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[Saggy]

Well if you want to play something more 'modern' get Legends, Ann. and Underworld, they're pretty good. The older games might not click with newcomers to the series. One of the main highlights of the TR series is 'isolationism' in that its just Lara and the area you're playing in, solving puzzles and advancing through the stage.

Are there any differences between the older ones and the newer ones besides graphics? I'm mainly interested in getting them for the gameplay, so if they all play essentially the same way, then I'm cool with getting the older ones.

 

[JaseC]

when does the second day of SE sales start ?

I assume the deals will tick over when Tomb Raider's countdown hits 24 hours, which is about 5 hours and 20 minutes away.

 

[I H8 Memes]

I dont see any timer running on the sales page. How much longer is TR: Anniversary going to be available at that price?


Ahh. Nevermind.

 

[JaseC]

I dont see any timer running on the sales page. How much longer is TR: Anniversary going to be available at that price?

29 hours and 15 minutes.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Wow, I just realised that I've never bought Half-Life on Steam. I still have a retail CD of it so it's never been necessary, but I decided that I wanted to give the Linux beta of it a try so I rectified that oversight sharpish.

 

[Wok]

Wow, I just realised that I've never bought Half-Life on Steam. I still have a retail CD of it so it's never been necessary, but I decided that I wanted to give the Linux beta of it a try so I rectified that oversight sharpish.

By the way, what is better between vanilla HL and HL:Source?

 

[JaseC]

I have at least three Steam accounts thanks to the Half-Life Platinum Pack, but unfortunately the others have been lost to time.

 

[Semblance]

Vanilla HL. Fuck HL: Source.

 

[Stallion Free]

Wow, I just realised that I've never bought Half-Life on Steam. I still have a retail CD of it so it's never been necessary, but I decided that I wanted to give the Linux beta of it a try so I rectified that oversight sharpish.

I hope you just entered the cd-key to get pretty much every HL1 engine game on Steam. Valve put that in place for a reason.

Yea the tutorial achievements along with some other ones aren't working.

To be honest, I've held off playing it partly for that reason.

By the way, what is better between vanilla HL and HL:Source?

Source might as well not exist.

 

[KarmaCow]

Jeez it's not like I said it was the sole reason or I'm choosing to do nothing instead.

 

[Tomodachi]

Wow, I just realised that I've never bought Half-Life on Steam. I still have a retail CD of it so it's never been necessary, but I decided that I wanted to give the Linux beta of it a try so I rectified that oversight sharpish.

Did you enter the cd key on steam? It unlocks some stuff other than HL.

EDIT: aaand beaten.

 

[Stallion Free]

Jeez it's not like I said it was the sole reason or I'm choosing to do nothing instead.

Look, I fucking dig Steam achievements and they aren't even a factor in whether or not I play Chivalry.

I mean, the game shits all over like every other multiplayer game released this year and especially last year.

 

[Grief.exe]

Yea the tutorial achievements along with some other ones aren't working.

To be honest, I've held off playing it partly for that reason.

Isn't there a patch that coming out this month? I played through the tutorial and it was pretty buggy, achievements aside. I have other games I could play while wait till it gets patched.

Are you serious man?

Just watch this video, quit your complaining, and start rolling some heads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfpsoBX3EDk

I think we just found this guys GAF tag btw

KarmaCow
Holds off for achievements

 

[I H8 Memes]

I hope you just entered the cd-key to get pretty much every HL1 engine game on Steam. Valve put that in place for a reason.

I had done this with my original HL key on my Day 1 Steam account. It had all the HL games and CS 1.6. But for some reason, I dont know if I was high or drunk or something, But when I got HL2 I created an entirely new account during the installation process. Didnt know back then that I could get them merged so I just gave away the first account to a random person online who had never played Half Life.

 

[jediyoshi]

By the way, what is better between vanilla HL and HL:Source?

Vanilla. Don't forget the HD pack
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3157-QDVN-1426

 

[Grief.exe]

I had done this with my original HL key on my Day 1 Steam account. It had all the HL games and CS 1.6. But for some reason, I dont know if I was high or drunk or something, But when I got HL2 I created an entirely new account during the installation process. Didnt know back then that I could get them merged so I just gave away the first account to a random person online who had never played Half Life.

You should find that account and see how many games he has on it now.

 

[Stallion Free]

Vanilla. Don't forget the HD pack
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3157-QDVN-1426

Gross. Why would I want to use and M16 and a Beretta over a Glock and MP5??

