Steam been threatening to decline my refund requests because I’m refunding too many games.
Full text:
“It looks like you’ve requested a significant number of refunds recently. If you often have problems with your purchases, please submit another ticket so that we can help you solve these issues. Please note, that the Steam Refund Policy is not intended as a way to try out games for free. If we have reason to believe that the refund system is used in this manner, we may decline future refund requests.”
So I’m sailing the high seas with a certain in-shape girl to try Slitterhead this weekend, wish me luck.
Funny part is: game has a demo, but it only covers basic combat, not the actual gameplay loop, which’s more than that according to reviews and footage I watched, so I don’t have enough information to make a call only based on the demo.
And to Steam: if you figure out a way to tag games properly and push for publishers to add long enough demos, I wouldn’t be refunding too many games. Excuse me for not wanting to waste my money on games I’ll never finish.
On Slitterhead, I’m more of a Gravity Rush Toyama fan than a Silent Hill/Siren one, so I’m hoping what horror fans disliked about the game will appeal to me. Combat was fun in the demo, but I need to experience the bodiless traversal in more open-environment scenarios to decide if I like it or not.
I also hope the tracking thing doesn’t get in the way. It was a tad confusing in the demo. Seems like you need to interview NPCs too? I hope that doesn’t end up screwing with the game’s pace.
I picked up portal 1 again, one of my favorite games. And then i also tried frostpunk a little. Seems cool but so far i suck at keeping the people warm
I also picked up a bunch of games on gog and might finally get around to play mirrors edge if it plays nice with proton.
I first got mirrors edge around the time it came out, but didnt play it much, think it was because of stability issues. Then ive always meant to play through it but never got around to.
And while you can only ever experience portal for the first time once, it is still fun to play thorugh again, especially if its some time ago and you dont remember how to solve everything.
Og oblivion with a modified layout that works fairly well for steam deck. I just got lvl 17 and ran across my first glitch (land dreugh in the ceiling of a cave) and maybe my tenth crash. Soooo glad to say it’s running better than it ever did on my 360!
I’ve managed to stall starting Act 3 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for an entire week. I’m in this position I get into sometimes with games where I completely avoid starting the final stretch of the story because I love the game so much that I just don’t want it to end. I’ve probably done every bit of side content at this point, vacuumed every optional area and explored every inch of the map - besides the last one I unlocked that starts Act 3 proper. I’m now grossly overleveled and overpowered for the main story, so much so that I need to work out ways to gimp myself to make the story bosses more impactful.
Anyway, the game is absolutely amazing and you should play it. It will make a very compelling case for Game of the Year, and it is certainly one of the best games I’ve played. I run out of superlatives when talking about this game, from the art direction to the story to the music and the voice acting (in both English and French, both are stellar!) to the combat and gameplay design, every piece that matters hits it out of the park.
Yes, you are some AA-jank every now and then. The lip syncing isn’t great. But you know what? None of it actually matters.
I picked up the Definitive Edition of Age of Empires 2 on sale last week after they released a new dlc update. It was still a bit overpriced for a 25 year old game at like $(US)10, but I’ve definitely gotten my money’s worth so far.
I’m definitely not an RTS gamer and I’m not really interested in the multiplayer but the campaigns have been a lot of fun. I really wasn’t expecting there to hundreds of hours of just campaigns content so it’s been a pleasant surprise.
The new campaign missions seem a lot longer than what I remembered of the original campaigns. I like that they tutorials now give you some strategy, too.
I only purchased the base DE so I don’t have access to the DLC campaigns. I figured I’d pick them up down the line if I liked the game. Apparently I picked some harder campaigns first though because I just started with the African ones on the first page.
Im down to playing that game against the comp, with liberal use of the pause button. Not the pvp of my younger days. But considering I borrowed and cracked it back then, and only paid for it the first time on steam some years ago, man that game has given me some great returns.
Total War: Empire. I’ve previously played Rome 1/2, Medieval 1/2, and Atilla. For anyone who’s played other total war games, there are a couple of game mechanics that are new in Empire.
