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[Dog Problems]

So does someone mind telling me the consensus on GFWL? It seems like its universally hated. Not only that. But how will I know which Steam games are GFWL? I don't wanna buy one and end up having problems cause Windows Live.

GAF, what say you?

http://steamdrm.flibitijibibo.com/index.php

There's a link to a list of all the games that use DRM in addition to Steam. They also list games that require, or just use, additional logins to another service. (like Origin)

Here's games that use GFWL: http://steamdrm.flibitijibibo.com/index.php?page=DRM_Lists/Account-based#04_account_based_gfwl.txt

The consensus is is that GFWL is complete trash.

 

[scorpscarx]

What's Killing Floor like? Everything I'm seeing seems to be MP centric, is there a single player mode? Also how does it fare on lower-end PC's? Mine runs games say more than a year or two old roughly well enough.

Yes, but it's a multiplayer game, single player just means less things to shoot. Buy the game, don't even hesitate.

It will run fine.

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

Less than 19mb from getting Orcs must die and they suspend it (

The whole of Painkiller easily.

 

[brandonh83]

Yes, but it's a multiplayer game, single player just means less things to shoot. Buy the game, don't even hesitate.

Works for me. The $7.99 bundle, well, seems hard to go wrong there. Thank you.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Two Wolrs 2 75% off, everyone should buy it. An under hyped gem IMO.

Hows the co op work?

 

[Murkas]

Anything I should know about Darkness 2? I haven't played the first one.

Terrible port/DRM? Need to play the first one to get the story? Not all that great?

Fuck it, bought it anyway.

 

[Andrmt]

Are they worst games for it?

In other words, is it worth the $9.99?

Hard to say.
They are ok. Fun at first but it gets boring quick (imo anyway).
But i guess it's the best you can get until the next simcity.

 

[Koroviev]

So does someone mind telling me the consensus on GFWL? It seems like its universally hated. Not only that. But how will I know which Steam games are GFWL? I don't wanna buy one and end up having problems cause Windows Live.

GAF, what say you?

Steam lets you know in the sidebar.

 

[Ceebs]

What's Killing Floor like? Everything I'm seeing seems to be MP centric, is there a single player mode? Also how does it fare on lower-end PC's? Mine runs games say more than a year or two old roughly well enough.

It's a UE2 game I believe. It will run well on pretty much anything.

The game is pretty much a co-op horde mode style game. You get money for kills which you use to buy ammo and better weapons. It has some class stuff, but those are mainly perks which I am pretty sure you can customize.

The unique thing about it is that you can close doors and weld them shut to keep enemies from coming through them so it lets you sorta make your own choke points.

 

[Bog]

How's Hitman's 360 pad suport?

 

[Rickenslacker]

What's Killing Floor like? Everything I'm seeing seems to be MP centric, is there a single player mode? Also how does it fare on lower-end PC's? Mine runs games say more than a year or two old roughly well enough.

KF is a pretty old game too, runs on UE2. It's focused on multiplayer, but it's entirely co-op. You can still play the game solo too, and it scales the enemies to the player count. It's commonly likened to the L4D games because you're co-op gunning through waves and waves of common enemies with some tougher enemies mixed in and a boss round to cap off a level. Though unlike L4D it has classes to choose from to give you some weapon specialization, and there's a persistent leveling system to the classes as well.

It's real fun, and at $5 it's well worth it.

 

[RPG]

For anyone who wanted Quantum Conundrum, it looks like Amazon put it on sale for 40% off, so that's even cheaper than we would've got on Steam.

Just caught this and jumped on it. Guess I also had a $5 cert. for the delay of Epic Mickey 2. Yay!

 

[Cloudius12]

How's Hitman's 360 pad suport?

Blood Money? None. You would need to program to map keyboard input to controllers.

 

[brandonh83]

It's a UE2 game I believe. It will run well on pretty much anything.

The game is pretty much a co-op horde mode style game. You get money for kills which you use to buy ammo and better weapons. It has some class stuff, but those are mainly perks which I am pretty sure you can customize.

The unique thing about it is that you can close doors and weld them shut to keep enemies from coming through them so it lets you sorta make your own choke points.

Well I already pressed the button, so hopefully I'll like it. It's not too hard to please me when it comes to action-horror titles.

 

[SteveWinwood]

How different is tropico 3 from tropico 4?

Anyone?

 

[dmr87]

Fuck it, bought it anyway.

It's a good port, solid performance and FoV slider got patched in a while ago.

 

[Inferno313]

Killing Floor is basically a standalone, better version of CoD's Zombie mode.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

Fuck it, bought it anyway.

Good choice. Played a little bit of the first and didn't care for it. This one was fun as fuck. It's short, but that's a good thing here since it never really changes up what you're doing. Shooting and tentacle powers are fun.

 

[scorpscarx]

Well I already pressed the button, so hopefully I'll like it. It's not too hard to please me when it comes to action-horror titles.

Well then you've stumbled upon the absolute best one available. Someone on Gaf said something perfect about KF a long time ago, that if Steam was an OS, KF would be it's minesweeper or solitaire.

Essential game.

 

[Uncle0wnage]

Is "A Valley Without Wind" worth jumping on the indie bundle?

 

[feel]

Blood Money? None. You would need to program to map keyboard input to controllers.

What? Damn that sucks.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Hows the co op work?

Two Worlds II co op, how is it, anyone?

 

[brandonh83]

Well then you've stumbled upon the absolute best one available. Someone on Gaf said something perfect about KF a long time ago, that if Steam was an OS, KF would be it's minesweeper or solitaire.

Essential game.

Good to hear. I've been interested in it for a while now.

