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But for an extra fiver you can buy it from Play.com and have the physical disc. To me at least, that seems the better deal.

I don't really see how because with steam there tends to be a little more after sales support if you encounter errors you know with the whole community on hand to offer help. Unlike the 10s of 1000s of forum posts which differ with each incarnation many of which have no answers plus it's all easily transferable from one computer to the next.

Indigo prohpecy is lame, well for graphics wise. To switch resolutions, you have to go through all the resolutions (fail right here) and it doesn't support widescreen. Have fun hex editing it! I know I will.

Oh didn't know that. I played it when it came out and didn't have a widescreen monitor back then. I enjoyed the game though (apart from that annoying apartment level).

BTW everyone I'm not hating on Steam. But GTA4 is a bloody big download. Not everyone has uber fast and unlimited connections and for the sake of a few extra quid the retail package seems better value to me.

I wasn't thinking about the DRM side so much. For an extra fiver I'd rather have the box, disc and avoid the 13gb or whatever download. But that's me.

Good point. Sorry far too used to having an unlimited 20mb connection that doesn't have a fair usage policy causing the connection speed to be reduced.

I think i'm gonna get Ducati Racing for ?0.74 - thats my sort of price

Edit - maybe not - i've just read a review of it - sounds nasty

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Is it worth a buy on the PC ? Remember reading it was a buggy performance nightmare.

At launch it was horrible, I've played it on my bro's pc though and it runs just as smooth as the 360 (prob better actually). He has the trainer and **** installed too so it still performs well with that running. He's a GTA nut though so he's prob tweaked it a hell of a lot to get it perfect as well.

But for an extra fiver you can buy it from Play.com and have the physical disc. To me at least, that seems the better deal.

I'm the other way, I like having all my PC games on Steam. I know people like owning the manual and the case, but seriously the days of "good manuals" are looooong gone. Most of them are filled with legal pages now more than anything to do with the game. Besides, I own the retail 360 version. This is an impulse buy as far as I'm concerned, albeit an awesome one.

I would like to buy some of these games, but I'm in Malaysia. Can I buy these games and what method should I use?

Scirwode

You could always paypal money to someone you trust and then have them gift the games to your steam account if you're not able to do it yourself.

Indigo prohpecy is lame, well for graphics wise. To switch resolutions, you have to go through all the resolutions (fail right here) and it doesn't support widescreen. Have fun hex editing it! I know I will.

Indigo Prophecy has an amazing story compared to the garbage that many popular games have such as Gears of War. Its specifications obviously won't manage widescreen resolutions but it's no reason for it be ridiculed as a bad game. It's a gem among the generic video games that require no intelligence and only ask you to point and shoot.

There is one huge flaw in this game and that's... quick time events. >_<

I would recommend Dreamfall: The Longest Journey as another fantastic adventure that has to be played by anyone who calls themselves a gamer.

Indigo Prophecy has an amazing story compared to the garbage that many popular games have such as Gears of War. Its specifications obviously won't manage widescreen resolutions but it's no reason for it be ridiculed as a bad game. It's a gem among the generic video games that require no intelligence and only ask you to point and shoot.

There is one huge flaw in this game and that's... quick time events. >_<

I would recommend Dreamfall: The Longest Journey as another fantastic adventure that has to be played by anyone who calls themselves a gamer.

The button-mashing minigames in Indigo Prophecy are much better than most of the ones I've seen in games. They have a pattern to them that actually makes them have a connection to the game. (Like the guitar playing...) :)

You could always paypal money to someone you trust and then have them gift the games to your steam account if you're not able to do it yourself.

He shouldn't need to do that, Steam has no region locking that I'm aware of. For example, there is no Australian Steam store but we can (and have too) buy from the US Store (in USD) and I've not encountered a game I wasn't able to buy (the only exception would probably be games that have been RCed, those probably are region locked for legal reasons obviously). The only thing is the pricing might be different depending on what store it defaults to and you'll need to take into account currency conversion (which is why I wait for the Aussie dollar to do well against the US dollar and then I can get me some bargains :) ), PayPal will obviously take care of that for you but it's always good to know how much your spending in your own currency too! :p

He shouldn't need to do that, Steam has no region locking that I'm aware of. For example, there is no Australian Steam store but we can (and have too) buy from the US Store (in USD) and I've not encountered a game I wasn't able to buy (the only exception would probably be games that have been RCed, those probably are region locked for legal reasons obviously). The only thing is the pricing might be different depending on what store it defaults to and you'll need to take into account currency conversion (which is why I wait for the Aussie dollar to do well against the US dollar and then I can get me some bargains :) ), PayPal will obviously take care of that for you but it's always good to know how much your spending in your own currency too! :p

I've just got myself Stalker with my Visa so I'm happy now :D ! The only problem is I want to get Prince of Persia but it's still too expensive at $15.00, in fact most games that I want is more than $5.00 that I set :( , I guess I just have wait until it goes down.

Scirwode

If you want to be sure you're saving as much money as possible, only buy the Deals of the Days, and if a game you really want still hasn't been a deal of the day, then buy it on the last day instead. That way you can be sure that you get your game as cheap as possible.

For instance, Assassins Creed already has a discount on it, but I'm going to wait and see if it has a further discount before I buy it.

Just a tip (if you hadn't worked it out from previous sales) ;)

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