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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 18, 2008. Just in time for the holidays, Valve announced that, Spore™, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™, Mass Effect®, Need for Speed™ Undercover and EA SPORTS FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in North America via Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world.
Hopefully we'll see a worldwide release soon ."We are pleased to extend our holiday titles to gamers worldwide via Steam -- a revolutionary technology that is one of the game industry's most successful digital distribution services," said John Pleasants, President, Global Publishing & Chief Operating Officer.
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from Steam, "File > Backup Games". I generally prefer 4.7GB DVD sized chunks.Uzique wrote:
I find myself buying far too many games over Steam now, mainly because I'm lazy and cannot wait for the delivery from retail- let alone entertaining the thought of getting out of my seat and buying a retail copy myself!
I think I'm getting into that sorta territory where a system reformat is going to call on a week's worth of solid content redownloading. Should probably look into a method for backing up Steam games...
That said, I'm going to continue buying many pwnage games from the Steam Store, even if their exchange-rates and taxes are a little extortionate! Great concept and delivery platform.
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You joking?Flecco wrote:
Poseidon, Mass Effect is almost as good as Fallout.
So I hear...plus, now that F3 has gotten me into the whole RPG section of gaming, I think I'll enjoy it. My good friend enjoyed it vastly, as I said.Flecco wrote:
Poseidon, Mass Effect is almost as good as Fallout.
Don't worry about your hardware if I remeber them right you should be fine.Poseidon wrote:
So I hear...plus, now that F3 has gotten me into the whole RPG section of gaming, I think I'll enjoy it. My good friend enjoyed it vastly, as I said.Flecco wrote:
Poseidon, Mass Effect is almost as good as Fallout.
I'm just worried about my computer again. Maybe I'll get it in June when I upgrade.
ElevatorsMiggle wrote:
You joking?Flecco wrote:
Poseidon, Mass Effect is almost as good as Fallout.
Everywhere.jsnipy wrote:
ElevatorsMiggle wrote:
You joking?Flecco wrote:
Poseidon, Mass Effect is almost as good as Fallout.
Miggle wrote:
Not at all like oblivion.
Liked it for a few days, there's a LOT of elevators, you'll probably spend 1/3 of your play time standing still in an elevator.
The autosave is also pretty rare, so prepare to be dieing and loading, just to have to go up another 3 or 4 elevators.
The plot was interesting, but not good enough to spend much money on.
There's no ammo, weapons "overheat" if you fire them too long, but you can just use burst fire and not run into many problems with it, though I had a glitch where whenever my weapons overheated they never cooled down, which sucked when I had to melee attack every enemy. Eventually I died and had to go up several elevators.
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Was thinking of doing that...would probably be a better idea tbh. Plus, achievements.Flecco wrote:
As Migs said though, don't expect any replay value. At all tbh. Probs better to buy a second hand copy on 360 and trade it back in again afterwards.
The elevators aren't everywhere, and most of them you can skip on the Citadel with the rapid transit system (or whatever it was called, the orange consoles).Miggle wrote:
Everywhere.jsnipy wrote:
Elevators
Not to mention the autosave is absolute shit.
Oh don't worry, I'm sure almost every game publisher will distribute their content via online download services by 2020.Naturn wrote:
Please the next Battlefield be on steam!
Talking about Heroes, when is that gonna be released?Kptk92 wrote:
I am predicting BF:Heroes to be on Steam upon its release
It will come bundled with duke nukem forever...aerodynamic wrote:
Talking about Heroes, when is that gonna be released?Kptk92 wrote:
I am predicting BF:Heroes to be on Steam upon its release
They said summer at first and now its almost 2 thousand fucking 9.
I was so looking forward to that game.
Have you seen the competition? Only thing that offers anything really different from what steam gives is gametap. Stuff like Impulse still have really small catalogues and don't offer the benefits steam does like a friends network or server browser.Jestar wrote:
lol steam monopoly.
I wouldn't mind tbh...Jestar wrote:
lol steam monopoly.