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

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kinoki

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
So, is tomorrow the last day of the sale or is it two more days? I get dates confused. :S
 
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Doomrider

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Schmattakopf said:
I think realistically, they wouldn't go lower than 50 or 66% off, but who knows. They could go crazy.
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50% off would be great, but still kinda expensive, considering my budget for this sale. I'll think about it, but it will depend on what other games end up as daily deals. The ones revealed so far don't interest me in the least, but if Bloodlines shows up, I think I'll buy Portal during another sale.

kinoki said:
So, is tomorrow the last day of the sale or is it two more days? I get dates confused. :S
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There are still 2 days left, but, supposedly, the last one is a recap of the best selling daily deals (or something).
 
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LiK

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Wessiej said:
mp6O8.jpg


I am legit btw :p
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i told you my foot sweep was no joke.
 
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Echoplx

Member
Amneisac said:
Chaos Theory doesn't have any weird problems on PC with framerate, FOV, or widescreen or anything like that?
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You need to edit an ini file which lets you set custom res / fov

other then that it's fine
 
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froliq

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MikeE21286 said:
Can't remember:

If I wanna play a game will it stop my downloads?
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Yes. You can resume them if you alt tab out of your game and then simply resume and it will download while you play.
 
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ClosingADoor

Member
SpacePirate Ridley said:
Sooo, asked some pages ago but no one responded.
I enjoyed Rome Total War (not wow, this game is amazing, but had a good time).
Whats the opinion of the super mega Empire Napoleon Total War pack?
What does improve about Rome?
Does it have things like better done cities when you do assaults on them, or do they still look bad designed with just a bunch of buildings in spaces with a wall surrounding them?
If you could give an opinion of it, I would be very glad.
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I enjoyed the games, but mostly played with the big map instead of putting that much effort in the battles. Also didn't play Rome, so can't say if it is really better. Please keep that in mind.

Main big new thing about Empire are the naval battles. They are done well I think, but get a bit boring after some time.

When I played Empire it was full of bugs, but that might have been patched over the months after launch.

Assaults on cities are actually assaults on forts. One big fort always with some buildings in the middle. Getting some of your troops to climb the walls can be a pain. There are battles with villages in them, just a couple of buildings, I thought they were annoying, since you need to navigate your troops through the streets. Don't expect a real assault on a city, it isn't there.

Napoleon is a more polished version of Empire. The map is smaller and only has Europe (Empire has parts of India, Africa and North-America).

I'd say it is worth the $10, but it is hardly a perfect game.
 
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Ifrit

Member
MikeE21286 said:
Can't remember:

If I wanna play a game will it stop my downloads?
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Normally yes, but you can alt+tab out of the game to resume your upload then return to your game

EDIT: beaten
 
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Toma

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MikeE21286 said:
Can't remember:

If I wanna play a game will it stop my downloads?
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yes, just alt tab back to steam and continue your downloads. Then alt tab back to your game and you are fine.

Edit: beaten by a mile.
 
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HotHamWater

Member
Amneisac said:
Chaos Theory doesn't have any weird problems on PC with framerate, FOV, or widescreen or anything like that?
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No. Buy it. Love it. And cream yourself over the soundtrack.

Edit: Wait people had issue with the FOV? I had no problem, but I haven't played it in about 2 years so I might have been rocking 1280/1040.
 
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PixyJunket

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I picked up The Last Remnant and Winter Voices Prologue today.

I'm at $67.66 and fifteen new games so far.

I'm also officially out of prizes that I care about, so further ticket hunting is just going into the grand prize jar. Since I'm likely to get a few more anyway, I'll probably grab the Delve Deeper and A Reckless Disregard for Gravity prizes as those could possible be future buys of mine (just not now).
 
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Drek

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SpacePirate Ridley said:
Sooo, asked some pages ago but no one responded.
I enjoyed Rome Total War (not wow, this game is amazing, but had a good time).
Whats the opinion of the super mega Empire Napoleon Total War pack?
What does improve about Rome?
Does it have things like better done cities when you do assaults on them, or do they still look bad designed with just a bunch of buildings in spaces with a wall surrounding them?
If you could give an opinion of it, I would be very glad.
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The Empire/Napoleon pair is ok, but nothing to write home about compared to the previous and newest entry in the series in my opinion. Gun based combat makes it a bit more dull in battle, and moving away from the lineage system to a personnel promotion system is unique but doesn't give you quite the same connection as seeing the grandson of your first ruler step in when his father is assassinated/dies in battle before his time and at the tender age of 20 leads your people to a golden age. They added naval battles which are really cool though.

