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Shelter -- MB-D1BACB306B2F746C

Groupees.

 

[Sajjaja]

Need me some Call of Juarez

Spoiler

: Gunslinger

lol that salt. Sleep is for the weak.

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Going to sleep in a few mins.

 

[Card Boy]

Despite the 59 meta, i'm willing to take Face Noir off someone. I'm on a point and click bender.

 

[JaseC]

Huh, it turns out that the online system really IS the reason they're not keen on porting it to PC. The producer of the game stated that in an interview
http://www.computerandvideogames.co...to-accept-turn-based-rpgs-from-now-on/?page=3

That just sounds like "comfy couch" or "PCs are for spreadsheets" to me. Plus, the interview was published before Capcom confirmed and then un-confirmed a PC port.

Muchas gracias por el call de juarez!

Enjoy. Assuming it plays nicely with modern systems, that is

 

[JBourne]

Face Noir looks so unbelievably bad. I need it.

 

[Rickenslacker]

My take on it is DLC is almost never worth playing through, I would much rather have a game available on PC that currently isn't available digitally.

After a gen of this stuff I'm inclined to agree. I always find it hard to go back to games to play through DLC installments, and usually when I'm late to the party and get a version of the game with all the DLC I find it hard to motivate myself to play them after doing the core content, I've just had my fill.

I've owned Missing Link for a year now at least and only played it for the first time in Director's Cut when they made it part of the actual game. All it really does is destroy the pacing of the game by introducing this tangential story with a different structure, so I'm not satisfied either way.

 

[LiquidSolid]

Groupeespares:

Thank you kindly for Shelter, JaseC.

 

[jediyoshi]

My take on it is DLC is almost never worth playing through, I would much rather have a game available on PC that currently isn't available digitally.

Availability in the sense of where and how it's distributed is one thing. Availability in the sense that something is incomplete makes it inferior to me as a result, practically regardless of quality. It'd be like if they ported over Dragon's Dogma now but left out DA for whatever reason.

 

[Sajjaja]

Availability in the sense of where and how it's distributed is one thing. Availability in the sense that something is incomplete makes it inferior to me as a result, practically regardless of quality. It'd be like if they ported over Dragon's Dogma now but left out DA for whatever reason.

I'd rather have DD with no DA than no DD at all.

 

[Hasney]

Decided to grab the Warner bundle, so if WB ever gracefully allows us retail Arkham Asylum owning peasants to redeem the keys on Steam, it looks like we'll be having a very sensual giveaway.

 

[Tizoc]

Groupeespares:

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I MISSED OUT COJ!

 

[Sajjaja]

Decided to grab the Warner bundle, so if WB ever gracefully allows us retail Arkham Asylum owning peasants to redeem the keys on Steam, it looks like we'll be having a very sensual giveaway.

 

[KenOD]

Groupeespares:

A big super electronic thank you.

Groupees.

A wonderful giveaway.

That just sounds like "comfy couch" or "PCs are for spreadsheets" to me.

Is it wrong one of the first things I want to try with the Steam Controller is see how well it works with spreadsheets? They said it can replicate anything a mouse can do and work well, I just want to test that out.

 

[JaseC]

Thank you kindly for Shelter, JaseC.

A big super electronic thank you.

No worries.

Is it wrong one of the first things I want to try with the Steam Controller is see how well it works with spreadsheets? They said it can replicate anything a mouse can do and work well, I just want to test that out.

"Can I use the Steam Controller to play Football Manager?" is a question burning at the back of everybody's mind.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I MISSED OUT COJ!

Haha, unlucky, especially considering it's locked behind the bundle's $5 tier.

 

[Grief.exe]

"Can I use the Steam Controller to play Football Manager?" is a question burning at the back of everybody's mind.

Meanwhile, "how can I pick up the Czechoslovakian version of Football Manager?' Is burning in Jase's

 

[bobnowhere]

Groupees Be Mine X is live:

$1: Electronic Super Joy + OST, Shelter, Last Knight

$5: All $1 games plus Call of Juarez, Face Noir, Legends of Dawn, Finding Teddy, and a yet unnamed mystery game

Nice, groupees really is the number 2 now. Also, COJ, Electronic Super Joy and Face Noir have cards. Finding Teddy and Last Knight have also been greenlit, so a steam key will come at some point.

 

[JaseC]

Meanwhile, "how can I pick up the Czechoslovakian version of Football Manager?' Is burning in Jase's

I've made a list of the Football Managers I need to track down. I might order 2011 Korean soon, just in case stock is very limited, and then wait until the Winter Sale is over before picking up the rest. I've looked high and low but can't find any Korean stores offering 2009/2010.

 

[EmergentFocus]

I've made a list of the Football Managers I need to track down. I might order 2011 Korean soon, just in case stock is very limited, and then wait until the Winter Sale is over before picking up the rest. I've looked high and low but can't find any Korean stores offering 2009/2010.

