Despite discounting games as part of its ongoing holiday sale event, Valve has seen fit to offer even more games at reduced prices, this time flipping the switch on massive discounts for triple-A titles like Street Fighter IV, which can be yours for $10, and Crysis Maximum Edition -- a bundle of Crysis and Crysis Warhead -- for under $14.
That's not all, as your hard-earned greenbacks can also net you cheap digital copies of Medieval II: Total War, Half-Life: Source and Shattered Horizon -- though we'd be remiss if we didn't point out the very tempting combo of Darwinia and Multiwinia, both of which can be yours for $3.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 8:36PM (Unverified) said
Ahh, what happened? I put that I 'less than 3' Valve. Stupid comment system.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 8:52PM (Unverified) said
So, I've got a question for the PC guys. Will Half Life: Source run on a netbook (1.6GHz Atom, 256MB graphics chip), or should I stick with the original version?
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 8:53PM Special Agent Steve said
@ A Pimp Named Gofuckyourself
Darth isn't making shit up just to screw with you. Any time you try and make the heart symbol with < and 3 the comment just abruptly ends. Stop being an idiot and please leave.
@ Darth
I love Valve too.
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Darth isn't making shit up just to screw with you. Any time you try and make the heart symbol with < and 3 the comment just abruptly ends. Stop being an idiot and please leave.
@ Darth
I love Valve too.
Posted: Dec 31st 2009 8:55PM Special Agent Steve said
@ Darth
In reply to your comment about the atom CPU, I doubt it would. If it's a dual core, then maybe. I've seen WOW run at 30 FPS, and I've seen older games stay at 60fps. Personally, I'd stick with the original to be safe, but I would try the source version as well. My guess is you already have both.
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In reply to your comment about the atom CPU, I doubt it would. If it's a dual core, then maybe. I've seen WOW run at 30 FPS, and I've seen older games stay at 60fps. Personally, I'd stick with the original to be safe, but I would try the source version as well. My guess is you already have both.
Posted: Dec 31st 2009 8:56PM (Unverified) said
I don't, actually. I hadn't played Half-Life until I picked up the PS2 port a month back.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 8:56PM CheeziePotato said
I'm pretty sure you can run Half-Life: Source with those specs, but I'm not positive.
Check the Steam forums.
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Check the Steam forums.
Posted: Dec 31st 2009 8:57PM I AM IRONHIDE said
Posted: Dec 31st 2009 9:01PM (Unverified) said
Ah, nope. Says Source-based games have framerate issues, even HLSource. I'd only tried L4D2 as a joke. Apparently the original, and the add-on packs, work great.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 9:01PM (Unverified) said
Awetoebawt, you just fucked this motherfucker up, I'm so proud of you.
*cries*
I love you, man. Gimme a hug, homie.
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*cries*
I love you, man. Gimme a hug, homie.
Posted: Dec 31st 2009 9:28PM ch3burashka said
IDK about your netty (netbook) but mine, the one I bought a day ago, chugs on Braid. I doubt 3D games work better.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 9:30PM (Unverified) said
I'm just going to get the Anthology pack, so I have Blue Shift and the HD mod, as well as Counter Strike.
For 11 bucks, that's a heck of a deal.
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For 11 bucks, that's a heck of a deal.
Posted: Dec 31st 2009 11:17PM mrmobius said
http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/
Try that website to check if your computer can manage any games. I've used it to check if my laptop was capable, and it actually usually underestimates your performance of the game actually. I've never tested it to the extreme though (says Arkham Asylum would lag for me but never tried it) but it told me Burnout Paradise and Oblivion would run fine for me, and they run with higher graphics and FPS than it seemed to imply.
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Try that website to check if your computer can manage any games. I've used it to check if my laptop was capable, and it actually usually underestimates your performance of the game actually. I've never tested it to the extreme though (says Arkham Asylum would lag for me but never tried it) but it told me Burnout Paradise and Oblivion would run fine for me, and they run with higher graphics and FPS than it seemed to imply.
Posted: Jan 1st 2010 1:31AM I AM IRONHIDE said
@Sanders
Hugz, homie, hugz.
By the way, how's Mrs. Sanders?
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Hugz, homie, hugz.
By the way, how's Mrs. Sanders?
