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« Reply #480 on: March 21, 2010, 06:16:04 PM »
Hey guys, is Street Fighter IV still full price on Steam? 
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« Reply #481 on: March 21, 2010, 06:23:00 PM »
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« Reply #482 on: March 21, 2010, 11:07:29 PM »
Microtransactions have been featured as the Steam 2010 upgrade:

http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/ov_micro.php

I thought the more interesting news was that Steamworks comes free of charge with UE3 now. Steam's taking over the world :bow2
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« Reply #483 on: March 22, 2010, 02:51:23 AM »
I'd pay shameful amounts of money for TF2 hats.
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« Reply #484 on: March 22, 2010, 06:53:23 AM »
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Any reason to get it on Steam over retail?  As in do you still have to play the game with the disc in the tray if you go that route?
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« Reply #485 on: March 22, 2010, 09:31:07 AM »
I think the retail version has a disc check but you could always download a nocd crack for that.  $40 for a really old game that will be obsolete in a month isn't a good deal imo!

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« Reply #486 on: March 22, 2010, 05:09:37 PM »
Microtransactions have been featured as the Steam 2010 upgrade:

http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/ov_micro.php

I thought the more interesting news was that Steamworks comes free of charge with UE3 now. Steam's taking over the world :bow2

That is old news my friend :-*

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178308

It's only like a week old, and nobody posted it here.  :patel
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« Reply #487 on: March 22, 2010, 08:50:21 PM »
When is steam going to do Mass Effect 2 for $30.  Impulse just did it, and the console versions have had sales for months now.  Steam sale must be coming soooon.

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« Reply #488 on: March 23, 2010, 03:36:09 AM »
Steam puts SFIV on sale once in a while.
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« Reply #489 on: March 23, 2010, 06:04:49 PM »
Left 4 Dead 2 is 50% off.

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« Reply #490 on: March 23, 2010, 08:48:01 PM »
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« Reply #491 on: March 25, 2010, 12:16:20 AM »
Sam & Max Season 3 is announced and available for preorder on Steam.
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« Reply #492 on: March 25, 2010, 12:20:43 AM »
I still haven't even played Season 1 yet :(
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« Reply #493 on: March 25, 2010, 07:35:25 PM »
Torchlight is 4 coins now.

Thanks for the heads up, I ended up getting it for the girlfriend so she has something to do at work during downtime. I love the game to death but we have to have our own copies cause of achievements.  :lol

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« Reply #494 on: March 25, 2010, 07:56:05 PM »
If I had played it sooner, it probably would have been my GOTY.
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« Reply #495 on: March 25, 2010, 08:58:59 PM »
Left 4 Dead 2 is 50% off.

buy buy buy buy!
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« Reply #496 on: March 25, 2010, 10:55:56 PM »
sale's over himu :(
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« Reply #497 on: March 26, 2010, 01:34:34 PM »
Napoleon Total War is 10% off till March 30th. This is to celebrate the release of the free new dlc 'Imperial Guard'

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To celebrate today's release of new DLC, save 10% on Napoleon: Total War through March 30th. Owners of the base game will get the new DLC, Imperial Guard, for free starting today.

The Imperial Guard Pack features 6 brand new units and contains an alternative version of the Battle of Waterloo, fought from the British perspective.



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« Reply #498 on: March 27, 2010, 05:06:43 PM »
Both versions of Star Trek Online are also on sale for 33% off.
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« Reply #499 on: March 28, 2010, 09:55:10 AM »
Have any of you guys checked out RUSE beta? I've only played against the computer, but the presentation is very slick and it runs buttery smooth.
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« Reply #500 on: March 30, 2010, 12:22:57 AM »
Mid-week sale is all Quake games for $15
and AI Fleet Command for $10, Expansion for $5.

AI Fleet Command is like super hardcore strategy, right?  So normal people like me couldn't enjoy it I am guessing? 

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« Reply #501 on: March 30, 2010, 12:26:58 AM »
Frag likes it so our peon brains would melt at the overwhelming number of options.  Still a pretty good deal, though!

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« Reply #502 on: March 31, 2010, 05:58:25 AM »
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« Reply #503 on: March 31, 2010, 09:50:08 AM »
http://store.steampowered.com/app/20900/

Witcher is $20 now

I was really into this until I got to some point where I didn't save for like 2 hours and there was this HUGE spike in the middle of the swamp and I was like WHATS THAT SPIKE FOR and I walked over to it and it INSTAKILLED me and I was like fuuuuuuuuuuu this game.
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« Reply #504 on: April 01, 2010, 08:26:48 PM »
L4D2 got a permanent price drop to $30 and Borderlands is $25 this weekend.

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« Reply #505 on: April 01, 2010, 08:30:23 PM »
Alpha Protocol is up for pre-order @ $50 w/free Space Siege.

