Steam - There's a sale on

[squirtle]

1 hour ago, Mitchell said:

 

 

Shudder is excellent.  

 

Funny story time.  @squirtle asked me if I could test Shudder for him on the Steam Deck as I was lucky enough to get one early.  I had no idea what it was and thought he was a Horror fan and wanted me to test if the website streamed the movies well.  Cue me trying to enter a load of Steam codes he sent me for the game in the sites subscription section, then sending him pictures of horror films explaining that they looked great, with aspect ratios and stuff.  

 

🤦‍♂️

We got there in the end... 😂

[Couch Corpse]

12 hours ago, Mitchell said:

 

 

Shudder is excellent.  

 

Funny story time.  @squirtle asked me if I could test Shudder for him on the Steam Deck as I was lucky enough to get one early.  I had no idea what it was and thought he was a Horror fan and wanted me to test if the website streamed the movies well.  Cue me trying to enter a load of Steam codes he sent me for the game in the sites subscription section, then sending him pictures of horror films explaining that they looked great, with aspect ratios and stuff.  

 

🤦‍♂️

 

 

That's amazing! 😂

[ScouserInExile]

Possibly stupid question time. If I buy a game on Steam that is multi OS - specifically Windows and Linux - can I play across those formats, or do I have to pick one / buy it more than once?

[Siri]

Both are included - for example, on the Deck when you're playing  Borderlands 2, you can either force Proton to download the Windows binary, or use the default (and far worse) Native Linux port.

[simms]

Valve is set to host a new Steam festival dedicated to VR titles next week.  Running from July 18 – 25, the event will be “celebrating the world of virtual reality”

 

https://uploadvr.com/steam-vr-fest-next-week/

[Halo]

Eurogamer: Steam is making developers clean up their in-store graphics

 

Ignoring any underlying reasons that this is happening (the continued difficulty for anything to stand out on the Steam store) - if they can do this, why can't they mandate developers add patch notes to every update and enforce the consistent use of release dates?

[fragglerock]

I suppose it is hard to automate (tho so is this badges thing I guess) and most would be 'bug fixes' and nothing more.

[wev]

Re-Volt went up on Steam, lots of complaints that its "only" the original game, also that multiplayer might be LAN only? and people prompting others to play RVGL instead (though apparently you can "upgrade" to RVGL using the Steam version of the game), but I've bought it anyway (its under a fiver) just for nostalgia and the hope they do sort out multiplayer on it

 

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[SMD]

6 minutes ago, wev said:

Re-Volt went up on Steam, lots of complaints that its "only" the original game, also that multiplayer might be LAN only? and people prompting others to play RVGL instead (though apparently you can "upgrade" to RVGL using the Steam version of the game), but I've bought it anyway (its under a fiver) just for nostalgia and the hope they do sort out multiplayer on it

 

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Does it have full controller support?? 

[wev]

My wired Xbox controller works on the vanilla install just testing RVGL now 

 

Edit: Installed RVGL, got the controller working, but in the communities infinite wisdom they "fixed" the handling so its not twitchy like it used to be. Also, I seem to have broken the music and don't get that iconic menu song

[SMD]

no menu song, no buy

[SMD]

dumb question but is there a way to change between official art without having to upload custom artwork? like selecting another region's?

[bradigor]

13 minutes ago, SMD said:

dumb question but is there a way to change between official art without having to upload custom artwork? like selecting another region's?

 

Not that I am aware. Steamgriddb is your best bet. Use SDGBoop or similar to make it easier.

[SMD]

17 minutes ago, bradigor said:

 

Not that I am aware. Steamgriddb is your best bet. Use SDGBoop or similar to make it easier.

 

wow, that's an interesting alternative to what i was after, cheers

[Qazimod]

The next Next Fest will begin on October 3rd - it's usually a decent event if you're interested in upcoming games and playable demos.  

 

 

[Siri]

For those looking for a shedload of games for not a lot of money, Fanatical are launching Bundlefest at some point today, so daily Steam game bundles until the 2nd.

 

A lot of the bundles Fanatical do are thoroughly mid, but you'll occasionally find they've put a Japanese game that never goes on sale as part of them, so I'll be keeping an eye out for that.

[fragglerock]

If this is the best I would not get too excited!

 

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/killer-bundle-24

[ChewMagma]

Deliver us the Moon and Darkwood are both supposed to be good I thought?

[JoeK]

6 minutes ago, ChewMagma said:

Deliver us the Moon and Darkwood are both supposed to be good I thought?

 

Dunno about Darkwood, but I didn't think Deliver us the Moon was half as good as everyone harped on about it. It's got some really fucking odd design choices going on, and whilst some of the lighting is pretty great due to the ray-tracing gubbins, it's not AAA in disguise that some folk seem to think. 

 

Some of the puzzles are a pain in the bollocks too.

 

Although...I do like the way the female announcer says: "Deliver us the Moon". It's quite sexy. In a dominatrix kind of way...

