OS Steam and Computer Gaming Thread

[NINJAK2]

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Tried that too cod. Still crashes back to desktop with same message.

[Cod]

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Anyone ever purchase anything from Dream Electronic? They have some pretty nice deals on peripherals, but I'm a little wary since I cannot find any information about the company.

Here's the link for those interested: http://dreamelectronic.com/index.php?route=common/home

[woodjer]

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Ok, I'll start by acknowledging that this is probably a dumb question. Anyway, I've been out of PC gaming for probably 10-15 years because I used my Xbox/PS3/ps4 for all that. I LOVE the Civilization series and just (like 10 min ago) ordered a new laptop and am excited to finally play Civ V. Lucky me, I noticed that Steam has the complete edition for like $12 or something insanely low like that. So my questions:
- what is Steam? Is it just a "Game Center" of sorts for the PC world?
- I seem to remember some people being adamantly against Steam a while back. What are the big cons of it?
- if I dl a game on Steam, do I have access to play it without an Internet connection?

Sorry...I'm sure that some of these answers are in the hundreds of pages to this thread but was hoping someone can be kind enough to answer for me. Just don't want to go the Steam route and then find out that I was an idiot for doing so...

Edit: FWIW, I don't plan to do a lot of heavy gaming (Civ, MAYBE The Sims, and probably some type of tycoon game. Oh, and likely OOTP) on the new laptop. I've got Skyrim and Dragon Age for consoles already and those are plenty for me in that respect. For now, at least...

[Phobia]

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Ok, I'll start by acknowledging that this is probably a dumb question. Anyway, I've been out of PC gaming for probably 10-15 years because I used my Xbox/PS3/ps4 for all that. I LOVE the Civilization series and just (like 10 min ago) ordered a new laptop and am excited to finally play Civ V. Lucky me, I noticed that Steam has the complete edition for like $12 or something insanely low like that. So my questions:
- what is Steam? Is it just a "Game Center" of sorts for the PC world?
- I seem to remember some people being adamantly against Steam a while back. What are the big cons of it?
- if I dl a game on Steam, do I have access to play it without an Internet connection?

Sorry...I'm sure that some of these answers are in the hundreds of pages to this thread but was hoping someone can be kind enough to answer for me. Just don't want to go the Steam route and then find out that I was an idiot for doing so...

Edit: FWIW, I don't plan to do a lot of heavy gaming (Civ, MAYBE The Sims, and probably some type of tycoon game. Oh, and likely OOTP) on the new laptop. I've got Skyrim and Dragon Age for consoles already and those are plenty for me in that respect. For now, at least...

Go with Steam its awesome!

[jyoung]

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- what is Steam? Is it just a "Game Center" of sorts for the PC world?

STEAM does a lot of different things these days. Even if you don't buy any games in the store, your STEAM account still lets you:

-- Instant message with friends
-- Find new friends by joining groups or posting on game-specific forums
-- Send or receive coupons or free games
-- Trade/buy/sell virtual cards that you earn for playing games
-- Unlock achievements for most games a la Xbox Live
-- Create your own mods for certain games, which you can sell for real money
-- Read or write game reviews & strategy guides
-- Broadcast your live gameplay for people to watch
-- Vote for Indie games you'd like to see greenlit by Valve
-- Set up a wish list so that you're emailed every time a game you want goes on sale

- I seem to remember some people being adamantly against Steam a while back. What are the big cons of it?

STEAM's account security isn't very good. I've never been hacked before, but many people have. Don't save any payment information with them, and make sure that your password is strong and is changed often.

if I dl a game on Steam, do I have access to play it without an Internet connection?

Yes. STEAM has an offline mode that allows you to play any game in your library whenever your Internet is out.

So in conclusion:

STEAM is natural.
STEAM is good.
Not everybody has it,
but everybody should.

For your first STEAM games, I recommend downloading some free stuff:

Super Crate Box
Defense of the Ancients 2
Dirty Bomb
Team Fortress 2
Quake Live
Happy Wars

Those are some of the best free games on STEAM right now.

We also have an Operation Sports group on STEAM that everyone should join:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/operationsports

You can probably find a few friends from that list to play with.

[mestevo]

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Some unfortunate Steam Machine news: no suspend. On or off w/full boot up every time. Linux limitation.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/08/steam-machines-wont-have-a-suspend-function/

They just need to move on from this IMO.

[ubernoob]

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No suspend isn't a big deal at all.
It takes me what, almost a full 30 seconds to boot up my windows machine?

[Chizzypoof]

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Edit: FWIW, I don't plan to do a lot of heavy gaming (Civ, MAYBE The Sims, and probably some type of tycoon game. Oh, and likely OOTP) on the new laptop. I've got Skyrim and Dragon Age for consoles already and those are plenty for me in that respect. For now, at least...

Just letting you know this is how it starts. Then you see a game that you remember from PS3 even PS2 games and go, wow only $2.99. So you buy it and download it. Next thing you know you have a game library pushing 50 games and you only finished 10.

[Solidice]

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Just letting you know this is how it starts. Then you see a game that you remember from PS3 even PS2 games and go, wow only $2.99. So you buy it and download it. Next thing you know you have a game library pushing 50 games and you only finished 10.

and then you're buying a 5TB HDD to fit all your games like me because it out grew the 2TB drive.

[woodjer]

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Just letting you know this is how it starts. Then you see a game that you remember from PS3 even PS2 games and go, wow only $2.99. So you buy it and download it. Next thing you know you have a game library pushing 50 games and you only finished 10.

I just posted about this type of backlog in the "going digital" thread. I know how it goes!

I did get caught a little bit with the nostalgia factor already...bought the Civ III and Civ IV bundles since they were like $1 and $7 this weekend. Was all excited to revisit them after playing Beyond Earth but started up Civ III, took one look at the outdated graphics and shut it right back down. Hoping that tides me over on the nostalgia side for a while...

[PAPERNUT]

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Just letting you know this is how it starts. Then you see a game that you remember from PS3 even PS2 games and go, wow only $2.99. So you buy it and download it. Next thing you know you have a game library pushing 50 games and you only finished 10.

Never thought about this till I read your post. I just got back into PC gaming myself this past Jan. I was one in the past that had a fit when I heard about no disc support on consoles and said I would never go all digital, but I never knew about Steam and how they offer sales all the time. I now find myself with 28 games in my library and none that I paid full price for.

[bakan723]

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Wow. GoG actually got some of the old AD&D games finally.

http://www.gog.com/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=release_game&utm_campaign=2015_08_ad&d?pp=904f2cc1c3677bb35876e91f4716341c06769cc6

Now they just need the Krynn series & Dark Sun.

[mestevo]

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Some cool features coming to the GeForce Experience.

http://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-t...ploads-inbound

[Cod]

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I was going through my inventory this evening and realized I have three gift copies of games. So if any of y'all want one of the following, let me know:

- Dino D-Day
- ARMA: Cold War Assault
- Dead Island: Epidemic

I'm asking for nothing in return...just a simple thanks will do.

[Phobia]

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I was going through my inventory this evening and realized I have three gift copies of games. So if any of y'all want one of the following, let me know:

- Dino D-Day
- ARMA: Cold War Assault
- Dead Island: Epidemic

I'm asking for nothing in return...just a simple thanks will do.

LOL never mind, its does not look that good haha