I'll pre-order it to support Obsidian.  Hope it doesn't suck.

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« Reply #506 on: April 02, 2010, 01:59:39 AM »
IF Borederlands had the DLC I'd think about it.
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« Reply #507 on: April 03, 2010, 08:48:10 PM »
I'm back on Steam under an old account that I never used: lyteedgejapan.  Is there any way to change it?  I'd like to drop the "japan" part now.   :)

Titan Quest and its expansion were bought on this account previously and never played-- does anyone know if an HP Mini 311 would be able to run it well enough?  I'm currently downloading Call Of Duty 4 and after that will pretty much be sticking with some light gaming.  Maybe Torchlight will be next.  I have a crapload of older PC games from the mid-2000s that I want to play so I'm not exactly hurting for games.

Not sure if I'm gonna get Street Fighter IV or not.  GGPO will probably end up being enough for my fighting game fix.
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« Reply #508 on: April 03, 2010, 09:23:14 PM »
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« Reply #509 on: April 07, 2010, 10:10:14 PM »


Dang, Valis. Save some games for the rest of us, bro.

He just bought 78 games in total! Maybe he got hacked, or won the lotto. :lol
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« Reply #510 on: April 08, 2010, 12:27:03 AM »
One of them was the Telltale Pack so there 30odd at least.

I really want to try Simplz Zoo. It looks so cute
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« Reply #511 on: April 08, 2010, 02:23:43 AM »
One of them was the Telltale Pack so there 30odd at least.

I really want to try Simplz Zoo. It looks so cute

I bought it :)

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« Reply #512 on: April 08, 2010, 02:08:51 PM »
No weekend deal?  :maf :maf :maf
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« Reply #513 on: April 08, 2010, 02:32:35 PM »
It will probably be MW2 for 10% off. :teehee

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« Reply #514 on: April 08, 2010, 02:36:03 PM »
Which is better, Titan Quest or Torchlight?

Modern Warfare 2 is free to play (MP only) this weekend. The client weights at 5GB.

Cool, will give it a try!

In CoD4, I keep getting this error telling me "Punkbuster" isn't working properly, so I get kicked out of games that use it.  How can I fix this?
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« Reply #515 on: April 08, 2010, 02:46:37 PM »
Which is better, Titan Quest or Torchlight?

Depends on whether you want Diablo 1-esque swarms of enemies with no frills [Torchlight] or quest-based RPG looting with lots of different dungeons, world areas, and cities [Titan Quest]. Both a pretty good and I don't think you'd be disappointed with either.
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« Reply #516 on: April 08, 2010, 03:13:39 PM »
I have Titan Quest and Immortal Throne already, but Torchlight looks cool too.  I'd really like the closest game possible to Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance/Champions Of Norrath on the PS2.
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« Reply #517 on: April 08, 2010, 05:57:44 PM »
No weekend deal?  :maf :maf :maf

No mid-week deal either, just a crappy MW2 free weekend. SCREW YOU GABE!!  :santocry
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« Reply #518 on: April 08, 2010, 06:07:09 PM »
I'd really like the closest game possible to Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance/Champions Of Norrath on the PS2.

You'll probably want to play Titan Quest then.
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« Reply #519 on: April 08, 2010, 07:56:49 PM »
This weekend's deal:

Modern Warfare 2 - 15% off. 

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« Reply #520 on: April 08, 2010, 08:24:30 PM »
And it's still more than every other game ($50.99)! :lol

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« Reply #521 on: April 08, 2010, 08:34:48 PM »
Anybody down for some Plain Sight and/or Lead and Gold? I was thinking about picking one up, but I'm not sure. If enough people wanna do Plain Sight, we could buy a 4-Pack, though.
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« Reply #522 on: April 08, 2010, 08:36:40 PM »
I might be interested in a Plain Sight 4 pack
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« Reply #523 on: April 08, 2010, 08:42:27 PM »
I'll make a thread for it.
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« Reply #524 on: April 08, 2010, 09:43:10 PM »
Which is better, Titan Quest or Torchlight?

Modern Warfare 2 is free to play (MP only) this weekend. The client weights at 5GB.

Cool, will give it a try!

In CoD4, I keep getting this error telling me "Punkbuster" isn't working properly, so I get kicked out of games that use it.  How can I fix this?

TQ is a better game, but it's also more difficult, more complex and more aggravating. It's bigger and better imagined than TL, but TL is easy to pick up and play.
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« Reply #525 on: April 08, 2010, 10:26:04 PM »
This weekend's deal:

Modern Warfare 2 - 15% off. 

