Community MetaSteam | December 2019 - Halo! Is It Me You're Looking For?

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Le Pertti

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No? I got cards from my purchase the other day. it was only the one card since i spent some $10ish dollars.


Some preorders are not eligible for cards tho like sf5 ce dlc
Ah yes of course you are right, forgot about the amount one has to spend first. As always. Not sure why I got confused about it.
 

ISee

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Why is the "Buy as a gift" Option grey out. Wanted to buy LiS 2 as a gift to somebody and can't...

 

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Why is the "Buy as a gift" Option grey out. Wanted to buy LiS 2 as a gift to somebody and can't...

That's weird. It should be graying out the option to buy it for yourself instead.
Did you try another browser or the client itself?
 
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Why is the "Buy as a gift" Option grey out. Wanted to buy LiS 2 as a gift to somebody and can't...
because it's using the "complete your bundle" option ... so even if you already own all of it and just want to gift the entire thing to someone - it still treats it as a "personalised bundle" (which you can't gift)
 
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ISee

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That's weird. It should be graying out the option to buy it for yourself instead.
Did you try another browser or the client itself?
Yeah, I did :(

because it's using the "complete your bundle" option ... so even if you already own all of it and just want to gift the entire thing to someone - it still treats it as a "personalised bundle" (which you can't gift)
That's how I bought it and I had none of it, like at all. Too bad, the game is 36€ if I add all the DLC separately.
 
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That's how I bought it and I had none of it, like at all. Too bad, the game is 36€ if I add all the DLC separately.
yeah, unfortunately ... squeenix gonna squeenix ... if only they had discounted the individual DLC, instead of the entire bundle ... shame
 
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Ok, so, here's Mor talking about his experience with RDR2 from PS4 to PC.

Well, I didn't like the time set chosen for this prequel, why? well, I expected something closer to the 1870's (War finished but still had some remains), Gold Rush was at the highest peak in a few states and in general it was a wilder era than the end of the wild west, yet I bought it day one on the PS4 becase why not, I played until I reached chapter 3 and then I stopped, performance wasn't that great, controls were't for me (I'm really bad with a TPS on a controller) and pretty much the pace killed the game for me.

One year later (285 days later, to be more exact) RDR2 steam versions releases and one person gifts it to me even when I said I might drop it as it happened in the past, yet it happened, so I started playing it and well, performance was waaaay better (thank god those steady 60fps), controls improved a lot with a keyboard and a mouse and while the pace still was a problem (core game was never going to be different) I wasn't paying attention to it so I continued until I reached the end of Chapter 1. At this moment I decided to play Quantum Break for no reason from start to finish and it hasn't been until now that I've resumed my RDR playthrough

Well, after today's play session I can safely say that it's one of my most conflicted games ever, for those who doesn't know me, I love westerns, I love the wild west and I'm a huge "fan" of 19th century of the US in general, it's an era of cruelty and wildness but it's also an era of nature, of simplicity and time and RDR2 FUCKING NAILS IT, I don't know why I started to appreciate this game not for what throws in my face but what it really wants me to look at, the little details, what wildfire life does, what's the activity of a little village, people using the dirt roads, today I felt something that I didn't feel the first time and I don't know why for this very reason I started to appreciate more this game. My main complains about it are still there, nothing will change that story pace is not the best HOWEVER, what if the slow pace is also what makes you love it?

Somehow it's the most pure representation of a convulsive time when things were brutal and wilder but at the same time, time, ran at a very different pace.

I'm going to be completely honest, if a game makes me play 2 hours straight without even notice and the only thing I did was riding a horse through the countryside and a very little character arc part of me will hate it but also will love it at some levels that are impossible to describe.

DAMN, THIS GAME, AM I RIGHT, FELLAS?
 
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Gujian 3 is pretty fun (though I'm now ~5 hours in and still feel like I have barely gotten to the full game).
yeah heard lots of good things, won't start on it immediatly though, wanna first play pokemon and finish my ryza playthrough which I put on hold due to lack of time (which isn't an issue now)
 

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Witcher on Netflix and all this talk about Witcher 3 has made me interested in giving a 3rd playthrough of Witcher 3.

