Author Topic: Steam Holiday Achievement Quest 2011 (also a sale, I guess) (Read 39953 times)

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #360 on:** December 24, 2011, 03:05:25 PM »

EVERYBODY already has VVVVV. :'(

iconoclast · « **Reply #361 on:** December 24, 2011, 03:11:37 PM »

Renegade Ops is fun, but every single time I play it the sound cuts off in the middle of a mission, and the only way to fix it is to reboot the game. Which is really annoying. I also don't like how you have to level up. That just makes me want to use 1 character until he's maxed out and never touch the other ones.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #362 on:** December 24, 2011, 03:32:57 PM »

Oh snap! I won The Witcher 2!

Too bad I already have it, though.

Anybody got something they wanna trade?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #363 on:** December 24, 2011, 03:49:29 PM »

Bebpo · « **Reply #364 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:09:17 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on December 24, 2011, 03:32:57 PM

Oh snap! I won The Witcher 2!

Too bad I already have it, though.

Anybody got something they wanna trade?

Nice win!

I'm not really sure what I'd do if I won something that's actually worth $$ but I already had it. Would try to trade someone else in a similar position and if that doesn't work, just keep it around as a birthday/xmas gift for close friends.

You can try discount straight up cash trades. Like "If you buy me this game for $20 on my wishlist, I'll give you Witcher 2 for it" so you're essentially selling the game for X amount of dollars.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #365 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:13:58 PM »

Went ahead and traded Witcher 2 to someone on GAF for the Tropico pack and Serious Sam HD.

Bebpo · « **Reply #366 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:14:18 PM »

Also it seems like everyone is starting to get games again today. Wonder if they ran out of games/coupons and just restocked their supply.

Bebpo · « **Reply #367 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:14:35 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on December 24, 2011, 04:13:58 PM

Went ahead and traded Witcher 2 to someone on GAF for the Tropico pack and Serious Sam HD.

Does the pack include Tropico 4?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #368 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:17:58 PM »

Nah, just the first three and the third game's expansion pack.

Bebpo · « **Reply #369 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:20:51 PM »

Ah, still solid trade.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #370 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:37:53 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on December 24, 2011, 03:32:57 PM

Oh snap! I won The Witcher 2!

... Fuck this gay world.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #371 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:38:46 PM »

Quote from: Shaka Khan on December 24, 2011, 04:37:53 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on December 24, 2011, 03:32:57 PM
Oh snap! I won The Witcher 2!

... Fuck this gay world.

... Fuck this gay earth.

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Shaka Khan · « **Reply #372 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:39:53 PM »

Dammit. I can't even make a proper meme reference. No wonder gaben isn't giving me shit.

cool breeze · « **Reply #373 on:** December 24, 2011, 05:35:30 PM »

another achievement, another piece of coal :'(

iconoclast · « **Reply #374 on:** December 24, 2011, 07:49:42 PM »

Tried out the Hard Reset demo. That game seems potentially awesome, so I'm gonna buy it. But it sucks that enabling vsync seems to lock the game to 30 fps.

Now I just need Serious Sam 3.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #375 on:** December 24, 2011, 08:17:53 PM »

forgot how good jamestown is

pilonv1 · « **Reply #376 on:** December 24, 2011, 08:21:12 PM »

Damn missed the e.y.e sale. It's only $5 still, might bite anyway.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #377 on:** December 24, 2011, 08:22:43 PM »

Worth 5, it's a unique game, despite it's flaws

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #378 on:** December 24, 2011, 08:31:25 PM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on December 24, 2011, 08:17:53 PM

forgot how good jamestown is

It absolutely is. Thanks again

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #379 on:** December 24, 2011, 08:52:30 PM »

The CrimeCraft cheev was actually surprisingly fun. There's minimal BS, you just register an account, and then jump in a round of Snow Brawl and start throwing snow balls at people (although I recommend remapping the snowball throwing button from F1 to something like RMB). I easily got the achievement in 2 five minute rounds. No tutorial levels, no overworld, no trying to get a party together, no coordinating with your teammates, no randomness, just tossing snowballs, getting cheevs. Would I play the game again? No, of course not. But compared to the Spiral Knights and Rise of the Immortals lame-o achievements, it was a breath of fresh air.

