Charas-Project
Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Prpl_Mage on June 11, 2014, 09:47:19 AM
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I just can't remember when this thing usually starts...
Anyway, I'm setting my hopes on getting all the remaining DLC for borderlands 2, the angry video game nerd game, maybe the latest stand alone expansion for Heroes of might and magic 6, haven't played it since the release 3 years ago and some other stuff. Maybe warhammer 2(or 3? can't remember) I liked the first game that was like company of heroes at least.
And although I doubt that early access games go on sale I'd like to give starbound and edge of space a try. Haven't decided it magicite looks good yet though, being permanent death and all.
Oh right, the purpose of the thread. I've noticed how all of you guys who are on my friend list are boasting a hefty 50-100+ games, so I'm guessing that I'm just the steam newb. But what games should I be on the lookout for when the sale begins?
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My guess is that it starts very soon. Take a look at your badges page and you'll see what I mean...
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Usually starts early July if I remember correctly. Either way soon, though I can't say I'm really excited for it. Probably since I've bought so many games over the year that I'm still only 50% on my backlog. If I really want a game I would've bought it already, I usually save the Steam sales for the "might be fun" games and the backlog is so crowded it tells me "eh, play that one first".
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I'm terrified for my wallet.
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I got a ton of stuff last summer, but very little over Christmas, and most of that was gifts for friends. Honestly there's not a lot of new stuff out right now that I want to pick up.
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If you guys are anything like me, you burned through your wishlists during the early days of seasonal sales. You've probably learned your lesson about lesser titles, and you're back to buying at a somewhat reasonable rate. Steam sales don't have quite as much to offer you these days, aren't quite as outrageous as they once were, so they won't be as brutal as the early days.
Still though, those damn sales are nuts.
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Steam doesn't have much in the line of good rpgs imo, so I don't do much with it.
Transistor was pretty good though. Oh, and Child of Light.
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There are some good ones, but yeah. PC is more of a shooter platform. The good RPGs are few and far between.
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Anyone know a game one steam that is kind of a mix of city building and rpg without the whole conquer all other settlements thing? Like an RTS only more about building and defending your settlement than about taking out the other npcs.
Folk Tale or something seems like it, but I'm not one for early access stuff.
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I think there was this game Banished, looked more like a building a working city simulator than your typical age of empires.
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You've probably learned your lesson about lesser titles, and you're back to buying at a somewhat reasonable rate.
This exactly. I got burned pretty hard on early access stuff, picking up nearly a dozen "games" (and I use this term generously) that even a year later are little more than impressive tech demoes with no actual meat.
These days I mostly buy games based on word of mouth. I'll even pick up an early access if my friends insist it has enough content. Steam reviews are also semi-decent indicators of how finished stuff is, especially if I'm suspicious and turn on only the negative reviews, as the negative ones usually go more in depth as to what the real problems are.
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as the negative ones usually go more in depth as to what the real problems are.
However, I've found that some of the negative reviews are written by people who are... weird. Staring off saying "don't buy this game, the devs are ripping you off!" but then going on and saying good things about the game. Or stuff like that.
The first early access game I got was this 7 days to die my brother wanted to play with someone. It's like minecraft but half life graphics and set in a zombie infested world where the zombies run and act more aggressive at night. Anyway, the game got some obvious flaws like there's only iron armour to craft and 1 type of each tool (pickaxe, shovels etc) that could be improved. Also, the world isn't random generated (yet) and little things like that. Also, there's no real end to the game, you just keep doing what you're doing. And although there isn't a lot to do you can still tweak most settings (zombie spawn rate, the loot percentage, how many minutes a day lasts and so on). Oh right my point... Right, the game is good, but it's in alpha so there's still a lot of work to be done. And there's no guarantee that the game will be finished any time soon, as with all early access games. So I stay away from it.
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(http://i.imgur.com/Z1m55jr.jpg)
Found this on gbatemp.com, supposedly this confirms the summer sale dates?
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So the sale is on. I got the heroes 6 expansion, also mirrors edge, and EYE also risk of rain. I hoped that Warhammer 40k (2) would drop lower (although 10€ isn't much, I have no doubt that it's worth more than that).
Checking back from time to time to see some great deals, unfortunately my cash flow kinda stopped here so I need to restrain myself a little. Therefore I decided against getting all them early access games.
Also, Terraria is like €1.9 at the moment. So for all of you who haven't gotten it yet, git it.
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I bought some DLC for a few games. I also got Payday 2 (paid for with the profits of selling roughly 5 pages of Steam trading cards).
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Risk of Rain is a blast! FFL and I both have it, I've beaten it several times. The three of us should play some time.
I got Shadowrun Returns, Lone Survivor, Pixel Piracy, Papers Please!, and Unepic so far.
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Got gifted X-Com, Walking Dead Season 2 and ORION: Dino Horde. Bought Storm of Vengeance and Wolf Among Us for myself. So far bought more than I expected. Seen a bunch of games in my wishlist on sale but didn't go into the temptation of buying them all.
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I haven't been too impressed this far. Then again, I went crazy the last two sales Steam had, so there weren't many games on sale that I wanted and didn't already have.
I did end up buying the X superbox (X: Beyond the Frontier, X-Tension, X2: The Threat, X3: Albion Prelude, X3: Reunion, and X3: Terran Conflict) and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. Everyone says the Witcher is a great series, so I figured I might as well give it a shot.
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None of the games on my wishlist have gone up yet (I don't have that many honestly.) but here's to hoping.
I wish I could get more games than I have already, but my situation is a bit wonky. My Steam account is American, and the card I use to buy things on Steam is American as well, however I do not earn US dollars at my job, I earn Japanese Yen. It's very difficult and pricey to put those Yen onto my American card as USD. I have yet to find a cheap and efficient way to do it unfortunately. So, whatever money I had left over on there from before I moved here, is what I have to spend until I have wire money back to that account, or physically exchange JPY to USD and deposit it when I visit America next time. Poop.
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Are Steam cards not a thing over there? I've never thought about that as a possibility before. I suppose there's always the option of finding a surrogate to buy games for you as gifts, though that would require someone trustworthy.
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None of the games on my wishlist have gone up yet (I don't have that many honestly.) but here's to hoping.
I wish I could get more games than I have already, but my situation is a bit wonky. My Steam account is American, and the card I use to buy things on Steam is American as well, however I do not earn US dollars at my job, I earn Japanese Yen. It's very difficult and pricey to put those Yen onto my American card as USD. I have yet to find a cheap and efficient way to do it unfortunately. So, whatever money I had left over on there from before I moved here, is what I have to spend until I have wire money back to that account, or physically exchange JPY to USD and deposit it when I visit America next time. Poop.
What about Paypal?
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That sounds like a good idea. I'm not certain how Paypal handles exchange rates, but at the very least it could help limit the extra work/cost on your end.
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My bank here doesn't offer any kind of debit/credit card system. They do not sell Steam gift cards over here, and even if they did, just as Amazon gift cards over here, they wouldn't be redeemable on the American servers. Japanese games often cost significantly more. That being said, supposedly Paypal charges a rather large currency exchange rate, but unfortunately it might be the best alternative. Before I can do that though, I need to change banks over here.
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So what, they can't convert the currency for you? Everything is listed in euro on steam over here, but euro ain't the currency of Sweden. Still works.
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I use an American card on the American store.