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AModestLion said:
Thought that might be the case, probably sims as well. I saw riddick keys on gamestop but not for $20 -_-
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Yep, Gamestop is the only place I know of that still sells Assault on Dark Athena keys. Which is amazing considering the game got pulled 3 1/2 years ago. Last two sales were August 2015 and October 2013, so you probably shouldn't expect a discount any time soon.

 
pasports31 said:
Meh, I don't know. I think HL2 is a really good game (even great)...but I don't understand the unyielding worship of it. I think, for example, Max Payne was more fun and was released like 3 years before it. I just don't see it as rivaling all time great/revolutionary games, like Ocarina of Time/Mario 64, Doom, even the original Half Life, which is a class I think people tend to put it in.
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It's unlikely that everyone will have the same reaction to any form of media, especially games since they are so interactive. But if you were making a list of games at the very top of each genre, HL2 would absolutely belong at the top alongside those other games you mentioned that were equally excellent.

Max Payne was also very good, but very different than HL2. You seem to like HL real well. I'd argue that HL2 is HL perfected in many ways. It may not be the innovator, but it put the pieces together in a very impressive way.

I doubt either of us will change our minds on the subject. If a game just doesn't click with you then it just doesn't.

 
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Yep, Gamestop is the only place I know of that still sells Assault on Dark Athena keys. Which is amazing considering the game got pulled 3 1/2 years ago. Last two sales were August 2015 and October 2013, so you probably shouldn't expect a discount any time soon.
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Thanks for the heads up. Was that the only PC release or the Butcher Bay too? Maybe I should bite :/

 
Blur's another I want but it's hard to find -_-

Why did I have to get nostalgic. 

 
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AModestLion said:
Thanks for the heads up. Was that the only PC release or the Butcher Bay too? Maybe I should bite :/
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No, Butcher Bay was also released on PC separately, but it's also got some weird compatibility issues on modern computers because the game uses video card features that are no longer supported.

 
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Maybe it was a product of its time in some ways, and not even the most hardcore fan can excuse the overly-long boat sequence, but it's such a solid shooter. The firefights, set pieces, enemy AI, and even the music all set this game far apart from anything else that came before it. I'd say better first-person stories have been told since then, but so much about HL2 just feels right.
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That's just it; if you weren't there when it was new then you've probably already played numerous solid shooters and story-driven FPS games made since HL2. I'm sure it was revolutionary at the time but, nostalgia aside, it's a whole new world out there for the genre. I mean people talk about Ravenholme but I mainly just remember tapping monsters on the head with my crowbar, tossing crap around with the gravity gun and that platforming you were required to do. I don't remember it being a great level though or especially atmospheric. On the other hand, my first visit -- hell, my third visit -- to Lab X-18 in Shadow of Chernobyl was far more nerve wracking than anything I came across in HL2. Now, to be fair, SoC came out well after HL2 but that's sort of my point.

 
Directly from Steam:

10 May, 2012 Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

From bundles:

4 Feb, 2012 Rochard Retail

The amount of games I've bought when I was sure that I would play them some day is somewhat terrifying. I've stopped thinking about bundle trash as backlog long time ago, but I feel bad for not playing those 'must-play' AAA titles.

 
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First game on steam was Civ 5 from retail and that was only because it required it.  It wasn't until a few years later that I started buying digital games.

Oldest unplayed game is Alan Wake from the first humble I bought.  That was the beginning of the descent into the backlog hell I'm in now.

 
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Best played in local co-op.
 

 
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That's just it; if you weren't there when it was new then you've probably already played numerous solid shooters and story-driven FPS games made since HL2. I'm sure it was revolutionary at the time but, nostalgia aside, it's a whole new world out there for the genre. I mean people talk about Ravenholme but I mainly just remember tapping monsters on the head with my crowbar, tossing crap around with the gravity gun and that platforming you were required to do. I don't remember it being a great level though or especially atmospheric. On the other hand, my first visit -- hell, my third visit -- to Lab X-18 in Shadow of Chernobyl was far more nerve wracking than anything I came across in HL2. Now, to be fair, SoC came out well after HL2 but that's sort of my point.
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STALKER: SoC felt like a drastic improvement on what Boiling Point: Road to Hell tried to do w/ the open-world FPS. STALKER: SoC had more emphasis on FPS, a quite bit less on RPG stuff. Boiling Point (aka Xenus) also tried to infuse some RPG elements in there (i.e. you upgrade your skills by practicing them like Elder Scrolls games) - but like some games from Ukraine in that era (2005-2010) that GSC Game World (STALKER series) + Deep Shadows (Boiling Point: Road To Hell + its sequel White Gold: War In Paradise; and The Precursors) popped-out namely, it was very ambitious in what it set-out & tried to do. STALKER: SoC was quite buggy upon release, but nowhere as buggy as any of the games from Deep Shadows.

