Oh, that’s why my frame rate was so bad. My other 8800 just exploded too. Goddamnit.
I swear Steam is going to run me into the poor house $5 at a time.
Yoy might be suprised - I’m using an Acer laptop with integrated graphics and I run Portal and Half Life 2 at the hightest settings with no problem at all.
I just downloaded the Deus Ex pack and it runs just fine - again at the highest settings.
I have run across stuff that won’t run though; the Dirt 2 demo starts and shows the opening but never initiates the game.
On a related note - if you buy a game from Steam and it turns out it won’t play on your setup do you have any recourse? I understand it’s my responsibility to know my rig but it sure would make me a lot more willing to shell out the bucks if they were willing to be a little flexible.
Steam will usually refund your money once or twice, but no, its no their policy to do so.
Daily Sales:
[ol]
[li]Lara Croft Guardian of Light £3.40 -66%[/li][li]Aion £6.25 -75%[/li][li]Burnout Paradise £3.75 -75%[/li][li]The Witcher super duper version £3.25 -75%[/li][li]Disciples III £5 -75%[/li][li]Puzzle Quest £.90 -85%[/li][li]Men of War Gold Edition £7.50 -75%[/li][li]Resident Evil 5 £6.80 -66%[/li][li]The Polynomial £1.50 -75%[/li][li]Bioshock 2 £6.99 -50%[/li][li]Gothic Bundle £23.99 -50%[/li][li]Defense Grid £1.40 -80%[/li][/ol]
UK pricing obviously but the % should roughly be the same.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light: $5.10, or $3.60 if you own any Tomb Raider game
Defense Grid: $2.00
Resident Evil 5: $10.20
Gothic Bundle: $34.99
The Polynomial: $2.50
Disciples III: $7.50
Puzzle Quest: $1.50
Bioshock 2: $9.99
Burnout Paradise: $5.00
Aion: $10.00
Men of War Gold: $8.75
The Witcher: $5.00
Iron Grip Warlord: $2.50
US pricing shamelessly copied and pasted.
Defense Grid is really fun, I’ve probably sunk 60 hours into it for my $2.50. That Lara Croft game is surprisingly really good, especially if you have a friend to play coop with. Not enough good coop games made these days.
I hear good things about the Witcher, so I’m going to pick that up. I’m sure Puzzle Quest is worth a buck fifty.
Incidentally, I think they could make more if they released those indie packs one per day for $5 like they did over black friday instead of all at once. As it is, you sort of look at it and think “wow, at $1/game, I could probably just buy 50 of those” but then spending $50 at once on little indie games seems like a lot (it’s not, of course - 50 games for $50…). If they made everyone do it in little daily $5 chunks, though, it’d be so easy.
My god. You think the deals right now aren’t dangerous enough?!
I picked up the two FEAR games and Fallout 3 yesterday and The Witcher today. I had played The Witcher before it received all the nifty upgrades, but never finished it for some reason.
Alas, I shot myself in the foot by forgetting about the sales and buying Fallout: New Vegas a couple of weeks ago. If I had held off I could have picked up the Bethesda pack and essentially gotten some games for free.
I’m hoping that some of the Bioware games turn up as daily specials this week. I’ve played them all, but I missed some of the DLCs and would also like to have them on Steam.
I’m quickly reaching an absurdity in video game ownership. I have 287 games now just on steam.
I could stop buying new games for 5 years and not run out of new things to play.
Once I get to 300, I’m gonna reel it in a little.
Mmhmm.
I always wanted to like The Witcher more. It really seems like it is my type of game. Sadly I just sort of lost interest in it after spending 1000 hours in a swamp. I finally got past that point and found I just didn’t care enough to continue. I’ve always meant to go back and finish it but having the normal version makes reinstallation painful (you have to download all the enhanced edition and install them one pack at a time).
Strangely I’m tempted to rebuy it on Steam just to avoid all that and see if I can’t get my interest up for when Witcher 2 comes out.
I picked up Iron Grip because I thought for $2.50 it might be interesting, and then I see that two of my best friends have it. So, here’s hoping.
I’m also looking heavily at the Heavy Hitters pack, though I’ve already got Trine…
-Joe
Bioshock 2 for ten bucks looks like a deal for me. I loved the first one and have been waiting for a price break on the second.
I thought I would love The Witcher, but several factors combined (not least of which was the cheesecake “I just scored” trading cards) to make me lose interest by the end of the second chapter. When I realized I’d been running around some town all night killing generic assassins, I no longer cared.
Zeno Clash sucks and I don’t own The Maw. Shattered Horizon requires a gaming computer and it’s a storyless FPS set in space. Everything else on that list is an absolute must have for any gamer.
Empire: Total War was discount to $15 last week, but this week it’s only discounted to $22.50. Good thing I bought it then. However, I didn’t buy the DLC last week, and the whole catalog is discounted 25%. Win-win!
There might be a further daily sale on it, so I’d wait on it.
Yes, not to mention that the whole catalog is discounted until Jan. 2. Nothing to lose by waiting.
Is anyone familiar with the hierarchy of the simbin games? I’ve been wondering about getting a Serious Racing Game lately but I don’t know the relationship between Race 07, GTR Evo, and Race On.
The way steam lists them, it sounds like Race On and GTR Evo are expansions that require Race 07, but I’ve read a review that says those expansions are standalone and don’t need Race 07. Anyone know?
And even so - is the Race 07 base game still popular online? Or has everyone moved on to the expansions? Or are they intercompatable? Or… what’s the whole deal?
Race 07 is the base game. GTR Evo is an expansion for it. Race On is another expansion, but included Race 07 (but not on Steam).
I guess that last part is confusing. If I bought Race On on amazon, it’d come with both Race 07 and Race On? It seems Race On is a superset - including everything Race 07 has plus a few extras.
Hey, I liked Zeno Clash! Considering that it was designed while under the influence of peyote and its writer had only a glancing familiarity with the English language, it’s a fairly awesome game, and an excellent simulation of the type of nightmares you get after eating too much Mexican food.