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Steam Summer Sales Thread: remember: you can actually play after buying

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gketter said:
Sorry. Cant be a bad list when Deus Ex is listed.
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Yes, with Deus Ex, STALKER, and COD4, it's a good day for FPS games. And yes, I said COD4. I've been replaying it since purchasing it @ D2D a few days ago, and I'm having a good time with it again. Obviously it's not nearly as rich and rewarding as something like STALKER or DX, but it has the best COD campaign by far and it's good, fast paced fun. The endlessly spawning enemies suck, but it's not always a total mindless clusterfuck like the sequel.
 
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Snuggler said:
Yes, with Deus Ex, STALKER, and COD4, it's a good day for FPS games. And yes, I said COD4. I've been replaying it since purchasing it @ D2D a few days ago, and I'm having a good time with it again. Obviously it's not nearly as rich and rewarding as something like STALKER or DX, but it has the best COD campaign by far and it's good, fast paced fun. The endlessly spawning enemies suck, though.
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It also has a coherent story and has the most believable premise of any of the MW games.
 
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Unicorn

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Is the Guild Wars Trilogy worth it?

I don't like MMO's, but like instanced games like Hellgate, Borderlands, Vindictus, etc.
 
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Carm

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fadetoblack said:
You guys with this KB/M debate vs. controller shit.... god, you're all acting as if somebody playing with a controller is making your personal experience worse. Look, from now on, I could only play RTS games with a steering wheel and it shouldn't matter to anyone ever.


WINGS OF PREY
I can't download the demo because I'm currently dealing with shitty bandwidth limits but anyhow have any word on Wings of Prey? I don't have a flightstick but I'm thinking since it supports gamepads that it might be pretty good. Anyone have any experience with using a gamepad?

The quick look on Giant Bomb looked pretty pretty good to me:
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-wings-of-prey/17-2489/

Also, has anyone dealt with the DRM stuff first hand? How bad is it?
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The DRM was supposedly removed.
 
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TheBez said:
Everyone's favorite game The Wonderful End of the World updated for me.
I actually like the game
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I can't stand that game after the portal 2 potato fiasco and playing through those damn levels a ton of times. Worst game music too. It fails at trying to have catchy weird songs like Katamari.
 
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Lone_Prodigy said:
Firewall blocking it?
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Firewall is disabled and its still happening.
I was having some punkbuster trouble upon initial installation. had to manually download the new pbsetup and update the game.
Seems like punkbuster is working now, but my game will not find any servers..
 
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I asked this on another forum but got no response maybe someone here might know:

Does anyone know if the sale for Need for Speed Hot Pursuit contains the limited edition cars or not? Also noticed the game is cheaper for AU regions is it possible to purchase a game at international prices through Steam with an account that is not created within the region?

US is 17.99
AU is 11.99

Both use USD currency.
 
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StuBurns said:
Can't say for the US, it was £5 in the UK though.

EDIT: Steam Prices says $5, seems odd.
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And now it's back to 30.. what a waste. I'll buy it for a fiver! I will not buy it for 30 :p.
 
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So does Beat Hazard Ultra dlc vary the gameplay enough compared to the original? Additional weapons and enemies sound interesting.
 
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gdt

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Yeah, Stalker isn't clicking with me as of yet. I'll play a little Infamous 2/UC3, then restart Stalker later tonight, with a guide, see if I can get a better handle on things.
 
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Gvaz

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Derrick01 said:
But cod 4 is one of the greatest games this gen so in this case it's really screwing him
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gketter said:
Sorry. Cant be a bad list when Deus Ex is listed.
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Who the hell cares?

The game came out 11 years ago and has been on sale many times.

Worst day of Steam sales ever.
 
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gdt5016 said:
Yeah, Stalker isn't clicking with me as of yet. I'll play a little Infamous 2/UC3, then restart Stalker later tonight, with a guide, see if I can get a better handle on things.
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CoP seems alright.. if I could find a fix for the 4 minute load times. Tried everything I've read on forums to fix it, and none of it works (besides a cracked .exe that was mentioned)
 
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Gvaz

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Four Minute? Maybe with the COP mod at first but never afterwards. There's a fix for that, but I don't know if it was integrated into the full pack yet.
 
