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Welcome to the Steam Deal Thread V9! I'm your new host, Psydero.
You can find link to past threads at the bottom of this post. Read post #2 of this thread for Steam FAQs and more.

Steam Sales on Steam

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Steam Sales Elsewhere on CAG - Updated 11/2


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Draekon said:
Ys: Oath of Felghana is a remake of Ys 3. It's a good game, but I think I prefer Ys Origins by a little bit. You get more gameplay from it with two starting characters to choose from who play quite a bit differently with a third unlockable character. I think Oath gets most of its praise from the original game with its higher difficulty level than most other Ys games. The remake isn't bad though, but expect to die to bosses the first time you encounter them a few times regardless of which Ys game you play.

You can't really go wrong with either in my opinion.
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Thanks! The thing is, I don't use to play a game more than once... Backlog issues xD

I will buy the other Ys games later on (if I like the one I played) and I want to understand the story, so, will oath still be a right choice?
 
Speaking of Derp Island:

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Yet another standalone cash grab?  These guys are shameless.

 
Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
Organ Trail (Android following)
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This is decent? Superficially it seems like an unimaginative cash-grab almost exclusively composed of the worst indie platitudes.

Blade said:
Unrelated to current conversation, I got my first Origin phishing e-mail today:


Never gotten one before, pretty weird. I just gave out my address to a few CAGs and sold them some Steam keys, so there's that. But be on the lookout.
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I never get any good e-mails besides porn and super porn.

MrNinjaSquirrel said:
I've gotten a few that are almost word for word the same, but that were pretending to be paypal instead. Thanks for the heads up just in case I do get one, sometimes I forget my brain and accidentally click through to them :whee:
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They circumvent your spam folder?

Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
I also don't get the mode of thinking that somehow a zombie game is taking anybody's spot.

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As much as I love zombies, I don't think they should have their own genre, but at least this glut of development should lead to a few different, original, and good zombie themed games out there.
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A zombie game is taking a spot -- a spot in the world that could otherwise be filled by fresh games and ideas.

If that's what you're into.

asheskitty said:
#Idle4Life
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We need an American Idle competition. Or British Idle, etc.

MysterD said:
No wonder we have no time to play games!

All we do is keep buying games; run games idly for cards; keep backlogging games; & talk about games on CAG Forums + gaming forums like it.
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This is the most accurate description of the PC CAG crowd ever typed.

Drabelincoln said:
Oh I do real things like go to work, raise a kid and soicialize
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juanjava said:
Thanks! The thing is, I don't use to play a game more than once... Backlog issues xD

I will buy the other Ys games later on (if I like the one I played) and I want to understand the story, so, will oath still be a right choice?
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Adol is the main character in every Ys game except Origins. The only ones that are really directly connected is Ys 1 & 2. The rest can be played through without knowledge of other Ys games, but you may miss out on subtle references to previous games that aren't that big of a deal.

 
Drabelincoln said:
Big vacation plans or are you just avoiding UV light?
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No, I've been on vacation all week, so far.

Ain't really did a hell of a lot, honestly.

Monday & Tuesday - ran TR 2013 into the ground and played it as much as I could, until I finished it; which I did do. :D

Wed - Yesterday, went and visited my grandmother.

Not sure on what I'll do tomorrow and this weekend. I could assume, as usual, that involves going out to eat, watching movies & playing games.

 
so i fired up Indie Game The Movie (cardz) for the first time, good lord these guys are insufferable. i made it 15 mins before muting it and letting it play in the background while i watched predator. 

 
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MysterD said:
No, I've been on vacation all week, so far.

Ain't really did a hell of a lot, honestly.
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I missed the final two days of the Steam sale infinite repeats for this shit:

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Although I'll admit that the near complete lack of data coverage from my cell phone carrier was a bit annoying.

 
Syntax Error said:
I missed the final two days of the Steam sale infinite repeats for this shit:

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Although I'll admit that the near complete lack of data coverage from my cell phone carrier was a bit annoying.
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Everybody on the beach and you have to be the creepy guy taking pictures from the shrubbery...

