Would be very mean, but interesting if steam don't let blue win just to show how legit things are.
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Steam Summer Sales 2014 |OT| Day of Luigi
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Sir Garbageman
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Best part of the STEAM sale so far have the thread title changes. Day of Luigi made me LOL.
uplay and a shady site, might aswell go for the hat trick
It would be wise to expect that "Of Orcs and Men" at 75% OFF would made me jump but it's still a bit steep. I'm curious about the game since I haven't searched anything about it. I heard good things and checked a stream once and it looked pretty and very interesting. Anyone in here actually finished the game?
Also, that Marlow game shall be mine on the last day of sale.
Don't listen to this pleb, Monk. Of Orcs and Men is a fun game and worth your time. It was 75% off at gamestop digital so I think we should see it off for that much.
Thanks for this. I will keep my eye on it. I've been tempted to check more gameplay but I also don't want any kind of spoilers.
Ah yes, not to worry my friend. Unless they pull a Capcom like last sale I have some games on my list to be the last minute purchases to end this Summer sale.
Lol, I hear you.
There's no rush with this one, plenty to see and do on the Backlog-land so I'll just be hovering the buy button.why would it go higher. Lower probably when its a daily/flash/vote
unless you mean if the discount will go higher
im pretty sure lying to Monk is against the law. He IS a monk afterall
thereisnoif
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Correct.
why would it go higher. Lower probably when its a daily/flash/vote
unless you mean if the discount will go higher
ya I meant like 66-75% . I just need Hannibal and war dogs. seems they are not discounting new pirates
RedlineRonin
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And you don't need to be a specific level? Doesn't say so in the instructions on steam as far as I could tell.
Thank you! Ive been a bit sick the last few days due to a lot of raining. So that mgiht be the reason.
InaudibleWhispa
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Is the site to be avoided? I'm new to this PC gaming thing. Built my first decent PC in years last month.
Random Painted HIghway
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so, uh, has anyone here been banned for using achievement manager for card drops? I have a ton of games I need to idle but my computer is tied down on video encoding duties and booting up games causes issues.
is there a better way to idle for cards now?
is there a better way to idle for cards now?
Tizoc
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bobnowhere
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I bought Of Orcs and Men today, love me some euro-jank rpgs!
Don't you have to use Uplay anyway? Having to open up two game clients to play one game is worse, whether it's Steam/Uplay or Origin/Uplay.
I did Party RPG this time. I am all for atmospheric horror games but that pack didn't appeal to me.
Basically I want Grimrock for cheap.
bobnowhere
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No no one has been banned, wouldn't use it to give yourself achievements in VAC enabled games though.
Haven't forgot your Coffee! Today is a black strong and mesmerizing cup of hot coffee since it started to randomly rain in here:
Gonna go pour me a cup now!
Prophane33
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Those kind of sites are banned here, AFAIK.
this is the steam thread. we want steam keys. well most of us anyway
StealthGoblin
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Guys, Rome Total War II. Talk to me...
Love Rome Total War and almost everything in the Total War series. Looked at some reviews and its made me think twice.
From people who've played this and the original... what is better/worse about it?
Thanks in advance
Love Rome Total War and almost everything in the Total War series. Looked at some reviews and its made me think twice.
From people who've played this and the original... what is better/worse about it?
Thanks in advance
CDkey selling sites are to be avoided in general. There was someone in the Steam thread who bought Dark Souls 2 from simplycdkeys, and his copy was later deactivated.
There's a list of trusted Steam key sellers in the regular steam thread, here it is:
Green Man Gaming
Gamers Gate
Gamestop
Get Games
Amazon
Gamefly
Groupees
Nuuvem
Humble Indie Bundle
Indie Royale
Indie Gala
jacksepticeye
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Horror, always horror
derExperte
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Valve doesn't care. Just don't use SAM to get Playfire rewards, they will ban abusers.
thereisnoif
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afaik the only time level requirement has been brought up is for obtaining cards from the community voting.
BlackRainbowFT
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You really have to be impressed with Valve's money-disappearing act...
It's interesting how psychology is often entirely dismissed as pseudoscience, quackery and whatnot. An argument could be made for the therapy side of things as there is a huge difference between what is taught at the university and what is done in practice. But cognitive psychology and neuroscience shouldn't be put on the same plate...
Valve is the only video game company (that I know of) that actively looks for psychologists (http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/job_postings.html).
