The Bore Steam Thread :monocle

[archie4208]

I actually forgot I own Gothic 3 on D2D, and from what I remember it is a steaming pile of shit. 

Gonna also try the Flotilla demo to make sure I actually like the game instead of buying it just because it is cheap.

[fistfulofmetal]

Is Eve online a pay to play game?

edit: looks like it. nevermind

[archie4208]

Yes.  You get the first month free, though.

[fistfulofmetal]

laaame.

[Bebpo]

Got Kane & Lynch since I've been wanting that since hearing the PC version is actually good and worth playing unlike the console versions.
Also grabbed Gothic Pack because 2 wrpgs for $2 is cheap!

[Bebpo]

Grabbed Flotilla as well after seeing some screens of people's space adventures.

[cool breeze]

Flotilla is really cool.  I played the demo a while back and planned to buy it, but I had a bunch of other things to play and I try not to create a large backlog.  But since it was on sale, I got it.

I think it's on Xbox 360 through community (or indie? i don't remember) games now.

Got Kane & Lynch since I've been wanting that since hearing the PC version is actually good and worth playing unlike the console versions.
Also grabbed Gothic Pack because 2 wrpgs for $2 is cheap!

I regret uninstalling Kane and Lynch now since the sale may have sparked the online community for a day 

[Eric P]

Grabbed the gothic pack largely for the Hell of it

[Eel O'Brian]

I bought Fort Zombie on D2D for $2.50 today.  It's quite possibly the worst game I have ever played, from the needlessly complicated controls to the flat graphics (which still run at an awful framerate) to the terrible management system.  There is nothing good about it.  Not worth $2.50, or even $0.25.  I hardly ever do this, but I made a special note of the developer name (Kerberos Productions) so that I never make the mistake of purchasing anything by them again.

[Eel O'Brian]

Haha, okay, go ahead and buy it.

[pilonv1]

Probably will try out EVE for $2.

[Eel O'Brian]

No seriously, did you buy it blind? Looks like an iphone game.

I don't much care about looks for cheap indie games, and I expected it to be less than optimized (and was it ever), but they failed on the most fundamental level - control.  You're constantly fighting between the mouse camera/wasd movement, like trying to play two games at once.

[pilonv1]

Can I have it?

Will gift it to you tonight when I get home from work. If I forget send me a message.

edit: WTF, Gothic 2&3 is on the Australian store but there's no bundle? FFS

[Eel O'Brian]

also found a good replacement config file to enable 360 controller support in Zeno Clash:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=845745

  Ace Team, letting the community do your work for you, that's not so Ace

[Great Rumbler]

I haven't played either Max Payne game, but I've decided to remedy [lolol] that today. Is it worth going back to the first game or should I just go straight to the sequel?

[pilonv1]

I thought the first game was better, especially story wise.

[chronovore]

Is Eve online a pay to play game?

edit: looks like it. nevermind

Yes.  You get the first month free, though.

laaame.

Rent a game on Gamefly, play it for a week or two, return it, pay as part of a monthly fee = cool
Play a game completely free for a month = "laaame."

[Bebpo]

I haven't played either Max Payne game, but I've decided to remedy [lolol] that today. Is it worth going back to the first game or should I just go straight to the sequel?

Definitely play the first game.

[cool breeze]

I thought the first game was better, especially story wise.

I actually liked the sequel a lot more, but both games are worth playing.

I remember Max Payne 1 having crazy mode like the kung fu one.

[Smooth Groove]

Yeah, 2 plays better but 1 is still good enough to play and the storytelling works better if you've played 1.

[pilonv1]

I think my reasoning behind playing the first is that it was all new and interesting. The second one is good but I probably don't remember it as well since it was similar.

[fistfulofmetal]

i bought Eve online lol

[Great Rumbler]

Joint Ops: Combined Arms - $5
King Arthur - $13.60
66% off all Europa Universalis games
Oddworld Pack - $2.50
Tales of Monkey Island - $11.90
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - $4.50
DogFighter - $8.49
Order of War - $10.20

[cool breeze]

sale prices for a lot of those aren't up on the main page yet

Oddworld pack is actually 2.50 and Dragon Rising is 5, monkey island is like 10 for the pack.

how is dragon rising?

