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Submarino Conversível
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Submarino Conversível said:
Diablohead
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Good bundle price for shattered horizon, in fact good price for it being solo also with that 20-25% discount.
If you have a nice running DX10 pc, the game is stunning with most or all the effects on. I spent the first few matches just looking around and taking screenshots.
If you have a nice running DX10 pc, the game is stunning with most or all the effects on. I spent the first few matches just looking around and taking screenshots.
Peronthious
Member
bathala said:
Yes.
The game is decent without it, but some of the better mods (Fall from Heaven 2 specifically) require Beyond the Sword, and the late game in vanilla Civ IV is a bit boring comparatively.
Fragamemnon
Member
I think Civ4 hold up pretty well without the expansion. End game is better with BtS but it isn't bad by any means in vanilla Civ4.
Johnlenham
Member
Am I being retarded here but how do I change it so Steam launches my games in 1280x1024? Stalker just keeps launching to a flickering black screen as my tv wont recognise anything higher or lower.
Jesus. I love Steam, but oh I hate Windows 7 64-bit.
I still can't get Overlord to run, despite many reinstalls and stuff (it doesn't go beyond the loading screen), and now S.T.A.L.K.E.R. won't even open. Is there a way to set launch options in Steam so that it automatically runs the game in Admin mode?
Also, when I put Steam itself to run automatically in Admin mode, it told me that it was not recommended to "run the software in any compatibility mode". Should I disable it?
I still can't get Overlord to run, despite many reinstalls and stuff (it doesn't go beyond the loading screen), and now S.T.A.L.K.E.R. won't even open. Is there a way to set launch options in Steam so that it automatically runs the game in Admin mode?
Also, when I put Steam itself to run automatically in Admin mode, it told me that it was not recommended to "run the software in any compatibility mode". Should I disable it?
Now we're getting to the end of the year I'm tallying all my Steam purchases to work out if I got value for money. I'm going to post my results so you can all point at me and laugh.
My Steam page
Current value of games (useless while sale is on)
My backloggery - showing games I've finished / currently playing
I opened a Google spreadsheet and entered what I paid for all my games since I started with Steam in Nov 2008 and came up with a total of $US650 (actual purchases were in $AUS).
Total games owned: 91
Games I paid full price for: 2 (The Club for $19.99 and 40k DoW2 for $49.99)
Games completed: 9 (Half-Life 2 & episodes, Left 4 Dead, STALKER & Clear Sky, Strong Bad Ep. 1, World of Goo, Windosill)
Games I haven't completed but played enough to feel I got value for money: 15 (Audiosurf, Beyond G&E, Borderlands, Children of the Nile, The Club, Company of Heroes, L4D 2, Mount & Blade, Peggle, Plants vZ, Psychonauts, Splinter Cell: CT, Trials 2, Witcher, X-Com)
Games bought even though I already finished them on console: 4 (Bioshock, Mass Effect, Peggle, Portal)
Games I've never bothered installing: all the shitty games from the Valve complete pack. Condition Zero? Haha.
Games I may never play and probably were a waste of money: at least 8 (Evil Genius, Garry's Mod, Overlord I & II, Silent Hunter III, IL-2 Sturmovik, Star Wars KOTOR, Universe at War and maybe more)
Most expensive game I haven't played yet: Call of Juarez BiB
Games I've bought since the '09 Christmas sale started: 0
The most useless purchases were the ones I saw were on sale, and thought I'd just try them because they were so cheap. Even though they were less than $10 it still added up over the year and now they sit in my Steam folder mocking me.
There are plenty of other games I haven't played much but still feel they were worth buying because I *will* play them at some point. Mainly the Telltale games (may skip Bone), all the other adventure games, and various other highly rated titles I'm LTTP on such as Dead Space or Mirrors Edge. I just have to cut my spending right down in 2010 and concentrate on the games I already have.
Although I feel daft for buying so many games I may not get full value from, I will say that I bought very few console games this year. My buddy bought quite a few 360 games at prices up to $AUS99 - games such as Dead Space or Mirrors Edge for which I paid all of $US5. In all he probably spent more on a dozen 360 games than I did on my entire Steam library.
Sorry for the blog post. How do you feel about your buying habits this year? Or do we need to wait for Jan 4th before we can see it objectively?
My Steam page
Current value of games (useless while sale is on)
My backloggery - showing games I've finished / currently playing
I opened a Google spreadsheet and entered what I paid for all my games since I started with Steam in Nov 2008 and came up with a total of $US650 (actual purchases were in $AUS).
