[Steam] Thread XVII: /sm_rename "Steam Thread": da]mexitt hr[a vise

[Jahkaivah]

:O :! !!!!!! Definitely worth buying that. The first game was rather good.

From what I've heard the second one isn't as good.

[Volatar]

From what I've heard the second one isn't as good.

I heard the same thing. I heard that they totally screwed up the economy. However, I also heard that the latest patch fixed that problem.

EDIT: However, after reading wikipedia, there are a lot more other changes. The game looks, in general, much less cool. I won't be buying it.

[Dogmantra]

Oh ho ho it's funny because it's the spiritual successor to Total Annihilation which was amazing and I keep reading "the first one" as TA and I'm all "heck yes!!!!!!!"

Also it's funny because I'm implying Supreme Commander is bad. I've never even played it.

[Volatar]

Oh ho ho it's funny because it's the spiritual successor to Total Annihilation which was amazing and I keep reading "the first one" as TA and I'm all "heck yes!!!!!!!"

Also it's funny because I'm implying Supreme Commander is bad. I've never even played it.

The first game wasn't that bad. Didn't live up to the spirit of Total Annihilation (hey, anyone up for a game of Total Annihilation sometime?) but it was pretty good.

[Demon 997]

Operating system (ie, Windows XP, Vista or 7?)

Restart Steam and try launching the demo again. There should be a short delay while Steam updates the files and places correct copies of everything into place for you.

If that doesn't work, try the steps below.

Go to your add/remove programs window, uninstall something called:
"Microsoft Games for Windows LIVE Redistributable"

Then after it has been uninstalled, download the latest GFWL client. It can be found here.


Install that, restart Steam and try again.

If that doesn't work, feel free to bash my head in with a rock for wasting your time.

I'm running windows 7. I tried restarting steam and that doesn't do anything. I couldn't find the Microsoft Games for Windows LIVE Redistributable" so I couldn't delete it.

I should note it only comes up with the xlive.dll error if I try and launch the demo from outside steam. When I try to launch it from steam it freezes at the preparing game for launch and steam stops responding. I've had the same problem with gratuitous space battles and the demo for Hegomony: Philip of Macedon. Other games (Men of War, Portal, Alien Swarm) are unaffected.

[watsyurname529]

:O :! !!!!!! Definitely worth buying that. The first game was rather good.

From what I've heard the second one isn't as good.

I heard the same thing. I heard that they totally screwed up the economy. However, I also heard that the latest patch fixed that problem.

EDIT: However, after reading wikipedia, there are a lot more other changes. The game looks, in general, much less cool. I won't be buying it.

Supreme Commander 1 is better than the second but the second one is still a good game. They made changes in an effort to try and prevent the games from taking so damn long.

It's less cool because they took out some of those cool features to make the game less complex and move at a faster pace. $3.75 is worth it for the game.

Anyways, anyone have any of the games in the Indie Pulse pack besides Audiosurf? I'm probably going to get it because of BIT.TRIP BEAT and because I'm interested to see how all of these games compare to Audio Surf with my music.

[Volatar]

Supreme Commander 1 is better than the second but the second one is still a good game. They made changes in an effort to try and prevent the games from taking so damn long.

It's less cool because they took out some of those cool features to make the game less complex and move at a faster pace. $3.75 is worth it for the game.

I don't like faster paced. I like slow paced, complex games. Guess I will stick with the first one then

[Penguinizer]

Don't play Beat Hazard. I'm warning you. It'll make your eyes bleed, or at the very least hurt.

[Neftren]

Eh, today's deals are similarly un-noteworthy.

L4D2 for $5 isn't bad, but most of us here probably already have it.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is a pretty good game, though Armageddon is coming out soon, so...

Today's CSS pack is a better deal than two days ago (Valve really needs to fix their marketing scheme... or maybe not).

Oh ho ho it's funny because it's the spiritual successor to Total Annihilation which was amazing and I keep reading "the first one" as TA and I'm all "heck yes!!!!!!!"

Also it's funny because I'm implying Supreme Commander is bad. I've never even played it.

The first game wasn't that bad. Didn't live up to the spirit of Total Annihilation (hey, anyone up for a game of Total Annihilation sometime?) but it was pretty good.

TA is awesome, but nobody plays it anymore :/ I'd happily dig up my copy and play if I can find it again.

I don't like faster paced. I like slow paced, complex games. Guess I will stick with the first one then

I like to build up a bit. Games shouldn't be about who can "rush" faster. A RTS really ought to be about who can actually strategize better. With that in mind...

Is Supreme Commander 2 worth the $3.75?

[ZeroNumerous]

I like to build up a bit. Games shouldn't be about who can "rush" faster. A RTS really ought to be about who can actually strategize better.

Blitzkrieg is a viable strategic approach. Discrediting it simply because the only appreciable way to represent a blitzkrieg is through resource management is hardly appropriate.

[Neftren]

Blitzkrieg is a viable strategic approach. Discrediting it simply because the only appreciable way to represent a blitzkrieg is through resource management is hardly appropriate.

Blitzkrieg is acceptable. I just take offense to the whole Starcraft style of rushing, where it's basically just a unit-construction race in the first ten minutes of the game, where the winner is mostly determined by their skill at micro.

[The Linker]

So, my stream is a-go. This will be an official test to see how much bandwidth it really takes up, since we found out where to access our download and upload records by day. (Incidentally, the major source was the weekend I had the house to myself and spent the whole damn weekend watching Heroes on Netflix. 25 gigs, there. I didn't know! *sob*)

Anyway, Matrix with Rifftrax here, at 6:30 EST! That's an hour and a half from now, for those across the pond.

