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Jawmuncher
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Sleeping Dogs and Saint's Row 3.
Though that's because im not buying GTAV. Holding out for the Mythical PC version.
Hopefully it doesn't turn into another RDR case.
I won't be on Steam for weeks.
I will be sitting out GTA5.
I will be streaming some Amnesia tomorrow night around 7 pacific.
Or a GTA4 case where the game runs like crap regardless of how good your machine is.
Sleeping Dogs is probably the best GTA clone I've played so I hope you enjoy it.
I'm thinking of doing this as well. Not 100% sure I can do it though.
LiquidSolid
Member
Cheers for Map Pack 1, r3n4ud.
Also, how did I not connect the dots between Sanctum and Super Sanctum TD? I had no idea TD was a Sanctum spinoff. Better go quickly grab the Groupees bundle before it's taken down then.
Sure thing man. And ya, SS TD is a lovely game as well.
yeah, I was thinking about waiting for the pc version but that gta 5 ps3 bundle was calling my name.
I haven't had a ps3 this entire gen and getting it with gta 5 is a good excuse to play that game and go back and play some ps3 exclusives I've missed.
maneil99
Member
Longest 7 days, not to mention Breaking Bad...
Well then, you're in for a treat! Lots of great ps3 games to check out.
Jawmuncher
Member
That is a good point forgot how crap the GTA4 port is. At least Max Payne 3 is a good sign aside from it's huge file size. Also I have been enjoying Sleeping Dogs immensley. Such a fun game.
maneil99
Member
Could not stand the driving in that game
super-famicom
Member
I was the opposite; I loved driving in Sleepy Dawgs. Once you learn how to do sharp turns with the hand brake, driving becomes a lot of fun. You can do quick 180s on bikes just by turning with the hand brake.
I hope Steam eventually gets a save-state (sleep) feature similar to that available on portable consoles. It's probably the main reason I'm likely to pickup my 3DS or PSP to play than start a Steam game. The time to game for most Steam games isn't significant, but to my mind it's enough of a hurdle to proceed. I've been spoiled by the convenience of portables.
What do you reckon the chances of us getting such a feature? Did Valve mention anything like that?
And next-gen consoles are getting functionality like that. I thought PC was next-gen? Huh. I guess not.
What do you reckon the chances of us getting such a feature? Did Valve mention anything like that?
And next-gen consoles are getting functionality like that. I thought PC was next-gen? Huh. I guess not.
The driving was better than GTA 4.
The ram button and action hijack is something I fully expect GTA 5 to rip off in some fashion.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Uhhh..... is this like your first time using Windows or something?
Chance Hale
Member
Sleeping Dogs has the worst driving put into an open world game with a decent budget. And the side swipe move is horrible and has no animation. Game as a whole is quite fun though. GTAIV's driving is in another league though, it takes some time to get used to but once you do I feel it's quite enjoyable. Certainly more than the ghost cars of dogs.
It's dark out so Amnesia time!
It's dark out so Amnesia time!
rainking187
Member
New Groupees bundle starting soon (tomorrow), all Steam games with trading cards.
Games:
MacGuffin's Curse
Tower Wars
Ravaged: Zombie Apocalypse
Hamilton's Great Adventure + DLC
Zombie Driver HD + Soundtrack
Krater Collector's Edition
http://groupees.com/bmse
Games:
MacGuffin's Curse
Tower Wars
Ravaged: Zombie Apocalypse
Hamilton's Great Adventure + DLC
Zombie Driver HD + Soundtrack
Krater Collector's Edition
http://groupees.com/bmse
Ya, no kidding. Those were some dark times :/
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Anyone else having issues with cloud saves? Started up Batman and it prompted me since I had conflicting save files and the one in the cloud was supposedly from July of this year. My local save is from this week. Odd.
paperspace
Member
Don't believe the lies, PC is not next-gen! It's prev-prev-prev-prev-prev-gen. Bought my first one in 95 or something.
Jawmuncher
Member
I've been thinking about that as well.
For me it's the only current feature steam is lacking compared to the next gen consoles.
Im assuming it should be to hard to implement in the future. Hell that's basically what a save state is.
I can't use OS-level sleep as I'm using the PC for other tasks if I'm not gaming, and it's been unreliable enough on my PC to not use.
I could leave games running in the background, but that uses resources.
I'd rather Steam games had an application-level save state to allow quicker continues. I imagine implementation would vary game to game, so Valve could promote it as a feature, like Full controller support, to encourage devs to add it.
Yeaaaaaah... that's not going to happen. This would imply people in the industry would have to work together and stick to one thing...
Jawmuncher
Member
It pretty easy to figure out what kind of sleep mode he wants.
Leaving games running in the background can be a pain for numerous reasons.
derExperte
Member
I guess he means that he can put only the game into sleep mode and instantly resume after he opens Steam. You can of course just Alt-Tab out and let the game run in the background but it could be a little more convenient like being able to shut down the PC and still resume. Or something.
maneil99
Member
To each his own, found it to be on Just cause levels. Ram moves seems sorta lame since it made actually grinding car on car worthless. Cars felt weightless to me aswell
Not if they implement to a spec dictated by Valve, as I imagine they must do for the other Steam features, like the trading cards, achievements, etc.
Also, you're still going to have to store and load the game's memory state, which is going to take ages and take up gigs of data on your harddrive...
Joe Molotov
Member
He needs a fix bad, man.
Disk space is cheap. Speed is the issue. If it's faster than loading the game, and sitting through the intro screens/videos, wading through the menus, and then loading the save game, waiting for the level/game to load, and depending on the granularity of the game's save system, getting back to what I was doing before I saved and quit the last time, it'd be worth it.
jaundicejuice
Member
Sweet, I just got a free copy of Batman: Arkham Origins because I bought a new gpu (old one died).
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Does the 3DS let you suspend the game and do something else, like surf the internet or launch another game? Or is it like the DS and you can only suspend and then resume the game?
Nabs
Member
This is why I laughed when people rushed to pre-order it. Enjoy.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
That applies to literally every system that has a suspend mode.
Atraveller
Banned
nVidia started to give away free games?
When the emoticon is $15.59 on the market? Has to be a scammer.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Both major manufacturers have done this for years.
Nabs
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derExperte
Member
Those are easy to implement. But a sleep mode sounds like a lot of work for everyone involved. This feature makes sense for mobile gaming and dedicated consoles (the new ones will probably still take longer to boot up and load games than my W8 + Steam on an SSD) but I don't think many people miss that on a PC.
Be careful, some SR4s are region locked and you can't even start them. Like this one: http://steamdb.info/sub/28362/
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