Poll: Your current installed Steam games | What has steam brought to gaming?

[sky pies]

I'm writing this post because I just seated myself at my desk to decide which game I would use to kill off a couple of hours and realized that I have a pretty decent range of games at my fingertips, something which would have been unimaginable in the period which played host to my most ardent PC gaming, the early to mid 00s.

Steam was always a good idea. When it first came out I remember my CS-geek friend preaching about what it would bring to gaming. It seemed to take a while for them to iron out the kinks and get the service perfected - I first started using it in about 2009 when I suddenly got extremely bored - but needless to say I couldn't imagine a gaming world without steam - or gog.

Here's a bit of a chance to voice your appreication for the program, I guess, but also to voice your opinions on how it might be improved, what it does badly, what it says about Valve and the industry in general. What are your thoughts?

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As for the main idea of this post, go ahead and share the games you have installed from your steam library. Heck you can tell the whole library if you really want an just embolden the games that are installed but if you're anything like me your library is quite large.

Age of Empires II: HD Edition
Bastion
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Far Cry 2
Grand Theft Auto IV
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Mass Effect 2
Pillars of Eternity
Sengoku
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete
Star Wars - Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II: Revenge of the Sith (with the super mod)
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Gold Edition
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword
Valkyria Chronicles

For the record, I have not just got them all installed because of a holdover reluctance to be excessive from the times when the GB was more than a just vague and insignificant reminder of finite space on a hard drive.

 

[sky pies]

most of the little indie games take far less than a Gig lol

I genuinely wanted to begin a discussion with everyone about their games but I must say I haven't played a single one of those. I'm not much of an indy gamer, to tell the truth I played Beneath a Steel Sky from gog.com but couldn't get past the first few rooms and lost interest.

If there is an indy game out there that doesn't try to confound you but rather tries to give you a thoughtful, earth-shattering story with smooth, albeit simplistic, gameplay and graphics, I'm open to it.

I guess Bastion and Pillars of Eternity aren't indy games ~_~

 

[pookie101]

it allows me to be lazy and i like that

- it auto patches games so i dont have to go hunt them down.

- no mucking around with downloading and installing. its just click the button and it downloads and installs

- i can stream to other computers in the house which is awesome

 

[Rolland]

it allows me to be lazy and i like that

- it auto patches games so i dont have to go hunt them down.

- no mucking around with downloading and installing. its just click the button and it downloads and installs

- i can stream to other computers in the house which is awesome

This post is pretty much my answer. I love the auto patch. For example when I have played a game like League of Legends in a long time I am like great, lets play League!... and an hour long patch. So this feature is amazing and I think most games in general should start having an auto patch option.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

As I only bought physical copies of games for a loooong time before joining the ranks of Steam, it has given me the opportunity to buy game I never would have bothered to look up elsewhere. Games like Rogue Legacy, Binding of Isaac, To the Moon and Torchlight would all have been left in the dark for me.

As for what I have installed:

Spoiler: Here there be text

Mark of the Ninja - last played nearly 2,5 years ago. It's an indie title, so it doesn't take up to much space on my hard drive.

RPG Maker VX Ace - Last played around the same time as the above. At one point I seriously considered remaking Final Fantasy X in it, but with Auron as the main character and no Tidus anywhere. Well, that went nowhere, but I had some ideas I thought were decent, like beginning the game at Auron's death by Yunalesca's hand.

System Shock 2 - Last played this summer. I was stoked when it came out on Steam, and it's still a fucking blast to play. Once upon a time I actually hunted down a physical copy of the game from the 90's, and I still have the disc. It feels like I own a part of gaming history.

To The Moon - Last played August 2013. Played through only once, but the story and soundtrack are still I have ever witnessed in a game. Though once I get Life is Strange, I'll perhaps need to reassess that notion.

Torchlight II - Last played last March. I was neck deep into dungeon crawlers at one point, and TL2 satisfied that addiction to no end. The big problem with the game is the gap between Normal and Hard difficulty, but with mods it's easy to rebalance through getting better equipment more often.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Last played... OVER 4 YEARS AGO? Fuck I'm getting old.

