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

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Yaska said:
Disappointed with the HOMM5. Haven't played it before. Feels like all that made heroes has been drained :/
Me too. Call me thickheaded but I really couldn't get past the 3D with that camera.
Still no reason to upgrade from Heroes III, which I'm still playing.
 
piratepwnsninja said:
Honestly, yes. You don't need any knowledge of the franchise to enjoy the game. It helps, but its a great game regardless.

The story also contains quite possibly the least spoiled notable story point in video games. And unlike Aeris dying, you might actually care.
 
So I changed internet provider last week, forgot to change my steam account to another email address and now I cant log in for the Steam summer sale. Great stuff. Has anyone else had this problem and how long does it take for support to get back to you about changing your account settings?

I wouldn't mind making a new account if I absolutely have to but I've had my old account since 2004, pretty peed off I'm going to have to start juggling between 2 accounts just because of their awkward account verification.
 

Hixx

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JacksUsername said:
I don't think the PC version is bad, it's more of a pain in the ass dealing with Windows 7 compatibility issues. It took me forever to get it running when I bought it at the last sale - it would crash all the time. For anyone buying it, be sure to check out the Steam forums http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=707 if you have trouble running it.

I've had no problems with KotOR on windows 7. Got the widescreen mod running etc, still looks decent for a 7+ year old game.
 
Ookami-kun said:
Holy shit, Sims 3 full set for only 80 bucks!
Too bad there isn't an individual sale on the base game, I don't want 50% (Well...) of my Steam account to be Sims games that I won't even play...
 
gtvdave said:
Still on the edge about buying Battlefront II. Is the online community still active?
I asked the same question about 12 hours ago and never really got a response. I am on the edge about buying as well, but only if there are people to play with. The one guy who did post his BFII impressions seemed to be playing against the AI, which is atrocious in these games.

If anybody can give us a heads up on the Battlefront II community, it would be great.
 

Echoplx

Member
Bucket-o-roadkill said:
So I changed internet provider last week, forgot to change my steam account to another email address and now I cant log in for the Steam summer sale. Great stuff. Has anyone else had this problem and how long does it take for support to get back to you about changing your account settings?

I wouldn't mind making a new account if I absolutely have to but I've had my old account since 2004, pretty peed off I'm going to have to start juggling between 2 accounts just because of their awkward account verification.

Maybe create a new account and then gift all the games you want to buy to your new email address then redeem them on your old account once it's fixed.
 
3chopl0x said:
Maybe create a new account and then gift all the games you want to buy to your new email address then redeem them on your old account once it's fixed.

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Great idea. I forgot about being able to gift yourself stuff. Would I be able to use my card on both accounts though?...
 

StuBurns

Banned
falconzss said:
Just wanted to buy Puzzle Agent 2 but what's up with these system requirements for the Mac version Oo.
It requires more RAM than space? What? You can fit the whole game in the RAM requirement six times if running Snow Leopard.
 

InertiaXr

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falconzss said:
Just wanted to buy Puzzle Agent 2 but what's up with these system requirements for the Mac version Oo.

What do you mean? Apparently needs a single core 2.3ghz and 512mb vid card. I'm sure it'll run on hardware way worse than that, if that stuff is even still in use somewhere. I wouldn't expect people to even bother looking at sys requirements for something like Puzzle Agent 2 unless your computer is over 5-6 years old.

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StuBurns said:
It requires more RAM than space? What? You can fit the whole game in the RAM requirement six times if running Snow Leopard.
Well, lots of games do that. Braid wants 185MB space and 512MB ram. SpaceChem requires 300MB HD space and 1GB RAM. Usually your RAM would include things like your OS and browser, so comparing an individual game's RAM requirements to HD space requirements isn't exactly fair.
 

falconzss

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InertiaXr said:
What do you mean? Apparently needs a single core 2.3ghz and 512mb vid card. I'm sure it'll run on hardware way worse than that, if that stuff is even still in use somewhere. I wouldn't expect people to even bother looking at sys requirements for something like Puzzle Agent 2 unless your computer is over 5-6 years old.

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Well, lots of games do that. Braid wants 185MB space and 512MB ram. SpaceChem requires 300MB HD space and 1GB RAM. Usually your RAM would include things like your OS and browser, so comparing an individual game's RAM requirements to HD space requirements isn't exactly fair.

I'm running a 4 year old Macbook Pro 2,33 Ghz/2Gb Ram/X1600 256Mb so yeah it's already quite old but it would still shock me if it can't handle Puzzle Agent 2.
Damn i am just giving it a try now and report back.
 

Loxley

Member
I haven't purchased a damn thing yet, first time in a while (in terms of Steam sales) that I've been able to show a good amount of restraint.
 

Toma

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bogg said:
How is Hamilton's Great Adventure? Worth $5?

You'd get lots of replies for it if more gaffers would be online and all would say "yes".
 

StuBurns

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InertiaXr said:
Well, lots of games do that. Braid wants 185MB space and 512MB ram. SpaceChem requires 300MB HD space and 1GB RAM. Usually your RAM would include things like your OS and browser, so comparing an individual game's RAM requirements to HD space requirements isn't exactly fair.
Snow Leopard has a one gig footprint (much lower actually of course, but that's the requirement). The game has a six fold (minus OS X, eight fold including it) overhead requirement? That seems very unusual to me.
 

Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
bogg said:
How is Hamilton's Great Adventure? Worth $5?

Bought it for $5 yesterday. Just played about 20 minutes, seems very fun. Lots of visual charm, seems like the puzzle mechanics get kind of deep. Seems like a good bit of content as well, at least 11 or so levels per world and at least 5 worlds from what I can tell. Runs fine and looks fine.