As a matter of curiosity, if you have multiple copies of FM2013 from different regions would you be eligible for multiple trading card drops?

 

[Sajjaja]

I've made a list of the Football Managers I need to track down. I might order 2011 Korean soon, just in case stock is very limited, and then wait until the Winter Sale is over before picking up the rest. I've looked high and low but can't find any Korean stores offering 2009/2010.

 

[JaseC]

As a matter of curiosity, if you have multiple copies of FM2013 from different regions would you be eligible for multiple trading card drops?

Doesn't look like it.

Yeah, my problem is that the Turkish apps aren't tied to any public subs. No FM 201x Turkish for me. Still, though, there's:

FM 2011 Korean
FM 2012 Korean
FM 2013 Asia
FM 2013 Korean
FM 2013 Russian
FM 2014 ROW (I thought about pre-purchasing the game for the beta, but once I realised it wasn't a separate app, I lost interest.)
FM 2014 Russian

 

[Tizoc]

Haha, unlucky, especially considering it's locked behind the bundle's $5 tier.

Yeah I'd assume CoJ would be $5 come the Winter Seal at least, but for $5+all them other goodies is fine for me.

 

[toddhunter]

Groupees Be Mine X is live:

$1: Electronic Super Joy + OST, Shelter, Last Knight

$5: All $1 games plus Call of Juarez, Face Noir, Legends of Dawn, Finding Teddy, and a yet unnamed mystery game

Thanks. Will sit on it I think and see what the bonus comes up as.

 

[Arthea]

Yeah, my problem is that the Turkish apps aren't tied to any public subs. No FM 201x Turkish for me.

Is it really? (><)

Meanwhile curse of booster packs continues.

 

[Card Boy]

I've made a list of the Football Managers I need to track down. I might order 2011 Korean soon, just in case stock is very limited, and then wait until the Winter Sale is over before picking up the rest. I've looked high and low but can't find any Korean stores offering 2009/2010.

 

[JaseC]

Is it really? (><)

2012 isn't tied to any subs at all and 2013 is just included in a couple of Sega employee subs and a couple of early access subs. I might roll the dice on 2013, though, since this thread suggests there was a Turkish-specific sub on Steam at one point, so perhaps retail keys will activate one of the aforementioned EA subs.

When aliens invade Earth and the only thing that can prevent the extinction of the human race is various region-specific Steam editions of Football Manager, you'll thank me!

 

[KenOD]

When aliens invade Earth and the only thing that can prevent the extinction of the human race is various region-specific Steam editions of Football Manager, you'll thank me!

Until a twist in the plot occurs and it turns out it was a Addictive Games/Kevin Toms Football Manager we needed all along.

 

[Grief.exe]

Just got linked this video by God of Nerdiness, explains why COD: Ghosts requires 6GB of RAM.

Spoiler alert: they are literally taking up multiple GB of space with nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-A0VEG5KOo

 

[toddhunter]

Just got linked this video by God of Nerdiness, explains why COD: Ghosts requires 6GB of RAM.

Spoiler alert: they are literally taking up multiple GB of space with nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-A0VEG5KOo

I'm not sure I buy the whole "trying to stop 32-bit tools" thing. But it is certainly a strange release in many ways.

 

[poopninjamvc3mk]

Doesn't look like it.



Yeah, my problem is that the Turkish apps aren't tied to any public subs. No FM 201x Turkish for me. Still, though, there's:

FM 2011 Korean
FM 2012 Korean
FM 2013 Asia
FM 2013 Korean
FM 2013 Russian
FM 2014 ROW (I thought about pre-purchasing the game for the beta, but once I realised it wasn't a separate app, I lost interest.)
FM 2014 Russian

You sir, are truly a industry defender. How you are able to still afford food let alone live I'll never understand.

Keep doing ya thing playa

Spoiler

Jase are you secretly the richest man in the world?

 

[Jame Retief]

Technology-wise, it's been a rough couple of weeks. Long story, short. My computer BSOD'ed and absolutely would not load into Windows (7 Pro). Not even Safe Mode. After considerable troubleshooting here is where I'm at. In order to get the system to "stably" function (before even loading the OS) I have to disable 4 of the 6 cores of the CPU in the BIOS.

This allows my system to load Windows and function semi-normally. The system does not BSOD, nor will it reset itself. It will run indefinitely this way, but with odd program crashes.

Browsers load fine and general surfing is fine, however, both Firefox and Internet Explorer will crash going to Youtube.com. Embedded videos from Youtube will play fine. Opera and Chrome both work fine on Youtube.com.

Viewing jpgs is fine, pngs will crash the picture viewer. They will load fine in Paint.

Things I can work around, except...

Steam immediately crashes.

And it's going to be a few weeks before a rebuild can be budgeted in.

Sorry, had to vent.

How about a giveaway?

Here's what you need to know. There are 4 copies of The Showdown Effect and 1 copy of Civilization V. Feel free to try for all 5.

