been busy all day so missed the Prison Architect sale.

Going to end up missing the Expeditions: Conquistador 50% off deal too as the encore day ends tomorrow morning and I won't be back on a secured network until tomorrow night.

Oh well.

It's actually pretty good at this point. I've played through a few times. Seen a couple things that were a bit odd, but nothing that hinders the game much. I don't have any doubt that I will sink a chunk of time into it. It's a fun concept and designed pretty well.

I will say that the opening introduction to the game was pretty intense. Was a bit surprised, pleasantly so without giving anything away. Hope they continue to develop the story aspect of the game.


It's still on sale through noon tomorrow.

Why not just have someone buy it for you and just paypal them the $ for it?

Interesting looking game. I'd be more in if I could play as the Aztecs and slaughter the fucking invading dipshits though.

Was able to find a secure connection and picked up not only Expedition: Conquistadors, but Total War: Shogun 2 Collection Pack to finish out my Steam sales purchases. Nice way to end IMO

Weird, can't find that Expedition: Conquistadors game in steam, googled it, clicked on the steam url and it said it's not available in my region... wtf? i thought the only difference in steam regions was the currency, not the games released.

good for you! And yeah, I have Total War: Shogun 2, had installed it and never actually played. Maybe now's the time ;)

FM

Brief first impressions of Dust: An Elysian Tale are quite good. Looking forward to getting into the meat and potatoes of the game. Difficulty is nice to begin with, hopefully it scales well (on the 2nd highest difficulty level now).

So, I ran that Steam Calculator thing (Steam Calculator · Steam Database)

Here are my sobering numbers :

Profile Created: October 13, 2007
Games owned: 144
Games not played: 101 (70%)
Hours spent: 1,286.7h
Worth: $2247.78

Ran the calculator, does not seem to factor in sale prices. At least not in the breakdown.

Edit: Yeah has verbiage that says as much.

Yeah, that's why I think it includes "worth" instead of "spend".

I could probably go back and look at all of my Paypal payments to Valve (I think I've pretty much always used Paypal) and that would give me a good sense of how much I've spent on Steam.

Cool idea!


Abe


Profile Created: December 25, 2009
Games owned 93
Games not played 38(41%)
Hours spent 1,249.4h
Worth: $1332.16

My most recent Steam-oriented obsession is FF7 - currently at 59 hours

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $494.70
• Games owned: 41
• Games not played: 10
• Percentage: 24%
• Hours spent: 811.0h

apparently, I don't exist

Getting the URL error thing? I got that too, but I fixed. Unfortunately, I forget how, but I do remember it being really easy. You can do it from your steam profile page, I think.

I'm going to have to pick that up and play through it again at some point, but right now Ni no Kuni is filling my JRPG needs.

it's easier just to whine about it

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $591.63
• Games owned: 53
• Games not played: 23
• Percentage: 43%
• Hours spent: 4,202.4h

Most played top 4 are all FM - the most recent versions. Close to 1,000 hours on FM13 and close to 900 on FM12 and FM11.

Truth.

slacker, just go into your profile and create a custom url.

You're all amateurs.

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $3464.84
• Games owned: 243
• Games not played: 118
• Percentage: 49%
• Hours spent: 1,248.2h

It feels like so much more.

• Worth: $2998.31
• Games owned: 258
• Games not played: 150
• Percentage: 58%
• Hours spent: 701.5h

FTR, most of the games I play aren't on Steam. I have good intentions though.

We should find out who has the best money/hour breakdown of folks.

I gotta be way the hell up there. $591 for 4,200 hrs?

That's $0.14/hr.


Hell - on FM13 alone I'm at 4 cents/hour. That's frigging amazing. Where else can you get that kind of value?

• Worth: $526.65
• Games owned: 38
• Games not played: 3
• Percentage: 8%
• Hours spent: 2,203.8h

About 1,800 hours is FM13/Civ V

I also noticed it counts the games at full price, not what we may have paid for them in any sort of sale environment.

Yeah, my 'worth' is almost $500 but I bet the actual cost to me was somewhere in the $100-150 range, possibly even lower.

I feel like that line from O Brother, Where Art Thou where Delmar says, "I'll only be eighty-two!"

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $2104.14
• Games owned: 163
• Games not played: 110
• Percentage: 67%
• Hours spent: 1,900.2h

Here's mine. Lots of hours. Paid amount is likely around $500-600.

