Let's all go post in the new STEAM thread and talk about Tom Clancy ♥

Gaslight

The Witcher 2 is also most wanted among my friends, followed by New Vegas, Portal 2, Space Marine, and Skyrim in that order.

I am astonished there are so many people who want New Vegas and Portal 2 and still don't own it.

Zxerol

Pariel wrote:

Zombiemambo wrote:

DOW2 is not an RTS at all, mostly.

No base building, just a limited amount of dudes, and loot.

It could almost be called a Diablo style game, it as far from an RTS RTS game you can get in the campaign. Unique levels, heavy on weapons and armor drops, an upgrade path for your guys based on stat points... also has a co-op mode

It's a strategy game and it's real time. Sounds like an RTS to me!

It's more like Neverwinter Nights/Dragon Age. Just less talking and more killing.

You're drawing a lot of artificial genre lines, dude. Like, people sometimes describe the combat system of Baldur's Gate as basically a scaled-down RTS game. Can you say BG1+2 is an RPG/RTS? I dunno, and I really don't care if people do either.

I mean, how would you describe something like World of Conflict, obstinately categorized as an "RTS" by most people, but eschews pretty much all the conventions of the genre other than "you control some units from an overhead view"?

-Loki-

Alecthar wrote:

minor incident wrote:

xraydog wrote:

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

Yes, if something doesn't work the first time it will never work ever at all forever.

Its annoying because it's shitty user experience.

I agree with both of these statements. It's silly to say you wasted your money because it's not working right away, but it IS a disgustingly lousy user experience which shows a total disregard for the customer.

Uh, what?

Compared to basically any other DRM scheme Stardock's has a better user experience.

EA's system they shipped with Bad Company 2 was far better than any.

Install game.
Finish Install.
"Do you want to activate online so you never need the disk in?"
Yes.
Done. Play your game now.

No Origin account needed. Not waiting and watching progress meters. It was awesome. You literally hit 'Yes' to actuvate online, and it was done.

Zxerol

Heck, the latest patch of BC2 removed SecuROM completely from all versions. They should do that more often, as opposed to the whole "you're banned from your own game, singleplayer, multiplayer, and all, because you got banned from our forums" thing.

Lawndart

Gaslight wrote:

The Witcher 2 is also most wanted among my friends, followed by New Vegas, Portal 2, Space Marine, and Skyrim in that order.

I am astonished there are so many people who want New Vegas and Portal 2 and still don't own it.

I think some folks are still waiting for the upcoming version of New Vegas that comes with all the DLC.

Then there are some folks who are waiting for that version to go on sale.

Jungleskye

Lord_Snot wrote:

Hey everyone, a guy called Brood just added me to his friends list. Not sure who he is, anyone have any idea? I see they're a friend of @iolo any ideas?

Also, my friends stats, again mainly made up of PA chaps and chapettes:
Skyrim: 771 Hours
SR3: 212 Hours
Killing Floor: 101 Hours
Dungeon Defenders: 52 Hours

Me!

Taranis

Gaslight wrote:

The Witcher 2 is also most wanted among my friends, followed by New Vegas, Portal 2, Space Marine, and Skyrim in that order.

I am astonished there are so many people who want New Vegas and Portal 2 and still don't own it.

Same.

The Witcher 2 was towards the top of my wish list for the longest time as well.

Then I saw this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-zUpGosgrE

and purchased it immediately.

Lord_Snot

Jungleskye wrote:

Lord_Snot wrote:

Hey everyone, a guy called Brood just added me to his friends list. Not sure who he is, anyone have any idea? I see they're a friend of @iolo any ideas?

Also, my friends stats, again mainly made up of PA chaps and chapettes:
Skyrim: 771 Hours
SR3: 212 Hours
Killing Floor: 101 Hours
Dungeon Defenders: 52 Hours

Me!

Aw, jeez! Sorry dude!

chocobolicious

Waiting for the GOTY version of Fallout NV is silly, because I've spent all of.. 19$ on the entire game so far and I have every DLC but Lonesome Road. It all goes on such ridiculous sales all the time, that it'll be a while before the GOTY version is anywhere near as cheap.

