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Old 10-29-15 | 03:13 PM
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Debated putting this in the Game Deals thread, but that one seems more console centric. Steam is currently running a Halloween Sale on select titles through the 2nd.

http://store.steampowered.com/search...mhalloweensale

The link lists 50 or so titles, but a lot more are on sale than that. I've got a few on my wishlist that are on sale, but aren't shown, so there may be some hidden deals out there.
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Old 10-29-15 | 03:50 PM
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Debated putting this in the Game Deals thread, but that one seems more console centric. Steam is currently running a Halloween Sale on select titles through the 2nd.

http://store.steampowered.com/search...mhalloweensale

The link lists 50 or so titles, but a lot more are on sale than that. I've got a few on my wishlist that are on sale, but aren't shown, so there may be some hidden deals out there.
This site list 1500 titles under this sale:
https://steamdb.info/sales/

This site also lists a lot of titles:
http://steamsales.rhekua.com/

Including this game 99% off for $0.08:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/364270/
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Old 10-30-15 | 11:17 AM
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Takes some getting used to with each character. Easiest for me was Pharah since she's your basic rocket launcher prototype character. Or maybe Soldier 76 with a basic machine gun.

For a good time, add Noodles#1876
I think you added me first assuming you show up as Stanley Fu in hearthstone
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Old 12-08-15 | 05:13 PM
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http://blog.htc.com/2015/12/htc-vive-update/

The HTC Vive VR headset is supposed to be available for consumers in April.
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Old 12-14-15 | 12:04 PM
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Overwatch beta going on break until sometime in January sucks! I want to play more!
Actually its probably good since i have a ton of non-video game stuff i need to get done
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Old 12-23-15 | 02:00 PM
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"remaster" of Turok released this week. (More a Port than a Remaster, imho)

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Old 01-04-16 | 01:30 PM
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I purchased Undertale during the Steam sale because of all the GOTY recognition it seems to be getting. Feels slow at the start so far though, I hope it picks up. The introduction area isn't doing much for me.
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Old 01-04-16 | 01:52 PM
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I'm usually hesitant with most "smaller" GOTY choices. I dunno why, but I know Journey was in a similar position a few years ago and that game puts me to sleep.
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Old 01-04-16 | 05:39 PM
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I heard it starts out slow, so maybe that's all it is. I really want to play it, but with such an insane backlog, there's just no point right now. I think I have like 10 games I'm currently "playing", but I definitely don't have time for that.
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Old 01-04-16 | 08:08 PM
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One year later:
  • Worth: $3079 ($914 with sales)
  • Games owned: 277
  • Games not played: 140 (51%)
  • Hours on record: 536.9h

Damn, almost 100 new games. At least I got my not played percentage down.
Another year gone:
  • Worth: $4860 ($1354 with sales)
  • Games owned: 504
  • Games not played: 233 (46%)
  • Hours on record: 1169h

Bought a ton of games this year, but with bundles and cheap games, I probably spent maybe $400 total.
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Old 01-05-16 | 11:31 AM
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I purchased Undertale during the Steam sale because of all the GOTY recognition it seems to be getting. Feels slow at the start so far though, I hope it picks up. The introduction area isn't doing much for me.
I havent played it but my kids love it. they're constantly quoting characters from the game. The thing is, they've never played it! they've only watched other people play it on youtube or twitch. I asked my oldest daughter if she wanted to the play the game and she was like "meh, i've already seen all the endings."
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Old 01-05-16 | 11:46 AM
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I havent played it but my kids love it. they're constantly quoting characters from the game. The thing is, they've never played it! they've only watched other people play it on youtube or twitch. I asked my oldest daughter if she wanted to the play the game and she was like "meh, i've already seen all the endings."
That's funny. I played a little more at work (no cloud saves means starting over, didn't take the time to manually copy a save over) and played a little longer. Was a little better as I went, so i'm going to try and keep playing during lunch breaks.
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Old 01-05-16 | 12:17 PM
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I guess there are paths, that if you take, can alter future replays. Like if you play through using evil choices, then on replay you wont have the same opportunities to play through as pure good. At least i think thats what my daughter was telling me one time when I was trying to listen to a basketball game while driving.
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Old 01-06-16 | 12:07 PM
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Final Fantasy IX is coming to PC. This is one of my favorite FF games behind 6 and 7, and I always thought it was very underrated. Excited to play it again.

http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-ix-i...nes-1750452318

http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-ix-p...oun-1751370615
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Old 01-06-16 | 12:59 PM
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Yep, I can't wait. I hope it's a good port and not ported from mobile first and then to PC like FFVI. I never actually beat FFIX, but I enjoyed the hell out of it.
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Final Fantasy IX is coming to PC. This is one of my favorite FF games behind 6 and 7, and I always thought it was very underrated. Excited to play it again.

