For setting up Steam I think that could work, but for the game I believe it'll only work on PC though the whole steam on ps3 thing is pretty new so I could be wrong.
You can also send a gift directly to an email address, I believe, and then they will claim it as soon as they register an account from the email it sends.
But it's probably easier to have an account first.
On Majesty 2: The game is real fun but it gets absurdly hard after the first few levels. That said, it's really fun. If you like things that are kinda similar to city sims but still kinda different then it is probably up your alley and worth picking up on a sale.
On Steam: I cannot for the life of me imagine why someone who likes PC games, and wants PC games to be good, would be anything other than a huge fan of Steam (and Valve for making Steam happen). Let's take a few data points here.
-I have 405 games in my Steam library. That's like, a shitload of games. I can download any of them at any time to any PC I want. I own them all legally. Some of them are pretty hard to find in places that aren't Steam. I've downloaded them all to my gaming PC and the Steam folder shot up over a terabyte big.
-Those 405 games? I spent like, a total of maybe $600-$700 at the outside on them. According to Suds' sig generator my account is worth something like $3500. I'm talking games that go for $60 at Gamestop which I picked up for $4. Or packs of games worth $150 that I got for $20.
-Outside of Steam-based sales you would be extremely hard-pressed to name more than a handful of successful indie developers, and the ones that actually spring to my mind do two things: make super niche games (infantry and flight simulators for neckbeards) and have contracts with the military.
-Steam is the reason that Frictional is capable of publishing their own games and staying in business. Amnesia made a huge profit and sold absurdly well for an eastern-european company with a core group of 5 developers. (Up to like half a million copies sold now?) Similarly, Tripwire is a success story because of Steam. Killing Floor goes on sale every month or so and sells like hotcakes, because it's really fucking awesome but more because you have millions of gamers signing in and getting a popup about a neat Zombie shooter they can play with their friends that only costs like $10. There are probably hundreds of these little companies that are doing really well making extremely innovative games that actually move gaming as an art form forward, games like Audiosurf and Amnesia. These companies quite simply could not survive making PC games in an environment that didn't have Steam, because they could never in a million years get enough advertising to make money. But Steam is huge dickloads of advertising for these awesome games.
I can understand not liking DRM but seriously Steam's DRM is almost identical to the DRM you get on a console-based downloadable game. And the consoles don't have the support infrastructure in place to handle AAA releases like the latest Call of Duty or Mass Effect or whatever, with servers and voice support and everything.
Seriously. Steam isn't perfect by any means. But in a very real way it's the best thing that's ever happened to PC gaming.
Seriously tho, in real life I have things like peripheral vision and full control of my hands and legs for moving and aiming. In first person games I feel like I'm moving with tunnel vision and zero awareness of my surroundings. I *hate* it.
This is off topic, but in most first person shooters, you won't have fatigue for moving said hands and legs (bunny hopping, anyone?), and in real life, you don't have the inhuman ability to actually hit a target with a firearm based on where your crosshairs are. Until we get Shadowrun-style Smartgun links, it takes a lot of training, skill, and some amount of luck to hit as well as an average gamer can in an average FPS. Even if you are a trained soldier in real life, you won't have the reflexes and aim of a mouse-keyboard using FPS fanatic.
The "tunnel vision" thing is not quite valid, because peripheral vision really sucks. If a single thing is in motion in your peripheral vision, your brain is not able to process any changes in color or shape of that object unless you focus your vision on it (there have been several neat studies in the past 5 years that demonstrate this... it's also the basis for a lot of optical illusions). You FEEL like your peripheral vision is good, because you've lived with it all your life and you're used to it. In reality, the focus of our vision is very small, and we rely on a lot of involuntary eye muscle movement to obtain larger fields of visual information.
And from the tech side, you can just increase your FOV and get a widescreen monitor. *shrugs*
Anytime my internet cuts out, if I try to tell Steam to start in off-line mode, it tells me it can't because it can't connect to the Steam servers.
I've used the offline mode only for my secondary computer so I could play the offline games while playing some other game/s on my main computer and what I basically used to do was pull out the internet cable (had easy access) and play them. So it certainly shouldn't be a huge issue if it's working like it should.
Yeah, offline mode used to hang for me when my connection dropped, just searching fruitlessly until saying it couldn't, but disconnecting the ethernet cable made it snap right into offline mode. So, try that.
