f13.net

It is imminent, some prices were changed before the server went offline. Like Shogun 2 for half price.

Yay, christmas in july!

It's on like Donkey Kong!

Blood Bowl -66% $13.60
DoW2 Retribution -50% $15
Witcher 2 -33% $33.49
Back to the Future -50% $12.49

ANd some bullshit (Bit Trip Runner, Test Drive Unlimited, Recettear, Op Flashpoint Red River, Oblivion, Borderlands, Medal of Honour)

Seriously you should buy blood bowl.

Yes. Come join us in the Blood Bowl f13 league (otherwise known as the "Watch the dice kick HaemishM in the balls" league).

Oh no.  :ye_gods:

Its that time of year again!

Remember the rules: Don't buy anything from the publisher sales until the last day in case it goes on daily sale before then.

Is Oblivion worth the $6.80?

Not really.

But Blood Bowl is worth twice that amount.

I don't like blood bowl, because i suck at it.

Some mods ask for all of the expansion content.  This might be a way to cover it.  

Otherwise, no, not really.  I think Oblivion's time has passed, and I'm one of the few people here that liked the vanilla game.  I might pick it up (for the expansions), but I have my doubts I'd even install it.

Er, I thought that was my job this season. Srsly, skull/skull/skull pow rerolled to same. Twice in one game. That's some dice, there.

fake edit - hells yeah, Back to the Future! Should probably wait for the xmas sale on it...so tempting...

BttF is pretty cool. Was happy with it at full price.

The site is getting HAMMERED. I can't reach it via web or the client.

Shit, the servers are getting hammered and so I can't get in. I got redirected to the German page once, so I guess that's something.

Must be your shitty US internet connections, works fine here in sub saharan Africa. Fuck you ~the first world~.

No, god dammit no, I can't afford this right now, WHY

I just got a raise.  Time to splurge. This is like going to a book store when you've already started your re-read of the Wheel of Time series.

Hmm, well this is going to be a disaster for my wallet. I'm only going to spend $100 this time. I SWEAR!

I kind of want TDU2 but I just know I'll never play it. Shogun 2 is a must have but I shall remember the Rule.

I'm going to get teh Deluxe version of Oblivion so I can dedisk it. I've been waiting for this.

This is too complicated. My head hurts now.

Borderlands... had that on my radar for a while. Any good?

It's good.  Not what Pitchford promised, but it was fun for 30-50 hours of game play over a couple weeks.

I've beaten the PS3 version and now I'm tempted to get the pc goty just to play the DLC.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS ACHIEVEMENT PRIZE SYSTEM  :ye_gods:

Does your head hurt too now?

30-50 hours for £7.50 works well within my "How does that compare to the equivalent of beer?" value/reward system.

Thoroughly.

Zombie Island is the only good DLC, not counting the bank slots you get in Underdome. The travel in Armory is really really painful. I haven't played Claptrap but reviews I've read say it is bad too.

Fuck Yeah!!!  Summer sale!

FFS - Retribution is $29USD when I look at it. Stop gouging Australia and I might start buying into your sales.

I wouldn't blame Steam for that.  Your wacky government seems to be the likely culprit.

Do achievements. Get free stuff.

(http://files.sharenator.com/Shut_up_and_take_my_money_RE_Gues_what_this_is-s500x313-149402-580.jpg)

Aside from some daily really low priced thing I can't pass up, there actually isn't too much I want right now.  I'm hope Fallout New Vegas goes real low, and I'll probably scoop up the Civ 5 DLC I want.

Hopefully I'm forgetting some stuff.

Yes, but the how and the where and the why? I'm at work and haven't figured out how to min/max it yet with my leet accounting skillz.

Do achievements, get tickets.

Use tickets to buy things for games.  Each ticket earned also enters you into the drawing for getting the top 10 games of your wishlist.

Oh man, Rift is half price. I fear for my future.

Of course, just bought the Claptrap DLC a couple days ago for more than they are selling the whole GoY edition for today.

If anyone bought it over the Father's Day thing, they're doing a similar sale now.  $5 but no game time.  I assume you'd be able to start your sub whenever and you'll have effectively locked down that $20 price.

The EU price is merely matched to Steam. I wonder if the game is doing better over here since they feel they don't need to discount it as much?

It's the local IP owners. Not the government.

There's not that many bad games on that list, IMO.

Weird. My friend and I thought that Claptrap was great, Armory hilarious though travel was a bitch. Underdome blows and Zombie Island is worth buying.

I've already spent $11 on the first day...  :oh_i_see:

I'm not going to make my budget.

Zombie Isle - fun all around
Underdome - Arenas are too long; dying on the last wave is monitor punching worthy; bank slots are nice
Armory - hilarious with sucky travel
Claptrap - haven't finished but was having fun with it

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6960/
Popcap games complete pack, 83% off.

Why? seems pretty simple to me.  Play the required games, get the achieve for a prize ticket.  Every day has a different list of achievements you'll have to do.   Each prize on the list costs you 3 tickets, and tickets can only be earned on the day the achieve is on the list.

Too bad I own NONE of the games required to get a ticket.

So they are doing the potato bag thing again where they try to get you to buy a bunch of indie games which I have zero interest in?

Spectromancer: $2.50  - Did anyone every try this?

Yes but then there's a contest involving wishlists or some shit. And entries with a jar.

For each ticket you earn you get an entry into a lottery.  100 tickets will be pulled and those people will win the games on their top 10 wishlist. 

(This is the only part where no purchase is necessary. You get 1 entry just by having a top 10 list. Everything else requires you to have purchased the games for the tickets.. so it's a wonderful loophole around the no purchase req's for such promotions.)

You have until the end of the sale to get the tickets for each day btw. So you don't need to try and get the achievement on that specific day.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4577-WUSK-4280

I am half tempted to get Blood Bowl and play with you guys but suspect it'd be one long humiliation for me...

Oh that's helpful.

Please people buy blood bowl. Sir T and I need some people to be worse than us. (At least he has an excuse, Chaos or Nurgle or whatever he's playing is a slow team, I have no excuses hah)

I'm 0-5 or 0-6 or something, having an awful season (was 3-3 or something last season) but still no desire to quit. Sure, I get pissed once and a while, but it keeps me coming back because it's an awesome game (with a shit interface, goddamned Cyanide).

If you like TBS, talking smack, football or just randomly beating on f13 people, it's a great game.

Yes, purchase Blood Bowl.  My Ex-Presidents of Doom need more newcomers to explode like blood sausages.  :drill:

This is perfect timing for a Blood Bowl purchase though.  The fourth season of the f13 league is about to hit the postseason, which gives you just enough time to practice and/or build a team in the f13 Feeder League in anticipation for season five so that your chances of getting steamrolled are minimized, but not eliminated.

How do you delete shit from your Steam wishlist again?

Under the title, next to the date added, it says "Remove" in brackets.

Indeed, their contest page made it sound like you had to do them that day.  Still, I'm not buying a bunch of $3 games for a ~1:1 million chance at some free stuff.  Plus it's summer so I wouldn't play them.

DAY 2:

Shogun 2 - $29.99
CoD Black Ops - $37.19
GTA Classics - $7.49
Dungeons - $13.59
Devil May Cry 4 - $9.99
Just Cause 2 - $4.99
Railworks 2 Train Sim - $8.74
Braid - $2.49
Spacechem - $5.09
Hamilton's Great Adventure - $4.99
HoMaM V - $4.99

I guess the real question is if that's the right price point to get Shogun.

I'm certainly getting Just Cause 2 at that price.

Hmm, Just Cause 2 is the only one that jumps out as possibly worth it just to have at that price point, but I don't know how much I'd really ever play it.

I'll finally buy Just Cause 2 at that price, and possibly the DLCs.  Shogun is still too pricey for me to even consider because by the end of the sale I'll have more games than I know what to do with anyhow, and may as well just wait for a lower price later in the year or next year.

Anyone have an opinion on homam V? I've enjoyed the earlier ones, and figure it might be a good thing to have on ice for later this summer once I have a desktop assembled and some time off of work.

And on the second day, my wallet rests (already have JC2).

edit: Ohh wait, I can de-disk KOTOR. HRRRMM.

I got a lot of play out of it, but it was the first one I'd ever played. I have no reference to any nerdragey things that they may/may not have changed from previous editions.

At $5 I'd say it's a must-buy if you don't have it.

Computer cheats like a little bitch.

I want Shogun but not at that price.   Who knows when I'll have time to play it so I might as well wait.

$5 is worth a flyer, but IMO they've all been sort of crappy since 3.

Same. I have waited this long; I can wait until the inevitable holiday sale this fall and get it for $19.99 or less.

A bunch of Star Wars games are on sale today, too.  Knights of the Old Republic and Battlefront 2 are $2.50 each, seems like a solid buy if you don't have them already.  The Force Unleashed 2 and Empire at War are on the block, too.

Steam is nickling and diming me to death with all this 66-75% stuff ... curse you and your successful business model!  :grin:

Yeah, picked up Battlefront II.  I remember the first one being fun, but never played the sequel.  Same with KOTOR, but they, sadly, don't have KOTOR II.   :oh_i_see:

I'm spending a lot of money. So many new games!

Warning about KOTOR: It doesn't play nice with windows 7 64bit. If you're running this, don't bother buying.


I have a huge list of games that I'm going to buy on the last day, but my take so far:

Yesterday:
Oblivion
DoW2: Retribution
Telltale Pack (Sam & Max, Monkey Island, BttF, strongbad)

Today:
Spacechem
Devil May Cry 4
Dark Messiah might and magic (from the pack, it was $2 and apparently the only really good buy in there as I already own HOMM5)

Fiddled around with this a bit and got it working by disabling the hardware cursor (should be a program in there called swconfig that lets you set the config options without launching the game).  It's a bit tetchy, but it runs.

