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Topic: Steam Holiday Sale (Read 72947 times)
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Azazel
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Buckled and bought 4x of Op.Flashpoint. Buoyed by some positive reviews and Bhodi's recommendation. Seem like it would be fun for a local co-op game with the coordinating and the shooting people in the head from afar.
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DraconianOne
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Mass Effect 2 for a tenner? Still haven't got it - still haven't finished the first one. Guessing it might be worth it at this price though...?
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A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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dusematic
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Mass Effect 2 for a tenner? Still haven't got it - still haven't finished the first one. Guessing it might be worth it at this price though...?
Did you like ME1? Personally, I thought it was shit. Not a fan of recent BioWare here. If you liked ME1 you'll like ME2. |
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Segoris
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It's a new day for your wallet to grab its ankles and bite its lip
Friday - Dec 24th
Arma 2 - 75% off = $9.99
Saints Row 2 - 75% off = $7.50
Torchlight - 75% off = $4.99
King Arthur Complete Pack - 85% off = $5.39
Devil May Cry 4 - 75% off = $4.99
Fallout Vegas - 40% off = $29.99 or 50% off = $24.99 if you own Fallout 3
Battlefield 2 Collection - 75% off = $4.99
Sam & Max The Devil's Playhouse - 71% off = $9.99
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Games - 75% off = (complete pack for $9.99, others I'll update in a bit)
Counter Strike Source - 75% off = $4.99
Overlord Games - 85% off = (Raising Hell - $1.50, Overlord 1 - $.75, Overlord 2 - $1.50, Complete pack - $3.00)
Borderlands game and dlc - 50% off (goty edition = $24.99, base game = $9.99, claptraps revolution = $4.99, Mad Moxxi = $4.99, General Knox = $4.99, Zombie Island = $4.99)
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Segoris
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Nebu
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God Damn it. I may have to pick up BC2 now.
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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Riggswolfe
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Well, I picked up Torchlight despite being tired of that genre of game. I'm mulling over King Arthur and maybe Borderlands...
Edit: I broke down and got the Battlefield 2 collection for $5. I have ruled out borderlands but am still contemplating King Arthur.
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« Last Edit: December 24, 2010, 11:50:00 AM by Riggswolfe »
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Nebu
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Well, I picked up Torchlight despite being tired of that genre of game. I'm mulling over King Arthur and maybe Borderlands...
I hope you enjoy Torchlight more than I did. The graphics made me want to stab myself in the face. |
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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Hoax
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Overlord didn't do much for me, it doesn't look old but the game design itself feels old. I just couldn't get into it and at least the early missions felt very linear and the gameplay felt quite limited.
If you've avoided Borderlands for this long I'd imagine its not the game for you. Its an insultingly poor console port and multiplayer doesn't work as well as it should but at the its core its probably a more fun smash and lewtz game than...
Torchlight, I really wanted to like this game but I think there are many things to not like and they got enough wrong that I would recommend Titan Quest over Torchlight to anyone who asked. If your excited about the mmo or curious about the version that has multiplayer it might be worth the $5 I guess.
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I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Ghost Recon futuristic version #2, I've always thought they looked good. Does it have some kind of disgusting Ubi DRM? Is it a console game with all the ui and control scheme shittiness that entails?
What about King Arthur? How can it not be worth $3?
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.
-William Gibson
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climbjtree
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I picked up Advanced Warfighter 2. Bleh.
Still super linear levels, and the AI of your teammates leaves something to be desired. Especially since it seems like you need them more in this game than in previous versions.
I wouldn't buy it.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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King Arthur wasn't really even worth $5 to me, but, then again, I was never very much into Arthurian legend. The game itself seems OK, it's a sort of heroes of might and magic type game with a myth-style combat, only where archers/ranged units are way overpowered. The whole quest system involves going around and tracing/performing the history of king Arthur and the kingdom of Camelot by doing quests/helping kingdoms.
I just got sort of bored with it.
I'm passing on today. New vegas is tempting but I'm in no rush, I've a huge backlog of games to play and I'll just wait until it's $15 next year. I didn't like darksiders, I wanted a more action-oriented rather than zelda-esque game, I already own or have played a bunch of the others.
Sid Meier's Pirates! is the shit though - how did I miss this game?!
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« Last Edit: December 24, 2010, 01:34:42 PM by bhodi »
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dusematic
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fuuuck. Was gonna come gloat about King ARthur and all expansions/DLC for 5 bucks. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaager.
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Setanta
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I decided to have a look at the mega pack sales and notice that Rockstar is unavailable in Australia. Then I notice that the [bValve[/b] collection is also unavailable. WTF? I don't get it, I've bought all of my Valve games via Steam before - why is the discount pack unavailable? This year's sale is great, last year I spent too much, this year there is effectively nothing I want  |
"No man is an island. But if you strap a bunch of dead guys together it makes a damn fine raft."
