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http://store.steampowered.com/early-holiday (http://store.steampowered.com/early-holiday)

Through Monday
LucasArts Premiere Pack (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2532/): $50  Highlights: Jedi Knight/Dark Forces Series, KotOR, and Secret of Monkey Island SE.
THQ Complete Pack (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2539/): $50  Highlights: Red Faction Series, Saints Row 2, Titan Quest (w/ IT), Dawn of War Series, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

Monday
The Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena: $10
Secret of Monkey Island SE: $2.49
Dawn of Discovery: $35
Mirror's Edge: $5
Section 8: $25
QuantZ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/37800/): $2
Evil Genius: $2.49
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood: $21

Sunday
EVE Online: $5
Battlefield 2 Complete Collection: $15
Lucidity (http://store.steampowered.com/app/32410/): $2.49
Trackmania United Forever: $20
Prince of Persia: $15
Prince of Persia Pack (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1184/): $22.49
World of Goo: $5
Guild Wars Trilogy: $25

Saturday
Spore: $20
Spore Complete Pack (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1741/): $45  (The other Spore packs are also 50% off.)
Resident Evil 5: $25
Ghostbusters: $10
City of Heroes: $10
Trine: $10
Order of War (http://store.steampowered.com/app/34600/): $10
Left 4 Dead 1: $7.49
Left 4 Dead 1 Four-Pack (http://store.steampowered.com/app/500/): $22.49
Borderlands: $33.49
Borderlands Four-Pack (http://store.steampowered.com/app/8980/): $100

Through Friday
Plants vs. Zombies: $5

Friday
Dead Space: $15
Madballs in Babo Invasion (http://store.steampowered.com/app/25700/): $2
Mini Ninjas (http://store.steampowered.com/app/35000/): $15
Cities XL (http://store.steampowered.com/app/35510/): $20
Cities XL Limited Edition (http://store.steampowered.com/app/35500/): $25
Majesty 2: $10
Knights of the Old Republic: $2.49
Left 4 Dead 2: $37.49

Wednesday and Thursday
Champions Online: $20
GRID (http://store.steampowered.com/app/12750/): $7.50
Batman AA: $25
Fallen Earth: $25
Dragon Age Origins: $37.49
Dragon Age Origins Digital Deluxe Edition: $48.74
Osmos (http://store.steampowered.com/app/29180/): $2
Far Cry 2 Fortune's Edition (http://store.steampowered.com/app/19900/): $10

Why hellooo Dragon Age Deluxe.

Goddamnit.

I finally caved on DA Monday, because of the constant "zomg this is awesome" in the DA thread.  I knew I should have waited.

FROTH.

I want the THQ pack, so bad.

That THQ bundle is ridiculous.

Does anyone know if the standard edition of Dragon Age on Steam still includes the Blood Dragon Armor and The Stone Prisoner? It's not listed on the standard version page but the way they list it on the Deluxe it leads me to believe it may be. Need a 2nd copy of this for the wife.

Also, though I may never find time to play it... is a romp through Far Cry 2 worth 10 bucks? I got half way through the first before I got bored.

Lastly... Osmos? 2 bucks, why not right? Don't know anything about this one.

Tis' the season to buy games I'll never get to, but at least via Steam I don't end up with sealed boxes mocking me from a shelf.

Both the Blood Dragon Armor and Stone Prisoner are in any new version of the game (source (http://dragonage.bioware.com/addon/)).  The DDE just adds Warden's Keep (which is pretty good, but is only $7 by itself) and a couple of items.

Oh god. I don't think I can resist buying DA.

So true. There's enough good gaming there to keep you occupied for more than a year. Sadly I already own about 90% of it.  :heartbreak:

With my unexpected adoration of Torchlight, I'm really considering the THQ pack, the only thing that kind of holds me back would be the plethora of RTS games in there.

Im sort of thinkin the same thing, but im on the "too many shooter games" side.

So you two should go halves, and split the games between you.  Everyones a winner babay!  :why_so_serious:

Too bad you don't own any of the games purchased through Steam so you can't do that.

Even if you "owned" the collection the license terms probably wouldn't let you re-sell individual parts.

If you did own it the First Sale Doctrine would apply.

This.

Well, I'm not in the US. But wouldn't that apply to sale of the whole collection and the license is still likely to limit sale or transfer of sub-components? I'm fairly sure when I bought a collection of RPG games that was the case.

In general it certainly is a disadvantage of steam I hadn't fully considered though, because I don't tend to trade in or resale my old games.

Nope. You own the discs as the first owner, you're free to do whatever you want with them including resale.  Autodesk just had a ruling against them on this very topic.

As has Microsoft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp_v._Zamos

New Games until Sunday!

Dead Space - $14.99
Madballs in Babo Invasion - $2.00
Mini Ninjas - $14.99
Cities XL Limited Edition - $24.99
Majesty 2 - $9.99 (FROTH)
KOTOR - $2.49
Left 4 Dead 2 - $37.49 (FROTH)

So glad I didn't get l4d2 yet.

Hmm...Dead Space and Batman. Not that I have any time to play them.

As much as I'm a physical media guy, Steam has really been doing justice with deals.

That one never went to trial.

Jesus steam knows how to make me give up money.

FYI, I think the steam sale is bugged, cause it says the PvZ sale ends on the 26th and I just bought it today for $5 still  :awesome_for_real:

Protip: They pulled a reverse-Dragon Age with Cities XL.  Both editions are half-off, but they only listed the Limited Edition on the sale page.

Also, fuck Valve and their amazing sales.

Doh.  KOTOR1.  I thought it was 2 and was all excited.  Now I'm only a little excited.

What is PvZ?

Plants vs. Zombies

Oh, right, that makes sense.

I actually bought Osmos for $2 (pretty much because it was only $2) and it's a cute little game. Kind of reminds me of the cell stage in Spore, which was easily the best part of that game.

Just bought the THQ pack.  I'm not really a fan of non-traditional RTSes (Dawn of War, CoH), but I couldn't pass up Titan Quest, Red Faction Guerilla or Saint's Row 2 for that price.

New sales up.  Nothing eye-popping with this set, mostly because I own a lot of it.  Might bite on Trine at $10 though.

Trine and RE5 getting bought. I imagine I'm the only person here willing to get the PC version of RE5, heh.

Let us know if Capcom finally put in a real control system for their PC games.

So unlikely.

Borderlands 33% off down to 53.59 US$.... which would look like a good deal if I didn't know it orginally listed at ~45 US$

Guess I'll get my fix of post apocalyptic shootyness in Fallen Earth.

I'm really tempted to get Trine, but with everyone else I've purchased over the past few days, it'll have to wait until another sale much later down the line.

So tempted...so broke. Had to shell out for a new dryer today.

But I did break down and buy a 15yr Laphroaig to drown my sorrow.

I'm not gonna say it's a perfect port - the inventory is a tiny bit finicky, but I got used to it pretty quick. I will however say that if every game were as well-ported as RE5, I'd stop buying multiplatform games for consoles.

So, yea, it's a good port. 8 Hours left on the sale.

Don't you already have that on PS3?

Monday, November 30th Deals:

The Secret of Monkey Island - Special Edition - $2.49
Quantz - $2.00
Mirror's Edge - $5.00
Evil Genius - $2.49
Dawn of Discovery - $34.99
Call of Juarez - Bound in Blood - $20.99
The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena - $9.99
Section 8 - $24.99

I've been waiting for a 5 dollar Mirror's Edge sale, nows the time!

I don't know if i'll bother playing it much, but I was going to go out for a latte this evening, I'll just skip that and probably SAVE money.

I'm thinking both Mirror's Edge and Evil Genius today.

Maybe it's not related since it was a Valve package, but I know when I bought the Orange Box I was able to gift my extra copy of HL2 to someone else.

