And so...the Steam sale begins.

[keith.lamothe]

Which was the best part about Max Payne anyway.

I dunno, slow-mo shooting is pretty good

[KingIsaacLinksr]

From today's sale I would have to recommend:

Magicka: best game for killing your friends. Oh wait, there are other baddies in this game?
Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This game is a lot of fun, though the animations on faces are a bit lacking.

I don't like any of the Indie Bundle games, they are just meh, don't really appeal to me.

[madcow]

Fair warning on magicka. If you have an integrated graphics card, it won't work at all. Despite not really being the prettiest game.

[keith.lamothe]

Fair warning on magicka. If you have an integrated graphics card, it won't work at all. Despite not really being the prettiest game.

It runs on my desktop's integrated graphics card, but it runs quite slow.  I'm relatively used to adjusting to games that play in "seconds per frame" on that machine, but Magicka wouldn't work that way because it's pretty timing-dependent.

[Mick]

I don't have integrated graphics and Magicka had a lot of performance issues for me. It turned me off pretty quickly because my computer can run graphically intense games just fine.

[Volatar]

Mmm... Burnout Paradise for $4. I haven't played a racing game since Need for Speed: Most Wanted many years back. How is this one?

[tigersfan]

I don't like any of the Indie Bundle games, they are just meh, don't really appeal to me.

Jamestown, Revenge of the Titans and VVVVVV are all actually a lot of fun, though they are all fairly difficult.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

I don't like any of the Indie Bundle games, they are just meh, don't really appeal to me.

Jamestown, Revenge of the Titans and VVVVVV are all actually a lot of fun, though they are all fairly difficult.

I played VVVVVVVV, it was way too hard a platformer for me to like. Just a preference thing though. Jamestown was ok, I just never really got drawn into it. I think I'm tired of that genre. Revenge of the Titans also was another "it never stuck" sort of thing. So ok, I should have said: they are ok, just never really appealed to me.

[chemical_art]

Mmm... Burnout Paradise for $4. I haven't played a racing game since Need for Speed: Most Wanted many years back. How is this one?

It's a fun racing game if you want a hybrid game where you both need reflexes to avoid the neutral traffic but get big boosts for rear ending the opposition. Great fun.

[Volatar]

Mmm... Burnout Paradise for $4. I haven't played a racing game since Need for Speed: Most Wanted many years back. How is this one?

It's a fun racing game if you want a hybrid game where you both need reflexes to avoid the neutral traffic but get big boosts for rear ending the opposition. Great fun.

Yeah, I have never been one for any of the "straight" racers. Put me in a city or something and give me complexities to deal with. Civvies, cops, road construction, battle racing, whatever.

Bought it a few minutes ago. Going to try it out now.

[madcow]

Speaking of racing games with a twist, I think one of the few racing games I played extensively and liked was road rash. Man that was an awesome game.

[chemical_art]

Mmm... Burnout Paradise for $4. I haven't played a racing game since Need for Speed: Most Wanted many years back. How is this one?

It's a fun racing game if you want a hybrid game where you both need reflexes to avoid the neutral traffic but get big boosts for rear ending the opposition. Great fun.

Yeah, I have never been one for any of the "straight" racers. Put me in a city or something and give me complexities to deal with. Civvies, cops, road construction, battle racing, whatever.

Bought it a few minutes ago. Going to try it out now.

Thank you very much for the heads up on the sale. I highly doubt I can play it with my current specs, but for 4 bucks I'll secure it for future use.

[chemical_art]

Trying Red Orchestra 2, it seems to correct a lot of the frustrating things that prevented you from learning while at the same time not losing its core gameplayer.

First there is single player. Yay! It teaches how to fire. Yay! The very last firing range is so annoying I gave up. Boo!

But the tutorial teaches you as much as it can for multiplayer. Now I try it. I play action mode. I get a crosshair and I don't die in one hit. And when I do die I can see where I got shot.

Praise science! There is the potential for me to learn. So far, so promising. Unlike the previous game where I never seemed to hit anything and always died but didn't know where the good spots were.

[Volatar]

Thank you very much for the heads up on the sale. I highly doubt I can play it with my current specs, but for 4 bucks I'll secure it for future use.

I have an NVidia 8600 GTS (2007 card). I set the game on high with 2xAA and it didn't drop a frame. They did a really good job on porting this.

Driving feels so... good. I don't know how to describe it, but it's the best feeling racing game I have played. Dropped two hours on it without even noticing. Game progression is really freeform unlike many other games. There wasn't a single moment where I felt I had to do something perfect to continue. In fact, I pretty much just drove around smashing things and doing races and I progressed without noticing.

[keith.lamothe]

I have an NVidia 8600 GTS (2007 card). I set the game on high with 2xAA and it didn't drop a frame. They did a really good job on porting this.

Driving feels so... good. I don't know how to describe it, but it's the best feeling racing game I have played. Dropped two hours on it without even noticing. Game progression is really freeform unlike many other games. There wasn't a single moment where I felt I had to do something perfect to continue. In fact, I pretty much just drove around smashing things and doing races and I progressed without noticing.

A copy, thou hast just sold.