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The Last Day of the [STEAM] Sale - Disappointing

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Burnage wrote: »
    Someone said something about Max Payne mods. Can anyone link them again? Please and thank you.

    The Kung Fu mod for Max Payne. For Max Payne 2: Elements of Style, Equilibrium: Hall of Mirrors and Cinema 2.0.

    DMC4's good, but I found it nowhere near as fun as DMC3 was.

    Thanks!

    You can also check out ModDB.

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  • mspencermspencer PAX [ENFORCER] Council Bluffs, IARegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Regarding gameplay: The Void is quite different from The Path. The Path is barely a game at all -- there's almost no opportunities for failure, just for exploring and seeing all the content or for missing things. The Void is a punishingly hard game, and you have to learn about the world through trial and error.

    Definitely buy The Void, especially at $10. But keep lots of separate saves. And listen to the tips -- conserve color to keep yourself alive. Follow instructions, until
    you start to get conflicting instructions from different parties

    It doesn't have an ESRB rating, so I should tell you: the creatures would probably be nightmare fuel for younger players. Also the sisters are clothed ONLY by particle effects, and layers of effects disappear as you fill up their hearts, eventually leaving them nude. Tastefully nude with Barbie doll anatomy, and (except for a couple of sisters) not sexual at all, but you should be aware.

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  • lowlylowlycooklowlylowlycook Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    There really needs to be a Firefox add-on that will close any tab opened to tvtropes for more than 15 minutes.

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  • MongerMonger I got the ham stink. Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    There really needs to be a Firefox add-on that will close any tab opened to tvtropes for more than 15 minutes.
    On the one hand, I'd have so much more time to spend doing productive things.

    On the other hand, there would be so much less potential for me to be an asshole by linking it in discussions where it's not entirely necessary to make my point.

    I can't make that call.

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  • mspencermspencer PAX [ENFORCER] Council Bluffs, IARegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Yes, sorry about the tvtropes link. It's like a black hole that consumes free time.

    Not that this is any defense, but I pulled that on a thread about Avatar. Thread got derailed talking about all the plot elements that seemed familiar. *link to tvtropes* See? This discussion you're having now has already been finished and cataloged, and here's the next 5 pages of this thread already laid out for your perusal.

    Didn't go over well there either, but it did get us past the petty bickering in a hurry.

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  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Someone said something about Max Payne mods. Can anyone link them again? Please and thank you.

    google for the cinema mod for max payne 2.


    Oh god, Im playing mass effect, 1280x800 is the maximum wide screen resolution it allows?

    Also, I slid off a hill and onto a rock, and I cannot get off of said rock. Am I boned? I think this game is getting shelved.

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  • mspencermspencer PAX [ENFORCER] Council Bluffs, IARegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    No, as long as there aren't enemies around you can pause and click a button to return to the Mako.

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  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    mspencer wrote: »
    No, as long as there aren't enemies around you can pause and click a button to return to the Mako.

    I actually dont have the mako yet, was still on the first mission. I had to reload from an earlier checkpoint about 15 minutes back.

    Anyone know about the resolutions?

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hm. Has The Void been in a daily sale yet?

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  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Burnage wrote: »
    Hm. Has The Void been in a daily sale yet?

    Nope.

    Waited and waited for that too happen, then grew impatient.

    If it happens I'll kick myself. Or not, seeing as it's totally worth it so far.

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  • SightTDWSightTDW Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Much to my shock Crysis is running at all medium settings with my aging Radeon X1950 Pro. Thrilled about that, not so thrilled about said card overheating during my first full firefight, but that's just a ventilation issue. Having a blast with it so far.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    mspencer wrote: »
    No, as long as there aren't enemies around you can pause and click a button to return to the Mako.

    I actually dont have the mako yet, was still on the first mission. I had to reload from an earlier checkpoint about 15 minutes back.

    Anyone know about the resolutions?

    I run Mass Effect in 1920 x 1080

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  • Nimble CatNimble Cat Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'm tempted by the Space Quest pack.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Nimble Cat wrote: »
    I'm tempted by the Space Quest pack.

    I got it for $5 the other day and I'm happy I did. cool if only for collecting purposes.

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  • mspencermspencer PAX [ENFORCER] Council Bluffs, IARegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    mspencer wrote: »
    No, as long as there aren't enemies around you can pause and click a button to return to the Mako.

    I actually dont have the mako yet, was still on the first mission. I had to reload from an earlier checkpoint about 15 minutes back.

    Anyone know about the resolutions?

