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[SlayerofDragons]

you know, i regret claiming some of these "sale stickers" because i can't get rid of them and i can't gem them. they're permanent clutter in my inventory...

 

[RETRO]

Air Dash Quest

Unlock your Steam key for the game Air Dash. Simply log in through Steam, complete a few tasks, and claim your free key!

opquests.com

 

[silent_passenger]

It looks like a skimpy female groin armour in most fantasy games.

 

[WhatNitrous]

But.. was it FUN?

Do you enjoy the spore game?

??? seriously?? which bit? coz I wanna gouge my eyes out

If you can't see the resemblance, your generation blind...I saw it in your pictures myself.

Nope, went back up to $53 as I was going thru the checkout. Wasnt meant to be mine

Guess not, shit. I wouldn't have paid more than the $6 I did or so myself, even being delisted.

You know what really bugs me? That most games don't get this kind of removal coverage.
There are a lot of little ones that disappear into the night and Steam has accelerated its removal responses to mere hours after a dev puts it in.
It goes something like this: devs request removal, and by the time they post to their news or forum pages, it's already gone or gone by the time you see it.

The last one I remember was H-Hour, missed it, they dropped the price for a mere 2 days before button was removed 8 AM EST or something like that. It was deleted from my cart.

I kinda wish steam would make up their mind and commit, meaning, remove game count altogether for showcases and whatnot since it's been years that they impose the "learning about" status for below threshold? games. Threshold unknown, of course.

Your forgetting an important fact, it was the devs decision when they put in the removal request...they could have sprawled it across the page for a month too in the update section before removing it--they just didn't.

Blaming the wrong party here...and lets not forget that this is fucking Marvel for christ sakes...they probably had a billion keys created day one and steam never recycles them.

They also had the money not to care about leaving it up for a month or the extra keys...but news of delisting on a game with such familiarity from every age group now thanks to the movies probably ended up netting them profit even at sale prices.

Not saying its fair to small devs in that light or that the devs should be burned at the stake for not being able to give that kind of warning...but I'd bet in more cases than not they didn't want to put it on sale at all at the end and lose profit.

Marvel vanishing off the face of the earth is gonna make waves with or without warning, they just decided to do it right so the next game doesn't get shit on...for all we know its part of the contract to use the characters itself.

Can't judge what we can't know.

 

[-v-]

I didnt play shooters.

Shooter

Shoot `em up

It's like calling Tetris a visual novel.

 

[WhatNitrous]

yeah, but i'm looking overall, the minimum salary here is around 270USD a month

I'm seeing numbers between $1700 USD (which is more than me), and 537 USD (thats from the CBIC site), so now lets cut my monthly wage in half which is about the price difference of the game, I get about $580 x2 myself. I figure considering I'm a poor American, we're about even in this one

EDIT:

Did I mention my rents higher than that? Forget keeping the lights on. side work or drown, every month.

I'm not downing your situation...just saying I'm poor AF myself, most Americans can't claim to be that bad off. I can...I just make it work.

Just because we have a shiny flag with a bunch of stars on it doesn't mean we were all born under one.

And food is major rape here too, including Coke

 

[WhatNitrous]

This is how i've always seen gala...if you get a bunch of free gifts that will entertain you, then its not going to kill you to lose a game for yourself and give something back to the next person...if that cycle continues then even better, but if not your just re-investing the kindness that was shown to you in hopes that someone else will do the same, and so on and so on.

With everything people get for free, you would think they could spare a little to give back...anything at all.

This is the best scenario a user giving to this community can hope for--so you may see me spending for GAs, but I've also gotten alot of games I haven't even played yet for nothing...so many that I don't feel I need anymore right now.

Along with alot of support, morale and otherwise.

But when I do things like that should I make an announcement about it?

Not if I want the right users to accept a gift along with the 22 alts I'm sure to get hit by

Can't judge what we can't know.

never judge a bank by the bonds it has.

Nobody likes spending money...but have you ever met a truly jewish person? Watching them pick up dropped pennies and shit? I didn't do that when I was homeless and could barely afford to eat every day.