Bastion - Installed, but never even booted it up. Should though, but there's so much else to play!

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - Last played last Monday. Everything that was good about the original is here, improved, an with tons more items to find.

Crypt of the Necrodancer - Last played last summer. Got it after watching Pewdiepie's video of it. The soundtrack is awesome, and it's one game I can genuinely call innovative. I never would have expected so much depth and tactical thinking out of a game that can be played with 3 fingers.

Dark Void Zero - Last played about a year ago (for 6 minutes). Bought it at a Steam sale for about the price of a chocolate bar, but never got around to really playing it.

Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition - Last played last summer. A game I'd really want to get into, but the mechanics are so different to games I'm used to playing I'd really need time and effort to get adjusted to them.

Fallout: New Vegas - Last played last August. Like Fallout 3 but better, more varied and better written. Typical Bethesda game though, which means the combat and movement have absolutely no weight to them, and the endgame is a total borefest.

Final Fantasy III - Last played last summer. Got it in the summer sale. Played for a bit, until I realized the quicksave doesn't carry if you die. Fucking pricks.

Half-Life: Source - Last played last February. Definitely deserving of the classic status it holds. The environments are definitely dated and show the graphical limitations of the time, but the pacing and gunplay are great.

Medal of Honor: Airborne - Last played last summer. A bit of a curiosity since I'm rarely into "realistic" shooters.

South Park: The Stick of Truth - Last played last summer. Hilarious and entertaining, but in-fucking-sultingly easy and unbalanced, which really drags down the replay value.

The Stanley Parable - Last played 2 years ago. Brilliant as an experience, but doesn't hold that much substance as a game

Star Wars Battlefront II - Last played last summer. Bought it, enjoyed the nostalgia for a while, and then realized how repetitive the single player is, not to even mention the pointlessness of trying to play on the harder difficulty setting.

Stronghold Crusader (+Extreme) HD - Last played last July. One of the cornerstones of my childhood. I played it endlessly as a happy prepubescent, and still enjoy it today, though the flaws definitely show themselves more clearly to an adult.

Team Fortress 2 - Last played about a year ago. A game I can only play for about an hour before having to stop due to frustration, but it provides a rush like no other game I've played.

Terraria - Last played last February. A game that needs a bit of time to figure out the exact mechanics it seems.

Undertale - The thing I'm most excited to start playing. I've heard so much good about it, and best of all, I haven't been spoiled about anything!

X-COM: Enemy Unknown - Last played in July. I'm on the last mission, but need to level my Psi-capable soldiers first, and just can't be arsed.

it allows me to be lazy and i like that

- it auto patches games so i dont have to go hunt them down.

- no mucking around with downloading and installing. its just click the button and it downloads and installs

- i can stream to other computers in the house which is awesome

All this, to which I must add the ease of Steam Workshop, which takes out so much of the hassle in installing mods.

 

[DefunctTheory]

It would appear I may be the king of Games Installed...

Spoiler: Installed List (89 our of 343 Games/Software Owned)

Software
3DMark
Blender

Games
Alien: Isolation
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
The Banner Saga
Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
Batman: Arkham City GOTY
Batman: Arkham Knight
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Broforce
Chroma Squad
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
Darkest Dungeon
Dex
Eufloria HD
The Expendabros
Fallout 4
Fallout: New Vegas
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
FTL: Faster Than Light
Half-Life 2
Hatoful Boyfriend
HuniePop
Hyperdimension Neptuna Re;Birth1
Hyperdimension Neptuna Re;Birth2 Sisters Generation
Legend of Dungeon
LEGO Worlds
LUFTRAUSERS
MASSIVE CHALICE
Mercenary Kings
METAL SLUG 3
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Monaco
Mordheim: City of the Damned
Morphopolis
Mount Your Friends
One Way Heroics
Out There Somewhere
Papers, Please
Poker Night 2
Portal 2
Portal Stories: Mel
Prison Architect
Psychonauts
Puddle
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Resident Evil 5
Revenge of the Titans
Rogue Legacy
Sang-Friod - A Tale of Werewolves
SATAZIUS
Shadowrun Returns
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Shovel Knight
Sid Meiers Civilization V (I honestly have no idea where this came from)
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Space Hulk
Star Wars Republic Commando
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Starbound
Styx: Master of Shadows
Super Meat Boy
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
System Shock 2
Tales from the Borderlands
Tales of Zestriria
Terraria
Tesla Effect
Torchlight II
Transistor
Universe Sandbox
Valkyria Chronicles
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead: Season Two
Warhammer 40000 Space Marine
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II - Retribution
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Ys I
Ys II

Whee!

