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If it wasn't official before, now it is - Steam owns everyone's wallet  :why_so_serious: Most of the publisher's on Steam have complete packs are on sale, some have individual games on sale as well at a lower discounted rate,  and a one-day sale. Here's some examples:

75% Call of Duty Pack, 2k pack,
66% off Atari Pack, Codemasters pack
55% off Star Wars pack
50% off Epic Games, THQ Pack, Paradox, Telltale Games, JoWood, Id
33% off Valve Pack, Ubisoft, NCSoft, Capcom
25% off Square Enix/Eidos Pack
18% off Rockstar
On the main store page, look just under the main sale picture and there's a scrolling option for a number of other publishers including the indie ones available.


One Day Sales:
Thursday

Friday:

Saturday: (Thanks Eldaec (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=19438.msg814535#msg814535))

Sunday:

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday

Thursday:

Friday:

Saturday:

Sunday:
33% off Battlefield BC2
85% off Thief: Deadly Shadows
80% off Trine
75% off Civ4: Complete pack
75% off Red Faction Guerrilla
50% off Bioshock 2
75% off World of Goo
75% off Grand Theft Auto 4
66% off Left For Dead 2
40% off Mass Effect 2
75% off Killing Floor
66% off Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack
50% off Arma 2
66% off Borderlands
50% off Just Cause 2

wo.


I feel like I need to buy the Overlord complete pack for 5 dollars.

Haha, I love the how they are advertising this sale.

Hmm, I'm eying that THQ pack, I own too much from most of the other packs.

Anybody know if any of the other games made by 1C are any good?  I've only played the 2 Kings Bounty games (which I really liked).

The THQ pack is nuts, unfortunately I own a lot of it already, or I'd be even more tempted. 

I think i'll finally get Trine for 4 bucks though.

My god, I still haven't recovered from Christmas, and there's a ton of stuff in the $2-5 range in the normal sales that I'd actually buy.  This kinda terrifies me.

I have no idea, but when King's Bounty gold pack is $10 and the entire 1c pack is $20, I have no problem gambling $10. I can't imagine not getting $10 worth of fun out of so many unknown games where some look like they could be fun.

 :ye_gods:

I'm tempted by the 1C pack... The Star Wolves are supposed to be pretty interesting (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=57950), and Space Rangers 2 is Katauri's (of King's Bounty Fame) previous game. The rest looks like russian shovelware, but who knows... I guess I have time to think about it.

I've gathered a few Steam games I haven't played at all (Ghost Master, Evil Genius, Most of the Aliens / Zombie shooters, the Overlords...) and some of them weren't even part of packs, so I try to refrain myself, but I always end up buying more and more !

I've heard good things about the Space Rangers games, but it doesn't look to me like they are actually in the collection?

It's kinda weird, I don't see the 1C collection as a deal anymore, it's back to like 70 euros...Most of the individual games are still 75 % tough...

The Witcher is $6.79 on the sale and doesnt appear to be highlighted anywhere.
Picked it up along with the Overlord pack for $11.29.

Hmm, I just read the description for Space Rangers 2:
With a pitch like that, it must be good!   :awesome_for_real:

Eek.  I'm fucked.

Puzzle Kingdoms is $1.  It's the ugly stepbrother of puzzle quest (literally, some of the devs had a hand in it), that got no press at all.  I paid much more than that for the DS version of it, and I felt that was money well spent.  It's a good, but slightly ugly game, and I'm pretty sure there's a demo out there somewhere for it, although maybe not on steam, but at $1, does that even matter?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/23700/


edit:  space rangers 2 is totally worth the pittance they want for it.  It's a space sandbox game sorta in the vein of star control 2/starflight.
edit edit:  wow, the steam page for it has the worst description + screenshots ever.  There are only shots of the ground battle portions of the game, which are the worst part to begin with.   Go look at the ones for space rangers 1 instead, since that's closer to reality.

Any thoughts on the indie games? (P.S. Damn you Steam)

Hmmmm, $15 for Bioshock 2...

I'm grabbing Bioshock 2 for sure, probably Trine and maybe Gothic 3, and possibly the Guild Wars stuff.

I ended up buying Street Fighter 4 of all things.  That Marvel v Capcom 3 thread had me all in the mood for a fighting game and I was thinking..oh I'll wait til it goes on sale.  It wasn't a huge sale, but good enough (33% off I think) since I was already thinking about it.

Where are you seeing all these sales?  Is there a page with all of them on it?

It just loaded for me.  Strange. 

Other games/collections to consider: Sword of the Stars Complete Collection, Introversion Complete Pack.

Wow they are selling Commander Keen.  Wheeeeee. 

Damn this thread.  I just bought:

Tropico 3
Space Rangers Pack
The Witcher
Trine
Overlord Pack

Not bad for 30 bucks.  Tropico 3 was the most expensive at 10 bucks since I missed the last sale.

5 bucks for Darwinia + Multiwinia, Defcon, and motherfuckin' UPLINK.

Uplink is worth it alone for five bucks.

I think my wallet is cowering in the corner somewhere afraid of the week to come....

Thanks for the heads up on Puzzle Kingdoms.  Snagged that and the Overlord complete pack.  I wonder if I'll like Overlord.

Here's another one that's retardedly cheap during the sale.

Ghost Master, $.95
http://store.steampowered.com/app/6200/

Sorta of budget sim-ghost game, far as I can tell.  I haven't played it, took a quick peek at reviews, it appeared to be doing okay, and bought it before someone raised the price back up or it sold out because it's stupidly cheap.  I can't personally vouch for this one though, yet.

My....my wallet...

ARG

So much to buy.  Though I'm getting annoyed when I click on the "save 50% on all xxx company titles here" button, scroll down the list, see a game I'm interested in, only to find it is not getting a discount for some reason.   :oh_i_see:

Quick, Lum (or somebody else who might know), is Arsenal of Democracy any good?  I loved HOI2.

Can you assholes stop pointing out things to buy.

Puzzle Kingdom
Ghost Master
Introversion Pack

For the price of $6!

edit:
Sega Genesis Pack seems overpriced at $35.00

Trine at $4 and The Witcher at $6.79

GO!  NOW!

Is it the European version or the censored American version?

Lead and Gold is on sale half price now too for 7.49. It apparently just got dedicated server support. Worth it?

You know, I was going to be a dick and say "Do you really need to ask", but then I went digging.  There's a director's cut update for free that un-censor's it on Steam.  The base game however is the censored US enhanced edition.

Is there a reason not to get the Overlord pack? Fuck you Steam.

I'm getting Steamjaded. A few things are tempting, but nothing made me pull the trigger.

Anno 1404 Gold, as I never got the expansion...but $20 is the expansion price anyway. The THQ pack is nice, but I own a lot of it and RTS isn't my favorite (can you pause and give orders in CoH and DoW?). Several things were $5-10 off tempting, like Bioshock 2. Looking forward to the dailies, I guess.

I did pull Indigo Prophecy off my wishlist.
If you haven't played Gothic 2 Gold, it's by far the better game.

Port Royale 2 $1.50 USD
Ghost Master® $0.95 USD
Puzzle Kingdoms $1.00 USD
Overlord Complete Pack $4.50 USD

not bad  :grin:

Pretty sure I'm going to pick that up as well. Steam servers are busy, no surprise.

I played that when it came out, I found it pretty fun, although I never managed to beat the damn final mission. Curse you, final mission!

I heard it was unplayable in Vista but I have no idea if that is true or not.

Ghost Master is one of my favorites. I still load it up every once and awhile.

Holy cats. Steam didn't get enough of my money last week? Apparently not.

I was able to play it just fine a while ago in Windows 7 x64.

Overlord 2 was pretty disappointing IMO (I didn't even finish it).  Overlord 1 is well worth the $5 all on its own though, if you haven't played it.

(edit) I got The Witcher and the Introversion pack, both of which I own (except Multiwinia) but couldn't pass up a convenient copy of at that price.  And the indie pack because I owned none of those and one of them is bound to be good.  I am weak.

Ghost Master wouldn't load for me last night on Win7 Ult.

Trine seems to shut down my computer while playing it at times.  :/

I don't know whether to be mad or glad that I can't seem to log into steam right now to purchase things.

