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Anyone here use Steam? :)
« on: November 18, 2008 »
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.
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Re: Anyone here use Steam? :)
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2008 »
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.
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Re: Anyone here use Steam? :)
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2008 »
Where's the orange box Clyde? :)
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Re: Anyone here use Steam? :)
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2008 »
It's a compilation pack of several really great games.

See it here!
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Re: Anyone here use Steam? :)
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2008 »
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?

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Re: Anyone here use Steam? :)
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2008 »
That's a bit of a bummer. I like Xcom too much to get rid of it though.
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