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[dani_dc]

That post with all those genesis pack just reminds me of the amount of great Genesis games I own that I haven't played that I completely forgot existed.
I basically only played Comix Zone, a bit of Shining Force and Sonics games from the collection so far despite owning it for over a year.

I cleaned out most of my friend list because of all the holiday gifting help over the past year and not wanting to go through 300 people to figure out who is who, so if you're supposed to be there feel free to add me again and don't take it personally.

And that's why Steam now has friends tags!

 

[xelios]

Noooo !!!! ... May I add you

Go for it, Steam link is in my profile. I'm the guy with the Simba avatar!

Also that's an awesome deal on the Sega packs, didn't even know they redeemed on Steam.

And that's why Steam now has friends tags!

Yeah but I had to start all over, I couldn't go back and tag them all. I imagine at least half were just people who got international gift help for Bulletstorm/Alice/Dead Spaces, which I won't be doing again. So time for a clean start! I managed to recognize and keep 70 out of 290.

 

[Leon Belmont]

Go for it, Steam link is in my profile. I'm the guy with the Simba avatar!

Also that's an awesome deal on the Sega packs, didn't even know they redeemed on Steam.



Yeah but I had to start all over, I couldn't go back and tag them all. I imagine at least half were just people who got international gift help for Bulletstorm/Alice/Dead Spaces, which I won't be doing again. So time for a clean start! I managed to recognize and keep 70 out of 290.

You deleted me :'(

You're a naughty boy, so you will receive coal from x'mas gift

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

It would help if Steam upped the number of friends already, give me 999 for no reason already. I barely have enough room to start adding GAF people.

 

[1-D_FTW]

What? 12 MB no way, it's using around 100 MB's. Yet the biggest problem is the CPU cycles it burns through. Like i said when it's active and navigating through options it uses upwards 33% CPU resources. That's why im asking if it's gets to a sort of hybernating state when gaming.

Pretty much why I tried it once with the beta, then abandoned it. I thought it was using resources, at least at the start of the beta, even when in game. But who knows now. I suppose you could run monitoring software and compare a scene with and without BPM.

 

[Kryptonite]

Go for it, Steam link is in my profile. I'm the guy with the Simba avatar!

Thanks! I just added you (my nick is Mupits on Steam). Your Mark of the Ninja recommendation was great; I've only finished the first level, but the game is awesome!

 

[Archie]

It would help if Steam upped the number of friends already, give me 999 for no reason already. I barely have enough room to start adding GAF people.

Why do services like Steam, XBL (and I presume PSN) even have friend limits? Is it a technical thing?

 

[xenoflux2113]

Okay so I am trying to decide between Sine Mora, Tiny & Big, Hell Yeah!, or Orcs Must Die 2 (sans DLC right now). Tiny & Big and Hell Yeah! I don't know much about outside of them being 3d and 2d platformers. Any thoughts?

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

Why do services like Steam, XBL (and I presume PSN) even have friend limits? Is it a technical thing?

I've always wondered that myself. I'm no networking engineer but it always seemed rather painless to be able to lift the allowed number up higher and higher. Microsoft bullshitted once saying that the friend list cap was in fact something hard coded on the original xbox and it had to be kept that way for compatibility reasons. Once OXbox Live got shut down though? Nary a peep. Free our friend lists!

 

[RionaaM]

Okay so I am trying to decide between Sine Mora, Tiny & Big, Hell Yeah!, or Orcs Must Die 2 (sans DLC right now). Tiny & Big and Hell Yeah! I don't know much about outside of them being 3d and 2d platformers. Any thoughts?

Hell Yeah! is awesome, in fact I just bought the DLC (already beat the game, sans a couple of missions and customisations). Earlier tonight I tried the Sine Mora demo and didn't like it, but I haven't played the full game, so my opinion may be inaccurate. Tiny and Big looks interesting, but I read the only sandbox level is the first one, and the rest of the game is an average platformer, which kind of defeats the whole point of it. And I didn't play OMD2, but I played the demo of the first one and thought it was nice, though I'm afraid it may become repetitive after some time. I'll probably get the franchise pack on the Winter Seal, if I have some money to spare.