I'm trying to be strong and not purchase Bioshock 2 or the Overlord pack.  Bioshock 2.. I'm just not sure I should support in any fashion.  With Overlord, I'm just not sure I'd even play it.  I thought the demo of the first was fun for some giggles, but I'm sure that might get old.

edit: I'm also pretty sure Bioshock 2 would rape my pc.

I'd pay five bucks for a few giggles every day.

THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT

I don't know why that got me. Maybe because I pictured you bursting into a room saying it.

duse's avatar really helps in that regard.

Yea, for those prices I just dropped Indigo Prophecy and Beyond Good & Evil in to my cart.

New daily sale.

Resident Evil 5 for 75% off.

Plus some other stuff I dont really care for, but others might. Alpha Protocol for 33% off.

updating OP for anyone interested

33% off for Alpha Protocol isn't nearly enough for me to wade into that shit storm.  50% perhaps.

RE5.. I imagine the control/movement scheme is just as bad on the PC?

I am considering RE5, if some one can elaborate on how this one controls on the PC.

Was the PC version of Ghostbusters any good?  I'm not sure it even matters at $4, but I'm going to ask first anyhow.   :-P

$5.10 now. I think that is low enough for me to take the plunge.

If you want to play Resi 5, or any Capcom game for that matter, you have to accept that the way it controls is part of the gameplay : yeah, you play a gun turret, deal with it. I played using a 360 pad, because the game has been designed that way.

The game is gorgeous, and I really loved it. In fact you have plenty of options to deal with any given situation, to escape melee or to CC your way out of shitty situations.

Does steam have a running bet to try and put gamestop/eb out of business by the end of the summer?

Gamestop/EB have like one small rack of PC Games anyway. I think they gave up on PCs.

Have you seen the PC games section in a Gamestop lately?  They'll probably send Steam a fruit basket for allowing them to reduce it to filling an empty mop bucket with whatever isn't behind the counter.

If by some miracle of god the next gen systems let steam work on them (so that you could just download any console game directly to the HD through steam) instead of forcing you to use their own digital distribution systems, the entire retail gaming infrastructure would collapse over night.  Just hop over to a Best Buy to get the console and its peripherals, and that'd be it.

It will never ever happen, but one can dream.

Godfuckingdamnit FINE take my money! give me games i'm not going to get around to playing!

So is the Witcher worth it? That one sort of caught my eye as something viable on the list.

I liked it a lot.  The controls are kind of wonky, and it's either extremely hard or extremely easy depending on how much you muck with alchemy and fire magic.  It's pretty standard fantasy pap about sex, revenge, sex, magic, sex, and political intrigue.  And sex.  I thought it was worth it at $20.  At $6, I'd call it a no brainer.  Chapter 2 runs a lot longer in a relatively small area than I would have liked though.

Edit:  There is however the chance that it'll go lower yet over the next week during the daily sales.  At what it's at now, I'd personally bet it won't, but then, I wouldn't have expected Lead and Gold to go lower either.

Do you like rpgs? If so, yes.

My only gripes with Witcher would be that it's a bit of a system hog, has bad loading times (they used to be MUCH MUCH worse), the combat is mediocre, and yah, chapter 2 is long.  The inventory was apparently improved and some of the technical glitches and dialogue weirdness has been cleared up. 

It's one of the best RPGs (computer or otherwise) released in the last few years.  Your decisions have ramifacations and they aren't easy to make considering everyone seems to be a complete bastard.  It's mature, sometimes in immature ways.  :awesome_for_real:

It's a worthwhile experience if you like single player (and single character) RPGs.  It's a unique experience.

Dammit, now I bought The Witcher too. Like I am ever going to have time to play it.

It's long too!  :raspberry:

Yeah that's up my alley, I actually prefer the single player stuff at time to mucking around with the AI group command BS in Dragon Age.

You do get AI assistance in some areas, but it's completely out of your control and almost always not helpful in the slightest.  Most of the time you're a lone wolf.

That's what SHE...  I mean, $6 for the Witcher is completely worth it.   :awesome_for_real:

Picked up Introversion pack and Bioshock 2 (nearly 10GB?!?!) last night.  I already owned Defcon, but wanted to give Uplink a try.

Just make sure you stick with it past the initial chapter. It gets much better. Also, the combat which seems really horrible in the beginning really opens up after you get a few more moves. It turns from a simple timed click, to sort of a rhythm game, that really feels like you are doing a sword dance.

That's an awfully generous description. The combat never really improves, IMO.

I agree with Morfiend, for me it improved vastly once I got the appropriate skills. Mileages obviously vary.

So, uh.. is Ghostbusters on PC any good? It seems suspiciously cheap for something relatively recent.

I've heard it described as buggy, uninspired fanwankery.  I guess you could get $4 out of hearing Bill Murray voice Dr. Venkman again.

I got it during the christmas sale, it's kind of fun, but I haven't bothered to finish it, so...didn't hold my attention all the way through.  Might go back to it someday, or maybe not.

Blood Bowl + Dark Elves at €14.99 too, how good was it? Reviews are in the 60-80% range, that sounds somehow intimidating.

People seemed to have a lot of fun with it during the F13 league.

Very fun if you like table top gaming.  Its a perfect translation (for once) of a Games Workshop game into the digital form.  I've had a lot of fun with it, and I want us to start another F13 league so I can join god dammit.   :awesome_for_real:

Is the Force Unleashed worth 7.50?  I've WANTED to want that game for a while, but I've heard almost nothing but that it is crap, under 10 dollars is getting into the what the fuck range though.

"Today Only"

Audiosurf $2.50 : Sure, if you don't already have it.
City of Heroes $9.99 : Get a buddy trial account or something if you are interested.
L4D2 $10.20 : Would imagine this is only worth playing at launch when everyone else is?
Supreme Commander 2 $7.47 :  :oh_i_see:
Company of Heroes $24.99 : No idea
SW FU $7.50 : I hear it is crap on the PC?
Zeno Clash $3.75 : ? ? ? ?
Hearts of Iron 3 $10.20 : No idea

I'm trying to buy that witcher game and steam is telling me "the steam servers are currently too busy" error.  I guess this big sale is very popular.

As a warning to others it looks like the witcher is about a 13Gig download.

It's probably worth $7.50.  Although the terrible story may make you rage a bit if you are a Star Wars geek at all.

Do it just to see how there's still hope for non-generic games.

How are the controls on the PC versus the Xbox?

I gotta stop reading these threads.  I've got god knows how many games on Steam I still haven't finished, and now I have 6 more.

Freedom Force 1&2
Space Wolves 1,2&3
Avencast

The download servers are taking a bit of a beating, but every time I've gotten the error msg, I've just retried the d/l, and it worked ok.

Zeno Clash is definitely worth picking up for the price. It's short, but the combat is pretty satisfying once you get a knack for it. I dream of a game that merges the weapon fighting of Dark Messiah with the pugilism from Zeno Clash.

SW:FU...  I really want to try it.

If you have a Wii and want to play FU (gee that sentence is dirty...)  then go to the library and rent it.  It's a short game and plays much better on the "joke console" than the other 3 platforms.

Sithspawn! The Force Unleashed its 30 fucking Gigabytes. So much for playing tonight.

I grabbed that big THQ pack. $50 for a bunch of pretty awesome games I haven't ever played past their demo stages (Titan Quest, Company of Heroes, Dawn of War II, DoW I's two standalone expansions...) can't be beat.

Witcher price went up? This sale is confusing, was it on the 1-day list and I just didn't read it right?

Yeah, that's strange.  It didn't say it was a one-day price, but now it's up to 33% off from the the 66% off it was the first day.

I'd probably wait until the end of the sale now to pick it up if you're interested if only to see if maybe goes back down again.

Each day there are new sales.

It happens... the owner realising they've accidentally made a good deal and wondering if they could have gotten more. Like borderlands being listed in Australia at the US price and then suddenly going up to 150% of the old cost.

Ok good thought I was going crazy.

Force Unleashed sucks with just PC controls.  I played with with a 360 controller and it was much more fun.  I enjoyed it enough that I played through twice.

