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Vin{MBL}
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zer0das
United States8519 Posts
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
Wish me luck guys. EDIT: Watched the video on the Amnesia Steam page and chickened out. Screw that. | ||
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Kojak21
Canada1104 Posts
On July 09 2011 16:35 snotboogie wrote: I get reallllly realllly scared by horror movies and games. Nevertheless.... I'm gonna go ahead and buy Amnesia for $5. Wish me luck guys. EDIT: Watched the video on the Amnesia Steam page and chickened out. Screw that. do not feel ashamed, many of us have done the same | ||
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DarKcS
Australia1237 Posts
Galcon fusion = $3 get it :D MP is full as. | ||
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Shockk
Germany2269 Posts
It's pretty neat. There's no goal to fulfil as it truly is a sandbox, but there are several pre-made scenarios you can play out (Earth and Moon to fool around with - what would happen if the moon had Saturn's rings? Pretty impressive sight!), things like the Shoemaker/Levy-comets hitting Jupiter and many more. Also, if you've ever wanted to watch the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy collide, here's your opportunity. I've had two semesters of astronomy some time back, so I find all of that really interesting and fun to play around with. According to some blogs and reviews, the actual math behind it all is pretty impressive as well, but that's beyond my understanding .). As a neat bonus, the (single!) developer seems to be very passionate about his project, will often answer questions on the Steam forums and his own discussion boards and respond to emails as well. TL;DR: If you're (remotely) interestend in astronomy, like to play around with sandbox enviroments and want to support a cool indie developer, get it. | ||
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Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
On July 09 2011 17:40 Shockk wrote: I was terribly bored yesterday evening waiting for the NASL to finally start, so I stopped toying with the idea of buying Universe Sandbox and actually did get it. It's pretty neat. There's no goal to fulfil as it truly is a sandbox, but there are several pre-made scenarios you can play out (Earth and Moon to fool around with - what would happen if the moon had Saturn's rings? Pretty impressive sight!), things like the Shoemaker/Levy-comets hitting Jupiter and many more. Also, if you've ever wanted to watch the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy collide, here's your opportunity. I've had two semesters of astronomy some time back, so I find all of that really interesting and fun to play around with. According to some blogs and reviews, the actual math behind it all is pretty impressive as well, but that's beyond my understanding .). As a neat bonus, the (single!) developer seems to be very passionate about his project, will often answer questions on the Steam forums and his own discussion boards and respond to emails as well. TL;DR: If you're (remotely) interestend in astronomy, like to play around with sandbox enviroments and want to support a cool indie developer, get it. Amen! He is also seriously considering making it available for mac as well. People should really get it, I love it so much! | ||
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me_viet
Australia1350 Posts
EDIT: I just want to buy Empire, but it's $20 here in Australia...and the whole pack is only $16.99 lol | ||
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AntiLegend
Germany247 Posts
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Antipathy
United States222 Posts
On July 09 2011 22:43 me_viet wrote: Hey I want to buy the Napoleon/Empire Total war pack, however I already got Napoleon. Is there a way I can buy the pack, but keep napoleon as a gift? EDIT: I just want to buy Empire, but it's $20 here in Australia...and the whole pack is only $16.99 lol If you bought the bundle, any components of the bundle that you already own SHOULD turn into giftable items. At least that's what happened to me when I bought the Potato Sack back during Portal 2 launch. I already owned Super Meat Boy but bought the bundle anyways, ended up being able to gift the extra copy of Super Meat Boy. EDIT: ACTUALLY, beware of doing this. I looked into it some more and it seems like they will only do this for you in special cases. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4502-TPJL-2656 | ||
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FezTheCaliph
United States492 Posts
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me_viet
Australia1350 Posts
On July 09 2011 23:00 Antipathy wrote: If you bought the bundle, any components of the bundle SHOULD turn into giftable items that you own. At least that's what happened to me when I bought the Potato Sack back during Portal 2 launch. I already owned Super Meat Boy but bought the bundle anyways, ended up being able to gift the extra copy of Super Meat Boy. Really? I bought the Heroes of Might and Magic bundle, and chose 'for myself" at the counter. If I chose 'as a gift" would the individual components be separated? or will it just have the whole pack as a gift? | ||
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Antipathy
United States222 Posts
