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Steam Holiday Sale 2011 | Valve Has Run Out Of 3rd Party Coupons/Games (Dec 19-Jan 2)
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took me 4 tries to get into the steam client.
You know this is random. And had you crafted at the very moment you hit reply, you would have gotten the game you most wanted. That was your moment.
Now you're getting the worst coupon you can think of. You blew it. Shouldn't have waited.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Today's episode of Adventures with ATI:
Bionic Commando: Rearmed had some major jank. I thought maybe it was my FPS because of my AA setting or something. Turned on FRAPS and it reports 60fps so it's definitely just a jank problem. I tried recording this with FRAPS and suddenly it's smooth as silk, so obviously the the FRAPS framelimiter was working better than the one in the game. Well I'm not a technical guru but I do know that vsync turns off in windowed mode so maybe that has something to do with framelimiting, so I set it into windowed mode and there we go, problem solved... except I'm in windowed mode, which I guess isn't so bad for this game.
Yes, I am just assuming this fullscreen mode jank is an ATI-exclusive feature, but this kind of shit has happened too many times so I think it's a safe bet. Can we get confirmation via ATI & nVidia owner reports?
Bionic Commando: Rearmed had some major jank. I thought maybe it was my FPS because of my AA setting or something. Turned on FRAPS and it reports 60fps so it's definitely just a jank problem. I tried recording this with FRAPS and suddenly it's smooth as silk, so obviously the the FRAPS framelimiter was working better than the one in the game. Well I'm not a technical guru but I do know that vsync turns off in windowed mode so maybe that has something to do with framelimiting, so I set it into windowed mode and there we go, problem solved... except I'm in windowed mode, which I guess isn't so bad for this game.
Yes, I am just assuming this fullscreen mode jank is an ATI-exclusive feature, but this kind of shit has happened too many times so I think it's a safe bet. Can we get confirmation via ATI & nVidia owner reports?
Nabs
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Just go to their site and sign up for the Super Monday Night Combat (F2P) beta and you'll get in soon.
Craft the first 7 and see what you get!
Super Meat Boy is giving me a bug that don't let me startup.... whyyy ???
Did i lost my save ??? =(
You got Team Frotress 2 from the gifts ???
that is .. wrong
Did i lost my save ??? =(
Alright, let's do this.
...Fuck. Already have that game and it's 50% off during the sale anyway. Yay.
You got Team Frotress 2 from the gifts ???
that is .. wrong
It's a waste of money anyway now that Super MNC is in beta and will be F2P. MNC wasn't all that active when I tried it back during the summer sale as it was.
i got two copies of MNC to offload :/
ShyGuy0504
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Probably going to get Arkham City. Is it as good as the first game?
so for the amount of people buying Payday ...has anyone else noticed that the game doesn't save your advanced graphics settings and keeps resetting them to defaults when you load the game up again?
resets to low textures after being set to high, etc.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2302162
resets to low textures after being set to high, etc.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2302162
I H8 Memes
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I'm wondering the same thing. I would have bought AC today if AA would have been a daily already. Really dumb move on Warner's part to not have AA on sale either today with AC or in the last few days on its own.
Quick Guardians of Graxia impression:
It's like a combination of Civ V unit battles, and Magic the Gathering. You have a deck which holds all units and spells, draw several cards each turn. You summon units and cast spells with the mana you have in your hand, which is replenished at the beginning of your turn. You place your summoned units on the field, which is hexagon based (like Civ V). You move them around, attack nearby units, use their special abilities, cast spells, etc. Turn based strategy game. I only played the tutorial so far, but it doesn't seem like a terrible concept. Due to the complexity (most units have several abilities, there are a lot of different things happening during each phase of a turn) I can't say how well the game holds up in later levels and difficulty. The UI can use a lot of work though, for instance I pick a unit to place by mistake and I can't change the unit I'm placing for some reason.
I enjoyed my short experience with it though. If you like both the way battles between units works in Civ V, and enjoy Magic the Gathering, I think this wouldn't be a bad buy.
/badlywrittenimpression
Overall, not that bad of a game.
EDIT: Looking over it more, it lacks multiplayer, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of content, even with the map pack. That's a shame, the concept behind this game is very good.
It's like a combination of Civ V unit battles, and Magic the Gathering. You have a deck which holds all units and spells, draw several cards each turn. You summon units and cast spells with the mana you have in your hand, which is replenished at the beginning of your turn. You place your summoned units on the field, which is hexagon based (like Civ V). You move them around, attack nearby units, use their special abilities, cast spells, etc. Turn based strategy game. I only played the tutorial so far, but it doesn't seem like a terrible concept. Due to the complexity (most units have several abilities, there are a lot of different things happening during each phase of a turn) I can't say how well the game holds up in later levels and difficulty. The UI can use a lot of work though, for instance I pick a unit to place by mistake and I can't change the unit I'm placing for some reason.
I enjoyed my short experience with it though. If you like both the way battles between units works in Civ V, and enjoy Magic the Gathering, I think this wouldn't be a bad buy.
