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Diomedeskun
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Mrbob said:Yet the Dragon Age Awakening expansion is still $29.99.
They're both on sale at EA's online store, but Awakening is $2 more expensive than Origins. Of course, that probably doesn't do much good if you have a steam copy of the original.
homerhendrix
Member
In what way? Developers are screwing it up by not putting up their games for Mac. I would pick up GSB right now if it was steamplay compatible.Kuran said:
Visualante
Member
Quality of the assets are quite nice, I'd expect to pay something in that region for a 3D model with textures if I wanted to use it in my own animation/game. In terms of building the thing, research, modeling, texturing, shading probably took a couple of moderately skilled artists a week or two to make. I'm assuming they actually have to spend a bit of time researching/visiting the trains to get an authentic recreation too.
Hater's gonna hate but this is actual DLC, being made after the game, probably only sells to a small audience and costs a fair amount to produce. They wouldn't keep doing it if they didn't love it and people weren't buying it so I can't see any problem with it.
Hater's gonna hate but this is actual DLC, being made after the game, probably only sells to a small audience and costs a fair amount to produce. They wouldn't keep doing it if they didn't love it and people weren't buying it so I can't see any problem with it.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Weenerz said:
Valve charges at the moment you pre-purchase the title.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
So when did Steam start showing the exact time you unlock achievements? I was checking my PVZ stats and the time of the unlock appear which i'm pretty sure didn't happen before, i just thought it was a neat little thing even tough not all of the achievements have the unlock time.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Railworks bundle is on sale for $34.99. Includes the main game and one of the DLC trains. Think I'll be getting it.
Also for those on Apple computers and laptops, it seems like there will be a huge boost in performance with the 10.6.5 update. People on the Steam forums who are testing it report and show evidence that the update has greatly improved performance:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1390502
Like two weeks ago.
Also for those on Apple computers and laptops, it seems like there will be a huge boost in performance with the 10.6.5 update. People on the Steam forums who are testing it report and show evidence that the update has greatly improved performance:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1390502
Gexecuter said:
Like two weeks ago.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Just noticed they are updating some other parts of Steam community, I'm really digging this, but the achievement dates are fucking up formating of achievement pages and it looks bad atm.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I beat it on release and lost that character save and am currently replaying it with a new character with all the DLCWeenerz said:
graywolf323
Member
Mrbob said:Yet the Dragon Age Awakening expansion is still $29.99.
that's actually a $10 price drop from it's original price of $39.99
also it seems C&C 4 has price dropped to $29.99 (still too high IMO)
Joe Molotov
Member
Just beat Alter Ego the new horror/mystery point-and-click adventure on Steam, and wow. I said WOW. And not good wow, but bad wow. I would have been willing to give this game a 7-7.5 based on the first few hours, I mean it's nothing groundbreaking and it's really easy, but I did enjoy it for what it was. But then, holy crap! The game just ends!
First of all, it's only six hours long (and that's 6 hours of searching every nook and cranny, talking to everyone two or three times, reading every dialogue, showing every item in your inventory to every character, using every item together with every other item, you know the basic adventure game stuff. If you knew what to do from the beginning and skipped dialogue, you could beat it like 30 minutes. It took me maybe twice as long to beat as a Sam & Max episode, and that's probably being a bit generous to it. But if it had been six great hours, then maybe I would be forgiving, but the story takes FOREVER to get started. Four hours into the game, you barely even know what's going on, you're still waiting for the story to start taking shape. Two hours later, it's all over.
Then, and this part gets a little spoilerish:
When the game ended, I was like "Wait, that can't be it. Where's the second half of the game?" I actually played the ending section over again, thinking maybe the game just crashed, it dumped me back to the main menu so abruptly (no credits or anything). It was like messing up and getting the bad ending in a game before the real ending, except I'm pretty sure this is the only ending there is. Really sad, don't buy this game for more than $10, it's not worth it, even if you like adventure games. If you really want an adventure game, just buy The Lost Crown for $10 on Amazon instead, it's about 3x longer and 100x more awesome.
First of all, it's only six hours long (and that's 6 hours of searching every nook and cranny, talking to everyone two or three times, reading every dialogue, showing every item in your inventory to every character, using every item together with every other item, you know the basic adventure game stuff. If you knew what to do from the beginning and skipped dialogue, you could beat it like 30 minutes. It took me maybe twice as long to beat as a Sam & Max episode, and that's probably being a bit generous to it. But if it had been six great hours, then maybe I would be forgiving, but the story takes FOREVER to get started. Four hours into the game, you barely even know what's going on, you're still waiting for the story to start taking shape. Two hours later, it's all over.