On Majesty 2: The game is real fun but it gets absurdly hard after the first few levels. That said, it's really fun. If you like things that are kinda similar to city sims but still kinda different then it is probably up your alley and worth picking up on a sale.
On Steam: I cannot for the life of me imagine why someone who likes PC games, and wants PC games to be good, would be anything other than a huge fan of Steam (and Valve for making Steam happen). Let's take a few data points here.
-I have 405 games in my Steam library. That's like, a shitload of games. I can download any of them at any time to any PC I want. I own them all legally. Some of them are pretty hard to find in places that aren't Steam. I've downloaded them all to my gaming PC and the Steam folder shot up over a terabyte big.
-Those 405 games? I spent like, a total of maybe $600-$700 at the outside on them. According to Suds' sig generator my account is worth something like $3500. I'm talking games that go for $60 at Gamestop which I picked up for $4. Or packs of games worth $150 that I got for $20.
-Outside of Steam-based sales you would be extremely hard-pressed to name more than a handful of successful indie developers, and the ones that actually spring to my mind do two things: make super niche games (infantry and flight simulators for neckbeards) and have contracts with the military.
-Steam is the reason that Frictional is capable of publishing their own games and staying in business. Amnesia made a huge profit and sold absurdly well for an eastern-european company with a core group of 5 developers. (Up to like half a million copies sold now?) Similarly, Tripwire is a success story because of Steam. Killing Floor goes on sale every month or so and sells like hotcakes, because it's really fucking awesome but more because you have millions of gamers signing in and getting a popup about a neat Zombie shooter they can play with their friends that only costs like $10. There are probably hundreds of these little companies that are doing really well making extremely innovative games that actually move gaming as an art form forward, games like Audiosurf and Amnesia. These companies quite simply could not survive making PC games in an environment that didn't have Steam, because they could never in a million years get enough advertising to make money. But Steam is huge dickloads of advertising for these awesome games.
I can understand not liking DRM but seriously Steam's DRM is almost identical to the DRM you get on a console-based downloadable game. And the consoles don't have the support infrastructure in place to handle AAA releases like the latest Call of Duty or Mass Effect or whatever, with servers and voice support and everything.
Seriously. Steam isn't perfect by any means. But in a very real way it's the best thing that's ever happened to PC gaming.
Stupid search being disabled... Anyone pick up Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes? If not, go do it and report back how it is.
Word is the game is awful.
This word is correct. The game is indeed awful. Bad art, graphics are all fuzzy and full of ridiculous amounts of bloom, The writing was NOT good, and the strategy gameplay was barebones. Granted, the gameplay could get more complex later, but I couldn't stomach everything else to find out. I'm a guy who can ignore MANY flaws in a SRPG, since I love the genre so much, but I just could NOT play Grotesque.
Gamestop has New Vegas on sale for $20. Steamworks, so it should register fine. Or I guess if you don't want mods, the console versions are the same price too
OK gents, and I use this term loosely, since this /is/ the steam thread and I'm just that kind of dood...
Contest Time!
The contest is a simple one. I think you are all assholes. This is indeed fact. So in that theme, this contest is a gallery of why human's can't be trusted.
How do you enter? Well, simple! Be an asshole. Video or screenshot(s) are valid entries. Something done after this posting, not some previous work squirreled away.
This can, of course, be against a CPU opponent, but acts of untrustworthiness against actual people will of course get you more points.
This doesn't have to be screwing over your own team or anything either (Though that's always hilarious) it can just as easily be really screwing over your opponents or just ganking strangers.
The reward will be, of course, Portal 2. Being the motivation for this theme.
The deadline will be... I dunno, what's today? 20th? So the 27th. A week should be sufficient. Yes, I know, terribly long and all. Still, I want those working and such to have a fair chance as well.
Editing in: PM me a link to your entry post. I'm usually lurking most of the day, either from home or my phone, but Id rather not miss your entry (or just forget about it. Frankly, I'm a bit goldfishy at times.) Also usual 'be someone' limitation. Don't need a billion posts or anything but having existed for more than a month and at least made a passable attempt at being a part of this classy community would be best.
I am posting this again for people who don't skim enough. I know a lot of you have Just Cause 2, it isn't hard to hook some dude to a gas tank and end his existence or something similar. For all the people lamenting not being able to get Portal 2, I'm sad at the lack of interest. Very sad.