 
MysterD said:
No, I've been on vacation all week, so far.
Ain't really did a hell of a lot, honestly.

Monday & Tuesday - ran TR 2013 into the ground and played it as much as I could, until I finished it; which I did do. :D
Wed - Yesterday, went and visited my grandmother.

Not sure on what I'll do tomorrow and this weekend. I could assume, as usual, that involves going out to eat, watching movies & playing games.
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I dunno, clubbing with Spiricore sounds rather nice ;)
 
vince_carter said:
so i fired up Indie Game The Movie (cardz) for the first time, good lord these guys are insufferable. i made it 15 mins before muting it and letting it play in the background while i watched predator.
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If you don't want to watch it you can just scroll to the end and still get achievements ^^

 
Sir_Fragalot said:
With other MMO's like WoW, yes you see 3,000 of the same race/class but it's more understandable because it's a race of people. Seeing 3000 Thor's is something I don't wanna do, lol.
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Exactly, and you can change the faces, hair, clothes and armor, etc on each of those races/classes, so it's not that often that you run into a full lookalike.

If anything, I think it would just be fucking hilarious to team up with friends, make a clan called "Spodermen" and run around in 5-man groups full of Spiderman, killing everything.

Das_Regal said:
People complaining about the popularity of zombies is more annoying to me than zombies.
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nny said:
It's no more dumb than you killing the same respawned mobs that 1000s of other people just killed just like in every MMO out there.

I don't know how it got to me so much, but playing Marvel Heroes actually feels more like I'm playing out a comic than any other game I've ever played. Maybe it's just because I have such a tie to the Marvel characters and it's nice to not have to just play Spider-man or whoever. The Ultimate Alliance and X-men Legends games were pretty good, but the fact that you were on such a linear path made it just feel like another videogame. I like the mix of linearity and non-linearity that Marvel Heroes provides.
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Actually I think it's wayyyy more dumb than that, but to each his own.

I love Ultimate Alliance, but I'm following a story, by myself (or co-op with a friend or two), with my team of superheroes. However, if that team of superheroes were, say, four wolverines, I'd think it was stupid. That's the point. MMOs are huge, with tons of different people running around doing stuff. When you have ten Hulks sitting in a circle chatting, the game is just joke. Do not want. If you could make your own custom superhero? Okay, that would be cool (isn't that what the other, successful superhero MMO does?).

warreni said:
That is my opinion, just as it's my opinion that a lot of zombie games on the market aren't that good. Zombies, Dead Pixels, whatever they're calling The War Z now, and a lot of other games on the market are just cash-ins made in an effort to jump on the undead bandwagon while they're the "it" thing. Yep, that's 100% my opinion and others are free to disagree. I also don't think much of most survival horror games in general, with or without zombies.
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Dead Pixels and War Z in the same sentence? I've actually heard good things about Dead Pixels... Most of the complaints come from that there's no online co-op (meaning people like the game and want to play it together).

Now, if you said Dead Horde... I could get behind that.

 
Idiotekque said:
Exactly, and you can change the faces, hair, clothes and armor, etc on each of those races/classes, so it's not that often that you run into a full lookalike.

If anything, I think it would just be fucking hilarious to team up with friends, make a clan called "Spodermen" and run around in 5-man groups full of Spiderman, killing everything.

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Actually I think it's wayyyy more dumb than that, but to each his own.

I love Ultimate Alliance, but I'm following a story, by myself (or co-op with a friend or two), with my team of superheroes. However, if that team of superheroes were, say, four wolverines, I'd think it was stupid. That's the point. MMOs are huge, with tons of different people running around doing stuff. When you have ten Hulks sitting in a circle chatting, the game is just joke. Do not want. If you could make your own custom superhero? Okay, that would be cool (isn't that what the other, successful superhero MMO does?).

Dead Pixels and War Z in the same sentence? I've actually heard good things about Dead Pixels... Most of the complaints come from that there's no online co-op (meaning people like the game and want to play it together).

Now, if you said Dead Horde... I could get behind that.
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Honestly, I think Spoderman is the only reason why this game would be mildly entertaining. Maybe only for fifteen minutes or so, but still...