DoW2 tempts me, but I'm hoping for a sale later where I can get the complete package for a similar price.  the THQ complete pack appeals for this reason, but has a bunch of games I probably wouldn't ever play.

Not only can you get KotOR working with 7 64, there's a widescreen hack.

I got the THQ pack last year and it was pretty much the best deal. Metro, dawn of war, company of heroes (dawn of war in WW2), red faction guerrilla were all fantastic games. Titan quest was OK. I see they switched up the pack though and added homefront and MX, and removed some other games, I dunno. Anyway I think it's a good deal by far just for dawn of war and all the exps alone.

Hmm I'm running it on Vista 64 bit no problem.   I have a brand new ATI card too which is the worst possible card to have for running those games.

Also for anyone who likes MTG I'd like to say Spectromancer + all DLC for 5 bucks has turned out to be a damn nice deal.   I haven't even tried it online yet and it's already been worth it.

So many packs I'd consider if I didn't already own half the games.  :uhrr:

Bought KOTOR for my wife last Christmas I think and she really liked it, but then it started crashing and glitching all the time on Win 7 64 and I could never get it smooth no matter what patches and mods I tried.

I tried to like Blood Bowl, but I couldn't find the fun. Likewise I really struggled to get into KOTOR which I picked up last time it was on sale; I just found the game to be paced really slow, the world uninteresting and the interface and gameplay slightly unintuitive.

KOTOR does start VERY slowly, and it is a bit ancient now.  Its pretty darn good if you stick it out though. 

Battlefield bad company 2 $7.50
AvP $4.99
Fable 3 $24.99
Darksiders $4.99
Plants v Zombies $3.39
Bioshock 2 $4.99
Magicka $3.39
Football Manager 2011 $9,99
HL2 Ep2 $5.39
Super Meatboy $7.49
Hoard $2.99
Resident Evil 5 $14.99

How was RE5. I never really liked the RE series of games, just not a huge fan of the original style of game play, I thought I had heard that RE5 was more like FPS gameplay than the previous games.

Any truth to that?

I played RE5 for 30 minutes and I hated how clunky it was.

Nah, it's like RE4. RE4 was amazing back in the day because it did away with the static camera angles and had more action. However it's still tank controls and "press button to take firing stance, then press another button to fire" thing. It's positively clunky compared to any cover-based shooter you've ever played.

I'm seeing Bad Company 2 as 5.00, not 7.50.  In North America if that makes a difference.   Might buy Darksiders for 5 bucks, anyone know much about it?

I picked up Darksiders, Magika, and Hoard

I would buy Darksiders, but it's a part of the THQ pack, and I intend to purchase that at the end of the sale.

I'll probably cave later in the day and buy Magicka Complete.

I enjoyed it on the console. It is the same style gameplay as Ocarina of Time or the Windwaker, but with skulls and guns. I really liked it. Controls on the PC might be a bit funky, but thats just a guess.

Totally worth $5 if you like that sort of gameplay.

I thought Darksiders was ok. I liked it at first, but it just got to be too much of a hassle. If you do play it, I recommend doing it at the easiest setting and breezing your way through.

Fable 3 is tempting.

Passing on today. Already own BF2, magicka, PvZ, didn't like hoard or darksiders. Super meat boy is just frustration in video game form.

I also would like to post this in the "old CRPGs" thread, but hey, no problem:

- Eschalon I (Euro 3,74) and Eschalon II (it's a sequel...Euro 4,99) are now heavily discounted on Steam for the summer sale. There is also a free demo of Eschalon I and you can check out the manuals as well, of course.

Store page:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/25600/

I'm seeing Battlefield at $5.00 and HL2 Ep. 2 at $1.99.

Yep those are the US prices too.    Definitely picking up Book 2 at that.   The first one was so good I almost feel guilty buying the 2nd at only 5 bucks.  Man you really have to use search a lot on this sale.   These two were not on sale earlier when I checked.  I've seen a LOT of stuff heavily discounted (penny arcade games were only like 1.20).

Anyone played Hoard?  How many hours would I get out of it really?

Picked up 4 copies of SW:BF2 to de-disc it, since it's a game friends still like to play local co-op-style MP against bots now and then, plus an extra as a gift for one of them. Would have gotten HOMMV to de-disc mine, but the discount's just not deep enough. Also Garry's Mod. Because wtf.

Anyone got a link to the KOTOR hacks for Win7-64

Now I'll probably buy Magika complete. Maybe 2 copies so I can co-op it with the wife.

I was about to go for Bioshock 2 at $5, but then I decided to check for AIDS:

It's still pretty infected.  :oh_i_see:

I'll throw in my hat for Darksiders. It has an RPG-style upgrade system for your weapons, and has a slightly bigger emphasis on combat. But otherwise, it's Zelda in a modern setting with HD graphics.

Appreciate the heads up on Eschalon.  I spotted them about a year ago and thought they'd be perfect for me, but decided to wait until I had more time and then completely forgot about them.  Definitely grabbing both at that price.

I found hoard boring after an hour. You can try the demo of it.

Here's my list of shit I'm probably going to buy on the last day, cribbed from reading the steam SA thread, this place, and others. I already own the telltale pack and spacechem as of yesterday, and shatter from previous sales.

Frozen synapse
portal 2
spacechem
space empires 4 (5?)
Divinity II: Ego Draconis

penny-arcade adventures

AI War: Fleet command

gratuitous space battles

Disciples 2 is freakin' great tbs game

Eschalon: Book I

Zen Bound 2 - $1 - A very pretty, relaxing puzzle game, great for wind-downs after play sessions of very intense games (and for when you're  ).

The Maw "Mawsome Pack" - $3 - Pretty much a Pixar movie in game form. It'll only last you a couple hours, max, but it's an unforgettable experience.

Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! pack - $1.25 - The most hilarious modern adventure games out there. Get them if you're even remotely interested in classic LucasArts adventures or British humor.

Madballs In... Babo: Invasion - $2.50 - A more-than-competent 3rd-person shooter with a robust online mode. Plus, fucking madballs.

Hammerfight - $2.50 - 2D physics-steampunk-flying-machine-bashing game. I know that sounds weird but seriously get this shit.

Stubbs The Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse - $2.50 - You are a zombie named Stubbs. You must kill everyone, eat their brains, and add to your zombie horde. Originally an Xbox 1 game, but don't let that stop you.

NyxQuest Kindred Spirits - $2.50 - A puzzle-platformer based loosely on Greek mythology that makes great use of keyboard and mouse controls. It's also short, but it's cheap.

Frozenbyte Pack - $7.50 - Includes three games. If you find the Alien Shooter games too button-mashy, then the Shadowgrounds isometric shooters are your antidote. Also includes Trine, a wonderful Lost Vikings-style 2D puzzle-platformer.

The Longest Journey + Dreamfall - $6.24 - About three bucks and change each for two of the best "serious" adventure games ever created. Just make sure you have a tolerance for long cutscenes.

Shatter - $2.50 - You like Arkanoid, right? 'Course ya do! Well, have some Arkanoid on crack.

Children of the Nile Pack - $3.12: Tilted Mill is a solid city builder developer and Children of the Nile is an entirely competent Caesar/Pharoh clone. Maybe the best deal right now if you like historical city builder sims. Scratch that, Tropico Reloaded is currently the best deal in this category, but Children of the Nile is a good game for a really cheap price.

I know it's been said in past sales but whenever the Telltale pack is on sale it's always an incredible deal.

Back to the Future: The Game Is better then any BTTF4 movie will ever be.

Aside from the endless stream of $5 indie games, I can't find enough stuff to fill up my wishlist with. Between my 360's titles and previous Steam sales, I've struggled to find 10 games to put on it. And that's with Magika, Magika: Vietnam and Trine all added - all of which I'm likely to buy before the sale ends. Hell, I even put Black Ops up there to take up a slot.

Thats quite an impressive list Bhodi

At the end of this I hope to have

Fallout New Vegas (probably only if it goes on further sale)

Civ 5 DLC (regardless)


Anything else is firmly in the impulse buy range for me.  Decided against Darksiders for today, but anything that goes into the 5 dollar and under range I'm at least considering.

You can add unreleased games to the list. That's how I fill mine up during these contests. My list currently is:

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dungeon Defenders
Saints Row: The Third
Tropico 4
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Stronghold 3
Alice: Madness Returns
F.E.A.R. 3
RAGE
Might & Magic Heroes VI

I got the widescreen and hud stuff from WSGF, forget if/what I used to tweak for win7.

Tried buying this the first day when it was like $1.80 and it kept telling me I can't because I already own it....but I don't.  :uhrr:

While this game looks fun, in practise I found it to be a confusing mess and not that engaging.

Does anyone have any comments on Fable 3? I played Fable 1 on X-Box and thought it was cute and fairly harmless. I'm open for another RPG game in that broad style.

As someone who loved the hell out of Fable 1, I found it a little bit disappointing, but not horrible. 

Combat is a bit frustrating (enemies are all a bit too tough, there are usually a ton of them, and you don't have a visible health meter) but literally impossible to lose (your guy just gets knocked down and gets a new scar).  There is no more combat multiplier, most of your XP now comes from completing quests and improving relationships.  A lot of the magic spells are gone, too, I think there are only five or six now, and they're all offensive fireball type things.

The story is kind of interesting, and it does some interesting (some would say questionable) things with the moral choice system.  Befriending people is more of a pain, since you have to do quests and things for them now instead of just having an Aura of Awesome that makes women swoon and men turn gay.  Marriage is mostly the same, but you can have a kid now (though given that my character is caucasian and his wife is caucasian and they ended up with an african kid, either the game is a bit buggy here or it's working on a level of realism I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with).

Overall, a bit disappointing, but not a complete waste of time.  I had fun with it.  If it were $10ish, I'd say definitely, but for $25, I'd say it depends on how much you liked Fable 1.