My personal recommendation if you're looking to get into a new Total War game would be either Medieval II or Shogun II. The later of which is a strong candidate for the end of sale recap day (if they do one). It was $30 earlier in the week. The former's Gold edition is on sale all week at $6.69. Both would be a better picking up point than the Empire/Napoleon set.

Unless you really like the time period though. That is the ultimate caveat with all Total War games. If you like a time period especially well you'll likely find yourself preferring that game.
 
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Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Drek said:
The Empire/Napoleon pair is ok, but nothing to write home about compared to the previous and newest entry in the series in my opinion. Gun based combat makes it a bit more dull in battle, and moving away from the lineage system to a personnel promotion system is unique but doesn't give you quite the same connection as seeing the grandson of your first ruler step in when his father is assassinated/dies in battle before his time and at the tender age of 20 leads your people to a golden age. They added naval battles which are really cool though.

My personal recommendation if you're looking to get into a new Total War game would be either Medieval II or Shogun II. The later of which is a strong candidate for the end of sale recap day (if they do one). It was $30 earlier in the week. The former's Gold edition is on sale all week at $6.69. Both would be a better picking up point than the Empire/Napoleon set.

Unless you really like the time period though. That is the ultimate caveat with all Total War games. If you like a time period especially well you'll likely find yourself preferring that game.
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This poster is absolutely correct.
 
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Mimir

Member
Toma said:
Impressions on 1,2,3...Kick it?

Looks like a mixture between Audiosurf, AaaAaaAAAaaAAAaaa and Rez from the Screens.
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Honestly, it's not very fun at the moment. It's still in beta, but the levels that it generates don't really seem to match up to songs all that well, and the levels themselves are pretty boring. They removed the WASD controls that Aaaaa used, and instead use mouse for moving around, with Q and E changing your rotation. It works okay once you get used to it, but it doesn't feel as good as Aaaaa's movement.

It has potential to be a fun game, but it's not there yet.
 
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PixyJunket

Member
GDJustin said:
$4.99 Faerie Solitaire (1 game)
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Huh? This should be $1.25.

Fun game though, I love games that play around with standard card decks, although as you can suspect form my username I may have an affinity for the subject matter as well.
 
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SpacePirate Ridley

Member
ClosingADoor said:
I enjoyed the games, but mostly played with the big map instead of putting that much effort in the battles. Also didn't play Rome, so can't say if it is really better. Please keep that in mind.

Main big new thing about Empire are the naval battles. They are done well I think, but get a bit boring after some time.

When I played Empire it was full of bugs, but that might have been patched over the months after launch.

Assaults on cities are actually assaults on forts. One big fort always with some buildings in the middle. Getting some of your troops to climb the walls can be a pain. There are battles with villages in them, just a couple of buildings, I thought they were annoying, since you need to navigate your troops through the streets. Don't expect a real assault on a city, it isn't there.

Napoleon is a more polished version of Empire. The map is smaller and only has Europe (Empire has parts of India, Africa and North-America).

I'd say it is worth the $10, but it is hardly a perfect game.
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Thanks, I dont know if I would get it, yet. The no good cities thing doesnt impress me.
Is the singleplayer campaign good?, is the only thing im going to play. I mean story and how it plays.
 
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Hop

That girl in the bunny hat
Mimir said:
Honestly, it's not very fun at the moment. It's still in beta, but the levels that it generates don't really seem to match up to songs all that well, and the levels themselves are pretty boring. They removed the WASD controls that Aaaaa used, and instead use mouse for moving around, with Q and E changing your rotation. It works okay once you get used to it, but it doesn't feel as good as Aaaaa's movement.

It has potential to be a fun game, but it's not there yet.
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The new 'city' you have to play for the achievement is much better than the old ones. Not in terms of generation, that's still crap, but it flows a little better and is generally better to play.

But yea, Aaaaaa is still Dejobaan's "good" game.
 
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darthbob

Member
3chopl0x said:
I was going to post that but remembered that it lists the wrong directory for the ini file (at least for windows 7)
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Yeah, it's not the same dir at all.

I had to do quite a bit of digging around to find that thing.
 
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Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Charron said:
The new 'city' you have to play for the achievement is much better than the old ones. Not in terms of generation, that's still crap, but it flows a little better and is generally better to play.

But yea, Aaaaaa is still Dejobaan's "good" game.
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Thanks guys!
 
