I know your pain, I couldn't buy anything on steam for two weeks last year, and steam support... well, we all know how that helps.
*mindblown*
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STEAM | July 2014 25TH THREAD EDITION (2008-2014)
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I know your pain, I couldn't buy anything on steam for two weeks last year, and steam support... well, we all know how that helps.
*mindblown*
Original Famous Ray
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mm...My "card" was just denied as well. ah well.. I can't sweat over it. I do have enough for Shovel Knight but I'm hoping GMG will get it as I have enough credit to cover it.
FiveElementNinja
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A week later..
*tries to buy Bad Rats*
That happened to me on the last day of the summer sale. It took 3 or 4 days to get resolved.
PandaPandaPanda
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Majukun
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have really no idea,got my copy 3 hours ago and didn't even start the game yet
I threw the opening phrase into Google and found results dated as far back as 2012, however it's come up a lot lately. I can only assume whatever threshold Valve had previously set has been reduced significantly.
Yeah I'd be willing to bet good money that we see it within the next week or so with a bl2 sale.
Please add me on steam. My steamprofilelink is in my gafprofile.
TheFightingFish
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I've always told myself that a few times a year I still enjoy a modern AAA "push forward and A until the next cinematic" type of game in between the arcade score attack and small quirky experiences that I mostly enjoy now. I fired up Enslaved recently and at first I found the presentation pretty interesting and was enjoying myself a bit. But I hit a realization about and hour or two in that in the time I had played my brain was actively engaged for possibly like four of those minutes. Turned it off, deleted local content and moved it into the "ZZZ - Done" category as soon as I realized that.
I don't even mean to pick on Enslaved too much, it's just that it really seemed like the quintessential offender for this type of AAA game. Like it's not the "worst" game that I've played recently, but it is the most "AAA" in all the negative connotations of that term. It had reasonably well done yet bland cutscenes, it had relatively infrequent combat that made hinted at requiring skill but never seemed to actually do so, it had platforming traversal that was just connect the dots punctuated by occasional moments of annoyance when I tried to stray from the one of three proscribed paths, it had environmental obstacles that seemed to be there to just milk some time for the voice actors to banter back and forth with each other, and so on and so on. I can do a game like this if it at least has one area that is really excels in, but I could not find one here.
I don't even mean to pick on Enslaved too much, it's just that it really seemed like the quintessential offender for this type of AAA game. Like it's not the "worst" game that I've played recently, but it is the most "AAA" in all the negative connotations of that term. It had reasonably well done yet bland cutscenes, it had relatively infrequent combat that made hinted at requiring skill but never seemed to actually do so, it had platforming traversal that was just connect the dots punctuated by occasional moments of annoyance when I tried to stray from the one of three proscribed paths, it had environmental obstacles that seemed to be there to just milk some time for the voice actors to banter back and forth with each other, and so on and so on. I can do a game like this if it at least has one area that is really excels in, but I could not find one here.
Does Teslagrad have proper controller support yet? It was rather wonky back when I bought it and so I cast the game aside in favour of...
...starting Black Flag again.
Some tips:
1) Explosion damage stacks in Bioshock 1. That means if you stack up 5 explosive canisters and then lure a Big Daddy on top of them and then set them off, you'll get 5 times the damage. You can basically kill a Big Daddy in one shot using this method.
2) Find an environment with a wide pillar in the center and use the electricity to stun them, then shotgun them. Then put the pillar between you when they come out of the stun state. Always try to keep something between you and them unless you are ready to stun them.
3) Shotgun electric buck is your friend.
4) Shock them in water, use anti-armor rounds, run away.
5) Try and get them to fight random splicers to distract them. Ditto for your drones.
6) Don't be afraid to fight a bit and then run to a healing station. They are cheaper than using a health pack.
7) Telekinesis is super powerful. Even just a thrown dead body is strong. Electricity and water, fire and oil stains, exploding machines, point blank shotgun...these are the power moves.
Have fun (though you probably won't read this)!
Salsa, is that you?
corrosivefrost
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Decent game. Played it on Vita where it was free (thanks PS+) and I didn't have to worry about game breaking bugs.
At least you're not buying inferior versions of Steam games on said platform, sir.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well if you're American don't save in puzzle rooms and one other area or your save will be eaten.
They fixed the save file issue of that game?
BinaryPork2737
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That's only for physical carts, I think those were patched in the digital eshop version.
SSPssp
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I need to rewatch that cartoon! Its a bit different than I remember.
At this point I think someone not owning The Ship is stranger than someone not owning Half-Life 2.
