Steam Summer Sale 2011

[Trippy]

Aside from the endless stream of $5 indie games, I can't find enough stuff to fill up my wishlist with. Between my 360's titles and previous Steam sales, I've struggled to find 10 games to put on it. And that's with Magika, Magika: Vietnam and Trine all added - all of which I'm likely to buy before the sale ends. Hell, I even put Black Ops up there to take up a slot.

You can add unreleased games to the list. That's how I fill mine up during these contests. My list currently is:

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dungeon Defenders
Saints Row: The Third
Tropico 4
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Stronghold 3
Alice: Madness Returns
F.E.A.R. 3
RAGE
Might & Magic Heroes VI

[Sky]

Anyone got a link to the KOTOR hacks for Win7-64

I got the widescreen and hud stuff from WSGF, forget if/what I used to tweak for win7.

[Thrawn]

penny-arcade adventures

Tried buying this the first day when it was like $1.80 and it kept telling me I can't because I already own it....but I don't. 

[K9]

gratuitous space battles

While this game looks fun, in practise I found it to be a confusing mess and not that engaging.

Does anyone have any comments on Fable 3? I played Fable 1 on X-Box and thought it was cute and fairly harmless. I'm open for another RPG game in that broad style.

[Kail]

Does anyone have any comments on Fable 3? I played Fable 1 on X-Box and thought it was cute and fairly harmless. I'm open for another RPG game in that broad style.

As someone who loved the hell out of Fable 1, I found it a little bit disappointing, but not horrible. 

Combat is a bit frustrating (enemies are all a bit too tough, there are usually a ton of them, and you don't have a visible health meter) but literally impossible to lose (your guy just gets knocked down and gets a new scar).  There is no more combat multiplier, most of your XP now comes from completing quests and improving relationships.  A lot of the magic spells are gone, too, I think there are only five or six now, and they're all offensive fireball type things.

The story is kind of interesting, and it does some interesting (some would say questionable) things with the moral choice system.  Befriending people is more of a pain, since you have to do quests and things for them now instead of just having an Aura of Awesome that makes women swoon and men turn gay.  Marriage is mostly the same, but you can have a kid now (though given that my character is caucasian and his wife is caucasian and they ended up with an african kid, either the game is a bit buggy here or it's working on a level of realism I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with).

Overall, a bit disappointing, but not a complete waste of time.  I had fun with it.  If it were $10ish, I'd say definitely, but for $25, I'd say it depends on how much you liked Fable 1.

[Azazel]

Aside from the endless stream of $5 indie games, I can't find enough stuff to fill up my wishlist with. Between my 360's titles and previous Steam sales, I've struggled to find 10 games to put on it. And that's with Magika, Magika: Vietnam and Trine all added - all of which I'm likely to buy before the sale ends. Hell, I even put Black Ops up there to take up a slot.

You can add unreleased games to the list. That's how I fill mine up during these contests. My list currently is:

Hey thanks! that's really useful. I've got it topped up now.

[Ingmar]

#10 seller right now is the $80 Sims 3 pack. 

[K9]

Overall, a bit disappointing, but not a complete waste of time.  I had fun with it.  If it were $10ish, I'd say definitely, but for $25, I'd say it depends on how much you liked Fable 1.

Thanks, guess I will wait for it to come around again in a year or so.

[eldaec]

Dragon Ages.
Assassins Creeds.
Torchlight.
Tropico3

Some other crap.

Might buy DA2 then fail to download it for months.

[Lucas]

I've never played any Assassin Creed, but I've always been curious about it. Whole pack (AC1 Director's, AC2 Deluxe, Brotherhood) is € 27.19; seems quite a good value to me...

[Morfiend]

I'm very tempted by Two Worlds 2. Any opinions?

[Thrawn]

I've never played any Assassin Creed, but I've always been curious about it. Whole pack (AC1 Director's, AC2 Deluxe, Brotherhood) is € 27.19; seems quite a good value to me...

My opinion (have never played Brotherhood) was that Assassin Creed is fun and wroth picking up for $5 on sale or whatever.  But once you play the first half or so of 1, you've played all of one and two.  Nothing much new or exciting, just lots of the same.

[Hawkbit]

I'm very tempted by Two Worlds 2. Any opinions?

I played about 10 hours of the PS3 version.  On that version the camera swung too rapidly and gave me a headache, that combined with a very short 'in-focus' camera (no depth of field) kept me from playing it any longer.

I wish it was down to $10, I'd pick it up then to see if it's better on PC.  It's typical eurojank - if you liked Risen or Divinity, with a smidgen of Oblivion then you might like it.  It's markedly better than TW1, but don't go in expecting a AAA title. 

[Rokal]

I've never played any Assassin Creed, but I've always been curious about it. Whole pack (AC1 Director's, AC2 Deluxe, Brotherhood) is € 27.19; seems quite a good value to me...

