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DrNutt posted:I never said sub-100 but those are insane-person prices. No one* is going to buy these things. Ehh, some folks have really high standards for video performance. The cheapest Steam machine is probably good enough for a lot of folks.
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Zombie Samurai posted:Actually, the least expensive option for in-home streaming is now this. Hope you can use any controller with this, as the Steam Controller looks like rear end.
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Mar 5, 2015 19:57
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Rirse posted:Hope you can use any controller with this, as the Steam Controller looks like rear end. It's got USB ports, I wouldn't see why not. For $50 I would probably consider purchasing this. My media center is
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Tezzeract posted:Ehh, some folks have really high standards for video performance. The cheapest Steam machine is probably good enough for a lot of folks.
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explosivo posted:It's got USB ports, I wouldn't see why not. Keep in mind that Steam Game Streaming is pretty terrible over wifi generally though so you'd have to run cables if the PC is moved anyway.
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Mar 5, 2015 20:01
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Phetz posted:Looks like Wasteland 2 is on sale at half price for $19.99 right now. It looked really cool to me before it came out but I guess it was pretty buggy on release so I held off. Should I pull the trigger on it now, at that price and with all the (very extensive-looking) patches it's gotten? I loved New Vegas and could go for something at least superficially like it. You can get it for half that price if you buy from somewhere like G2A. It's a good game if you can tolerate elements of bad 80s design being deliberately added just to make it "feel" more like the first Wasteland game. I didn't run into any bugs back at launch, and they've been active in patching it over the months since. It plays nothing like New Vegas, of course (you should go play Fallout 1 and 2 if you somehow haven't already played them).
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The White Dragon posted:Oh, I mean I understand that--actually, my regular monitor is like 16"? 18"? Measure the diagonal and that'll be the size. If you're really on an 18", it's time to join the 21st Century. I built a HTPC running SteamOS for the living room, mainly for quietness. Once you're into sound dampening, the cases get a bit heavier. I don't run streaming because I'm too lazy to run the Cat 5 in the walls, and long cables aren't really kid/wife friendly. As people said, there's a real difference in context between a desk and the sofa.
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The White Dragon posted:People don't just pick up their towers and put them next to a bigger TV? It's not like they're heavy and computers have HDMI out these days, this is for the lazy Do you seriously think it's because computers are 'heavy'? That's the argument here? Who wants to constantly gently caress around with 50 cords? Not I! So the option is to have two sets of chords everywhere and still have to unplug/plug my PC in all the time - ugly and messy, or I can just buy that nice $50 peripheral and call it a day. HMMMMMMM.
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Humble Weekly $1 The Bridge Closure Dominique Pamplemousse BTA NaissanceE Betrayer Oquonie $10 Neverending Nightmares Closure's a pretty good puzzle game. Betrayer's alright. I haven't heard great things about Dominique, apparently the singing in it is terrible.
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Mar 5, 2015 20:09
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Rirse posted:Hope you can use any controller with this, as the Steam Controller looks like rear end. It's running SteamOS which has full support for 360, DS3 and DS4 controllers. I think xbone too but only via USB.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Humble Weekly This is a really good opportunity to get NaissancE. It's a very cool game but not really meaty enough for full price.
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Mar 5, 2015 20:11
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 This is the first bundle this year that I've been properly interested in. Got some good weird exploration games, which are pretty much my bag.
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The_Franz posted:It's running SteamOS which has full support for 360, DS3 and DS4 controllers. I think xbone too but only via USB. Oh it's confirmed to have DS4 support? That's good since I really love using that controller on PC games as of late.
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Mar 5, 2015 20:37
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Rirse posted:Oh it's confirmed to have DS4 support? That's good since I really love using that controller on PC games as of late. I wrote the DS4 Linux driver and backported it to the SteamOS kernel, so I'm pretty sure it's in there  .
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Mar 5, 2015 21:09
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Space Rangers HD in a bundle with some other stuff. e: Can you use the DS4's onboard speakers for anything, PC-gaming wise?
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E: dp
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The_Franz posted:I wrote the DS4 Linux driver and backported it to the SteamOS kernel, so I'm pretty sure it's in there 50 years from now an AI will be writing an article about controller support in SteamOS, the only OS left, and they will credit John Carmack for adding it.
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Mar 5, 2015 21:29
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for all the people who want to drop hundreds / thousands of dollars on a gaming pc but are too stupid to order the parts themselves?
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Space Rangers HD in a bundle with some other stuff. Nope, that's the one thing that doesn't work. As far as I know, nobody ever figured out how to send audio data to it, or even what format it needs to be in.
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Sinking Ship posted:for all the people who want to drop hundreds / thousands of dollars on a gaming pc but are too stupid to order the parts themselves? Pretty sure Alienware's been doing this for many years now.