I'm considering the game+expansion pack for The Guild 2 at around $13, but I'm concerned over the reviews. I'm wondering if the tech issues and bugs were solved that cost the game, or if was worth 10 hours of fun at that price? Anyone tried it?

I got to playing some this morning and just looked at the keybindings and immediately opted to plug in a 360 controller.  It really plays just fine with it.  I have the problems I usually have with 3rd person action games (namely, cameras are almost always not to my satisfaction, and this isn't different), but its still probably the most fun i've had with a star wars game since jedi knight 2

As far as I can work out, the Pirates (stand alone) expansion is super-set of the original game so you don't need to worry about getting it.

As for the game, it seems to run okay for me (W7 x64, GF 8800 GTS 512).  The only technical problem I've had is that movies are just a black screen in-game.  It's only a problem in that you can't watch the tutorial video in-game, but it's at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\the guild ii - pirates of the european seas\Movie\Tutorial1.mpg.

Thanks, I'm running a similar system, so I may pick it up for my economics fix since Ubisoft DRMed the Settlers to hell and back. Also, it appears that Gothic 3 is out at patch 1.60 and upgradable to community patch 1.74, so the reviews went from "buggy POS" to "awesome game now that the tech issues were solved."

I'm going to grab Gothic 3 as well.

Just bought Gothic 3 and Flotilla for 5 bucks total.  Woot.

Gothic 2 + Gothic 3 for $1.99

Holy crap, the Gothic 3 1.74 community patch is 1/3 the download size of Gothic 3 itself. What the hell is in it?

Also Civ IV complete for $10?

Guess I own Civ IV now.

The servers are getting absolutely murdered over this sale. I may end up buying shit I won't download for 2 weeks.

I guess i will finally try Eve.

I've been told that you can basically get 3 months of EVE for $6 if you send out three buddy trials to yourself and then apply the $2 Steam keys to each one, giving you 30 free days on your main account due to the trials "subscribing."

For 2 Dollars in NY I can get a slice of pizza, or now I can buy EVE online, apparently...

It's still a hard choice.

ya, I just got the gothic pack and the download of gothic 2 (3 gigs) is taking forever!

I mentioned it earlier, but if you're grabbing the Gothic pack and haven't played either, Gothic 2 is the much better game. I bought them both even though I've already finished Gothic 2 twice (once before and once after the expansion) and finished maybe 75% of Gothic 3. And I haven't even cracked Risen yet...but $2? C'mon, that's a gimme if you like euro-style rpg.

Ya, gonna play Gothic 2 first. I think I had it a while back and tried to play it, but never got into it. Going to give it another shot, since I'm in a gaming dry spell.

Yeah, I picked up the Gothic pack, but I dont plan on DLing it until I have beaten some of these other games I bought.

This.

I've been download SW:FU for over a day now.

And for some reason the Gothic 2-pack has jumped in price from $2 to $5.

wut. Glad I bought it when it was cheaper.

Come to the eve subforum and we will probably give free moneys.

Maths iz hard for Valve.

Actually according to the Steam staff, it's the publisher's doing, for both this and The Witcher.

Seems they only have a limited amount of copies they're allowed to sell at the lower price point, after which they have to sell at a slightly higher one.

Was the bundle at 90% off originally? I thought it was just 75% and the math was off.

Yeah, it was originally listed at 90% when I got it.

I really wish Steam would mark specials that only have a limited number of copies, uh, specially.

Would be nice. I can understand Valve not really having total control over it though.

I'm just happy to finally be able to get a bunch of games I've been wanting for a while, but never could really justify getting at the asking prices, like Civ IV and its expansions or the two Dawn of Wars.

Got Chronicles of Riddick, Force Unleashed, and UFO: Afterlight so far.

Nothing tempts me today that I don't already have due to previous sales.

Well, I'm happy I grabbed the Gothica pack at 90% off this morning then.

Well that's twice I've waited too long, this is most likely a good thing.

No Gothic bundle in the AUS store.

Few things bounce me so much from love to hate and back again as steam.

Hah, it's funny how something going from $2 to $5 can make me lose interest.  (Heh, I was out of the house. )

Got Force Unleashed because I need something that's just stupid fun and DOW2 because I want to play some RTS before SC2 hits.  

I just wish the first DoW would go on sale someday.  It's more expensive than it's sequel normally, even when it's not on sale.  Grumble grumble.

Hey, WTF? When did THQ's "Complete Pack" stop including DoW Gold Edition (DoW/DoW Winter Assault)? That's just wrong.

People in the steam forums are saying it's still in the pack even though it's not listed.

This is true. I got the THQ pack last night and it included DoW Gold along with, oddly enough, a separate Winter Assault, which is already in Gold.

The THQ "complete" pack seems to be missing quite a few things..

That's strange because I picked it up on the second day of the sale I think, and those were included.

Dogfighter for $8.49 worth it?

Got the Oddworld pack for $2.50 though!

Its now offical. I'll only buy Steam Games on sale in the future. King Arthur for 17 Euro instead of the 49.90 I paid. For that money that would have been a good buy I think.

OP Updated, it's about as exciting of a sale day as EA week for me. I view this as Steam's way of saying "on this day, we let your wallets rest," to which I reply with "oh thank you overlords of my video gaming funds!"  :why_so_serious:

I've never heard of king arthur. What is it?

Oddworld is coming home with me, for sure.

I briefly thought about buying Europa Univeralis III, and then I looked at the steam forums which are quite littered with "this game is crashing on Windows 7" bug posts.

That put that thought safely to bed. Until tomorrow, Steam.

EDIT: Also, my first impression of playing the Witcher: "Wow this journal display is really fucked up."

Tell me about star wolves and avencast. Avencast = diablo?

So far on list:

Gothic II: Gold Edition
Trine
Ghost Master®
Introversion Complete Pack
Oddworld Pack

I am not sold on gothic and trine quite yet, they are in the maybe category.

Trine is good fun.

At $10, it's twice as expensive as everything else.

Thanks for updating the OP, I'm in between computer's being setup at the moment.

I'd hold off until it gets a little cheaper in that case.  Oddworld should tide you over nicely.

It's Total War + RPG elements in a historical fantasy setting.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=18372.0

Also, I'd recommend Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising it for $5 if you like simulation first person wargames. Keep in mind, you're infantry for almost all of it so there's a good bit of running. It's fairly realistic. It's not call of duty; guys stay dead, enemy reinforcements exist, and people shoot semi-accurately. You have your own squad, there's a good bit of sneaking around and it was fairly enjoyable to me. I like it more than the "one man unstoppable army" call of duty type games. Sneak in, achieve objective, get out.

Is there still a decent multiplayer contingent for Op Flashpoint?

Don't think so. I only play single player anyway.

Edit: Consensus is the game is shit, especially online, and to just buy ArmA2 instead. One problem: ArmA2 isn't $5. I guess I had atypical 'fun' with it.

Tales of monkey island worth it?

I cannot in good conscience recommend Operation Flashpoint. Its realistic if by realistic you mean imagining having to walk around with an 90 lb sack on your back but instead of the intuitive controls that your brain affords your limbs, you're stuck with a xbox controller pad. You can actually -feel the tedium and exhaustion- of climbing up some god forsaken hill, only to get shot down by some enemy you won't see till your 5th load game.   Its all a counter intuitive mess with the weakest storyline since Dick and Jane.

Star Wolves 3 is punishingly hard at times, prone to locking up, and kinda nifty. I tried 2 afterwords, but the resolution is locked at "crap"

Gothic 2. Do you like rpg? Jap or Euro? If you like eurorpg, it's one of the best ever made (imo).

Found this old tweak I posted in another thread here for those indulging:

OK well why not, even all added up it's still less than a normal priced game.

Gothic II: Gold Edition
Trine
Ghost Master®
Introversion Complete Pack
Oddworld Pack
UFO: Afterlight
King Arthur thing

Wow.  Force Unleashed is killing my system.  Runs horribly and crashes repeatedly.  Doesn't even look that good to warrant this kind of shit performance.

Good thing it was only 7.50.  :uhrr:

Yay! I have wanted to try King Arthur- ~$15 is a good price.