[watsyurname529]

By faster paced SC2 still takes quite a bit of time to run a game. It's just not as ridiculously long as the first one.

Also, I possibly need some help. Did anyone else get Age of Empires 3 from Games for Windows Live?

I downloaded and installed it and it looked like everything went fine there except for when I hit play, it opens up the folder for AoE 3 and I have to manually find the launcher for each AoE game.

Is this normal or what?

[Neftren]

By faster paced SC2 still takes quite a bit of time to run a game. It's just not as ridiculously long as the first one.

Also, I possibly need some help. Did anyone else get Age of Empires 3 from Games for Windows Live?

I downloaded and installed it and it looked like everything went fine there except for when I hit play, it opens up the folder for AoE 3 and I have to manually find the launcher for each AoE game.

Is this normal or what?

Well, my school has a small league, and most games are done in under twenty minutes tops, so... (only the best players tend to go for anything longer than 35-40). The one exception was the game of fastest map perfected we played. Took us two and a half hours to fight it out.

[Jahkaivah]

I've been watching a fair ammount of competitive Stacraft 2 games recently and the early part of the games seem to not be so much a race to attack as early as you can but rather attempting to pull off a few quick stunts in order to grab some early advantages for the later parts of the game, if anything it deepens the strategic element to it.

Also, I possibly need some help. Did anyone else get Age of Empires 3 from Games for Windows Live?

I downloaded and installed it and it looked like everything went fine there except for when I hit play, it opens up the folder for AoE 3 and I have to manually find the launcher for each AoE game.

Is this normal or what?

No, its freakishly abnormal and weird and as a result you will be cruelly taunted for the rest of your life.



Nah, it was the same on my end, just create shortcuts of each launcher and put them on the desktop.

[shadow_archmagi]

I picked up AoE and was absolutely disgusted with the vast inferiority of GFWL

[Drascin]

It's less cool because they took out some of those cool features to make the game less complex and move at a faster pace. $3.75 is worth it for the game

Still worth it for about double that? Being European, it's 5€ flat here, which exchanges to around $6.

Also: Waaahhh, I'd want NyxQuest and it's there on the pack at 85% discount, but I don't have people to buy the pack together with.

[Byrnbot08]

I'm running windows 7. I tried restarting steam and that doesn't do anything. I couldn't find the Microsoft Games for Windows LIVE Redistributable" so I couldn't delete it.

I should note it only comes up with the xlive.dll error if I try and launch the demo from outside steam. When I try to launch it from steam it freezes at the preparing game for launch and steam stops responding. I've had the same problem with gratuitous space battles and the demo for Hegomony: Philip of Macedon. Other games (Men of War, Portal, Alien Swarm) are unaffected.

Hmm, unusual... Have you tried downing the GFWL client and installing it anyway?

If this doesn't work, I suggest going to the Steam user forums and searching for FAQs on it, there are more tech-savvy people than me lying around on those there forums.

[watsyurname529]

No, its freakishly abnormal and weird and as a result you will be cruelly taunted for the rest of your life.



Nah, it was the same on my end, just create shortcuts of each launcher and put them on the desktop.

Mkay then. Glad to know it's not just me.

I picked up AoE and was absolutely disgusted with the vast inferiority of GFWL

Aside from the launching issues I just now have, I don't see how GFWL sucks that much. I mean you can't compare it to Steam with all of it's community, etc. but still, I don't see why it's horrible.

[chiasaur11]

Mkay then. Glad to know it's not just me.



Aside from the launching issues I just now have, I don't see how GFWL sucks that much. I mean you can't compare it to Steam with all of it's community, etc. but still, I don't see why it's horrible.

Massive crashing, multiple passwords for basic stuff, runs in the background even if you close it, there's any number of reasons to dislike it.

[Cogwheel]

Hmm... Getting Supreme Commander and the Indie Pulse Pack, I think.

[Dispozition]

I got the indie pack (even though I already owned Audiosurf and Beat Hazard, worth it for the others imo), Supreme Commander 2, and King's Bounty. I have bought many games in the last two days >:

[Phase]

Half an hour until TRIASSIC ATTACK

Tune in early for no reason, I just want some company.

[xp194]

Hmm.

Would anyone be interested in me Livestreaming a (BLIND!) playthrough of OCTODAD? Because it looks to be hilarious.

Loving Father. Caring Husband. Secret Octopus.

[Demon 997]

Hmm, unusual... Have you tried downing the GFWL client and installing it anyway?

If this doesn't work, I suggest going to the Steam user forums and searching for FAQs on it, there are more tech-savvy people than me lying around on those there forums.

Installed it and got it working. Just wished I'd bought it when it was on sale. Thanks for your help.

[AlterForm]

Hmm.

Would anyone be interested in me Livestreaming a (BLIND!) playthrough of OCTODAD? Because it looks to be hilarious.

Loving Father. Caring Husband. Secret Octopus.

Take a little while to learn how to control Octodad, and it should be amusing. He's much more awkward to control than you might think; I gave up after about 5 minutes.

[dromer]

Half an hour until TRIASSIC ATTACK

Tune in early for no reason, I just want some company.

There was skeleton dinosaurs, and then they turned into a giant Dracolich. You guys missed out.

[chiasaur11]

There was skeleton dinosaurs, and then they turned into a giant Dracolich. You guys missed out.

Although it could have been better.

Needed more Daleks.

[ZeroNumerous]

He's much more awkward to control than you might think; I gave up after about 5 minutes.

Octodad is very, very awkward to control indeed.

[The Linker]

Clearly the Heavy hears his sandvich talking to him only because the lead poisoning gets to his head.