Ended up picking up Trine yesterday. Fun little game, really, and pretty much blows away Braid in the actual "are you actually having fun doing this" department as far as new wave platformers go.

Would it be better for me to get Trine for the PS3 or PC?

Also, purchased Mirror's Edge, Evil Genius, and Monkey Island Special Edition.  Damn you steam!

Same, my list of games that I own but never got around to playing keeps getting longer and longer with these Steam sales.

Damn you Steam, and your Cyber Monday sales. Making me waste pocket change.

Buying Mirror's Edge and Monkey Island SE, because...well, what the fucking hell, it'll be like 8 bucks for a few extra games to screw with.

EDIT: Also, Commander Keen? WTF, really?

The Orange Box is the only time AFAIK Valve had made an exception, and even then you still technically didn't "own" the game. If you look at Valve's other bundles, there's no option for gifting in any of those.

These are the conditions where you'd get extra copies (source (https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4502-TPJL-2656)):

Huh interesting. Valve is incredibly inconsistent about putting the notice in the package that you can gift certain games in that package. I looked at a few of them including the complete package and none of them had the notice except for the Orange Box. Of course most of the other packages I didn't look at did have the notice :oh_i_see:

The Orange Box was the start of a trend; I think they're doing it for all Valve game bundles now.  They might not be allowed to do it for bundles from other publishers.

I was a little sad when I went to steampowered to see what little gaming nugget I was going to get today and they're done with the sale. I need more old games to not play for cheap!

Cheap Monkey Island SI was all I ended up picking up.  I spent a grand total of three fitty ($1 iphone game included) this black Friday.

Too many games, not enough time.  I blame my MMO-like Dragon Age addiction.

I got Evil Genius. It's kind of cool but it's a real time eater and not because anything especially great is happening but because stuff just seems to take a while (never too long really) plus lots of random crap is going on. That combined with a lack of real missions (rather constant tasks that need to be done) means that instead of just dipping in and out when you like there's always some other little thing you want to hang on for while you've got stuff distracting you. It's a recipe for, "Woah is it an hour later?" combined with, "What the fuck have I even done in this game?" I've never really felt like I've been completely wasting time playing a game before.

gog.com?

And it begins again... all sorts of specials. Another temptation to add more games to the "when I have time" list.

What a fantastic Steam sale.

Entire Eidos Catalog $49.99.

With Batman. (And Just Cause, and the new Tomb Raider, and Kane & Lynch, and all the Hitman games, and Rogue Trooper.)

I'd wait on buying ANYTHING. The Woot timer at the bottom will go for every day, buy your stuff if it shows up there and on January 2nd make the big purchases.

FUUUUUUUU

(just bought batman for 40 bucks last week)

Well then, didn't you get served.

I certainly deserved it, considering that it was obvious that excellent holiday sales would emerge as Xmas got closer.  But that particular deal just kicks me in the nuts.

Jesus Christ.  But I've already spent to much money!

I present to you:

Awesomeness (https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AphkHirrd2S1dGVOLXhPei1CSlpyeGsxUVdkSTMxZGc&hl=en)

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Does the steam version of Stalker: Clear Sky have the AIDS Starforce?

TAGES

It says it on Steam.

Fuck, I ordered Avatar for 30e two weeks ago and it still hasn't arrived (whoever recommended that particular web retailer to me should be shot), and now Steam has it for 25e.
 

Um wow. I think I might end up ordering more games in the next day than I have in the past 3 years.

I almost bought Citizen Kabuto from GOG before I came to my senses.  Need to stay off the net for a bit.

STALKER for 1.99 Euros?
 :heart:

Oh, and a game called Mirror's Edge is available for only 3.74 Euros. I rummaged through the forum to see if there was a topic about it, and it seems a cool game to try out for that price.

RE: Mirror's Edge.  I bought it when it was on sale for the same price a few weeks back, and I think it was worth it.  Its more of a novelty than a game, and when it wears off, it kind of loses its appeal, but for that price, you can easily get your money's worth.  Beware though,  if you are prone to motion sickness, the game can really cause a mean bout of it.

So that means STALKER (free practically duh) and Mirrors Edge are the big two and Mirrors Edge was on sale for 5 not long ago.  Was it good on pc?  I thought it looked cool but remember the ps3 version getting panned for repetition and stuff back when it came out.  Id try it unless it was a bad console port and is going to piss me off that way.

I picked Mirror's Edge up on PC the first time it was on sale and enjoyed it very much, didn't really have any complaints about any controls or anything.  Although my wife did mention she got motion sick watching me play it.  :uhrr:

Lost a lot of it's charm after playing through story mode once and doing a few time trial runs, but for $5 it was well worth it.

I've heard the PC version action plays a bit better because of ye olde K+M. Plus if you have a graphics card that supports PhysX it has gratuitous flapping.

This sale just pulled another $70 out of me  :oh_i_see:

Hmm, Batman or Borderlands? Hmm... :awesome_for_real:

What is this "or"?

Hehehe...Anyways, back from my first session of vomiting Mirror's Edge: whoa, love the scenery (my 24" monitor helps :D) and yeah, I see why the novelty factor might wear off after a while, but the concept is great, as well as the music :)

Spellforce 2 looks interesting for only $15.  Anyone played it before?

Last I heard, it came with Starforce, just FYI.

According to the Game Details the Steam version has no non-Steam DRM -- i.e. no StarForce.

Hooray, I might finally get it now...I've been eyeing it up for a few years now.

Steam needs to upgrade their servers if they are going to be doing deals like this so often. Bought Witcher yesterday and after almost 24 hours solid of downloading I'm still 4 gigs away @ ~100KB/s

That or Steam should work it so you download the game sequentially and play the first bits while the rest downloads in the back, like the WoW trial. Because as it is I have downloaded over a Gig of making of videos in Polish that I, frankly, could do without. Gimmah Mah GAME Already!

OK next question. Is it fucked up like Starforce, or is it relatively benign like SecuROM?

I did a quick bit of reading via google, and I can't really tell.

From what I recall it's somewhere in between, but I haven't heard of it doing terrible things like Starforce did.

Well, what a time to be fucking broke. I own most of what I'd want out of the sale thus far, but there are a few tempting morsels, like the second Stalker. The page for Clear Sky sez:

I know y'all be hatin', but ChampO for $10 is also temptating. Riddick and the first ArmA for $7.

Dernit.

Is travel better in Clear sky?

I'm broke until payday, but a buddy got me Stalker: Shadow over Chernobyl for Christmas. I started playing it tonight. Is that headbob thing supposed to be a feature? It actually kind of makes my eyes cross. The gameplay seems good other than that. I plan on hitting a few of the cheaper bits of this sale when payday rolls around. There's a lot of tempting shit in there. Both Freedom Force's for less than $6? The Witcher?

There's a config file hack to fix the bobbing, just Google on it.

Any point in getting GTAIV if I have it on the 360 already?

PC Version has better graphics if your computer can run it, and AFAIK something like a video editor and bigger multiplayer. No DLC (I think).

I have a profound love/hate relationship with Stalker. I really want to like it, and everytime I start having fun I either get lost by wandering around for ages in the wilderness or one-shotted by something I haven't seen coming, and we're back at start.

New daily deal set is up.  L4D2, Serious Sam HD (tempting), and ID Software pack that contains pretty much every game ID has made for $24.

New, 24-hour promotion for today (December 24th):

ID Superpack - 66.99 € 23.79
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter 19.99  € 9.99
Need For Speed: Shift 49.99 €37.49
Left 4 Dead 2 37.99 €25.45
Football Manager 2010 49.99 €37.49

Thats interesting, as the US prices for those same games goes like this:

ID Superpack - $23.79
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter $9.99
Need For Speed: Shift $37.49
Left 4 Dead 2 $33.49
Football Manager 2010 $29.99

So, they only seem to have adjusted for exchange rate with L4D2, and you seem to be getting seriously fucked with Soccer Manager 2010  :awesome_for_real:

I noticed the other day that none of the id stuff was on sale, and was thinking that maybe it was because they were planning on doing it as part of a one day sale.  Using that same logic, I predict that there's going to be an Interplay sale at some point since none of their games are on sale yet either.