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« Reply #526 on: April 08, 2010, 10:55:04 PM »
MW2 runs on my little netbook pretty well at low settings, just like CoD4 does.  It's like playing Modern Warfare 2: Wii Edition.  Kinda makes me wish I'd gotten that over the original now, but $50.99 (plus $15 for the map pack later on) is too high for a game I already have on 360 and would only be playing on PC when on trips or on the go and such. 

Thanks for the advice on the Diablo clones, dudes.  I think I will stick with TQ for now since I already have it anyway.
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« Reply #527 on: April 10, 2010, 07:59:19 PM »
Anyone having issues with the server browser in Team Fortress 2? Sometimes I can find a server just fine and join them but other times I'm unable to find servers and even if I find them, I can't join any of them. Doesn't seem to be an issue with MW2 or Unreal Tournament 3 and I did the port forwarding.

Don't worry, you're not alone; I've been experiencing the same things and wrote it off as a bug.
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« Reply #528 on: April 11, 2010, 03:12:46 AM »
One of them was the Telltale Pack so there 30odd at least.

I really want to try Simplz Zoo. It looks so cute

I bought it :)


I played it for about 3 hours this afternoon. :rock

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« Reply #529 on: April 11, 2010, 02:26:07 PM »
Not Steam, but Total Annihilation is available from Impulse:

http://www.impulsedriven.com/totalannihilation

I've never played the game before, does this one still hold up?
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« Reply #530 on: April 12, 2010, 06:10:53 PM »
Dark Void Zero is now available on Steam for 5 bones. Faux-Retro gaming ahoy!
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« Reply #531 on: April 12, 2010, 08:58:38 PM »
Darn.  I thought you said Dark Void was the mid-week deal for $5 and was gonna jump on that ^^;

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« Reply #532 on: April 12, 2010, 09:16:36 PM »
I still don't understand why you need a 256 MB graphics card to run that game. ???

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« Reply #533 on: April 12, 2010, 09:21:03 PM »
Not Steam, but Total Annihilation is available from Impulse:

http://www.impulsedriven.com/totalannihilation

I've never played the game before, does this one still hold up?

not really, the Supreme Commander series is just as fun to play but looks exponentially better

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« Reply #534 on: April 12, 2010, 11:15:14 PM »
Dark Void Zero is now available on Steam for 5 bones. Faux-Retro gaming ahoy!

I heard the DS game was good, only a bit short.  This version (and iphone version) are supposed to have more content.  I'll buy it probably just to test out a controller I ordered last week, which probably won't work on PC to piss me off.

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« Reply #535 on: April 13, 2010, 12:34:22 AM »
Dark Void Zero is now available on Steam for 5 bones. Faux-Retro gaming ahoy!

I heard the DS game was good, only a bit short.  This version (and iphone version) are supposed to have more content.  I'll buy it probably just to test out a controller I ordered last week, which probably won't work on PC to piss me off.

I played it for a while with my 360 pad, and then I remembered how much the 360 D-Pad sucks balls.  :yuck
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« Reply #536 on: April 13, 2010, 01:46:34 AM »
Liberty City Stories is now on Steam for $29.99. I may pick this up, I never played them on the Xbox, but everybody seems to think they were great. I picked up GTA4 during the sales for $6.75 and it runs....okay on my rig. I may wait to see if they've optimized these any for the PC (probably not).
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« Reply #537 on: April 13, 2010, 02:44:55 AM »
Liberty City Stories is now on Steam for $29.99. I may pick this up, I never played them on the Xbox, but everybody seems to think they were great. I picked up GTA4 during the sales for $6.75 and it runs....okay on my rig. I may wait to see if they've optimized these any for the PC (probably not).

I'm curious to hear if they optimized the game.  I heard some rumors they were going to optimize it this time around so it didn't run terrible like GTAIV.

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« Reply #538 on: April 13, 2010, 05:39:26 PM »
GTAIV runs at 60fps with almost everything maxed out at 1920x1200 on my PC.  The only thing I have to dial down is texture settings, which I keep at medium, because my videocard only has 1 gig of memory.  GTAIV is the most retardly video memory demanding game in recent memory.  Supposedly, it requires at least a 1.5 gig frame buffer to have everything maxed out with the texture setting at high. 

I'm guessing that most of the performance issues on the PC are due to inefficient streaming from a hard drive.  Before I started using a SSD, I experience a lot more stuttering with GTA4.  Now it's completely smooth.  Rockstar has always been really terrible at optimizing streaming on the PC ports.  The original GTA3 stuttered much more on a PC than it did on a PS2 which was only streaming from a slow DVD drive.  Most people could get GTA3 running at 60fps but it would annoying hitch for a moment every couple of seconds. 

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« Reply #539 on: April 13, 2010, 08:36:14 PM »
Alien vs Predator Classic 2000 is $2 on sale (down from $5)


I played it for a while with my 360 pad, and then I remembered how much the 360 D-Pad sucks balls.  :yuck

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