Steam Holiday Sale

[Kail]

Spore probably isn't worth $20 to see where they made their mistakes. It has *some* fun in it, and the cell stage is great, if it was $10 I'd say go for it.

I'm kind of surprised at the venom for Spore around here given the Minecraft fanboyism, since they're both built around the same fundamental premise (building stuff is fun, gameplay is basically just a framework for the stuff you've built) and, as of this sale, the same price.

If you like building stuff, there's nothing really comparable to Spore available.  Plus, the Steam version doesn't have the assy DRM.

If you're after great gameplay, you could do a lot better, and $20 is probably too much.

EDIT: The base game for Spore is only something like $7.50.  The addon packs are rather overpriced, in my opinion.  Unless you really like the game there's no point paying $5 more for the parts pack (even on sale, it's only a handful of new parts for one stage of the game), and Galactic Adventures is better on paper than in practice and costs as much as the full game by itself.

[Azazel]

Does Steam-Spore still have that horrific level of DRM on it? Having said that, I'll wait for the $5 or $10 sale on it. As you said, $20 is way too much.

I'm happy though - nothing I want on today's sale. Everything I'm interested in I either have on pc or console, or have alrady played. Except for AssCreed - which will be a bargain basement PC purchase. Later.

[Sky]

Did they ever fix the gameplay of Spore getting in the way of the fun building and exploring stuff? Last I played you couldn't hop a few solar systems to smell the methane without some whiny bitch threatening or pleading or asking you to go take out the trash. It got old fast, and the more you played the game part you couldn't ignore, the worse it got.

During the development, I was a huge fan of the game, and I still see a lot of what was great about it in there. Problem is, someone in management didn't 'get' a science-based sandbox, saw how much it cost and went into panic mode and forced Maxis into making a 'game' that pointy-headed morons could understand. Look at absolutely everything released, it screams 'game' and nothing at all about what WW was trying to do...which is probably why the first thing WW did was get the fuck out of Maxis.

Ahem, as the highlanders say.

[Riggswolfe]

Hmm...they've got Batman Arkham Asylum for $15 right now. I wonder if it'll be on another day's sales for cheaper though? Anyway, I got Just Cause 2 today. That makes: Just Cause 2, the Fear games, and the Deux Ex games so far.

I'm debating the Left for Dead combo for $15. Worth it? Or will it go on sale later do you think?

[bhodi]

Hmm...they've got Batman Arkham Asylum for $15 right now. I wonder if it'll be on another day's sales for cheaper though? Anyway, I got Just Cause 2 today. That makes: Just Cause 2, the Fear games, and the Deux Ex games so far.

I'm debating the Left for Dead combo for $15. Worth it? Or will it go on sale later do you think?

Wait on both of those; they might come around again, though you likely missed the boat. Batman was $10 and L4D was $5 on the thanksgiving sale.

[Ingmar]

Did they ever fix the gameplay of Spore getting in the way of the fun building and exploring stuff? Last I played you couldn't hop a few solar systems to smell the methane without some whiny bitch threatening or pleading or asking you to go take out the trash. It got old fast, and the more you played the game part you couldn't ignore, the worse it got.

During the development, I was a huge fan of the game, and I still see a lot of what was great about it in there. Problem is, someone in management didn't 'get' a science-based sandbox, saw how much it cost and went into panic mode and forced Maxis into making a 'game' that pointy-headed morons could understand. Look at absolutely everything released, it screams 'game' and nothing at all about what WW was trying to do...which is probably why the first thing WW did was get the fuck out of Maxis.

Ahem, as the highlanders say.

I think they patched the space part to be less annoying, but I don't know how much since I had uninstalled by that point.

[5150]

Annoyingly the indie games I want are split across 3 packs and I dont want the other stuff or having to pay for 3 packs to get like 4 games :-(

Anyone one else notice how Serek Dmart's games never seem to be on sale?

[stu]

I'm tempted to pick up Patrician IV at $7.50. Anyone have any experience with the series and the newest entry?

[Hoax]

Best day of the sale for me by a mile.  I knew I was getting the Legendary Edition of BloodBowl the second it was on sale and Darksiders has always had an art style that appeals to me.

If you don't own ME2 by now, shame on you and fix your face.

Everything else is so cheap or looks interesting enough (Risen & Dead Rising) for me to at least take a look and think about.

[rattran]

Hooray, Risen cheap enough for some Euro-janky rpg goodness.

Boo, TAGES. No Euro-jank for me!

[Riggswolfe]

Hmm...the 2 Mass Effect PC games for $10 each....I have them on 360 but it is very tempting to pick them up on PC especially since I am sure there are mods out there for them....

[bhodi]

Patrician is no Anno. I'd pass.

Not getting anythign today, I already have the good games. ME2 for $10 is worth it for sure though.

[Mosesandstick]

Gamersgate has Mass Effect 2 for cheaper, I think. I also don't know how the site works but am trying it out now (Sir T recommended it).