Hey thanks! that's really useful. I've got it topped up now.

#10 seller right now is the $80 Sims 3 pack.  :ye_gods:

Thanks, guess I will wait for it to come around again in a year or so.

Dragon Ages.
Assassins Creeds.
Torchlight.
Tropico3

Some other crap.

Might buy DA2 then fail to download it for months.

I've never played any Assassin Creed, but I've always been curious about it. Whole pack (AC1 Director's, AC2 Deluxe, Brotherhood) is € 27.19; seems quite a good value to me...

I'm very tempted by Two Worlds 2. Any opinions?

My opinion (have never played Brotherhood) was that Assassin Creed is fun and wroth picking up for $5 on sale or whatever.  But once you play the first half or so of 1, you've played all of one and two.  Nothing much new or exciting, just lots of the same.

I played about 10 hours of the PS3 version.  On that version the camera swung too rapidly and gave me a headache, that combined with a very short 'in-focus' camera (no depth of field) kept me from playing it any longer.

I wish it was down to $10, I'd pick it up then to see if it's better on PC.  It's typical eurojank - if you liked Risen or Divinity, with a smidgen of Oblivion then you might like it.  It's markedly better than TW1, but don't go in expecting a AAA title. 

They're pretty good games, but not the type of game you'd probably want to play back-to-back. They're all fairly long, and fairly similar. You might be better off picking up AC1, seeing if you like it, and then picking up 2/Brotherhood the next time they are inevitably on sale.

Bah, I bought AC:Brotherhood right before the summer sale was announced.   :uhrr:  AC1 and AC2 for $7 each is a lot of game for the money.

DA1 Ultimate for $10 purchased.

I got AC1 from Amazon last time Steam had a sale (because it was there for about £2.50) and got to say I'm quite enjoying it. Also, I find it's a game I can play for 20 or 30 minutes, feel like I've made some progress and come back again later.

Having said that, the samey samey gameplay is getting a little old already.

What's different about Brotherhood? I'm tempted to splash the cash just to have a non-disc version to play but then DA:O is also tempting me.

If you like sim city type games Tropico 3 for less than four bucks is a no brainer.  It's quite fun.

I bought 2 Worlds 2 Furious. I'm a sucker for eurojank.

Same. Now im trying to get a friend to buy it for the online bits.

I remember a lot of comments to the effect that the transformer game was actually pretty good.   I'm probably going to check it out at that price finally.

I know some people here enjoyed Drakensang. I know I did. The next in the series is on sale for $9.99 and reviews show that it's decent.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/33770/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/33770/)

Its a fairly generic robot TPS. Decent game, nothing special. IMO they missed out on the transforming part of the game. I would probably rate it a 8 or so.

Double check the DRM/Connection requirements first. Not sure what they are at present since Ubi tends to slowly change the DRM on existing games.

Nothing that compels me today. ARMAII might have been interesting, but not for $20. I'd expect better than that for a Steam sale title, especially with ARMA3 around the corner...

Can't decide between eurorpg wonkiness and the Assassin's Creed pack.  :|

Hell, this sale is killing me.  I think I'm at something like $100 already.

Grabbed Dragon Age today, because it's been the top game on my wishlist since I set the thing up.  Also Tropico 3 and Assassin's Creed: Brosef.  Hopefully, I'll be safe for the rest of the sale, unless they discount Mirror's Edge, or The Sims 3/medival sharply enough (unlikely, since the pack is like eighty bucks and still selling, and for reasons passing my comprehension, the base game is not discounted at all).

Transformers multiplayer was actually pretty awesome. Not sure if it's active anymore though.

I'm at 25 or so, picked up DA:O just because.  Hard to beat at $10 and I never got that far into it before I gave the discs to my dad.  Holy crap it's a 25gig download.  

DA:O
Defense Grid
Tropico 3
Eschalon 1
HL2 Ep1
HL2 Ep2 (yeah, yeah... I know.  I never got around to them)

I bought Divinity 2 a week ago when it was on sale.  Lots of new games floating around right now.  

Surprisingly, I haven't bought anything yet.  Either I already have them or they don't interest me.

I bought Bioshock 2 yesterday after a friend recommended it at that price - got 30 minutes in and now it crashed to desktop.  Now it crashes to desktop every time I load it up.

Oh well.

Try searching google for the Bioshock 2 ini locations, delete them, and then relaunch it. Sometimes forcing a reset to default settings will fix issues like that.

The transformer game actually ran out of keys.  :oh_i_see:

It wasn't available in my region, either.  :why_so_serious:

Sold.  Im a sucker for turn based rpgs and for $3.74 i dont even care if i never play it :)  (funny how on Basilisk's website they're still selling them for $20 and $25)

He's released book 2 as well. :grin:

I've already got it on the 360, any mileage in getting it on the PC as well? (answers within the hour please :-) )

Days 2 & 3 have otherwise failed to provide anythng I particularly desire (DA2 still isn't cheaper than I can get it retail)

Anyone care to explain how these Eschalon games work and play? The videos were not terribly impressive, but it's an RPG so I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Is Alpha Protocoll any good ? Or is it that game that everyone raged about because of how broken some paths were ?

edit: Nevermind, Joe to the rescue... (http://angryjoeshow.com/2010/06/game-review-alpha-protocol/)

I already own M&B and mod the shit out of it, so I'd recommend that to anyone who doesn't own it. Get Warband and the Regular version, you can skip Fire and Sword since there aren't enough mods for it.

New Vegas day - my first planned purchase!

Edit: Also bought the Serious Sam double pack.

Picked up Alpha Protocol...just because.

I was hoping for a better price on New Vegas, but I'll take it.  I've been waiting a long time to play it so I'm willing to fork over $20 for it and the two DLCs.

Didn't care for playing Fallout NV on PS3, so I bought it on this sale.  I might be just about capping out on my budget. 

I'm not so sure I'm sold on it and the older versions are more expensive.   I like mods but won't there be plenty of mods for the new version at some point?

Alpha Protocol totally depends on the player I think. It got terrible reviews but I enjoyed the hell out of it because of how much choice the game had. Let's put it this way, I've never played a game before that can have different final boss battles depending on choices you make over the course of the game.

Not really. The modders hate the F&S version. Most of the mods are for Warband. And there's a good reason for that. The F&S version is ok, but it was buggy and didn't add much to the engine that wasn't already there in Warband.

There's a reason Warband is more expensive. It's better.

Just trust me on this one I've put 114 hours into F&S, 164 into the orginal, and over 100 into the new mods on Warband across Steam and my old computer.

Dropped $7.50 for Singularity, as I missed it the last time it was on sale.

I discovered something interesting, in that it might just be picking up old achieves for tickets. I went ahead and bought the THQ pack the other day since it had the 40k games and I figured I'd give TQ a shot.*  I got a free ticket today for completing the 2nd chaper of Homefront, which I'd installed and played through entirely on Saturday.   It could just be that "any day during the sale" also means "if you happen to have done it before we put the ticket task up."

*I figure $50 for 3 games I wanted to play 2 I'd heard good things of and a few others who had fans here isn't a bad deal and I shouldn't have been so wishy-washy about it.

That was such a cool game. I love time traveling Soviets.

Opinions on RUSE anyone?

I concur that Warband is the version to get. F&S isn't actually newer anyway is my understanding, it just took forever to come out here.

Jesus fucking christ, Two Worlds 2 has DRM that wants you personal information to activate the game.

edit: turns out you can opt out of registration, there's just a bug that makes the button inaccessible if you have a 360 controller plugged in (a side effect of the mouse not working unless you unplug the pad and restart the game).

Love it. Much slower paced than typical RTSs, more strategic.

Its pretty good, there isn't much of a multiplayer community though, so just realize if you buy it its basically just for the single player campaign.

Been waiting for Fallout NV to go on sale, so I grabbed it and the DLC.

Got Singularity and FNV with the DLC today. Guess I have to re-scrub my wishlist again. Trine is on sale for even less than I paid for it just 2 days ago. Still, it's only about $2 difference, so I'm not going to sweat it that much.

I'm really loving NV, better than Fallout 3.  Especially since I've been replaying Fallout 2 recently, it really hits the tone right pretty well.

I think I might buy it now. I never played Fallout 3, so I've been waiting and waiting for it to go on sale for like $10 or something but welp, only New Vegas.

It does have the "Bethesda face" problem however.

Az, did you buy it from the 'Screw us cause we're Australian' prices, or are you doing the US proxy thing?

I find it so hard to buy something when its one of the Screw us prices - even if its discounted it still hurts.

Any thoughts on Frozen Synapse?

I had a friend in the US region help me out on them - sent them some moneys and got them as gifts. I'd never buy games that are ripoffville Australian prices - I usually get those via the UK. www.ozgameshop.com or www.365games.co.uk

Does anyone know how to take screenshots in steam games? F12 does nothing, and there's nothing in my steam screenshot folder. Tried Zombie Driver, Serious Sam, BC2..  Even tried on TF2 which of all things should work since it's a Valve game with no luck...

Frozen Synapse - seems pretty good. I haven't had much of a chance to play it, but it comes with 2 copies from memory, so you should be able to split the already-disounted price with someone. Makes it about six bucks. Worthwhile for that.

The soundtrack is great.

...

The game is pretty good as well.  :grin:
Someone had a link to a nice, effusive online review that I am far too lazy to dig up, but in short it's a purely-procedural tactics game. The video I mentioned gives a decent look at the game. In short, think of a tactics game...with no dice-rolling. Priority of actions matter - A Lot.

If you open the client, go to the "Steam" menu and hit "settings," it should open a settings window.  On the "in-game" tab you should see a box for "screenshot shortcut keys" or something like that.  I believe by default it is f12, but if yours isn't working, you might want to remap it to something else.  I do think there are games it doesn't work for (games that don't use the Steam overlay, like Blood Bowl, I think) but I haven't run in to any problems with it.