There are actual naval battles, where you put ships into a battle line, and you can board enemy ships. It’s cool but hard (for me) to control. Also many of the buildings in a territory aren’t located in the capital because it’s meant to represent colonial holdings, so you can have a sugar plantation or something outside the protection of a city, and a lot of the warfare ends up being small skirmishes sacking outlying buildings.
Concerned ape said he wouldn’t be updating SDV any more, or at least until haunted chocolatier was out, so I thought it’d be a good idea to dust off the old mod collection and start a new farm
They Bleed Pixels. Tough as nails precision platformer with combat, and a gothic Lovecraftian aesthetic. Came out in 2012, but for some reason didn’t get as much attention as Super Meat Boy (2010)
Mostly Fabled Lands. It’s fun exploration, but the dice roll mechanics get tiresome - especially when you need a particular dice roll to trigger or complete a quest, so you just end up triggering the dice roll over and over.
And sort of inspired by the remaster, I’ve been playing a bit of Oblivion lately. I have thousands of hours in the game, spread over about forty characters, but I haven’t played it in a couple of years now. I toyed with the idea of getting the remaster, but my game is so extensively modded - mostly landscape and gameplay changes - that I don’t think I could go back to the vanilla game, even remastered. But it did get me thinking about it…
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Steam been threatening to decline my refund requests because I’m refunding too many games.
Full text:
“It looks like you’ve requested a significant number of refunds recently. If you often have problems with your purchases, please submit another ticket so that we can help you solve these issues. Please note, that the Steam Refund Policy is not intended as a way to try out games for free. If we have reason to believe that the refund system is used in this manner, we may decline future refund requests.”
So I’m sailing the high seas with a certain in-shape girl to try Slitterhead this weekend, wish me luck.
Funny part is: game has a demo, but it only covers basic combat, not the actual gameplay loop, which’s more than that according to reviews and footage I watched, so I don’t have enough information to make a call only based on the demo.
And to Steam: if you figure out a way to tag games properly and push for publishers to add long enough demos, I wouldn’t be refunding too many games. Excuse me for not wanting to waste my money on games I’ll never finish.
“waste my money on games I’ll never finish.”
That’s most of their sales though
On Slitterhead, I’m more of a Gravity Rush Toyama fan than a Silent Hill/Siren one, so I’m hoping what horror fans disliked about the game will appeal to me. Combat was fun in the demo, but I need to experience the bodiless traversal in more open-environment scenarios to decide if I like it or not.
I also hope the tracking thing doesn’t get in the way. It was a tad confusing in the demo. Seems like you need to interview NPCs too? I hope that doesn’t end up screwing with the game’s pace.
I picked up portal 1 again, one of my favorite games. And then i also tried frostpunk a little. Seems cool but so far i suck at keeping the people warm
I also picked up a bunch of games on gog and might finally get around to play mirrors edge if it plays nice with proton.
Now I want to replay Portal 1 & 2 again. I have all the puzzles memorized a thousand times over at this point. Such good games.
Mirror’s Edge is also really fun. I’ve only played it once but think about it frequently. I’d like to play it again sometime.
I first got mirrors edge around the time it came out, but didnt play it much, think it was because of stability issues. Then ive always meant to play through it but never got around to.
And while you can only ever experience portal for the first time once, it is still fun to play thorugh again, especially if its some time ago and you dont remember how to solve everything.
Started playing “The Binding of Isaac”
Og oblivion with a modified layout that works fairly well for steam deck. I just got lvl 17 and ran across my first glitch (land dreugh in the ceiling of a cave) and maybe my tenth crash. Soooo glad to say it’s running better than it ever did on my 360!
I got sucked back into Warframe.
I’ve managed to stall starting Act 3 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for an entire week. I’m in this position I get into sometimes with games where I completely avoid starting the final stretch of the story because I love the game so much that I just don’t want it to end. I’ve probably done every bit of side content at this point, vacuumed every optional area and explored every inch of the map - besides the last one I unlocked that starts Act 3 proper. I’m now grossly overleveled and overpowered for the main story, so much so that I need to work out ways to gimp myself to make the story bosses more impactful.