cool breeze · « **Reply #380 on:** December 24, 2011, 09:22:07 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on December 24, 2011, 08:52:30 PM

The CrimeCraft cheev was actually surprisingly fun. There's minimal BS, you just register an account, and then jump in a round of Snow Brawl and start throwing snow balls at people (although I recommend remapping the snowball throwing button from F1 to something like RMB). I easily got the achievement in 2 five minute rounds. No tutorial levels, no overworld, no trying to get a party together, no coordinating with your teammates, no randomness, just tossing snowballs, getting cheevs. Would I play the game again? No, of course not. But compared to the Spiral Knights and Rise of the Immortals lame-o achievements, it was a breath of fresh air.

I was sold until I saw it was 5.5 gigs. still, maybe.

do these free games stay on your game list?

cool breeze · « **Reply #381 on:** December 24, 2011, 09:27:43 PM »

ok, but geez, it's actually 10 gigs. steam lies.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #382 on:** December 24, 2011, 09:32:48 PM »

Wow, I just launched Skyrim and can't believe how good it looks compared to the trashy PS3 version I saw. My RoG runs it at decent settings and smooth fps as well, and I haven't even installed the performance mod yet. It also supports game-pads even though the store page doesn't indicate it.

My first Elder Scrolls title, people. (Oblivion doesn't count)

PC gaming

archie4208 · « **Reply #383 on:** December 24, 2011, 10:07:47 PM »

I downloaded a 10 gig game for a piece of coal. :'(

cool breeze · « **Reply #384 on:** December 24, 2011, 10:11:48 PM »

I saw you and great rumbler doing it, so I did it too.

afterwards I'm gonna watch some shitty anime and play tower defense games.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #385 on:** December 24, 2011, 10:23:06 PM »

Is FXAA generally a less intensive solution with more impressive results, or is there a catch?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #386 on:** December 24, 2011, 10:38:13 PM »

The coupons only make sense if you could use them during the sale or they lasted for at least a year. Why would you wait until January or February to use a 33% off coupon a game that's probably 50%+ off right now?

cool breeze · « **Reply #387 on:** December 24, 2011, 11:59:30 PM »

Quote from: Shaka Khan on December 24, 2011, 10:23:06 PM

Is FXAA generally a less intensive solution with more impressive results, or is there a catch?

it's less intensive with less impressive results, but weighing the cost versus the benefit, it's nice. I have a vague understanding of it, that it's like a post-processing filter of sorts, like MLAA.

Bebpo · « **Reply #388 on:** December 25, 2011, 12:11:42 AM »

I tried using it for the first time in Hard Reset. Looked good enough to me.

cool breeze · « **Reply #389 on:** December 25, 2011, 12:21:16 AM »

yeah, I use it in games that support it. I'm glad nvidia is alpha testing system wide FXAA (and frame capping) for future drivers, and for a while there have been other ways to get it working in unsupported games.

I care most about performance, but I like my games looking nice too.

cool breeze · « **Reply #390 on:** December 25, 2011, 01:49:23 AM »

I think I'm a Crimecraft snowball savant. I got 27 kills in one game. At one point I had a 8 kill streak.

lol more coal :'(

seriously, I got 16 or 17 gifts so far. 13 coal and coupons to games I already own. fuck this shit. I'm writing a letter apologizing to Comcast for wasting bandwidth on crimecraft.

iconoclast · « **Reply #391 on:** December 25, 2011, 02:16:19 AM »

Played the first two levels of Hard Reset (on Hard). Seems pretty good, but it's more of a consoley shooter than I was expecting, with its two weapon limit and linear, corridor style level design. It also has full 360 pad support and 50 achievements that total up to 1000 points... I wonder if a console version was planned and canceled. Either way, it still has fun combat, and it runs perfectly on my PC (60 fps with most settings maxed). Worth the $5 at least.

cool breeze · « **Reply #392 on:** December 25, 2011, 02:27:25 AM »

technically it has like eight or ten shooting modes divided in the two ammo and energy weapons once you upgrade. the corridor style levels are odd because they're not meant for speedruns, and there aren't wide enough corridors like painkiller.

there is an 'extended edition' or something planned for retailers with extra levels and whatnot. there was a thread on gaf about it; don't know if that's coming in a patch.

