The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread - AUTUMN SALE 2024

[Achilles]

Plus cracks typically work with Steam games, so if need-be and I burn up all my activations and EA refuses to give me more I could always crack them and run them in Steam as normal. Actually did that with some SecuROM Steam game, forget what. I think Far Cry 2 before they removed SecuROM from it.

Isn't that dangerous? As in "get your account banned" dangerous?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Plus cracks typically work with Steam games, so if need-be and I burn up all my activations and EA refuses to give me more I could always crack them and run them in Steam as normal. Actually did that with some SecuROM Steam game, forget what. I think Far Cry 2 before they removed SecuROM from it.

Isn't that dangerous? As in "get your account banned" dangerous?

As far as I'm aware that wouldn't get your account banned. It might get you banned from multiplayer if you're doing it in a game that uses VAC, but otherwise Steam doesn't seem too fussed about you dicking with files. Which makes sense, because if they were they'd end up with people banned for using legitimate mods on their games.

MAN, MY STEAM PENIS IS HUGE. LET ME TELL YOU ALLLLLLLLLLL ABOUT IT.

H.Crap! This made me check my library. I have 178 games in my steam library... (I go nuts during the sales lol)... Might have to pick up the Crysis bundle just to round it out to 180.... shit, this is kinda embarrassing.

Fear not good sir. I just broke 502 games on Steam with the Crysis sale. Soon I will ascend into heaven and meet Gaben. M:

 

[Kane]

Yes, S8P is indeed fun. One of my favourite aspect is the customisation that allows you to create a class for pretty much any situation, and sometimes you only need to switch a weapon in a build to give it a new purpose. So if the DCM where you need to scavenge parts come up, you can make a runner class that focuses on mobility and jamming and forgoes damage, or you can make an harrassement class that will have a hard time to kill but likewise will be hard to kill and who will in the meantime bust the shields of infantry and vehicles with EMP as well as cripple their jetpacks and overdrives. There is a lot of room for experimentation and I love it.

Picked the game up by your posts.

I the codex!

 

[sgc_meltdown]

502 games on Steam

at least you don't have any current generation consoles right

 

[SuicideBunny]

i need one of you american fuckers with steam and paypal to help a brother living under an oppressive regime out by gifting me both dead spaces. any volunteers?

 

[Metro]

I only have 91 games... and, of course, probably 10 of those are mods or whatever the Steam client counts as games.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

502 games on Steam

at least you don't have any current generation consoles right

I've got a 360. But in my defense, I got it for free as a gift, and it's pretty nice for watching Divx and recorded shit from the computer on the TV. And even though I attempted to pop some moles I'm way too much of a PC whore and have basically given up gaming on it.

'cept for L.A. Noire. I'm thinking about buying that at some point.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

H.Crap! This made me check my library. I have 178 games in my steam library... (I go nuts during the sales lol)... Might have to pick up the Crysis bundle just to round it out to 180.... shit, this is kinda embarrassing.

Fear not good sir. I just broke 502 games on Steam with the Crysis sale. Soon I will ascend into heaven and meet Gaben. M:

Jesus... and I thought I was a sucker for a bargain

Probably only about 30-40% of the steam games I have are actually worth playing of course - which is just as well because I don't think I'd ever have time to play them all (not completely anyway). Still, looks nice browsing through them. Bit like my ever growing gog bookshelf.

Game collecting 21st century style.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Pretty much, yup. End up buying a ton of crap due to ridiculously cheap price and then leave it sitting around with the intention of playing it eventually, and then very few things I buy quicker for less of a discount (And very rarely, no discount!) 'cause I specifically wanted them and tend to play in a big immediately, which pushes the dirt cheap "Get to them eventually games" deeper back.

Like I bought Dead Space 1 a year or two ago dirt cheap during a sale on Steam since I heard so much good about it, but I just haven't gotten around to playing it yet. But it's there, looking at me, WAITING. One of these days I'll get a hankering for some space horror and I'LL BE READY!

Though the weird partial exception to my Steam buying is indie games. Since they tend to be on the cheap side I scoop them up at "Full" price a bit more often, and tend to play them earlier than full retail games.

 

[Secretninja]

i need one of you american fuckers with steam and paypal to help a brother living under an oppressive regime out by gifting me both dead spaces. any volunteers?

I'm bro enough to do it but I won't because the games are so shitty. Seriously not worth it.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

Hehe, yeah. I have all my steam games installed on my media box / server, which I also do all my torrenting from - it has a ton of drive space. My gaming rig is a lean mean fighting machine with an SSD. This allows me to preview games on the media box and any I want to play - I just copy over to the minimal steam install on my gaming rig's SSD.

BTW - you mentioned watching movies with your 360. Have you ever set it up as a Media Center extender? That same media box above runs MC on a big flat screen in the lounge and I have my 360 in my bedroom set up as an extender. Then, everything you can do in the PC's MC you can do on the 360 - including watching live TV streamed from the PC's TV tuner card. It has twin tuners, so you can even watch a different channel that what the PC's showing.

Best use of a 360 if you ask me.

 

[SuicideBunny]

I'm bro enough to do it but I won't because the games are so shitty. Seriously not worth it.

i actually enjoyed ds 1.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

I'm bro enough to do it but I won't because the games are so shitty. Seriously not worth it.

i actually enjoyed ds 1.

