MysticToast said:
imperialreign said:
Also, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory - kinda unusual to offer the whole SC franchise as a "complete" pack, except for the 2nd title . . .
Chaos Theory is on Steam
I think he meant to say Pandora Tomorrow, seeing as he did say "the 2nd title". IIRC that game had problems, not the least of which is that they still had the alarm = instant failure carried over from SC1 for a lot of the missions. I recall being very frustrated and underwhelmed with that game, but I suppose for those who haven't played it before, it would be worth having it on Steam just for completion. Note also that Hitman: Contracts is conspicuously absent from Eidos' Steam catalog when the other 3 games are all present and accounted for.
Just a quick googling revealed that there are big time shadow issues on nV cards with SC

T (forgot about that), although it wouldn't be the first time that Steam sold a game that had issues on certain hardware *cough* Stubbs the Zombie *cough*.
OT, I was not in any way surprised when the BF3 official announcement game down the pipe, but still disappointed. More so that I'll be forced to use Origin whether I download or buy retail, since there's no way I'm not buying the game on PC. I'll be arsed if I'm going to buy any DLC for the game, seeing as that was the main sticking point between EA and Valve.
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Jaime_Wolf said:
In fact, for a lot of old games, Steam is a problem. If you have to fiddle with things or modify files in order to get the game to run on a modern machine (I'm looking at you VtM:B), it can be really aggravating for Steam to decide to check the integrity of the files and undo all of the changes you made to make it run/fix bugs.
Agree on the first point, although Valve's excuse is that it is merely providing the platform and it is the responsibility of the publisher to ensure compatibility of old games. I'd say it couldn't hurt for Valve to at least lay out some guidelines for QC on third party stuff, as it's ultimately their name on the client and they do take a cut of sales of said software.
As for your second point, that's why you make a backup of the stuff you changed. Luckily because of the integrity check feature, you don't have to worry about backing up the original files.