slidewinder
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There's a demo on Steam. Seemed pretty fun for the little I played of it.
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Caesar III
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It's some kind of a mix of GTA2 and Carmageddon. If you get excited now get it! 
WickedLaharl
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OT but, um, is there a way to send messages to people not on your friends list? sorry for the noobish question!
speculawyer
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It is a top-down isometric arcade-ish game. It is OK, but I can't get into it. The keyboard controls are kinda clunky and the gamepad controls are not much better. I want to like it but I'm just not feeling it. Maybe it is just too hard for me.PumpkinPie said:
Red Scarlet
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WickedLaharl said:
I think so, if you search for their username there's a thing on the side that says 'send this user a message'. I think you can do chat requests too.
I used the following control scheme on a PS2 pad:speculawyer said:
Gas R2, Reverse L2, Handbrake on Circle, Fire on Square, Left/Right on the D-pad, with camera set to "smart" (i.e. it points somewhat intelligently in the direction you're driving). Served me well, but sadly, the game is really shallow.
Has a neat twist at the end and once you get your head around it there's some fun to be had, but I don't think it's worth more than maybe 5 or any of your time beyond finishing the story mode once.
Did anyone here play Clutch? Any good?
Desaparecido said:
Just install Beyond The Sword. It contains all the stuff from vanilla/Warlords except the scenarios (nobody plays those). Just play on a randomly generated map with your specifications, pick or random your civilization/leader, and start on Warlord difficulty if it's your first time. Adjust accordingly in subsequent games based on how badly you stomp or get stomped.
BTS is a much more balanced game too, since they stopped patching vanilla in 2007 but the last BTS patch is from 2009.
WickedLaharl
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i really don't understand how the community features of steam works. like how do i start a text or voice chat while in game?
either i'm blind or these features are obtuse.
either i'm blind or these features are obtuse.
Archie said:
The backup tool is slow and kinda sucky. I just copy my steam folder when moving to a new machine. Most games will work after doing this. Some games will lose your prefs/saves because they store them outside of the steam folders. Those are usually in your windows user folder, and copying that stuff over will also work, generally.
Note I've only done this on XP - not sure how it would go on Vista/Windows 7 but in theory it should be the same aside from pathing issues for the stuff outside of the steam folder.
WickedLaharl
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i don't see anyway to simply start a chat :/
only way i can see to do such things is to click on a group and when i click on friends invite to chatroom is greyed out for me.
man i bet i'm overlooking something pretty simple :lol
WickedLaharl
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yeah i'm gonna have to disagree there. more options are nice.
if the option were there and you get a nasty message all you'd have to do is block that user.
or they could give me that option along with privacy settings that only allow correspondence with friends for the sensitive types.
yup. although start a chat room is still greyed out in the options. ah well.
if the option were there and you get a nasty message all you'd have to do is block that user.
or they could give me that option along with privacy settings that only allow correspondence with friends for the sensitive types.
NIN90 said:
yup. although start a chat room is still greyed out in the options. ah well.
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
Desaparecido said:
People have been saying unless you want to play a specific game of vanilla Civ 4 or warlords installing Beyond the Sword will install all the content except for colonization.
Joe Molotov
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MNC said:If I buy JUST Civ4 Warlords, will I be content?
NO! I shouldn't buy any more steam games! Too many small monies equal big monies. Le sigh
You have to at least own the base game, you can't just buy the expansions (except Colonization which is a standalone game).
WickedLaharl said:
i don't see anyway to simply start a chat :/
only way i can see to do such things is to click on a group and when i click on friends invite to chatroom is greyed out for me.
man i bet i'm overlooking something pretty simple :lol
Click View All Friends to bring up your friend's list.
MrNyarlathotep
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Joe Molotov said:
I bought BTS on Steam as I already owned Civ 4 and Warlords retail, and it lets me play BTS without anything else installed
MNC said:If I buy JUST Civ4 Warlords, will I be content?
NO! I shouldn't buy any more steam games! Too many small monies equal big monies. Le sigh
You need base Civ4 to play Warlords and BTS. BTS contains all the units/balance changes from Warlords, so there is no point in playing Warlords besides a few scenarios, but nobody plays Civ for the scenarios, and the Warlords ones aren't that good anyways.