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I only bought today beat hazard ultra fro 0,99 euros. Liked the single game, lets look at the expansion.

Thang god there was anything to buy for me today, some of them I already have them and the others dont interest me.

Ive been playing Transformers War of Cybertron and im in the 4th mission of the Decepticon campaign (the autobots campaign is the second one). What a really good, good game. Ive been having a blast.

All the talk between Megatron and his subordinates make me laugh. Soundwave is awesome.
 
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gdt5016 said:
Yeah, Stalker isn't clicking with me as of yet. I'll play a little Infamous 2/UC3, then restart Stalker later tonight, with a guide, see if I can get a better handle on things.
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I blew a fuse earlier today pimping STALKER so much, but it even took me 2 or 3 attempts to get into Shadow of Chernobyl. That first hour or two is really killer. You have to give it time to get into it, so maybe mid sale with a bunch of other new games in the back of your mind wanting to be played isn't the best time to give it a shot. I just got Clear Sky today but I probably won't play it for a week or so until I get some other games out of the way.

Here's the OT for it: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=146826

You can probably find some info in there to help get started. Don't be afraid to bump it if you need some advice.
 
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Eternia said:
So does Beat Hazard Ultra dlc vary the gameplay enough compared to the original? Additional weapons and enemies sound interesting.
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The Beat Hazard DLC makes it into an entirely new, fresh experience. It just feels much mor zen like and engrosses you in the trippy feel much more than previously. I for one am in love with it.
 
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Raxus said:
Is Nation Red any good? How about with friends?
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Played it for the 1st time, just to unlock the sc achievement. Seems initially like your typical overhead shooter but it played well (used m+kb), lots of gore and power-ups some unique to the genre and a low price so win win. Also I'm always reading the Steam forum and I know it's always being updated.
 
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mileS

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Gvaz said:
Four Minute? Maybe with the COP mod at first but never afterwards. There's a fix for that, but I don't know if it was integrated into the full pack yet.
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I have no idea, apparently it's a common issue with the steam version. Most of the fixes I've read deal with compatibility modes and turning off the steam community in-game feature. Seems to work for plenty of other people besides myself.
 
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Orellio said:
I blew a fuse earlier today pimping STALKER so much, but it even took me 2 or 3 attempts to get into Shadow of Chernobyl. That first hour or two is really killer. You have to give it time to get into it, so maybe mid sale with a bunch of other new games in the back of your mind wanting to be played isn't the best time to give it a shot. I just got Clear Sky today but I probably won't play it for a week or so until I get some other games out of the way.
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I've said this way too much but it would be better if you skip Clear Sky and just move on to the true enjoyable sequel to STALKER, Call of Pripyat. Clear Sky just got everything so wrong for me.

Oh and the first hour or so of STALKER is tough to get into but after that I was addicted once I got the hang of things. Really amazing atmosphere and gunplay (best since FEAR 1 for the latter).
 
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Discotheque said:
I've said this way too much but it would be better if you skip Clear Sky and just move on to the true enjoyable sequel to STALKER, Call of Pripyat. Clear Sky just got everything so wrong for me.

Oh and the first hour or so of STALKER is tough to get into but after that I was addicted once I got the hang of things. Really amazing atmosphere and gunplay (best since FEAR 1 for the latter).
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Pripyat is definitely the best in the series, but I've played it and SoC already. I got Clear Sky cause I was just dying for more :)
 
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Petrie said:
The Beat Hazard DLC makes it into an entirely new, fresh experience. It just feels much mor zen like and engrosses you in the trippy feel much more than previously. I for one am in love with it.
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twin stick + m/p + perks + fucking outrageous LSD visuals + leaderboards + unique game per music track. No brainer.
 
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Sysgen said:
twin stick + m/p + perks + fucking outrageous LSD visuals + leaderboards + unique game per music track. No brainer.
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200% visuals! If I can see my ship, I figure I'm doing it wrong.
 
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