How good is Steam at taking your money?

[Dinner]

Yeah. It's good. If I can find the DLC on sale, I'll probably get it.

Actually, I lied. They have a special bundle called the Gold Edition with all the DLC for just $11.89. I will be buying it but not now since every time I try to add it to my cart I get a 403 error.

[Sava]

Is Steam doing the big summer sale again? I spent a bit too much on gog.com's sale over the past few weeks, but I'm always happy to waste more money on games I'll never get around to playing.

Yup! It's happening now. A lot of deals are time sensitive. But don't go on there now. Steam is overloaded due to traffic.

[Sava]

Actually, I lied. They have a special bundle called the Gold Edition with all the DLC for just $11.89. I will be buying it but not now since every time I try to add it to my cart I get a 403 error.

Yeah. I managed to get Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition in the cart, but can't checkout.

[Sava]

Working now! Seems like they added servers or something.

[Sava]

Ooh! I found a fun little racing game called AudioSurf that is basically a glorified visualizer/music player... for $2.49

Nobody here will like the music, but here's an example vid. Trippy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRlHcAhUMY8

[Dinner]

WTF is the Admiral Edition and why does it cost $29.95? That's almost three times the price of the Emperor Edition or Gold Edition with all the DLC.

[Sava]

Also, other sites are having competing sales right now too. Gamersgate, Gog, greenmangames... the usual suspects.

[Sava]

Lots of good racing games for sale. Grid 1 is $3.75. Grid 2 just came out and is discounted at $30. I'll pick that one up in a few months or so when it gets around $9-10

[The Mad Monk]

And you built that nice PC... what do you do with it?

Playing Civ IV modded to play all 34 civs on a six continent map five times the size of the largest normal map in both dimensions, raging barbs, maxed everything.

It's pulling six GB of physical memory, no lags, no crashes, even while rapidly zooming in and out.

[Sava]

Playing Civ IV modded to play all 34 civs on a six continent map five times the size of the largest normal map in both dimensions, raging barbs, maxed everything.

It's pulling six GB of physical memory, no lags, no crashes, even while rapidly zooming in and out.

What mods?

That sounds ****ing fantastic.

[Sava]

Ack Steam store down again!

[The Mad Monk]

Lt. Bob's 34 civ mod

I just edited the worldinfo.xml per these instructions to increase the world size.

I found I had modify other xmls to keep it from being a resource desert, and also make quests a little more manageable (building 35 swordmen or triremes I could do; settling 35 different land masses was a bit much).

Next game I plan to add the "Extra" mod into the mix.

[Sava]

Nice! Thanks! I have so much to play now. But this is a good problem to have.

Also, I just ordered me a 50 inch plasma that's coming Friday. I've got one downstairs. This one is going to be just for the PC... to go along with the 30'' Dell (at 2560x1600) and 27'' 1080p Asus (1ms response) I've got. Next month, I'm going to look into doing a 5760x1080 setup on three 120hz monitors.

There are certainly things to complain about with regards to modern gaming. But for me, I'm definitely in a golden age. Disposable income, check. Lots of choices, check. Good hardware, check. Good games, check. Girlfriend who likes gaming, check.

And GTA V is coming out soon

[Sava]

Commandos 2 for $0.99

[Dinner]

If the new Civ5 expansion goes on sale I'd even buy that even though I think Civ5 sucks. I already have all the other expansions so why not?

Right now they're still selling it for $29.99 and I refuse to pay full price because I'm a cheap bastard like that.