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[STEAM] For the Love of God Do Not Buy Space Siege

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  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    Drovek wrote:
    korodullin wrote:
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    I would dearly love to know what the fuck I keep downloading.

    EP3 is now secretly hidden in your Half-Life 2 installation. If only you just replayed it.


    If only...

    This is the second 3+ GB update I've gotten for HL2 in the past week. It's crazy.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    korodullin wrote:
    This is the second 3+ GB update I've gotten for HL2 in the past week. It's crazy.
    Episode 3 is a BIG game then.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    L4D2 downloaded over 20gb for me in the past couple weeks.

    Was kind of pissed off about that.

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    I haven't had HL2 update in ages.

    That's odd.

    Do you have any newer Source games like Portal 2 or anything? Maybe its just a general Source engine update and it's coming through HL2? I know whenever I've had to reinstall steam, whichever Source game I install first is a massive install, but then the rest are relatively smaller. But depending on which I install any Source game could be the big one.

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  • Banzai5150Banzai5150 Registered User regular
    They are making you into one of their supercomputer nodes! You will soon start to gain weight, wear glasses and dance funny.

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  • Joe Camacho MKIIJoe Camacho MKII Registered User regular
    I wouldn't mind if Steam controls the World.

    Other than those big updates on Dead Air, I haven't had any big L4D2 updates.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I wouldn't mind if Steam controls the World.

    Other than those big updates on Dead Air, I haven't had any big L4D2 updates.

    When those last two updates occurred, I downloaded 13gb and 9gb respectively for some reason.

    So yeah, what the fuck.

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  • Joe Camacho MKIIJoe Camacho MKII Registered User regular
    Maddoc wrote:
    I wouldn't mind if Steam controls the World.

    Other than those big updates on Dead Air, I haven't had any big L4D2 updates.

    When those last two updates occurred, I downloaded 13gb and 9gb respectively for some reason.

    So yeah, what the fuck.

    I don't remember the exact number, but there is no way I downloaded more than 1 gb. Current L4D2 Folder: 12.2 Gbs

    I don't have HL2 installed.

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  • DerrickDerrick Registered User regular
    You can turn off the automatic updates for Steam.

    If I was getting multiple 3+ gig downloads for games I don't play, I would do that.

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  • IoloIolo iolo Registered User regular
    My inbox, it's been assaulted by classy! I check email just now to find that both

    Banzai5150
    and
    Tamin

    gifted me Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012! Banzai5150's hit first, so Tamin you should find your copy a good home.

    Thank you, @Banzai5150 and @Tamin!

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  • harvestharvest By birthright, a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
    I know someone else who wants to play the new Magic game :D

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    SteevL wrote:
    I spent a lot of time with Atom Zombie Smasher over the last three days. That's a fantastic little game. I think I obtained it many months ago as part of some indie games pack on Steam (definitely not the last Humble Indie Bundle, though). My first playthrough ended in failure; the second one went much better since I knew how things worked. Then I started a third playthrough last night, extending the points limit to 20000. I kept playing until I had conquered every damn territory and felt pretty satisfied with myself.

    How?

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    When are we likely to see our next big sale? I want to pick up a digital copy of Mass Effect 1 and 2 sometime before ME3 comes out but I don't want to pay full price since I do own the games and am only buying these so that I can give away my physical copies to a friend.

  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    Maybe Thanksgiving, definitely Christmas.

  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    harvest wrote:
    I know someone else who wants to play the new Magic game :D

    It's me, right? It's me!

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    when is thanksgiving weekend?

    <- not a yank

  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    edited September 2011
    Dhalphir wrote:
    when is thanksgiving weekend?

    <- not a yank
    It's the 4th thursday in november, so somewhere between the 20th and the 30th would be when there'd be a sale.

    heenato on
    M A G I K A Z A M
  • SteevLSteevL What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    SyphonBlue wrote:
    SteevL wrote:
    I spent a lot of time with Atom Zombie Smasher over the last three days. That's a fantastic little game. I think I obtained it many months ago as part of some indie games pack on Steam (definitely not the last Humble Indie Bundle, though). My first playthrough ended in failure; the second one went much better since I knew how things worked. Then I started a third playthrough last night, extending the points limit to 20000. I kept playing until I had conquered every damn territory and felt pretty satisfied with myself.