Anyway, the game is absolutely amazing and you should play it. It will make a very compelling case for Game of the Year, and it is certainly one of the best games I’ve played. I run out of superlatives when talking about this game, from the art direction to the story to the music and the voice acting (in both English and French, both are stellar!) to the combat and gameplay design, every piece that matters hits it out of the park.
Yes, you are some AA-jank every now and then. The lip syncing isn’t great. But you know what? None of it actually matters.
It’s a wonderful, wonderful game.
I’ve had the soundtrack on loop for weeks. It is so damn good. Lorien Testard really captured the feel of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lJbuSXw4Bfo2tDlP6s_CNznTfYGe0GEBM
Probably the best soundtrack I’ve heard in a video game, period. He talks about composing for the game here (and likely in many other outlets).
I picked up the Definitive Edition of Age of Empires 2 on sale last week after they released a new dlc update. It was still a bit overpriced for a 25 year old game at like $(US)10, but I’ve definitely gotten my money’s worth so far.
I’m definitely not an RTS gamer and I’m not really interested in the multiplayer but the campaigns have been a lot of fun. I really wasn’t expecting there to hundreds of hours of just campaigns content so it’s been a pleasant surprise.
The new campaign missions seem a lot longer than what I remembered of the original campaigns. I like that they tutorials now give you some strategy, too.
I only purchased the base DE so I don’t have access to the DLC campaigns. I figured I’d pick them up down the line if I liked the game. Apparently I picked some harder campaigns first though because I just started with the African ones on the first page.
Im down to playing that game against the comp, with liberal use of the pause button. Not the pvp of my younger days. But considering I borrowed and cracked it back then, and only paid for it the first time on steam some years ago, man that game has given me some great returns.
Total War: Empire. I’ve previously played Rome 1/2, Medieval 1/2, and Atilla. For anyone who’s played other total war games, there are a couple of game mechanics that are new in Empire.
There are actual naval battles, where you put ships into a battle line, and you can board enemy ships. It’s cool but hard (for me) to control. Also many of the buildings in a territory aren’t located in the capital because it’s meant to represent colonial holdings, so you can have a sugar plantation or something outside the protection of a city, and a lot of the warfare ends up being small skirmishes sacking outlying buildings.
Concerned ape said he wouldn’t be updating SDV any more, or at least until haunted chocolatier was out, so I thought it’d be a good idea to dust off the old mod collection and start a new farm
I just fell back into it a month or two ago. Be prepared for some interesting updates of you’ve been out of it for like a year.
Hes actually said the opposite. He doesn’t want to make a new SDV because adding onto it is addicting for him.
Streets of Rage on my little handheld emulator that I bought last week. I’d forgotten how long it’s been since I last played!
First game I ever beat in one day. Will always be the definitive belt scroller in my head.
If you haven’t tried four yet, it is a fantastic revisit to the roots of the game.
Recently modded my gba to have a laminated ips screen and over the past week I’ve dove into fire emblem advance wars and ff4
Factorio snd Dead cells
I’ve been playing Planet Crafter quite a bit. It gives me the same vibes Subnautica did, just without any scary monsters. Love it to pieces
They Bleed Pixels. Tough as nails precision platformer with combat, and a gothic Lovecraftian aesthetic. Came out in 2012, but for some reason didn’t get as much attention as Super Meat Boy (2010)
Mostly Fabled Lands. It’s fun exploration, but the dice roll mechanics get tiresome - especially when you need a particular dice roll to trigger or complete a quest, so you just end up triggering the dice roll over and over.
And sort of inspired by the remaster, I’ve been playing a bit of Oblivion lately. I have thousands of hours in the game, spread over about forty characters, but I haven’t played it in a couple of years now. I toyed with the idea of getting the remaster, but my game is so extensively modded - mostly landscape and gameplay changes - that I don’t think I could go back to the vanilla game, even remastered. But it did get me thinking about it…