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STEAM - Announcements & Updates 2010
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MrNyarlathotep
Banned
legend166 said:
It is pretty great - like I said last page, it's easily worth that price and with the expansion bundled in too its a great deal.
Brief synopsis for fencesitters:
Its a sim-city on a small scale kind of game. You're the dictator of an island in the caribbean in the 1960s and onwards, and basically have to survive whatever the scenario objective is (some are very off the wall).
Its the middle of the cold war, so you've got both the USSR and USA sniffing around you and trying to set you up as a puppet state (which you can accept, or stay independent), your islanders are all different factions who all want different things (your capitalists want you to rape the shit out of the environment by setting up heavy processing and industry, your ecologists want you to preserve the islands natural beauty for example) and if people get too pissed off with how you're running things, they don't send you strongly worded letters to the newspaper of complaint; they pick up guns and go run off to live in the jungle as guerilla freedom fighters instead.
You have an actual avatar who you can make wander around (and you get small temporary buffs to buildings by making him visit them in person) and you can customise that avatar with a series of benefits and flaws at the start of the game (so you can choose to be a war hero who - hilariously - will run into combat if rebels attack soemwhere and singlehandedly shoot them all, and offset that by being a notorious womaniser so all of the femal inhabitants of the island like you a little less right off the bat for example).
Also of course you can issue any edicts you want to shape what kind of government you want to run, many of which will piss someone or other off. Like setting up a personal swiss bank account to siphon cash off of every building you make into your own personal slush fund, or setting up aa secret police force and having dissidents mysteriously die i accidents if they try and run against you in an election for example.
It's a lot of fun ^_^
RadicalRad
Member
Back-Log, HOOOOO!
Fuck this shit.
After all, Physx was indeed the cause of the problem. After reinstalling it, the error message doesn't pop up anymore and finally the game starts ... or so I thought. But instead the display just becomes black and I get the next error message :lol "BmGame isn't working anymore" followed by ... this.
So, now it's some GFWL shit that's causing an issue in combination with the graphics card, I guess. Because I realized something "funny": I can play the game with the integrated Intel HD graphics; it starts without problems (needless to say that this Intel HD graphics stuff isn't able to run it at an acceptable level). If I try to start it with the Nvidia gpu it crashes with the error message. What a fucked up piece of shit.
After all, Physx was indeed the cause of the problem. After reinstalling it, the error message doesn't pop up anymore and finally the game starts ... or so I thought. But instead the display just becomes black and I get the next error message :lol "BmGame isn't working anymore" followed by ... this.
So, now it's some GFWL shit that's causing an issue in combination with the graphics card, I guess. Because I realized something "funny": I can play the game with the integrated Intel HD graphics; it starts without problems (needless to say that this Intel HD graphics stuff isn't able to run it at an acceptable level). If I try to start it with the Nvidia gpu it crashes with the error message. What a fucked up piece of shit.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Really? World of Goo is one of the more famous indie games recently. Its also fantastic in gameplay and in visuals/music, hell IGNForkball said:
lol IGN whatever
WoG at fifteen bucks is a good price. At five its a downright steal, and that's not including the other games.
ipukespiders
Member
Dunlop said:
Damn right! I too would be not impressed with your ISP. If it's a frequent problem, maybe try a new ISP. You pay for service, you expect it.
jaundicejuice
Member
Dawn of War II and its expansion for 14$ dollars, such an inviting price. It's a pity that it comes with GFWL. No matter how attractive the price, GFWL is a deal breaker.
Joe Molotov
Member
I know it's a little late to point this out, but to everyone thinking about Burnout Paradise, it has been cheaper than this before. It was $7.50 during last Christmas sale.
I'm pretty much a Valve/Steam fan, but I would still be disappointed if I tried to use the offline feature, which has had problems for years and repeated "fixes", and found all of my games didn't work. Imagine that sort of thing happening if Valve made a mistake and broke something, or if or their servers went down.ipukespiders said:
In this case, it was probably something about his client or games being in a weird state regarding updates, but still.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
.Zzoram said:
Servbot #42
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I had no internet for a few days now so imagine my surprise when just i just checked the steam store now :lol WOW! Damn these deals are pretty fucking crazy, fuck.
various xlive.dll crashes have completely blocked me from any and all gfwl live games, it was a little present delivered by the recent update.wrowa said:
it's like your dad arriving at the door after 10 years, cap in hand, ready to make amends - only to take three steps in the door, break your nose with a spade, set fire to your dog and run around pissing up the furniture singing "i'm a little teapot".
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
My god, that indie pack is a steal; I already have World of Goo, how are the others?
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Offline mode issues? My two younger bros abuse the shit out of it to play games on my account. They don't even fucking disconnect from the internet or anything.
I mean Steam is easily better than disc based games for singleplayer because I can be playing the same singleplayer game at the same time as my brothers while only having bought one copy.
I mean Steam is easily better than disc based games for singleplayer because I can be playing the same singleplayer game at the same time as my brothers while only having bought one copy.
Buggy Loop
Gold Member
Bought batman AA, question though, they ask me to enter the key that steam gives me at first, i register it. Then when the game starts, it tries to connect to windows live and re-enter a key, i skipped that since i heard windows live can ''steal'' steam games.. is that right?
Rufus said:
Never had to enter my CD key for GTAIV into live and still got achievements (well an achieve, only played it long enough to make sure it ran well enough)
In fact out of the 6 GFWL titles I have, I've only ever had to enter the CD key on Dawn of War 2 and Halo 2
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I would need two discs as most games still have disc checks.coopolon said:
I think I knew at least one person who specifically did this for all kinds of games. Basically they didn't care about multiplayer, so they'd just get their friend to let them log into their account, and then install whatever new games they wanted on their own machine to play in offline mode.Stallion Free said:
Kind of funny that the people having trouble with it working are the ones who just want it to work when expected, like when power goes out or when I go home for Christmas and don't have Steam access. I think some games worked for me though, so again probably an update status thing.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Well back when I bought disc based games (it's been a while for PC) I didn't really bother with no-CD cracks.coopolon said:
Leatherface
Member
I just wanted to say Puzzle Quest 2 fucking RAWKS! Must own game. 
arts&crafts
Member
gah, Direct2drive and gamestop.com have GTA4 for 5 dollars...I am waiting patiently for steam to follow suit so I have the convenience of having it in my steam account
Lyphen said:
Thanks, i'll try that. Im installing Chaos Rising first though to see if that doesnt crash. Since the game's basically an expansion (it is stand-alone as well but with less content if you dont own the previous one) i basically wont need to run DOW II vanilla anyway..
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