After that, for the achievement, I think you have to upload it using the screenshot manager, which is on your community page (so you can't just use something like prtSc->paste).

Yep, I'd already checked it, and it was f12. I just deleted it and remapped it to f12 again. Should the screenshots go straight into the Steam screenshot folder?

Oh crap I didn't even noticed the New Vegas DLC was on sale.   That's a steal.

For €14.99 (not counting the two DLC released so far), it seems the right time to purchase FVN: if I remember correctly, the game should have one or two more DLC by the time Christmas comes, so I'm expecting a sale of the basic game for about the same price, or maybe a couple Euro less, but not going down below ten bucks.

The Steam Screenshot Manager should pop-up once you exit the game. It's got the publish stuff.

Still not working for some reason...

Picked up TW2 yesterday and played for about five hours. It satisfies an itch anyway. Loot's fun, crafting seems fun, magic system is fun, combat is less bad than Witcher 2. The voice acting and character animations are pretty  :uhrr:, but the world is pretty. Seems like I'll get good value for being under $20.

Oh, and to all those that hated scaled leveling in Oblivion (myself included), this game gives you the opposite. "Oh look, there's a cave I was given a quest for at level two, lets see what's inside!" Followed by the loud sclurching sound of my body being cleaved in twain by the first swing from the monster just inside the cave.

Grr, wish I'd read this before hitting the purchase button...

Grabbed Warband, just because. Also got the F:NV DLCs.

Really considering the new Drakensang and its DLC, probably grab those the last day. Also considering the two Eschalons, played the demo enough to know it's enjoyable, but the fixed res and small items/text means I'll have to play it on the laptop, so that puts it into the maybe category.

Lots of other stuff that's somewhat compelling but I can't really see buying it now when I already have a huge backlog. Maybe the xmas sale.

Fair warning about the new Drakensang. It was fun to play but the voice acting was hurt your ears bad.

I'm debating the FO:NV DLC. It says I have to have New Vegas on steam to play. My copy is retail but shows up in the steam library so I'm guessing it more or less applies.

I would not count on that. It won't even let me order the Sims expansions even though I have a retail Sims 3 registered through Steam.

I have had this same experience. Horrible voice acting and character models, but the world is nice, and combat is fun. I also went exploring in a cave and found a skeleton that was killing me in two hits. It was very refreshing after the scaling levels of a lot of recent rpgs.

For anyone on the fence for the last 75 minutes, Alpha Protocol and New Vegas are totally worth the money.

Like I've said here before, Alpha Protocol is a complete technical and gameplay mess.  But the conversation system and plot structure are worth $5 alone just to play with.  It's a pity that I heard (here I think) that they rewrote the dialogue/plot somewhat to be more Jack Bauer and less James Bond, but it still works rather well and highlights some of the best aspects of an Obsidian game (while swimming in the worst).

New Vegas was leaps better than Fallout 3. Mainly because they got the setting and feel of a Fallout game right, where vanilla Fallout 3 felt a lot more.. vanilla.  The DC metro area was better done than Vegas, but it was also a headache to navigate.  I think combat broke down a bit more in Vegas (some stuff was just shockingly ineffective towards the end), but it didn't matter as the game wasn't overly difficult to complete and gave you a few ways of doing so.

I put 15 hours into one play through of Alpha Protocol and 45 into New Vegas.  Good gaming deals there.

Damnit Ras, now I went and bought Alpha Protocol, and on a whim grabbed Singularity also.

I have so many games to play now.

Be sure to check out the BiiF for tweaks you'll probably want to do to the interface if you plan on playing with a keyboard and mouse.  Game is pretty much unplayable if you don't (imo).

Yeah, I expect a good ol' eurojank. All good in my book.

Today's sales are pretty lame. Typical mid-week stuff. I think I'll buy the AI Fleet game.

Civ 5 DLC is all dirt cheap today, I picked it all up.

Yea today is kind of dumb.  It's not that those games are bad but you either own them or you don't care about them.   Only the Civ5 DLC is worthwhile.

Joining the GuildWars party late for $15. Remind me again which of the trilogy is most fun/I should start with?

I'm tempted on this. I wanted to try some of the GW stuff past the vanilla client, but I never wanted to pay like $60 to get it all at this late stage in the game.

I'm tempted by the S.T.A.L.K.E.R stuff - is Clear Sky the one to miss or Call of Pripyat?

CoP is the most polished game of the lot, but I found Clear Sky more engaging myself. I'd get them both.

clear sky is the one with activation-based tages, though.

I don't actually think F&S is bad, mind you, but if you're new to M&B, Warband is more... accessible. F&S has some frustrating aspects to it.

I'm also tempted by this. But I think you want the North one for the heroes? I only pay passing attention to GW talk, mostly the stuff that cropped up in the GW2 thread.

And I buckled on the Civ V DLC, not sure why. I'm happily enjoying FFH2 :p Guess I'll download Civ V again and give it another whirl when I wrap up my latest FFH2 game.

Nightfall is the one that starts you with heroes, which is where you want to start first if you've never played before.  Eye of the North is the one that's an actual expansion and not a stand alone.  If you want to work towards unlocks for Guild Wars 2 however, you need it, and $10 is about as cheap as I've ever seen it (although amazon is calling me a liar as we speak since I looked it up and it's $9 there).

On the upside, they recently made it so you can use a full hero party (npcs you control that you can kit out how you like), so you can effectively treat it like a single player game.  I finally just finished the whole storyline solo like a week ago.

The free trial is here:  http://guildwars.com/freetrial/
It's an incremental downloader and can get you in game to look around within a few minutes.  You'll have nasty initial zone load times but at least you can take a quick look.  I don't know if it lets you pick which campaign to start in or if you always end up in Prophecies or not.  If you end up in Prophecies, my condolences, because it's awful, and won't give you an actual feel for the game as it currently is.

Ard puts on a pretty accurate description.  There are some folks that still actively, if only casually, play it around here.  It's a lot of fun to play with someone else who just wants to have fun. 

Also, I suspect that unless they close the servers, it will still have a solid population once GW2 launches.  I can see myself flipping back and forth between them. 

It's going to continue for quite a while after launch since you can still accrue hall of monument unlocks after guild wars 2 releases.  I fully expect to see a wave of people who never touched GW1 pick it up on the cheap after they find they like GW2 to get the unlocks.  They're also doing a series of fairly large free content updates to guild wars 1 as a ramp up to guild wars 2.

As Ard says, start with Nightfall.  Prophecies is okay to do once you have a feel for the game, but it's long and slow.  Being able to bring an established party to it helps a lot.
I'd been considering the AI Wars game for a while now since (Can't remember if it was Stormwaltz or IainC) first mentioned it.  At $5 for it and all the expansions I'm going to grab it.

Have to wait until I get home though.  For some reason Steam won't let me log in from my work machine, nor will they send me the confirmation e-mail.

Looking long and hard at King Arthur, I bought it for a couple of friends for xmas and I didn't hear them rave about it but $4.50 for the collection seems a no brainer since Game of Thrones has me in the mood for something like this.

Anything I should know?

They make it too goddamned easy for me. I'm sure some steambot snuck in and installed the mac client here. Wasn't me, nossireebob.

Let's talk more about how much GW1 sucks.  :why_so_serious:

I now own the games. All of them.

I didn't like King Arthur, I got it last steam sale. But I never cared about the Arthurian myth, so in the end for me it was just a mediocre fps/strategy game with broken archers.

Adding a game called "Nexus: The Jupiter Incident" to the list for the last day. I'm tired of typing so I'll just copy paste. I recommend what I buy, but you may not share my tastes :)

Today, 5 games for less than the price of the carwash I got on the way home.

You now own Monday Night Combat, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat - Discount Check, AI War: Fleet Command, AI War: The Zenith Remnant, AI War: Children of Neinzul, AI War: Light of the Spire, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Ownership Check, Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.
You now own Singularity, Frozen Synapse.
You now own Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed II - Deluxe CD Key, Assassin's Creed 2 - Mac.
You now own Dark Messiah Might and Magic Single Player, Dark Messiah Might and Magic Multi-Player, Devil May Cry 4, SpaceChem.
You now own The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War® II – Retribution, [ The entire Telltale Pack ]

Oh Dark Messiah...How I loved the MP during open beta.

I've been trying to limit my purchases, just because I'll never have time for all the stuff I could buy.

Dammit, I thought I'd get through today without buying anything. Then I cracked and got the Civ 5 DLC. Vikings, what can I say...

I passed 200 games on my Steam account today but I can't decide if I'm proud of ashamed of the fact.

Shit, I thought my 140 was excessive.  :awesome_for_real:

Oh, you can see how many games you bought on Steam?

Edit: Damn, 287

I was tempted by Guildwars just to get them on Steam but 50% off isn't enough to justify this when I already own 3 of the collectors editions and Eye of the North.

Is Monday Night Combat any good (just strikes me as a more quicky TF2)?

Anyone know a minimal fuss small free game demo to play for the ticket off the top of their head?

Atom Zombie Smasher is one of the smaller ones. There's also: Fortix 2 and Dwarfs?! though those are larger downloads. I got it playing the Nation Red demo cause I was deciding whether to buy it (I did).

Eschalon Book 1 Demo is under 90meg.

So far I've pulled the trigger on Frozen Synapse and eschalon 1 and 2. Only played the tutorial so far in FS, and mucked around a bit in the eschalons. I want to like them. Part of me is holding out hope that they are the spun up version of DCSS I've been wishing existed for years, but I get the sense that they are not that. The walkspeed was very slow for me on a netbook. I also had 3 or 4 timeouts in my bloodbowl match this week which was very disappointing. With the steam sale going on and me looking at all the games I own on steam that I no longer have a computer that will run, I snapped yesterday and ordered a new desktop.