    I run Mass Effect in 1920 x 1080

    http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=832239

    I tried that and it gave me WAY more resolution options than the in-game options screen had. Definitely try that.

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  • BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Click resolutions in the in game graphics options, and you will see a down scroll button at the bottom right. Click that and you will find more options.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Raiden333 wrote: »
    I would get Mass Effect if I could transfer my save from the 360 version to the PC somehow.

    But I'm probably just going to have to rent it again to finish it before I get ME2.

    Heck, $5 is cheaper than renting a game

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  • PopeTiberiiPopeTiberii Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Woo, Mass Effect get.

    Can anyone tell me why my credit card is always declined when I try to purchase a game through the steam client, but when I do it through their website with identical information it works every single damn time? It's a little annoying, I have to say.

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Click resolutions in the in game graphics options, and you will see a down scroll button at the bottom right. Click that and you will find more options.

    If I'm thinking of the right game, the scroll down button is a bit difficult to see, which would be why you're missing the higher resolutions

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  • Nimble CatNimble Cat Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Variable wrote: »
    Nimble Cat wrote: »
    I'm tempted by the Space Quest pack.

    I got it for $5 the other day and I'm happy I did. cool if only for collecting purposes.

    Is the first one the remake? That's the version I had as a kid, so it having that version might push me over the edge.

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  • VeganVegan Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Athenor wrote: »
    Athenor wrote: »
    Egos wrote: »
    Hejog wrote: »
    blows my mind that Mass Effect is $5. Mass Effect is easily 24 hours of entertainment.

    I wouldn't say easily. You would have to do about every quest. 16-18 hours seem more fair :)

    First time I played Mass Effect, it took me like 40 hours to beat it. I did like, everything though.

    So over on GOG, Freespace 2 is like $4. I hear it's good. Any reason to play the first one first?

    Not really, the story of it is covered entirely in 2's databanks. One is a great trip, but it is just a warm-up act for the feats of insanity you need to pull off in 2.

    Plus, I dunno if the SCP works with GoG's FS2, but I do know that mods for FS1 were made for FS2. (I own a legal copy of FS2 for the record. From Hong Kong or something, but legal nonetheless.)

    So maybe I should just get the first one to go through the story and learn how to play because 2 is harder?

    What's SCP?


    Source Code Project.

    I don't know its "status" since GoG re-released FS2, so I'm not gonna say any more.

    SCP is completely legal, and not rendered illegal just because FS2 is being sold again. Feel free to talk about it. Source code does not equal game content/assets.

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  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    C'mon Steam... gimme a crazy deal on Bloodbowl, I know you can do it. Fulfill all my holiday wishes.

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  • BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Click resolutions in the in game graphics options, and you will see a down scroll button at the bottom right. Click that and you will find more options.

    If I'm thinking of the right game, the scroll down button is a bit difficult to see, which would be why you're missing the higher resolutions

    You probably are thinking of the right game. When I found that out I felt like an idiot. By that I am talking about Mass Effect.

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Drake wrote: »
    C'mon Steam... gimme a crazy deal on Bloodbowl, I know you can do it. Fulfill all my holiday wishes.

    Blood Bowl and the Witcher! World in Conflict would be cool, too.

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  • Ninja Snarl PNinja Snarl P My helmet is my burden. Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Spoit wrote: »
    Raiden333 wrote: »
    I would get Mass Effect if I could transfer my save from the 360 version to the PC somehow.

    But I'm probably just going to have to rent it again to finish it before I get ME2.

    Heck, $5 is cheaper than renting a game

    If you don't feel like getting another character up to level 60, just do what I did and give yourself a ton of XP through the console commands. It'd been long enough so I enjoyed going through the main story, but there was no way in hell I was going to go through another 3 playthroughs just to get a single level 60 Shepard for ME2.

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  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    oh man, blood bowl would be awesome on the sale. Id buy copies for my friends so we could play even...


    Edit: Thanks for the help with the res, I knew the game looked better then this when I played it before.

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  • RoshinRoshin My backlog can be seen from space SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Cherrn wrote: »
    There is no reason to ever play Doom 3 now that Dead Space exists.

    Limed, bolded, and limed again.
    Raiden333 wrote: »
    Archgarth wrote: »
    So, are there any more opinions on The Void? It seems like an interesting game (and a search of this thread only turned up people who bought it, but haven't played it, sans one exception).

    Do you like games-as-art? Are you ok when a game is hard to the point of being unfair? And being left in the dark about most of the game's concepts until very late in the game, always wondering whether you're doing things right or wrong?

