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STEAM announcements & updates 2011 Thread 3 | Buy now, play later.
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I haven't played a Tomb Raider game in so long and I think I'll pick up all three of those games. Wish Homefront was $5 less.
jaundicejuice
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Tomodachi said:
Yet here we are, with people complaining about Steam somehow failing at bringing gaming to Macs.
Civ V has a Mac version, what more does anyone honestly need? This game allows you to nuke Honolulu. Their greeting means giving you their love, or something to that affect. You can repay that kindness with an atom bomb.
But it doesn't show me the price =/Stumpokapow said:I am in Canada and I see that message. I don't think that means that Steam thinks you're from Germany.
Well, I don't think we will have a Saints Row 2 day, so I will be buying that this weekend, even if it's one of the worst ports of all time.
The Technomancer
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Eh, Civ games are like Blizzard games, they're always on Macjaundicejuice said:
Stumpokapow
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Stallion Free said:
I guess this explains why Underworld makes no sense to me. I just started playing it the other day. In media res opening, flashback, then in the first mission I run into two bad guys I'm apparently supposed to know but don't because I hadn't played a Tomb Raider game in a decade and they're not introduced and one of them seems to be a demon with wings and I thought Tomb Raider was supposed to be vaguely real world and not have demons with wings
graywolf323
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3chopl0x said:
will wait for Christmas sale
at $10 I probably would have bought day 1
jaundicejuice
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3chopl0x said:
So is Missing Link absurdly huge or just absurdly priced?
The_Technomancer said:
Clearly what you;re saying is I need to play Civ V some more, nuke a few more nations and provide screenshots to convince you. that's what I'm taking away from this.
Stallion Free
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They say it's suppose to clock in at 5 hours. They said the main game was 30 and it took me 35 so I trust them on that.jaundicejuice said:
zychi said:
nearly 5% of Steam users boot from from OSX, the fact that Valve have ported all there source games to the plafrom as well as the fact that there are now over 200 games for mac on the steam, heck even Tim Cook applauded Valve on there efforts
so how has Valve not changed mac gaming?
jaundicejuice
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Eh, I completed Human Revolution in 18 hours, only missed a few sidequests and events.
I think I'm just balking at the price because that's Orcs Must Die! right there.
I think I'm just balking at the price because that's Orcs Must Die! right there.
Well, it's a direct sequel of the first Tomb Raider ever, story-wise, the final boss of the first tomb raider (and anniversary, of course) beingStumpokapow said:
winged demon Natla
It has been like this since the beginning: it's a bit like Uncharted (or Indiana Jones), real settings but a lot of supernatural stuff.
Glass Rebel
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3chopl0x said:
That's way too steep for 5hours. Will wait for a sale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steam_gamesMRORANGE said:
look at allll those red x's under mac. hell, just look at 2011 alone.
200 out of 10000s of games is not "change."
that's like saying i made "change" by giving out pamphlets to 200 people in a large city. sure it's an attempt at doing something, but did i *really* do anything?
charlequin
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zychi said:
You're right, Valve should port everyone's back catalog at no charge.
jaundicejuice
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Who needs TF2 when you have Nanosaur 2.
jaundicejuice
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Snuggler said:Yeah, $15 for a DLC mission is ridiculous. Even if it does last around 5 hours, it's an add-on to a full priced game (now with ads!). I liked DXHR, but not that much. Thankfully the DLC is distributed on Steam, so a sale is likely.
What's this about ads?
That webpage is so slow to navigate for me it is hard to even try to manually count, but it looks to me that more games released in 2011 (which is not over) with Mac support than did in 2010, and I'm assuming that doesn't count any games which got Mac support in 2011 but did not have it before then.zychi said:
What would be ideal is a chart of how many games had Mac support each year, but that website does not make it easy to get that data, especially for support added later (even assuming it's accurate).
And as was pointed out, it isn't free to port a game to Mac, nor is it Valve's responsibility. Valve opened up the platform, however, and made an example of themselves by porting their OWN games and providing dual platform support free of charge. Other developers are now free to follow suit.
Stallion Free
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Still haven't seen an ad on any loading screen in Deus Ex.
xenoflux2113
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That is what I am hoping for. DLC for half the cost of the game is ridiculous.Snuggler said:Yeah, $15 for a DLC mission is ridiculous. Even if it does last around 5 hours, it's an add-on to a full priced game (now with ads!). I liked DXHR, but not that much. Thankfully the DLC is distributed on Steam, so a sale is likely.
jim-jam bongs
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True story, Mac fans have the most irritating entitlement complex of any group of fanboys. There's something super ironic about people buying a product which is sold on the slogan "Think Different" then complaining about people not writing software for it.
jaundicejuice
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Snuggler said:
Ha ha, what? So I have to use my bandwidth to download ads they've received money for and they're charging me for dlc? If this was some free to play game that was ad supported and I opted in for this the ads would be acceptable but this is a game I paid 50$ for. When did they sneak these in, I don't recall seeing any ads in my loading screens around launch.
xenoflux2113
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From what I understand you need both but Immortal Throne uses the content from the first game so you only have to launch IT, but IT requires the original to run still.Relax.MX said:
jaundicejuice said:
Looks like it was about a month ago.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=445129
As you can see in that pic, it's not too distracting, but it's yucky regardless. Ads on in-game billboards is on a whole different level, though.
Dice
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Immortal Throne is literally an expanded version of the original game. You need to download and install both because it pulls from the assets of the first, and it is also better just to start with Immortal Throne because it has some great design improvements that apply to the missions/locations of the original.
If you are like me and unwittingly started with the original, no worries. You can import that game into it and either blast through the quests you already did in the first like nothing, or simply teleport to the most recent location you were at and pick up from where you were.
If you are like me and unwittingly started with the original, no worries. You can import that game into it and either blast through the quests you already did in the first like nothing, or simply teleport to the most recent location you were at and pick up from where you were.
Sutton Dagger
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I'm a happy Mac gamer, don't know what all the complaints are about?
p.s I use bootcamp
p.s I use bootcamp
Joe Molotov
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Derrick01 said:
Should have bought a Mac.
I think nobody's blaming Valve. Some of us are simply pointing out that gaming on mac is still pretty limited as per number of games, can't really talk about "serious interest in gaming" when all you can play is Valve's catalog, Civilization and a few other games.
Nobody's blaming nobody, it's just a fact, you can say all you want that things are slowly changing (and they are, I agree) but that doesn't change said fact. Geez.
Nobody's blaming nobody, it's just a fact, you can say all you want that things are slowly changing (and they are, I agree) but that doesn't change said fact. Geez.
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