Preparing for Fall and Winter Steam Sales (thx Snowden!)

[murdoc]

I got:

Rogue Legacy
Monaco
Darksiders II
Civilization V: Brave New World
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
Trine 2
Van Helsing DLC
DmC
Was gifted XCOM:EW and thanks to Trippy got Left 4 Dead 2 for free.

[Trippy]

Fuck Steam ended most of the sales today. I had some games on my wishlist and was waiting to see if they would get cheaper and now they are no longer on sale. Oh well.

Edit: oh hey the holiday card progress bar is working again now that most of the sales are over

[Ceryse]

I didn't grab much, at least compared to what I was wanting to spend (a number of games I wanted either didn't get discounted enough or remain clogged by stupid DRM);

- CK 2 DLC (Sons of Abraham and the smaller related DLC.. wasn't on sale but I bought it anyway) - $24
- Spec Ops The Line (based on recommendations.. but I'll probably never play it given how rarely I touch FPS games) - $7.50
- Solar 2 (bought on a whim) - $2
- Kerbal Space Program (finally bit the bullet on this, as I've wanted it for awhile; and I'm terrible at it) - $16
- Long Live the Queen (yeah.. I know) - $5
- Wizardry 6, 7, 8 Pack (gift for my father) - $2

Total damage: $56.50

On the other hand I made close to $20 with selling the stupid Steam cards/inventory junk, as I got two foil cards that sold well.

[Rendakor]

I actually bought a lot this year, compared to previous sales.

-XCOM and expansion
-Typing of the Dead: Overkill
-Craft the World
-Farcry 3: Blood Dragon
-State of Decay
-Legend of Grimrock
-Long Live the Queen
-Dungeon Defenders DLC (all of it)
-Borderlands 2 DLC (the 3 newest packs plus a few skins)

Edit: Whoops, that's only the things I bought and installed. Also these:
-Unepic
-Agarest
-Blade Symphony
-FTL
-Gnomoria
-Poker Night 2
-Prison Architect
-Skullgirls
-Ys 1&2

[schild]

I spent as little as humanly possible:
Slender: The Arrival
State of Decay

uhhh, I thought I bought something else. Guess not.

[Rasix]

I got:

State of Decay
Shadowrun
Brothers

So, semi-indie trend?  Dunno, there's not a whole lot I want, and there's a lot I'm willing to wait for it to go even cheaper.  Plus, getting old, I'm not going to throw $5 at something I know I'll never play.  My backlog of shit-I-bought-but-will-never-touch taunts me continually.

[schild]

2013 was as shitty as 2013 for PC games. Happens.

[Kail]

Ended up with:

Assassin's Creed 3 Deluxe Edition  $14.99
Age of Empires 2 HD $4.99
Awesomenauts - Starstorm Expansion $4.49
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons $4.49
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition $10.19
Deadpool $9.99
Delver $2.39
Electronic Super Joy $1.50
Hard Reset $3.74
Long Live The Queen $4.99
Nihilumbra $2.99
Rise of the Triad $2.99
Risk of Rain $6.69
Shadowrun Returns Deluxe $15.74
Starbound - Soundtrack $4.99
Steam Marines $2.49
Unepic $3.99
Valdis Story: Abyssal City $3.74

Total damages: $102.39
Was aiming for less than a hundred dollars, and that includes the $20 gift certificate I got for Christmas, so not too bad.

From what I've played so far:
Age of Empires is still fun, but makes me pine for Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds. 
Awesomenauts expansion is unfinished, right now it's just the ability to make custom matches and adds one new character (which is a bit of an alarming precedent since the previous characters were all added for free).  The planned features sound nice, though, even if I'm not sure about charging for them.
Risk of Rain seems okay, I'm not really in love with it, it seems like one of those games you have to play for a while to "get" it and I'm not there yet.
Shadowrun is really great, but short.  Hopefully the mods keep it fresh, but I thought the default campaign was really fun up until the last mission, and it'll be hard to wade through the sea of shit that I'm sure the payer created content sits in.
Unepic is pretty bleh so far (I guess the title fits), maybe it gets interesting later but right now it just seems tedious.

