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I think I got a total of 22 games over the course of the sales. Let's see...
-Spec Ops: The Line
-Civ V: GOTY Edition (whatever that means)
GOTY Editions generally come with all of the game's DLC.
Jesus, Recettear is brutal, or maybe I just suck.
^Nah, it's genuinely hard (which is why you effectively get unlimited continues). But I hit a pretty solid brick wall in the second boss myself.
is that game's name pronounced "Rackateer"?
It's a combination of "recette" (French for "income") and "tear" (English for "tear").
Pronunciation for recette.
I'm only on the first boss in the Jade Way and it took me a shitload of tries to get past the third week.
Also, fuck those little kids and their inability to afford shit. You can't pay for something at at least 115% base price get the fuck out of my store you fucking pinko.
That's actually your fault -- charging too much. If you charge (IIRC, it's been ages since I've played it) around 104-105%, you get a LOT more XP.
I'll keep that in mind. Weird though, early on the game was insisting around 130% as the standard.
Any other pointers?
Yeah, the game kind of lies
Dungeon runs are really good.
Really? They've kind of been shit so far for me. I've mostly been getting crap like apples and slime. Though that might just be the early floors.
How frequently should I do them?
Yeah, this game is just absolutely kicking my ass so I'm asking lots of questions.
Bear in mind that I've never actually finished the game, but I did them pretty frequently. Two or three times a week, maybe.
The combat system takes awhile to learn, but if you stick to the early floors for a bit to grind, you should be able to take on any given dungeon in one attempt.
There's a reason Tear isn't the one running the shop, but is an insurance agent.
(Noncanonical, but...still.)
Anyway, each customer has a percentage at which
And one way the game really makes bosses hard is that you have no easy way to practice the bosses. In most games--even harder ones like Ys: the Oath in Felghana--there's a save point very close to the boss. This is not the case in Recettear. For each time you want to fight the boss, you'll have to go through at least five levels of dungeon, and that means investing lots of time, both in real life and in the game. And the in-game time is time you could have spent running your shop and buying stuff and such.
Even if you grind by sticking around a floor to defeat all the monsters until they stop respawning, you might still have trouble with the boss, because the tactics legitimately need some learning, or you have to be really good at reacting. Or have lots of healing items.
If i want to uninstall and reinstall Steam, which folders should I preserve?
Depends. I think you'll want to keep "My Games," for starters.
Do you mean steamapps/common?
Oh, yeah, I guess I should have said "steamapps," because you want "common," "[username]," "SourceMods," and any other folders in there.
Okay, getting steamapps, skins, logs, and a folder that I put there myself for purchase receipts.
So the installer gave me an option to repair my Steam install.
Did that. Starting Steam again. Now it's updating...and it's stuck at 10%.
Not sure if progress...
edit: odd...I canceled it, restarted Steam, and now it's at 28% updated. And now it's stuck there.
Repeating that caused it to get to 29%.
Here is my Steam problem.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3018117
That's the flying eyeball, right? I guess it'd be kinda weird with Louie because you might need to block stuff to get around the laser, but Charme's fast enough to maneuver wherever you need to, and Caillou can kill it in two attacks before it fires at all.
I think the elf girl is the only really hard boss in Recettear I've fought so far, and then it's mostly the final phase with those cheapass random lasers where you're trying to hunt down her fucking box. I died once to Charme before I got the hang of my attack range, but she was easy the second time.
I did have to laugh the first time I fought the rat though, because I'm used to him actually being dangerous in Chantelise, and in Recettear he's a total pussy.
Anyway, my own haul for the sale is Cogs and Psychonauts, which I expected to be a backlog game for a good desktop, but it turns out I can run it decently already.
I seem to have solved the problem.
Apparently, this was due to a traffic-limiting thing I'd done with the program NetBalancer, a week ago. I'd closed the program, and it was not running anymore, but apparently the traffic-limiting setting stayed in place even without the program up.
Only sell shit that is white or red and only buy when stuff is either blue or white.
Yeah, stock up on devalued things, though that should be obvious.
Also, prepare a list of invectives to shout at the game when the selling price of your orders tank on the day they're due. Because it'll happen often.
Okay, Bastion has been pretty smooth sailing so far. Found Zulf, cleared a couple of the proving ground challenges... and then Cinderbrick Fort just kicked my ass.
So, from my reinstalling Steam, the only thing save file that I care about that's disappeared is Terraria's.
Oh well, I should start from scratch to refresh myself on the mechanics anyway. And I didn't quite plan my first world very well for optimization purposes.
Incidentally, this means that Terraria's save data were not stored in the steamapps folder. Nor the cloud since i know it doesn't have that.
Actually, I think Terraria's data is stored in My Games, under Documents if you run Windows.
More Bastion progress. Beat a few more proving grounds (Cleared the musket challenge first try somehow. Screw the Bullhead Court). Upgraded the Bastion further (Lost-and-Found? Good, I won't have to worry about lost items. Shrine? Make the game harder for extra EXP; interesting). Found Zia. One more core to find, but based on the size of the world map, I still have a ways to go in the story.