Just quote this message and paste the quote in the thread:

I am giving away 5 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below that corresponds to the key you want (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering).

Rules for this Giveaway:
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- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:

Curtain Number 1 -- MB-EF868163081386E8 - Taken by Faabulous. 3 entrants total.
Curtain Number 3 -- MB-96C13E5CA58F7077 - Taken by Gez. 4 entrants total.
Curtain Number 2 -- MB-983080BFEDF1FAB1 - Taken by Deques. 5 entrants total.
Curtain Number 5 -- MB-848AEB81FC8F4624 - Taken by Cth. 7 entrants total.
Curtain Number 4 -- MB-4B736A3987B1ED20 - Taken by kevin1025. 6 entrants total.

 

[JaseC]

You sir, are truly a industry defender. How you are able to still afford food let alone live I'll never understand.

Keep doing ya thing playa

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Jase are you secretly the richest man in the world?

Well, I haven't bought the games yet.

 

[toddhunter]

You sir, are truly a industry defender. How you are able to still afford food let alone live I'll never understand.

The whole point of steam is games do not cost that much. Even then, I have friends who will happily go out and spend $100 on alcohol a couple of times a week. Collecting games as a hobby seems a lot more sensible to me.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

... every single You Don't Know Jack is now on Steam.

 

[JaseC]

The whole point of steam is games do not cost that much. Even then, I have friends who will happily go out and spend $100 on alcohol a couple of times a week. Collecting games as a hobby seems a lot more sensible to me.

Even buying EOL retail copies isn't particularly expensive (I think I paid jshackles $8 or so for Star Trek DAC), although 007 Legends cost me about $38 and FM 2011/2012 Korean are going to set me back ~$22 each (I'm hoping 2013 drops in price over the next couple of months).

 

[ngt]

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Jase are you secretly the richest man in the world?

Undercover Boss Gabe.

 

[Hasney]

... every single You Don't Know Jack is now on Steam.

Really hope it's a Humble Bundle at some point.

 

[wazoo]

Face Noir looks so unbelievably bad. I need it.

Review was ok at adventuregamers.com

http://www.adventuregamers.com/games/view/16656

 

[wazoo]

Groupees Be Mine X is live:

$1: Electronic Super Joy + OST, Shelter, Last Knight

$5: All $1 games plus Call of Juarez, Face Noir, Legends of Dawn, Finding Teddy, and a yet unnamed mystery game

games register at steam or desura. I hate when only exe files are given, that is a good way of losing track of what they are.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Really hope it's a Humble Bundle at some point.

I am swiping the Jack Ultimate Pack on sale.

 

[Dec]

How do you change your push to talk key in steam voice chat to none? This guy did it:

http://gyazo.com/52606d8967217d44b317384471b89b8b.png?1325313542

War in the North has always enabled Steam voice chat and I'm trying to disable it.

This is the fix: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2416684

Edit: What a pain in the ass. I figured it out though, ignore.

 

[Coldsun]

Has Capcom ever explained why RE:4 has never gone digital (specifically to Steam)?

 

[Hasney]

Has Capcom ever explained why RE:4 has never gone digital (specifically to Steam)?

I would say because it's an awful port and they realised it's best forgotten, but they did put DMC3 on it...

 

[Atraveller]

You sir, are truly a industry defender. How you are able to still afford food let alone live I'll never understand.

Keep doing ya thing playa

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Jase are you secretly the richest man in the world?

Defending the industry...he's encouraging region lock! Don't do this JaseC!

 

[Arthea]

Has Capcom ever explained why RE:4 has never gone digital (specifically to Steam)?

better question is has Capcpom ever explained anything?
as far as I know - they didn't.
I'm still waiting for explanation why we can't have Dragon's Dogma on PC.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Steam Gifts.
Someone is giving away RIPD: The Game.
The contributor limit is 5k.

 

[Coldsun]

better question is has Capcpom even explained anything?
as far as I know - they didn't.
I'm still waiting for explanation why we can't have Dragon's Dogma on PC.

Now that you mention, the lack of Dragon's Dogma is somewhat perplexing. The lack of Monster Hunter online in the west also seems to go against what I'd assume would be easy money.

 

[Hasney]

I'm still waiting for explanation why we can't have Dragon's Dogma on PC.

Because the online pawn system wouldn't work properly without financing it, or something.

I'd take the game without it in a heartbeat.

 

[wetflame]

Awwww yiss. Just got a Watch Your Step foil for Stealth Bastard Deluxe, only one other card on the market and it's on at £10.75. Doubt anyone will pay that much for it, but I can hope!

 

[Arthea]

Because the online pawn system wouldn't work properly without financing it, or something.

I'd take the game without it in a heartbeat.

Was it their official answer? (><)
I've seen this posted couple of times but don't know the source.

I would take optimised DD with good framerate on PC, who wouldn't?

 

[kurahador]

You guys remember when steam had this little contest during summer sale where the winner will get full steam library?

I hope JaseC wins that.