Steam Summer Sale 2011

[5150]

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.

I've already got it on the 360, any mileage in getting it on the PC as well? (answers within the hour please )

Days 2 & 3 have otherwise failed to provide anythng I particularly desire (DA2 still isn't cheaper than I can get it retail)

[Strazos]

Anyone care to explain how these Eschalon games work and play? The videos were not terribly impressive, but it's an RPG so I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt.

[Der Helm]

Is Alpha Protocoll any good ? Or is it that game that everyone raged about because of how broken some paths were ?

edit: Nevermind, Joe to the rescue...

[Paelos]

I already own M&B and mod the shit out of it, so I'd recommend that to anyone who doesn't own it. Get Warband and the Regular version, you can skip Fire and Sword since there aren't enough mods for it.

[Malakili]

New Vegas day - my first planned purchase!

Edit: Also bought the Serious Sam double pack.

[Strazos]

Picked up Alpha Protocol...just because.

[Ruvaldt]

I was hoping for a better price on New Vegas, but I'll take it.  I've been waiting a long time to play it so I'm willing to fork over $20 for it and the two DLCs.

[Hawkbit]

Didn't care for playing Fallout NV on PS3, so I bought it on this sale.  I might be just about capping out on my budget. 

[Amaron]

I already own M&B and mod the shit out of it, so I'd recommend that to anyone who doesn't own it. Get Warband and the Regular version, you can skip Fire and Sword since there aren't enough mods for it.

I'm not so sure I'm sold on it and the older versions are more expensive.   I like mods but won't there be plenty of mods for the new version at some point?

[Riggswolfe]

Is Alpha Protocoll any good ? Or is it that game that everyone raged about because of how broken some paths were ?

edit: Nevermind, Joe to the rescue...

Alpha Protocol totally depends on the player I think. It got terrible reviews but I enjoyed the hell out of it because of how much choice the game had. Let's put it this way, I've never played a game before that can have different final boss battles depending on choices you make over the course of the game.

[Paelos]

I already own M&B and mod the shit out of it, so I'd recommend that to anyone who doesn't own it. Get Warband and the Regular version, you can skip Fire and Sword since there aren't enough mods for it.

I'm not so sure I'm sold on it and the older versions are more expensive.   I like mods but won't there be plenty of mods for the new version at some point?

Not really. The modders hate the F&S version. Most of the mods are for Warband. And there's a good reason for that. The F&S version is ok, but it was buggy and didn't add much to the engine that wasn't already there in Warband.

There's a reason Warband is more expensive. It's better.

Just trust me on this one I've put 114 hours into F&S, 164 into the orginal, and over 100 into the new mods on Warband across Steam and my old computer.

[Minvaren]

Dropped $7.50 for Singularity, as I missed it the last time it was on sale.

[Merusk]

I discovered something interesting, in that it might just be picking up old achieves for tickets. I went ahead and bought the THQ pack the other day since it had the 40k games and I figured I'd give TQ a shot.*  I got a free ticket today for completing the 2nd chaper of Homefront, which I'd installed and played through entirely on Saturday.   It could just be that "any day during the sale" also means "if you happen to have done it before we put the ticket task up."

*I figure $50 for 3 games I wanted to play 2 I'd heard good things of and a few others who had fans here isn't a bad deal and I shouldn't have been so wishy-washy about it.

[jakonovski]

Dropped $7.50 for Singularity, as I missed it the last time it was on sale.

That was such a cool game. I love time traveling Soviets.

[Thrawn]

Opinions on RUSE anyone?

[Ingmar]

I concur that Warband is the version to get. F&S isn't actually newer anyway is my understanding, it just took forever to come out here.

[jakonovski]

Jesus fucking christ, Two Worlds 2 has DRM that wants you personal information to activate the game.

edit: turns out you can opt out of registration, there's just a bug that makes the button inaccessible if you have a 360 controller plugged in (a side effect of the mouse not working unless you unplug the pad and restart the game).

[Baldrake]

Opinions on RUSE anyone?

Love it. Much slower paced than typical RTSs, more strategic.

[Malakili]

Opinions on RUSE anyone?

Love it. Much slower paced than typical RTSs, more strategic.

Its pretty good, there isn't much of a multiplayer community though, so just realize if you buy it its basically just for the single player campaign.

[Morfiend]

Been waiting for Fallout NV to go on sale, so I grabbed it and the DLC.

