Steam Holiday Sale 2012

[Sky]

Where does HoMaM VI fall in the series spectrum? (My scale is already a bit odd at 3>4>2>5>1)

[Hawkbit]

Ingmar said in the HoMM thread that he recommended 3 and 6, but 6 uses Uplay DRM, if that matters to you. 

[Lakov_Sanite]

I wanted to chime in if you like rpg-ish shooters at all then rage isn't a bad buy at the $7 it was if it comes up again. Yeah it's like a less interesting fallout but it's good apocalyptic fun for the money.

[Ingmar]

Where does HoMaM VI fall in the series spectrum? (My scale is already a bit odd at 3>4>2>5>1)

To me 3 and 6 are the only two worth playing. (And yeah it uses uPlay, so stay away if your religion forbids it.)

6 is not 3 - but it is pretty, and tactically/campaign structure-wise it comes closest to matching it I think.

[apocrypha]

SW:KOTOR2 for £1.39? Why, don't mind if I do :)

[Bzalthek]

Bought Overlord pack for 5 bucks.  Goblin Minions are adorably evil.

[naum]

Today's Daily Deals Include:
Football Manager 2013
Civilization V
Tropico 4
Thief Franchise
Bastion
I am Alive

Lifted from Steam FB stream as the Steam official site is at present, refusing my browser connection.

[Sky]

Bought Overlord pack for 5 bucks.  Goblin Minions are adorably evil.

I was having fun in this one, playing in 3D. Then nvidia borked the drivers for some reason, probably to sell the new version. I can revert to the old drivers to play in 3D but...meh. Overlord was probably my 2nd favorite game in 3d behind Tomb Raider, which I won't even play in 2D it was so awesome in 3D.

[Samwise]

Bought Overlord pack for 5 bucks.  Goblin Minions are adorably evil.

I really loved the first Overlord but the sequel felt really tedious for some reason I can't quite remember now.

[5150]

Game maker studio professional now? Am I really going to fill my fucking wishlist with nongames? Unf.

I've missed the flash sale now but has anyone used Gamemaker Studio at all? Is it any good and is it worth getting any of the paid updates?

Also how can you do IOS games with it when you have to do IOS development on a Mac with the SDK (and have purchased an Apple Developer subscription)?

[KallDrexx]

I've missed the flash sale now but has anyone used Gamemaker Studio at all? Is it any good and is it worth getting any of the paid updates?

Also how can you do IOS games with it when you have to do IOS development on a Mac with the SDK (and have purchased an Apple Developer subscription)?

I've heard and read decent things about Gamemaker from people in the industry.  It's good for prototyping fast and simple-ish games, especially if you aren't a programmer.  Also, i'ts been used in some decently known indie games such as Spelunky.

IOS works because it just compiles your product to an IOS compatabile format, but you'd probably still need an apple developer subscription and run it on a mac, but your main development can probably just work on windows if you want.

[murdoc]

I grabbed Dark Souls and am now not sure why...

It sorta looks like I need a controller? No mouse support, or am I missing something obvious?

For the PC, my understanding is you want DSFix and DSMFix

http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?tag=dsfix

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~petska/

Thanks for these - they made it a completely different game.

[MrHat]

I think this is the most games I've bought on a steam sale:

Sniper Elite Franchise
Walking Dead
Spec Ops: The Line
Far Cry 3
Mark of the Ninja
M&MH6
Sleeping Dogs

All for about $110.  Great haul of games.

Tomorrow is the last day right?

[JWIV]

This one has been rough on the wallet

To The Moon
Railworks 3 Cologne-Dusseldorf
Skyrim Hearthfire
Skyrim Dawnguard
Morrowind
Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion
Civ V Gods&Kings
Endless Space
PRR Baldwin Centipede
F40PH California Zephyr

[Kail]

Game maker studio professional now? Am I really going to fill my fucking wishlist with nongames? Unf.

I've missed the flash sale now but has anyone used Gamemaker Studio at all? Is it any good and is it worth getting any of the paid updates?

Also how can you do IOS games with it when you have to do IOS development on a Mac with the SDK (and have purchased an Apple Developer subscription)?

I've got it, it's pretty good for where I'm at personally (pretty basic knowledge of everything game-ish, not enough to code anything in C from scratch but enough to know the basic form of how it would work if I could).  It's mostly just for 2d stuff, but really strikes a nice balance between flexibility and user friendliness, in my opinion.  There's a gimped free version on Steam if you want to check it out (the software's actually classified as "free to play"), you can run through a tutorial or two and it should give you the gist of it. 

I've just got the basic $50.00 package, which just takes the limitations of the free version off, and it does everything I was looking for.

[Rendakor]

This year hasn't been too bad for me:

Chantelise
Fortune Summoners
Dawnguard and Hearthfire (had Skyrim already)
Crusader Kings 2
Quantum Conundrum
Torchlight 2

Of those, I've only played TL2 and a bit of the Skyrim DLC. Next on the list is either QC or CK2, after I put down TL2. I'm not going to delve into the Skyrim stuff until Dragonborn comes out (hopefully some time this week) because I want to do a fresh playthrough.