Edit: CAG3 y u no combyn my post?! i hav no atentun span for multiqwot

(Christ typing like that is hard, I don't know how you guys do it on a regular basis.)

 
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Syntax Error said:
This reminds me of a zombie complaint. Actually, I thought of it while playing Dead Island but it seems to be common enough to bitch about it: the Boss Zombie.

The concept of zombies as a horror genre seems to be that the zombies becomes some overwhelming horde because everyone is getting turned into zombies. Lots of shambling dead folk who used to be your friends, neighbors, family members, co-workers, etc. Oh, but hey! That guy is a huge fat zombie who vomits acid! And that one explodes! And that one has an inexplicably long whip-tongue! And that one is the size of a Volkswagen and takes a small military to bring down. And suddenly it's not a horror game about the human population being turned into mindless undead beasts any longer, it's just silly boss fights that take you completely out of the mood. Each time I see one of the big guys in Dead Island I wonder "Just how many giant dudes in straitjackets and Hannibal Lecter face masks did this society have wandering the streets when the plague hit?"

I realize it may be difficult to change difficulties when the stock minion is so easily defeated but silly novelty bosses are one of the laziest and worst ways of doing so from a horror point of view.
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Eh, this is done for fun. That, and like Fox said, the mutation factor is behind just about every zombie game/movie in popular culture, and with mutation comes... mutation. Abnormal, freaky, wild zombies (or mutants... games like Killing Floor do NOT have zombies) are fun and interesting, and they lend more varied combat and gameplay to the games.

Jaysonguy said:
My whole problem with zombies is that none of them are real zombies.

Where's the Voodoo zombies? It's all the "they caught this or that and they're a zombie"

It also bothers me that all these faux zombies don't contaminate everyone with their blood. The whole "oh don't let him bite you" crap and then in the next scene someone blows one up like a water balloon and gets covered in goo but they don't change?

Hate it so much.
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Ever play Zafehouse Diaries? It's pretty much entirely text and management based, but if you want a realistic zombie experience, contamination and all, give it a play.

 
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The only zombie-centric games I have enjoyed: L4D 1&2, The Walking Dead and Killing Floor, though I have yet to really jump into it. I have a sneaky suspicion I will like it. Dead Rising is a maybe - waiting for a better comp. Does Dead Space count?

Buuuut, other than those five (six, maybe seven or ten) and games that have zombies, but aren't centered around them (Fallout, STALKER, Dark Souls, Resident Evil, System Shock 2 (lol?) and Half-Life, for example), I fail to see why they gather so much pop-culture mania.

And for the record, I am one of the people who finds TWD tv series incredibly ho-hum, like that episode of Family Guy: "Okay, they're-they're in the woods...the camera keeps on moving...Uh, I think they're, they're looking for some [zombie] or something, I-I don't know, I wasn't listening... nothing's happening, nothing's happening, something about a map, nothing's happening, it's over."

The original game is surprisingly great by all accounts (let's not talk about the other one); the TV series just drrraaagggsss on and is about as engaging as watching grass grow. I forced myself to finish season 3 simply because there were so many people raving about it before I called it quits. I dun see it. {shoulder shrug}

 
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Spiricore said:
The only zombie-centric games I have enjoyed: L4D 1&2, The Walking Dead and Killing Floor, though I have yet to really jump into it. I have a sneaky suspicion I will like it. Dead Rising is a maybe - waiting for a better comp. Does Dead Space count?

Buuuut, other than those five (six, maybe seven or ten) and games that have zombies, but aren't centered around them (Fallout, STALKER, Dark Souls, Resident Evil, System Shock 2 (lol?) and Half-Life, for example), I fail to see why they gather so much pop-culture mania.

