Early Holiday Sale

[gryeyes]

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

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

[Big Gulp]

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

[Velorath]

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

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

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

[Kageru]

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

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

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

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

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

[Azazel]

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

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

[Segoris]

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

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

[Mosesandstick]

King's Bounty any good?

[Ingmar]

Any thoughts on Red Faction?

[Setanta]

King's Bounty any good?

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

[Kageh]

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

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

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

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

[schild]

ARMORED PRINCESS GO GO GO GO GO

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

[Sky]

ARMORED PRINCESS GO GO GO GO GO

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

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

[caladein]

King's Bounty Gold with both games is down to $30 as well.  Probably going to spring on that instead of just AP.

[Velorath]

ARMORED PRINCESS GO GO GO GO GO

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

Kings Bounty dates back to several years before HoMM.

[schild]

ARMORED PRINCESS GO GO GO GO GO

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

Kings Bounty dates back to several years before HoMM.

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

[Trippy]

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

[Azazel]

Any thoughts on Red Faction?

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


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

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

[Trippy]

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

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

That's right.

[Riggswolfe]

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

[rattran]

$5 torchlight now, buy it.

[Lucas]

New 1-Day sale is up!

Universe at War - € 4.99

Star Wars Pack (HUGE pack) - € 23

DA:O Deluxe Edition - € 41.24

DA:O Standard Edition - € 37.49

Prototype - € 24.99

Lumines (Base + Advanced Pack) - € 2.99

Torchlight - € 3.99

[Hoax]

$5 torchlight now, buy it.

Buying this for four people.

[Nonentity]

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

[TheWalrus]

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

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

[Sky]

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

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

[Fabricated]

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

[Trippy]

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

[Hoax]

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

[Kageru]

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

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

[jakonovski]

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

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

[Trippy]

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

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

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

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

[Teleku]

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

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

[Sky]

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

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

[Sjofn]

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

Okay! 

[Samwise]

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