Steam Holiday Sale

[Sky]

I was looking hard at BC2 and the FEAR bundle. Still tempted by FEAR 2, but I think I'll pass; and BC2, well, I don't really play online shooters anymore. After last year's gorging, it's much easier to pass on titles. Such a backlog of good stuff to get to (ie; get FEAR 2 or finally get around to Dead Space). Also, got the Eidos bundle last year, and hoping nothing tempts me too much because if I can make it to Jan 2 with $38, I get Vegas! It's like a cheesy game show.

Day 1 = nada.

[Hawkbit]

Bought Deus Ex collection.  Likely won't play it, but for $3 I may as well. 

Found DA:O Ultimate edition for PS3 in my local Target clearance bin yesterday for $15.  Snatched that up right quick.  I have it on PC already but have waaay more than $15 in DLC to buy, so this is win.

[Nebu]

Fuck me.  I bought Deus Ex like two days ago. 

Debating buying BC2 (mostly because I'm intrigued by the Vietnam expansion).  Since I'm not a fan of vehicles and snipers, I may pass.  It's hard to pass at that price.

[HaemishM]

My wife splurged on my Wishlist.  I told her it was better to wait for this week's sale.

Got Battlefield: Bad Company 2 finally and Blood Bowl Dark Elves Edition. Also added the Peninsular Campaign to Napoleon: Total War and got two of the expansions to Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers. I will be gorged on games this year.

[Bandit]

The Witcher for $5.00?! Get it if you don't have it - easily get your money's worth out of that.  I am actually playing through Defense Grid: The Awakening (tower defense game) now, as it was part of the Treasure Hunt deals and for $2.00 you can't miss.

Just trying to decided if Men of War: Gold Edition is worth it or not...anyone play these?

[Segoris]

Day two has started, good luck with your wallets ladies and gentlemen. That said, this is a little late from me but here is the daily breakdown so far:

Daily Sales

Day 2 – Tuesday 12/21
Resident Evil – 66% off = $10.20
Defense Grid: The Awakening – 80% off = $2.00
Burnout Paradise Ultimate – 75% off = $5.00
Gothic Bundle (1, 2, 3, and 4) – 50% off = $34.99
The Polynomial – 75% off = $2.50
The Witcher Director’s Cut – 75% off = $5.00
Aion: Assault on Balaurea – 75% off = $10.00
Lara Croft: Guardian of Light – 66% off = $5.10, or if you own any other Tomb Raider game it is 76% off = $3.60
Men of War: Gold Edition – 75% off = $8.75
Disciples 3 – 75% off = $7.50
Bioshock 2 – 50% off = $9.99
Puzzle Quest – 85% off = $1.50


Day 1 – Monday 12/20

[bhodi]

I'm passing today. I enjoyed defense grid as a tower defense game it's worth $2 if you like those games. I already own the witcher, that's worth the $5 IMO. Puzzle quest is probably worth $1.50 as well. I haven't played any of the rest.

[Nebu]

Contemplating the Witcher, but have concerns that it's more "Action" than "RPG".  I'm not much of a fan of action games, but really enjoy RPGs.  Thoughts?

[Rasix]

Contemplating the Witcher, but have concerns that it's more "Action" than "RPG".  I'm not much of a fan of action games, but really enjoy RPGs.  Thoughts?

It's more RPG than action.  Don't worry on that front.

[bhodi]

"Action" consists of facing your enemies, being in the correct stance (there are 3) and then left clicking once, twice, three times to victory when the icon turns red (this chains your attacks) Sometimes right click to cast a spell. There's a decent amount of combat though, and it's definitely the weakest part of the game, but the story is still pretty good.

[trias_e]

Defense Grid is easily worth it.  It's a charming game with plenty of replay value.

I picked up puzzle quest.  I managed to avoid it previously, but I suppose for 1.50 I can give it a shot.

[Oban]

Not much of interest on sale for Macs.

[fuser]

Not much of interest on sale for Macs.

Best part of the Mac sales they are the cross platform game so you can pickup braid/trine/torchlight for cheap and use it on PC.

[Sky]

Steam sales really jade one. I'm tempted by Bioshock 2, but didn't care for the first one much. Also Disciples III but heard a lot of meh.

Witcher is definitely worth $5 if you haven't played it; skip the Gothic bundle, Risen > Arcania by all reports (and they had the 1-3 bundle wicked cheap last year, so it's a big price jump to just get Arcania, which wasn't made by Piranha Bytes). Burnout Paradise is a fun racer, I definitely got $5 out of it over the last year.

[Paelos]

Defense Grid is easily worth it.  It's a charming game with plenty of replay value.

I picked up puzzle quest.  I managed to avoid it previously, but I suppose for 1.50 I can give it a shot.

It's a very good distraction game I enjoyed. I wouldn't recommend playing it more than an hour at a time due to the repetition.

The only thing that looked interesting to me on there is Disciples III, but there are major questions about the bugs/stability. Anybody have experience with that one?

[Morfiend]

Contemplating the Witcher, but have concerns that it's more "Action" than "RPG".  I'm not much of a fan of action games, but really enjoy RPGs.  Thoughts?

Its pure RPG. One of the best European RPGs to be released in a long while IMO. If you don't own it, and you enjoy RPGs this is a must buy right now. Actually, it was a must buy about 6 months ago even.