[Ruvaldt]

This finally looks like a day that could make me bite.  I'll be gobbling up Wings of Prey for sure.  Seriously considering Dead Rising 2, but it just feels like I have so much on my plate already that there's no point.  I may just wait for the next summer sale to buy it.  I'll be buying ME2 from either Steam or Gamersgate as well.

Blood Bowl: LE is on sale just in time for those who might want to join us in F13 Blood Bowl Season 3 too.  

[Hoax]

Blood Bowl: LE is on sale just in time for those who might want to join us in F13 Blood Bowl Season 3 too.  

This.   

[Riggswolfe]

Well I decided to pass. I either own all the games I want (all of the RPGs) or the prices are still more than I want to pay (Dead Rising 2, Blood Bowl.)

[Lucas]

Ok, I vaguely remember Blood Bowl from my childhood, but I've no idea on how it plays. Still, it looks fun so I'm going to purchase it 

[Ginaz]

Picked up Alpha Protocol and Blood Bowl: LE today.  I have more money than brains, I guess, since I don't think I'll have the time to play either one in the foreseeable future.  I was thinking about getting Darksiders too, but I'm not too sure if its something I'd even like.

[Tebonas]

Got Patrician 4 and Dead Rising 2. 50% would have been to expensive for me, but 60% was ok for some mindless Christmas Time Zombie Romp  

[Paelos]

Bought DeathSpank for $7.50 and purchase #2 of this sale.

[Hawkbit]

Darksiders is decent for $10.  It's got simple, very simple QTE like GoW fights.  But it plays more like Zelda. 

I would do Risen for $10, but $15 is just a hair out of my reach.  Nothing else rings my bell today.

[Hoax]

Looked at some reviews/videos/threads about Risen and Dead Rising 2, gonna pass on both but that is made easier by the fact that I'm picking up two games today in Darksiders (Zelda w/ wh40k art style? Yes plz) and Blood Bowl LE at long last.

[Sky]

Alpha Protocol, check; was hoping for $5, but eh. Threw in OpFlash for $3, I'm sure I'll get $3 out of it some day (and fiancee likes realistic shooters). Blood Bowl, oh hell why did I look at that thread, ffs. (and yet another thanks to the secret santa who freed up my Vegas funds to buy it!)

[Vaiti]

Been waiting for Deathspank to go on sale. -50% seems somewhat low. Wondering if I should wait and see if they happen to put it on sale with the expansion as a pack.

[Kageru]

Didn't even realise Risen was banned in Australia until I tried to work out which title on their sale was "not available in your region".

[Falconeer]

Time to buy that "Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition" and actually get an additional copy for someone you love to put it under the Christmas tree.

[Azazel]

Well I decided to pass. I either own all the games I want (all of the RPGs) or the prices are still more than I want to pay (Dead Rising 2, Blood Bowl.)

This.

[Azazel]

Time to buy that "Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition" and actually get an additional copy for someone you love to put it under the Christmas tree.

Impulse had Blood Bowl: Dark Elves Edition on sale for $9.95 

[Ruvaldt]

Blood Bowl: Dark Elves has around half the teams and isn't compatible with the f13 Blood Bowl league, as far as I am aware.

[Azazel]

Yes, I posted it with the headscratch since it's just a little odd that anyone is still selling that version (for PC, anyway) when they've now released the full version.

edit - ok my bad. Cyanide are still selling it themselves for some reason. I guess there's got to be a bunch of "1st ed" leagues out there, so I guess it makes sense after all...

[Ruvaldt]

Ahhhhhhhh.  I misunderstood.  I thought you were suggesting it was a questionable purchase because Impulse was offering a cheaper alternative.

[Segoris]

Yoink, snatched up Darksiders and Alpha Protocol.


Just a summary of today's deals:

[Azazel]

Didn't even realise Risen was banned in Australia until I tried to work out which title on their sale was "not available in your region".

If you want it:
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/risen-game-pc

[Sjofn]

Did they ever fix the gameplay of Spore getting in the way of the fun building and exploring stuff? Last I played you couldn't hop a few solar systems to smell the methane without some whiny bitch threatening or pleading or asking you to go take out the trash. It got old fast, and the more you played the game part you couldn't ignore, the worse it got.

During the development, I was a huge fan of the game, and I still see a lot of what was great about it in there. Problem is, someone in management didn't 'get' a science-based sandbox, saw how much it cost and went into panic mode and forced Maxis into making a 'game' that pointy-headed morons could understand. Look at absolutely everything released, it screams 'game' and nothing at all about what WW was trying to do...which is probably why the first thing WW did was get the fuck out of Maxis.

Ahem, as the highlanders say.

They did eventually patch it so that the stupid bullshit OH GOD YOUR COLONY IS UNDER ATTACK stuff didn't come up nearly as often, but I don't know if it would make it infrequent enough for your tastes - it was low enough that I didn't hate it any more, I could flit about and terraform to my heart's content without being interupted constantly, but I still sort of wished it had gone away completely.

[Sjofn]

Got Recettear since I had been eying that one for some time, and Just Cause 2 since it went back on sale and in case I feel like a bit of action.

Recettear fucking ATE MY HEAD. I played it for like 10 hours already.  


(lol +1 lol)