For whoever asked about Dogfighter- i bought it a couple of weeks ago on a whim. Played about 5 minutes of it and quit. The m+kb controls are fucking clownshoes...may try again with a 360 controller. Was unimpressed by the little I did play, but not being able to keep from crashing due to shit controls may have colored my impressions a bit.

Having never played serious sam i picked it up the other day and feel i got my money's worth for sure.

Well fuck. That was the only thing stopping me from the

Couldn't find my Jagged Alliance 2 disks, and want to see if it will run on the netbook for my holiday, so checked if it was on special. Cha-ching! 10$ for Jagged alliance 2 would make me happy, the expansion plus disciples 2 and its expansion as effectively freebies are sweet.

Not to much interest in the dailies though. I know a friend of mine seems fairly addicted to the King Arthur game but I always feel slightly bad about the stacked corpses in army games.

Be aware that the Steam version of JA2 Gold is broken somehow (as in "will not work at all" broken) and it's up to Valve to fix it on their end.

If you use the unofficial 1.13 fanpatch, though, it'll work.

God, fuck this game. I'm going to try and get my money back.  This shit is shameful.

Trine and Zeno Crash make my computer do a hard shutdown.  That or they are somehow overloading my GPUs and overheating them.


Seems to run fine on my system.  Controls are a bit wonky as someone mentioned, but it's was ok for the price, but it does take up like 30 gigs.

It's running like dog shit and is hard crashing my system in menus of all things.   Controls are fine, especially now that I have a 360 controller plugged in.  The inability to play it once I have to access menu and the slow downs are just intollerable.

Force Unleashed, if it's anything like the Wii version, well you really aren't missing anything.

From what I've been told, the Wii version of TFU is essentially a different game.

On my machine the intro for the first half ran like it was a slide show. I thought I was going to be one of those for whom the game does run but apparently after thrashing around for a while it got everything it needed loaded into memory or something and ran okay after that. Not the best graphics performance but tolerable.

Given the size of the game, FU might be highly susceptible to a fragmented drive.  You might try a defrag and see if things improve.

Space Rangers 2 Reboot (no Starforce!) for €4.74? Yes please.

Here's an update on my purchases so far:


 Puzzle Kingdoms:  It's ok.  I can see why it was available for $1.  The problem with this game is I'm on the third "Kingdom" (level) and I've only encountered one puzzle type.  There are a couple twists on it at the end of the level where you can do some bonus fights to earn extra boosts for your army, but essentially it's one long grind playing the same crappy and simplistic puzzle game.  


Overlord Bundle:  This is worth the $4.60.  My buddy saw me playing and commented "nice graphs."  The game is not as deep as I'd like, Bullfrog did a much better job with the humorist take on being evil in the 90s with Dungeon Keeper, and there's a little too much running around wondering where the fuck to go since there isn't a mini map (or a map of any kind).  Generally that's only a problem when they want to get sheisty and hide shit, as in the case of the Elf forest level.  Ultimately though, they strike a nice balance between puzzles, combat, and decorating.  Your castle starts off as a busted up terd, and as you gain wealth you can buy upgrades for it to spruce it up.  You can even get a forge and craft customized weapons and armor.  The expansion Raising Hell doesn't really add much besides a few levels.  I haven't played Overlord 2 but it looks like more of the same. Probably the coolest thing about the game to me is how your minions will pick up weapons and armor that has fallen from slain enemies and equip themselves, thus raising their effectiveness. Bottom line is I've sunk 10 hours into Overlord and it's kinda satisfying to send 30 minions into a room to smash shit up, get drunk, start pissing everywhere, and then kill everyone.  

I haven't had time to dig into Overlord yet, but I did love this aspect of the demo. Hated losing a minion who had picked up a cool combo of gear.

Doh, thats what I get for buying Street Fighter 4 last week.

I'd been eying Numen since it came out, no idea why, but figured it was a good time to pick it up.  (I might even install it soonish as I'm kind of in an RPG mood but don't really want to go back to anything or try out Gothic 2/3 or Morrowind. :awesome_for_real:)

Updated.

To: Steam
From: My wallet

Message: FUCK YOU! 

Also, put me down for Numen, Xcom Complete, GTA4. all for under $20

Interesting reply from Support:

Holy shit that is some BS. I'm definitely reopening my ticket. Did you have to argue at all over that?

Steam the app is totally wigged out at the moment for me.

Edit: make sure you write down/copy and paste your confirmation code after purchasing something while things are haywire. I can't get it recognize my newly purchased items, it's stuck on "Scanning for Steam license updates..." and the games don't show up in my Library yet.

Edit: I did just get a receipt for the purchase so at least that part is working still

Edit: Okay it finally recognized my purchases.

I'm going to ask for some clarity, since it's pretty poorly worded. However, "buy new shit and we'll refund your old shit" seems like a pretty lazy policy.  It's not like I played a game and just didn't like it.  A defective PC port seems like one of those situations where you should be able to get your money back.  

Of course, I was likely to spend the money anyhow.  So, I may just run with this.

My ticket:

Hi xcom.  I would love to buy Street Fighter but uhhh.. I'm on a PC.

Nothing interests me today or yesterday. Phew.

My standing list so far.

DoW2 Gold edition including Chaos Rising. (I gifted the base game to a friend, so we could play together, since I already had it)
Gothic Pack (G2 and G3).
Chronicles of Riddick.
Bioshock 2.

I'm still contemplating the Guild Wars Trilogy pack.

Huh?

Arma2, why can't you be cheaper? Numen looks interesting but I get the feeling it will be cheaper once I'd be able to get around to playing it.

Presumably he doesn't have an arcade stick or game pad for his PC.

Oh, that makes sense. Should get a gamepad at least.

There's a nice PS3 fight pad that MadCatz (I think) makes that my girlfriend got alongside Super Street Fighter IV, and it works perfectly on a PC. It's pretty good for emulation and such as well. Just don't play it with console ports that need two analog sticks.

While I agree with your argument, it's worth noting that there are no brick and mortar stores which I know of that would grant you a refund for a game that doesn't run well/at all on your machine unless due to a physical defect with the disk.  Let me know what they say, I'm guessing just a "sorry, but our policy..." spiel. 

Yeah, I think its actually nice they are refunding you in Steam Credits more or less.  All stores I know stopped allowing returns for that reason, or at best will give you in store credit to buy something else.

Having said that, you didn't just buy a copy of a game you could burn to a disk and bring back, and all they need to do is just flip a switch (well, and the cost in time and money to refund your card).

My system more than met the requirements.  My system could not play the game at all.  Pretty clear cut for me.  The product is defective.  Defective shit should be returnable if acted on in a prompt time frame.  

Return policies as a whole for software are retarded, but I suppose they're in place to prevent abuse.  There's been at least 2 console games I've wanted to return in the past month, one due to a key feature not working at all and the other being a piece of Madden worthy "get it out this year" shovelware full of obvious bugs and half implemented systems.  Makes you really appreciate how flexible other product areas are (especially baby/toddler stuff) about returns.  As is, I'll probably just wait for a Gamestop deal and turn those two fun yet defective pieces of software into something else that probably only got token QA.

The last game I pirated was due to not believing that my min spec system could handle it.  It couldn't.  Surprise, surprise. (Later upgraded and bought the game).

Heh, buy software at a brick & mortar store.  They provide nothing anymore but a box I have to throw away.   Best Buy's policy has changed to "same thing only if there was a defective disk" or some such.

edit: And don't think I'm not grateful for this.  I think their solution is workable.  And yah, like Teleku said, they can easily insure that I cannot play this game anymore.

My complaint was that the product (Metro 2033) wouldn't load unless I had uninstalled and reinstalled multiple drivers (physx and directx) that came packaged with the game each time I wanted to play it, and that it was defective. I was linked to their policy stating they don't issue any refunds. They then followed up with asking tech support questions and offering to help get it running. I thanked them for offering to assist in solving an issue, informed them of how poor of a decision that was that they sell a shoddy product that even has a number of threads and complaints on their own forums, and don't offer refunds when their product doesn't work as it should without having to perform such tasks every time I wished to load up the game.

So there are some differences here (your's started but doesn't run well, mine didn't start without a kick in the ass but ran fine once it got started), though I think both products are defective in their own right.

