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WHAT IS STEAM?
Except that this has all been resolved now, and pretty much every major publisher has many or most of their games up on Steam, the fast, free digital distribution platform that lets you download the best PC games in your underpants, while serving you demos, trailers, slightly-delayed patches, and the like.
WHAT'S NEW WITH STEAM?
Check the Steam News page for all your Steam... news.
PENNY ARCADE + STEAM = COOKED PENNY ARCADE?
No, PA + Steam = awesome. First of all, you've got this thread. In this thread we talk about new Steam releases (what's worth buying, what isn't, what's on sale, etc). We also do other cool stuff, like check prices in US DOLLARS for LewieP of games that don't have anything to do with Steam, or get off on tangents about puppies or DRM! Sometimes, this place is like one giant thread for PC gaming and Steam goes and sits in a corner downloading an update to Day of Defeat: Source.
Second: Here is the Penny Arcade Steam Group! Someone reading this thread ought to be able to invite you, as long as you can provide your SteamID. The group is basically useless but it would be ludicrous not to have a Penny Arcade presence on the coolest digital distribution system this side of GoG.com! It actually IS helpful to join, because it identifies you as a Penny Arcader on the Internet and makes it easy from the PA forums who you friend to say "oh, right, I know this guy from the Steam thread." We're the most wangalicious group, too.
With such a cool service, someone must have done some extra things to build on it. The forums have one such man, who made some super cool Steam signatures. Suds is his name and killing is his game. Except for the killing. The signatures automatically use backgrounds for the games and the correct icon. Pretty neat, and they're 100% free! HE SAID HE WOULD KILL ME IF I DID NOT WRITE THIS OH GOD SAVE-You can also use a script on his Steam Calculator page to see how much your Steam account would be worth if you had taken advantage of some obscure, arcane combination of special deals that nobody could ever have taken advantage of. Or something sort of like that.
Sample signature:
Also there are some Penny Arcade Steam Groups you may enjoy (this is only a sampling!):
Plain old Penny Arcade
PAX Forumers
Penny Arcade League
You get the idea. This Steam thread is not the place for these groups; they live in their own threads. For example, the Armed Assault PA Steam Group (PAJOE) is in the Armed Assault thread, whereas the Company of Heroes PA Steam Group is in the CoH thread, and so on.
Cool stuff on the Steam website:
Grand list of all price reductions. This is slightly obsolete now that the store has a "Sales" tab but it's still useful.
Steam skins to make it look less like army boot camp
Awesome stats
The store page in case you want to, you know, buy some games or something
IF I BUY A GAME FOUR TIMES BECAUSE I'M STUPID CAN I GIFT THE EXTRA COPIES? WHAT IF I BUY A 2-PACK EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY OWN ONE OF THE GAMES?
You can't really do that. In almost every case, if you buy a Steam game, it's for you and you alone, even if you already own a copy somehow. If you want to give the game to someone else, buy it as a gift, not for you. Steam is a selfish service or a selfess service, but almost never both at once. Gift or buy, but do not combine!
I WANT TO REGISTER MY GAME ON STEAM BECAUSE STEAM IS SEXIER THAN MY WIFE
Good idea! Unfortunately Valve games are just about the only games that let you do it. If you want to see if you're lucky though, here's a list of games you can register on Steam. You can always add a non-Steam game to your Steam games list, so that people can see you playing it.
WHY DOESN'T NOVALOGIC SELL DELTA 4OURCE 5: ROID RAGIN' 'RINES IN MY HOME OF SOUTHERN BUTTCRACKISTAN?
Many Steam games might be unavailable in your country if you have the temerity to live outside of the United States. This is not Steam's fault. Regional game availability is determined solely by the publisher, who should be the source of your ire. In the meantime, America has lots of free space for immigrants.
MY STEAMS IS BORKED
150KB/s
Download TCPview: TCPView
Then, use TCPview (run as admin if you're on Vista) to close all Steam TCP servers (this is important, NOT the UDP ones, just the TCP ones). Steam will then reconnect to a different server, which will hopefully get you a better speed. If you don't go faster in a couple of seconds, retry until you get a speed you like.
This shit totally needs to go into the OP, I've tipped this to so many people already.
THE THREAD TITLE ALSO HAS "SOURCE" IN IT
Yeah, this is a great place to talk about Source mods and Source games. Source is the engine for Valve's Half-Life 2, and all that jazz is linked intimately to Steam, so you can bet that most people in here are pretty big fans of the Half-Life series and are willing to try out the newest mod that's been released or take a look at your Hammer map or something. This is the Valve thread just as much as it is the PC games thread. Post your favorite mods we might not have heard of! It's a great way to judge if there's any interest before making an entire thread.
