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

I bought it, but I still haven't played it! Shameful, I know. Will get around to it soon.

Right now I'm playing Half-Life :)

looks like Steam in europe is switching over to local currency, no more taking advantage of weak dollar. boo.

Aquaria is now up on steam...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/24420/

I tried out the demo a while ago (a year ago?) and thought it was pretty neat. Very relaxing / very nice music / a little confusing. Will probably pick up the full game before the end of the year (it's on discount).

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

the Steam Deck, that is

first impressions are it feels good in the hand, not that heavy considering the size and nicely balanced
buttons & sticks are ok, not a fan of the trackpads so far but then I doubt I'll use them that much
inside the walled Steam garden it works well, but using the desktop mode (for setting up emulators, patches, mods etc) is a massive pain in the arse. I'm not a linux person and my god I never will be if it's always like this
haven't noticed much fan noise but then I haven't really pushed it yet

Sounds like a good bundle though I'm not sure how much of it already own. Will give most of the money to ACLU/Trevor Project

Should we just start a Deck thread?

https://kotaku.com/steam-deck-boot-cyberpunk-fallout-dragonball-z-gamecube-1849644839/slides/18

I got GOG and Epic working on Steam Deck by using an app called Heroic. Strange that you can add it to the steam library through the desktop steam app but not when you're in the Deck UI. Still haven't tried the yuzu switch emulator because the installation sounds like a chore -- and also I have a switch that can't be hacked so I'd need to download everything.

Whoa, Control Deluxe is $10 on Steam!

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/turkiye-syria-earthquake-relief-bundle

No great headliner, but 100% to charity always welcome.

I bought it despite not wanting any of the bigger games.

Neat that it has games made in Turkey.

Oh this looks like a promising site, i.e. recommended settings for different games on the Deck: https://steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/signalis/

Thank you! I just got mine in the mail today (feels extra special getting one in Australia). Website looks like a godsend.

Yeah that site can be handy but worth bearing in mind that for a lot of (maybe most) users, optimal settings mean “looks good and plays well and has good battery life”. But for me battery life isn’t a concern, I’m mostly playing while plugged in anyway, so the community recommended settings tend to put more constraints on performance/visuals than I want them to.

Just installed windows onto my steam deck, now have access to all my gamepass games. This is so much better than I had heard. My impression was Windows was a big compromise, but I think that was just the early days of the deck. Right now, it’s flawless and I much prefer it to the stock steam OS. This has to be my favourite console ever owned

Did you do the unregistered Windows 10 thing, where it doesn't allow the desktop to be personalized but otherwise it's complete? I am tempted.

I did unregistered windows 11, but yeah same thing. If you have games only accessible via windows I highly recommend. I did the gamepass for like $30 a year via upgrading for goal for 3 years so it felt tough not being able to access that. So great now

really good Namco bundle - Tekken 7, Katamari, Code Vein, Tales of Vesperia, God Eater 3, .hack, Pacman Museum
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/bandai-namco-fights-frights-and-fantasy

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