Seriously, it's awesome. Has your standard Bioware/Black Isle initial tutorial level ramp-ups, but eventually gets into proper gear.
― kingfish, Thursday, 24 December 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
heh the last time I rolled dice was in some IRC channel 10 years ago :/ tbh I find the whole range of available options to be mind-numbing, I spazzed out for like half an hour during the initial stat point distribution. looked at some of the available guides online and was overwhelmed by all the info. :\
― =皿= (dyao), Saturday, 26 December 2009 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
ok I finally sorted out that you can use wasd to walk around and also got my head around the battling/leveling - pretty fun so far, not really feeling the story (a little too much this NPC needs this! this NPC needs that! go do this! go do that!) but I can easily see devoting the next month or so to beating it
― =皿= (dyao), Thursday, 31 December 2009 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
but I am still on retardis so maybe the story'll get better once I get off the planet
i am reverenddollars on steam
― art crut (The Reverend), Thursday, 31 December 2009 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link
New Steam UI beta is pretty.
― Nhex, Saturday, 27 February 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, bunch of random, interesting games just came out or are on sale through Steam/D2D. Anyone got any opinions on Zombie Driver, Dark Void Zero, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, or Beat Hazard?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The weekend deal for Codemasters arcade racer pack is pretty amazing...
Dirt for $2.50!!!Grid for $6.24 - I used to hate this game, but have recently come around to it - bought it for $25.00 a few weeks ago ):Toca 3 for $2.49 (online still works too)Dirt 2 for $9.99
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 30 April 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Shame I missed yr message Nhex, Not sure how cheap Zombie Driver was but when it was on sale at xmas I picked it up and definitely got my $2 or $5 or whatever's worth out of it. Great dumb fun for a short amt of time.
― Quantic Dream, So Hard To Beat (Will M.), Friday, 30 April 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
5 games, DRM free, Windows Mac or Linux, pay what you want http://www.wolfire.com/humble
World of GooAquariaGishLugaru HDPenumbra Overture
― zappi, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
note that the charities are EFF and penny arcade's wankathon
― abanana, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
After much struggle, I finished building my new PC last night. Still fooling around and trying stuff out. Did a stress test in CS:S with everything maxed 1600 x 900 (next I need a better monitor) and am pretty pleased with the results... 281.94 fps average! Mission accomplished...
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4588080210_df80ac22c0_o.png
― Jeff LeVine, Saturday, 8 May 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
got Steam up on my Mac, d/l'ing Torchlight for Mac now!
― Euler, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I has a Steam now too!
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Portal is free for MAC/PC until May 24thMac store... http://store.steampowered.com/browse/mac/
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Does that mean you can keep playing it for free after the 24th?
― Euler, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Downloading Portal first - free is my ideal price point. Actually, $10 for Torchlight is also going to happen.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Overall Steam is a must for PC gamers. All the deals that they frequently have are ideal for gamers on a budget. Torchlight is an amazing game it' even worth the full price!
― cgilbertson, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't played any games on my computer except for Civ in years and years; Deus X and Fallout 2 were the last, I think. Really excited about this whole Steam thing.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
hoping against hope that Civ IV will get SteamPlay
― Euler, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
should've been obvious but i'm still shocked that the new Steam UI looks even nicer on Mac
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Euler, according to the store it has ithttp://store.steampowered.com/app/3900/
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ok i'm in
― caek, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit you're right!!!!!
― Euler, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
installing civ 4 is going to have to wait until i submit my thesis
― caek, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm though, in my client Civ IV isn't showing up as available to d/l, so maybe it's forthcoming?
― Euler, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i suspect that there's still limitations on the current client, since TF2 is mysteriously missing from my games list (and all my other PC-only games and Valve games still show up)
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
my steam name is ezsnappin if anyone wants to be friends.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
civ 4 is there in mine?
― caek, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm mac btw
the ILG Steam group is here, btw...http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ILG
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
just joined.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I joined too
― treefell, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
from the looks of it you can buy civ 4 + all expansions + colonization (which sadly sucks) for 39.99. I own 3 of the 4 on pc and am debating getting all 4 for mac.
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
they were on sale for $7.50 total a few weeks ago
― abanana, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
(maybe it was $10.)
― abanana, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah $40 is bullshit. bump this thread if they go one sale between now and the end of time tho.
