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AFAIK, nothing immediately obvious, though you can communicate with friends like moi, access all your games more easily, and steam gets you access to special deals (e.g: I got new vegas for something like £10/£15 on thier christmas holiday sale)

now that IS a bargain to look forward to... it is still in the shops at roughly around 30€s and on steam even more... so that would be a bargain as a said... but how do i do that? i have no serial number??? i was rather baffled as to not being forced to type in 16 digits for activating the instalation...

Viktor von Domm wrote:at ishkatar... should i register? i usually don´t do that... beside i wasn´t pushed to do that by the instalation process...and if i do...what benefits would be there? i am rather unknown to the game in general...what could be achieved by a registered game at steam?

Well, Shrike said it all... I have to add that for the last year Steam became my favorite gaming software for an easy access game library, shop and great discounts, which occur quite often. I've bought a lot of good games for a laughable price.
You know, when you don't have to lift up your butt from the chair to get a new game - that's just priceless!

I guess, you have to download the Steam and register in the service in order to use it.

Yes, easy access to lots of demos too, which can be converted up to the full games for cheap in many cases too. Plus those damn free weekends for games to hook ya in

...and they take paypal too easily
Evil little app this is

Vik, can you please take one of the !!! off the title? It gives the spam warning everytime we reply, thanks dood

Aye. It's also a handy way to play online - a build in text chat and voice chat are always at your service with only a hotkey push within any game.

well...currently my wallted is dying of inflation...but on other days paypal was my friend...*sobs*

i see to it if i can register the game on steam... i have an acount...

also i changed the threads name...didn´t knew it caused problems...

Ah you guys will be using the PC version, I play on the X-Box

yup...strictly any better game will be only played on PC... i do won a WII but it is only for family gaming...and it is currently collecting dust like anything...

Viktor von Domm wrote:yup...strictly any better game will be only played on PC... i do won a WII but it is only for family gaming...and it is currently collecting dust like anything...

Well, trying to avoid carpal tunnel by playing the game on a console, and the controls I have grown used to. Just can't use all those gimmicks the PC version software has.

shasolenzabi wrote:...and the controls I have grown used to.

That's why I bought THIS:


Now I'm the happiest panda in the world, playing all those awesome games at great PC graphics with the X-box cntroller

BAH! I'll PWN with a mouse and kb!!

Ishkatar, I may have to look into the possibility of that one day.

Dave, I said I am trying to avoid CT that comes form too much KB and Mouse.

Mouse and keyboard just can't beat that type of playing, when you sitting lazily on a pile of pillows on your couche with an X-box controller

That and my monitor is a mere 20" the TV is bigger 24" or so in size.

a mere 20"? you gotta be kiddin... i own one of that size too and i think it is huge...well...so much for that self esteem...^^

i am making progress... i have a chineese assault rifle now and can shoot precious 5,56 amo^^ yay... also i begin with small quests... man that look and feel of the game is so depressing... i think come the armageddon i better kill myself just right at the start of all that wasteland mess...

met a girl...said she was bobytraped...then she blew off... man those raiders are a bunch of creeps worth a bullet...

second time of writing this *sigh*, but I have 30 steam games, 11 of which were under £5 or free, 1 of which is a demo.
but yeah, fallout is pretty grimdark ^^
I think the first place I went was some kind of supermarket with four or so raiders inside... took quite a while to take them all out with a small pistol, I can tell you ^^
I think I have about 11 hours played on FO3, but on FO:NV it's nearer to 115 or so... and don't even ask about oblivion or skyrim... eesh...

lol.... the supermarket i am about to visit... tho this will happen tomorrow as i am too pished right now.... my eyeballs feel as if they want to get all runny and start to melt out of their sockets...urgh...

better get me some sleep...now where was my RL PIP Boy?

One thing I saw once (not sure if actually for sale or hand-made), but it was a wrist-strap for an iphone, which is in the style of a pip-boy, which is pretty cool (though a tad nerdy).
but yes, vik- you'll get used to hours of screen-staring... MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Oh, and my internet might FINALLY be fixed
The amazing breakthrough was... I'm not really sure, it just started working

There are 5 or 6 raiders in the Super Mart. And a robot that will fight for you if you can unlock the computer that opens his booth....

Here is a nice compilation that comes with a fake commercial in the commercial!

Love how the music carries on through the gunfire and explosions
though it looks like quite a few of the scenes are from new vegas... hmm...

nice advert shaso... but if i look one vid... these are like chips... you can´t just eat one^^

dsteingass I am rather disappointed at the lack of DoW in your collection of games on steam, tut tut.

Viktor von Domm I used to play way too much wow, before I got a new job and a wife. I used to play 55 hours a week on top of my full time job. I decided it was too much and I needed more of a life lol, so I quit.

The Titan is looking coolio, looking forward to more limbs

I have FO:3 in my draw somewhere, I started playing it but never finished it. and as I only have 2 nights a week for painting now (4 if I find the energy after work on a Friday and Saturday night) I can not split that time any further by pc gaming :(

I have a 20” widescreen monitor, and a 19 inch normal monitor for my set up at home

Mouse and keyboard is defiantly way better than a controller for twitch gaming.

DOW and DOW2 and all their expansions are under a diff email. Played the gak out of them!

thats ok then hehe They are Awesome.

Yeah, but with V.A.T.S. Fallout 3 is far from beeing twitchy... Yet again, after playing Gears of War, Halo and some other shooters with controller, I can say it's not that hard to pwn
Amyway, it's a holywar topic, so we better quit... A matter of preference it is, after all

DoW series are quite nice indeed. I've spent a lot of time playing those games. Though DoW2: Retribution was full of disappointment for me =/

ishkatar wrote:Though DoW2: Retribution was full of disappointment for me =/

Really? How come?

I did feel that the individual race single players could of had more variety, but i still enjoyed it. And The Last Stand was great.

i only ever played the demo for DoW 2... the costs for the complete game always put me off... tho that might change with a new job...extra money always seeks a way out of my pockets...for some reason

now that i ahve fully explored the V.A.T.S i can say... with that...rocking some evil schemeing riders is not that hard anymore...in fact the supermarket was easy cake... and then i headed to greyditch or sumthin` and i am now about to go down that station and erase all fireants from the world...or at least from that corner... man that game is huge... one of the biggest sandbox games i have seen... in fact the sandbox aspect is what makes it for me a tad difficult... you have so many options...you sometimes just stand there an gawk around...then you get eaten^^

by the way... sometimes the game reminds me strongly of the gothic series...anyone knows these?

and ishkatar... i like how you sooth the raging nerdy masses^^

They did NOT make DOW2 the fully awesome game it could have been IMHO.

well... not that i haven´t played space marine yet but arent the GW games always a bit under the expectations of the gamers?