So by the end of the month, it'll will have been 12 years since Half-Life 1 and 6 years since Half-Life 2. I hope Valve announces something for the Anniversary.
Half-Life: The Theme Park. Half-Life 3 is going to be set 100% in the real world. Valve have spent the past decade developing the first working HEV suit.
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So by the end of the month, it'll will have been 12 years since Half-Life 1 and 6 years since Half-Life 2. I hope Valve announces something for the Anniversary.
Half-Life: The Theme Park. Half-Life 3 is going to be set 100% in the real world. Valve have spent the past decade developing the first working HEV suit.
They'll have spent that time working with CERN to prepare for a cascade event scenario.
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So by the end of the month, it'll will have been 12 years since Half-Life 1 and 6 years since Half-Life 2. I hope Valve announces something for the Anniversary.
*sigh* I'm starting to wish Steam had an option to say "You know what? This guy doesn't DESERVE my gifted game, I want it back."
A friend of mine is really into stealth games, so I bought him Thief 3 like 6 months ago. He got it running perfectly and everything, but still hasn't beaten the first level. Every time I ask him about it, he says it's not that he doesn't like it, he just never has time to play it.
Really dude? Then how come your steam page says you've played 40 hours of Bad Company 2 in this week alone?
I still use my GameSpy mouse bungee thing, so, ummm...yeah.
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This:
So, what does that thing do? Hold your mouse cord? Fling pastries at your comically inept cartoon villain?
It's actually really fucking useful, I'm still using mine. Basically it stops your chord from getting caught on shit while you play.
I think a snagged cord would be the least of your problems if you've got shit on your desk.
My desk is actually obsessively clean. My mouse chord has to go around a corner, behind my desk and around the back of the desk to the back of my computer. Before I used this thing, it used to get snagged all the time. Now with this thing I've not had one single issue since, and I'll kill anybody that tries to take it from me.
But my gifts are always unappreciated and I don't want to take them back. Them being cheap and silly takes nothing away from the sentiment. Quit judging me. Fuck you.
You ask for gifts back if you deem people to be unappreciative? Really?
It's like... Say you have a favorite movie. Your friend is into that genre of movies, so you buy him the DVD. Only he never watches it. It just sits there up on his shelf for months.
You ask him "So, you ever get around to watching that yet?" and he says that he'll get around to it, he doesn't have time these days... even though you see him watching two movies a night.
This wouldn't bother you at all?
I mean, yeah, maybe I'm a little over-bothered by it, but this has been going on for months, him insisting that he fully intends to get around to it but never even making a token effort. If he would just tell me "Yeah, I don't really want to play it after all" I could drop the whole thing.
You ask for gifts back if you deem people to be unappreciative? Really?
It's like... Say you have a favorite movie. Your friend is into that genre of movies, so you buy him the DVD. Only he never watches it. It just sits there up on his shelf for months.
You ask him "So, you ever get around to watching that yet?" and he says that he'll get around to it, he doesn't have time these days... even though you see him watching two movies a night.
This wouldn't bother you at all?
I mean, yeah, maybe I'm a little over-bothered by it, but this has been going on for months, him insisting that he fully intends to get around to it but never even making a token effort. If he would just tell me "Yeah, I don't really want to play it after all" I could drop the whole thing.
I got my half-finnish/half-british friend a copy of Hot Fuzz for his birthday like six months ago. He still hasn't watched it yet.
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BIT.TRIP BEAT comes out on Steam tomorrow. I love this game. I'm not going to get it on Steam because I already have it on WiiWare, but it's worth checking out. Looks like they're throwing in online leaderboards, which is something people have been requesting on the Wii versions of their games.
Too bad it's actually more expensive than the Wii games.
You ask for gifts back if you deem people to be unappreciative? Really?
It's like... Say you have a favorite movie. Your friend is into that genre of movies, so you buy him the DVD. Only he never watches it. It just sits there up on his shelf for months.
You ask him "So, you ever get around to watching that yet?" and he says that he'll get around to it, he doesn't have time these days... even though you see him watching two movies a night.
This wouldn't bother you at all?
I mean, yeah, maybe I'm a little over-bothered by it, but this has been going on for months, him insisting that he fully intends to get around to it but never even making a token effort. If he would just tell me "Yeah, I don't really want to play it after all" I could drop the whole thing.
I've been in the exact same boat (gifted a game, know for a fact that it's never been played) and I think it's okay to be moderately peeved but not much more than that. Think of all the sweaters you got and never wore. If you never got any sweaters think about how unloved you were as a child.
I'm sure the reason was given, but would someone mind reminding me why Breath of Death VII isn't on Steam yet?
IIRC, they're looking into it and if they do wind up doing it, they're going to put both BoD7 and Chthulu Saves the World in a single package.
Oh, excellent. Glad they're at least considering it.
re: gifting
I feel compelled to play a gift.