I'd love Portal 2, and I often portray myself as 'Evil' in many ways. But I dislike a-holes, so I'll pass on that, despite it being a great opportunity xD
Have you considered people might be being extreme a-holes by *not* participating? Just look at some of those shifty people in the posts above >.> <,<
Gamestop has New Vegas on sale for $20. Steamworks, so it should register fine. Or I guess if you don't want mods, the console versions are the same price too
*drool* waiting for a good Eurozone sale and then this baby is mine, wanted this one for a long time. I'll even forego waiting for a combined DLC package/GOTY/Ultimate whatever xD
That said, it seems to have been spotted supposedly... although... that'd be far too soon wouldn't it?
I'd love Portal 2, and I often portray myself as 'Evil' in many ways. But I dislike a-holes, so I'll pass on that, despite it being a great opportunity xD
Ditto.
Well, and the best idea I can come up with is gifting this supposedly horrible midweek madness game. Or hitman 2
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
The steam client is really giving me problems. Getting a lot of blank screens and pages that won't save my info.
On top of that the PSN appears to be down so I can't install steam on my ps3 either.
I may have to do this tomorrow guys, thanks for the help tho.
You can't actually install Steam onto your PSN; it's integrated with Portal 2 on the PS3 version, but there's no way to play your PC version of Portal on your PS3. Hell, I don't think the first game even came out on PS3.
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Yeah it did, as part of the Orange Box.
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Oops, for some reason I thought the Orange Box skipped the PS3. I guess I just lumped it in with Gabe's original stance on the PS3 and why they weren't bringing L4D to the console.
Oops, for some reason I thought the Orange Box skipped the PS3. I guess I just lumped it in with Gabe's original stance on the PS3 and why they weren't bringing L4D to the console.
You're not too far off; Valve didn't even touch the PS3 version of the OB and left it to EA to port it (which, they apparently did a less than stellar job on), and has pretty much disowned it. It certainly wasn't the amount love the put into it for, say, Portal 2.
As someone who bought the Orange Box for PS3, Portal may as well have never come out for the platform.
Is it really that bad? I considered getting it so I could play through the HL2 series with my wife on the couch next to me, but if it is a mess, I'll just avoid it.
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AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
As someone who bought the Orange Box for PS3, Portal may as well have never come out for the platform.
Is it really that bad? I considered getting it so I could play through the HL2 series with my wife on the couch next to me, but if it is a mess, I'll just avoid it.
The issue is that valve's games demand a lot of precision shooting that the PS3 isn't good at. Like doing the Portal thing where you keep opening portals in front of yourself to get more momentum is tough. Ep2's finale is pretty impossible.
Did the Steam Calculator previously allow you to see the highest/lowest theoretical values for your account depending on whether you'd caught the sales, or am I just imagining shit?
Did the Steam Calculator previously allow you to see the highest/lowest theoretical values for your account depending on whether you'd caught the sales, or am I just imagining shit?
Are you using the site called Steam Calculator? I'm not familiar with that one, but Sud's site, DDGamer, does have that feature.
EDIT: There must be something wrong with the way it detects packages. It wants me to have bought both the Potato Sack and Potato Sack + Portal 2. Also, I would think that Garry's Mod alone would be cheaper than Garry's Mod + Counter-Strike Source.
OK gents, and I use this term loosely, since this /is/ the steam thread and I'm just that kind of dood...
Contest Time!
The contest is a simple one. I think you are all assholes. This is indeed fact. So in that theme, this contest is a gallery of why human's can't be trusted.
How do you enter? Well, simple! Be an asshole. Video or screenshot(s) are valid entries. Something done after this posting, not some previous work squirreled away.
This can, of course, be against a CPU opponent, but acts of untrustworthiness against actual people will of course get you more points.
This doesn't have to be screwing over your own team or anything either (Though that's always hilarious) it can just as easily be really screwing over your opponents or just ganking strangers.
The reward will be, of course, Portal 2. Being the motivation for this theme.
The deadline will be... I dunno, what's today? 20th? So the 27th. A week should be sufficient. Yes, I know, terribly long and all. Still, I want those working and such to have a fair chance as well.
Editing in: PM me a link to your entry post. I'm usually lurking most of the day, either from home or my phone, but Id rather not miss your entry (or just forget about it. Frankly, I'm a bit goldfishy at times.) Also usual 'be someone' limitation. Don't need a billion posts or anything but having existed for more than a month and at least made a passable attempt at being a part of this classy community would be best.
