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Originally Posted by Jesse_Dylan Yeah, my backlog is huge. I've played very little of my Steam games, frankly. I have stuff from last holiday (2009) that I haven't even touched.

Well, running Steam when Windows starts and actually being logged in would probably help a lot, since the client has this handy game launcher thing. Just sayin'!

Originally Posted by kilm oldest game in terms of release date or when you bought the game?

How long it's been sitting in your backlog. 'Combat' doesn't count if you bought it yesterday.

I'd probably have to say the iD collection too. That was one of the first weekend deals I got in on after hardly ever launching Steam. I bought the pack because I was so enamoured by the fact that I could own some of gaming's greatest FPS's for only $35. If I could go back and do it again, I wouldn't even bother. Having that $35 back back then would have been great.

All that pack did was bloat my Steam games list with a bunch of old games that I'll never ever play but bought because of nostalgia.

Originally Posted by CoffeeEdge [*] RISK Factions

Cool beans. I'm liking this trend of these downloadable Xbox games I'm interested in coming to Steam. Though again I think this was a $15 game which I'll wait for a price drop on. Did look fun enough that I'll be sure to pick it up eventually though.

Originally Posted by SqueeMK2 Cool beans. I'm liking this trend of these downloadable Xbox games I'm interested in coming to Steam. Though again I think this was a $15 game which I'll wait for a price drop on. Did look fun enough that I'll be sure to pick it up eventually though.

Naw, Risk Factions is $10 and the XBLA version is going on sale for $5 on November 1.

Ah. For $10 I might pick it up then, depending on when it hits. If it lands during/before/shortly after Christmas I'll probably wait since I asked for Civ 5 and Fallout New Vegas for Christmas itself, and have a pile of money prepared for Steam winter sale. If they get it out on Steam soon I might go ahead and pick it up at $10 though, looked like a fun quick/simple strategy game. Especially if it ends up using Steamworks for multiplayer so playing with buddies is as easy as Steam invites.

Originally Posted by yeah-yeah How long it's been sitting in your backlog. 'Combat' doesn't count if you bought it yesterday.

I'd thought it'd be something older, but I bought Mass Effect (1) last November and haven't had at it yet.

As far as retail boxes go, my record is pre-ordering the collector's edition of Baldur's Gate 2, which still sits unplayed.

Originally Posted by yeah-yeah Please tell me that I'm not alone! After reading Jesse's mention of the holiday sale, I thought about the sweet deals I got a little over a year ago and then realized that I've only played TWO of those games. I got into Defense Grid a bit but didn't finish it....

Defense Grid is excellent. You should give another shot if you like strategy games, especially if you like tower defense games. I have it on XBLA and loved it: I bought all the DLC, and it's the only game for which I've gotten 100% of the achievements.

Originally Posted by Wet Ninja Defense Grid is excellent. You should give another shot if you like strategy games, especially if you like tower defense games. I have it on XBLA and loved it: I bought all the DLC, and it's the only game for which I've gotten 100% of the achievements.

I love Defense Grid -- I just haven't had time to get back into it. I didn't know what a Tower Defense game was until I played it, and it reminded me that my favorite part of Starcraft was building up my bases.

Anyone check out the trailers for "The Ball"?

Its a FPA, and in a nutshell it looks like a game where you use this "gravity" esque gun to move this huge ball around to kill youre enemies and solves puzzles.




http://store.steampowered.com/app/35460/

This may have been posted already, but it comes out this week, and looks really sweet.

The Ball does indeed look really awesome, but I don't think I want to spend $18 on it. Like 99% of Steam games, I'll wait until it's $5.

Originally Posted by yeah-yeah I love Defense Grid -- I just haven't had time to get back into it.

I know how that goes. My backlog is pretty embarrassing.

Amazingly enough, I don't have a backlog. I've played every game on my list for at least an hour, though some I have yet to finish.

As many of you know, later today, Dogfighter is going on sale for $1.50. It's a fun multiplayer-only arcade-style flying game in the vein of Crimson Skies. The devs keep supporting it with updates, and it's becoming fairly polished.



So we've created a Steam group!


Please join the CAG Dogfighter Steam Group.

What's the best way to delete a game downloaded from Steam; just go through Control Panel or is there a method on Steam I can use?

Originally Posted by Bloodbooger What's the best way to delete a game downloaded from Steam; just go through Control Panel or is there a method on Steam I can use?

That works too.

Library, games, right click on a game, delete local content

Originally Posted by kilm That works too. Library, games, right click on a game, delete local content

That's what I had been doing, but I still find folders in the Steam file. I'd like to keep the game in the Library so I can download it easy when I'd like to play, but I want to get them entirely off the hard drive.

I can go through my Control Panel, but I had not tried it yet. Any experience?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Bloodbooger That's what I had been doing, but I still find folders in the Steam file. I'd like to keep the game in the Library so I can download it easy when I'd like to play, but I want to get them entirely off the hard drive. I can go through my Control Panel, but I had not tried it yet. Any experience? Thanks!

You'll never delete a game from your library, it will always be available for you to download, so don't worry about that.

Those folders are usually empty or they have remnant files like saves and stuff. You can delete them manually and nothing wrong with that.

With the control panel, I see similar results. Sometimes it'll delete the entire folder, sometimes it won't, sometimes it'll have random useless files that I have to delete manually.

Red Faction Guerilla is on for 4.99 today same with other red faction games. Apparently there is a THQ week going on this week with different sales every day.

If you want RFG for the SP experience, then $5 is a great price. If you're looking to get RFG for the online, save your cash. There is nobody ever online, the game was dead even from the start.