RE: Steam Summer Giveaway 2014
07-14-2014, 06:01 AM
DAY ONE
Nobody was ever quite sure as to how exactly the giant crate of videogames had ended up right in the middle of town square. Perhaps it had fallen off the back of a passing truck, or maybe it had been purposely left behind by some sort of malevolent benefactor. But no matter how it arrived, there was only one way to decide who gets the crate now. Everybody in town would just have to murder one other until only one person remained, as is customary around these parts for settling minor disputes.
You suppose it was inevitable in a way. This town hadn't seen a decent sized massacre in almost twenty years, so you guess you really were long overdue. Everyone begins revealing all of the weapons that they naturally have hidden on them at any given time. A few helpful citizens set off in search of a good rope to use as a noose.
"Wait a minute everyone!" shouts somebody from the back of the crowd. "It doesn't have to be like this! What if we tried..... sharing the games?"
You all just stand there dumbfounded for a moment. "What, you mean like a compromise or something?" "Hey, I think I've heard of one of those compromise type things before! I'm not entirely sure what it means though..." "I think he's saying that we should try to split the games between everyone here fairly, instead of killing each other or something."
The rest of you aren't too convinced about this whole "sharing" thing just yet, but you decide to give it a shot. After all, if it doesn't work out, you can always just fall back onto the murdering later on.
Slowly, you all pry open the crate, and look to see what's inside...
_____________________________________________________________Nobody was ever quite sure as to how exactly the giant crate of videogames had ended up right in the middle of town square. Perhaps it had fallen off the back of a passing truck, or maybe it had been purposely left behind by some sort of malevolent benefactor. But no matter how it arrived, there was only one way to decide who gets the crate now. Everybody in town would just have to murder one other until only one person remained, as is customary around these parts for settling minor disputes.
You suppose it was inevitable in a way. This town hadn't seen a decent sized massacre in almost twenty years, so you guess you really were long overdue. Everyone begins revealing all of the weapons that they naturally have hidden on them at any given time. A few helpful citizens set off in search of a good rope to use as a noose.
"Wait a minute everyone!" shouts somebody from the back of the crowd. "It doesn't have to be like this! What if we tried..... sharing the games?"
You all just stand there dumbfounded for a moment. "What, you mean like a compromise or something?" "Hey, I think I've heard of one of those compromise type things before! I'm not entirely sure what it means though..." "I think he's saying that we should try to split the games between everyone here fairly, instead of killing each other or something."
The rest of you aren't too convinced about this whole "sharing" thing just yet, but you decide to give it a shot. After all, if it doesn't work out, you can always just fall back onto the murdering later on.
Slowly, you all pry open the crate, and look to see what's inside...
Games Currently Up For Grabs:
Note 1: For the games that we have 2 copies of here (Bastion and Psychonauts), they will be treated as if they were a single title that we are rolling the winners for twice. In other words, you don't need to put your points down under "Bastion #1" or "Bastion #2", just "Bastion" would be fine.
Note 2: The above list has 49 games on it, even though they are only 44 players in the game. This does not mean that we will be giving out second copies to anybody, but is only meant to give the last few players in the game more than a single option to chose from.
Note 3: I plan on hopefully giving a brief overview on many of the above games at some point, or at least the ones that I've personally played. If anybody here has a request for me to describe first, or simply wants to talk about their own thoughts on one of the games up there, please feel free.
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Everybody currently has 100 points to distribute between whichever of the above games that they wish. Round one ends at 2 am EST, on July 18th, or in approximately 96 hours.