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Author:  Darkroland [ Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Steam Perils of Summer Sale
Wow. Holy crap. Steam has some absolutely incredible summer deals going. I can sense that my credit card is about to get charged for things. Gaming type things.

http://store.steampowered.com/
Author:  Roophus Gunthar [ Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:58 pm ]
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This is bad news for me. Within the RPG genre alone, I'm seeing myself spending over $100. Ruh roh!

*Update*

I already picked up the Overlord pack for under $5, as well as the THQ pack for $50. I think I'll have enough games to last me until Starcraft 2...or probably until the year 2012 for that matter. I never got a chance to play Dawn of War II, Titan Quest, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., or Company of Heroes. The other games added to the pack are just a bonus, because those previous games listed (along with all their expansions) is worth $50 to me.
Author:  darksiege [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:46 am ]
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I have been looking at the about section... what exactly is Steam? is it an Emulator to play all these games?
Author:  Raltar [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:58 am ]
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Steam is a platform kinda like Xbox Live!. You can chat with your Steam friends and buy PC games on it. For a couple of games(pretty much Valve only games, since Steam was created by Valve. At least, I'm fairly certain it was Valve) it will keep track of achievements you earn. And sometimes they have super sweet deals.
Author:  NephyrS [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:03 am ]
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Not only that, but you can download and play your games, saves included, from any computer.

Instead of having to keep track of CDs, etc.

VERY nice if you play games between multiple computers.
Author:  Darkroland [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:21 am ]
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NephyrS wrote:
Not only that, but you can download and play your games, saves included, from any computer.

Instead of having to keep track of CDs, etc.

VERY nice if you play games between multiple computers.


This was what sold me on it as well. A lot of games are starting to leverage the "steam cloud" as well, which means your saved games are uploaded to the server for retrieval after you quit. So play on one system, go somewhere else, play on another, you continue with the same save.

Also, it's nice to reformat a system (or lose a drive), and all your games are there, ready for download.

I picked up the overlord pack, Trine, The Witcher enhanced directors cut, and the whispered world. That's a heck of a lot of gaming for not a lot of cash!
Author:  Ulfynn [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:29 am ]
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Hey, thanks for the heads-up! I grabbed Trine and Overlord pack for $9 + change. I'll likely shop for more after work.
Author:  NephyrS [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:15 am ]
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Ok, so since I'm looking through the games and wondering, I'll ask it here.

When a game requires, say, a Radeon 6800 + graphics card...

Does a Radeon 7300 count?

I've never been exactly sure of how the scaling goes.

I know 7 series is generally better than the 6 series, but that often a "lower hundred" in a higher series is less powerful.

Specifically, I'm looking at Overlord II.
Author:  Darkroland [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:37 am ]
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NephyrS wrote:
Ok, so since I'm looking through the games and wondering, I'll ask it here.

When a game requires, say, a Radeon 6800 + graphics card...

Does a Radeon 7300 count?

I've never been exactly sure of how the scaling goes.

I know 7 series is generally better than the 6 series, but that often a "lower hundred" in a higher series is less powerful.

Specifically, I'm looking at Overlord II.


It's difficult to say as i'm not finding the complete specs online (and it changes on the version/manuf of the card you have anyway), but I know that memory is a pretty important component. It looks like overlord II requires 256MB video card memory, do you know how much yours has? Also, took me a sec to find it, it's a Geforce 7300, not an ATI Radeon, right?

If you want to get that overlord complete pack, might want to go ahead and spend the 4.50, that sale was a daily and it ends in about 20 minutes.
Edit: Sale's over for now, but the individual games are still on sale, can pick up all 3 for 11.87.
Author:  NephyrS [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:33 pm ]
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From what DXdiag tells me:

512 memory (although I don't think that's dedicated) and 64 bit "interface".

I have 3gb of system memory, and a dual core 2.4 Ghz Intel processor, for the rest of my system specs.

I'd honestly like to try out Aion, but I am next to positive that my system will not run it.

After I got into EQ, I pretty much stopped playing other games, so I've really fallen behind in keeping up with relative computer specs.

I'd just upgrade the graphics card, but my power supply is relatively weak, and I'm not sure it would take a much beefier card.

And upgrading the power supply isn't the easiest thing on my Dell- apparently they don't have a normal sized space for it, so most supplies don't fit well.
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:56 pm ]
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darksiege wrote:
I have been looking at the about section... what exactly is Steam? is it an Emulator to play all these games?

Steam is Valve's digital distribution and matchmaking architecture for PC games.

You download a free client (the Steam client) that will connect to an HTML (? Used to be, now it might be CSS or PHP or something -- browser-based, in any case, though it's only accessible to the in-client browser engine) store in which you can browse games published by Valve and other publishers who contract to make their games available on Steam. Steam provides an SSL encrypted checkout system that can be paid with credit cards or, I think, Paypal.

Steam will also allow you to manage your library of games -- your account keeps a list of games you've purchased on Steam (or, in the case of Valve and a very small number of other publishers, games you might have purchased as a box from a brick and mortar or mail order retailer, and then entered the Steam code for after you installed the game off the disc -- this process links the game to your Steam account. As I said, though, Valve and only 1 or 2 other developers have done this). From this list, you can choose to download and install games, uninstall games (which will remove local content only, while still retaining them in your account -- so you can reinstall them at a later date) or start up games you've installed.

Steam also automatically manages updates and patches to games. It has the option to run the client in the background at start-up, in which case it will background download updates for any installed game as soon as they're made available.

Many multiplayer games on Steam use Steam's matchmaking services, which were derived from Gamespy's old matchmaking client (Valve partnered with Gamespy way back in the beginning for this purpose).

