morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
What? This is the first I've heard of people having issues with Steam. What are you experiencing?
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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!
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Atraveller
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Hahah that's the thing though. Some people want excess just for the status of owning it. Some pc configs people put together are overkill.
Regards to a Titan while it does get a overshadowed by a 780ti and lefts waaaay behind in sli (even my 780 has better clocks than a Titan) it still has 6gb of VRAM and going forward with 4k on the horizon you never know. Saying that monkeying around with extreme downsampling I'm not finding too much strain at 3gb outside of BF4 or ACIV at 4800x2700. Then again I got about 5fps so it's bloody unplayable.
corrosivefrost
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Oh, I know. I just meant in general, not for Nito's 35 keys.
I still have 14 to put in later, website redemption would streamline it for me.
#TRUTHFACTS
After playing it, I'm inclined to disagree.
SourCinnamon
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I'm just waiting for Brothers. For $3 it's a must.
Could you explain why?
I really appreciate the offer and thank you, but they are yours! I wouldn't do that to you.
Buttonbasher
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I just finished The Swapper as well. I really enjoyed it. The puzzles were well put together, and the ruleset was a joy to play with. Great soundtrack too.
soulassssns
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You need a prescription of chill pills and stat.
I have them repeated (Got em in bundles)
Anyhow when Im done redeeming stuff I shall give em away in here fair and square to the gaffers.
I have them repeated (Got em in bundles)
Anyhow when Im done redeeming stuff I shall give em away in here fair and square to the gaffers.
That's more like it! I'll be doing the same with tomorrow's bundle probably, lol.
VikasNarula
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I'm still playing it and crafted batch already, simply love it.
please pm me full unlocked map. i like to see my progress so far.
Cosmic Schwung
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I keep forgetting about the prestige angle, and yeah, 6gb of VRAM is a nice plus. Wish I could play around with those kinds of resolutions
bigwinnerx
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I have played it, too, and it's worth full price. For $3, buy one and one for a friend.
Oh yeah, that'll do
I'll take a few bean bag rounds to the scalp for that, I guess.The first one's still one of the best strategy games ever made. The second one's alright, but developed by a different team that decided the notorious difficulty of the first game didn't go entirely far enough (It was 1995 after all, it took a great deal more concentrated rage to smash a monitor back then). The third (Apocalypse) is almost more of a city/economic sim than anything else, but still really great if that's your thing. XCOM: EU is excellent (when it's not killing your dudes with crazy glitches). The rest, I dunno. Not a bad set for $10.
I hope some enjoy these games.
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I keep forgetting about the prestige angle, and yeah, 6gb of VRAM is a nice plus. Wish I could play around with those kinds of resolutions
You'll be surprised what you might have sat in your steam library that you can crank out high reses at little VRAM cost. Gears of War comes in at about 1.2gb VRAM at 4k and is rock solid at 62fps. Enslaved used little VRAM also as well but that crawled down for 40fps. Dead Space 1 & 2 are quite easy going as well.
Buttonbasher
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I don't think you can zoom all the way out to see everything. You could probably get a good idea from the different sections in this guide I just found (Swapper map spoilers): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=149756530
It took me 7 hours which seems to line up with other play times I see, so maybe that's a good indicator.
MarcoZombieCannon
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Finally managed to get into Steam and redeem my dang wallet card. Ducktales, come to me....
Classes just started up again today, so I might not have much time for Steam... pshh, I said that last semester and it didn't happen aside from finals
What did everyone think of the Steam Machines that got revealed? (One of my professors is at CES, so jealous)
Classes just started up again today, so I might not have much time for Steam... pshh, I said that last semester and it didn't happen aside from finals
What did everyone think of the Steam Machines that got revealed? (One of my professors is at CES, so jealous)
Crab Milk Mickey
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Although minimal in its art style, Super House of Dead Ninja's has a good feel to its sprites too.
I also found it to be a much better designed and more enjoyable game than Rogue Legacy.
VikasNarula
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Thank you very much, I entered for Blades of Time.
corrosivefrost
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- I didn't care for the "storytelling". The game has no dialogue, no text, no narration. It relies on "gibberish" (maybe it's a language, but the repetition of the "words" makes it seem unlikely) and animation in places, but I found these very limiting. Combined with somewhat predictable and cliche content. Especially at the end which I will not talk about unless further prompted due to heavy spoilers.
- I found the controls to be more of an annoyance/gimmick/limitation than an enhancement/innovation. There's also some really odd design decisions on some of the puzzles/areas that I just felt were completely out of left field.