 

[Refreshment.01]

I'm only getting around 10% usage when navigating and 0-1ish% when playing a game. Ram usage goes up to 100MB navigating and then goes to 170ish when playing a game.

Thanks for the numbers. Although it depends of the processor also, my CPU is very old so chances are yours is more powerful. Still 10% is a lot too

Pretty much why I tried it once with the beta, then abandoned it. I thought it was using resources, at least at the start of the beta, even when in game. But who knows now. I suppose you could run monitoring software and compare a scene with and without BPM.

A good to know im not the only one, thanks 1-D. Too bad cause it's pretty sweet. Looks a lot cooler than Live and the 360 interface. Fuunny because im using the 360 pad to control it.

 

[xenoflux2113]

Hell Yeah! is awesome, in fact I just bought the DLC (already beat the game, sans a couple of missions and customisations). Earlier tonight I tried the Sine Mora demo and didn't like it, but I haven't played the full game, so my opinion may be inaccurate. Tiny and Big looks interesting, but I read the only sandbox level is the first one, and the rest of the game is an average platformer, which kind of defeats the whole point of it. And I didn't play OMD2, but I played the demo of the first one and thought it was nice, though I'm afraid it may become repetitive after some time. I'll probably get the franchise pack on the Winter Seal, if I have some money to spare.

Yeah I have OMD1 and its fun but it did get repetitive for me. I was mainly wondering about tiny & big and Hell Yeah!, I remember Salsa talking about it being fun and metroidvania being thrown around on the thread at the same time but I can't remember if it was for that game or not.

I will say Tiny & Big's trailer music is really pushing me towards it.

 

[Leon Belmont]

I didn't know that Hell Yeah had issues with K-lite codecs (I couldn't see the Intro Video), I had to uninstall the k-lite pack

 

[Game Guru]

Hey... How well does Geometry Wars and Spear of Destiny run on Windows 7? I'm just curious about that and they are extremely cheap right now. It's not like with Secret of Monkey Island, which I bought, where I fear of Disney being all "No more Monkey Island Ever."

 

[Blizzard]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Amazon has all five packs for $5, $2.50 less than a single pack . They activate on Steam. In fact, that's where I got my codes from; I didn't realize that I owned the first four already.

Edit: crushed!

Well, hopefully the money went to a good cause/publisher.

 

[SteveWinwood]

Well, hopefully the money went to a good cause/publisher.

Sega?

lol

 

[ArjanN]

I was also expecting a lot more of a twist at the end based on flipping through the diary (some of the entries were really weird) and some of the hidden items floating about (like all the ID cards for real serial killers).

There's an alternate ending if you beat nightmare mode.

 

[JustinBB7]

About the friends limit thing, I think I saw somebody from Valve say it takes up a lot of server space. Not 100% sure on that though. Think I read it on the Steam forums a while back.

 

[Stallion Free]

There's an alternate ending if you beat nightmare mode.

Haha good luck with that. I just opened up the bik file after beating the game on normal and was pleased I didn't waste any effort trying to get that.

 

[HoosTrax]

About the friends limit thing, I think I saw somebody from Valve say it takes up a lot of server space. Not 100% sure on that though. Think I read it on the Steam forums a while back.

I must be missing something...

[40 mil users] x [one 32-bit integer used to store a friend's steam id number] x [number of friends (assume 300)]

= ~48 GB

Even if you increase that to 1000 friends, that's still insignificant.

Maybe they mean server resources to serve up the community feed updates.

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

About the friends limit thing, I think I saw somebody from Valve say it takes up a lot of server space. Not 100% sure on that though. Think I read it on the Steam forums a while back.