    How?

    Sorry, I shouldn't have said "conquered." There were definitely a few areas were I couldn't wipe out all the zeds before nightfall. But I am sure that I completed every zone!

  • Joe Camacho MKIIJoe Camacho MKII Registered User regular
    Dhalphir wrote:
    When are we likely to see our next big sale? I want to pick up a digital copy of Mass Effect 1 and 2 sometime before ME3 comes out but I don't want to pay full price since I do own the games and am only buying these so that I can give away my physical copies to a friend.

    Keep in mind that EA games might not be included in Steam Sales as often as they used to, now that EA is trying to focus on Origin. (I haven't used Origin, do they do sales too, if they do, just pay attention to them, I guess?)

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    Dhalphir wrote:
    When are we likely to see our next big sale? I want to pick up a digital copy of Mass Effect 1 and 2 sometime before ME3 comes out but I don't want to pay full price since I do own the games and am only buying these so that I can give away my physical copies to a friend.

    Keep in mind that EA games might not be included in Steam Sales as often as they used to, now that EA is trying to focus on Origin. (I haven't used Origin, do they do sales too, if they do, just pay attention to them, I guess?)
    EA did sales regularly even when they were on steam

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    Isn't there usually a halloween sale too?
    Also, forgot to mention I tried out Call of Juarez Bound in Blood earlier today. I knew it was good from the demo but the full game completely surpassed my expectations. The controls are really unique with the cover mechanic having the right amount of trade off between protection and line of sight.

    The story is decent enough though it doesn't feel like a full in western, but then I've only played an hour yet so it'll definitely pick up.

  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    Iolo wrote:
    My inbox, it's been assaulted by classy! I check email just now to find that both

    Banzai5150
    and
    Tamin

    gifted me Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012! Banzai5150's hit first, so Tamin you should find your copy a good home.

    Thank you, @Banzai5150 and @Tamin!

    Aw, I wasn't the first.

    Gift redirected

  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Luckily no massive HL2 updates on my end. Unless it's Episode 3 being snuck out to people, which would make me sad. But if it's Skynet, I'd rather not be part of the beginning of the end.

    Also, it seems I missed the last GMG code applicable to Arkham City, so I guess I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed for another to show up before it comes out. I could jump on that $38 deal, but it wouldn't kill me to hold off on loading down the credit card further at the moment, and if it's anything like Dead Island or Deus Ex, I'm hoping for it to get to the $29-35 range.

    First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
  • HalfhandHalfhand a stalwart bastion of terrible ideas Registered User regular
    what the fuck is going on

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  • HalfhandHalfhand a stalwart bastion of terrible ideas Registered User regular
    if they ninja episode 3 that would actually be the biggest gaming event in history

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  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    Why did no one tell me Bastion was this good?

    I've been trying out the demo while Red Orchestra 2 finishes downloading and I'm absolutely loving it! The gameplay is ok so far, but the narrator really works for me. It's interesting how much it's coloring the game for me since I really doubt I would've liked it much without it.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    It's a shame Hard Reset is so short, because it's a fantastic successor to Painkiller and the like.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    Oh. Why do you say that? Why cant it be a BAD game? Then I wouldn't be so upset that I cant run it.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    This daily deal is pretty fun

  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited September 2011
    I haven't had HL2 update in ages.

    That's odd.

    Do you have any newer Source games like Portal 2 or anything? Maybe its just a general Source engine update and it's coming through HL2? I know whenever I've had to reinstall steam, whichever Source game I install first is a massive install, but then the rest are relatively smaller. But depending on which I install any Source game could be the big one.

    I've got TF2, Portal 1, and L4D2 as my newer Source games. L4D and TF2 constantly get 80-100 MB updates every few days for me, so I dunno if that's it or not.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    heenato wrote:
    Oh. Why do you say that? Why cant it be a BAD game? Then I wouldn't be so upset that I cant run it.

