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[xelios]

Right now I'm contemplating an Ultima VII run with Exult (it smooths out the stuttery gameplay that DOSbox leaves intact),

Funny you mention it because I've been casually doing just that the past month or so with my GOG copy. It's a breeze to get running with Exult, which just makes things so much smoother overall. I also admit to being spoiled by the increased resolution/display radius even if it's regarded as a cheat, and have no apologies. =p I could never go back after using Exult.

Still one of the best open world RPG fixes you can get. It's massive in size, hours and interesting things to do, and has cool secrets tucked away everywhere (something I sorely miss in RPGs). Plus you actually have to use your brain; no chasing arrows on your compass. Had someone from GAF message me on Steam and tell me I had good taste when they saw me playing it, but I can't remember who it was. Serpent Isle is just as worthy, even if more linear.

As far as the Gothics go I agree with you; if I had to replay one or choose one to play for the first time it'd definitely be the 2nd.

 

[Grief.exe]

I never realized how much awesome voice talent was in Sleeping Dogs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQZO_KftnnY

 

[omg_mjd]

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is awesome. Glad I grabbed it when it was on sale on GMG. Runs great on my mid-range laptop (640M LE)--getting 60 fps on the highest settings at 1366x768. Dips occasionally on the busier tracks (according to FRAPS) but it's barely noticeable.

 

[Sajjaja]

Demo for Sword of The Stars: The Pit is up on Steam. Go try it guys!

 

[SteveWinwood]

You still got 24 hours bro.

Oh no way <3

 

[Persona7]

That price for Jet Set Radio is amazing.

 

[RibbedHero]

How do I see the games my friends have played in the last two weeks? I can't seem to find it anymore.

Edit: Found it on the store homepage, wasn't able to find it under Community.

 

[exmachina64]

Has anyone tried Stardrive?

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

DayZ was added to the registry with an icon. Seems beta should be coming soon.

 

[BoosterDuck]

DayZ was added to the registry with an icon. Seems beta should be coming soon.

oh baby oh baby oh baby!

I hope we can get in beta by prepurchasing! (and I hope it's not too much >_>)

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

Random question, but I was looking online for a fix to the framerate issues in Amazing Spider-Man and it seems to stem from having an AMD card. I found a program that would generate a .dll that "tricks" the game into thinking I have an Nvidia card. Unfortunately the game crashes every time I load the game with the generated .dll file in the directory. I've tried all sorts of options in the program and no avail. Every thread I read about the fix has everyone able to use it without an issue. I'm on Win8 with a Raedon HD 6850.

 

[didamangi]

Random question, but I was looking online for a fix to the framerate issues in Amazing Spider-Man and it seems to stem from having an AMD card. I found a program that would generate a .dll that "tricks" the game into thinking I have an Nvidia card. Unfortunately the game crashes every time I load the game with the generated .dll file in the directory. I've tried all sorts of options in the program and no avail. Every thread I read about the fix has everyone able to use it without an issue. I'm on Win8 with a Raedon HD 6850.

You have to copy the dll after the game's launcher opens. You can make a batch file to rename the dll before and after the launcher starts to make it easier so you don't have to do it manually every time you want to play the game.

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

Sonuva... what kinda asinine...

Thanks though.

 

[Chronoja]

Couple of new gamersgate deals

Renegade Ops 75% off
(4 Pack 75% off)

Binary Domain
(Collection 75% off, Dan Marshall Dlc 75% off, Multiplayer Dlc 75% off)

New Gala Store deals

Tropico Trilogy - $4.99 - (£3.35)
- includes Tropico: Reloaded, Tropico 2: Pirates Cove, Tropico 3: Steam Edition, Tropico 3: Absolute Power.

Tropico 4: Steam Edition - $7.49 - (£5.03)

All are steam redeemable

 

[Salsa]

reminder: can help with buying Bioshock Infinite on the cheaper south american store ($45), PM me

 

[Deques]

reminder: can help with buying Bioshock Infinite on the cheaper south american store ($45), PM me

XCOM still not unlocked! why is that? I thought everyone would want to pre-order bioshock infinite

 

[Sendou]

XCOM still not unlocked! why is that? I thought everyone would want to pre-order bioshock infinite

I'm waiting it to unlock before a possible pre-order

 

[Deques]

I'm waiting it to unlock before a possible pre-order

Doing the same thing, but I wonder if everyone are waiting too

 

[Sendou]

Doing the same thing, but I wonder if everyone are waiting too

I'm confident that as soon as TF2 items unlock and we get closer to launch those numbers will rocket.

 

[Horseticuffs]

Man, my shitty little laptop is really surprising me with the games it can run!

