Refreshment.01
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My firends, this constant Halo 3 and Dragons Dogma hyping for a possible Steam release is breacking my heart, a man can die from deep sorrow you know?
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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BoosterDuck
Banned
Goddamn, if this means that King of Fighters is basically confirmed for Steam then I will praise glorious SNK and GabeN.
Its almost too much for me to handle.
Dark Souls PC port
Capcom dropping GFWL
AoE II HD
SS2
Halo 3
Konami has renewed interest in the PC space, releasing Lords of Shadow II, and possibly the first one as well.
And the newest MGS is rumored to be coming to PC as well.
I wish Konami had ported over the HD collection to PC to get us going, maybe we will see it released before the newest MGS.
AlphaProspector
Member
I wish they could re-publish the old PC ports of Silent Hill 2 to 4... Oh, and Silent Hill 1, even if it's a GOG-like thing I don't mind.
Maybe some Castlevania too now that Capcom is emulating SEGA with the Arcade Cabinet. In fact, is Capcom bringing the Arcade Cabinet once they are done releasing everything for consoles?
I recall I saw Pro Evolution Soccer in the registry so hopefully it's a matter of when!
I love it when you talk dirty
I knew it. The moment that package got updated this morning.....I will be so happy the moment this appears on the store front (FF8 this is)
It uses SecuROM, pretty bad for my first use of DRM.
AlphaProspector
Member
Hopefully they drop SecuROM on Steam! I mean, it can never be as bad as the triple DRM combo of GFWL, SecuROM, Steam for the Batman games, right?
Quad DRM like on GTA IV?
AlphaProspector
Member
Oh, Rockstar Social Club, right? Daaaaamn!
BoosterDuck
Banned
Come on guys, keep prepurchasing Bioshock Infinite so I can get XCom! (to sell)
Haha, yeah, I'm hoping to pick up a cheap XCOM when that happens. (no interest in Bioshock)
Refreshment.01
Member
So you do really want me dead? Have at least a small drop of pity, a shot to the temple shows more humanity than teasing a possible Lords of Shadow PC release.
Dragons Dogma, Halo 3 and now Lords of Shadow. Oh i see... your screen name, you pleasure yourself in me suffering. Killing people from grief and videogames, oh how these 2 beautiful hobies complement themselves.
YOU ARE INDEED GETTING MY HOPES UP DAMN IT!
My sentiments exactly, im more excited at the chance of getting Xcom for cheap than from the actual Infinite release. It's like Zone of the Enders/Metal Gear 2 relationship all over again.
AlphaProspector
Member
BoosterDuck
Banned
what do you think the requirements would be for it
Windows 8
I'm buying Dark Arisen in April and I will buy any PC version Capcom release if they do that as well. You hear that Capcom ? Love Dragons Dogma, took me a while to get into but when you do it hooks you hard.
ChoklitReign
Member
Rocksmith is on sale on GMG and my interest has piqued because I just bought a guitar setup. I found a teacher and some good chord books; is Rocksmith a good supplement? Problem is, I have no fucking idea how to set it up. Does it require a HTPC? All I have at home are a tower in a small bedroom (I could sit on the bed and watch 4 feet away from a 22 inch screen) or a TV with a busted HDMI port and one available series component ports. What cables do I need for minimal latency? (I hate calibrating Rock Band on the Xbox so I can't play the hard songs)
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Not available in US-Fucking-A?! Motherfucker.
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Not available in US-Fucking-A?! Motherfucker.
scorpscarx
Member
Why troll your own kind brother. I don't think even Microsoft would do that, not a large enough user base.
MrSilentGuy
Member
Well, this game was a wreck when I tested it 2 years ago. They tried to patch it, but I haven't heard any good opinion about it. So I wouldn't recomend this title, unless you are a big fan of this franchise and you really want to play it.
You sold me. I got it from one of the indie bundles, so maybe I'll fire it up just to hear more of Jon St. John's excellence.
toddhunter
Member
You mean do it again?
NO. The port of MGS2 is the ugliest thing to ever touch my PC, and I've seen my share of ugly things
like photos of myself
Unless Konami fixes it, I'd say leave that shit out of Steam. Worst port I've ever seen, the control setup screen is a fucking mess.
If they were going to require Windows 8 (yes, like they did with Vista) it seems like they'd make it a Windows 8 store exclusive to get people using it and in their ecosystem rather than put it on Steam.