MrNyarlathotep said:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/8800/
Notice: Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword requires the Steam version of Sid Meier's Civilization IV to play.
I'm confused.
MrNyarlathotep
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Zzoram said:
Yeah, I know it should - but when I installed Win7 I didn't reinstall Civ 4, but as BTS was on my steam backup I tried it out and I can go ahead and play it fine without any other Civ 4 stuff on my PC (well, I have Colonization through Steam, but I cant see why that should matter)
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no pics no proof:
I read that apparently the original release of BTS on Steam didn't require Civ IV. Then somebody at 2K decided to require the Steam version of Civ IV since they didn't want people to just buy BTS and get everything just for the price of an expansion pack. People who bought it before the requirement was implemented can still use it without the Steam version of Civ IV.
Peronthious
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Vastag said:
No. You have to install Civ IV, then BTS, then launch BTS.
Edit: Actually, I always just assumed this, never tried it. It's easy enough to try, and seeing other responses here it seems it works without Civ IV.
Got a buddy who will be getting Steam with the launch of the Mac version and he really wants the Civ pack. What I want to know is (a) if I, already owning all the Civ games, can buy them again and have extra copies sitting on my account, (b) if the series is Mac compatible, and (c) if I can buy them now on my PC and be able to gift them to a Mac user later.
Macho Madness
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A. Notraveler said:
B. Yes, but nothing is known on if the Steam versions will be compatible.
C. See A and B.
speculawyer
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PS2 pad is a good idea. I was playing with the 360 controller.. The controls of the game are digital so it didn't feel right with the analog stick. And we know had bad the 360 D-pad is so I didn't bother trying that. But perhaps I should.Rufus said:
I'll give it another try. Hmm . . . actually, I think I have a PS2 adapter somewhere, maybe I can find that and a PS2 controller.
ajvizzgamer101
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Valve's games are on Steam? lol j/k
Can't wait for Mac Version, does anyone know the exact date, I know it was this month.
Can't wait for Mac Version, does anyone know the exact date, I know it was this month.
Macho Madness
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MAY 12TH MAY 12TH MAY 12TH MAY 12TH (also, Google exists)ajvizzgamer101 said:
speculawyer
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Yeah, I hate this. I use the 'my documents' folder for work and it is filled up with all these directories for games. It is especially embarrassing if I am with a client and trying to pull up a file and they see Bully, Bioshock, GHOSTBUSTERS, etc. :lolTokubetsu said:
speculawyer
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Yeah . . . I'm not a fan of multiplayer (since I just get my ass kicked) but it is great game. I'm tempted as well. I'd advise buying from Amazon for $37.80. And then just entering the key.bee said:hmmm modern warfare 2 is pretty good actually, well apart from the horrible fov. looks fairly spectacular (especially favela) with 4x super sampling and never drops from 91fps in multi :O might buy it
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUSF-3601
$37.80 is not so bad. At least that is refusing to pay the original $59.99. Or even the $49.99 'sale' price.
Damn it . . . I'm starting to convince myself to get it. :-/ Must resist.
Poohblaster
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speculawyer said:
Amazon will email you the key as soon as you purchase it?
Macho Madness
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No, they will ship you a box.Poohblaster said:
Joe Molotov
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I'm going to have to get in with your guys the next time you do a FUEL run. It sounds a lot more fun than just cruising around by myself.
Schmattakopf
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So the only thing missing is the scenarios... let's say I wanted to play those and I downloaded vanilla/Warlords. They create separate copies of the game for that?Zzoram said:
Video games in boxes? What will they think of next.thewesker said:
I'm also one of the people that this free weekend might have worked for. I really enjoyed MW2 on the consoles but I was finding it either boring or frustrating because I stopped playing as much and I was getting slaughtered. This weekend was the first time I've put any time on a PC FPS since Wolfenstein ET and I had a blast. I may have to pick this up for PC.
Damn you Steam and your effective marketing promotions.:lol
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