[Azazel]

Got Singularity and FNV with the DLC today. Guess I have to re-scrub my wishlist again. Trine is on sale for even less than I paid for it just 2 days ago. Still, it's only about $2 difference, so I'm not going to sweat it that much.

[Malakili]

I'm really loving NV, better than Fallout 3.  Especially since I've been replaying Fallout 2 recently, it really hits the tone right pretty well.

[Fabricated]

I'm really loving NV, better than Fallout 3.  Especially since I've been replaying Fallout 2 recently, it really hits the tone right pretty well.

I think I might buy it now. I never played Fallout 3, so I've been waiting and waiting for it to go on sale for like $10 or something but welp, only New Vegas.

It does have the "Bethesda face" problem however.

[pants]

Got Singularity and FNV with the DLC today. Guess I have to re-scrub my wishlist again. Trine is on sale for even less than I paid for it just 2 days ago. Still, it's only about $2 difference, so I'm not going to sweat it that much.

Az, did you buy it from the 'Screw us cause we're Australian' prices, or are you doing the US proxy thing?

I find it so hard to buy something when its one of the Screw us prices - even if its discounted it still hurts.

[Ingmar]

Any thoughts on Frozen Synapse?

[Azazel]

I had a friend in the US region help me out on them - sent them some moneys and got them as gifts. I'd never buy games that are ripoffville Australian prices - I usually get those via the UK. www.ozgameshop.com or www.365games.co.uk

Does anyone know how to take screenshots in steam games? F12 does nothing, and there's nothing in my steam screenshot folder. Tried Zombie Driver, Serious Sam, BC2..  Even tried on TF2 which of all things should work since it's a Valve game with no luck...

Frozen Synapse - seems pretty good. I haven't had much of a chance to play it, but it comes with 2 copies from memory, so you should be able to split the already-disounted price with someone. Makes it about six bucks. Worthwhile for that.

[Strazos]

Any thoughts on Frozen Synapse?

The soundtrack is great.

...

The game is pretty good as well. 
Someone had a link to a nice, effusive online review that I am far too lazy to dig up, but in short it's a purely-procedural tactics game. The video I mentioned gives a decent look at the game. In short, think of a tactics game...with no dice-rolling. Priority of actions matter - A Lot.

[Kail]

Does anyone know how to take screenshots in steam games? F12 does nothing, and there's nothing in my steam screenshot folder. Tried Zombie Driver, Serious Sam, BC2..  Even tried on TF2 which of all things should work since it's a Valve game with no luck...

If you open the client, go to the "Steam" menu and hit "settings," it should open a settings window.  On the "in-game" tab you should see a box for "screenshot shortcut keys" or something like that.  I believe by default it is f12, but if yours isn't working, you might want to remap it to something else.  I do think there are games it doesn't work for (games that don't use the Steam overlay, like Blood Bowl, I think) but I haven't run in to any problems with it.

After that, for the achievement, I think you have to upload it using the screenshot manager, which is on your community page (so you can't just use something like prtSc->paste).

[Azazel]

Yep, I'd already checked it, and it was f12. I just deleted it and remapped it to f12 again. Should the screenshots go straight into the Steam screenshot folder?

[Amaron]

Oh crap I didn't even noticed the New Vegas DLC was on sale.   That's a steal.

[Lucas]

For €14.99 (not counting the two DLC released so far), it seems the right time to purchase FVN: if I remember correctly, the game should have one or two more DLC by the time Christmas comes, so I'm expecting a sale of the basic game for about the same price, or maybe a couple Euro less, but not going down below ten bucks.

[Merusk]

Yep, I'd already checked it, and it was f12. I just deleted it and remapped it to f12 again. Should the screenshots go straight into the Steam screenshot folder?

The Steam Screenshot Manager should pop-up once you exit the game. It's got the publish stuff.

[Azazel]

Still not working for some reason...

[Bunk]

Picked up TW2 yesterday and played for about five hours. It satisfies an itch anyway. Loot's fun, crafting seems fun, magic system is fun, combat is less bad than Witcher 2. The voice acting and character animations are pretty  , but the world is pretty. Seems like I'll get good value for being under $20.

Oh, and to all those that hated scaled leveling in Oblivion (myself included), this game gives you the opposite. "Oh look, there's a cave I was given a quest for at level two, lets see what's inside!" Followed by the loud sclurching sound of my body being cleaved in twain by the first swing from the monster just inside the cave.

[Baldrake]

I concur that Warband is the version to get. F&S isn't actually newer anyway is my understanding, it just took forever to come out here.

Grr, wish I'd read this before hitting the purchase button...