[Kageru]

I have no idea why I bought some of the stuff I did...

Ys I & 2, Agarest - Cheap, not great, but supporting more J-stuff coming across.
Breath of Death / Cthulu saves the world - No idea why.
Rogue Legacy, spelunky - Peer pressure
Fallen Enchantress, Gnomoria - strategy / building stuff itch ...
Far Cry 3 - cheap enough
Rise of the Triad - momentary insanity as far as I can tell
Brutal Legend - Gifted to me... as a joke hopefully.

The wishlist gained Bioshock infinite (a discount off an inflated AU price still annoys), Xcom (later) and Craft the World (too many good games for Early access).

I'm actually playing Farcry 1 though... holy crap but it takes me back to have a game where have to sneak and protect your flimsy and non-regenerating health.

[Morat20]

I picked up:

Shogun 2, Alan Wake, Braid, Borderlands 2, Dust, FTL, Gal Civ II Ultimate, Jade Empire, LA Noire, L4D2 (free), Orcs Must Die 2,Spiral Knights, Torchlight 2,World of Goo..

Think that's it. All for about 90 bucks, all told.

[schild]

Agarest is designed by a company named Idea Factory.

All they make is total shit. Don't buy their stuff, ever.

[Kageru]

What else can you do to encourage the good games to consider the PC? The incompetent are the most eager for new markets.

[Falconeer]

I wasn't supposed to buy anything this year, really serious about it. No, really. I don't need anything and I have such a backlog, pfff, and no time to play them all. No this time I won't spend silly money, I really don't need any new game FOR REAL no. Ok? No.

Ended up with:

- Long Live the Queen
- Magical Diary
- Postmortem: One must die
- DLC Quest
- Analogue: A Hate story
- Hate Plus
- Day Z
- Dinner Date
- The Stanley Parable
- Metro Last Light + DLC
- Mighty Quest for Epic Loot
- Zafehouse: Diaries

 

[Tannhauser]

Borderlands
Fallout
Fallout 2

Now wishing I'd bought Assassin's Creed 3.  Oh well.

[Paelos]

Assassins Creed 3
Rome 2 
Farcry 3
Eador
M&B Napoleon

[satael]

x-com:ew (steam)
CK2 save converter (steam)
EU4 (humble)
Shadowrun (humble)

[CaptainNapkin]

Since I'm making a serious effort to chip away at my backlog I didn't grab much, only 1 steam purchase for myself. Though for me Xbox Live and Amazon had some better deals.

Poker Night 2 - 99 cents (Steam)
State of Decay - $9.99 (Steam) (Gift)
Tomb Raider - $.499 (Amazon) (Gift)
Dragon Age 2 - $4.99 (Amazon) (Gift)
Rocksmith 2014 - $49.99 (Amazon)
Bully - $3.74 (XBL)
Brothers - $4.94 (XBL)
Wolf Among Us Ep01 - Free (XBL)

Fake edit - Ok I thought I was making progress on my backlog over my 2 week vacation but after looking at that list apparently it's a wash.

[Sky]

CK2, moment of weakness. If only the text weren't so tiny it would get some play time simply due to the music and setting because the old lady would dig it.
Outlast, I love creepy insane asylums.
Fallen Enchantress DLC that adds a new faction.
Trine 2, not my favorite kind of game but playing the demo I see $2 in it easily.

Fuck Rocksmith for not putting DLC on sale.

[HaemishM]

Between the Humble Bundle, Amazon, Green Man Gaming and Steam, I bought less than I expected but probably more than I need.

X-Com: EW
Football Manager 2014
Hearts of Iron III
EU IV
Papers, Please
Gone Home
Dawn of War Expansions (de-disking them bascially)

Some various and sundry CK2 DLC's.

[Yegolev]

I've been told to stop buying things.

[Hawkbit]

Same.  I only spent $50, but it occurred over 14 transactions.  Dang DLC.

The budget committee was not impressed.

[Teleku]

Ditto, think I ended up well over $50 over a great many small purchases.  Damn you steam!!!!!

Wait, I saved a lot of money on a great deal of games!

Which I'll probably never get around to playing.