I got Waves for free from a gaffer and played it a bit. I think it's actually pretty great, and you shouldn't count it out as a Geometry Wars clone. Its scoring system is pretty genius, and if you try and play smart and maximize your score, you'll get a lot more out of the game. The music is also really cool. That said, the menus are a bit insufferable, but that's a small thing.
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arts&crafts
Member
It's not Steamworks, but:
Someone needs to take one for the team.
I bet they will be 5$ next week on steam for there Halloween sale (scary?). I will just play borderlands until then
.Lord British
Member
Hacker Evolution DLC!?
Nobody on the entire planet cares.
Nobody on the entire planet cares.
Listen to this man, Waves is GOOD.
Shorty11857
Member
Played through a couple of short games over the weekend
To The Moon: I really loved this, I thought the story was pretty great, made me laugh a few times and also managed to make me really sad at others. Not really much of a game though but was enjoying it too much to care. Music is pretty great too
Dear Esther: Not really sure if I enjoyed this at all, the game had some amazing visuals, really loved the caves they looked just incredible. Music was nice too. But honestly I was fairly bored throughout most of it, the narration was okay but didn't really grab me. The fact that the game was only an hour long helped for the art style carry it at least. Wish your movement speed wasn't so slow really dragged it down a bit
Oh and I have spare Steam keys for Oil Rush, Blackwell Deception and AVSEQ, quote me with the game you want and I'll PM you the code
To The Moon: I really loved this, I thought the story was pretty great, made me laugh a few times and also managed to make me really sad at others. Not really much of a game though but was enjoying it too much to care. Music is pretty great too
Dear Esther: Not really sure if I enjoyed this at all, the game had some amazing visuals, really loved the caves they looked just incredible. Music was nice too. But honestly I was fairly bored throughout most of it, the narration was okay but didn't really grab me. The fact that the game was only an hour long helped for the art style carry it at least. Wish your movement speed wasn't so slow really dragged it down a bit
Oh and I have spare Steam keys for Oil Rush, Blackwell Deception and AVSEQ, quote me with the game you want and I'll PM you the code
Cyberquake
Member
Avseq please?
Edit: thanks!
Edit: thanks!
Glass Rebel
Member
Thanks for the clarification
Sounds deeper than all the Paradox games combined.Leon Belmont
Member
Oil Rush?
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Guess I'll try out Waves for $2.50. Don't have a twin stick shooter yet in my Steam library.
Hey Shorty, may I have an Blackwell key if it's still available? Thanks.
Hey Shorty, may I have an Blackwell key if it's still available? Thanks.
Lord British
Member
Blackwell pls?
Leon Belmont
Member
Frank the Great
Banned
wow, after gifting dota 2 to one of you guys yesterday, i won another copy on steamgifts.
i guess it is my destiny to actually play this game, so i'll be keeping this one. i am not one to tempt fate.
i guess it is my destiny to actually play this game, so i'll be keeping this one. i am not one to tempt fate.
Dog Problems
Banned
Same thing happened to me. From what I've read, if you bought that Total War bundle awhile ago you get it for free.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Oddly enough, I believe that specific game never had Ubisoft DRM on it in the first place. It was just a distribution deal, or something, and was totally left up to the developer.
Yeah, a notification would have been nice. I was starting to question my sanity.
Tizoc
Member
Oh cool, will dl later this week, thanks!
Clash of Heroes is Steamworks through and through.
Syphon Filter
Member
Can definitely tell you just started. Games are digital now even if you get the box. It's better that way too.
They don't put discs in the box anymore?
Not so sure... having to wait for it to download is annoying, especially since my connection isn't too fast. It seems like an environmental nightmare too, since they're selling completely useless boxes and DVDs by the millions.
The disc is there, but it doesn't really do anything. The game gets 'installed' from the CD but you still have to download it all from Steam afterwards in order to play
I was in Walmart the other day and they had the entire C&C collection as a download code in a box.
graywolf323
Member
only one I can think of was the recent Command & Conquer Collection that only has a code to activate it on Origin (no disc even at retail)
no Steamworks game has done that
Syphon Filter
Member
waiting is the same as walking to a store and getting it. also the box versions do install faster since they do install off the disk i believe.
Delusibeta
Banned
Put the disc in the drive. Install game the old fashioned way. Save hours of downloading.
BackwardsSuggestions
Member
You sure? All the disk based games I have are installed and played from disk but you have to enter the key in Steam so that it gets associated with your account.
