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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2013 V - Message Modbot for Good Time 1-800-555-READOP
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toddhunter
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The price is the price for steam preorders so you can order safely. It only tends to go up for regions like Australia when they realise they forgot to price gouge.
The bigger danger is another site getting the game and giving it to you cheaper. But there is not much you can do about that besides wait.
Visualante2
Member
Does anyone think Steam should mandate the location of save files? I know there are complications with different operating systems but I really resent how my documents folder is strewn full of incoherent folders for individual games and even demos.
Most Steamworks games with Steam Cloud support store saves in the userdata folder. Mandating that games save there across the board would just annoy developers/publishers because the save system of their non-Steamworks titles would need to changed to meet the requirement.
PixyJunket
Member
I think requiring Steam Cloud would probably be easier than mandating where developers store their save files, although I will certainly agree that having to go to a search engine every time I need to locate a game's files is pretty annoying.
Oh man, half of my time spent yesterday was in co op. It makes collecting data clusters go by really quick and having a friend revive you is so much better than the homie system. Also worth noting is that if you play on anything but hardcore the game is far too easy
Party Popper
Member
I've just finished Spelunky without shortcuts on the daily challenge!
Shorty11857
Member
Yeah Saints Row 4 is pure fun, it's obvious the game was originally an expansion pack but that doesn't stop it from being great to play. Put like 6-7 hours into it yesterday without really noticing
PixyJunket
Member
Any opinions of Grotesque Tactics?
I'm tempted to get it just based on the name Dungeons and Donuts, buuut, I should probably find out if it's worth playing first.
I'm tempted to get it just based on the name Dungeons and Donuts, buuut, I should probably find out if it's worth playing first.
Party Popper
Member
They've got nothing in common IMO.
You can try the original spelunky for free here: http://spelunkyworld.com/original.html
Shorty11857
Member
First one wasn't great, didn't play much of it but the humour seemed pretty bad and the gameplay was meh
Don't know. At first I thought you were spot on but there is so much we can speculate.
Maybe AOE II is not so important for MS (after all wasn't it one of the original dev who carried the project), maybe it was seen as a goodwill move toward the PC crowd, etc...
If GFWL2 omega second strike plus is to be, it is evidently not even really a thing now, the question being will it be some time in the future ?
And hiring one of the guys who helped make steam what it is is logically raising some eyebrows. Hiring him for what if not for a new steam rival ? To shape up the MS mobile store ? To shape up the Xbox One store ? Possible. But I wouldn't go as far as saying GFWL is truly dead and there is no temptation to go for a second attempt at making money on the PC front.
And personally, I wouldn't even say it's a bad thing per se as long as MS really try this time, not the half-assed service that shouldn't even have seen the light of day.
If you want to shit on my lawn, please, at least make that a really nice shit.
How's Dawn of War 2? The games are 75% off on getgames right now. Was thinking of just picking up Retribution since it's the latest and has Steamworks instead of GFWL. But I also hear that the earlier games have the better campaign storylines.
The first one is kinda... meh. The humor is kinda hit or miss, and the gameplay is rather limited hack and slash. I've heard the second one is worse.
More_Badass
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Guys, if you plan to get Electronic Super Joy, the dev site still has it for $4.99 and you get a Steam key along with the DRM-free version. But the price is going to be changed soon
Spelunky is a bad version of terraria. But that's because they have nothing in common
Ingueferroque
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Excuse me?
Post of the day.
I don't know, but I guess it will.
toddhunter
Member
Think of it more as a poor Halo clone.
Log into origin, start B4F. Log onto launcher, which launches the web client. Log into this and you are presented with the BF4 client starting. From here you can log into it to find a server to log on to.
The server is busy.
SteveWinwood
Member
its a metroidvania
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
NEXT-GEN.
More_Badass
Member
Log-ception!
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Good thing too, because if they released on Steam and just let you launch the game directly from it, Steam would be getting in the way of the relationship between player and game. Phew.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Fallout 3 can be played without GFWL without losing any functionality. I'd say do at least one run of Dark Souls to be sure.
After I tried the Battlefield 3 beta, I moaned on twitter saying battlelog is shit. A Dice dev replied to me and was like: I'm sorry, what is wrong with it/how can I make it better.
The only real awnser is removing it and go on Steam, but telling him that wouldn't have helped much.
The only real awnser is removing it and go on Steam, but telling him that wouldn't have helped much.
SteveWinwood
Member
I like Battlelog.
you like your browser?
I also had no problems with it and while hesitant at first, I ended up loving it.I like Battlelog.
Ladies and gentlemen, Stockholm syndrome in full force.
YianGaruga
Banned
Daily Capcom deals on GMG
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Colonies Edition - $4 / 4 €
Lost Planet 2 - $6 / 6€
Both are Steam keys and both use GFWL.
Bought LP2 because why the hell not.
EDIT: Forgot the code. GMG20-KCDKK-H4TPB
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Colonies Edition - $4 / 4 €
Lost Planet 2 - $6 / 6€
Both are Steam keys and both use GFWL.
Bought LP2 because why the hell not.
EDIT: Forgot the code. GMG20-KCDKK-H4TPB
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
You post just the best sarcastic posts that invariably make me chuckle in front of my monitor. Thanks
.I still don't have much faith in Battlelog. It's been in public use for over two years (including the semi-open alpha of BF3 back in July 2011) and the damn thing still doesn't save filters. Or rather, loses filter settings all the time. It's much like Steam losing shortcuts all the time, a simple problem that should have been fixed ages ago. I know Better Battlelog exists but it really shouldn't be needed considering how long DICE has been developing Battlelog.
C00kie M0nster
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I'm extremely tempted by this... Thanks for sharing.
Come on now... Have you actually played BF3?
Battlelog is MUCH better than any in game server browsers. It's fast and works really well.
People really need to stop bitching about everything that is not Steam.
toddhunter
Member
Yeah, not like those other services are suddenly going to stop working one day or something.
damn it, I want dmc4 >_<
Same odds than Steam.
YianGaruga
Banned
Sorry, that's the last set of deals for this weekend
http://blog.playfire.com/2013/08/24-hour-deals-over-weekend.html
It was around less than $3 on GMG before, so that will probably happen again at some point, but it's Capcom, so who knows when.
You're posting in the Steam thread, not going to happen.
Nobody finds it annoying you have to start a game that starts a web browser that starts a game?
Hell, when SWTOR beta did it, I used to run into a strange problem nobody could explain, until I figured out I had to basically turn off all security features in IE to make their launcher work.
Yeah. That was fun.
I never launched the game to launch the browser...I juts have battlelog bookmarked in Chrome. I click on the bookmark, choose a server and launch the game. I don't even keep Origin open, it will open automatically once I've found the server.
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