[Nebu]

Its pure RPG. One of the best European RPGs to be released in a long while IMO. If you don't own it, and you enjoy RPGs this is a must buy right now. Actually, it was a must buy about 6 months ago even.

I grabbed it.  At $5 I can't complain.

Can't seem to get into Deus Ex.  Too "shootery" for my tastes.   I find that I'm also not fond of the whole "stealth" thing.  My grasp of stealth involves a knife to the face.   

[eldaec]

I sure as hell wouldn't recommend Max Payne games for $14, $5 is pretty much too much to pay for them in these modern times.

If I hadn't already played it, I'd pay $5 for Max Payne 2 and be happy about it. It is however one rare case where I'm happy to have the disk, because the box art is awesome.

On today's offers, Defence Grid is worth it, you're only getting a really well executed tower defence game, but it is really well executed. Bioshock 2 can fuck right off. I already have polynomial, I can't make head nor tail of it, and it won't work with iTunes music, so that too, can fuck off. I'm picking up puzzle quest because people keep mentioning it elsewhere and it only costs 90 pence.

 

[jakonovski]

Is Bioshock 2 worth playing on the PC?

[Lucas]

Can't seem to get into Deus Ex.  Too "shootery" for my tastes.   I find that I'm also not fond of the whole "stealth" thing.  My grasp of stealth involves a knife to the face.   

At its core, yes, you could say it involves shooting, but the experience varies a lot based on how you want to approach each level.

- You can shoot with the pistol, opting for a straightforward, FPS-style approach, but Deus Ex becomes quite hard that way, and pretty unsatisfying, IMO ;

- But then, you can get around by using tranquilizer darts with the crossbow...Or picking enemies from distance with the Sniper Rifle, or...STICK WITH THE PROODD, like good ol' Paul said.

The beauty of it is really the freedom of choice, both on how you get through the levels, and the means you use to achieve it (lockpicking, computers, explosives and so on. What a fantastic game).

[Azazel]

I sure as hell wouldn't recommend Max Payne games for $14, $5 is pretty much too much to pay for them in these modern times.

Yeah, I'd be quite happy with $5 for the pair of them. More than that ...not so much.

[Mosesandstick]

Anybody tried Lara Croft? RE5 good on the PC?

[dusematic]

I bought Rail Road Tycoon 2 Platinum for less than 2 beans.  I'm going to become the most ruthless railroad baron of all time.  WATCH IT.

[Azazel]

Steam sales really jade one. I'm tempted by Bioshock 2, but didn't care for the first one much. Also Disciples III but heard a lot of meh.

Witcher is definitely worth $5 if you haven't played it; skip the Gothic bundle, Risen > Arcania by all reports (and they had the 1-3 bundle wicked cheap last year, so it's a big price jump to just get Arcania, which wasn't made by Piranha Bytes). Burnout Paradise is a fun racer, I definitely got $5 out of it over the last year.

Bioshock is $24.99 and Gothic Bundle is $34.99.. are they Aussie prices or the real ones? Both seem a tad high.

[Ingmar]

I see Bioshock 2 at $9.99 (down from $19.99) but the same $34.99 as you for the Gothic bundle.

[Malakili]

Witcher for 5 bucks is tempting, but with Steam sales making it easy to acquire large numbers of games, the real issue isn't the cost, but rather if I'll ever have time to actually play the things I buy.

[Sky]

Bioshock is $10USD, Gothic bundle $35USD. With 1&2 being a bit dated and 3&4 lackluster, and Risen being $22.50USD, I can't see recommending the bundle (and I'm a gothic fan who bought the bundle last year, it was way cheaper; money dig for Arcania this year).

[Azazel]

Anybody tried Lara Croft? RE5 good on the PC?

I've heard OKish things about Lara, and bad about RE5. Unless that was RE4? Schild had an opinion on it, I recall.

Tempted by Defence Grid, Lara and Witcher, today...

[Rasix]

RE4 awesome.  RE5 bad.

[eldaec]

Witcher for 5 bucks is tempting, but with Steam sales making it easy to acquire large numbers of games, the real issue isn't the cost, but rather if I'll ever have time to actually play the things I buy.

I picked it up last year.

At $5 it is cool because although the combat mechanics suck monkey balls, the rpg character development is solid and way the story interaction is designed is excellent. It makes Bioware look like George Lucas.

[schild]

RE4 on consoles, awesome. RE4 on PC, trash.
RE5 on consoles, trash. RE5 on PC, merely tolerable.

[Hoax]

Also Witcher for $5 is good because Witcher 2 exists no?

I need to go look up the biif and any other mentions of Disciples and I think I'll pass on Bioshock 2, it did look fun but I couldn't find a difficulty worth playing in the first game (was either trivially easy or cheating hard) and the game itself got insanely boring as it progressed as most encounters were rinse repeat affairs.

[Riggswolfe]

RE4 on consoles, awesome. RE4 on PC, trash.
RE5 on consoles, trash. RE5 on PC, merely tolerable.

Two things I had major issues with re: RE5

1) The stupid way split screen was done on consoles.
2) I hate how Chris looks like some kind of freakish steroid monster instead of a real person now.

[Riggswolfe]

Edit: Hit the wrong button.

[Azazel]

Is there a way to get/patch Steam's Witcher into the European uncut/unrated/whatever version? I've got the original Euro disc version here and would prefer to be able to put it away but keep/have the full version of the game on Steam.