NO. The port of MGS2 is the ugliest thing to ever touch my PC, and I've seen my share of ugly thingslike photos of myself
Unless Konami fixes it, I'd say leave that shit out of Steam. Worst port I've ever seen, the control setup screen is a fucking mess.
Conversely MGS was the best version on the PC. Was based on the Japanese Integral version and had slightly better textures and obviously better looking models. Granted I bet it looks shit today but it's MGS so it's still all shades of awesome. Hard to track down a copy these days for reasonable money.
toddhunter
Member
Makes sense.
What about selling steam games exclusively through the windows 8 store? There have been rumours about Valve allowing third party stores for a while now. Things are already crazy enough at this point so I wouldn't be shocked.
Yes, that was a damn fine port. I've put countless hours into the VR missions, more than the actual game (which I beat twice: once when I got the game, on super easy, with cheats; the other was less than a year ago, on normal and without using any cheat).
Great game, and wouldn't mind having it on Steam for a quick fix of those VR missions every now and then.
scorpscarx
Member
I probably wouldn't even buy it on Steam if it came out, probably why I didn't know that lol.
Hasn't or isn't it due to change over to the new content update system soon? If it has just backup and restore. Used to use Steamspreader but that stupendously slow by comparison and now you get to choose where you want to restore stuff. Obviously if you have it downloaded of course.
bonesmccoy
Banned
I'm going to try to spend a bit of time with it tonight. Right now I'm just hoping they've avoided the terrible tutorial syndrome that plagues a lot of smaller-dev/indie strategy releases.
edit: Comments in the RPS post about it are promising.
XANDER CAGE
Member
I've only ever played Gothic 2 - is it worth grabbing any of the other Gothic/Arcania games? I know they're all pretty spotty.
I don't have it downloaded yet.
And when I download, it doesn't give me the option of selecting what drive to put it on.
toddhunter
Member
2 had some interesting ideas even if it was a bit clunky at the time.
To be honest the rest are shit.
ArcaniA is garbage, the real Gothic games are all very good.
Really? Huh. I think I know why. TF2 as well as all the older Valve games up until Portal 2 installed outside the common director in your Steam folder. This is a hold over from back in the day when Steam was 100% maintaining up to date patching as well as sharing files with other Source engine titles. Looks like TF2 is yet to be updated. There should be a way to move it but you might just have to do the sym links yourself.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but is there a way to stop Steam from downloading something that doesn't even show up in my download queue? I started a download for Dragon Nest via the Steam website, but the game does not show up in my games library or my download queue but it's still downloading anyways. The only way to stop it is to exit out of Steam completely, but opening Steam again will start it up.
If you know what's downloading as in shows the speed and progress in your library right click the item and go to properties and then just delete local content. Ah I should read first D'oh. Isn't there a way to pause by going on to the website and looking at your games list? If not it's the old delete clientregistry.blob route I'm afraid.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Gothic 3 has a pretty epic community patch. It might be worth it looking into it since the community deemed it to be worth saving.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Is that for vanilla, or this Enhanced Edition business?
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
According to the wiki:
"Therefore, the copyright holding publisher Jowood granted access to the source code to developers from the game community to allow the fans to take care of the significant problems and bugs at least themselves.[7][8][9] In years of voluntary and unpaid work the fan community produced several Community patches, with a actual iteration version 1.75 released on April 2012. With this 1.5 GB sized patch[10] significant enhancements and fixes were introduced, so that finally a playable state of the game was achieved.[11] Also, a Community Story Project works still on fixing inconsistencies to former Gothic games and on filling of story gaps.[12]
The similar buggy add on Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods', developed by Trine Games, was later fixed in a enhanced edition by Mad Vulture Games[13] a company which was created by developers from the game community."
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
For those that never played Gothic 2 Gold, do yourself a favor and buy it asap. One of the best cRPGs ever. Amazing world to explore.
Gothic 3 is a great game but the buggiest, clunkiest and jankiest of them all. The community patch helps, but I still encountered a game-breaking bug in the mountains after ~30 hours and the game tends to run poorly on pretty much any setup, especially if you're trying to make it look acceptable. I've had occasional stuttering and chugging trying to play it on my last three PCs, so I think it's an inherent issue which isn't going anywhere. The expansion is trash, even with its patch.
Gothic 2 is easily the best of the three (and one of the best PC RPGs I've had the pleasure of playing), so if you must choose only one that's rather simple.
Gothic 2 is easily the best of the three (and one of the best PC RPGs I've had the pleasure of playing), so if you must choose only one that's rather simple.
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