/badlywrittenimpression
Overall, not that bad of a game.
EDIT: Looking over it more, it lacks multiplayer, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of content, even with the map pack. That's a shame, the concept behind this game is very good.
Someone on here got a Warner Bros 50% off gold coupon.
Valve fucked up with these coupons. They should at least have all been applicable to the current sale. WTF is any decent Steam user going to do with coupons for games no one wants or has coupled with the fact the majority of the coupons are worse discounts then what the games are currently selling for.
On the subject of games, I need impressions on Grotesque Tactics 1-2 as well as NWN2. I will probably buy that Swords and Soldiers game.
On the subject of games, I need impressions on Grotesque Tactics 1-2 as well as NWN2. I will probably buy that Swords and Soldiers game.
Niiice. They seem to be pretty rare though.
who is this aimed at?
Pretty much everyone posting about their coupons and gifts. It's a general question.
Haha, yeah. It's not all that hard if you've been into these sales for a few years!
A dedicated Steam User for numerous years will have over 100 games if they follow sales and are a little liberal with their wallet. I am approaching my 200th steam game and we have Gaffers in here with over 300. When we have this many games, the chances of us having games in the achievement list are quite high. I also have bought a couple of games I somehow never got around to buying and did so for the chance at gifts.
ah OK
Well I've had a lot of the objective games - a few that I didn't already have I've bought; Psychnoauts, Orcs Must Die! and Guardians of Graxia I would've bought anyway, Only one I've regretted so far is Jurassic Park which is OMG terrible.
I say go for it. The way I see it is 7 coals = 3 ref in TF2
you could craft complete shit nobody wants or craft the good shit people will jump your dick for
ElRenoRaven
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The Technomancer
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46650273/LOL!!!!!.jpg
Willing to trade that for anything. Didn't link the image directly because it's pretty big.
Willing to trade that for anything. Didn't link the image directly because it's pretty big.
Sourtreats
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I'll give you CSS for it.
I have CS:S already.
BertleTheTurtle
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You guys should probably go to the Trading thread.
I won Dota 2
But I already have it.
I put a post in the Trading thread.
Yea the exclusion of multiplayer is astoundingly baffling, the game is literally made for it.
That aside, it's still pretty cool.
Steam Sale n00b here (First time having a computer worth gaming on)
Picked up
Modern Warfare 2 - $14.99
Batman Arkkham City - $24.99
Defense Grid + DLC - $3.99
not looking like a good month, + already own mw2 on xbox, and mw3 on pc and xbox,
Wallet is not safe
...3 coal + 1 33% off valve so far in gifts
and had to delete my other games and move all of steam to my regulard hdd off my ssd, as I did not see a way to choose where to install games without using command prompt after dl or steam mover, so now I am just going to use steam mover to move games to the SSD that I will be playing a lot.
Picked up
Modern Warfare 2 - $14.99
Batman Arkkham City - $24.99
Defense Grid + DLC - $3.99
not looking like a good month, + already own mw2 on xbox, and mw3 on pc and xbox,
Wallet is not safe
...3 coal + 1 33% off valve so far in gifts
and had to delete my other games and move all of steam to my regulard hdd off my ssd, as I did not see a way to choose where to install games without using command prompt after dl or steam mover, so now I am just going to use steam mover to move games to the SSD that I will be playing a lot.
So far those haven't been daily achievements yet, you should get stuff on the days they are active.
snoopeasystreet
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I'll give you coal or you can name something on steam.
Ohh i see.Thank alot
A lot of the objective achievements are from games that have been on sale before and included in bundles, etc. For instance, the Indie Strategy Bundle from a while back for $10: Anomaly (Monday), Defense Grid (Today), Sanctum (soon) and Revenge of the Titans (soon). Humble Bundle and Indie Royale also cover a lot of bases for the upcoming cheevos. Plus the freebies (click here, Spiral Knights, join the official group, etc).
So yeah, a lot of it is already having the games.
So yeah, a lot of it is already having the games.
Just how terrible is Jurassic Park? I'm a huge fan of Telltale's Sam & Max, and was a bit disappointed with BttF (action-adventure doesn't translate well into point-and-click adventure). What makes JP bad?
so far it seems like a poorly done Heavy Rain style game with terrible voice acting. I really didn't think I could come out of a JP game hating it, my love for the movies is so vast...
Yeah, just looked into it more and I'm surprised how little content there is for this game. Added that into my quick impression.
I've heard a lot of good things about Mask of the Betrayer, one of the three campaigns included in the game. I've only played four or so hours, but the story and characters are supposed to be great. I think your enjoyment of the game depends on your interest in D&D stuff, I find it a bit overwhelming but I'm totally inexperienced with D&D. There's no question that it offers a lot of content for the price, though.
Prophane33
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SwordVsDagger
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I'll take that Prototype coupon if you aren't gonna use it
I have a prototype if you want
http://steamcommunity.com/id/SwordVsDagger/inventory/
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