Today's sale is kind of meh though, at least compared to yesterday's. The "current" games are available at similar or lower prices from Amazon & Co. ID superpack is cool but I played Doom in 1994 and Hexen back then too, srsly. Dunno about Serious Sam HD.

Yeah i can happily ignore today's sale, I wish I had bought Mirrors Edge but I was too busy doing RL shopping to log into my Steam on someone else's machine and buy it.  Oh well.

Yeah, I played Doom, Hexen, Heretic & C. back in the day so while it is tempting to have them sit in a safe Steam corner, there is just too much stuff to play with nowadays.

On the other hand, I would like to see a BIG discount on the Popcap games package  :drill:

It's amazing how terrible ID is in the broad stroke of things given how important they were back in the day.

One good idea, nothing even remotely good since.

In fact, it's kind of surreal.

ANYWAY

Does STALKER Clear sky have better travel than the first game?

Waiting patiently for ME to go on sale so I can play the sequel on the PC.

There is a mod called Oblivion Lost 2009 updates the graphics and tons of other stuff. Should download it before playing too much and give it a try, improves the game greatly. There is a "headbob" toggle but im not sure if its mod specific (Couldn't stand unmoded version).

Had to pick up Riddick.  I'd "acquired" a copy a few years ago when it first came out and only made it about a half hour in before I reformatted my PC at that time.  Updated graphics and 2 games?  For $5?  Shit, yeah.

So far I've picked up a few games I already own, Indigo Prophecy, Jade Empire, and Deus Ex: GOTY, just for the convenience of having them on Steam.

As far as stuff I haven't played before, I got Medieval II: Total War, Rome: Total War Gold, Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl, Mirror's Edge, and Company of Heroes.  With having purchased Torchlight recently also, I think I'm fairly well stocked up on stuff to keep me busy in what little downtime there is between big releases next year.

When I get some time, I kinda want to play through a few hours of each and churn out some BiiF's.

In Australia as well. Football manager on "special" for 52.49US. Thankfully I don't understand sport games and sport management games are even further away.

Fairly average games today. And the ID pack is a testament to how they've fallen.

Couldn't anyone just change their region to USA and buy the game from there in US funds to get around the non-adjustment of exchange rates?

You know, like people who bought L4 D2 from Germany/Australia did?

Here are today's reasons to give Steam your money:

Resident Evil 5: $24.99
Battle Field 2 - Complete Collection: $7.49
Red Faction Guerrilla: $9.99
Cogs: $1.99
King's Bounty - Armored Princess: $9.99
Elf Bowling: Hawaiian Vacation: $1.00

King's Bounty any good?

Any thoughts on Red Faction?

I'm never too sure if I like it  or not  :oh_i_see: Turn-based combat is something I haven't done before and some of the battles are drawn out, but I keep going back to it as a diversion. Graphically it's nice in a Warcraft III sort of way but not  as impressive as Torchlight. I paid 20 bucks for it so yeah, I guess 9 is worth it just to see if it floats your boat. Don't buy it if you are expecting Diablo II.

It's not easy but doable, you would have to route your internet over a US proxy for purchasing because the Steam client itself enforces the regional restrictions. AFAIK it works and you can buy stuff in US funds, but it is pretty much a gray area as it constitutes a violation of the Steam ToS. If anyone remembers the upheaval about thai/russian Orange Boxes that were disabled for the rest of the world on Steam a few years ago, that was about something similar.

About today's sale: King's Bounty is pretty cool and I think AP is well worth the money, Red Faction: Guerilla is a decent sandboxy shooter.

ARMORED PRINCESS GO GO GO GO GO

I paid $39.99, it's <3s. Also, it's Heroes of Might and Magic.

Rodger dodger, love me some HoMaM...even if this title has some silly looking monsters. Also nabbed the new Red Faction for splodiness.

The community screen is getting funny, Steam is making buckets of money right now.

King's Bounty Gold (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2520/) with both games is down to $30 as well.  Probably going to spring on that instead of just AP.

Kings Bounty dates back to several years before HoMM.

We've been over this, but the new ones don't.

You fuckers need to stop downloading your purchases so I can finish mine first.

I've only played it on 360 (and haven't finished it yet) but it's good fun. Endlessly-respawning cops/soldiers is annoying, but trashing buildings is a lot of fun.


To clarify - is appears that "the Sale" runs till Jan 3rd, right?

So I can pick up daily specials and hold off on the big bulk purchase until then...?

That's right.

I bought Ghostbusters for $6 and quickly found out that it is apparently a buggy POS on the PC that is nearly unplayable. Go me!

$5 torchlight now, buy it.

New 1-Day sale is up!

Universe at War - € 4.99

Star Wars Pack (HUGE pack) - € 23

DA:O Deluxe Edition - € 41.24

DA:O Standard Edition - € 37.49

Prototype - € 24.99

Lumines (Base + Advanced Pack) - € 2.99

Torchlight - € 3.99

Buying this for four people.

Buy Lumines if you have never played it. It is easily my favorite puzzle game of the decade.

Odd. I encountered maybe two noticeable bugs thru the whole game.

Even though Torchlight isn't really my kind of thing...$5? C'mon, already.

Normally I dload steam stuff while playing something else, I just noticed their icon shades green to reflect download progress. That, and having all my steam games launchable through the icon...just great UI.

If you needed Torchlight to be $5 before you bought it, there's something wrong with you.

Anybody have any opinions on Universe at War: Earth Assault? I already have way too many RTSes queued up thanks to Relic and tthe THQ Complete Pack but hey it's only another $5 :awesome_for_real:

I watched some gameplay footage and it looked fairly "meh" to me.

It's dreadful IMO. You get to see such a tiny section of the map and that doesn't work well when one side has huge lumbering behemoths where each unit actually extends off it. The idea of having very different mechanics for each side is great but the reason starcraft got respect for doing that is because it was still balanced. This doesn't even seem to come close.

The single player campaign is kinda fun, reminds me of old C&C games (pre-SVGA resolutions).

Yea I read about the close in view/no zoom out complaints, though apparently they patched the camera to move it back a whooping 22%. :oh_i_see:

I have so many other games to play now and not enough time anymore to play them all I'm just going to skip it.

FUCK FUCK FUCK I MISSED THE ARMORED PRINCESS SALE!  FUCK YOU CHRISTMAS!

On the otherhand, guess its time to buy Lumines and Dragon Age finally.   :awesome_for_real:

Yes, the fifteen extra bucks in my pocket. So wrong.

Okay!  :awesome_for_real:

I'm still not sure if I'll ever play Torchlight, but at $5 I bought a copy for me and four copies for other people who are more likely to play it than I am.

December 27th:

Deadspace - € 6.79

Complete Popcap Collection - € 49.99

Day of Defeat: Source - €2

Zombie Driver - € 2.24

Hearts of Iron III - € 7.49
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Deadspace is a nice horror FPS, right? And finally the entire popcap collection at an half decent price. Might be tempted to buy it...

Dammit, I bought Dead Space on an earlier and less awesome sale and still haven't played it.   :uhrr:

Dead Space is okay but the PC version has some odd bugs. It's a cool horror/survival game though.

Where's Lum?  Anyone know if HoI 3 has been patched into a decent state these days?

Funny thing about the complete popcap collection. Not worth i$50. Peggle and Plants vs Zombies at $7.49 a piece IS with it though. I'd tally everything else in at about $5 more. So if it were $20, I'd jump on it. But that's only because of Bookworm Adventures.

They should've put Gyromancer in there.