So I'm either at ~20 bucks or $1020 so far this steam sale.  :drill:

Helms speed dating bloodbowl league, HERE I COME!

Bought Guild Wars. Wish I had bought Drakensang. Dammit.

Give it a chance.  If you really need help, let me know.  I'm waist-deep into EVE right now, but I could pop over.

Not sure it's anything you can help with. As I said in the "What're you playing" thread, I just don't like the controls. I'll definitely give it some time, but with the things I don't like about Rift, the controls are definitely not one of them.

This is why I linked the trial instead of telling people to buy the game. 

The bulk of what I do, when playing solo, is hitting ctrl + 1-8 or spacebar to mark targets for your heroes, and to cause you to get into range of your targets at the same time, while also using the flags to move the hero blob away from pathers.  I treat the game more like Baldur's Gate than WoW, but I also don't play with anyone else usually.

No! Somebody broke the store!

GTA 4 - $9.99
SIMS 3 - $13.60
FARCRY 2 - $4.99
L4D 2 - $4.99
LOST PLANET 2 - $19.99
GOTHIC 4 - $12.49
ATOM ZOMBIE SMASHER - $2.99
JAMESTOWN - $4.99
KILLING FLOOR - $4.99
KINGS BOUNTY ARMORED PRINCESS - $4.99
PROTOTYPE - $14.99
ARKHAM ASYLUM - $7.49

King's Bounty is awesome. It's where I wish the HoMM/Disciples series had gone. I sunk about 75 hours into Legend (the first game), and it's a steal for $3.

Phew, it's back. I haven't spent enough money yet! :ye_gods:

Half those are franchise sales where the other games are also on sale.

The Sims one makes me laugh because it's barely more on sale than it was before, which I wouldn't even count as having been on sale in the first place.

Kings Bounty is worth it. Stay away from the Gothic stuff. They are awful.

I think I'm going to get Atom Zombie Smasher as it looks really cool. Lots of action games I could care less about though.

Fine! It almost feels like an obligation to get something everyday. $7 bucks for all three games - I really won't care if I don't like it.

That silly Two Worlds 2 has me totally hooked by the way.

I might pick up Atom Zombie Smasher for $3.

Rokal and Paelos are right about King's Bounty: well worth the price.

Everything else I would want on that list I already own, except for Prototype, but even that's too expensive at $15.  I have enough of a backlog to wait until Christmas when it'll be cheaper.

It does strike me as odd how Steam appear to discount sequels more than the originals.

Blood Bowl: Legendary was on sale but Dark Elves wasn't and now L4D is barely cheaper than L4D2 (and not on the front page)

I picked up L4D2 during the Xmas sale (pretty sure L4D wasn't on offer then) so I feel obliged to get L4D now despite feeling it should be significantly cheaper than L4D2 is.

Already got Batman & Farcry at xmas so nothing else appears today (much to the relief of my wallet!)

Legendary edition isn't a sequel, more of a huge upgrade.  Its pretty much totally pointless to buy Dark Elf edition now (since your locked out of playing against people with legendary edition), and they should yank it from even being available for purchase.

So wrong. They're just a bit eurojanky. But I like them better than what Bethesda has been crapping out (I discovered Gothic while waiting for Morrowind to be released and really liked the former much more).

The thing to be aware of is that Gothic 4 is by a different developer than 1-3 (they made Risen, the actual Gothic 4). So as a Gothic fan, I still see $13 as too much! :)

The older ones are dated, so Risen is the one to play these days. I would rate Gothics: Risen, 2, 1, 3.

Don't listen to Sky. He defends Gothic constantly. You could make the case that #2 is worth the $2.50, but the rest of them, including the mythical 4 that's not 4 are all ass.

Gothic 3 was not a game. It was an undefendable buggy turd. It ranks up there as one of the worst games I've ever played that was remotely functional.

I tried to play Risen a couple times. No es bueno.

Yep gothic isn't worth getting.   If you want to go that way you're far better off getting Risen.

Actually, the Sims wasn't on sale at all, it was the pack that was, and for like $80.00.  I can blow $15.00 on a virtual dollhouse, $80.00 not so much, even if it lets me buy twice as many chaise longues.  I mean, some of these expansions are as expensive as the base game, yeesh.

What's the consensus on Prototype?  I've had it on my wish list for a while, but never actually seen or played it.  I'm playing the hell out of Saint's Row 2 and figure I might grab Prototype to scratch the sandbox itch when I finish.

The only other game I'm eyeing is Arcania, since I already have the other gothic games (haven't touched them yet, though).

Posting this yet again. Re: Gothic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3uG8-wyblQ#t=14s

I bought Gothic 1-3 in a previous sale. I couldnt do it. 1 and 2 where so dated, and 3 was just so buggy I lasted about 30 minutes. Two Worlds 2 on the other hand seems like what I thought Gothic would have been.

You should just skip right to crossworlds. There's hundreds of hours of game play time combined with all the campaigns, and you might as well enjoy the best the series has to offer at first. Play the orcs on the march campaign before the rest.

I bought Gothic 2 but couldn't get into it with the funky control scheme. Didn't like it at all. I'm hoping oblivion will be better once I get to it.

Today's haul:

You now own Killing Floor, Killing Floor - Outbreak Character Pack, Killing Floor - Nightfall Character Pack, Killing Floor SDK, Killing Floor - PostMortem Character Pack, Killing Floor - London's Finest DLC Character pack, Killing Floor Mod: Defence Alliance 2, Killing Floor - Steampunk DLC, Atom Zombie Smasher .

Would anyone mind giving a short run-down on how King's Bounty is different from HoMM, or better? Looks like similar play, though with bits where you run around with your avatar directly like a dungeon crawler.

It's basically HoMM without the city building or defending.  It's more exploration and story based.  The combat is nearly identical otherwise.

Hmm...I don't mind city building but can do without...and I don't mind defending, but hate trying to finish the AI off on large maps, where they run around with hit-and-run tactics with no hope of actually winning.

Welp, sign me up I guess. Is there a reason to play all three? Are they all 1 integrated game, or separate?

The Legend and Armored Princess are both separate campaigns, with slightly different rules.  I believe Crossworlds is an addon for armored princess that introduces things into it, and also adds it's own campaign, but I can't remember for sure and haven't played it yet myself.  At the price they're selling it at, unless you'd need to sell a kidney or a child into slavery, I'd just buy them all since they're pretty solid games.  They're honestly the best HoMM series of games to come out since HoMM3.

That said, take any suggestions from me with a grain of salt.  I have odd taste in games.  Armored Princess has a demo up on steam if you really want to check it out first.

edit:  ah yeah, looked up crossworlds, and it indeed adds stuff to armored princess, and also adds two other campaigns.  Between all 3, it's a retarded amount of content if you like this style of game.

Note that if bad dialogue translations bother you, you will find a lot to be bothered by in the King's Bounty games.

I got KB and that weird zombie game Trippy alluded to.

I'm so weak - Damn you, Steam!

Server clock is drifting :awesome_for_real:

Grabbed L4D2 since I never picked it up before. Also Atom Zombie Smasher, which is fun, but hard.

Atom Zombie Smasher is fun and tough.

Really?  I thought it looked pretty meh...I haven't bought a single game today, don't make me break that!  :uhrr:

It's an interesting, but seemingly simple game that looks like it can get pretty deep quickly.

I enjoyed Prototype a lot (on 360) not long after it came out. Right up until I got stuck on a mission involving a scientist and a tank - and just couldn't get past it. It's been sitting in the pile ever since.. stuck between not wanting to go back to it, not quite wanting to get rid of it, and not wanting to restart on a lower difficulty level because of the sheer amount of time I put into collecting almost all of the orbs in the city. Annoying.

That's the rare scenario where I just cheat through it.

Owning a PS3, I tried playing Prototype after Infamous and just couldn't do it.  Infamous controlled and looked better in nearly every aspect. 

I also don't care much for games where I have to cut random people in half, into a gory pile of guts.  Every two seconds or so...

Man i am buying like nothing this year because i already own almost everything.

This.

Also, Risen on sale today, anyone have any comment on TAGES DRM?

Today's sale is the first day that nothing grabs me at all. That's to be expected before the weekend stuff that I'm sure will be great.

I might get the Quake pack just because it's so cheap and Audiosurf (if only for the Orange Box soundtrack)

Cities 2011 did get my attention but for some reason I thought it was a subscription game, but I can't see any mention of this on the page so I guess I'm mistaken....

It made my Anno game unplayable for about 5 months.

Unless they've made a lot of changes since the 2010 edition, it's probably not worth your time. I kept getting to 1-1.5m people and I would go over some weird threshold and have to basically wipe the entire city to stop the deficit, and had to start to build up from scratch again. Only to have the same thing happen again at the same point.

I'm not buying 2011 to find out, though.

Thoughts on Sanctum?  That is about the only thing I'm considering. 

I've hit the point where everything I buy is going on the back burner, but it might come in handy later in the year. 

I've considered it, but seeing as it's the same principle as "Dungeon Defenders" but it looks less fun, I'm just waiting on DD to get released.

I'm not much of a RTS gamer, but at that price I'm seriously considering the Command and Conquer games for the undoubtedly hilarious cutscenes alone.

The version on Steam is not sub. I think the same company had announced a web based MMO version with a sub.

Rift worth $10?

If you're OK with what is essentially a WoW clone without a lot of the quality of life improvements WoW's added over the years.  It's a solid DIKU MMO.  Worth $10 bucks if you're into that sort of thing.

I like the game, but don't go into it with sky high expectations. 

It's WoW with a better class system and random public quests minus several years of "yeah that kinda sucks, lets's change it".  The Devs work EXTREMELY fast at addressing and fixing the most glaring issues and improving the game though, what is now a few months after launch would have taken WoW 3-4 years to do.

