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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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BoosterDuck
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you don't?
Joe Molotov
Member
Not it isn't. It is a Ron Gilbert game made after 1993.
I remember when I thought Deathspank was gonna be awesome (it wasn't).
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Do people actually play the games they beat over again when they have a blacklog of 100+ games?
Games not designed to "beat" don't count.
Glass Rebel
Member
Yes. Deleting Tomb Raider felt so good.
Yes. I'm on my second playthrough of RAGE and I wanted to start another one for DX:HR but then the Director's Cut (DX hoho) was announced for Wii U so I'm waiting for that to hit PC.
I think I'm gonna do two in April since there will be tests and preparation for finals.
Yes. Free up hard drive space.
Fusilli Craig
Member
What's the benefit provided you have space left on the HDD?
I still can't see any difference between 30 and 60 FPS. Someone please kill me now.
Nope, last year I bought a 2TB drive just for Steam games (and the free Origin ones too) and plan on filling it to full capacity. I've ripped some of my movie DVDs on it too, but out of the 1 TB that I've occupied so far, more than 800GB are games.
I don't even play the games I haven't beaten yet, so no
Sportbilly
Member
Checkpoints?
Fucking CHECKPOINTS?
What is this shit?
Fucking CHECKPOINTS?
What is this shit?
My two terabyte hard drive and 300+ games on Steam are laughing at you
laughing
at
you.
Seriously, storage ain't an issue these days.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
let's trade eyes plz
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Filling a hard drive with games is like fill a room with games boxes. It looks like shit. Keep it clean and only install what you are actually going to play so you beat something.
BoosterDuck
Banned
Ok now let's see you store 300+ games on an SSD
Consider yourself lucky.
*nods* This is one area I wish I could be oblivious to.
I've got a "Finished" category. I like knowing I can just switch any of the games in there to my "Now Playing" category at a moments notice.
The only games I delete on Steam are games relegated to "Scrap Heap".
Yeah. I only have 1 TB of space.
I have a two terabyte hard drive just for Steam. I'm not worried about space but I don't delete games. I'm sure some people do to free up space and that's why I responded the way I did. I'm saying "Yes. To free up hard drive space" to someone that asked "Do people actually delete the games they beat?"
Glass Rebel
Member
Nabs
Member
It feels amazing.
To be honest, I also keep the boxes of every electronic device I buy. I had some (ex-) friends laugh at me when they saw my room for the first time, and my mom is always telling me to throw that stuff away.
What I can't stand though is screen tearing. That is some fucked up ugly shit.
Often, yes. Most games nowadays are not very replayable because of their focus on story or cinematic elements.
The only game from the last 2 1/2 years that I already played and still have installed on my PC is Crusader Kings 2. But then again most PC oriented games are still highly replayable due to their focus on gameplay. Like I still play Rome total war every few months.
Delete? Whats that? If I run out of space I just slap another drive in. It's getting to be a bit of a mess to be honest.
Oh you!that's why you lost the Sniping Challenge, so
[insert Saoirse "Dobby" Ronan laughing .gif here]
What's this System32 folder? It's really big, can I save some space by deleting it?
Also, sorry for the double post, fucking cellphones man!
scorpscarx
Member
Just got this email, I've got a secret admirer!
Edit: Nvm that's the duplicate key email, my bad.
Dear Steam User,
This is an automated message generated by Steam account administration. It is being sent in response to a query made by a Steam user to discover all account names associated with this email address.
Steam account name:
You can use the above account name to log in to Steam. If you can't remember your password, click on the "Retrieve lost account" button on the Steam login screen.
The Steam Support Team
Edit: Nvm that's the duplicate key email, my bad.
Dear Steam User,
This is an automated message generated by Steam account administration. It is being sent in response to a query made by a Steam user to discover all account names associated with this email address.
Steam account name:
You can use the above account name to log in to Steam. If you can't remember your password, click on the "Retrieve lost account" button on the Steam login screen.
The Steam Support Team
Sportbilly
Member
Fuck Bioshock and its shitty save system. Why can't I fucking save where I want, like every other fps going?
