Steam christmas sale 2010... *twitch*

[Deific]

Just started playing Portal that I bought at the start of the sale.. WOW awesome game!

I also bought portal in the sale, and having previously thought it was a boring game from watching others play/videos, having played myself I'm now eagerly anticipating portal 2

 

[Keyser Soze]

I want to get all the GTA games on Steam, so i'm not sure whether to buy the Rockstar Collection, or buy GTAIV now then hope the classics collection will be on offer.

Max Payne still worth a few quid in todays money? if so that could make the collection worthwhile.

 

[Sharpz]

getting so poor from this steam sale, current list is ;-

Avp
Darksiders
Deadrising 2
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Mirrors Edge
Transformers
Shatter
Need For Speed : Hot Persuit

and now i can't wait for tomorrows deals never going to have time to play all these.

 

[ScarySquirrel]

I managed to get the 15Gb GTA IV install from my retail disc, woohoo! Hopefully the episodes aren't actually another 15Gb!!!

PS. DiRT is awesome!!

 

[emergency]

I absolutely love max payne, just for a bit of fun. I really quite enjoy its gameplay! Also I know your entitled to your opinion Seraph and Co. but like doing this whole 'omg everyone apart from me just a mindless consumer driven clone who will buy recycled garbage, only I can see the light' bull**** is a bit stupid. NFS HP is a decent game, with good driving mechanics..and if you have friends to play it with its great due to the logging.

 

[Tummy]

I've only purchased Lego Batman and that was on the first day of the sale. Since then either I've owned the games on sale or I'm not interested, not really got much of a feeling about this but my Bank account is quite happy.

Funny, seem to just have gone off games, going to try a session of Mass Effect or some GTA IV this weekend.

FM & WoW are all I'm playing at the moment.

 

[Chubb]

Id love to get GTA IV Episodes, but the download is a little too big for me already have GTA IV retail.

 

[dirtydog]

Id love to get GTA IV Episodes, but the download is a little too big for me already have GTA IV retail.

Do you have a 20GB hard drive or something?

 

[strang3r]

Shatter is well worth picking up, it's been one of my favorite indie games of the year. 84% on Metacritic and a £1.75 price tag can't be bad.

 

[FooAtari]

Been looking at the Epic Pack for £8, all the Unreal Games, never played Unreal is it worth a play as a fan of FPS?

I'd say so. I've yet to actually complete it, quite a long game. But what I have played so far was pretty good. But I'd wait until the last day of the sale before buying in case it comes up cheaper on a daily deal. That's what I've been doing.

Hi mate, didnt do anything actually, set to default opengl , set res to 1600x1200 (i have a desktop 1920x1200 res), fullscreen, 8 bit textures, max texture quality - basically set everything on maximum

And it works! it does seem to 'hang' at times saying 'loading' but i just press escape and it takes me to the menu.

I installed and ran quake 3 before if that makes any difference (which i doubt!).

hope that helps.

anybody else got quake 2 running?

Yeah running no problem here, Win 7 64, GTX 460, same settings as you. Now away to find out if it can be run widescreen and if there are any hi-res texture packs for it.

Anyone having problems could try one of the sourceports like KMQuake 2 or EGL. Should run the game far better on modern hardware and OS's. Of if you want to play vanilla Quake 2, there is an unofficial 3.23 patch that should fix crashing available here; http://kmq2.quakedev.com/

Also there is a load of information here on getting the various ID games working on steam with improved graphics, music support (inc quake 2) etc; http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Id_Super_Pack

 

[geon106]

So far from the sales i've brought:
Unreal Pack
Quake Collection
Sid Meiers Railroad
Amenesia
Plants vs Zombies
Flatout Ultimate Carnage
Burnout Paradise Ultimate
Hospital Tycoon
Civilization IV Complete
Batman Arkham Asylum
Dirt 2
Battlefield 2 Complete
Lara Croft GOL
plus a few indie packs

Not really played any of them yet though :/

 

[tals]

I bought and am loving Rush, was checking out their website and came across this interesting page which keeps track of percentage games sold

http://twotribes.com/message/rush-sales-statistics/

1700% increase in sales - love to have some actual numbers in there as well

 

[Things change I've changed]

the new HP is basically burnout paradise with NFS stickers and licensed cars.

And that's a bad thing?

Basically if you like Burnout and the original Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit then you'll like this, the big appeal for a lot of people is the actual cop car chases which are very fun.

 

[DjchunKfunK]

So far I've picked up Darksiders, the King Arthur Collection, The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom and Puzzle Bots. Today I've nabbed Europa Universalis III and Singularity.

I have no idea where I am going to find the time to play either Europa Universalis III or King Arthur.

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Do you have a 20GB hard drive or something?

I expect he is like me, and is still stuck on a crappy connection in the countryside. 15Gb takes AGES to download, and uses half of my monthly peak allowance.

 

[geon106]

As its new year, i expect tonights sales will be some of the best yet during this entire sale period.... well, i would expect they will be

 

[ic1male]

As its new year, i expect tonights sales will be some of the best yet during this entire sale period.... well, i would expect they will be

Nay, that should be what 2nd January (last day) is for.

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Nay, that should be what 2nd January (last day) is for.

Last day will be catchup sales so you will get another chance to mull over all those sales you decided not to go for over the last few days

 

[ZeniTimes]

So Far

Fallout New Vegas
Darksiders (Shyt)
Batman Arkham Asylum
Dirt 2
Lara Croft GOL

Missed F1 2010
Waiting on Civilisation V

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Is anyone getting 'Suspended Download' at all?