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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!

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Dice

Dice

Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Luap said:
I probably should have asked this before entering for the C&C Red Alert 3 Uprising giveaway, but is this a good game to play as my first RTS? The only other strategy game I've ever played was Advance Wars Dual Strike, and that's a turn-based game. Should I get the original C&C Red Alert 3 and play that first?
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As good as any, I guess. Age of Empires 2 might be better in the sense that it is rather slow-paced, but really when it comes to RTS there is a massive chasm between single and multiplayer. You will get slaughtered in multi for quite a while before you get to grips with it, and some people just never do. The Westwood C&C games are my favorite RTS and the genre has really changed since then. Hell, it's practically dead in favor of MOBA (yuck)
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
PorkWing said:
Haven't played the Darksiders franchise at all- thought $15 was a good deal for both games and all DLC.

Is controller support good for it?
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Controller support is really good - the game is basically a console port. Sad that you missed the sale on Amazon where both Darksiders games, a bunch of DLC, and 4 other games were on sale all for $8 last week. Either way, these games are a lot of fun and easily worth $15 for the pack. :)
 
corrosivefrost

corrosivefrost

Member
corrosivefrost said:
Now for something entirely more important to me at this juncture:
I'm having a sound problem, currently -- I don't know what could be causing it... the audio in my Steam games is skipping, sort of. Like this fuzzy bad connection type sound -- but I'm using the on-board audio (which seemed fine to me up til now) via the HDMI connection to my TV. I've checked my PS3 for comparison (Spelunky on both) and the PS3 version has clean audio.

This seems relatively recent. Could it be because I have a game downloading to the HDD Steam is installed on so the processing and such might be making the audio of games being played do this? I don't think any drivers changed recently and the last one was an update to some NVidia software... I suppose I could try pausing the download and seeing if it clears up, but in case that doesn't work, does anyone else have any idea why my PC would start having cracking/fuzz over the game audio?
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Anyone?
It's still there even though downloads have all finished. PC only. TV and PS3 don't have the problem. Nothing should've borked my on board sound card, right?
 
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HundredEyeMonk

Member
jshackles said:
Controller support is really good - the game is basically a console port. Sad that you missed the sale on Amazon where both Darksiders games, a bunch of DLC, and 4 other games were on sale all for $8 last week. Either way, these games are a lot of fun and easily worth $15 for the pack. :)
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DOH! Oh well :)

I am going on a spending binge because I finally have a system that can play pretty much any game I throw at it (well, it is actually scheduled to be delivered by UPS today ha) so... anything that looks like a good deal is getting snatched up lol.

Especially platformers, survival horrors, and anything that might do decently in Steam Big Picture Mode.

I'm all ears for other recommendations ;) ;) hint hint
 
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C00kie M0nster

Member
jshackles said:
Controller support is really good - the game is basically a console port. Sad that you missed the sale on Amazon where both Darksiders games, a bunch of DLC, and 4 other games were on sale all for $8 last week. Either way, these games are a lot of fun and easily worth $15 for the pack. :)
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I couldn't agree more. It's basically a mature Zelda. I enjoyed the storyline in the first game far more than the second though. That being said, the second is probably the superior gameplay experience.
 
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zkylon

zkylewd
HoosTrax said:
I totally thought this was yet another post-apocalyptic zombie survival game that's riding DayZ's coat tails.
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Also -- is Strike Suit Zero a kbm game or a 360 game? I don't remember if I put my batteries in the charger.
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I played a lot of raiderz with friends and it was pretty fun

I dropped it as soon as it got too grindy but it was decent
 
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Arthea

Member
As it is still possible to buy PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords for next 22 hours, I wanted to insist that this price is ridiculous for such a game. If even you don't like RPG and puzzle hybrids, PQ is so good that it's impossible not to get this money worth from it. And it's one of most addictive games I ever played, other being Civs, Tetris, HoMM, Peggle and MtG, so as you can see, very refined company.
I only wonder why they didn't implemented achievements on steam, as Xbox360 version had those.
And let's not forget that it is the best Aussie game!
Anyway, what I wanted to say, buy it! you won't regret, I promise.

If by chance you are into such hybrids, buy Galactrix too, remembering that's not PQ in space as one would expect, but still worth this price, regardless.
 
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HundredEyeMonk

Member
C00kie M0nster said:
I couldn't agree more. It's basically a mature Zelda. I enjoyed the storyline in the first game far more than the second though. That being said, the second is probably the superior gameplay experience.
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Good to hear :) I enjoyed pretty much all of the Zelda games so I am now really looking forward to it. Thanks for the info!
 