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Mar 5, 2015 21:34
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Rise of the machines.
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The White Dragon posted:Oh, I mean I understand that--actually, my regular monitor is like 16"? 18"? But I like to drag it over to a big screen once in a while. Too bad they don't make those 50" TVs in 16:10 though. Or if this thing works I can spend 50$ and not have to unhook everything from my computer, move it, hook it back up, unhook it all again, move it again and hook it back up again any time I wanted to play a PC game on my TV?
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Mar 5, 2015 21:39
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I only hook and unhook a few cables. HDMI, power and ethernet.
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Sinking Ship posted:for all the people who want to drop hundreds / thousands of dollars on a gaming pc but are too stupid to order the parts themselves? I'm actually their target audience for one of those. I have a decent enough laptop that handles all of my computer needs, but can't run AAA pc games.
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Yaos posted:The new Tex Avery game sold about 300,000 copies. 
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Why yes I would love to pay 1099.99$ for a shoe box with an i3-4130 and a 750ti
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Already had Space Rangers but it seems like a nice bundle for $4.99 so I grabbed it. Here's my SR:HD key if anyone wants it (you do): Claimed! Phetz fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Steam link and the controller looks good and that's really all that matters for me. Valve will probably get a hundred dollars from me in Nov.
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GreenNight posted:I only hook and unhook a few cables. HDMI, power and ethernet. Same here. For 50$ it would be nice to just go to the living room, sit down and play a game instead of turning off the pc, going under the desk, unhooking the PC, moving it to the other room, plugging it in, turning it on, playing a game, turning it off, unhooking it, moving it back to the other room, go under the desk, hook it up and turn it back on. If you had TV would you only get one cable box and move it from room to room to watch TV?
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I've heard Alienware hardware is overpriced junk, but it's the cheapest Steambox and I figure getting one of them will be better then the link since I can only ever afford computers around that price anyway so I'm not exactly armed with a lot of horsepower sticking to my laptop. How should I proceed here?
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WickedHate posted:I've heard Alienware hardware is overpriced junk, but it's the cheapest Steambox and I figure getting one of them will be better then the link since I can only ever afford computers around that price anyway so I'm not exactly armed with a lot of horsepower sticking to my laptop. How should I proceed here? Make your own PC.
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:Elite Soldier is a must-have for character customisation, slingshot's okay. Play through vanilla XCOM a couple of times on classic ironman before touching enemy within (it adds mechanics and story events). Avoid easy/normal as they cheat in the background (hit chances are better for you and worse for the ai than the numbers suggest) and hamstring the ai (they can only control a couple of units per turn and have a chance to do an intentionally horrible move). It'll teach you bad ways to play which'll gently caress you up later. Ignore mod suggestions outside of usability tweaks, and play with a controller for fine-aiming of grenades/rockets. KB/M is still great to play with, it's just finicky for precise shots. I've played EW on Classic "Bronzeman" (reload if i totally gently caress up a mission), next time thru is gonna be Long War.  I'll get both the packs, sounds like ok stuff to have around.
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Phetz posted:Already had Space Rangers but it seems like a nice bundle for $4.99 so I grabbed it. Here's my SR:HD key if anyone wants it (you do): X2LRR-AW24P-VNAP3 Thanks!
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Technetium posted:If you had TV would you only get one cable box and move it from room to room to watch TV? Maybe my family is living in the stone age 
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Michaellaneous posted:Make your own PC. I...think I'll just get the SBX.
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Yaos posted:Ars Technica released their estimates for sales of games on Steam released in 2014 up to February, 26, 2015 . They use a Steam API that let's them grab data from public profiles, and using the magic of statistics they extrapolate sales. Steam's most owned and played game was made by a 15-year-old.
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WickedHate posted:I...think I'll just get the SBX. Putting together your own PC is actually trivially easy these days but whatever floats your boat.
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WickedHate posted:I...think I'll just get the SBX. Using google the hardware in the SBX is worth about 250~ dollars. Hard to get an exact figure since some of the poo poo is too old to be readily accessible anymore but uh... yea, buy it if you like paying 200 extra dollars for a 20 dollar case and assembly?
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Putting together your own PC is actually trivially easy these days but whatever floats your boat. I got video evidence of two grown men loving up a PC build. It's much easier than before, but you still need to read a little about parts compatibility with the motherboard and how much power your PSU needs to run it. Not to mention that a lot of pre-built PCs come with warranties where you can just throw your whole hunk of poo poo in the mail and get it fixed or replaced, while building one yourself means figuring out which part or parts are actually broken, what parts are covered by a warranty, and what gets mailed where. But you should build one anyways because learning stuff is cool and good. Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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