Second/third on Steam. Get the games during their sales (I also picked up
like 10 games during the holiday sale for 50-80% off most). Look for top
games under $5 or $10 and you can get some great deals.
All my friends who like RPGs say Dragon Age: Origins is great, and as good
as DA:O is, they say Mass Effect 1/2 are possibly even better (Bioware is
hitting it out of the park with their stuff lately)! I've gotten addicted
to Torchwood (on Steam) but it's a *total* Diablo clone, down to the music
being *exactly* the same, so it's starting to wear off already-but that
means it's easy to pick up and put down that way. Oh, and you can mod it
very easily, which is actually very nice and lets you adjust annoying things
about the game easily.
And yeah, the cool thing about Steam is a lot of the Indie,
easy-to-play/cool games. Check out Plants vs Zombies as Brian mentioned; it
was pretty awesome and *lots* of fun, and I'm eagerly awaiting the sequel.
Also, World of Goo is a great physics-based puzzle game with would be great
for kids too. Braid is also physics-based (and the artwork is beautiful),
but Braid made my head hurt too much for a game and I gave up at level 4 or
so once things started getting really wonky! :P
Trine was a beautiful side-scrolling platformer, and the multiplayer aspects
were very cool-oh, and I got totally addicted to Puzzle Quest over the
summer and am trying to avoid getting the space-based sequel to it! :P
HTH!
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Strong recommend
I second Arkham Asylum - great game. Also if you like Bioware RPGs, check
out Dragon Age: Origins. And Torchwood is great if you like Diablo-style
games.
Steam is a delivery service for games. Basically, instead of going to a
store and buying the disc in a box you can purchase the game through Steam
and download a digital copy. Over the last couple of years I've been
getting all my games through it for a couple of reasons. The big one is
that I am in Canada, and I got frustrated going to the store only to find
the release date for a game up here is different than in the US or they are
out of stock. I've also have never had a Steam game give me a problem with
crashing or drivers - they do an auto update patching system that is pretty
nice. Other benefits are the ability to sync save games and settings across
multiple machines through your Steam account.
And yes, there are a lot of games on Steam which also have demos, but not
all.
Steam is not a monthly subscription and it offers both purchase once games
(like the ones mentioned above) and some MMORGS where you pay per month. It
has a pretty huge selection of game types, including a lot of casual ones.
And they occasionally have huge sales. Over Christmas I was able to get
Warhammer DOW II for $20, Mirror's Edge for $5, STALKER for $2, Left for
Dead for $7.50, and Prey for $2.
That's a lot of fun for little cost right there :)
---------------------------
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Anthony Q. Martin
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks for the rec.
>
> For Steam games, do you get and pay for it online? Are there some demos
> around? I've sort of fallen out of gaming mode over the last few years.
>
> One game i used to really enjoy was Tanarus - a tank game. Team based. Too
> much fun. That was way, way back in the day...that would be too cool now
> with all this bandwidth, CPU/GPU power we have today.
>
>
> On 2/18/2010 12:08 PM, Brian Weeden wrote:
>
>> I'm playing Mass Effect 2 right now and it is amazing. It's more of an
>> action-drama movie than anything else. There is some FPS content but
it's
>> not much. Highly recommended.
>>
>> I would also suggest you check out Plants vs Zombies on Steam. Great
>> Popcap
>> tower defense game, lots of replay value.
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> Brian Weeden
>> Technical Advisor
>> Secure World Foundation<http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
>>
>> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
>> +1 (202) 683-8534 US
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]
>> >wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I know my Sony BD player is dog slow...gawd...it got so bad that I
>>> ordered
>>> an OPPO 83...and I just got it a few minutes ago...didn't really want to
>>> drop dough on that...but now I can play my SACD and DVD-Audio discs as
>>> well.
>>> The Sony will move upstairs.
>>>
>>> Speaking of games...anyone know of a good non-FPS that runs on 64-bit
>>> Windows 7? FPS games make me ill. I just want something to kill time
>>> that
>>> doens't take an huge investment of time to learn. Some simulations seem
>>> so
>>> serious in terms of learning curve. They then sit in the box.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/18/2010 11:05 AM, Stan Zaske wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Optical drives are dog slow and that includes the speed of the door
>>>> opening and closing. Plus some games require that you have the disk in
>>>> the
>>>> drive and did I mention that the door is slow. Swapping disks is such a
>>>> pain...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2/18/2010 9:41 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I want to ask this for information purposes only...why bother ripping
>>>>> DVD
>>>>> and Blu-rays? I've done this...and frankly, I've lost interest in
>>>>> doing it.
>>>>> But I get the impression that some here are ripping multitudes of
>>>>> movies to
>>>>> magnetic media...I have a large collection of Blus and DVDs, but I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> watch anything frequently enough to need it online (like in my house).
>>>>> For
>>>>> new content, it does make some sense, though, if you don't want to own
>>>>> the
>>>>> content you an download it...but if I want to watch upstaris rather
>>>>> than
>>>>> down, then I just go get the disc...I'm not too lazy YET to do
>>>>> that...and
>>>>> it's way better than having an HD farm that sucking down juice 24/7
(it
>>>>> occurs to me that cheap HDs make this all too tempting to do, though,
>>>>> so I
>>>>> can get that). At least to me it is....
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2/18/2010 10:23 AM, Stan Zaske wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> That would be cool for BD when I decide to take the plunge and buy a
>>>>>> BD-ROM. For DVD's I just have AnyDVD rip it to hardrive as an ISO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/17/2010 6:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> www.makemkv.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe one of the coolest tools I've used in forever. Instant, no
>>>>>>> compression conversion of BD and DVD. If your running mce and your
>>>>>>> used to
>>>>>>> archiving your content to use the movie library (or I use
>>>>>>> Mediabrowser and
>>>>>>> MyTv) then this comes as one of the best tools I've seen in years.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It just works.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sent via BlackBerry
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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