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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition
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jaundicejuice
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Does Steam automatically detect your region based on isp?
jaundicejuice
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I've found Super Meat Boy to be an infinitely more enjoyable experience now that I have a gaming pad. The only reason I die now is because of my own fumbling ineptitude. Now that I have a gaming pad I can start playing some racing games and am looking for some recommendations.
I've downloaded the demo for Fuel and enjoyed what I played, at 10$ it's pretty hard to pass up. That will probably be the first racing game purchase. I was kind of shocked to see that there's no demo for the more recent Need For Speeds, specifically Hot Pursuit. I'm even more annoyed with myself that I didn't buy the game now.
I was a big fan of the old PS1 Codemasters Colin McRae rally racers so I think I'll just pre-order Dirt 3.
I've downloaded the demo for Fuel and enjoyed what I played, at 10$ it's pretty hard to pass up. That will probably be the first racing game purchase. I was kind of shocked to see that there's no demo for the more recent Need For Speeds, specifically Hot Pursuit. I'm even more annoyed with myself that I didn't buy the game now.
I was a big fan of the old PS1 Codemasters Colin McRae rally racers so I think I'll just pre-order Dirt 3.
jaundicejuice said:
What sort of racing games are you looking for? The super simmy side of things is sort of sparse PC-side, but you can make things like DiRT or Shift serviceable. If you like the more arcadey racers, just about anything from Criterion's a treat, as well as Trackmania. And of course some games with incidental driving but no racing focus (read: GTA IV) tend to feel better on a pad.
jaundicejuice
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Gah, brainfart. Yes, I should've specified that I tend to enjoy racing games that lean more towards the arcade experience than I do sim. I loved the older Ridge Racer games, specifically Type 4 and the early Colin McRae games, even though they were kind of sim-y, because rally racing is simply bad ass. I love flying blind at some ridiculous speed through the back roads of some Norwegian village and careening off of trees or flying into a ditch, much to my robo navigator's frustration and terror.
Dirt 3 looks like it'll be pretty fun. I'm going to download Dirt 2's demo to get a taste of what the series is like now.
Dirt 3 looks like it'll be pretty fun. I'm going to download Dirt 2's demo to get a taste of what the series is like now.
jaundicejuice
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So the short list is...
Burnout Paradise
Dirt 2
Fuel
Even with Dirt 3 coming out so soon?
Burnout Paradise
Dirt 2
Fuel
InertiaXr said:
Even with Dirt 3 coming out so soon?
jaundicejuice said:
In that case, my highest recommendation is Burnout Paradise. Bar none my favorite racing game of all time, and has probably ~15-20 hours of content to play through to completion and maybe ~30-40 hours to truly get 100% on everything. It has tons of variety - road rages where you fight head to head against other cars and try to crash them off the road, standard races, burning laps that are essentially time trials, marked man missions where you simply try to survive to another point on the map, stunt missions where you try to do crazy jumps and spins, billboards to smash, super jumps to find, and shortcuts to discover. There's also a "super parking" minigame and every road in the open world has a speed to beat and a "crash mode" to complete. It also has a more or less amazing soundtrack composed essentially of three different OSTs: a compendium of previous Burnout music (mostly techno/electronic stuff), a large assortment of your standard EA Trax pop rock fare, and a ton of classical music. If there's any complaints to be had it's that the online store has been taken offline, they never ported Big Surf Island to the PC (which is an absolute shame) and the online is pretty much dead this late in the game. Still, it's an amazing open world experience and an excellent racer to boot.
Alternately, Hot Pursuit is sort of the love child of Burnout and Need for Speed. It's made by Criterion, who are the guys behind Burnout, and the boost system is lifted basically verbatim from Burnout. However, the handling is a bit more realistic in the NFS fashion (think Project Gotham, sort of - not "realistic" but the vehicles have way more weight than they did in Burnout) and the cars are all the fancy licensed variety. There are some balance issues and the soundtrack sort of sucks and is mixed to be almost silent to compensate. But it's also absolutely gorgeous in motion, and while there are times where it makes me want to slam my controller into the wall, when it works it really really works. There's something about dodging a wreck only to pass through a police roadblock without incident and shoot across the road into a shortcut that is just exhilarating.
Trackmania is... well it's crazy and fun. There's a free version up on Steam, but it lacks tons of content from the full version. The coolest thing about the game is that it's sort of all racing games in one - you don't get a ton of car variety in each race type, but each type feels wildly different. There are some vehicles that feel a bit like Outrun, some that feel a bit like Burnout sans boosting, and some that feel almost like Mario Kart. It's also insanely goofy - you'll do jumps across entire city blocks, drive upside down and through loop-de-loops, that sort of thing. It's a highly skill driven, mission-specific racing game. Think of it as Super Monkey Ball meets driving games.
