I don't have much interest in D3 but I have wanted to try torchlight. This is q sweet deal but have never tried. Should I get it? Sell me!
Its like Borderlands without the guns and attitude. It was one of the first games I purchased once I had a gaming capable PC and played it a lot, until I got into Terraria and Dungeon Defenders.
Have you played any Diabloesque games before? Torchlight is one where you can tell your dog to go sell crap for you. Plus the game is SUPER moddable, unlike Diablo.
If you haven't played any Diabloesque games before, just imagine that you click a lot of things and there are shiny explosions of pixels everywhere and it will tap directly into the part of your brain matter that desires loot (some of which may even be phat loot).
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Have you played any Diabloesque games before? Torchlight is one where you can tell your dog to go sell crap for you. Plus the game is SUPER moddable, unlike Diablo.
If you haven't played any Diabloesque games before, just imagine that you click a lot of things and there are shiny explosions of pixels everywhere and it will tap directly into the part of your brain matter that desires loot (some of which may even be phat loot).
This, it's my favourite Diablo-style game, even better than Diablo 2, IMO. A really fun game, with lots of colourful loot, and it's great fun to play.
So, just got an e-mail from Cryptic Studios, telling me my account information may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party, and that I can go to the Champions Online or Star Trek Online websites to recover my password, etc.
I have never played Champions Online or Star Trek Online.
City of Heroes/Villains? A Beta or trial?
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Phishing?
I got one today to, and did some quick research to find out they were Compromised in 2010 and are just NOW announcing it. And it seems it's Cryptic's database at the time, but since PW now has STO their behind the announcement?
I don't have much interest in D3 but I have wanted to try torchlight. This is q sweet deal but have never tried. Should I get it? Sell me!
I like to call Torchlight an awesome 15 hour game that unfortunately took 18 hours to play through. I was loving the looting and the blowing things up and the dungeon crawling for most of it, but the last few levels kind of turned into a slog to the end. I was so powerful that nothing could really slow me down and it actually got tedious rounding up a room full of dragons and making them explode.
That said, the first game was pretty much a "here's our engine and a little bit of story slapped on to it, please buy it so we can afford to do the game we really want to do" so Torchlight II is going to be a day one for me; I really want to see what they've come up with.
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Wired 360 controller
Wireless adapter for PC to use the 2 360 controllers I already have
PS3 controller since my laptop has bluetooth
Which controller is more comfortable for you? I dig the dual shock, but most people prefer the 360 pad.
The cheapest option is to use the PS3 controller, since you'd just need a USB cable and some free software.
Wired 360 controller will cost more and might not be easy to find, but it would be pnp.
Wireless adaptor would be the best, but I've heard a few people complainin that the official ones burn out quickly.
A wired 360 controller is $25-30 on Amazon. Sony's PS3 controllers are wireless, so you'd pay about $10 more. Plus, most modern PC games support the 360 controller out of the box.
I don't have much interest in D3 but I have wanted to try torchlight. This is q sweet deal but have never tried. Should I get it? Sell me!
Its like Borderlands without the guns and attitude. It was one of the first games I purchased once I had a gaming capable PC and played it a lot, until I got into Terraria and Dungeon Defenders.
I haven't played much borderlands but how the heck are Borderlands and Torchlight anything alike?
I don't have much interest in D3 but I have wanted to try torchlight. This is q sweet deal but have never tried. Should I get it? Sell me!
Its like Borderlands without the guns and attitude. It was one of the first games I purchased once I had a gaming capable PC and played it a lot, until I got into Terraria and Dungeon Defenders.
I haven't played much borderlands but how the heck are Borderlands and Torchlight anything alike?
Very broadly speaking, in terms of the focus on looting ever-spiffier equipment.
I've played Diablo 1 and 2, but I always felt a little...confined by character choices/classes. Which is why I'll be skipping 3.
I like being able to make and remake and remake characters to try different things. or spec/respec.
without hijacking the thread i'd actually suggest you look into the diablo 3 skill system when you have the time, it leans a bit more towards what you seem to desire
i can't remember if respec potions were in torchlight by default by now or if you had to mod it, but either way you can get them in the game.
there's basically three classes: Melee Guy, Ranged Guy, and Magic Guy
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I've played Diablo 1 and 2, but I always felt a little...confined by character choices/classes. Which is why I'll be skipping 3.