Bebpo · « **Reply #393 on:** December 25, 2011, 02:40:12 AM »

Quote from: iconoclast on December 25, 2011, 02:16:19 AM

Played the first two levels of Hard Reset (on Hard). Seems pretty good, but it's more of a consoley shooter than I was expecting, with its two weapon limit and linear, corridor style level design. It also has full 360 pad support and 50 achievements that total up to 1000 points... I wonder if a console version was planned and canceled. Either way, it still has fun combat, and it runs perfectly on my PC (60 fps with most settings maxed). Worth the $5 at least.

I figured it was released on X360 in Europe? Is that not the case?

pilonv1 · « **Reply #394 on:** December 25, 2011, 04:10:36 AM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on December 24, 2011, 10:38:13 PM

The coupons only make sense if you could use them during the sale or they lasted for at least a year. Why would you wait until January or February to use a 33% off coupon a game that's probably 50%+ off right now?

I think they're just trying to encourage people to buy stuff outside of sales in a traditionally slow period.

Really fucking annoyed the Football Manager 2012 achievement is only available on Xmas eve/day and boxing day. I won't be near my pc

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #395 on:** December 25, 2011, 05:25:09 AM »

So I bought the four pack of Renegade Op's (cause I love Avalanche) and noticed something funny under the three giftable copies. It says it includes the new DLC, but I didn't get that with my copy.

All i've gotten is coal besides a valve coupon.

Who doesn't have Renegade Op's?

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #396 on:** December 25, 2011, 10:53:56 AM »

Everyone I know seems to be enjoying Hard Reset. I missed the boat on that one.

Bebpo · « **Reply #397 on:** December 25, 2011, 12:22:26 PM »

?

Sale is still up for another hour or two.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #398 on:** December 25, 2011, 12:46:11 PM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on December 25, 2011, 04:10:36 AM

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on December 24, 2011, 10:38:13 PM
The coupons only make sense if you could use them during the sale or they lasted for at least a year. Why would you wait until January or February to use a 33% off coupon a game that's probably 50%+ off right now?

I think they're just trying to encourage people to buy stuff outside of sales in a traditionally slow period.

Really fucking annoyed the Football Manager 2012 achievement is only available on Xmas eve/day and boxing day. I won't be near my pc

You can probably change the date on your computer and get it. There's several other achievements (DEFCON, Pychonauts) that you could do that on.

Bebpo · « **Reply #399 on:** December 25, 2011, 01:22:52 PM »

Nothing for me unless I pick up X3 for the cheevo (and because it's a pretty space sim for $5).

Would pick up Nuclear Dawn but someone said it'll be in an upcoming indie bundle that I'm sure I'll buy since I buy them all.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #400 on:** December 25, 2011, 02:41:29 PM »

I just realized you can't use the coupons during the sale

cool breeze · « **Reply #401 on:** December 25, 2011, 04:25:55 PM »

how is Alice?

also actually getting annoyed that all I'm getting is coal.

demi · « **Reply #402 on:** December 25, 2011, 04:38:28 PM »

Alice is good. Levels can feel like an eternity, though.

cool breeze · « **Reply #403 on:** December 25, 2011, 04:53:22 PM »

Quote from: demi on December 25, 2011, 04:38:28 PM

Alice is good. Levels can feel like an eternity, though.

about how long is it and what type of game is it?

checked out a bit of the giantbomb quicklook. seemed like it could either be a linear platformer or zelda-ish game.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #404 on:** December 25, 2011, 05:54:06 PM »

50% off Eufloria.

gaben truly kicking me in the nuts now

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #405 on:** December 25, 2011, 05:58:12 PM »

got Fallout 3 GOTY and Alice: Madness Returns for $7.49 each ... this is more like the Steam Sale I remember

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #406 on:** December 25, 2011, 06:28:34 PM »

If I send a gift nowadays, how can I check whether it's been redeemed or still pending?