They always seem to find a way to bollocks up these games- first one had SecuROM with a 2 machine activation limit which I fell foul of. Second had GfWL and the horror of the infinite update loop. Now this bullshit where I have to play to some arbitrary point to be allowed to continue. No experimentation, no replaying a great section just for the kicks.
Assholes.
They always seem to find a way to bollocks up these games- first one had SecuROM with a 2 machine activation limit which I fell foul of. Second had GfWL and the horror of the infinite update loop. Now this bullshit where I have to play to some arbitrary point to be allowed to continue. No experimentation, no replaying a great section just for the kicks.
Assholes.
toddhunter
Member
I do it so my list of installed games stays on one screen without a scroll bar.
It just feels right.
this is still just fucking mindblowing to me
I cannot comprehend it. Never will
hooray
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but Sacred Citadel can now be pre-ordered on Green Man Gaming:
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/nl/en/pc/games/action/sacred-citadel/
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/nl/en/pc/games/action/sacred-citadel/
GOD MODE is coming soon. Best game title ever?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/227480/
this shit looks serious:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/227480/
this shit looks serious:
Tizoc
Member
I enjoyed Deathspank for the most part personally.
How do updates work? Does steam only update games you've played recently, or does it check everything? With a very large but mostly unplayed library, you could be using lots of download time just keeping old games up to date. And if you have decently fast Internet it doesn't take long to redownload something if you want to replay it.
I'm sure you'll be digging it in no time. The further I'm getting in the better the gameplay is becoming. Way, way, way better than the first and second by a country mile. Story wise so far this knocks anything in recent memory out of the park. If anyone doesn't like this game you must have a heart as black as coal.
Well 60fps to 30 fps is a massive drop. 120fps to 90fps is barely noticeable where as 90fps to 60fps you can see how thing aren't quite as fluid. 60fps down to 30fps fells is almost like a 45 degree aperture effect used in Saving Private Ryan and Three Kings is in place. Though sometimes 120fps makes things look very odd, almost too fluid.
scorpscarx
Member
I just read some of this article that just popped up in my hackernews rss.
Meet Gabe Newell, Microsofts next CEO
I'd be ok with that haha.
Meet Gabe Newell, Microsofts next CEO
I'd be ok with that haha.
The hype was too strong man. I jumped on the other games waaaaay too late for how good they were. This mistake couldn't happen again. I'm sure this is going to be as good as everyone says it is. To me, it seems Bioshock is one of the few franchises done right this gen. The games were given plenty of time to develop instead of being rushed out the door year after year.
It just looks the same. Twice the frames doesn't equal twice the awesomness
Does everything move faster, or what?
Glass Rebel
Member
It just looks the same. Twice the frames doesn't equal twice the awesomness
Does everything move faster, or what?
please, don't embarrass this thread
It just looks the same. Twice the frames doesn't equal twice the awesomness
Does everything move faster, or what?
If they are side by side, can you not notice the difference? It's usually more apparent that everything looks smoother.
Not just looks but sound too. I used to play MegaMan 2 to death when I was a nipper but when I hear the soundtrack now is sounds way too fast. Castlevania is the same as well (Vampire Killer was ruined by PAL butchery)
I've seen this site before, and the 60 fps image looks barely smoother than the 30 one. Not enough to be noticeable if I'm not seeing both at the same time.
Yes, but only a little tiny bitty bit. I'd take 30 fps and no screen tearing over 60 and tearing any day.
Some people are more prone to detecting the differences. I have a friend (and so can I, sometimes) that can notice the refresh rate of Fluorescent Lamps and using a computer monitor with a lower than 60hz refreshrate drives him crazy.
I've been saying that I can't notice a single frame above 60fps, but I don't think I ever had a monitor that displayed at a faster refresh rate than 60hz, so there's that. Are you sure you're not running your monitor at 30hz?
Maybe my older Samsung 19incher did, as it was a tube monitor, but I think I ran it at 60hz anyway.
Oh god, those PAL audio tracks are messin with my head!
I really don't know how this was acceptable back in the 8/16 bits days.
The game was clearly slower than it's supposed to be.
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