Bioshock? Loved the hype, played the demo. Lost interest. Brother decided it would be a good Christmas gift. So I beat it. Then I uninstalled it, and performed a few dark rituals.
I know the frustration of giving someone a gift that they never actually use, but I've also been on the opposite side of that. I got gifted The Witcher, and while I think that was a really nice thing to do in principle, I wound up being pressured to gradually slog through like 60 hours of dreadful juvenile incoherent softcore fantasy porn.
I guess when you give a gift you should accept that it only fulfills its purpose if the person actually wants to use it.
Re: Batman, is it just me or is the voice acting direction(not the quality) kind of bad? Like they aren't really trying.
Excepting Joker, of course.
Nope, cant say that at all. If anything the voice acting was one of the best parts of the game (along with just about everything else the game offered).
I guess you can make a case for Batman himself, but one of the aspects of being the goddamn Batman is keeping your cool in all situations. Granted, I hate the Christian Bale Batman with a passion.
I seem to recall gifting a number of people Deus Ex. I hope they've played it.
I was one of those people! And heck yeah I played it (again...). And I still have The Nameless Mod and Burden of 40 Proof and The Cassandra Project on my list of stuff to play too. It's the gift that keeps on giving! On the other hand it's the best game so it's not like you can expect people to resent that as a gift.
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Half-Life: The Theme Park. Half-Life 3 is going to be set 100% in the real world. Valve have spent the past decade developing the first working HEV suit.
They'll have spent that time working with CERN to prepare for a cascade event scenario.
That seems like a very Valve thing to do
Shit, now I'm excited
Thanks a lot Scottsman
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It's actually really fucking useful, I'm still using mine. Basically it stops your chord from getting caught on shit while you play.
I think a snagged cord would be the least of your problems if you've got shit on your desk.
My desk doubles as a litterbox
A friend of mine is really into stealth games, so I bought him Thief 3 like 6 months ago. He got it running perfectly and everything, but still hasn't beaten the first level. Every time I ask him about it, he says it's not that he doesn't like it, he just never has time to play it.
Really dude? Then how come your steam page says you've played 40 hours of Bad Company 2 in this week alone?
You have a weird idea of gifts
My desk is actually obsessively clean. My mouse chord has to go around a corner, behind my desk and around the back of the desk to the back of my computer. Before I used this thing, it used to get snagged all the time. Now with this thing I've not had one single issue since, and I'll kill anybody that tries to take it from me.
Poorly worded on my part, I meant it's weird that one would want to take back a gift
Not really, he could feel his gift isn't being appreciated and he might like to gift it to someone who would play it and enjoy it instead.
It's like... Say you have a favorite movie. Your friend is into that genre of movies, so you buy him the DVD. Only he never watches it. It just sits there up on his shelf for months.
You ask him "So, you ever get around to watching that yet?" and he says that he'll get around to it, he doesn't have time these days... even though you see him watching two movies a night.
This wouldn't bother you at all?
I mean, yeah, maybe I'm a little over-bothered by it, but this has been going on for months, him insisting that he fully intends to get around to it but never even making a token effort. If he would just tell me "Yeah, I don't really want to play it after all" I could drop the whole thing.
All these and more would surely make you feel better.
Hell if you don't I will.
I got my half-finnish/half-british friend a copy of Hot Fuzz for his birthday like six months ago. He still hasn't watched it yet.
Too bad it's actually more expensive than the Wii games.
IIRC, they're looking into it and if they do wind up doing it, they're going to put both BoD7 and Chthulu Saves the World in a single package.
You should just drop it, because it sounds like he doesn't really want to play it.
I've been in the exact same boat (gifted a game, know for a fact that it's never been played) and I think it's okay to be moderately peeved but not much more than that. Think of all the sweaters you got and never wore. If you never got any sweaters think about how unloved you were as a child.
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Oh, excellent. Glad they're at least considering it.
re: gifting
I feel compelled to play a gift.
Bioshock? Loved the hype, played the demo. Lost interest. Brother decided it would be a good Christmas gift. So I beat it. Then I uninstalled it, and performed a few dark rituals.
I guess when you give a gift you should accept that it only fulfills its purpose if the person actually wants to use it.
I was a little confused, since I had beaten it a few days previous.
Turns out Steam's playtime tracking system isn't terribly accurate sometimes, especially if you bounce in and out of offline mode a lot.
Excepting Joker, of course.
I'm just puting just throwing that out there, you know. Just in case.
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Nope, cant say that at all. If anything the voice acting was one of the best parts of the game (along with just about everything else the game offered).
I guess you can make a case for Batman himself, but one of the aspects of being the goddamn Batman is keeping your cool in all situations. Granted, I hate the Christian Bale Batman with a passion.
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I was one of those people! And heck yeah I played it (again...). And I still have The Nameless Mod and Burden of 40 Proof and The Cassandra Project on my list of stuff to play too. It's the gift that keeps on giving! On the other hand it's the best game so it's not like you can expect people to resent that as a gift.