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Topic: Steam Holiday Sale (Read 70466 times)
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jakonovski
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How is Colin McRae's DiRT 2? Every so often I get the itch for a racing game and for 5 bucks it might be worth having in my library if its decent.
It's a great game, provided you have a gamepad. It has a certain douchebag subculture aesthetic all over it though, so be warned. |
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Paelos
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Steam has failed to deliver on this sale as a whole so far.
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Teleku
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So, what games out there are you looking for that haven't been put on sale, or aren't marked down because they're in a pack? What haven't you seen that you want?
I think the sale has been fine, lots of good games. Problem is that I already have gotten every single one of them on earlier sales, so nothing for me to buy really. I've gotten a few cheep smaller indie games from the sale though, so thats nice.
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Ingmar
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Greed Corp is a decent little strategy game, if you don't already have it on Xbox.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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jakonovski
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The new Wolfenstein and Singularity would be perfect for this sale. Competent shooters that flopped due to being buried under other more deserving games. Not holding my breath though.
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Paelos
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For starters, one of the things I wanted was imo overpriced. I refused to buy an expansion pack to Dragon Age for more than $10, for example.
But you are right, I own a lot of the stuff now. I just want moar!
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Sky
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So, what games out there are you looking for that haven't been put on sale, or aren't marked down because they're in a pack? What haven't you seen that you want?
Dead Rising 2, Arcania 4, Divinity 2, Dawn of Discovery Gold, Mafia 2 (eyeing amazon), off the top of my wishlist. Wish BB:LE had been cheaper than $20, that hurt my ability to buy some side titles (Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened). Considering Amnesia, but with money tight, probably not. Also wish more things were a bit cheaper. How bad was Kane & Lynch 2 to be $5 after four months? |
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Paelos
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How bad was Kane & Lynch 2 to be $5 after four months?
Apparently really bad. One reviewer described it as Mass Effect 2 without the decent story, guns, teamwork, and solid aiming. |
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bhodi
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It's awful.
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HaemishM
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I'm waiting for Mass Effect 2 to come back down under $10 or for Blood Bowl Legendary Edition to come back down again. I'm hoping they'll do one more "Best of" day that will have either of those two. Otherwise, I'm not sure there's much else I need.
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Paelos
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I'd probably hit up Blood Bowl at 19.99 if it came back round.
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Minvaren
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Holy heck, Going Rogue Complete down to $10 already?  |
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Azazel
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So, what games out there are you looking for that haven't been put on sale, or aren't marked down because they're in a pack? What haven't you seen that you want?
I think the sale has been fine, lots of good games. Problem is that I already have gotten every single one of them on earlier sales, so nothing for me to buy really. I've gotten a few cheep smaller indie games from the sale though, so thats nice.
I agree. The problem has been that we all own many of the ones we'd be interested in. I'm personally looking out for Star Wars Battlefront 2 for about $3. BB Legendary was too expensive for me at $20. Guess I'll pick it up for $10 next year.. I guess I'd consider picking up things like Wolf if they were sub-$10. I'd look at them, anyway. |
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Hoax
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Call of Cthulu and Worms Reloaded are the only games I haven't yet seen on sale that I know I would think long and hard about getting.
I like today's sale though, Greed Corp, Sword & Soldiers and Amnesia might all be worth a purchase, I'm trying to find out more about them.
If you don't own Deadspace and don't hate either fps, scifi, survival horror or zombies you really really really need to buy it right now.
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« Last Edit: December 29, 2010, 05:04:09 PM by Hoax »
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Samwise
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If you don't own Deadspace and don't hate either fps, scifi, survival horror or zombies you really really really need to buy it right now.
I love all those things and Dead Space is the only game I have ever seriously considered asking for a refund on. Just saying. |
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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Well, I've been messing around a bit with M&B: Warband and dunno why, but it reminded me of my childhood playing Defender of the Crown on the Atari ST. Very neat :)
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Trippy
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Archon Classic is on sale today for $2.50 (75% off $9.99).