I'm not really sure what I'd compare it to. It's a tile based top-down puzzle platformer with lots of puzzle mechanics including quickstand, flow control tiles, collapsing floors. Levels are score attackable (each level has tons of treasure, some less accessible) and time attackable.

:)
 

McNum

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Marsipolami said:
Too bad there isn't an individual sale on the base game, I don't want 50% (Well...) of my Steam account to be Sims games that I won't even play...
You can just make a separate category for The Sims games and minimize it. You only need some way to run the Sims3LauncherW.exe (or TS3W.exe if you want to skip the launcher) in the base game "Game\Bin" folder to run the game no matter what expansions you've installed.
 

chixdiggit

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bogg said:
How is Hamilton's Great Adventure? Worth $5?
Bought and just very briefly played the first two levels. Seems like it will be a great game from what i can tell. If you like stuff like Toki Tori I would say it's a no brainer at $5.
 

Archie

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Stumpokapow said:
Bought it for $5 yesterday. Just played about 20 minutes, seems very fun. Lots of visual charm, seems like the puzzle mechanics get kind of deep. Seems like a good bit of content as well, at least 11 or so levels per world and at least 5 worlds from what I can tell. Runs fine and looks fine.

I'm not really sure what I'd compare it to. It's a tile based top-down puzzle platformer with lots of puzzle mechanics including quickstand, flow control tiles, collapsing floors. Levels are score attackable (each level has tons of treasure, some less accessible) and time attackable.

:)

I'd compare it to Puzzle Dimension (which is an underrated title, shame it isn't on sale) since it is kind of like a cross between a puzzle game and roguelike.
 
Guys, my Steam Wallet is no longer suspended so I can trade 1 gift of $20 Witcher 2 for X3: Terrain Conflict + Eschalon: Book 2 and Spacechem with the first person who PMs me.

ps. sorry Irish, I tried to contact with you, but you're afk unfortunately.

upd: done.
 

Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
Archie said:
I'd compare it to Puzzle Dimension (which is an underrated title, shame it isn't on sale) since it is kind of like a cross between a puzzle game and roguelike.

Ah yeah. I hadn't played Puzzle Dimension, but I thought PD was like Marble Blast or Switchball in that there was "free movement" rather than tile-based movement--I guess not, though? Hopefully PD ends up showing up on sale at some future point during the sale.
 

Weenerz

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Stumpokapow said:
Ah yeah. I hadn't played Puzzle Dimension, but I thought PD was like Marble Blast or Switchball in that there was "free movement" rather than tile-based movement--I guess not, though? Hopefully PD ends up showing up on sale at some future point during the sale.


Yes, please put PD on sale, it looks like it is tons of fun.
 

Echoplx

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Bucket-o-roadkill said:
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Great idea. I forgot about being able to gift yourself stuff. Would I be able to use my card on both accounts though?...

If you mean card as in bank card then yes that should be fine.
 

elektrixx

Banned
GAF has guilted me into buying SpaceChem. I'll figure out what the heck it is and how to play it later.

AU$4.86 was a nice price.
 
3chopl0x said:
If you mean card as in bank card then yes that should be fine.

Haha crazy! So, they let you use the same bank card on 2 different accounts, thats totally fine.. But! If you change your email address... RED ALERT, LOCK DOWN!!
 

Fewr

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What's Winter Voices like? Is it worth the discount price?

I played the demo for a while, and even though the interface was slow, the writing was good, and it seemed interesting.
 

Stallion Free

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Stumpokapow said:
Ah yeah. I hadn't played Puzzle Dimension, but I thought PD was like Marble Blast or Switchball in that there was "free movement" rather than tile-based movement--I guess not, though? Hopefully PD ends up showing up on sale at some future point during the sale.
PD is tile based just like Hamilton.


Willy105 said:
PC version sucks anyway.
I am sorry, but that is one of the worst responses I have ever seen.
 

Toma

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Fewr said:
What's Winter Voices like? Is it worth the discount price?

I played the demo for a while, and even though the interface was slow, the writing was good, and it seemed interesting.

Its an experimental Indie RPG, with all its highs and lows. If you think its interesting, give it a shot. Some people found it too slow, I believe, but others loved it.
 

BY2K

Membero Americo
Oh God, 5$ for Just Cause 2...

Less than 3 hours left and I don't have the money in my bank account (withdrew everything yesterday). I'm going to miss it...

:(
 

Toma

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BY2K

Membero Americo
Oh...

Nevermind Just Cause 2, I don't have Vista and XP is unsupported.

...

Now that's just unfair!
 

Stallion Free

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NBtoaster said:
What's Just Cause 1 like for 3.50?
I found it enjoyable just sticking exclusively to the main missions and ignoring everything else. You do some crazy shit in the missions, but they did a poor job of making the world interesting and fun.

Also, widescreen works perfect with this: http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/Racer_S_Hacks


BY2K said:
Oh...

Nevermind Just Cause 2, I don't have Vista and XP is unsupported.

...

Now that's just unfair!
No some devs grew balls and cut off people clinging to a 10 year old OS in the name of graphical progress. You are the reason we never get DX10/11 support.
 

Toma

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MmmSkyscraper said:
Dude, I think your graphics driver crashed.

Nah, its perfectly normal that every housing and the factory stuff is on the same layer. The Screenshot was from a time where DF only had one layer. But I can imagine how people would be confused thinking why everything should be on the same layer except if it wasnt for a graphical glitch!
 

Echoplx

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NBtoaster said:
What's Just Cause 1 like for 3.50?

I loved this game back on the PS2, finished it so many times but it might not be worth it considering the sequel improves pretty much every aspect of it.
 
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