I recently got ahold of Torchlight 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Killing Floor and they don't even have to run on low settings, with the exception of L4D2.

I'm seriously considering investing in a decent cheap gaming pc at some point this year. PC gaming has grown up a lot since I last paid attention, and Steam is a big part of that.

 

[Arthea]

is Endless Space as good as it sounds? anybody playing it?

 

[MMBosstones86]

is Endless Space as good as it sounds? anybody playing it?

Played it a while back. Couldn't get past the 'bad' combat sections. You basically get 3 cards and if 2/3 of your cards 'beat' the opponents, you win. That kind of killed it for me.

 

[toddhunter]

is Endless Space as good as it sounds? anybody playing it?

To me it is still very much a work in progress. My feeling is if you are really keen for a 4x game right now, Gal Civ 2 is there and ready. Endless Space could be pretty darn good, but maybe that time is a year or sequel away yet.

 

[Fare Godmace]

Not sure if it was already mentioned, but they've added Steam achievements to Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY. They're still not unlockable, though.

I just started it yesterday, so I guess I'll wait until they're attainable. Guess I'll download something small to kill the time the next couple of days :/

 

[Arthea]

Stopped playing GalCiv2 long ago.
Well, thanks people, I'll wait then for next big thing, then.

 

[Deques]

Not sure if it was already mentioned, but they've added Steam achievements to Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY. They're still not unlockable, though.

I just started it yesterday, so I guess I'll wait until they're attainable. Guess I'll download something small to kill the time the next couple of days :/

It's been mentioned a few days ago

 

[Fuu]

Not sure if it was already mentioned, but they've added Steam achievements to Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY. They're still not unlockable, though.

I just started it yesterday, so I guess I'll wait until they're attainable. Guess I'll download something small to kill the time the next couple of days :/

Ffff, I beat it a few days ago and got all the Riddler challenges. Would be a good reason for another playthrough though.

 

[Stallion Free]

Ffff, I beat it a few days ago and got all the Riddler challenges. Would be a good reason for another playthrough though.

Yeah, I've been craving a second run of the game since Arkham City so these achievements are perfect.

 

[Grief.exe]

I'm waiting it to unlock before a possible pre-order

Doing the same thing, but I wonder if everyone are waiting too

We are under the assumption that its either more of a linear progression or its unlocked manually by Valve when they choose.

The businesses model only functions if games never miss their unlocks.

We are watching a game that was released about a week ago called defiance.
When it was initially released, it was going up about 1% a day and it was in the top 20 sellers. Now it has dropped out of the top 50 and it is at 15%.

Does anyone know how to access the community page that shows what friends have been playing and their achievements, screenshots etc?

Valve removed that page in the latest Steam beta for some reason.

Its still on the website and mobile app.

 

[Lord British]

Does anyone know how to access the community page that shows what friends have been playing and their achievements, screenshots etc?

 

[Ledsen]

NO. The port of MGS2 is the ugliest thing to ever touch my PC, and I've seen my share of ugly things

Spoiler

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.

http://i.picpar.com/O3m.jpg [/mg][/QUOTE]

Wtf man/woman? Dont put yourself down like that.

 

[JaseC]

Does anyone know how to access the community page that shows what friends have been playing and their achievements, screenshots etc?

The Friend Activity page? Hover over your profile tab (the right-most one that uses your Steam Friends name) and click "Activity".

 

[snoopeasystreet]

That price for Jet Set Radio is amazing.

Thinking about picking it up. I know it's not really like the Tony Hawk games but as someone who fucking loves Tony Hawk, will I enjoy JSR?

 

[Mairu]

reminder: can help with buying Bioshock Infinite on the cheaper south american store ($45), PM me

Does this still include all the pre-purchase rewards? There's no issue with getting the one from the South American store if you're located in NA?

 

[JaseC]

Does this still include all the pre-purchase rewards? There's no issue with getting the one from the South American store if you're located in NA?

Yes and no respectively.

 

[Cade]

I've been refreshing this page for the past few hours on the off chance the Sleeping Dogs DLC would randomly go up early. So far, no luck. C'mon Steam.

 

[Joe Molotov]

The Defiance pre-order rewards bar is just sad. It's been up for about a week, and it's at 15% on the first tier. Surely they'll all be unlocked by the end, but Valve needs to start recalculating their figures soon if they want to make it look less bad. At this point, it actually makes me want to buy it just because I feel so bad for it. Maybe that's what they're going for, the sad puppy-dog eyes approach.