I am posting this again for people who don't skim enough. I know a lot of you have Just Cause 2, it isn't hard to hook some dude to a gas tank and end his existence or something similar. For all the people lamenting not being able to get Portal 2, I'm sad at the lack of interest. Very sad.
I'm interested, but my social skills in general are weak and because of that, I try my best to be a nice person at all times and don't really have any asshole stories to tell. That said, I did lose it in epic style on RPS the other day and posted , eh, a post that was mostly foul language in response to the massive whining about Portal 2, Valve, and the ARG.
I'm not going to link to it, however, because I have deleted it now and feel rather embarassed about the whole thing. I'll wait for P2 to go on sale. :oops:
I'm interested, but my social skills in general are weak and because of that, I try my best to be a nice person at all times and don't really have any asshole stories to tell. That said, I did lose it in epic style on RPS the other day and posted , eh, a post that was mostly foul language in response to the massive whining about Portal 2, Valve, and the ARG.
I'm not going to link to it, however, because I have deleted it now and feel rather embarassed about the whole thing. I'll wait for P2 to go on sale. :oops:
..As I stated in the post you quoted, you /can/ just fire up some random game and be a total asshole to the AI. Its in the spirit of just doing something generally lulz worthy. Are you telling me you've never tried to herd old people into an area and run them over in GTA or similar?
Since people seem overly squeamish about doing that sort of thing to other /people/ and all, I had thought ahead and said the CPU is just fine too.
OK gents, and I use this term loosely, since this /is/ the steam thread and I'm just that kind of dood...
Contest Time!
The contest is a simple one. I think you are all assholes. This is indeed fact. So in that theme, this contest is a gallery of why human's can't be trusted.
How do you enter? Well, simple! Be an asshole. Video or screenshot(s) are valid entries. Something done after this posting, not some previous work squirreled away.
This can, of course, be against a CPU opponent, but acts of untrustworthiness against actual people will of course get you more points.
This doesn't have to be screwing over your own team or anything either (Though that's always hilarious) it can just as easily be really screwing over your opponents or just ganking strangers.
The reward will be, of course, Portal 2. Being the motivation for this theme.
The deadline will be... I dunno, what's today? 20th? So the 27th. A week should be sufficient. Yes, I know, terribly long and all. Still, I want those working and such to have a fair chance as well.
Editing in: PM me a link to your entry post. I'm usually lurking most of the day, either from home or my phone, but Id rather not miss your entry (or just forget about it. Frankly, I'm a bit goldfishy at times.) Also usual 'be someone' limitation. Don't need a billion posts or anything but having existed for more than a month and at least made a passable attempt at being a part of this classy community would be best.
I am posting this again for people who don't skim enough. I know a lot of you have Just Cause 2, it isn't hard to hook some dude to a gas tank and end his existence or something similar. For all the people lamenting not being able to get Portal 2, I'm sad at the lack of interest. Very sad.
I'm in!
Here's some fool I took out in Burnout: Paradise. How's your truck look now?
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But it's probably easier to have an account first.
I can't seem to add you since I don't have any games yet?
On top of that the PSN appears to be down so I can't install steam on my ps3 either.
I may have to do this tomorrow guys, thanks for the help tho.
On Steam: I cannot for the life of me imagine why someone who likes PC games, and wants PC games to be good, would be anything other than a huge fan of Steam (and Valve for making Steam happen). Let's take a few data points here.
-I have 405 games in my Steam library. That's like, a shitload of games. I can download any of them at any time to any PC I want. I own them all legally. Some of them are pretty hard to find in places that aren't Steam. I've downloaded them all to my gaming PC and the Steam folder shot up over a terabyte big.
-Those 405 games? I spent like, a total of maybe $600-$700 at the outside on them. According to Suds' sig generator my account is worth something like $3500. I'm talking games that go for $60 at Gamestop which I picked up for $4. Or packs of games worth $150 that I got for $20.
-Outside of Steam-based sales you would be extremely hard-pressed to name more than a handful of successful indie developers, and the ones that actually spring to my mind do two things: make super niche games (infantry and flight simulators for neckbeards) and have contracts with the military.
-Steam is the reason that Frictional is capable of publishing their own games and staying in business. Amnesia made a huge profit and sold absurdly well for an eastern-european company with a core group of 5 developers. (Up to like half a million copies sold now?) Similarly, Tripwire is a success story because of Steam. Killing Floor goes on sale every month or so and sells like hotcakes, because it's really fucking awesome but more because you have millions of gamers signing in and getting a popup about a neat Zombie shooter they can play with their friends that only costs like $10. There are probably hundreds of these little companies that are doing really well making extremely innovative games that actually move gaming as an art form forward, games like Audiosurf and Amnesia. These companies quite simply could not survive making PC games in an environment that didn't have Steam, because they could never in a million years get enough advertising to make money. But Steam is huge dickloads of advertising for these awesome games.
