Author Topic: The Bore Steam Thread :monocle (Read 1030544 times)

Bebpo · « **Reply #2580 on:** August 03, 2011, 01:06:46 PM »

Is it good? Or is it "fun for a dozen levels and then you're bored of it"?

archie4208 · « **Reply #2581 on:** August 03, 2011, 01:32:18 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on August 03, 2011, 01:06:46 PM

Is it good? Or is it "fun for a dozen levels and then you're bored of it"?

The later.

cool breeze · « **Reply #2582 on:** August 03, 2011, 05:17:38 PM »

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-PREC/precursors

if you go to that page, what price do you see for the game?

something weird is going on where some see it for $7.50, but it shows $15 for me and others.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2583 on:** August 03, 2011, 05:21:19 PM »

Shows up as $15.

cool breeze · « **Reply #2584 on:** August 03, 2011, 10:50:18 PM »

then it doesn't make sense!

anyway, there seems to be Sales and Hat Fortress stuff related to QuakeCon coming soon.

the entries are:
Quakecon 2011 Pack
Quakecon 2011 Elder Scrolls Pack
Quakecon 2011 Doom Quake Complete Pack

the first should include Bethesda game, which means every iD game, Brink, that Hunted game, etc.

quakecon starts tomorrow, btw.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2585 on:** August 04, 2011, 12:20:46 AM »

Red Orchestra 2 has hats if you pre-order

Someone give them to me

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2586 on:** August 04, 2011, 02:58:22 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on August 03, 2011, 10:18:06 AM

Hamilton's Great Adventure is on sale at Gamersgate for $3.38 (66% off): http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-HGA/hamiltons-great-adventure

You can register it on steam

Looks like a great price for what the game has to offer.

I tried the demo during the sale but it didn't click. The controls weren't satisfying, but I heard the game plays a lot better with a controller so I'll try that. Thanks for the heads up.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2587 on:** August 04, 2011, 03:10:10 AM »

Get Anomaly Warzone Earth for $3 instead. Awesome reverse tower defense game

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2588 on:** August 04, 2011, 01:29:15 PM »

Quote from: Shah Rukh Khan on August 04, 2011, 02:58:22 AM

I tried the demo during the sale but it didn't click. The controls weren't satisfying, but I heard the game plays a lot better with a controller so I'll try that. Thanks for the heads up.

It was the same with that Lara Croft game. Keyboard and mouse controls were TERRIBLE, but it was smooth as butter with a controller.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #2589 on:** August 04, 2011, 03:05:32 PM »

Quake IV is finally on Steam

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #2590 on:** August 04, 2011, 06:50:04 PM »

bought the quakecon pack and skyrim since the only games I owned from quakecon pack was Fallout NV and the old verison of FO3

benjipwns · « **Reply #2591 on:** August 04, 2011, 08:41:37 PM »

Brink free weekend huh.

Even more important, Demolition Company GOLD added to Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/65270/

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2592 on:** August 04, 2011, 09:45:38 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on August 04, 2011, 08:41:37 PM

Even more important, Demolition Company GOLD added to Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/65270/

Was just coming to post this

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2593 on:** August 04, 2011, 10:23:20 PM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on August 04, 2011, 03:10:10 AM

Get Anomaly Warzone Earth for $3 instead. Awesome reverse tower defense game

It looks interesting but it's showing up on Steam and Gamersgate as $9.99. Did I miss a sale?

Downloading the demo, though.

Edit:

"2011Midweek Madness - Anomaly: Warzone Earth 66% off!"

GAH!

The Sceneman · « **Reply #2594 on:** August 05, 2011, 01:39:12 AM »

hmm Final Doom is 4.99

Ive been wanting to re-play that for like forever

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2595 on:** August 05, 2011, 04:47:51 AM »

smh Skyrim is US$60

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2596 on:** August 05, 2011, 08:33:50 AM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on August 05, 2011, 04:47:51 AM

smh Skyrim is US$60

Every major PC release is doing that now. Just wait until some DD service does a 20% off sale.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2597 on:** August 05, 2011, 08:49:47 AM »

I need that TF2 hat though

Makes the usual $90 prices for Australians seem almost reasonable

naff · « **Reply #2598 on:** August 05, 2011, 07:11:35 PM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on August 05, 2011, 04:47:51 AM

smh Skyrim is US$60

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2599 on:** August 05, 2011, 08:30:21 PM »

Quote from: quietID on August 05, 2011, 07:11:35 PM

Quote from: pilonv1 on August 05, 2011, 04:47:51 AM
smh Skyrim is US$60

(Image removed from quote.)

yep

naff · « **Reply #2600 on:** August 05, 2011, 11:59:32 PM »

Only 60 USD sounds like a bargain to me

http://telstraclear.co.nz/sub-sites/gaming-steam/index.cfm

My ISP as of this month is going to cache all steam content locally and free

fucking finally

cool breeze · « **Reply #2601 on:** August 06, 2011, 04:21:07 AM »

more fitting here than the what you playing thread, but check out The Stanley Parable: http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable

It's a neat mod that, at most, takes 30 minutes to fully complete. It is best to play without knowing much about it. If it had a genre, it would be ludology wankery.

