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

[Miasma]

If assassin's creed 4 goes on sale I'm going to buy it and cancel my PS4 wait list order.

[Setanta]

I broke at Dishonored GOTY for 16 at GMG.  I wish the van helsing DLC would go on sale.

This... and the Space Hulk DLC ( which I might wait for on the iPad)

Lego Marvel Super Heroes is tempting.

CBF'd with Green Man Gaming now that they are gouging Aussies at EB prices (distributor has set the regional price - yet Steam can still sell it cheaper).

Grabbed the Walking Dead DLC (Would love the second series to drop a little more) and am tempted by the Baldur's Gate II EE... but I know I'll probably never play it again.

[Rendakor]

Baldur's Gate II EE is not on sale, only the first one.

[Miasma]

Bought Dark Souls to try and see why I keep hearing people talk about it.  Didn't know it's infected with games for windows live shit.  Just deleted it, not sure why steam is even selling games requiring that since it's all shutting down soon.

Bought final fantasy seven because I thought, why not.  Turns out I need to make a God damn account online with square to play it.  Fuck you, also deleted.  Can't believe I have to carefully research whether or not a fifteen year old game has some sort of online bullshit required to play it.

[Threash]

Dishonored, 92% off.  Holy shit, im buying them for everyone.  Edit: was a mistake, fixed.

[Setanta]

Baldur's Gate II EE is not on sale, only the first one.

Crap :(

Is the Dishonoured DLC any good?

I wish I could buy the Van Helsing package to get the DLC cheap

[Ginaz]

The damage so far:

Bioshock Infinite   
Spelunky     
State of Decay 
Dark Souls 
Papers, Please 
Rogue Legacy     
Hammerwatch 

Total so far is about $43 which works out to be around $7 per game.  Think I might hold back a bit knowing the Christmas sale is coming up soon.
   

[Flood]

So far:

State of Decay
Outlast
How to Survive

Probably going to pick up BioShock Infinite and Dark Souls tonight / tomorrow (slow DL speed). 

Outlast...holy shit.  I played about 30 minutes and almost had a heart attack twice.  Daily Deal for Dishonored, $7.49 right now.  If you haven't picked it up it's worth it, especially at that price in my opinion.  The DLC isn't included though unless you get the GOTY at $13.49 though.  XCOM for $9.99 also.  It was the best game I've purchased in a while, that's a great deal.  Now if the DLC pack would drop down from 30 bucks.
 

[Rendakor]

How's State of Decay? The comments in it's thread are all months old and talking about it in alpha; I'm interested but not enough to pay to test it.

All I've bought so far is Evoland, which is an amusing parody of adventure games/RPGs. I debated buying SRIV but still haven't finished The Third so there isn't much point there.

[Kageru]

Likewise interested in any feedback of state of decay. A quick trawl around suggested the "alpha" was the port to PC, and that it's a broad scope but imperfect in the small details.

Always enjoy cursing at things like Call of Duty ghosts.. on special for 17% which still doesn't take it to par with US release prices. I guess they correctly estimate our console peasants are an easy harvest.

[Flood]

How's State of Decay? The comments in it's thread are all months old and talking about it in alpha; I'm interested but not enough to pay to test it.

I think I paid 20 bucks for it originally, and I don't regret buying it at that price, considering "AAA" titles are 50-60 bucks new.  It's worth the $9.99 it's at now, to me anyway.  

Overall it's a pretty fun game.  I guess my biggest gripe would be that the graphics aren't great, considering it's a current gen game.  I'm not all about eye candy over gameplay or anything, but it is something I noticed right out of the gate.  The UI is a little clunky, but not glaringly so.  Caveat this is a game I use an XBox 360 controller for, and based on gameplay so far I'd bet KB+mouse might be a little wonky like so PC ports tend to be.    

And - the game is perma-death for your playable characters (which aren't unlimited and vary greatly in their useful skillsets), so combined with the fact that the game has no save function beyond the auto-save (which mainly occurs during pre-set quests) you can easily lose one of your better / best levelled characters to the vagaries of the game.  A random zombie that breaks through a window and the noise brings down a horde on you, or multiple feral (aka pumped up) zombies randomly encountered killing off one of your better dudes is kinda shitty.  

Overall, I'd say the game isn't dumbed down like some games are nowadays.  Perma-death, no saves, levelling of individual characters, noise attracts zombies, fatigue, long-distance travel on foot is dangerous, night travel is dangerous, etc.  I hesitate to call the game "hard", because it isn't comparatively, but it can get frustrating at times.  Looking at Steam I have 12 hours or so into it so far and as a wild guess I'm probably 40% through the core gameplay.  Not enough playtime to definitively say the DLC expansion thing is worth it or not.

[Rendakor]

Thanks for that, I might pick it up. I was going to complain that the DLC wasn't on sale but then noticed it released yesterday so I guess that's not surprising. The DLC does sound more up my alley given that it's an endless ongoing game, but if I have to beat the story mode or whatever then it's certainly not worth buying the DLC up front.

[Ceryse]

Thanks for that, I might pick it up. I was going to complain that the DLC wasn't on sale but then noticed it released yesterday so I guess that's not surprising. The DLC does sound more up my alley given that it's an endless ongoing game, but if I have to beat the story mode or whatever then it's certainly not worth buying the DLC up front.

The DLC is separate from the story mode. Basically, when you launch the game you can choose between the Campaign or Breakdown.

