Anyone here use Steam? :)

[Shockwave]

I was looking around the internets yesterday to see if there were any tribute versions of Xcom Enemy Unknown and I found a pretty cool tribute called Ufo Alien Invasion, anyway I played that through, the game is pretty good, it has some obvious flaws though.

One of the developers rubbished my ideas for developing it a little (I suggested destructible terrain, but I think that they can't be very good because it's not included in their game engine..) anyway, after being growled at there I got the urge to play X-com.

Lots of sites have it as Abandonware, it could be just downloaded and played on dosbox I guess, but I found something called Steam by Valve.

Steam has loads of classic games available, I picked up a legit copy of Xcom for $5!!!

It runs perfectly too, sound emulation is fine... It was really nice to be re-united with Xcom after all these years and play the game as it should be.

Probably this is old news to most of you but the experience has been a nice one for me.

[Clyde]

Yeah I have Steam, I use it for Half Life / Half Life 2 - plus expansions. Check out the Orange Box.

Great to hear you've been re-united with a fav game of yours dude.

[Shockwave]

Where's the orange box Clyde?

[combatking0]

It's a compilation pack of several really great games.

See it here!

[Jim]

I don't like Steam at all.  It's more like adware/spyware/virus than real software.  It keeps going off on its own and downloading stuff from the internet, and it doesn't care what time of day it does it - unless of course this has all been fixed in the 2yrs since I last used it?

Jim

[Shockwave]

That's a bit of a bummer. I like Xcom too much to get rid of it though.