Woohoo! I just got my refund from Steam. True, it means I missed out on the Arkham Asylum deal, but that’s a small price to pay for my dumbassery.
Serious customer loyalty building there, Steam; my thoughts of buying games from other folks are pretty much over at this point.
Modern cards suck at OpenGL, especially ATI. Don’t hate on them 'cause a ten-year-old game crushes their four-way 5870 crossfire.
Well that’s good. Surprised they responded so quickly since I suspect their customer service is swamped with all sorts of stuff. There’s a chance Batman could be on a last day best-of sale.
You’re kidding right? I think you can run cs in dx, and even if not, I played the games on my 5850 and I’m sure if I turned on a FPS counter it would rip a hole in time and space.
If they don’t play in OpenGL, their hacks won’t work.
Could very well be it; I have some ridiculous budget 3-core AMD chip that was probably built after the game came out. How does one go about limiting cores? I can’t find a tutorial, and I don’t know what to search for.
At any rate, it’s good to know my five bucks wasn’t spent in vain.
I was curious so I fired it up and played in opengl at 1080p and was locked at the cap.
This is an utterly ridiculous statement (as SenorBeef’s experiment shows).
If you have a fast internet connection, give it a try from OnLive – it streams the game to your computer as if you were watching a video, no fancy hardware needed. You can play free for 30 minutes or you can buy the full thing for $10 there as well.
Three days stuck on a laptop. The only thing I could get to run was WOW. Heck even Super Meat Boy had framerate studder. Now that I’m back I don’t know what to play first. I was just getting into Just Cause 2 before I left but my playlist is bursting with games now.
Good thing I don’t have to work this week. The office is closed until the 4th.
Super Meat Boy should run at a solid 60 fps on anything if you set -lowdetail as a launch option.
I bought Wings of Prey as a Christmas present for my dad, it’s turned out to be the perfect present. He was struggling to get to grips with IL-2 Strurmovik but Wings of Prey is very accessible, looks good and has all the features/planes he asked for.
I finally convinced by brother to buy Dragon Age: Origins too. I’ve been trying to persuade him since it was released but the sale finally convinced him. He was awake until about 9am this morning playing it…
I finally picked up Bioshock 2 and Mass Effect 2 but mostly I’ve been playing Patrician IV. Good game, not sure about the lasting appeal.
So what are the chances of a deal on Blacks Ops? Doubtful I’m sure. I only want it to play with my brothers but it’s not worth £40 to me. Maybe £20…
I got my ex Civ IV, with all the expansions, for seven dollars.
I mean, wow.
Digital delivery is changing the economics of PC gaming, make no mistake, and we’re just seeing the beginning of it.
Looks like they released Neverwinter Nights 2 today and it’s on the holiday sale as well. I might pick it up just so I don’t have to worry about the DVD’s anymore.
So what’s that game like? Does it have Dragon Age type combat?
Serious Sam, two games (plus the exact same two games in 10-year-old graphics, so sort of 4 games) for $3.99? Yes please. And this time I checked the cost super-carefully.
Incidentally, I looked at about half a dozen of today’s deals to see if there was a similar situation to the Batman one–where you click through to the purchase page and it’s only there that a bundle is first offered. Although several of the games have major publishers (Atari, Capcom, Ubisoft, etc.), only Star Wars: KOTOR had a bundle deal, and that bundle was only for LucasArts’s Star Wars games. So it may be that I never made that error before because this kind of bundle-listed-on-an-individual-game’s purchase page is a fairly rare thing.
Frankly, I wish they’d handle it differently. On the purchase page, or on a splash page, they could have a clickable graphic that goes to a purchase page for the bundle. Make that graphic as loud and as splashy as you want to entice people to check out the bundle, that’s fine–just don’t make the bundle-purchase button look exactly the same as the individual-game-purchase button. I’m sure I’m not the only one to make this goofy error, and while definitely the fault was mine for not reading more carefully, I think they could also improve the site design to differentiate the two options visually.
The combat is basically identical to NWN1 except it’s a fair bit easier to aim AOE effects. So fairly similar to Dragon Age, but a bit more… jerky.
Outside of that the game is okay. I wouldn’t really recommend it to others but don’t really regret buying it either.
:mad: Goddammit! Steam sucks!
Sort of, in the sense that you can stop combat to issue orders. It’s not as streamlined, IMO, and the options aren’t as cool, since they’re stuck between fidelity to tabletop rules and the need to make them amenable to CRPGs. Dragon Age had no such backward-compatibility issues.
And IMO the plot of NWN2 was awful. But that’s just from memory, specifically the fact that I have no memory of the plot whatsoever, just a vague memory that it was bad enough that I quit playing.
–Oh, wait, now I remember. Necessary spoiler: the final part of the game (I think) involves a very extended section in which it’s impossible to rest, and they don’t tell you that ahead of time. I went into that area with a spellcasting-heavy crew and was boned. That’s why I quit playing. I still think the plot was lousy, though.
Dragon Age is better in almost every way IMO. DA plays smooth as butter, while in NWN2 the controls, the interface, the camera and the complicated D&D ruleset all struggle against you. The graphics are also unappealing. I still thought the main campaign was fun, but very generic. Mask Of The Betrayer (the first expansion) had a much better story and a less generic setting. Storm of Zehir didn’t look very interesting and I gave up on it because I had played the Witcher and DA:Awakening in the meantime and I just couldn’t go back to NWN2’s terrible controls/interface.
Sounds like I’ll skip it then. I can always wait for next years sale to buy it.