TychoCelchuuu

chocobolicious wrote:

Waiting for the GOTY version of Fallout NV is silly, because I've spent all of.. 19$ on the entire game so far and I have every DLC but Lonesome Road. It all goes on such ridiculous sales all the time, that it'll be a while before the GOTY version is anywhere near as cheap.

Ah, but the longer you wait, the more good mods come out and the better the existing mods get. I'm not even going to think about touching Skyrim for a few months at least. I played Oblivion right when it came out, and it was kind of fun, but a lot of the no brainer stuff (a UI that didn't suck, textures that didn't suck, leveling that didn't suck) got perfected later on and there was really no reason to put myself through grief when I could've waited. I bought Oblivion for cheap when it came out, but with Skryim I'll just wait until the price drops. With New Vegas it has been so long that I'm content to wait basically forever, especially considering I don't have much free time.

Anon the Felon

After seeing the updated title I felt like I should post this. It was taken just now:



But as most of you know, you're almost all on my friends list. I have ~150 steam friends and 97% of those are PA guys. Still...impressive.

Iolo

I like this friends list game:

Friend Avg -- 28.3 hrs past 2 weeks

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3152.1 hrs (That's over 11 weeks!)

Saints Row: The Third
782.3 hrs

Dungeon Defenders
227.6 hrs

Team Fortress 2
208.7 hrs

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
107.6 hrs

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
103.6 hrs

Lifetime

TF2: 31894 hours played
Borderlands: 8837 hours played
L4D2: 5469 hours played
Fallout NV: 4073 hours played
BF: BC2: 3980 hours played
Mount & Blade: Warband: 3420 hours played
L4D: 3335 hours played
Terraria: 3320 hours played
ME2: 3224 hours played
Civ 5: 3186 hours played

Spoit

Pretty impressive that skyrim is almost at your friend's top 10 lifetime after only a bit more than a week

Iolo

Ha, good point. I just checked and it's up to 3177. With 18 friends playing right now it should crack the Top 10 in less than an hour.

Icemopper

Maybe I'm blind, but I do not see where to find these friend's stats. It sounds fun though!

RoyceSraphim

2 weeks

Skyrim 371
Saints Row The Third 73 hours
Red Faction Guerilla 22 hours
Saints Row 2 21 hours
Dungeon Defenders 16 hours

Lifetime

TF2 1750
Saints Row 2 1176
Borderlands 669
Dragon Age 530
Mass Effect 2 505

Icemopper wrote:

Maybe I'm blind, but I do not see where to find these friend's stats. It sounds fun though!

Here, I fixed a link up for you.

TychoCelchuuu

I couldn't think of a funny thread title so I just threw those stats in there, but this is pretty interesting seeing everyone's friends list game time comparisons. It also made me realize that at some point Steam added the lifetime playtime stats, which I had never seen before.

Icemopper: they're on the right hand side in the community section.

Athenor

You know what I'd honestly like to see? Steam lifetime stats. Like, across all games, all time.

Icemopper

Turns out I am partially blind to things on the right side of the screen.

It was right there! Thanks folks.

starmanbrand

Skyrim isn't even my friend lifetime activity top 40. Don't have that many friends that still log onto steam, though. Most were TFC and TF2 players that stopped playing once the game got terrible.

Euphoriac

Hmm, my shocking lack (nay, Dearth!) of friends on Steam has rendered this whole game time comparison thing kinda pointless.

Thus, I propose an intricate and convoluted plot!

Would it be considered poor form for me to start friend-requesting people on this thread and from the PA group? I don't want to get in people's faces, but it would be super rad if I could get a better 'community' feel from my community page, y'know?

Thanks in advance!

Tef

well as long as you're not a huge dick, I wouldn't mind if you friended me. My PC gaming experience got a whole lot more enjoyable since I started adding some of the fine gentlemen who frequent this thread to my friends list

minor incident

My friends' last two weeks:

Skyrim - 482 hours played
Saints Row 3 - 41 hours played
NBA 2K12 - 41 hours played
Terraria - 38 hours played

Interestingly, NBA 2K12 and Terraria are only played by Bullio and Alecthar, respectively, as best I can tell. Those guys have commitment.

