Author Topic: The Bore Steam Thread :monocle (Read 1031625 times)

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1380 on:** September 14, 2010, 05:45:02 PM »

Hey fuck you

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1381 on:** September 15, 2010, 05:36:22 AM »

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Joe Molotov wants RailWorks (see wishlist).

ManaByte · « **Reply #1382 on:** September 17, 2010, 01:03:23 PM »

Today's deal: Both Monkey Island SE's for $7.49

HOLY SHIT. Glad I waited. I have them on iPhone, but fuuuuuuck.

Bebpo · « **Reply #1383 on:** September 21, 2010, 04:12:10 PM »

If you pre-order Lara Craft Diablo you get Tomb Raider Legend free.

I wish it was Underworld. Already beat Legend on X360 but haven't played Underworld yet :|

Anyhow, some of you guys should jump on this because I need a coop buddy to play the game with next week!

ManaByte · « **Reply #1384 on:** September 21, 2010, 04:14:07 PM »

PC version isn't shipping with co-op.

Bebpo · « **Reply #1385 on:** September 21, 2010, 04:22:39 PM »

Where did you hear that? I thought the only version without coop was XBLA version which is getting patched the day the PC/PSN versions get released so all 3 are on equal grounds.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1386 on:** September 21, 2010, 04:41:52 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on September 21, 2010, 04:22:39 PM

Where did you hear that? I thought the only version without coop was XBLA version which is getting patched the day the PC/PSN versions get released so all 3 are on equal grounds.

SE's Press Release from a few days ago says:

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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be available on PlayStation Network and Steam on September 28, 2010 for $14.99. The game will feature single player and full offline co-op campaign gameplay, with online co-op available at a later date. The game is rated T for Teen by the ESRB.

I'm still buying it though because Legend is the only TR game I don't have on Steam. Hopefully "a later date" is soon.

Bebpo · « **Reply #1387 on:** September 21, 2010, 05:10:32 PM »

Oh that sucks.

Oh well, will play it SP. Sorry EBros

Bebpo · « **Reply #1388 on:** September 22, 2010, 07:55:43 PM »

Joe, how is faerie solitare? I see you've played 10 hours of it

Bebpo · « **Reply #1389 on:** September 22, 2010, 10:30:24 PM »

I tried playing Raceteer demo. Too much talking so I skipped everything and then the dungeon crawling was ultra simple and my recruit died in like 4 hits. Guess it's not for me.

Tried playing KoTOR since I got it for $2.50 the other day and...it doesn't work :\ Man, I have to say my experience with older games & steam has been fairly awful. Lots of buying games for cheap only to find they won't run. Even tried in Win7 compatibility XP mode as Admin and still no luck. Loads the title screen but the keyboard isn't recognized and neither are the mouse buttons, lol. Oh well. Now I'm kind of curious if Jade Empire I bought for like $3 years ago works. Gonna install that now.

This is why despite GoG's stupid prank shit, they are still needed. I'd rather keep my pre-2005 PC game purchases to GoG where I know the games will work and be compatible with mods.

Bebpo · « **Reply #1390 on:** September 22, 2010, 10:39:28 PM »

Jade Empire runs great (I had to put it on XP compat mode). Seemed kind of neat. I really should play it one of these days to see the power of 9.9 (plus it should give a good idea of how Dragon's Age 2 will play since they're both arpgs)

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1391 on:** September 22, 2010, 10:50:00 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on September 22, 2010, 07:55:43 PM

Joe, how is faerie solitare? I see you've played 10 hours of it

I like my solitaire, and it was a fun variation that I hadn't played before. Well, really I've only played Windows Solitaire (Klondike), Freecell, and Spider Solitaire, because I don't like paying for Solitaire games, but it was only $3.50, so what the heck. Plus there's some story about faeries and an evil wizard and you can collect Pokemon, but I skipped all the story and the Pokemon can't fight so they're pointless.

Quote from: Bebpo on September 22, 2010, 10:30:24 PM

I tried playing Raceteer demo. Too much talking so I skipped everything and then the dungeon crawling was ultra simple and my recruit died in like 4 hits. Guess it's not for me.

Dunegon crawling is only useful at the first of the game (and you shouldn't get hit at all

), later in the game it's a complete waste of time, item shopping is what this game's all about.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1392 on:** September 22, 2010, 11:29:04 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on September 22, 2010, 10:39:28 PM

Jade Empire runs great (I had to put it on XP compat mode). Seemed kind of neat. I really should play it one of these days to see the power of 9.9 (plus it should give a good idea of how Dragon's Age 2 will play since they're both arpgs)

Jade Empire has some things going for it, but combat isn't one of those things.