    If so, then yes, buy it immediately.

    Amusingly, most of that applies to The Last Remnant as well.
    DeMoN wrote: »
    DMC4 was pretty close to 3's greatness. The only flaws were the lack of Vergil and the fact that the second half of the game is the first half in reverse. Also some of the enemies were assholes.

    Excellent game, regardless.

    It's embarrassing, but I find myself stuck very early on in DMC4. I'm in some kind of castle and need to cross an area by "jumping" between those zap points you catch onto with your demon hand. If you've played the game, I think you know what I mean. Problem is, the ceiling is full of spikes, so I need to time my jumps or else I get hurt, fall down a floor, have to work my way up, and try again. I have tried this countless times now and I just can't do it. Incredibly frustrating.

    Give me Fallout 3 today, Steam!

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  • BullioBullio Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'm still hoping against hope that Borderlands makes the daily deal cut.

    After much deliberation (procrastinating) I finally made good on the Unreal Deal pack. I briefly checked out UT2k4's multiplayer before coming into work tonight. Aside from Onslaught it seems as lively as UT99's. I wasn't expecting it to be overflowing with games, but I wasn't expecting it to be as empty as it was either. Maybe it was just a bad time? I guess I won't really know until I can actually sit down with it for longer than 15 minutes later this week.

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  • MorkathMorkath Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    Drake wrote: »
    C'mon Steam... gimme a crazy deal on Bloodbowl, I know you can do it. Fulfill all my holiday wishes.

    Blood Bowl and the Witcher! World in Conflict would be cool, too.

    I've been waiting this entire sale for bloodbowl to be a daily deal. Why are you disappointing me valve!

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Between the rain screwing with my clearwire and the servers being iffy, it is going to be a long while before I get Mass Effect. Thankfully, SR2 is keeping me quite happy. I am currently conquering Stillwater with the latin lesbian version of Pink from when she first started back in 98.

    Odd Pink story
    Around that time, someone had 1000's of those postcard ads for her album and they were plastered everywhere in my highschool. Walls, halls, sinks, lockers, urinals. Everytime I took a piss, I had to look at that shocking hair color that seems to match her teeth. I mean I dug some of her song later but it was just such an ordeal to see her EVERYWHERE!

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  • SamuelsonSamuelson Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Between the rain screwing with my clearwire and the servers being iffy, it is going to be a long while before I get Mass Effect. Thankfully, SR2 is keeping me quite happy. I am currently conquering Stillwater with the latin lesbian version of Pink from when she first started back in 98.

    Odd Pink story
    Around that time, someone had 1000's of those postcard ads for her album and they were plastered everywhere in my highschool. Walls, halls, sinks, lockers, urinals. Everytime I took a piss, I had to look at that shocking hair color that seems to match her teeth. I mean I dug some of her song later but it was just such an ordeal to see her EVERYWHERE!

    You dug her music? >_<

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Apparently Gratuitous Space Battles is going to be in today's sale.
    only today and tommorow to buy #gsb form steam in their sale. Be quick...

    Edit: Wait, no, that's because the sale ends then.

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  • GalagaGalaxianGalagaGalaxian Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So is Saturday the last day of the sale, or Sunday?

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Sunday I think. I think we are going to get two more sets of daily specials, then it will be over.

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  • KastanjKastanj __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    Drovek wrote: »
    Burnage wrote: »
    Hm. Has The Void been in a daily sale yet?

    Nope.

    Waited and waited for that too happen, then grew impatient.

    If it happens I'll kick myself. Or not, seeing as it's totally worth it so far.

    The Void is half off for five hours more yet in my Steam window, but that might just be here in Sweden.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Half off what, the regular price, or the normal sale price?

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  • mspencermspencer PAX [ENFORCER] Council Bluffs, IARegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Regular price. It's $10 instead of $20.

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  • AuburnTigerAuburnTiger Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Unless something big goes on sale today, I guess I'll be jumping on that Eidos sale.

    I kind of wish I had three other people to go in on with for the Left 4 Dead 2 pack, too.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited January 2010
    I think they might have further dropped the price of DMC4, it's now £11.25 and I'm sure it was more than that yesterday.

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Unless something big goes on sale today, I guess I'll be jumping on that Eidos sale.

    I kind of wish I had three other people to go in on with for the Left 4 Dead 2 pack, too.

    Well, I think there's gonna be a second sale tomorrow that finishes it, so maybe it'll be there?

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