Posted by Sébastien Lachance with Comments (0)
Frankly, I never liked the fact of buying a game online and never hold a physical copy. Before some 3 months ago. There was a game (Torchlight) that I wanted to try right away, but unable to find it in store (here it's almost impossible to get a decent game if you don't go to the "big city"). I would have ordered through Amazon but a quick googling led me to Steam where the game has a 50% rebate on it.
If you don’t know, Steam is basically an online game retail store. Back to the point.
I enjoyed the experience. Checkout was fast, download the game was fast and the addition Steam has made to the game (like achievements) had a positive impact on me. Heck, your save games are stored on the CLOUD, how cool is that! I can play on my 3 computer and never have to worry of that.
And they have really big discount on weekend. And even free trials (Multiplayer Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2).
Do you remember Sam & Max, Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle (Dott!)? ScummVM allow you to replay these "point and click" adventure games. You need to have the data file for them and you are ready to go. There are also different port: Nintendo DS, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, etc... I think I'm gonna give it a try on the DS as soon as I have all the component. I would really like to play Monkey Island in the bus.
ScummVM is the winner of the Best Project for Gamers award on the SourceForge 2007 Community Choice Awards.