Sell the base game for basically free, but only discount 25%-50% off the DLC is the new hotness.
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STEAM | July 2017 - Magical Pyres can't melt Cold Steel
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Sell the base game for basically free, but only discount 25%-50% off the DLC is the new hotness.
Orakio Rob
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And it's Aragami, not Origami as he said, though Origami enemies would be interesting ^_^
New Cubic One Dollar Bundle is live
It has a bunch of games for 1 dollar, including Open Sorcery, which is the game I recommending the bundle for.
It has a bunch of games for 1 dollar, including Open Sorcery, which is the game I recommending the bundle for.
New Cubic One Dollar Bundle is live
It has a bunch of games for 1 dollar, including Open Sorcery, which is the game I recommending the bundle for.
I bought it, but given that the site sends keys in an unencrypted email, I have to ask - how legit is this?
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Can anyone help me out with something? I've been trying to use my PS4 controller with Steam, and in most games it works fine, but I'm running into a problem with games that use the right stick where the stick itself isn't working. Instead, it seems to be reading the touchpad as the right stick input. Is there any way to fix this? I've been using DS4Windows as a workaround for these games, but it's a bit of a pain to have to remember to turn it on when I'm playing something like ETS2 or ATS, then back off for other games (specifically Fire Pro since it conflicts with it).
NeoRaider
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So I guess the new status quo is to gather up your posse and Review Bomb the game into oblivion.
It's what all the cool kids are doing when there's the slightest bump in the road with their toys.
Not directed at you of course, just been reading about this new entitlement trend on Steam. Millennials, am I right?
FeedMeAStrayCat
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Playing the DOOM free weekend. Impressions so far:
Beat the two single player levels, and they are pretty enjoyable. However, I've been hooked on the multiplayer for a few hours now, which is a surprise since I heard it kinda sucked. I dunno, I'm having fun. Then again, I haven't played any modern multiplayer FPS in quite some time, so maybe it's mediocre compared to others and I wouldn't know. 😝
Typically finish in fifth place or so, which obviously isn't great, but feels pretty good for my skill level haha
Beat the two single player levels, and they are pretty enjoyable. However, I've been hooked on the multiplayer for a few hours now, which is a surprise since I heard it kinda sucked. I dunno, I'm having fun. Then again, I haven't played any modern multiplayer FPS in quite some time, so maybe it's mediocre compared to others and I wouldn't know. 😝
Typically finish in fifth place or so, which obviously isn't great, but feels pretty good for my skill level haha
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.
I'm not sure how active DOOM's multiplayer has been lately, but try to also keep in mind that there will be a HUGE influx of users like yourself that are playing it for the free weekend.
FeedMeAStrayCat
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True that!
Haven't had to wait too long to get into any matches, so that's been nice. There has been two matches dropped via disconnects, and a bit of lag here and there, though.
Crimsonclaw111
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I'm still running 8gb of Ram. I refuse to buy more ddr3. I'll go to 16gb once I upgrade to a new mobo (which in turn means a new cpu)
Pretty much. I'm positive all I played was Everquest for 5 years straight.
Dragon1893
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You have PM.
I... Wow.
I've thanked you through PM but let me thank you again.
You're the best. This really made me smile after a rough day.
This thread is just full of incredible people.
Orakio Rob
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You bet it is. I gave away some Steam keys yesterday and the guy who won one of the games was so happy that he sent me a key for a game on my wishlist!
Dragon1893
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For someone in my current situation, where I can't afford to put a single cent towards non essential stuff, it's amazing.
I like my version better. You should ask a mod to change it. I mean, who wouldn't want to be named after a former Norwegian blackened death metal band?
It's also part of the name of the poison gas used by the Nazis in concentration camps, so I can appreciate zky being careful about the spelling
I think it's probably the association with the holocaust thing that's the main sticking point rather than men in leather jackets and sunglasses.
Edit - WTF!?!?! I swear I replied before the above post???
LurkerPrime
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Honestly, I think some review bombs are deserved. I remember TW: Warhammer and Paradox games being bombed and I think they deserved it due to the shady, to say it mildly, practices of those devs, because that's basically all the customer can do at that point. It's more or less an exercise of social awareness and cooperation. You see the current reviews are bad or inconsistent with the overall score, you scroll down to read what everyone is complaining about, at least that's what I do.
In this particular case, as in so many others, there's no plausible justification for it unless you're a dick.
I'm fairly sure it's legit as it has been around for a while now and never saw any devs complaining about it. They are definitely low end and amateurish for sure, but that's not particularly surprising since they mostly dabble on bundling already bundled or very cheap stuff. They do get some nice deals and one or two hidden gems on their bundles ocasionally.
Wok
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LurkerPrime
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More than that, in both of those cases it affected the games for the better. CA has spent Total Warhammer's entire post-release period attempting to damage control the complaints by adding free content or improving what's already in-game. And for Paradox, it actually got them to undo their terrible regional pricing scheme entirely.
Such fervor can totally change the world.
someguyinahat
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Man, I'm so conflicted about Lords of the Fallen. It gets enough right on the surface to seem like a decent Soulslike but once you really get into it there's so much under the hood stuff that just seems utterly fucked up. Enemies just straight up don't obey the same rules as you. Like, having huge hulk-sized demon dudes go on 12+ hits greatsword combos with a complete disregard for the very concept of stamina is one thing. But a freaking human archer should NOT be able to interrupt me in the middle of combo-ing him with a greatsword and stagger me just by poking me with his goddamn bow. It's like your dude gets staggered or knocked back when enemies so much as sneeze in his general direction but hits from you rarely stun anyone.
