Affeinvasion
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Weenerz said:
Wouldn't that be pulling an Apple? Pulling a Nintendo would be announcing something and then it coming out after several delays or only in Japan.
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Wouldn't that be pulling an Apple? Pulling a Nintendo would be announcing something and then it coming out after several delays or only in Japan.
speculawyer
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There is a big difference. I don't want to pay for a license to a proprietary system that I don't want and don't use.Remy said:
I think this $1.00 extra for the AAC compatibility was the best way to deal with the issue and I feel the developer did the right thing.
Is that OJ Simpson? :lol
speculawyer
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Dude. They showed TF2 at E3 in 1999. It shipped in October of 2007.Weenerz said:
You really think that is gonna happen? :lol
I think they've been more than busy with the Mac stuff and Portal 2.
I just bought the Lucasarts pack, even though I'm mostly interested in Loom, and I already played through Loom on the Amiga... nevertheless, it's cheap and worth it to have. Steam Play really appeals to me with point and click games too.
10 PRINT "LUCASARTS, WHERE IS GRIM FANDANGO?"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
Seriously, I've wanted to play this for a long time, but it was too high spec for my PC at the time, and then became hard to find and hard to get working. It's regarded really highly, and it's the Lucasarts game I want to play more than anything.
kinoki said:
10 PRINT "LUCASARTS, WHERE IS GRIM FANDANGO?"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
Seriously, I've wanted to play this for a long time, but it was too high spec for my PC at the time, and then became hard to find and hard to get working. It's regarded really highly, and it's the Lucasarts game I want to play more than anything.
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Deleted member 30609
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a version of Grim that actually works on my PC... I'd kill for it.
Minsc
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dock said:
It's crazy the prices went up to like $90 on amazon. I bought my replacement copy off Amazon for around $10 or so a year or two ago.
The game installs and runs perfectly with no glitches (with the custom installer, the installer even removes the CD check so you never need the discs), sucks if you're having trouble with it!
Eaten By A Grue
Member
Weird, now when I do game backups my CPU alarm goes off that it is overheating. Anyone know if Valve recently updated backing up games with new code or something? I've done other CPU intensive processes to see if they have issues and they have no problem. It is just Steam backups.
Minsc
Gold Member
Eaten By A Grue said:
Are you running a temperature monitoring program?
I'd recommend putting a CPU widget in your desktop so you can always see what your CPU usage as well.
See if your "other intensive processes" are taking it up to 100% CPU, handbrake is a good program to test with, that should use 100%.
I use All CPU meter from the windows gadget gallery thingy. Shows the usage of all cores, and if you use HT it shows double! Also ram and crap. Nice.
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=587ef54f-e121-418b-b258-e583e105a0d6
oh, there is one with temps built in too >.<! http://addgadget.com/all_cpu_meter_temperatures/
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=587ef54f-e121-418b-b258-e583e105a0d6
oh, there is one with temps built in too >.<! http://addgadget.com/all_cpu_meter_temperatures/
brain_stew
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NIN90 said:
I don't see the issue?
In order to support those formats the developers have to pay an extra license fee. If they rolled it out in a general update they'd end up out of pocket. Seems fair enough to me, if you want the support you cover the costs so the guy doesn't end up out of pocket. Better than not supporting it at all.
Eaten By A Grue
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Minsc said:
No, I have not been running a program to monitor my temps. I wanted to rebackup HL2 after yesterday's updates and my PC speaker made an alarm noise. I opened up my case and could see the fan mounted on the CPU going full force so I am assuming that is what triggered the alarm. You made a good point so I will use a widget to confirm my assumptions. It is just weird that my alarm has never gone off before and now all of a sudden doing Steam backups is setting it off.
Guh. I made a deposit on a pre-paid debit card today specifically to pick up the Lucasarts package, but had to deposit some extra to meet a minimum balance. As a result, I also ended up finally picking up Audiosurf and Time Gentlemen, Please + Ben There, Dan That.
Curse you Cheap! Er, Steal! Er, Steam!
Curse you Cheap! Er, Steal! Er, Steam!
Servbot #42
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I think the weekend deal might be the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Elite Echelon Edition since right now it's going for $45.99 USD, a 39% discount. The pack includes all of the splinter cell games on steam which is a good deal if you don't own any of these games.
I <3 Memes
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tjohn86 said:
Where in the game would you be talking about?
ClovingWestbrook
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Gexecuter said:
Wow,thats a fantastic deal!
Servbot #42
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Okay just got a Steam popup confirming that the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Elite Echelon pack is the weekend deal.
Manabanana
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Weenerz said:
They'll announce for a week later but you won't get it for a year
ClovingWestbrook
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Gexecuter said:
Man I am tempted even though I have the 3 other Splinter Cell games lol.
Basileus777
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Gexecuter said:
It's listed as $76 for me.
brain_stew
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Gexecuter said:
Not available in the UK.
SMH.
graywolf323
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given I own all the Splinter Cell games except Conviction no thanks, I wouldn't grab that title until it's closer to $20 (if then even given the online connectivity requirement)
ClovingWestbrook
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Just an FYI, there was a problem with the price so they removed the sale. They are most likely adjusting it so what you see currently ISN'T what it will be when its put back on sale.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
79,96
Individual price:
79,99
Package price:
79,99
Cost to you:
So buying them as a package is actually 0,03 more expensive than buying them seperate. Intresting logic.
Individual price:
79,99
Package price:
79,99
Cost to you:
So buying them as a package is actually 0,03 more expensive than buying them seperate. Intresting logic.
ClovingWestbrook
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kinoki said:
Again, wait for the sale to be announced.
ClovingWestbrook
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dani_dc said:
Um it should end today. If you want to buy it do it now.
graywolf323
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LovingSteam said:
it's actually lasting longer than usual this week, wonder if that's because of the delay with the weekend deal
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
dock said:
Now that's something I haven't seen in a while.
Release Full Throttle. It was my brother's favorite game and I managed to lose the CD. Shame on me. And release Grim Fandango. It can't be that hard to emulate and I'd pay 39.99 for them (most likely more if they asked it).
poweld said:
My exact thought process :-[
Though at a discounted rate (I'll pretend I'm getting another 10 off because I'm ostensibly paying for the other 3 too) I am almost convinced to bite...
But fuck. I mean really. Fuck. My internet went out for an hour yesterday.
kinoki said:
Grim Fandango will actually run just about perfectly in Win7 I think, without emulating anything.
Schmattakopf
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On the one hand, I don't want to support Ubisoft, but on the other hand... Splinter Cell.
ClovingWestbrook
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dani_dc said:
They end usually when the weekend deal goes up which for the last few months has gone up on a Thursday (usually).
dani_dc said:
But the whole idea of midweek deals (lately a majority of them end around Thursday afternoon-ish) is just a deal stuck in the middle of the week. They sometimes did end on Friday, but they seem to be gravitating more to letting them end Thursday and sometimes starting the weekend deal after they end.
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