    Who is this directed toward?

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    heenato wrote:
    Oh. Why do you say that? Why cant it be a BAD game? Then I wouldn't be so upset that I cant run it.

    Who is this directed toward?
    I really need to remember to quote, but the forum's been slow and glitchy about it.

    I was talking about hard reset. The demo ran absolutely awfully for me. So I was KINDA hoping it would be bad, so I wouldn't be so bummed about not being able to run it. Kinda. It's great that it is a good game though.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    heenato wrote:
    heenato wrote:
    Oh. Why do you say that? Why cant it be a BAD game? Then I wouldn't be so upset that I cant run it.

    Who is this directed toward?
    I really need to remember to quote, but the forum's been slow and glitchy about it.

    I was talking about hard reset. The demo ran absolutely awfully for me. So I was KINDA hoping it would be bad, so I wouldn't be so bummed about not being able to run it. Kinda. It's great that it is a good game though.

    Yeah, it's very solid. Not incredible, but something worth playing if it's on sale. Looks great when a chain of explosions go off.

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  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    edited September 2011
    So it seems the white beginner deck in the Magic game pretty much rolls over all the other decks effortlessly. Everything is cheap, it has great combos and even a decent amount of removels. I don't even know why they want me to unlock the other decks!

    You'll find that the difficulty curve is wildly inconsistent for the whole game. That isn't to say it isn't fun, it's a lot of fun when you chance a close battle, but slamming into a difficult cliff-face and going through each deck to see which one is key to winning isn't much fun.

    TeeMan on
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  • ZerokkuZerokku Registered User regular
    edited September 2011
    Hate to have to ask, but would anyone be willing to gift me Magic 2012? My Xbox Live account got hacked and someone bought a shitton of Xbox Live points under my account, so I don't really want to spend too much money until those charges get reversed (Poor college student and all). I'll gift whoever does it back any $5 game of their choice in a couple days/whenever they see a game on sale they want or something.

    Edit: Someone on GAF helped me out :D

    Zerokku on
  • SteevLSteevL What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    Big Isy wrote:
    Also, forgot to mention I tried out Call of Juarez Bound in Blood earlier today. I knew it was good from the demo but the full game completely surpassed my expectations. The controls are really unique with the cover mechanic having the right amount of trade off between protection and line of sight.

    The story is decent enough though it doesn't feel like a full in western, but then I've only played an hour yet so it'll definitely pick up.

    Yeah, Bound in Blood is a lot of fun. I think it's also the only FPS game I've ever played that has an area set during the American Civil War. I enjoyed it a lot more than the first one, and I'm sad that the new one is apparently crap.

  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    SteevL wrote:
    Big Isy wrote:
    Also, forgot to mention I tried out Call of Juarez Bound in Blood earlier today. I knew it was good from the demo but the full game completely surpassed my expectations. The controls are really unique with the cover mechanic having the right amount of trade off between protection and line of sight.

    The story is decent enough though it doesn't feel like a full in western, but then I've only played an hour yet so it'll definitely pick up.

    Yeah, Bound in Blood is a lot of fun. I think it's also the only FPS game I've ever played that has an area set during the American Civil War. I enjoyed it a lot more than the first one, and I'm sad that the new one is apparently crap.

    Reminded now of the Darkest of Days demo which took place in Battle of Antietam, using a shitty muzzleloader. Except, by the end of it, you were mowing down Confederate troops with a fully automatic assault rifle. Kind of weird.

  • Rubix42Rubix42 Registered User regular
    Civ 5 is eating all my limited spare time. Thanks again to the kind gent who gifted this to me.

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  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    Rubix42 wrote:
    Civ 5 is eating all my limited spare time. Thanks again to the kind gent who gifted this to me.

    All according to plan! :twisted:
    But seriously you're welcome. Anytime. 8->

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  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    So, we're getting a week of Paradox sales. Does anyone know how good Penumbra is? And are either of the Mount & Blade games besides Warband worth getting?

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