It self-respect and human dignity...some people are lucky or pathetic enough not to concern themselves with that, and thats their choice. i can* spare a burger these days for someone truly starving, even if I'm broke...I just won't give them the cash.

 

[cdj]

You know what really bugs me? That most games don't get this kind of removal coverage.
There are a lot of little ones that disappear into the night and Steam has accelerated its removal responses to mere hours after a dev puts it in.
It goes something like this: devs request removal, and by the time they post to their news or forum pages, it's already gone or gone by the time you see it.

The last one I remember was H-Hour, missed it, they dropped the price for a mere 2 days before button was removed 8 AM EST or something like that. It was deleted from my cart.

I kinda wish steam would make up their mind and commit, meaning, remove game count altogether for showcases and whatnot since it's been years that they impose the "learning about" status for below threshold? games. Threshold unknown, of course.

I agree with you in general devs should try and make a final sale available everywhere so people can get it and this devs did that. Just take a look at black hawk down which got removed without a mention for people to grab it, it seems dumb because it could boost their game sales!

 

[silent_passenger]

And food is major rape here too, including Coke

Yeah, the price of coke skyrocketed. I blame OPEC countries (Organization of Pushers Exporting Cocaine).

 

[WhatNitrous]

I agree with you in general devs should try and make a final sale available everywhere so people can get it and this devs did that. Just take a look at black hawk down which got removed without a mention for people to grab it, it seems dumb because it could boost their game sales!

Sadly, its greed that prevents it usually.

In some cases I'm sure its the cost of keeping it up on steam or other issues in life, but I doubt thats as common.

 

[WhatNitrous]

Yeah, the price of coke skyrocketed. I blame OPEC countries (Organization of Pushers Exporting Cocaine).

I switched to Ginger Ale long ago...I probably have Coke (the cola lol) and Reeses Cups to blame for most of my lack of dental problems, you know due to having barely any left

 

[silent_passenger]

I switched to Ginger Ale long ago...I probably have Coke (the cola lol) and Reeses Cups to blame for most of my lack of dental problems, you know due to having barely any left

Me too.

 

[WhatNitrous]

Me too.

 

[BurningPixels]

Oh god. This one is like awa's Spore on steriods

Iridion II on Steam

The Iridions are back! Planet Earth is too far away to offer help. The only chance? A lone powerful spaceship...Yours!

store.steampowered.com

It looks like a random 90s space shooter game.

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judging by the video, they didn't bother too much when they ported the game from the GBA. There it looked technologically...well...advanced, but on PC it simply got lost in its time in more successful ideas. (Although I have to add it to my wishlist, maybe I'll trade it for something someday).

First time I hear about this game, it should be played on small gba screen, if played on pc full screen it gives me headache
I found there is even Iridion 3d, graphically is awesome for gba

Steam Community :: Iridion 3D

Iridion 3D - In the distant regions of our galaxy, far beyond the darkest limits of the Orion Nebula, a deadly force has been unleashed on the universe and its heading straight for Earth.Your mission – to travel across light-years of uncharted space, to defend the destiny of mankind. With...

steamcommunity.com

I thought it was you who mentioned it when we were discussing the original Kart Racer games

probally it was me

Ya, i grabbed that one too thinking the exact same thing, it was on my must try list...I wasn't playing in any particular order since I intended to go through the entire list just for little mini opinions and comparisons to the other 'retro' clones I played lately.

Honestly the only modern one that held up was Thunder Ray so the boxing game is likely gonna take a beating over it

Thunder Ray yeah it holds today for remaking with modern graphic a kind of Punch Out game.

A few of them are NES/SNES/Genesis and even found a PS1, one of them is from EA and its not a Sports/Racing game...theres a Punch Out type game which of course I grabbed (not even sure if he it uses both fists, they always swung with the right hand in the videos lmao), I think I played both Final Fight type games already but I'm not entirely sure.

Twenty fucking game is alot to rip through even at 10 minutes a piece and the PS1 era RPG wouldn't let me save till I found my way out of the maze of a first town walking like a twice crippled forest gump lmao.

