Steam Collection
With Boot Camp running on my fairly-recent MacBook Pro, I'm able to finally dabble back into PC gaming. Mostly intended for novelty or on-the-go games.
List items
-
It was free for the OS X Launch of Steam! Can't beat free! I toyed with it for a while until the keyboard drove me crazy. Now with an actual gamepad, I'll be able to finish it off.
-
Gifted to me by LittleNemo, who is an absolute whore for the game and insisted that I become properly addicted. That hasn't happened yet, but it's a worthy contender for regular attention.
-
After dumping 300 hours of gameplay into the PS3 version, I was encouraged by other players on the Bizarre forums to pick up the PC version and race some of the giants there. Purchased on Steam: $30. Xbox 360 Wired Controller: $35. Racing some of the best Blur drivers in the world: Priceless.
-
Since my foray into Half-Life 2 is long overdue and the Steam sale offering this up for 7.50, I figured it couldn't hurt to finally sit down and play what everyone calls one of the greatest first-person shooters of all time.
-
I originally bought this on my iPhone for 99 cents and fell in love with it. When it appeared on Steam, the $5 price tag was almost an afterthought. So much more precision and fun with a mouse on a full-size screen. Easily one of my favorite games of 2010.
-
After 100%'ing the PS3 version in tandem with @doomofsteel, I was inundated with requests from PC-based friends wondering if I'd ever be willing to play with them as well. I swore that yes, one day I would, but it would be after another sale. When the brief 2K sale put the GOTY in its entirety at $7.50, it was too good to be true. I now have two games ongoing on my PS3 and three on PC, all with different groups of people. Much as I loved Borderlands, I never anticipated I'd have so much fun and get so much mileage out of it.
-
Purchased in tandem with Mass Effect 2 during the recent EA sale on Steam. Having never owned a 360, I completely missed out on this franchise and wanted to give it a shot. Unfortunately, BioWare made the baffling decision to completely remove 360 Controller support from the PC version. Look, I get it. The mouse is more precise. All the menus have been remapped to take advantage of the keyboard. This is what PC players like. It makes sense. However, I've been playing with controllers in my hand for 25 years and that's not going to disappear overnight. I can't do it. What little of the story I saw during the first hour was fantastic. Unfortunately the awkward gameplay coupled with my inability to coordinate led to a terrible experience. 5 bucks wasted. I'll play it when I pick up a 360 eventually.
-
Purchased at the same time as Mass Effect, during the same sale, and will probably go untouched for the same reasons. Maybe Steam will let me gift my licenses to someone else who will actually get some time out of this. Yes, I know it's on PS3. No, I don't think there's any point when you don't have a Mass Effect 1 save to draw from.
-
Also from the Steam sale. After sampling Crysis 2 at a friend's house, I have little desire to play it -- at least right away -- but the first is a landmark and benchmark both in modern gaming, and deserves a cursory playthrough to discover what the hype was about.
-
Even though I already own this on 360 (required for playing with the lady), a good buddy on PC wanted a chance to go through the co-op together, and for a New Years sale of $7.50 the price couldn't be better. Thus, I'll be going through this game twice... and hopefully learning to build my own levels on the PC version.
Load Comments