Happenstance Posted December 4, 2013 Posted December 4, 2013 Was this meant to be sarcasm? I just thought it was too close to the Christmas sale and felt a bit pointless. Especially since the leaked email from a couple of weeks ago confirmed all sale prices would be the same between the Autumn and Christmas sales.
Jamba Posted December 4, 2013 Posted December 4, 2013 Meh.... allowed me to do some sweet shopping for my friends. There are far too many great PC games out there that I want to try and when the sales are one it's hard not to find an excuse not to buy a ton of stuff. Also I put together a wishlist that bluey could look at and not break the bank getting me some games for xmas.
Happenstance Posted December 4, 2013 Posted December 4, 2013 Meh.... allowed me to do some sweet shopping for my friends. There are far too many great PC games out there that I want to try and when the sales are one it's hard not to find an excuse not to buy a ton of stuff. Also I put together a wishlist that bluey could look at and not break the bank getting me some games for xmas. Yeah fair enough I guess. I didnt bother buying anything as I wanted to make sure I saved all my money for presents then i could just get any games I wanted during the Christmas sale.
Happenstance Posted December 17, 2013 Posted December 17, 2013 Steam Christmas sale should be starting on Thursday. Gone through my last remaining trading card games that were installed to sell them off for a bit of extra credit.
Tales Posted December 19, 2013 Posted December 19, 2013 Played the demo of Stanley Parable two days ago. Good idea of me to wait! Maybe it's too early seeing as it was released two days ago but I wish for a sale on the Rome II DLC as well. Steam Christmas sale should be starting on Thursday. Gone through my last remaining trading card games that were installed to sell them off for a bit of extra credit. I don't understand the cards. Is all they do give artificial changes to your steam profile? So if I don't care about my profile and the steam level I should dump all on the market?
Happenstance Posted December 19, 2013 Posted December 19, 2013 Pretty much. The only thing levelling up really does that I know of is raises your friend cap. Personally I just sell off all the trading cards I get on the marketplace and use the credit I get to buy more games.
Sméagol Posted December 19, 2013 Posted December 19, 2013 (edited) I almost wish they made a Steam lite, because I don't care for any of that shit (I don't even care about achievements). That said.. If I can a few cents for the cards I get automatically.. I guess that doesn't hurt. Edit: But every time I see someone on the forums complaining about a game not having trading cards.. Makes me facepalm. Edited December 19, 2013 by Sméagol
Cube Posted December 22, 2013 Posted December 22, 2013 The early access version of Next Car Game came out. I recorded a couple of videos.
Happenstance Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 Been playing loads of Volgarr the Viking and Rogue Legacy over the past few days. Both are excellent games and well worth buying.
Tales Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 Bought Rogue Legacy myself from the sale(along with Civ V). It's fun but pretty difficult. I knew there was some platforming involved but it's a basically a Mario platformer sometimes and I'm pretty bad it :p
Happenstance Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 Bought Rogue Legacy myself from the sale(along with Civ V). It's fun but pretty difficult. I knew there was some platforming involved but it's a basically a Mario platformer sometimes and I'm pretty bad it :p Yeah I started off pretty terrible. As soon as you start upgrading though it gets easier.
Happenstance Posted December 25, 2013 Posted December 25, 2013 Left 4 Dead 2 is currently free on Steam iif anyone doesnt have it
gaggle64 Posted December 25, 2013 Posted December 25, 2013 Finally booted up the Kerbal Space Programme demo out of curiosity - holy crap I need to get in on this. It's so much fun just learning from trial and error, definitely will get into the full version at some point. I'll try to resist for a while though, I've got a PC backlog as long as my arm. Do try the demo, you won't be sorry for having done so. Left 4 Dead 2 is currently free on Steam iif anyone doesnt have it Trying to get to it now but I can see the smoke coming off the store servers from here.
The Bard Posted December 25, 2013 Posted December 25, 2013 Kerbal Space makes me feel like a kid messing around with Meccano parts again. Does anyone know if you can gift the free version of Left 4 Dead? Going to try and send a copy to all of my peasant friends.
gaggle64 Posted December 25, 2013 Posted December 25, 2013 (edited) Heads up to anyone going for the free L4D2, Steam has totally collapsed under the demand but you've got until 10am PST (6pm GMT) tomorrow to keep trying. Round about lunchtime should be ideal. Edited December 25, 2013 by gaggle64
drahkon Posted December 27, 2013 Posted December 27, 2013 Been playing loads of Volgarr the Viking and Rogue Legacy over the past few days. Both are excellent games and well worth buying. I knew Rogue Legacy already. You reminded me that I need to play this again. And...I bought Volgarr the Viking... Well thank you, you sumbitch. It's fucking awesome. The Demon's/Dark Souls of platformers. I'm already in rage/tears...and I only played 5 minutes and haven't gotten very far.