Yes.

 :oh_i_see:

Yes its worth 10$.

Red Alert 3 and the sequel are 4 each.   I gather that RA3 was pretty good but the metacritic for RA3:Uprising is pretty bad.     Should I be grabbing both?  I highly enjoyed the original Red Alert eons ago.

Oh, fuck you, Steam.  Seriously.

Fakeedit: can't even log in, at the moment, for some reason.  Webpage is loading up fine, but the steam client tells me it can't connect to the network.

In this instance, high doesn't really mean all that high. But it was worth the box price at launch for most mmo fans, imo. So for $10 with a free month, it's a great value. You should check it out long enough to get into the souls system with multiple roles and all the souls unlocked, because imo it's a game-changer for the genre.

World event running for farming dailies FOR HATS. C'mon, how can you not love hats?

I heard Scott is changing his name to Hatsman.

Ok, that's it for now.

Sorry.

How's that?  Genuine question, since I haven't played the game.  It sounds like WoW.  As in, almost exactly like WoW.  Except the world is more vanilla.  I've heard people say the game is fun and all that, and it may well be, but I haven't heard what is so revolutionary about it.  Is it just the free respecs and public quests, or is there something I haven't heard of?  I'd buy a revolutionary MMO, but everything I've heard about Rift sounds more iterative than revolutionary.

Still waiting on this connection problem, btw.  Looks like it's related to the Steam beta, just a heads up.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1981285

So if I know noone in RL who plays Rift is it worth getting? Do enough F13 people play that I could join a guild without it being a ghost town?

Well, it is like WoW. But with less style and more vanilla. And forgive me, I don't play WoW, so I'm not sure how much of it is like their talent trees. I don't even like WoW, which is one of my central complaints about Rift.

But you get eight souls per calling. Mostly they change up the playstyle and you can mix and match, then save four or five different pre-sets (called roles). Maybe it's just me being out of touch with the mmo genre, but being able to go from a ranger to an assassin by clicking a button in the field, having a totally different play experience, is pretty cool. And when you go to a game that doesn't have it, you notice its absence.

But seriously, it's $10. If you can't get $10 out of a decent mmo, you're not trying.

I play solo well enough (my running mates from WoW aren't interested).  The rifts/zone invasions are something I participate in often and they help the solo path feel a bit less solitary.

When I'm on in the evenings, it's usually just Phred and I.  Sometimes Sjofn is there lately.  Everyone else seems to have disappeared since the transfer or they're on at a different time or didn't come with us.

This works fine for me since we still have a few guild perks, a guild bank, and a support structure in place for noobs.

Got bored with Rift: for my personal tastes, I need a lot more starting areas, and a more intriguing and detailed world/lore, something I personally think Rift doesn't offer. But yes, class design is very well done, but not the decisive feature that would keep me playing.

Don't think there's the option on 360.

Today:

Divinity 2 - $19.99
Red Faction Armageddon - $33.49
Mass Effect 2 - $6.80
Empire TW Napoleon - $10.19
Worms Reloaded - $4.99
Mafia 2 - $7.49
Splinter Cell Conviction - $6.79
Fallout 3 - $10.19
Last Remnant - $9.99
Dirt 3 - $33.49
Universe Sandbox - $4.99
Amnesia Dark Descent - $4.99

I know it isn't going to happen, but I hope they're saving the good stuff for the last 2 days or something. This is mostly sad.

Well the last day is likely to be retreads so you better hope that tomorrow has something you want for sale.

I wanted divinity 2, but not for that price. I guess they didn't get the "$15 or less" memo.

Sanctum is ridiculously stupidly hard. I am good at FPS but you have to be super human in order to do it on hard difficulty. Seriously.


Mafia II is worth that price, I enjoyed that game but I already beat it.
Mass effect is worth it, but who doesn't already own it?
Amnesia is fantastic as well, but own it. The rest... meh.

I see poor Nix got suckered into Cities XL. That game is awful.

I want to know how Last Remnant at 10 bucks is a sale.   Also lack of Mass Effect 2 DLC is fail.

I picked up Fallout 3 just to get it it in Steam and Universe Sandbox just to fuck about with.

What are the Mafia games like, I thought they were sandboxy a bit like GTA but watching the trailers I'm getting the impression they aren't?

The main reason I haven't bought anything this sale is because everything I wanted I already bought from previous sales. Other than that I'm just waiting for versions of games with all of their DLC to go on sale.

DAMNIT! I debated on that one too. Up until late last night. Sonovabitch. What's awful about it?

Nevermind on today sucking. Paelos neglected to mention the franchise sales, so Splinter Cell complete at $18 is pretty damn good. Same with all the Mafia 2 DLC for $8.

A few things jump out at me:

1 - Having things up for over $30 is not a sale, Steam. We don't play that.
2 - Who doesn't own ME2 at this point? They pimp that every sale, along with Worms Reloaded.
3 - Last Remnant is a terrible Squeenix port that's not worth $2.
4 - The Total War games are the ones that should have never existed. Do not buy them under any circumstances. Go for Shogun instead if you want.
5 - The Splinter Cell stuff is Ubisoft. So, no.

I'll buy Amnesia and probably not play it until Halloween because it scares me to look at.

FO3 is my last PC game I have on disc.  I would love to dedisc, but I can't justify it at $10 because I'll likely never play it again.  

I would have bought Last Remnanat at 4.99.  Already bought Divinity 2 a week or two ago at that price (which has been worth it).  

Not much else for this day though.

Hate them for their recent DRM stunts, but the first few SC games are worth every penny and still fun to this day. Conviction, not so much, but the co-op was fun.

Money going to UbiSoft now only supports their current stupidity, even if it's for previous efforts. They don't distinguish.

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Video game company stupidity? You must be only buying indie games during the sale then :grin:

You go in hoping for a sim city sequel and instead you get a sort of farmville-esque MMO where you're supposed to trade resources around to other players' cities. Unfortunately, no one plays the game anymore. So it's you. All alone.

I was still thinking of getting divinity 2, even at that price, until I saw this:

3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™
5 machine activation limit

Sorry! Eat a dick!

Normally I'd agree, but Red Faction: Armageddon has only been out for 32 days.  I'm not going to buy it either, but the fact that it's marked down at all is a little surprising.

Out of this lot: I'll finally pick up Amnesia.  I've been debating getting it for a long time and have heard nothing but good things.  If I have a few beers tonight I might drunkenly buy Mafia 2 as well...it's how I got the GTA and Overlord bundles a few months ago.

What's everyone doing for the wishlist?   I know we can check via steam but it's slow as fuck.   I'm trying to figure out preorders but most games can't be preordered yet.    So far I've got:

Warhammer Space Marine
Rage
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Heroes of Might and Magic VI

Oh, I got Cities XL 2011. Looking around it sounds like that online trading bit was ripped out of this one because of how bad it was.

You're only going to play it once.

It's a decent day of sales, of stuff I own. Mafia 2 is a great game (imo), well worth it (don't expect GTA, it's not that). Amnesia is amazing. FO3/ME2 if there's still someone who for some reason doesn't own them yet. Actually FO3 is appealing to de-disc and grab the DLC, but I just got the F:NV DLC, so blah.

And booooo no ME2 DLC. Probably the thing I want most right now.

I didn't own ME2... until today.  :awesome_for_real:

As for the Total War games, Napoleon is worth owning if you like the TW games and/or the era. I still like Empire despite it's problems, but Napoleon definitely improves on Empire's problems.

I have been wanting to buy this forever, but SecuROM has been holding me back also.

Two weeks ago I had the Orange Box, the Total War collection, the Grand Theft Auto collection, and Shogun 2 on Steam, and that was it. Now I have to scroll to see everything, and had to move my local cache to another hard drive because I'm running out of space.

Ho-leee-shit did I buy a bunch of games. I'm glad this craziness ends soon ... but all in all, I'm pleased.

Same.  (Well, when I get home anyway)

I've got WH: Space Marine and DeuX: Humans Revolving too.
The only HoMM game I've played was 5, which I thought was boring, so I'm passing on VI.  And Rage, I'm not sure what it is.  Linear FPS, or story based thing like Fallout, or what, so I'm passing on it for the moment.

Other than that, for preorders, I've got Saint's Row 3, a few games that are too expensive to buy (Sims Medieval, Alice, and this A-10 flight sim that's like $60.00) and games that I'm curious about but not curious enough to actually spend money on (Civ 5, Frozen Synapse, Mirror's Edge, Alpha Protocol). 

The "reccommended for you" feature is stupid as hell, I'm finding.  "Hey, I know that two items from your wishlist are on sale at like 80% off, but how would you like to buy a DOG COSTUME for FABLE 3!  It's at a slight discount!"

Anyone know WTF Universe Sandbox is?  Like, is it a game, or what?  It looks like a particle physics app, like something you'd see on Newgrounds or something, but I don't see anything from the trailer as to what you actually do in the game, aside from watch balls move around.

Do you think putting Saints Row 3 on the wishlist will actually work?  I sort of assume they won't actually count games which can't be preordered.   Of course nobody will win so meh.

Yes it works. It's in the rules that preorders are allowed.

I don't own ME2. I have ME1 and Dragon age and that's enough for me to realise that I really just do not like Bioware RPGs. I finished ME1 somehow; I didn;t finish Dragon Age, the game just got so dull I gave up. So consequently I won't be plumping for ME2. The only good feature I could find in any of the games was the dialogue; everything else was bland bland bland with overtones of dull.

Heathen barbarian.  :oh_i_see:

Just FYI, ME2 was better than ME1. It cut out a lot of the stupid crap and made combat more fun. One man's opinion on whether or not it's worth $7, but I would say I got my money's worth at $30.

Yeah, ME2 is far and away the best game out of all those ones you listed. Basically, if you where playing ME1 and saying, I wish there was more FPS and less RPG in the combat of this game, ME2 is perfect for you.