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Azazel
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It's about the Max Payne games, which aren't on Steam for Aussies, and of course, Manhunt, which was Refused Classification. For the Valve pack, it's about L4D2, which again, was RC. Today's sale.. hmm.. Waiting for GOTY with all the bugfixes and shit like the "exclusive 360 only" DLC added in for Fallout: NV, a few things stuff I own already. I liked GRAW2 back when I played it a few years ago. I had high hopes of getting a second copy to co-op through with my wife or a friend, but when I had another look at it a couple months ago, it ...didn't meet my modern expectations. I am tempted to buy 2 or 4 copies of BF2 for the local co-op though, despite owning more than enough original copies...  |
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rattran
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Unreasonable
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Segoris
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jakonovski
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I'm waiting for Singularity to go on sale. It's like the game that time forgot.
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Lantyssa
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You might be waiting forever for that one.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Riggswolfe
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Well, just picked up Batman for $7.50. I'm debating Tropico 3 for $6. Any of you guys played and enjoyed that one?
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Segoris
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Saturday Dec 25th
Altitude - 75% off = $2.49
Dragon Age - 50% off (Awakenings = $14.99, Origins = $14.99, Ultimate Edition = $24.99)
Tropico 3 - 70% off = $6.00
Flatout - 90% off (Ultimate Carnage = $2.00, Flatout = $.75, Flatout 2 = $1.00)
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY - 75% off = $7.50
Shank - 50% off = $7.49
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - 50% off or 60% off if you own Double Agent (60% off prices = Conviction = $11.99, Conviction Deluxe = $13.99, Splinter Cell = $3.99, Chaos Theory = $3.99()
Civ5 - 25% off = $37.49
Call of Duty 4:MW2 - 50% off = $29.99
Monkey Island Special Edition Bundle - 75% off = $3.75
X-Superbox - 66% off = $13.60
Red Faction games - 75% off (Red Faction = $2.49, Red Faction 2 - $2.49, Red Faction Guerrilla - $4.99)
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Segoris
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Well, just picked up Batman for $7.50. I'm debating Tropico 3 for $6. Any of you guys played and enjoyed that one?
I enjoyed Tropico. If you like city builders then it is alright, I got more than $6 out of it but ymmv |
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WayAbvPar
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Was too lazy to dig up my Mount and Blade account info, so I bought the bundle with WarBand for $20. I have gotten far more than that out of the game, so it was well worth it for me. Grabbed Batman this morning...$7.50 is too cheap to pass up a game that everyone else seemed to enjoy. Do I need to use a controller or is it m & kb?
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CaptainNapkin
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For the price I may as well add one of the Flatouts to my collection.
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schild
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I have not bought a single title during this sale. If they gave me 100 free games, there probably wouldn't be 100 games on Steam I don't already have :( I'd end up with all the Petz and Call of Duty titles.
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jakonovski
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You might be waiting forever for that one.
How come? |
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K9
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Was too lazy to dig up my Mount and Blade account info, so I bought the bundle with WarBand for $20. I have gotten far more than that out of the game, so it was well worth it for me. Grabbed Batman this morning...$7.50 is too cheap to pass up a game that everyone else seemed to enjoy. Do I need to use a controller or is it m & kb?
I had no problems playing it with mouse and keyboard; it's a fun game. |
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Ingmar
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I have not bought a single title during this sale. If they gave me 100 free games, there probably wouldn't be 100 games on Steam I don't already have :( I'd end up with all the Petz and Call of Duty titles.
You could probably hit 70 just with Railworks expansions! |
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Lantyssa
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You might be waiting forever for that one.
How come? Because as you get closer to a singularity, time slows down. What is an instant for an outside observer seems to take eternity for the object. |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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jakonovski
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Because as you get closer to a singularity, time slows down. What is an instant for an outside observer seems to take eternity for the object.
*groan* |
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Teleku
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Any opinions on Shank?
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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Minvaren
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Hmm, decent price point for Dragon Age... (scratches chin)
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Azazel
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So Battlefield 2 doesn't work. Gives a "Your CD-Key is invalid" error when you try to go online. Sent a mesaage to support suggesting that they fix it and don't fuck me around sending me back and forth to EA (who is sending people back to steam) or I'll initiate 4 chargebacks for the 4 copied I purchased. I did say I'd give them a reasonable amount of time, given the time of year. Wheeee!  |
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Hoax
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Hey Bhodi, what are the best X games? I'm never going to play all of them.
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.
-William Gibson
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Nightblade
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So Battlefield 2 doesn't work. Gives a "Your CD-Key is invalid" error when you try to go online. Sent a mesaage to support suggesting that they fix it and don't fuck me around sending me back and forth to EA (who is sending people back to steam) or I'll initiate 4 chargebacks for the 4 copied I purchased. I did say I'd give them a reasonable amount of time, given the time of year. Wheeee! Ive heard of steam suspending accounts doing charge backs. Be careful. |
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