Jamba Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 Got a fantastic haul of goodies from @bluey for Christmas. Already been enjoying Fez and itching to play Gone Home but I have hours of gaming ahead of me (not all from bluey): - Tomb Raider - Dark Souls - Fez - Gone Home - Ben there, Dan that! - Braid - Sk'rim - Magicka - Sanctum 2 - Stanley Parable - XCOM: EU - Trine 2 And now off to play Broken Sword with the missus too!
Goron_3 Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 So I got a new Macbook Air over Christmas and for the first time ever I've been checking out Steam and yeah, I LOVE IT! So many incredible games on there and I must admit that I spoilt myself over the Christmas period with Limbo, Mark of the Ninja and a few others. Anyway, it's got me thinking about building a gaming PC. What is the best set up I could get for say £500? Of course, I'd be looking to upgrade it regularly but I think I just need a good starting point. Then there are these Steam machines which are tempting me, but I'm wondering if I could build it cheaper myself? (p.s. First ever post in the PC thread YEAHHHH).
Retro_Link Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) I'm the same!! I haven't just got a shiny new Macbook Air :p... but the other week was the first time I'd ever taken a look on the Steam website, after hearing about and wanting to find out how to play Gone Home and The Stanley Parable. I signed up to Steam but still need to download it. I couldn't believe how cheap some games were on the website and all the sales they have going on! Tomb Raider was a couple of quid or something! I'd still look to play that sort of game on a console, because the thought of playing it on my laptop seems strange to me... however I did find I could of course hook my laptop up to the TV with HDMI, but it still doesn't quite seem right somehow. However, there are of course PC games I'd like to play, the two I mentioned for example, and other Indie games past and in the future. So I have a question... can I use my PS3 controller to play such games, either on my laptop or through the TV? How do people best play these games on their laptops? Edited January 6, 2014 by Retro_Link
The Bard Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 So I got a new Macbook Air over Christmas and for the first time ever I've been checking out Steam and yeah, I LOVE IT! So many incredible games on there and I must admit that I spoilt myself over the Christmas period with Limbo, Mark of the Ninja and a few others. Anyway, it's got me thinking about building a gaming PC. What is the best set up I could get for say £500? Of course, I'd be looking to upgrade it regularly but I think I just need a good starting point. Then there are these Steam machines which are tempting me, but I'm wondering if I could build it cheaper myself? (p.s. First ever post in the PC thread YEAHHHH). Got Walking Dead Season 1 for me and my lady on your recommendation man, hope it's worf it! :p. As for PC, you'd want to go for something like this lot: Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 Intel i5 3570k (4670k ain't worf it, doesn't overclock well and generally isn't as good for gaming as either the 3570k or the 2550k) Any good 750w PSU 8gb Ram 1tb Sata HD (If you want to spend an unnecessary amount of money, get an SSD, the load times are fucking outrageously good). Leaves you with about £140 for a GPU, which should be just a little under budget for something like a 7870 (Which is, incidentally quite similar to the PS4's GPU.
Tales Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) So I have a question... can I use my PS3 controller to play such games, either on my laptop or through the TV? How do people best play these games on their laptops? Internet recommend MotionInJoy but I couldn't figure out how to use it. This one below was easier to configure and use for me. Used it to play Rouge Legacy with my PS3 controller, making the game significantly easier to play. http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-XInput-Wrapper-for-DS3-and-Play-com-USB-Dual-DS2-Controller You use the charger cable to connect the PS3 controller to the laptop btw. And I don't know about Mac. Might be just for Windows for all I know. Edited January 6, 2014 by Tales
Retro_Link Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) Thanks man! Mind you, I guess Gone Home and The Stanley Parable are best played with a mouse, but it's good to know I can potentially use it for games I feel would be more comfortable with a controller. I'm pretty excited to start trying some PC games. Edited January 6, 2014 by Retro_Link
Agent Gibbs Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 i'm using one of Mayflash's WiiU pro adaptors to use my WiiU pro controller on my PC....its awesome such a good pad
Cube Posted January 7, 2014 Posted January 7, 2014 The 360 controller is probably the best for the PC as the majority of PC games are configured for it. They even show the correct buttons.
flameboy Posted January 7, 2014 Posted January 7, 2014 @Retro_Link pinnacle game profiler is really good and includes both xbox 360 and ps3 controller. It does however cost money but I gladly stumped up the cash.
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