Sure, I would expect STALKER to be more horrific than HL2. STALKER mixed elements of survival-horror, open-world games, and action. A lot of STALKER's tension comes from its setting, the lighting, monsters, anomalies, and its difficulty. At the default, the game's just tough as nails b/c the AI wouldn't miss from miles away and when you shoot someone - yes, even humans - in the head it wouldn't always down-right kill them. There were other problems for the player, where your gun can jam and you have to react quick to hopefully unjam it or switch to another gun; maybe be foolish and run into an anomaly (you should've checked and tossed a bolt ahead of time to check for that!); or run into some other kind of monster that bites you + scratches you so you have to use bandages to stop the bleeding quickly before you bleed to death (if you even still had bandages on you!). The game just basically tried to find any way it could to cause tension and punish you.

HL2 was never really a horror-game, though - it was basically a linear, story-based + character-based FPS/action-game. HL2 just never ever struck me as scary ever, PERIOD. A lot of its linear levels had some kind of gimmick + theme to it - whether using a vehicle in a level to move around + run over ant-lions; use the regular gravity gun to grab objects and toss them around; use the human-tossing gravity gun to toss humans around; physics puzzles; and/or Ravenholm where you fought zombie-like enemies where you had to use the environment to your advantage in every way possible. HL2 when it came out absolutely set the bar for FPS's with its variety of level-types, gimmicks in levels, and whatnot for a linear-shooter. Many tried to copy HL2's formula (like say FEAR 2 + TimeShift) - but they just weren't even close to being on HL2's level b/c....well, they basically tried to copy HL2's formula and didn't really do enough different on their own to separate themselves from HL2's greatness.

 
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Modest Package said:
Can't believe I'm saying this, but you should probably just get it from GOG.

Guess I have to leave America now.
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Well, maybe if Steam-version actually got its dice-rolling hit + miss online-activation Tages DRM crap removed, gamers wouldn't be in the situation to have to be forced to take a digital-trip to the GOG Galaxy.

That's Atari for you these days, though - and they still have the Securom-activation crap on TDU2, also.

Bleh.

 
Hell, I wasn't going to play this game as I didn't join Steam till 2010...  but when you do it right and backlog your very first game.  *shrug*

  May 12, 2010 Portal - Complimentary (Opt In) Complimentary

 
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Here we go.  My first game...and my VAC goes back to the that time too...Odd ;D

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synnarc said:
Is anyone else going to play Gears of War 4 on PC? I think I lost my co-op partner for it.
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headpiece747 said:
SeasonalCAG GoW4 Co-Op Broh:

Preloaded all 80GBs playing day one add me on Xbox: headpiece747
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Not even sure if you'll be able to connect for stuff like that... I cannot right now.

Open up the Xbox App, go to the settings (bottom left, it looks like a gear), then networking, and see if you're getting a Teredo Address. No address, no MP.

I'm into my third xbox article/trouble shooting guide looking for my own solution...

Edit 2: I used this to get the driver installed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrTquXPoR9o

Still no go... Guess I got to work on the firewall next.

I'm completely amazed how Ubisoft, EA, Take 2, etc can get MP working on windows with no real issues in a very simple way.... While the jackholes who make the operating system go for a far more complex solution that isn't very functional.

Edit 3: Regedit time!!!!! (FU Microsoft!)

Edit 4: Pretty sure its my 3rd party firewall...

 
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MysterD said:
Many tried to copy HL2's formula (like say FEAR 2 + TimeShift) - but they just weren't even close to being on HL2's level b/c....well, they basically tried to copy HL2's formula and didn't really do enough different on their own to separate themselves from HL2's greatness.
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TimeShift was a dead-on HL2 knockoff, and actually, pretty decent for what it was. Not very memorable but certainly entertaining enough for a run through.