As for Steam... its a storefront. I think what it provides more then makes up for the 'Built in DRM,' especially since DRM is almost certainly inevitable (If GOG proves that wrong one day by butchering Steam and mounting Valve's corpse on a pike, I'd be surprised), and Steam's version of it is much less troublesome then most other DRM attempts.

I think most of the problem with Steam isn't in what it does do, but what it could do. It's weaseled its way into every aspect of the games it hosts, and that is a worry, as the recent 'Payed to Play' mod problem showed. But they seem to be trying to make everything work in good faith.

I joined Steam on the day my copy of Half-Life II arrives, so I guess that means I'm kind of a Steam old fart.

 

[stormtrooper9091]

Eh, it didn't really change anything in the way I play/obtain games

as for currently installed:

Anachronox
Bard's Tale
Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Skyrim
EU3
EU4
FTL
Papers Please
Prison Architect
Civ4
Civ5

lots of other cool stuff around but not currently installed. I have 217 total games

 

[sonicneedslovetoo]

Steam is really pushing paid mods, they just put them in Rust, they also refuse to curate steam greenlight so yeah pretty much they used to be all right but they've stopped caring to the point where its starting to get bad.

 

[1981]

The only reason I use Steam is the community. It's the reason I started paying for games. Even when I've played a non-Steam version of a game, I go to their forums to read about it or discuss it.

The games I have on my HTPC:

Avencast
Bejeweled 3
BookWorm Deluxe
Dead Hungry Diner
Divine Divinity
Faerie Solitaire
LYNE
MirrorMoon EP
Puddle
Redshirt
Reus
Rochard
Saira
Space Pirates and Zombies
Toki Tori
Wake
Worms Reloaded

 

[Something Amyss]

IS there an easy way to pull up a text list of owned games? Because I'd do this, but I'm not typing all of them out. My hands hate me for gaming already.

What has Steam done? Well, it's normalised DRM and got people to accept digital/physical parity.

 

[Weaver]

I have a lot of games installed, I'm going to write a quick program to parse them out of all the steam app-manifest files and output an alphabetical list.

edit:

