OLD [STEAM] Thread: CLOSE ME

pablo_price

do we have a group or something for paying days?
I did a couple of the missions in single player this morning, but didn't have much luck getting into internet games.

mts

we got a pretty good population from just hanging out in the penny-arcade group chat. it usually pretty easy to set something up.

Igpx407

Frei wrote: »

minor incident wrote: »

Frei wrote: »

So Steam thread, these two games are vastly different but I can't decide:

Alan Wake and Wargame: European Escalation.

I've heard very good things about Alan Wake from some community members and also trusted RL friends, and now that it's on PC I really want it. However, I love real time strategy and Wargame also comes highly recommended. I can only get one. Someone say something inspirational one way or another to tip me towards one.

Do you love horror fiction? Does your heart hold a secret spot for the writing of Stephen King? Are your dreams ever filled with a creeping dread stirred to life by the ancient Lovecraftian horror of a malevolent elder god? Does Rod Serling narrate your waking hallucinations and nightmares alike? Would your private thoughts make David Lynch giggle with glee? Do you enjoy slightly repetitive combat wrapped around a gripping story set in a beautiful/horrible environment with awesome characters?

Alan Wake.

Do it.

Unghhh I love all these thiiiiinnnggs so many emotions.

If it's not too late to chime in on this one, I would also describe myself as the person above, and I loved Alan Wake. I even spent $60 at launch for 360 and thought it was worth every damned cent. On top of that I'm going to re-buy it on PC during a sale.

jothki

So I think I'm going to start that Postal 3 let's play soon. Any suggestions on formatting it? It will be entirely text and images, but what ratio should I go for? Can I just link to images straight from Steam?

SquiddyBiscuit

I had some trouble with my recording of Tunnel Rats so I might do a text/image LP as well.

Handgimp

jothki wrote: »

So I think I'm going to start that Postal 3 let's play soon. Any suggestions on formatting it? It will be entirely text and images, but what ratio should I go for? Can I just link to images straight from Steam?

Oh I'm so excited! You should be able to link images from your steam account. As far as content, do what feels right.

anoffday

Did anyone else get that D&D bundle from GG? What game should I start with? I was thinkIng BG 1 or 2. Are there any mods I should use?

BigDes

anoffday wrote: »

Did anyone else get that D&D bundle from GG? What game should I start with? I was thinkIng BG 1 or 2. Are there any mods I should use?

Tutu

It runs BG1 in the BG2 engine

Which is much more fun

striderjg

or alternatively Trilogy. Both do the same thing more or less.

Edit: also a widescreen mode might be appreciated:)
http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/

Idx86

When is the Hitman: Blood Money LP being done by Tube?

Gaslight

Idx86 wrote: »

When is the Hitman: Blood Money LP being done by Tube?

It isn't Blood Money. It's Hitman 2. Huge difference.

SquiddyBiscuit

If it runs well, and is reasonably priced, I might buy this "steam box".

striderjg

Man, I like the game, but it is a bloody shame they had to ruin prey with the stupid spirt walk death mechanic. It would have been FAR superiour without that. Oh.. I died. Woop-di-doo time to shoot some ghosts.

TychoCelchuuu

striderjg wrote: »

Man, I like the game, but it is a bloody shame they had to ruin prey with the stupid spirt walk death mechanic. It would have been FAR superiour without that. Oh.. I died. Woop-di-doo time to shoot some ghosts.

I actually really liked that mechanic. Instead of "load my latest quicksave and pretend that didn't happen" it's "wee let's shoot some ghosts." If you don't like shooting stuff, then maybe Prey isn't the right game to be playing, and replacing "quickload hotkey" with "shoot things" sounds like a win to me.

striderjg

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

striderjg wrote: »

Man, I like the game, but it is a bloody shame they had to ruin prey with the stupid spirt walk death mechanic. It would have been FAR superiour without that. Oh.. I died. Woop-di-doo time to shoot some ghosts.