I can understand not liking DRM but seriously Steam's DRM is almost identical to the DRM you get on a console-based downloadable game. And the consoles don't have the support infrastructure in place to handle AAA releases like the latest Call of Duty or Mass Effect or whatever, with servers and voice support and everything.
Seriously. Steam isn't perfect by any means. But in a very real way it's the best thing that's ever happened to PC gaming.
I mean that in the most loving way possible.
The "tunnel vision" thing is not quite valid, because peripheral vision really sucks. If a single thing is in motion in your peripheral vision, your brain is not able to process any changes in color or shape of that object unless you focus your vision on it (there have been several neat studies in the past 5 years that demonstrate this... it's also the basis for a lot of optical illusions). You FEEL like your peripheral vision is good, because you've lived with it all your life and you're used to it. In reality, the focus of our vision is very small, and we rely on a lot of involuntary eye muscle movement to obtain larger fields of visual information.
And from the tech side, you can just increase your FOV and get a widescreen monitor. *shrugs*
But then most of us aren't that into it.
I've used the offline mode only for my secondary computer so I could play the offline games while playing some other game/s on my main computer and what I basically used to do was pull out the internet cable (had easy access) and play them. So it certainly shouldn't be a huge issue if it's working like it should.
Bravo. :^:
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Word is the game is awful.
I am posting this again for people who don't skim enough. I know a lot of you have Just Cause 2, it isn't hard to hook some dude to a gas tank and end his existence or something similar. For all the people lamenting not being able to get Portal 2, I'm sad at the lack of interest. Very sad.
Have you considered people might be being extreme a-holes by *not* participating? Just look at some of those shifty people in the posts above >.> <,<
*drool* waiting for a good Eurozone sale and then this baby is mine, wanted this one for a long time. I'll even forego waiting for a combined DLC package/GOTY/Ultimate whatever xD
That said, it seems to have been spotted supposedly... although... that'd be far too soon wouldn't it?
Ditto.
Well, and the best idea I can come up with is gifting this supposedly horrible midweek madness game. Or hitman 2
You can't actually install Steam onto your PSN; it's integrated with Portal 2 on the PS3 version, but there's no way to play your PC version of Portal on your PS3. Hell, I don't think the first game even came out on PS3.
You're not too far off; Valve didn't even touch the PS3 version of the OB and left it to EA to port it (which, they apparently did a less than stellar job on), and has pretty much disowned it. It certainly wasn't the amount love the put into it for, say, Portal 2.
Is it really that bad? I considered getting it so I could play through the HL2 series with my wife on the couch next to me, but if it is a mess, I'll just avoid it.
The issue is that valve's games demand a lot of precision shooting that the PS3 isn't good at. Like doing the Portal thing where you keep opening portals in front of yourself to get more momentum is tough. Ep2's finale is pretty impossible.
HL2 is playable, but not great.
Seemed just fine to me.
Are you using the site called Steam Calculator? I'm not familiar with that one, but Sud's site, DDGamer, does have that feature.
EDIT: There must be something wrong with the way it detects packages. It wants me to have bought both the Potato Sack and Potato Sack + Portal 2. Also, I would think that Garry's Mod alone would be cheaper than Garry's Mod + Counter-Strike Source.
I'm interested, but my social skills in general are weak and because of that, I try my best to be a nice person at all times and don't really have any asshole stories to tell. That said, I did lose it in epic style on RPS the other day and posted , eh, a post that was mostly foul language in response to the massive whining about Portal 2, Valve, and the ARG.
I'm not going to link to it, however, because I have deleted it now and feel rather embarassed about the whole thing. I'll wait for P2 to go on sale. :oops:
..As I stated in the post you quoted, you /can/ just fire up some random game and be a total asshole to the AI. Its in the spirit of just doing something generally lulz worthy. Are you telling me you've never tried to herd old people into an area and run them over in GTA or similar?
Since people seem overly squeamish about doing that sort of thing to other /people/ and all, I had thought ahead and said the CPU is just fine too.
I'm in!
Here's some fool I took out in Burnout: Paradise. How's your truck look now?