The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Jazz_]

Alien Isolation has amazing production values, they nailed that retro sci-fi look and feel of the original Alien to a T. Also, MRY, it's a very well optimized game, it runs on high settings even on a toaster.
The problem with Alien Isolation is that the gameplay becomes repetitive and a chore after the novelty wears off, it's like a 5 hours game stretched over 20 hours or something. Still it's a pretty amazing game as far as tension and atmosphere goes.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Alien Isolation has amazing production values, they nailed that retro sci-fi look and feel of the original Alien to a T. Also, MRY, it's a very well optimized game, it runs on high settings even on a toaster.
The problem with Alien Isolation is that the gameplay becomes repetitive and a chore after the novelty wears off, it's like a 5 hours game stretched over 20 hours or something. Still it's a pretty amazing game as far as tension and atmosphere goes.

I loved how long Alien was. Had plenty of time to soak up that atmosphere and explore those environments. So many modern games are 5 hours or so and you don't get to spend as much time in the game world.

 

[mastroego]

Alien: Isolation graphics are great and smooth. An average game with similar graphics will require a lot more resources than A:I.
Don't mind that screenshot, see it in game.

Complaints about the repetitive gameplay are at least legit, but it's probably the game's only real flaw.
Here are my final thoughts about the game anyway.

 

[MRY]

My computer has a CPU with an integrated video card.

 

[Latelistener]

I'm sure there's some explanation for what is going on here, but man does it look goofy.

It's an android.

http://alienisolation.gamepedia.com/Working_Joe

 

[Jazz_]

My computer has a CPU with an integrated video card.

It runs flawlessly on integrated Intel cards too:

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

I finally picked up the pure puzzle game KAMI this sale. It had been on my wishlist for years. The puzzles increase in difficulty with each successive set of nine and especially near the end of each set, becoming quite challenging at the end of later sets. I'm impressed with it, although it's pretty standard fare; aside from its Japanese paper-folding gimmick, which would be inconvenient but not impossible to reproduce without a computer, it could easily have been a series from an adult's puzzle book or magazine decades ago.

Everything was going pretty smoothly until the 34th or 35th puzzle, but now I'm stumped. Best thing to do is put it down and come back later, at which point I expect to solve the one I'm stuck on in about a minute or two and move on.

It's $1.20 on sale. Anyone who likes puzzles should pick it up; there are 72 puzzles and it should last at least several hours of nonstop puzzling, even if you're very fast.

It's a mobile game, just for the record.

But yeah, it's an okay puzzle. My ex loved it, we've cracked most of the levels together, but I had to do the last super difficult chapter myself. It's honestly nothing special, just figuring the order the colors go in, but it can be addicting.

Them memories, huh.

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Anyways, good sale bros. Bought about 50 games I'll never play. Fuck you Gaben.

 

[Jazz_]

I've bought a bunch of games during those sales but the only one I'm digging so far other than ''Mirror's Edge'' is ''Kathy Rain'', it's got a very Gabriel Knight-esque feel.

 

[MRY]

Came too late to save me.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Alien Isolation has amazing production values, they nailed that retro sci-fi look and feel of the original Alien to a T. Also, MRY, it's a very well optimized game, it runs on high settings even on a toaster.
The problem with Alien Isolation is that the gameplay becomes repetitive and a chore after the novelty wears off, it's like a 5 hours game stretched over 20 hours or something. Still it's a pretty amazing game as far as tension and atmosphere goes.

I agree 100%. It is really a fine example how a game should look, they have absolutely hit the nail with this one.

But the gameplay is still megaboring, even watching videos on youtube. It's like I already know I will spend all this time playing and reloading because I die etc, and at the very end if someone asks me what I did, all I can say is: I ran away from an alien the whole time, and it got me a couple hundred times, so I had to redo those sections.

Don't get me wrong if you love this type of games, and I can somehow imagine what you could get from them. But personally I simply hate horror games.

 

[Burning Bridges]

I've bought a bunch of games during those sales but the only one I'm digging so far other than ''Mirror's Edge'' is ''Kathy Rain'', it's got a very Gabriel Knight-esque feel.

