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[CheesecakeRecipe]

I just played through Home in one sitting. I feel like I missed on a lot of shit even though I was trying to be thorough in my exploration (by my standards anyway).

I didn't understand shit on what happened. :/

Home's meant to be played in one sitting, it's fairly short and at launch didn't have a save system (I think it does have some sort of checkpoints now).

Home is a very troubled game story wise, I can see what they were attempting to do but it was really just not that great of a game or a storytelling device. I've played through the game 6-8 times and forced myself to do different stuff each time and the choices/endings weren't really drastically different. I was also incredibly shocked to find out that ENDINGSPOILERS

Spoiler

the game literally asks you if you found the body of your wife or not before he even digs in to the trashbags

I can't suggest it to anyone, and I hate to keep ragging on it but it is in no way a "good" game.

 

[Ionic]

I finally started playing Binary Domain this weekend after getting it during a sale months ago. I beat it in two sittings. Thought it was an excellent experience. I wish more games had enemies as fun to shoot as this one. I also thought the story wasn't terrible. I wouldn't mind a sequel built for nextgen hardware, because that could be really impressive, but I suppose I shouldn't expect one to happen any time soon.

 

[iavi]

I finally started playing Binary Domain this weekend after getting it during a sale months ago. I beat it in two sittings. Thought it was an excellent experience. I wish more games had enemies as fun to shoot as this one. I also thought the story wasn't terrible. I wouldn't mind a sequel built for nextgen hardware, because that could be really impressive, but I suppose I shouldn't expect one to happen any time soon.

Don't expect it ever.

 

[exmachina64]

I think the bigger issue is the people who hide behind the "human eye can only process 28fps so anything over 30 is a waste" arguement.

I think the bigger issue is that the human eye can actually process 120+ fps.

 

[drizzle]

I think the bigger issue is that the human eye can actually process 120+ fps.

Even more importantly, there's no real correlation about how many frames per second can you see (read: your eyes and brain process) and the fluidity of the images:

http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

 

[wazoo]

I keep installed anything I may be remotely interested in ever playing. Of course I'll never do it, but I like to have the possibility.

You have barely no games, so you can have them all installed, that is easy.

 

[Salsa]

got those empires

in those ages

in hi def

II

I bought age of empires 2

now I have an achievement for pre-ordering

 

[XANDER CAGE]

got those empires

in those ages

in hi def

II

I bought age of empires 2

now I have an achievement for pre-ordering

fight me nerd

my war elephants call for salsa blood

 

[JaseC]

So, what proportion of your Steam games do you have installed at any one point in time?

I delete games when I lack the space to install something, save for the ones I actually intend to (re)play at some point. I decided to simply work my way from Z to # and, with 328 of 1323 games installed, am currently just a few games away from R:

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

Right now I have 58 games out of 254 installed. I just delete stuff as I finish/don't want to play anymore.

 

[toddhunter]

I delete games when I lack the space to install something

I see what you did there

I used to make sure I had everything possible installed and ready to go. Then I ran out of space and converted to having only what I'm playing plus half a dozen or so keep around games like SF4.

 

[kaleii]

That's really an impressive amount of storage you have there, JaseC.

(I've only had my Steam account since September last year. Got 65 games, 45 are installed, 8 have been played. I also have around 30 games in Steam codes in a text file... dunno when I'll activate them).

 

[JaseC]

I see what you did there

Haha, actually, I don't spread my games across different drives. I did consider it and shuffled a bunch of stuff around recently, which is why the other drives aren't labelled, but ultimately realised they'd be full in the not-too-distant future, anyway, and not due to Steam. Having an unmetered internet connection is both a blessing and a curse.

Edit: Replacing the 2TB Steam drive with a 3TB one is something I've been meaning to do, though. That and replace the 60GB SSD with one of the 120/128GB flavour; I could then use the old SSD to store the games I'm currently playing.

 

[Ledsen]

3rd time I see that site, 3rd time I notice no more than an almost imperceptible smoothness when it comes to 60 fps compared to 30. Which I obviously can't recognize when looking at the game without both images simultaneously on screen to compare.

That's like, so weird!