I'm using a 360 pad and it's been fine so far. There are bindings already preset in the options but the only quibble I've found so far is that the analog sticks are just accepting a digital input. Some jumps require pixel perfect timing and as you can guess this is a game that has a lot of moments like that so I think I might tear half my hair out by the end.
corrosivefrost
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I'm all for digital purchases.
I have a huge Steam catalog and a huge PSN catalog.
But I refuse to buy anything else from the eShop (I got a $20 card once and used it to buy the Oracle Zelda games because I've never played them so it seemed okay to make an exception). So I think I've spent less than $10 on eshop games because Nintendo has no idea what they're doing when it comes to digital sales. Having all my purchases tied solely to my 3DS? Yeah, no thanks, I won't be buying anything in the eshop unless it's "free" to me via club Nintendo points until they fix that (which last I checked they still hadn't).
At this point I think someone not owning The Ship is stranger than someone not owning Half-Life 2.
As someone who owns The Ship but not HL2, I agree with this.
Going off the other responses, I will guess no. I'll make sure to double check those issues before I begin.
If Chunsoft put up a PC/Vita/3DS Kickstarter, the funding issues for the sequel would disappear quickly. Put ports of the original two games as stretch goals.
Physical-only as far as Nintendo is concerned. I've never lost a console before, but hope for the best and expect the worst is a good motto to live by in my experience.
I also prefer having something to put on my shelf whenever possible.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I thought that was only for Eurolands or is it different from the Euro-one just disabling saving in the problem areas?
Majukun
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little reminder as we are approaching the deadline
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Decent game. Played it on Vita where it was free (thanks PS+) and I didn't have to worry about game breaking bugs.
At least you're not buying inferior versions of Steam games on said platform, sir.
Only bad part is Vita doesn't have 999. I have 999 DS cart on my 3DS and VLR on my VITA, best way to enjoy the series!
Ah, that's fine. At launch the game had controller support, but there were no button prompts, just utterly useless generic descriptors.
You are serious, aren't you?
At this point I think someone not owning The Ship is stranger than someone not owning Half-Life 2.
i don't know how to feel about that...
corrosivefrost
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I've never played 999, nor will I ever, most likely.
This caused some shock and rage in the VitaGAF thread where some were outraged and called it a travesty... others, like me it seems, managed to play the game and have a great experience without having played 999 first.
I did some research into it before and after my playthrough and came to the conclusion I wouldn't have had a much different experience at all if I had played 999 first. I guess it's something that varies from person to person.
I couldn't let Uplay win.
corrosivefrost
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The Charlie Sheen of DD clients.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
you crazy, bro
LOL. VLR is still somewhat of a self contained story until the very end where it's revealed that it's a true sequel, but the game still makes sense. It's just more of a WOW factor when you realize just how much of a sequel it is, but most people were like that probably because playing VLR first spoils any of the big surprises from 999. Kinda funny to hear people called it a Travesty though ahaha.
BinaryPork2737
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Yeah, I limit myself to mainly only buying games under $10 on the eshop. When it comes to handhelds, I prefer to go physical anyway so it's no big loss. The only exception was the $30 credit from the SMT x FE promotion, and I could see myself making a few more exceptions in the future.
I thought the NA version supposedly didn't have the glitch, but one of the articles I found says that people still encountered it. No idea since I only have the physical version.
I found that playing it on Hard was an exercise in frustration. On the contrary, tuning it down to easy is an exercise in boredom. I still can't get over the fact that a game with such an incredible atmosphere, setting and plot has that terrible gameplay, which prevents me from playing it.
Well I don't think I've seen a button prompt at all but the descriptions in the bindings menu make a bit of sense. There isn't too much to the controls but after about the time you gain your second ability you are required to do some joypad gymnastics which can be a right pain to pull off. Then again I can imagine it would be way worse on a keyboard.
I'm gonna hook the thread here without reading anything else, just saying that I'M UP, I've always been up, and I'll always be for some GAF L4D2 extravaganza.
I'm like all digital on everything except for the 1 physical game I have for each of my consoles just so something stays in the drive/cart space. Even my 3DS and WIi U is all digital, except for my DS and Wii games lol. I'm part of the problem aren't I
Steam makes the choice easy for me.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Yeah I have it on the Vita so I got the version that wasn't borked so I'm unfamiliar with the patching since it didn't really matter for me.
Tizoc
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Make sure not to save when solving puzzles or in puzzle rooms! That glitch is never gonna be fixed...
I almost paid 5 times that price for Blade Symphony alone, only it being multi only game stopped me. You decide yourself is it worth.
We need to play some of Blade Symphony now, when everybody will have it.
Actually, lately they had good bundles left and right. Not awesome or anything, but at least one good game in most bundles.
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