Agreed, I forgot to note that I had sent off that email within 48 hours of purchase.

And today, Osmos and the Space Rangers Pack. I'm passing on ArmA2. $20 is too much, especially with an expansion coming out soon that renders multiplayer unplayable/obsolete.

Do eet! /fangirl

You gave them too much information.  You should have left it at "This game does not work on my system, please give me a refund."

Yes.  I've been toying with the idea of getting a pad and the game for the PS3.  I'd rather play this on my big screen.


Also, which Xcom out of the pack should I play first?

Go in order, IMO it's the only way to do it with xcom  :heart:

Thanks for the warning, and I do see some unhappy people in the steam forum. In practice though it patched after download and appears to run on both my vista/64 desktop and win7 netbook. Which makes me pretty damn happy because JA2 and a netbook means I'm pretty much boredom immune when travelling.

Indeed the netbook as a retro-gaming machine shows some promise... It can't run anything remotely modern, 3D or high res (go go intel graphics chips) but there's some old classics that should live happily there. And the steam sale is an excellent time to pick some up cheap. Next target is an old RPG... and maybe one of the turn based X-com games too.

Play original Xcom first. Play Terror from the Deep second, then stop, because seriously, there are no other xcom games.

I tried that when I got the pack a few months ago, never got past the first game.  That shit is hard.  If you don't know what you're doing when your feet hit the ground, you're completely fucked.  What to research, how much to spend, how to set up your base.  And if you fuck it up, you'll be fending off giant waves of superaliens every five minutes with nothing in your research list but some shitty weapons and some backstory entries.  And you can't just shrug and reload your last save to fix it, your game is fundamentally fucked, you may as well start over from square one.

God damn, this sale is destroying my wallet.  I have no idea where I'm going to find time to play this stuff.  Is there a time I'm going to look at my game library and go "Earthworm Jim 2, that's what I want to play right now, hell yeah"?

So it looks like Xcom:apocalypse was the last of the isometric / tactical games before they tried spinning it off into more action oriented formats?

Also looks like the point at which "so ugly my eyes bleed" and "the netbook can run it" meet. Pretty sure I've played it long ago but while I don't remember breaking floppies in disgust I don't remember how much fun it was.

http://www.ufo2extraterrestrials.com/

As for the steam sale, it's been fairly mean for my wallet. Literally tons of old games I'd completely forgotten about, but wouldn't mind playing through, and tons of new games I'd never even heard of.

Thats impressive, especially considering steam doesn't even have physical copies of games.

Was the first UFO (http://store.steampowered.com/app/37030) always 50% during the sale?

I haven't actually bought that specific UFO game, I bought the XCOM pack (this one (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/964/)), but I'll make sure to scoop that one up as well. I see I forgot to mention that that URL was given to me by a friend of mine, who said it was more or less like the good old XCOM of olde. I've no real idea how it plays, but I'll live with it possibly being a duff if it's still 10 euro when I get home later today.

I loaded up Gothic 3 without playing any of the previous games or reading anything about the controls. I figured, I've played a lot of games, I'll figure it out.

I get dumped immediately into a large battle of orcs with a huge window across my screen telling me how to pick up a sword. I proceed to do this and it tells me how to attack and parry. I dispatch 3 orcs by spamming attacks over and over. "Really?" I think, "This is too easy, I haven't even worried about a defensive parry. Let's try that." I let the orc try to hit me while getting ready to parry. The parry fails, and the orc knocks me on my ass. Two other orcs gang rape me unconcious. I try to get up several times only continuing to be corpse camped by the computer for about 6 minutes until my friends can kill enough of the orcs to let me stand.

I then went out into the wilderness to try fighting something else, got poisoned by a giant wasp. After it was dead I think, "Surely, it won't let my health tick all the way down and kill me." Then, I died.

So that went well.  :awesome_for_real:

There is something refreshing about a game that actually tries to kill you, instead of just losing in an entertaining fashion.

Gothic is not Elder Scrolls. You can, and often will, stumble into places You Should Not Be. You should be playing Gothic 2 anyway :) If you stick with 3, find and install the fan patch. Follow the old pre-Elder Scrolls mantra of Save Early, Save Often. Learn to parry. The fighting system is funky but I like it once you learn the quirks. Don't be afraid to high-tail it out of there. Once you learn some of the 'oh shit' monsters (at least as a lowbie), you can usually get out after they see you....but I have had a few times where I got into some badness that I couldn't shake and keystone kops ensued back to town.

Is Gothic really a good game?  Looks like a generic low budget shitpile.

Eurowank RPG.  Witcher was a good one of those, but nothing said here makes Gothic sound good.  It sounds interesting.. just not good.

It's the grand German rpg tradition. Pretty much the only rpgs worth playing these days too (yeah yeah Bioware).

New games up, is Red Faction Guerrilla worth 5 bucks?

Updated. Any insight on The Void, Shatter, or Red Orchestra?

As for Red Faction Guerrilla, I bought it on a previous sale or got it in a package or some crap and haven't had time to play much, but the little I did play it seemed like a decent fps/action game. I'd risk $5 for it based on what little I did play as it could surely make for a nice game for a rainy day at the very least.

I'd say so, especially if you like open world games.  I eventually got tired of it in the same way I get tired of all open world-type games, but even if you don't like them playing around with the destructible environment is well worth the $5.

It does have GFWL, so that's going to annoy you once you try and get it running.

Sounds good.  Picked it up.

Gothic 3 apparently came out at the same time as Elder Scrolls, but graphically you wouldn't know it. The models, facial motions, and animations are much more advanced in the Elder Scrolls stuff. Also, Oblivion did a better job of "Here's where to go," almost to the point of stupidity. In that regard, I liked Gothic more because I have to work a little to find things, which is where the explorer part of me wants to play. Putting a big arrow on top of shit sucks the world aspect of the game out of it for me.

Gothic is a little clunkier I'd say. The play value is still good, and you have unlimited inventory which is a plus and minus. I feel like if it's not bolted down, I'm grabbing it. I'm running the latest community patch 1.74, which fixed the bugs, and stopped crashes. However, the game will fucking kill you and not think twice.

Any input on this one? I read that it's supposed to be super-realistic, but is it any fun, and will I enjoy it more than say a Battlefield 2?

For this round, I'd take shatter, torchlight and the void. Shatter because it's the best breakout game since arkanoid, torchlight because it's awesome, and the void because it's ... well, it's the void. It's cool and worth $5. I already have all but shatter though.

Don't really know about red orchestra, but arma2 is the go-to for realism. Pass on flatout because they removed locational vehicle damage.

I definitely recommend getting The Void for 5 bucks.  While not for everyone, it's fantastic in my opinion.  If you're impatient/easily frustrated/hate resource  management games/hate anything that could be considered an art game, perhaps don't get it.  Otherwise, buy the damn thing.

whoa whoa whoa.  resource management game?

I am intrigued, and would like to hear more about this "Void".

Check out the SA's Let's Play (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3252510&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1). It's really good. I recommend watching the first ep or two because he shows you a few tips and tricks that makes the game much less confusing.

Sound intriguing.  I'm tempted to pick up that (The Void) and Red Faction Guerilla, but the RFG forum is awash in complaints about performance.  I'm wary to take chances with that again.

Yeah I make it a point now to really scour the forums first for technical issues due to some of my bargain purchases at the beginning of the year. There is a lot of gold out there, but if the front page is soured with "WTF CRASHES" posts, I'm not even wasting $5 to play the CTD Lottery.

It has a lot of touches that make it feel realistic, but still a lot of fun.  It's hard to explain, really.  There are many more little things you have to worry about, similar to Arma or WW2OL, but it manages to avoid the cock-punchy feel.  A good example is the feel of the iron sights.  There is a lot more finesse needed to use them compared to other games, where they are often simply a zoom + accuracy boost.  When you succeed with a nice long range shot using them, though, it's that much more satisfying.

My friends and I would grab this game every time they did the 'free weekend' deals, and had a blast for a few days each time.  We were just too lazy/cheap to actually plunk the money down.  It is hands down better than Battlefield 2, as far as infantry combat goes.  No vehicles is the only drawback.

I haven't played much of Red Orchestra since it first released on Steam, but I know for a fact the original UT2004 version of RO had tanks and trucks and APCs at least.