I picked up the DLC and so far I'm enjoying it more than I did the Campaign (largely because I just prefer the more open sandbox aspect over the story stuff they tried).

As for whether or not the game is still in alpha; no, its a full release build and generally plays like it. Key-binds are fully re-mappable (finally.. that only happen about nine days ago) and the mouse issues of earlier builds are gone. Some stuff is still not explained that well (such as some of the special attacks being a number of keys you need to press at once) and almost not at all if you go straight into Breakdown. I'd suggest if you get both, to play the Campaign for a bit.. at least until after the raiding the vet clinic mission or so -- that should serve as a tutorial well enough to get by in the DLC well enough.

[Flood]

Thanks for that, I might pick it up. I was going to complain that the DLC wasn't on sale but then noticed it released yesterday so I guess that's not surprising. The DLC does sound more up my alley given that it's an endless ongoing game, but if I have to beat the story mode or whatever then it's certainly not worth buying the DLC up front.

The DLC is separate from the story mode. Basically, when you launch the game you can choose between the Campaign or Breakdown.

I picked up the DLC and so far I'm enjoying it more than I did the Campaign (largely because I just prefer the more open sandbox aspect over the story stuff they tried).

Hmm, good info.  Maybe I will pick up the DLC, I feel pretty much the same way regarding the gameplay.

[Hoax]

Don't miss that Fallout Collection (1, 2 and Tactics) is on steam on sale for $5.

So far my biggest disappointment is that the Boderlands 2 dlc's haven't been deeply discounted yet.

[Teleku]

Ohh, nice!  Thanks for the heads up on the fallout collection!

[Tannhauser]

Thanks as well.  So far I've gotten:

Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics for $5
Batman Arkham City for $7.49

[Paelos]

Rome 2 is at $30...

HNNNNNGGGGG, I don't wanna but I might.

[bhodi]

I guess you've still got 2 hours to get state of decay.... I really enjoyed it, personally. I don't really care about endless gameplay and collect-em-all achivements; these days I just like a story and then a wrapup.

The story isn't all that, but I really enjoyed the zombie smashing and house-hoarding gameplay.

[jakonovski]

I thought I could handle it, but then Spelunky, Shadowrun and SRIV went on sale...

[Bann]

Rome 2 is at $30...

HNNNNNGGGGG, I don't wanna but I might.

I'm fighting this one off as well. Just remind yourself that it'll most likely be at least this discounted during winter sale, and (hopefully) even more playable.

[satael]

So far all I've bought is Bioshock Infinity at -75% but I'm leaning towards buying Metro: Last Light since it's -66% (since I really liked the first Metro game) despite my plan to buy only games at -75% price or lower.

edit: Decided to buy Far Cry 3 instead since it was -75%. Hopefully Last Light will be backn on sale when the Christmas sale hits.

[Rendakor]

Grabbed Civ V Beyond the New World; $10 is about the right price for expansion to a game I still have yet to play.

[KallDrexx]

So I just noticed that Steam has every sonic game out for $15.  This includes Generations and All star racing, both of which seem to be getting really good reviews (people claim the latter is better than Mario kart).

[JWIV]

Grabbed Civ V Beyond the New World; $10 is about the right price for expansion to a game I still have yet to play.

I've been eyeing that, but may just wait until the Christmas sale. I've already bought more than I meant to this time around.

[Paelos]

I bought State of Decay.

Waiting on Rome 2, I'm not buying in yet, just too many bad reviews that it's still broken on the AI.

[Thrawn]

So I just noticed that Steam has every sonic game out for $15.  This includes Generations and All star racing, both of which seem to be getting really good reviews (people claim the latter is better than Mario kart).

Thanks, haven't been watching sales close and missed that one.  A good pickup for the wife since I'm always fighting to find stuff for her to play.  What she likes and doesn't seems so random sometimes, ugh.

[Rishathra]

Looks like that sale is still going to me.

[HaemishM]

It's on until December 3rd.

[Der Helm]

Tempted by Shadow Warrior and Tomb Raider. Recomendations ? Warnings ?

[Ceryse]

Well, I escaped this sale pretty much unscathed. I picked up a single game, for a dollar (Poker Night 2, bought on a whim). There simply wasn't anything I wanted that went on sale -- every sale had 1-2 items that I already owned and nothing else of interest. I was actually somewhat disappointed (even though I'm already staring at about 15 or so games that I haven't even started up, much less finished) but my bank account was pleased. Even though I've picked up more games at launch (all but one, EU 4, being massive piles of buggy crap, such as Rebirth and TW: Rome 2) than normal this year I'm actually on pace to spend less than I usually do on gaming this year because of not binging on Steam sales and the lack of any MMOs interesting me.

[Rendakor]

I've been pretty reserved too compared to previous years, but that's because I'm blowing my money on Warhammer minis instead of video games.

[Rasix]

I figure anything I can buy now, I can buy at the Winter/Holiday sale.  Possibly, but not expected, at a lower price.

In the meantime, I'll be expanding my GW2 bank slots for cheaper. 

[Sky]

I've been pretty reserved too compared to previous years, but that's because I'm blowing my money on Warhammer minis instead of video games.

When you gon' post them bitches all up in there?

[Rendakor]

When I actually get around to painting them. I like playing the game far more than the hobby aspect, but I'm getting more into it. I'll start taking some WIP shots of my current project once I start painting it; I'm working on a CSM Defiler.