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[Sober]

Missed New Vegas during the summer sale. What are the odds it comes up during this Quake Con sale?

It's at the same price right now as it was during the sale (15$ USD), but Eurogamer reported that it will be featured on the last day (a Fallout sale), so I'm guessing that and DLC might have more discounts. Wait for it.

as i expected Brink is dead in south america. Found a brazilian server with 3 people and i get 200 ping there, game doesnt look THAT bad, oh well

I dunno, I found it hard to read the battlefield even after team colours and the enemy "red" tint/glow. It could be from all the hours of TF2 making everything so easy to recognize. I want to like the game because it's basically Wolf: ET but with parkour (but I didn't really like first person parkour in ME, which had better parkour than Brink).

The only good things I can say about Brink is that you can unlock all the weapon options doing the challenge modes (stuff isn't too hard unless new to FPSes, it's an hour of work) but I don't particularly understand how the ability purchasing stuff works as much, or I feel it should at least be more straightforward so you don't accidentally gimp yourself (unless selling your abilities redeems all your credits back 100%). It's an interesting concept on the grind/unlock model but if the game is as dead (read: barren) as it was before the free weekend, even with it being on top sellers now (wait til TES or Fallout days), I'm not sure about dropping 25$ for this.

 

[DyslexicAlucard]

I don't know if this is has been well-publicized already, but it seems that ALL id/Bethesda titles now have Steam Cloud support--Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout NV (already had it), all of the Doom titles right down to the original! Hell, even mother effing Commander Keen has cloud support! The only titles I could find that didn't support it were Fallout 3 and the Heretic/Hexen games. I assume/hope that they're just in the works.

I hope this is a continuing trend, as there's really no reason not to include Steam Cloud support in your titles, as far as I can tell.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Wonder if they keep tabs on your mods for Oblivion.

Also, you don't think Steam will charge me even though there was error in transaction now would it?

 

[Sober]

I don't know if this is has been well-publicized already, but it seems that ALL id/Bethesda titles now have Steam Cloud support--Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout NV (already had it), all of the Doom titles right down to the original! Hell, even mother effing Commander Keen has cloud support! The only titles I could find that didn't support it were Fallout 3 and the Heretic/Hexen games. I assume/hope that they're just in the works.

I hope this is a continuing trend, as there's really no reason not to include Steam Cloud support in your titles, as far as I can tell.

I dunno, Steam Cloud limits you to 100MB per title. A Gamebryo RPG save file is 10MB in size. Anyone sensible enough to 1) play an RPG and 2) gamble playing an RPG on a Gamebryo engine will make enough saves to break it. I am a bit conservative and for FNV, I only have 14 saves + 1 autosave -- That alone is 115MB, and I'm over the cloud limit.

Wonder if they keep tabs on your mods for Oblivion.

Mods are all on your local disk. Plus, some mods easily break the cloud limit regardless.


edit: okay, wtf why does Oblivion have 956MB for steam cloud here?

 

[nismogrendel]

I'm stuck at work, can anyone copy and paste the list of games in the quake pack? I went back a few pages but only saw the screenshot of the sale ad.

 

[DyslexicAlucard]

I'm stuck at work, can anyone copy and paste the list of games in the quake pack? I went back a few pages but only saw the screenshot of the sale ad.

Quake and Doom pack, you mean? Or the Quake-con complete pack?

Complete pack ($69.99): Quake III Arena, Quake IV, Wolfenstein 3D, The Ultimate Doom, Final DOOM, DOOM II, QUAKE, QUAKE II, QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, QUAKE III: Team Arena, HeXen: Beyond Heretic, HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Spear of Destiny, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, DOOM 3, HeXen II, DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil, Master Levels for Doom II, Commander Keen, Rogue Warrior, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition, Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth, BRINK, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Fallout: New Vegas, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™, Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money, Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts, Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues , The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe

Doom and Quake pack ($29.99): Quake III Arena, Quake IV, The Ultimate Doom, Final DOOM, DOOM II, QUAKE, QUAKE II, QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, QUAKE III: Team Arena, QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, DOOM 3, DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil, Master Levels for Doom II

 

[DyslexicAlucard]

I dunno, Steam Cloud limits you to 100MB per title. A Gamebryo RPG save file is 10MB in size. Anyone sensible enough to 1) play an RPG and 2) gamble playing an RPG on a Gamebryo engine will make enough saves to break it. I am a bit conservative and for FNV, I only have 14 saves + 1 autosave -- That alone is 115MB, and I'm over the cloud limit.