* *Worth:* $2710.42
* *Games owned:* 227
* *Games not played:* 115
* *Percentage:* 51%
* *Hours spent:* 2,272.0h

It might be me, but I cheated:

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $922.54
• Games owned: 53
• Games not played: 20
• Percentage: 38%
• Hours spent: 6,163.4h

5700 hours in FM10, but during long stretches when my FM10 dynasty was active, i would leave the client running for days, if not weeks at a time without closing it. I'm sure I have hundreds of legit hours there, but yea...

most games I bought on sale of course, I expect my actual spending on steam is $300 at most.

Like Pilotman, most of my gaming isn't on steam. I've probably got 2500 legitimate hours into league of legends (which has nothing at all to do with steam, was just curious once we started talking hours played)

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $292.88
• Games owned: 18
• Games not played: 3
• Percentage: 17%
• Hours spent: 3,553.0h

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $925.42
• Games owned: 76
• Games not played: 47
• Percentage: 62%
• Hours spent: 793.0h

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $389.80
• Games owned: 26
• Games not played: 2
• Percentage: 8%
• Hours spent: 652.3h

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $513.74
  
• Games owned: 30
  
• Games not played: 20
  
• Percentage: 67%
  
• Hours spent: 364.6h
  

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $1654.95
• Games owned: 125
• Games not played: 44
• Percentage: 35%
• Hours spent: 1,208.9h

and my poorly formated top 10 games list

APPID APP TYPE NAME TIME PRICE
105600 Game Terraria 229.9h $9.99
97330 Game Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 80.7h $9.99
18500 Game Defense Grid: The Awakening 75.2h $9.99
8930 Game Sid Meier's Civilization V 72.8h $29.99
49470 Game Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 66.4h $19.99
20540 Game Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor 49.9h $19.99
57690 Game Tropico 4 47.3h $29.99
22330 Game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 43.9h $19.99
102600 Game Orcs Must Die! 40.8h $9.99
22370 Game Fallout 3 - Game of the Year Edition 39.1h $19.99
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My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $311.83
  
• Games owned: 18
  
• Games not played: 5
  
• Percentage: 28%
  
• Hours spent: 236.1h
  

A couple of games I play offline, X3 Terran Conflict, and X3 Albion Prelude, as I've modded the games and don't want to have Steam overwrite the Mods.

X3TC I bought a long time ago, but in order to purchase Albion Prelude, I had to register it with Steam, so that saved me from having to download the base game, as it just downloaded the X3AP portion I was missing.

I'm definitely a rookie!

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $548.76
• Games owned: 27
• Games not played: 3
• Percentage: 11%
• Hours spent: 72.8h

* *Worth:* $361.81

* *Games owned:* 24

* *Games not played:* 11

* *Percentage:* 46%

* *Hours spent:* 878.6h


And I feel like I spend too much time on the computer! I guess I'm just a rookie.

Seems like there's some stuff they can't pull the info for. For example, here's what it says for me:

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $997.75
  
• Games owned: 106
  
• Games not played: 48
  
• Percentage: 45%
  
• Hours spent: 1,494.3h
  

OTOH, it says 'free or no price' for games quite a few games in my list, and it's weird. Some were gifts or are just otherwise free-to-play, but some games I know were gifted to me, like FM13, are showing up with a price (whereas FM12, which I bought, it showing up as 'free or no price). Some other games I know I bought, like Civ IV + expansions, are showing up 'free or no price.' And the Civ IV bundle I actually acquired during a sale so I wouldn't have to fuck with my hard copy any longer.

Then there's the fact that, yeah, I didn't pay near full price for many of these.

It's going off the current store price for anything in your library so FM12 isn't going to show up with a price because it is no longer for sale in the Steam store. Civ IV probably has another entry on your list that shows a price while there's a duplicate entry without one due to how it handles PC and Mac version for that game.

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $1934.91
• Games owned: 132
• Games not played: 52
• Percentage: 39%
• Hours spent: 526.4h

Steam Profile:
* *Worth:* $1817.06
* *Games owned:* 112
* *Games not played:* 32
* *Percentage:* 29%
* *Hours spent:* 1,433.4h

What's interesting about my stats is that it doesn't record my CK1 hours (was all Pre-Steam) and I haven't played CK2 nearly as much. But despite that, the top 5 games are as follows in terms of playtime:

1. Crusader Kings 2: 348.8 hours
2. Football Manager 2010: 333.9 hours
3. Tropico 3: 17.7 hours
4. Simcity 4: 12.9 hours
5. Tropico 4: 12.8 hours

Wonder how it would look with my CK 1 stats.

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $1230.66
• Games owned: 104
• Games not played: 52
• Percentage: 50%
• Hours spent: 488.8h

top 5
1) Football Manager 2010, 140.3h
2) King's Bounty: The Legend, 62.3h
3) Terraria, 49.5h
4) Civilization V, 46.5h
5) Flatout 2, 38.2h

Some obvious ones not on this list, like Civ IV which I bought on D2D iirc and with which I played way more than Civ V.