Sadly, Gyromancer is part of the "yeah, these guys aren't really known for PC games" Square-Enix pack.

This is what I did but I didn't buy it for myself, just a bunch of others that can enjoy SP games.  I did buy myself Deadspace on impulse though, probably will regret it since the only survival horror that ever impressed me was RE5.

Dead Space was better than RE5.

Hell, RE4 was better than RE5.

hm. Picked up 3 copies of DoD:S for my wife's steam account and our 2 lan-spares.

That'll do for today.

Bought Zombie Driver too, reminds me of GTA2 which was pretty good times.

Poopy sale today.

I confused dungeon siege with dungeon keeper and got a little bit confused by the reviews of Space Siege, I read. Still wondering if it is worth 2.50 €.

It isn't.

I was on my way to ask, thanks, too bad because 4 people could  buy it for co-op for like no moneys.

Prey for less than an Odwalla?  No?  Metacritic seems to like it?  I can play a nonalcoholic Cherokee mechanic?  No?

That Space Siege game came free with some other game I bought at some point. I still haven't even installed it, it looks horrible.

Prey isn't bad (just really bland), although I think it's been on sale for pretty cheap a million times before.

I've actually heard a lot of really good things about Killing Floor (the multiplayer anyway).  It's obviously a bit lower budget than the L4D games, but it's supposedly pretty fun.  I'm contemplating a purchase.

Obviously everybody already has Orange Box.

Picked up Burnout Paradise.

It did, and it was horrible then too. For free.

Each time Prey comes up for super cheap I reiterate my endorsement of it.  This is no exception.  $2.25 is cheaper than it's been, too.

I figure your word is worth a $2.45 (I get to pay tax since Valve is in WA) gamble. Downloading now.

Prey's good, but if you're on a high resolution monitor you'll have to do some ini tweaks to get the resolution right.

Prey sold out, so now Bioshock is up for $5.

WTF?  It SOLD OUT?  Like, they ran out of machines to copy the fucking bits to a new image?  The enter key refused to complete the copy command?

I can't wait until the new rights utopia emerges and the copyright overlords crumble, even if it means every creative thing made afterward sucks, because it means I'll never again have to learn that a digital copy of information SOLD OUT.

Also, I already own Bioshock and wanted Prey.

Hello, BioShock - or game #11 bought during the Holiday Sale period.

Just guessing, but could it be that Steam get a limited amount of "keys" from developers for the games that are on sale, and it's because those keys run out that the offers are no longer available?

I read something recently about them selling keys, or running out of keys to something. Must be along those lines?

It says it right on the page:

Just gave in and bought Killing Floor. It's always looked interesting to me, I wanted to doanload a demo, which they don't have, and I was out of bandwidth to DL the thing when they had that free weekend. I'll have a muck around with it later after I've downloaded it and decide if I want to add it to my wife's and lan-accounts.

Dudes.  I know the putative reason.  They did the same thing a few days ago.  A key is a #.  They aren't hard to make.  Just because you're accustomed to the argument doesn't mean there's any logic or reason to the notion that they can't take my money for their game because they ran out of random numbers.

I'm sure they have a backup for every game if keys run out. In this case, it was Bioshock for any 2K game. When they get more keys, they'll bring them back. No company gives another company the ability to make keys though. That'd be stupid of the highest order.

Burnout Paradise is a fun game. Been missing a racer since I've been console-free, and don't like to drop a lot on them because they're diversionary, I don't really get too deep into them. But I like smashy arcady driving and car collecting, even if this isn't quite on the level of Mafia's garage of badass stolen cars. Just what I needed after vegging out with FFH2.

Valve is not the publisher of Prey -- 2K Games is. It's not their fault 2K didn't give them enough keys to meet demand. If Valve "sold out" of one of their games, like say the Orange Box, on Steam that would be worthy of ridicule.

December 28, 2009: Trippy defends Valve and Steam.

:grin:

I know I'm not a statistically valid sample size, but these past couple sales I've definitely shown Valve right when they said that peole would buy well more than four times as many games if games charged a fourth of what they do. I usually don't pick up older games, unless they're generally regarded as classics, but I've jumped on a whole bunch of these <10$ sales they've had the past couple months.

I can't even play the game to be honest. I get to a part in the opening cutscene where a woman runs toward a musuem guard and the game just freezes. Checking the Steam and Atari forums lots of people have various problems with Ghostbusters on the PC including crashes during the opening cutscene. There are all kinds of crazy fixes that people recommend but none of them worked for me. I just got "lucky" I guess. Oh well, I got lucky. Considering this and the recent slowdown in DA:O is my only gaming problem in probably 20+ computer games over the last year or so I'll call it even.

This is why I'm playing more and more of my games on console these days. Shitty ports. That and invasive DRM.

Conversely, this sale is why I continue to play games mainly on PC and not consoles.  My PS3 doesn't randomly offer me year old games for 75% off. 

I cant access steam at work, what's today's sale?

Company of Heroes : Tales of Valor. 75% off.
Stormrise. 75% off.
King Arther - The role-playing wargame. 50% off.
Jade Empire - Special edition. 75% off.
Mr. Robot. 80% off.

They seem to be digging fairly deep in the dusty old cupboards.

King Arthur - $19.99
CoH: Tales of Valor $7.50
Mr. Robot - $2
Stormrise - $7.49
Jade Empire - $3.75
Silent Hill Homecoming - $10

I'm real tempted to jump on the King Arthur title.

Definitely getting King Arthur and Silent Hill.

I was thinking about Silent Hill, but I've still got RE4 on the shelf for a survival horror fix.

I guess I don't see silent hill thanks to being in Australia, though I believe its rating has been successfully challenged.

The meta-critic reviews for Stormrise are very entertaining for the intensity of the hate the game generated. I'd never actually heard of it.

How's Jade Empire?

For $4 I bought it because, well fuck it.  Silent Hill not needed I just bought Dead Space (it is fucking awesome, what a great great idea with the menu/inv/map system) so I'm good on my horror game fix.  I may by Cthulhu on the 2nd as well if its on sale.

King Arthur temps me but not for $20 since there are other things I'd rather get for $20 and I came here wondering wtf was up with Stormrise.  I watched some YT and it looks cool visually but the comments are all over the place seems to have inspired a ton of hate.

A horribly botched opportunity to do something different than their usual Judeo-Christian "absolute good vs. absolute evil" decision choices. They pretend that their "Open Palm"/"Closed Fist" system is different but they lie. Oh and the combat sucked too. But otherwise it's a decent RPG. :awesome_for_real:

Oh shit.  I might buy everything in today's sale.  Assuming they don't SELL OUT.

Jade Empire was great.  It'll feel like proto-Dragon Age now.  I enjoyed the King Arthur demo.  Sort of a Total War game with quests and leveling up.  

Do you like Bioware games? I do, and enjoyed it a lot. More than worth it at the price imo.

Jade Empire ran for poop on Vista and the resolutions are trash.

Edit: Haven't reinstalled in Win7 yet.

Ran ok in XP for me, there is something wonky about movement but I got used to it quickly (forget what it was, even, something about strafing iirc).

Trash PC resolutions > original Xbox version.

Anybody like to Gift me King Arthur? I'd paypal the Money to the account of your choice!

Not in this case.

I would report back on how it works on PC but the download servers are fucking hosed atm.

Meh, I went ahead an ordered it.  Consensus seems to be that I'll probably enjoy it as long as I'm not Trippy.  :awesome_for_real:

I didn't say I didn't enjoy it :why_so_serious:

I bought an Xbox just to play that game. It was disappointing in many ways (some mentioned above) but I still finished it.

Jade Empire was such a Potemkin Village of a game. The gameplay was nice, but immersion was shit.

Does anyone know WHY Stormrise sucked?