Total games owned: 91
Games I paid full price for: 2 (The Club for $19.99 and 40k DoW2 for $49.99)
Games completed: 9 (Half-Life 2 & episodes, Left 4 Dead, STALKER & Clear Sky, Strong Bad Ep. 1, World of Goo, Windosill)
Games I haven't completed but played enough to feel I got value for money: 15 (Audiosurf, Beyond G&E, Borderlands, Children of the Nile, The Club, Company of Heroes, L4D 2, Mount & Blade, Peggle, Plants vZ, Psychonauts, Splinter Cell: CT, Trials 2, Witcher, X-Com)
Games bought even though I already finished them on console: 4 (Bioshock, Mass Effect, Peggle, Portal)
Games I've never bothered installing: all the shitty games from the Valve complete pack. Condition Zero? Haha.
Games I may never play and probably were a waste of money: at least 8 (Evil Genius, Garry's Mod, Overlord I & II, Silent Hunter III, IL-2 Sturmovik, Star Wars KOTOR, Universe at War and maybe more)
Most expensive game I haven't played yet: Call of Juarez BiB
Games I've bought since the '09 Christmas sale started: 0
The most useless purchases were the ones I saw were on sale, and thought I'd just try them because they were so cheap. Even though they were less than $10 it still added up over the year and now they sit in my Steam folder mocking me.
There are plenty of other games I haven't played much but still feel they were worth buying because I *will* play them at some point. Mainly the Telltale games (may skip Bone), all the other adventure games, and various other highly rated titles I'm LTTP on such as Dead Space or Mirrors Edge. I just have to cut my spending right down in 2010 and concentrate on the games I already have.
Although I feel daft for buying so many games I may not get full value from, I will say that I bought very few console games this year. My buddy bought quite a few 360 games at prices up to $AUS99 - games such as Dead Space or Mirrors Edge for which I paid all of $US5. In all he probably spent more on a dozen 360 games than I did on my entire Steam library.
Sorry for the blog post. How do you feel about your buying habits this year? Or do we need to wait for Jan 4th before we can see it objectively?
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
NASA is going to be launching a game on Steam in the next month or so:
http://www.astronautmmo.com/dmf/Media
http://www.astronautmmo.com/dmf/Media
DO NOT Buy the civ deals on steam that are advertised as the daily deal!
There is a much better deal that is "hidden".
The complete civ4 compilation, including colonization for about 13 euro.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1618/
Edit: same sees to go for the max payne deal.
Search for the package.
There is a much better deal that is "hidden".
The complete civ4 compilation, including colonization for about 13 euro.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1618/
Edit: same sees to go for the max payne deal.
Search for the package.
Ninja Face
Member
Just got Osmos for $2. Also World at War is up now randomly.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
It looks like Wings of Prey, which is the PC version of IL-2: Birds of Prey, will be heading to Steam soon. On GameTrailers, it's listed as being published by Valve and I believe the developer has already confirmed it.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
wow its back down to 13 again
that civ 4 complete is all over the map :lol
that civ 4 complete is all over the map :lol
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
TaKeRx said:
It aint.
Dead Prince
Banned
Minsc said:
It is a glitch/problem. I couldn't buy Bioshock yesterday and it said my card was declinded. but Burnout did work. I'd just wait until later when everything is running smoother.
Looks like there is a Steam UI overhaul coming up. There was this thread from a month and a half ago: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1020025
"We're working on it."
"It's an art. If we don't say anything, people get upset. But they're happy when they see the release. If we do say something, people don't get as upset, but might be disappointed when the release doesn't do what we said, what they thought we said, or what they thought it could have done. It's pretty easy to make the argument that it's best to not say anything, particularly given the way that this forum responds sometimes."
"We're working on updating Steam's UI and adding substantial features to it. We do the latter all the time, incrementally. Doing more substantial work takes time, so from the outside it appears to happen in bursts even if the work internally is pretty continuous."
"You'll see it when it's ready."
Again, those are from about a month and a half ago. Now, jmccaskey (also from Valve) has posted this:
"We going to be improving the games list organization as part of a larger UI update in the future."
Hopefully coming soon
"We're working on it."
"It's an art. If we don't say anything, people get upset. But they're happy when they see the release. If we do say something, people don't get as upset, but might be disappointed when the release doesn't do what we said, what they thought we said, or what they thought it could have done. It's pretty easy to make the argument that it's best to not say anything, particularly given the way that this forum responds sometimes."
"We're working on updating Steam's UI and adding substantial features to it. We do the latter all the time, incrementally. Doing more substantial work takes time, so from the outside it appears to happen in bursts even if the work internally is pretty continuous."
"You'll see it when it's ready."
