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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition

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TimmiT said:
James Bond: Blood Stone is now 66% off. Maybe that's the Midweek Madness deal?
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I liked this a lot. The driving sequences are gorgeous and the Gears of Bond bits feel tight. The story was boring, but the areas you visit are neat.
 
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TimmiT said:
James Bond: Blood Stone is now 66% off. Maybe that's the Midweek Madness deal?
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Damn. No Summer Sale Confirmed.

Stallion Free said:
I liked this a lot. The driving sequences are gorgeous and the Gears of Bond bits feel tight. The story was boring, but the areas you visit are neat.
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Gamepad support? Don't see it on the store page but that doesn't really mean anything.
 
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I am jealous of everyone that has more than $20 set aside for the sale. I have $6 in my paypal and a steam code for Brink and Hunted hat I will try bartering with :(
 
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coopolon said:
Gamepad support? Don't see it on the store page but that doesn't really mean anything.
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Yeah, everything but button prompts change which is a bit annoying, but didn't stop me. The pad felt excellent controls wise.
 
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Stallion Free said:
I liked this a lot. The driving sequences are gorgeous and the Gears of Bond bits feel tight. The story was boring, but the areas you visit are neat.
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yeah this was really fun for me, on par with mw2 for me
some screens i took a while back
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STOP SHITTING ON MY MOTHER'S HEADSTONE
Cheapest: Chime for $1.25

Most expensive: Star Trek Online - Deluxe Edition (preorder) for $59.99 (UGH)

Also the Gods and Heroes guys must have been PISSED when Steam started pushing the F2P MMOs a week ago.
 
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Also, anyone curious about Quantum of Solace probably shouldn't buy it. It is locked at 30 fps for no reason, has no pad support and feels like shit because of it (mouse + 30 fps = intolerable).

It's a weird combo of QoS and Casino Royale and the it's just a linear FPS w/ third person cover.
 
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Stallion Free said:
Also, anyone curious about Quantum of Solace probably shouldn't buy it. It is locked at 30 fps for no reason, has no pad support and feels like shit because of it (mouse + 30 fps = intolerable).
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While I hate being locked to 30fps as well, what is the mouse issue exactly?
 
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Ouch, I always wanted to try out Blood Stone but taking $13 out of my summer sale fund hurts. I heard the game is short, is it over 6 hours at least?
 
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MRORANGE said:
So GAF what's the cheapest game and most expensive game you bought from steam? (not including free)

Cheapest: The misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom £0.39

Expensive: Call of Duty Black Ops £39.99
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Cheapest: Winterbottom for 0.50
Most expensive: Railworks for 19.99

Both worth it in their own ways. Worst value for money I've bought so far is Aquaria, which I bought for $16 in 2008 and still haven't played more than an hour of. It's been on sale quite a few times since then. :/
 
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Stallion Free said:
Also, anyone curious about Quantum of Solace probably shouldn't buy it. It is locked at 30 fps for no reason, has no pad support and feels like shit because of it (mouse + 30 fps = intolerable).
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Isn't it GFWL game? Why no pad support?
 
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I paid $6 for Railworks as a joke and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It's ugly, janky, and has some of the worst menus I've ever seen, but it can easily be played one handed and was my go to game when trying to get my daughter to fall asleep on my shoulder.

Most expensive - $50 for Orange Box, it looks like.

And cheapest would be $1.25 for Chime. I could have sworn I got something for a dollar,but I'm not seeing it in my history.
 
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Polk said:
Isn't it GFWL game? Why no pad support?
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It's a shoddy port of a movie tie-in game rushed out for release alongside the film.

Oddly enough, I believe the 360 version runs closer to a targeted 60 FPS since it's running on the Modern Warfare engine.

Truly baffling why they felt the need to limit it to 30 FPS on PC.
 
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Cheapest: PB Winterbottom for $.50
Most Expensive: Civ V and Alpha Protocol for $50. Civ V was worth it since I played it for about 40 hours multiplayer with friends immediately upon release. Alpha Protocol was so very much not worth it. Total impulse buy I justified to myself because I thought I was supporting a cool unique developer. Turns out I was wrong.

Amusingly enough, I kind of wanted to impulse buy Dungeon Siege 3. But now recalling impulse buying AP, I won't. I probably wasn't going to anyway though.

Polk said:
Isn't it GFWL game? Why no pad support?
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I read somewhere that GFWL only requires gamepad support if the game has controller support.

If the developer doesn't include controller support, he doesn't have to include gamepad support either. Thank goodness because some games would be terrible with a gamepad like Dawn of War 2.
 
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The Big Rig said:
Crysis 2 - $60 on Steam,

Doesn't seem worth it now.
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I dunno, dude, you have Crysis 2 on Steam. You're now part of an exclusive club.

Anyways, I think Winterbottom would also be the least I've spent. I still haven't tried playing it yet, I should do that.

Most would be Bulletstorm. It's the only time I've spent $60 on a PC game, but I wanted to blow some money at the time.
 
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MoFuzz said:
It's a shoddy port of a movie tie-in game rushed out for release alongside the film.

Oddly enough, I believe the 360 version runs closer to a targeted 60 FPS since it's running on the Modern Warfare engine.

Truly baffling why they felt the need to limit it to 30 FPS on PC.
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ur pc am less powerful than teh 360.
 
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Snuggler said:
Anyways, I think Winterbottom would also be the least I've spent. I still haven't tried playing it yet, I should do that.
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Do yourself a favor and play it. It's a really good game.
 
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3chopl0x said:
Goes to zam.com for me, Lulzsec?
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hopefully not.

some ppl on overclockers forum are guessing that it might be because of the recent Gamefly acquisition ...that maybe they're changing some stuff.

i dunno.

when it comes back, i'm changing my password anyway. hehe.
 
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Zimbardo said:
hopefully not.

some ppl on overclockers forum are guessing that it might be because of the recent Gamefly acquisition ...that maybe they're changing some stuff.

i dunno.

when it comes back, i'm changing my password anyway. hehe.
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They're just changing DNS records. Their registrar was previously MarkMonitor Inc. until today. It's now been given over to GoDaddy. Cached DNS lookups from 9 days ago showed MarkMonitor managing Direct2Drive's DNS records, current lookups show GoDaddy, and the DNS records themselves have been updated today. It's just a move.
I hope.
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois/?tool_id=66&token=&toolhandler_redirect=0&ip=direct2drive.com
 
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you better buy the FUCK out of Ben There, Dan That! + Time Gentlemen, please!. Two of the funniest games i played in years, and they are only 1.25USD as the daily deal. I made a zombie cow (now Size Five Games, they changed the name last month) thread in the past but it kinda died. A shame, wonderful studio.
 
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SalsaShark said:
you better buy the FUCK out of Ben There, Dan That! + Time Gentlemen, please!. Two of the funniest games i played in years, and they are only 1.25USD as the daily deal. I made a zombie cow (now Size Five Games, they changed the name last month) thread in the past but it kinda died. A shame, wonderful studio.
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All I needed was one post telling me how it was. Looks great. Purchasing.
 
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Stallion Free said:
Mouse controls feel awful at 30 fps, it feels floaty.
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That sounds like a software cursor, not really an issue with the fps itself per se.

Typical of console ports though (lazy)
 
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