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There are 10 DAYS left in the Steam Holiday Sale.
We have a great bunch of people here on the site, many of whom give games to others out of the goodness of there own hearts, and to the detriment of their own wallets.
Special mention goes out to:
ArcSyn
Figgy
BigIsy
Gaslight
ProjectMayhem
Lawndart
Morrandir
and
Jintor,
all of whom have done some sort of contest to give away free games. (Sorry if I missed anyone)
These people, and others who just give out games willy-nilly, are the reason why these threads go through 20 pages in an hour around this time of year.
Thanks guys!
The rest of this post was created by, and completely stolen from, our good friend Suds.
BIG OLD LIST OF GAMES ON SALE
Most Frequently Asked Questions
1. Can I register this __Insert Game Here__ on Steam?
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.
2. If I buy a game pack that already includes a game I own, can I gift that game?
No, this was a one-time thing for people who already owned Half-Life 2 and bought the Orange Box. Additional copies you own are lost forever to the ether.
3. Why isn't __Insert Game Here__ available in my region?
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. Gifting works regardless of region so you might find some helpful person in North America who can gift you the game.
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.
2. If I buy a game pack that already includes a game I own, can I gift that game?
No, this was a one-time thing for people who already owned Half-Life 2 and bought the Orange Box. Additional copies you own are lost forever to the ether.
3. Why isn't __Insert Game Here__ available in my region?
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. Gifting works regardless of region so you might find some helpful person in North America who can gift you the game.
Helpful Stuff
Steam Price Guide
Do you have the misfortune to live somewhere other than America? Steam hates you! Luckily, this cool website with prices for Steam games all around the world is here to help, so you can know if you want to ask an American friend to buy the game for you or not.
electricitylikesme wrote: »AUSTRALIANS!!!!
You need this program.
It reconfigures your Windows IPSEC settings (run it as an admin) to block out all but the servers which don't count towards your download quota on Steam. Now supports a bunch of ISPs through a graphical interface.
Basically guarantees you won't add to your download quota with Steam.
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.
Cool Community Add-Ons
Steam Signatures
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!
Sample signature:
Avatars
http://www.ddgamer.com/signatures.php. Select Avatar from the drop down list.
You need to delete your Avatar under:
Edit Avatar
Then add that URL in the Avatar URL field in:
Edit Your Details
Also, the border changes colour based on if you're online, offline or in-game.
Steam Calculator
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.
Steam Sales Tracker
This is apparently a sortable list of all the cool stuff on Steam that you can narrow down via categories (like "on sale") but it may have ceased to work.
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!
Sample signature:
Avatars
http://www.ddgamer.com/signatures.php. Select Avatar from the drop down list.
You need to delete your Avatar under:
Edit Avatar
Then add that URL in the Avatar URL field in:
Edit Your Details
Also, the border changes colour based on if you're online, offline or in-game.
Steam Calculator
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.
Steam Sales Tracker
This is apparently a sortable list of all the cool stuff on Steam that you can narrow down via categories (like "on sale") but it may have ceased to work.
The Mis-Adventures of LewieP
As funny as the following comic is, LewieP does spend a lot of time looking for bargains, for us.
The Steam Circle of Life
This image is from the SomethingAwful forums Steam thread. Hilariously enough it basically describes our Steam thread too:
Steam iPhone App
You have an iPhone? That money could easily have been spent on Steam games. If you want to make the best of your shiny gadget, however, check out this Steam iPhone app. For less than the price of a grande mocha frappacino or whatever, you can buy an unofficial program (which appears to have been created by a PA guy who has not stepped forward if the Armadeaddon screengrab means anything) which does all sorts of Steam shit.
To top it all off, a comic by our own Iolo. It's fun-tastic!
Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
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Anyways yah... I need more monies for these games
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I also don't have the energy to argue it.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
I need a good RPG, preferably something of an older style, anybody know of anythign off steam like that?
Crovax.436 Steam: Crovaxan
No contest from me today I'm afraid, everybody else seems to have it wrapped up quite nicely.
Unless.
Unless...
Today's offering is ONE copy of DEAD RISING 2. In order to win it, post your real-life emergency zombie contigency plan (I KNOW YOU ALL HAVE ONE) here in this thread, and PM me with your email.
Fuck yeah, this generosity thing is awesome.
Maybe im just cheap but I'd rather give away 2 older cheap games rather than 1 $10 game. (Well a bit more over here in £land). Dammit steam make it easier for me to make random interneters smile for a few seconds.
*edit I am cheap. No maybes lol.
Gah!
Yeah, pretty much any parody RPG needs to include that scene.
Case in point: Cthulhu Saves the World
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
I plan to use Pirates! for this very kind of scheme.
Of course then Steam decided I couldn't send a gift out to the only person on my Steam friends list who had Pirates! on their wishlist. Whatever though, I shall not be deterred and eventually somebody is getting Pirates! as a gift!
There are the two Eschalon games (Book 1 and 2). They're pretty old school.