My appreciation for Jade Empire went downhill very quickly when I just realized I could spam the same one or two attacks every fight to get through everything.  But it held my interest long enough to finish (maybe because it's half the length of KOTOR).

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King Arthur is kinda crazy. I think I like it.

I haven't been able to figure it out yet, there seems to be a ton of debate about what platform it works on.  The pc people seem to say the controls blow and the console people say its fps sucked or something.  It wasn't clear, probably too late for someone to buy download install and play before the sale is over at this point.

I liked Jade Empire plenty, though it was funny that I was able to stunlock the final boss to victory untouched. No, I didn't munchkin.

From browsing the reviews it looks like the main problem was "whip select" which was trying to be a novel answer to RTS control on a console but ends up being terrible, especially on the PC. Though it sounds like the rest of the game is overall bad too.

"Stormrise is one of those games that makes you wonder, "What were they thinking?" This real-time strategy game is, from top to bottom, misconceived, frustrating, frequently broken, and rarely fun. Developer Creative Assembly has built an entire product around a fundamentally flawed control scheme and neglected almost every important facet of the RTS genre. Embarrassingly busted pathfinding, infuriating interface problems, abysmal mission design, substandard visuals--these unpleasant elements and many others make the whole thing an unseemly mess." (gamespot, though most of them sound similar)."

I tried, but you (enkebesh, right?) don't show up on the recipients list.  I'm guessing the region blocking applies to gifts as well?

Might be time to pull the trigger on that Eidos pack.

Could spend a lot of time in Deus Ex, Thief, Hitman, Batman, Just Cause. . sorry, where was I?

Edit: I did it.  Plus Spellforce 2: Gold and Europa Universalis III Complete.  Damn you Steam!

Touche'

A better way to put it is that more big games on the PC are console ports, and for those it applies. I've gotten plenty of smaller games and PC-native games through this neverending Steam sale, the one before this and weekday/weekend specials.

Creative Assembly just don't seem to be a very good dev house. The Total War games are decent, but usually quite unpolished. Everything else they make seems to have major issues.

There's only 5 on sale today that I can see. Ahhhhh..... figured it out. Silent Hill Homecoming got the OFLC banstick and was released in an edited version here. Ah well, I'll just continue to wait for it to drop in price on console.


Tell me more about King Arthur. For $20 during this torrent of quality for cheap it has to be pretty damned good.

GenVec's thread on it (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=18372.0) put the game on my get-it-on-sale list pretty hard.

I honestly go back and forth. For awhile I was into PC games because for the most part I can reinstall old games from years ago and replay them, whereas once the console goes obsolete I may or may not get backwards compatibility. The problem is that PC games are getting more retarded with their "3 install ever" type ideas and it's driving me away from PC again. When you consider that I can just insert a disc and play on a console compared to maybe spending hours tweaking shit to play on a computer it makes me lean even more towards consoles.

Damn, thanks for trying though! Much appreciated!

Save MMO's, I haven't bought a non-steam pc game in at least a year. It's not exaggeration to say that steam has saved PC gaming for me.

It is awesome. As long as you are willing to put up with some glaring imbalance issues, you will probably enjoy it. Magic and Archers > everyone else for quite some time in the beginning, even with patch 1.03 and the weaker archers options. Archers come really cheap, too. At least magic is limited by the hero's mana. Afterwards it kinda shifts very noticeably towards heavy infantry and cavalry if the terrain is favorable, especially as you can get some magic counters for your heroes.

Also, Old Faith > Christians. And the computer sometimes cheats like crazy, building up full stacks of armies out of nowhere faster than I can kill them, at least in the latter stages of the game.

But it is a lovingly crafted game with a lot of attention to detail, and that shows.


This is freaking outrageous. I was wondering why I only see four games in my sale list until I read up to see that King Arthur is up for you non-german-speakers. Ze germans are discrimated, thanks to Ubisoft.

This, a million times this. I still go into the local EB's but now end up just laughing at their tiny range and ridiculous prices.

You don't buy pc games at a brick and mortar store, newb. I still get boxed versions through Amazon. EB's a fucking joke. You should be ordering your console games online, too! Wal-mart is a better games distributor than EB.

I don't. I go in to see what has made it onto the shelves.

No walmart here though.

The Civilization IV Complete Edition (base game + Warlords +  Beyond the Sword + Colonization) is now sold for € 13.59. Nope, sorry, 26.79, but for about five minutes I got that lower price when I added the item to the cart  :heartbreak: :awesome_for_real:

Well, looks like its time to finally play the Max Payne games!

Eh, I actually asked them in the old Firaxis poll to remake Colonization, I just can't summon the will to buy it, even from the bin. Just seems like a crappy Civ4 mod, maybe FFH2 has spoiled me? $10? For $5 maybe, one of the sub-$3 definitely.

Still, for $15 you can get Civ4 and BtS, which will let you play FFH2  :drill:

L4D would probably suffer from vet syndrome, newbs getting utterly decimated by people who have played way more than is healthy for a normal human. Most online fps is good for about a couple weeks until everyone figures out all the cheese.

Glad you mentioned BtS, I'm going to have to grab that so I can check out FFH2.

Definitely. IMO, there is one thing that (more or less) recent games like Max Payne, Portal, Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit, Mirror's Edge have in common: they might be short or even very short, but they all can be summarized as  * pure fun*; the same, condensed fun you could experience at the arcades (if you liked them) putting a token in the machines you liked most, or with very old games on platforms like the Atari 2600/800XL or Commodore 64.


Err, meanwhile, The Civilization IV complete pack is back to 13.60 euros  :heart:  :awesome_for_real:

I keep waiting for them to put the JoWood pack on sale so I can pick up Spellforce2... but they keep tossing other games out there instead!  I'm almost out of x-mas cash now. Grr!

CoD:WaW for $25. Any testimonials one way or another? Tempted to pick it up. I can never have too many shooters, esp. if the multiplayer is decent.

Also interested in CoD 5, also a shooter fan, would like some opinions. Have played and liked CoD 4 and am staying clear of MW2. Reviews seem to be pretty decent, and I think it still has a strong online following.

Bought the Civ 4 Complete Pack for the SO. She is pleased.

CoD5 is incredibly mediocre. INCREDIBLY MEDIOCRE.

Like, instead of shooting for the moon and barely making it to the stratosphere (Infinity Ward), they shot to the roof of their office and never made it past the desks.

Re: King Arthur, its a neat game but is rough around the edges and not very well documented. It is also not very hard to overstretch yourself and basically get screwed and have to start over. Definitely play your first game going Old Faith rather than Christian. I've gotten my money's worth out of it (I bought it before the $20) I think.

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If that is anything like Master of Magic then I love you.

Oh, you will make sweet manlove to Sky then!  :awesome_for_real:

They even include a Master of Magic wallpaper for the main menu :)

It appears to be back to $13.60.  Though it doesn't seem to be apart of the daily sale, just the pack in general:

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1618/
The mod is very very awesome.  The main reason to buy Civ 4.  I loved Civ 4, but loved that mod 3 times as much.

Duck love.

I guess I am the only one who thought FFH was actually pretty lame. I much, much prefer the vanilla game.

The stolen artwork, names, and misspelled scenario text really bothered the shit out of me. Also, that dude's D&D campaign setting is just not that good.  :oh_i_see:

Like a dumbass, i purchased a physical copy of Civ4 Gold Ed at Best Buy while replacing a broken network cable. I see that the BtS expansion on Steam requires that I have Civ4 on Steam. Since the complete pack is under $15, is it worth the grand total of $35 to be able to play FFH?

This, bought em both.

Dang missed the King Arthur sale - hopefully it comes back around. With 2 X360 RPGs, I think I now have approx 9 "new" games to play.

Edit: spelling

Hm. Welp, it's $15 for BtS at Amazon and that's the cheapest I see. Imo, BtS made Civ4 a better game by itself. Since I got turned onto FFH2, I've played one game of vanilla Civ: right after I bought BtS.