Under "duties" you can read the following: "Provide relevant insight into human behavior in order to shape gameplay and customer experience".
If you look at EA's, Activision's, etc. job offerings, the closest you get to a "psychologist position" are "UX designer" (related to cognitive sciences) and "Analytics" (experimental psychologists are trained to analyze huge sets of data). But none explicitly mention human behavior.
Regarding the Steam sale, I've never seen people being so openly manipulated (I'm referring to the groups) and being happy about it! I'm not criticizing, I just find it funny. I wonder how big Valve's death squad of psychologist/economists is, but it is sure worth every penny.
It's interesting how psychology is often entirely dismissed as pseudoscience, quackery and whatnot. An argument could be made for the therapy side of things as there is a huge difference between what is taught at the university and what is done in practice. But cognitive psychology and neuroscience shouldn't be put on the same plate...
Valve is the only video game company (that I know of) that actively looks for psychologists (http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/job_postings.html).
Under "duties" you can read the following: "Provide relevant insight into human behavior in order to shape gameplay and customer experience".
If you look at EA's, Activision's, etc. job offerings, the closest you get to a "psychologist position" are "UX designer" (related to cognitive sciences) and "Analytics" (experimental psychologists are trained to analyze huge sets of data). But none explicitly mention human behavior.
Regarding the Steam sale, I've never seen people being so openly manipulated (I'm referring to the groups) and being happy about it! I'm not criticizing, I just find it funny. I wonder how big Valve's death squad of psychologist/economists is, but it is sure worth every penny.
You already read reviews, but you should take look at Angry Joe's review. He seems sometimes a bit, well, angry, but he is pretty reasonable and explains what he doesn't like and he is very honest. He loves and he hates the game and maybe it will help you, what is heavier with you.
InaudibleWhispa
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Good to know thanks, it was rated as a hot deal on HotUKDeals so I assumed it must be alright, but I'll avoid sites like that in future.
*snort*
They don't do anything until users complain. I'm scared they will just abolish the program alltogether
It was a really broken mess at release, now it is very much playable.
Too demanding for not that good visual quality (AF and true AA still can't be enable for whatever reason), battle AI is ok compared to past entries, but siege AI is maybe the worst ever.
The main thing however that broke the game for me, was a lack of soul, I can't really describe it, but it was a complaint for the majority of the fanbase. Campaign immersion is at an all time low for the series, maybe owing to a lack of a family tree, a completely broken/irrelevant political system, lack of in-game movies, and other minor touches and details that just seem to be lacking in this game, that result in absence of connection to your empire, armies, generals, agents etc. Compared to Shogun 2, which oozed with love and polish and presentation awesomeness, it just all feels a bit...empty.
Watching those Mario Kart gifs/pics gets me everytime but it's also rough
Pulling for you! Go, go go!
I haven't bought a Nintendo hardware in... probably more than 10 years? :/
where Gaf failed me, Gaben will come through. Believe!
Lets go greeeeeeeeen!
Pulling for you!
Go, go go!Whats weird about the team scores is that people are allegedly (i.e. going by the summary) still stealing from other teams. Which is entirely pointless as only "first" gets something and green has been in the lead, by almost 50% for 12 hours or so, so why would people steal from any of the other teams? Especially as the stealing items sell for a fair amount. Shady, shennanagins, etc.
CheesecakeRecipe
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thereisnoif
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I loved the first one, and i still do...
The new one, well it had a rough start, lots of bug and very bad performance,
but last time I tried it, it worked flawlessly, they fixed most of the bugs if not all of them and it's really great, same Rome, lot's of history, lots of power and Huge battles and as all of the total war games... Addicting..
Played it for 60h or more and enjoyed every single minute i played it (after they fixes) and I'm not regretting on buying it
StealthGoblin
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Ahh okay. I need these types of games to totally absorb me in the details so it doesn't sound like it would be right for me. I like all of the connections you speak of. Such a shame. Wonder where it went wrong? Any game about Rome should ooze detail, atmosphere etc
Stumpokapow
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You can use the program called Game Save Manager to back up saves, but it's also worth noting that many games on Steam have Steam Cloud, which means your save is automatically backed up online even if you delete the game. You can see Steam Cloud featured on their store page (Example: look below the Metascore and the languages on the right). To check for Steam Cloud on installed games, right-click properties them in the Steam client, switch to the Updates tab. If the game has Steam Cloud, the bottom of this tab will show that Steam Cloud is turned on and how much data it is syncing. Good luck.
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