Bebpo · « **Reply #1393 on:** September 23, 2010, 12:40:03 AM »

I tried playing King's Bounty: The Legend because I was going through some older steam stuff and on Win7 w/Nvidia cards the game crashes once you start moving in a 3d area. I searched around and apparently Steam has been automatically downloading a bad patch (1.7) since August 2009 that causes the game to not work on Vista or Win7 with Nvidia and you can't tell it to not patch to 1.7 :X Another reason why Steam can be annoying with older stuff since sometimes patches break the game and you can't tell steam to not auto-patch (you can, but if you don't have the game installed when you install it, it'll patch to the latest version no matter what).

BUT
there is a fix. Originally the devs/pub said they were working on a patch. It's been over a year, I'm assuming they gave up.
Instead if you disable Anti-aliasing & V-sync (can still use v-sync through D3Doverider) it works fine. So you just don't get any AA. Annoying but after all these UE3.0 games and GTA4 I'm getting used to jaggies on my PC. More console like experience!

Apparently Armored Princess & Crossworlds run perfectly fine. Just effects The Legend.

I actually have The Legend on gamersgate and if I wanted I could play that version pre 1.7 with AA, but eh, more convenient to just play on steam with no AA.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1394 on:** September 23, 2010, 01:27:22 AM »

I was about to say I had no issues with Kings Bounty on Win 7 through Steam but then I realised I was using ATI not nVidia. That sucks

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1395 on:** September 23, 2010, 01:30:27 AM »

These problems don't come up if you used Vista.

chronovore · « **Reply #1396 on:** September 23, 2010, 01:52:14 AM »

Yeah, butthen you're stuck using Vista.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1397 on:** September 23, 2010, 03:06:53 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on September 23, 2010, 01:30:27 AM

These problems don't come up if you used Vista.

Why doesn't bebpo just stick a rusty nail in his peehole then?

archie4208 · « **Reply #1398 on:** September 24, 2010, 12:11:16 PM »

Garry's mod is 5bux. Time to make some crude porn with Alyx's character model!

ManaByte · « **Reply #1399 on:** September 24, 2010, 12:32:47 PM »

All Serious Sam games for $10 this weekend.

dicklaurent · « **Reply #1400 on:** September 24, 2010, 01:18:19 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on September 23, 2010, 12:40:03 AM

I tried playing King's Bounty: The Legend because I was going through some older steam stuff and on Win7 w/Nvidia cards the game crashes once you start moving in a 3d area. I searched around and apparently Steam has been automatically downloading a bad patch (1.7) since August 2009 that causes the game to not work on Vista or Win7 with Nvidia and you can't tell it to not patch to 1.7 :X Another reason why Steam can be annoying with older stuff since sometimes patches break the game and you can't tell steam to not auto-patch (you can, but if you don't have the game installed when you install it, it'll patch to the latest version no matter what). BUT there is a fix. Originally the devs/pub said they were working on a patch. It's been over a year, I'm assuming they gave up. Instead if you disable Anti-aliasing & V-sync (can still use v-sync through D3Doverider) it works fine. So you just don't get any AA. Annoying but after all these UE3.0 games and GTA4 I'm getting used to jaggies on my PC. More console like experience! Apparently Armored Princess & Crossworlds run perfectly fine. Just effects The Legend. I actually have The Legend on gamersgate and if I wanted I could play that version pre 1.7 with AA, but eh, more convenient to just play on steam with no AA.

I never had this on my win7 nvidia machine. always ran the gamersgate 1.7 version. no problems. seems like another great steam exclusivo

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1401 on:** September 24, 2010, 04:23:33 PM »

I have Vista, a Geforce 8800, and King's Bounty and KOTOR on Steam, no problems here. Sounds like Bebop has a crap computer, is more likely. Sorry about your luck, bro. :'(

Bebpo · « **Reply #1402 on:** September 24, 2010, 05:07:30 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on September 24, 2010, 04:23:33 PM

I have Vista, a Geforce 8800, and King's Bounty and KOTOR on Steam, no problems here. Sounds like Bebop has a crap computer, is more likely. Sorry about your luck, bro. :'(

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1339585
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=707

KOTOR has tons of compatibility problems and KB TL has freezes for most Nvidia users. The freezes are exclusively Steam KB TL, other versions don't seem to freeze.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1403 on:** September 24, 2010, 05:38:07 PM »

I played KOTOR just fine on my computer.