I'm also a huge FFH2 fan, it's quirky and unbalanced but so much fun. My first game was also Lanun (naval civ, city names like Innsmouth and Aylesbury) with the Octopus Overlords religion...hooked since. The game I'm playing right now is Luchuirp, one of the two dwarf civs, with golem units upgraded with stealth and fireballs (worker units with fireballs!). End game you can summon the angel or demon civs and play as them, one civ is all about bringing down hell on earth, there is an armageddon counter that increments with certain actions and events, hell terrain starts showing up, horses turn into nightmares, etc. Units that level up, adepts to mages to archmages, different schools of magic with three tiers of spells from buffs to summons.

Sucks you can't put the Steam expansion on the boxed game. I've gotten more than my money's worth out of the price of launch day civ4 + BtS, but I'm biased. Have I mentioned I'm biased?

Same.  I much prefer regular old Civ.  I have no patience for trying to determine whether the Altar of Chlkjkutz'bala is better or worse than the Doorway of Gankoriz.  I know a tank is better than a spearman.

I'll give you that, there is a learning curve to it. Each civ is pretty much built for a limited set of strategies. You can do pretty much anything, but if you stick within their strengths, you'll do much better. I still don't know all the quirks, I try to play as a different civ every time and learn them, there's just a ton of civs and each one has its own twist. I see that as a good thing. Like with Luchuirp, once you figure out what to tech to get the upgrades for their golems, you kick yourself for building so many golems before they can be built with fireball upgrades  :drill:

I guess it's like the X3 thing, I've chosen FFH2/Civ4 as the game I've delved into and learned and keep going back to.

This.  This.  THIS!  Finally!   :drillf:  :drill:  :why_so_serious:

QFT, I'm so sorry I bought the game at all. On 360 at that. CoD4 was better in every way imaginable, except that Dogs are less cheesy than choppers.

Picked up King Arthur, for $20 it was a well worth trying it out since I love the TW games.

I keep trying to resist this one, but everyone seems to love it. Good thing my wife doesn't see my VISA bill...  :drill:

Well I made the comment in an earlier thread after seeing videos about the game that I hoped magic wouldn't be completely overpowered, but I expected it would be given how difficult it would be to balance.

After playing it, magic is overpowered. And yes, the computer seems to be cheating at times harder than Bill Belichick with a handycam.

Today's sale:

Multiwinia and Darwinia pack - $2.99
Medieval Total War 2 - $4.99
Street Fighter 4 - $9.99
Halflife: Source - $2.49
Shattered Horizon - $4.99
Crysis Maximum Edition - $13.59

I was hoping that they just hadn't got around to updating the prices yet.  Wasn't Medieval 2 already at $4.99 for this sale?

Edit: In fact, they just changed the prices.

Ah, I see now.  Updated prices in the first post.

Man, I want Street Fighter 4, but know I really need to buy it for my PS3 and not PC.  Now if only somebody would offer me a PS3 version of it for $10  :oh_i_see:

Edit:  And yes, your right, MT2 was up for $5 before.  I know because I purchased it.

Great. Civ IV doubled in price. For some reason, apparently on Steam's end (according to my bank), my card was declined to purchase it. Do they cockblock you from making multiple purchases in the same day?  

Oh well, guess I'll have to be happy with Torchlight and Portal for the time being.

Might have been trouble with their service in the rush yesterday.  When I went to make my purchase, it didn't go through, and I got an e-mail from steam saying my card was declined for an unknown reason.  I promptly went back in and tried to buy them again, and it worked fine (I was also buying the Civ4 pack).

Tempted to buy Shattered Horizon for $4 just to float around in a zero grav space.

Shattered Horizon really excited me until I learned it had no bot support whatsoever -- no co-op, no single-player practice mode.

Nothing repulses me from a game like having to learn how to play it in front of an audience of anonymous internet assholes telling me how much I suck.

Given that it's already $4.99, I'm not sure anyone is playing the game.

So you wouldn't have to worry about that.

I tried 10+ times yesterday to buy the Civ4 pack with multiple credit cards and every time it was declined.  No response from steam support either.  That pisses me right off.  That was probably the sale item I was most interested in so far.

Ok, so I'm glad that I'm not the only one and that I gave up after five tries.

Are you cancelling or hitting back or something? My order seemed to lag out, but I just left steam sitting there and it went through ok after a couple minutes.

Nope, it was bouncing back pretty much instantly.

I guess they just liked my money better.

Bad week to go on holiday to somewhere with no internet  :awesome_for_real:.

Fuck you, Steam!  :awesome_for_real:

Just bought MW2, Shattered Horizons, and the Crysis pack....you know, because it comes out to less than $25.

Anything in particular I should know about/do with MW2, so I don't have to slog through the lengthy thread?

Weirdness, worked fine for me (first time) when I ordered it from their website while at work yesterday.

MW2 is still $59.99. What MW2 are you talking about?

I think he means Medieval II: Total War.

Well, that rounds out my Introversion trilogy nicely, thanks.  :awesome_for_real:

Sorry, yeah, this.

Modern Warfare 2...lol.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Spellforce 2 package. DAMN YOU STEAM, and you incredible sales.

Although they refused to give me yesterday's price, they did manage to fix my issue. Currently waiting on Civ IV MEGAPAK, Freedom Force and The Witcher ZOMG Edition.

Anyone played both AI War and Sword of the Stars and could offer an opinion on which is better? Unless they show up on the hotlist I probably won't get both.

Sale o' the day:

RedLynx Trials 2: Second Edition - $2.49
Mass Effect - $4.99
Devil May Cry 4 - $22.49
DOOM Pack Complete - $13.59
Sam & Max Complete - $14.99
Portal - $4.99

Definitely recommend Mass Effect for anyone that hasn't played it yet. If you haven't played Portal yet may god have mercy on your soul.  I may have no choice but to give Trials 2 a shot at that price.

Anyone know if ME2 will be on Steam at release? Or, if the Steam version of ME will be able to do the character export thing into a hard copy of ME2?

Like Dragon Age, the save games go into My Documents so it shouldn't matter if your copy of ME is from retail, Steam or whatever.

Excellent. I was hoping Mass effect would go on sale. It can join Bioshock in my " RPG'ishclassics I missed" pile.

Excellent price for portal, but I can't think of anyone to give it too.

This steam sale is really just highlighting how if you already have stuff to play, there's almost no point in buying PC games on release anymore. The only exception would be things you nedd to play NOW. And there's very little that can't wait 6 months to a year.

That's the frugal way to do it, yes. Though even then there are games that do hold their value, or at least don't get discounted, for a long time so it's a toss up. However I think the number of people who will shop that way are convincingly outnumbered by the "must have it now!" or the couldn't be stuffed waiting crowd.

I mean after all, logically, pre-orders make no sense at all. Paying money for a game that isn't known to be good and hasn't even been released makes no sense. But they still sell them.

I think that despite having completed the game twice on the 360, I will have to get the Steam version so that I can finally try out a truly evil douchebag Shepard. I didn't have the heart for it earlier.

It's not even really that you're evil, you're just a colossal asshole that really loves to solve all issues with DEATH.  It was pretty easy for me, and I tend to have problems playing the bad guy.

I bought it on the PC just so I could play ME2 properly on the PC (2 completions on the 360 as well).   Well, unless it comes out the that PC version is a bad port or would run really poorly on my machine.   I'd just like to avoid turning on my 360.

Here we go, not stating prices since I doubt most of you are in the UK.

Trine
Morrowind GOTY
Painkiller Complete Pack
Red Alert 3
CS: Source

75% off everything apart from RA3, which is 66%.

Picking up Trine. Not sure about Morrowind. I loved that game, but I don't think I have the time to play it like I used to  :awesome_for_real:.