It's strange if Ostfront doesn't.

How well designed is the multiplayer server browser? Even if it is way better than BC2 or CoD, if it has a sparse server listing and/or horrible filtering controls, I'd think twice about it. I know, sounds like whine, but really, the BC2 browser makes Baby Shiva cry.

As far as I remember, Red Orchestra's server browser is no different from a standard Steam one.

Also, if you get RO, you also get a few bonus 'games' as well, like Mare Nostrum, which is essentially a free mod campaign, and is apparently set in North Africa.

One thing to be aware of, though, is that RO's community is really small. The Steam server browser only shows maybe a dozen heavily active RO servers, and no active Mare Nostrum ones.

Red Orchestra undeservedly won the Make Something Unreal contest I believe. It's a "realistic" WWII mod focused on Russians Vs. Nazis and the experience can be summed up as running around confused until you suddenly fall over dead.

Ended up buying Shatter + Red Orchestra + The Void for $10. Really, no reason to not try these out at that price. Hell, $15 if you want those 3 and Red Faction. Today was a good day.

The EA sale a while back motivated me to finally actually play Mass Effect, which made me realise what a strong game it is and how much I wanted to see what happened in the sequel. So very happy to see the single EA title I want re-appear on the daily sales. 40$ US isn't really an amazing special given inflated prices and retail discounts but damnit, I want.

Still need to finish my infiltrator veteran / paragon and vanguard hardcore play through though... but at least it's sitting ready for me now.

I played shatter for the first time, it's like.... awesome. If you haven't bought it, you really need to. Right now. I can see why people said that it was the best deal today, by far.

Okay yeah Shatter is indeed pretty awesome.

Holy shit, you guys aren't kidding!  Shatter is fucking great!

You guys sold me on Shatter and The Void.  I also bought ME2, because it was there.

Red Faction Guerrilla is pretty fun, definitely worth the 5 bucks.  The story I could do with or without, but roaming around razing buildings is worth the price of admission.  No crashes so far or anything, runs smooth and stable on my machine.

The entire first page of my gmail account is now officially nothing but "thank you for your purchase" messages from steam.

Get out the wallets again, it's a new day!  :awesome_for_real: In other words, OP updated.

Galaxies for $5? I'll bite.

Also, I'm glad I held off on buying Tropico 3 earlier in the week.

Galaxies for $5? I'll take it.

...oh wait, you mean *I* have to pay $5. Nevermind.

I'm in for Madballs ($2), Star Wars Galaxies ($5, hello emulator), Dragon Age Awakenings ($24, cheaper than during the EA sale :why_so_serious:),

I'm contemplating X3: Gold ($10) and Misadventures of PB Winterbottom ($2.50).

Hmm. X3 deal.  I think I've already bought enough shit I'll never play.

Only thing I'm really considering today is Tropico, but I'm not sold on it yet.   I've actually shown pretty good self control through this whole thing so far, and I'm trying not to buy things I won't play, or won't play more than once. 

I bought it last time it went on sale. It is pretty fun, and something you can definitely leave and pick up again at your leisure.

hahaha galaxies. I already own X3, tropico, titan quest on steam, but I'd recommend those.

This go around, it's thief for me, since I never played it and it apparently has one of the best / most scary levels ever created.

Are there any horror stories with GTA: San Andreas on PC?  I've been eying it all this sale as I've never played it, but didn't think to see if it actually worked :awesome_for_real:.

As for the rest: $54 for Dragon Age Origins DDE and Awakening is a bit hard to recommend the day after $30 less bought you Mass Effect 2 (and I played the pants off Dragon Age when it came out).  If you are thinking about getting Dragon Age, do spring for the Digital Deluxe Edition for $6 more as that gets you Warden's Keep (which is quite good) for basically a dollar less than the DLC price.

Awakenings was good, if constantly disappointing, but $24... yeah.  I'd only get it if you've already been waiting for it to go on sale.

Titan Quest Gold is an easy recommendation at $5 if you dig Diablo II-clones.  I wouldn't recommend it over Torchlight, but they're different enough that I like keeping both around.

See, that sounds good on paper, but my problem is that I tend to get totally engrossed in one or two games that eat all my time, and then when I get sick of those, rather than going back to those games I've got sitting around, i get something new to play all the time.  It leaves me precious little time for games I won't play much.  Of course, if theres a single player game I can knock off in a day or two and then shelf it and say  "that was worth 5 bucks" thats the sort of thing I've been trying to pick up on this sale generally.

Maybe not the most rational way to determine what to buy, but it works for me.

Well, there's a demo for Tropico if you're balking on it, but it's been one of my favorite sim type games since the first one came out, just for bringing something a tiny bit different to the table.  Executing one's political rivals never gets old, dammit.

It worked when I tried it. Looks terrible but cranked as high as it can go it's not too bad.  The PC controls are kind of bad, but weren't too bad to get used to.

Update on my return: it went through but Steam said basically, "this is a one time deal, we won't do it again."


Sounds good.  However, in less than a month my life is going to get owned by Starcraft II.  For how long, who knows.  Then Cata's coming up.  GAH. Fuck you, Blizzard.

edit: It'd be rad if Blizzard titles went to Steam at some point.  The prices for some of their older games that I've lost disks (SC, WC3) for are quite outrageous.

This is getting addictive. Grabbed Red Faction and Flatout ($2 and ragdoll physics crash games are funny) yesterday. Grabbed Titan Quest Today.

If you still have the keys you can register them on the new B.Net and then download the games.

Tell me about it.  A few years back I couldn't find me D2 disks and I actually went as far as buying the battlechest.  Of course, a year after that I found the originals.

My brother-in-law sure is glad he married my sister right now. I used these Steam sales to convert as many games as possible to digital format via steam and gog (some are old enough to already have data errors as I realized with Bards Tale 3 a year ago), and he gets all the boxed versions from me. 14 right now and counting. Damn you Steam!

Just bought X3, passed on Titan Quest.  I don't need another Diablo Clone even if it is 5$, played the first one years ago briefly.

Best GTA. Vice City had a couple lingering issues on the PC, but I don't remember any in SA. Of course, use a gamepad.

Same boat with the DA:O stuff, still spendy, especially since I bought the box version and would need to re-buy it. And I've yet to actually finish it. Unless that expansion is as big as the entire game, they probably shouldn't be charging the same price as the entire game imo. No burning desire for the expansion when I'm happily playing ME2, which is definitely worth the $23 I paid for it.

Already have X3:TC on shteam, I'd consider TQ but I bought it on Impulse for less a long time ago and still haven't played it.

Beware of Thief:DS, it's fucked for widescreen. I was able to get it working at 720p when it originally came out, but for some reason 1080p was just fucked. I got it in the Eidos pack at xmas and tried getting it running a couple months ago.

I wonder if System Shock 2 will ever be released on Steam, what the hell kinds of legal AIDS is going with that game. I played it once and lost the discs and was never able to find it reasonably again. At this point it's probably too dated to bother with, but it is kind of odd that great game disappeared off the face of the planet (along with the SMAC expansion!). Yeah..also need SMAC+ the expansion! And Sid's SimGolf!

SMAC+SMAC was rereleased as some sort of bundle in the UK and can be found on eBay for <$10 these days, which is a nice change from the days when it was $90+.

I remember last time I played System Shock 2 I had a hell of a time getting the videos in to work properly. I'm wondering if there's just some things that Steam can't package reliably/unfuck inorder to make them viable for sale.

I'll probably pick up X3 after I get home unless there's a valid reason why I shouldn't. SEE: It's horribly broken and/or ridiculously repetative.

I got GTA:SA on PC back when it first came out and it worked fine for me.

I'm tempted by Thief 3, but not that tempted, since I have a free copy of Thief 2 from Computer Gaming World.

Dragon Age Awakening at $24 is still $9 too high for me to bother with, especially since a Steam copy of the game won't work with a retail disc version.

I got Thief 3 for free from a buddy. I don't think I lasted 2 hours. It wasn't horrible, but compared to the first, it wasn't worth the effort.

You're $5 higher than I'm willing to go. I'm not paying more than $10 for essentially glorified DLC.

