FWIW, I've gotten more than $2 worth of entertainment just reading the various manuals & guides related to the game (which I wouldn't have read if I didn't own them)

As a newcomer to the series I have to say that it doesn't appear to be a game for the timid nor is it one that I think anyone is going to jump right in & sail merrily along through.

Back in those days, "Casual Gamer" was an oxymoron ;)

Need to remember to pick up X COM when I get home. There's no minimum purchase thing with them, right. Like I don't have to spend 20 on "steam dollars"

Nope, there is no minimum purchase. All purchases are made with exact money amounts.

True dat.

(Now I just hope the NFL doesn't sue me for using that word without permission)

I just bought the X-COM pack. Now, could somebody please explain what the hell is going on? : gaming

Short run down of elements of X-COM in first two posts here.

Ahhh, those were the days...

I bought Tropico 3 this weekend on the Steam deal. Liking it, but good lord it really is EXACTLY like the original, with updated graphics.

I bought it over the weekend and I think I'm just done with sim builders like this. It just felt very stale - IMO of course.

I enjoyed it, but it seems like if you make it past t first five years or so it's very simple after that.

beat Call of Duty - World at War last night. Now on to Modern Warfare!!!

Oooh, I never played anything beyond the original X-Com. For two bucks thats a great deal.

Question: I've never used Steam before, so I'll have to DL it. Are the games portable from one computer to another after you have bought them? I might be getting a new laptop in the next couple of months and just want to make sure I can still access the games on that.

Yes, you'll need to download the games on your laptop, but as far as I know you don't have limit on computers. The only limit is that only one computer can be logged in at one time.

Some games even store the save file on line so you can play the same save on different computers.

I never played the third X-Com game, but DO NOT play X-Com 2. It's awful. A huge disappointment.

This Steam thing is absolutely evil. Finally bit on the X-Com deal for the first Steam purchase. This could be harmful to my wallet, though I doubt I'll make any big purchases. Probably will just pick up games on the cheap here and there when offered.

You can set your Steam client to be offline though. My son wanted to play Worl of Goo on his computer yesterday so I went and installed Steam on there, downloaded WoG and had him playing in no time. Thing was, when I went back to my computer, it didn't allow me to log in to Steam to play King's Bounty. Googled "playing Steam games offline" or something like that and it linked to an article in the Steam knowledge base about getting your games ready to play offline in case you disconnect your laptop for example. Did that on my son's Steam client and we were both able to play our respective games...

FM

edit: sorry can't give you a direct link to the KB article as I can't access Steam from here...

yes, it is evil, but I've bought tons of fun games on the VERY cheap since the big Holiday sale. I mean, it's hard not to get your money back in entertainment when you pay only $2 for X-Com (even though I've yet to play a minute of it) or $4.99 for King's Bounty. I've already logged in maybe 15 hours of good clean fun with King's Bounty alone and I'm thinking about upgrading my crappy integrated video card in order to play it even more. :)

FM

Grr... Steam sale! But how do you pass those two up (X-Com complete and Freedom Force) for a whopping $2 for complete sets?

SI

Is it bad that when I just type "s" in the firefox address bar and the first thing it shows is store.steampowered.com??? This is getting ridiculous.

you might have a problem...yes.


if i do that here at work it's salesforce.com

i wonder what it would be if i did it at home...

Steam's Midweek Madness deal is Titan Quest Gold at 75% off or for only $4.99:
Package: Titan Quest Gold

It includes the original Titan Quest game and the sequel Immortal Thrones. FWIW, I bought the same package during the holiday sale for what I thought was a very good price at $9.99. Now for only $5, well it's only $2.50 per game for what I'd think would be many hours of play.

Sadly, I've still to put one minute of playing time into this game. It's still on the "to play soon" queue... :)

I did fool around with the demo and liked it very much. It's only a matter of time before I get to it.

Deal is good through Tursday.

FM

Very fun game.

Minor annoying things in the game, but a steal at that price. I got two different characters through normal and I'll add more and move the two past epic later on. Mostly taking a break and dusting off City of Heroes.

