FalconCritical

@afrofools said:

I think we should do away with download clients, as much as I love Steam. Online stores should sell their current games DRM-free as GOG does with old games, and each publisher should have their own online store. DRM doesn't stop pirates and I believe that today it is not present for that purpose, but as a way of making some people pay more.

No way. Steam came about and became successful because being a PC gamer used to mean installing a game and then manually installing a bunch of patches with very little user support and often (at the time) these patches not being easy to find. SiN is a classic example of that, where to get the game mostly stable you had to install the game, then patch 1.3, then the expansion, then retropatch to 1.2 and it was still buggy. There's no way in hell I'm going back to that.

Also I live in New Zealand, and while many games get here relatively close to release - the Steam library and store is just so much more convenient. Even some online stores in NZ I'll go to order a game only to find it out of stock and therefore like a week or more away.

As to the issue at hand, similar to my other pre-Steam games there have been games where the Steam version and the non-Steam versions are incompatible. For example if I had ME1 on disk, I wouldn't have been able to import my data to ME2 - and the same goes with DLC. This seems to me to be the big problem, and Valve would get in a bunch more trouble if people could buy Crysis 2 on their platform and suddenly find that they can't get the DLC. I wonder how recently EA announced the exclusive deal - I suspect it was around the time that Steam pulled the game. There is a certain amount of big fish bullying here by Steam, but at the same time it's perfectly in the guise of trying not to mislead their customers.

" There is no doubt in my mind that this game will be the best open world GTA style game ever created. While GTA4 was boring as shit, and Mafia 2 had us driving around for hours, and Red Dead Redemption had us doing farm chores... Saints Row 3 will have us doing all those, naked, with a hotdog suit, in a sewage truck firing shit out the hoses to cause property damage. The best coop games ever created, bar none. "

My character, Stormchaser hat is the best.
 

At least i still get a sweet t-shirt for my money!

Didn't even really occur to me to new game+ my insanity run, am doing fine its just occasionally keeping your squad alive that's a problem. That and ammo since everything is armored to the teeth.

I probably should say Resident Evil 2, with 2 paths and 2 characters it was really well done and expanded the zombie threat to more than just a mansion being overrun.  My vote however went to the RE1 remake, the updated movement and interface made it a really streamlined system.

If you like the Civ type of game, keep an eye out for Tropico 3 going on special, its pretty cheap to start with but on special is a real steal and a great game.  Other than that, games like Deus Ex and Half Life series are great places to start, and since both are a generation or two old these days you won't have any issues with system power.

I just recently 'cleaned house' and trashed pretty much all of my ~150 PSX games and 40 odd PS2 games.  I haven't played any of them in years and don't have an inclination to start again. Plus my PSX doesn't even work and my PS2 is on the fritz.  Also threw out a lot of old PC games that won't even run on my current system - there are occasional games that I will hang onto just because they were/are rare but I'm still not going to play them ever again.
 
Steam is great in this way, any game that I have on steam I don't have to have installed but have there in my list.  I don't have a box cluttering up my house and I know that if I ever want to play them again I can just re-download/install without having to hunt around for disks and boxes and such.

Just got Absolute Power, the next game coming out in around a year is good timing for me.

Chances are DP2 will be good, and therefore average and forgettable.