Hello Steam thread, long time no see. I finally got a second hard drive (yanked it out of a derelict and useless machine I have), and it is now a dedicated Steam Drive. In fact, I have named it "Steam Drive".
It is 250 gigs, and I am currently re-downloading my entire Steam Library (hoping a majority of it fits) onto it.
I am sooo happy.
That won't be big enough.
Actually, I'm just jealous. Everything I have has to live on a 300GB HDD. I want a 1 TB sooo bad.
Hello Steam thread, long time no see. I finally got a second hard drive (yanked it out of a derelict and useless machine I have), and it is now a dedicated Steam Drive. In fact, I have named it "Steam Drive".
It is 250 gigs, and I am currently re-downloading my entire Steam Library (hoping a majority of it fits) onto it.
I am sooo happy.
That won't be big enough.
Actually, I'm just jealous. Everything I have has to live on a 300GB HDD. I want a 1 TB sooo bad.
oh yeah, my steam folder is bigger than 300 gigs. Good thing there's plenty of space with two terabytes in there 8-)
Why should the RPS review matter more than any other? Seriously, the reviews for Mafia II were all over the map. Read a bunch of them and you'll read many true statements about the game, both positive and negative, and many silly and unfair ones also. Taken together they should give you a pretty good idea what to expect.
Or you could just take my advice that $7.50 is worth it solely for the mission where you go to dispose of a body with your buddies drunkenly singing along to the radio and puking from a combination of inebriation and trunk-corpse stench in the back seat.
1 AUD = 1.00840 USD
Feeling sorta let down by steam. Our dollar is worth more, and we still get charged twice the price.
It's a combination of recommended retail prices in your country and purchasing power.
You have more purchasing power in Australia than an American does, so they charge you more, and publishers can't charge less on Steam than they ask retail outlets to charge, because then the retail outlets would dump their titles.
That and they want to make even more $$$$, so it all works out (for them)!
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
I got the first Mafia for free due to an error on Direct2Drive's part a few months ago, but haven't touched it yet. Should I play that before touching Mafia II?
I got the first Mafia for free due to an error on Direct2Drive's part a few months ago, but haven't touched it yet. Should I play that before touching Mafia II?
I got the first Mafia for free due to an error on Direct2Drive's part a few months ago, but haven't touched it yet. Should I play that before touching Mafia II?
Hah, I got it the same way, due to that error. It made me feel better about never getting the game to install off the discs when I actually bought the game at release.
Still, I can't seem to pull the trigger on 2.
Edit: While I find it funny just how far Crashers has come down in price in less than a month and a half, I also find it shocking how they didn't see that releasing a niche MP game for $30 would pretty much stunt any real chances of building a community. Sadly, from the talk in the forums it's dead in the water. Kinda feel bad for the devs after thinking about it more.
The expansions are fantastic. Atleast Jimmys Vendeta or whatever its called. Its basically a new character's story. You're even more of a psycho. You get points for everything you do. Kill folks, drive fast, near misses. Its a much faster paced game than the original and honestly, I prefer this character to Vito too.
The expansions are fantastic. Atleast Jimmys Vendeta or whatever its called. Its basically a new character's story. You're even more of a psycho. You get points for everything you do. Kill folks, drive fast, near misses. Its a much faster paced game than the original and honestly, I prefer this character to Vito too.
To clarify, they're mostly a different style of game. You're still driving to places, getting chased/chasing and shooting people, but in a much lighter narrative framework (which will be a plus or minus depending on how you felt about the main game). They also have arcade-style scoring mechanics which reward you for doing things fast, crazily and with variety.
Incidentally, Joe's Adventure does include quite a bit of original cutscenes and acting, and follows Joe on his path of the main story. I really liked them when they were 75% off during Christmas. Not sure if they're worth full price. And only ever get those two - the other stuff's junk. Ever wondered why you can wear precisely 4 different items of clothing in the game? This stuff is why.
Well it's not an open world, just an excuse to have you drive around for every mission. Story execution is still great. My main gripe with Mafia 1 was the lethality/bullshit of certain weapons like the shotgun You would be playing a mission for 20 minutes and BAM someone spawned behind you with a shotgun, instant death. Incredibly frustrating.
Or the dreaded racing mission ...
Mafia 2 seems to have foregone on story (I can take RPS' word for it with the examples they provided) in favor of blunt repetitive action (GONNA STOMP EM) so I lost all interest. Maybe if they release a Mafia 2 ultimate kit some day with the story DLC.
Mafia 2 seems to have foregone on story (I can take RPS' word for it with the examples they provided) in favor of blunt repetitive action (GONNA STOMP EM)
I tried to play Mafia 1 again before 2 came out, and I still think it's one of the worst executions of an open-world game I've ever seen.
