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So Alien: Isolation is coming out soon and I was considering pre-ordering it on Steam (my preferred way to buy games) so I can get the bonus DLC, but I read that there is a 2nd DLC chapter if you pre-order from Gamestop. So I was wondering if I pre-order it from Gamestop, do they just give you a Steam key? Is it just a normal execute file you have to open by itself (not through a client)?

If it's not a Steam key, would I be able to add the game to my Steam library and get achievements and all that?

Built my first gaming PC about a year and a half ago and so far have only used Steam, so I'm totally unfamiliar with buying PC games retail and how it works. Any clarification would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.

I immediately thought "Tiberius." Just finished listening to the podcast so that explains it. Seriously though, why would they give him such a long name, but not include his first name!? What the hell does the T stand for!? I can't wait to tell my friend and ruin his week.

@patrickklepek I'd take Brawl just so I can hack it and play Project M, which is way better. =P

I totally agree with all of this though. Right next to my desk, just a couple of feet away from me, I have a tower with 4 shelves on it that are about 2ft wide. From top to bottom it's PS2, 360, PS3, and Gamecube (the Wii is hooked up to another tv as I only use it to play GC games anyway). Each shelf has the console, controllers, peripherals, etc. On my right, are two thin towers filled with games ranging from PS1 games to PS3 and 360 games. There are also some DVD's and Blurays on that shelf as well. This is basically it. This is my "stuff." I don't collect anything else. I don't put stuff all over our home. It's just this one spot, and this is the stuff I care about preserving and displaying the most.

I play mostly PC games now so everything new that I get is digital (mostly through Steam). The last game I bought was Dark Souls II Black Armor Edition for the PS3. Dark Souls might be my favorite game and I wanted to own a real copy of its sequel. I'll still eventually get it on PC with dlc and all that, but having a real copy is really important to me. That was probably my last physical purchase of a game for the PS3 and 360 generation. Not sure if/when I'll get a PS4, so for all I know, that was the last physical game I buy. It's nuts.

I hope whatever direction this all goes in, we are all just free to enjoy the games we own with as little interference as possible.

Awesome accomplishment. I'm not a speedrunner at all, so this might be common knowledge, but I noticed that he named himself "C" on his file and I was wondering if it's actually a speedrunning technique to give yourself a one-character name so that the text bubbles finish faster. If so, it's pretty sick that they are so thorough with their time-shaving efforts that they even thought of something like that. Speedrunning is crazy. I'd probably never get into something like that, but I think it's cool that people do it and I find it interesting when whole communities get together to figure out a way to break a game and play it in ways unintended by the developers.

Steamworld Dig was great. Seemed like the kinda game that gets boring fast, but I was actually disappointed that it was over when I beat it. I just kept wanting to dig.

<--- Voted for the community sale group that included Walking Dead Season 2 on sale for $12. Fell asleep. Woke up. Now it's $18. Only have $16 in my Steam wallet. smh

Thanks everyone for all the responses. I'll look into the stuff that was mentioned and get back to you. Sorry if I wasn't as clear as I should have been in my first post and gave couple of you the wrong idea. I just didn't want to write something too long and full of detail, because I was more concerned with keeping it short enough that someone would actually read it.

My motivation has been there since I was a kid. As I mentioned in the previous post, my childhood was pretty messed up. I didn't have the opportunity to pursue anything I was passionate about. I've wanted to be involved in making video games as far back as I can remember, and I actually do really enjoy the coding I have done so far. The lower level of motivation was only in comparison to how much more I'd feel if I could kill two birds with one stone by learning a language that is practical for getting a job, but that also allows me to pursue something I am passionate about, rather than just a language that will land me a job, but hold no value to me personally.

Also, as far my girlfriend, we are very close and always on the same page. We have discussed this at great length and we agree that this might be a really good direction for me to take. I want this for myself more than anything, but I also have the added motivation to get my shit together for her sake as well. She deserves the best, and right now I think it's safe to say I'm nowhere near my best. If I was single, I'd still be in the same boat, with the same idea, and hoping to pursue the same goals.

The reason I haven't started anything yet is because, as I said, I worked a job for the last 6 years. I've done the "just get a job and see how it goes" approach and it was terrible and going nowhere. My resume is full of manual labor, security work, and missing any kind of relevant education. Trying to learn a programming language is the best way out for me right now. I enjoy it, I learn it fairly quickly, I have a lot of time to put into it, and I could get a job doing it without an impressive education.

The reason I came on here to ask is because, as I also mentioned, I found a lot of conflicting information online and I thought it would be better to ask some people on here directly who can take my personal situation into account, rather than decide on a language based on the preference of a random blogger.

Anyway, thank you all for reading and replying. I really appreciate it. Any additional info would always be helpful and I'll let you know how things are going once I get it all in motion. Thanks again.

@therealmoot: Are you talking about this one? I just randomly bought this, cuz I was in NYC looking for cool, used stuff to add to my collections and I saw it and figured it'd be cool to add to my RE collection. Never even considered reading it though as I assumed it was probably lame.

Larchmont, NY, USA

So this is probably gonna be long and annoying to read. I'll try to keep it simple. Sorry in advance.

I'm 31 years old. Had a shit childhood and got really messed up. Didn't graduate HS, got a GED, worked some shit jobs, tried to get a degree through Devry (huge mistake), and now I'm back to square one. There is nothing on my resume that would get me anything other than some entry level, manual labor job that goes nowhere.

I worked as a security guard for the last 6 years and lived with my girlfriend. I quit that job, we moved out of the city and into the suburbs and I'm currently sitting here in our new apartment all day trying to figure out the best way to learn some kind of programming language so I can ultimately get a coding job.

So far I have learned a tiny bit of HTML and CSS, a fairly good amount of beginner stuff with Javascript, and I finished everything there is to be done with Ruby on codecademy.com. My initial goal was to learn to code for web development, but I found it to be exceedingly difficult to stay motivated, as it really has nothing to offer me other than finding work. However, some other languages also offer the advantage of being able to design games as your job, or in addition to your job as a hobby. This certainly has a much greater appeal and considering I've been able to handle learning this kind of thing thus far, I'm seriously considering shifting gears and learning a language that can also be used for game development.

With that said, I have no idea what I'm doing, no idea which languages are better for that than others, and I have found a lot of contradictory information while researching the subject online. Even just figuring out the differences between C, C++, C#, and Objective-C have been pretty difficult, and that's before I even know for sure that I should be learning a variation of C in the first place.

Long story long, I'm unemployed, I want to learn a programming language to get a job and get my life in order, preferably something that would allow me to find an entry level job relatively soon, but that could also be used for game development as a hobby and to help with motivation. Also, I need something I can learn on my own with sites or books as I certainly don't need to pile on even more debt. I'm living with my gf now and she's basically my sugar mama, paying all the bills herself. She's a psychotherapist, she's brilliant, she's a gamer too, and she's way out of my league, but for some reason she's loved me for all these years. I wanna do right by her and make something of myself and I'm just hoping for a little help finding some direction for this plan. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.