Again, those are from about a month and a half ago. Now, jmccaskey (also from Valve) has posted this:
"We going to be improving the games list organization as part of a larger UI update in the future."
Hopefully coming soon
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Nuclear Dawn has an official release date and it looks like it will be a full blown release. It was originally intended to be a modification for Half-Life 2 and it really pushed the engine. Looked really nice.
http://www.nucleardawnthegame.com/
http://www.nucleardawnthegame.com/
speculawyer
Member
People are in dire need for this considering that their accounts are now filled with a ton of games.dLMN8R said:
Diablohead
Member
I may only own about 25 games on steam but I will welcome any adjustments to the game listing page we have currently. Even if they just add the ability to make some custom lists for us to move games around in, in fact that's exactly what I want.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Plus the option to hide games - Midnight Club 2 runs at light speed on my computer - and I have no real desire to play it, it just came as part of a Rockstar pack - so the option to hide it along with some other games would be nice. They can always have a 'show hidden' button if need be.Diablohead said:
graywolf323
Member
Peronthious
Member
crimsonheadGCN said:
This game would be so awesome it were a sim
Still pretty cool, though.
speculawyer
Member
I don't see it announced at all but since Dragon's Age came out on Steam, I don't see why Mass Effect 2 would not.careksims said:
graywolf323
Member
careksims said:
I'd be pretty shocked if there wasn't
EA/Bioware and Steam seem to be on pretty good terms (what with all the Bioware games having been on sale during the holiday sale)
graywolf323
Member
nyong said:
you think you have it bad? :lol I'm worse
its kinda a mixed of being somewhat burned out on gaming and also just being overwhelmed
replaying Mass Effect pulled me back in for quite a bit but the lack of time around the holidays kinda pushed me back away
I think I'm a binge gamer
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Lol I have never had someone spam my blotter as much as you did during the sale lol. You went from like 270 to 380 or something crazy lol.graywolf323 said:you think you have it bad? :lol I'm worse
its kinda a mixed of being somewhat burned out on gaming and also just being overwhelmed
replaying Mass Effect pulled me back in for quite a bit but the lack of time around the holidays kinda pushed me back away
I think I'm a binge gamer
You and I both. After all the games I bough, I'll only play Harvest for a few minutes at a time.graywolf323 said:you think you have it bad? :lol I'm worse
its kinda a mixed of being somewhat burned out on gaming and also just being overwhelmed
replaying Mass Effect pulled me back in for quite a bit but the lack of time around the holidays kinda pushed me back away
I think I'm a binge gamer
nyong said:
Can I join this support group? I was overwhelmed by my backlog before this sale, now it's even worse.graywolf323 said:
I've installed and played a little bit of every game, and it's left me unfocused to the point of being disgusted.
This is not where I wanted to be with Mass Effect 2 looming.
TouchMyBox
Member
nyong said:
Just start knocking games off of your backlog alphabetically. (assuming you haven't finished all your steam games).If not, fall back on TF2 because it's pretty much the shiz-niz.
graywolf323
Member
LovingSteam said:
eh I blame the packs
after all the blotter does each thing separately so even though I bought a lot of stuff on one order it listed each pack and then game on separate lines :lol also that steam counter is no way accurate, I did a count of my games list (was really bored and listening to an audiobook) and it's much much closer to 300 than 400 (even though my profile wants to claim it's 398)
Steam counts the mods for some games, as well as the SDK and toolkits for some reason. Another thing Steam needs to fix..graywolf323 said:eh I blame the packs
also that steam counter is no way accurate, I did a count of my games list (was really bored and listening to an audiobook) and it's much much closer to 300 than 400 (even though my profile wants to claim it's 398)
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
They no longer count 99% of mods. They do count dedicated servers, tools, and dlc like you said. I understand why. If you buy a game, anything associated with that game is seen as part of the package that you pay for (dedicated server).Firehead said:
It will be interesting to see what type of upgrade they do to customization, etc.
Peronthious
Member
jet1911 said:
Unless there are realism settings not present in the demo, no, it isn't. Sims don't present planes as machines that can be jerked every which way and not suffer any structural damage, or recovering so easily from a stall. Combat sims don't present planes as being able to absorb bullets far beyond what they should be able to withstand.
I would absolutely love an IL-2 1946 with the graphics of Wings of Prey.
If however there are settings I missed, by all means disregard my comments.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
btw guys if you bought Mass Effect during the sale can you see your CD key? i used to being able to do that but that option doesn't show anymore, weird.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
It's not in the blotter yet so it could be a few days. I will post here when the blotter updates with ME2 and Bioshock 2.Firestorm said:
Peronthious
Member
nyong said:
Skip that one.
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