2 remains one of the worst executions of any kind of game I've ever seen. $7.50 is way way way too much to pay for that heap.
Mafia 1 is not an open world game. It's a story based third person action game with an open world you can explore between missions if you want. Mafia is probably one of the best told stories in a videogame. It's incredibly poignant.
Hello Steam thread, long time no see. I finally got a second hard drive (yanked it out of a derelict and useless machine I have), and it is now a dedicated Steam Drive. In fact, I have named it "Steam Drive".
It is 250 gigs, and I am currently re-downloading my entire Steam Library (hoping a majority of it fits) onto it.
I am sooo happy.
That won't be big enough.
Actually, I'm just jealous. Everything I have has to live on a 300GB HDD. I want a 1 TB sooo bad.
oh yeah, my steam folder is bigger than 300 gigs. Good thing there's plenty of space with two terabytes in there 8-)
My Steam just got its own dedicated 1 TB drive, everything installed is roughly 600 GB of steam games or should I say .
Steam deals are so plentiful and I can't keep myself from buying them all :P.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
They finally added the last two Majesty 2 DLC packs to Steam. As a result, they've also put Majesty 2 proper and the first DLC on sale for $4 and $2 respectively. Not a bad deal on those at all.
Majesty 2 is great if you want to play an RTS where you don't directly control your units. Instead, you put bounties on areas of the map so characters will go and explore/destroy monster lairs. I got it for $14 or so a while back and only made it 6 or 7 missions in, but it's pretty fun. I think I am at the point where it apparently gets very difficult.
I would like to state for the record that Recettear is an awesome, wonderful game and anyone who likes JRPGs should give it a shot. It is probably one of my top five or so favorite games out of the 70 or whatever I have on steam.
I tried to play Mafia 1 again before 2 came out, and I still think it's one of the worst executions of an open-world game I've ever seen.
2 remains one of the worst executions of any kind of game I've ever seen. $7.50 is way way way too much to pay for that heap.
Mafia 1 is not an open world game. It's a story based third person action game with an open world you can explore between missions if you want. Mafia is probably one of the best told stories in a videogame. It's incredibly poignant.
With Tycho on this one, Mafia 1 is a great story, to put it off because your expectations of a open world isn't what you expected is a bad idea.
I've had Puzzle Agent in my games list since one of the deals late last year and today I started it up for the first time. Turns out that it's a pretty short game and that I finished it including all 37 puzzles in just over 3 hours.
I tried to play Mafia 1 again before 2 came out, and I still think it's one of the worst executions of an open-world game I've ever seen.
2 remains one of the worst executions of any kind of game I've ever seen. $7.50 is way way way too much to pay for that heap.
Mafia 1 is not an open world game. It's a story based third person action game with an open world you can explore between missions if you want. Mafia is probably one of the best told stories in a videogame. It's incredibly poignant.
With Tycho on this one, Mafia 1 is a great story, to put it off because your expectations of a open world isn't what you expected is a bad idea.
I played through it all the way when it came out. My problem is that all it is is a good story. Mafia 2 didn't even have the story part.
Mafia 2 looks interesting to me, but I'll wait for a "everything included" version, before I buy it.
It's over six months old, and they aren't making more DLC. If it hasn't happened already, it's not going to.
Specifically, it already happened at Christmas, with the base game being £5 and the two worthwhile DLC packs being £1.60. A little odd that they haven't gone on sale this time, but 1) they will at some point in the future, and 2) they in absolutely no way affect your experience of the base game. This isn't a Dragon Age situation.
I've had Puzzle Agent in my games list since one of the deals late last year and today I started it up for the first time. Turns out that it's a pretty short game and that I finished it including all 37 puzzles in just over 3 hours.
I feel like I've played longer than that but I do take my damn sweet time on games.
The only problem I have with this game is that the puzzle rules don't always make as much sense as they could. Sometimes I'm not so clear on what my goal is or what I can and can't do. Frankly, the only thing that makes me realize this game isn't as good as it could be is that I have played Prof. Layton.
I tried to play Mafia 1 again before 2 came out, and I still think it's one of the worst executions of an open-world game I've ever seen.
2 remains one of the worst executions of any kind of game I've ever seen. $7.50 is way way way too much to pay for that heap.
Mafia 1 is not an open world game. It's a story based third person action game with an open world you can explore between missions if you want. Mafia is probably one of the best told stories in a videogame. It's incredibly poignant.
With Tycho on this one, Mafia 1 is a great story, to put it off because your expectations of a open world isn't what you expected is a bad idea.
I played through it all the way when it came out. My problem is that all it is is a good story. Mafia 2 didn't even have the story part.
That's like saying the problem with Doom is that all it is is a good shooter. Some games aim to do one thing and do it extremely well. Mafia basically gave you a game version of The Godfather. I actually enjoyed the gunplay and the old-timey driving sequences with their old-timey music, but really, Mafia tried and succeeded where it counts.