 

[JaseC]

Gross. Why would I want to use and M16 and a Beretta over a Glock and MP5??

To get to the other side.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Yea the tutorial achievements along with some other ones aren't working.

To be honest, I've held off playing it partly for that reason.

 

[jediyoshi]

Gross. Why would I want to use and M16 and a Beretta over a Glock and MP5??

Small price to pay for polygonal ties on them scientists

 

[jim-jam bongs]

I hope you just entered the cd-key to get pretty much every HL1 engine game on Steam. Valve put that in place for a reason.

Nah the CD is in a box in my house. I'm actually staying with a friend this month so I'm not anywhere near it and my only PC for playing games on is a laptop from 2008 running Ubuntu, so I decided to splurge. I finally quit smoking recently, and it's less than the price of a packet of cigarettes, so it's almost like Valve are paying me to play Half-Life.

 

[KarmaCow]

Are you serious man?

Just watch this video, quit your complaining, and start rolling some heads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfpsoBX3EDk

I think we just found this guys GAF tag btw

KarmaCow
Holds off for achievements

When I tried playing the tutorial in December, the UI would constantly flash, the tips were unreadable because they were rapidly switching, events wouldn't trigger and the achievements were bugged. I heard this was getting patched in January, so I went onto other games that I bought in the sale.

What do I lose by playing other games instead until the game gets patched? Nothing, unless the player base plummets by the time the game gets patched. Am I taking crazy pills or is this not a reasonable decision to make?

 

[Stallion Free]

Small price to pay for polygonal ties on them scientists

OG scientists have so much more charm.

Both texture sets look like shit nowadays so why would I care about a marginal improvement over the originals charm?

 

[Leon Belmont]

If anyone want to trade Dishonored for my Borderlands 2 , please PM me!

 

[Grief.exe]

When I tried playing the tutorial in December, the UI would constantly flash, the tips were unreadable because they were rapidly switching, events wouldn't trigger and the achievements were bugged. I heard this was getting patched in January, so I went onto other games that I bought in the sale.

What do I lose by playing other games instead until the game gets patched? Nothing, unless the player base plummets by the time the game gets patched. Am I taking crazy pills or is this not a reasonable decision to make?

Because the rest of the game isn't broken.

Watch that one video and you learn far more than you would in the Chivalry tutorial. Alternatively, you could have asked on here originally.

Just a real shame to miss out on a game as good as Chivalry because of a bad first impression with the tutorial.

 

[JaseC]

OG scientists have so much more charm.

Both texture sets look like shit nowadays so why would I care about a marginal improvement over the originals charm?

You're forgetting the most important detail: Half-Life Vanilla has nacho cockroaches:

 

[I H8 Memes]

You should find that account and see how many games he has on it now.

That would be interesting to see but there would be no way to find that account.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised given how old it is but Half-Life runs incredibly well in Linux.

You're forgetting the most important detail: Half-Life Vanilla has nacho cockroaches:

Sharp abdomen, would not bang.

 

[Sober]

Is there a reason why my Steam client keeps getting stuck in "beta over; update required" endless loop still?

 

[esai]

If anyone has any dishonored key they want to sell let me know pretty please.

 

[Max]

Ummmmmmmmmmm about those Friday deals?

 

[KarmaCow]

Because the rest of the game isn't broken.

Watch that one video and you learn far more than you would in the Chivalry tutorial. Alternatively, you could have asked on here originally.

Just a real shame to miss out on a game as good as Chivalry because of a bad first impression with the tutorial.

Fair enough, I'll try it out. My original post was kinda crazy without context.

Though I am surprised the patch didn't coincide with the free weekend.

 

[derExperte]

Ummmmmmmmmmm about those Friday deals?

You mean Square-Enix? The sale went live a few hours after the other stuff so it may be delayed every day.

 

[Fare Godmace]

- Cut/paste the LA Noire folder outside of the downloading folder
- Uninstall the game from within the client
- Move the LA Noire folder into steamapps\common
- Install the game

Steam should detect the existing data and only download what's needed (if anything).

Sorry for not answering earlier, I had to leave right after posting, thanks for the help!

Sadly, it didn't work, every time I try the files go back to "downloading" and it starts from scratch again Oh well, I'll check out Closure today...

 

[jediyoshi]

OG scientists have so much more charm.

Both texture sets look like shit nowadays so why would I care about a marginal improvement over the originals charm?