Anybody have opinions of RA3?  I loved RA2....

I stopped 3 missions in.

I'm going to assume that buying Eve online (in a moment of weakness and curiosity) is not connected with activating it. So it can sit in my not installed pile until I've exhausted fallen earth.

Also threw in audio-surf and osmos with mass effect. Audio surf is half toy and half game but works really well. Osmos i'm not so sure about.

So currently thats fallen earth, torchlight, bioshock, mass effect, STALKER:clear sky and eve all sitting in the waiting pile. That will probably take me most of the year given I'm still playing wow and it has an upcoming expansion.  :heart: steam.

Some temptation to buy CS:Source, but I suspect it's full of people far too good at it. Not sure I have the time to be competitive. Loved playing original CS though.

So, can someone say something about STALKER Clear Sky's travel system yet? Please?

I'm really not in love with the way Mass Effect plays on my PC.  Looks bad too (what's up with the damn texture pop in).

Ohh well, only $5 to find this out. Looks like ME2 might be an xbox purchase.

That's awesome since I just put your 360 at the top of my celebrity death pool.

Steam ME won't even run on my machine, it just hangs at the B I O W A R E rotating letter logo screen. New machine, newest drivers, etc. If it wasn't for Lum's preview saying the controls for ME2 suck on the Xbox I wouldn't really be concerned.

There's some huge note on the purchase page that if you run with UAC enabled, you need to run all of steam as admin, or some shit. I picked it up and it's running happily on Win7, but I was wondering why I kept seeing you start/stop playing it over and over.

I will say the Mako's controls are far worse on the PC than xbox. Which I didn't think was humanly possible.

I found that when I upgraded my machine in the middle of last year and put ME back on it that it ran like complete and utter shit (as in taking ~6 minutes to merely get to the 'Press Any Key' bit to reach the main menu) and resolved it by closing out a Power DVD process that tended to start everytime I booted into windows. It when from utter shite performance wise to running as it should; ME was also the only game with the issue.

That doesn't surprise me.  ME used to do weird things with my CD Drive until I was patched up to 1.02.

Yes, this is exactly my problem. Thanks for the tipoff. I'll try looking at those types of services.

Kildy, as an IT worker you should be ashamed of suggesting that UAC wasn't stopping me until I got to the startup movies.  :oh_i_see:

Have we still got one more day left for the sale? The timer confuses me, unless they're ending the sale at 9am or something Western time on Monday. 12 Eastern?

Which sale? The Trine/RA3/etc. sale ends today at 9:00 AM Pacific Time. Given the wording it looks like the general publisher sales end sometime on or after midnight January 4th.

General. Anyways yeah, it says this is the one-day for the 2nd of Jan. So still got one more day left  :-)

Hey, there's no logical reason that some DVD process would kill Binx! It's not like the same app isn't called by every game ever made!

Anywho, I had no issues with UAC, but found it funny that the steam store page is all "zomg, if you use Vista or 7, run this as administrator!!!!!"

Trine is so gorgeous and lovely  :heart:

Right now I'm looking at Indigo Prophecy, the Borderland's DLC and Dues Ex GOTY for general sale purchases.  Didn't see much else that hadn't already been on 1 day sale.

Ok, last day of the 24 hours sale. It's a "reprise" of older deals, basically:

L4D 2 -  € 25.45
Bioshock - € 4.99
Killing Floor - € 4.49
GTA IV - € 7.49
Torchlight - € 3.99  (BUY IT...Err, well, I think everyone in here already did, actually)
Defense Grid: The Awakening - € 2.25
Stalker: SoC - € 2

This is god, god is telling you to buy Torchlight.

I'm tempted to rebuy Bioshock to avoid having to locate the DVD again. L4D2 could be $10 and I still wouldn't buy it however.

I'm already bored of Torchlight, heh.

Thinking of getting GTA IV, Witcher, Been there Dan that, Oddworld, Secret of Monkey Island, LucasArts Adventure Pack, Jedi Knight Collection and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.

Oh nice I didn't get Stalker the first time around.

How good is the GTA port to pc? It may not be the best game but I'm thinking $7.50 is too good a price to pass up.

Sigh, I'm still torn between Borderlands and Batman for my last purchase.

Also, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, or Double Agent? Each is sold for 4.99 on Steam.

I got the jedi knight collection for $10. That's a steal. 5 games, 3 of which are really fun. Playing the force unleashed (thank god I didn't buy it) just made me want the better, older games, and steam did not disappoint.

Also, torchlight for $5, because damn.

Sorting the "$10 or less" by metacritic score shows me about 20 games that I'd buy if I hadn't already played and enjoyed them. I hope they do a sale like this every year.

In the WTF category, Doom 2 is $10.

You better have the horsepower, and patience to sign up to all kinds of shit in order to play.

I liked it. Not quite as good as the last one, lacks a little character. Learn how to turn off your cell phone ringer and it's a fun game.

My computer is three years old and it runs great. Don't expect to max the sliders, look up the console defaults and start there, bump them up a little until performance suffers. Game looks good, runs fast. I used a 360 controller to play it.

See, I actually liked it more than San Andreas.  I think its a bit truer to GTA 3 or Vice City.   People do call your cell phone in game to do stuff all the time, but I just ignored most of it and only did that quests I wanted to, no big deal to be honest, I think too much fuss is made about that.  Less RPG elements, more driving around and shooting stuff (than San Andreas).

Also, Free for All multiplayer is shenanigans fun.

I bought it when it was on a lesser sale at some point and feel it was worth my money.

Guess I'll pick up killing floor this time around.

It's fun for a short while then gets boring very fast, at least it did for me.  Accept my friend invite on Steam and I may join you for a few games though, I haven't played it for a while.


Yes!  I'm not the only one!  I played through it quickly (on very hard), had no problem and as a whole found it boring.


Now I just need to figure out what games I want to buy today before the sale ends...without going broke.  :ye_gods:   Bhodi's post sold me on X3, never played Bioshock..hmm..

Is the Witcher and Chronicles of Riddick worth picking up? I  keep going to buy them and then stop myself for some reason.

The Witcher is the best use of a Bioware Engine since Planescape.

Riddick is just fantastic.

Too many great deals. I ended up picking up Machinarium, Trine, Star Wars: KOTOR, Trine, BioShock, Killing Floor, STALKER.

Kinda want to go back for more.

Trine was a goddamn steal at$5. Only at level three I feel my money was well spent.

Totally. One of those "short, sweet and fun" games I mentioned in a earlier message.

PowerDVD was indeed the problem. Weird bug.

If you liked Zombie Panic then you'll probably love this game, as its essentially just surviving against waves of Zombies Infected Specimens.

I've played it since saying that. Zombie Panic and Zombie Survival are two different things. I like the latter.

Cripes, so over the course of the holidays I think I've picked up -


 :uhrr:

Oh - I didn't see the Max Payne series come up - unless they are unavailable to Australia.

My list looks pretty similar to yours otherwise - plus I'm still hedging over getting Witcher.

I went pretty light.  Picked up X3:TC and Majesty 2.  Not sure I'll like X3, but w/e.  I've blown $10 on worse. 

I did, however, enjoy the Majesty 2 demo and gladly put $15 towards that. 

My list:
Dead Space
STALKER
Borderlands DLC x2 (1 gift)
Torchlight x3 (all gifts)
Jade Empire
Deus Ex GOTY
Civ4 pack (gift)
Zombie Driver
Max Payne 1 & 2

Thats probably almost as many video games as I bought in the last 3 years put together.  Did they have a sale like this last year because I totally missed it.

They did, but only for a few days after Christmas, and not with the daily crazy sales.

The sale is over and you guys bringing me to reflect on it showed me I commited the mother of all overindulgences.


Once I realized I could make purchases on my Iphone while stuck with relatives, all hope of being sensible was lost.