Steam also has a friends system, by which you can add friends with mutual authorization, and from then on be notified by the client when they are playing a game (along with which game they're playing, and the option to start the same game and connect to the multiplayer server they're on, if possible), and see what games your friends have been playing lately, as well.

A few years ago, Steam added an achievement system similar to Live!'s. Steam also provides excellent voice chat functions, which multiplayer games can integrate in-game if they choose.

Steam's content management system and account-based nature allows Steam to function as a basic copyright infringement protection for games downloaded on its network -- since Steam must be running to execute Steam-downloaded games, and two computers can't be logged into the same account at once, there's no need to put additional copyright protection in Steam-delivered software. Steam has an offline mode that can allow you to run it when not connected to the internet if you set it to run offline on that computer before you're disconnected. Valve also provides the option for games which use Steam's matchmaking to use Valve's VAC system (Valve Anti-Cheat) which uses the content delivery infrastructure to scan for file tampering.


TL;DR:
Steam is the bomb.
Author:  Darkroland [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:09 pm ]
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Kaffis Mark V wrote:
TL;DR:
Steam is the bomb.


I had to look up what TL;DR meant. :) After I read the entire post!

NephyrS wrote:
From what DXdiag tells me:

512 memory (although I don't think that's dedicated) and 64 bit "interface".


Nah, that's all mem available, including shared. If you open the nVidia Control panel and click on "system information" at the bottom, it will list both shared and dedicated video memory there.
Author:  NephyrS [ Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:29 pm ]
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I'll check when I get home. I think it's 128 dedicated.
Author:  Elessar [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:55 pm ]
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What was that game that was on sale on Steam awhile ago by the guys who made Diablo? I can't recall the title but I've been wanting to try it out.
Author:  Roophus Gunthar [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 2:25 pm ]
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Torchlight.

I must say, I absolutely love Steam! I've been going nuts buying games on here since this sale began. Here's my purchases thus far, and I doubt it'll end until the sale is done:

THQ Pack ($50)- Which includes:
-Company of Heroes (And all expansions)
-Frontlines: Fuel of War
-Full Spectrum Warrior + Expansion
-Juiced 2
-Metro 2033
-Red Faction
-Red Faction Gorilla
-Red Faction II
-S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
-Saints Row 2
-Titan Quest + Expansion
-Warhammer Dawn of War II + Expansion
-Warhammer Dawn of War I Gold edition + Expansions
-World of Zoo
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Trine ($3-4)
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition ($6ish)
Overlord Package, which includes: ($3ish I think)
-Overlord + Expansion
-Overlord 2
Max Payne Package ($3+)
-Max Payne 1
-Max Payne 2
Gothic Package ($2)
-Gothic 2 Gold Edition
-Gothic 3

For all of those games, I maybe spent a little over $65. I'd say that's a hell of a deal for the hundreds, if not thousands of hours of gameplay I can get out of this. I'm so excited! I don't even know what ones to download first.
Author:  darksiege [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 2:37 pm ]
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thanks all, I may give this thing a try...
Author:  Lenas [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:33 pm ]
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I'm going to be getting the THQ pack asap
Author:  Elessar [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:44 pm ]
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Roophus Gunthar wrote:
Torchlight.


Ah yes, thank you. It was on sale for 50% off ($10 USD) so I figured I'd pick it up since my laptop is getting kind of older and slower.
Author:  Uinan [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:56 pm ]
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I snagged Counter Strike Source while it was on sale. Now to see how badly I humiliate myself trying to play a PC FPS again.
Author:  Crimsonsun [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:51 pm ]
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damnit.. I just bought the DoW 2 expansion a couple days ago :( now its on sale for cheap
Author:  Elessar [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:40 pm ]
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Uinan wrote:
I snagged Counter Strike Source while it was on sale. Now to see how badly I humiliate myself trying to play a PC FPS again.


Thats a rough one to restart on too. Pretty unforgiving.
Author:  Uinan [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:44 pm ]
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Elessar wrote:
Uinan wrote:
I snagged Counter Strike Source while it was on sale. Now to see how badly I humiliate myself trying to play a PC FPS again.


Thats a rough one to restart on too. Pretty unforgiving.


So I'm hearing. either way for $6 or $7 I figured even if I get a couple hours of entertainment out of it, it'd still have been worth it to try.
Author:  Elessar [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:56 pm ]
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Uinan wrote:
Elessar wrote:
Uinan wrote:
I snagged Counter Strike Source while it was on sale. Now to see how badly I humiliate myself trying to play a PC FPS again.


Thats a rough one to restart on too. Pretty unforgiving.


So I'm hearing. either way for $6 or $7 I figured even if I get a couple hours of entertainment out of it, it'd still have been worth it to try.


Ya you definitely should. The key is to not get too frustrated with it. At the beginning its very annoying because half the time you don't know who shot you or why you died so quick, but after a bit you'll get the hang of it. You'll know the maps and good places to move, lines of sight, etc etc. It's actually a lot of fun if you find a good server with non-dick people.
Author:  Elessar [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:09 pm ]
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Torchlight is pretty cool so far. It seems to have taken all the pluses of Titan Quest and added them to a Blizzard-style game.

Nothign ground breaking but its fun enough for me to play a bit after work when I'm up north on my laptop.
Author:  Darkroland [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:51 pm ]
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Elessar wrote:
Torchlight is pretty cool so far. It seems to have taken all the pluses of Titan Quest and added them to a Blizzard-style game.

Nothign ground breaking but its fun enough for me to play a bit after work when I'm up north on my laptop.


That's all it is. Diablo updated until Diablo 3 comes out. :)
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