I like being able to make and remake and remake characters to try different things. or spec/respec.
This is for realsies the best thing about Borderlands. You can respec for a small fee, which allows you to switch between a build tailored toward singleplayer when you're on your own, or a build centered more on multiplayer when you're co-opping with your friends.
You can also pump a bunch of skill points into a skill you're unsure of to see how well it meshes with your playstyle, and not have to worry about making a huge mistake with your character. You never have that moment where you realize your level 20 character is now worthless because you picked the "wrong" skills.
Special preorder deal: preorder the game and get the first Torchlight for free. Only problem there is who doesn't already own Torchlight?
Anyone know if it'll work gifting someone the preorder? Looking forward to playing this with friends, wanted to gift it to them and get them the free copies of Torchlight 1. Also, I assume when it gets the Mac version you get it for free if you have the PC one, right?
Torchlight was the 3rd game I ever bought on Steam, so it's nice to see the sequel heading our way at last. I assume we're going to set up a lot of groups to run it together. Hopefully it isn't region locked!
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There was some serious cuteness for the Evochron contest. In the end I'm calling a tie.
Here are the winning entries:
Special preorder deal: preorder the game and get the first Torchlight for free. Only problem there is who doesn't already own Torchlight?
Anyone know if it'll work gifting someone the preorder? Looking forward to playing this with friends, wanted to gift it to them and get them the free copies of Torchlight 1. Also, I assume when it gets the Mac version you get it for free if you have the PC one, right?
If you gift the pre-order it should work just like buying it for yourself. Your friend gets T1 and the T2 pre-order. If he already owns T1 he should get a spare copy to gift.
And yes, you get the Mac version for free if/when the game gets converted and becomes Steamplay.
SO how does one go about joining the steam group? I wouldnt mind playing some Civ 5 if theres ever a group playing that as well, noticing a lot of games i play in peoples sigs.
Add me on Steam and I'll add you later tonight (though admittedly it won't be until like, 11 CST.)
I've played Diablo 1 and 2, but I always felt a little...confined by character choices/classes. Which is why I'll be skipping 3.
I like being able to make and remake and remake characters to try different things. or spec/respec.
without hijacking the thread i'd actually suggest you look into the diablo 3 skill system when you have the time, it leans a bit more towards what you seem to desire
Yeah, Diablo 3 is way different, in terms of skill systems, than Diablo 1 and 2. The only penalty for "respecs" is a short cooldown timer when you switch your skills. It freely encourages experimentation and constructing/deconstructing builds the way you want. Instead of investing a ton of points into a single skill, not knowing whether those skills will benefit you at the endgame, you unlock more and more options for your existing skills, as if you had a build that put 1 point in everything, and all of those skill choices are viable in different contexts.
Special preorder deal: preorder the game and get the first Torchlight for free. Only problem there is who doesn't already own Torchlight?
Anyone know if it'll work gifting someone the preorder? Looking forward to playing this with friends, wanted to gift it to them and get them the free copies of Torchlight 1. Also, I assume when it gets the Mac version you get it for free if you have the PC one, right?
If you gift the pre-order it should work just like buying it for yourself. Your friend gets T1 and the T2 pre-order. If he already owns T1 he should get a spare copy to gift.
And yes, you get the Mac version for free if/when the game gets converted and becomes Steamplay.
Excellent, thank you!
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Oh wow, that was super classy of you! Thank you so much. I couldn't decide if kittens, puppies, bunnies, or mice were cuter, so I found a picture that had all of them. All it needed was a smiling baby giving them all a hug.
Are there any PA MP servers for this game still going?
I'm totally pumped for Torchlight 2 but now this fantasy/magic version of Civilization struck my attention out of the blue and I'm intrigued! http://store.steampowered.com/app/203630/
If it is essentially Civ 5 in a fantasy setting that sounds awesome to me.
