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Old 01-30-2010, 07:00 PM   #551
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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.
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Old 01-30-2010, 07:48 PM   #552
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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
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Old 01-30-2010, 08:07 PM   #553
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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"
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Old 01-30-2010, 08:13 PM   #554
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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.
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Old 01-30-2010, 08:24 PM   #555
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Back in those days, "Casual Gamer" was an oxymoron

True dat.

(Now I just hope the NFL doesn't sue me for using that word without permission)
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Old 01-30-2010, 08:32 PM   #556
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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.

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.
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Old 01-30-2010, 08:50 PM   #557
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Old 02-01-2010, 09:15 AM   #558
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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.
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Old 02-01-2010, 09:37 AM   #559
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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.
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Old 02-01-2010, 09:43 AM   #560
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I enjoyed it, but it seems like if you make it past t first five years or so it's very simple after that.
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Old 02-01-2010, 09:44 AM   #561
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Old 02-01-2010, 09:49 AM   #562
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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.
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Old 02-01-2010, 09:56 AM   #563
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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.
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Old 02-01-2010, 10:10 AM   #564
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Oooh, I never played anything beyond the original X-Com. For two bucks thats a great deal.

I never played the third X-Com game, but DO NOT play X-Com 2. It's awful. A huge disappointment.
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Old 02-01-2010, 10:12 AM   #565
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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.
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Old 02-01-2010, 10:20 AM   #566
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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.

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...

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edit: sorry can't give you a direct link to the KB article as I can't access Steam from here...
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Old 02-01-2010, 10:22 AM   #567
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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.

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.

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Old 02-01-2010, 12:06 PM   #568
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Grr... Steam sale! But how do you pass those two up (X-Com complete and Freedom Force) for a whopping $2 for complete sets?

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Old 02-01-2010, 12:32 PM   #569
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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.
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Old 02-01-2010, 12:36 PM   #570
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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...
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Old 02-02-2010, 02:04 PM   #571
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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.

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Old 02-02-2010, 03:57 PM   #572
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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.

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Very fun game.
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Old 02-02-2010, 05:09 PM   #573
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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.

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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.
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Old 02-04-2010, 04:15 PM   #574
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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.
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Old 02-04-2010, 04:41 PM   #575
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Broke down and got Titan Quest Gold. I just couldn't pass it up the second time (passed on it at Christmas).
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Old 02-04-2010, 06:09 PM   #576
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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.
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Old 02-04-2010, 09:19 PM   #577
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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
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Old 02-08-2010, 04:19 PM   #578
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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
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Old 02-08-2010, 07:38 PM   #579
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that's almost probably worth picking up rome + medieval just so i don't have to have the cd's in...haha
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Old 02-08-2010, 09:36 PM   #580
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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
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kit AND kaboodle
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Old 02-09-2010, 05:18 PM   #583
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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...

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Old 02-10-2010, 11:36 AM   #584
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Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3) for $20.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3) $20 - Slickdeals.net
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Old 02-10-2010, 12:19 PM   #585
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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

Thanks for having me spend unnecessarily.
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Thanks for having me spend unnecessarily.

you're welcome

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Old 02-11-2010, 07:42 PM   #587
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I know many FOFCers already have it but the Weekend deal on Steam is Mount & Blade at 85% off, i.e. for $4.99.

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Old 02-11-2010, 09:24 PM   #588
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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
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Sup Com
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Are the main games.
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Old 02-11-2010, 10:38 PM   #589
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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!

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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

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Old 02-12-2010, 06:28 AM   #591
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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

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.
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Old 02-12-2010, 07:36 AM   #592
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Ditto. Been wanting to try M&B for a while, and now I will at 5 bucks.
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I know many FOFCers already have it but the Weekend deal on Steam is Mount & Blade at 85% off, i.e. for $4.99.

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thatīs pretty cool. Allways though about trying a game like that and for that price i will
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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.

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Old 02-12-2010, 09:11 AM   #595
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Is M&B pretty cut and dry of a game or are there any pointers ones could give to a nOOb just starting?
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Old 02-12-2010, 09:13 AM   #596
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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.

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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?
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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?

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Old 02-12-2010, 09:19 AM   #598
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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.

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Old 02-12-2010, 09:21 AM   #599
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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

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!
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Old 02-12-2010, 09:29 AM   #600
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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!

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...

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