Bebpo · « **Reply #1404 on:** September 28, 2010, 01:00:35 AM »

Dead Rising 2 has unlocked early

Go kill zombieessss

Will be up for coop this week in the evenings if anyone wants to kill zombies as chuck & chuck

FatalT · « **Reply #1405 on:** September 28, 2010, 06:48:54 AM »

Quote from: Bebpo on September 28, 2010, 01:00:35 AM

Dead Rising 2 has unlocked early

Go kill zombieessss

Will be up for coop this week in the evenings if anyone wants to kill zombies as chuck & chuck

I'll be on dat tree siddy version tonight but I'll pick up the Steam version during the holiday sale when I'm sure it'll be at least 50% off.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1406 on:** September 29, 2010, 12:39:32 PM »

Cities XL is on sale this week. $4.99 for the standard edition or $6.24 for the limited edition [comes with some extra buildings and maps].

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1407 on:** September 29, 2010, 07:54:04 PM »

If you've played City Life or Sim City Societies, here's what changed between those and Cities XL:

-Zones are back, no more placing each individual buildings
-Auto road for all zones, although there is an option to just place a single square zone without roads
-Zones don't have to be perfectly square, they can be just about any shape you want
-Less micromanagement, more macromanagement
-Very informative displays and notices

Basically, even though the online aspect of the game is long gone, if you like city-builders, you will like Cities XL. It's $5, go buy it.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1408 on:** September 29, 2010, 08:34:37 PM »

I played the beta and it was pretty terrible then, but it was so focused on the online stuff I can understand why. As a City Builder it was competent but there were some weird design choices (something about road directions, or was it no trains?) and the population seemed to grow in weird areas.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1409 on:** September 29, 2010, 08:59:56 PM »

I haven't noticed anything weird like that so far, although I don't think there's any transportation aside from roads, buses, and airports. I mean, yeah, it's a bit on the bland side without anything that really, truly defines it, but it's a solid city-builder [the best, pure city-builder released in nearly 8 years] and its dirt cheap.

cool breeze · « **Reply #1410 on:** September 29, 2010, 09:38:43 PM »

steam

for some reason this shit deleted and is now redownloading the 2+ gig lara croft game. it was already downloaded and I played more than half the game just fine

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1411 on:** September 29, 2010, 09:45:16 PM »

just saw this on GAF

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1203672

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"Dear Matthew,

we all know about the memory leaks but there will be no solution for Cities XL.

Maybe it will be fixed in the new game version Cities XL 2011.

Best regards,

the Cities XL Team"

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1412 on:** September 29, 2010, 10:23:42 PM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on September 29, 2010, 09:45:16 PM

just saw this on GAF

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1203672

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"Dear Matthew,

we all know about the memory leaks but there will be no solution for Cities XL.

Maybe it will be fixed in the new game version Cities XL 2011.

Best regards,

the Cities XL Team"

It makes more sense when you realize the company was in the process of going out of business, and CitiesXL 2011 was being handed off to another developer.

cool breeze · « **Reply #1413 on:** September 29, 2010, 10:44:47 PM »

Amnesia seems pretty alright. It borders on creepy and boring, and nothing freaks you out more when you let your guard down.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1414 on:** September 29, 2010, 11:13:40 PM »

I know they are going out of business, I just found their Yuro English hilarious.

chronovore · « **Reply #1415 on:** September 30, 2010, 08:30:16 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on September 29, 2010, 10:44:47 PM

Amnesia seems pretty alright. It borders on creepy and boring, and nothing freaks you out more when you let your guard down.

Amnesia's promo video has huge gamma issues on my screen. I can not see anything for the last minute or so. It's crazy. I hope the game doesn't look like that, or rely on You Can't See Shit, Can You? Scary, Right? gameplay.

cool breeze · « **Reply #1416 on:** September 30, 2010, 10:46:47 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on September 30, 2010, 08:30:16 AM

Quote from: Linkzg on September 29, 2010, 10:44:47 PM
Amnesia seems pretty alright. It borders on creepy and boring, and nothing freaks you out more when you let your guard down.
Amnesia's promo video has huge gamma issues on my screen. I can not see anything for the last minute or so. It's crazy. I hope the game doesn't look like that, or rely on You Can't See Shit, Can You? Scary, Right? gameplay.

It does have a light/dark thing where staying in the dark makes your character go crazy, which actually makes your view worse because it gets blurry and all that stuff. You get items to light candles and a lantern fueled by oil, but both seem limited. I never thought the scary stuff was because they were hiding things. One tense point in the demo is when you need to get by an area filled with water without going in it. If you stepped in it for a second, you see splashes coming towards you. There are times when you had to go the water to move forward, and that was just and hoping the monster didn't get you; all you heard was the sound of water splashing getting closer and you tried to climb up a box not wasting time to turn around. I'm assuming that scary for reasons like that and less because it is dark and things jump out at you.

archie4208 · « **Reply #1417 on:** September 30, 2010, 01:08:11 PM »

Magic: The Gathering is 50% off this weekend.

