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

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ElRenoRaven

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Marco1 said:
No bother, my bad.
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All good man. Just letting you know. I can see how that's easy to make that mistake on because at first MS went out of their way to package the controller differently and label it as the Xbox 360 controller for windows. They soon realized that this was a stupid idea and hurt it's sales. After that they just repackaged it in the 360 packaging.
 
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Fair Trial

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Horsemama1956 said:
Read up on nVidia Inspector. Awesome program if you don't have it and you'll find out how to enable AA in HP, and a plethora of other games.
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I have it, used to force AA to SC Chaos Theory.

Ok, good to know there is a compatibility profile.

Thanks

edit: thanks also to Stallion
 
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Gvaz

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StuBurns said:
It'd be kind of a Crysis 2 to Crysis transition. The sequel is streamlined in a number of areas, but like in Crysis 2, they seemingly missed the influence choice has on your character investment.

I know a lot of people detest IW, I don't, but it was seriously misguided. I think if someone was dead set on playing both, starting on IW isn't ideal, because it'll just sour your opinion of DE, if you play them the other way you can also change your mind and bail on IW.
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I think it's more of a case of "the game has the same name, but it's such a bad sequel that it might as well be something else"

See: Crysis, Dragon Age, etc
 
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Rodney McKay

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Artofwar420 said:
I've only played Deus Ex, not its sequel. But here's a crazy thought.

What if... you played the Invisible War BEFORE the first Deux Ex?

I did say it was crazy, but what say you, people who've played Invisible War?
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Haha, I did this! Played IW on my Xbox back when it came out. I liked it fine, it had a lot of performance issues on the Xbox, but I doubt those exist on the PC these days. The shared ammo and the ending(s) were probably the only bad things I can remember about it. Maybe I liked it so much because I found a hidden dart gun that sets people on fire...

I tried to play DE1 about a year ago, but it feels REALLY old (I started gaming with an N64 for some perspective). The terrible shooting was a deal breaker for me (crosshairs that take forever to shrink, and you can still miss when pointing straight at them). It wouldn't have been so bad if the stealth had been good, but it's pretty terrible as well.

I don't know, I've heard it gets better when it opens up after liberty island, but I didn't enjoy it at all.

I get that it's an important game and it did a lot of innovative stuff back in the day. I just wish it was fun to play. Maybe it's because I've played Vampires: The Masquerade - Bloodlines already, but that seems to do everything that DE1 does but with better graphics, better voice acting, and better gameplay. Just my $0.05.
 
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Princess Skittles said:
Is Poker Night a good game if you don't really care much about the characters or the humor?
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Not really... it's a slow mediocre poker game. ONLY get it if you like the characters and want to listen to their interactions.


Also, I realized that the best time to reinstall games is right now, a few hours between the next sale. I'm getting full speed, and I'm reinstalling all the games I own that are getting new achievements (plus some extras).
 
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Rodney McKay said:
Haha, I did this! Played IW on my Xbox back when it came out. I liked it fine, it had a lot of performance issues on the Xbox, but I doubt those exist on the PC these days. The shared ammo and the ending(s) were probably the only bad things I can remember about it. Maybe I liked it so much because I found a hidden dart gun that sets people on fire...

I tried to play DE1 about a year ago, but it feels REALLY old (I started gaming with an N64 for some perspective). The terrible shooting was a deal breaker for me (crosshairs that take forever to shrink, and you can still miss when pointing straight at them). It wouldn't have been so bad if the stealth had been good, but it's pretty terrible as well.

I don't know, I've heard it gets better when it opens up after liberty island, but I didn't enjoy it at all.

I get that it's an important game and it did a lot of innovative stuff back in the day. I just wish it was fun to play. Maybe it's because I've played Vampires: The Masquerade - Bloodlines already, but that seems to do everything that DE1 does but with better graphics, better voice acting, and better gameplay. Just my $0.05.
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It is a ton of fun. It's just like another game on-sale today, Stalker: SoC, the opening is a huge grind for everyone and unless you force yourself to play a while, you never get to realize just how epic it truly is.
 
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Princess Skittles

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plc268 said:
Not really... it's a slow mediocre poker game. ONLY get it if you like the characters and want to listen to their interactions.
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Many thank yous.

So then. Are there any decent cards games on Steam? Anything from poker to bizarre stuff (and I already know about Runespell in the "Coming Soon" section).
 