I'm playing Ultimate General Civil War day and night. This little gem absolutely saved the month for me.

 

[Venser]

Did Alien isolation get a good VR patch/mod already?

 

[LESS T_T]

White Day, remake of somewhat cult horror game from South Korea, is coming to Steam on August 22:

Spoiler

 

[Blaine]

It's honestly nothing special, just figuring the order the colors go in, but it can be addicting.

Them memories, huh.

You could describe ANY puzzle in the world in such a dismissively simplified manner as "just figuring the order the colors go in". You could for example describe cryptography as "just figuring out which letters and numbers they've swapped around".

As I said though, yeah, it's nothing particularly exceptional. Puzzles are puzzles are puzzles, be they from a puzzle book from the 1940s or in a flashy computer program.

I'm on the 45th puzzle, #9 in the 5th and final "regular" set. It's one of only two that have been able to stump me for very long, and the last one I solved in a minute after taking a break, just as I knew I would. The "premium" set of 27 more puzzles has me slightly worried.

 

[Abu Antar]

I ended up not buying anything. There was no must have games, even if there were a few that were tempting. I guess it's easy to pass on sales when you have over 250 unfinished games waiting for you.

 

[mastroego]

I agree 100%. It is really a fine example how a game should look, they have absolutely hit the nail with this one.

But the gameplay is still megaboring, even watching videos on youtube. It's like I already know I will spend all this time playing and reloading because I die etc, and at the very end if someone asks me what I did, all I can say is: I ran away from an alien the whole time, and it got me a couple hundred times, so I had to redo those sections.

Don't get me wrong if you love this type of games, and I can somehow imagine what you could get from them. But personally I simply hate horror games.

I can only say that I'd agree if I watched youtube sessions, but it's not how it feels when you play it.
I'm not even a sucker for the genre, quite the opposite, but the whole package works for me and it's an "immersive" experience as they say.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Did Alien isolation get a good VR patch/mod already?

No. In fact, Alien: Isolation did not get a single post-release support patch - only pre-planned DLCs.

This is why it's hard to recommend the game for anything less than $5: It badly needed another 6 months in development, and is such a buggy mess that many players STILL haven't managed to get it running nearly 3+ years after its release.

But no, because sales figures were "disappointing" all post-release support beyond what was already planned was just dropped and both devs and publisher moved on to the next game.

 

[Viata]

I ended up not buying anything.

Same here, besides Grimoire, I'll only buy games after I finish all my steam collection.

 

[Eyestabber]

I'm having tons of fun with shadow of mordor.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

White Day, remake of somewhat cult horror game from South Korea, is coming to Steam on August 22:

Spoiler

This looks amazing! Thanks! Next game to waste my money on!

 

[Beowulf]

I don't buy games anymore. Have insanely huge backlog I need to get through first.

Same here. No purchases this time.

 

[Beowulf]

I'm having tons of fun with shadow of mordor.

Are you playing on keyboard, or using a controller.
Unresponsiveness with keyboard was what really got me and prompted me to uninstall.

 

[Dexter]

Blackwell Epiphany | Space Colony: Steam Edition | Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency | Little Big Adventure Bundle | Red Comrades Save the Galaxy: Reloaded | The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy® | Legends of Eisenwald | Arizona Sunshine | Rise of the Tomb Raider™ | Tethered | Stellaris: Plantoids Species Pack | Stellaris: Leviathans Story Pack | Stellaris: Utopia | Dead Secret | The Uncertain: Episode 1 - The Last Quiet Day | Karma. Incarnation 1 | The Next BIG Thing | Ankh - Anniversary Edition | Shadows on the Vatican Act I: Greed | Runaway, The Dream of The Turtle | Runaway, A Road Adventure

Anyways, good sale bros. Bought about 50 games I'll never play. Fuck you Gaben.

But yeah, pretty much this. Some of that stuff is also shit I already played, but was so cheap I didn't mind having it on Steam.

 

[Burning Bridges]

I have only 26 games in my entire steam library, most between 20 and 350 hours played, with ~half over 70.