P4: Gritty Reboot

I get the feeling you're just out for a free game, brother. If you'd like to stick around this is a nice community to be a part of, and we'll do another exchange next year.

Dear Santa, I have taken CSGO off my wishlist as my cousin is buying it for me. If you already got it for me, that is fine as I want one for my wife too. Love, P4

I am a Kyle. It was not me.

Yeah, cool thing about how I believe the Steam gift system works is you can just put it into your inventory if you get a duplicate.

Funny. Uh people make sure your wishlists are up to date NOW.

Wow. Way to set the bar high, Thursday!

Ok, Vecha has been fit in. The more the merrier.

Hey Vecha, if you want, I think I found a way to work you in. Let me know and I'll GM you a target.

Yes, Vecha, sorry... Sign-ups closed at the end of November. Next year! Unless you want to be a rogue Santa and grant wishes off the list. Maybe someone will be kind-hearted enough to get you back

Strangelove appears to have changed his Steam ID. If you haven't added him yet, add him here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Reverseapachemaster/

Yeah. Might be good to add in your little personalized gifting message that this is for the SS exchange, since I know there's always a little goodwill gifting in general going on during these sales.

I was playing with a random number generator to do the picks, but the real issue is that I have to double-check the list to make sure everyone is assigned, then I have to email everybody their targets. Unless there was an automated way to monitor it and send them out (and even then I'd want someone to check it so no one gets screwed). --- Targets have been assigned. Please check your PMs and start stalking your giftee! We suggest waiting for the Steam winter sale, but if a killer deal comes up before that, by all means gift early. Soft deadline is Dec. 27 for gifting. Please post in the Wishlist thread if you haven't already, and start perusing your target's Steam wishlist and that thread as well. PM me with questions or concerns.

Sending out targets shortly. I did have an epiphany though: whoever I assign to buy for me will have the option of approaching someone to swap targets with them so that I don't know who it is. Feel free to refuse the swap if you don't feel like it or if... that very person is your target . Make sense? Good.

Yeah, everyone worked for me via the Add a Friend function. I've edited excel_excel's name to the correct one as well. Targets will go out soon.

If you people are unsure of your exact Steam ID, find yourself on the steamcommunity.com site and copy+paste the URL here.

Tough to do a "send all" as the forum only supports 6 recipients at a time. Does anyone have objections to my posting the list of Steam IDs here? (Most/many of you have them listed anyway...) --- Okay, barring some lollygagger joining in the next 7 hours, here is the final list of everybody's Steam IDs. Please add each of these people to your Steam friends if you are not already friends with them. Also make sure your wishlists get up-to-date soon as I'll be sending targets out tomorrow. (I also apologize in advance to the person who gets me, as I have to message you telling you to buy me a present . Saturnine, you were cool about it last year ). Also if anyone objects to this list being posted here I will remove it and just send one by one. Forum ID -- Steam ID p4warrior -- p4warrior Saturnine Tenshi -- elvenampersands Chewblaha -- Chewblaha Sporkwaffles -- toomanyluftwaffles Strangelove -- Vincentgrey Cyber Rat -- http://steamcommunit...id/duskstrider/ deanb -- deanbmmv/deanb [pxod] TheMightyEthan -- TheMightyEthan Hakidia -- hakidia FLD -- FLD Brainhurtboy...2 -- brainhurtboy excel_excel -- excel_excel Frosted Mini-Wheats -- Yesshua SkyGriever -- skygriever FredEffinChopin -- FredEffinChopin ThursdayNext -- victoranalogy MaliciousH -- MaliciousH LittlePirate -- TheLittlePirate eleven -- franc0pirate Waldorf and Statler -- Stark Winter Lager CrowKnow -- crowknow Mr. GOH! -- xyron76 ADIRTYWINDOW -- ADIRTYWINDOW

Perusing the list of games he's composed for, I think I've only played Mario Party. So no, not very familiar

And regarding Chrono Trigger, 600 AD is the best song in that game. Love that soundtrack.

That is pretty much all there is to it.

Bioshock did have a weird mouse smoothing issue. I always seemed to swing my cursor too far over my target.

Yeah 27th or so would be fine. Last year it wasn't an issue as most people gifted on or around the first few days of the Steam sale.

Spent $1. No regrets.

Alrighty, sign-ups are winding down and we're at 21 participants! Awesome turnout, really excited for this year. This thread is not for general discussion of the exchange. Each participant who has signed up for SS2012 should post once in this thread letting their Santa know what kind of games they like, whether they prefer Steam or another service or digital gift, that sort of thing. Do not post again if you think of more; edit your original post. The more detail you give, the more likely you are to receive something you want. That said, your own style is fine--you could just do a short list of a few things you've been eyeing or else you could be as detailed as you want. This is not a replacement for Steam wishlists--use those as well. This thread is to give a little more background about your wants and why you may want them. My Wishlist post will be right here in the top post to give you an idea of what we're looking for. Including a link to your Steam account and wishlist would be a good idea as well. Here is a template to get you started: Steam ID/Wishlist/Country (in case of regional restrictions) Background General criteria What are your favorite genres? What are your favorite games? Are you okay with getting games not on your wishlist or other digital gifts? --- P4's Christmas Wishlist Steam ID: P4warrior Wishlist Country: USA Well as some of you may know, I moved away from games writing (a bit--I still write for GamerSpawn) and a little away from video gaming this year. I still enjoy video games very much, but I have shifted some of my focus into the exciting world of board gaming. The physicality, social aspects, and transparency of mechanics really appeal to me in that realm. As such--and due to the demands of parenthood over two awesome boys--I don't play a ton of video games that demand my full attention anymore or demand 30-40 hours to play through the story (though I did list a few that I have been looking at anyway). Games that Alt+Tab or play in small windows appeal to me, as do digital versions of board games. Games that I can pop in, play for 20 minutes, and pop out are ideal. Family and kids games are great too, especially same-PC co-op. As for genres, I like action games, whether FPS or TPS, I like light to medium strategies, I like platformers and indie games as well as RPGs. I don't play too many sports or racing games. I do like arcade-style games with combo systems and high scores as well. Co-op games always strike my fancy so long as my wife will play them too. A smattering of my favorite games is Half-Life, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario Galaxy, Jamestown, Left 4 Dead, Unreal Tournament 2004, VVVVVV, and Portal 2. I am totally 100% OK with not getting something on my wishlist if you, dear Santa, know of something even better for my criteria above that I am unaware of. I prefer Steam gifts, but I am fine with GOG or anything else. Thanks in advance!