MacGurcules
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I felt that Dirt 2 had a bit too many repetitive stadium circuit races and a bit too few proper rallies. Also, it has like ten minutes of introductory animated menus and unskippable cinemas before you can even change the resolution. But overall, it is a pretty competent game. I don't regret paying $5 for it in the last holiday sale.
MacGurcules said:
Yes I agree, a lot of nonsense in it. Dirt 3 is suppose to get rid of a lot of that stuff, like the fully animated main menu thing. I was talking more about the actual rally racing which is awesome. I also paid $5 for it in some sale and agree it was a great deal.
jaundicejuice
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I think I've received some really good recommendations, that have been added to my wishlist but I'm going to wait for the summer sale and see how Dirt 3 does when it's released.
Cheers.
Cheers.
I'm not sure anyone already wrote it but Dead Space 2 doesn't appear in the german steam shop. It passed the USK rating after 5 tries and a shitty move by a politician, so it seems EA hates us?
Edit: Perhaps someone is eager to help my? Would gift him a game of his choice close to this price range.
Edit: Perhaps someone is eager to help my? Would gift him a game of his choice close to this price range.
intheinbetween
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no fix for Crysis yet? great -_-'
C.T. said:
Yeah it just sucks. Anyway you could also try the gifting thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=394003
Crytek response on the Steam forums about the Crysis Securom issue:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=21031139#post21031139
....wow
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=21031139#post21031139
....wow
Visualante
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I'm never buying a Crytek game. Wow.
Prophet Steve
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Oh fuck you, will still buy Crysis 2 probably when it's cheap and use the Cryengine 3 tools. Fuck me too.
Warrior_Keoni
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Thanks for the heads-up, but no more purchases from me going into Crytek.
Campster said:
I think you mean the super simmy side is non existent on the console side. If you mean the AAA high budget arcade-sims like GT and Forza, then yeah, Shift/Dirt/Grid is as good as you're going to get on PC. But super sims? The PC laughs smugly at the non-existent console side.
This is the post on the steam forums I was talking about where there are some potential solutions for people with the key problems. I don't know if it will work but worth a shot, I guess.
LiquidMetal14
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Have Battlefield 2 or any of the older ones ever been on sale?
If that happens to day, I would so jump on BF2 for like 5.
If that happens to day, I would so jump on BF2 for like 5.
SpacedCadette
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Just tried it. No dice.Detox said:
I realize it was only seven bucks, but it still feels like fucking money wasted. At this point, I don't even care about Crytek's shitty, anti-consumer DRM policies because at least those people are able to start the game up.
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
MNC said:
No, you link your youtube account to your steam account and can pick which videos you want to show up.
ColonialRaptor
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If BF BC2 is cheap enough today I may buy again just so that I own the Steamworks version. I'm pretty sure that it will be under $5 - if it's a BF day.
I am really going to regret not getting someone to gift me Dead Space 2 while it's $24 but... I'm in no rush to play it, it will come down in price eventually so I am sure that I can wait.
Pity you can't trade in PC games in Australia... if I buy BC2 again it would have been cool to be able to trade the old one in.
Oh well.
How long until the game switches to the new one?
I am really going to regret not getting someone to gift me Dead Space 2 while it's $24 but... I'm in no rush to play it, it will come down in price eventually so I am sure that I can wait.
Pity you can't trade in PC games in Australia... if I buy BC2 again it would have been cool to be able to trade the old one in.
Oh well.
How long until the game switches to the new one?
Smitty3000
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With PSN down I was looking at buying Left for Dead 2, is the online community still alive?
Stallion Free
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There is definitely 16:9 support native.1-D_FTW said:
Phife Dawg
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The game is not very demanding, ran smooth like butter on my quadcore AMD and 5850. But if you are using ATI (maybe this applies to Nvidia cards as well, dunno) forcing AA will do funky things to the in-game cutscenes so you will have to live with edge blurring unfortunately. Maybe there is a workaround and some insightful GAFer shares?Proc said:
Stallion Free said:
Weird. I opened it with my Asus VW246 monitor that is 1080P native. I'll have to give it another go, but I could swear there weren't any boxes to check for 16:9 support and all the available resolutions were 4:3 that were stretched.
EDIT: Nope. No 16:9 options. Even diabled D3D to make sure that wasn't causing conflicts. First game I've had any such issues since I purchased this monitor.
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