I'm not American Mr. Bunny (Aussie), but I'll do it for ya. I have an email that can accept PP payments. The games are showing up here as $3.75US for DS1 and $41.99US for DS2.

Let me know and I'll PM you my address.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Hehe, yeah. I have all my steam games installed on my media box / server, which I also do all my torrenting from - it has a ton of drive space. My gaming rig is a lean mean fighting machine with an SSD. This allows me to preview games on the media box and any I want to play - I just copy over to the minimal steam install on my gaming rig's SSD.

BTW - you mentioned watching movies with your 360. Have you ever set it up as a Media Center extender? That same media box above runs MC on a big flat screen in the lounge and I have my 360 in my bedroom set up as an extender. Then, everything you can do in the PC's MC you can do on the 360 - including watching live TV streamed from the PC's TV tuner card. It has twin tuners, so you can even watch a different channel that what the PC's showing.

Best use of a 360 if you ask me.

Yup, I do use the 360 as a media center extender. Used to use the 360 for Netflix as well as Divx and media center, but I decided to fuck it and picked up a cheap $50 Roku instead of keeping a gold 360 account (Played 1 VS 100 when that was still alive and loved it, but since Microsoft shitcanned it, eh). Actually seems to be more stable and have slightly nicer picture on my kinda crappy 2megabit connection and standard def TV.

Definite bro fist for 360 TV watching.

Actually reminds me, you might wanna check out PlayOn if you haven't already. Lets you stream extra crap through your 360. Youtube, Hulu (Though I hear Hulu Plus is going to be an official 360 thing if you're paying for it), and it lets you transcode files as you watch them in case you hit some video files the 360 doesn't play properly by default (I've had it happen a couple times).
Not too shabby a little program. Occasionally has issues but they get patches out pretty regularly.

 

[SuicideBunny]

I'm bro enough to do it but I won't because the games are so shitty. Seriously not worth it.

i actually enjoyed ds 1.

I'm not American Mr. Bunny (Aussie), but I'll do it for ya. I have an email that can accept PP payments. The games are showing up here as $3.75US for DS1 and $41.99US for DS2.

Let me know and I'll PM you my address.

gonna get back to you on that. gotta go atm.

 

[Secretninja]

Dead space 2 is 23.99 here, so if you know what you are getting yourself into I can do it I guess.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

Dead space 2 is 23.99 here, so if you know what you are getting yourself into I can do it I guess.

Yeah, fucker's pull that shit all the time so as to not upset the local retailers. Not steam, but the publishers. Also not all games and not all publishers, and not all games from the publishers that do - seems to be a crap shoot.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

So is Battlefield 2: Bad Company or whatever it's called worth buying? I've heard it's decent for the price.

 

[Metro]

Only if you are buying it for the multiplayer.

 

[Achilles]

Meh singleplayer, fun multiplayer. I say go for it.

 

[Metro]

Still trying to get into Mass Effect that I bought a few days ago. Only put in about five hours but it just isn't drawing me in at all. The story is okay but I guess I just can't stand the third-person cover shooters aspect. Doesn't feel like I'm in the fictional world more like some generic plastic shooting-gallery where I move from point A to point B.

 

[Sceptic]

So is Battlefield 2: Bad Company or whatever it's called worth buying? I've heard it's decent for the price.

Which one? Battlefield 2, or Battlefield Bad Company 2? Never tried the latter. The former was good fun in multiplayer, especially if you liked the original Battlefield 1942, it's basically the same thing but in a modern setting. I'm guessing Bad Company 2 is pretty much the same thing as well.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

So is Battlefield 2: Bad Company or whatever it's called worth buying? I've heard it's decent for the price.

Absolutely worth it. Best recent shooter by far IMHO. Contrary to what others have said, the SP campaign is actually pretty good (much better than any recent CoD for eg.) - though MP is definitely where it's at.

Be careful though, if you have a 5.1/7.1 sound system and crank the volume in this game - you may end up with a S.W.A.T. team busting through your door. The sound in BC2 is quite amazing.

And yeah - it's Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

 

[Quilty]

Bad Company 2 is pretty good, especially the destructible environment and the sound. But the way the weapons are simulated is a bit strange sometimes. Now, I know next to nothing about real-life weapons, and I realize this is an arcade game for the most part, but it boggles my mind that you can put some sort of an attachment on a shotgun which allows you to snipe people from hundreds of meters away and kill them in one hit. Not even sniper rifles kill in one hit (unless they're head shots, but even that might fail because of the occasionally shitty hitboxes). I guess this might not be true if you play on hardcore servers, but I'm not sure. In any case, it feels like a balancing issue to me that hasn't been addressed.

Oh, and there's loads of cheaters. A good portion of my battles have been cut short because people realize someone is cheating massively and leave the server.

 

[Tycn]

BNow, I know next to nothing about real-life weapons, and I realize this is an arcade game for the most part, but it boggles my mind that you can put some sort of an attachment on a shotgun which allows you to snipe people from hundreds of meters away and kill them in one hit. Not even sniper rifles kill in one hit (unless they're head shots, but even that might fail because of the occasionally shitty hitboxes). I guess this might not be true if you play on hardcore servers, but I'm not sure. In any case, it feels like a balancing issue to me that hasn't been addressed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_slug

Doesn't one hit kill beyond 10m either, same as the sniper rifles.
http://denkirson.xanga.com/722757523/bad-company-2/