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Title: STEAM sale
Post by: Russian on December 27, 2008, 10:27:27 AM
There is a nice sale on STEAM now..

Portal, Bioshock and Race07 for 5$ each.
StalkerCS for 20$
etc etc...

http://store.steampowered.com/holidaysale
Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: Masherbrum on December 27, 2008, 11:51:35 AM
I play Left 4 Dead.   
Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: Spikes on December 27, 2008, 11:59:38 AM
I play Left 4 Dead.   
I want to get that.
Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: deSelys on December 29, 2008, 08:47:09 AM
I pre-bought Left 4 Dead, I'm still playing it today. Even if the story is short, it doesn't get old. Expert campaigns are viciously addictive (I haven't been able to finish one yet but I suck). Versus mode can be fun but lots of people take it too seriously imo.
Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: Hungry on December 29, 2008, 09:17:48 AM
Am I correct in that if you buy them from Steam that you have to have Steam installed and play them through their front end, yuuuucckk

Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: Sox62 on December 29, 2008, 11:03:57 AM
I play Left 4 Dead.   

Just got it for Christmas,but haven't installed it yet.

Verdict?
Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: eagl on December 29, 2008, 11:22:12 AM
Am I correct in that if you buy them from Steam that you have to have Steam installed and play them through their front end, yuuuucckk



That's what I thought at first.  But in actual use it's been pretty reasonable and non-intrusive.  It doesn't seem to have installed anything that runs in the background all the time, and the only drawback is that when launching a game I have to wait just a bit while it fires up the steam front end and checks for updates (which is sort of nice actually since I don't have to manually check for updates to all the games managed by Steam).  And I think that the startup process can be streamlined by de-selecting some startup options.

It's certainly less irritating and less buggy than the old iENT game manager thingy we all had to put up with for a while.

Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: deSelys on December 29, 2008, 11:34:35 AM
Just got it for Christmas,but haven't installed it yet.

Verdict?
+
Game of the year for me... Not bored one bit with it after 40+ hours of play. Enjoy.
Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: Russian on December 29, 2008, 05:34:46 PM
That's what I thought at first.  But in actual use it's been pretty reasonable and non-intrusive.  It doesn't seem to have installed anything that runs in the background all the time, and the only drawback is that when launching a game I have to wait just a bit while it fires up the steam front end and checks for updates (which is sort of nice actually since I don't have to manually check for updates to all the games managed by Steam).  And I think that the startup process can be streamlined by de-selecting some startup options.

It's certainly less irritating and less buggy than the old iENT game manager thingy we all had to put up with for a while.



Second that.  I had a STEAM account for 5 years and did not have any major problems.  Right now I feel safer with STEAM account than  having a bunch of CDs laying around and collecting dust.
Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: Fulmar on December 29, 2008, 06:40:51 PM
I've been loving up Left 4 Dead since Christmas as well.  Other than servers that like to crash and some loading bugs, its awesome.  No need for instense story lines when are you wanna do is kill hundreds of zombies.

SteamID: Fulmar
Title: Re: STEAM sale
Post by: Spikes on December 29, 2008, 07:01:22 PM
I want to get that.
Edit: I got it. :P