Mods are all on your local disk. Plus, some mods easily break the cloud limit regardless.


edit: okay, wtf why does Oblivion have 956MB for steam cloud here?

So? That's one genre, and a very specific example. Why wouldn't you want more features/options with your games? This is awesome news, and I can't believe GAF already has negative reactions to it. Unbelievable.

 

[nismogrendel]

Quake and Doom pack, you mean? Or the Quake-con complete pack?

Complete pack ($69.99): Quake III Arena, Quake IV, Wolfenstein 3D, The Ultimate Doom, Final DOOM, DOOM II, QUAKE, QUAKE II, QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, QUAKE III: Team Arena, HeXen: Beyond Heretic, HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Spear of Destiny, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, DOOM 3, HeXen II, DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil, Master Levels for Doom II, Commander Keen, Rogue Warrior, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition, Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth, BRINK, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Fallout: New Vegas, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™, Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money, Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts, Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues , The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe

Doom and Quake pack ($29.99): Quake III Arena, Quake IV, The Ultimate Doom, Final DOOM, DOOM II, QUAKE, QUAKE II, QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, QUAKE III: Team Arena, QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, DOOM 3, DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil, Master Levels for Doom II

Thanks a ton, the complete pack is the one I was wondering about. I'm pretty sure I'm going to pick this up. I know I am buying Skyrim, I'm really on the fence about Rage.... but I guess that is the point of this sale.

 

[Card Boy]

Kings Bounty Collection good? Or am I better off sticking with Heroes of Might and Magic 6 when it comes out? Are they even similar games?

 

[Tarin02543]

I really want quake4... but 20 € seems to expensive

what to do?

 

[markot]

try the demo. I think its a pretty solid game, but its not for everyone. (Gez!)

 

[Sinatar]

Kings Bounty Collection good? Or am I better off sticking with Heroes of Might and Magic 6 when it comes out? Are they even similar games?

The combat is similar but the overall structure is very different. But to your original question, yes the King's Bounty collection is good. Very very very good.

 

[NZNova]

I love regional pricing soooooooooo much!

 

[jim-jam bongs]

The combat is similar but the overall structure is very different. But to your original question, yes the King's Bounty collection is good. Very very very good.

Seconded, passed and carried. Buy it.

 

[NBtoaster]

I love regional pricing soooooooooo much!

Considering the bad US dollar, it's about the same you should expect to pay at retail anyway.

 

[elektrixx]

If I get gifted Rage or Skyrim does that still get me a further discount on the QuakeCon pack?

 

[Echoplx]

Considering the bad US dollar, it's about the same you should expect to pay at retail anyway.

WAT

Our dollar is above parity with the USD currently, how the fuck does 60$ go to 90$ ?

 

[Card Boy]

Considering the bad US dollar, it's about the same you should expect to pay at retail anyway.

Maybe you should check the US dollar.

 

[slidewinder]

He's just confused by the price being quoted as "USD" and didn't realize it was actually yet another case of people down under getting bent over a barrel.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

I think he meant that it's close to what we would pay at retail in Australia after the currency exchange because of how crappy the USD is. He's right too

 

[elektrixx]

I think he meant that it's close to what we would pay at retail in Australia after the currency exchange because of how crappy the USD is. He's right too

He's right, but it's so wrong.

 

[NBtoaster]

WAT

Our dollar is above parity with the USD currently, how the fuck does 60$ go to 90$ ?