- Any challenge in terms of puzzles came mostly from the controls rather than design, as outlined above.
- It's extremely short and light on content, which turned out to be a blessing as I just wanted the game to end so I could delete it and move on.
The game has a few cool moments, but I was ultimately bored and did not find myself playing for fun or because it was engaging... I was merely playing to finish what I started and clear it out of my backlog. It runs under 3 hours long even if you do go for all of the side activities required for achievements.
Overall, it's important to note that I am one of those gamers who cares about the core gameplay above all else. If the story is worth telling or interesting/captivating in some way, I can overlook flaws in the gameplay to experience it and enjoy the ride. I'm not one for "games" that are an 'experience". Sometimes I think they're amusing or clever or provide something new and interesting; For example, I have some positive views regarding The Stanley Parable and the commentary it provides on some of the trends in gaming as well as experimentation. It's clever and funny in spots, even if I still hold a grudge against the narrator for that stupid achievement regarding clicking on a door several times. In the end, I felt like Brothers offered nothing to me outside of it's interesting experiment with the controls and how it uses the dual analogs. There were a couple of cool design touches that I felt were really cool even if it was sort of... predictable (one brother picks up a cat and pets it and it's happy while the other picks it up and it squirms and tries to scratch him, etc.).
I suppose you could spend $3 on worse. But you won't know until you play it, I suppose. Personally, I'd rather put that $3 toward something on my wishlist I might enjoy more.
corrosivefrost
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You know the trick with the multiple DLL files, right?
One for each game.
VikasNarula
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The Neo Geo pad's not working by default? Shit, I figured it would - my PS2 pad didn't need any kind of wrapper, so I figured it'd accept any pad windows could see as a game controller. Worst case there's always joy2key, I guess
multiple DLL files? I tried enabling that (i think) no go
The Neo Geo pad's not working by default? Shit, I figured it would - my PS2 pad didn't need any kind of wrapper, so I figured it'd accept any pad windows could see as a game controller. Worst case there's always joy2key, I guess
it works but you need to remap it. despite using xbox360ce, RoR does not detect the neogeo pad as a 360 controller and requires custom mappings... which really messes up the actual 360 controller settings
Cosmic Schwung
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I did manage to play through Bioshock 2 at 1440 but my poor old 6850 would choke on anything much newer than that. Been holding out for 20nm but seeing as that might still be a year away I might have to bite the bullet and get something more modern now. Maybe I should get a steambox
Ahh.. hmm, did you try it without the wrapper? I had to bind all the buttons manually with the dinput controller too, but you'd probably have to do that anyways with the different button layout on the Neo Geo pad
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
For anyone interested, I just updated Enhanced Steam Standalone.
The newest version has a much easier install process:
The newest version has a much easier install process:
- Download Enhanced Steam Standalone
- Run enable.bat (as administrator)
- Launch Enhanced Steam.exe
- Browse Steam
CrunchyFrog
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Steam Machine initiative seems unfocused, haphazard. I don't think Valve really knows what they're doing besides making the OS/controller.
You're doing the lord's work, jshackles.
You're doing the lord's work, jshackles.
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Just skimmed the last couple pages and saw 3 comments about Swapper. Yall fucked up not making it GOTY.
Haunted
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Now that's easy enough even I can do it.
Does the Enhanced Steam.exe process need to be running while I'm using it or is it a one-time activation thing?
Neat, I'm using XP so I'm shit outta luck though.
Bundle Stars has some interesting bundles. Sure tons of garbage but there are a few gems here and there.
I'm getting full retail too, not sure if it's expired or it hasn't been corrected after the sale.
Ooh, I like the flipcard thing they have going on.
Nabs
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10:03 PM - Stallion Free: YO IT FUCKING SOLD
10:03 PM - Stallion Free: SOMEONE PAID 50$
Now give it all back to Gaben. The circle of Steam.
10:03 PM - Stallion Free: SOMEONE PAID 50$
Now give it all back to Gaben. The circle of Steam.
scorpscarx
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In the end I am just happy that the "PC" is finally being marketed and sold attractively as these "Steam" machines. For normal people buying a "PC" is always so limited and boring, not to mention bogged down with a ton of bloatware.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Once you get a successful confirmation (it will say "Enhanced!") you can close the launcher. For now, you'll need to run it each time you restart. Just the launcher though, not the batch file.
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cicero
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So apparently they have "regretted the whole thing" in the exact same way for the past two years now too?
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