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

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!

so is this droplitz thing any good? i saw someone wz playing it earlier

I have been playing it a fair bit, easily worth the 200 American penny price it is at now. Dunno if I'd buy it at 10 but a great time waster at 2.

eh i don't really want any puzzle game that isn't great, you know?

today i keep getting kicked out off / voted off left 4 dead games :(

Droplitz isn't worth buying as far as I can tell, but I enjoyed the 10 minutes I spent with its trial version.

Huh, didn't notice as part of the Steam site mini-redesign (they changed the header style on your friends/games list) there's a little section if you logged in that shows your friend's combined game hours, the way it does for groups. Neato!

thomp - that's why I never played much left4dead - that's what ruined it for me :(

Ended up buying the 360 version so I could play with friends, but by then they'd all moved on to the next game :(

Does Steam have any decent cheap RPGs?

The original KOTOR just got released on Steam for $10. Not cheap right now ($20), but Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines was my first Steam purchase and it's been sitting on my HD unplayed for a year...

Besides the Fallouts which are obvious classics, what's good in the GOG promo here (which ends in a little over 2 days)?

http://www.gog.com/en/page/1year_promo/

Basically I guess I'm asking: what's worth $3? I'm leaning towards Messiah, though I remember that to be both really cool and really buggy when it was released.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto is popular. I bought it with the Earthworm Jim pack but I haven't played it yet.

Avoid Stonekeep. Freespace 2 is available as freeware.

what was bad about stonekeep? i had it as part of at least one best-rpgs-ever collection but it never ran :(

kieron gillen on rock paper shotgun reps for sacrifice an awful lot, i think

i never liked messiah or the awfully-named 'giants: citizen kabuto'. i actually wrote 'awfully naked' at first which was kind of an apt typo

mdk + mdk 2 are worth a look at that price; mdk 2 is a bit like a good giants, actually

i believe 'hostile waters: anteus rising' is the game warren ellis worked on? the comic book author, not the musician. if i had a pc nearby that wasn't an asus eee i would probably be buying that one out of curiousity. that and 'jagged alliance 2', which i keep hearing things about. tho i think you were one of the people repping for it on this board in which case i would imagine you have played it already

I got Stonekeep with the Interplay RPG collection and never got very far in it. I believe it's all repetitive dungeon fighting in a maze.

b-b-b-but that sounds great!!

Haha i'm actually kind of with you on that one, but not enough to buy. I do remember Stonekeep at the time having a really awful reputation for bugginess, worse than even Messiah.

I actually own MDK, original box and all (and probably have MDK2 on the Dreamcast somewhere) and was always terrible at it, so I'll pass on those. JA2 I have repped for, love it. In fact the first purchases I got off GOG last year during the beta were Fallout Tactics and JA2: Unfinished Business (both still unplayed, of course).

Definitely strikes me that most of the 2000 and later releases are RTS titles trying to cash in on the success of Starcraft, Total Annihilation, and C&C, but I've never really been that into the genre.

Also hell you might as well buy Hostile Waters now, like Steam you can redownload the games at any time, and it's DRM-free to boot. And you never know, it might even run on your EEE!

Just a reminder that the GOG sale ends today. And also for some reason SF IV is still at $20 on Steam, if you wanted to get it before that offer dries up. And... huh!

LEGO Batman
9.9 hrs

i have now added hostile waters and ja2 to my ever-increasing list of pc games i own and am not about to be getting around to

also, that website was natwest protection enabled which annoys me - you enter your card details and it asks you for your special natwest credit card password, which i forget every time - when i fail to enter the password you get taken to another screen, which asks for your card details, at which point you enter a new password. who can point out the flaw in this credit card protection strategy?

Caved in at literally the last minute and picked up Messiah and Descent: Freespace + Expansion.