I'm totally pumped for Torchlight 2 but now this fantasy/magic version of Civilization struck my attention out of the blue and I'm intrigued! http://store.steampowered.com/app/203630/
If it is essentially Civ 5 in a fantasy setting that sounds awesome to me.
so uh, i just got my first PC?
i bought dead space 2, what else should i get? i grabbed SMNC, and own like, 5 games.
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Risen 2 preload is up. The reviews have been a bit mixed. I hope it's more a case of the game being too hard or niche for reviewers (Gothic 2, Risen) more so than there being actual major problems with the game (Gothic 3).
I'm totally pumped for Torchlight 2 but now this fantasy/magic version of Civilization struck my attention out of the blue and I'm intrigued! http://store.steampowered.com/app/203630/
If it is essentially Civ 5 in a fantasy setting that sounds awesome to me.
It does look that way. I too am intrigued.
Totalbiscuit did a quick look on the game and yep, it's pretty much Fantasy Civ 5, even the UI is similar.
so uh, i just got my first PC?
i bought dead space 2, what else should i get? i grabbed SMNC, and own like, 5 games.
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Audiosurf
Bastion
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Ben There, Dan That / Time Gentlemen, Please!
Borderlands
Braid
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, Earned in Blood, and Hell's Highway
Bulletstorm
Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4
Cave Story
Civilization V
Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Costume Quest
Crimson Skies
Crysis and Crysis: Warhead
Dark Forces, Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, Dark Forces 3: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, and Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Darwinia
Dawn of War II: Retribution
Dead Space
DEFCON, Darwinia, Uplink
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Deus Ex, Deus Ex 2, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution
DIRT 3
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Dungeons of Dredmor
Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy)
Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas
Freedom Fighters
Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich
Frozen Synapse
Galactic Civilizations II
Grand Theft Auto IV
GRID
Grim Fandango
Hitman: Something or other
Homeworld 2
IL2 Sturmovik: 1946
Jade Empire
Just Cause 2
Killing Floor
King's Bounty: The Legend
Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Legend of Grimrock
Lego Star Wars and Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
LIMBO
Mafia and Mafia II
Max Payne and Max Payne 2
Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
Men of War: Assault Squad
Metro 2033
Mirror's Edge
Monkey Island
Mount and Blade Warband
Napoleon: Total War
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2
Overlord and Overlord 2
Painkiller
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 1 and 2
Portal and Portal 2
Proun
RAGE
Recettear
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat
S.W.A.T 4
Sam and Max: Season 1 and 2
Sequence
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sim City 4
Sins of a Solar Empire
Skyrim
Space Marine
SpaceChem
Spelunky
Splinter Cell and all its sequels
Super Meat Boy
Sword of the Stars
System Shock 2
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena
The Longest Journey
The Ur-Quan Masters / Star Control 2
The Walking Dead
Thief, Thief 2, Thief III
Tomb Raider: the newer ones
Total War: SHOGUN 2
Trackmania United Nations
Tropico 4
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
VVVVVV
World in Conflict
World of Goo
Worms: Armageddon
X-COM: UFO Defense, Terror from the Deep, and Apocalypse
X3: Terran Conflict
Zeno Clash
Plus anything with 5 or 4.5 stars on GoG.com, like:
Alpha Centauri
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Arx Fatalis
Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II
Beneath a Steel Sky
Beyond Good and Evil
Descent 3
Dungeon Keeper 2
Freespace and Freespace 2
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Jagged Alliance 2
Master of Magic
Master of Orion 2
Outcast
Planescape: Torment
Psychonauts
Sacrifice
Tex Murphy
The Witcher and The Witcher 2
Wing Commander I through IV
Duke Nukem 3d
Blood
I've played Diablo 1 and 2, but I always felt a little...confined by character choices/classes. Which is why I'll be skipping 3.
I like being able to make and remake and remake characters to try different things. or spec/respec.
without hijacking the thread i'd actually suggest you look into the diablo 3 skill system when you have the time, it leans a bit more towards what you seem to desire
Yeah, Diablo 3 is way different, in terms of skill systems, than Diablo 1 and 2. The only penalty for "respecs" is a short cooldown timer when you switch your skills. It freely encourages experimentation and constructing/deconstructing builds the way you want. Instead of investing a ton of points into a single skill, not knowing whether those skills will benefit you at the endgame, you unlock more and more options for your existing skills, as if you had a build that put 1 point in everything, and all of those skill choices are viable in different contexts.