― caek, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
any other games besides portal/tf2 and civ4 worth getting?
― dyao, Thursday, 13 May 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I am this close to deleting my windows 7 partition
ha ha, nice try steam, trying to get me to buy bejeweled 2.
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Thursday, 13 May 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I never expected Civ 4 to be one of the Steam Play ones (because of the different publishers for the Mac version - long delayed, happens to so many AAA Windows ports), now am kicking myself a little for not nabbing that sale a few weeks ago.
― Nhex, Thursday, 13 May 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Civ 4 appears in my library but I can't d/l it yet.
haha last night Torchlight dl crapped out after 10 minutes, hung for the next 40 at 68%; this morning the whole thing dl'ed in about a minute.
― Euler, Thursday, 13 May 2010 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
nhex - stop kicking yourself...
However, it turns out that this functionality, referred to as Steam Play, doesn't always extend to all of one's past Steam PC purchases--if you bought a game on Steam PC before it was eligible, you may have to buy again if you want it on Steam Mac.Thus far, only two of the fifty-plus offerings--Civilization IV: The Complete Edition and Fairway Solitaire--require existing Steam PC owners to rebuy them on Steam Mac if they were bought before "being eligible for Steam Play support (May 12th, 2010)."
Thus far, only two of the fifty-plus offerings--Civilization IV: The Complete Edition and Fairway Solitaire--require existing Steam PC owners to rebuy them on Steam Mac if they were bought before "being eligible for Steam Play support (May 12th, 2010)."
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 14 May 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Reversed?http://store.steampowered.com/news/3827/
― Nhex, Friday, 14 May 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm... in that case resume kicking (actually I don't like Civ, but I guess that's another story).
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 14 May 2010 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm now able to d/l Civ IV in Steam Mac---it's kinda huge so obv. I can't test it yet...pure excitement however
― Euler, Friday, 14 May 2010 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
This week's Mac additions on Steam (on sale):
Killing FloorAltitude (Free weekend)Madballs in Babo: Invasion
Also:Sam & Max Season 2WindowsillHearts of Iron IIIChainsCasterSimplz ZooEschalon Book I
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
what's up w/all-stars throwing up duds this year, first tremé now alpha protocol :_(
― cozen, Friday, 28 May 2010 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I worked on this game (a fact of which I am not proud). I'm not here to defend it; I agree with all these reviews.
First, a comment for the guy at Cheesecake Factory - Most devs eat in the office most days, if they do go out they tend to grab something at the food court and head back. I know the execs take long lunches, but they often use them for informal meetings as well. Most of the programmers and designers very rarely ate outside the office during the time I was on this project.
There was a ton of work put into this game. The problem is that is was a ton of undirected work, or work on things that were just stupid. The Executive Producer for the game, Chris Parker (also an owner of the company), seemed to think he was the world's greatest designer ever, and created all these absolutely shitty systems and wouldn't listen to any of the real designers or devs about things that just didn't work. And you can't exactly argue with one of the owners of the company when he doesn't want to listen. He basically took over the game and dictated exactly how everything would work (or not work, as the case may be). The other producers realized this early on and just gave up, leaving Parker to micromanage all the designers and programmers directly.
Sega also was a factor, because they kept changing the design requirements (yes they had heavy influence there), which never gave the producers and designers time to actually decide on one set of features to make and polish. The blame is still mostly Obsidian's because the execution was absolutely terrible, and it was obvious 2 years ago that this game should have been scrapped. Instead, though, they focused on adding still more features and never fixed the ones they already had. That is a recipe for tons of bugs and no polish... as is obvious.
This game was just an absolute failure of production, and it's no wonder that so many of the developers left the company, even after the 40% staff layoffs. I am still happy about some of Obsidian's other current projects, New Vegas included, because they are going pretty well. Their big unannounced project is looking great and is already much better than AP ever was, and that may end up being the game that everyone was looking for with AP.
Sega should have canceled AP instead of Aliens...
― cozen, Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I've just downloaded Steam on Windows, didn't seem to work on Mac OSX (running a dual boot on a MacBook Pro). I don't seem to have any time to play games (apart from procrastination browser games) these days, but in the event I do (and once HL2Ep3 comes out it's on) my Steam name is RTotaleXVIII
― The Jolly Roget's Thesaurus (S-), Monday, 15 November 2010 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link