brain_stew
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Javaman said:
You do know who Futuremark are, right? This is their second DX10 exclusive product, btw, and the last one faired just fine.
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You do know who Futuremark are, right? This is their second DX10 exclusive product, btw, and the last one faired just fine.
brain_stew
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zoku88 said:
Vantage.
Javaman said:
And nor will you, I was referring to Vantage. It may not be a game but its a retail product from them that is exclusive to DX10. All the same arguments and counter arguments used for Shattered Horizon would apply with Vantage as well.
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careksims said:
yeah total playtime is kinda bugged, i only get 1 hour total in audiosurf even tough i know for certain i have played way more than that. Portal is also screwed up tough i think it's because i used to close it's process with the task manager when it wouldn't close on it's own.
Blizzard said:
Could you teach me to bend space and time as well? Playing 210 hours of a game that was unlocked ~90 hours ago is quite the feat! :lol
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And to the XP gamers, angry about DX10 only games, what are people going to do in 2 years' time when the required minimum ram for new releases is bumped up to 4GB?
evil solrac v3.0
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Javaman said:
quit your whinning you poor, dirty peasant hobo.
crimsonheadGCN
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DICE posted this about Battlefield 2142. Contains information about it coming to Steam soon:
I'm not really interested in 2142 (heard it wasn't as good as 1942 or bf2, dunno), but those seem like really cool moves on their part. I've been pretty impressed with my brushes with DICE, despite them being under the EA umbrella. I was in contact with the Mirror's Edge people, and they apparently had at least one meeting to try to see if they could do anything to help the little mod scene that was using the editor when it wasn't really supposed to be available. The community contact (one of the designers for the game, I think) posted a response on the forum in the end, and though it was polite, it was basically a "Nah, we can't do anything, sorry." response.crimsonheadGCN said:
But still, it was neat to interact with them, and have someone in a major company pay attention. I've talked to that designer a few times, and it's cool to pick up tidbits like "Oh yeah, that art that you fans had been collecting that looks like Mirror's Edge, we had a lot of that sort of thing hanging up in the office for inspiration"...or him apparently having bullet hell shmups as his passion, and wishing he had the time to do a UDK modding project to make one.
Apparently that DICE designer was also a Mario/Little Big Planet fan.So all in all, there do seem to be people there who are actually into designing games, having fun playing games, and helping with the community. Unfortunately there are business and piracy and publishing/DLC issues to everything, but every little positive bit helps.
ClovingWestbrook
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It's amazing how EA has truly gotten so much better with the PC in the last year. With releasing their catalog on Steam without DRM, supporting dedicated servers with BF:BC2, etc... while Activision is now the devil as well as IW.
Automatisch
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Man, I had just remembered I wanted Ninja Blade last night as I was about to go to bed, then I wake up and it's on Steam?! That really freaked me out. Just bought it cuz screw paying $40 for the 360 version when the PC is only $27.
Diablohead
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Yeah it's nice, but some of their games still run terrible on a pc, Shift did at least.LovingSteam said:
Automatisch
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Naw, I looked online and Gamestop has it $33 used, and Amazon has it $40 new. I cancelled my Gamefly so I haven't looked at what they charge, but I doubt I'd find it for as cheap as I did for PC. I just hope it's a good port... I'll post my impressions later.Strider2K99 said:
Danne-Danger
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Now if only someone could point them to GOG.com and the buckets upon buckets of cash I'm ready to hurl at them.LovingSteam said:
arts&crafts
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So i bought LFD2 and I am loving it, but I am confused about the whole steam achievement set up. Is there anyway to see all my steam achievements in one place like xboxlive and can I see other people steam achievements? or can I only see my achievements in the game I am playing? (because that would be pointless)
arts&crafts said:
Go to your steam profile, and look at your games list. "View stats" option for it (under the icon of L4D2), then Personal Achievements tab. Voila!
Like this: http://steamcommunity.com/id/volcynika/stats/L4D2?tab=achievements
Just replace the http://www.steamcommunity.com/id/volcynika with your URL.
arts&crafts
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Volcynika said:
Thank you good sir.
