched it, but wish i'd played it sooner! Good fun, and blowing away robot armour really makes me forget they're bullet sponges!
 
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Knurek

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Let's all have a minute of silence for my 3 TB Seagate drive.
Main Steam disk.
Filled to the brim with both Steam, GOG and other games.
Died early in the morning. :\
 
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haendeul

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Steam-GAF, I bought Stardew Valley during the sale and I'm not sure if I'm feeling it. I bought the game planning to play it on my laptop, but unfortunately the game seems to be heavily mouse based for most actions which doesn't play well on a touch pad. Even when rebinding keys to better suit keyboard only feels awkward. I was very surprised by this since I expected the game to play more like Harvest Moon SNES on an emulator. So I wonder if I'm better off getting a refund since the game didn't grab me immediately.

Also the game crashed to desktop at the end of the first day with no explanation or chance to save. I can still play it for another hour before I lose my right to refund, but if I can't fix the controls it's kind of a deal-breaker.
 
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Servizio

I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
AHA-Lambda said:
These WotS3 comments are disheartening, been wanting to play that :/
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I'd still recommend it, just know that you're getting into an early PS3 game by a tiny Japanese dev studio that makes weird janky games. It's not polished, it's not streamlined. But that's part of what makes it unique and interesting.
 
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Anybody use malwarebytes premium? My free year is almost up and I can buy with 5 bucks off.

I can buy multiple up to 10. If I buy say like 3 and use 1, can I use the other 2 in order after that one?

Basically do they expire when not used?
 
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Knurek

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nightstorm said:
No way..What happened ?!
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Mechanical failure, most likely.
Windows slowed all of a sudden, accessing files on the drive would take a few seconds, after reboot boot time shoot to 10 minutes(!), with the drive not being recognized at all.
Verified both SATA and power cable to be okay.
Pity it didn't give any earlier notice (a single SMART error would be enough) - screw Steam/GOG installs, I can always download them again, but I had few hundred GBs of data there that will not be easy to find again (lots of RPG Maker games, Stepmania simfiles, things like that).
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And yeah, Barracuda 3TB model.
 
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Pakkidis

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Knurek said:
Mechanical failure, most likely.
Windows slowed all of a sudden, accessing files on the drive would take a few seconds, after reboot boot time shoot to 10 minutes(!), with the drive not being recognized at all.
Verified both SATA and power cable to be okay.
Pity it didn't give any earlier notice (a single SMART error would be enough) - screw Steam/GOG installs, I can always download them again, but I had few hundred GBs of data there that will not be easy to find again (lots of RPG Maker games, Stepmania simfiles, things like that).
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Had a 2tb Barracuda Seagate die on me after 2 years. NEVER BUY SEAGATE....EVER.
 
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Knurek

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Parsnip said:
Only HGST or WD in this household.
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My other Barracuda (2TB) failed last month (not a catastrophic one luckily, so I was able to get WD 4TB to backup the data).
Now this. :\

(What's the difference between WD Blue, Purple and Red? Safe to get the cheapest if I only want one for storage?)
 
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Stumpokapow said:
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
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Botanicula - will play great with just your touch pad, not an overly demanding adventure game that is ridiculously cute.
Edge - I think it's playable on arrow keys? Solid puzzle type game to play in short bursts.
Eufloria HD - fine with touch pad, very peaceful. Might help if you have a crying baby in the row behind you.
Gemini Rue - good fit for your requirements. Not the best adventure game, but I liked the story enough to finish it.
Puzzle Agent 1/2 - you will probably find the puzzles easy because you are real smart, but you didn't beat either one yet so maybe you aren't?
Puzzle Dimension - should be okay on the arrow keys? Gets hella trippy a couple worlds in.
Spacebase DF9 - I would be interested in reading your thoughts on this project.
The Cave - arrow key friendly. It grew on me after a replay and while I think Ron Gilbert acts like a tool he deserves some credit.
The Dig - the only Lucasarts adventure game I beat besides the Monkey Island games and Grim Fandango. I loved the story and aesthetic but the puzzles are pure bullshit.
Toki Tori 2 - I've heard good things and the little I played seemed like it would be fine on arrow keys.

Hope this helps. PS give me access to your Steam account and I will help you clean up your games list a bit.
 
