Guys I had a pretty awesome local multiplayer gaming session last night on my pc with my room mates. It's been far too long and some of these games I hadn't played multiplayer at all. I think I'm going to compile a list of worthy local multiplayer games to put on heavy rotation and put together a thread of some sort.
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STEAM | August 2014 - Everybody loves iDLEM@STER
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Atraveller
Banned
Silent protagonist and dialogue selection?
Nabs
Member
You can start with these indie games: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=829630
...and Lethal League!
DillonMabry
Banned
Well as an achievement whore, I'm certainly glad to hear that. I just messaged @Bandai wherever I could, asking for some news... Not really expecting a response, but maybe. Hopefully we get something soon.
Big Picture shows that Valve have really good designers these days. Aesthetically, it might not be up to everyones ideals, but functionally it's fantastic, especially the on screen keyboard.
You're right though, the Store and Community do eventually need to be brought native. The downside is, is that they'll just have another thing to keep up to date. With it being a web page and accessible from everywhere, it keeps workloads down.
Nabs
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You should still make that thread with some screenshots and impressions.
The Red Wizard
Member
Wow, that's incredible! Thanks for that! I only started using Steam in 2007 but I didn't really venture onto the store because I just used it as a way to play CS:S with some school friends. In 2008 I picked up a retail copy of the Orange Box so again, I wasn't really using the store. I did pre-order Audiosurf from the store after I read about it on a forum but that was my last Steam purchase until the 09/10 Christmas sale when I bought Torchlight.
In December 2011, during the Christmas sale, I bought a few games to play on my laptop. I started using Steam a lot more at this point because I was living abroad for university during that academic year so I only had my laptop. In summer 2012, I started buying bigger games for the PC that I planned to build that summer. The rest, as the say, is history.
I guess that by the time I paid a lot of attention to Steam, it had already changed quite a bit so I didn't pay much attention to the smaller changes. I always thought that the jump from green was a lot bigger than it was. Those links really show how the store progressed in stages. Thanks again for posting them!
Ban Puncher
Member
I finally got infected by the new blue logo.
It stinks.
It stinks.
NingenJanai
Member
Yeah, the old one was better
But Valve didn't simply remove the Keys but they offered an alternative use for them which actually resulted in the prices of these keys to slightly increase on the marketplace. So it's not like they are getting straight out devalued, they actually could increase in value (but ofc the other way remains possible as well).
PandaPedinte
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MMBosstones86
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So the room I was going to put my cable modem in is the one room that is a complete mystery on the co-ax end. Does anyone use a wireless card with their desktop?
welcome!
Same, I think the new logo is much nicer.
Right click on the shortcut, either the desktop one if you have it, the one on the taskbar if you have it set there, start menu and so on and click properties. Under the Shortcut tab click the Change Icon button and look for the Uninstall application which should also be in the main Steam directory. This hasn't had its icon changed (yet) so by selecting that you can make your shortcuts look old school. Log off and then log back on again and it should swap it out.
Atraveller
Banned
I use an external wireless card, shapes like an antenna.
derExperte
Member
They should've just removed the round edges from the old. Or at least not do the color gradient in the new icon.
NingenJanai
Member
True, I could like solid blue color but the gradient urghhh
GhostRidah
Member
I got both logos, when the window is open I get the new logo but if its closed the old logo appears, weird.
I use a plain blue desktop, and it looks really weird with that gradient, like the color's leaking into the icon. -_-;
I was fine with the old one, though I may be in the minority there.
i just noticed this on my PC, stuff like this is yuck especially since i like the new logo so much i want to stare at it forever
I like it just fine. I liked the old one too. It's such a trivial change, not worth being upset about at all.
On the other hand, videos and screenshots on store pages no longer require Flash. That's wonderful.
Eh, it's in line with their whole Steam Universe theme and it looks nice to me, I really don't understand the hate for gradients either.
Try repinning steam to the taskbar
derExperte
Member
I got used to and now am a fan of the very simple 'modern' W8 icons (which makes the old desktop ones from the Vista days not fun to look at) so I'd take a dark-blue or light-grey square with the Steam thingy in white. Without any gradients, as unfancy as possible.
They made Steam as a whole look flatter and edgier but then hrew in that icon and gradients where they imo don't really fit. Looks inconsistent to me.
No.
If you don't believe me, ask Rhaknar =p
He likes jank more than I do, and he said I was right!
Brother!
You actually don't.
You can edit the url to circumvent age restrictions
(Basically, replace "watch?v=" with "v/")
Steam keys for Hangeki now available on Desura.
GetGamesGo is doing a LEGO sale, 75% off
So much Steam nostalgia thanks to the horrible changes.
Even Steve Gaynor spent last night trawling through archive.org on his twitter feed.
Yeah the new one just looks off to me. I was also just fine with the old one. I hate change!
YianGaruga
Banned
A week from now everyone will have accepted the new logo and you won't notice it anymore.
ahhhh minor changes!!!!
ahhhh minor changes!!!!
MMBosstones86
Member
Speaking of...where is that guy?
Gipsy Danger
Member
I like the new logo. Not a huge fan of the client redesign but I just use metro anyway so no worries.
Something got released and he disappeared into it, iirc.
derExperte
Member
[Origin alert] PvZ Garden Warfare is now part of this Game Time thing where you can play for a while (in this case 72hrs) for free.
https://www.origin.com/de-de/store/free-games/game-time
https://www.origin.com/de-de/store/free-games/game-time
Do we really need people to stink up the Steam thread with these advertisements? Go post it in the Origin thread where people may care.
worth it because you solved my problem thank you
Good game!
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Is this a joke?
MMBosstones86
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and get off my lawn
Your lawn?
I thought this was my lawn?
Who are you?
Where am I?
Nurse!
I really like the desura collection page redesign.
Now there's a "includes steam key" filter.
You can dump the old icons out of the uninstall application and save them as an .ico file so you can use them forever and ever even if Valve change things up again. I actually prefer the old 256x256 icon that only gets used on systems with high dpi support (which means by default it never shows on Windows but is the default icon on Mac and Ubuntu)
So like this then
but the square to be a similar blue or grey to other Windows icons? I've just remebered that the sizes have all changed now due to Metro and there's support for wide icons as well so might be a bigger job than I have time for.
crazyrabbits
Banned
If I'm not mistaken, DA3 won't import saves. You have to use something called the "Dragon Age Keep" to do so.
Snakethesniper
Member
Have key prices risen up because now you can only order them?
Hm, I guess, it might be better without the gradient but I don't think it looks bad as it is now.
It should be fairly simple to create a skin that just removes the gradient and leaves everything else the same, would be interesting to make a direct comparison. I have no idea how to skin Steam though.
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