City of Amnesia

Edit:
Ok, it's ready. The group is called "City of Amnesia".

Here's the url:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cityofamnesia

You can also search for it in Steam communities and it should show up.






If you don't know what Steam is then click here:
www.steampowered.com (http://www.steampowered.com)

It's Valve's digital distribution system. I've you've played any Source games like Half-Life 2 or Counter-Strike Source you would have been required to use it. There is no monthly fee at all and once you purchase a game on Steam you can download it as many times as you want.

Here's some of the games they carry:
-Half Life 1 and 2
-Counter Strike Source and 1.6
-Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War
-Bioshock
-STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
-Painkiller
-Doom 3
-Company of Heroes
-A whole bunch of other games that I can't think of right now.

In my opinion its the best digital distribution system at the moment and its the only one I really like. The games they carry are actually good and they don't have any stupid monthly fees or download restrictions like Direct2Drive and GameTap do.

....uhh....what?

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^ Steam?

I used Steam up until I got sick of CS:S. Which was about the same time as I got C&C3.
And once TF2 comes out, I'll probably be on Steam 36 hours a day.

I meant Steam as in:
http://www.steampowered.com

It's Valve's digital distribution system. If you've played any Source Engine games like Half-Life 2 or Counter-Strike Source you would have been required to use it.

I have a few games on it. I'll occasionally play Day of Defeat: Source. Other than that not much. Might get Team Fortress Two eventually, but considering I'm currently broke, that might not be any time soon.

I used to use Steam (wonder if my account is still active), but only out of necessity. Most of it just seemed like a bunch of anti-piracy bull.

I've been thinking of actually beating Half-Life 2 lately, so I might get back into it.

What about just "CoA"?

yeah, CoA is good.

You should DEFINITELY finish HL2. And get the orange box, so you can then finish Episodes 1 and 2.
...except that I already have episode 1. Those bastards, making me re-buy everything. I should sell my old CD key on the internet to pirates just to spite them.

Ha! ;D

I know I should finish it. Hell, I should finish Half-Life 1 as well, which I think I picked up some time after getting HL2. Bah, I'll get to them eventually.

They've got Bioshock now?!?!! So going there tonight.
Oh yeah, just City of Amnesia would be good so that everyone who posts here can easily recognise us but i like the Paradigm Military Police much better though.

Every group gets a name and an abbreviation, so if we use the name "City of Amnesia" then the abbreviation can be "CoA".





Just keep in mind that 2K Games did not feel like trusting Steam to protect its game from piracy, so they forced Valve to include SecuRom on the Steam version of Bioshock. The Steam version of Bioshock has a five install limit just like the regular CD version.

Bioshock is the only game on Steam that has this problem. All other Steam games can be downloaded and installed as many times as you want after you buy them.

Lame...

In that case, City of Amnesia sounds like it'd work, and seems just ambiguous enough. However, I probably won't be too involved, so you can discount my opinion if you'd like.

Should it be public or invite only?

I think making it a public group would make it easier for people to join, but there's always the chance that it might get flooded by people who are not actually registered here.

We should put together a Team Fortress clan.

Ok, it's ready. I used the name "City of Amnesia".

Here's the url:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cityofamnesia

You can also search for it in Steam communities and it should show up.

Um...it's not letting me join how many times I click the join thing.

That's strange, it's a public group so anyone should be able to join.

Did you try searching it in Steam or going to the url with a browser?

I clicked on the link in FireFox, and then clicking "join this group" does nothing.
Stupid Steam.

You should probably open up Steam, go to the community tab, and search for City of Amnesia in the upper right hand corner then it should show up.

DUDE PORTAL IS FREAKIN' AWESOME
I already beat it.
Twice. The second time with developer commentary but mostly just to hear that awesome credits song again. Which is on YouTube, yay.

omfg you play Day of Defeat, too?! DoD owns up CS. Too bad I've gone cold turkey on Valve... but if I ever hop back on I'll remember to buzz you.

Portal is true love. I keep replaying it just for the hell of it and the experience. GLaDOS has gone to the top of my 'Evil Robots who are awesome' list. There's no explaining the experience that is portal, its just... Awesome.

I cannot wait for the weighted companion cube plush.


I've never understood the appeal of counterstrike. It's a general FPS multiplayer game, except when you die you have to sit around until everyone else dies and someone wins. And you apparently have to buy guns of some reason. I dunno. Gimmie something that I can respawn in plz. I've been playing more Team Fortress than DoD at the moment, but since I cannot seem to connect to nine out of ten TF2 servers, I might swap back.

I think most people like it because the "realism" of the game makes them feel like badass counter-terrorist agents. Add a gun like the AWP, and they even get to ruin the match for everyone else while calling them noobs.

But I always considered DoD to have more realism, and more importantly, have deeper, balanced gameplay.

Mm. Yeah. TF2 looks so amazingly good. Have you seen Valve's mock interviews with the Heavy, Soldier and Engineer? So funny.

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Sorry for the blurriness of the following pictures, but Portal is alive in Baltimore! This quartet showed up at the art university's Halloween bash. Massive cheers from basically everyone on the floor went out to 'em.

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Again, I apologize for the bluriness. I had a low shutter speed on at the time. The girl's portal-gun looked really authentic!

Myself, I love Unreal Tournament. Have since day 1. Which is why UT3 had better rock my socks off, much like the last few titles. And despite some of the complaints, Unreal Championship was actually pretty good.
War.

I don't really play much counterstrike myself, but my brother is VERY good at counterstrike. He's one of the best players in his clan and he has recently joined CAL (Cyberathlete Amature League).

Anyway from the looks of it more skilled players don't treat it like a realistic game at all. It seems that they tend to treat it as a game with it's own rules that they attempt to master because it's fun. It's a lot like people who get very good at chess even though chess doesn't have very much to do with anything in real life.



Anyway, my favorite Steam game has to be Garry's Mod because you can do so much with it. I like to spend hours building all manner of absurd contraptions and making movies.  ;D

I actually had this "infantry combat dropship" that I had been working on for a few weeks, but I've added and removed stuff from it so many times that it now looks very ugly and there are too many bad constraints and misplaced props to account for, so I'll probably have to tear it apart and start from scratch.

I was actually thinking about doing that for Otakon...

I really, really want Portal.

;_;