Spoiler: Here are my currently installed games

A Story About My Uncle
Age of Wonders III
Analogue: A Hate Story
Anno 2070
Antichamber
Astebreed
Attack of the Labyrinth
Audiosurf 2
Banished
Batman: Arkham City GOTY
Ben There, Dan That!
Bionic Dues
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Blackwell Deception
Bleed
Blood Bowl 2
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition
Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain
Borderlands 2
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition
Cave Story+
Cities: Skylines
Cloudbuilt
Contraption Maker
Crimsonland
Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION
Crusader Kings II
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
Dark Quest
DARK SOULS? II
DARK SOULS? II: Scholar of the First Sin
Darksiders II
Dawn of Discovery
Dawn of Discovery - Venice
Defy Gravity
Distance
DmC Devil May Cry
Double Dragon Neon
Dracula's Legacy
Droid Assault
DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition
EDGE
Electronic Super Joy
Electronic Super Joy: Groove City
Endless Legend
Endless Sky
Endless Space
Eternal Senia
Everlasting Summer
Far Cry® 3 Blood Dragon
FEZ
FINAL FANTASY IV
Fork Parker's Holiday Profit Hike
Frankenstein: Master of Death
Freedom Planet
Game Character Hub
Gauntlet?
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Gone Home
Greyfox
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
Gundemonium Recollection
Guns of Icarus Online
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure
Gyromancer
Hammerwatch
Hard Reset
Hate Plus
Heckabomb
Hover : Revolt Of Gamers
HuniePop
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1
Ikaruga
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition
Jamestown
Jet Set Radio
Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons
Just Cause 2
Killer is Dead
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning?
Knights of Pen and Paper +1
Labyronia RPG
La-Mulana
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
Legionwood 2: Rise of the Eternal's Realm
Lili: Child of Geos
Lilly and Sasha: Curse of the Immortals
Long Live The Queen
Magic Duels
Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball
Marlow Briggs
METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE
Metro 2033
Metro: Last Light
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Might & Magic: Heroes VI
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition
Mount Your Friends
Mountain
Narcissu 1st & 2nd
NecroVisioN
Noitu Love 2 Devolution
Nosgoth
Only If
Out There Somewhere
Outland
PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+
Papers, Please
Peggle Nights
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds
Pinball FX2
PixelJunk Eden
PixelJunk? Monsters Ultimate
PixelJunk? Shooter
Polarity
Pool Nation
POSTAL
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Procyon
Psychonauts
Putt-Putt Joins the Parade
Rayman Legends
Rayman Origins
Revenge of the Titans
Revolution Ace
REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR
Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
Rise of the Triad
Rising Angels: Reborn
Rogue Legacy
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum!
Roundabout
RPG Maker VX Ace
Saints Row IV
Saints Row: The Third
Sakura Clicker
Sanctum 2
Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves
Savant - Ascent
Saviors
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Seduce Me the Otome
Shadow Warrior
Shadow Warrior Classic (1997)
Shadowrun Returns
Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
Sine Mora
Singularity
Sinister City
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Sky Mercenaries
Skyborn
Sleeping Dogs?
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Sonic Generations
Space Hack
Space Hulk
SpaceChem
Spelunky
Spiral Knights
Spooky's House of Jump Scares
Squishy the Suicidal Pig
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition
Starbound
Stick It To The Man!
Strider
Strike Suit Infinity
Strike Suit Zero
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
Super Hexagon
Super House of Dead Ninjas
Super Meat Boy
Sweet Lily Dreams
Sweezy Gunner
Syder Arcade
Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 1 - Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 2 - The Siege of Spinner Cay
Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 3 - Lair of the Leviathan
Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 4 - The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood
Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 5 - Rise of the Pirate God
Terraria
The Apogee Throwback Pack
The Binding of Isaac
The Collider
The Howler
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION
The Room
The Stanley Parable
The Swapper
The Tiny Bang Story
The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
The Void
They Bleed Pixels
Thomas Was Alone
Titan Attacks
To the Moon
Tomb Raider
Torchlight II
Total War: SHOGUN 2
Transistor
Tropico 4
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Ultratron
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Valkyria Chronicles?
Volgarr the Viking
VVVVVV
Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine
Warhammer® 40,000?: Dawn of War® II
Warhammer® 40,000?: Dawn of War® II - Chaos Rising?
Warlock - Master of the Arcane
Wolfenstein: The New Order
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Ys I
Ys II
Ys Origin
Ys: The Oath in Felghana
Zeit²
Ziggurat

 

[Valiance]

At this point, I guess it's a necessary evil.

It's not a horrible thing or the death of gaming. It's just. A product of a culture. If you look at PSN/XBL and similar such things, and how interconnected everything has become, and the emphasis on sharing with others, it was only a matter of time before PC gaming has a similar sort of thing.

Which it sorta had with xfire, raptr, etc, but now Steam, combining digital distribution with the social aspects of achievements, profiles, account-based "ownership" and whatnot, it's just the de-facto PC gaming version of PSN/XBL now.

That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes I guess I wish I could just turn it all off. That's more a problem with me and society and our current culture than the platform itself, though. I mean, conceptually, I love the idea of making it easy to show people that cool moment in a game. I really like having statistics for my own playing. I guess I don't like the idea of other people viewing my profile and judging each other for their time spent playing a certain game, or how public a lot of the information can be. I also don't like how everything has to be gated through steam now. Can't even buy a game in a box without having to activate it on steam. So if something happens to steam in a few years, what happens to the game? There are plenty of instances of games being pulled from steam, like what happened with Batman: Arkham Knight. And some people couldn't get refunds. Another quick example: I own a game called Nexuiz. THQ went bankrupt and liquidated their assets, and now this game has been pulled from the store. The only way I can start the game is in offline mode.