Posted: Jan 1st 2010 9:16AM crazyforthisunknown said
oldies but goodies to darth bradwart here's for yah t('',)t
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 8:56PM Special Agent Steve said
As long as it takes to hit the report comment button 50 times. Unless... someone likes him *shudders*
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 9:50PM Floppypants said
Street Fighter 4 gets hyped, hyped and hyped by fighting game fans who swear up and down that it's the best game ever made, whereas in reality it basically is just fan service while offering nothing for new players to learn the game. The game is a giant ripoff if you haven't been playing fighting games for the last decade.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 1:00AM darthisurus said
sfiv offers a lot to fighting game fans, and new ones. the focus attack and dash system work together to provide new ways to create longer combos and implement more strategy into the fighter. the ex moves, supers and ultras finish that off.
the challenge mode teaches you some combo and special moves for each character. the best way to learn your character is practice, watching videos on youtube, and going to forums.shoryuken.com then signing up and reading about your character. good youtube channels to start with are lordaboriginesf4, frameadvantagedotcom, and arcadeinfinity.
i had several guys at work who never played any SF game pick this up and loved it.
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the challenge mode teaches you some combo and special moves for each character. the best way to learn your character is practice, watching videos on youtube, and going to forums.shoryuken.com then signing up and reading about your character. good youtube channels to start with are lordaboriginesf4, frameadvantagedotcom, and arcadeinfinity.
i had several guys at work who never played any SF game pick this up and loved it.
Posted: Jan 1st 2010 8:58AM Joanna D said
SFIV was the first fighting game I ever played seriously. As a kid, I played SF2 on my Mega Drive and Tekken 3 on my PlayStation, but I was just button mashing.
Now if you join me online I WILL kick your ass with my spinning bird kick, something I learned after buying the game.
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Now if you join me online I WILL kick your ass with my spinning bird kick, something I learned after buying the game.
Posted: Dec 31st 2009 9:09PM (Unverified) said
I just bought Half-Life: Source and Crysis Maximum Edition. I love Steam, because of their special sales.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 9:26PM ch3burashka said
In the past month I've bought approximately 10-12 games for the price of one AAA (~60 buckaroos). Funny thing is, my computer can't run half of them. Now if only I could find a job...
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 10:28PM CaramelZappa said
I almost grabbed warhead alone for $15 at the thanksgiving sale, glad I waited. Got the Crysis Pack and HL Source. I already have HL but I'd imagine the switch to the source engine probably makes it a bit nicer to play.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 11:28PM Dance Mofo said
i was thinking of getting the half life source. what does it do exactly?
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 12:00AM (Unverified) said
It's just Half-Life 1 but it uses the source engine, it looks pretty much the same except better lighting, water texture, physics, and other little things.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 12:24AM CaramelZappa said
It's basically the same game. It uses the higher resolution texture pack, but the models are all the same. It's just in the source engine so it's a bit cleaner, better looking, and less glitchy. Original HL wasn't full of glitches or anything, but every once in a while you'd get stuck to things or there's be little visual glitches.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 12:53AM Dance Mofo said
oooh. i'll think about it. On another note, i HOPE modern warfare 2 gets a holiday slash at least 20 bucks tomorrow. i want to get it...just not 60 bucks worth.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 1:22AM jefwif said
MW or MW2 will not go on sale. i will gladly eat those words.
also: get original halflife and add HD textures pack. it's not worth getting source if youve played the first and it's not worth getting it even if you havnt played the original. just go original.
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also: get original halflife and add HD textures pack. it's not worth getting source if youve played the first and it's not worth getting it even if you havnt played the original. just go original.
Posted: Jan 1st 2010 12:25AM CaramelZappa said
It was one of EA's first games on steam, and at that time they were using Securom on all of their games. However, they removed it from every other game on their steam catalog, so it's strange that Crysis is now the only one that still has it. Not only that, but with install limits. Maybe it has something to do with Crytek? I can't really think of any other explanation.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 1:38PM BananaBoat said
Yeah, I was about to buy it as well until I saw that it still has Securom. They could have patched it out by now, but they haven't, and as such it is definitely a no-buy for me.
I'll have to play the new MechWarrior mod for Crysis at a friends house.
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I'll have to play the new MechWarrior mod for Crysis at a friends house.
Posted: Jan 1st 2010 3:40PM iofthestorm said
It's because Crytek is the one who put it up on Steam, not EA. Kind of a weird situation. EA only handles retail distribution for Crytek, not digital. But of course, if you have SecuROM issues you have to contact EA, which is meh.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 2:54AM (Unverified) said
I wouldn't buy Crysis if you guys like not having DRM.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 3:43PM iofthestorm said
Amen. I actually bought Crysis but I have two installs of Windows on this machine so I've put Crysis on the Vista install so that SecuROM doesn't screw things up on 7. If anyone else is in that situation, I'd recommend doing that as well.
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