I tested the new layout with a gift but it's not showing as either in http://steamcommunity.com/my/inventory#pending_gifts (view history).

What does this mean?

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #407 on:** December 25, 2011, 06:51:03 PM »

just resend, i guess, that's what i always used to do

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #408 on:** December 25, 2011, 06:57:03 PM »

It's not on the list anymore in either state, so I can't even resend it. It's like I never sent anything in the first place. I guess I'll just ask the recipient directly.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #409 on:** December 25, 2011, 07:10:03 PM »

so, steam sales = next valve game. cool.

I'm all for them focusing on steam, it's just sad when people think they are about making video games these days. it's time to face the facts. Do you want Valve games or massive amounts of other games sold via Valve?

valve hates you. empty your wallets bitches. they are greedy. :troll :troll :troll

archie4208 · « **Reply #410 on:** December 25, 2011, 07:29:40 PM »

I've been playing Valve's latest game for like two months now.

iconoclast · « **Reply #411 on:** December 25, 2011, 07:34:47 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on December 25, 2011, 02:27:25 AM

technically it has like eight or ten shooting modes divided in the two ammo and energy weapons once you upgrade.

Yeah, I just noticed this after playing more. I thought the rest of those weapons were ones you would find on each level, but as it turns out you just buy the upgrade and it allows your gun to morph into something else ala Vanquish. So yeah you can carry like 10 weapons at a time, which is awesome.

Only other complaint I have is that enemies can feel a little bullet spongey on hard, and it would be nice if they reacted more when getting shot. This game is making me want to play Rage actually since I've heard that game is good about that.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #412 on:** December 25, 2011, 08:12:44 PM »

DOTA 2 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive both go full-retail next year...

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #413 on:** December 25, 2011, 08:30:37 PM »

i even put :troll :troll :troll in the post

Bebpo · « **Reply #414 on:** December 26, 2011, 01:10:16 PM »

Some sales and stuff today. Nothing for me, will wait for Red Faction Armageddon to reach $5 or less status next year. Got burned on Sonic Generations for $15 from Amazon, but sales periods are always a gamble, oh well.

iconoclast · « **Reply #415 on:** December 26, 2011, 01:11:26 PM »

I like today's deals. Think I'll pick up Bulletstorm for $5, even though I already have the 360 version and never played it. Might get Beat Hazard too, and I'm kinda interested in Rock of Ages because I liked Zeno Clash. Plus some of the other games on sale are good, but I've already played them.

Best day yet.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #416 on:** December 26, 2011, 01:13:06 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on December 26, 2011, 01:10:16 PM

Some sales and stuff today. Nothing for me, will wait for Red Faction Armageddon to reach $5 or less status next year. Got burned on Sonic Generations for $15 from Amazon, but sales periods are always a gamble, oh well.

Saw that sale this morning and lol'ed

Bebpo · « **Reply #417 on:** December 26, 2011, 01:22:21 PM »

Quote from: iconoclast on December 26, 2011, 01:11:26 PM

I like today's deals. Think I'll pick up Bulletstorm for $5, even though I already have the 360 version and never played it. Might get Beat Hazard too, and I'm kinda interested in Rock of Ages because I liked Zeno Clash. Plus some of the other games on sale are good, but I've already played them.

Best day yet.

You'd like Beat Hazard; solid arena shmup. Very challenging.

Chinner · « **Reply #418 on:** December 26, 2011, 01:31:47 PM »

finally some decent sales. i'll grab sonic generations and bastion right off.

cool breeze · « **Reply #419 on:** December 26, 2011, 01:50:45 PM »

I got bulletstorm and bastion (lost 10 cents because I didn't buy it when it was a daily deal a few weeks back :'( )

Considering rock of ages. I remember the demo on the xbox but it seemed part tower defense. I think anything over $5 that I won't play now is a pass, like Sonic, Alice, etc.

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