I have plenty of concerns about "ownership" with DRM-based solutions.
I sometimes wish that publishers weren't held hostage and basically forced to put the game on Steam, because if they don't, there's a bunch of people that won't buy or play the game.
I prefer purchasing stuff through things like GOG or humble bundle, but I do activate keys on Steam, and it is nice to have it all in one place, and if I had to make room for the boxes for all, whatever, 300 games I had, that would be a difficult task.
There's plenty of fantastic things about it, and I do really like how the profiles and groups work (though it would be really nice to be able to disable group notifications, still not an option after all these years.

Most of the games I own on steam, I've played in some other form, at a friends house, or in a stand-alone download, and there's no way to have it import information (for example, if I played Warframe for 2 years before it was on Steam, there's no way to port over my achievements or my time played into Steam), but aside from these minor gripes, I'd say it's overall a great thing for most people, a great thing for the PC gaming industry right now, and a requirement towards how things are going to move in the future. I just don't like it.

Sidenote: I have 88 games installed and 361 owned on steam, and at least 20 keys from indiegala and bundlestars I haven't even redeemed yet. So. I don't think I should paste that list here.

 

[searron]

I was going to type up the games I have installed, but that I realized I have 350 some odd games installed over a potential 695.

I then realized I am not going to type that.

 

[Strelok]

If you look at PSN/XBL and similar such things, and how interconnected everything has become, and the emphasis on sharing with others, it was only a matter of time before PC gaming has a similar sort of thing.

You seem confused, Steam started sales on September 12th 2003, XBox Live started selling games November 2005, and PSN store launched November 2006, both consoles have been aping Steam not the reverse.

Steam, combining digital distribution with the social aspects of achievements, profiles, account-based "ownership" and whatnot, it's just the de-facto PC gaming version of PSN/XBL now.

Once again... LOL

I guess I don't like the idea of other people viewing my profile and judging each other for their time spent playing a certain game, or how public a lot of the information can be.

Make your profile private.

I also don't like how everything has to be gated through steam now. Can't even buy a game in a box without having to activate it on steam. So if something happens to steam in a few years, what happens to the game? There are plenty of instances of games being pulled from steam, like what happened with Batman: Arkham Knight. And some people couldn't get refunds.

Been through the shut down of an online store already, they released the keys to me as well as an installer, I still have all of them on an external drive. Steam has 125 million active accounts now
and hit 12.5 million users logged in at one time, it's not going anywhere, fear for PSN and XBox Live instead.

Another quick example: I own a game called Nexuiz. THQ went bankrupt and liquidated their assets, and now this game has been pulled from the store. The only way I can start the game is in offline mode.

If the game relied on servers run by a third party then offline is the only option, but you can re-download and install it as often as you want.

I sometimes wish that publishers weren't held hostage and basically forced to put the game on Steam, because if they don't, there's a bunch of people that won't buy or play the game.

There are plenty of other options, publishers and developers want on Steam, no one holds a gun to their heads.


On topic:

I have 98 games installed currently:

Spoiler

Brutal Legend
Amnesia: The Dark Decent
Among The Sleep
Cryostasis
Dirt 2
Darksiders II
Movie Studio Platinum
Ace Combat Assault Horizon
Alan Wake
Alice: Madness Returns
Asassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman: Arkham Knight
BeamNG.drive
The Beginner's Guide
BOMB
Borderlands 2
CoD: Advance Warfare
CoD: Black Ops II
CoD: Ghosts
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Cradle
Crysis
Daylight
DayZ
deORBIT
Depth
Dishonored
Divinity: Dragon Commander
Dying Light
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Enemy Front
Fallout: New Vegas
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Far Cry 4
Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
The Forest
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Goat Simulator
Gone Home
GTA: Episodes from Liberty City
Hand of Fate
Hard Reset
HAWKEN
Hearts of Iron III
Home is Where One Starts
Homefront
Hydrophobia: Prophecy
I AM ALIVE
Just Cause 2
KHOLAT
Killer is Dead
Life is Strange
The Long Dark
Mad Max
Mafia II
Medieval Engineers
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros
Metro 2033 Redux
Metro Last Light Redux
Middle-earth: Shadow ofd Mordor
Miner Wars 2081
Mirror's Edge
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition
Next Car Game: Wreckfest
PROTOTYPE 2
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Rise of The Triad
Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2
Ryse: Sone of Rome
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
Shadow Warrior
Sniper Elite 3
SOMA
Space Engineers
Spintires
The Stanely Parable
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Stranded Deep
Styx: Master of Shadows
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Thief
Three Fourths Home
Thunder Wolves
Tomb Raider
Train Simulator
Transformers: War for Cybertron
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux
Watch_Dogs
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries
WWE 2K15