Steam is running a 50% off deal on Farcry and Farcry2. Was looking for a new shooter to hold me over until RDR, and this looks about 10x better than Serious Sam.

15 bucks for both isnt too shabby and since I havent played either it was a sale.

Broke down and got Titan Quest Gold. I just couldn't pass it up the second time (passed on it at Christmas).

I really loved Titan Quest and the sequel - normally I don't get into the Diablo style gameplay but the mythological theme and lots of character options really sold me. Good stuff there.

Impluse has a bundle of Majesty Gold and Majesty 2 for 9.99. That is 75% off the regular of 39.99.

http://www.impulsedriven.com/products/ESD-IMP-W460

Steam has Total War week this week. All TW games are 66% off.

You can get:

Rome: Gold + Alexander for $3.39
Medieval II: Gold + Kingdoms for $10.17
Empire for $13.59

Or the whole kitten-kaboodle for $20.39

that's almost probably worth picking up rome + medieval just so i don't have to have the cd's in...haha

I was thinking the same:)

kit AND kaboodle

:D

Midweek Madness is Trine this week over on Steam. Available at 75% off, i.e. $5.
Trine on Steam

I had installed the demo for it during the big holiday sale but it lagged way too much on my crappy integrated video card. Got a reasonable GT 240 coming from Newegg that should arrive tomorrow but I won't have time to install and try it before the weekend I'm afraid...

FM

Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3) for $20.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3) $20 - Slickdeals.net

Thanks for having me spend unnecessarily.

you're welcome :devil:

FM

I know many FOFCers already have it but the Weekend deal on Steam is Mount & Blade at 85% off, i.e. for $4.99.

FM

Impulse has the THQ Ultimate Bundle. A group of games that total $344 for 100 bucks. A bit steep for my blood, but it's like 10 games plus 7 expansion packs total.

Company of Heros
Red Faction I and II
STALKER
Sup Com
TItan Quest
Warhammer

Are the main games.

I'm unsure if anyone posted this, but if you want to keep up with the latest sales on Steam here is an RSS feed someone made for all the sales!

On Sale On Steam

interesting but seems to be incomplete. Only shows the Total War titles as the latest sales in there while there's been Trine and Mount & Blade put on sale since the deal for that series has been announced.

I get my sale Steam sale announcements from this their News RSS feed:
Steam RSS News Feed

FM

Thanks - I wanted to try this for some time and $5 can't pass it up. Bought it last nights hopefully I will find some time to play it over the weekend.

Ditto. Been wanting to try M&B for a while, and now I will at 5 bucks.

that´s pretty cool. Allways though about trying a game like that and for that price i will :)

It's cool that we still got people who've not tried M&B cause for this price, it really is a great deal. Paid something like $15 around Holiday season last year and played quite a bit with it. It's been a while since the last time I played but I'm thinking about mountin the horse again this weekend, if only to see how it looks with the new graphics card. :)

FM

Is M&B pretty cut and dry of a game or are there any pointers ones could give to a nOOb just starting?

I was going to jump into this for the price, but the mention of a graphics card draws my attention. I've just got a laptop with the standard integrated IBM card. I usually just play older games on Steam, so it's normally not a big deal. Are there big requirements on M&B or will it run OK on a standard setup?

oh no, my card prior to this one was an integrated nvidia 6150LE that's the standard in many HP pavilions and it ran very, very well. I'm only curious to see how much better it was.

One instance it had a bit of a harder time was in bigger battles, but I probably could have tuned down the number of visible opponents and it would have run smoother. But really, it wasn't that bad.

Isn't there a demo on Steam?

FM

dola, my new graphics card is an Nvidia GT 240 and I absolutely adore it. King's Bounty now runs smooth as all hell and using the rage items in battles is now fun again. :)

FM

I have 2 small children. I don't have time for demos when I have FOFC technical support. I want to buy it and go! :D

heh, but sometimes the Steam demos are the preload for the real thing. Set it to download and install and come back later to test it out... :)

FM