STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them

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Hmm, no mention of GFWL.

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Nice price for MK9. May go against my never pre-order anything rule for that price.
 
3 days without a single drop of internet at home. 3 days without being able to log in to Steam in online mode (can run it offline, but GFWL games -in this case Dark Souls- refuse to run).

I'm afraid I may have to clean the cobwebs once I can log in again.
 
Would you guys say Black Ops is worth the $16 with the code? While I'm not too fond of the 4 hour campaigns that have become the staple of CoD and I don't play the MP, I do enjoy the setpieces and I've yet to play zombies on the PC versions of the games.
It has "Fortunate son" by CCR, which was the only thing I liked about the campaign (played it on Wii, maybe it's different on the HD twins and PC). To me the game is boring and forgettable, and this is coming from someone who liked Modern Warfare and World at War, so it's not like I hate the franchise per se (I enjoyed a little of MW3 multiplayer too, again on Wii).

So if you're like me, I'll suggest that you skip the game and pick up a copy of Willy and the Poor Boys instead, which also has the songs "Down on the corner", "It came out of the sky", "Feelin' blue", "The midnight special" and "Cotton fields" (among others) and can be found much cheaper.

good grief
Nah, this one's not Creedence. Still a nice track.
 
Potential bug??? in Badges page:

- I have a Level 1 TF2 badge. The badge appears, the card drops remaining don't, it looks like any of the Steam system badges. I don't see number of cards remaining for next level or anything. It just looks finished.
- I have a Level 1 Left 4 Dead 2 badge. The badge appears, and although I have no card drops remaining, the number of cards remaining for next level still appears. It looks unfinished.

Here, I'll post a screenshot:
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I'm guessing TF2 is showing up finished because it's F2P so it's not flagging me as "owning" the game versus L4D2.
 
I believe it shows the cards for recently played games and the complete style for stuff that hasn't been. CS:GO is the last card based game I played and it's at the top and showing the card visuals.
 
I believe it shows the cards for recently played games and the complete style for stuff that hasn't been. CS:GO is the last card based game I played and it's at the top and showing the card visuals.

it must have a short memory then, the only ones I see (no drops remaining, no cards owned, badge still there) are FTL, Trine 2, and Triple Town. Don't see TF2, BL2, Don't Stare, etc.
 
Summer Solstice: June 21

Autumnal Equinox: September 22

Everything in-between: Summer

Today: Not Summer

Astronomically, it's not summer. Meteorologically, it is summer starting June 1st in the northern hemisphere, which obviously corresponds much better to when we feel as though seasons start and end, at least in the mid-latitudes.
 
I just finished Alice: Madness Returns, and I enjoyed it outside of the last level being such a drag; I think it should have been replaced with
a train level, since I honestly thought the last level would be on the train, and when we get there it looks really good, but we only get a few minutes, and most of it is just story exposition.
I had a lot of fun just hearing the characters talk; and I liked that the story felt not explicitly explained, but more implicit, though not subtle at all.
 
I just finished Alice: Madness Returns, and I enjoyed it outside of the last level being such a drag; I think it should have been replaced with
a train level, since I honestly thought the last level would be on the train, and when we get there it looks really good, but we only get a few minutes, and most of it is just story exposition.
I had a lot of fun just hearing the characters talk; and I liked that the story felt not explicitly explained, but more implicit, though not subtle at all.

Reward yourself by buying the art book.
 
I dont know where else to ask this. Has anyone been having issues with d3doverrider lately?
It was fine for me 2 weeks ago but, after I upgraded my PC and reinstalled Windows and reinstalled d3doverrider, it started preventing all of my games from launching. Its pretty much worthless to me now.

Im using Nvidias option now. Seems to work good so far.
 
Potential bug??? in Badges page:

- I have a Level 1 TF2 badge. The badge appears, the card drops remaining don't, it looks like any of the Steam system badges. I don't see number of cards remaining for next level or anything. It just looks finished.
- I have a Level 1 Left 4 Dead 2 badge. The badge appears, and although I have no card drops remaining, the number of cards remaining for next level still appears. It looks unfinished.

Here, I'll post a screenshot:
MWAmiW8.jpg


I'm guessing TF2 is showing up finished because it's F2P so it's not flagging me as "owning" the game versus L4D2.

I think it takes a few days for the card list, when it says no drops remaining, to disappear from the badges page. I still have the Trine 2 one on my page from last Thursday or so even though the cards are sold. Incidentally the ARES one from the same day has disappeared, maybe because those cards sold straight away while the Trine 2 ones took a day or two.
 
JaseC I gotta say...not a fan of the avatar today...

She kinda looks like a man in full makeup

Just sayin'

Well, I haven't done my nightly perusal of Tumblr yet, so who knows, maybe I jumped the gun a bit. ;) There's a bunch of photos from a press conference she did for The Host that I'd like to use, but they're all obnoxiously watermarked.

The MS Paint cartoon avatar was the best tbh. She's never looked better than that.

I have to say it's one my favourites.
 
I'm hoping the Steam pre-order offers up some TF2 stuff... though I can't recall a single WB game that had TF2 promo items, come to think of it.

Edit: Scribblenauts had the Rooster Hat, duh.
 
How was that? The previews and stuff made it look sorta poor, but also kinda intriguing.

It's shit. Really. It's an intriguing premise and the world it builds up seems interesting but the actual execution of the game play, level design and quests completely falls flat. It's really obvious that they're trying to copy the Witcher 2 but they fail to do that.
 
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