Automatisch
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Ninja Blade is a pretty solid port from what I've played, and it uses the 360 controller input exactly as I would have hoped. It still looks a bit spotty in some areas, but overall I like how much cleaner it is on the PC and love having 60FPS over a locked 30, though you can choose the latter if your system isn't really up to speed.
Sounds like 25% off. Another discount. The first one was with the 4-pack deal. This is for.. I dunno, post-launch fun time.fresquito said:
It was discounted before and is now at full price is why it's 50.
EDIT: Yeah, the full price is 50. So with the prorder discount plus the 4-pack discount, it's 33.75 per person. Without the 4-pack discount it's 37.50. Now it's back to full price.
I don't think it launched at 37.50, but maybe it did. Maybe they let the preorder discount carry over for a few days. I already had it so didn't pay attention!
MoFuzz said:
Yeah, seeing how awesome the PC version of DMC4 looks really makes me want more of that genre on PC. Ninja Blade is OK as a God of War/Ninja Gaiden/Shinobi mashup, better than I thought given a lot of the negativity, (the QTE sequences are probably actually my favourite part, because they're so incredibly over the top.) but it really makes me want something more substantial like Ninja Gaiden or Bayonetta for PC.
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ArjanN said:
I agree with this so much. We PC gamers are capable of hooking up controllers to our PCs so that we can play the games properly. I would looove to play the Ninja Gaiden games on my PC with my X360 controller at a smooth 120 fps at 1080p with some good amount of AA. Bayonetta looks like a lot of fun too. I wouldn't mind GoW either but emulators have that almost perfected.
Has anyone ever seen something like this? I started Steam today, and looked at my games list, and then noticed that Steam was using 40-70% of my CPU. It kept going after a couple of minutes, and I think it was occasionally hitting the hard disk too, so I killed it and restarted. It doesn't seem to have done it since then, but it was kind of weird, since it didn't seem to be syncing or updating any games.
Kind of related note, my Steam hardly ever seems to display game updates anymore, I have to manually right click and view the news.
Kind of related note, my Steam hardly ever seems to display game updates anymore, I have to manually right click and view the news.
faceless007
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I've noticed that happen a couple times too (Steam hogs 50%+ CPU when not apparently doing anything). I just End Task it and restart. No idea why it happens.
Automatisch
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I'd love to play Bayonetta on the PC. And yeah Ninja Blade is pure cheese in some (okay, most) cases, but it's so fun and takes the best parts of all the games you listed.ArjanN said:
Caesar III
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for all the Windows 7 users:
Does anyone know why my desktop pc doesn't show up "recently played" in the jumplist? My notebook does it just fine though.
I really like this feature but only if it is available
Does anyone know why my desktop pc doesn't show up "recently played" in the jumplist? My notebook does it just fine though.
I really like this feature but only if it is available
Eaten By A Grue
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So Serious Sam HD - The First Encounter unlocks in 5 hours, is anyone else going to be playing it?
Edit: Nevermind, finally found the official thread. I thought everyone forgot about this game.
Edit: Nevermind, finally found the official thread. I thought everyone forgot about this game.
Dead Prince
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Good. I want my achievements to show. Now they just need to make my game stats appear as well too ;P
When is Borderlands DLC suppose to hit? I really don't want to wait until next week.
Good. I want my achievements to show. Now they just need to make my game stats appear as well too ;P
When is Borderlands DLC suppose to hit? I really don't want to wait until next week.
Diablohead
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Much as I would LOVE to play it on the pc, I want to play it on the 360 so I can unlock some achievements :SEaten By A Grue said:
I also have about 3000 spare points so it saves me money
Automatisch
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I want a pre-load . I wonder how big it is.
. I wonder how big it is.Dead Prince
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Volcynika said:
WTF Gearbox.
Diablohead
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Cool as they are it's something I have no interest in, maybe because in the past people were easily editing their steam achievement lists to unlock gear in TF2, so to me if it's that easy to edit, it's not worth the timeShard said:
I also only have like 3 games which have them.
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