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04-21-2010, 11:45 AM
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veteran
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: UK
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
I strongly advise anyone to get altitude. Its a 2d multiplayer plane game. Its got a 3 hour free demo too 
http://store.steampowered.com/app/41300/
If its anything to go by I've played 578 hours. 
I've played WoW, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Oblivion, Eve Online, Dragon Age, etc but this has the most replayability and longest life of a gave I've ever seen. Even a ton of teamliquid starcraft people play it. I strongly advise giving it a go.
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04-21-2010, 12:33 PM
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#32
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because robots are strong
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: JOSEPH VINCENT FLACCO
Posts: 15,594
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
lol that trailer looks pretty fun actually.
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04-21-2010, 01:39 PM
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#33
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old hand
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: San Diego
Posts: 1,872
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
http://www.steamgamesales.com/
Great site for finding deals others might not post.
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04-21-2010, 02:39 PM
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#34
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Pooh-Bah
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 4,299
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
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Originally Posted by rchandra
deus ex ($2.50) is the midweek sale, pretty tempting though no idea when I could get to it.
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I bought both probably wont play either of them for years. To be fair I have gotten better at resisting the temptation of buying cheap games I'll never play. I swear.
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04-23-2010, 01:26 AM
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#35
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Correct, as usual.
Posts: 13,616
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
Deus Ex reminds me...
I remember years ago, I saw a Deux Ex "Limited Edition" at Best Buy for maybe $10 or something. The game wasn't 100% brand new at the time, but was still probably published within the previous 18 months or so. I had heard good things, so I figured $10 was a great price - it was just in a jewel case, no retail box or anything.
As it turned out, once I got to the end of the first stage, the game was over. It was literally a "limited" edition. Just a ****ing demo. Other than it saying "Limited Edition" on the case, there was no warning that it was not the full game.
I took it back to the store and tried to explain that to most people, "Limited Edition" means that it's some sort of special release of the game, perhaps with extra content not found in the original. They did not care. I was out $10.
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04-27-2010, 09:54 AM
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#36
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Pooh-Bah
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: facepalming my way into history
Posts: 5,937
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
Rockstar package this week. Looks awesome for 45€ ( you save around 118€ ).
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04-27-2010, 12:00 PM
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#37
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veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,413
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
San Andreas as a single purchase is really tempting me...
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04-27-2010, 03:19 PM
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#38
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 10,568
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
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Originally Posted by dlk9s
Deus Ex reminds me...
I remember years ago, I saw a Deux Ex "Limited Edition" at Best Buy for maybe $10 or something. The game wasn't 100% brand new at the time, but was still probably published within the previous 18 months or so. I had heard good things, so I figured $10 was a great price - it was just in a jewel case, no retail box or anything.
As it turned out, once I got to the end of the first stage, the game was over. It was literally a "limited" edition. Just a ****ing demo. Other than it saying "Limited Edition" on the case, there was no warning that it was not the full game.
I took it back to the store and tried to explain that to most people, "Limited Edition" means that it's some sort of special release of the game, perhaps with extra content not found in the original. They did not care. I was out $10.
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lol, genius marketing. Sketchy and in the grey area for outright scam though.
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04-27-2010, 03:24 PM
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#39
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old hand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: St. John\'s, Nfld.
Posts: 1,585
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
reminds me of the "buy one, get one" sign in one of the sam & max games. I keep hoping a real store will try that.
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04-27-2010, 04:22 PM
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#40
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Pooh-Bah
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: TebowLand
Posts: 3,676
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
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Originally Posted by dlk9s
Deus Ex reminds me...
I remember years ago, I saw a Deux Ex "Limited Edition" at Best Buy for maybe $10 or something. The game wasn't 100% brand new at the time, but was still probably published within the previous 18 months or so. I had heard good things, so I figured $10 was a great price - it was just in a jewel case, no retail box or anything.
As it turned out, once I got to the end of the first stage, the game was over. It was literally a "limited" edition. Just a ****ing demo. Other than it saying "Limited Edition" on the case, there was no warning that it was not the full game.
I took it back to the store and tried to explain that to most people, "Limited Edition" means that it's some sort of special release of the game, perhaps with extra content not found in the original. They did not care. I was out $10.
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This happened to me as well. I don't think I have ever been so angry at a video game.
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04-27-2010, 04:38 PM
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#41
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Pooh-Bah
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,736
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
I'm going on a road trip this weekend and I have an Athlon64 laptop that will not be able to run the nicer games, anybody got a rec for something fun with low hardware requirements?
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04-27-2010, 06:33 PM
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#42
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old hand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: St. John\'s, Nfld.
Posts: 1,585
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
plants vs zombies (simplistic tower defense)
eschalon (old-style Western turn-based rpg)
both have demos
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04-27-2010, 08:53 PM
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#43
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: $450,000 crack party
Posts: 18,606
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
lets talk about how steam sucks ballz and always performs server maintenance at the worst possible times 
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04-28-2010, 04:14 AM
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#44
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adept
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: midnight city
Posts: 784
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
Okay, what's the deal with steam for mac. They said April and well... April is running out of days. I need myself some cs on a mac. that's all i wanttt
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04-28-2010, 06:40 AM
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#45
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Pooh-Bah
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: TebowLand
Posts: 3,676
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Re: Let's talk about Steam and buy mountains of games
I guess you should have bought a PC... you know, those computers that are more powerful, less expensive, and actually do the things you want.
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