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Gvaz

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Rodney McKay said:
Haha, I did this! Played IW on my Xbox back when it came out. I liked it fine, it had a lot of performance issues on the Xbox, but I doubt those exist on the PC these days. The shared ammo and the ending(s) were probably the only bad things I can remember about it. Maybe I liked it so much because I found a hidden dart gun that sets people on fire...

I tried to play DE1 about a year ago, but it feels REALLY old (I started gaming with an N64 for some perspective). The terrible shooting was a deal breaker for me (crosshairs that take forever to shrink, and you can still miss when pointing straight at them). It wouldn't have been so bad if the stealth had been good, but it's pretty terrible as well.

I don't know, I've heard it gets better when it opens up after liberty island, but I didn't enjoy it at all.

I get that it's an important game and it did a lot of innovative stuff back in the day. I just wish it was fun to play. Maybe it's because I've played Vampires: The Masquerade - Bloodlines already, but that seems to do everything that DE1 does but with better graphics, better voice acting, and better gameplay. Just my $0.05.
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After Liberty Island it does get better.

The gunplay is like an rpg and guns IRL have inaccuracy too both gun and user, it's not really an FPS game other than being in FPS. You don't treat it like Goldeneye or something, that's not how Deus Ex is supposed to be played. The points system is like "I've never held a gun before" to "I can hit you in the head from 150 feet with a handgun"

You're supposed to take advantage of your environment vs your foes, while customizing yourself and choosing how you want to complete a level. This is Deus Ex.

The stealth is fine? Stay out of view of cameras and out of eyesight, etc
 
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bonesmccoy

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1.5 hours left.

I've gone back and forth on AI War and Call of Pripyat. I think I'll just have resign myself to abstinence until the new deals are posted.

As much as AI War looks neat, I know I'll never play it. Call of Pripyat looks alright, but my multiple play-throughs of Shadow of Chernobyl have put me at my STALKER saturation point.
 
Nabs

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Stallion Free said:
They aren't like games you beat, they are games you start up and play for 10 minutes when the mood hits you. It makes no sense to put either one on a back log.
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^5
 
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Stallion Free

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The guns skills suck at the start of Deus Ex so you feel like a God later on when you have the fourth tier and you have laser accuracy even while running.
 
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Firebrand

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Stitch said:
Is the Cradle of Civilization - DLC Bundle just a bunch of map packs? I'd like to get some new Civs :-/
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Cradle of Civilization is just maps, yes. If you want more Civs you'll have to pick them up separately. There's currently 4 civ DLCs you can buy: Babylon, Inca+Spain, Polynesia and Denmark. Note that there's two options for buying the Denmark civ, either stand-alone or bundled with the Explorers map pack.
 
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plc268 said:
Not really... it's a slow mediocre poker game. ONLY get it if you like the characters and want to listen to their interactions.
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It really is quite slow. I installed it yesterday to get the ticket achievement and tried putting it on the lowest possible chatter setting and they still kept talking and wasting my time. I had forgotten how much of a resource hog it was too, surprisingly so for a poker game.
 
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echoshifting

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Yeah, PN@I is like the Sims, it doesn't really matter what kind of system you have. It will chug. I liked it, though. It was a fun distraction for a couple of hours.
 
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Gvaz

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iKeepPlaying said:
I know I'm gonna get killed for asking... but I've never played Deus Ex, is good or something?
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Maybe you should lurk more junior and see the glowing praise people have for it ITT or even on gaf as a whole
 
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Salsa

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iKeepPlaying said:
I know I'm gonna get killed for asking... but I've never played Deus Ex, is good or something?
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its terrible

i mean look at this:

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iKeepPlaying said:
I know I'm gonna get killed for asking... but I've never played Deus Ex, is good or something?
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Next time you go to the store just remember not to buy those two candy bars you wanted so badly.
 
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Herla

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Played a couple of hours of Shadow of Chernobyl, got to the Garbage ... yeah, no scares for now. And it seems fairly easy too, I found lots of bullets and money.
I guess the worst is yet to come?
 
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K.Jack

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Picked up the AI War bundle. I know so little about it, but what the heck.

Word to you last minute buyers: SKIP KING ARTHUR

The performance is totally shit, randomly, regardless of your hardware.
 
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MNC

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SalsaShark said:
its terrible

i mean look at this:

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Deus Ex spoiler:
I gutted Manderly reeeeeal good.
Ah man, and the way I killed Anne Navarre... I just used cloak armor and backstabbed her with my knife!
I love Deus Ex. First few levels I kept wanting to do a no-kill run. Then I thought fuck it, I'll do that in a second playthrough! And the game got so much more enjoyable. Just use every means necessary to kill in a stealthy but efficient way. Save the special completion runs for later playthroughs.
 