[CajoleJuice]

I tried the EU3 demo a while back and my head exploded

[Great Rumbler]

I tried the EU3 demo a while back and my head exploded

Yeah, it's distinguished PC fellow gaming.

[pilonv1]

Already have Europa complete and Monkey Island, today sucks.

Forgot to buy EVE yesterday

[Bebpo]

Yeah, same. 

Not spending $$$ today.  Which is actually a good thing when you think about it!

[Great Rumbler]

I played some Tales of Monkey Island a bit on someone else's computer, so getting it today was a no-brainer.

[Eel O'Brian]

i bought dragon rising

man, it's gonna be so awesome to keep seeing it in my game library and never installing it

[Great Rumbler]

i bought dragon rising

man, it's gonna be so awesome to keep seeing it in my game library and never installing it

[Eel O'Brian]

i gotta buy the COD pack before this sale is over

WWII at my fingertips for $30 is too good to pass up even though I already own everything but MW1 on disc

i guess i can flip all that stuff on ebay for $25 as a set

[Cormacaroni]

Fuck you Eel, you made me buy it even though I've played all of those except World at War. I've now been accumulating shit on Steam sales for 6 solid months "for when I get my new gaming PC"

[Joe Molotov]

i bought dragon rising

man, it's gonna be so awesome to keep seeing it in my game library and never installing it

PC Gaming

[Smooth Groove]

Fuck you Eel, you made me buy it even though I've played all of those except World at War. I've now been accumulating shit on Steam sales for 6 solid months "for when I get my new gaming PC"

But I thought your iPad does it all? :kylielaff

[cool breeze]

Fuck you Eel, you made me buy it even though I've played all of those except World at War. I've now been accumulating shit on Steam sales for 6 solid months "for when I get my new gaming PC"

you'll feel even worse when you see the CoD pack as a daily deal for $15!

apparently steam has been raising prices even for the lasting sale, but generally it is good to wait until the last sale day since daily deals are the best ones.

I mostly just want Metro 2033

[Cormacaroni]

Fuck you Eel, you made me buy it even though I've played all of those except World at War. I've now been accumulating shit on Steam sales for 6 solid months "for when I get my new gaming PC"

But I thought your iPad does it all? :kylielaff

Never said that - mine is basically used for reading comics and books. But that's more than enough to make it the most awesome thing ever.

I'm getting the PC for sure...some kind of 480 build with an SSD. Not going SLI though. Just a matter of when. The timing issue is kind of out of my hands, as my wife keeps stealing money from me to use for her start-up business.

[Cormacaroni]

Fuck you Eel, you made me buy it even though I've played all of those except World at War. I've now been accumulating shit on Steam sales for 6 solid months "for when I get my new gaming PC"

you'll feel even worse when you see the CoD pack as a daily deal for $15!

apparently steam has been raising prices even for the lasting sale, but generally it is good to wait until the last sale day since daily deals are the best ones.

I mostly just want Metro 2033

I already have Metro 2033! I pre-ordered it!

[pilonv1]

If Metro goes cheap I might need it gifted as well, it's US$80 for me

[Smooth Groove]

Fuck you Eel, you made me buy it even though I've played all of those except World at War. I've now been accumulating shit on Steam sales for 6 solid months "for when I get my new gaming PC"

But I thought your iPad does it all? :kylielaff

Never said that - mine is basically used for reading comics and books. But that's more than enough to make it the most awesome thing ever.

I'm getting the PC for sure...some kind of 480 build with an SSD. Not going SLI though. Just a matter of when. The timing issue is kind of out of my hands, as my wife keeps stealing money from me to use for her start-up business.

Good idea.  A decent SSD is essential for power gamers, maybe even more so than SLI.   Everything just feels silky smooth like old school games running off cartridges. 

