At a certain point they just need to give Magicka away for free and stop selling it so it doesn't take up a perfectly good sale slot.

Originally Posted by Therapy Ahww what? That game is totally worthless :( I bought it last sale and it was Bo-o-o-o-o-ring.

I will provide a counterpoint and say that I thought home was a delightfully eerie narrative experience. It's a short adventure game with various choices you can make that alter what's actually happening in the story, like a choose your own adventure novel. It's creepy and sticks with you for awhile after finishing it.

It's also only two hours long, tops, and obviously is not for everybody.

This is new.

Originally Posted by The End This is new.

It even has the GamersGate color scheme.

Originally Posted by The End This is new.

Oooh, that's cool. Gonna put my primo pdf to good use. I assume PDF would be a format they would take.

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Where all the Home giveaways on SG coming from?

Originally Posted by Frithsblessing Where all the Home giveaways on SG coming from?

Indie Gala "unlocked" it in their Magicka bundle

Originally Posted by CheapLikeAFox Oooh, that's cool. Gonna put my primo pdf to good use. I assume PDF would be a format they would take.

This is what you're redirected to when you click on "Click For Details".



I'm sure Pimia Guides is really loving this new feature.

I go to gamefaqs for all of my guides, but its nice to see a "free" guide feature on Steam. I prefer user guides to Prima guides anyway.

sonic all stars racing: unleashed is getting 3 PC exclusive characters

- the heavy from tf2
- football manager guy
- samurai from shogun 2

sega has been great in supporting steam and the pc market, i'm really impressed with them the last few years


http://youtu.be/YVjKx0rS1OE

Originally Posted by The End I'm sure Pimia Guides is really loving this new feature.

I assume most of Prima's customers are either console players or people too dumb to care. PC players with an ounce of sense just type "[Game] [puzzle]" into Google and are off to the races.

Originally Posted by Syntax Error I assume most of Prima's customers are either console players or people too dumb to care. PC players with an ounce of sense just type "[Game] [puzzle]" into Google and are off to the races.

But, but, but I buy the guides for the production value, and the great artwork, and and and having it all in one place is convenient! I don't care if a lot of the info is out of date by the time it is printed, or the same (and better) info is free online, I want my strategy guide!


Actually, it is funny that I got the Nintendo Power Final Fantasy strategy guide as part of my subscription, and flipping through convinced me I had to have the game. After GameFAQs existed, I never bought a strategy guide again, not that I bought many in the first place.

Originally Posted by vince_carter sonic all stars racing: unleashed is getting 3 PC exclusive characters - the heavy from tf2 - football manager guy - samurai from shogun 2 sega has been great in supporting steam and the pc market, i'm really impressed with them the last few years http://youtu.be/YVjKx0rS1OE

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Originally Posted by travathian But, but, but I buy the guides for the production value, and the great artwork, and and and having it all in one place is convenient! I don't care if a lot of the info is out of date by the time it is printed, or the same (and better) info is free online, I want my strategy guide! Actually, it is funny that I got the Nintendo Power Final Fantasy strategy guide as part of my subscription, and flipping through convinced me I had to have the game. After GameFAQs existed, I never bought a strategy guide again, not that I bought many in the first place.

I knew everything about A Link to the Past before I had the game. I studied that book so closely. I even remember reading it while riding my bike and hitting a parked car.

Heh, I mentioned once before that my cousin's husband wrote the Prima guide for SRTT. He gave me a free copy and it's "ok" for what it is and the various charts for cars (speed, handling, etc) held my attention for a few moments but overall it's nothing anyone would need. The only information in there you might not find just in the course of playing the game would be the location of all the cash/sex doll goodie packets.

Aside from that, there's only so many ways you can say "Enter the room and guys will try and shoot you. So shoot them."

I wish Magicka got more bug fixes than sales - I still can't play online co-op without the game freezing between rooms.

I'd play it on single-player, but I bought it for myself and a pal simply for the co-op experience. I'm quite sad.

I dont get those guides...never had any impulse to get them. Only guides I would need are item/stat builds for some games and in that case they are player made and online

Plus games can change with patches and they become outdated..

Playing Doom Rails, any takers?

Certain guides are very nice to have, especially if you've already played through the game once and want to dig up all the secrets. For example, the Fallout 3 GOTY guide is excellent. It's incredible the amount of effort that went into that guide.

And sure, you can just Google it as well, but it's just a different thing. Especially when you can refer to maps, exact details on each container and what can be inside it, etc.

Originally Posted by Idiotekque Certain guides are very nice to have, especially if you've already played through the game once and want to dig up all the secrets. For example, the Fallout 3 GOTY guide is excellent. It's incredible the amount of effort that went into that guide. And sure, you can just Google it as well, but it's just a different thing. Especially when you can refer to maps, exact details on each container and what can be inside it, etc.

Ditto on New Vegas.

Originally Posted by Idiotekque Certain guides are very nice to have, especially if you've already played through the game once and want to dig up all the secrets. For example, the Fallout 3 GOTY guide is excellent. It's incredible the amount of effort that went into that guide. And sure, you can just Google it as well, but it's just a different thing. Especially when you can refer to maps, exact details on each container and what can be inside it, etc.

When I was a kid I had the Prima guides for the Pokemon games.

I think that was a nice thing to have, simply to have all those stats laid out in front of you in a nicely presented way.