I'm personally holding out for a GotY edition with Origins, Awakening, and all of the overpriced DLC in one package.

And then I'm going to wait for that to go on sale.

I agree with what you said, and I'm doing this with Fallout 3 as well.   :awesome_for_real:

Well Fallout 3's GOTY was on sale last Christmas, which was when I got it. I think it's been on sale once during this marathon, but I don't remember.

Was X3 on sale? Cause it doesnt seem to be now. Thats a bummer. I wanted to try that game.

It was.

X3 Gold (Reunion + Terran Conflict) was on sale for just a hair over $10, but it suddenly and mysteriously got pulled entirely after a few hours. Now it's not discounted at all.

Yeah, I'm pissed. That was the only one I was going to buy today.

I bought Puzzle Kingdoms for $1.00

It's playing a lot better than Galactrix and Gyromancer thus far.

Yeah, this. I'm at the point where it's no longer worth my while to buy boxed PC games (excepting bargain basement LAN-fodder). But I've certainly stopped buying new release PC games altogether. I just wait for them to come out on Steam, and then go on deep sale.

I haven't bought anything with this sale - I still haven't installed all the shit I bought over Christmas, let alone played them...



Is Thief or Thief II the one that I should apparently play? I have one or both on disc, but it broke when I tried to play it a couple of years ago. Does whichever one is important to play run alright on modern systems via Steam?

Thief 1&2 aren't on Steam, only Thief 3.  None of Looking Glass' old stuff is on there, looks like (Thief 3 is by Ion Storm).   I believe there are often some issues getting them to run on anything newer than Windows 98, anyway.

Hm, on closer inspection, it's Thief: Deadly Shadows. Is it any good? $3 for the next 9 hours or so...

Anyone played Birth of America?  Is it worth the $1.50?

Do you have a widescreen monitor?

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/Thief:_Deadly_Shadows

I mentioned earlier I couldn't get it running at 1080p, but had run it at 720p when it first came out. I think it's a really solid entry into the franchise for the first half of the game. I haven't been able to finish it because the middle part gets completely out of hand with the factions all slaughtering each other and blaming it on you, making you KOS to just about everything between missions.

But for $3, if you like the series and can get it working, it's a good deal (also: look for the user-made high res packs). Even with the AI wonkiness, I still want to go back and play it.

Also, it seemed to work ok on 7, other than resolution issues - which is because Ion Storm ported it from the xbox and didn't open the .ini to real resolutions, but made it Resolution = 3 (or 4 or whatever retardedness).

Yeah, as sky says, for thief, it's recommended you use the high resolution pack as well as the widescreen hack:

Here's the link to it: http://www.john-p.com/textures/Thief-DS/index.shtml

I haven't loaded up thief yet. I think it's worth $3, and I'm eager to see the aforementioned most scary level ever.

Edit: it doesn't like dual cores, make sure you set the affinity to cpu0

Wha?


Thief:
Checking now to see if it's not too late by now.

Yep. got it. 2 hours to spare. Thanks.

Anyone else finding that Steam is a slow POS to load up nowadays?

He returned a game where they gave him credit. I had inquired about that since I was told under no circumstances do they issue refunds. So he has updated more news that he was given.

As for Steam running slow, it has been since this sale started which is pretty understandable since their servers must be taking a beating right now.

A little piece of cool news:

Someone needs to staple that to Kotick's face.

Shatter is an amazing game. 

And Stardock (given my comments in the Elemental thread about galciv2).

System is majorly FUBAR'd at the moment. I can't make purchases even after I manage to get the pages to load.

Borderlands for $10.19 today...I may have to pick it up at last.

Okay I take that back. The store shows that you haven't made the purchase (throws an error) but it might have actually gone through (you'll get an email receipt).

"The Steam servers are too busy to handle your request.  Please try again in a few minutes."

Pretty shooter heavy today. Considering I own Galaxy at War, I'm pretty much going to pass.

Borderlands at ~$10 is really crazy.

The only other stand-out besides that and HL2 is Beat Hazard ($2.49).  It's a twin-stick shooter mixed with Audiosurf, although it's different in one key way.  Whereas Audiosurf varies from calm and slightly boring to vaguely uncontrollable, I think Beat Hazard does a much better job of using slow sections for pacing and really letting the fast parts of tracks give you a boost instead of just forcing to hold on and hope for the best.

I'm getting empire at war, RTS risk w/ cool space battles in star wars universe is worth $5 to me.

Updated. Empire at War seems cool, that's about it.

Is Day of Defeat worth it?  I recall playing through the demo, but never picked it up.

I snagged Birth of America, I'll update with my thoughts when I have time.

I've been playing DoD for close to a decade, always loved it.  The steam version is updated obviously, but graphics will still look dated to you I'm sure.  Still, its my favorite realistic shooter game, though I'm going to give Red Orchestra a try now.

X3 won't load for me :(

I agree, that's ludicrously overpriced.

:cry2:

Day of Defeat is excellent. It's my favorite WW2 infantry FPS.

Day of Defeat is great, I think thats just DoD and not Source though??  Not that source is that much better or anything, just probably a ton more people playing it.


I dunno, I'm enjoying it.  Everyone has an opinion, I think Torchlight at $10 is overpriced.  :oh_i_see:

It's DoD: Source.  "Day of Defeat" is a free mod for Half Life, heh.

I downloaded it and have played maybe a half hour so far (the tutorial basically.) I can definitely feel my neckbeard growing.

It is kind of rough around the edges, and the tutorial is insufficient, I suspect it is going to require a thorough reading of the manual to know how to approach it.

Hm, says Source now, it didn't before.  :awesome_for_real:

Torchlight was/is a great deal at $5. I bought it for $10 quite a while back and felt lioke I got my cash worth. borderlands felt like a ripoff at $25 or whatever when I bought the 4pack. At $10, I'd probably have seriously considered it, IF I can get 2-3 other people I know to play with me. It sucks playing alone.

For those of you who got empire at war, this is the best conversion+addon for it, and I plan on playing it:
http://www.eawpr.net/

Eh, I felt I got my money's worth out of Borderlands at $50.  I played it for probably at least 70 hours.

Today's sale doesn't do much for me.

Hm... tempted by Prototype at $15.  Anyone know if the PC port is garbage?

Seems fine to me, though I never played any of the console versions. I use the Xbox 360 controller with it.

Borderlands is 27 US$ here, so still fairly easy to resist. I remember people saying nice things about Saints Row 2 though so I'll put that on the queue and think about adding prototype to that.

I've heard a lot of love for Saints Row, but I got it on the PS3 for cheap a while back and gave up on it after half an hour.  I've been way too spoiled by GTA's graphics and physics.  :sad:

The SR2 port is awful, horridly optimized, runs like sheisse. I made a cool Cliff Burton and made it about ten minutes after the game beginning jail break before deleting it.

Borderlands is a good deal for $10 but not for any more than that. Since I already had it I picked up all the DLC for $10 total. Hoping its worth it. The island of doctor Zed is interesting and a major major visual change but kinda dull as fuck with no one else to play with.

Hm. Borderlands is US$27.19 and the DLC is $13.23 here.

I might pick up the DLC packs.

Tempted to buy 3x Empire At War.. I already have 3x the original game on disc. but I guess I could look at it as buying the expacks for that price.  :uhrr:

Bring on tomorrow's sale.

I got to the part where you make it to the boat and just lost interest.  Looks bad and runs worse.  Maybe I'll be able to play it when I upgrade.  :oh_i_see:  Bought it a long while ago for I think $5, so I don't really care.

I liked how the tutorial didn't seem to care that I was using a gamepad.  Amateur hour.

Grabbed myself Blood Bowl for 19.99 and the DLC for Defense Grid. Earlier I'd grabbed the Monkey Island series

Other than that I was a bit underwhelmed with the sale.

Or maybe that's the nature of games today

Anything with Mad Moxxie is worth it. :heart:

This.

Birth of America is a smidgen too neck-beardy for me.  It's also pretty low budget, I noticed countless typos in the text from just doing the tutorial.  I might try a campaign later when I have time.  If you're in the mood for some historical turn based grognard gaming, this is a safe play at $1.50.

Not much here I'm liking today.

