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STEAM - Announcements & Updates 2010
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Visualante
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You missed the sale bro,BattleMonkey said:Comes up as 20$ for meDamnit
crimsonheadGCN
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Portal 2 store page is up: http://store.steampowered.com/app/620/
ohhthegore
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crimsonheadGCN said:
Cant wait!
Joe Molotov
Member
crimsonheadGCN said:
I bought it and played it a few hours this afternoon. It was fun. The basic gameplay is that you have stacks of cards at the top of the screen, some of which are face up and some are face down, and then you have a deck of cards at the bottom. You turn over cards at the bottom one at a time and then play cards off the stack on your deck card. The cards you play have to be either one higher or one lower than the card you're playing it on. The round ends when you either play all the cards from your stacks (a perfect hand) or when your deck runs out of cards.
Each hand consists of 9 rounds, and each hand has a certain goal that you have to achieve (like get at least one perfect hand, win at least $1000, something like that). Also you can raise pets, which as far as I can tell have no impact in the game whatsoever, but yay pets! The first one I found was a flying chef bot. :lol
BioHazard said:
Do you care for adventure games? I mean, Monkey Island is a funny, entertaining story through a collage of pirate and adventure movie stereotypes. But it isn't exactly action packed or full of actual swashbuckling. It's a really well written adventure game, but an adventure game through and through - pick up items and use them on random things to progress, talk to people to gain clues/information, click all over the screen in hopes that you find something new to interact with when you're stuck. If you dig the humor, characters, and setting the game is absolutely rockin'. if you're used to fast paced games full of guns and explosions you'll probably be bored in about 10 minutes.
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They are great. I had never played an adventure game before MI Special Edition came out and I rolled through it the first time in classic mode only and it was great. I loved the story and the dialogue. I immediately replayed it in the remake mode and enjoyed that too.BioHazard said:
I do have a stupid question though...there's the $35, not-on-sale Tales of Monkey Island pack that includes 5 chapters (I assume this is the "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal" etc. pack). If I only play "The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition" and "Monkey Island 2: Special Edition", is that pretty much in order, or do I miss out/spoil stuff from the Tales pack?
I'd rather not get the Tales pack unless it goes on sale or something, for now.
I'd rather not get the Tales pack unless it goes on sale or something, for now.
Blizzard said:
I can't speak to spoilers since I haven't played Tales, but given how Tales was made so long after MI 1 and 2, any 'spoilers' for Tales would be intended, I think.
Also, Tales of Monkey Island is on sale for $5 at Telltale's site. http://www.telltalegames.com/playlikeapirate
Joe Molotov
Member
Blizzard said:
There are four original Monkey Island games from LucasArts. Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island II have been remade and released on Steam, then there's Curse of Monkey Island and Escape from Monkey Island that aren't on Steam. Then Tales from Monkey Island comes after that. You should definitely play MI 1 & 2 first, at any rate.
YYZ said:
iTunes support gives the ability to play iTunes purchased songs in general. The proprietary iTunes format requires a license, and by picking up that DLC you're essentially covering the license expense to be able to play music bought via the iTunes service.
The full version lets you level up all the way (I'm pretty sure there's a cap in the demo). And it does change the game pretty substantially when you can start with 2 volumes and 2 weapon upgrades.
Dice
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I guess this is a mix of question and shameful confession.
I started playing Half Life 2 and it's pretty cool but I realized that I want to play Half Life before I do... Yes, that's right... I never did.
Anyway, I got them in the HL Complete pack some time ago so it's right here, but I was wondering how to enable vsync. Forcing it via CCC doesn't work and I couldn't find any config mods or console commands.
I started playing Half Life 2 and it's pretty cool but I realized that I want to play Half Life before I do... Yes, that's right... I never did.
Anyway, I got them in the HL Complete pack some time ago so it's right here, but I was wondering how to enable vsync. Forcing it via CCC doesn't work and I couldn't find any config mods or console commands.
cr_blah_blah
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Great deal for me. I have Secret of Monkey Island on 360 but it doesn't control that well so I'm psyched I can get both for so cheap on pc.