[Sky]

Civ V Gods & Kings - just in case I get that itch
HoMaM VI
Fallen Enchantress (shut it, you know why)
Drakensang 2 + expansion
Sleeping Dogs
Rocksmith (and a shitload of tunes)

[apocrypha]

Very restrained for me, both S.T.A.L.K.E.R games, The Walking Dead and KOTOR2.

If either Carrier Command: Gaia Mission and/or Lego LOTR go lower than 50% I'll pick them up too, but I think that's unlikely.

[Zetor]

I picked up
MTG: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 and 2013
Batman: AA GOTY
Batman: AC GOTY
Amnesia
The Walking Dead

All were under 5E except for Walking Dead at 12.50E - still worth it, imo (even though the actual gameplay was nothing to write home about).

[Evildrider]

Only thing I picked up this time was the THQ bundle.

[jakonovski]

Kinda weird, I only got Awesomenauts and the Walking Dead from the Steam sale. Other digital retailers were wayyyy cheaper:

XCOM (gamersgate)
Sleeping Dogs (gamefly)
Anno 2070 (gamefly)
Assassin's Creed 3 (cdon)

[Wasted]

I bought Natural Selection 2 on day 1 I think and found the rest of the sale pretty meh.  Too many repeats, I never feel like any particular sale is special or urgent and nothing extra to participate in like previous years.  Anything I don't get now will have some sale later on, so I'll wait till I have time to actually play it, if ever.

[bhodi]

I bought a bunch of stuff. It started slow but I ended up with:

Civ V Gods and Kings expansion
Rage
Sleeping Dogs
Hotline Miami
Mark of the Ninja
Dead Rising 2 complete pack
Binary Domain

I might pick up skyrim or some other stuff depending on what goes on sale. I didn't bother with other retailers because I like the no-hassle two click buy of steam and I can't use amazon visa credits for digital downloads yet. I already own most of the other stuff.

[Sky]

Amazon visa credits bought my Rocksmith cable :)

[Rasix]

Somehow I just got Sleeping Dogs for 91% off. 

[Fabricated]

I picked up KOTOR2 again since I can't find my key despite having my CDs...where's that complete overhaul mod that actually got released unlike the team gizka stuff?

[HaemishM]

Fairly sedate year for me, but I was very adamant about what price I would pay for stuff.

Civ V Gods and Kings and all the DLC
Crusader Kings II and some DLC
Some Saints Row the Third DLC
Football Manager 2013
The Freedom Force Pack
Tropico 4

Of course, I'm still working through last year's backlog, so it isn't like I HAD to have Dishonored or anything. Steam has made it so I will likely never NOT have something to play.

[Thrawn]

XCOM off Gamersgate
Sims 3 on Steam for the wife just to de-disc

annnd I think that's it.  I wish I could say that I just had great willpower but I think it's more that often I just already own all the games on sale that I might want. 

[Kail]

Yeah, pretty quiet year for me too.  Most of the stuff I got was $5.00 or less.

From Steam:
Cargo Commander
Civ V Gods and Kings (finally)
Dota 2
Forge
Intrusion 2 (don't even remember what this is)
Miner Wars
Natural Selection 2
Resonance
All the Sonic stuff I didn't already have, Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and some DLC for Generations
Universe Sandbox

Also got XCOM as a christmas gift 

From GoG:
Guilty Gear Isuka
King's Quest Collection
Police Quest Collection
Shattered Steel
Witcher (don't know why, I already have it on Steam)
XIII

[Paelos]

I got

DA:O Awakening plus all the DLC
AC 1 and 2
Bioshock 1 and 2
Batman Arkham Asylum and City
Dark Souls
DE: Human Revolution
Towns
Tropico 4

And Hearthfire/Dawnguard for Skyrim.

[Ingmar]

I bought zero things because I haven't finished my "play 10 things from the backlog" challenge. Being on vacation away from temptation and then having a broken PC when I got home helped me stay strong, I doubt I'd have been able to do it otherwise. 

[Paelos]

Oh also Azazel was nice enough to gift me Dawn of War. So thanks for that!

[murdoc]

Civ V Gods and Kings
Deadlight
Saints Row 3
Dark Souls

Pretty quiet sale for me - I keep eying Sleeping Dogs, but I think Dark Souls will keep me busy for awhile.

[Kageru]

Just filling up gaps myself, there didn't seem to be that many new games. Outside of the indie titles. And I'm poor anyway so picking up some bargains is fine.

The Secret World
Dead Island (though I'm sick of zombies).
They Bleed Pixels
FTL (to play on linux)
Torchlight 2
Thief 1
Kotor 2
Tomb Raider: Legend (so I have all the new iteration)

[Sjofn]

Someone bought me TL2 for Christmas and I bought a Tropico 4 DLC. Oh, and a CK2 DLC. SPENDY.