I hope every one of you have already played and finished Witcher and Witcher 2. They are both good games and I was positively suprised on how quickly I got used to Witchers combat system.
 
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I have to sit for two more hours in this empty office building. No one called today, commuter traffic was non existing and so is my motivation to get anything productive done.
I'm home! Left half an hour early, but who cares. Got my bonus already, so I'm gonna spend some by buying more games I'll play for 5 minutes.
 

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I've never even heard of A Short Hike but I don't consider Gone Home to be a real game. Much like Dear Esther the lack of obstacles stopping you from reaching your goal(s) define it as an interactive experience.
That said, a meme game is a different thing.
Hmm..... I mean in gone home you do have to explore for certain items to find the end.... Its less of a "game" than the astounding, What Remains of Edith Finch.... But, to me its a game. Its more of a game than Dear Ester in your definition. Did you ever play it or just watch youtube videos?

A Short Hike has a small area where you can explorer more and more as you can greater climbing and gliding abilities. No fail state but there are progress limitations.

By the way how do boxes of chocolates work? That has confused me because it always felt to me that they have a small selection of chocolates that you can try but what if you only want 1 particular type of chocolate, where can you get more of that one chocolate?





I think I have had some form of Tinnitus since I was younger (it didn't happen often but once every few years this thing would happen where everything would get quite all of a sudden and I would hear this ringing sound. I didn't think much of it. Now I do have some very minor hearing loss in my right ear (the only time I notice this is when making phone calls and I have to use my left ear to listen to calls.

But I have had this bad (re occuring ear infection that I did not take care of for over a year or something like that), the doctor told me that it was swimmers ear or something like that. So I no longer have an infection but I do have sensitivity to loud noises (sort of)

I still plan to use stuff like headphones but this time around I ended up getting the kind that dampen outside noise and listen to music at a lower volume.


I still need to see a ear doctor since it seems that I have white stuff in my eardrums.
I understand the sensitivity. I used to have a decent pair of headpones, I had to sell them off and only now can I use headphones at low volumes for short periods of time.

If you're prone to swimmers ear, like me, I'd suggest earplugs for the shower. Foam ones work fine. Also, be careful of a doctor using the water flush method, as I've gotten ear infections from trapped water AFTER seeing the doctor! They specialized ear doctors have a suction system they can use, so ask about that.
 
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The greatest thing for me would be Nvidia releasing the 3080ti and Intel releasing Comet Lake Q1-2 2020.

I currently have a 5820k 4ghz OC'd, but with next-gen consoles coming, I think I wanna update to the top of the line.

Last time I upgraded my PC was summer 2016.
 
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I've finished the first crash, which i had never played (I only played the third one back in the day) and at times the game was really frustrating. I ended having to cheat a bit to get the last few relics.
 

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Oh no, I thought Far Cry 5 would have steam achievements. If you play a game and it doesn't have achievements, did the tree really fall?
Funnily enough I uninstalled FC5 as soon as I saw that it didn't had achievements. After 2205, Origins and Odyssey having them I thought it was a given and well, I really don't feel like playing games without achievements nowadays.
 

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Funnily enough I uninstalled FC5 as soon as I saw that it didn't had achievements. After 2205, Origins and Odyssey having them I thought it was a given and well, I really don't feel like playing games without achievements nowadays.
Yeah I also assumed it would have them because I had also been looking at AC Origin and Odyssey. I will of course play it since I was really feeling for open world right now.
 
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Crash 3 is a lot more annoying then C1, I give C1 a pass because its the first game in the series and ND didn't know what worked and C3 is full of unfun gimmicks which C1 is pure platformer.
 
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Speaking of alcohol, I must be getting old because I love drinking wine and beer since I love the taste, but I hate feeling even little drunk! I often drink while doing stuff, like working or playing games and if my sight get even little blurry it's such a hassle haha.

Yeah I'm old....
grandpa Mono 👴
 
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