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Bleu_Skie posted...

^Wait, touhou is on steam? When did that happen? Holy crap.

TH16 only, it's good plotwise but all other areas are lacking.
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XP outperforms V in many scenarios and future driver support for games will be limited.
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Joenage posted...

Does FFIX still hold up today? I tried the Steam version of VIII having only played an hour of it on PS1, and couldn't get into it at all.

Yes, though the backgrounds are lowres and ugly for today'ssm standards.
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fire_bolt posted...

Anybody want to be a bro and recc me some cool games? I want to actually BUY myself a few this year and can't think of anything I'm really just dying to play.

You have Enter the Gungeon on your wishlist.

That.

Cross Code will be really cool. when it releases too.
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I'm thinking: seeing how there's so much trouble gifting between regions, maybe Contest XII should happen around GOG sales instead of Steam sales.

Opinions?
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BMXJouster posted...

ArchangelBaruch posted...

lol, Hollow Knight is too much for my laptop. dem frame drops

Damn, this is why I'd rather have gifted it to you through Steam. I really hate their regional price difference gift blocking.

No problem, that's because I'm on holidays at my parents'. Back home I have my good ol' watercooled 1080 to run 4 instances of the game at the same time if needed.
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lol, Hollow Knight is too much for my laptop. dem frame drops
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BMXJouster has gifted me Hollow Knight, thanks!
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Alakazamtrainer posted...

Seriously steam how can i troll Arch when you wont let me buy anything

gog?
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And done.
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Well, let's begin.

First 3 people who quote this post get Rocket League.
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Berseria -60% yooooooooooooooo

And nothing for PUBG as expected.
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Tropicalwood posted...

fire_bolt posted...

I can't gift Arch games? Fucking wat >:(

He's from another country so the price gap might be too big for gifts to be sent there. Blame CSGO players buying dirt cheap through Russian accounts.

That's weird. As of last Summer I didn't have that problem when gifting stuff to USA.

Maybe wait for the sales to start so that the price gap is lower?
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That's just a Starbucks thing to get your info. I live in France, and elsewhere you are asked your email and phone number at most.
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BUMP

No progress writing today, but I sorted some of the plot where my characters were involuntarily on a suicide mission from page 1.
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I think I'm going to change the style, from 3rd person past to 1st person present. I feel more comfortable writing like that.
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300 words for a small intro. I'm really bad at the description stuff, I prefer inner monologuing. But I need to give some context for the action.
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_Goggalor_ posted...

Try to hit a word count each day. Consistency is key. I do 2,000 but less is fine. Just think of your story like a puzzle. You're putting it together piece by piece. Just stay focused on your main idea/theme and let the plot and characters and events and all that fall into place.

If I do this until the end I'm going for long distance. It may take a couple years, since I predict that when I get back to work I'll slow down to a snail's crawl.
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Eat More Beef posted...

I'm currently 23,000 words into my second book (but first novel. My published book is a collection of short stories).

I have so much trouble reasoning in terms of word count, it doesn't speak to me at all.

I just checked and that half story I posted in the first page is 12k words. I can only tell that plotwise I was around 25% done.
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Just added a cryptic pretentious paragraph at the beginning of the chapter, based on an inworld book.

>______________>

...Don't judge me.
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BUMP

I've decided to write a rough first draft of the first chapter, and then refine the concepts within. Just planning ahead doesn't seem to be working for me.

I'm not used to writing anymore...
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Apple is overpriced except if you need it for image and video editing. Go with the surface.
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War in the Pocket is the best.

Gunplas aren't bad either.
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She hated (though justified) Robin a bit too much. But yeah, best one.

Having recently rewatched the series, Stella was good too except for the whole leaving at the altar thing. And anyway most of things that went wrong in that relationship were T Dawg's fault directly.
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Greatswords
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BUMP

O'm now thinking about how much I want to develop the world story at the beginning, while avoiding infodumps.

My idea is to have everything happen in a fictional world, in which the protagonists go back in time to avoid changes in momentous points of history. But to have it make an impact, the history in question. must be at least shown or implied.

I'm thinking about going the Chrono Trigger way and show different interlinked time periods, but that wouldn't work so well for a first chapter where I want to directly introduce the theme of the series.

Hmmmm...
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Not wanting to spoil later parts, but Jotaro as guest star in Part 4 did pretty OK.
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Hooooly shit. Doge is up 60%.

why
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First chapter outline is done. I still need to see further in the plot to be able to drop some endgame hints at the beginning. Usually what I do is that I drop random hints and then later adapt the plot around them. Which mostly makes it a mess.
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weekoldhotdog posted...

sorry, sex sells. rewrite your draft to include more topless aliens or i'm losing motivation to keep you motivated.

