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Most Frequently Asked Questions
1. Steam's search tool is cumbersome and not very informative. Is there a website, other than Steam's, I can go to find out what's on sale?
SteamGameSales.com is that very place.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
SteamGameSales.com is that very place.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
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.
Goodies from previous threads.
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:
More fun comics
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:
More fun comics
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We've established this. Anyone who likes The Witcher is wrong and I am (pretty much always) correct about everything.
Oh, also:
I actually played the first Witcher. A lot. And it never got good. Clearly the reviewers were playing a different game. I even bought the Enhanced Edition. I wanted to love it, I really did. I bought it looking for a good Western RPG that would hold me over until ESV comes out. What I ended up with was a shallow, dilapidated husk of a game that ultimately cost me 20 dollars, my faith and my dignity.
Also, ahh new thread smell derpderp
You beat me to it, but yes, the OP has been taken from the previous thread, which was taken from the previous.... and so on... and so forth...
I figured if it's not broke, don't fix it.
See, this has confirmed my diagnosis of your brain damage. You should seek medical help as soon as you are able so that you can once again have correct opinions (whereas now they're all horrible and wrong).
I didn't find it particularly engrossing, I liked the idea of the rock/paper/scissors approach to combat, but wasn't enthralled with the execution, got stuck for like 10 minutes because either I'm daft or the game needs to be clearer on how to use its own mechanics, fought with (what I felt to be) an unnecessarily complicated talent tree, got laid in game (... well, in game as well), and then had the end of chapter 1 / beginning of chapter 2 show up with even worse graphical glitches and decided I couldn't be bothered fighting with it anymore.
While I know a great deal of what he says is hyperbolic for humour, I think Yahtzee's ZP review said a great deal about the game that I agree with. It's essentially a Single Player MMO on some levels, and complicated enough to be a bit of a pain in the ass when it doesn't really need to be.
*enter 10 people telling me it was super easy and I am wrong and need to sit in the corner*
I don't / didn't hate it, and I can see where some people would have had a lot of fun with it, but between fighting with it just to see the cutscenes (specifically the in-engine ones, the FMV at the start was fine) and having like a half dozen mechanics to adapt to in the first chapter alone, I decided it could sit on the backburner and think about what it had done.
... and while I'm committing hate crimes against RPGs, I've barely even dented Dragon Age Origins either, but that's mainly because I feel like choosing a Sword & Board Warrior may have been a terrible mistake, at least in terms of working with my gameplay, and despite the mere dent, not quite having it in me to start all the way over again (apparently I'm 9 hours in, according to Steam).
If you're predominantly a PC gamer, I totally get the hate for DA2. Personally however, Dragon Age is a series that I play exclusively on Xbox 360. This is due to no personal preference, I basically just happened to buy the first one on 360 a couple months after it came out, and that's the platform I'm accustomed to playing it on.
Also, re: my recent purchase of Bulletstorm. Let me set the tone for a sec. From somewhere around the second half of 2010 up until just about a week ago (actually, more like off-and-on since March of 2007), the game that's taken up a decent majority of my gaming time is Lord of the Rings Online. AKA a slow-paced, stat-centric, painfully addicting game that requires a lot of thought and dedication. AKA an MMO.
The burnout factor began to set in, as it often does with people who dedicate fucking biblical amounts of time to an MMO. I was in a mental state where I needed to give my brain a vacation and blow motherfuckers away for a while.
Then I bought Bulletstorm today. The phrase "Just what the doctor ordered" was made for this game if you've ever been in MMO-burnout mode. My brain packed its luggage, bought a train ticket, and headed south. And I haven't been this happy with a game purchase in years. Plus you get to listen to Jennifer Hale threatening to "kill your dick."
All those points you might think you want in Con? You don't, you want those in Dex.
You're aiming for ~60 Dex by the end of the game.
Sword and Board Warrior can easily be functionally immune to all normal attacks and magic by the end of the game. The only things that will affect you are physical special attacks that automatically hit.
Yeah, DAO warriors get positively dirty after a little while.
Bravo!
Anyone who dislikes STALKER SoC (for five bucks no less!) is incapable of liking anything of substance. I believe Barbie Horse Adventures is thataway, sir.
Hey.
Hey.
I didn't say it sucked (nowhere near as awful as The Witcher) or that people who enjoy it are wrong.
I just said I didn't like it. It's not for me. Listen, I'm just as upset as you are that I didn't like it. I've heard all this awesome shit about it and then I played it and I was like "This...this is it?" So disappointed.
Why don't YOU go play some Barbie.
Seriously, though, I really did. And I will never in my entire life go back to that store. Even if all the games disappear, and only they have games, I refuse to go back there.
If they fix that in the next one I'll give it a shot.
That sounds like the stuff of myths and nightmares. How did you survive to tell such a tale?
Check out the Penny Arcade World of Tanks thread to join us in some fun times.
However
Why the fuck does it keep asking me for my code I've already put it in like three times it's like every third time I open the game I need to put the code in again
Take a look at this face in the spoiler.
That's the face Geralt makes when people say bad things about The Witcher.
Of course, that's the face he always makes, but yeah.
The Witcher is good times. So there.
But the reused (and kinda bad) character models and voice acting are defiantly off-putting.
Oh, is that Geralt? I thought you were posting screenshots from that Barbie game you were talking about.
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Crysis 1 or Shogun 2.
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I'm really enjoying Mass Effect 2 right now. Maybe I should try one of the other BioWare games in my collection when I am done with that. I've got KoToR and Jade Empire.
Jade empire is so awesome. I've been waiting for it to go on sale on Steam for ages now.
You shut yo mouth.
Elder Scrolls is awesome.
the only game I've ever been killed by a falling wizard. Ever.