Still interesting stats. The Sales tab is also kind of interesting...
FM

Hmm, maybe this is an insight into why I'm so bad at video games...

• Worth: $144.95
• Games owned: 6
• Games not played: 1
• Percentage: 17%
• Hours spent: 313.2h

Heh, well I screwed up. Set C:E in Windowed mode and now it crashes whenever I try to start it, even after reinstalling the game.

Did a search and came up with this:


Only I can not find that path anywhere on this Mac.

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: $1628.01
• Games owned: 121
• Games not played: 27
• Percentage: 22%
• Hours spent: 1,369.2h

Worth: $1464.12
Games owned: 101
Games not played: 18
Percentage: 18%
Hours spent: 1,906.0h (incorrect)

The hours are wrong. It has me in for 21 hours on Fallout 3, but I completed the entire game, the expansions and saw everything there was to see - that takes a lot longer than 21 hours. It has my top 5 as Civ 5, Skyrim, ME2, FM 2010 and Terraria (al over 100 hours played).

I don't feel bad about that 18% not played anymore after looking at the other stats posted here.

Mine is so weak...

Tropico 4, Civ V = 64.98
27.4 total hours (I don't think that's quite right- it should be a little higher_

I think we should make people post in their signatures the percentage of owned games they haven't played so we know who to listen to among those trumpeting games and sales. :p

Dust is pretty fantastic. Got through the intro, chapter one and part of chapter two so far. It's like Metroidvania meets Mega Man, with witty dialogue and beautiful graphics. Gameplay is good, albeit hectic - I find myself mashing buttons more than I'd like because the combo system is pretty tight so you have to hit the buttons quite rapidly.

The story uses the amnesia trope, but it's been fairly interesting thus far despite that. Stylistically it's very anime-like, with the characters all being anthropomorphized animals.

So far, it's excellent, enjoying myself immensely.

Finally figured out the problem to solve the E:C crash.

Wandered through the first city but haven't figured out yet how to start traveling in the wilderness.

Once you get your supplies back talk to all the available people and then leave through the gate just to the right of the palace.

You can also exit down left, but I found it much tougher that direction.

Ugh, this talk of Expeditions: Conquistador reminded me I actually have to play the games I bought in the Summer Sale. Thanks a lot.

Kentucky Route Zero is today's daily deal, $12.49 at 50% off.

Also looks like they changed daily deals up a bit. They're only on the store front page for a day but the deal is up for 48 hours.

I actually went back and played it a bit last night and now that I get the interface a bit, it's a pretty slick little game. It's very "board-game"-esque with some good play-balance. That board-game part threw me off at first but now that I get it, I see what the dev had in mind.

Tempting.

nice, thx

You also get the soundtrack downloaded to the games folder and it is wonderful.

Waited all Summer Sale for this deal. Was pissed when it didn't win the community choice. All mine now.

It looks like Shadowrun Returns isn't going to launch on Steam until 1 pm eastern tomorrow, though TotalBiscuit will have a 43 minute video of it up on his youtube channel at midnight eastern time.

I almost forgot about Shadowrun. Lady H_B is heading over to a friend's house for most of Saturday and I was contemplating what I would get up to.

That question has been answered.

We have a tournament this weekend in Columbia, Mo at the Show me games, so I guess I'll dive into this on Monday, which just so happens to be a day off. :)

grrr, you guys are making me want to get Shadowrun now!!!!

FM

Me too! I just pre-ordered it ;)

well, dang, me too... sigh... I rarely preorder stuff, I'm sure I'll get my money's worth, even at such a high price as 18 bucks ;)

FM

Eurogamer with one of the first review for Shadowrun Returns, giving it an 8/10

For those who just want to relive the isometric action of the SNES and Megadrive days, Shadowrun Returns easily delivers. It's not the deepest or most flexible game of its type, but there's a lot to be said for simple ideas realised intuitively. Add in some excellent writing and, judged purely as a standalone game, it's an unambiguous success.

There's more to Shadowrun Returns though. Much more. And it won't be until the community gets its hands on the editor, starts remixing the current material and generating its own, that the game will really begin to blossom. When it does, the patience of the hardcore will be well rewarded.

It's probably what you were hoping for if you were are into Shadowrun. I think this is the kind of thing that you were praying for.

It feels old in a good way. Very reminiscent of RPGs of old.

The fact that it doesn't have voice acting is a strength of it...It forces you to read and the writing is good

I suppose it will depend on how well the game does, but are there plans to expand beyond Seattle and Berlin? I know what drew my attention about the original RPG though I didn't play it much was sourcebooks like the Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America, which gave a whole bunch of information about places across the continent and how they'd been affected by the changed world of the Shadowrun future.