I have a total of 886 games now.

 

[FPLOON]

Spoiler: List?

Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Cave Derpy
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Bride
Hyper Princess Pitch
Lemmings
Lemmings Revolution
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
Mirror's Edge
Monster Girl Quest
Mount & Blade
Peggle Extreme
Ponyvania: Order of Equestria
Portal
Portal 2
Race The Sun
Skullgirls
Skullgirls (Endless Beta)
Touhou 1-5
Touhou 10
Touhou 10.5
Touhou 12.3
Touhou 6
Touhou 7
Touhou 8
Touhou 9
Touhou 9.5
Vertiginous Golf

Uh... Steam's okay, I guess... So far, it made me realize two things since getting a Steam account:1. You can list anything within your personal game library... So, seeing my friend's notifications say "X is playing with their PINGAS", for example, just makes that apparent...
2. Out of all the games I got from Steam so far, I can only run about 3-4 of them at best... The rest I could run even before listing them within my Steam game library...Other than that, I still want a Steam controller... That shit looks boss!

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Installed 49/182 games, but I had to factory reset my computer about a year ago, and I'm sure that number would be higher had that not happened.

Spoiler: I mean, if you really want to see them

ArtRage Studio Pro
Age of Wonders III
Batman: Arkham City GOTY
Batman: Arkham Origins
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Brutal Legend
Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty: United Offensive
Castle Crashers
Cities XL 2011
Cities XL Platinum (I'm 99% sure they run as the same game.)
Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Counter Strike: Source
Crusader Kings II
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
Darkest Dungeon
Dragon Age: Origins
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Holy shit I haven't reinstalled Skyrim)
Empire: Total War
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Europa Universalis IV
Fallout 3 GOTY
Fallout 4
Fallout: New Vegas
Game Dev Tycoon
Garry's Mod
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip To Japan~ (I considered uninstalling this upon the creation of this list. It's not what you think I swear, Dad.)
Half Life 2: Episode 2
Hearts of Iron III
King's Quest (2015)
Left 4 Dead 2
Mass Effect 2
Medieval II: Total War
Mount and Blade: Warband
Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword
Myst: Masterpiece Edition
Napoleon: Total War
Pillars of Eternity
Rocksmith 2014
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Starpoint Gemini 2
Tabletop Simulator
Team Fortress 2
Total War: ATTILLA
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Special Editions

I think steam is unnecessary, but I don't think it is malicious or anything. I like buying games on disk, and I don't like having to go through a third party to install them on my computer, but maybe I'm just stuck in my old ways. I cannot, however complain about THOSE AMAZING BIYEARLY DEALS

 

[sky pies]

I have a lot of games installed

He warn't lying! Glad to see we both enjoy Valkyria Chronicles. At least we both have it on thar.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Holy shit I haven't reinstalled Skyrim)

Seriously though which would you rather have?

 

[Vigormortis]

I've had a Steam account since 2003. There've been ups. There've been downs. I've had moments of immense satisfaction using the client. I've had moments of pure frustration from aspects of or issues with the client.

All in all? I view Steam as an overall boon for my gaming hobby, and the industry as a whole. Valve's made some missteps, and will probably continue to make new ones, but in the end they've done a lot of good for the industry and the community.

Now if only they could release some new games...

It would appear I may be the king of Games Installed...

