Solideliquid
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Hmmm Dead Space $10 now that's tempting...
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Steam Holiday Sale 2009 Begins! (Dec 22nd - Jan 3rd)
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I am looking for a good multiplayer game, not necessarily a FPS. I've already got the basics (L4D, HL, CS), so I am considering Brothers In Arms, and other games similar to that. A good sized multiplayer community would be great. Help me out gaf I am open to all suggestions!
sonicspear64
Member
Wishful thinking! :lolcommish said:
I want it to happen too! :/
Sorry, if you don't like DoD, you're a lost cause. ];ezekial45 said:
I think my biggest complaint about Torchlight (beyond lack of multiplayer, of course) is that the levels are not random enough. Makes playing exclusively hardcore not as fun as it could be. ]; ];
Still enjoying it a lot, though.
Grabbed myself Dead Space.
So far my list of games brought during this sale:
Braid
Torchlight (damn you daily deal!)
Armed and Dangerous
Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Broken Sword Twin Pack
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Dead Space
Evil Genius
GTA4
Mirrors Edge
Rome: Total War Gold
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky
Trine
World of Goo
Wow :lol
So far my list of games brought during this sale:
Braid
Torchlight (damn you daily deal!)
Armed and Dangerous
Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Broken Sword Twin Pack
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Dead Space
Evil Genius
GTA4
Mirrors Edge
Rome: Total War Gold
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky
Trine
World of Goo
Wow :lol
Hmm. My current "Bought in the Steam Sale" list:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Over Chernobyl
Time, Gentlemen, Please!/Ben There, Dan That Double-Pack
Sniper Elite
Audiosurf
Battlefield 2 Complete Collection (god dammit why won't it work)
Torchlight
Is that it? Well, no. I also bought Left 4 Dead 2 at my local CEX for £15 (more than a fiver less than the Steam Sale price - LONG LIVE RETAIL :lol), KoTOR in the last Steam Thanksgiving Sale, and let's not even get into the *free* digital copies of Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, Mercenaries 2, and Medal Of Honor: Airborne I got off the EA Store over the last couple of months merely by virtue of being a member of GAF and European. A lucky laddie, am I.
But shit still sucks, because my HDTV died on me over Christmas. No more Demon's Souls until I can get a new one <
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Over Chernobyl
Time, Gentlemen, Please!/Ben There, Dan That Double-Pack
Sniper Elite
Audiosurf
Battlefield 2 Complete Collection (god dammit why won't it work)
Torchlight
Is that it? Well, no. I also bought Left 4 Dead 2 at my local CEX for £15 (more than a fiver less than the Steam Sale price - LONG LIVE RETAIL :lol), KoTOR in the last Steam Thanksgiving Sale, and let's not even get into the *free* digital copies of Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, Mercenaries 2, and Medal Of Honor: Airborne I got off the EA Store over the last couple of months merely by virtue of being a member of GAF and European. A lucky laddie, am I.
But shit still sucks, because my HDTV died on me over Christmas. No more Demon's Souls until I can get a new one <
Well I'm just waiting on the next daily deal. I feel if I buy something now, it will just go one sale the next day.
I bailed out on buying Kings Quest and Space Quest collection. They're not my kind of adventure games. The only ones I'm willing to play are like the non text based ones which there's only 1-3 of them in each collection. Plus it doesn't help they released it with problems. I'm watching a play through of Kings Quest 5, it's pretty hilarious.
I bailed out on buying Kings Quest and Space Quest collection. They're not my kind of adventure games. The only ones I'm willing to play are like the non text based ones which there's only 1-3 of them in each collection. Plus it doesn't help they released it with problems. I'm watching a play through of Kings Quest 5, it's pretty hilarious.
Truespeed
Member
I was applying the GFW patch for RFG and, of course, it failed. It really had no choice, but to fail. All it was trying to do was find where the game was installed in the registry, like a properly coded Windows installer should do. Unfortunately, Steam don't play that game and stores all of its games in the /steamapps/common directory and doesn't bother registering the location so no non Steam update utility will ever be able to find it, unless of course it takes Steam into account. This is going to be a never ending problem with GFW games on Steam it seems. I ended up having to manually update the game to play online by just telling the installer where RFG was located, but GTA IV and RFG are prime examples of what a joke PC gaming has become.
Dambrosi said:Hmm. My current "Bought in the Steam Sale" list:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Over Chernobyl
Time, Gentlemen, Please!/Ben There, Dan That Double-Pack
Sniper Elite
Audiosurf
Battlefield 2 Complete Collection (god dammit why won't it work)
Torchlight
Is that it? Well, no. I also bought Left 4 Dead 2 at my local CEX for £15 (more than a fiver less than the Steam Sale price - LONG LIVE RETAIL :lol), KoTOR in the last Steam Thanksgiving Sale, and let's not even get into the *free* digital copies of Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, Mercenaries 2, and Medal Of Honor: Airborne I got off the EA Store over the last couple of months merely by virtue of being a member of GAF and European. A lucky laddie, am I.
But shit still sucks, because my HDTV died on me over Christmas. No more Demon's Souls until I can get a new one <
I bought Sniper Elite. Just tried it today, and its funky. The movement has this weird ice skating momentum to it. I think theres vs. or something if you want to try it sometime., hit me up.
CabbageRed
Member
Truespeed said:
For the benefit of anyone who is actually taking what you're saying at face value: I had to do the manual patch an Impulse install of RPG even though the game was installed to Program Files (x86)\Red Faction Guerrilla. It would appear that GFWL is in need of a patch.
Truespeed said:
Yes it's terrible at times, but Batman AA with GFWL and on steam was very well behaved guess it depends on the devs.