And for the record, I am one of the people who finds TWD tv series incredibly ho-hum, like that episode of Family Guy: "Okay, they're-they're in the woods...the camera keeps on moving...Uh, I think they're, they're looking for some [zombie] or something, I-I don't know, I wasn't listening... nothing's happening, nothing's happening, something about a map, nothing's happening, it's over." The original game is great by all accounts (let's not talk about the other one), the TV series just drrraaagggsss on. I forced myself to finish season 3 simply because there were so many people raving about it before I called it quits. I dun see it. {shoulder shrug}
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Idiotekque said:
Eh, this is done for fun. That, and like Fox said, the mutation factor is behind just about every zombie game/movie in popular culture, and with mutation comes... mutation. Abnormal, freaky, wild zombies (or mutants... games like Killing Floor do NOT have zombies) are fun and interesting, and they lend more varied combat and gameplay to the games.
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I can't think of any zombie movies (played straight) with exploding zombies or zombies with whip-tongues or whatever. Maybe with an especially big dude as a zombie but as a one-off. I'll admit I'm not an expert in all movies about zombies.

Matters of opinion, I suppose. What you see as "done for fun", I see as lazy game design ("Need to change difficulties?: Just add bosses!") and what you think of as "fun and interesting" I see as immersion and genre breaking. Especially when repeated over and over and over because the game only has four or five boss types so you see that grossly obese vomit spewing zombie every seven minutes.

Obviously it varies from game to game and how seriously/straight-played the game takes itself.

 
vince_carter said:
so i fired up Indie Game The Movie (cardz) for the first time, good lord these guys are insufferable. i made it 15 mins before muting it and letting it play in the background while i watched predator.
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I kinda like Edmund but all the rest of the guys are insufferable.

 
Mooby said:
Speaking of Derp Island:

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Yet another standalone cash grab? These guys are shameless.
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And this is why we wait often for those 75% off or better sales.

Too many stand-alone expansion-sequels; DLC's; and other stuff for us to keep up w/.

I'm more curious how Dying Light will turn out, actually.

 
Idiotekque said:
Ever play Zafehouse Diaries? It's pretty much entirely text and management based, but if you want a realistic zombie experience, contamination and all, give it a play.
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I'm looking forward to playing this.

CAG trade-thread patron DarkCsarx Aka Eren Jaeger gifted me a GOG key, so big up for that.

man, we need a way to notify someone without quoting them a la IGN:

@RappinTonyDanza

 
Spiricore said:
Honestly, I think Spoderman is the only reason why this game would be mildly entertaining. Maybe only for fifteen minutes or so, but still...

Edit: CAG3 y u no combyn my post?! i hav no atentun span for multiqwot

(Christ typing like that is hard, I don't know how you guys do it on a regular basis.)
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CAG combining posts-in-a-row that we make into one would be nice.

GOG does it.

 
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Syntax Error said:
I can't think of any zombie movies (played straight) with exploding zombies or zombies with whip-tongues or whatever. Maybe with an especially big dude as a zombie but as a one-off. I'll admit I'm not an expert in all movies about zombies.

Matters of opinion, I suppose. What you see as "done for fun", I see as lazy game design ("Need to change difficulties?: Just add bosses!") and what you think of as "fun and interesting" I see as immersion and genre breaking. Especially when repeated over and over and over because the game only has four or five boss types so you see that grossly obese vomit spewing zombie every seven minutes.

Obviously it varies from game to game and how seriously/straight-played the game takes itself.
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I see what you're saying, but really it's Resident Evil that set that precedent with loads of different types of zombies and mutations due to the T-Virus. How many games really have that, though? Beyond Resident Evil, I can think of Left 4 Dead and Killing Floor, which I'd argue is not zombies, and is completely mutants.

 
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MrNinjaSquirrel said:
pretty sure Cheapy said they had disabled that feature, so I'm not sure why everyone keeps expecting it to happen.
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It was enabled for a few days after the switch, but then it was turned off. This was done so informational topics that get re-created can post several replies afterwords without issues.

 
Idiotekque said:
I see what you're saying, but really it's Resident Evil that set that precedent with loads of different types of zombies and mutations due to the T-Virus. How many games really have that, though? Beyond Resident Evil, I can think of Left 4 Dead and Killing Floor, which I'd argue is not zombies, and is completely mutants.
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Dead Island since I said that's what set me off :D

 
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