I actually really liked that mechanic. Instead of "load my latest quicksave and pretend that didn't happen" it's "wee let's shoot some ghosts." If you don't like shooting stuff, then maybe Prey isn't the right game to be playing, and replacing "quickload hotkey" with "shoot things" sounds like a win to me.

Ya, I understand the intend, but it doesn't work at ALL for me. Basically I just don't care anymore. Death in the game at this point for me means really nothing as there is not consequence. As for not liking shooting things, nah, not me:) I just like a challenge as well, and the oh, your dead, shoot some ghosts and your back EXACTLY were you were just ruins it. You could probably win the game if you stand in one place for every fight firing and just die 10 times and then pop back with no regression after shotting some ghosts. Lame.

starmanbrand

Man. Vessel is like Rockhard with Water physics. I'm digging it so far. Still pretty early on, though. Just got to:

Spoiler:

first nozzle upgrade area

Tofystedeth

busfahrer wrote: »

Raiden333 wrote: »

Yeah, no hard feelings at all, I was just pissed last night due to what happened. Thanks for explaining.

And yeah, PA server is full a lot, so having 2 will help. I was surprised how cheap they are.

The nerd in me is giddy that 3 of that IP's fields are single-digit.

Or how about the fact that

Raiden333 wrote: »

WITH BLACKJACK....
...
IP is 8.6.3.103

8 + 6 + 3 + 3 + 1 = 21
Coincidence? I think not.

RoyceSraphim

Steambox = steam ranking of PC's?

BRILLIANT!

Matt343

So, how much of this steambox stuff do we know from sources beyond that one article? While that site may be legit, the article seemed like speculation based on unrelated quotes for the most part, and I want to make sure we aren't jumping the gun on this one.

subedii

Matt343 wrote: »

So, how much of this steambox stuff do we know from sources beyond that one article? While that site may be legit, the article seemed like speculation based on unrelated quotes for the most part, and I want to make sure we aren't jumping the gun on this one.

That article is the only source. So yeah, this could very easily turn out to be completely untrue.

jothki

Man, the Lego games don't ever drop in price, do they. At least we don't have to pay console prices for them.

Darlan

I do love this Steambox and standardized system requirements idea, but isn't Valve the same company who partnered with EA to publish thier console games just to avoid the headache of making and shipping physical products? It seems unlikely that Valve would make such a huge shift in direction all of the sudden like this.

TychoCelchuuu

Darlan wrote: »

I do love this Steambox and standardized system requirements idea, but isn't Valve the same company who partnered with EA to publish thier console games just to avoid the headache of making and shipping physical products? It seems unlikely that Valve would make such a huge shift in direction all of the sudden like this.

They're not necessarily shipping physical products, they're endorsing a standard.

pablo_price

in case anyone missed the $5 sale last week, but is enjoying the free weekend now - amazon has payday for $7.50 instead of steam's 10

Darlan

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Darlan wrote: »

I do love this Steambox and standardized system requirements idea, but isn't Valve the same company who partnered with EA to publish thier console games just to avoid the headache of making and shipping physical products? It seems unlikely that Valve would make such a huge shift in direction all of the sudden like this.

They're not necessarily shipping physical products, they're endorsing a standard.

...and, allegedly, making a "Steambox" that conforms to and encourages those standards, no?

Kadoken

I know I bitched about this in chat, but M&B REALLY freaking needs auto saves.

AuburnTiger

jothki wrote: »

Man, the Lego games don't ever drop in price, do they. At least we don't have to pay console prices for them.

?

Every lego game I searched for was either as cheap or cheaper on Amazon for consoles.

chocobolicious

They were really cheap during Christmas. Even came bundled at one point I believe.

Peewi

Darlan wrote: »

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Darlan wrote: »

I do love this Steambox and standardized system requirements idea, but isn't Valve the same company who partnered with EA to publish thier console games just to avoid the headache of making and shipping physical products? It seems unlikely that Valve would make such a huge shift in direction all of the sudden like this.

They're not necessarily shipping physical products, they're endorsing a standard.

...and, allegedly, making a "Steambox" that conforms to and encourages those standards, no?

