A good day to have a Steam account

[Scold]

The HD remake of Another World, the 20th anniversary edition, is out today: http://store.steampowered.com/app/233550/

As is Evoland, an indie love letter "journey through the history of action/adventure gaming" where you upgrade from monochrome 2D graphics to full 3D and different kinds of combat over the course of the game: http://store.steampowered.com/app/233470/

I'm holding off on Another World until it's in a Steam Sale, but Evoland is an instant must-purchase.

[Ingmar]

That same version of Another World is part of the Android Humble Bundle right now I believe.

[Segoris]

Yeah as part of the mobile bundle, but I don't see any mention of it being good on a desktop as well

That said - has anyone seen mention on their mobile bundles being usable on the desktop? I thought Plants vs Zombies would be, or even Dungeon Defenders but I couldn't get that going (admittedly I didn't look too hard though)

[Ingmar]

Presumably you'd have to have some kind of Android emulator to use it on the desktop.

[Segoris]

I was thinking of trying to find a way to apply the product-key to allow access to a different platform or something. =/

[schild]

I can't wait for the topic "A good day to have an Origin account."

It'll blow us all away.

[tgr]

I can't wait for the topic "A good day to have an Origin account."

It'll blow us all away.

[tgr]

Actually, just noticed that it's published by focus home interactive, so there's a chance they've got DRM on there. I'm going to hold off for a few weeks to give people a chance to seed google with hatred over drm (if any).

[Scold]

Don't most games on Steam have some form of DRM or another? Except for systems like Games for Windows that make me do an extra login that I hate (such as Street Fighter 4), it's never been obtrusive.

[bhodi]

The steam platform itself is the DRM. You can't run the game without loading up steam and launching it from it.

You know, I'd be all over OOTS/another world, except that, $10? Nah. Same with age of empires. I'd play it, but I'm not paying $20 for a decade+ old game. Plus, it has a shitty launcher. Fuck those. I'll pick them up when they're $7 or less.

[Miasma]

If you have been waiting to buy Farcry 3 on sale like I have, it is $30 for the next 24 hours.

[Paelos]

That's actually one that I have on my Summer Sale list. I think it will be $20 by then, which is my price point for shooters at this point.

[schild]

That's actually one that I have on my Summer Sale list. I think it will be $20 by then, which is my price point for shooters at this point.

Or $9.99.

[Paelos]

Even better!

[Signe]

Rockstar Hits Collection
Released: Apr 24, 2013
Includes 4 items: Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, L.A. Noire, Max Payne 3
$29.99

[Miasma]

I only now got around to firing up farcry 3, which I bought on steam.  I would not have purchased it had I known it uses uplay.  I do not fire up steam only to launch another god damn launcher which is just a shitty version of steam so that I can play the game I already bought, on steam.

Fuck.

[Paelos]

It is annoying, I agree. But for a nominal price of $5 or so on the AC games I was willing to put up with the inconvenience. I don't believe UPlay has an always online thing for saves, just the launcher.

[Paelos]

Looks like a bunch of Star Wars stuff is on sale. I got the Jedi Knight Stuff and KOTOR stuff so i dont have discs anymore.

[Kail]

Looks like a bunch of Star Wars stuff is on sale. I got the Jedi Knight Stuff and KOTOR stuff so i dont have discs anymore.

[offtopic]
Ugh, I wish Steam was more obvious about which titles you already own.  "Here's a list of like eighty games which are on sale.  I already have like seventy of them, time to go through one at a time and see which ones I'm missing!"  It's especially annoying with DLC. Fifty little gromits all for 25¢ each, time to add one to the cart, go back to the main store page, back to the game's page, re-open the DLC menu, add the next one, go back to the main page...
[/offtopic]

I think the only game there I don't have (AS FAR AS I CAN TELL #@$%$) is Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, anyone have any idea if it's worth the seven bucks?  The Metacritic looks frowny.

[Morat20]

I snagged both KOTORs, Empire at War, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, and both Force Unleashed for like..30 bucks all told. I really didn't want the rest in the big honking pack.

Took a bit of work getting KOTOR 1 to run properly, but seems like there's been some tweaking compared to the disc versions I had, since "a bit" beats the hell of out what I had to do with the disc versions -- and it didn't work as well as what the Steam copy is doing,.

[KallDrexx]

i could never get KOTOR to get past the splash screen (even by disabling movies via instructions online).  After a half hour I said screw it :(

[Morat20]

i could never get KOTOR to get past the splash screen (even by disabling movies via instructions online).  After a half hour I said screw it :(

Gotta run it admin in compatibility mode (XP Sp2 seemed to work fine), at least on Windows 7, as well.

I mostly ran it through the prologue, and was having an easier time of it than before.

[Father mike]

There was a fairly involved process for getting KOTOR to run in widescreen back in the day.  Do the tweaks include native widescreen support?

[Morat20]

There was a fairly involved process for getting KOTOR to run in widescreen back in the day.  Do the tweaks include native widescreen support?

I've got a 1600x900 monitor and it worked fine. I think the aspect is probably a bit skewed, but I didn't notice it. I was running fullscreen, though.