*shrug* Then my story isn't for you, I guess.
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weekoldhotdog posted...

will there be sex scenes?

Probably not. I'm not good at romancey writing, much less sexy. But if Brandon Sanderson doesn't need them to make their books interesting, neither. do I.
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_Schwarzlicht_ posted...

Do you want ruthless critique and people pointing out typos and bad grammar?

Bet CE's great at that.

English isn't my first language, so there's nothing I can do about that.
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For writing reference, this is the last major thing I wrote... 5 years ago. It's an incomplete open-ended CYOA, but I liked the plot so I may continue it in the future. It can be considered a prologue of sorts, since some of the concepts in my current story come from that one. But the rules of the universe won't necessarily be coherent between both, so I won't be constrained by it.

https://goo.gl/A5chn7
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So it's been a few years since I last wrote anything. I want to exercise my writing muscle, so I'm starting a midlength story about time travel. I'll post here the chapters as they get done.

My objective is pumping out one chapter per 1-2 months, using my Christmas holidays to advance as much as possible. When I work I am too tired on weekends to do anything.

I've just started a Google Doc with the outline of the plot and characters. I'll start the writing of chapter 1 next week.
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fire_bolt posted...

Eep... My bad, guys. Guess this is why I'm not on the doc edit list xD

If you want to, just PM me your Gmail.
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Yeah, it's the gifts received. I was for taking it out since it's a pain to keep up to date, but others like to check it.
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Yeah, doesn't count sorry. But he definitely gets a shoutout.
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Happy 5th year anniversary! It's game time again.

RULES

For the newbies, rules are simple:

- Do you want to get free games? Post your Steam wishlist and someone will gift you stuff!
- Feeling generous? Gift something to someone and you'll get a chance to win prizes!

That's the basics. Here's a couple additional things to keep in mind (since in every contest people ask the same questions):

- When gifting, please put somewhere in the gift message your GFAQs username. It helps keeping things straight.
- When you receive a gift, please post in the topic saying what you received and from whom.
- While this is called "Steam" gift topic, it isn't limited to it. Basically as long as the gift is a game, it counts.
- Gifters get one entry per gifted game. At the end of the contest I'll randomly pick a few winners entry from the pool, so the more you gift the more you can win!
- You get only one entry for all games coming from an individual bundle (though if you bought two copies of the same bundle and gift games from both, you get two entries. And so on).
- You don't get entries from games you got for free.
- Gifts done elsewhere in GameFAQs count, as long as they have been gifted after the creation of this topic.
- To avoid getting the topic saturated, you can only post a link to your wishlist thrice per topic. You are free to put it in your sig for normal posts, though.
- Before posting in the next topic, please wait until this one hits 500.


PRIZES

As in recent contest here will be 10 giftboxes. Each one of these is worth $10, and each will be given to a gifter from the gift list at random. Additionally, 2 gift boxes will be given to the person who'll gift the most stuff and 1 to the second person.

This puts the total prize of the contest at $130.

Additionally, if you have a giftbox remaining from a past contest (listed in the Winners tab) you can claim it at any point.


DEADLINE

Deadline for entering the contest is January 2nd at 12PM EST. That will give me enough time to give prizes for cheap, so you guys will get more games.

ARCHIVE

All entries will be kept in a Google Doc: https://goo.gl/EE8GdQ

All people who want to help keeping this doc up-to-date are welcome, just PM me your Google account so that I can add you. By default, everyone who helped in the past have been added.

For stats about visitors and stuff: https://goo.gl/EE8GdQ+

Sale start on the 21st for those wondering. Though the GOG is still going on I think, so you can get your early gifting on!
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2h30, though it can be shorter if you want. We don't have that strict of a timetable, as long as work gets done.
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Yes, carry over in Nougat or higher is painless. You may lose game progressions though.
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bluezero posted...

Dragon56 posted...

very eccentric guy, yo

I like dis

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70eur. 30 GB 4G + unlimited calls and 500 Mbos fiber
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It's good, but somewhat unpolished. Plays like Sunshine. Plotwise it's weak, and it's a bit short too.

Though when it's good, it's really good. Level 2's Rift Challenge based on vertical parkour is awesome. And The Windmill is amongst the best platforming levels ever.

Mod support is OK for now, nothing spectacular.
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POPs are bad in general, Nendos are good quality.
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