Then there's how you sometimes take damage during a dodge roll without any kind of visual feedback whatsoever. I mean, you'd expect to get knocked down or something if you screwed up the timing of your dodge but no, dude just keeps right on rolling as if nothing happened and if you're not paying attention you might not notice you just lost 80% of your health. And I'm not even going to get into how I sometimes just instadie regardless of my health when killing a particular enemy type because I'm honestly not sure what the fuck is even happening there.
I want to love it but it seriously feels like the dev either didn't understand why Dark Souls is so good or just straight up went "You know, Dark Souls would probably be better if it wasn't so fair." Is The Surge equally fucked or did they actually learn from their mistakes here? I still want to try it because I've wanted a sci-fi Souls for years but I don't know if my sanity can take another 30+ hours of this bullshit.
Then there's how you sometimes take damage during a dodge roll without any kind of visual feedback whatsoever. I mean, you'd expect to get knocked down or something if you screwed up the timing of your dodge but no, dude just keeps right on rolling as if nothing happened and if you're not paying attention you might not notice you just lost 80% of your health. And I'm not even going to get into how I sometimes just instadie regardless of my health when killing a particular enemy type because I'm honestly not sure what the fuck is even happening there.
I want to love it but it seriously feels like the dev either didn't understand why Dark Souls is so good or just straight up went "You know, Dark Souls would probably be better if it wasn't so fair." Is The Surge equally fucked or did they actually learn from their mistakes here? I still want to try it because I've wanted a sci-fi Souls for years but I don't know if my sanity can take another 30+ hours of this bullshit.
i feel like lords of the fallen is just superficially similar to dark souls but it just fails to capture the "soul" (sigh) of those games
i mean, i sort of feel the same way about dark souls 3, but dark souls 3 had a combat model that really fun to play while lords of the fallen is clunky and boring imo
i mean, i sort of feel the same way about dark souls 3, but dark souls 3 had a combat model that really fun to play while lords of the fallen is clunky and boring imo
Chairmanchuck
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Lords of the Fallen combat is just far too slow.
I mean the second boss is a really fast boss and you need like 10 seconds (exaggerated) to hit him.
I mean the second boss is a really fast boss and you need like 10 seconds (exaggerated) to hit him.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I just got a random $15 off voucher for Ebay, got a $50 Steam digital Steam Card for $35 as a result.
Orakio Rob
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I know I'm very late, but I just finished The Legend of Grimrock. Amazing game, amazing. Is the sequel worth it?
The main designer of Grimrock, Petri Häkkinen, is working on a new game called Druidstone: http://druidstone-game.com/
The main designer of Grimrock, Petri Häkkinen, is working on a new game called Druidstone: http://druidstone-game.com/
Yeah, I think that's fairly accurate. The problem is it's clearly trying to be more than superficially similar but it fucks up everything beyond the surface similarities...
You know what, I think that's another thing I hadn't quite put my finger on. There's a particular enemy type that just gets in your face real fast. I hate those fuckers so much and couldn't figure out why they were giving me so much trouble. They're just way too fast compared to what you can do. The game also seems to favor big two-handed weapons, which is a playstyle I never really cared for in Souls. So that doesn't help.
New is relative... Sega have been pursuing this business plan with their Total War games for years (since Shogun 2, at least), and there's a reason why Bethesda have a reputation for never putting their DLC on offer.
Really, as consumers, you either resign yourselves to paying more and playing everything reasonably soon after release, or paying way less for the GOTY editions 1/2/3 years after release.
Still waiting for that Fallout 4 GOTY edition...
someguyinahat
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Are you even allowed to say "it's pretty cool" if you're under NDA?
Madventure
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It depends on the NDA, if you just clicked yes and went on your merry way probably have no idea what you can actually say or not. Plus it also depends on the company a lot of the times since there's the garden variety NDA or the custom tailored one for specific products or services.
Depends entirely on the terms of the NDA. Some will smite you with the rage from heaven if you so much say you were in the beta/alpha, others are pretty cool and only ask you to not say stuff about a couple of things.
Tekken 7 is really fun, and also backs up my thoughts on Unreal 4 being incapable of having good image quality. Like seriously, why the hell does it have the worst antialiasing I have ever seen?
Meh.
Just for clarification, this was a beta advertised on Pinball FX2's Steam forums.
Meh.
I'm pretty sure I won't get in trouble for saying I like it. Sharing screenshots or talking about what's going on with feedback would be something I'd deserve to get slammed for.
Just for clarification, this was a beta advertised on Pinball FX2's Steam forums.
i almost missed this one
ASHRHGHHGHHHHHHH
to be fair to them, getting the 'soul' of dark souls right is a terribly difficult thing that not even dark souls 2 and 3 could do imo
i think it boils down not to following a formula, which is what many of these games are inevitably gonna fail at
part of the reason why demons souls was so huge is because it challenged expectations and created something truly unique. dark souls meaningfully changed that formula and created a new setting, and most of all it presented the game to a whole new audience (360 and pc), but everything else (i haven't played bloodborne) has been just iterative and that's not what souls is about
but yeah, it's tough as fuck
i really disliked lords of the fallen (unlike god eater, that's a game i actually wholeheartly hated), but it set to do something really difficult and ambitious, gotta give it that
I can understand complaints about Dark Souls 2 as I think it's the weakest of the entire series and by far but I had no issues with Dark Souls 3. I kinda get what you're talking about but my main problem with Lords isn't something abstract and subjective like the "soul" or whatever, it's that it screws up the execution basically across the board.
I wouldn't say that I hated it but I just used a glitch to beat the final boss on NG++ to get the last 3 achievements and I don't even feel bad about it. I'm just fucking glad to be done with it at this point. If I had stopped after NG, I probably would've come out of it feeling more positive about it. The game is at its worst when it tries to be challenging because it's pretty fucked up mechanically. The last few hours of NG++ soured me on the entire thing pretty hard.
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