Australia or New Zealand? I assumed NZ considering his name. $90 is about $107 NZ according to google, which is the average price of a pc retail game here.

Feel free to correct me, I'm not sure how sound this logic is ;p

 

[slidewinder]

I think he meant that it's close to what we would pay at retail in Australia after the currency exchange because of how crappy the USD is. He's right too

Ahh, good point.

 

[Echoplx]

Australia or New Zealand? I assumed NZ considering his name. $90 is about $107 NZ according to google, which is the average price of a pc retail game here.

Feel free to correct me, I'm not sure how sound this logic is ;p

So your logic is that because retail price gouges it's ok for digital to as well? lol

 

[toastyToast]

So your logic is that because retail price gouges it's ok for digital to as well? lol

That's exactly what they want you to think

 

[NBtoaster]

So your logic is that because retail price gouges it's ok for digital to as well? lol

Never said I was pleased with the prices :F

 

[iSimon]

Can you gift pre-orders?
I don't want to pay $90 for Skyrim.

 

[NZNova]

Yeah I'm in NZ, and getting fucked over on the prices of digital sucks. Usually games are a bit cheaper digitally, which makes up for the pain-in-the-ass factor of downloading them over a shitty, low-data-cap NZ internet connection (gonna take a couple months to download all the stuff I bought in the summer sale...). Not this time though, damn it. I wonder if it can be gifted over from the states.

 

[jaundicejuice]

3,637 5,212 BRINK

12th overall, colour me surprised. Honestly did not expect that large a bump. Are there any substantive improvements in the recent patches and DLC or is it essentially the same game that it was when it first launched?

 

[mojiimbo]

^^

Yes, those can be gifted. PM me if you need help with that.

 

[The_Player]

3,637 5,212 BRINK

12th overall, colour me surprised. Honestly did not expect that large a bump. Are there any substantive improvements in the recent patches and DLC or is it essentially the same game that it was when it first launched?

Nah, it's just free weekend. What is said.

 

[jaundicejuice]

I know it's fre...you know what, never mind.

 

[svegis]

I don't know if this is has been well-publicized already, but it seems that ALL id/Bethesda titles now have Steam Cloud support--Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout NV (already had it), all of the Doom titles right down to the original! Hell, even mother effing Commander Keen has cloud support! The only titles I could find that didn't support it were Fallout 3 and the Heretic/Hexen games. I assume/hope that they're just in the works.

I hope this is a continuing trend, as there's really no reason not to include Steam Cloud support in your titles, as far as I can tell.

Where do you see that the original Doom/Quake titles have Steam Cloud support? It's not on the store page, am I missing something? I haven't read through the QuakeCon thread yet, so if it's in there, apologizes!

 

[Fjord]

Kings Bounty Collection good? Or am I better off sticking with Heroes of Might and Magic 6 when it comes out? Are they even similar games?

I couldn't go back to HoMM after playing King's Bounty. It's a little difficult at first but superior game mechanics imo.

 

[slidewinder]

Where do you see that the original Doom/Quake titles have Steam Cloud support? It's not on the store page, am I missing something? I haven't read through the QuakeCon thread yet, so if it's in there, apologizes!

You can see the cloud icon in the list view. I fired up a fresh install of Ultimate Doom a bit ago and it sure enough uploaded my save after I quit.

 

[svegis]

You can see the cloud icon in the list view. I fired up a fresh install of Ultimate Doom a bit ago and it sure enough uploaded my save after I quit.

Thank you, I figured as much. I don't own the games on Steam so I couldn't check myself.

 

[benjipwns]

Steam Cloud just got added yesterday I think.

 

[DyslexicAlucard]

Where do you see that the original Doom/Quake titles have Steam Cloud support? It's not on the store page, am I missing something? I haven't read through the QuakeCon thread yet, so if it's in there, apologizes!

Also, they're listed as Cloud supported on the store, at least in Canada.

