[Steam] Holiday Sale

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CRYSIS SPOILER ALERT

So Shattered Horizon it's like playing some crysis level that take place in that space ship that has zero space?

Yep but a bit more refinded I would say.

There is no HUD, everything happens on the gun. On the side there is the type of grenade you currently have enabled, 3 Options: EMP, Smoke and Basic Explode, so the gun also has a grenade launcher as well.

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I did shrink down and optimize through Photoshop the screen shot keep in mind.

I will also say it is pretty graphically demanding.

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Have to remind myself to buy these games towards the end of the deal. Before when I downloaded Max Payne 2 I got speeds of 3.0 Mbp/s and got it in less than 10 minutes. Right now I am downloading Shattered Horizon at a whopping 39.7 KB/s Shame too as I wanted to check it out ASAP, oh well got some Max Payne 2 to check out again, could be worse. :laugh:

:( Same here. We are so spoiled by our fast Internet connections. Its pretty cool when the connection is good and a whole game is downloaded in less than 30 minutes. Beats driving to the store :p.

But right now it looks like Steam is getting hammered. I'm averaging about 100 KB/s. This game looks like it is going to take the better part of the day to download.

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I bought 9 games earlier today, and the total came to a massive $27.49. Every single game is one that I've been dying to get on Steam (which isn't included in my account that is) and it's great.

I'm also shocked by the amount of players Stalker Clear Sky has online. I guess the Steam sale helped it's numbers for MP? To bad every server seems to be in Russia lol

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My biggest problem with the Holiday Sale is disk space. The only computer I have at the moment is an iMac with a Boot Camp partition for 7 of 60 GB, 14.3 GB of which are free. Hmph.

You can buy them now and always install them later. Just install as you need to play them then uninstall.

So to anyone who purchased Max Payne 2, is there anyway to run it so it is not stretched? Even in a window I would be happy with.

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+ Steam's backup feature is awesome. Makes it easy to backup to CD/DVD external hard driver...whatever.

Yep I totally forgot about that. This works too...

And let me just say Killing Floor is a damn good game IMO. Really damn good actually. Controls are spot on. It takes a few rounds to get the pacing and controls down well, but once you do it plays amazingly well. I also love the visual style as well. Runs incredibly well since it is an Unreal 2 game. I also got it when it was $4.99, so I really feel like I got an amazing deal, but I would say it is still easily worth the $9.99 it costs right now.

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Wasn't Killing Floor the game that gave Valve the idea to do left 4 dead? I remember watching a 20 minute gameplay of it a while back and it looked awesome, I'll have to check if its still at the low price.

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Damn, I bought so many games that my credit card is being declined for all my steam purchases since yesterday :( I'm asking friends to gift me games and I have to pay them lol. 80+ games and counting.

yea same thing happen to me, emailed them stright away and said WTF, and now everything is fine! i ask them why have sales and not let me buy games, ive been with you ever and you still block my account if i buy too many games!

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Wasn't Killing Floor the game that gave Valve the idea to do left 4 dead? I remember watching a 20 minute gameplay of it a while back and it looked awesome, I'll have to check if its still at the low price.

I believe it indeed was the game yes. LOC had mentioned to me it used to be a Mod for something else, Unreal Tournament 2004 I think he said. It really is an awesome game though, very impressed with it. It is more like Zombie mode from World At War in the fact it is just waves and you do not really progress as you do in L4D, but honestly it plays great regardless. Really am very impressed. It is my understanding that L4D is made off of the Counter Strike engine specifically, and somehow in a weird way Killing Floor feels more to me like Counter Strike then L4D does. As I said the controls took a bit getting used to, but once I did I found the precision to be pretty darn good. Also there is a huge amount of community content as far as I can tell, already downloading a ton of different maps joining servers, and only one was bad, the rest have been really well made. I have not played the same map yet and I have played around 10 rounds so far total in the day or two since I purchased it.

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I STOLE the crysis collection. Hell at that price its a steal not a buy.

What unresonable DRM are you talking about @James?

Ive had crysis and I havent had any issues besides the unbelieveable 10 click drm on the cd. Besides that what drm are you talking about? I can alt+tab out, which I believe is the WORSE DRM PROTECTION EVER when you cant alt tab out of a game(mw2). Theres other games that use the same crappy DRM where you can alt tab, minimize, windows key, task manager, anything but the game. So if the game locks up on you, your screwed.

The thing is, i alt tab when I have to check something or move the im window to the other monitor. Or change channels in TS and etc. I dont understand why blocking ALT + TAB is THAT important. Just find a better way ot monitor what memory processes get frozen or edited etc.

Hell recently I played a game that denied fraps from running. If fraps was running the game would crash.

Im just happy I got Crysis Maxium Edition in digital format + at a steal.

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