Anyone know if Darksiders has issues with dual monitors? The game keeps crashing on startup for me.
EDIT: i stand by my assessment of bayonetta
DMC was most people's introduction to over the top action
but nothing
NOTHING
beats BIG BANG BONUS
so yeah, genre defining
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Since I live in a forested area with lakes around, I would just bunker down at my house and live off the wildlife that comes around. As for the zombies I have a couple of guns to defend myself. If needed I would go out on the lake.
Posted at 9:30 or so, so you still have 15 minutes to enter.
How much does the GfWL integration suck?
PSN ID : DetectiveOlivaw | TWITTER | STEAM ID | NEVER FORGET
My Backloggery
Hey, new Steam thread means I get to pick
a winner for my Alpha Protocol contest!
So, after sorting through the many awesome entries, I have to give it to An-D for his real-life example of talking his way out of being sent to a Chinese prison.
Since someone else already offered An-D a copy of AP, I'll pick a runner-up just in case. That would be fadingatheedges for accurately identifying two conversation options sorely missing from Alpha Protocol.
So, PM me your email addresses and at least one of you gets a free game!
if i was home i would post my actual copy of
to prove that i am ready for the coming zombie apocalypse.
Crovax.436 Steam: Crovaxan
I'd like to be browsing and see some other cool dude wants the same game, then I can gift it.
Simples.
Most people have annoyances getting it set up, after that its usually not terribly detrimental outside of occasional issues with it eating saves (and hell trying to back them up in any way). Never ran into that one myself though. In my experience its actually not too bad, just usually superfluous.
And like its cousin on the 360, multiplayer matchmaking sucks balls (though thats not applicable to DR2)
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Awesome-tastic!
Get Weapons. Steal Helicopter. Go to Hawaii. Hope zombies dont swim.
Edit: Just need to write one more D=
1. Get a lot of supplies,weapons and scientists and hide in underground bunker.
2. Tell scientists to develop a time machine as fast as possible
3. Go forward in time to the 41st millenium dressed as a space marine and ask for help
4. Come back with space marines
I'm an ESL teacher and that's actually an assignment I give my students - give a presentation in English on what you would do if there was a zombie apocalypse. Very amusing to watch their presentations. My personal favorite was probably "Become a superhero with the ability to turn zombies back into humans."
As for my own contigency plan, pretty straightforward.
1. Have enough supplies on hand that you can hole up for a month or two to let the worst of the outbreak take its toll.
2. After the month, go search for supplies & other capable survivors (the uncapable ones will have died off by now) in your customized armored mini-van.
3. Rebuild civilization in your image with the survivors you've picked up. Divide efforts between salvaging for supplies, killing off remaining zombies nearby, and researching the zombie virus in an attempt to create a new DNA altering chemical that will turn the survivors into superhuman demi-gods.
4. Profit.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
So, there are problems with every location. Houseboat? Zombies will float due to corpse gasses. Secure Basement? What if a fire breaks out in the house above, zombies get a hot meal. Penthouse? Fire below, again, hot zombie lunch.
The way I see it we need to band together and make a Fallout Vault. Just without the
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How is Darksiders annnd how is it with a keyboard and mouse? ALSO! Mass Effect 2. I still havent beaten the first one but should I go ahead and pick up 2?
My house is pretty defensible. It's near a source of freshwater AND all our water comes from our own well. We draw power from a nuclear power plant that happens to be near 2 Army bases, so we'd probably have electricity for a while. We also pretty much live in a forest, so there is plenty of trees for fuel and animals to hunt. I have friends very close by who have multiple firearms and are experienced hunters, and they would definitely stay and help defend a fortified position. So I think I'm pretty good. Plus if shit ever gets bad I can just go up to one of the Army bases, which happens to be the USMA, and if you've ever seen it you know it would stand up to an attack extremely well.
That's right, folks. Mass Effect is on sale, and more people need to share this interstellar love.
Rules are simple, yet complicated. PM me a picture (either photo or poorly MS Paint'd) of yourself or someone else speaking the words "Ah yes, Reapers" while whipping out some rad air quotes. Best picture wins.
And because certain people seem to be doing it, the rule of at least 100 posts and membership longer than 1 year stands. Deadline is tomorrow when the new sales pop up.
What are you waiting for? GO!
Since someone got me reading these from the last thread:
I live in a rural area and know dudes who have a lot of guns
We could live off our own supplies for some time before we had to forage
If a horde came up from the south, we'd pile into our truck, drive as far as we could (away from major population centers) and head north until the zombies freeze
Shelter would be hard to come by, but I know a place we could get a hold of an RV, so that would solve that problem, at least temporarily
After we head west I guess we'd head up past the mountains to California. I got family over there and as long as the infection started on the east coast, it'd probably be safe enough. If not, I hear Alaska is nice, or British Columbia
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It's the fourth Patrician game!
PSN ID : DetectiveOlivaw | TWITTER | STEAM ID | NEVER FORGET
Already have DR2 and ME2 :P
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