That's what I'm saying.   You can't preorder Saints Row 3.

It's basically a universe/physics simulation. You can change stuff like the size or mass of celestial bodies (i.e. the sun) and watch what effects it has on the rest of the solar system/universe (so far I've found myself trying to destroy all of creation via black holes)

Not a game really which is why I never paid full price for it.

For some reason Space Marine doesn't show up in my Steam search (must be a UK thing - odd given GW is from the UK) :-(

I hear this, and you may be right, but I was also told that DA was better than ME, and I couldn't even finish that. Maybe I will pick it up next time around, but it is not like I am short of games to play, and frankly I found the basic gameplay systems so terrible in ME1 that I cannot see how ME2 can be raptor jesus.

Opinions will very I guess, for me it would be ME1 > DA > ME2 with ME1 and DA being close and ME2 dragging a bit behind.  Havne't played Dragon Age 2 yet, but heard mostly that it's a a dissapointment.

Have you tried to go back and play ME1 after playing ME2?  It's a pretty jarring experience.  It barely feels playable.

DA1/DA2 is pretty much a toss up for me.  I did log a hell of a lot more time in DA1, but I was position to do so then and the game is just a hell of a lot longer.

ANYHOW, didn't want to turn this into yet another Bioware RPG preference derail.  :awesome_for_real:

DA1 = Best game crappy story/world
ME1 = Best story sort of crappy game
Me2 = Good story decent game

Pondering Fallout3 GotY...

Haven't played any of the previous in the franchise or NV, but I did play Wasteland once upon a time, heh.

You should easily get $10 of playtime from the game if you like that fps/rpg mix.

Good point - sold!   :awesome_for_real:

I've never been able to get FO3 to run well on a couple different machines - including one that New Vegas runs on near-flawlessly. So be aware that you may be looking at something of a crashy nightmare. Game is still worth getting though.

....Really?  I actually liked the Story/World of DA a lot (have only played 1 so far).  I haven't played either MA game yet, but still, I thought DA was very well put together.  What didn't you like about it?

I was kinda turned off by ME1  for it's crap-stuffs (inventory/item management, planet-side roving around endlessly, lack of some kind of linear progression line (yes I like a little hand-holding in my RPGs, if only so I can experience the story that's trying to be told))

For 7 bones though, plus the 'improvements' I've heard to the stuff I didn't like, I'll pick it up.

Duke Nukem Forever 50% off already.  THAT can't be a good sign for the game.  :awesome_for_real:

Are any of the Prince of Persia games past The Sands of Time worth playing?

Well, pretty disappointing day.  Terraria is certainly worth 2.50 if you don't already own it, but I suspect most of everyone that is interested already owns it. 

Is X any good?

In 2 minds about Duke - wasnt very impressed with the demo and had kind of set myself a £10 limit on ebay (anyone know if the retail copy requires Steam?)

PAM looks interesting, anyone got any experience of it?

Other than that I've either got it already or have no interest so yeah pretty disapointing (still holding out for Morrowind getting mariked down further like Oblivion and the Fallouts did)

I'd say yes but then I've played them since the get go (the older ones may not have dated very well)

If you liked Elite it's probably fair to say you will like X. The original is the most Elite-like with the later ones adding more stuff like the ability to change ships etc.

There's some who like it, but it felt like single player EVE to me.  I regretted the purchase after a few hours of just trying to learn the game.

X3:TC is a great game with some caveats.  It's a fabulous sandbox, but expect a steep learning curve, a lackluster UI, and a long period of time in-game before it really hits its stride.  I think I spent a good 200 hours in it a few years ago and was thoroughly entertained, but only because I was able to devote large amounts of time to it at a single sitting.  Also, the modding community is phenomenal.

Dumb question for someone who knows X3: an achievement for today is in X3, to blow up a solar power plant.  I don't even know what that is, I think I've gotten about three missions in to the terran defender storyline in my attempts to figure this game out.  What all would I need to do to get that, and is it something I can realistically achieve in a day or two starting from basically scratch and with minimal knowledge of the game?

As I recall, there aren't a whole lot of them in the Terran systems so that might explain why you haven't seen any.  There are a few in the Venus, Moon and Mercury systems.  A solar power plant is essentially a big floating factory that looks like a solar array and produces energy for other factories.  You're not likely to be able to destroy any of those without cheating if you just started today.  If you really want to try though, the closest plant that would be defended the least is in a system called Elysium of Light.  A good system map can be found here: http://eng.x3tc.ru/x3_tc_map/ (http://eng.x3tc.ru/x3_tc_map/)

Oooh F1 2010 is a buy for sure and the X collection

If you dont mind 'cheating' about the 5th post down has a saved game

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=303411&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60

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Dont know about the rest of the world but it looks like someone at Steam made a cock up on the X Superbox price, initially it was listed at £4.99 but that has now been updated/corrected to £9.99 with X3:TC being £4.99!

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If you choose to use the saved game you will need to do the following to be able to attack it as its not an enemy

Shift+C > Combat > Attack...

The pick your current sector and the power plant you want to destroy. Then just spam L to launch missiles :-)

GFWL. vOv

I'm going to have to squee like a fanboy over the id superpack at 30 euro.

I bought the X3 gold pack. The rest of the sale is pretty meh to me.

I waited for a sale to buy portal2, I am in no way disappointed with today's deals.

Even the universal sandbox?

NWN2, any thoughts?

I grabbed it just for a discless copy.  I thought it was pretty decent, but then, I liked NWN1 too.  It's got some drawbacks compared to the first one (multiplayer is horrible, some of the specialty classes with interesting visual traits are missing them, the game is paced worse, etc.) but there are some interesting ideas.  Companions have better and more interesting stories, there's a bit where you have to manage and upgrade a castle (how much gold do you want to spend on upgraded fortifications vs. better roads for merchant caravans, that kind of thing), the story and dialogue are mostly better than NWN1.  There's some unevenness and unfinished areas (this is Obsidian) such as the ending, but overall, it's not bad.  It does start off kind of slow, though, so if you're dicouraged easily, you might not get your seven bucks worth out of it.

First xpac seemed interesting, but I only played the first bit of it.  Haven't tried the second one yet.

Anyone?

I didn't finish them if that answers your question. "Ok" for amusement factor but not immersive/engrossing.

I just grabbed Lego Indiana Jones (first 3 movies) and Supreme Commander 2 - I'm a sucker for the Lego games (one day Batman, one day) and SC2 was at the right price whether I like it or not.

Honestly, not sure.  Sands of Time is good, if you don't have it.  Forgotten Sands has Ubisoft's AIDS all over it.  Otherwise I haven't played much of them myself.  Allegedly they're not horrible, but not as good as Sands of Time.  The only one I've heard solid recommendations for was Prince of Persia blank.

I didn't notice ME2 for that price, somehow I thought it was more. So I picked up Worms and Universe Sandbox. Then later I noticed ME, but then I had dinner, played some LOTRO, and didn't re-remember until just now.  :uhrr:

Portal 2 on special, yes thanks. Bought the splinter cell set too. I'm really going to have to stop playing MMO's for about 6 months and work through the stupidly large backlog of steam games I have.

Still enjoying going into the Australian EB stores and just laughing.

Just an FYI for some, if you didn't buy a Bioware game due to DLC, don't hold your breath unless they release something like the DA1: Ultimate Edition.

I didn't happen to notice that, but I did buy Terraria at $2.49 earlier in today's sale (75% off). Same sale, still front page, but now Terraria is $4.99 (50% off). I note that it's the #2 seller, I wonder if there was a hard cap on the number of times it could be bought for 75% off, that would be an explanation.

Iirc it was only 75% off for 24 hours

Right, final day is approaching and when the bell tolls I shall at least be buying the two modern Wolfenstein games, as well as the Longest Journey/Dreamfall bundle. Nexus: the Jupiter Incident doesn't seem to be discounted but I should get it anyway.

It still hasn't been 24 hours.   The price has definitely changed to 50% off though.   It really does make me curious about what kind of agreements everyone signs for Steam games.

My bad, I didn't realise it was one of todays specials.

Given the cock up with the X superbox I can imagine its probably the same thing where someone posted it up incorrectly originally

Anyone got opinions on Post Apocalyptic Mayhem?

Two modern ones? You mean the recent one, and... RTCW from 2001 or whenever it was?

Where the most recent one wasn't very good?

No, the recent one is actually pretty good.

For some reason I had been under the impression that it came out in 03 or 04, which is enough for me to call something modern. But yeah, that and the latest game.

Oh, it might have been. I was just guesstimating. It was an excellent game for it's time. I haven't replayed it again in years now, but I played through it a few times, and the MP was just fantastic for the day. Hitting those bunkers with a flamethrower is one of my great gaming memories.

http://wonder-tonic.com/wolf1d/ :awesome_for_real:

So the last day is just repeats it seems?

Steam strikes again, Dawn of war 2: Retribution listed at 75% off on the front page but only 50% off when you get to the product page (since corrected but I have screenshots this time)

I'd have bought it at 75% off too....

But yes just seems like repeats :-(

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looks like there are more repeats than those shown on the front page as Duke and X seem to be discounted for another 24 hours.....

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Duke has since gone back up. The weekend offers are obviously run by the 'B' team...

Any last minute recommendations, especially on stuff that didn't get headlines?

Always is.

Last day to get me to buy shit you recommend!

I bought Two Worlds II because I didn't get the first time around.

I are dumb

Sorry, I meant "unrelased" not "preorderable". If there's an ADD TO YOUR WISHLIST button on the game it's valid for the contest even if hasn't been released yet:

So far I've gotten Mass Effect 2 and both the Battlefield Bad Company 2 DLC packs. I'm considering Football Manager 2011 really hard even though it's last year's version. I've been jonesing for it, but not sure I really want to give it a go until the new one comes out.