I got stuck right in. RTS's aren't really my thing, broad strategy isn't my thing, but this is my thing. The tutorials and mission narration are done by Faux Connery with his best Highlander, everything's bright and bold and sharp, you can pause whenever you want, quicksave whenever you want and there's very little bloody micromanagement.
For anyone not familiar with the USP, it's an approachable town builder/RPG where you recruit heroes, upgrade them and do quests, but it's all accomplished through indirect control. Want someone to clear out that bear cave? Drop a bounty on it large enough to attract the especially beefy heroes. Want your clerics to use mana potions? Research them and sell them at the market, netting yourself a handy extra revenue stream. Everything's about the flow of money - you need to dump a ton of it into progressing through the objectives, but also need to build a sound economy and well-equipped adventurers to keep it all ticking over. One thing I liked - the more money you give to your heroes for doing quests, the more you'll reap back when they splurge it all on shiny new stuff.
I'd say it has quite big crossover potential - and it feels like a 'proper' PC game too. You can disable the intro movies in the options!
I've been wanting to buy Majesty 2 for a while now, so I snapped it up, but I'm using a netbook at the moment, so I was disappointed that Majesty 1 wasn't on sale.
Then I checked the first game's store page anyway - turns out its regular price is only £3.49, so I snapped that up too.
I got stuck right in. RTS's aren't really my thing, broad strategy isn't my thing, but this is my thing. The tutorials and mission narration are done by Faux Connery with his best Highlander, everything's bright and bold and sharp, you can pause whenever you want, quicksave whenever you want and there's very little bloody micromanagement.
For anyone not familiar with the USP, it's an approachable town builder/RPG where you recruit heroes, upgrade them and do quests, but it's all accomplished through indirect control. Want someone to clear out that bear cave? Drop a bounty on it large enough to attract the especially beefy heroes. Want your clerics to use mana potions? Research them and sell them at the market, netting yourself a handy extra revenue stream. Everything's about the flow of money - you need to dump a ton of it into progressing through the objectives, but also need to build a sound economy and well-equipped adventurers to keep it all ticking over. One thing I liked - the more money you give to your heroes for doing quests, the more you'll reap back when they splurge it all on shiny new stuff.
I'd say it has quite big crossover potential - and it feels like a 'proper' PC game too. You can disable the intro movies in the options!
I am consistently terrible at RTS but I was sufficiently competent at Majesty 1 to complete the SP campaign. Issuing orders while paused and not directly controlling units makes a big difference.
It occurred to me today that as genres go Majesty might actually be closer to a tower defense game than an RTS. (I don't think I knew what a tower defense game was when I played it originally. )
In unrelated news, do you know what I want? I want my Amazon.com gift certificates to be usable on Steam. I'm going to end up buying a boxed version of Portal because free is better than not free even though I'd rather just buy it from Steam directly.
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That won't be big enough.
oh yeah, my steam folder is bigger than 300 gigs. Good thing there's plenty of space with two terabytes in there 8-)
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Why should the RPS review matter more than any other? Seriously, the reviews for Mafia II were all over the map. Read a bunch of them and you'll read many true statements about the game, both positive and negative, and many silly and unfair ones also. Taken together they should give you a pretty good idea what to expect.
Or you could just take my advice that $7.50 is worth it solely for the mission where you go to dispose of a body with your buddies drunkenly singing along to the radio and puking from a combination of inebriation and trunk-corpse stench in the back seat.
Of course, the former are $2.99 and the latter are $10.
It's a combination of recommended retail prices in your country and purchasing power.
You have more purchasing power in Australia than an American does, so they charge you more, and publishers can't charge less on Steam than they ask retail outlets to charge, because then the retail outlets would dump their titles.
My Backloggery
Hah, I got it the same way, due to that error. It made me feel better about never getting the game to install off the discs when I actually bought the game at release.
Still, I can't seem to pull the trigger on 2.
Edit: While I find it funny just how far Crashers has come down in price in less than a month and a half, I also find it shocking how they didn't see that releasing a niche MP game for $30 would pretty much stunt any real chances of building a community. Sadly, from the talk in the forums it's dead in the water. Kinda feel bad for the devs after thinking about it more.
Do they receive some sort of notification? Or do you just disappear from their friends list?
I'm guessing the latter.
The expansions are fantastic. Atleast Jimmys Vendeta or whatever its called. Its basically a new character's story. You're even more of a psycho. You get points for everything you do. Kill folks, drive fast, near misses. Its a much faster paced game than the original and honestly, I prefer this character to Vito too.
