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BloodRayne and Psychonauts Added to Steam Library
eToyChest is reporting that Majesco (and thus Double Fine) have inked a deal with Valve to feature some of their hit games on the digital download service. BloodRayne 1 and 2, as well as Advent Rising, are already available on the service. The cult favorite Psychonauts will be coming next month. From the article: "BloodRayne 2 and Advent Rising are available now via Steam for $19.99 while the first BloodRayne costs $9.99. Those who purchase any of the titles during the first two weeks of availability will receive a 10% discount." They're a little pricier than I'd like, but it's interesting to see titles from a variety of publishers on the service.
Have you tried tech support? They are way too helpful when I need it. You might see if there's a problem that has to do with your location, especially if you connect through certain universities. I haven't been having any problems with downloading games or content.
If you connect through a router, try here
If its after buying a game, try here
Other applications can sometimes prevent connection aswell; the test here can help identify if your running some that may cause conflicts
Server status can be found here, I have it book marked. If there's no bar; there's no service.
Demented But Determined.
I liked the story that I saw of Advent Rising, and the music was great, but I could not get through the bugs of the game...And this was on the Xbox version! Thank heavens for Gamefly...
I heard the PC game was even buggier than the Xbox version...Did they fix these bugs for the Steam release?
There is a bit of a hackish meathod to force STEAM into offline mode.
Disable your network connection before starting STEAM. (Nifty, aint it?)
Personaly I am in your shoes and don't care about playing "online" when I am playing an offline game (HL2).
I am psyched about Psychonaughts (no pun intended) comming to STEAM, as I seem to remember that this one one of "THE GAMES"(tm) that was actualy worthwhile on the XBOX. So it is a PC port of a former xbox exlusive, and it is being published by one of the companies I am a raving fanboy for.
w00t!
Do Or Do Not, There Is No Spoon, There Is Only Zuul. Everything in the above post is probably opinion.
In the first few hours of the game there is plenty of good old adventuring, funny dialogs, cool characters, some puzzles and stuff, later on however, when all cool characters get their brain stolen, so no more dialog, it turns more and more into an average jump'n run, actually not even into a very good one. I found the jump'n run elements to be for most part more annoying then enjoyable, since it really aren't classic jump'n run levels, but some weird mix of puzzles and jump'n run elements, which basically means that if you try to solve a puzzle the jump'n run elements will get into your way and when you try to jump'n run you will be stopped by some stupid puzzle. The story is also kind of disapointing, since the little stories in jump'n run levels don't really connect to the main storyline (each level follows a uniq theme, often completly changing the game mechanics). The jump'n run levels can also be quite difficult at times and frustrate.
However the art direction is great, some dialogs can be a lot of fun and the first few hours really are awesome, but I can't deny that the game didn't exactly benefit from its jump'n run elements, kind of the classic failed try to 'enrich' an adventure game by inserting action elements. Given its current price I would however say its absolutly worth it, since there simply isn't anything that comes close in terms of art and humour the money is well spend and in the end the game simply has some good points that shouldn't be missed.