Week of Steam deals - Square Enix & Eidos Interactive

Man, that sucks. I would have been really excited by Last Remnant, but £15? I'll wait for this to plummet in price a bit more, along with Anno 1404 (which is still £35, inexplicably). Steam is damn expensive as a games repository, unless you live off the deals, and I'm still not convinced it's the publishers' doing.
 
D3lirious said:
The Ultra High Quality Mod does work with Steam version but it takes a bit of extra fiddling (well worth it imo). Here's what I did:

1) Download the mod then make sure you have run the vanilla game at least once in order to set up basic options such as sound, keys, etc. Don’t worry about resolution settings at this point but you will want to turn on 32 bit colour and possibly enable hardware audio.

2) Copy contents of the folder "DeusEx Ultra High Quality Mod Files", and paste inside the Deus Ex system folder (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\deus ex\System) replacing all files. Remove (x86) from path if on 32 bit o/s

3) Run the HDTP-Release1.exe installer contained in the download. This will drop some files in your Deus Ex system folder and a shortcut on your desktop. When not using Steam, you would simply use this shortcut to run the mod but Steam doesn’t like this so...

4) Backup DeusEx.exe in Deus Ex system folder. Rename HDTP.exe to DeusEx.exe so that Steam will use the new executable instead.

5) The shortcut that the installer placed on your desktop has some additional parameters that need to be passed to the new executable upon launch. Right click the shortcut and copy the parameter part (begins ‘INI=’) then paste that into the ‘set launch options’ section for Deus Ex in Steam (right click Deus Ex game in steam, click ‘properties’, then click ‘set launch options’). The installer for the mod does not actually set this parameter correctly because if you look there are spaces in the path names and they’re not enclosed in quotes. Add the quotes in when you paste into launch options. The text you paste into 'set launch options' should look something like:
INI="c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\deus ex\System\HDTP.ini" USERINI="c:\program files (x86)\steam
\steamapps\common\deus ex\System\HDTPUser.ini" log=HDTP.log

6) Edit HDTP.ini in Deus Ex system folder to set line starting 'CdPath=' to 'CdPath=..\GOTY_1'. Then set your desired screen resolution (set this by changing values for WindowedViewportX, WindowedViewportY, FullscreenViewportX, FullscreenViewportY settings).

7) Run Deus Ex via steam (desktop icon that Steam created, or within Steam itself, doesn’t matter, but don’t use shortcut created by mod installer).

8) At the graphics driver selection screen choose ‘show all’ then select ‘Direct3D9 Support’. If you don't get this initial selection screen at launch, find it via Settings -> Display -> Rendering device

9) Start game.

Optional: With this mod enabled the in-game menus can appear overly bright. Go into Settings -> Colours and change the colour scheme for the in-game menus to something that will show up better than the default scheme.
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Thanks for passing that info on , much appriciated :)
 
Excellent got TR: Anniversary that was missing from the Eidos Complete Pack!

Last Remant any good? 66 doesnt say so - not for £15...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
ps3ud0 said:
Last Remant any good? 66 doesnt say so - not for £15...
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Most of the low scores and negativity is carried on over from the Xbox 360 version and the general flaws of the Unreal Engine 3. Otherwise if you have a good PC and can play any Unreal Engine 3 games perfectly, then it is far superior in performance. Gameplay wise, it might be a little too confusing and hard at first, but once you get used to the tactics and strategy, you can have some very epic battles. And you can easily get the game on retail disc for much cheaper, and it will use Steam anyways.
 
new deals in 30mins (ish) keep an eye out for Timko's post on what it might be :p

I really hope it is something good. But judging by the last lot its going to be awful :(
 
I must say an epic deal would be they have a Final Fantasy Pack on the last day which includes FF7 and FF8.

I would pay anything for that :p

as long as it works on W7 ofc :D :D
 
Nah not for me. I take it they are saving Batman AA for the last day. I've already finished that on the PS3 though.
 
I must say I have had my eye on Gyromancer for a while. I have heard mixed reviews but I think I may pick it up.

I do like bejeweled twist which from what I have seen this is kind of based on
 
I just had a look at a few pics of that mini ninja, it looks god damm awful. Might pick up the Gyromancer for 5.50 though.
 
Strife212 said:
Omg they could actually release FFVII and FFVIII because Eidos did the PC version and now Square Enix owns Eidos :D :D :D

So there would be no rights issues
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exactly my train of thought. :D

If they were to unleash this explosion of a game though it would deffo be towards the end of the week.
 
Hmm I just tried Gyromancer as I like Puzzle Quest. The production values are high, but the gameplay mechanics left me scratching my head which isn't something that happened during Puzzle Quest which I completed. I won all the battles in the demo but didn't really understand why.
 
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