Curious to how much space it can take up when every user has 2GB of free screenshot space to mess around with, though i'm sure there are different servers in place for different kinds of content.

 

[Blizzard]

Sega?

lol

Be quiet, I'm going to cry myself to sleep.

 

[Stallion Free]

People only every hit friends limits by treating it like Pokemon.

 

[DTKT]

Curious to how much space it can take up when every user has 2GB of free screenshot space to mess around with, though i'm sure there are different servers in place for different kinds of content.

I wonder if they store everything internally to get storage from Amazon CS. I doubt they have the infrastructure or the backend to support 2gig+100mb for cloud saves for every single user.

 

[Caerith]

You deleted me :'(

You're a naughty boy, so you will receive coal from x'mas gift

He deleted me too.

But I do hope we get coal again this year. Or at least some kind of activity.

 

[HoosTrax]

I wonder if they store everything internally to get storage from Amazon CS. I doubt they have the infrastructure or the backend to support 2gig+100mb for cloud saves for every single user.

I've uploaded 147 screenshots and I still have 1.95 GB remaining. Dat image compression...

 

[DyslexicAlucard]

Holy shit, pack 4 has Shining Force 1 and 2? I'd love that, because I've never actually played those and I'm pretty sure that's a war crime of some sort.

It is, which is why you win ^^

I would like pack 2 for flicky man I played that game quite a bit when I was younger.

Only entrant for #2, so you win by default.

Pack 1 and 3 had no entrants, sooo :S.

 

[Stallion Free]

Valve accurately values a Steam users screenshots and compresses them accordingly. Sorry you had to hear it from me.

 

[Blizzard]

Thanks to the people telling me about the Amazon pack, the first person to quote this post gets the leftover Genesis 4 pack code.

 

[mannerbot]

Thanks to the people telling me about the Amazon pack, the first person to quote this post gets the leftover Genesis 4 pack code.

Me please?

 

[Caerith]

How do these Sega packs play? I mean are they just emulator dumps?

 

[Blizzard]

Me please?

Okay.

 

[Kryptonite]

How do these Sega packs play? I mean are they just emulator dumps?

Probably, but they do bump up your games count

 

[I NEED SCISSORS]

Far Cry 3 and Assassins Creed 3 not available on UK Steam is going to be really really shitty come Christmas time..

What could the issue possibly be?

 

[DTKT]

Far Cry 3 and Assassins Creed 3 not available on UK Steam is going to be really really shitty come Christmas time..

What could the issue possibly be?

Game or any other retailer in the UK. They are all deeply afraid of the digital age.

 

[Salsa]

I think the thing I like the most about Mark is the fact that when those drums kick in I suddenly feel like im playing a Samurai Jack game

 

[Gav47]

Game or any other retailer in the UK. They are all deeply afraid of the digital age.

GAME is going to start stocking Steam gift cards.

 

[mannerbot]

Okay.

Thanks!

 

[RionaaM]

Hitman: Absolution done. Now what should I play next? Spec Ops? Binary Domain? Mark of the Ninja? Revelations 2012?

Yeah I have OMD1 and its fun but it did get repetitive for me. I was mainly wondering about tiny & big and Hell Yeah!, I remember Salsa talking about it being fun and metroidvania being thrown around on the thread at the same time but I can't remember if it was for that game or not.

I will say Tiny & Big's trailer music is really pushing me towards it.

Hell Yeah! is metroidvania-like, yes. Though there isn't much to do in the open levels, nor power-ups to collect. I liked it a lot, and it made me laugh several times, which is probably the fastest way of winning my heart.

 

[Caerith]

Hitman: Absolution done. Now what should I play next? Spec Ops? Binary Domain? Mark of the Ninja? Revelations 2012?


Hell Yeah! is metroidvania-like, yes. Though there isn't much to do in the open levels, nor power-ups to collect. I liked it a lot, and it made me laugh several times, which is probably the fastest way of winning my heart.