I used to have a mental slice of my budget called "Mass Effect 2".  It's sort of not there anymore... and I don't really mind.  (In some part because my PC playthrough of the first game is so far down the list now that I don't think I'll have finished it by the end of the month.)

My list:

Torchlight
Mirror's Edge
Trine
Stalker:SoC
X3: Terran Conflict
Crysis Maximum Edition
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

DAMN  :drill: :heart:

I picked up

LucasArts Pack (bad choice imo, should've just waited for monkey island and JK series to go on sale separately)
STALKER
Torchlight
King Arthur
Jade Empire

I was going to buy Trine when it was on sale, but the steam checkout interface decided to crap out on me and it wouldn't accept my CC (even though I used it 2 days ago without problems, and other games/services didn't have a problem with it). Oh well.

I'm kicking myself for not getting Dead Space.  I'm fiending for it now.

Stalker Clear Sky
Disciples 2 Gold
Riddick
ChampO
HoMaM V Complete
X3 Terran Conflict
King Arthur
Burnout Paradise
Torchlight
King's Bounty Armored Princess
Red Faction Guerrilla


Really tempted by the Eidos pack.

We're doing lists? Aww yeah!

Audiosurf
Braid
Civ IV Complete (for the SO)
Empire: Total War
Ghostbusters
Indigo Prophecy
King Arthur: the Roleplaying Wargame
Mass Effect
Mirror's Edge
Portal (for the SO)
Red Alert 3
Sam & Max Complete
Shattered Horizon
Stalker: Clear Sky
The Void
Trine

...I think I got a bit carried away.

OK. Sale should be over. I don't like not seeing the coming soon tab.

They are. I'm not sure why, though since they were never controversial or banned or censoed or anything. The other GTAs (3, VC, SA) are also missing for us.

The Witcher
Armored Princess
Arx Fatalis
Indigo Prophecy
Eidos Collector Pack
The Longest Journey + Dreamfall
Max Payne
Max Payne 2
Civilization IV
Crysis Complete pack
Trine
Stalker

Now if I only had time to play (/replay) any of those.

Well my list is tighter since I have no money but:

Torchlight
Sam and Max complete
GTA IV
Trine

I feel that was well worth $35

Hey, still 30 minutes left until the sale is over!

I'll compile my obscene list when I get home tonight.

Fuck it, bought the Eidos pack. Q1 games can wait, I guess.

Whew, sale should be over right now. Our wallets are safe, albeit lighter :P

Yeah, and thanks to my inability to remember my login info off the top of my head, I didn't make my last minute impulse purchases. This is likely a good thing.

A pretty light list:

King's Bounty: Armored Princess
King Arthur
Jade Empire
Crysis (for the Mechwarrior Mod)

Batman.

King Arthur, Space Trader 2, and some other stuff. I don't even remember. I have so many games on Steam they're just going to disappear into a void anyway.

The games look really expensive now :)

(Of course they sort of are... borderlands at 80$ US still irks me greatly)

Yep, done.  :awesome_for_real:

And this:

I thought I had a pretty stocked list of stuff to wade through...then I bought the eidos pack. Can't wait to open my games tab now and see the dead sea scrolls of gaming.

Really glad I got the Burnout title, it's wicked fun. As I mentioned before, perfect balance for FFH2.

I can tell you what you bought :awesome_for_real:

Dec 22: GTV IV
Dec 24: Indigo Prophecy
Dec 26: Lumines, Lumines Advanced Pack
Dec 29: Silent Hill Homecoming, King Arthur
Jan 03: Killing Floor, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Space Trader

Space Trader looked interesting for $2.

Crysis
Mass Effect
Bioshock

Yah, that's it.  Other games that were featured I had bought on similar deals (midweek or weekend deals).

I have too much shit as is that hasn't been played.  May come in handy soon.. heh.

I got a few, nothing like the laundry lists above.

AI War (wasn't on sale, I don't think)
Mirror's Edge
Rome: Total War
Civ 4 Complete
World in Conflict   -- Little did I realize this is just like Ground Control. Awesome!
Pacific Storm

My King Arthur game has decided to start crashing in the same spot in my current save every time.  :oh_i_see:

My list:

Broken Sword: Sleeping Dragon
Burnout Paradise
Company of Heroes
Deus Ex: GOTY
Indigo Prophecy
Jade Empire
King's Bounty: Armored Princess
Medieval II: Total War
Mirror's Edge
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Rome: Total War Gold
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Trine
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
Zombie Driver
Tropico Reloaded
Civ IV: Complete Edition

I got the Eidos Pack plus about 15 more, so that's a big list.

It's to the point where I need Steam to have two lists of uninstalled games.  One for games I'll probably never install again (old Steam pack stuff) and one for games I haven't installed yet, but plan to.

My list:

Now I have to register both my cars and get a birthday present for my oldest daughter - I hate this time of year :D

I agree completely.  Just being able to arbitrarily create folders in the games list would be pretty handy.

If you just need a "Get to Later List", you can put those games as Favorites (Right-Click on Game -> Add to my favorites) and just collapse the header when you aren't looking for something new to play.

For proper folders though, you're SOL at this point.

While I didn't see all the daily deals (vacation, internet access was a crapshoot), I found I'd already bought everything I found interesting in the sales. I only nabbed Vanguard for $5. I've been curious about it for the last year, and the price point was hard to argue.

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
Indigo Prophecy
Time Gentlemen, Please!
Morrowind Game of the Year
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Max Payne
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
Jade Empire
Lumines Base + Advance Pack
Dragon Age: Origins - Digital Deluxe
Grand Theft Auto IV
Medieval II: Total War
Eidos Collector Pack
Lucasarts Adventure Bundle
Oddworld Abes Oddysee and Exoddus package

Indigo Prophecy
Ben there, Dan that
Time Gentlemen, Please!
Audiosurf
Max Payne 1&2
Evil Genius
Ghost Master
Burnout Paradise
Bioshock

It was an exciting sale, but I am glad it's over. I held out on my ever growing list until this morning (except for daily deals), when vacation was over and I was back at work. Reality set in and I severely cut the list. Ended up with the following, doubles on some for the wife:

Torchlight
The Void
Indigo Prophecy
Dragon Age (to legalize the wife)
2x HoMM 5: TotE
2x Defense Grid: The Awakening
FarCry 2
Alpha Prime
Trine

Got away cheap but still spent a little more on this year's sale than I did on Jan 1 '09.

Picked up:

Batman AA
SF IV
Crysis
Jade Empire
Max Payne pack

and a couple other < $5 deals. Missed out on Prey and Mirror's Edge, hopefully they'll be available next season.

Also picked up the THQ pack for $50, which was a good deal since I hadn't played a lot of the games, including:

CoH's
Red Faction's
Dawn of War's
Saints Row 2


Steam is really making my general disinterest in purchasing Day 1's pay off.

Did you pick up any Loud Mouth Women?

Four RPGs (Mass Effect, Torchlight, Witcher, Indigo)
A third copy of EVE
Two hybrid shooters (STALKER, Bioshock)
And a console port in a pear tree (Mirrors edge)

Killing Floor (x4) with Defence Alliance, WTF that is.
Plants vs Zombies (I think, unless it was just before the sale)
Torchlight
Evil Genius (despite having it on disc)
Freedom Force
Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich
King's Bounty: Armoured Princess
Zeno Clash
Riddick: Athena Pack (gonna wait till I'm actually going to play it to install, due to bullshit DRM)
Mass Effect
Stalker: Clear Sky (gonna wait till I'm actually going to play it to install, due to bullshit DRM)


I got more in the pre-sale. Steam has been crazy, I can't remember when I got a lot of the other shit. Maybe one day I'll play some of these things..

wow am i glad i didn't pay more than 7.50 for GTA4m i cant even save unless im logged into their stupid online club thing? what a crock of shit.