My only real complaint that there didn't seem to be a way to hotkey skill changing. Even just being able to click on that skill slot on your toolbar to select another would be a real time/wrist saver.
I got a cheap 10 buck wireless adapter for my 360 controller and it works flawlessly.
Safest route is probably the wired controller though. PS3 should work fine but you'll get to mess with some software when running it all the time generally so it can be a small hassle.
If you get one of the wireless dongles, they're all basically licensed Chinese knockoffs at this point since MS doesn't make them anymore. Some come with driver discs, some don't, but I've heard that even the ones that do the drivers on disc don't work well. I had to go to the MS website and download the latest 360 pad driver for mine. After that though it's worked like a champ. The battery even seems to last a lot longer.
so uh, i just got my first PC?
i bought dead space 2, what else should i get? i grabbed SMNC, and own like, 5 games.
Honestly, If I was you I'd avoid buying games unless I'm actually going to play them. Having all the games I've got on steam has kinda ruined the special feeling that getting a new game used to be.
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Its like Borderlands without the guns and attitude. It was one of the first games I purchased once I had a gaming capable PC and played it a lot, until I got into Terraria and Dungeon Defenders.
If you haven't played any Diabloesque games before, just imagine that you click a lot of things and there are shiny explosions of pixels everywhere and it will tap directly into the part of your brain matter that desires loot (some of which may even be phat loot).
This, it's my favourite Diablo-style game, even better than Diablo 2, IMO. A really fun game, with lots of colourful loot, and it's great fun to play.
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I like being able to make and remake and remake characters to try different things. or spec/respec.
I got one today to, and did some quick research to find out they were Compromised in 2010 and are just NOW announcing it. And it seems it's Cryptic's database at the time, but since PW now has STO their behind the announcement?
I like to call Torchlight an awesome 15 hour game that unfortunately took 18 hours to play through. I was loving the looting and the blowing things up and the dungeon crawling for most of it, but the last few levels kind of turned into a slog to the end. I was so powerful that nothing could really slow me down and it actually got tedious rounding up a room full of dragons and making them explode.
That said, the first game was pretty much a "here's our engine and a little bit of story slapped on to it, please buy it so we can afford to do the game we really want to do" so Torchlight II is going to be a day one for me; I really want to see what they've come up with.
A wired 360 controller is $25-30 on Amazon. Sony's PS3 controllers are wireless, so you'd pay about $10 more. Plus, most modern PC games support the 360 controller out of the box.
I haven't played much borderlands but how the heck are Borderlands and Torchlight anything alike?
Very broadly speaking, in terms of the focus on looting ever-spiffier equipment.
without hijacking the thread i'd actually suggest you look into the diablo 3 skill system when you have the time, it leans a bit more towards what you seem to desire
i can't remember if respec potions were in torchlight by default by now or if you had to mod it, but either way you can get them in the game.
there's basically three classes: Melee Guy, Ranged Guy, and Magic Guy
Torchlight 2 sounds perfect for you then with the customizable characters and builds.
This is for realsies the best thing about Borderlands. You can respec for a small fee, which allows you to switch between a build tailored toward singleplayer when you're on your own, or a build centered more on multiplayer when you're co-opping with your friends.
You can also pump a bunch of skill points into a skill you're unsure of to see how well it meshes with your playstyle, and not have to worry about making a huge mistake with your character. You never have that moment where you realize your level 20 character is now worthless because you picked the "wrong" skills.
Anyone know if it'll work gifting someone the preorder? Looking forward to playing this with friends, wanted to gift it to them and get them the free copies of Torchlight 1. Also, I assume when it gets the Mac version you get it for free if you have the PC one, right?
Here are the winning entries:
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The way the kitten is looking at the little mouse... you just know it's going to turn bloody in a few moments, for now... SO CUTE.
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It's a baby bunny going "YAY!" 'Nuff said.
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If you gift the pre-order it should work just like buying it for yourself. Your friend gets T1 and the T2 pre-order. If he already owns T1 he should get a spare copy to gift.