I heard Mark is pretty good. If you have a backloggery account, why not see what your fortune cookie says?

 

[Berto]

Currently playing Max Payne 3. I knew it was going to be a disapointment so i'm not really disliking it, but damn at those cutscenes, cutscenes everywhere. And all of them with shitty filters and stupid random quotes. I miss good old Max Payne

 

[Deputy Dangle]

Downloading the Sine Mora demo right now. Is Tiny and Big any good?

I've got my eye on Geometry Wars, Braid and the Hell Yeah! DLC. Not bad for a surprise sale, I think.

I got Tiny and Big when it was around $5, and I really enjoyed it. I beat it in around 2 hours without really trying to find all of the collectibles which are well hidden. The game gives you some fun tools to mess around with, and the levels take advantage of using each tool creatively.

Some levels are also seemingly pretty large in size which made paths feel nonlinear and meandering yet I still reached the end of the level without getting lost. It's hard to describe, and it's definitely one of my favorite downloadable releases of the year.

 

[Milamber]

Hey guys, can anybody help a guy out & buy me the Sega Genesis Classic Game Pack (5 pack bundle) on Amazon for $4.99? I can Paypal you.

EDIT: mr. grape will help.

EDIT 2: mr. grape is helping.

EDIT 3: mr. grape is AWESOME!

 

[RionaaM]

I heard Mark is pretty good. If you have a backloggery account, why not see what your fortune cookie says?

Nope, I don't have one. I think I'd become stressed if I started treating games as work, lol. But if I keep adding games to my Steam account, I may have to try that site.

I got Tiny and Big when it was around $5, and I really enjoyed it. I beat it in around 2 hours without really trying to find all of the collectibles which are well hidden. The game gives you some fun tools to mess around with, and the levels take advantage of using each tool creatively.

Some levels are also seemingly pretty large in size which made paths feel nonlinear and meandering yet I still reached the end of the level without getting lost. It's hard to describe, and it's definitely one of my favorite downloadable releases of the year.

OK, for 2.50 bucks I guess I can't go wrong. Thanks for the heads-up, just bought it.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Can i disable the big picture icon on the top right corner?

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

Going to try and stream a play-through of Beyond Oasis off the Genesis Pack.

www.twitch.tv/pepsimanvsjoe

(Note: I'm a first-time streamer. Go easy on me)

EDIT: NEVERMIND. Can't stream.

Gonna play some Chivalry instead.

 

[Fantasmo]

I'm liking Sine Mora and I'm not a bullet hell type of player.

It's got a time slow down feature, the first stage was cool, looked great, and I only continued once. I beat Stage 1 and it gives you a Continue feature to return to the last stage you were on so I can pick up on Stage 2 next time. It has a Level Select and Boss Practice for practice which is great for those of us who aren't really talented.

It might get impossible at some point but at least it looks like I have tools and can practice the hard stuff in bite sized doses before then.

Already posted in the OT but Hell Yeah! is really awesome for the money. Nice presentation and fun, what a treat!

 

[Croc]

I might have to switch over to bootcamp for a bit so I can give those Genesis games a go. I never had one as a kid so it'll be awesome to be able to play all these.

Or in all reality play them for 5 minutes each.

 

[HoosTrax]

I'm liking Sine Mora so far. It's a different type of shmup from Jamestown and other bullet hell type games, and the power ups add a nice touch imho.

The one thing that really does annoy me - you can only choose between two presets for mouse controls and the middle mouse button is used for the nuke ability in both cases. I can't use my scroll wheel as a button reliably without annoying things happening, like my taskbar activating. I'd like to be able to map a thumb button to that.

Not a dealbreaker since I can use the Logitech software to make the thumb buttons mimic keyboard buttons, but it'd still be nice to have full keybind support.

 

[Ionic]

Does anybody have an opinion on Afterfall Insanity yet? It just came out on Steam it looks like.