 

[Salsa]

CladunX2 needs a fucking sale man

I wanna play as finn


it never goes on fucking sale. I really liked the first one on PSP

 

[kaleii]

CladunX2 needs a fucking sale man

I wanna play as finn


it never goes on fucking sale. I really liked the first one on PSP

Oh my god. WHAT IS THIS?

 

[Salsa]

Oh my god. WHAT IS THIS?

you can create your own characters by just drawing pixels

 

[Pinko Marx]

CladunX2 needs a fucking sale man

I wanna play as finn


it never goes on fucking sale. I really liked the first one on PSP

I dont know if it's just me bur Clandun has a really weird gamepad set up.

 

[FYC]

Oh my god. WHAT IS THIS?

I believe it's Cladun X2

Edit: oh salsa said it at the top of his post, i am dumb

On an unrelated note, Serious Sam The Random Encounter is pretty fun, albeit very short. Only took me 90 minutes to finish but I liked it. Onto Serious Sam Double D, thanks to indie bundles.

 

[DOA]

http://steamcleaner.tikione.fr/en/

shouldn't this be in the OP FAQ? i keep seeing this coming up every once in a while

also recommendations for price check sites:
http://www.cheapshark.com/
http://www.grabthegames.com/tagged.html?tag=pc

 

[toddhunter]

shouldn't this be in the OP FAQ? i keep seeing this coming up every once in a while

also recommendations for price check sites:
http://www.cheapshark.com/
http://www.grabthegames.com/tagged.html?tag=pc

I like:

http://isthereanydeal.com/?by=cut:desc#/filter:steamworks,&week,&hidedlc,&hidemac

 

[JaseC]

CladunX2 needs a fucking sale man

I wanna play as finn


it never goes on fucking sale. I really liked the first one on PSP

It was 40% off during the Autumn and Winter Sales. I think NIS is following in the footsteps of Old Capcom; its other game, Clan of Champions, hasn't been discounted since the opening week of its release.

 

[Deques]

CladunX2 needs a fucking sale man

I wanna play as finn


it never goes on fucking sale. I really liked the first one on PSP

I have been waiting for this game to be dirt cheap ever since it was released on Steam.

 

[Drkirby]

So, what proportion of your Steam games do you have installed at any one point in time?

I sued to keep 99% of all my games installed, everything except a few sports games and MMOs. But since my game Hard Drive is running low on space, I stopped installing all the random indie games I pick up in bundles. So I'm sitting at 559/634, taking up 1.12 TB. I also have 20GB on my SDD taken up by Dota and other Source Engine files.

 

[YianGaruga]

You people are insane

Even out of these I'm plaing maybe 3-4, so it feels like a waste to have them all installed.

 

[Rawket Lawnchair]

JaseC has 14TBs!

*bows*

 

[Mavromatis]

JaseC has 14TBs!

*bows*

Most of it filled with Saoirse avatars to choose from.

 

[Ledsen]

Most of it filled with Saoirse avatars to choose from.

His wallpaper is also a mosaic of Saoirse avatars, and by wallpaper I mean the actual wallpaper in his room. He chooses his next avatar by throwing darts at the wall and picking the one he hits. Not regular darts of course, but one of these:

 

[Ikuu]

I try and keep everything installed, unless it's a yearly title that I'd never go back and play.

 

[JordanKZ]

14TB? Holy shit, I have 4TB in my file server and I thought that was a lot of space... How loud is your machine?!

I tend to only install the games I'm playing or favourite. Otherwise, I just have them all uninstalled. Previously, I had almost 700 games installed, but it slowed my Steam hard disk down to a crawl.

 

[Chance Hale]

You people are insane

Even out of these I'm plaing maybe 3-4, so it feels like a waste to have them all installed.

But what if? WHAT IF

Did the PC version of Cladun 2 add anything over the PSP version? If not I'll just buy the psp/vita version when the 10 dollar credit comes in, been meaning to download it.

Edit: As to the question currently at hand

I tend to have the desire to suddenly play any game at any time so I keep more installed than not. Have enough space that it doesn't really matter. Sorry for the lack of cropping, feeling too lazy to do so
277 owned/142 installed. Do have Arma III installed on my SSD though.

Also: What is that steam layout you have installed JaseC? Looks really nice.

 

[RionaaM]

You have barely no games, so you can have them all installed, that is easy.

