playing games on a PC, misc. chatter, Steam names, etc...

http://store.steampowered.com/holidaysale/

Big ass sale on Steam. Portal is $5, TF2 is $10, etc.

woah - some GREAT deals on there...

$2.49 for Trials 2 is the one I highly recommend (I paid $20.00, I think, pre-steam version). A pretty amazing / extremely challenging game, but also very addictive. It's basically a puzzle game on motorcycle - check it out.

The sale is nuts - check out the full list of discounts here. Bioshock for $5! And I just picked up TF2 earlier this month during one of the weekend sales. Steam is just insanely tempting all the time.

Is the full Trials 2 significantly different from the flash game? I thought that was okay but not super different from most flash physics sims.

woah - I'd never seen the flash version of Trials before! It is sort of just like that, in concept, but the graphics in Trial 2 are fully realized, semi-3d, up to 1080p and there are tons more tracks + leaderboards, and you can play it with a joystick, which I think makes it just a tiny bit easier / more natural to control. But damn, it's such a hard, frustrating game (trying out the flash version brought it all back). I still have tons of levels in there I haven't beat - makes me want to go back to it.

From the sale I just picked up Brothers in Arms RtH30, the original Far Cry, Indigo Prophecy and Aquaria all for less than the cost of one new game. Pretty nice! May get a few more things too before the sale ends on the 2nd, though fuck, I'm swamped in games now.

Oh man, I just noticed you can get both Railroad Tycoon II and III for like $7. I loved those games, and my discs for RRT2 had a flaw that wouldn't play any of the music.

Any other recommendations? Sale ends today.

I really wish trials 2 would come to xbla; that games look great

Full X-Com pack for $5 - sale ends today. Wondering if it's worth it just not to have to futz around with DOSbox and the like when I break out UFO Defense every couple of years, but then despite including XCOMUTIL you still have to do some patches (like putting the old screams back in). Sorry in advance if none of you know what I'm talking about, but it's aggravating over the years to figure out ways to get it to work through fan patches again (I even own the Windows Gold/Collector's Edition CD).

Left 4 Dead is $25 this weekend. Pretty good to coincide with the free DLC announcment, fair price, too. I'd probably jump on this sale if I hadn't just bought Retro Game Challenge. I'm still playing TF2 regularly, anyway...

You know, I keep meaning to ask this, though I'm not sure it really deserves an answer: who are like half the people in the Steam ILG group, anyway?

matteus is the only one I don't recognise. maybe it's you! rest are all ilxors, qaopspace is stet i think. i'm the delmot.

So anyway, Plants v. Zombies. Does this game get hard, ever? Am on to stage four and I think I've let two a grand total of two zombies through, pretty much by accident. I have 2000+ sun power left at the end of every game.

oh i see there's some chat about it on the what's hot 2009 thread. gotta lunch now though!

qaopspace is me not stet

oh you crazy guys with your similar names!

I recognized you, Jeff and JimD, but as for the rest of the names, I never see them posting here... maybe brilliam or kittyautomatic seem vaguely familiar? I guess what I'm getting at is that it seems like a lot of those people don't post on ILX anymore, since the group was created almost two years ago.

kittyauto = g-kit. onimo's still on ile, not sure about afarrell.

Brilliam is Will M. (still posts here a lot).

fuck, i can't seem to post! if this MAKES IT THROUGH THE INTERNET ETHER:

i am brilliam. i still post sometimes.

matteus = matt d. who is a full-time lurker and occasional poster.

i should join this

all right i guess i should join probably... sorry in advance for completely messing up the group play numbers!

(also, somebody should put a pic up)

hello i am kittyautomatic.
i am posting here to secure my position as member of ILG steam group for another year. plz 2 renew my membership.
i still read ILG a fair bit, and still enjoy it. i occasionally read ILE, but even now my infrequent ILE visits often end with my wanting to rip my eyes out and stamp on them.

much love x

I'm Merzbau on Steam, though I'm not online that much.

I post here on and off, I'm only ever on Steam for CS and CS:S pwnage and occasional reruns of HL1/2.

Blueberry Garden (I hope this is as good as it looks)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/29160/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOcSUDVsdu4

hey nhex were you the nhex on tf2 last night?

yep, that was me. man those Toy Fort maps are weird

I'm looking forward to the day when there's a sale on Crayon Physics - I really want that game, but not for $20.00

Magic Pen is sort of but not quite the same, and it's free.

http://magic.pen.fizzlebot.com/

crayon physics worth $20 imo! i spent a couple of evenings completely in lobe with the sound, the puzzles, the feel... more than I can say for most other stuff I bought at that price and even some stuff I bought for more (and since then he tripled the content, which I have yet to revisit)

I've been spoiled by steam weekend deals / holiday sales :(

Hey, lower prices are great and I'm all for them. There's always plenty of games out there to buy, Steam sales are great at highlighting this stuff. It's true though, inevitably there will be a sale on the game, or a general indie sale, or year-end sales that knock everything down. Might as well take advantage of it before digital distribution has enough power to keep all game prices artificially high!