And yes, you get the Mac version for free if/when the game gets converted and becomes Steamplay.
Added you.
You can't. 4-packs always grant you one ungiftable copy and 3 giftable copies.
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Wow, I am glad you mentioned this. I can totally see myself doing this by mistake.
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Oh wow, that was super classy of you! Thank you so much. I couldn't decide if kittens, puppies, bunnies, or mice were cuter, so I found a picture that had all of them. All it needed was a smiling baby giving them all a hug.
Are there any PA MP servers for this game still going?
If it is essentially Civ 5 in a fantasy setting that sounds awesome to me.
It does look that way. I too am intrigued.
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i bought dead space 2, what else should i get? i grabbed SMNC, and own like, 5 games.
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Totalbiscuit did a quick look on the game and yep, it's pretty much Fantasy Civ 5, even the UI is similar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ydHz7X4GF8
That said, this is a good thing and I want it.
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Alpha Protocol
Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed 2, and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Audiosurf
Bastion
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Ben There, Dan That / Time Gentlemen, Please!
Borderlands
Braid
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, Earned in Blood, and Hell's Highway
Bulletstorm
Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4
Cave Story
Civilization V
Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Costume Quest
Crimson Skies
Crysis and Crysis: Warhead
Dark Forces, Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, Dark Forces 3: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, and Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Darwinia
Dawn of War II: Retribution
Dead Space
DEFCON, Darwinia, Uplink
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Deus Ex, Deus Ex 2, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution
DIRT 3
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Dungeons of Dredmor
Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy)
Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas
Freedom Fighters
Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich
Frozen Synapse
Galactic Civilizations II
Grand Theft Auto IV
GRID
Grim Fandango
Hitman: Something or other
Homeworld 2
IL2 Sturmovik: 1946
Jade Empire
Just Cause 2
Killing Floor
King's Bounty: The Legend
Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Legend of Grimrock
Lego Star Wars and Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
LIMBO
Mafia and Mafia II
Max Payne and Max Payne 2
Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
Men of War: Assault Squad
Metro 2033
Mirror's Edge
Monkey Island
Mount and Blade Warband
Napoleon: Total War
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2
Overlord and Overlord 2
Painkiller
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 1 and 2
Portal and Portal 2
Proun
RAGE
Recettear
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat
S.W.A.T 4
Sam and Max: Season 1 and 2
Sequence
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sim City 4
Sins of a Solar Empire
Skyrim
Space Marine
SpaceChem
Spelunky
Splinter Cell and all its sequels
Super Meat Boy
Sword of the Stars
System Shock 2
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena
The Longest Journey
The Ur-Quan Masters / Star Control 2
The Walking Dead
Thief, Thief 2, Thief III
Tomb Raider: the newer ones
Total War: SHOGUN 2
Trackmania United Nations
Tropico 4
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
VVVVVV
World in Conflict
World of Goo
Worms: Armageddon
X-COM: UFO Defense, Terror from the Deep, and Apocalypse
X3: Terran Conflict
Zeno Clash
Plus anything with 5 or 4.5 stars on GoG.com, like:
Alpha Centauri
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Arx Fatalis
Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II
Beneath a Steel Sky
Beyond Good and Evil
Descent 3
Dungeon Keeper 2
Freespace and Freespace 2
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Jagged Alliance 2
Master of Magic
Master of Orion 2
Outcast
Planescape: Torment
Psychonauts
Sacrifice
Tex Murphy
The Witcher and The Witcher 2
Wing Commander I through IV
Duke Nukem 3d
Blood
In short, All of steam.
If you get one of the wireless dongles, they're all basically licensed Chinese knockoffs at this point since MS doesn't make them anymore. Some come with driver discs, some don't, but I've heard that even the ones that do the drivers on disc don't work well. I had to go to the MS website and download the latest 360 pad driver for mine. After that though it's worked like a champ. The battery even seems to last a lot longer.
Honestly, If I was you I'd avoid buying games unless I'm actually going to play them. Having all the games I've got on steam has kinda ruined the special feeling that getting a new game used to be.
Also http://store.steampowered.com/app/209100/ RE: Racoon city has a heaps cool trailer, I wonder if it would translate to PC very well though.