VideoGame_Discussion

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Yoshi wrote:

This! I've got 8 or so games in my cart. I may get them all, but the main one I want is Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary.

I got this beauty around Black Friday, and I'm ready to go all in: https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/space/x56...

FFXIV ... I have been wanting to go back to it so bad, but I know myself.

Yet, I'm confused -> https://store.steampowered.com/app/39210/FINAL_FAN...

$20, and Endwalker is $20 ... but they want to sell the bundle for $60?

There was a bunch of expansions between base and Endwalker. What am I missing?

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I believe they bundle the previous expansions with the base game when a new expansion comes out. For whatever reason they just didn't discount the bundle.

Does anyone bother with the badges? I need "Best Game on the Go", "Outstanding Story-Rich Game", and "VR Game of the Year" to craft my badge.

I have an extra "Better With Friends" and 2 extra "Best Soundtrack". I really hate how they randomized the cards, instead of just granting the corresponding.

I always sell my cards for money for more games. $0.06 here and there eventually adds up to a $2 game.

I used to care about them @Frank and traded/collected a few sets years ago, but I don't focus on Steam in general, so I lost interest. I know they used to have more interactive crap during this annual sale (maybe they still do), but it felt like a waste of time to me after a short period of time.
I'm finally looking at my Wishlist as the app/emails have notified me of some games being on sale, but like someone else said, my backlog doesn't need any more company. I do have a capable enough gaming rig now, but meh.

MrBean wrote:


Endwalker made enduring all the other expansions that much better.

Frank wrote:

I need Best Soundtrack and have extra of Labor of Love.

Yeah... my backlog is screaming but I'm gonna get a few things. Probably Resident Evil 3, Mass Effect Legendary, Police Simulator and As Dusk Falls.

sinnie wrote:

As Dusk Falls is on gamepass if you subscribe.

I made two whole bucks by selling all my event cards from my main account and my alts.

I plan to get a bunch of items, but I normally wait until the last couple of days before it ends in case someone surprises me with a game. And I need to add Steam wallet, since I can't actually buy anything directly due to my uh, location causing problems.

Amazon has some EA games available as Steam keys, too - the three Star Wars games and Command & Conquer Remastered. You can probably get other games for cheaper outside of Steam if you know where to look...

DemonAlcohol wrote:

I don’t. I rarely subscribe to anything because I don’t get to play more than a handful of times a month. But maybe someone else can take advantage of that

Here is my current status:

Purchased
Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium (Fanatical)
Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (Green Man Gaming)

In Cart
Death Stranding Director's Cut Upgrade
Disney Afternoon Collection
Grandia HD Remaster
Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol. 1
Shmups Skill Test
Super Cyborg
Umihara Kawasa Trilogy

All of my Steam purchases are an additional ~12.5% or more off, because I stock up on discount credit, so third-party sellers' discounts have to be more than that on top of the Steam sale. Ties always go to Valve, because they are far and away the best company in this industry.

Right now I've just got Accounting+ in my cart. I'm going to try the original Accounting to see if I should even bother.

I'm trying to buy little to nothing for this sale. I need to hack away at my backlog before buying anything else.

Frank wrote:

Just a tip: plant the seed.

Now comes the agony of deciding which thing to play next... or to buy more things.

sinnie wrote:

The answer is clearly buy more, build the backlog, get angry because there's so much to play and not enough time ... haha.

There will be time to play everything when the industry completely implodes due to games as a service, cloud gaming/streaming, paid exclusives, political injections, etc. For better or worse, it doesn't feel like it's that far off.

I beat Accounting+ on PSVR awhile back, and I enjoyed it. (Since you liked Trover, you might like it too. The humor is similar.) Some of the secrets in Accounting+ are pretty wild. I won’t spoil anything.

Frank wrote:

MrBean wrote:

This is the way.

My final purchases finally went through, so I bought these on Steam itself using a combination of card farming money and real money:

The Next Big Thing
Samurai Shodown V Special
Samurai Shodown Neogeo Collection
Trombone Champ
Grandia HD Remaster
Under-Night in Birth EXELate[cl-r] collection
Star Wars Squadron (complete the set bundle)
Glass Masquerade 2 Illusions Scaryfolks Puzzle Pack
Supreme Commander 2 Infinite War Battle Pack
Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea

The following were gifts on Steam:
Catmaze
Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell
Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders

Steam keys:
Command & Conquer Remastered (Amazon)
Star Wars Battlefront II Celebration Edition (Amazon)
Dead Cells: Fatal Falls (Gamersgate)
Dead Cells: The Bad Seed (Gamersgate)
Backbone: Original Soundtrack (Gamersgate)
Backbone: Words DLC (Gamersgate)
Detective Case and Clown Bot in: The Express Killer (Gamersgate)
Calvin Tucker's Farm Animal Racing (Gamersgate)

Steam keys gifted from a friend (all LATAM locked):
Void Bastards
ELEX
Snake Pass
Battle Chasers: Nightwar

Keys that fell off a truck in Eastern Europe:
Lucidity
Lucasfilm Classic Games: Zombies Ate My Neighbors & Ghoul Patrol
Lords of the Realm Complete

Please do not buy that Zombies Ate My Neighbors pack. It's bad, even for a DotEmu product.

I also got the December Humble Choice and that Boomer Shooter bundle.

Foxhack wrote:

What's wrong with DotEmu's products?

I know the Zombies Pack has some issues, buy most of the stuff I know of that they worked on are very highly regarded... Streets of Rage 4, Wonder Boy Dragon's Trap, Windjammer 1/2, and TMNT Shredders Revenge (probably the most highly regarded 2D game in years)

benstylus wrote:

Yep. The difference here is that they didn't develop any of those games.

They have a history of abandoning games and never fixing their issues. Their NeoGeo emulator releases used a hacked up version of the old Nebula emulator that they bought, but all of them have severe audio, video and gameplay problems - to the point that SNK stepped in and released fixed versions of Garou so they could sell it properly in other platforms. The first game I bought from them, Irem Arcade Hits... well they promised fixes and new games for years until one day they went "lol psych" and said they would not support the game anymore. Their Final Fantasy VIII "Remaster" has lots of issues on PC.

And a lot of their games tend to have broken achievements that well, never get fixed.

As a publisher they tend to be good (except for cases where they refused to pay to fix third party games they published, like Pang Adventures). But their track record as a developer, well, no.