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

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.

what's happening to mafia2? after the crushing disappointment of godfather i'm crossing all fingers for it to be as great as the first

also is heavy rain ever likely to appear on the pc?

doubt it, since the team seems pretty dedicated to making it PS3-centered/exclusive. you'd think they would get out an 360 port before a PC port for profitability, but I guess you never know...

I need to stop visiting CheapAssGamer. Many many tempting $5 bargains at Direct2Drive for the next month for their anniversary: http://www.direct2drive.com/d2dturns5

Might pick up Saints Row 2 for multiplayer with a friend, also I heard you can register the key with Steam too.

get stalker!

I heard the D2D version has some problems with the fan patches/mods, unfortunately. I'm sure it'll go on sale on Steam again at some point, though.

Besides, I'm probably getting FO3 in a month or so and it'll probably be too late to go back to it...

oh, nhexpaws

I already posted this in an existing Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines thread, but then realize it's in ILE where it will probably be ignored.

I know there are some fan patches out there - the main ones seem to be the "True" patch and the Patches Scrolls one (which is still getting updates!). Mainly I just want to play the game as bug free as possible without extra stuff added by modders, but I understand both patches can do this? Anyone have an idea which way I should go, starting the game completely fresh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyCs7A1v-yc

Point and click puzzle/adventure Machinarium is coming out in mid-October, but the demo is up now. I really loved the demo - definitely worth checking out.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/40709

p.s. trailer above is spoilery :(

nice demo. will buy.

on another note, god i hate Direct2Drive, their website can burn in hell. all i want to do is give them my money!

yeah I couldn't get Opera to work with it at all. Firefox worked.

figuring out how to find the registration code after you install a game is a joy, too

i've been in and out of contact with their tech support for over a week... by the point when they told me to check if my versions of java, flash and ACTIVEX were up to date i just said, fuck this, fuck your "server error"

for people in the UK - EA have a sale on at the moment, games are £4.99 and with the coupon code "VoucherCodes.com25%" on checkout they become £3.74 each! games include Mass Effect, Dead Space, Mirrors Edge, Red Alert 3, C&C 3, Burnout Paradise.

oh, link http://eastore.ea.com/store/eaemea/cat/offers/categoryID.14365500

ok if you add Mercenaries 2, Dead Space and Mirror's Edge to your cart the cost is ... £0.00! wonder how long till they fix it?

Tried that and it's fixed. If you apply the discount code it takes it down to £11.23 then if you try to close the window without buying anything a pop-up offers you another 10% off your cart to stop you leaving.

I've already got Mirror's Edge on 360. My old man's hands aren't up to the task.

Does anyone know if EA have one of those liberal pay-now-download-whenever policies? I will happily pay £3 now for Mirror's Edge & Dead Space if I can download and play them when I am not using an Eee PC ~

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/09/oct/starguard.jpg

^ dead space on the eee

Just tried out the Machinarium demo on Mac. Pretty cool stuff.

Apparently D&D Online is now free (no signup, no fees, free client, the lot). Anyone played/playing that?

Even though the Windows port is somewhat terrible, I have to say Saints Row 2 is a lot of fun! I like their design approach in a lot of ways. For instance, how they just assume you're not going to delve the story right away, plop you down in the middle of the city after the first two missions far from the main base and expect that you're going walk around and try out the crazy activities (which are indicated as clear markers, though unlabeled, on your map from the beginning) and explore the city. Also, I have to admit, the blatantly sociopathic nature of it (even GTA tries to have good characters and some semblance of criminal morality) is entertaining as well.

Lotta good stuff on the Steam sales going on this weekend - I just finally picked up the original L4D for $7.50.

Playing Torchlight now. Awesome.

wd my macbook run battlefield 2 under boot camp? the complete pack is £3.75 (!!!) right now

What's your video card?