I didn't find FEAR 2 to be particularly HL2-ish. It lacked the set pieces and the first-person storytelling, and the level design was very straightforward.

It was a bastardized (some would say consolized) version of the first game, which I still think is one of the greatest pure FPS of all time. FEAR 2 lacked the feeling/weight, difficulty, AI, mood, sound... you name it, that the first game had in droves.

Those were a solid couple years. FEAR, HL2, Far Cry, Call of Duty 2, Doom 3... doesn't get much better than that.


EDIT: P.S. MysterD, in 5 lines or less, are any of those Deep Shadows games worth playing? If you had to pick just one, which?

 
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INMATEofARKHAM said:
Not even sure if you'll be able to connect for stuff like that... I cannot right now.

Open up the Xbox App, go to the settings (bottom left, it looks like a gear), then networking, and see if you're getting a Teredo Address. No address, no MP.

I'm into my third xbox article/trouble shooting guide looking for my own solution...

Edit 2: I used this to get the driver installed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrTquXPoR9o

Still no go... Guess I got to work on the firewall next.

I'm completely amazed how Ubisoft, EA, Take 2, etc can get MP working on windows with no real issues in a very simple way.... While the jackholes who make the operating system go for a far more complex solution that isn't very functional.

Edit 3: Regedit time!!!!! (FU Microsoft!)

Edit 4: Pretty sure its my 3rd party firewall...
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We didn't have any issues when we bro-nighted Halo. I'd say there were at least 5-6 of us that hopped on and we were able to add each other as friends and join the same lobby. Not sure if that runs off the same system or if the co-op is different.

Also, for other random troubleshooting tips:

Anyone trying to play Sniper Elite 3 this weekend and getting crashes at the load screen, try verifying the cache. Apparently the latest Windows 10 update did something funny to it since I had played it before with no issue, but verifying cache loaded it up fine for me. Only other issue I see is some people complaining about the servers being overloaded in the MP, but it is a free weekend so not entirely surprising.

 
GBKeroberos said:
TimeShift was a dead-on HL2 knockoff, and actually, pretty decent for what it was. Not very memorable but certainly entertaining enough for a run through.

I didn't find FEAR 2 to be particularly HL2-ish. It lacked the set pieces and the first-person storytelling, and the level design was very straightforward.

It was a bastardized (some would say consolized) version of the first game, which I still think is one of the greatest pure FPS of all time. FEAR 2 lacked the feeling/weight, difficulty, AI, mood, sound... you name it, that the first game had in droves.

Those were a solid couple years. FEAR, HL2, Far Cry, Call of Duty 2, Doom 3... doesn't get much better than that.


EDIT: P.S. MysterD, in 5 lines or less, are any of those Deep Shadows games worth playing? If you had to pick just one, which?
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FEAR 2 took a bunch of the HL1 + HL2 set-piece type of things, which it never needed to do - i.e. tram ride (but this part was not just looking around like HL1, it was a shooter); rail shooter sequence; vehicle sequence (i.e. in the big mech/heavy-suit); etc.

FEAR 2 was nowhere as scary as FEAR 1 b/c...well, you really can't repeat the same horror tricks + formula. What works once becomes predictable when done in a shooter w/ horror-elements.

Probably a toss up b/t the three, TBH - all 3 Deep Shadows games are very similar. Boiling Point [AKA Xenus 1] (even after Euro Patch 2.0) is still buggy as sin & the clunkiest of the club combat-wise, but there was nothing like it when I played it. Precursors + White Gold use the same engine, so gameplay & combat's very similar - and much better than Boiling Point.

The Precursors probably has the coolest setting of the bunch by far with its sci-fi setting. White Gold: War In Paradise (AKA Xenus 2) is much more polished than the other two. Didn't play enough of Precursors, TBH - but I did like the gameplay + setting, more so than the Xenus games. All of the writing + stories here are quite "meh" & are even worse than Bethesda games (lots of writing + translation issues here, too); they're just there to get you doing the open-world stuff, TBH. Other games, as usual, got in my way.

And...yeah, I think I just failed trying to do this in 5 lines or less.