But for 8.99 and 9.99 usd well, it's fine with some workaround.
If I paid full price for those games, I think I would have thrown out my machine out the window.
Darkflight
Member
Indeed, I sure am glad I never had to apply a patch just to get Outcast (made only for PC) to not delete all of its files as part of its own install process. :lolghst said:
boiled goose
good with gravy
DS is mine!
PC gaming, will you marry me?
PC gaming, will you marry me?
Truespeed said:
I like how you go on and on about having trouble getting that patch to work, and then lump GTA4 in at the end as if it has ANY of the same problems as RFG does. But of course! It's because they're GFWL games! Where are all the people complaining about not being able to update or play SF4, RE5, Batman, Dawn of War 2, Gears of War, and Fallout 3 I wonder??? Golly gee whiz what an epidemic this is becoming.
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FYI - maybe people already brought this up in this thread, but while Torchlight is indeed a great game for $10, I'd probably recommend you instead spend your $10 on Titan Quest Gold.
Much more substantial and longer game, and if you get a friend to go in on it with you, it has co-op multiplayer too.
Torchlight is the obvious choice though if you're hardware-limited. Titan Quest is unnecessarily system-intensive. Though it is incredibly beautiful too.
Much more substantial and longer game, and if you get a friend to go in on it with you, it has co-op multiplayer too.
Torchlight is the obvious choice though if you're hardware-limited. Titan Quest is unnecessarily system-intensive. Though it is incredibly beautiful too.
Truespeed
Member
Orellio said:
Ya, I figured there would be one or two defending all of the additional shit they like to install like the Rockstar social clubs, the chat client RFG tried to install during the update, won't run if Process Explorer is running in the background. Thankfully, shit like this has a patron saint to defend it.
Truespeed said:
Please point to where I said I was fine with Rockstar Social Club and Raptr (IM client installed with RFG patch. PS you can uninstall it WHOAMGZ) because I didn't.
Re-read my post. Go ahead. I'll wait.
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You done? Good. Now, you see where I said "as if it has ANY of the same problems as RFG does?" I was implying that both GTA4 and RFG have their own, separate problems. They are not infallible and I never claimed them to be otherwise. You're being overly bombastic about something that, as ghst pointed out, is not exactly new to the PC gaming scene, and making yourself look juvenile in the process.
Kabuki Waq
Member
what do you guys think are the chances of Arma 2 coming down in price?
Truespeed
Member
Orellio said:
Thanks for waiting for me, it was real mature of you. I consider the Rockstar social club and the inability of GTA IV to run with Process Explorer in the background far worse than the 2 minutes I spent manually updating RFG. And yes, Raptr is an install you can opt out of. Too bad the Social Club isn't.
speculawyer
Member
The PC version of Borderlands leaves much to be desired. Console versions are better.commish said:
speculawyer
Member
Pay $50 and get the Telltale pack. You'll have enough adventure to keep you busy for a while.ezekial45 said:
Machinarium & Samarost from the developer.
Lucas pack (kinda old).
Ben there, Dan that
wormstrangler
Banned
Holy shit at GTAIV . I'm getting an average of 13fps in the benchmark with everything set to low or off and at 1024 * 768. I knew it was going to be bad, but not by this much. I can game in the 20-30 fps range, but not the 10-20!
I have an 2.5GHz dual core, 4GB RAM and a GT8800.
Now for another 6+ months wait because I'll need to upgrade.
. I'm getting an average of 13fps in the benchmark with everything set to low or off and at 1024 * 768. I knew it was going to be bad, but not by this much. I can game in the 20-30 fps range, but not the 10-20!I have an 2.5GHz dual core, 4GB RAM and a GT8800.
Now for another 6+ months wait because I'll need to upgrade.
That isn't really a GTAIV issue though, it is a SecuROM issue. Sure it would be nice if every single game on Steam had no DRM bullshit to deal with, but you live and learn and just don't buy shit in the future if it comes with the warning on the Steam store page of
3rd-party DRM: SecuROM
http://forum.sysinternals.com/printer_friendly_posts.asp?TID=10337
3rd-party DRM: SecuROM
http://forum.sysinternals.com/printer_friendly_posts.asp?TID=10337
Alex
Member
commish said:
The online is the exact same on both, I dont think it had the same growing pains on Xbox Live that it did on the PS3 and PC, though, since it didn't have to match through Gamespy..
If you want the differences I could note between them with a complete playthrough on both PC and PS3 and a couple odd hours on the 360:
PC: Stupid mouseless interface.
Console: Awful frame rate (especially on PS3), bad textures (especially on 360), gigantic load times (though I didn't see post patch, but it was upwards of 30 seconds on my PS3 prior to it compared to 5 seconds on my aging PC).
The framerate on Borderlands console version actually enraged me so that it's what sent me back to PC gaming. :lol Constant dips into the singles. Fucking pathetic.
Current Stash:
Torchlight
Zombie Driver
King's Bounty: Armored Princess
Hoping for a daily deal on Altitude, 25% off isnt tempting enough.
$1-2 Aquaria and/or Audiosurf would be pretty ace too.
Kinda tempted by the sale on the Borderlands Zombie DLC but it's not quite low enough for the 2 hours it would entertain me. Wish Moxie was out for pc, that looks a lot more interesting.
Torchlight
Zombie Driver
King's Bounty: Armored Princess
Hoping for a daily deal on Altitude, 25% off isnt tempting enough.
$1-2 Aquaria and/or Audiosurf would be pretty ace too.
Kinda tempted by the sale on the Borderlands Zombie DLC but it's not quite low enough for the 2 hours it would entertain me. Wish Moxie was out for pc, that looks a lot more interesting.