I believe the Source SDK is free to everyone now, so technically, anyone should be able to play it.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2602 on:** August 06, 2011, 10:37:46 AM »

brink is not good

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2603 on:** August 06, 2011, 10:42:44 AM »

The controls are kind of slow and clunky, and the guns have a really odd feel about them. The objectives in each sessions are...weak? Not sure quite how to put it, but it just doesn't feel like there's any real point to them. The levels are way too big as well, you spend half your time running to where everyone else is and then die in two seconds when you finally do.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2604 on:** August 06, 2011, 11:07:39 PM »

I don't know how anyone thought anything in brink was a good idea.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2605 on:** August 06, 2011, 11:49:57 PM »

It doesn't even have first-person view in spectate mode. SMH

cool breeze · « **Reply #2606 on:** August 07, 2011, 12:01:56 AM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on August 06, 2011, 11:07:39 PM

I don't know how anyone thought anything in brink was a good idea.

I think it's the opposite. A lot of the ideas in Brink are pretty smart, but it's all rubbish in execution. Individual objectives for different classes, the SMART movement stuff, how character customization works with body types, blending single and multiplayer, dynamically changing classes mid-game, systems to promote team play, etc. That all would be great if it didn't suck.

I remember watching dev diaries and they're like: We hate in FPS games when you get stuck on the environment. Fuck those games. With SMOOTH MOVEMENT OVER RANDOM TERRAIN, or SMART, you just hold the button and you will dynamically get to where you need to go.

Actually playing the game game: get stuck on environment

Dev diary: We made it so every class is crucial to the battle and has their own objectives.

Playing: Defend VIP. switch to engineer. Defend VIP. switch to medic. Defend VIP. switch to soldier. Defend VIP.

benjipwns · « **Reply #2607 on:** August 07, 2011, 01:01:58 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on August 07, 2011, 12:01:56 AM

I think it's the opposite. A lot of the ideas in Brink are pretty smart, but it's all rubbish in execution. Individual objectives for different classes, the SMART movement stuff, how character customization works with body types, blending single and multiplayer, dynamically changing classes mid-game, systems to promote team play, etc. That all would be great if it didn't suck.

I agree with this. The map and objective design isn't all that well done either from the few I've played this weekend. It's fairly easy to get lost in a bunch of seemingly repeating visual areas (especially when you follow an icon just to find it's on the other side of the wall but you have to circle all the way around the map and go to a different level and back down, etc.) and it's lots of attack/defend or escorting.

And "F" for everything?

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2608 on:** August 07, 2011, 02:23:59 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on August 07, 2011, 12:01:56 AM

Quote from: pilonv1 on August 06, 2011, 11:07:39 PM
I don't know how anyone thought anything in brink was a good idea.

I think it's the opposite. A lot of the ideas in Brink are pretty smart, but it's all rubbish in execution.

That's sort of what I meant. When playing it no part of it is any good, but it probably sounded great when they were thinking of it.

benjipwns · « **Reply #2609 on:** August 07, 2011, 05:49:16 AM »

Nobody cares but I played a good amount more, trying to get as much free weekend out of it, did the challenges and unlocked tons of stuff.

It does get better once you start upgrading your weapons and stuff. The defaults are pretty crappy compared to what you can use after a couple hours. SMART is great when you can figure out where and when to use it. Scaling a ton of crap up out of nowhere to drop behind an entire team is fun. Too bad only like 10% of the map area is built for using it in a fun way.

Still has way too many flaws as everybody noted, even ones Quake Wars didn't have. Online is really hard to judge since people are just hopping onto any server they can find and lag is way up there. Seems unbalanced towards higher level players though especially since free weekenders aren't knowing the maps/objectives/etc.

No ability to filter out full servers.

Couldn't get co-op to work at all this weekend, tried with three different people. Probably should have looked up ports but whatever.

Depending on what and how they add new content from here, might pick it up at $5 or so.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2610 on:** August 07, 2011, 02:33:22 PM »

if there hadn't been a Brink free weekend i might have bought it on sale for 10 bucks or so.
thanks, Gabe

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2611 on:** August 08, 2011, 01:49:25 AM »

I'm playing Magicka for the first time since I purchased it, and while it has many niggling issues, I'm blown away by the magic conjuring mechanics...