Then, and this part gets a little spoilerish:
the ending is totally crap. The murderer is somebody that you didn't even know about until 5 minutes before the game ended, and the reason why he was killing was WTF stupid. I mean, okay it kinda made sense, but there was no build up to it. It's just like "Oh here's why he did it" and it was something that you never could have worked out in a million years, like if they said "He was a Martian spaceman in disguise and he hated humans, that's why he did it!"
When the game ended, I was like "Wait, that can't be it. Where's the second half of the game?" I actually played the ending section over again, thinking maybe the game just crashed, it dumped me back to the main menu so abruptly (no credits or anything). It was like messing up and getting the bad ending in a game before the real ending, except I'm pretty sure this is the only ending there is. Really sad, don't buy this game for more than $10, it's not worth it, even if you like adventure games. If you really want an adventure game, just buy The Lost Crown for $10 on Amazon instead, it's about 3x longer and 100x more awesome.
OgTheClever
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Chiaroscuro
Member
OgTheClever said:
The article itself says that VPN use is possible, however since it is against the TOS, you account could suffers the consequences (but yeah, it should work, the website is just playing safe).
Chiaroscuro
Member
Argh, it was not enough that RailWorks DLCs filled up the whole new releases tab, now it is filled with Magic and TrainZ DLCs as well.
Question, someone logged into my steam account and purchased some shitty games (MW2/BC2). I had my CC canceled but I'm wondering how valve will handle my account because I'm going o be really pissed if they close it and I lose all my games. The people didn't change my password so i was able to login this morning and change it. Anyone have any experience with something like this?
Diablohead
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If you cancel your card before all the payments are done valve will lock down your account and then you have a lovely time with their tech support, if the games someone bought are already paid for I can't see there being a problem outside of you losing some money.JudgeN said:
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
I don't get how publishers don't understand that they're tampering with completely normal options. Importing games is cool. Playing games in english is cool. Let us fucking do our thing, you dicks.dejan said:
By far the biggest issues I have with importing games in Germany are forced localization and georestricted serials. It's just so unnecessary!
And Steam is so far the biggest platform supporting that nonsense. THERE is something you could improve.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Okay, I thought this was just a problem on the Mac side of things, but I was trying to organize games on the PC side as well today for the first time.
Is it a known issue that if you add a non-Steam game and then try to put it in a category, it won't stay there, and resets to just being under "games" every time you restart Steam?
Is it a known issue that if you add a non-Steam game and then try to put it in a category, it won't stay there, and resets to just being under "games" every time you restart Steam?
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
There's a possibility that Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War might be purchasable soon. The game appears here if you do a search: http://steamcommunity.com/id/robinwalker/games?tab=all
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Plants vs Zombies Game of the Year Edition will be coming to Steam with Steam Cloud Support:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=16435784&postcount=126
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=16435784&postcount=126
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Mad Max said:
Boo, really? Why is that? Does that mean Freespace 2 doesn't work either?
Mad Max said:
There is a mod for Freespace 2 that imports all the missions, briefings and cutscenes from FS1 into the Freespace 2 engine. You can even use it with all the FSOpen stuff to get the massively improved graphics.
http://fsport.hard-light.net/website/
Javaman said:
Yes i'm sure because they aren't on my game list they were gifted to some random asshole and it was at 3 am today :lol
Still haven't heard back from steam and I'm getting a little worried. I knew another guy who I played L4D2 with a lot and he got his account hacked and is still trying to get it straightened out with valve a month latter. Depending on how this goes, I might be put off on DD. Which is sad cause i like steam.
Diomedeskun
Member
Visualante said:
I know someone who works with real model trains (as I type that I realize that real model is something of an oxymoron) and every single detail of every car is identical and to scale in relationship to the real thing. I would assume that the trains in the dlc are similarly detailed as opposed to just stacking a few polygons and textures together.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
crimsonheadGCN said:
I wonder how they will handle the GOTY edition for users that already have PVZ like me, will they charge a small amount for the upgrade? Or will they release the new content in a free update? Hopefully it's the latter kinda but i doubt that.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Gexecuter said:
If Batman's any indication, they'll just retire the old version and put the new version up on the store for you to buy.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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firehawk12 said:
Batman they didn't upgrade people to GOTY as far as I know. He's asking about people who already own it.
Edit: Ya, they didn't. I'm assuming this will have to be a full repurchase just like Batman was.
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