[pilonv1]

edit: wrong thread

[cool breeze]

I want to get an SSD eventually.  I don't know how many games I'll run off of it because I generally like keeping my games installed.  My steam folder is 150+ gigs and that doesn't include non-steam games.

Fuck you Eel, you made me buy it even though I've played all of those except World at War. I've now been accumulating shit on Steam sales for 6 solid months "for when I get my new gaming PC"

you'll feel even worse when you see the CoD pack as a daily deal for $15!

apparently steam has been raising prices even for the lasting sale, but generally it is good to wait until the last sale day since daily deals are the best ones.

I mostly just want Metro 2033

I already have Metro 2033! I pre-ordered it!

I can't judge.  I remember buying Morrowind and reading the manual until I had a computer that could run it.  oh, and crysis, but I was able to at least play that at the lowest settings.

[Smooth Groove]

There's a trick to link your SSD folders to a hard drive so that you can still keep Steam on your main partition.  Also, moving files back and forth is actually not much of a hassle because a SSD writes and reads small files so quickly.  I just keep all my games on 2gb of hard drive space and copy the ones I want to play onto my SSDs. 

[archie4208]

pilnov1 is a scholar and gentleman.  Thanks again for Monkey Island.

[archie4208]

Xcom Complete - $3.74
Street Fighter 4 - $9.99
Osmos - $2.49
TF2 - $6.79
ARMA II - $19.99
Commandso Collection - $3.74
GTA4 - $4.99
Numen: Contest of Heroes - $7.49

[cool breeze]

GTA4 for $5 is worth it just to mess around in the first person mod with tons of cheats.

[Smooth Groove]

I heard that Arma 2 is great but it's probably too hardcore for the console pansies here. 

[archie4208]

Any impressions/thoughts on Numen?  It looks kinda interesting, but I don't even know if it is a Diablo clone or something more akin to Two Worlds/Gothic.  I guess I could pirate it and find out but ehhh.

[Eric P]

Any impressions/thoughts on Numen?  It looks kinda interesting, but I don't even know if it is a Diablo clone or something more akin to Two Worlds/Gothic.  I guess I could pirate it and find out but ehhh.

i was interested but couldn't find any really favorable reviews or anything who was really trying to sell me on it, so i didn't grab it myself

[Dickie Dee]

You can get the individual XComs for $1.24 btw, if you are only interested in the original and sequal.

Also, is there any fan-made graphical mod for this, I remember searching for one awhile back and came up empty but find it hard to believe there isn't something (not looking for pretty, just something that's functional in a window larger than the games original res on my laptop lcd screen)

[Eel O'Brian]

get the commandos collection, it's less than $1 a game, and they're badass

you might have to do a little tweaking to get the first couple to run on modern systems

[Vizzys]

Free unreal tournament 3 code

97L2E-DBQV5-GAFZK-XQLWY-IFMPC

lemme know if you use it

[Bulleta©™®]

Is this where we post steam id's and stuff?

If so, http://steamcommunity.com/id/bulleta

If not, 

[Smooth Groove]

UT3 is good but it's hella hard to jump in now for the MP.  It's a small pool and everyone still left is really good.  

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

Free unreal tournament 3 code

97L2E-DBQV5-GAFZK-XQLWY-IFMPC

lemme know if you use it

yoink, thanks Viz.

Red Scarlet, join the EB group to if you want:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/evilbore

[pilonv1]

Did you get my Monkey Island archie?

[archie4208]

ya, thanks.

[Eel O'Brian]

GTA4 for $5 is worth it just to mess around in the first person mod with tons of cheats.

do the mods make the game playable and fun

[Bebpo]

GTA4 for $5 is worth it just to mess around in the first person mod with tons of cheats.

do the mods make the game playable and fun

No. 

But a powerhouse computer that can run it with SSAA x 2 @ 1080p @ 30fps in FPS helps a lot.

[Smooth Groove]

The mods don't work with the newest patch though because the creator threw a prissy fit about Rockstar not contacting him to help them.  Some guys tried to do some stuff with his work but they just aren't as talented. 

Nerdgotism.