Salacious Crumb
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Dice said:
D3DOverrider, It comes as a part of Riva Tuner which you can get here:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163
Has anyone ever had problems with...Peggle, in Windows Vista 64? In full screen it was acting weird, and in windowed mode it takes like 10-15 seconds to load, and then whenever I try to go to the options screen it goes completely black.
*edit* Seems to be, of all things, ATI 10.7/10.8 drivers? And disabling acceleration might fix it, but first it would be nice if I could -see- the options screen. :lol I'm updating to 10.9 and will report if that fixes it.
In full screen it was acting weird, and in windowed mode it takes like 10-15 seconds to load, and then whenever I try to go to the options screen it goes completely black.*edit* Seems to be, of all things, ATI 10.7/10.8 drivers? And disabling acceleration might fix it, but first it would be nice if I could -see- the options screen. :lol I'm updating to 10.9 and will report if that fixes it.
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Half-Life natively and runs best in Open-GL. Other video modes are glitchy and broken including DirectX. Open-GL gets nothing out of D3DOverrider.Salacious Crumb said:
Okay, it looks like Peggle AND possibly Plants vs Zombies have issues with "3D Acceleration" turned on and ATI versions since like 10.6. The latest version of the ATI drivers and CCC still have the problem. Blindly clicking around (see this screen for reference: http://ded.zenblue.net/peggle_win7.jpg) got rid of the black screen finally, so I can Peggle away.
Booooo ATI, and/or PopCap.
Also, CCC 10.9 seems quite responsive, which is a welcome change, but unfortunately the Steam install automatically installed the communications opt-in and I had to go to the control panel and run the Catalyst install manager thing (which I think also got installed?) to get rid of it.
Booooo ATI, and/or PopCap.
Also, CCC 10.9 seems quite responsive, which is a welcome change, but unfortunately the Steam install automatically installed the communications opt-in and I had to go to the control panel and run the Catalyst install manager thing (which I think also got installed?) to get rid of it.
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graywolf323
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Volcynika said:
I want to get it eventually but I'll wait for a sale
Haeleos said:
is that code good on anything else?
Stallion Free
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From the DD Sales Thread:graywolf323 said:
Catshade said:Just got this from an RPS comment: Use the code PAX2010 on Direct2Drive.com and you can get $5 off on any games. If you use it on the summer sale games, you can get Arsenal of Democracy, King's Bounty: The Legend, Men of War: Red Tide, Dirt 2, or Serious Sam: First/Second Encounter for only $1 each!
LocoMrPollock
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Stallion Free said:
Do you have to buy them 1 at a time?
nvm..
It's a shame that code doesn't work on the UK side, because The Monkey Island games are region protected (I have to buy the UK edition, same price but then the code doesn't work). Still, I just bought Men Of War: Red Tide for less than £1Haeleos said:
graywolf323
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Stallion Free said:
SimCity 4 Deluxe for $5 is mighty tempting...
but I would prefer it on Steam and I wouldn't be shocked if they have it at 75% off eventually
edit: ooh all the Doctor Who games for $8 and it sounds like they are exclusive to D2D
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Does Direct2Drive have any DRM or bullshit I need to worry about?
graywolf323
Member
adg1034 said:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUSF-3601
doesn't look like it
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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It also says I have multiple profiles listed on my account when I log in... Does this affect anything?
LocoMrPollock
Banned
graywolf323 said:
Yeah, I tried my Dirt 2 key and it didn't work.
Still, great deal for a buck.
graywolf323
Member
has anyone played the Doctor Who games? are they worth $8 for all four?
blackMamba1187
Member
Cool. I got both Serious Sam games for $2.18 total. Thanks for that.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Stop It said:
Cool, thanks.
So no DRM or anything bad with D2D then?
SapientWolf
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The game plays like a turn based cross between Miner Dig Deep and Dungeon Keeper, which is already a dangerously addictive combination. It's good, but if the creator bakes this for awhile longer he can turn it into crack rock. Like N->N+ or Trials->Trials HD.crimsonheadGCN said:
graywolf323
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Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
they usually list it on the game page, some games have SecuROM
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