http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-ix-i...nes-1750452318

http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-ix-p...oun-1751370615
Nice! Never got around to playing this one, so I will definitely pick it up if the port is good.
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Old 01-06-16 | 06:04 PM
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I wonder why they skipped over VIII? Maybe that's the more popular over IX and they're saving that one for last of ports? Especially since there was a PC version of VIII back when it first released.
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Old 01-06-16 | 06:06 PM
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I wonder why they skipped over VIII? Maybe that's the more popular over IX and they're saving that one for last of ports? Especially since there was a PC version of VIII back when it first released.
VIII has been out for awhile and available on Steam, basically that same PC port if i'm not mistaken.
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Old 01-07-16 | 07:59 AM
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I wonder why they skipped over VIII? Maybe that's the more popular over IX and they're saving that one for last of ports? Especially since there was a PC version of VIII back when it first released.
a "remastered" version of 8 was released to steam in late 2013. http://store.steampowered.com/app/39150/
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Old 01-12-16 | 12:51 PM
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There's going to be a PC version of EA Access.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/1/12/10755814/ea-origin-access-subscription-pc
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Old 01-18-16 | 05:26 PM
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PC Gamer has a nice article ranking the top 50 most important/influential PC games.

http://www.pcgamer.com/most-important-pc-games/

Pretty solid list. I might have replaced Myst with The 7th Guest since the latter really ushered in the CD-ROM as a platform since it came out about 6 months prior. But I can understand why they picked Myst since it was so huge.

Edit: I think Alone in the Dark should probably be on the list since it's basically the grandfather of the survival horror genre.
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Old 01-19-16 | 01:28 AM
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Here's the full list, for those who hate clicking like me

Spacewar! (1962)
The Oregon Trail (1971)
Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)
Rogue (1980)
Zork (1980)
Wizardry (1981)
Pinball Construction Set (1983)
King's Quest (1984)
Ultima IV (1985)
SimCity (1989)
Commander Keen (1990)
The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)
Civilization (1991)
Dune II (1992)
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (1992)
Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
Myst (1993)
Frontier: Elite 2 (1993)
Doom (1993)
Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (1994)
UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-COM: UFO Defense) (1994)
Quake (1996)
Tomb Raider (1996)
Diablo (1996)
Ultima Online (1997)
Half-Life (1998)
StarCraft: Brood War (1998)
Starsiege: Tribes (1998)
Thief: The Dark Project (1998)
Baldur's Gate (1998)
Everquest (1999)
Counter-Strike (1999)
System Shock 2 (1999)
Quake III: Arena (1999)
The Sims (2000)
Deus Ex (2000)
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002)
Battlefield 1942 (2002)
DotA (2003)
EVE Online (2003)
Second Life (2003)
Half-Life 2 (2004)
World of Warcraft (2004)
Dwarf Fortress (2006)
Team Fortress 2 (2007)
Spelunky (and Spelunky HD) (2008 / 2013)
Minecraft (2009)
League of Legends (2009)
Broken Age (2014)
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Old 01-19-16 | 11:44 AM
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I also hate clicking to see lists, so thanks.

Its kind of weird they dont have the original Warcraft but do have Starcraft and WoW.
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Old 01-19-16 | 11:54 AM
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Pretty solid list. I might have replaced Myst with The 7th Guest since the latter really ushered in the CD-ROM as a platform since it came out about 6 months prior. But I can understand why they picked Myst since it was so huge.
Myst was definitely more influential, as it was much more popular and was cross-platform with the Mac.


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I think Alone in the Dark should probably be on the list since it's basically the grandfather of the survival horror genre.
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Its kind of weird they dont have the original Warcraft but do have Starcraft and WoW.
It's likely hard to reach anything like a "definitive" list for PC games when limited to only 50, and there's going to be a tug-and-pull between listing certain titles. With Warcraft, for example, while it was the first Blizzard RTS, maybe they felt it didn't advance the genre as much as Starcraft did, while WoW is basically it's own beast with the same general setting as Warcraft.

On the last page they describe some of their reasoning/methodologies.
http://www.pcgamer.com/most-important-pc-games/#page-12
It's an impossible task to narrow more than thirty years of history down to 50 games, and it meant sacrificing games we loved... for games that we ultimately felt had a larger impact on the overall history of the PC...

Narrowing the list was a constant battle between "first" and "best"—doing something first is obviously important, but sometimes it's the second or third time around that an idea really sticks, and changes everything.... And some games didn't make the cut simply because they weren't important as PC games, even if they were important in the grand scheme of things.

There are niches here and there that had their own monumentally important games, and it was hard to say how much those mattered in the grand scheme of things. Sims and wargames are lightly represented, but up against most of the games listed here, it was hard to argue for their inclusion. Hell, we even thought about Farmville... but to hell with Farmville.
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Old 01-19-16 | 11:59 AM
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As far as RTS goes I can see how Dune II fits the bill first before Warcraft as far as establishing strategy games. Brood War is on there because of it's Korea and eSports influence.
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