I got Fallout New Vegas today by post but its locked till tomorrow by steam. There anyway to make steam think I'm american or anything so I can play it now?
I got more playtime out of Elven Legacy than King's Bounty, FWIW. That is, actual time played, not time-to-finish-the-campaign. King's Bounty's mechanics seemed like HOMM without the base building or econ or the actual strategy. It was purely hex board tactics, and I found that Elven Legacy's maps are much more interesting for that.
The hex board tactics in King's Bounty seemed a lot more involved than HOMM though, what with each unit's special abilities and all. In place of HOMM's strategy metagame, you get an RPG metagame with a great sense of humor. Maybe not as cognitively intensive, but easier to hop in and out of for a quick play session without loosing track of what you were doing.
I haven't played Elven Legacy though, so I guess I can't make a good comparison there.
King's Bounty is more suited to a quick play than Elven Legacy. Some of those maps can take awhile to plow through if it's your first time...
Elven Legacy has multiple special abilities for most units (some constant, some activated), specific magic units, upgrade and reserve systems along with the previously mentioned more interesting maps (where terrain does, in fact, matter--for bonuses, movement, and line of sight).
YMMV, but overall I found it to be a much deeper game than King's Bounty. It's still not a proper wargame, but the level of unit control and number of units is about right for me. Enough to be interesting without having to control 50 units every turn.
Whenever a game's loading I pretty much instinctively pull up the overlay to do some web browsing. Definitely beats staring at whatever flashy version of a spinning circle the game has for a loading screen.
Cocksicles. Not only have I completed Batman on the 360 when it first launched but also on the PS3 (close to, it was someone elses machine). And still I end up buying it again for the PC.
Damnit... I bought Disciples II, but steam overlay doesn't work with it...
Is it strange that my desire to play a game is greatly dependant on whether the overlay will work or not?
Nope.
Postin' from overlay right now.
edit: And I was doing it from Disciples II. That game looks tons better windowed and in its own native resolution.
Thanks for the tip, I didn't realize windowed mode would allow me to stretch everything out to my native resolution instead of playing in this tiny little box in the middle of my screen.
I still can't get overlay to work with Disciples II though
Oh well, I guess I'll go in offline mode while I play.. I guess...
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Hoooleeeey shit Batman: Arkham Asylum is great Really glad I waited for this purchase though, only US$13.60!
That's still to high for me. Any game above £5 requires some serious consideration on my part, what with Steam being the sales-fest it is, and the fact that I can't run AA on this computer SORT of factors into it.
Steam just downloaded a rather large update for Half-Life: Source and Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, but the news don't mention anything about it (yet). Judging by the fact that the -noborder command doesn't work and that the options has no setting for multicore rendering, it would appear that the update did not bring it to the more recent version of Source.
Even though I own Batman: AA on the 360 and have 100%'d it, if Radeon supported Physx properly I'd still grab it without thinking twice. Damn video card wars!!! Only the consumer suffers, Won't anyone think of the consumer?????????
Tried the demo of B:AA when it first came out and I wasn't impressed by it at all. Got a more in depth play of it during a games conference. To me it just seemed to be a run of the mill corridor action game. Felt very linear and uninteresting.
Hoooleeeey shit Batman: Arkham Asylum is great Really glad I waited for this purchase though, only US$13.60!
PC version's ok then?
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PC version is the business. It's actually a (surprise, surprise!) well-made and competent version in this day when the platform gets second-thought half-baked shit. Get it, it's fucking pimp.
Rocksteady's certainly earned my interest for Arkham City, that's for sure.
edit: it still has install-limited securom even on steam, IIRC, so be aware of that
Because of my aforementioned older computer, I can't run Batman AA. Is there an older game with a similar play style on the PC? Every once in a while I want to play an action beat-em-up (Or whatever genre you'd call it), and this is one of those times.
Because of my aforementioned older computer, I can't run Batman AA. Is there an older game with a similar play style on the PC? Every once in a while I want to play an action beat-em-up (Or whatever genre you'd call it), and this is one of those times.
Because of my aforementioned older computer, I can't run Batman AA. Is there an older game with a similar play style on the PC? Every once in a while I want to play an action beat-em-up (Or whatever genre you'd call it), and this is one of those times.
Because of my aforementioned older computer, I can't run Batman AA. Is there an older game with a similar play style on the PC? Every once in a while I want to play an action beat-em-up (Or whatever genre you'd call it), and this is one of those times.
What are your specs?
AMD 3700, 2GB RAM and a Geforce 9600.
It can run Source engine games fine, basically, but starts to struggle with engines later than that.
Edit: I should point out that I'm not particularly infatuated with Devil May Cry.
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The orange box. That is all you will ever need.
Is it strange that my desire to play a game is greatly dependant on whether the overlay will work or not?
Well, it works with some GoG titles.
Not Jagged Alliance II, unfortunately.
My Backloggery
i was wonderin about disciples II discounting that the overlay doesnt work is it still worth the purchase?
Crovax.436 Steam: Crovaxan
King's Bounty is more suited to a quick play than Elven Legacy. Some of those maps can take awhile to plow through if it's your first time...
Elven Legacy has multiple special abilities for most units (some constant, some activated), specific magic units, upgrade and reserve systems along with the previously mentioned more interesting maps (where terrain does, in fact, matter--for bonuses, movement, and line of sight).
YMMV, but overall I found it to be a much deeper game than King's Bounty. It's still not a proper wargame, but the level of unit control and number of units is about right for me. Enough to be interesting without having to control 50 units every turn.
Nope.
Postin' from overlay right now.
edit: And I was doing it from Disciples II. That game looks tons better windowed and in its own native resolution.
Glad I waited on this one.
Joe Schmoe.
Tactics games are fun.. is this game fun though ..
A game installed by steam, to be exact.
Hasn't happened to me, but out of curiosity, what Steam game is it?
Happened to me. Game was Civ4 Colonization. My antivirus program would actually quarantine the exe file preventing me from starting the game.
Thanks for the tip, I didn't realize windowed mode would allow me to stretch everything out to my native resolution instead of playing in this tiny little box in the middle of my screen.
I still can't get overlay to work with Disciples II though
Oh well, I guess I'll go in offline mode while I play.. I guess...
Now Steam has all my money. :?
Eh, been meaning to find out what all the fuss is regarding Borderlands is for a while now.
If nobody's come forward yet, PM me and I'll gift you a copy.
It happened to my Xcom: Enforcer exe.
to pokeylope: same deal with the exe, different game.
Sorted, thanks again.
From all I've heard, it may be correct.
That's still to high for me. Any game above £5 requires some serious consideration on my part, what with Steam being the sales-fest it is, and the fact that I can't run AA on this computer SORT of factors into it.
So, what did it do?
I could be wrong >_>
Rocksteady's certainly earned my interest for Arkham City, that's for sure.
edit: it still has install-limited securom even on steam, IIRC, so be aware of that
Ecco The Dolphin...
What are your specs?
AMD 3700, 2GB RAM and a Geforce 9600.
It can run Source engine games fine, basically, but starts to struggle with engines later than that.
Edit: I should point out that I'm not particularly infatuated with Devil May Cry.