 
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IAmTheCheapestFox said:
We didn't have any issues when we bro-nighted Halo. I'd say there were at least 5-6 of us that hopped on and we were able to add each other as friends and join the same lobby. Not sure if that runs off the same system or if the co-op is different.


Also, for other random troubleshooting tips:

Anyone trying to play Sniper Elite 3 this weekend and getting crashes at the load screen, try verifying the cache. Apparently the latest Windows 10 update did something funny to it since I had played it before with no issue, but verifying cache loaded it up fine for me. Only other issue I see is some people complaining about the servers being overloaded in the MP, but it is a free weekend so not entirely surprising.
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I finally got it fixed... Had to disable/enable that driver I installed. It makes no sense considering I shutdown/rebooted the computer after it didn't work on the install.
 
INMATEofARKHAM said:
Edit 4: Pretty sure its my 3rd party firewall...
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yea MS/xbox games networking is very poorly setup when it comes to pcs, they basically took the xbox setup in a permanent known configuration, slapped it into windows, and said 'FU pc users, figure out your own magic sauce of what you need to disable and enable to get it to match an xbox'

3rd party firewalls will mess with it, and you have to have the windows firewall enabled, which was my issue since I leave it disabled. If a game cant communicate with the windows firewall even if you have rules to enable to everything, it just craps its pants and assumes you cant play online

 
Titanfall 2 is $38.09 on C D  Cheese.

Think im going console this time around, seeing as how the community went poof on PC so fast.

 
As long as still on the subject of games others loved but someone(s) doesn't, I still don't get all the love for the original Portal. It was a puzzle game with 18 piss easy levels and 2 extremely difficult ones. Everyone seems to give it a pass because the "story," yet I can barely remember anything of Portal's story or even most of it's level. 

Now Portal 2, that was good and I can remember a looot of the stuff in there still. 

 
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As long as still on the subject of games others loved but someone(s) doesn't, I still don't get all the love for the original Portal. It was a puzzle game with 18 piss easy levels and 2 extremely difficult ones. Everyone seems to give it a pass because the "story," yet I can barely remember anything of Portal's story or even most of it's level.

Now Portal 2, that was good and I can remember a looot of the stuff in there still.
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are u recommending portal 1 and portal 2 for new player or just skip straight to portal 2?

 
You should definitely start with Portal. It's a great puzzle game, and GLaDoS is an awesome villain.

 
Does the Shadow of Mordor bundle have separate keys for DLC or is it redeem all at once? I want to give the base game away and keep the DLC.

 
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I've spent more time playing HF:R than Portal or HL. Fox's story checks out.
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Just b/c a game's longer and/or you spent more time with it, doesn't make it a better game than something else - especially if a game is loaded with tons of content. The level of actual quality might be different b/t each games - and can also be a major factor in actually what's the actual better game.

I have 20 hours invested in Doom 2016 and also 20 hours in Homefront: The Revolution (from the Free Weekend) - they certainly are NOT equal in terms of quality, if you ask me. Homefront: TR is just not in Doom 2016's league - not even bloody close.

I have 20 hours in Homefront: TR, yet only 13.6 hours in Metro: Last Light. Can you guess what game I preferred by a mile? Certainly NOT Homefront: TR. Give me Metro: Last Light.

 
Half Life 2 is remarkable in that it transformed the FPS genre to a large extent.  But, imo, Half Life 1 is the better game.

 
MysterD said:
I have 20 hours invested in Doom 2016 and also 20 hours in Homefront: The Revolution (from the Free Weekend) - they certainly are NOT equal in terms of quality, if you ask me. Homefront: TR is just not in Doom 2016's league - not even bloody close.
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Not my fault you don't invest your time better :nottalking:

 
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Not my fault you don't invest your time better :nottalking:
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Homefront: TR takes a bit of time to get its story + character stuff going anywhere. Same with the gameplay, too. Early on, like in the first few minutes after the cool-as-hell intro/set-up video, it kills off characters to try to get you into the harsh world - but without knowing anything of much about them, you don't + can't really care to get invested into that stuff. The dev's try to make them seem important b/c they have a certain status from the jump - but w/out any knowledge and details of them early on, it doesn't matter; so this stuff's a waste of time. But, regardless - most characters even later on aren't much more interesting than anything else there; and are cardboard cut-outs lacking depth.