Head of Vengarl

Head of Vengarl

Banned
Dice said:
As good as any, I guess. Age of Empires 2 might be better in the sense that it is rather slow-paced, but really when it comes to RTS there is a massive chasm between single and multiplayer. You will get slaughtered in multi for quite a while before you get to grips with it, and some people just never do. The Westwood C&C games are my favorite RTS and the genre has really changed since then. Hell, it's practically dead in favor of MOBA (yuck)
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Alrighty then. Thanks for the input.
 
cicero

cicero

Member
Arthea said:
As it is still possible to buy PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords for next 22 hours, I wanted to insist that this price is ridiculous for such a game. If even you don't like RPG and puzzle hybrids, PQ is so good that it's impossible not to get this money worth from it. And it's one of most addictive games I ever played, other being Civs, Tetris, HoMM, Peggle and MtG, so as you can see, very refined company.
I only wonder why they didn't implemented achievements on steam, as Xbox360 version had those.
And let's not forget that it is the best Aussie game!
Anyway, what I wanted to say, buy it! you won't regret, I promise.

If by chance you are into such hybrids, buy Galactrix too, remembering that's not PQ in space as one would expect, but still worth this price, regardless.
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I had heard that Galactrix wasn't that good at all though. Am I mistaken?
 
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Kuroyume

Banned
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ModBot said:
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corrosivefrost

corrosivefrost

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Giveaway time again:

ModBot said:
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jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Arthea said:
It's harder and harder to find bundles I don't own most games.
I blame Jasec! and steamgaf and my buying habits.
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After a while it just gets to be like "Is there anything in this bundle I don't already own? If so, would I pay X amount for those games?"

It's not all bad though, I'm at over 1,500 games now and I was still missing about half of what was in the current Bundlestars.
 
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drizzle

Axel Hertz
Hoard is great:

ModBot[b said:
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Rules for this Giveaway:
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NaM

Does not have twelve inches...
corrosivefrost said:
Anyone?
It's still there even though downloads have all finished. PC only. TV and PS3 don't have the problem. Nothing should've borked my on board sound card, right?
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What OS are you using? What's your pc like? how much free space do you have?
 
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Arthea

Member
cicero said:
I had heard that Galactrix wasn't that good at all though. Am I mistaken?
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It depends what you expect, I've played through it once, and besides it being nowhere near PQ goodness and having annoying timed gates, setting was amazing and a game looked very nice even on DS (I've played on DS), I never wanted to go back and play it, unlike PQ, but it's 0,99&#8364; we are talking about! For that price? it's amazing! (><)

Gravelord_Nito said:
http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/ Got em all?
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bought some of those, yes, I was complaining about HBX
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
This community man... someone from Gaf got me into a beta I wanted bad, I wont say what because of NDA (i dont know how it works so lol), such a great surprise, I wont say who because, again, I dont know how these NDAs work, but he knows who he is and im incredibly thankful. Thank you so much dude, and Gaf in general.
 
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Mr. Poolman

Member
I already own this game, so I'm giving it away to anyone who wants it.
Its a decent game with cool visuals.

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corrosivefrost

corrosivefrost

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NaM said:
What OS are you using? What's your pc like? how much free space do you have?
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Windows 8.1
i5-3570k
8gb RAM
Nvidia GTX 770
120gb SSD for OS
3TB HDD (1.5 TB free) for Steam/Origin

This seems recent to me, as I've not noticed this since I build the machine before Thanksgiving... I checked the recent Windows auto-update history and there's no record of driver changes.
I did upgrade some Nvidia software the other day, but the only way that would affect anything is possibly because the onboard audio is being output to the TV via the GTX 770s HDMI connection to my TV.
 
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crimsonheadGCN

Banned
Insurgency is leaving early access next week. Does anyone know how many titles have been officially released and left early access?

I can only think of State of Decay so far.
 
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Grief.exe

Member
crimsonheadGCN said:
Insurgency is leaving early access next week. Does anyone know how many titles have been officially released and left early access?

I can only think of State of Decay so far.
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Don't Starve.

I can't remember if that launched before the Early Access program or not, but it launched in an unfinished state.
 
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Diedac

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Great game. Enjoy.

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Tactics

Member
kafiend said:
Amazing how keys mount up. Even found a few that I hadn't claimed. Have fun and don't sell, trade, give them away etc.
I give keys with the intention of use by those participating in these Steam threads. Not for a friend of their dog walkers cousin.

That said, its a multi-entry giveaway for a bunch of old bundle keys. Enter for them all if you like.
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I won Greed Corp, thanks a lot! Just saw that it has hotseat support, which makes it even better.
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
My server stats for Enhanced Steam tell me that Enhanced Steam's web traffic for the past week has now surpassed Steam's total web traffic for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Gotta start somewhere!
 
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