 

[kiryani]

Normally £13 wouldn't be a problem, but the walking dead just took a £13 hit out of my last £40 till tuesday. Steam sales >.>

 

[Phreaker]

Just back from my weekend camping, did Rage end up winning friday night?

No, Saints Row the 3rd won. At least I think that's what it was up against.

 

[Amagon]

Worth it to get Magika and its expansions?

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Normally £13 wouldn't be a problem, but the walking dead just took a £13 hit out of my last £40 till tuesday. Steam sales >.>

We're only a few days in, must hold out. Unless some great deal on a game I want comes in the form of a flash deal, I think I'm good with just QUBE for today. Double dip on that one from me as I had the non Steam version before.

 

[Shalashaska161]

Damage so far:

Serious Sam 3 BFE
The Witcher 2
Star Wars: KOTOR
Tropico 4
Frozen Synapse (gift)
Alice Madness Returns
Alan Wake Bundle (Summer 2012)
Trine 2 (gift)
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

Picked up pretty much everything I wanted from this sale now. Maybe something else will pop up but if nothing else does I'll be more then content.

 

[scorpscarx]

Worth it to get Magika and its expansions?

Yep, Magicka is a riot, with a unique combat system.

 

[Hawk269]

Worth it to get Magika and its expansions?

Enter my little contest and you can win Magika for free!

 

[SteveWinwood]

Worth it to get Magika and its expansions?

Skip the dlc outside of the actual more levels.

Costumes and battle arenas aren't worth the money.

 

[thepotatoman]

Hot damn, 300 pages of Steamy goodness!

I haven't tried MS Flight yet, but it's FTP. Does anyone know of any of the DLC packs that are especially awesome?

Unless you pay you are only getting a small portion of the Hawaii map. So either the Hawaii Pack or the Alaska Pack is pretty key because otherwise you are practically just playing a demo. I think Hawaii pack has a plane with a cockpit but alaska pack doesn't.

The Maule M-7 (on sale for $5) is the only other thing worth purchasing as far as i know, because everything else has no cockpit.

But if you get Alaska, plus Hawaii, plus the M-7 you've spent as much as the complete pack.

 

[Dog Problems]

Skip the dlc outside of the actual more levels.

Costumes and battle arenas aren't worth the money.

The DLC that gives you the Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle costume is worth it. :-(

 

[Amagon]

Enter my little contest and you can win Magika for free!

Does your contest involve sexual perversions because if it does, I'm in.

 

[JacksUsername]

Welp. Fuck Ubisoft. Fuck Online DRM.
Bought M&M VI, can't even play the game cause I can't log into this Uplay BS.
And people try to defend DIII and its always online DRM. nopenopenope. Never again.

If you spam the log in button, eventually it will go through. Have done it twice now and was able to log in. Annoying as hell though - once again, legitimate users get punished.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Man I hope Bastion wins.

 

[Snkfanatic]

Man I hope Bastion wins.

It got my vote, I loved that game and hoping to help get a deal so others can enjoy it.

 

[HoosTrax]

Anyone?

Re: Tropico 3 and 4 -

The differences are that while they use the same engine, Tropico 4 has a linear campaign, additional buildings (plus more in the Modern Times campaign), and customizable El Presidentes (you pick the traits you want). Visually, Tropico 4 is not an improvement. I've heard Tropico 4 being described as basically a big expansion pack for T3, which probably isn't far off from the truth.

 

[HiiiLife]

It got my vote, I loved that game and hoping to help get a deal so others can enjoy it.

I voted for it as well. Damn my wallet is feeling a little anorexic now. iSad.

 

[Facism]

The Anno 2070 prices just jumped £5 from £15 to £20 for standalone. It jumped £10 from £20 to £30 for the game and DLC bundle. was just about to buy it, glad i caught that price change.

It literally happened as i clicked through to buy it :/

Edit: wtf it just changed back. deluxe changed to £23

edit 2: refreshed the page, back to £20 for standard, £30 for deluxe. What the fuck.

 

[NaM]

How much is dead island in the US?

 

[GuessWho]

tempted to try assassin creed 2 - for 14$. How's the pc version hold up?? Never played the first one but hearing so much praise for the series.
Urgh what to do?

 

[Kabuki Waq]

how well does the serious same 4 player split screen work?

 

[Firebrand]

Voted for Bastion as well. I thought the demo was rather boring so I don't intend to buy it, but the other two have already been on sale recently, so.

 

[daxy]

Is it worth playing Dirt 2 if I've already got Dirt 3? Is there a different selection of cars or tracks that would make it worthwhile?

Oh, and I voted for Dungeon Defenders because there's some DLC I wanted to get, but for some reason Steam decided that it wanted me to select Bastion. Weird!

 

[Giard]

How much is dead island in the US?

9.99

 

[drizzle]

The DLC that gives you the Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle costume is worth it. :-(

I have all of them, which one is that?

I don't have the newest one though. No discount on "The Other Side of the Coin" this time around.

Edit: I'll say all the DLC are an amazing companion piece for the main game. I recommend them all.

 

[Peff]

tempted to try assassin creed 2 - for 14$. How's the pc version hold up?? Never played the first one but hearing so much praise for the series.
Urgh what to do?

It's a very nice port and it has the DLC included for free (which kida breaks the pacing, but that's a different issue), but don't buy it now. There's bound to be a franchise sale at some point, and if there isn't, it'll still be 14$ the last day.

 

[Gandie]

How much is dead island in the US?

$10,19

 

[Dog Problems]

I have all of them, which one is that?

I don't have the newest one though. No discount on "The Other Side of the Coin" this time around.

It's the Gamer Bundle pack.