SapientWolf
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What a waste. That time could have been spent on GAF complaining about games._Bro said:
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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition
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BloodySinner
Banned
Mafia II is awesome. NVIDIA PhysX rocks.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
"Cool story _Bro" lost the coin toss so I went with that one._Bro said:
jaundicejuice
Member
Seems a bit much to get that mad over two dollars and fifty cents.
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
Back then? Certainly. It was a novel type of game; remember, it came out when GTA 3 came out, so this was one of the two titles that breached into the openworldy car driving / shooting genre. People would just have suffered through the mission earlier in, but the rest would've made up for it, I'm sure.pilonv1 said:
Today? Such a racing mission could very well kill the buzz for a game.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Anybody played NightSky?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/99700/
Never heard of it before and it looks cool. Gives me a Limbo vibe but looks more puzzley.
It was just on the front page of Steam and caught my attention.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/99700/
Never heard of it before and it looks cool. Gives me a Limbo vibe but looks more puzzley.
It was just on the front page of Steam and caught my attention.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Foliorum Viridum said:
It's supposedly quite short, but it's made by Nifflas who is very well known for his indie gems Knytt, Knytt Stories, Saira, and Within a Deep Forest (Saira is also on Steam, the other three are freeware)
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
It's only £6 so short is fine for that price.
Might give it a punt!
Might give it a punt!
benjipwns
Banned
I have to admit despite knowing it's lots of work that indie devs are only hurting themselves when there's no demo.
A big company, big IP, established development house, etc. game gets various advantages outright. Not to say that demos don't help them a lot either. (The Batman demo probably did a ton for that game.) In the case of an indie though I assume most people are leery.
But something like Defense Grid the demo justified it almost instantly for me. Well, at least after I had played hours of the demo. (I think it was out before the game anyway.)
RUSH, Everyday Genius, Recettar, Iron Grip, the list goes on and on where demos turned a "maybe" into bought. Free weekends work too, but they are limited in that I have to make sure I download and play during that select period.
Was there word on why Anomaly's demo listing went away after not working for a day?
A big company, big IP, established development house, etc. game gets various advantages outright. Not to say that demos don't help them a lot either. (The Batman demo probably did a ton for that game.) In the case of an indie though I assume most people are leery.
But something like Defense Grid the demo justified it almost instantly for me. Well, at least after I had played hours of the demo. (I think it was out before the game anyway.)
RUSH, Everyday Genius, Recettar, Iron Grip, the list goes on and on where demos turned a "maybe" into bought. Free weekends work too, but they are limited in that I have to make sure I download and play during that select period.
Was there word on why Anomaly's demo listing went away after not working for a day?
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
When the .exe is to be executed by the admin, of course the UAC will ask when you want to run it. I don't think you want it to be executed by the admin anyway; usually, you'd install Steam with your restricted account, and when you start the installation, you're hit with a UAC notification; then, the rights should be set inherently so that your restricted account can handle Steam.Raggy said:
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Good follow-up and something that would compel me further into a buy. Someone chime in?MNC said:
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
It uses Gamespy to join gamesMNC said:
Fortunately it looks like Gearbox learned their lesson and IIRC they are using Steamworks for Duke Nukem multiplayer (which looks hot).
benjipwns
Banned
To be honest though, since the patches it seems to actually work if you're trying to connect to specific people you know on your friends list.Stallion Free said:It uses Gamespy to join games
Otherwise, well...good luck!
EDIT: Lag and crap can really throw you off sometimes though.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Yeah it definitely improved and if I stick with New England friends for playing co-op there is almost no lag, but with randoms or overseas? Sweet baby jesus it's awful.benjipwns said:
speculawyer
Member
Somebody warned you that it does start very slow. I think the intent is to teach you the city geography and how the driving works._Bro said:
Joe Molotov
Member
We knew for a long time it was going to be Steamworks, but it's nice that it's going to have dedicated servers too.
Gully State
Member
wow those are some high ass recommended settings for Brink.
Minimum system requirements
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
2GB RAM
NVIDIA 8800GS / AMD Radeon HD 2900 Pro
Windows XP (SP3)/Vista/Windows 7
8GB free HDD space
Recommended system requirements
Intel Quad Core i5
3GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 / AMD Radeon HD 5850
Windows XP (SP3)/Vista/Windows 7
8GB free HDD space
That is ridiculous, a 460 for recommended?
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
2GB RAM
NVIDIA 8800GS / AMD Radeon HD 2900 Pro
Windows XP (SP3)/Vista/Windows 7
8GB free HDD space
Recommended system requirements
Intel Quad Core i5
3GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 / AMD Radeon HD 5850
Windows XP (SP3)/Vista/Windows 7
8GB free HDD space
That is ridiculous, a 460 for recommended?
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Damn that's high, mainly the GPU. I've only got a 5770 1gb
They probably just brute forced the game onto PC with little optimization
They probably just brute forced the game onto PC with little optimization
Lasthope106
Member
Those are some high recommended requirements for Brink.
Felix Lighter
Member
I'd say the CPU recommendation is more extreme than the graphics card. Most games that take advantage of 4 cores just recommend a quad core cpu but this specifically recommends an i5.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Felix Lighter said:
Having just recently upgraded from a Core 2 Quad 6600 to an i5 2500k, the difference is really quite substantial. Over 100% performance increase in some games. All quad cores are not equal. Not even close.
Lasthope106
Member
Nabs said:
This is out? O_O
I like the idea of Borderlands but haven't gone back to it mostly because of the graphics settings you have to mess with along with the stupid Gamespy stuff that has apparently been patched to a degree. I think I got the game right after it came out and it made me very leery of Gearbox, but I do want DNF...Stallion Free said:
I do have one fond memory shortly after I started playing Borderlands, though. I somehow managed to get into a game some random guys in Australia were hosting. Despite the lag and whatnot inherent in it, I think we managed to actually play for an hour or two in the wee hours of the morning (for me), and they were pretty entertaining.
Felix Lighter
Member
Zefah said:
Yeah definitely but recommending an i5 quad core or better doesn't leave a lot of CPUs to choose from.
It's been awhile since I payed super close attention to CPU benchmarks but last I checked the i5 750, the slowest i5 quad core out performed all AMD quad core CPUs and even the AMD hex core CPUs in most gaming situations. That would pretty much leave just the i5/i7 4/6 core CPUs.
ClosingADoor
Member
Yeah, released today.Lasthope106 said:
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