To clarify, they're mostly a different style of game. You're still driving to places, getting chased/chasing and shooting people, but in a much lighter narrative framework (which will be a plus or minus depending on how you felt about the main game). They also have arcade-style scoring mechanics which reward you for doing things fast, crazily and with variety.
Incidentally, Joe's Adventure does include quite a bit of original cutscenes and acting, and follows Joe on his path of the main story. I really liked them when they were 75% off during Christmas. Not sure if they're worth full price. And only ever get those two - the other stuff's junk. Ever wondered why you can wear precisely 4 different items of clothing in the game? This stuff is why.
2 remains one of the worst executions of any kind of game I've ever seen. $7.50 is way way way too much to pay for that heap.
Or the dreaded racing mission ...
Mafia 2 seems to have foregone on story (I can take RPS' word for it with the examples they provided) in favor of blunt repetitive action (GONNA STOMP EM) so I lost all interest. Maybe if they release a Mafia 2 ultimate kit some day with the story DLC.
No it didn't, and no you can't.
Mafia 1 is not an open world game. It's a story based third person action game with an open world you can explore between missions if you want. Mafia is probably one of the best told stories in a videogame. It's incredibly poignant.
My Steam just got its own dedicated 1 TB drive, everything installed is roughly 600 GB of steam games
Steam deals are so plentiful and I can't keep myself from buying them all :P.
Majesty 2 is great if you want to play an RTS where you don't directly control your units. Instead, you put bounties on areas of the map so characters will go and explore/destroy monster lairs. I got it for $14 or so a while back and only made it 6 or 7 missions in, but it's pretty fun. I think I am at the point where it apparently gets very difficult.
My Backloggery
With Tycho on this one, Mafia 1 is a great story, to put it off because your expectations of a open world isn't what you expected is a bad idea.
My Backloggery
I played through it all the way when it came out. My problem is that all it is is a good story. Mafia 2 didn't even have the story part.
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It's over six months old, and they aren't making more DLC. If it hasn't happened already, it's not going to.
Specifically, it already happened at Christmas, with the base game being £5 and the two worthwhile DLC packs being £1.60. A little odd that they haven't gone on sale this time, but 1) they will at some point in the future, and 2) they in absolutely no way affect your experience of the base game. This isn't a Dragon Age situation.
I enjoyed Majesty but never played Majesty 2. $2 is pretty nice. But I never tried it because I didn't think it had a demo; google said otherwise.
Why oh why, if your game has a demo, would you not put it on Steam?
I don't get it.
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I feel like I've played longer than that but I do take my damn sweet time on games.
The only problem I have with this game is that the puzzle rules don't always make as much sense as they could. Sometimes I'm not so clear on what my goal is or what I can and can't do. Frankly, the only thing that makes me realize this game isn't as good as it could be is that I have played Prof. Layton.
That's like saying the problem with Doom is that all it is is a good shooter. Some games aim to do one thing and do it extremely well. Mafia basically gave you a game version of The Godfather. I actually enjoyed the gunplay and the old-timey driving sequences with their old-timey music, but really, Mafia tried and succeeded where it counts.
Dammit, Valve. I'd get angry for making you waste six dollars on a game I have no intention of actually playing right now, but it's only six dollars.
I got stuck right in. RTS's aren't really my thing, broad strategy isn't my thing, but this is my thing. The tutorials and mission narration are done by Faux Connery with his best Highlander, everything's bright and bold and sharp, you can pause whenever you want, quicksave whenever you want and there's very little bloody micromanagement.
For anyone not familiar with the USP, it's an approachable town builder/RPG where you recruit heroes, upgrade them and do quests, but it's all accomplished through indirect control. Want someone to clear out that bear cave? Drop a bounty on it large enough to attract the especially beefy heroes. Want your clerics to use mana potions? Research them and sell them at the market, netting yourself a handy extra revenue stream. Everything's about the flow of money - you need to dump a ton of it into progressing through the objectives, but also need to build a sound economy and well-equipped adventurers to keep it all ticking over. One thing I liked - the more money you give to your heroes for doing quests, the more you'll reap back when they splurge it all on shiny new stuff.
I'd say it has quite big crossover potential - and it feels like a 'proper' PC game too. You can disable the intro movies in the options!
Then I checked the first game's store page anyway - turns out its regular price is only £3.49, so I snapped that up too.
I am consistently terrible at RTS but I was sufficiently competent at Majesty 1 to complete the SP campaign. Issuing orders while paused and not directly controlling units makes a big difference.
It occurred to me today that as genres go Majesty might actually be closer to a tower defense game than an RTS. (I don't think I knew what a tower defense game was when I played it originally.
In unrelated news, do you know what I want? I want my Amazon.com gift certificates to be usable on Steam. I'm going to end up buying a boxed version of Portal because free is better than not free even though I'd rather just buy it from Steam directly.
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