I'm afraid I have to dethrone you.

Spoiler: My Installed List

Alan Wake
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Ancient Space
Apotheon
Audiosurf
Beyond Good & Evil
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Broforce
Broken Age
Capsized
Castle Crashers
Close Your Eyes
Company of Heroes
Contagion
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Counter-Strike: Source
Dead Island: Epidemic
Deathmatch Classic
Descent: Freespace
Dirt Rally
Dishonored
Dota 2
Double Action
Duke Nukem 3D
Freespace 2
FTL
Garry's Mod
Gauntlet
Grey Goo
Guns of Icarus
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
Half-Life Deathmatch
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Half-Life 2: Update
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Half-Life: Zombie Edition
Halo: Spartan Assault
Hard Reset
Heavy Bullets
Homeworld Remastered
Ibb & Obb
Just Cause 2
Killing Floor
Krater
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Duels of the Planeswalkers
Magicka
Monaco
No More Room In Hell
Oblitus
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Offworld Trading Company
Orion: Prelude
Outlast
Painkiller Overdose
Payday 2
Portal
Portal 2
Postal
Project Aftermath
Project Zomboid
Prototype 2
Psychonauts
Quake Live
Race The Sun
Rage
Rayman Origins
Reprisal Universe
Ricochet
Rocket League
Shadowrun Returns
Civilization V
Sins of a Dark Age
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity
Slave Zero
Sniper Elite V2
Solar 2
Spelunky
Starbound
Starpoint Gemini 2
Styx
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
Super Hexagon
Super Laser Racer
Super Meat Boy
Sven Co-op
Team Fortress Classic
Team Fortress 2
Terraria
Thief Gold
Tiny Brains
Splinter Cell Blacklist
Torchlight
Torchlight 2
Transmissions: Element 120
Trine 2
Universe Sandbox
Unturned
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Vertiginous Golf
Warframe
Spacemarine
Worms Revolution

I left out the tools, SDKs, and backups[footnote]I have backups of every game I've purchased on Steam. That way, even if I can't access the Steam servers, I still have my games.[/footnote]. I'm...kind of ashamed by how many I have installed.

As for Steam... its a storefront. I think what it provides more then makes up for the 'Built in DRM,' especially since DRM is almost certainly inevitable (If GOG proves that wrong one day by butchering Steam and mounting Valve's corpse on a pike, I'd be surprised), and Steam's version of it is much less troublesome then most other DRM attempts.

I think most of the problem with Steam isn't in what it does do, but what it could do. It's weaseled its way into every aspect of the games it hosts, and that is a worry, as the recent 'Payed to Play' mod problem showed. But they seem to be trying to make everything work in good faith.

I joined Steam on the day my copy of Half-Life II arrives, so I guess that means I'm kind of a Steam old fart.

At this point Steam's become a lot more than a storefront. The sheer breadth of community features and tools alone are unparalleled in the industry.

The client has a lot of room for improvement, however.

The DRM aspects of Steam only apply to games or software utilizing Steamworks or some other DRM system (like Uplay, etc). Any game not using Steamworks is likely able to be launched and played without Steam running.

Other than that, I still want a Steam controller... That shit looks boss!

The controller's pretty fantastic. I've been fiddling with mine for a month now and it's really grown on me. I never use my Xbox360 controller anymore and only ever use my Dualshock 4 when I use my PS4.

I still suck at some first person games when using it, but I'm getting better. Certainly better than I usually do with dual analog sticks.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I see Steam as online shopping but better.

I mean they both offer great savings over the retail/ physical copies but Steam got the community, badges, message/ friendlist and etc.

Spoiler: my list

Bastion
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre Sequel
The Cave
Freedom Planet
FTL: Faster Than Light
Monkey Island 2: Special Edition
Raise the Sun
Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Skullgirls
South Park The Stick of Truth
Transistor
The Wold Among Us

Yes my current list is quite small but only because I have alot of will power when it come to the Steam sales (I see it as a waste of buying a game and never playing it even if you bought it very cheap. You should spend some time playing it if you had spend money on it). In saying so it make my current wishlist kinda long (got about 28 games on my wishlist).