Valve Decided to Approve That Divekick Game

I already watch both Endurance runs, played through the game myself, but if Deadly Premonition on PC is modable I will definitely pick it up. Just imagine what could be made or even better if some makes it a decent shooter!

If you read their Greenlight page, you'll see that the devs have pretty much given up on ever being on Steam at this point. Greenlight is a horrible broken mess that's in desperate need of fixing and implementing new ideas.

I'll totally get Deadly Premonition, but yeah why hasn't The Real Texas been greenlit? Unless I missed that.

Good news, decent list. Valve loves their automation, seemingly to a fault when Greenlight is concerned, so the return of some aspect of curation over these past few months is most welcome. Especially when a game is on the cusp of release like DiveKick - to not have to focus time and energy into wrangling up internet votes with no guarantee it'll make top 10 by August (or at all) sounds like a big relief.

Also happy to see some longtime submissions stuck in Greenlight hell on there, another good sign. Gives hope for those that probably have given up by now, even if they deserve to be on Steam from a quality standpoint. Greenlight may still be experimental, obtuse and a pain in the ass to wade through, but at least they're being flexible with rules that don't work in practice.

@funkasaurasrex:

Thanks for the link duder. I think I will go vote for it

A hat in time looks cool.

So you watching someone play a game instantly gives you enough information to know right away if your going to like the game or not?! If thats the way you decide on which games you buy your probably missing out on a lot of classics. Seems like you'd be better putting your time to a good movie then watching endurance runs.

I appreciate games bold enough to be quirky, but Deadly Premonition looked like a garbage game from a mechanical and overall-polish perspective. When they weren't detective-ing it up, it just looked to be a really bad, sloppy 3rd person shooter.

Glad Broforce finally got greenlit, that game seems like my kind of dumb fun. Also can't wait to play Deadly Premonition on my PC

@phrosnite: I find it to be one of the best horror games I have played this generation.

Really excited for shelter.

Can't believe its finally here!! yes Yes YES!!!! >:O

Yikes. Meanwhile, iOS gamers get constant updates and hilarious patch notes. TALK ABOUT A BUMMER.

Deadly Premonition on Steam is great news, wouldn't you agree Zach?

Zach!! (Zack?) I'm coming! Put some FK in my Coffee. WOoooooo!

Great news for Broforce. There was some good dumb fun in the demo for that game.

If what you say is true, I would be thrilled. Besides it being surprisingly good Half Life game, It had one of the best Alien concepts I remember, those tall beings that used another creature as a range weapon. They fought well and quite deadly, but mostly the art design for both was good.

@phrosnite: This game looks so simple, but their are pretty cool game mechanics that are unique to this genre like headshots! Were headshots ever brought into a fighting game?

^__^ Among the Sleep. Really, looking forward to that.

It's a browser game that I couldn't really imagine being a paid-for downloadable game.

Awesome. Dive Kick is the only game I've greenlighted. Feel good about that.

Now we are all sons of bitches.

HOW IS COOK SERVE DELICIOUS STILL NOT GREENLIT. FUUUUUCK LIKE C'MON MAN.

What this guy said, it's incredible.

The Endurance Runs were cute and funny and all, but in all honesty it was a really crappy way to show off the game. There's 10x more to it than what they ever got into, watching Supergreatfriend's LP really proved that.

@jacksukeru:

Ah my mistake, I thought it was still in the submission process. Any news on when it will be released?

@johnlocke: Sadly I am not updated on the progress of that game at all, besides spotting it on greenlight.

Fuck Greenlight.

Oh man, Project Awakened made it through? That's awesome! I backed their failed Kickstarter and always thought it was a real shame they never got to expand upon their crazy dreams for that game.

@fisk0 said:

Indeed. Soldak's excellent Drox Operative looks like it will languish in Greenlight limbo forever now, despite that developer having two well-received games on Steam already (Din's Curse and Depths of Peril). Valve should just go back to proper curation. It's not like they can't afford to hire people to do that.

Oh hey, didn't know a hat in time got approved.

That games looks cool.

Divekick also known as the very definition of a joke going too far. #fuckkeits

I can't tell if people are genuinely excited or ironically excited for that game anymore. Jeff saying people were 'really good' at the game at Evo made me scratch my head. Was he joking or not? I CANNOT TELL. The game has the depth of a puddle and is funny, but people expecting anything more than that...well I don't know what to tell you.

Nice. Green light... is kinda dumb... happy its working... kinda...

@sooty: That's the best part of the game: It looks like a joke in its simplicity, but still contains the precious balance between patience and timing that all fighting games rely on.

@sooty: People like Divekick because it's a genuinely good fighting game, completely independent of the jokes. You actually just don't understand how it works.

The exciting parts of fighting games at a high level of play are the footsies and the mindgames and the other things that are all about positioning, timing, patience, and predicting your opponent. Divekick is interesting and exciting because it lets people play with those elements without first having to devote hours upon hours to practicing combos or studying character and move properties.

Man greenlight is just fine. They're still working on improvements or it mind, but good stuff still didn't get through under the old manual curation system.

A hat in time looked really neat, glad to see it'll get a release on steam!

It still kind of sickens me that proper publishers that put games in boxes like DTP have to go through greenlight because Valve are too haughty to deal with product anymore. God forbid that, as a catalogue, they should spend time reviewing the products themselves.

@jacksukeru

Just had an update from Steam that Papers Please is available to pre-purchase for release next week. Huzzah!