 

[shintoki]

The good thing about the free weekend plays is, you get to know if a game is a PoS or not. Got Brink out of my system already. Only lasted 3 rounds before the controls got the best of me. Too janky for what they wanted me to do, on top of the guns feeling like pee-shooters.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

So anyone else had issues with GTA 4? I'm getting 30-40 FPS but for some reason I'm getting these sort of micro stutters. It definitely isn't normal slowdown (as verified by Fraps), it's like it stutters to load in the next area? Pretty much unplayable for me at this point, as I hate that janky sort of stuff.

 

[Servizio]

So anyone else had issues with GTA 4? I'm getting 30-40 FPS but for some reason I'm getting these sort of micro stutters. It definitely isn't normal slowdown (as verified by Fraps), it's like it stutters to load in the next area? Pretty much unplayable for me at this point, as I hate that janky sort of stuff.

Could just be slow on the fly loading. You can try defragging the GTA files or the whole hard drive and see if that helps any.

 

[Dice]

It's probably not loading far enough ahead. Witcher 2 was janky like that until I set it to utilize all of my video memory instead of just a small part (I guess default settings were for shitty cards) and Unreal engine games are janky at first until I run around a bit.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

It's probably not loading far enough ahead. Witcher 2 was janky like that until I set it to utilize all of my video memory instead of just a small part (I guess default settings were for shitty cards) and Unreal engine games are janky at first until I run around a bit.

It's weird though because GTA 4 roughly tells you how much Vram you're utilising depending on your selected settings. I think I was only like 900/2000 though. Could d3doverrider be a problem maybe?

 

[Marsipolami]

I don't know if this is has been well-publicized already, but it seems that ALL id/Bethesda titles now have Steam Cloud support--Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout NV (already had it), all of the Doom titles right down to the original! Hell, even mother effing Commander Keen has cloud support! The only titles I could find that didn't support it were Fallout 3 and the Heretic/Hexen games. I assume/hope that they're just in the works.

I hope this is a continuing trend, as there's really no reason not to include Steam Cloud support in your titles, as far as I can tell.

Acually, the cloud support for Fallout: New Vegas was removed because of a bug shortly after release and hasn't been fixed yet. My save hasn't been uploaded at least.

 

[Zimbardo]

http://store.origin.com/store/ea/html/pbpage.summersale?easid=Sale_499_PCDD

EA with the same $4.99 sale on select titles that they did last weekend.

so if u were interested in anything there but missed out, now is the second chance.

 

[MNC]

I share your pain, bro. They just cut off all that was good in ME1 and ended up with pretty generic duck'n'cover TPS. And yet most of gamers think that the second part is much better than the original.

It's driving me crazy. I loved the inventory in Mass Effect 1 and creating loadouts on the go and changing gear to the littlest bits was what made it so good to me. Trying to look for info on Mass Effect 3, I read people hated teh ME1 inventory and preferred ME2's!?

 

[HadesGigas]

It's driving me crazy. I loved the inventory in Mass Effect 1 and creating loadouts on the go and changing gear to the littlest bits was what made it so good to me. Trying to look for info on Mass Effect 3, I read people hated teh ME1 inventory and preferred ME2's!?

The part of the inventory people hated in ME1 was that you'd constantly be brushing up against the weight limit and would have to either stop picking stuff up or keep converting things to omni gel.

 

[Card Boy]

Greenman Gaming have 50% off all Total War games. All their Total War games are Steam versions, including Rome and Medievel 2.



Empire and Napoleon: Total War - Game of the Year Edition - $14.97
Empire: Total War - $9.97
Medieval II: Total War Gold Edition - $7.47
Napoleon: Total War - $14.97
Rome: Total War Gold Edition - $4.97
Total War: Shogun 2 - $24.97

 

[Keasar]

Oh whats this? Fallout: New Vegas för 14.99 Euro? Dont mind if I do.

 

[R1CHO]

Is there interest in a Renegade Ops preorder 4Pack? I can host.

Its 24.99€ So 8.8$ Each (+Paypal fee)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/99300/

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