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Well I think nier is at the best price it's been right now
Not quite best, but it's the same price it basically always discounts to.
Mewgenics is awesome.
Fell off
I've been playing through the first Hollow Knight and don't know why I slept on it for so long (but am glad I did as I get to currently experience it).
I loved that game, I 100%'d it. Not sure about achievements though, those kinds of games usually have dumb achievements (looking at you Ori with the speed run and no hit achievements)
Got Absolum. Not the biggest discount, but I played the demo some time back and it kept lingering in my mind. Really looking forward to play co-op with my wife.
Here's some mostly small game suggestions I wrote up for a hidden gems thread elsewhere :)
Mina the Hollower, and it's not even on sale. And I still feel smart, looking over the shit on sale in my wishlist
I had already pirated and played through Pathfinder :WOTR, and since it was heavily Discounted (600rs=around $4) I finally bought iy with all the dlc.
I'm not yucking anyone's yum, just noticing how the only game I was interested in isn't on sale, yet it's good enough that I'm not even annoyed
Oh man!!! didn't know that I replied to your comment. I was commenting on the post.
Ha lol no worries
I've got Astralbringer (crazy mouse shmup, not actually on sale but that dev prices low and doesn't really do Steam sales), Shikhondo: Blue Pieta (horizontal scrolling shmup), Revo (fast kinda janky gallery shmup), and Beyond Solar (scrolling shmup). I'm looking into Star Vortex and Star Solar (both space ARPGs). (Edit: Went with Star Vortex :).
So kinda tame sale, and I've obviously been feeling pretty shmuppy lately (and I've got a loooot of those already to play :), but I've also got Denshattack release to look forward to on the 15th, depending on price.
No Summer Sale complaints here. Saw several games I often price check around sales take nice drops this time, so deals are out there.
I'm only buying dlc for games I already have.
I was waiting for the sale to buy Elden Ring or DS3. Been wanting to replay them, this time with mods. But it seems they skipped this sale... of course they did.
I should play the games I got last time.
Cuboid Keeper was already on my wishlist and showed up as the cheapest game at 1.59 CAD. Notable because it currently has a 100% positive rating (though only 11 reviews). Released in 2019, too. I added the game to my wishlist because the same people (person? Website seems to suggest it's just one guy) made Eventide Matter, a short space resource gathering/building/upgrading game.
FYI, Cuboid Keeper plays poorly on controller, and can't run with Steam Input at all. If you play on KBM, it's ok, but otherwise it's just brokenly designed and not getting fixed because the dev doesn't care anymore.
I play a lot of top-down and twin-sticks, so there might be something for you here: https://infosec.pub/post/48529166/22456105
Ah that sucks, I like KBM but it seems like a good controller candidate as it just needs two vectors (movement and aiming) plus two buttons (at least as far as I got so far, there's only main fire and secondary fire). Sounds like something that shouldn't even take long to implement with steam input.
I actually just used steam input for the first time yesterday and thought you might be referring to the same thing as it was annoying during the process of figuring out the correct setup. It's a Nintendo layout but was being detected as an Xbox layout, so all the buttons were reversed. Either that or Binding of Isaac deliberately set up the controls to be counter-intuitive and my using steam input to remap to more intuitive controls is cheating lol. And it didn't help that I had another controller that also identifies as an xbox controller and spent some time remapping that one and wondering why it wasn't doing anything in the game before I noticed it was being picked up (but doesn't really function so I didn't even realize it was still plugged in).
Sounds like something that shouldn’t even take long to implement with steam input.
Shouldn't, but the thing is, you move all around the screen in that game. You can't make a mouse region for the aiming to get a direction unless the character stays at center or there's always a clear line through center to the reticle. When the character just moves all around like that, there's just no way to connect something to the direction from the character. You have to mouse aim on absolute position or use 8-way aiming on keys as your only character-relative option (what are we here, cavemen?).
The real problem is just that one of your critical gameplay actions is stopping shooting. Easily handled if you have a shoot button, like mouse, but controller only shoots on RS tilt, which means moving RS into the deadzone becomes a critical defensive action. You could work around that but you can't use Steam Input and controller-mode, so not even the option of having Steam use a big dead zone.
What you can do (I actually just got this to work!), is use Steam Input to mask the controller before starting the game, and then cursor key around through menus to the settings and toggle the "Enable Controller" button all on keyboard (hard to get it to mouse with a controller around). Once you get that saved and staying disabled, you can use a controller-free Steam Input config without the game switching to controller on its own.
So, I spoke too soon before. You actually should be able to play on a deck, because the trackpad will sub in nicely for mousing. Much better than the RS I have on a regular controller, but now I can at least play half-controller, half-mouse. Awkward, but better than either separately for me.