A various bundle with different kind of genres, Final Fight is one of my favourite arcade beat em up, so common to find in arcade rooms

Oh god, Ken was looking for one like that and I activated both of them and will probably hate then as much as you

I'm not big fan of space shooter games except some, but who knows one day I will try again this kind of games, I don't like when top down shooters are bullethell and have to be easy I was curious to find a game with Awa spore mechanics but it seems it doesn't exist.... they should make it.

Theres really no way to describe this one without pictures or some extreme ascii art I don't intend to draw up. The picture I posted that says "Baba Is You" and "Flag Is Win" are actually the exact thing you'd see on the screen as blocks (each block being one word all the same size)

You actually move the word blocks to say something different or not connect to "Is Something" like
"Wall"
"Is"
"Stop'"

I move the block that says stop and the walls are no longer walls so they don't "stop" my character from walking over them.

If I were to move "Stop" and replace it with "Win" from the blocks that say Flag is Win and walk onto the wall I would beat the level.

It opens an insane amount of possible solutions and ways to prevent you from solving each level.

Its wicked hard to explain but its also really fun and I definitely suggest giving it a shot if you ever catch it cheap or in a bundle.

Unfortunately I don't think I'm gonna get a chance to do more reviews right now or even finish the retro bundle, shit hit the fan on me IRL and I gotta deal with that...but I will likely sneak in quick levels on Baba when I have the time

Thank you for the explaination, I think I got how is the gameplay, not easy to decribe with words.
I will check it out for curiousity, but I'm not very patient with puzzles

The game image was misleading (or wishful thinking?). I clicked on that one coz it has a similar image to this one, but yeah the gameplay is nothing like the image for Iridions. Its awa Spore on crack but pixellated Im sure there are ppl who will play it tho.

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Flashout has WipEout vibe

 

[WhatNitrous]

I found there is even Iridion 3d, graphically is awesome for gba

its on the list, Iridion II was better

 

[-v-]

I found there is even Iridion 3d, graphically is awesome for gba

Iridion II is a sequel to Iridion 3D Not the other way around. By the way I3D is one of the first games on GBA at all.

 

[BurningPixels]

Shooter

Shoot `em up

It's like calling Tetris a visual novel.

Calling shooter as @dblh3lix did is not wrong:
Shooter is a game genre then there are their sub genres, shoot 'em up is a sub as first person shooter (aka FPS) as the game -v- called shooter.
Since when I was a kid I called simply shooter games those arcade space shooter: space invaders , xevious, salamander force, galaga etc.
They can be called shoot'em up (or shmup don't like this term just my taste) in many ways and if you want to go more specifically there are sub sub genres, vertical shooter, top down shooter, side scrolling shooter, bullet hell shooter.... I'd call them simply shooter.
When I refer to first person shooter as Doom, Quake etc, I'd say FPS, I never call them shooter.
In the past 80's early 90's shooter was mostly used for space games shoot 'em up (maybe older gen gamers could confirm this).
Nowdays if you ask a teen what is a shooter he will refer for sure to FPS and probally has no idea about what is an arcade shooter because there are not so popular as FPS.

Shooter game - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[-v-]

When I refer to first person shooter as Doom, Quake etc, I'd say FPS, I never call them shooter

The essence is hiding behind these words: if you do not call something using some word, it does not mean that no one does it. Have you heard about such a genre as the "quest", for example?

Nowdays if you ask a teen what is a shooter he will refer for sure to FPS and probally has no idea about what is an arcade shooter because there are not so popular as FPS.

I may surprise you, but this conversation happens here and not in the seventies. That's such a wonder!

 

[-v-]

(I wouldn't be surprised if it's an emulator.)

I searched a little, and surprise-surprise, it is the VisualBoyAdvance emulator (with some changes) and GBA ROM. Not that it is bad, but the price could be less.

 

[BurningPixels]

The essence is hiding behind these words: if you do not call something using some word, it does not mean that no one does it. Have you heard about such a genre as the "quest", for example?

I don't know to what you are referring by quest maybe some kind of adventure game or rpg game.

I may surprise you, but this conversation happens here and not in the seventies. That's such a wonder!

so funny