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Twinduct

Member
Lets try this again. Will my main steam account be banned if I do the following.

steps:
1.) Log into a private owned vpn that masks my IP to the US.
2.) Create a new steam account.
3.) Put money into my steam wallet via paypal.
4.) Buy a game and gift it to my main account.
5.) ??? bannage?
 
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thiscoldblack

Unconfirmed Member
I don't know how else to say this, but.. Steam is raping my wallet, furiously!

I only had the Half-Life and Portal series on Steam, now I have a huge collection of games I missed because I never had a good PC or an Xbox 360. PC gaming is godly. Thank you Steam, i7 and HD 6870. :D
 
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SpacePirate Ridley

Member
Drek said:
The Empire/Napoleon pair is ok, but nothing to write home about compared to the previous and newest entry in the series in my opinion. Gun based combat makes it a bit more dull in battle, and moving away from the lineage system to a personnel promotion system is unique but doesn't give you quite the same connection as seeing the grandson of your first ruler step in when his father is assassinated/dies in battle before his time and at the tender age of 20 leads your people to a golden age. They added naval battles which are really cool though.

My personal recommendation if you're looking to get into a new Total War game would be either Medieval II or Shogun II. The later of which is a strong candidate for the end of sale recap day (if they do one). It was $30 earlier in the week. The former's Gold edition is on sale all week at $6.69. Both would be a better picking up point than the Empire/Napoleon set.

Unless you really like the time period though. That is the ultimate caveat with all Total War games. If you like a time period especially well you'll likely find yourself preferring that game.
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No buy then, thanks a lot for the impressions. Thought this was the new one.

Medieval II is the one I want then, I rememeber years ago a friend talking me about a magnificent game we you went with troops, your king dies, you need to pair sons with daugthers to make new kings. It sounded incredible.
Then I knew he was talking about Medieval Total War.
I got Rome Total War, had fun, but it really didnt sound so awesome as Medieval, because the politics aspect didnt seemed as fleshed, so i hope Medieval I is as good as what my friend told me about the first one.
 
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Yasae

Banned
Toma said:
Thanks! :)
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I can answer specific questions on TLR.

Here's another good example: there's a point in the game where you come to a long string of boss battles in a row, six in a row to be exact. They're tough as nails. The 360 version wouldn't let you save between any of them, so if you lost, you had to start over from the first boss in the sequence. It was all or nothing.

In the PC version you can save after each. Ta da!
 
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MegaKungFuRadio

Member
Yasae said:
I can answer specific questions on TLR.

Here's another good example: there's a point in the game where you come to a long string of boss battles in a row, six in a row to be exact. They're tough as nails. The 360 version wouldn't let you save between any of them, so if you lost, you had to start over from the first boss in the sequence. It was all or nothing.

In the PC version you can save after each. Ta da!
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Ha, I think that's exactly where I stopped playing the 360 version. Never did get back to that point on PC, though.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
ShockingAlberto said:
Hooray, got a free copy of The Witcher 2 and all I had to do was suffer through a terrible shovelware game to make my friend buy it for me.
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Kabouter is making me play Europa Universalis III in exchange for him playing Chrono Trigger, so I feel like me and you are in a similar kind of boat. *runs*
 
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SpacePirate Ridley

Member
Mmmm, just be looking about shogun II Total War.
Its much better than Medieval II?
I want to get one of them, and medieval is only 6 euros and shogun 26.
But if shogun is very good I can wait for the daily offer.
 
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tebunker

Banned
gonna give The Last Remnant demo a try on my Laptop since none of my hardware is supported even though I meet the min reqs.

I know I am close to $100 on the sale, but I've gone from 0 games to 24 games not including the expansions and add ons that are part of some of the stuff I bought.


What I need is friends, erm steam friends. :p That sounds so lame. But I'd like to be able to share games with folks during the sale, and I don't have any R/L that use steam. Stuff like the Worms 4 pack is a great idea.
 
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The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
So is The Last Remnant good? I recall it being spoken highly of on GAF

EDIT: Let me guess...I just missed a bunch of discussion on the previous page?
 
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Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Yasae said:
I can answer specific questions on TLR.

Here's another good example: there's a point in the game where you come to a long string of boss battles in a row, six in a row to be exact. They're tough as nails. The 360 version wouldn't let you save between any of them, so if you lost, you had to start over from the first boss in the sequence. It was all or nothing.

In the PC version you can save after each. Ta da!
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Sounds pretty nice, I am already downloading the Demo to see whether it runs on my Notebook. I'll buy it if it runs nicely. I should be fine, but who knows.
 
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