Also, number 7 on my lifetime list is City of Heroes with over 700 hours. All by one person.

chocobolicious

Why else put a steam sig if not for people to friend you? Of course, its nice when I know the person is a PA'er, sometimes its hard to tell and its just a spam bot.

Bullio

minor incident wrote:

My friends' last two weeks:

Skyrim - 482 hours played
Saints Row 3 - 41 hours played
NBA 2K12 - 41 hours played
Terraria - 38 hours played

Interestingly, NBA 2K12 and Terraria are only played by Bullio and Alecthar, respectively, as best I can tell. Those guys have commitment.

Also, number 7 on my lifetime list is City of Heroes with over 700 hours. All by one person.

120 hours lifetime and rising by 2-3 everyday. My Player is crack in basketball RPG form.

Maddoc

I've spent more time in Skyrim this week than I have at work.

I think I have a problem, but then again there are so many dragons to kill.

TheUnsane1

One of my friends has 76.7 hours in Skyrim already... That's pretty dedicated. He also works 2 jobs I think he's sacrificed sleep all week or something.

Pariel

That's not the problem, that's the solution.

Tef

Maddoc wrote:

I've spent more time in Skyrim this week than I have at work.

I think I have a problem, but then again there are so many dragons to kill.

The problem is you have to go to goddamn work

Figgy

So, this sale. When is this American Thanksgiving I hear so much about. This Thursday?

TheUnsane1

Figgy wrote:

So, this sale. When is this American Thanksgiving I hear so much about. This Thursday?

It is, god help us all.

Pariel

Bahaha, yes.

Supposedly Steam sales the whole week? I could go for that.

Jungleskye

chocobolicious wrote:

Waiting for the GOTY version of Fallout NV is silly, because I've spent all of.. 19$ on the entire game so far and I have every DLC but Lonesome Road. It all goes on such ridiculous sales all the time, that it'll be a while before the GOTY version is anywhere near as cheap.

Yeah its super cheap. I am just waiting for the DLC's to go on sale then I will play through it since my 38+ hour save got all messed up.

lostprophet

Bullio wrote:

minor incident wrote:

My friends' last two weeks:

Skyrim - 482 hours played
Saints Row 3 - 41 hours played
NBA 2K12 - 41 hours played
Terraria - 38 hours played

Interestingly, NBA 2K12 and Terraria are only played by Bullio and Alecthar, respectively, as best I can tell. Those guys have commitment.

Also, number 7 on my lifetime list is City of Heroes with over 700 hours. All by one person.

120 hours lifetime and rising by 2-3 everyday. My Player is crack in basketball RPG form.

This is the truth. My Player mode is way more addicting than it has any right to be. $30 for a new game that has given me 69 hours of fun so far seems like a great deal

Maddoc

Tef wrote:

Maddoc wrote:

I've spent more time in Skyrim this week than I have at work.

I think I have a problem, but then again there are so many dragons to kill.

The problem is you have to go to goddamn work

Indeed, I could have just as easily spent eighty some odd hours in Skyrim instead!

Banzai5150

This is the first time in a long time that I've not been paying attention to Steam sales at all. Skyrim has it's hooks in me something bad. I'm not even interested in this upcoming sale! Which is good, since I'm broke, unemployed and just bought Skyrim anyway... help me?

Maddoc

Motherfuck, when did Serious Sam 3 get dated for November?

Stop releasing games in November, I have too many already. There are only so many hours in a day, shit, only so many hours in the month.

chocobolicious

Oh, yeah, I need to buy BFE, I forgot about that. I haven't really bought anything but Skyrim, so I don't feel particularly bad about BFE.

Spoit

chocobolicious wrote:

Why else put a steam sig if not for people to friend you? Of course, its nice when I know the person is a PA'er, sometimes its hard to tell and its just a spam bot.

Probably the only thing the steam group is actually good for

Corpekata

Figgy wrote:

So, this sale. When is this American Thanksgiving I hear so much about. This Thursday?

Yes, but the last 2 years the sales have started the day before, so a decent chance we'll see the sale hit on Wednesday. Should last through Tuesday morning.