[Gabe]

I don't think anybody in their wildest dreams would've thought Deliver Us The Moon was 'AAA in disguise'?

 

I did like it though.

[Dark Soldier]

Darkwood is fucking amazing and worth the fiver alone.

[Qazimod]

On 25/09/2022 at 15:59, Qazimod said:

The next Next Fest will begin on October 3rd - it's usually a decent event if you're interested in upcoming games and playable demos.  

 

It looks like this is live now - for some reason my client hasn't updated but the web page is okay: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

 

E: live in the client also now

[Siri]

Oh hey, Next Fest Impressions time!

 

All of these booted up with no problem on the Deck, btw.

 

Reavers of New Rome - visually neat, but clunky mashup of Dark Souls and Megaman Legends, of all things.  Bit ropey, crashed after killing the boss. Worth trying, not buying.

 

Zero Sievert - top-down survival shooter. Looks and plays interesting, but the performance is brutal even on desktop computers. I read that turning down the fog polling will remedy it, so will try again. Worth trying, dunno about buying.

 

Wavetale - now this is a surprise! Short demo, but looks absolutely lovely and the platforming and traversal mechanics are fluid and satisfying. Worth trying, quite possibly worth buying.

[Qazimod]

I'm enjoying Rhythm Quest - it's a bit like Geometry Dash but as a straight rhythm game (with more charm), or it's like Rhythm Tengoku's "Night Walk" minigame but as a full game.  You use an attack button and a jump button to clear patterns of platforms and obstacles, and it's just immediately satisfying.   ETA "early 2023".

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1635640/Rhythm_Quest/

 

 

[Siri]

Just finished the Flateye demo.

 

It's excellent - essentially Theme Hospital but in a morally ambiguous future service station. Organ harvesting self-service stations, bio-food vendors that can make anything but powered by your own toilets, and so on.

 

Out in a couple of weeks, too. Looking forward to it!

[Siri]

Next up, Superfuse!

 

It didn't work on deck, not sure why. I'll check when I'm back from work.

 

...Next up, Season!

 

It's very pretty, but very ropey on Deck, due to being a vertical slice and as a result there's no graphics options.

 

Gameplay is pretty neat - basically picture/sound collection like Toem, but in a picturesque 3D environment. The part at the end where you start to travel with the bike and seeing the expanse before you is very BotW in sheer wonder.

 

I think it'll be great when the game is done in 2023. Just needs some tweaks to get it running at a decent clip, but a heck of a lot of promise so far.

[Gabe]

I was going to have a look at Earth From Another Sun, but it wanted me to register just for the demo and I don't want to give them an email address to spam (even though I have one for exactly that purpose.) Game looks very ambitious though. 

 

Undecember looks like Lost Ark and is another Korean Diablo clone. It looked pretty in the few minutes I spent with it, but just equipping a skill was far too many clicks and I gather from comments it's quite pushy on microtransactions, but I'll keep that as a 'Follow' for now.

[Gabe]

And some others, now that I'm at my PC and can remember the names 

 

Asterigos is a Greek/Roman-inspired Soulslike. Now, I absolutely hate Souls games for a number of reasons - and more so for what they've done to the ARPG/hack-and-slash genre (not From's fault per se), but this one had an easy mode and it seems like I might be able to get through it, so that's one I'll look at down the line.

 

I had downloaded Dungeons of the Amber Griffin but then watched a video which put me off even starting it, because this is a dungeon-crawler (which I like) in the vein of Legend of Grimlock (which I do not). I hate real-time combat in these games, plus the video they had made everything seem really laborious. It's a shame, I want a nice Western dungeon crawler but with turn-based combat.

 

I have some other demos downloaded, including XGamer - AI Revolution, which is a T-RPG (but looks like a third-person shooter?); Arran The Book of Heroes and Superfuse. I also need to look at some of the other categories and will probably pick some bits out.

 

A mixed bag so far then, but that's part of the charm of it all - find some potential purchases, rule out some dead-certs and everything inbetween.

[earlymodernsteve]

Asterigos is looking superb. Had my eye on that for a while now. Would heartily recommend Scars Above too. Sci-fi soulslike with some detective mechanics. The actual demo is really generous too and gives you a decent chunk of action to get a feel for the game (enough so that I hope the save transfers to the full game...)

[Gabe]

30 minutes ago, earlymodernsteve said:

Asterigos is looking superb. Had my eye on that for a while now. Would heartily recommend Scars Above too. Sci-fi soulslike with some detective mechanics. The actual demo is really generous too and gives you a decent chunk of action to get a feel for the game (enough so that I hope the save transfers to the full game...)

Oh yeah, that's another I downloaded last night. Is the combat difficult? I suck and don't have the desire to spend ages learning a game (I like to play a story and move on) so I've had to skip so many ARPGs that I would otherwise have liked to experience over the last few years.