They're pretty good games, but not the type of game you'd probably want to play back-to-back. They're all fairly long, and fairly similar. You might be better off picking up AC1, seeing if you like it, and then picking up 2/Brotherhood the next time they are inevitably on sale.

[Minvaren]

Bah, I bought AC:Brotherhood right before the summer sale was announced.     AC1 and AC2 for $7 each is a lot of game for the money.

DA1 Ultimate for $10 purchased.

[DraconianOne]

I've never played any Assassin Creed, but I've always been curious about it. Whole pack (AC1 Director's, AC2 Deluxe, Brotherhood) is € 27.19; seems quite a good value to me...

They're pretty good games, but not the type of game you'd probably want to play back-to-back. They're all fairly long, and fairly similar. You might be better off picking up AC1, seeing if you like it, and then picking up 2/Brotherhood the next time they are inevitably on sale.

I got AC1 from Amazon last time Steam had a sale (because it was there for about £2.50) and got to say I'm quite enjoying it. Also, I find it's a game I can play for 20 or 30 minutes, feel like I've made some progress and come back again later.

Having said that, the samey samey gameplay is getting a little old already.

What's different about Brotherhood? I'm tempted to splash the cash just to have a non-disc version to play but then DA:O is also tempting me.

[Miasma]

If you like sim city type games Tropico 3 for less than four bucks is a no brainer.  It's quite fun.

[jakonovski]

I bought 2 Worlds 2 Furious. I'm a sucker for eurojank.

[Morfiend]

I bought 2 Worlds 2 Furious. I'm a sucker for eurojank.

Same. Now im trying to get a friend to buy it for the online bits.

[Amaron]

I remember a lot of comments to the effect that the transformer game was actually pretty good.   I'm probably going to check it out at that price finally.

[Tairnyn]

I know some people here enjoyed Drakensang. I know I did. The next in the series is on sale for $9.99 and reviews show that it's decent.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/33770/

[Morfiend]

I remember a lot of comments to the effect that the transformer game was actually pretty good.   I'm probably going to check it out at that price finally.

Its a fairly generic robot TPS. Decent game, nothing special. IMO they missed out on the transforming part of the game. I would probably rate it a 8 or so.

[Azazel]

I've never played any Assassin Creed, but I've always been curious about it. Whole pack (AC1 Director's, AC2 Deluxe, Brotherhood) is € 27.19; seems quite a good value to me...

Double check the DRM/Connection requirements first. Not sure what they are at present since Ubi tends to slowly change the DRM on existing games.

[Azazel]

Nothing that compels me today. ARMAII might have been interesting, but not for $20. I'd expect better than that for a Steam sale title, especially with ARMA3 around the corner...

[Rasix]

Can't decide between eurorpg wonkiness and the Assassin's Creed pack. 

[Kail]

Hell, this sale is killing me.  I think I'm at something like $100 already.

Grabbed Dragon Age today, because it's been the top game on my wishlist since I set the thing up.  Also Tropico 3 and Assassin's Creed: Brosef.  Hopefully, I'll be safe for the rest of the sale, unless they discount Mirror's Edge, or The Sims 3/medival sharply enough (unlikely, since the pack is like eighty bucks and still selling, and for reasons passing my comprehension, the base game is not discounted at all).

[Rokal]

Transformers multiplayer was actually pretty awesome. Not sure if it's active anymore though.

[Hawkbit]

I'm at 25 or so, picked up DA:O just because.  Hard to beat at $10 and I never got that far into it before I gave the discs to my dad.  Holy crap it's a 25gig download.  

DA:O
Defense Grid
Tropico 3
Eschalon 1
HL2 Ep1
HL2 Ep2 (yeah, yeah... I know.  I never got around to them)

I bought Divinity 2 a week ago when it was on sale.  Lots of new games floating around right now.  

[Ginaz]

Surprisingly, I haven't bought anything yet.  Either I already have them or they don't interest me.

[Malakili]

I bought Bioshock 2 yesterday after a friend recommended it at that price - got 30 minutes in and now it crashed to desktop.  Now it crashes to desktop every time I load it up.

Oh well.

[Rokal]

Try searching google for the Bioshock 2 ini locations, delete them, and then relaunch it. Sometimes forcing a reset to default settings will fix issues like that.

[Amaron]

The transformer game actually ran out of keys. 

[Azazel]

It wasn't available in my region, either. 

[Xilren's Twin]

I also would like to post this in the "old CRPGs" thread, but hey, no problem:
- Eschalon I (Euro 3,74) and Eschalon II (it's a sequel...Euro 4,99) are now heavily discounted on Steam for the summer sale. There is also a free demo of Eschalon I and you can check out the manuals as well, of course.
Store page:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/25600/

Sold.  Im a sucker for turn based rpgs and for $3.74 i dont even care if i never play it :)  (funny how on Basilisk's website they're still selling them for $20 and $25)

[tgr]

He's released book 2 as well.