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Lain said:
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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Rayge said:
I had a Asus monitor with a dead pixel back in 2009 I think... Whenever Tekken 6 was first released on console... I found a dead pixel and tried to get a replacement. They told me there needed to be at lease 10 dead pixels to be able to replace it. So I didn't buy another ASUS product for 7 years.
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I work as tech support for one pc manufacturer compamy, and it's annoying how we can't replace the monitores with only one dead pixel. At least on my country it used to be different and one dead pixel could already give the right to exchange the monitor or fiz the laptop's screen if they were in warranty, but they changed the local politic regarding it and said to us to follow the global guide lines.
 
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The_Super_Inframan

"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Real_Madrid said:
Are you serious? I also have a 3TB Seagate drive with all my games on (expect a few on my SSD that I play often)...
Are they that bad?
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seagate is kinda known for not having the best quality drives, but no reason to panic either IMO.

Drives can always fail, regardless of the company who build it, the chance is just a little bit higher with seagate...

I bought two 1,5 TB seagate drives six years ago or so, one died after three years and was replaced under warranty, the other is going strong till today in my little NAS (together with the replaced one)... but I had also WD and hitachi drives die on me over the years

it's no big deal as long it's only the Steam drive which doesn't contain important personal data, I mean you can download them again at any time

and as always with any data thats important to you... backup, backup, backup!
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Segate's 8TB "archive" drives are too good a deal to pass up. I've two at the moment and aim to eventually buy another four.
 
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Stallion Free

Cock Encumbered
JaseC said:
Segate's 8TB "archive" drives are too good a deal to pass up. I've two at the moment and aim to eventually buy another four.
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What are you filling up 16 and eventually 48 tb of storage with? I honestly can't think of anything I have at the moment that could grow to that capacity in the next 5 years.
 
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I've got about 15 years worth of files that have followed me from computer to computer.

Important files too.

No back ups.

And I use Seagate drives.


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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Stallion Free said:
What are you filling up 16 and eventually 48 tb of storage with? I honestly can't think of anything I have at the moment that could grow to that capacity in the next 5 years.
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I don't exactly need the space, but every now and then eBay AU has a 20% off promotion that knocks the drives down to around $280, so I snap one up to replace an existing, smaller storage drive, all of which are either 2TB or 3TB and more full than empty.
 
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Knurek

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The_Super_Inframan said:
I bought two 1,5 TB seagate drives six years ago or so, one died after three years and was replaced under warranty, the other is going strong till today in my little NAS (together with the replaced one)... but I had also WD and hitachi drives die on me over the years
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Just checked and I purchased the 3TB drive on 2014-09, so still should be able to replace it on a warranty - provided I can find the proof of purchase. :\

I have backups for most of stuff, but it just dawned on me - Steam Desktop Authenticator was on that drive.
Let's hope I don't lose Steam account (I do have the revocation code stashed on my cellphone).
 
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gngf123

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Finally got a new mechanical keyboard to try out.

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Nothing impressive really, but I liked how it looked more professional, and less "gamer". It was also very reasonably priced (£48).

Build quality is great, and the anti-ghosting works up to 13 keys + modifiers which is fine for nearly anything I can imagine using it for. Still not sure what I think about MX Reds though. They feel so damn light.
 
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The_Super_Inframan

"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Knurek said:
Just checked and I purchased the 3TB drive on 2014-09, so still should be able to replace it on a warranty - provided I can find the proof of purchase. :\

I have backups for most of stuff, but it just dawned on me - Steam Desktop Authenticator was on that drive.
Let's hope I don't lose Steam account (I do have the revocation code stashed on my cellphone).
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you don't really need proof of purchase when I remember correctly... you can download a little tool from the seagate website that checks the drive and reads the serial number/date the drive was build and lets you print shipping labels and everything should the drive be eligible for replacement
 
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White Wolf

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what are the odds transistor will get featured in a near-future bundle? i really want to try it, but me and bastion weren't a great match.
 
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Anno

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ibn Saïd;210177918 said:
what are the odds transistor will get featured in a near-future bundle? i really want to try it, but me and bastion weren't a great match.
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I'm sure it's possible, but it's also only $4.00 this weekend. Surely worth a shot for that amount?
 
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