 

[Sajjaja]

The Defiance pre-order rewards bar is just sad. It's been up for about a week, and it's at 15% on the first tier. Surely they'll all be unlocked by the end, but Valve needs to start recalculating their figures soon if they want to make it look less bad. At this point, it actually makes me want to buy it just because I feel so bad for it. Maybe that's what they're going for, the sad puppy-dog eyes approach.

What's a Defiance?

 

[Grief.exe]

What's a Defiance?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/224600/

We are watching a game that was released about a week ago called defiance.
When it was initially released, it was going up about 1% a day and it was in the top 20 sellers. Now it has dropped out of the top 50 and it is at 15%.

Context: We are talking about pre order reward tiers.

 

[Varg]

The Defiance pre-order rewards bar is just sad. It's been up for about a week, and it's at 15% on the first tier. Surely they'll all be unlocked by the end, but Valve needs to start recalculating their figures soon if they want to make it look less bad. At this point, it actually makes me want to buy it just because I feel so bad for it. Maybe that's what they're going for, the sad puppy-dog eyes approach.

Game looks pretty good too IMO. Like how that second tier reward us with the rift mmo . Isn't that still pay to play? Good marketing idea I guess but I'm not excited about paying for that if I want to experience it .

 

[Blizzard]

There was a pretty major-sounding Endless Space update a day or two ago, but it may have just added more content instead of actually modifying combat. I think I preordered for beta access long ago, but never even tried it or its combat.

 

[Big_Al]

In Defiances case I'm pretty certain it's more due to it coming to Steam last compared to everywhere else. A lot of folks have seemingly ordered from many other different places already and hence the preorder/tier rewards not doing exactly the greatest on Steam.

I preordered my copy already on Steam as I enjoyed the beta and look forward to seeing what they do in the full game. They should be announcing about the last beta phase today I think, for consoles and PC, so worth keeping an eye on their twitter feed/forums.

I'll be keeping an eye on it anyway so can post the info when available if anyones interested.

 

[Stallion Free]

Jet Set looks pretty incredible. It would be a damn shame if Sega wasn't using the same dev for a Shenmue 1/2 re-release.

 

[Grief.exe]

Jet Set looks pretty incredible. It would be a damn shame if Sega wasn't using the same dev for a Shenmue 1/2 re-release.

And Jet Set Radio Future, Panzer Dragoon: Orta, Otogi, Skies of Arkadia.

Sega has a ton of great games essentially stuck on the original xbox that could be brought to PC...and consoles. Skies of Arkadia was on DC and GC.

 

[Mundharmonika]

So I just wanted to start Jet Set Radio but apparently there's a 327 MB update! But I can't find update news on this in Steam. A few days ago there was a Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition 150 MB update, again without details. It should be mandatory for developers to release patch notes !

 

[Blizzard]

So I just wanted to start Jet Set Radio but apparently there's a 327 MB update! But I can't find update news on this in Steam. A few days ago there was a Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition 150 MB update, again without details. It should be mandatory for developers to release patch notes !

I figure they sometimes make forum/community posts instead to explain what updated, but I tend to agree. I feel like the vast majority of Steam games besides TF2 haven't had any patch notes at all when they have updated recently.

And of course there's my age-old complaint that it takes an extra click to get to the patch notes page now, instead of the "random internet news sites that are related to this game" page.

 

[RionaaM]

It's been mentioned a few days ago

Yes, by me

Now all that's left is WB or Rocksteady removing GFWL from it. And SecuROM too, fuck the activation limit.

So I just wanted to start Jet Set Radio but apparently there's a 327 MB update! But I can't find update news on this in Steam. A few days ago there was a Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition 150 MB update, again without details. It should be mandatory for developers to release patch notes !

That sucks. I like reading the lists of bug fixes and new features, but 99% of the time they aren't posted on Steam News.

 

[FloatOn]

So I just wanted to start Jet Set Radio but apparently there's a 327 MB update! But I can't find update news on this in Steam. A few days ago there was a Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition 150 MB update, again without details. It should be mandatory for developers to release patch notes !

I wonder if the it fixed the frame rate issue?

 

[The Wizard]

I've been refreshing this page for the past few hours on the off chance the Sleeping Dogs DLC would randomly go up early. So far, no luck. C'mon Steam.

It's up now, looking forward to some early impressions to see if it's worth buying. http://store.steampowered.com/app/215257/

 

[Stumpokapow]

So, apparently I own RoboBlitz and bought it on February 4th, 2013. I have no idea what I paid or where I bought it. I checked IndieRoyale and HumbleIndieBundle, doesn't seem like I got it there (I don't own the Indie Royale bundle it was in). Was it on IndieGameStand or IndieGala? I'm trying to figure out if I got the game for free or paid money for it, and if so how much? Did anyone post codes for it here that I maybe grabbed without realizing it?