Doom 2016 doesn't screw around & gets you right into the action; takes subtle jabs at FPS games that try to take the time to assemble story + characters when many of these games aren't good enough at that stuff to even go down that route. Doom 2016 knows what it is, doesn't waste time, and is a blast to play from start-to-finish - bringing back an era and style of games like this that we ain't seen properly in years + bringing some very lite-ARPG upgrading elements to the mix. It takes Homefront: TR a bit to even get the gameplay-stuff really going, also - while Doom's just relentless from the jump.

Homefront: TR in the SP Campaign wants to so bad be a better + newer version of Far Cry 3+4, but it just isn't that. It doesn't do much new different or interesting than many of the open-world FPS's before it - though Homefront TR is certainly underrated. It's definitely still a solid open-world FPS once it gets going; has a cool alternative story-line/premise set-up (which never really develops beyond its potential); and is severely underrated by gamers + critics [especially early on] b/c it ran like crap on most machines (and some of that stuff has been improved at least by The Free Weekend) so the reviews were "this game sucks" (probably b/c they pre-ordered and dropped $60 on something that wasn't incredible) and also b/c it wasn't anything evolutionary (nevermind revolutionary).

 
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Half Life 2 is remarkable in that it transformed the FPS genre to a large extent. But, imo, Half Life 1 is the better game.
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I think HL1 transformed the FPS genre into being more than just an action-packed FPS game, as it was one of the first + earliest to also incorporate story, character, plot, and setting as all really vital to each other - and actually do it very extremely well.

HL2 basically took all the great things I mentioned above from HL1 and expanded upon that even further; introduced varied + very gimmick-based levels/themed-levels; and made physics another important factor into games that is still being utilized to this day.

We might not get many games from Valve - but when they do put something out, they're usually top of the class + trend-setting.

 
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These are my first Steam acquisitions. Got my first gaming PC in May 2013 before that I mostly just had those two games to play on family/friends PC's. That first Deep Silver bundle is when I started learning how to properly CAG, things just sort of blew up from there and now I'm at 3,116 games. I'm sure that if I got into PC gaming a lot earlier my Steam account would be 2 to 3 times that amount by now.

And yeah I love Portal. It is obviously the reason I got a Steam Account in the first place even when I didn't have my own PC to play it on.

 
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Moto GP 15 Compact is on sale on Steam for $2.49 (75% off)

Apparently the compact version is Moto GP 15 without the career mode, and without the Moto2 and Moto3 classes.

Here's how the devs describe it ...

Compared to the full version of the game, MotoGP™15 compact features the following game modes: Instant race, Grand prix, Championship, Split screen, Time Attack and Online Grand Prix. All the game modes are playable with the main MotoGP™ category. Into the compact game all the options and all the 18 tracks are available as well.

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Can someone tell MysterD that I said Homefront: The Revolution was better than the Half-Life and Portal series, not Doom (2016).  That said I've played a lot more of HF:TR than I have of Doom so far so it really has drawn me into it more than Doom did.  Not calling Doom a bad game, but the Doom demons are just generic demons while the enemies in HF:TR are clearly dirty NorKs who deserve death due to their national origin.  Make NorKs Dead Again!  

 
HF:R co-op is surprisingly fun and engaging.  Even solo, it's possibly more fun than the core game given the extra flexibility of gear, skills and weapon options.

 
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HF:R co-op is surprisingly fun and engaging. Even solo, it's possibly more fun than the core game given the extra flexibility of gear, skills and weapon options.
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You probably already found out, but you know there's a skill that allows you to carry an extra primary weapon? Of course, when I discovered this I didn't have enough skill points left to expand on that skill tree, but they say gear and weapons transfer across new characters so I might make a new one with the extra weapon and auto revive if I can afford it.

And I agree, I only ever played the deathmatch for Doom on bronight, and sure, it's fun, but it's just deathmatch. The co-op in HF:TR is really good. I do solo missions and am trying to solo each mission on Easy then move up to Normal. MP or Co-op like this usually doesn't draw me in this much, but it's a nice combo of good missions and good gear carrots that keep me grinding. I can also approach the co-op missions differently if I want each time, so it keeps it fresh. Next time I might try to do all melee and just run up and grab all those NorKs by their pussies and kill them.

 
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