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    What's in your Steam Games List?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by HTWingNut, Mar 15, 2009.

  1. HTWingNut

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  2. scadsfkasfddsk

    scadsfkasfddsk Notebook Evangelist

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    I only got the contents of the Orange Box and Left 4 Dead (although I do own the standard retail versions of a few others). I WISH I had that many games to play.
     
    scadsfkasfddsk, Mar 15, 2009
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  3. klauza

    klauza Notebook Consultant

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    mine is kinda lame

    [​IMG]
     
    klauza, Mar 15, 2009
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  4. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    Wow! Here is mine:
    Steam [​IMG]
    By kayldera at 2009-03-15
    Games Explorer [​IMG]
    By kayldera at 2009-03-15
     
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  5. aan310

    aan310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Mine is soft compared to yours:
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  6. HTWingNut

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  7. Theros123

    Theros123 Web Designer & Developer

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    Jesus...you guys are insane. Take a screenshot of your steam community page, I want to see your rating lol.
     
    Theros123, Mar 15, 2009
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  8. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    all i have is FEAR 2 :(
     
    The_Moo™, Mar 15, 2009
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  9. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    My current rating is at 0.9, I will get my "Eagle screams!!!" back during spring break. I didn't really have that much time to play during the semester...
     
    Ayle, Mar 16, 2009
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  10. crash

    crash NBR Assassin

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    Here are mine...
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  11. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    My list:

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    It got cut off at the top, but my Steam ID is mastershroom, if anyone wants to add me. :D
     
    Mastershroom, Mar 16, 2009
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  12. NapalmSilyPuddy

    NapalmSilyPuddy Notebook Consultant

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    Wingnut that gamespot thing is insane!
     
    NapalmSilyPuddy, Mar 16, 2009
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  13. HTWingNut

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    That's what you get for 20 years of game buying! lol. Plus I probably sold or gifted a hundred or so games over the years.
     
    HTWingNut, Mar 16, 2009
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  14. Baka

    Baka (・ω・)

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    I only have... Empire Total War, Dawn of War 2, Left 4 Dead ._.
     
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  15. vinceboiii

    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

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    dang htwingnut..played every game out there haha jk..maybe..

    heres my list

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    hahaha
     
    vinceboiii, Mar 16, 2009
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  16. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    heres mine, i'm an fps nut :eek:
     

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  17. sacredevil

    sacredevil Notebook Consultant

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    Orange box + CoD4
     
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  18. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    Wow. I'm soft.

    I bought 3 valve boxes on steam.

    Left 4 Dead. The Orange Box. And a long time ago: The Valve online pack: CS:S, DoD:S, and HL2: DM. It was a deal shortly after HL2 was released. Each has impressed me in an over-the-top kind of way. (I had never played counter strike before, and my friends and I all started playing CSS and DoD and sometimes HL2 : DM on lan, which was the only way to play it).

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    Diablo Metalhead

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    i have about...15 other non-steam games, not including my console games.

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    Diablo, Mar 16, 2009
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  20. AznImports602

    AznImports602 Notebook Deity

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    some of my games, though i mainly only play css, cod4, l4d, ut3, these days.

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  22. MAG

    MAG Notebook Deity

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    Here's mine :D

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    MAG, Mar 16, 2009
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    Exostenza Notebook Evangelist

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    Exostenza, Mar 16, 2009
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  24. Hirohata

    Hirohata GBF Danchou

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    I have a lot more non-steam games (mostly Japanese) that are not shown.
     
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  25. IWantMyMTV

    IWantMyMTV Notebook Evangelist

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    My Steam games...I was a very slow adopter...in fact, I was incredibly angry when Half-Life 2 made me go online to validate the installation...

    The next two attachments are the window full of shortcuts to games installed on my 320 GB internal drive...and then all the games installed on the internal drive that run under DosBox or special DOS emulators (like Descent XP or the 3DRealms Build games)...

    Just like Steam, all of the games run off the hard drive...no optical media necessary...all those games go wherever my laptop goes...
     

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    IWantMyMTV Notebook Evangelist

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    And this is the window full of shortcuts to games installed on my 500 GB USB drive...this is my Steam drive so you'll see a repeat of some of the games from the Steam list...I usually launch from my list of shortcuts and allow the shortcut to run Steam and then run the game...again, all the non-Steam games run without optical media, so wherever the laptop and USB drive go, all those games go...
     

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    How do you get it to run of the hard drive? Steam games, AFAIK don't run off USB drives, at least I've never been successful.
     
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    kal360 Notebook Consultant

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    lol play games much htwingnut? no worries my steam games list is ever growing (imagine the chaos if steam ever died on us XD)
     
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  29. MrWhereItsAt

    MrWhereItsAt Notebook Evangelist

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    Here's mine.

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    So I have the Orange Box and F.E.A.R. 2. Then I bought just two Steam packs - the Complete id software and all the X-COMs. Love those games. :)

    The relative lack of installed games ATM is due mainly to my nice new desktop + GTX 260 Core 216, which is totally dedicated to games. It's a beautiful sight, having installed almost every game I own on there and NOTHING else.
     
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  30. Tony_A

    Tony_A Notebook Evangelist

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    Messed up cutting + pasting them together, but here's mine:

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  31. IWantMyMTV

    IWantMyMTV Notebook Evangelist

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    There's a help topic somewhere on the Steam support page that tells you how to move your Steam installation...it's been a while since I looked at it...but essentially you copy over all your folders inside the main Steam directory to the new drive, and then delete some registry entries associated with Steam which forces Steam to recreate them pointing to the new drive...it was a bit tricky, and at first, I thought I was going to have to re-download everything (at the time, before the Steam Christmas sale, the list was much smaller, but that still would have been painful)...in the end, Steam works fine off my F: drive which is my 500 GB USB drive...I copy the icons over to the C: drive so that the shortcuts will look pretty even when the USB drive is unplugged...

    As far as the other question, let me state first, that all those games were legally purchased...in fact, I still have the boxes for 90% of them up in the attic...I'm a packrat with my physical and digital media...

    In the mid-90's, game developers assumed little HDD space so you usually installed minimal files to the HDD and the rest of the files were streamed from the CD as necessary...for these games, you can make an image of the CD...you can also setup the shortcut to load the image and then run the game executable...single click gaming is amazing...easier than a console...

    Most of the newer games assume unlimited (or, at least, excessive) HDD space, so you usually install all the files to the HDD for better performance or you can choose the option to install all game files...the CD/DVD being in the drive is only required for a security check...there are ways to skip that check which I won't discuss because it may be a taboo topic in these forums...
     
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    IWantMyMTV Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm not trying to advertise for any one developer, BUT...

    If you like Diablo-clones, Sacred/Gold and the Spellforce games are quite decent...($10 and $30 respectively, and the $30 includes both Spellforce 2 and its expansion)...also, Silverfall is good although maxing graphics options chokes my 7950 GTX...I'm a sucker for cell-shaded graphics...

    If you remember Ultima Underworld, then Arx Fatalis is a real steal at $5...classic dungeon crawl with upgraded graphics (no, it's not Oblivion) and tons of gameplay...

    And everyone loves X-Com...I'm not a big fan of Apocalypse, but Steam is the only way I know to get it running...I can't get DosBox to run my original copy...and I have no idea what Interceptor and Enforcer are...but the original and Terror from the Deep (very difficult compared to the original) are classics worth every penny of the $5 that you'll spend...
     
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