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I'm actually having trouble getting into Sins. I mean, with Civ 4 and such, it's much more transparent what I need to do - build farms there, or research that tech, or build a small army to convince my neighbors not to randomly declare war and lay waste to everything I hold dear. Also, for purposes of conquest. Conquest is always good.
In Sins everything seems to start off as hostile; the neighboring planets are surrounded by lots of red things, and I don't have the first idea what resources I have (both literally [crystal/metal/gold] and metaphorically [frigates/cruisers/1-person strike craft]), or what progressing actually looks like (in Civ 4, progression 'looks like' the expanding culture border, or the points, or the tech tree being slowly consumed).
That said, I just located the manual in handy pdf format, and I'll probably run through the tutorials at some point. Very much stoked about the game, though. Wiki says that there can potentially be multiple solar systems, which makes me exceedingly happy.
It would be pretty cool to put together a graph to trend the prices on steam.
Yeah, I'm more thinking a long the lines of neato automated graphs rather then caring about the particular price point for a particular game.
For instance, by looking at the curves of pricing for Left 4 Dead 1, you could probably guess when to expect Left 4 Dead 2 at a particular price point.
The road to getting to know Sins is an exceedingly slippery one. As soon as you think you've got a good grasp on colonial expansion, violent or otherwise, the games' scope just increases exponentially and you've got a whole heap more stuff to learn.
Been playing it on and off for ages now and it still kicks my ass because I don't pay enough attention.
It's a Christmas miracle!
So, fun fact about my Steam account; I forgot how I managed to do it, but I got an extra copy of HL2: DM. Which I think comes with the game now. Might've been when I was buying some 2 for 1 pack of the HL2 episodes.
I still have an extra copy of HalfLife 2 from my Orange box purchase.
Well, that would be against Steam's best interest. Steam Xmas sales are only 1 month after L4D2 release so one could expect a 25% reduction then, my guess is L4D2 will have a 50-66% ish week-end in march at the latest like last time.
If you're from Europe it will probably be cheaper to import L4D2 from the UK.
Now?
It's often cheaper to amazon
CURSE YOU GLOBAL RECESSION!
I've been thinking, you know what would be a great steam feature that I am really surprised Valve haven't done yet.
Tell Steam (or it autodetects if you let it) what your system specs are, and then it can give information (maybe even benchmarks where possible) about how games will run on your system. Would eliminate some of the "I might buy this but I am not sure how it would run on my system" that I have sometimes had.
Curse you repricing in pounds too >.<
With the myriad ways systems and games are configured, that's no small order. Really your best bet has always been a demo. Everything after that you're pretty much going on opinion. Heck even with a demo you're still not 100% that the actual product will run the same (although to be fair, in my experience that's usually because they've made tweaks to the engine in the meantime so the game runs faster).
Yes. This.
And then even if they don't see it and ask again, we can belittle them for not seeing the aforementioned big bold lime italic text.
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I suppose you are correct, they couldn't really benchmark. They could do a simple System Requirements Labs style "according to the games min/recommended requirements, you look like this:"
Done.
"Your system has insufficient RAM. Please press here to download £60 worth of RAM."
Of course, with their definition of RPGs, I'm eagerly anticipating Mass Effect to be on sale this week.
Nobody reads the OP anyways, it doesn't matter how big or limed or italicized you make it. Idiots will always come into the thread asking, "CAN I USE MAI CD-KEYS TO REGISTAR TIHS GAEM ON STEEM??/"
http://www.direct2drive.com/d2dturns5
highlights: Mount and Blade, Defense Grid, World of Goo all $5
Cogs is also fun if you're into that sort of thing.
I don't really know how I feel about the DLC. First it seems like it'll be different from the main game, but then turns out to be pretty much the same.
Ooohhhh.... You know I skimmed over it, but now I remember a newspost about it. Maybe it does merit further inquiry.
Really? Oh god, I don't know if I have another $5 to spend on games but ddammmnnn...
Only if you head to Australia and intercept him at the airport.
Hell, I have it and I wasn't aware of that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ECnXFNemo
This video was my first introduction to the game, and why I picked it up. It's very simple in premise, very simple gameplay, but it was fun. *shrug*
Some of the later levels are just ridiculous, though.
Give the Saints Row 2 Game On thread a read through. It has some good info about specs, and also details the problems with the port (and if it will affect you.)
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=100919
If you have the hardware to run it, and can put up with a poor interface and quirks, it is one hell of an awesome game. The coop games I've played with other PA'ers have been the stuff of legend.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/idolninja
Anything is worth enduring to get that.