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The [steam] thread - Serving the Newell with open hearts and wallets.
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2008, 2012 D&D "Rare With No Sauce" League Fantasy Football Champion!
FWIW the Digital Deluxe version of ME3 does carry a bit of extra content - I don't think of it as DLC per-se, since it came out at the same time as the game. It's basically an additional party member and their retrieval missions, but it's a lot of fun, and the party member is...um..unique. You won't miss it if you never had it, but I'm glad I sprung the extra few dollars for the Deluxe version back when I got it.
As for the rest of the DLC...well, as a counterpoint to my above, I never picked any of it. Much, much too expensive and awkward to purchase. But honestly, if "DLC prices" are stopping you from buying the Mass Effect series...just..stop. Buy them, right now. Come back after ~120 hours of play time on the three base games (based on my single play through play times) and then decide if you even care about the DLC.
ETA: @Drascin: put double quote marks around the name, after the (at) symbol.
So I decided improvise a little birthday giveaway involving La-Mulana I decided to call...
Fellow adventurers, below you can admire three ancient objects that have been in the family for many generations and were found together in the archaeological dig of the pyramid of Stimonia in 1922.
A) Golden bracelet
C) Eye of truth
Along with the objects a tablet was found which explained the legend attached to them. According the hieroglyphics of the tablet, one of the objects will reveal the location of the lost tomb within La-Mulana to a champion of pure heart.
But beware, warns the tablet, because the other two objects are cursed a no pure heart will save you from the evil within them. One of them contains the vengeful spirit of a warrior fallen in disgrace while the other is a door that will be used by an army of monstrous creatures to conquer our world.
The question is, will you be brave enough to challenge the curse and thus find the way to La-Mulana? If you think you are, here are the rules as the tablet describes them:
-You must select one, two or the three of the objects and send me a PM with your selection
-If you select just one object and that object is the one that contains the location of the lost tomb withinLa-Mulana you will have one chance to be elected by the tablet as the champion of pure heart. If you are elected as the champion the location of the tomb will be revealed to you. But, in case the object you selected is cursed you have one change to be cursed.
-If you select two objects and one of them contains the location of the lost tomb you will have one chance to be elected as the champion. But the other object will be cursed and, in this case, you will have two chances to be cursed by it.
-If you select two objects and both of them are cursed you will have two chances to be cursed by each of the objects!
-If you select the three objects then you can be sure that one of them will be hiding the location of the tomb and, you will have one assured chance to be elected as the champion. But you will have two chances to be cursed by each of the other two objects!
So the question is, are you brave enough to face the challenge of the three objects? Send me your PMs if you dare!
Notes:
-The status of the three objects (two cursed and one blessed) will be randomly selected, so do not try to find any clues or meaning in their appearance
-The curses don't involve any rodents at all (usual or unusual size)
-In case the curse of an object is already present in the victim's Steam account it may find another target among the people who selected that object
-I will be reposting this during the weekend. You can send me your PMs until Sunday 10:00 PM GMT.
-Thanks to @Harvest for his help correcting this text
Mechromancer was a pre-order bonus but I know I won't be picking up Kreig any time soon, if at all.
New Greco-Romantics 20 Favourite Games of 2012.
360 Gamertag = Wraith134
Should I get it or not?
XBL: Manetherenwolf | PSN: Manetherenwolf | STEAM: Manetherenwolf
Yes.
Everyone buy it and play with me!
2008, 2012 D&D "Rare With No Sauce" League Fantasy Football Champion!
:-(
I read somewhere that you can only get foils after being level 10, and even then it's not guaranteed.
I pronounce it bee-log.
I guess card drops for TF2 and Dota 2 are (going to be) renewable.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tradingcards/discussions/1/828939163665337613/
Bolding mine.
Time to go guitar shopping.
I believe that's true. I ran through the Community badge to get level 10 and then booted up HL2. I played one song in Theatrhythm and checked, lo and behold there's my foil.
I checked the marketplace and there's only one out there, selling for a simply ridiculous £130. I'm half tempted to put mine up for half that, but I don't see the point since the EU Diablo 3 RMAH tells me that people in this region are much less frivolous with cash:-(
I also just got a regular Gordon & Alyx, but that's much less interesting.
New Greco-Romantics 20 Favourite Games of 2012.
360 Gamertag = Wraith134
You have to enclose multi-word names in quotation marks.
PSN/Xbox Live: shdwcaster
My Backloggery
My Goodreads. Like a Backloggery for books.
I don't know how people got to level 10 already. Are you just min/maxing? Getting all the cards in the games you don't care about to get the cards in the games you do?
I pronounce it bee-log.
From the FAQ:
What are Foil Trading Cards?
Once you reach Steam Level 10, there is a small chance whenever you get a Trading Card from playing a game that it will have a special foil border. You'll need to collect a set of foil cards in order to craft them into a foil badge. There is no extra benefit to having foil cards or foil badges aside from their rarity.
Surround the name with ". Funny enough, I learned this while trying to do it to the very same person.
If anyone wants one we can work something out.
Someone else buy it and tell me all about it!
8->
I bought it but won't be able to play it for a few hours.
I basically started at level 9 more than half way to ten. Old badges give good XP, my 6 years of service badge gave 300 I think.
Then it was just a matter of working the Community badge up to the gold, which was only a few things I hadn't already done.
New Greco-Romantics 20 Favourite Games of 2012.
360 Gamertag = Wraith134
Hit me up on Steam. I've got what you need.
New Greco-Romantics 20 Favourite Games of 2012.
360 Gamertag = Wraith134
I just kinda don't wanna touch the games that give me cards until I hit level 10.
Agreed, but I've already blown through the HL2 and Don't Starve cards I can get. And I'm still only level 6 or so.
I pronounce it bee-log.
Is it just me or do some things in the Community badge just not unlock? The activity feed stuff, greenlight queue voting, they did nothing.
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They can take time to update properly.
I had to subscribe to three things before that unlocked for me. Had to queue vote like five times, it's just pretty finickity I think.
New Greco-Romantics 20 Favourite Games of 2012.
360 Gamertag = Wraith134
These unusual cards can then be combined to create an unusual set reward.
The set reward then sells for approximately the price of my Steam Library.
I'm always looking for new steam friends!
If you can find 3 other people, the 4 pack is $40 and change. $10 for the base game is a preposterous steal. (And hey, there's your coop group. Although it should surprise no one to learn that I am very much in the its-also-great-single-player camp.)
I do agree that no DLC discount is poor form. Krieg just came out, so I can see that. But Mechromancer? C'mon people, throw out a bone!
edit: Boom, first badge get!
edit 2: LEVEL 12. Am I winning?
I've been wanting to replay HL2 anyway.
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