Seeing their ties flop around now animated was pretty mind blowing shit back then. I don't recall textures specifically ever being the point of it, the real plus were the new models. Unless he's specifically playing for nostalgia, if the choice is between HLS and goldsc, using the pack is a good middle ground

 

[Grief.exe]

Fair enough, I'll try it out. My original post was kinda crazy without context.

Though I am surprised the patch didn't coincide with the free weekend.

They have a beta patch out. I think this free weekend has been planned for a while. They have been saying to wait for the end of January for a patch for a while. But I think they didn't get it done in time to coincide with the free weekend.

To be honest the patch mostly benefits people who have been playing for a while anyways.


I haven't read anything about the patch fixing the tutorial. They actually further broke the tutorial when they changed the way feinting works in a previous patch.

The patch is pretty damn massive though: http://www.chivalrythegame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9096

 

[Nabs]

Fair enough, I'll try it out. My original post was kinda crazy without context.

Though I am surprised the patch didn't coincide with the free weekend.

They hit youtube pretty hard yesterday with duel mode videos, so I'm guessing that was the plan. I may try out the beta patch once the noobs go away

 

[JaseC]

Sharp abdomen, would not bang.

And not nearly Irish enough for my tastes.

Sorry for not answering earlier, I had to leave right after posting, thanks for the help!

Sadly, it didn't work, every time I try the files go back to "downloading" and it starts from scratch again Oh well, I'll check out Closure today...

Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention that you have to rename the folder to l.a.noire once it's in steamapps\common. When installing the game, pay attention to the progress bar; you should see "Detecting existing game data..." (or something to that effect).

 

[Fare Godmace]

Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention that you have to rename the folder to l.a.noire once it's in steamapps\common.

Yup, I figured that out and I did it both times.

When the installation begins, Steam takes a loooooooooooong time analizing the files, but after that it's just like nothing happened

 

[DyslexicAlucard]

Free Victoria II key hidden inside this post! <3 you, SteamGAF!

 

[JaseC]

Yup, I figured that out and I did it both times.

When the installation begins, Steam takes a loooooooooooong time analizing the files, but after that it's just like nothing happened

Just to to be clear, you did name the folder exactly as I described it, right? Entirely lowercase and with no spaces?

 

[Fare Godmace]

Just to to be clear, you did name the folder exactly as I described it, right? Entirely lowercase and with no spaces?

Nope, I actually named it "L.A.Noire", but it seemed to recognize the files... Hold on, let me try again.

 

[JaseC]

Nope, I actually named it "L.A.Noire", but it seemed to recognize the files... Hold on, let me try again.

The capitalisation probably doesn't matter; I'm sure Steam's smart enough to ignore it.

 

[zkylon]

Greenlight stuff:

Construct 2 - Free (limited)


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Construct 2's intuitive editor makes it straightforward to bring your ideas to life. Share and publish your games on the web and a wide range of devices.
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Well I suppose I'll try this too since everyone's crazed about HTML5 nowadays...

 

[Fare Godmace]

The capitalisation probably doesn't matter; I'm sure Steam's smart enough to ignore it.

Yeah, it's doing the same right now... It's ok, tho, it sucks but at least I don't have a bandwith cap!

 

[cicero]

Steam store is down, at least for me it is.

 

[Deleted member 10571]

Well I suppose I'll try this too since everyone's crazed about HTML5 nowadays...

Thinking about actually buying it (Personal Edition I guess) to be able to put stuff on Android Market. Then again, I should probably test it first to see if it's really that simple to use and create stuff. Are you able to make everything you want with it, or is it rather limited? Anyone know anything about that software and can elaborate?

 

[zkylon]

Thinking about actually buying it (Personal Edition I guess) to be able to put stuff on Android Market. Then again, I should probably test it first to see if it's really that simple to use and create stuff. Are you able to make everything you want with it, or is it rather limited? Anyone know anything about that software and can elaborate?

I've heard pretty good stuff about it but from what I gather, the free version is very limited.

I've been using GameMaker these past two weeks and it seems pretty capable and it has a HTML5 version too ($100).

 

[Tizoc]

HELLO
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/om/en/pc/games/action/batman-arkham-city-game-year/

Batman AC GotY for under 7.50 with the code, which would be $6 I believe?

 

[M*A*S*H]

I'm interested in buying a couple of iron brigade keys for those who are buying the amazon bundle and don't want them. PM me and we can sort things out.