That's something I need to work on, yeah.

Also, I love how 200+ games is now considered "barely no games", lol. Steam sales, what have you done to us?!?!?

 

[RionaaM]

I delete games when I lack the space to install something, save for the ones I actually intend to (re)play at some point. I decided to simply work my way from Z to # and, with 328 of 1323 games installed, am currently just a few games away from R:

Oh yes, I heard HDDs in Australia were free. You're so lucky!

 

[JaseC]

His wallpaper is also a mosaic of Saoirse avatars, and by wallpaper I mean the actual wallpaper in his room. He chooses his next avatar by throwing darts at the wall and picking the one he hits. Not regular darts of course, but one of these:

This is scarily accurate.

14TB? Holy shit, I have 4TB in my file server and I thought that was a lot of space... How loud is your machine?!

I don't notice the noise until the CPU and GPUs are under stress, though it helps that the room my PC is in is quite large. On a related note, I'd like to explore water cooling when I upgrade again, in conjunction with an E-ATX case (there's nothing more annoying when fiddling with a PC than having little room to work with), which is something I hope I can put off until Intel gets its thumb out of its arse and offers "mainstream" (i.e. reasonably-priced) hex/octo-core CPUs.

Oh yes, I heard HDDs in Australia were free. You're so lucky!

I wish! I've probably spent more on storage space over the past 18 months or so than the rest of the components combined (thanks, Mother Nature).

 

[spindoctor]

You guys are nuts . I have 10 games installed on Steam and out of those about 6 haven't been launched in weeks/months.

Keeping fewer games installed helps in working through your backlog. It is known.

 

[JaseC]

You guys are nuts . I have 10 games installed on Steam and out of those about 6 haven't been launched in weeks/months.

Keeping fewer games installed helps in working through your backlog. It is known.

I prefer to keep as much as I can installed since my ISP has a tendency to under-provision bandwidth. Case in point: I'm currently getting ~200KBps with a five-threaded download in sabnzbd.

 

[Chance Hale]

....

I edited my post so many times that you likely missed it. What steam layout are you using? Think I want to switch to it.

 

[JaseC]

I edited my post so many times that you likely missed it. What steam layout are you using? Think I want to switch to it.

It's PixelVision.

 

[Chance Hale]

It's PixelVision.

Thanks a million, liking it outside of the giant green play button that feels a bit out of place.

 

[1-D_FTW]

tends to cause input lag as well afaik

If you're playing games windowed, then you need to disable Windows Aero if you don't want to add lag that way.

This info was revealed in the Oculus Rift/Valve presentation at GDC. Running in windows mode causes at least 1 frame of lag. Only way to stop all the Windows calls that cause this is to disable Aero.

 

[Stallion Free]

You people are insane

Even out of these I'm plaing maybe 3-4, so it feels like a waste to have them all installed.

Def delete them. Sub 20 games installed is the good life. I would have sub 10 if it wasn't for my multiplayer rotation.

 

[Glass Rebel]

After reinstalling Win7 I currently have 9 out of 436 games installed and I want to keep it around 15 at most.

 

[maquiladora]

proportionally it aint too much, but it's a heck of a lot of space, should really delete some shit

I actually try some times but I end up deleting 1 or 2 games max like a chump

I said wow.

 

[Deques]

After reinstalling Win7 I currently have 9 out of 436 games installed and I want to keep it around 15 at most.

When I bought a new computer a few months ago I told myself to only install games I am currently playing. Today I have around 90 of 400 games installed

 

[Glass Rebel]

When I bought a new computer a few months ago I told myself to only install games I am currently playing. Today I have around 90 of 400 games installed

I'm sure I'll make it this time *fingers crossed*

 

[Isaccard]

Pixel Vision > Metro

 

[Deques]

Pixel Vision < Metro

I corrected your post. ^^

 

[dripdripsplash]

So Red Orchestra is on sale, whats the general concensus on the game ?

 

[Deques]

So Red Orchestra is on sale, whats the general concensus on the game ?

Buy it from here instead, no matter what consensus is
http://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

 

[HamPster PamPster]

Game: Sang Froid

.....

Thanks for the impressions. Its refreshing to search for a game on GAF and actually get a good write up