On July 09 2011 23:09 me_viet wrote: Really? I bought the Heroes of Might and Magic bundle, and chose 'for myself" at the counter. If I chose 'as a gift" would the individual components be separated? or will it just have the whole pack as a gift? In that scenario, I'm not sure. I would guess that the components would be separated but I couldn't tell you from firsthand experience. All I know is that already owned components of a bundle (at least in the case of the potato sack) are turned into giftable items. EDIT: Scratch that. Check out this link from Steam that explains it: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4502-TPJL-2656 | ||
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TheImmortal
Hong Kong84 Posts
On July 09 2011 08:18 SKC wrote: There are skill trees and items actually. It's not as RPGey as some other titles, but that sentence is wrong. Hell, people call Zelda an RPG sometimes, it's definatelly not a clear definition. ME isn't that diferent from recent RPGs like Dragon Age. Mass effect is not an rpg in the purest form. rpg is a genre formed when final fantasy started. that sort of story and battle menu made rpg games. what you see nowadays that have a role playing feel to them are usually called wrpg. you can argue that mass effect is a role playing game and hence should be called an rpg, but rpg is a genre formed years ago, which has the abbreviation of role playing games, but does not necessarily mean it is a role playing game in the western sense. true rpg do not really convey a sense of freedom cause it's a wat of telling a story that the author wrote rather than writing your own story. | ||
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antelope591
Canada820 Posts
On July 09 2011 13:15 masterbreti wrote: Still rather torn on picking up one of the mass effect games. They looks rather fun to play. But I really didn't like previous bioware games. I know it sounds odd but I really didn't enjoy kotor or dragon age. If you didn't enjoy kotor and DA I doubt you'll enjoy ME...maybe ME2 if you like shooters cause its closer to a third person shooter than an RPG. | ||
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Kezzer
United States1268 Posts
On July 10 2011 00:07 antelope591 wrote: If you didn't enjoy kotor and DA I doubt you'll enjoy ME...maybe ME2 if you like shooters cause its closer to a third person shooter than an RPG. i don't know about that, i didnt like kotor or da, but me&me2 are my favorite games of all time. then again i liked bioshock 2 and not bioshock 1 so maybe im weird | ||
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caelym
United States6421 Posts
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Enox
Germany1667 Posts
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Zocat
Germany2229 Posts
On July 09 2011 23:46 TheImmortal wrote: Mass effect is not an rpg in the purest form. rpg is a genre formed when final fantasy started. that sort of story and battle menu made rpg games. what you see nowadays that have a role playing feel to them are usually called wrpg. you can argue that mass effect is a role playing game and hence should be called an rpg, but rpg is a genre formed years ago, which has the abbreviation of role playing games, but does not necessarily mean it is a role playing game in the western sense. true rpg do not really convey a sense of freedom cause it's a wat of telling a story that the author wrote rather than writing your own story. Since computer RPGs are heavily influenced by P&P RPGs I would argue with you that a "true" RPG does convey the biggest sense of freedom possible. You also say "RPG is a genre formed when final fantasy started". Wizardry, Ultima, Bard's Tale were all release before FF and would certainly fall under the genre "RPG" (those games led to a ton of offsprings, like Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon Master, Realms of Arknia, ...). Even disregarding roguelikes. I agree that we need to diverse between JRPGs and WRPGs, but saying one thing is the "true" form and basing this on the age like you do, well WRPGs would win. That being said - it's hard to define Mass Effect. If someone would ask me "What genre is Mass Effect?" I would immediatly say "RPG". But when looking for reasons "it has THIS therefore it is a RPG" - I dont know. But I cannot find such a reason for any other game I define as a RPG as well. About buying Mass Effect: You have to like story / dialog / character interaction. You have to like shooting (3rd person shooter). You should like doing quests. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On July 09 2011 23:46 TheImmortal wrote: Mass effect is not an rpg in the purest form. rpg is a genre formed when final fantasy started. that sort of story and battle menu made rpg games. what you see nowadays that have a role playing feel to them are usually called wrpg. you can argue that mass effect is a role playing game and hence should be called an rpg, but rpg is a genre formed years ago, which has the abbreviation of role playing games, but does not necessarily mean it is a role playing game in the western sense. true rpg do not really convey a sense of freedom cause it's a wat of telling a story that the author wrote rather than writing your own story. I don't even know what to say. RPGs did not start at final fantasy. In fact the earlier RPS were modeled after the role playing table games. While wiki isn't the greatest source it at least gives a better picture : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_video_game#History_and_classification RPGs these days have various different sub genres but saying one is not a true RPG is just plain silly. A JRPG is still a RPG same was as Mass Effect is still an RPG. | ||
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