I definitely don't need a stack of new games but the new Humble Bundle looks good:
https://www.humblebundle.com/humble-indie-bundle-18
That's got to be worth the top-level price for Owlboy and KZR alone, but I quite fancy Steamworld Heist as well.
I definitely don't need a stack of new games but the new Humble Bundle looks good:
https://www.humblebundle.com/humble-indie-bundle-18
That's got to be worth the top-level price for Owlboy and KZR alone, but I quite fancy Steamworld Heist as well.
These things were good when they weren't once a week.
What does the frequency of the deals matter?
Less urge to buy.
Steamworld Heist does look pretty sweet, got it on my wishlist in the app store for the Ipad since it first arrived.
Steam sale starts tomorrow.
Paypal are doing a fiver off if you buy through them and spend £20.
EDIT: Though I can't work out how to actually get it. Any links i find seem to have a number of uses or whatever, even though Paypal themselves advertised it and I can't find a link for it that actually works. That's a bit of a ballache.
I've gone for Beat Cop, The Political Machine and Game Corp DX which looks ropey, but costs the same as a Crunchie so balls to it
Only thing tempting me at the current prices so far is the Hitman season pack for £15.
Wasteland 2 is winking seductively at me from my wishlist but I've just bought Skylines and Dragon Age 3 so I may not get anything at all.
Just built a new PC so it's time to hit the steam sale
Or load up FM
First blood.
I've bought Hotline Miami 2 and Ronin.
I'm adding Ultra Street Fighter 4 to my wishlist. I kinda sorta like fighting games now. Or at least the things that make them fun to watch.
Nothing's taken my fancy yet.
Hitman added to the pile.
Might go for Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and/or The Witcher 3. They're not really my type of games but they've got such good reviews I am tempted just to see what they're like.
Shadow of Mordor's price is insane. I'll be picking it up.
Yeah, at that price, I can't really go wrong, can I? It's less than a pint.
Bought it.
Also bought Thomas Was Alone.
Thomas Was Alone is class.
Picked up:
Hollow Knight
Oxenfree
KOTOR II
Morphblade
Broken Age
Stories Untold
The Talos Principle
Played a bit of it now. It's really good.Originally Posted by Bernanke
Had a bit more of a browse and I'm considering:
Titan Souls
Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Red Faction Guerrilla
Lost Planet 3
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Xenonauts
Ronin
I like the look of Domina, although the spiel uses 'roguelike' which I take to mean I'll die instantly and hate it.
I wasn't going to buy anything. So I've caved in and bought Renowned Explorers: International Society.
I'll do my best to keep the purchases low this sale.
I think.
That looks ace.
Damnit.
You can choose to take control of the fights or not so while it has 'roguelike elements' you can play it as a straight up management game. Having said that there's no save system (actually none at all) so you have to play a game in one sitting.
I've gone for it. I suspect I won't get on with it, but the setting drew me in.
That's the spirit. The soundtrack is immense so you've at least got that.
Yeah, that term is review poison to me. I've never had a good one thrown at me.
"Roguelike" is used to describe fucking all sorts these days.
Like "RPG."
Yeah, it seems to be on every other game on Steam. I'm not even entirely sure what it means. Is it just procedurally generated levels and perma-death?
I don't know shit about Lord of the Rings (never watched the films or read the book) but Shadow of Mordor is quality. The combat is great fun and it looks lovely. Well worth the three quid odd I paid.
LOTR: Shadow of Batman's Creed is one of the few games of that sort where I'd recommend battering through the early stages of the story first. Basically until you get to the mind control stuff (whatever it's called.)
Any or all of perma-death, randomness, procedural generation, turn-based combat, ways the games mechanics interact with each other.
Much in the same way that anything where you can level-up is now described as having RPG features.
Turn-based combat is an instant no-go for me. I loved Final Fantasy 8 but part of me died whenever it would cut away to a battle screen, so the closest I get to RPG territory is Zelda.
I think my favourite proper roguelike is still ZangbandTK once I got the hang of it and the turn-based combat (which didn't cut away, the whole thing was basically turn-based) could really drive home a desperate situation. I had one save where I was trying to farm lgiant lice for XP. Basically giant lice multiply non-stop if you don't kill them fast enough but you can abuse this if you bottleneck them so they only come at you one at a time which I did.... only to then realise I couldn't close the door on them again once I stopped and they'd pour out and fill the entire level. Too weak to kill me because I'd taken a bunch of levels from murdering them but I'd be physically unable to move through them if they surrounded me.
So I'm desperately looking at the map to see if I can get to an exit before they swarm me, seeing if I had any abilities that could help at all.... the last resort I had was an unidentified wand that might chuck a giant fireball and obliterate a load of them or might randomly turn one of them into something even more unpleasant. Tried it. It teleported me right into the middle of the room I'd trapped them in.
Man I love that bastard of a game.
I loved that random mentalness in Brogue, for every time a mystery potion or weapon saves your bacon there's another one that just sets you on fire or turns a bat into a dragon.
Dead Cells is actually kind of ruined by it's rougelikeishness.
Each run unlocks blueprints and if you complete a level while carrying a blueprint, that weapon/skill will be possible to unlock for every next round. The problem being that the opening Weapons/Skills are so much better than the gimmicky stuff you get later that you're actually hamstrung by unlocking items rather than unlocking cool shit.
Ugh, I'm reeeeaally tempted to ignore my usual preference for ignoring games while they're still in early access and just buy Streets of Rogue.
Sonic CD for a quid? HELP!
I've bought Door Kickers.
Watch Dogs for under £8 lads. Lend me your wisdom.
First or second one?
First.
I know it had many a flaw, but is it a "Don't even bother" type affair or just a let-down that promised too much?
Sub par GTA in a world they chickened out of making properly dystopian.
Probably worth a go for that money though.
I shall definitely be buying The Signal from Tolva so I may hold off on Watch Dogs for now anyway.
I actually kinda enjoyed the first. There's enough there for it to be worth 8 quid.
I didn't realise the achievements you get in games could convert into hard cash. In a few hours I've already made a whopping 68p which isn't much but puts me 11p away from basically being given a free game from my wishlist. Capitalist paradise, I'm glad I voted Alan Sugar for king now
Is that from the badges that appear in your inventory while you're playing stuff?
I'm almost at a fiver from flogging the cards you get given, other than Valve making millions off the marketplace I'm not sure what the point of them is.
I downloaded some idler thing that just seems to sit there going through the games in your library and automatically generating cards, even games you don't actually have installed. I don't understand it, but I'm slowly reaping the tiny rewards.
That time I bought a brand new game by selling a drop I got in TF2, I almost cried.
We're the reason Half Life 3 doesn't exist.
Linkage @wullie?
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