Anyone playing Zeno Clash? I hadn't even heard of it until I saw the review in Edge, but they gave it 8/10 and it sounds pretty cool - a melee-based first person shooter (first person puncher?) where you get to have fist fights with elephants!

£15 on steam, think I might give it a go.

What's up with retail games requiring Steam activation? This makes it impossible to play used games.

You've answered your own question there.

Stardock is trying something new with their GOO DRM, you should be able to sell your license electronically, transfer games to another account and/or sell them legally. It also supposedly won't be tied to a specific online retailer (you can activate your game with any GOO online store). Kind of hoping it catches on so Steam eventually adopts it.

Zeno Clash is on sale this weekend for $10. I'd probably get it but... waiting for that SF IV package in a couple weeks.

Zeno Clash is on sale this weekend for $10

Sold! Although I've no idea when I'll actually get around to playing it.

aw have i missed it? i'd have given that a go.

thinkin' of dipping my toe back into the strategy/god game waters with Anno 1404 (Dawn of Discovery in the US, loooooooolllz). Although at $40-odd it would be less of a dip and more of a plunge.

had a look at zeno clash. meh. didn't like the style, and punching not nearly as much fun as shooting (although i didn't get as far as any elephants).

Yeah, I'm chugging though it, it's a nice experiment but it just doesn't work all that well. Also doesn't help that it throws a few major and pretty hard fights at you, before tutorial dude comes back about an hour in, and teaches you a few more techniques which are actually really important and helpful.

Anyone here registered and used Games for Windows Live? I'm curious to how it works. If you create a Gamertag, does it tie itself to your PC game CD keys (DRM-style, like say Steam, cd key is locked into that one account) or is it merely used for online access and tracking achievements and such? Also, can you easily change your tag/name, or have multiple tags on a single live account?

I hear you actually have to pay $10 if you want to change your tag?

And Yet It Moves is a very enjoyable, but short, puzzle platformer. Can't recommend it enough. About to play World Of Goo now, hope it's as good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXrkGFXi8g

anyone tried the l4d fanmade campaigns yet? they seem kind of clunky to install.

there's one called 'resident evil RPD' but no one was playing it

not feeling world of goo

haha

"The absolute, autonomous, freewheeling, grassroots, nonaligned, nonpartisan, sovereign, unconstrained, uncontrolled, unregimented games pack"

vs

"The autarchical, self-governing, self-reliant, self-ruling, self-sufficient games pack"

somebody broke out the thesaurus this weekend

This week's ILG Steam Group Stats!

Team Fortress 2
76.5 hrs

Plants vs. Zombies
17.8 hrs

Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009
16.8 hrs

Ha, I reckon about 50% of that PvZ time was racked up by my gf playing under my steam login.

Just got Trials 2 following the hype on the HD thread

Trials 2 Second Edition
6.9 hrs

^serious amount of time and I'm still rubbish :(

This is some crazy pricing for a dodgy train sim
http://store.steampowered.com/app/24010

$50.00 US for the base game is bad enough, but if you were to buy the DLC and expansion packs (that have all come out in the less than 3 months since the game was released) you would have spent $158.93 US. That's pspGO crazy!

Good one. If you’ve got a partner who’s not big into games, the other multiplayer bundle is a great one for casual local playing. My wife and I are loving rounds and Boomerang-fu atm

Gabecube announced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE

Urrrrrgh yes ok I want all of those

Or at least I do until I see the prices.

very interested in the steam machine! they did a great job with the steam deck.

Some of these have potential https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbgrrJ-uaqk

On a similar tip, but you don't want to wait:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTM-9ZgTJsA

Played and beat StarCom: Unknown Space, a very enjoyable indie top-down exploring space game

big price increase for the Steam Deck today: the cheaper 512GB model is now $789/€779/£649, the 1TB model $949/€919/£779
who knows what price the Frame & Machine are going to launch at ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

bad time to be launching hardware, i assume it's too late for them to cancel it entirely but i wouldn't expect a lot of them to be made

though i guess if no one else can make hardware either then the specs won't become outdated in 5 years or whenever you can finally price it reasonably

AI needs to die

GOG absolutely shooting themselves in the foot today
sending out a marketing email with Nazi symbols in the subject line, after people questioned the decision they gave a terrible response saying they "noticed before distribution, and out of respect for local sensitivities, the material was not sent to the German community."
oh and the latest game they added to their "GOG Preservation Program"? the right wing "anti political correctness" genocide simulator Hatred. yep.