Bought FNV plus the two DLCs, and also F1 2010. Thinking about purchasing Titan Quest gold to de-disc it (€6.69) ; also thinking about Drakensang (€6.79) and A Farewell to Dragons (€7.49).

So, I didn't imagine that Dawn of War 2 thing. Got it in my cart for -75%, shopped around for some DLC to go with it, and after the refresh it was back to -50%. Well, their loss, not mine.

Grabbed Garry's Mod since it was dirty cheap and there was nothing else I wanted today (not paying £10 for Morrowind just to de-disk it)

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

Argh, can't install games.

Retries.  "Damn."  Retries. "Damn DAMN." Retries "Damn damn DAMN."

Been like this for like an hour.  On the last day for tickets, too...

THQ Pack has turned out to be a really good deal.  I enjoyed Homefront, short as it was and I didn't own any of the War 40k games, so getting all 3 at that price was great.  S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has been an interesting one to puzzle out.  Very "worldy" shooter so far. No idea how it turns out in the end but the beginning's been fun.  I can't speak for the rest of the package, but for $50 its been worth it just on those 5 games.

Yeah it's only needed for online apparently. 2011 will make it needed for everything.

Funny I picked up the id superpack today also as a last splurg. Weeee :awesome_for_real:

I've bought nothing so far and don't think I will.  I was going to pick up Terraria but they seemed to have jacked the price up mid sale.  Looks like my wallet is safe...until the Christmas sale. :ye_gods:

I'll probably be crucified by some people for this opinion but Terraria is over-rated and gets boring very quickly for a "sandbox" style game.  So you're not missing out on much.

It does get tiresome after a while, and may even be overrated, but it's only $5.  I paid $10 when it came out and feel I got that much worth of entertainment if not more.

Well, thank God that's over with. Between Steam and GOG I've got a shitton of games that I'm going to have to quit Life to get around to playing. Although GOG is running daily treasure sales through the 20th but so far nothing has sparked my interest. I got the Half Life pack, the Doom pack, the King Arthur pack, Horde, Descent 1 and 2, Freespace 1 and 2, the X pack...oy vey. I need to move to a desert island for about 2 years so that I can get my money's worth out of this.

Has anybody gotten more than 27 tickets or did I win the f13 Summer Camp Catass award? :awesome_for_real:

Probably.  I only got 6.

27? Shit, I didn't even own enough of the games to bother with the tickets.

You can get 9 of the 10 Steam community/sharing tickets without much work and without buying any games. Only the video sharing one is kind of a pain.

I can probably get to 30 without much more additional work :grin: but there's nothing I really want to get with those extra tickets and they really won't help my Grand Prize chance much. In fact I ran out of things I wanted to redeem for after spending 18 tickets (6 items) so now I'm complementing whether I should buy some more games so I can redeem those 9 tickets :uhrr:

12 and only got that many to cover the 4 purchases I at all cared about.  Need more free time!

I think I got 3. I didn't like the prizes.

[Only] 15 here. Grabbed the Mount & Blade: Warband, TF2, X3:TC & Universe Sandbox tickets on top of the 'free' ones & Homefront which I already had.

Was exactly enough to get all the freebies I wanted though so all good.

Got 23 myself.  Missed that video one (does Steam allow you to make videos?  Or am I just supposed to upload whatever crap I've got sitting in my /Videos directory?) and the Facebook one (on principle).  There were a few I could stretch myself to get, but they either require me jumping into multiplayer in a game I'm not comfortable with, or downloading another game, which is starting to get tiresome.  Managed to grab all the prizes for games I own, so I'm not too worried about rounding out to an even 24 anyway, it's all about the grand prize, and even then it's not helping my odds much.  So, I'm probably done for this contest.

Bought:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Cyan Software pack (Myst and misc others)
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout: New Vegas
Garshasp the Monster Slayer
id Software Pack (Quake, DOOM, Heretic, and misc others)
Jamestown
Just Cause
The Last Remnant
Neverwinter Nights 2: Platinum
Ninja Blade
Oblivion Game of the Year Deluxe
Prototype
Sanctum
The Sims 3
Star Raiders
Star Wars: the Force Unleashed 2
Torchlight
Tropico 3
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2: Retribution
X: Beyond the Frontier
X Tension
X2: the Threat
X3: Reunion

It links to your YouTube account, so you can just upload anything you have posted there (mine wasnt even of a game, it doesn't check and I removed it immediately anyway)

Here's wot I got (the Civ V was not from Steam but the sale was clearly to one-up Steam):

Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
The Longest Journey + Dreamfall
Wolfenstein
RIFT
Civ V DLC - Polynesia
Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money
Fallout New Vegas - Honest Hearts
Two Worlds II
Plants vs. Zombies
Civ V

Boarderlands: GoTY eddition for 7.50?  Hell yes.

I got 21, so you out-catassed me. Unless you count my other 3 Steam accounts that I catassed on to a much smaller scale. 16 on my wife's and erm, about 6 or 9 each on the other two. :uhrr:

Didn't do the facebook or the YouTube ones.

My haul:

F:NV DLC
Civ V DLC (which is biting my ass, thanks Vikings)
Guild Wars Trilogy (blech)
Battlefield BC2

Not sure I'll do much BC2, but my fiancee liked BF2 a lot, so should be fun to get shot while she watches. Really came close to Eschalons, Two Worlds II and Drakensang RoT + DLC.

Didn't play the ticket achievement thing.

What's the difference between BF2 and BFBC2, other than age?  Considering the latter for purchase, though I'm terrible at these games.

Here's the answer on the Terraria pricing issue. Looks like I got lucky to grab it cheap, though we're only talking a couple of bucks difference.


source (http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/my-impressions-on-1-0-6.41725/)

I wasn't going to buy it either way, but I thought I noticed that price change. Oh well, shit happens in the go-go world of crazy mid-season sales.

The game is pretty cheap anyway, so I don't know what people got all up in arms about...

I picked up NV, the Quake back catalogue, Audiosurf and the THQ catalogue. This should keep me going happily for the next few months.

Picked up a few things, nothing major.

My haul:
Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Ed.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Jamestown
Puzzle Agent
Terraria
Swords and Soldiers HD
Hamilton's Great Adventure
Sanctum

Gifts:
Terraria
Torchlight
MTG 2012
Portal 2
Sanctum x3
Defense Grid x2

Pretty happy with the sale, I had been waiting for Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition for a while, so getting that for $10 was the highlight for me. Out of the cheap impulse buys I did, I've been really happy with Jamestown and Terraria.

Fallout: NV + DLC
Magika + DLC (and a copy for my wife's account)
Lara Croft & GoL (for wife)
Garry's Mod
Trine
Singularity
Star Wars: BF2 (4 copies - for de-discing)
Worms Reloaded
Universe Sandbox

Not too bad, kept the spending down reasonably well this time. All of those were $5 or less, except for FNV.

The Heroes Pack (Homm 5 plus dark messiah)
Garshasp
Magicka complete pack
Trine (for my son)
Secret of the magic crystals (for my daughter)
Killing Floor bundle
Portal 2 (for my son)
Hinterland
Serious Sam HD Pack
THQ Collection
Bit trip runner (For my son)

Ended up with 18 tickets and got about 8 for my son.

As I never bothered to install it...anyone know if you can do the DMoMM multiplayer with bots?

Pretty small haul for me just New Vegas with its DLC and some stuff I was missing for Civ V, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and King Arthur.  Also picked up a few copies for gifts of Alpha Protocol and got Terraria from a friend.

Really just wanted the mission for Fate of the World so got that and some cosmetic gear for MNC which I'll reinstall... eventually.

I spent more than I was planning to (especially since some of this is just de-disking) and also picked up some stuff I wasn looking for (mainly Rift) but I got...

Oblivion Game of the Year Deluxe
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money
Fallout New Vegas Honest Hearts
Left 4 Dead
Audiosurf
Quake 2007 Collection
RIFT - Collector's Edition
Fallout 3 - Game of the Year
Universe Sandbox
Garry's Mod
All Aspect War Pack (yeah I know!)

What the christ :ye_gods:

You know what I've had the most fun with that I wasn't expecting from this sale?

HOARD. The game is really really fun and easy to jump in and out of for 15 minutes of play at a time.

Wait is that the game created by the good Doctor Serek Dmart?

If so, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING? You know every time someone buys one of his games, he rapes a kitten to death. TO DEATH.

I find myself to be spending much less on games, and mostly sticking to older titles. Especially since that... incident... with Duke. I think I've pretty much subconsciously sworn off all non-blizzard releases.

There doesn't really seem to be a whole lot worth getting right now, anyways. Spent around $30 and got:

Drakensang 2 expansion
The Longest Journey 1+2
Amnesia
The Path
Zen Bound 2

and a few other cheap indie games.

Part of me wonders if I'm starting to get old, but in my heart I can't shake the feeling that modern games really are just not as good as older classics. Maybe it's just that nobody remembers the older chaff. Either way, I can just wait a few years and pick up the new old classics.

Get HOARD. You would like it if you spend less time on games now.

I almost picked up Hoard when it was on sale.  I heard it's only worth like a few hours of gameplay though.   Curious to hear how long it entertains for you guys.

I've already put 3 hours in it and there are about 25 levels yet to go. Plus theres ratings and achievements and stuff. It's a neat little 15-30m at a time game.

Hoard is incredibly boring. Play the demo and you'll see what the entire game has to offer. Don't trust the monkey. The levels are just new maps, the gameplay is exactly the same.

Yep, it's the same. You fly around setting fire to stuff on different maps and stealing from towns. I would agree on playing the demo. If you find that fun, you'll like it. If you're like Bhodi, you'll hate it.

It was priced right at $5 for the fun. I don't think $10 is worth it.