- There are 8 elements
- You can combine 5 spells
- It can be released as direct spells, area, on self, or infused with weapons. Not to mention the shield spell which can work with any combination then released ALSO as direct, area, self, or weapons.
- And finally we have the special "Magick" spells.

Sheer lunacy I tell you.

I was expecting it to be something, but it turned out to be entirely different, but in a good way. I was ready to hate it for not having loot.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2612 on:** August 08, 2011, 02:24:02 AM »

By the way, does disabling v-sync from the card's control panel override all game settings universally?

Magicka seems to be poorly optimized, has a stutter-y framerate even on 720. Enabling triple buffering helps a lot but the stuttering is still noticeable. People are saying the game is forcing V-sync on with no in-game option to disable it or any config.ini files to edit. Turning off v-sync from my card's control panel + enabling triple buffering seems to solve the problem, so I'm wondering if it'll work for every other similar game, and saves me the trouble of tweaking graphic options/config.ini files every time.

Thoughts?

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2613 on:** August 09, 2011, 09:27:41 PM »

TF2 trading beta announced. Trade items for games

archie4208 · « **Reply #2614 on:** August 09, 2011, 09:50:24 PM »

Skyrim

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2615 on:** August 09, 2011, 09:51:14 PM »

I traded Deus Ex, Runaway 1, and Runaway 2 for 4 keys.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2616 on:** August 09, 2011, 09:54:41 PM »

Based Gabe

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2617 on:** August 09, 2011, 10:00:50 PM »

fuuuuuuuuuck I need to trade for some Keys. I have like 10 crates

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2618 on:** August 10, 2011, 05:13:08 PM »

Brehvolution · « **Reply #2619 on:** August 10, 2011, 07:52:06 PM »

Such a portly fellow.

archie4208 · « **Reply #2620 on:** August 10, 2011, 07:56:50 PM »

It's a wonder demi isn't a PCfeg.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2621 on:** August 10, 2011, 08:32:51 PM »

Maybe he's not hairy enough

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2622 on:** August 11, 2011, 05:12:28 PM »

Steam should really make android store to weed out shit and bring more quality games.

naff · « **Reply #2623 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:37:52 PM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on August 11, 2011, 05:12:28 PM

Steam should really make android store to weed out shit and bring more quality games.

lol wut. Phone games? GTFO

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2624 on:** August 16, 2011, 09:08:46 PM »

section 8 is not a good game

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2625 on:** August 17, 2011, 08:33:57 PM »

Modern Warfare 3 is US$100

patrickula · « **Reply #2626 on:** August 17, 2011, 11:35:09 PM »

If it wasn't for the Steam group I wouldn't have found the new domain. Nobody told me :'(

Though I also didn't ask anyone where it went

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2627 on:** August 18, 2011, 09:33:07 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on August 18, 2011, 09:31:00 PM

GOD DAMMIT

http://www.teamfortress.com/deus-ex/

zomg

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2628 on:** August 18, 2011, 10:55:02 PM »

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

Is this still cheap on Green Man Gaming?

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2629 on:** August 18, 2011, 11:05:36 PM »

deus specs

HAHAHA

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2630 on:** August 18, 2011, 11:09:27 PM »

Nevermind, done and ordered for $34

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2631 on:** August 19, 2011, 12:23:51 AM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on August 18, 2011, 11:09:27 PM

Nevermind, done and ordered for $34

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2632 on:** August 19, 2011, 01:41:00 AM »

Now we wait to see if I get the TF2 items

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2633 on:** August 19, 2011, 08:19:24 AM »

GreenManGaming steam keys for Deus Ex don't work until the game releases. This is fucking stupid

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2634 on:** August 19, 2011, 08:27:49 AM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on August 19, 2011, 08:19:24 AM

GreenManGaming steam keys for Deus Ex don't work until the game releases. This is fucking stupid

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2635 on:** August 19, 2011, 08:34:04 AM »

The annoying thing is the GMG price is half of my local Steam price. Not even any point of getting a refund - I could buy the TF2 items in game and still save money

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2636 on:** August 19, 2011, 09:09:23 AM »

Wait, there's a thing called Green Man Gaming? I thought you guys were making fun of Green Man

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2637 on:** August 19, 2011, 09:11:29 AM »

www.greenmangaming.com

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2638 on:** August 19, 2011, 09:17:10 AM »

lol

I read "cheap on green man gaming" and thought you were calling GM poor

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2639 on:** August 19, 2011, 09:55:52 AM »

reading some good impression on the SPACE MARINE demo.

so i preordered them game. gonna play it tonight and will post impressions.

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