FatalT · « **Reply #1418 on:** September 30, 2010, 10:22:58 PM »

Everyday Genius: SquareLogic is $2.50. I'm not sure how long for though. GET IT! IT ARE SO FUN!

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #1419 on:** September 30, 2010, 10:24:27 PM »

rain man: the game

FatalT · « **Reply #1420 on:** September 30, 2010, 10:29:14 PM »

Quote from: archie4208 on September 30, 2010, 01:08:11 PM

Magic: The Gathering is 50% off this weekend.

Is this worth $5 for the base game?

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1421 on:** October 01, 2010, 12:47:58 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on September 29, 2010, 10:44:47 PM

Amnesia seems pretty alright. It borders on creepy and boring, and nothing freaks you out more when you let your guard down.

Yahtzees review of it this week was interesting.

GilloD · « **Reply #1422 on:** October 01, 2010, 04:13:03 AM »

I love watching people MELTDOWN WITH RAGE over the TF2 micro-transactions.

It's the same game it was yesterday. You just dont have to spend 80 hours farming a hat if you don't want to. lul.

Raban · « **Reply #1423 on:** October 01, 2010, 04:28:32 AM »

Quote from: GilloD on October 01, 2010, 04:13:03 AM

I love watching people MELTDOWN WITH RAGE over the TF2 micro-transactions.

It's the same game it was yesterday. You just dont have to spend 80 hours farming a hat if you don't want to. lul.

Yeah that's not even remotely the issue most players are "MELTDOWN WITH RAGE" over. More the fact that the Polycount Pack weapons break the game balance further still.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1424 on:** October 01, 2010, 09:24:04 AM »

Quote from: GilloD on October 01, 2010, 04:13:03 AM

I love watching people MELTDOWN WITH RAGE over the TF2 micro-transactions.

It's the same game it was yesterday. You just dont have to spend 80 hours farming a hat if you don't want to. lul.

GDJustin on GAF is the most hilarious.

And it's not completely the same - Scouts are mad OP now with that milk+pistol

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1425 on:** October 01, 2010, 09:46:05 AM »

Team Fortress 2 is THREE YEARS OLD.

archie4208 · « **Reply #1426 on:** October 01, 2010, 10:20:36 AM »

Scout's kit is way OP. You essentially have to spend real money or be one lucky motherfucker to get the hat.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1427 on:** October 01, 2010, 08:09:36 PM »

Yep that scout gun is ridiculous.

Vizzys · « **Reply #1428 on:** October 02, 2010, 12:19:03 AM »

i bought some paint and made one of my hats white

also gave away two gifts

probably wont buy anything else until you can craft the stuff you buy or I get a crate and I wanna gamble

really the only things worth bitching about this update are:

the prices of some things (18$ for a hat wtf?)
set bonuses are bullshit (could be fixed)

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1429 on:** October 02, 2010, 09:34:06 AM »

I would probably buy 1 or 2 sets for $10.

Same with hats for $2.50. Everything is about 50% too much.

So I just bought the noob rocket launcher and some minor shit that never drops for me (Natascha and Dead Ringer) and got my free hat

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1430 on:** October 04, 2010, 07:26:59 PM »

Lost Planet 2 is available for preorder for $35.99.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #1431 on:** October 05, 2010, 01:45:02 PM »

if you don't own either left 4 dead or left 4 dead 2, a double pack with both games is on sale for $10.19 for the "mid-week madness" sale (each game is $6.79 by itself)

Raban · « **Reply #1432 on:** October 05, 2010, 01:58:11 PM »

DOWNLOADING THE SACRIFICE RIGHT NOW OMGOMGOMG

Bebpo · « **Reply #1433 on:** October 05, 2010, 04:06:08 PM »

I haven't been following L4D news. What's the Sacrifice?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1434 on:** October 05, 2010, 04:15:53 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on October 05, 2010, 04:06:08 PM

I haven't been following L4D news. What's the Sacrifice?

Bill dies.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1435 on:** October 05, 2010, 04:16:06 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on October 05, 2010, 04:06:08 PM

I haven't been following L4D news. What's the Sacrifice?

A new campaign.

Raban · « **Reply #1436 on:** October 05, 2010, 04:54:32 PM »

BONER...RISING

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #1437 on:** October 05, 2010, 07:07:25 PM »

every time they do one of these it's a goddamned mess

i started this thing downloading around 2 pm and it's still not finished

invest in some fucking servers, valve

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #1438 on:** October 05, 2010, 07:17:34 PM »

yeah, I've been trying to get Portal (don't ask) to download all day ... total failboat

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #1439 on:** October 05, 2010, 07:49:25 PM »

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