There's plans for other DLC, not sure what if anything they have planned for other locations.

I've been watching the developer videos on Prison Architect tonight and I have to say I am highly impressed with the amount of input and feedback the designer and developer are taking in from people playing the alpha.

I'm seriously considering giving them a huge chunk of money for one of the higher support tiers because of these videos alone. If they're willing to put so much work in and are willing to make changes based on suggestions from the people putting down their money to play the game, I'm willing to make an investment to it.

Considering the $100 or $250 option.

I love the idea of getting my face in the game as a prisoner.

Prison Architect by Introversion Software

I also got sucked in by the Shadowrun Returns pre-order.

Hopefully I'll find some time to dig in to Shadowrun on Sunday. :)

Thanks for sucking me in fuckers :D

Just purchased, never played the original or the TT version, but it definitely looks interesting.

I rented it for the SNES and really enjoyed it, but never bought it for whatever reason.

Played a little bit of Shadowrun, definitely like the feel. Combat is very X-Com like (which is good) and the story grabs you right away. Very early impression is this will be a good one

If anyone was wondering about the Citadels game that showed up on Steam the other day...

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 16h
This Citadels game just came out of nowhere. Looks Russian, it's a gamble

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 16h
Oh dear lord unit selection is so horribly broken in this game. I've never seen a game do band-boxing so badly

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 16h
Ahh, this is a game about the Knights of the Round Table, so obviously all the peasants are speaking Russian

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 16h
Gather 100 of the four different resources. But we won't give you any Stone within about 2000 miles of your home base, enjoy

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 16h
I am happy to say that attempting to construct a wall causes an 85% drop in framerate

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 16h
And now it crashed. SAFE TO SAY YOU SHOULD NOT BE BUYING THIS THING RIGHT NOW

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 16h
My $35.99 died for your sins. I'll give it a more indepth look tomorrow when I summon up the courage

Oooh, and there's more.

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 1h
Ok I swear half my workers just vanished in Citadels, nowhere to be seen

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 1h
OH RIGHT, units have no collosion detection so they infinitely stack up, great

Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 1h
DO NOT BUY CITADELS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Video coming tomorrow showing you exactly why

LOL, what a trainwreck... :D

FM

I think this got posted in the CK thread, but just on the off chance, CK II and all its DLC on sale on Steam. The Old Gods is $3.74.

Good enough time to fill in all the DLC blanks I have.

Expeditions is on sale for $9.99

Spelunky went on the Steam store finally and is $13.49. It's an awesome, ever-changing little platformer that is finally on PC after being, I believe, a PlayStation Online title.

It was previously on 360 with a simpler free version on 360, coming out on PSN later this year. Picked it up and haven't had a chance to play yet, but it definitely should be worth it going off the original on PC (available here. For the PC version it has a Daily Challenge mode. Papers, Please (free beta available here) and Guacamelee! (metroidvania game that came out last year on PSN to great reivews) also out today.

Has anybody given the game Skulls of the Shogun a try? How is it?

Papers please is fantastic!

It really is... I wondered how he was going to expand the game from the demo/free version (which was fun but very limited) but the story is great and they packed in a ton of additional features

He did? Cuz I think the free version is awesome...there's more features? Like what?

I haven't played it, but I watched my roommate play a good deal of it. Guacamelee looked freaking awesome.

Explain why? I was looking at buying it..

This pretty much sums it up for me. :)

Papers, Please review • Reviews • PC • Eurogamer.net

Starts off simple and then ramps up the difficulty, forcing you to make some quick, critical decisions. I had an hour pass without even batting an eye. The game absorbs you into its 16-bit world so effortlessly. You have an important job, but also have to balance your decisions with what's right vs making sure you make enough money to provide for your family. It's just well written and laid out.

What'd be really cool to increase replayability would be some sort of procedurally-generated code for it that would randomize who's coming through your line more.

That is a totally disturbing game idea. I love it

SI

GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!

DuckTales remastered looks amazing.

Tried it on my phone, and gave up when it wouldn't let me save during the initial tutorial part, which I was like 20 minutes into. I deleted it, I don't typically game for stretches like that on my phone.

Maybe the other platforms will allow you to save more often, or it's easier to dedicate time to. The gameplay itself was fine, I just hate it when they don't think through things like the save system.

hah, i just played 3 1/2 hours and I honestly thought it was no more than an hour tops. Game is great.

Yeah.. that would be great. Maybe in a PP2 :)

It's such an odd game and it works beautifully.