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echoshifting

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To those who have played both - is the STALKER franchise really any scarier than the Half-Life games? Because those games have their scary moments and tension throughout, but they weren't like say Amnesia which I have yet to finish... ;(
 
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echoshifting said:
To those who have played both - is the STALKER franchise really any scarier than the Half-Life games? Because those games have their scary moments and tension throughout, but they weren't like say Amnesia which I have yet to finish... ;(
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I would say so by virtue that I don't think Half-Life is scary at all. There's just more setup for "OH FUCK ME SHOOT EVERYTHING" moments in STALKER.
 
Infinite_Daremo

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echoshifting said:
To those who have played both - is the STALKER franchise really any scarier than the Half-Life games? Because those games have their scary moments and tension throughout, but they weren't like say Amnesia which I have yet to finish... ;(
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Half-Life was scary? STALKER will make you scream like a little girl at points. But its main focus isn't to scare you.
 
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echoshifting

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Infinite_Daremo said:
Half-Life was scary? STALKER will make you scream like a little girl at points. But its main focus isn't to scare you.
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Well, hang on. I never said Half-Life was scary, I asked if STALKER as a franchise is scarier on some sort of scary/not-scary continuum, because I hear a lot of people shrug off the supposed scares of STALKER with the same nonchalant attitude. I'm just trying to draw a comparison between the tension of STALKER and...what? Amnesia? Silent Hill 2? The half-life games are quite tense, imo, especially Half-Life 2, but there are many kinds of tension.

I can't imagine I'm the only one person on the planet who thought Ravenholm was genuinely scary. So yes I'd say the games have their scary moments, which is what I was trying to convey.
 
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gdt

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Liberty Island is killing Deus Ex for me. I'm gonna restart it, but no more stealth bullshit. Guns blazing this time.
 
Sanic

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gdt5016 said:
Liberty Island is killing Deus Ex for me. I'm gonna restart it, but no more stealth bullshit. Guns blazing this time.
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That's the first level, right? When I tried to play Deus Ex for the first time a couple years ago, I hated the first level so much that I quit, never to return. I'm sure it's great, but I couldn't get past that.
 
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Bentendo

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Which is better: King Arthur or Rome: Total War. Better yet, which one would be easier to run on an older computer (I still have no clue how to compare processors and graphic cards).
 
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bonesmccoy

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echoshifting said:
To those who have played both - is the STALKER franchise really any scarier than the Half-Life games? Because those games have their scary moments and tension throughout, but they weren't like say Amnesia which I have yet to finish... ;(
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If you thought Half-Life was scary, than you'll find STALKER terrifying. There will be many moments when you are forced to retreat to survive, or when you'll just decide to unload on something (and then find out that you missed and the creature is still hunting for you).

Bentendo said:
Which is better: King Arthur or Total War: Rome. Better yet, which one would be easier to run on an older computer (I still have no clue how to compare processors and graphic cards).
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Total War: Rome. Better game, and it will run quite well on older machines. King Arthur will probably run at 5fps for you - I don't think it was optimized very well at all.
 
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echoshifting

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Bentendo said:
Which is better: King Arthur or Total War: Rome. Better yet, which one would be easier to run on an older computer (I still have no clue how to compare processors and graphic cards).
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Get Rome.

bonesmccoy said:
If you thought Half-Life was scary, than you'll find STALKER terrifying. There will be many moments when you are forced to retreat to survive, or when you'll just decide to unload on something (and then find out that you missed and the creature is still hunting for you).
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I didn't, I thought the franchise as a whole had scary moments. That's what I said. Ravenholm! Come on people.

I'm just trying to find some point of comparison, since many in this thread are saying about STALKER what you are saying about Half-Life: that it isn't actually scary at all.
 
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Anilusion

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If I have a non-steam version of Guild Wars Trilogy, can I get Eye of the North on steam and add it to my account? I haven't really played GW (got it for free with my deathadder) but GW2 looks cool and it would be nice to come prepared. Is it worth the money?
 
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echoshifting said:
I can't imagine I'm the only one person on the planet who thought Ravenholm was genuinely scary. So yes I'd say the games have their scary moments, which is what I was trying to convey.
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I'd say the underground parts of STALKER are comparable to Ravenholm, probably a little but more scary. The difference is Ravenholm was one part of Half-Life versus spending maybe a third to half of STALKER underground or in an abandoned building.
 
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