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Morfiend
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If you don't own Deadspace and don't hate either fps, scifi, survival horror or zombies you really really really need to buy it right now.
I love all those things and Dead Space is the only game I have ever seriously considered asking for a refund on. Just saying. The horrible console UI conversion made Dead Space near unplayable for me when I bought it during the last sale. |
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schild
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I used my Xbox Controller on the PC version and it was perfect. I actually prefer controllers for 3rd person non-competitive shooters.
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rk47
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I used to recall reading a nice review regarding King Arthur, but my experience in playing it can be summed up as: Medieval starcraft, you basically need marines, lots of marines, shooting uranium tipped arrows, then upgrade it so it has more range and attack. Don't forget to use your knights to buff them with stimpacks that made them shoot 3 arrows instead of 1. The rest of the units are damage sponge. Also, don't forget to cast psi-storm when you have enough mana.  I realize weathers and fog spells play a part in this 'Map-wide archer shut down' but with Dragon Eye spell to nullify all that, INSTANTLY? Fuck cavalry charges, I've seen giants drop in three salvos. Hilarious. This game's not bad, but the developers really need to work on the balancing if they want to make sequels with similar engine. Having fun with auto-shotgun with Bad Company 2, most of the servers populations have moved on to Vietnam expansion, but dying to repeated snipers in jungle maps made me wary of buying forest map packs. It's a good purchase, but I'm not good enough to enjoy counter-sniping Tempted by $10 City of Heroes: Going Rogue ...but..decided there's not much pull in MMO right now. Here's hoping tomorrow's catalog improve! |
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Tannhauser
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Bought Sim City 4 and Making History II yesterday. MH came out broken back in June, but has had three major patches so we'll see. $20 was the right price point for me on this. SC4 may have been overpriced at $5.
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Reg
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Sim City 4 is actually better now than when it was released. I bought it when it first came out and although it was pretty and as good or better than its predecessors it ran horribly slow on my machine. Running it now years later on a modern machine it still looks good and is as fast as I need it to be.
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Bunk
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Well crap - STO for $7.50. Sounds about the right price to fiddle with it for a month.
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jakonovski
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Got my Singularity at last.
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Velorath
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Well crap - STO for $7.50. Sounds about the right price to fiddle with it for a month.
Hate to break it to you, but Amazon has that as part of their digital download sale for $2.50. |
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Morfiend
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Got my Singularity at last.
I am considering that one. Is it worth $25? |
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Malakili
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Finally picked up L4D2 for 5 bucks after seeing it at that price at least 3 times prior.
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Paelos
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I bought the Rome games. It was $4 for the Gold edition and I'm a sucker for things about Rome.
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Segoris
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I think Transformers was enjoyable. I don't know how populated the multiplayer is at this point, but I really liked it when it came out.
Also, since I normally like city builders, for $4 I'll pick up the Rome pack. I'm sure I can get that much entertainment from it.
Wednesday - Dec 29th
Thursday - Dec 30th
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Azazel
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Only thing I have the slightest interest in today would be getting uncensored L4D2 as a gift for my wife. But as an Aussie, I'm not allowed to do that.
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Ginaz
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Anyone heard anything about RUSE? I've been thinking of getting that for awhile now but wasn't prepared to pay full price.
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eldaec
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Most of the complaints I've seen about RUSE have been that it lacks micro and focusses almost exclusively on strategy.
Which is a retarded thing to complain about.
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Setanta
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Am I the only one with issues with Transformers? I found it near impossible to distinguish Decepticons from the surroundings and gave up from eyestrain.
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Kail
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Am I the only one with issues with Transformers? I found it near impossible to distinguish Decepticons from the surroundings and gave up from eyestrain.
Didn't find it that different from having to distinguish guys in jungle camo from the background jungle, or whatever, as you're expected to do in most FPSes. At least in Transformers, everything's at fairly close range. Though I don't know if I'd reccomend it to anyone who didn't grow up with the series. |
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