Their partners would be the ones actually making it.

What's the deal with that image @SquiddyBiscuit posted? Does it have any significance? Where is it from?

Frei

Thanks for the opinions earlier guys, ended up getting Alan Wake. I'll pick up Wargame later. I'm one of those guys who likes playing against the AI and the campaign as much as multi in RTS games, so the community isn't an issue for me.

Anyway... played Alan Wake for... I don't really remember how long. I'm at Lover's Peak. This game's use of sound and music makes it really goddamn tense and atmospheric, if I ever have to be in the forest at night I think I'd shit my pants now.

Echo

So Portal 2 just isn't fucking working for me. It crashes at the loading screen right after the splash videos. Suggestions?

SkutSkut

Source SDK is downloading something that's 2 gigs big for me, what's that all about?

bloodatonement

Peewi wrote: »

Darlan wrote: »

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Darlan wrote: »

I do love this Steambox and standardized system requirements idea, but isn't Valve the same company who partnered with EA to publish thier console games just to avoid the headache of making and shipping physical products? It seems unlikely that Valve would make such a huge shift in direction all of the sudden like this.

They're not necessarily shipping physical products, they're endorsing a standard.

...and, allegedly, making a "Steambox" that conforms to and encourages those standards, no?

Their partners would be the ones actually making it.

What's the deal with that image @SquiddyBiscuit posted? Does it have any significance? Where is it from?

A valve employee tweeted that pictures a few months back. some people are saying its a prototype

Peewi

Echo wrote: »

So Portal 2 just isn't fucking working for me. It crashes at the loading screen right after the splash videos. Suggestions?

Does the same for me, actually. It worked fine when I played it a couple of months ago.

EDIT: I verified the game cache, Steam downloaded 18.5 MB of Portal 2 and now it's working.

Echo

Peewi wrote: »

Echo wrote: »

So Portal 2 just isn't fucking working for me. It crashes at the loading screen right after the splash videos. Suggestions?

Does the same for me, actually. It worked fine when I played it a couple of months ago.

EDIT: I verified the game cache, Steam downloaded 18.5 MB of Portal 2 and now it's working.

Yep, did that several times. Downloads the same 18.5 megs each time. Still no worky.

Tofystedeth

Oh man, I was planning on playing some Portal when I got home. Now you've got me all nervous.

Nought

So, not sure if the Steam thread is the right place for this question.

I've had a hankering for an economics sim for the past two weeks but don't really have any money to invest in buying some to test if they are good. I remember that I have Patrician 4 on steam and try it out yesterday and really like it.

I seem to remember somebody saying that Patrician 3 was a better game, and think it was someone in this thread. Can anyone comment on why Patrician 3 should be better, since I like the graphics in 4 and don't want to spend 4,5€ buying 3 if the "better" thing about 3 is mostly someone preferring sprites over 3d models. Is there a significant gameplay difference?

SteevL

Echo wrote: »

Peewi wrote: »

Echo wrote: »

So Portal 2 just isn't fucking working for me. It crashes at the loading screen right after the splash videos. Suggestions?

Does the same for me, actually. It worked fine when I played it a couple of months ago.

EDIT: I verified the game cache, Steam downloaded 18.5 MB of Portal 2 and now it's working.

Yep, did that several times. Downloads the same 18.5 megs each time. Still no worky.

I tested mine out just now and it worked fine. Then I verified the cache and it also downloaded 18.5 MB, but it still worked when I loaded it up. And it looks like it redownloads that file every time I verify too, so that's probably not the source of your crashing.

Other Source games work fine, I take it?

minor incident

Frei wrote: »

Anyway... played Alan Wake for... I don't really remember how long. I'm at Lover's Peak. This game's use of sound and music makes it really goddamn tense and atmospheric, if I ever have to be in the forest at night I think I'd shit my pants now.

Glad it's working as intended for you!

Echo

SteevL wrote: »

Other Source games work fine, I take it?

Episode 2 works fine. Finding tons of google hits for the exact same issue, with zero solutions.

edit: get me my old smileys back!