It's handy since if you ever loose the disk, you can still get it from Steam.
EDIT:
The game I'm using is Sniper: Ghost Warrior. The game does an install from the disc, but when you subsequently try to play it, it just starts downloading the entire game from Steam
Delusibeta
Banned
You won't be complaining when you can get them all for $10-$20 off somewhere and still be able to use them on your Steam account. Give it time.
The downside to this of course is that a lot of people actually have download limits - so it can be extremely frustrating to spend 1/4 of your months 'download' on one brand new release game..
Some gamers (without access to large download limits) in OZ have reverted to SneakerNET via USB/DVD burn transfer down at the local pub or through AusPost.
It can be really annoying to start up Steam to find it is download a mega patch for a game (that you now can't play until it's finished) and yet only have 4 gigs left for the month - my current situation since my Lotro install got toasted with the Rohan Expansion and now it wants to download the full 14gig (probably to then only install another 6 gig or so via the Turbine Launcher)
(If anyone has the files they can mail me - that would be awesome
)xenoflux2113
Member
Thanks for reminding me. Now I don't have to wait for the download of RAGE to re-install it. I Just have to find my disk.
Games were always digital. Unless you're talking about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2E9iSQfGdg
I thought there were some pretty hefty patches.. although judging from the reception to that game.. maybe the lack of patches was the problem
xenoflux2113
Member
I thought there were some pretty hefty patches.. although judging from the reception to that game.. maybe the lack of patches was the problem
Yeah but its better then waiting for the 20GB download.
Absolutely - that's half my 'peak' download limit for the month.
It's also why I religiously move games from /steamapps/common to backup drives (or burn to dvd) rather than permanently delete them (I wish Steams backup and restore tool was a lot better.. when you have 300+ games installed it gets frigan annoying finding them in the list - you can't even sort the column by name, it seems to do some obscure sort by random number check
)In a lot of cases it's also a lot easier (when moving between drives) to just copy the whole folder rather than use the backup/restore tool as it take soooooo frigan long (though obviously copies a lot quicker to usb if it's one file) - but then you have file size and filesystem problems - not mentioning names *cough* big arsed Witcher data file *cough*
Of course I usually forget to re-burn them with the updated content which kills this whole plan anyway.
tl;dr life is hard being a gamer
Joe Molotov
Member
Giana Sisters still doesn't have a price on Steam, but Gamersgate put up a price of $15 + 25% off bonus for $11.24, so I'm assuming Steam will be priced similarly.
spindoctor
Member
Yea gog.com has the same discount. Steam will probably have it too.
Ugh, decisions. I'm debating whether or not I should just buy Alpha Protocol or Syndicate. It would mean I would skip eating lunch for a couple of days though.
I've head Alpha Protocol is good but is pretty janky.
I haven't heard anything about Syndicate yet though, probably because it's an Origin title.
I've head Alpha Protocol is good but is pretty janky.
I haven't heard anything about Syndicate yet though, probably because it's an Origin title.
is Syndicate on sale? where?
Physical copy on Amazon for like $8 including shipping.
Dog Problems
Banned
I haven't played Syndicate so no comment there. But Alpha Protocol is one of my favorite RPG's of this generation. One thing I love about it, and I wish other games did this, is that it requires research on targets to understand them and be able to manipulate them and talk to them in different ways. It's not a simple "choose the good or bad option" either.
I first played it on the 360 when it was released and the only glitches I experienced were some graphical bugs. When I'd aim my gun occasionally the gun model would appear sideways in his hands. And I recall getting stuck one or twice in the environment. Both happened so rarely and I never felt like the game was that janky.
You didn't buy Alpha Protocol the other day when it was 5$??
Nah I skipped out on it because I spent $9 on lunch at Panda Express lol. I usually just get 2 slices of deep dish pizza with a drink for $4.50 at a local pizza place.
Besides, this is the physical copy, which I prefer to digital (I just like having a box)
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May be a stupid question but is it similar at all to Deus Ex: Human Revolution? If so I'm fucking sold lol
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Alpha Protocol shits on Syndicate from great heights. It has so much more ambition and is so much more interesting. All Syndicate has is a sort of interesting co-op mode which is pointless unless you can dupe some friends into buying the game.
Dog Problems
Banned
Yeah, similar in some ways. It's not puzzle-like where you see the monitor with their heart rate. I prefer the way Alpha Protocol did it much more.
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