Freedom Force is awesome camp.

Is the grappling hook in JC2 fun to use? I'm tempted to get it just for that.

Yeah, not a lot there aside from the obvious (Portal or Freedom Force for $2).  Battlefield BC2 is really good but I got it for less than that more than three months ago.

Seeing the original Mount & Blade for ~$10 did made me look up Mount & Blade Warband (http://store.steampowered.com/app/48700/) and that's only $5 more.

I was thinking of Metro 2033. Anyone played that to completion? Or is it one of these visual candy FPS that are cool for the first few hours and then you find yourself thinking of it as work?

Also looking at Singularity. New game, not on sale, but it looks like its finally an FPS with, you know, a real story.

Updated.

I'd suggest avoiding Metro 2033 (technically shitty, check steam forums for complaints), otherwise the sale isn't bad it's just not overwhelming imo.

It's really not.

Well, the hook is sort of fine, but the whole hook parachute dynamic frustrates the hell out of me. You want to get up 10 feet, you hook and try and parachute and woahhhh camera spins and suddenly you're sailing away from the building. I never finished the game and I never really enjoyed it either.

Well that pushed me to finally pick up World of Goo...

What's the deal with Mount and Blade? Should I get just the base game, or pick up the expansion as well to get the graphics upgrades? (Do the graphics upgrades even apply to the core game?)

Sam and Max is definitely worth picking up at that price IMO.  This season has been good stuff so far.

World of Goo at 5 bucks should be an insta-buy if you haven't played it.

Any thoughts on Devil May Cry 4?

You just need Warband.  It has everything the base game has and almost all the mechanical changes (e.g. lance crouching) have toggles to go between Original-style and Warband-style.

It's an excellent port for a Capcom game (i.e. it's decent enough).

The Sam & Max thing is worthwhile IMO.

Updated. It's repeat day, enjoy.

Looks like a combination of the best selling items from previous days.  Nothing on the list left that I want though.  I made out pretty decent in this sale though, only ended up spending around $55.

Snagging civ4 pack, L4D2 4 pack, monkey island.

And the THQ complete pack. Mostly for the dawn of war stuff.

Steampowered.com is down?

Teh awesome. Thanks Caladein.

Fine for me.

I'm not sure if it was available on sale the other day, but anyway. Borderlands DLC is 66% off: $3.39 each or $10.17 for all three.

I picked up an insane amount of gaming for under 75 bucks throughout this sale. These Steam sales getter better every time, I wonder if I'll ever bother buying a new, full priced release again.

Left 4 Dead 2
Mount and Blade: Warband
Borderlands + all DLC
Shatter
Red Faction Guerrilla
Samorost 2
Broken Sword: Twin Pack
Ghost Master
Introversion Complete Pack
Puzzle Kingdoms
Avencast
Gothic Bundle

I've certainly scaled back on it in a major way since these things started, though games still often get me excited early enough that I want to.  My new consideration is: "Will I play this multiplayer more than twice a week" if the answer is yes, I'm willing to pick up right away, since it will likely replace whatever my current "go to" game is for that genre.  However, if I only intend to play single player, or I'm not 100% sold on it, I just put it off. 

For instance, the next "full price" game I will buy is likely to be Civ 5, but who can blame me there :drill:

You're crazy. Metro is an awesome shooter and incredibly atmospheric; kind of like STALKER meets Half-Life. It has its issues, of course (stealth is a bit spotty and there are some setpieces near the end that are kind of... "unfortunate"), but it's still a fantastic game overall.

I've also never heard of any outstanding technical issues with it, aside from a little wackiness involving DX11.

I spent far, far too much.  Going to be eating a lot of ramen for the next month.  In my defense, I was very drunk for some of these.

Borderlands
Deus Ex collection
Devil May Cry IV
Earthworm Jim collection
Evil Genius
Freedom Force collection
Ghostbusters
Gothic collection
GTA IV
GTA: SA
Left 4 Dead 1&2
Oddworld collection
Puzzle Kingdoms
Red Faction: Guerilla
Shatter
Star Wars: Galaxies
Star Wars: Empire at War
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Unreal complete series
The Void
The Witcher

I re-bought the Gothics and the Witcher, I had the Witcher through some download site for the EU version on release, Steam is much easier to deal with. Very happy with ME2 for $23. Also grabbed RE5 and Indigo Prophecy, which were on my wishlist. Only one I'm really debating is maybe getting Anno 1404 Gold, have to rebuy it on Steam if I want the expansion that way. Somewhat tempted by the THQ thing for CoH and DoW series, but money's too tight for that right now.

Oh man, I almost forgot I wanted Witcher, thanks. I was waiting to see if the last day would bring back that $6 and change price. I haven't played the Enhanced version and it will be nice to have on Steam anyway. A few of my others were also re-buys just for the convenience having them on Steam.

3rd-party DRM: TAGES™
3 machine activation limit

http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5251042375/m/1111082797

I'd still take a quick mail to valve to verify if they've removed it on that version as well, since I copied it directly from their store page. If they've removed it, then they should remove the mention of it as well.

Let me elaborate: I don't give a shit.

 :grin:

The new system sounds like a pita (the settlers/asscreed2), but I already own a copy of Anno 1404. If I have to call to install, ok, whatever. I'll worry about it in eight years or whenever I'm on my third install, if I'm not playing whatever the latest iteration of Anno is. I don't really go back and play old games much.

But, but..  but... DRM! HURK!!  *spasm*  :grin:

I really didn't end up buying at lot with this sale (Shatter, Void, DoW2 collection).  Some of the stuff I really wanted was covered by last Christmas' sale or various midweek stuff.  I just don't have that much time for games anymore.   :sad_panda:

Yikes. I've been bad. (http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/bhodi)

Somehow HL2: Lost Coast is worth $100.  You've got like $350 on me.  schild has you beat by almost a thousand.

Yeah, but it's schild.

Just installed Gothic 3, holy shit it's bad.

I was just checking my Steam community page and saw this:

http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/cal (http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/cal) :uhrr:

If you at any point bought a publisher's Complete Pack though it's completely off the reservation.  Either way, I've really spent a lot of money in Steam.

Oh hey guys, do I win something? (http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/teleku)   :oh_i_see:

In my defense, I've bought almost all of that through stream sales and pack sales, so I didn't pay anywhere near that amount.

As if Steam wasn't a big enough piece of spyware already. Now there's the perfect tool for account hackers to determine which accounts to go after. :oh_i_see:

Dude, you need to stop playing fucking Shatter.  Can't even touch your highscore.

If you click on Lost Coast in the store it takes you to a complete HL2 pack at $99.99 so thats what it gets priced at.

Yeah I played it for about 20 hours before I just couldn't handle the combat stupidity anymore. The world was really fun and cool, but the combat is just eye-gougingly horribly with no real feedback on what you could be doing to improve.

Even the alternate AI via the community patch only moderately improved the situation. I mean, why the fuck do I have to make an active decision to kill someone when I've been hacking them to bits already with my sword? Also, I can kill a city of orcs, but I get gangraped by three wolves and can't get up? WTF?

A part of me feels empty not having a new sale to look forward to today.

How is that crazy? I'm far from alone in my troubles with Metro 2033 and that is the worst experience I've had getting a game to run. It may have developed into the most amazing shooter in the world, but I wouldn't know since the trouble to get it to work every time was too big of a pain in the ass to deal with.

You have me beat by ~$500. Though you also have about a 3 year head start on me

Cal and Teleku make me feel a lot better about mine.  :awesome_for_real:

Unless you have your account set to "private". (http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/samwise)

Is the default private or public? (I'm too lazy to look it up myself...)

I don't remember, but probably public.

Where do you even change that setting? I don't see it in Account settings.

Steam Community -> Home (or Profile) -> Edit my Profile (sidebar, under Actions) -> Settings -> Profile Status

I changed it to Private but of course the calculator still shows all my purchases (cached, presumably) :oh_i_see:

Edit: also it was set on Friends Only which apparently means jack and shit in terms of what you can see about other people.

You barely have anything at all on yours!

That ingmar isn't me. I was late to the Steam game so I had to settle for more Rs: http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/ingmarrrr

This was my first thought as well.  :awesome_for_real: