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Game Boards => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Zaratustra on January 29, 2010, 11:21:59 AM
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Five X-Com games for $2.00. Not each game. The five together.
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SOLD
Man oh man I can't wait to check out all those exciting X-Com spin-offs I never-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1GVQZF7teo
:ohgod:
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goddamn you steam sales
:MENDOZAAAAA:
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x-com interceptor is really fucking fun.
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btw does the steam version of apocalypse actually work on windows nt based machines like xp, vista and 7?
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I actually was able to make Apoc work pretty reliably in XP. Not sure how to do that anymore, but it was possible. I'm sure that they found a way to make it work through steam and DOSbox though.
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Wait, what? You people have heard of X-Com?
Everything old is new again - on Steam!
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The best part of this thread is the accompanying thread from when Psychonauts was on sale for $2.
Died in a safe genre.
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Wait, what? You people have heard of X-Com?
Everything old is new again - on Steam!
i played x-com when it was new and the internet was a myth used to scare children
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I played x-com when it was new and I was 7
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Just kidding I only played Dr Brain games then. Can I get those on Steam yet?
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I was a Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon (http://is.gd/7kLba) man.
Still am.
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FUCK
YES
PUTT PUTT GOES TO THE MOON
also i have never played a single x-com game and i guess i should get this pack
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I played x-com when it was new and I was 7
MCE I think I lov--
Just kidding I only played Dr Brain games then. Can I get those on Steam yet?
::(:
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I was a Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon (http://is.gd/7kLba) man.
Still am.
dude putt putt was the shit bitch knees on bees. freddi fish was also fucking rad ass badical as well.
freddi fish was fucking rad and anyone who disagrees is a double nigger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhebYF8NwSM). Fact.
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FUCK
YES
PUTT PUTT GOES TO THE MOON
also i have never played a single x-com game and i guess i should get this pack
Prepare to save and reload your game.
A lot.
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PUTT PUTT GOES TO THE MOON
FUCK YEAH
CAN YOUR CAR GO TO THE MOON?
FUCK NO BITCH
PLAY PUTT PUTT GOES TO THE MOON
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Putt Putt is the prequel to Burnout Paradise. A world run by cars.
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Not making a new thread for this, but Freedom Force VS The Third Reich was almost as good as the original. Manbot is still broken as shit, but he's my favourite so I forgive him
Also, I wanted to record some of the Secret Origins for youtube, but the game won't run in a window, only full-screen, so I guess that is out
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oh god my wallet (http://store.steampowered.com/)
Sortable list here (http://www.steamgamesales.com/) (not totally updated, and has some mislinks like pricing HL2: Lost Coast at $66.99, the cost of the full Valve pack durhurhur).
Advice: If there's a game you want, wait to see if it shows up during the daily sales. Buy the ones that do, and then buy the remaining games on July 4th. Enormous game packs probably won't get any cheaper, but component of said packs may also show up during the dailies.
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Champions Online: $6.79
:lol:
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Gotta get Ghostbusters and the Introversion bundle pack.
Doesn't CO charge a monthly fee?
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THIS ISN'T FAIR TO PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO SAVE MONEY
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Well yes but presumably there's a free month involved, which is enough to play everything in the game and get sick of it and quit. It's a bad bad game.
I'm just amused because it hasn't even been out a full year yet.
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Tropico 3 Expansion, Bioshock 2, Insecticide, Overlord Pack, Ghostbusters: $38, barely more than half of what I can make in tips in a weekend.
EVERYTHING WENT BETTER THAN EXPECTED
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If you guys enjoy Doom recommended games of the century, here are two, from two respective centuries. (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2096/)
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Doom: for the uninitiated, what are those games?
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MDK is an action-adventure platformer game in the third person: it's pretty frantic shooting action, primarily against alien foes and their death machines. The alien architecture is uniquely gorgeous and actually alien.
What makes it awesome is that it's just generally fun as hell: you have a machine gun and can fluidly strafe, you can spontaneously snipe with full miles away zoom, your jumps are augmented by an easy to deploy and really sleek parachute, and so on. It's also by the Earthworm Jim guys(Shiny?) so it's generally funny as hell. The first one is a bit primitive but solid.
... But the second MDK is a masterpiece. The humor and writing are ratcheted up and polished, there are two extra playable characters, the pacing and challenge is awesome, and I bet you lucky pussies can adjust the difficulty for the PC versions. It's gratifyingly hard and one of the most beautiful and tricky platformers I've ever played, the other two characters are fun as hell(Max is EVEN SHOOTIER, while they made Kurt a bit stealthier and sniper dependent to provide a nice mood back and forth. The Doctor's first level is kinda hard but his play-style is totally unique and he has the best and funniest writing)... and the boss fights.
Oh God.
The Boss Fights. They're so good. They're so robust. They're so fun.
MDK2 is one of my favorite games of all time and the finale is absolutely brilliant(you can choose which of the three to beat the game with and all 3 have a unique boss fight experience + stage + cinemas for it) and I can't recommend it enough.
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I may just go for this, then.
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Broken Sword 2 and 3 are mine for just over $3! I'd have bought MDK2 off the sale as well, but the GOG version is $1 more, DRM-free, and includes a series of swank extras, so I got it full-price from them instead.
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Oh, bloody hell. You're right. I should've bought it there instead.
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Jesus Footlocking Christ, of course this happens when my PS3 is like two days old and I'm saving up to move out of here.
I have no business buying anything off Steam right now.
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He said, filling his cart to the brim.
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Well I got Killing Floor because why the hell not, maybe somebody I know will want to play it, but man the servers are fucked up right now.
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My recommendations:
Introversion Complete pack (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4603/) for £5/$5, which includes Darwinia, Multiwinia, DEFCON and Uplink. Darwinia is a short but interesting god game set inside a virtual computer world, and Multiwinia is a sort of fast-paced wargame involving mobs of little doods. I haven't played the other two. Definitely a good deal at $5.
The original X-Com game (http://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/), included in the Complete X-Com pack (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/964/). Tense turn-based squad combat, and 4X-style management of research, production and finance. Aside from the dated graphics and interface, it's very good.
Mount & Blade Warband (http://store.steampowered.com/app/48700/). The original Mount & Blade is a single-player real-time mediaeval combat game, and comes approved by Stush and Thor. You can raise a personal army, fight on horseback or on foot, and trade goods. Warband adds a multiplayer mode, new features, and improved graphics.
Stush quite likes Jagged Alliance 2 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/1620/). A friend who enjoys flight sims recommends IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/15320/).
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He said, filling his cart to the brim.
Actually I didn't see a single thing I wanted except Indigo Prophecy, which I suspect is better to get somewhere else.
Telltale Pack is always tempting but the way it works means there's also always incentive to wait.
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Rocket Knight (http://store.steampowered.com/app/19030/) is also pretty darn good at $7.50. It doesn't have the patented Treasure wackiness of RKA, but it's a fun, solid platformer. Well, as long as you don't play boring pussy-mode, anyway.
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If you like Heroes of Might and Magic and didn't pick up the King's Bounty games (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2520/) during the last sale, grab 'em this time around. They might go up for a daily, who knows.
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Hey, so is anybody else having trouble downloading games off of Steam? I bought the Fallout 1/2/tactics pack, but I can't seem to install them. Or any game demos, for that matter.
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Steam's servers are probably pretty busy.
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If you try to buy something from a Canadian IP address with a US debit card linked to a US bank account, Steam won't let you. :loser:
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Store Page: Your friends have recently bought fucking everything in the world.
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son of a WHORE I bought Ghostbusters yesterday for $10 and now it's for $4
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Whoever designs these sales to kick people in the dick for buying games before they go on ULTRA SALE should go to hell.
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That's one thing that bugs me about digital distribution.
At Radio Shack, I can buy a memory card on sale for 20 bux. Tomorrow, when the sale on the same card goes down to 15 bux, I can take it back and get the difference back.
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That's more of a store policy thing.
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son of a WHORE I bought Ghostbusters yesterday for $10 and now it's for $4
WELP. Looks like I am buying a game TODAY.
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also tell me what multiplayer games you guys are getting
I got multiwinia and defcon
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Advice: If there's a game you want, wait to see if it shows up during the daily sales. Buy the ones that do, and then buy the remaining games on July 4th. Enormous game packs probably won't get any cheaper, but component of said packs may also show up during the dailies.
lolzara
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I keep adding games to my cart then removing them thinking "I don't need this, I doubt I'll play it."
Then I add it again.
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bought x-com (and it has been SO FUCKING LONG i've almost completely forgotten how to play) Xenoclash (FUCKING WEIRD), Tropico+expansion, Blood bowl and supreme commander 2 so far
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Multiplayer games: I bought Left 4 Dead 2 yesterday, and bought the original Left 4 Dead in the last Steam sale. I already own Multiwinia, and recommend you buy the entire Introversion games pack since at $5 for four games I don't see it getting any better value.
Today: The Civ4 pack is exceptional value. Civilization 4, Colonization, Civ4: Beyond the Sword and Civ4: Warlords, all for £6.24.
Any opinions on Flotilla and Dawn of War II?
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Fffffffffffffffffuck I want DoW2 but I don't want to spend any money right now. I'll see if I cave in later, but damn. Fucking sales happening when money is tight.
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DoWII is a game I want. And it's on sale. Unfortunately, Steam has conditioned me into NOT buying a game online until it's absolutely retarded not to do so.
Once that game drops to that line, it will be mine.
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Colonization went under my radar when it came out, but it's phenomenally good - like Civilization, but with less combat and more infrastructure-building. I love it.
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I haven't tried that new one, but the original Colonization, the one they released shortly after the first Civ came out, that was one of my favourite games by far when I was a kid.
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DoWII is a game I want. And it's on sale. Unfortunately, Steam has conditioned me into NOT buying a game online until it's absolutely retarded not to do so.
Once that game drops to that line, it will be mine.
20 bucks is a hell of a deal and I am sure that by the time the game gets to a lower price point the game will be just about dead.
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The original Civilization was voted #1 Commodore Amiga game of all time (http://www.warblade.as/feature01.html), with Colonization voted #18.
Other Steam games on the Amiga Report Top 100 Games list include Monkey Island 1 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/32360/) (#4), Monkey Island 2 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/32469/) (#6), UFO: Enemy Unknown (http://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/) (#16), Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (http://store.steampowered.com/app/6010/) (#55) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (http://store.steampowered.com/app/32310/) (#83).
Sequels or re-makes appear for Civilization (#1), Settlers (#9), X-Com (#16), Colonization (#18), Speedball II (#25), Railroad Tycoon (#29), Sid Meier's Pirates (#50), Championship Manager (#65), The Bard's Tale (#69), and Alien Breed (http://store.steampowered.com/app/22610/) (#88).
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Is Space Asshole worth the five bucks?
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I'm having fun with it. I forgot how much fun Red Faction games were until the opening tutorial mission had me demolish a couple of buildings. Fuck year.
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Didn't realize the Amiga was supported that late and by that many then-A-list publishers.
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Is Space Asshole worth the five bucks?
Yes it is. Spent a few nights a couple of months back playing the game and tweeting the experience as I crashed my car through people's houses. It's a GTA clone with destructible buildings, and is as fun as that sounds. Plus you can rant about space communism.
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I bought the Dawn of War II pack (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4026/) for £20, against my hunch to wait for a better deal. Today I noticed that the THQ Complete Pack (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4587/) pack contains the Dawn of War II pack and costs £26, including eighteen other games.
:rage:
Didn't realize the Amiga was supported that late and by that many then-A-list publishers.
It did reasonably well until about 1994-1995. Commodore folded, Doom and Windows 95 were released for the IBM PC, and Sony released the Playstation. It wasn't that the Amiga couldn't keep up, hardware-wise, but that all the advanced Amiga hardware was in the form of expensive third-party expansions (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=154). So while the user base of cutting-edge Amigas was actually shrinking, the PC and Playstation user bases were taking off in a big way. After about 1997 most major publishers had left the Amiga market.
The HOL Amiga games database lists 503 commercial releases in 1994 (http://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?N_ref_license=1&Y_released=1994), compared to 754 in 1991 (http://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?N_ref_license=1&Y_released=1991). 1995 (http://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?N_ref_license=1&Y_released=1995) has half as many as the previous year, and half as many again in 1996 (http://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?N_ref_license=1&Y_released=1996). Most of the big titles after that are from Amiga-specific publishers, even the Amiga ports of big titles like Myst, Quake and Quake 2.
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Sweet Christmas, that's a shitload of sandbox games. I can't tell if it's because Valve hates free time or if it's just because sandboxes are literally sixty-a-dozen now.
Tempted to overpay for Prototype, though, just for the experience of playing it literally side-by-side with Conduction Man. I hear Alex Mercer doesn't have to bunny hop up buildings all the time to get around.
...what the hell happened to Alex, anyway?
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He absorbed a prototype virus that gives him the ability to absorb and therefore take on the memories and attributes of any living thing. Mostly what he is is a shape shifter that can steal a myriad of different forms.
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Er, I meant our Alex.
...no not you.
That Alex.
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How many more days of Steam day-sale left?
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it goes on until america's canada day
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So, two, I believe.
My wallet and backloggery prepare to breathe a sigh of relief.
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Tomorrow needs to come so I can finally stop going "Ooooo. _______ is on sale for $5? I'd be a bad friend for not getting it for _______" 6 times a day.
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Perhaps you should focus less on being a good friend.
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But so many people did not own Portal or TF2. It was either spend a few bucks or cut them out of my life.
And I depended on two of those people for food for a while.
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Guys, you're in luck! Another chance to get World of Goo for $5! Get it now, these deals only come around every 2 weeks.
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Aaaand it's just a regurgitation of the last week's popular sellers. I don't know why I'm disappointed, really.
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They did the same thing during their holiday sale, I'm not sure how anyone could have not seen this coming.
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fuck you guys I'm just glad they've stopped mugging me
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They did the same thing during their holiday sale, I'm not sure how anyone could have not seen this coming.
I'M A STUPID OKAY
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Beat Hazard, Indigo Prophecy, Prototype, Space Asshole, and Rocket Knight.
I humbly eat any words I have muttered to the effect of this not being much of a Steam Sale.
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Beat Hazard is the most generic shooter ever made, it has like five enemy types, and it looks like a raver on an acid trip ate an entire crate of glowsticks and puked directly onto your eyeballs.
I've clocked 22 hours on it so far.
I don't know what my problem is.
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Bioshock 2, Flotilla, Ghostbusters, Indigo Prophecy, Insecticide, Mass Effect 2, Max Payne 1 and 2, Osmos, Overlord Pack, Red Faction Guerilla, Civilization 4 Pack, Star Wars: Empire At War Gold, Tropico 3: Absolute Power, The Witcher, Zeno Clash.
All for less than I made in tips last weekend.
ASK ME ABOUT SPENDING MORE TIME WORKING TO BUY THINGS I DON'T HAVE TIME TO PLAY.
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MDK Combo, Street Fighter 4, Tropico 3: Absolute Power, Saints Row 2, Beat Hazard.
Feels like I bought more.
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You now own Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone, Sam & Max 302: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak, Sam & Max 303: They Stole Max's Brain!, Tropico 3: Absolute Power.
You now own Borderlands.
You now own X-COM: Terror from the Deep, X-COM: Apocalypse, X-COM: Interceptor, X-COM: UFO Defense, X-COM: Enforcer.
You now own S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Ownership Check, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Prince of Persia.
You now own S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Full Spectrum Warrior, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers, Titan Quest, Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, Company of Heroes, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Gold Edition, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Soulstorm, Frontlines: Fuel of War, Saints Row 2, Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II, Red Faction: Guerrilla , Red Faction, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, Red Faction II, Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II – Chaos Rising™, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Ownership Check, World of Zoo, Metro 2033.
You now own Darwinia, Uplink, DEFCON, Multiwinia, Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
+ Mirror's Edge & Deus Ex
yes i just fucking copied it from the blotter because i didn't know half of what was in that thq pack
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After this week I now realize how essential a feature it to mark whether I've beaten a game or not would be.
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Beat Hazard
Holy shit I just got Survival Champion after this
The Black Mages - The Decisive Battle (FFVI) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrorzcG68BI#)
followed immediately by this
VGM - Ys (Final Battle FC Ver. Arrange) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moqji2ehHBU#)
AAAAAAAAH
Then I blew up a boss that was hanging around after the end of the song and I guess it can still kill you while it's exploding.
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Yeah, that's the sort of thing that'll explain getting hooked on it. I've said it about Audiosurf and I'll say it about this: these games have the best soundtrack in the world.
I knew this game had me at about 3:00 here:
Beat Hazard - Laguerro del Mundo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf0tZpTq6UA#)
A quiet part starts and takes away my firepower, just as the boss warning appears. Uh-oh. The huge thing floats in slowly, almost serenely, all 2001 style. I have survive for a while until 3:48, where the music picks up again and gives me huge fuckoff lasers; I wipe the boss out in a few seconds.
Oh. My. God.
Of course now that I have some experience under my belt it's not a big deal, that was on Normal and I didn't know what I was doing. But at the time that felt pretty epic.
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Now that the day sales are out of the way, here are my last minute suggestions:
Introversion complete pack: is $5 for four games, and I thought Darwinia was neat
THQ pack: Stupidly good value if you own none of the Dawn of War, Call of Honor or Red Faction games yet; contains Dawn of War II which has several multiplayer fans in the Brontoforumus and environs
X-Com pack: As a gift for your friend who doesn't have it already
id games pack: Unless re-playing the entire Doom and Quake series doesn't appeal to you
Mount & Blade Warband: Haven't played this yet, but is a good game assuming it's at least as good as the first Mount & Blade and you like hitting guys with swords from horseback
Civ4 complete pack: It's like Master of Orion but on land
Jagged Alliance 2 pack: I liked this when it first came out. Stush is a big fan, and says the combat is somewhat like X-Com but the interface and graphics are better
Things I didn't like:
Dawn of War II pack: It's a great game, I just wish I'd noticed that the THQ pack was only £6 more and contained twenty other games besides. (This happens every Steam sale)
Flotilla: Moving things in 3D space is hard :(
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After this week I now realize how essential a feature it to mark whether I've beaten a game or not would be.
Honestly, I'd just use the category system they have now. Just make a new category for games you've beaten and there you go.
Of course, I love making categories and rearranging them constantly, so it may just be me.
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I plead the fifth.
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THQ Pack, M&B Warband get.
Messing around with Warband today, learned that "normal" means hard mode. That was good to know.
Haven't touched any of the other games yet. Eventually I'll end up talking to MAdMax and be happy I finally have DoW2, or find someone that wants to campaign with. Metro 2033 may get some play tonight.
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Steam has trained me to give them money. I just found myself looking for deals out of habit. This might be how the Antichrist takes over.
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I also used the sale to gift my brother the Introversion pack, and Def Call of Pripyat.
yes mr newell you may have my money.
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Steam has trained me to give them money. I just found myself looking for deals out of habit. This might be how the Antichrist takes over.
Yeah, I am pretty sure I've spent over $100 on stuff I'll never, ever play just because it came in $5 chunks.
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After buying at least three games that just plain don't work I'm probably gonna cool it with that shit.
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I got Jagged Alliance 2, which is good so far, and Culpa Innata, which seems like a complete waste of money. That game is so heavy-handed and pretentious I had to stop playing before my pupils physically escaped through the top of my skull.
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After buying at least three games that just plain don't work I'm probably gonna cool it with that shit.
I at least got a full play-through of Bioshock 2 before the game became unplayably crashy on what I am assuming is the fucking Microsoft Live end of the deal. Always crashes at the main menu when it tries to pop in the "Continue" option for my last saved game.
So you know, I just youtubed the other endings I didn't get and tried to minimize the bitterness.
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Ghostbusters, Broken Sword II + III, and Beat Hazard are now mine -- but I mainly decided to sublimate my desire to get games on Steam into getting non-Steam games I actually intend to play/have resale value when I'm done with them! That way my wallet is sufficiently emptied of cash and I have a much greater chance of getting a return (of entertainment value/cash from selling the physical copies I bought) from my investment. This was a nice change of pace, and I recommend it to anyone who's interested.
I'd list what I got instead, but I also satiated the desire to fill my hard drive by loading it with sentai-fetish porn -- and this is board is safe-for-work now, isn't it? :wakka:
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Alien Swarm is Free in 7 hours.
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"Oh, hey, it's noon, better get my Alien Swarm on"
*This game will unlock in approximately 2 hours*
FFFFFUUUUU-!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E29iOPSxF94#)
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Alien Swarm is Free in 7 hours.
As in speech AND beer.
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I'm waiting to see how this week plays out, but I have a feeling I'm going to end up just getting the Big Stupid Deal pack, since it's basically 26 Games I'm Guilty of Pirating and One I Never Bought the Expansions For.
Because if there's one thing my 40% Beaten backlog needs right now, it's the entire history of PC gaming since 1993.
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I bit. Let's take a look at what I just bought:
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth: Never played it.
Commander Keen: Only played the shareware version.
DOOM 3: Only played the demo.
DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil: Only played the demo of the game it's an expansion of.
DOOM II: Only played bits and pieces of it.
Fallout 3: Pirated and beaten, but not with any DLC.
Final DOOM: Only played the shareware version, later pirated for the multiplayer but only played a bit of Episode 2.
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders: Only played the shareware version.
HeXen II: Only played the shareware version.
HeXen: Beyond Heretic: Only played the shareware version.
HeXen: Deathkings of Dark Citadel: This game sounds like bullshit.
Master Levels for Doom II: Never played it.
QUAKE: Only squinted my way the shareware version.
QUAKE II: Only played the demo, later pirated for multiplayer.
QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero: Never played it.
QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning: Never played it.
Quake (not QUAKE) III Arena: Pirated for multiplayer, which is the only thing you can pirate it for anyway.
QUAKE (not Quake) III Team Arena: Never played it.
QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon: Never squinted my way through it.
QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity: Never squinted my way through it.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Only played the demo.
Rogue Warrior: Never played it.
Spear of Destiny: Never played it.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: Pirated but only got as far as dicking around some dwarf ruins.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Holy shit I bought this game! But not the DLC.
The Ultimate Doom: Oh wait this is DOOM 1, not Final DOOM. Well excu-use me.
Wolfenstein 3D: Say it with me: Only Played the Shareware Version.
I think I just paid $70 to erase a history of cheapskate laziness rather than serial larceny, but whatever. I now have enough new games that if I quit my job and did nothing but play them all day I'd probably not be done until next year. If I had the time for it I'd do something ridiculous like Let's Play Every id Game Ever Except Those Two Quake Games, but I don't, so leave me alone.
I do plan to play them in chronological order starting from Commander Keen all the way up to You Don't Die in the Ending Now, but God knows when. I think I might just do the entire backlog like that.
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When you get around to the various Doom-engine games, if you install ZDoom (http://zdoom.org/), it will automatically detect that you have them, permitting you to play them other than in DOSBox if you want.
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I thought the Steam versions were already ported?
I could go find out but eh.
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I was going to buy Quake 2 today, but then I read the forums FAQ and found out that the soundtrack is missing because it was redbook audio (where you could play it in a CD player but the first track was data? remember that?) and id didn't bother trying to port it, so I realized I'd have to go torrent an .iso of the damned thing anyways... so why bother buying it?
Once again, lazy porting defeats the purpose of selling the damned thing as a port. I wish Valve would acquire Good Old Games or something.
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I didn't even know Quake HAD a soundtrack. Apparently I'm as lazy a pirate as they are lazy developers.
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A soundtrack by Trent Reznor, in fact. (http://www.ninwiki.com/Quake)
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I was going to buy Quake 2 today, but then I read the forums FAQ and found out that the soundtrack is missing because it was redbook audio (where you could play it in a CD player but the first track was data? remember that?) and id didn't bother trying to port it, so I realized I'd have to go torrent an .iso of the damned thing anyways... so why bother buying it?
Once again, lazy porting defeats the purpose of selling the damned thing as a port. I wish Valve would acquire Good Old Games or something.
I still have my original fucking Quake 2 disc and I can't get the damned music to play, so I don't know.
The music from the first level is burned into my memory forever from playing that game so much.
Quake 2 - Descent Into Cerberon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGwZgjOHNeo#)
A soundtrack by Trent Reznor, in fact. (http://www.ninwiki.com/Quake)
Err, that's Quake 1. I thought we were talking about Quake 2.
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Oh, yes, sorry. Either way, no redbook.
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Snagged Fallout 3 from this with all the nifty DLC. Apparently there are issues getting it to run in Win7 x64. There's a fix on various forums about adding lines to an ini file but that didn't fix it for me. Always crashes on loading a game or starting a new one. I wanted to play the Alaska mission dangit.
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The Alaska mission was, without a question, the hands-down weakest of all the DLC. It's only really significant because it's an important set of assets for a lot of mods.
...Can't help you with your Win 7 64 issues, though. Sorry.
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Fallout 3 seems to have crashing problems in all 64 bit operating systems, to varying degrees of severity.
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http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6510 (http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6510)
May or may not help with your problems, it reduced crashing significantly on my 64bit W7, but i never had problems starting it up in the first place.
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Ha ha, yeah. My Fallout 3 playtimes were limited to about 45 minutes to an hour, because that's how long the game would last before it crashed.
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Recettear is an action RPG in which the item selling has been made several factors more irritating.
Next.
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Blood Bowl is only $10 on Steam this weekend. Not usually much for football games like ever but if anyone else gets this I'm willing to give a few online games a try.
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Playing Blood Bowl for the football
what the zog
haet loli
:oic:
I think I'll make a topic tomorrow after getting off work and giving it a whirl.
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LucasArts week all this week. Monday's deal was The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith hoo haa for $7.50. Still is technically up as of this post, but will probably be gone when everyone else wakes up.
The Star Wars pack is $50 (half off), but it's not really every star wars game to my knowledge, just a 'choice selection', which somehow includes Galaxies.
No idea what the rest of the week's Crazy George sales are.
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KOTOR for $2.50.
At some point they have to move to games that people don't have already. Going to be :| if one of the deals is SWGalaxies.
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I
don't didn't.
Well, I did, but it was labeled "Mass Effect" in my games list for some reason.
Really I think we're approaching the point where I just buy Steam Deals so I can have a massive library of games I don't intend to play without going too broke.
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I got KotOR for free at PAX last year for attending the Old Republic panel, but since there is no sane wide screen solution for the game, and I already played the shit out of it on Xbox back in the day, I likely won't ever even install it.
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I got KotOR for free at PAX last year for attending the Old Republic panel, but since there is no sane wide screen solution for the game, and I already played the shit out of it on Xbox back in the day, I likely won't ever even install it.
Speaking of which I am using a sane widescreen solution.
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Star Wars: Empire at Gold for $5. I got it, having found that I love RTSs. I'm hoping Jedi Knight is one of these deals, I know my brother still needs that.
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Well, I got a BOGO deal on the two Monkey Island SEs and thought I did pretty well, so if you haven't been chumped into getting one of them yet this finale is pretty awesome.
Bear in mind that you're probably going to effectively be paying for an emulated version of the original games though.
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Thanks for making me check to see if they released MI2 SE for the iPhone: they did, and at least for right now both SEs for iPhone/iPad are $.99 a piece.
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The entire Tales of Monkey Island series for five bucks. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/31170/)
If When the TellTale Everything Pack becomes $50 again and I end up with two copies, I think I'll be okay with it.
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See normally I would snap up this Batman sale but I'm so burned on Steam right now that even at a 66% discount I'm just not that damn interested, even for a game I wanted to play.
Sorry, Valve. We had a good thing for a while, I guess.
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You make no sense, Brentai.
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Sounds like Brent has backlog problems.
I feel bad for you son. You got 99 problems and a each of those problems represents a game you haven't even installed.
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Actually I have "shit keeps not working on Steam" problems.
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...we determined the Steam version of Arkham had DRM worse than the retail version, right?
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It has SecuROM with a 4 machine activation limit. I have no idea if that's worse than the boxed retail, I suspect it's identical.
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The retail copy has no activation limit, though I think the Steam version is 4 a month and not 4 hard.
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It's just limited by the number of machines you can install it to, not the number of times you can install it.
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AI War and its expansion, The Zenith Remnant, are both 50% off in celebration of a new "micro-expansion," Children of Neinzul. AI War is a grand strategy/4x/tower defense/rts and it's really fun if you're into that sort of thing (or maybe even if you aren't).
AI War pits up to 8 human commanders in a battle with 2 highly overpowered AI. This game is all about guerrilla warfare as you try to find the AI's home planets without causing such damage as to piss the AI off enough to rain hell upon your pathetic army until you forget what not being on fire felt like.
I'm not good at explaining things, so there's a demo that gives full access to the game only your campaigns can last at most 3 hours, and that's not really enough time to win even with only 10 planets (galaxy sizes range from 10 planets to 120) and the AI set to fail mode (difficulty goes from 1 ["sandbox"] to 10 ["Doom"]).
http://www.arcengames.com/ (http://www.arcengames.com/) these people deserve your money. Also, Children of Neinzul proceeds all go to Child's Play. So, you know. Altruism and whatnot.
P.S. Arcen Games currently plan to keep updating this thing until 2013, and so far they've been doing a damn good job of it.
P.P.S. The current price is $10, $5, and $4 for base, expansion, and micro-expansion. It's usually $20, $10, and $4. And also if you don't buy it now a similar sale will probably happen in December when Expansion 2 ("Light of the Spire") comes out.
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Would I have to buy everything to be able to play with people?
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No. The game host has the ability to turn on/off any expansions he has, in case he doesn't want them or someone joining doesn't have them. The only problem with the multiplayer is that you have to connect using the host's IP address, and they have to have ports forwarded (or else you have to use a VPN like hamachi). I heard somewhere that Arcen will fix this eventually, but their main focus so far has been on perfecting gameplay.
Edit: if you don't know anyone that you want to play this game with, or just want to jump into a public game or something, the website has a pretty active community via forums/IRC.
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That sounds pretty messed up. They've made enough money to make two expansions, so there has to be people playing this. I might pick it up.
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http://www.arcengames.com/about.php (http://www.arcengames.com/about.php) It's a company of six people, so I'm willing to give them some slack with the multiplayer interface.
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So not only Poker Night has a pre-order hat, but you'll be able to play bonus rounds for TF2 items.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1132307p1.html (http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1132307p1.html)
*sigh* Fine, who wants to four-pack this.
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Don't ask me, I preordered a couple weeks ago.
I wish I could claim I was savvy enough to have predicted this obvious development, but the fact is I just got the right amount of curious and impulsive. :nyoron:
This does mildly soothe the pangs of pre-emptive regret, however.
Mildly.
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I just wanted to hear the banter between the characters. is that so much to ask
I mean Homestar Runner hasn't updated in months. I've got to get my fix somehow.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT TF2 ITEMS STOP JUDGING ME
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So not only Poker Night has a pre-order hat, but you'll be able to play bonus rounds for TF2 items.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1132307p1.html (http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1132307p1.html)
*sigh* Fine, who wants to four-pack this.
Is there a four-pack? I see only the preorder discounted price.
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no there isn't fuck
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Well, that's neat.
Watching the video I have couple of thoughts.
1) This'd be neat just to watch and listen to.
2)Jesus Christ, Tycho's movements look terrible.
3)Jesus Christ, Tycho's hair looks terrible.
4)Jesus Christ, what's with Tycho's voice?
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At first I thought that, then I realized that it was more reading the strip for 5-7 years has caused my brain to 'create' my own set of movements and voice and such in my head. So my knee-jerk reaction was more or less "THAT'S NOTHING LIKE THE REALITY I ENVISIONED IN MY HEAD"
and then reason came in, kicked it's ass, and went "oh well that's still neat."
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Well the voice I'll give to them. I just find it odd how... lackluster the voice is. Figured they'd make it more animated.
But watching the video, the movements seemed a bit jerky for him. And the hair was like something out of Final Fantasy, always moving.
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Thankfully I have no desire for any of those.
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Oh, hey, the Penny Arcade TF2 item is a bloody wristwatch. I just got that reference.
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I'd like a lucky rat hat myself, but eh.
As far as Tycho's hair goes, that thing is a physical impossibility. It hardly makes sense in the comic, it wasn't spectacular in PAA, and I think it's a valiant effort here.
And yeah, the voice is weird at first. Honestly, after listening to the podcasts and watching the documentaries, when I read the comic, I hear Jerry and Mike. That said, Jerry can sing and he can write a comic and he can clearly be a tremendously funny guy in a conversation but it's quite possible that he's not a verbal comedian in a context where you have lines to read and are addressing fictional cartoon characters with larger-than-life personalities instead of, you know, your best friend since small times and your work family.
Of course none of you are actually saying that Jerry should do the voice, that's entirely my first assumption. But going from there, it's gonna sound weird no matter what. I mean, there was a similar case with the PvP animated series (if anyone else here has even seen that) and the voice of Skull, which was kind of unexpectedly nasal and high-pitched, but it did work eventually, it was just a question of giving it time.
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Oh, hey, the Penny Arcade TF2 item is a bloody wristwatch. I just got that reference.
the watch is entirely why i ended up preordering, ngl
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The one stop shop for video game related deals
And Yet It Moves is Pay-What-You-Want today (http://yawma.net/games/25-and-yet-it-moves)
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I seem to get a constant the site is down message.
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Age of Empires III for ten cents. (http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-CA/Games/AgeofEmpiresIII/)
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Unfortunately, GFW. That wouldn't stop be if I didn't hate AoE though.
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AOE3 is kinda cool since you have like a CCG deck of powers you can choose as special shipments from your home nation back in the old world. also, all the nations are a little different in terms of workers, units, and all that kinda stuff. I really liked the Ottoman Turks, who only have one offensive unit, which was kinda novel.
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The Turks only needed one offensive unit.
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Any nation that managed to fuck Rome sideways is pretty boss in the power department, tbh.
I wanted this game really badly when it came out; I'll certainly pay ten cents for it. Bought! Maybe some of us can do multi later on down the road, since at this price it might as well be free.
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Oh, Hraedon (having instantly purchased it) mentioned that it actually comes with both expansions as well (Native American Beatdown and Asian Spice Fusion). So you're getting the game for more like five cents, given that the expansions weren't all that awesome!
Though China was really cool, in actuality, since they can't build individual units -- they buy "Banner Armies" which are mega-costly, but come with 4-10 units of mixed composition. So you can buy a bunch of spearmen with support from repeating crossbowmen, or guys on horseback with meteor hammers who come with complimentary flamethrowers.
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Everytime I try to install the damn thing, I get two error codes.
Download of item failed. Retry later.
Code: 80131620
Error retrieving key. Code: 80170106
Naturally, there is no where on any Microsoft site in the world that I can enter these codes to get help.
Somewhere a man is cackling, having stolen an E-Dime from me.
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It's being chain-linked on 4chan right now, so the servers are most likely being brutally raped. Wait until morning.
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Let's see here... TOS has been updated, okay... and now I need to sign into my LIVE account again but over at the xbox site instead? ::(:
HEY GUYS, WE VALUE THE PC AS A PLATFORM JUST AS MUCH AS THE X-BOX
NO, REALLY
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Can't really think of a better place to put this, but Poker Night at the Inventory is pretty good. A simple Texas Hold-Em simulator with some amazing table talk. The personalities of each of the four opponents bounce off each other really well.
Who's won a character item so far? I just snagged Max's pistol and badge. Heavy had to ante up the new Minigun, but Max knocked him out. I fear to think what he's going to do with that thing when he gets home...
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I've seen all the items put up, but only won the lugermorph/badge and iron curtain. I also won enough to unlock two tables and a new deck, which is neat though far less noteworthy.
So yeah, it's a novelty poker game. Overall, I'd say some of the lines miss the mark, but I am getting my four forty-nine's worth of comedy, which is what I expected. Plus, depending on how you look at it, it's a spectacularly low price to pay to learn that I'm not a very good poker player.
I don't know if it's just random chance, but each character seems to have the appearance of a specific playing style. Max seems hard to pin down, erratic even (after getting knocked out myself I saw him fold on a straight after putting 10k in the pot); I want to say he has a tendency to bluff but maybe he's just a dumb. Strong Bad plays aggressively and I rarely see him fold. Tycho is very prudent and folds a lot; so far he's done the best out of everyone. Heavy... I don't know.
Regarding Tycho's voice, it works. I'd even say I like it. The guy's got a snarky edge, but relaxed and nonchalant still, and in a way it's a great contrast to the other characters. For my first win, the game ended in like a fifteen hand duel with Tycho and me, and I was like, "alright, the kids have left the table, now it's time for the adults to play". The d20 never makes sense though, it's just there.
All in all, no regrets here.
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Well, I would expect a hyper-kinetic rabbity-thing to be erratic.
I love Tycho's M:TG references. Drawing nine fuckin' mana in a row, indeed.
Protip: at least a few times, if you get knocked out early, stick around to watch the rest of the game. It lets you see everyone's cards, World Poker Tournament style, so you can get a feel for how they play.
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Heavy strikes me as a very conservative player.
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The Player has two pair: queens, nines
Strong Bad has two pair: nines, fours
Strong Bad wins.
uhhhhhhhhh. I didn't expect much from this game but apparently it saw the bar I sat on the ground and dug a fucking hole under it.
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um. Maybe those 4's were actually, like, fucked-up looking A's?
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Sounds like it's
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/horatio460.jpg)
Sucker Night at The Inventory.
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Yeah I saw that once. It looked like Max had two pair and Heavy had 3 of a kind, yet Max took the pot.
How are the unlocked tables actually, uh, used?
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Hit escape to open the menu when in game, then tab over to unlocks.
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I have every special TF2 item, the Trogdor table, the Telltale Table, and the TF2 deck. I don't know how to tell the game which table/deck I want to play with, but it isn't important. So far I've not seen the game screw up with who wins, though I don't pay that close attention.
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They really needed someone to proofread the subtitles. Lots of typos, dropped words, and rephrases.
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It's a really good five dollar game. One retarded hand out of a hundred isn't so bad, and I appreciate that the AI doesn't blatantly cheat. I've won plenty of showdowns that come down to my Ace High vs a Jack High. Although the AI isn't good enough to suit it's behavior properly for 1v1 poker that can come down to all-in with your 2 cards down, deal 5 and see what happens, it's generally good enough for a casual game of cards. Which I really appreciate, as the chatter is entertaining enough, the visuals are pleasant and I secretly have the entire bloodline of a family of card sharks pumping through my veins.
I just sort of wish it was a ten dollar game and they had more game types, maybe some extra players.
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I on the other hand kinda hate playing poker, but I enjoy the banter and the silly items for that backpack management sim I have installed on my computers, and so it'll be worth my time until the dialogue grows stale and my backpack runneth over.
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It's a really good five dollar game. One retarded hand out of a hundred isn't so bad, and I appreciate that the AI doesn't blatantly cheat. I've won plenty of showdowns that come down to my Ace High vs a Jack High. Although the AI isn't good enough to suit it's behavior properly for 1v1 poker that can come down to all-in with your 2 cards down, deal 5 and see what happens, it's generally good enough for a casual game of cards. Which I really appreciate, as the chatter is entertaining enough, the visuals are pleasant and I secretly have the entire bloodline of a family of card sharks pumping through my veins.
I just sort of wish it was a ten dollar game and they had more game types, maybe some extra players.
in every way this is how I feel about Poker Night.
is fun little game! i get gun for heavy, i get silly hats... is bonus.
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omg
there's an automata table
[spoiler]it turns the view black and white[/spoiler]
this is the best game ever
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Each day for the next few days, a special 30 people get the first five games on their steam wishlist for free. Also, you can rank games on your wishlist now. I just shoved the most expensive ones to the top, but you guys maybe have better plans.
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So of course the steam store is slowed to a crawl because of everyone frantically running around building a wishlist. Which means I can't go build one right now. Goddamn.
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Make sure you have ten games on your list, not five. That's a qualification that's kind of buried in the fine print.
Also you probably could have figured this one out, but they're not honoring package deals.
...I'm really having trouble coming up with five games I actually want off Steam.
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It's all about the Farm Simulator 2011, dawg.
farming simulator 2011 multiplayer combine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKowclC2bRg#)
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Welp, Inventory got old pretty fast. Every game is "Tycho chain-folds while the Player clears out the other three guys. Tycho then cheats to win: he always folds if he will lose the hand, he always wins if the hand actually concludes."
Like I'm sure there is some middle-ground where I can peck him to death 1,000 bucks at a time or something but holy fuck it just makes the entire round so boring.
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...I'm really having trouble coming up with five games I actually want off Steam.
Maybe go through the indie section and find stuff that makes you say "eh yeah I'd put ten minutes into that before deciding it sucks."
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Damn, check out that realistic draw-in action. Just like a real farm.
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Welp, Inventory got old pretty fast. Every game is "Tycho chain-folds while the Player clears out the other three guys. Tycho then cheats to win: he always folds if he will lose the hand, he always wins if the hand actually concludes."
Like I'm sure there is some middle-ground where I can peck him to death 1,000 bucks at a time or something but holy fuck it just makes the entire round so boring.
The game where I won the watch, Tycho matched my All In and revealed a pair of aces, and I had a King & an 8.
The flop made it a Full House, compared to his...pair of aces.
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Make sure you have ten games on your list, not five. That's a qualification that's kind of buried in the fine print.
Also you probably could have figured this one out, but they're not honoring package deals.
...I'm really having trouble coming up with five games I actually want off Steam.
I just picked 10 games that I'd play if given for free, which makes the threshold much lower.
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Does it have to be exactly ten or can it be more? I've currently got 25
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Welp, Inventory got old pretty fast. Every game is "Tycho chain-folds while the Player clears out the other three guys. Tycho then cheats to win: he always folds if he will lose the hand, he always wins if the hand actually concludes."
Like I'm sure there is some middle-ground where I can peck him to death 1,000 bucks at a time or something but holy fuck it just makes the entire round so boring.
The game where I won the watch, Tycho matched my All In and revealed a pair of aces, and I had a King & an 8.
The flop made it a Full House, compared to his...pair of aces.
I lost 3 in a row to Tycho's Two Pair after grinding out extraordinary card-play against the other 3.
I've also never actually reached a 1v1 finale against anyone other than Tycho!
I know somebody has to be the whiny, chain-folding statistics bitch but eh... boring.
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Tycho's plays don't bother me. I play just like him, only better (or worse depending on how you look at it) until I have enough money to be stupid. What does bother me is things that should be impossible, 3 players with the same pair for example (on top of it, one of the 3 will win for nonexistent reasons, it WAS me in that case, but still). I actually find Strong Bad or Max to me more irritating 1v1. Heavy's almost always out first so I never get a shot at him.
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Three players can have the same pair in texas hold 'em, like if three players have a pocket 8 and the fourth 8 is on the table. In that case (and in several other occurences of ties), the highest other card in play (the "kicker") is used to pick the winner. There's also one bit that's unintuitive, in how the game announces the winner in the case of a side-pot*, because it announces the player who won the most money even if that person didn't have the best overall hand. But everyone still gets the chips they win.
*: If a player goes all in, but doesn't have enough money to cover the current bet, the portion of the pot he can't afford is put in a side-pot that is awarded to the next best hand if the poorer player wins. (You can tell who is eligible to the side-pot by the initials in the side-pot display.) This is to make sure that you can't go all in with like a hundred bucks and still proceed to clean everyone else out in a single hand. If the side-pot is bigger than the main pot, the game only announces the side-pot winner; in that case, the main pot winner still gets the chips he won.
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Recettear is not five dollars today.
A collection containing Recettear is five dollars today. (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6790/)
I don't think they realize that.
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I can't think of ten games I want to play. Even for free. What the hell is the matter with me?
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You'd only get five, so find five games you'd like to try, and then pick five shit DLCs for something.
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I picked mostly games that aren't out, but are available for pre-order, so that if I win I'll get magic presents over the next year.
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i picked co-op games i wanted to play with you dudes :)
COD BLOPS because ice t liked it
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Anyone interested in going in on that DoW2: Chaos Rising 8-pack? I want a copy of that before the sale ends but I'd rather not have to re-buy DoW2.
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You'd only get five, so find five games you'd like to try, and then pick five shit DLCs for something.
Okay, let me put it this way. I can't think of one.
I'm really not trying to be some snooty game-hating asshole* I just haven't read a lot of reviews and out of what I have read, nothing really struck my fancy. A game has to bee really good AND coincide with my stupid interests to engage me these days. I start thinking "maybe I should read some game reviews and see if I find some I like" and then I'm like "wait, are you fucking crazy?".
It's kind of funny. A friend sent me five free games tonight. I doubt I'll play any of them.
*OH WAIT YES I AM AHAHA... WAIT, NO NO AH FUCK.
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Mongrel: If you got the clever indie pack you should at least play World of Goo.
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Mongrel: I sort of do the same thing, except I buy the games, download them, and then forget all about them. In my case, it's not snootiness or anything, just extreme absent-mindedness.
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Portal 2 counts as a game for the thing. It's #1on my list
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Anyone interested in going in on that DoW2: Chaos Rising 8-pack? I want a copy of that before the sale ends but I'd rather not have to re-buy DoW2.
I would honestly like to but I got shorted out on a paycheck this week.
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S'okay, I found some people on Cheap Ass Gamer who were willing to put together a group buy and got it that way.
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Turns out Audiosurf has a hardcoded 60 minute limit on tracks it'll play. Boooo.
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In an earlier version - and I don't know if it got patched out - I seem to recall noticing that Audiosurf started to get a tiny bit out of sync if you go too far past, say, half an hour.
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Research suggests that it depends on strength of computer - processing power, memory. Shitty computers can have sync problems at 15 minutes, stronger ones can keep going a lot longer. I'd at least like the option, even if I have to edit an ini to get it.
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It's probably the developer's way of avoiding overflow errors or something.
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60 minutes ought to be enough to anybody.
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60 minutes ought to be enough to anybody.
Bitch I didn't go to the trouble of putting Der Ring des Nibelungen into one giant 14:47 mp3 to *not* play it.
In other news, this is a thing that exists (http://www.steamcalculator.com/).
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$954.30 USD
:bam:
(Would be nice to compare against what you actually paid, though.)
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Well what you actually paid is hard to measure. I think I've actually paid about $40 into the steam store, and about $120 into retail boxed copies of games that require Steam, but my stuff is valued at like $364.
Part of it's things like that indie pack from a couple days ago costing $5 and containing $60 worth of "base price".
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Does it still count Lost Coast as $100?
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I get $1781.68 USD, but I know for a fact that most of the stuff in there has been paid much, much lower than listed. Heck, the Orange Box adds up to like 150. If anything, it's an indicator of how much bang I've had for my buck, which is a ratio I'm quite satisfied with, to be honest.
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Found 99 Games with a value of
$1719.98 USD
:richiam:
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hahahaha yussssssssssssssssss
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7 Warhammers
6 Age of Conans
5 golden riiiiiiiings!
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How did Tycho win.
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/Ninjabredman01/tychowonthis.jpg)
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Programmers don't know poker.
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In other news, this is a thing that exists (http://www.steamcalculator.com/).
$1564.20 USD
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The only thing more depressing than having almost a thousand dollars in games is all my friends having almost twice that.
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$1160.27 USD
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I buy almost all Steam games on sale, but I'm at about $1200 according to this.
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That's odd, it gave me a value of $0.
It recognizes my Steam ID page (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198000650890/), which isn't private, but doesn't see any games.
You can see for yourself (http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/76561198000650890)
:wat:
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He's a g-g-g-ghost!
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Also this thing doesn't seem to recognize DLC.
So add $50 or so to whatever I said before.
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same thing happens to me as to mongrel
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It's fun to run the calculator on Valve employees (http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/zoid).
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Huh. Not only does it not see any of my games, but it also says I've been a steam member since 1970. Amazing feat, that, considering steam wasn't around then and I hadn't been born yet. My profile is public, so I think something is amiss with the site itself.
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Mount & Blade plus Mount & Blade: Warband (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6641/) pack for £7.50 for the next six hours. Good time to buy if you've been holding out for some reason.
PhoenixUltima: UNIX dates are stored in seconds since 1970. This is why you'll see dates of 1970 when there's an error and the date can't be retrieved, rather than the year 0000 or something.
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88 games, $1198.13 USD
Also, fuck that poker game! I lost to a full house of 10's and 5's with a motherfucking ROYAL FLUSH!!!
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I'm grateful to steam this year for making it so easy to dismiss their sales.
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I would honestly be pulling the same shit as last year if I were sitting at home staring at my budget sheet, but I'm not, so I guess that's one good thing about spending the holidays in the middle of Cousinfuck, Tennessee.
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I have the budget this year, but my work schedule doesn't permit me to sit at home and stare at/be tempted by the deals
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Bought Mass Effect for £5, Mass Effect 2 for £10. At the current rate I'll play the first one by 2014
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I have the budget this year, but my work schedule doesn't permit me to sit at home and stare at/be tempted by the deals
buy 'em for later, you donkus
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I'm glad that Valve decided to drop that ugly as shit storybook layout, but of course now I have no idea what's on sale (because the Specials list is choked with indie shovelware).
Meanwhile, I'm glad I decided to pass on Bioshock 2 for ten, because apparently Amazon's got it on their download marketplace for five. The gauntlet has been cast.
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I still see the storybook, which I actually like.
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I guess it just disappears for a bit while they're updating it. Bluh.
Still a load of crap. I'd get New Vegas if there was any chance I'd actually play it this year.
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Well you only have 7 days left, so I don't think you could either.
I am really getting pissed at this sale. I want to buy the X-Com games, but there is that small chance that the entire pack goes on sale for like 2 bucks.
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So wait until the last day, and if the pack doesn't go on sale, buy them then.
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But I need to send hapless squaddies to their death the day before Christmas.
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I always have a strange relationship with Steam Sales. I don't look at them kindly. I look at them as traps, trying to getme to waste money, or spend more money on packs that include games, I'll never play, even if those packs are cheap. Or throw away 5 on a game I am vaguely interested in but will sit there uninstalled for years. If I give in, I lose money, not save it.
Though going pretty good this year. The only game I got that I might never actually play or like is Reccettear. Still feels like a moment of weakness, but I suppose I can afford my self one.
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I don't see the purchases I've made on sale as mistakes. Once I stopped looking at my game library as a backlog and instead as a collection of immediately available choices, I started to enjoy video games again. Of course you need to have enough disposable income to buy shit you won't play in the first place...
Anyway I'm probably perfectly capable of making purchases from here if anything amazing pops up. They just haven't yet. Telltale isn't even offering a decent backlog pack this year, which annoys the hell out of me.
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and instead as a collection of immediately available choices
Isn't that already what steam is?
Not to make judgement on anyones purchases or lack there of, but the way I see it, if I buy 50 dollars worth of games, if the few games I decide to actually play didn't save me 50 dollars, I've lost and would have just been better off buying those 3 10$ games at 10$s when I felt like playing them, rather than speculatively buying them at 5$ or ever 2$ during the steam sales. If you have the disposable income and don't care, whatever (I'm not exactly short on money either, but all the time spent not having any has made me eternally frugal), but I think if you actually think of the math, not even counting 'fun' (I'd personally count buying a bunch of mediocre games I play once or twice as a waste too, but the 'value' can't exactly be easily calculated), I think it's clear that you can easily sorta bone your self during a Steam sale without realizing it. Consumerism etc etc etc.
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The nature of steam and its sales makes that sort of calculation sort of fussy. It's not like you can get rid of Steam games (yet), so it's entirely possible that I game I bought today won't be played for another year or two. Yes, economics states that money NOW is more valuable than money in the future, but I think that's splitting hairs (even more than I'm splitting them now).
If I buy a game on day 1 for $50 and don't play it until it's already dropped to $20, it's safe to say that $30 was spent unnecessarily. Steam sales, however, will generally put a game at the cheapest price it will ever be, so waiting a good deal of time to play them won't really change the cost of doing so.
But if the point is that steam sales will just nickle and dime you out of the same cash you would have spent on a full-price purchase, I can't disagree with that.
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In fact, my general rule for steam sales of this kind is that my total purchase will be no more than a full priced console game (59.99USD). I don't always stay within this guideline, but I usually do, and I always come out ahead in terms of leisure hours had than if I had bought that full priced game.
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I agree with Kayin, but my logic is much more direct: I don't feel like spending dollars on leisure items unless I want it already anyway.
True, you can save money on Steam sales, but they always put everything on sale sooner or later anyway. So if I decide I want something and the money matters THAT much, I just wait 'till the next sale.
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Today, I introduced my little brother to the horrors of the steam sale.
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Darksiders was really fun, and I actually began to enjoy the totally over the top art after a little bit.
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I liked Darksiders on console, but I need to know for recommendation purposes: Is the PC port actually good?
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So long as you have a controller, it plays perfectly. I didn't try the keyboard controls because that would be stupid.
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PC port was totally fine for me. I don't know how efficient a port it was - my system was powerful enough that it could brute force the allegedly really shitty Force Unleashed port to run fine - but it ran great and the controls were as they should be. Setting up x360emu was tricky because you need to use the FakeAPI option and dig up VID and PID for your controller, though.
The game itself is absolutely delightful, and the haters are just haters. If you can't enjoy Revelations as interpreted by Legend of Zelda as interpreted by Warhammer 40k then it is not a game for you and also go away I don't want to talk to you.
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If you have a 360 receiver it will auto-configure to the console controls with no input. This is true of most modern console ports, but it's very nice.
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I didn't try the keyboard controls because that would be stupid.
they work like DMC4's should have worked, which is to say very well
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PC port was totally fine for me. I don't know how efficient a port it was - my system was powerful enough that it could brute force the allegedly really shitty Force Unleashed port to run fine - but it ran great and the controls were as they should be. Setting up x360emu was tricky because you need to use the FakeAPI option and dig up VID and PID for your controller, though.
The game itself is absolutely delightful, and the haters are just haters. If you can't enjoy Revelations as interpreted by Legend of Zelda as interpreted by Warhammer 40k then it is not a game for you and also go away I don't want to talk to you.
I don't know. Darksiders was good in the raw gameplay department, but I found the huge environments and repetitive levels and puzzles made the second half of the game a chore. I got to about the third 'move blocks around, but move them quickly because the room resets!' puzzle and just dropped my controller in disgust.
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I can only think of three block puzzles, and they were all far more imaginative than your standard block puzzle.
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Because of this I am now joining the Batman: Arkham Asylum party and thrilling to the world's most advanced Crawling-in-Vents simulator on earth.
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"Batman, the commissioner has been kidnapped! You've got to save him or he'll be tortured to death"
"I will, I will, just as soon as I find these trophies the Riddler left for me... now let's see, I think one is behind the wall of this historic building."
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The inmates are going to be so pissed.
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Meanwhile, I'm glad I decided to pass on Bioshock 2 for ten, because apparently Amazon's got it on their download marketplace for five. The gauntlet has been cast.
Of course BioShock 2 has GFWL and SecuROM hanging off both the Amazon and Steam download versions. I don't even know why I thought it wouldn't.
So yeah whenever I decide to play this game I'll be buying it at the low, low price of Fuck You 2K.
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Crysis and Mount & Blade Complete today. Mount & Blade's loads of fun, a mediaeval sandbox game. £8 for both the original and Warband is about as good a deal as you're likely to get any time soon.
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Holy hell, GTA 4 with the two episodes is ten dollars today, but I don't know if my computer will run it. Is it possible to get a refund it the game runs like shit?
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Nope.
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Jedi Knight Collection: $5
Hitman Collection: $7.50
STALKER Bundle: $5
STEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAM
(bunch of other good deals too, just wanted to show how you can get 10 retail games for under $20)
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Highly recommend Dawn of Discovery to anyone who enjoys city builder games like the Caesar series. It has a strong campaign, endlessly deep strategic possibilities, and is incidentally fucking gorgeous, with meticulous detail and a slightly painted look adorning the whole thing.
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I nearly caved for the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight pack except I remembered that really the only games I haven't played in that are mostly DOS games and Steam's implementation of DOSbox is nigh unusable without major hacking.
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Oh hey, Hitman. Finally something I want.
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Picked up Shattered Union for fifty cents. For some reason I feel that paying fifty cents to remind myself that yes, I really am bad at turned-based strategy games and no, previous experience was not a fluke was worth it.
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Holy hell, GTA 4 with the two episodes is ten dollars today, but I don't know if my computer will run it. Is it possible to get a refund it the game runs like shit?
Nope.
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So my total purchases this Christmas were:
F.E.A.R. Pack
Indie Fright Pack*
Eversion
Apparently Bongo Bill was right. Every holiday is Christmas... except for Christmas, which is Halloween.
* I just wanted The Void, but the fact that I now own The Path is kind of hilarious.
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VVVVVV: 3$
DMC4: 5$
Recettear: 8$?
Also got a gifted copy of DMC3. I probably would have bought that otherwise. Recettear is sorta a stretch for me but enough people I trust told me to give it a go so I was willing to take a slight risk on that. VVVVVVV is about what I expected to pay for it after I played the demo. Skipped out on the 5 dollar pack associated with it because it looked like a fat sack of crap.
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I actually got the pack that VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV came in. Galcon Fusion is a very light strategy game. I sort of liked it. Geometry Wars is Geometry Wars. The other two games are crap though.
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I know I shouldn't add any more games to my backlog, but this is too good to pass up: Penny Arcade Adventures 1 & 2 for 3 bucks. (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/7135/)
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Is it too good to pass up? Keep in mind that I fucking hated Tycho in Poker Night.
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I've never played Poker Night, but the only voice in PAA is the narrator, and he's awesome. Basically, if you enjoy Penny Arcade's humor, you'll like it; if not, you won't.
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They're also pretty straight-up awesome Chrono Trigger/Paper Mario-style RPGs. It took me a couple of playthroughs of each to really get into them, but man, Penny Arcade Adventures is fun. And I'm irate that I'll never get to play the end episodes.
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Not Steam, but Arcanum (http://www.gog.com/en/promo/activision_rpgs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=game_subject&utm_campaign=activision_rpg) is $4.19 at GOG this weekend. The game's one of my favorites of the past decade and highly recommended.
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!! YESSS
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!! YESSS
Beast Wars: Megatron 'Yes' Compilation. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2t4MBhGAg8#)
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!! YESSS
Beast Wars: Megatron 'Yes' Compilation. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2t4MBhGAg8#)
M. Bison "Yes Yes!" Widescreen HD reupload (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs#ws)
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Steam announces daily
wallet rape deals. (http://store.steampowered.com/news/5468/)
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No. no no no no no NO! I was finally starting to save money! I was finally starting to be a responsible adult! WHY, VALVE?! WHY?!?!?!
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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That's okay its just going to be OpFla/Mafia 2/Batman AA on a cycle.
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(http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9831/nosteamno.jpg)
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On that note, anybody wanna go in on a Hoard 4-pack with me?
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I already have Hoard. If you're thinking "hey, a game with controller support!" then don't. Otherwise it's exactly what it says on the box.
Also, for the next week everything by Arcen Games (http://arcengames.com/w/) is 50% off. These are the same guys that made AI War: Fleet Command, which I told everyone to buy a while back. It's still a great game. And now it has more stuff (that's what Arcen does - they keep adding more stuff).
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Hey, all I wanna do is terrorize innocent villagers and kidnap princesses.
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That's all Hoard is, so you'll probably enjoy it. I am just frustrated because my controller worked just fine for the demo and now it doesn't work at all for the full version.
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Heh, the Daily Deal box is gone today. Did they get tired of it already?
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Nah, there's still a daily deal. Not sure why the box isn't there.
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Today's Deal is Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood for $2.50
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Today's deal is L4D2 at 66% off. Is this the first time it's been a game people have heard of before it was a daily deal?
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I'm pretty sure it is.
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They had Kane & Lynch 2 the other day, but it's Kane & Lynch 2, so nobody was really paying attention.
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I will always remember Kane & Lynch 2 as the game that they couldn't even pay people for good reviews.
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That's all Hoard is, so you'll probably enjoy it. I am just frustrated because my controller worked just fine for the demo and now it doesn't work at all for the full version.
Hm, is it an Xinput thing? Because I got my Cordless Rumblepad 2 to work with Witcher 2 using x360ce (http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/).
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I'm not sure. With most games that have controller support I can just plug my controller in a usb port and play. I've never had to install anything special for it to work (except for Windows's automatic driver-finder thing). Apparently, back when I played the demo Hoard was good for some controllers but not all. They updated it to make it good for more controllers, but whatever they did ruined it for some people who could previously use a controller.
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Hm. That doesn't really sound like an Xinput-versus-DirectInput issue (if they already had DirectInput support I don't know why they'd drop it, even if they added Xinput support -- as far as I know the two don't conflict), but I suppose it still could be. Might be worth checking out x360ce anyway, but don't spend too much time on it if it doesn't work. (I found I had to run Witcher 2 as an admin to get it to work but other than that it worked fine out of the box.)
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I'll give it a shot and see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion!
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75% off Monday Night Combat (http://store.steampowered.com/app/63200/)
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It's a solid game for that price. I'd suggest it if you don't have it already.
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Have any of you guys played Homefront? It's on sale for $25 this weekend.
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Yyyyeah. It's not great. It has its moments, but the campaign is far too short, and the multiplayer has some good ideas with its drones and vehicles, but overall it felt like CoD multiplayer, which I can't stand. It mmmmmight be worth 25$ but not much more. I bought it at full price, but it came with Metro 2033 for free and I had much more fun with the latter.
The worst is, it even betrays the promise of its setting. You go in with the expectation that you'll be doing guerilla warfare, but for half the game you're backed up by a bulletproof robot tank with infinite rockets. ::(:
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Summer sales have started. Also activities and stuff to unlock in games.
Personal Highlight: Dawn of War 2 is 50% off. It's a really solid game for $15. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/56437/)
Also, here's the activity/prize thing: http://store.steampowered.com/summersale/prizebooth/ (http://store.steampowered.com/summersale/prizebooth/)
(I WANT THE HELMET)
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Finally. I've been waiting to buy that game and play it twice for months now.
Edit: Oh good, the age check bugged out and now I can't buy it. Why the hell doesn't Steam allow you to just set your age in your profile so it doesn't prompt you even when you're logged in?
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Well fortunately I am broke, homeless and don't even have a goddam computer to play these on so there's NO WAY that I could even oh hey SSF4 is on sale and I've been unforgivably reticent in submitting my approval for Capcom's DRM non-fuckery.
Hey is Beat Hazard Ultra only 2.50?
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MEEEEEEEE
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Goddamnit steam. I needed that money for IMPORTANT THINGS. NOT WITCHER 2. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
Well I guess Witcher 2 is important, actually.
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(http://i.imgur.com/hRzUa.png)
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What is that?
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A dump of the stuff for the Steam Sale. Sub is things that will be for sale (Short for Subscription, since technically you don't own anything on Steam.)
The last 4 lines indicate Valve expecting people to have done this and put in a frowny face.
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That just shows the packs that will be for sale, not the individual game sales from each day.
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(http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9480/bewarevalvebites2.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/5RTFx.jpg)
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Aw yeah! Time to check more sales!
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
And then when the page finally loads, it's yesterday's.
Edit: Ehhhh.. Nothing too amazing.
Also, only one ticket today: 7 headshots in a row in CSS without dying.
Yeah, right.
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Check it again.
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Huh, okay, that list doesn't seem so ba--
Find your friends - Link your Facebook Profile in Steam
(http://tf2wiki.net/w/images/thumb/5/5d/Nope.png/250px-Nope.png)
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You can immediately unlink it and still keep your ticket.
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I don't even have a Facebook profile.
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Oh wow. Fallout: New Vegas is fucking $15 today, AND the DLC is $3 each. I was gonna wait for the GotY version with all the DLC and such included, but I think this might be good enough.
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Also, Serious Sam is fantastic. Why don't you own it?
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Jumping around to create a wishlist I stumbled on Starscape on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/20700/). Many, many moons ago I paid $20 or whatever they charged on release for it and never regretted it.
If you like top-down shooters at all you're a dumb for not spending three bucks on this.
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Oh, yeah. I can vouch for that too for that price. It's fun, I just wish the menus weren't garbage. The actual mechanics of the game are fine though.
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AI War, a fantastic grand strategy/4x game, for dirt cheap. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/40400/)
Base - $2.99
Expansion 1 - $1.49 (or free for 3 tickets)
Expansion 2 - $.59
Expansion 3 - $1.49
Everything at once - $4.49
This game is worth so much more than $4.49. I can't even describe what a dealsteal this is.
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This game is pretty rad and I would set up some games if anyone wanted to I guess.
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Lost Planet 2 is only 50% off? Goddamnit.
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Yeah Capcom sucks at sales. All of their games have been off. I mean, sure 10 bucks for DMC4 is cheap, but it could probably be cheaper.
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Still highly recommend LP2. The co-op is incredible. I think we've gone on about it before.
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buy LP2 or INAFKING's tortured ghost will follow you to your grave
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Why are all these great games I want to play on sale when I am spending no money whatsoever?
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Seriously.
Though it's nice to know I actually do have a sense of restraint, somwhere. I actually haven't bought anything yet except SSF4 and BHU are probably inevitable come July 10.
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Nothing good today. I mean, Company of Heroes is good if you want an alternative RTS, but nothing else is very special.
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So is anything in the Rift Collector's Edition worth paying extra for?
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Has anything in a collector's edition ever been worth paying extra for?
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I would buy the new Tomb Raider series as a pack but I kind of have trouble buying any of them individually. Basically only Legend isn't complete garbage on its own, and I've already played that one.
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It seems to be mostly unadvertised, but if you preorder Deus Ex 3 (or are brain-damaged enough to preorder Dungeon Siege III) you get an extra $25 off the ridiculously valuable Square-Eidos pack.
Alternately, if you wait, the pack will probably go on sale for the same price again later this year with both those games included. Opportunity cost is a bitch, yo.
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Red Faction: Armageddon already 33% off?
Wow. That's actually tempting.
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Make sure you play the demo first, because Armageddon is much more like the original mediocre FPSes than the glorious Sim Drunk Truck Driver.
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I'd like to point out, that while it's not a daily deal, Saint's Row 2 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/9480/) is on sale for about $10. For the unaware: It's basically the silly parts and fun parts of GTA without the COUSIN LETS GO BOWLING. Also insane customization.
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Amazon has had SR2 on sale for 6 bucks for a few months now, and it is steamworks. If you have free shipping you know where to go.
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The PC version of SR2 is a shitty port that is basically unplayable on Windows 7, though. Be aware of that.
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SR2 Powertools (http://saintsrowpowertools.com/) and/or Gentlemen of the Row (http://idolninja.com/) fix those problems real fast though.
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Was gonna buy the Prince of Persia pack but Forgotten Sands has UbiSoft's cockfucked AC2 DRM scheme attached, so nevermind.
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Oh hey. Dawn of War Retribution is now only $7.50! Look at that.
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Aaand they patently refuse to lower th price again on the couple things I was actually going to buy.
$0 spent on Steam this sale season. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some brick-and-mortars to go visit.
:bizarro:
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Oh hey. Dawn of War Retribution is now only $7.50! Look at that.
This seems to have been a mistake - it's now $15. The same thing happened yesterday with Terraria (it was $2.50 for a while and then they fixed it to $5).
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I was able to buy it for someone at $7.50 before they fixed it.
:glee:
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Total spent: $45.80
Items purchased:
AI War with all expansions
Hitman: Blood Money
Lead and Gold
L4D
L4D2
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Rift
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Total hours played so far from sale games: 50
I'd say all-in-all this was another successful Steam Sale for me.
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I'm still debating on New Vegas. How glitchy is it?
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Nowhere near as glitchy as you may have been lead to believe. Particularly after about a year of patching. It's still in Gamebryo, and some things can't be saved from that engine, but it was playable at launch, and is in a much better state now.
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It's still in Gamebryo, and some things can't be saved from that engine
FO3 Zombie Cherry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1GYr88MOOU#)
(FO3, but the point remains)
I'd strongly suggest the game. It's a lot of fun, and it's definitely playable.
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Incredible AI in New Vegas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKePp49wYs#)
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I got New Vegas myself, plus Far Cry 2 because I had been thinking about it for a while. That's it though. I'd have wanted more, but there's that thing with having 100% of a rent to pay now that's holding me back in that regard. Those should still last me a good long while.
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Magicka is 66% off today at £2.71. It's a very fun game and worth it for the singleplayer alone.
The complete pack with all the DLC is also 66% off at £5.77, though none of it is strictly necessary except Magicka: Vietnam (adds a new campaign-style mission, guns and airstrike magick for multiplayer, and Cannon Fodder in-jokes: all the other DLC is just equipment and arena/versus maps).
Don't forget to spend your remaining Summer Camp tickets on the Lonely Island Cruise Magicka map.
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Zeno Clash is on sale until Monday for four bucks. That's a dollar per type of enemy you get to fight.
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ULTRA ZIIIIIIIIIIIIING
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Back to the Future: Episode 1 (http://telltalegames.com/bttfoffer)
Free. If it doesn't work, add 121 gigawatts as a coupon.
Great game. Voice acting is top notch, Christopher Lloyd actually is Doc Brown. Everything else I feel is amazing, but I'm a bit biased as it's one of my favourite series.
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Just played through it. It's...definitely a Telltale game.
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Borderlands for $5 (http://www.fatwallet.com/video-game-deals/borderlands-for-pc-download/)
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FotNS: Ken's Rage (http://www.amazon.com/Fist-North-Star-Kens-Playstation-3/dp/B003NSECVY/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1316376532&sr=1-1) for tenbux on either console.
Ten dollars is suddenly a lot for me to pay for a (mediocre) video game these days, but it's still sorely tempting.
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I've wanted to check this out, but I didn't want to pay more than 15 bucks for it. Perfect.
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It's very much a game "For fans of the series". $10 is an excellent price for that sort of game.
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See I'm a fan of both series which is why it's kind of hard, but the demo failed to impress pretty badly.
Also taking suggestions for new thread title since Steam is no longer the only reasonable option for games purchasing in this generation.
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(Especially since it's gotten to the point where I noticed a receipt from Steam in my inbox and couldn't for the fucking LIFE of me remember what I purchased. I guess I bought Puzzle Quest? Apparently? Is this what it's like when alcoholics find a mysterious empty bottle of Jack in their underwear drawer?)
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Also taking suggestions for new thread title since Steam is no longer the only reasonable option for games purchasing in this generation.
Internet Superstore?
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I agree. Whenever I see a post in this thread I instinctively toss credit cards out the door so I don't lose all my money.
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(Especially since it's gotten to the point where I noticed a receipt from Steam in my inbox and couldn't for the fucking LIFE of me remember what I purchased. I guess I bought Puzzle Quest? Apparently? Is this what it's like when alcoholics find a mysterious empty bottle of Jack in their underwear drawer?)
Insidious Worm Makes Unauthorized Purchases When Computer User Is Drunk (http://www.theonion.com/video/insidious-worm-makes-unauthorized-purchases-when-c,14399/)
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Portal 1 is free, again, until the 20th.
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FotNS: Ken's Rage (http://www.amazon.com/Fist-North-Star-Kens-Playstation-3/dp/B003NSECVY/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1316376532&sr=1-1) for tenbux on either console.
Back to regular price for PS3 already, but not X-Box, which means it was probably supposed to be a 360-only deal to begin with. There have been a LOT of 360 fire sales since the thing got shitcanned in Japan, and it's a little disturbing.
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Alpha Protocol is 2 dollars right now. Flawed as it is, it's more than worth that price.
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Welp, Portal 2 is 15 bucks till like Friday.
Think it's finally time I bought this game.
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Play it while wearing a condom.
Trust me on this.
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Duke Nukem Forever DLC released. If you're a first access club member, log onto the site and punch the key into Steam or whatnot to get it for free.
Also Duke is $10 until Thursday.
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THQ Week. Monday was Metro 2033, Tuesday was Titan quest. Today is Red Faction day. I'm waiting for a Warhammer day to grab all the DLC for the game. Still missing a few!
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Oh hahaha, I bought the PS3 version of DNF for fucking $60, now it's on steam for $20? And currently on sale for half that?
...That's usually a sign that a game has flopped miserably, isn't it? "Here, we'll drop the price, we'll release DLC, just PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEAAAAAASE BUY OUR SHIT!"
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Honestly, if it gets new people in the multiplayer I'm all for that.
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I haven't tried the multiplayer yet, and I'm still stuck in the casinos in campaign. This game doesn't seem bad to me, it just seems not good.
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I am honestly waiting for it to drop to 5.
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I am honestly waiting for it to drop to 2.50.
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...That's usually a sign that a game has flopped miserably, isn't it?
It was not well-received.
It was never going to be worth the wait, but it wound up not even living up to people's modest expectations. From the reviews, it's got DNF's crassness but none of its charm or creativity. I've read that Serious Sam is the game DNF should have been.
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Sort of. If you love to shoot hordes of enemies, occasionally hear one-liners, and have tons of goofy secrets, yes, Serious Sam has all that. Also a pile of weapons stuffed in hammerspace.
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That...does sound a lot like what I want out of a Duke Nukem game, yes.
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Well, highly recommend the HD remakes of First and Second Encounter, and I'll get back to you on BFE when it comes out. Just understand that the game is about 95% killing enemies while trying desperately not to be killed.
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It defines the Running Backwards While Shooting school of level design. In fact, there is to be an RPG spinoff (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/07/headless-serious-sam-the-random-encounter/) in which the battle screen has your party constantly running backwards.
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Honestly, for me the one big failing of DNF is that there's not enough bad guys. If its many, many long stretches of empty hallways and rooms were filled to bursting with aliens, I could have forgiven its other flaws. There's literally tons of places in the game where I thought "man this room's layout is interesting, I bet/wish there's a big shootout here", but nothing happened.
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Oh hey, Homefront is $14.99. Sort of interested in playing through the single player because :america:
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I'd be more interested, but I've heard mostly bad things about it.
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Homefront has some pretty cool (or, well, a better word might be "intense", given the subject matter) moments, but I don't know if it's got 15 dollars' worth of them, and the rest of the game is frankly dumb.
literally tons
:disapprove:
Dang, yes, call me on that stuff, I learned this language by osmosis and that doesn't always keep out the bad. Thanks.
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Dawn of War 2 Free to play Weekend. Check your game lists (It's last stand and multiplayer. Not campaign)
If you have any inclination towards RTS I'd suggest giving this game a try. It's got it's flaws but hey, it's free to try. Couldn't hurt, right?
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Re: interest in RTS and DoW2.
It should be noted that DoW2 is one of very few RTS I actually like, and people who don't like 'em should still give it a try. It's more about small group movement, so you don't have to do as much pumping out new grunts or deal with most of the bullshit micromanagement of other RTS games.
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Actually because you have less units to work with in involves more micromanagement. The game has less macro since you aren't dealing with resource gathering and base building and you are probably only making one unit every few minutes.
A lot of the micro comes from the bad pathing your units have. :nyoro~n: Still an awesome game for the price. It is a lot more causal RTS since half of the effort Relic put into the game was to make your dudes look cool while they kill shit.
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A lot of the micro comes from the bad pathing your units have. :nyoro~n:
(http://i.imgur.com/sVgUU.png)
Pathing and accidental retreats (I DIDN't WANT THAT UNIT TO RETREAT FUCK) are the two biggest problems with this game. I hope that they fix that for DoW3, because otherwise this game is solid.
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It is more accurate to describe Dawn of War 2 as a tactical game than a strategic one, although generally "RTS" is used for both. It's fun, but I can't get unit movements down well enough to make me not uninstall the thing whenever I need room for something else.
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We should all start playing against each other because the game is more fun that way.
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Yeah, actually. I may have time to play it tonight and tomorrow in fact, but I'll warn you this weekend is looking pretty busy on paper. I'm pretty decent at it but I'm more than willing to observe and coach some games. Add me on steam (http://steamcommunity.com/id/Ziiro)
Bal also has it installed - but he's pretty rusty at it because he hasn't played in a while. Defen has it but HoN wrecked his DoW2 skills.
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I could be up for a few rounds of vs, provided it's via Retribution.
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We should also play Last Stand together because I'm pretty sure that if I ask strangers to tolerate my level 1 farseer waifu retardation they'll get hella mad.
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Tau Commander Developer Diary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHkuNmnmK7E#ws)
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(http://i.imgur.com/0AooE.png)
Halloween sales are up (http://store.steampowered.com/sale/scary_sale_2011)
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Oh hey, $2.50 for Ghostbusters. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/9870/) Any good?
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Definitely 2.50 good.
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Zombie Driver is pretty fun for 2.50 if you have a gamepad. I can't imagine how crappy the wasd controls would be. You drive around killing zombies, and so far the game hasn't thrown any ridiculous escort missions. As long as there isn't anything where you have to protect another car or something the game is pretty solid for the price.
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I think...
Yes, yes I DO have Zombie Driver from one of those Indie Packs I bought for one game. Heh.
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So two days after I buy Bastion at full price there is a midweek madness sale.
It was still worth every penny. Go buy this if you haven't.
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GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS
(http://i.imgur.com/5RTFx.jpg)
AUTUMN STEAM SALE TIME
Think I'll be grabbing Oddbox and Duke Nukem today, at least.
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Eversion is for 75% off. Dungeons of Dredmor is 50% off and worth way more than that.
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New Vegas is 5bux
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The DLC for F:NV is also 75% off, and as far as I know they're not going to release any more, so if you were waiting for all the DLC to come out and the game to go on sale (and you actually managed to wait instead of buying the game during an earlier sale like I did), rejoice, for thy day hast come at last! Hallelujah!
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on the fence whether I should buy the half life 1 anthology for 50% off now or just wait if there's any one day sales that interest me before the 28th, or play any one of the untouched steam purchases I've bought during sales.
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Civ V is 10bux
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I never thought I'd say that, but... I... I'm kinda burnt out on Civ.
...whew! :glee:
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What's the DRM situation on the Steam versions of Dead Space 1 and 2? The games are five bucks apiece right now, and I want to know if starting them up will be a giant pain in the ass.
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http://activate.ea.com/deauthorize/ (http://activate.ea.com/deauthorize/) bottom of the steam store page leads here.
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As a guy who owns both Dead Spaces it shouldn't be more complicated than making a Games for Windows Live account or something. It's just EA accounts which are easier.
Also Dead Space games are really good for $20 games, really great for $5 games.
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As I said in my Steam review though, bring a pad. Dead Space 1 (the only one I played so far) has the absolute worst mouse acceleration I have ever seen. It is straight up unplayable without a pad.
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As I said in my Steam review though, bring a pad. Dead Space 1 (the only one I played so far) has the absolute worst mouse acceleration I have ever seen. It is straight up unplayable without a pad.
There is a way to fix it to make it bearable. I think it had something to do with changing some settings on your GPU. I recall going into my Nvidia settings and changing something. I played Deadspace with a mouse and it was quite bearable although somewhat sluggish.
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Dead Space is fine with a mouse? Then again your enemies can be frozen and the best way to fight multiple enemies is to force them to come to you while matching your weapons to the appropriate types so maybe we were playing different games.
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It's that time again! Time to rack your brains coming up with ten games to put on your wishlists.
Sometimes I get the feeling that Steam is telling me what I want to play, not the other way around.
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Well, it does have that "featured" section on the main page.
Luckily I already had ten games I kind-of want left over from summer.
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Click by genre, top-sellers, whatever I'm interested in but is outside of my "two games a year at $60 release price" policy.
And even then I just stretch it to stuff I wouldn't mind trying and owning.
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Glad I'm not the only one having trouble rounding out a list of ten. Is it just 'cause I buy every god damn thing that's on sale? Perplexing.
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I actually have a decent spread of games I'd legitimately like to play: LA Noire, Sonic Generations, Serious Sam 3, Saints Row 3, Deus Ex, Fable. Then stuff I wouldn't mind trying like Fear and Dead Island or maybe a Lord of the Rings RTS. But they're all $50 or more so fuck that, they're not Bat Man.
But then you get to stuff like Witcher 2 and it's like "I still haven't touched Witcher 1 from last year, Steam!"
Fuck, I don't even know how to play as much Skyrim as I want without just quitting my job and hiding in my house for the rest of the month.
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I'm actually making progress in my backlog! I finished Crisis Core and started Ghostbusters. Don't think I'll be buying any more crap on Steam for the nonce; aside from Ghostbusters I've got the Zeboyd Games bundle and this thing called Aversion or something. On PSP I've still got FFT, FF1, maybe another playthrough of MMX as Vile, am stuck on Yellow Devil in MMPU, and haven't finished Castlevania. And frankly there's a hell of a lot more Crisis Core that I'll probably chip away at when I've got a few minutes of free time.
Amazon's marked down Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Duodenum. Guess I could try the latter out but I think I should hold off on the former until I've finished the Tactics game I've already got.
If I ever do. I have a tendency to quit Tactics somewhere in the Deep Dungeon.
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Oh no, you're not done with WotL until you've defeated [spoiler]Delita[/spoiler].
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Saw your name in some credits the other night, BTW. Way to be in some credits.
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(http://brentai.brontoforum.us/images/yay.jpg)
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I always forget how, like... into gaming i am when it's not comparing wishlists. i don't think there's a single game on steam's frontpage i DON'T want to try, even if it's just to see what it's about.
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So now would be a good time to be told if Dungeon Siege III really wasn't that great because I'm pretty tempted for today's deal.
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All I remember hearing is that the multiplayer might as well not exist, because it's so incredibly poorly designed.
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uh, i was interested in it as a co-op game but in co-op mode, the partner character is even more of a slave than in Fable 2. you can't get loot or even level up in someone else's game. you're a worthless hireling.
i don't have much faith in a game that puts so little thought into an entire game mode.
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I wish they'd put Army of Two on the PC. Those were actually pretty okay co-op games.
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40% off The Witcher 2. Highly recommend. Recently a major content patch came out adding a whole slew of things, including better difficulty balancing and tutorial in the early parts of the game, as well as a new difficulty setting, and an arena to fuck around in. Making what was already the best PC RPG of 2011 even better.
Cheating yourself out of something great if you don't play this.
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I will see if those changes make me actually want to play this game, because god if I didn't feel angry and tricked when a bunch of you said Witcher 2 fixed a bunch of the early bullshit that made Witcher unfun.
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40% off The Witcher 2. Highly recommend. Recently a major content patch came out adding a whole slew of things, including better difficulty balancing and tutorial in the early parts of the game, as well as a new difficulty setting, and an arena to fuck around in. Making what was already the best PC RPG of 2011 even better.
Cheating yourself out of something great if you don't play this.
The GOG version has the same discount. Buy directly from the developers!
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Steam apparently started bugging out a bit ago.
I was able to get the Dead Island four pack for twenty bucks before they fixed that, but other things are still showing up oddly so keep an eye out and you might get lucky.
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Looks like Valve's busy setting up the fuckin storybook thing again.
PREPARE YOUR WALLETS FOR THE RECKONING
(I really, really can't fit any more games into my backlog.)
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I have too many games but I'll buy more bullshit anyway
Though at this point I'm hard pressed to find a game on steam that I want and don't already own. My wishlist is full of shit I want, but I had to struggle to get the 10.
I'll probably grab the Super Indie Bundle before this is all over. I only own one of those games, and I have an interest in most of them. Fuck.
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Oh gog I was right
They added Deus Ex (and that other game) to the Squeenix pack.
My backlog is about to become just completely disgusting.
(Amusingly, they seem to have dropped Arkham Asylum from it, which conveniently removes my OTHER qualm about the bundle.)
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Chantelise is a pretty fuckin' good game for $2.50.
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Hey, if anyone gets one, I'm looking for a coupon for THQ or for Saints Row 3 in general.
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Similarly, I'd be interested in any coupon that lets me get Skyrim or Assassin's Creed: Revelations cheaper.
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Saw your name in some credits the other night, BTW. Way to be in some credits.
Yeah, I don't know if I ever congratulated you for having your name on Crisis Core, but I totally saw that too.
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I had absolutely shit-all to do with the actual game on that. I mean, I had absolutely shit-all to do with any of them, but on that one in particular they did actually let one of us QA guys have a major say in the design. In particular, the American Hard Mode was heavily tweaked based on his feedback, which is why its difficulty curve ended up looking like a BASE jump once you get (that one core game mechanic that you can't use until halfway through the game which is fine because it becomes trivial to pump yourself up to God Tier with it after that if you're at all capable of abusing it).
Also they literally pulled the plug on me while I was fighting Hard Minerva. Kind of stupidly upset about that.
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Arkham City 50% off.
Hot damn.
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The GlaDOS DLC for Defense Grid is on sale for $1.24.
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I like that coal is basically the best prize you can get from doing the winter ach stuff.
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i'd rather get a bethesda coupon, personally.
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Not Steam, but fuck it, it's games so I'm putting it here instead of Internet Superstore.
SEGA 48-Game Mega Arcade Pack (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006J97RSO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=epiemp0a-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006J97RSO), $7.50 from Amazon.
Golden Axe
Altered Beast
Comix Zone
Ecco the Dolphin
Gain Ground
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
VectorMan
Crack Down
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
Space Harrier II
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Bonanza Bros.
Columns
Ecco Jr.
Eternal Champions
Fatal Labyrinth
Galaxy Force II
Kid Chameleon
Ristar
Super Thunder Blade
Alien Storm
Bio-Hazard Battle
Columns III
Sword of Vermilion
Virtua Fighter 2
Ecco: The Tides of Time
Decap Attack
Flicky
ESWAT: City Under Siege
Golden Axe II.
Alien Soldier
Gunstar Heroes
Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole
Light Crusader
Shining Force
Shining Force II
Shining in the Darkness
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage 2
Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair
Sonic 3D Blast
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Sonic Spinball
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
ToeJam & Earl
ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron
Have most of the ones I'd actually want already, but have never played Gunstar Heroes, and isn't it like $6 or $8 on VC by itself?
Will have to look into the quality of the ports. Somebody gave me a PC version of S&K once and it had this crappy MIDI soundtrack.
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New Deus Ex (http://www.amazon.com/Deus-Ex-Revolution-Standard-Download/dp/B005HRZ29K/) is currently on sale on Amazon for 10bux, and can be activated on Steam.
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Today I got a coupon that applies to exactly one item, which I already have. Huzzah.
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I'm not sure if whatever reward is actually worth playing Atom Zombie Smasher for another second.
EDIT: I got SpaceChem for it. Who wants SpaceChem?
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every once in a while i fire up spacechem, do exactly one level, and feel pretty smart about myself, then i check the next level and i'm like uuuuuuugh no fuck that
relatedly, anyone want any of that stuff?
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/steam.png)
i'd like to do one trade at least for anything i don't have (for the objective) but ideally it all must go it's just sitting there benefitting no one i mean it ain't got a lot of market value but hey free stuff right
and yeah that valve coupon is only good for stuff released before january 2nd 2012 so it ain't much of a hill of beans but i dunno maybe one a you wants a fiver off portal 2 or whatevs i mean they've had a couple strong sellers in the past as a company i guess
and hey, five dollar oblivion, they'll be all "STOP CRIMINAL SCUM" but no that's actually the price, you've got the coupon see and they'll have to apologize and let you go
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I wouldn't mind the copy of Frozen Synapse, though I only have Bioshock and a couple coupons to offer. On a related note, anyone want Bioshock, a Valve coupon, or a 50% off Doom 3 coupon?
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SENT
I'M CRAZY MAN I DON'T GIVE A FUCK
ONLY GAMES
AND COUPONS
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Thank you very much! Send me a message on Steam later if you want to get the trading achievement.
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So effectively Sonic Generations has fallen to a third of its original MSRP within two months of release. So much for the second coming.
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oh well how about that
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So effectively Sonic Generations has fallen to a third of its original MSRP within two months of release. So much for the second coming.
It's still really, really good.
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Oh for sure. This is more of a "SEGA still can't market water to a desert" thing.
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That, or they've devalued water to such a degree in the past that most people would rather drink piss.
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And here I am with an insufficient video card to play it.
EDIT: I just learned how this coupon/coal thing works. I (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197994047531) have three coal and a 33% off Valve coupon, and I want to complete the trade objective. Could someone befriend the linked profile and trade something worthless with me?
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For some reason, I'm thinking of the movie Waterworld.
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They were advertising the fuck out of it on whatever channel was on in the bar yesterday. Something with skateboarding.
Post-Christmas sales aren't really unusual.
Guess I have to buy it now, dammit. Guess it's not like I'll notice $10 missing on top of car insurance, girlfriend's medical bills, rent, and wedding gift for best friend.
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I don't think that because the PC version and only the PC version went on sale the day *after* Christmas means that it didn't do well. Hell, last time I looked Unleashed turned a profit. I can't imagine that Generations didn't. It was on the top seller list of Steam for several weeks, and then there's also console sales.
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You guys are overreacting.
Gabe Newell made fucking Skyrim and Modern Warfare games go on sale for Steammas.
Like, when Gaben steps out of his limo at Game Company Headquarters and tilts his sunglasses while glaring directly at the window that is holding the CEO + stock-holders meeting, they get the message. Or else.
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Sonic Gen ended up down there because it was used as a primary chip in a price war between Amazon and Steam. Steam had it at 25, Amazon went WAY below them and put it at 15 in an attempt to out-Gabe Gabe, and Gabe shrugged and put it at 10, which Amazon could only match.
The issue isn't so much that it's on sale, it's that it's a first-party, major developer, primary mascot, as-good-as-main-series game going at a literal bin price two months after release. You'll never see that happen to fucking Mario, or even Ezio. It makes SEGA's very best offerings look third-tier, and they needed to control that. It's the Dreamcast being outsold by FF8 all over again.
Mainly I'm worried that it's going to make developers even more nervous about supporting the PC platform, because at some point the distributors are going to seem like an even worse problem than the pirates.
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The thing is, that kind of pricing scheme is rapidly becoming the new norm. The potential image hit to SeGA (which is mostly because the 'console' side of the games industry is slow to react and idiots keep buying their shit at $70 like this were a Secret of Mana cartridge in 199X) is probably outweighed by the marketing and name recognition from the now-larger playerbase. I'm willing to bet they're getting their brand out there to a lot of people who didn't grow up with Sonic, or who are from that generation but were Nintendo.
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Not to mention that Valve have said repeatedly that games increase their profit margin every single time they go on sale. They probably sold 50k copies to people who were on the fence about it.
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You guys are overreacting.
Gabe Newell made fucking Skyrim and Modern Warfare games go on sale for Steammas.
Like, when Gaben steps out of his limo at Game Company Headquarters and tilts his sunglasses while glaring directly at the window that is holding the CEO + stock-holders meeting, they get the message. Or else.
At this point we can only speculate on the number of charts, studies and hard statistics that go into setting up a lot of these sales. Valve has all the sales numbers for full retail, as well as what time of the year people are willing to spend more money, and what percentage discount brings sales up by what percent. Essentially finding the sweet spot for profit when discounting games. Good god, now that I think about it that's probably their greatest tool. Just raw information and math.
What I like to think that this all means: All they have to do is contact Activision's/SEGA's/EA's/ETC sales/marketing departments and say "We think it would be in both of our best interests to sell the game for N% off, as this has the most projected profit in our upcoming sales. Yes, it's a significant chunk, but it will also be featured on the front page of our service and everyone will see it."
There's probably a lot of negotiation in regards to the sale percentage and getting on the front page.
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At this point we can only speculate on the number of charts, studies and hard statistics that go into setting up a lot of these sales. Valve has all the sales numbers for full retail, as well as what time of the year people are willing to spend more money, and what percentage discount brings sales up by what percent. Essentially finding the sweet spot for profit when discounting games. Good god, now that I think about it that's probably their greatest tool. Just raw information and math.
That's EVERYBODY'S greatest tool in the new century. Valve's, Google's, Facebook's -- Amazon INVENTED this shit.
The issue isn't so much that it's on sale, it's that it's a first-party, major developer, primary mascot, as-good-as-main-series game going at a literal bin price two months after release. You'll never see that happen to fucking Mario
No, you'll see a port of a 20-year-old remake of 25-year-old Mario games go for $30.
Selling games for $10 when they should be $40 is pretty much the opposite of Nintendo's problem right now.
It makes SEGA's very best offerings look third-tier, and they needed to control that. It's the Dreamcast being outsold by FF8 all over again.
Mainly I'm worried that it's going to make developers even more nervous about supporting the PC platform, because at some point the distributors are going to seem like an even worse problem than the pirates.
Certainly this is a problem, particularly to Japanese developers who are wary of the PC in the first place. For customers, of course, $10 on a just-released game seems an awful lot like a Good Thing. And if the publishers look at the numbers and find they've made more money, then they should see it as a good thing too.
I don't see serious brand damage coming from a one-day sale (even if it's turning into something a bit longer on the Amazon end). Users understand "sale" as something separate from "remainder bin". This isn't a $10 game; it's a $30 game on sale for $10.
And PC gamers have different expectations. They expect more price competition, more frequent sales, and cheaper base prices -- as a tradeoff for a platform that is fiddlier and MUCH more expensive to maintain, not to mention DRM that is frequently worse than what they'd get on a console.
(Quick tangent: finding deals, collecting games, and getting them to run are, themselves, a sort of game. I've spent more time setting up XBMC/ROM Collection Browser, PPJoy/WiiMouse, and various emulators than I have actually using them, but getting them set up was a technical challenge that brought me satisfaction. Same with setting up my NES and Genesis/Sega CD on an old 21" tube, or my Dreamcast on my computer monitor because my TV doesn't have a VGA port. Hell, maybe one of these days I'll get around to injecting the driver for my graphics card so it'll work on OSX and not just Win/Lin. ...if nothing else, these rationalizations at least make me feel better about spending money on games I haven't played yet.)
The greatest risk is that publishers will see cases like this and the takeaway will be that they need to sell more $10 games. Far as that goes, I'm not sure it's a bad thing -- is there any reason Sonic 4 couldn't have been as good a game as Sonic Generations? I don't think it's their budgets that made the latter a better game than the former. If Sega decided the lesson was to make games that looked like Sonic 4 but played like the side-scrolling levels of Sonic Generations, well, there's probably a downside but I'm not seeing it.
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Speaking of really low prices, Serious Sam 3 is 12 bucks on GetGames. (http://www.getgamesgo.com/product/serious-sam-3-bfe) A lot cheaper than any sale steam will be having if any on it.
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At this point we can only speculate on the number of charts, studies and hard statistics that go into setting up a lot of these sales. Valve has all the sales numbers for full retail, as well as what time of the year people are willing to spend more money, and what percentage discount brings sales up by what percent. Essentially finding the sweet spot for profit when discounting games. Good god, now that I think about it that's probably their greatest tool. Just raw information and math.
That's EVERYBODY'S greatest tool in the new century. Valve's, Google's, Facebook's -- Amazon INVENTED this shit.
Verging on threadsplit here, but I just noticed Stross posted about this yesterday:
—So suppliers are trapped in a race to the bottom, unless (a) they can find some clear value-added proposition to attract consumers other than low price, or (b) they can work out a way to reduce price transparency in order to impair the accuracy of consumers' pricing decisions.
—luxury goods and designer brands adopt strategy (a). Some other well-known organizations go this way, too: Apple is an obvious example in the consumer electronics sector. (Underlying Apple's value proposition is simplicity: a simple, easy to understand product range, pared-back industrial design, "easy to use". Also underlying their success is "easy to fix": if it goes wrong you take it to the Genius Bar and it will be fixed. Or, for a fee, they'll uplift it and fix it for you.) But what about strategy (b)?
5. Algorithmic pricing of airline tickets has been around for decades. Flights are scheduled up to a year in advance, between known end-points, with a well-known number of seats in each class. So why are there so many airline ticket types, and why do prices for a given ticket type on a given route vary depending on when you book them? The answer is that airlines have an incentive to ensure that there is a paying fare in every seat, but they also have an incentive to not discount seats if they can possibly sell them at a higher fare. So they've developed complex pricing algorithms that balance supply and demand internally and offer potential customers the highest spot price that the airline thinks the market will bear. More recently, mobile phone companies, cable TV companies, and other service suppliers offer us the "freedom" to build our own package of services, but the underlying pricing information is highly opaque. [/url]
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I wish Revelations was even cheaper. More people need to play the multiplayer for that game. Seriously.
I'm on the fence about SS3. When I get home I'm definitely buying Titans, S.P.A.Z, and Dead Space 2 however.
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The Binding of Isaac is available for a pittance. Hands up, everybody who wants a copy.
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If you hadn't already crafted all your coal, there's no point now. (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2428973)
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As much as I love the games I bought I did find this event to be kind of stupid. The biggest complaint I have being that most of the rewards were coupons for games that were already on sale, that we can't use until they stop being on sale. I would have preferred a setup where we trade coal directly for prizes rather than craft them into a random chance to get something that is basically useless.
Just to show how bad the odds were of actually getting anything; I completed 29 objectives, traded a game to someone for extra coal, and after 4 crafts and all of the different objective completions, I ended up with 11 coupons and a copy of a 5 dollar valve game. (Day of Defeat: Source) Of those coupons, seven of them are for valve titles. And none of the coupons apply to future valve releases. And I have every valve game that costs more than 20 dollars.
::(:
Anybody want a 50% off valve games coupon?
Edit: Combing through the steam coupons faq: Any coupons you have will apply to items already discounted. So there's that at least. If you got any coupons for anything good, save them for the next time those things go on sale! They all become active on the 2nd.
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And deactivate in March, so don't expect anything attached to a coupon to go on sale in the next three months.
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I don't suppose anyone has a 50% off Ubisoft?
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coupons? for games people actually want to play?
:glee:
how novel.
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I may have one or two useful coupons (http://www.tf2outpost.com/backpack/76561197993323637/753)
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I may have one or two useful coupons (http://www.tf2outpost.com/backpack/76561197993323637/753)
jesus christ did you trade a million tf2 items for coal
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On a related note, attention should be given to BongoBill and Detonator, who proved their bro-a-tudes by giving random game gifts off my wishlist during the sales.
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I may have one or two useful coupons (http://www.tf2outpost.com/backpack/76561197993323637/753)
jesus christ did you trade a million tf2 items for coal
People kept dumping their coupons on me and I crafted coal.
Winning the contest was not something I wanted. I already have more games than I could play on Steam and there is nothing I really want.
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I may have one or two useful coupons (http://www.tf2outpost.com/backpack/76561197993323637/753)
jesus christ did you trade a million tf2 items for coal
Remember Lyrai's Pyo-quisition on the old forum?
She was the one who found out the "buy an admin position" item didn't actually work.
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(http://i.imgur.com/smCnC.png)
For Xotic
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Anybody want a copy of the original Half-Life?
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I suppose I would.
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Space Pirates and Zombies is on sale and if you don't have it you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't buy it.
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Official Steam App!
Of course, you can't log in because it's in beta but I think Steam coming to mobile is a great, great thing.
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I'm pretty excited for it. I was a little disappointed that logging into the app just says "Now just wait for your invite". I mean it could have said it on the app page or the steam page about it.
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Now you can waste money on the go
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I've got access to Steam Mobile that I can gift to someone. Steam PM me for it etc etc.
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Does anyone have a steam coupon for Black Ops by any chance? The game goes on sale so goddamn rarely that I don't think I'll ever get it for cheap without a coupon.
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codblops? Really?
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yeah seriously?
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Modern Warfare is never cheap on Steam.
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THE COST OF WAR IS NEVER CHEAP
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codblops? Really?
I like multiplayer FPS games, and I don't like the realism shooters (battlefield, flashpoint etc) Is it really so wrong to want to play a popular FPS?
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I bought a 360 and Halo 3 for that same reason.
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I guess if you want to play one like that, you can do worse than COD?
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Battlefield and MW/CODBLOPS have about the same amount of realism. battlefield just have more goodies. If you want something unrealistic, play QuakeLive or Tribes Ascend or something.
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hahahaha "cod blops"
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Battlefield and MW/CODBLOPS have about the same amount of realism. battlefield just have more goodies. If you want something unrealistic, play QuakeLive or Tribes Ascend or something.
Battlefield's focus is on large playercounts and huge battlefields, both of which make the game into a clusterfuck of awful for me. I prefer close quarters and the COD games are pretty much the quake of 'realistic' shooters in that they're fast paced close quarters romps compared to the other games in the genre which focus on shit like tactics and battlefield strategy. I actually liked the new goldeneye's multiplayer. That's the kind of shooter player I am.
If nobody has a coupon that's cool but you guys being hipster about what games this community's members are allowed to enjoy is really rubbing me the wrong way.
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Iotnltiobdbadai.
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I don't have any coupons but I'll throw my 2 cents in. If you like COD's style that's fine, but black ops is widely considered to be bad by cod players that I've seen. I didn't have too big a problem with it, except that every server is 24/7 nuketown because you can literally get kills by standing where you spawn and chucking grenades halfway across the map and that's how people powerlevel. Also the game is probably dead/dying/bleeding heavily now that MW3 is out.
Also for what it's worth gamestop sells dvd-roms of black ops that activate on steam for $50 or at least the gamestop near me does. If you happen to have gift cards or there's a sale or something that might be an option if you can't find a coupon.
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I've heard Battlefield 3 multiplayer is better because all the jocks are on MW2, but I don't have any science to support this.
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Midweek Madness: DNF is $5, the two DLC packs are $2.50 each.
Doctor who cloned me shows promise, imo.
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It's still not cheap enough. I got it for free and I still don't feel like redeeming the key.
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Shatter is the daily deal today. If you haven't had enough Arkanoid/Breakout in your life yet it is a great game.
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What the fuck is so special about full price?
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forge armor looks more unique
loshi bind fucking sprint to your bar ok
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10am is when Steam's "day" starts. So any weekend specials/daily sales end there and the newest batch comes up. (See: Winter/Summer sales)
Steam itself is always a little slow and glitchy when updating this, resulting in incongruities like the games that were on sale during the weekend appearing on sale for 0% off for a few minutes.
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I've got two copies of Dino D-Day left, who wants 'em?
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I don't know what that is, but it sounds like something I want more than anything.
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Are you on my steam friends list?
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I don't know what that is, but it sounds like something I want more than anything.
it's battlefield 1942 with t-rexes instead of tanks
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yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
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So I picked up the Jedi Knight pack. Is the dark forces era worth playing through or should I just go straight to outcast / academy?
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Dark Forces 2 was cool back in the day, but it is suffering from no music in the steam version. You can find it on the steam forums though. It's great just for the silly live action cutscenes. Otherwise I think the game is mostly nostalgia. Hell, the whole series is nostalgia, judging from reading a thread about this very topic elsewhere.
Shit I slept too late and I missed buying this.
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The cutscenes actually were pretty good! I like them.
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Play the hell out of dark forces 2 and Jedi Knight 2 and revel in the dismemberment we just plain don't get in lightsaber games these days.
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http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/nsdlsf/hiddenlevel.htm (http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/nsdlsf/hiddenlevel.htm)
Don't forget the secret level in Mysteries of the Sith
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If you don't already own Plants vs Zombies, it's two whole dollars on Steam right now.
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Dark Forces II was on sale?
Well shit... that's like the first game I can think of in forever I would have thrown a few bucks on. It was fun and I never got to finish it. The other games would have just been kinda gravy.
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$5 by itself not on sale.
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I thought given the earlier posts that the Jedi Knight pack had been on sale or something.
Anyway, I'm cheap. It'll go on sale again, no doubt. This is Steam after all.
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It was the daily deal when those posts were made. $5 for the whole pack.
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Yeah, so I'll just wait for something similar to roll along again.
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Don't know if it counts as a Steam deal seeing as how it's another goddamn indie bundle, but groupees (http://groupees.com/bemine) are doing a pretty sweet bundle and all the games activate on Steam, so.
Games: Xotic (http://store.steampowered.com/app/92600/), Sideway: New York (http://www.playbrains.com/sideway/), Wasteland Angel (http://www.wastelandangel.com/), BEEP (http://www.bigfatalien.com/BEEP/) and The Ball (http://www.theballthegame.com/).
Also, hi.
e: they are being fucking hammered right now, apparently they will beef up their servers for tomorrow, or something.
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Why hello there.
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Every single Serious Sam anything is 66% off right now, including SS3. You can get that for $13.60, and the whole package for a kind of ludicrous $28.90.
EDIT: Just noticed that two other deals are going today. Deus Ex: Human Revolution, one of my favorite games last year, is $10.19, and Mirror's Edge, the only good first person platformer ever, is $4.99.
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Mirror's Edge is actually VERY good. I was upset I didn't pay full price for it because I listened to friends and reviews.
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Thirding Mirror's Edge, though I suspect it's pretty much like Portal in that it's mainly good because it ends right before the concept gets tiresome.
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Civ V for $12.50 Game of the Year edition (regular is also on sale for $7.50), still a few hours left in the sale.
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Orcs Must Die! and all of it's DLC are 75% off today!
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I got two coupons randomly from steam for Assassin's Creed Revelations and I gave one away.
Anyone want the last one? I have no intention of ever playing this game.
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I was about to ask for it but I just noticed I got three 50% coupons for it in my Steam inventory. I guess that means I got two to give away as well! The suckers expire April 1st, so, uh, thanks for making me notice.
Man, how did I even get those.
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I just bought a physical copy of a PC game. I'm using steel wool but the dirt won't come off.
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You're using the steel wool on yourself and not the game disc, right?
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Just so you guys know $5 is absolutely worth it for bulletstorm. That game is so much fun.
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For some reason I can't see that sale, though I can see that everyone is buying it.
EDIT: Oh, I guess it was yesterday's deal. Sorry I missed it.
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This ain't Steam per se, but the original Fallout is free on gog.com (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout/) for a 48 hour period (but I don't know when it started).
I've had it on disk for a while, but hey, convenience.
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Hack Slash Loot is a bad game and not worth even the four dollar sale price. Don't make the same mistake I did. ::(:
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Legend of Grimrock is out and 10% off. I just want to take the moment to say the Grimrock has completely changed the game, re: indie game design. If you make excuses for releasing a shitty, unpolished product now and brush it off with resources, the world can collectively point to Grimrock as an example of how full of shit you are. Everything about this game feels like a professional product and others would be hard pressed to dethrone this from indie GOTY.
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I thought for a second that you were telling me there was a game called Legend of Grimlock.
I think I am disappointed now.
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That was my exact reaction in #finalfight.
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I'm sorry guys
I love you
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In all seriousness, this one of those games that I'm not actually too interested in gameplay-wise but kind of want because fuck yeah anything that's "old-school design/modern execution" instead of, you know, the opposite.
Dunno. Might do it. Roll a die.
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I managed to make it to the fourth level of the dungeon. Right before the end of the third floor, I was extremely low on antivenom, all my characters were low on hp, and I'd basically spent the last hour fighting spiders. Now, enemies don't respawn in this game, so I figure I'm safe and go to rest in a corner after sealing all the doors that lead further into the level. I get woken up with critical damage from a spider, they're fucking everywhere. Apparently at some point, maybe based on the time I'd been in the level, a secret door had slid open earlier in the complex and while my characters were taking a nap spiders had skittered through the maze and hunted me down. I killed the last spider with only my mage left, and only with a sliver of HP. After going back to res my party at the healing crystal, I do a once-over of all the rooms I'd been in and a 4x4 secret room had opened up. There's just an herb in this room but I figure there's gotta be more so I start looking over the walls. I find a switch, which opens up a hidden passage that leads to a secluded area on the next floor. At the end of the hallway is a gargoyle with an open mouth and text on the wall that says 'FEED ME'. There's two adjacent doors, one I can open with a pullchain and one that's sealed. So I go into the pullchain room and it's a maze made up of iron grates, filled with green slimes. They can attack through the grates, but I can't hit them, so I have to carefully plan my movements so I'm not getting pounded by slimes and lure them out one at a time because they hit really, really hard. I finally clear the room, find a huge green gem which I take back to the gargoyle and put in his mouth. Bam, secret treasure room, hidden behind on a secret floor behind a secret wall, hidden in a secret room that opened on a time delay.
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I was interested in Legend of Grimrock, but I don't like that it's not turn-based.
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Hey guys, Kayma here. I have a code for Magicka (http://store.steampowered.com/app/42910/) to share with one of you, gratis. Send me a PM if you want it.
Also, I have a few codes for the Penny Arcade Character Pack (http://store.steampowered.com/app/202524/) for Dungeon Defenders. Likewise, gratis. Likewise, PM if interested.
That's all for now. Keep watching the skies.
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If you think Gunstar Heroes is the greatest game ever made:
1) You are a very smart person
2) http://store.steampowered.com/app/207530/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/207530/)
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Bastion is now available on Mac and is also on sale for $6.
Torchlight II is available for pre-order for $20. If you pre-order, it comes with a free giftable copy of Torchlight I.
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Dust Force is 50% off. If you liked Super Meat Boy, you'll dig it.
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Dust Force is super meat boy, except fun instead of an exercise in breaking your keyboard.
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I forget who said it, but I think the best description is that it's the Sonic to Super Meat Boy's Mario.
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Having played both, though admittedly a lot less of dustforce, I honestly have no fucking idea what you guys are talking about. Dustforce feels clunky and awkward to move through and Meatboy is a smooth-moving fast-paced joy to play.
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The thing with Dustforce is that it has very, very precise controls and physics that are incredibly obtuse to get the hang of when it comes to the interactions between dashes and air dashes and slopes and whatnot. I like it a whole lot but it's kinda daunting to play once you start trying to get good times. Having built in replays so you can just watch anyone's leaderboard run and get a feel for what they did is an awesome learning tool though.
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Having played both, though admittedly a lot less of dustforce, I honestly have no fucking idea what you guys are talking about. Dustforce feels clunky and awkward to move through and Meatboy is a smooth-moving fast-paced joy to play.
Dustforce encourages keeping your momentum. This plays into that Sonic thing Geo mentioned above.
Speedruns are a thing in SMB too, I guess, but to me the game felt more about not getting splattered than Dustforce. (Definitely ran into a SMB-ish level in Dustforce, though. Go east of the server room area, there's some broken pipe that goes up to a red-locked door. That level...fuck. The idea that someone went through it in 45s, without dying, is horrifying.)
Caveat: I didn't finish SMB and has only started on Dustforce, so I may be talking entirely out of my ass.
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Mount & Blade is 75% off and if you can get past the crusty exterior you will probably sink about 80+ hours into the game. I wouldn't buy the whole collection - Mount & Blade is the unfinished indie game that everybody may remember, and Fire and Sword is steeped in lore that non-poles (all of us) would not be able to understand, and gameplay mechanics that are frankly pretty terrible. Warband is 5 bucks and is amazing, it's the original game + new races/units/female lords (which are mechanically somewhat different)/etc and is incredibly deep. I think you could do way worse with your money as far as steam sales go.
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I have like 6 games I picked up on sale while I had money that I only kinda wanted and never activated. I now have no money, and someone has pointed out Gratutious Space Battles to me. Is anyone in possession of a gift copy or money, and willing to trade it for any of the following shit?
AI War complete pack, Red Orchestra 2 GOTY, Far Cry Complete, Beat Hazard Complete, Universe Sandbox, Spacechem DLC
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Dark Spirit Gaben has entered your wallet.
(summer steam sale going on)
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My first thought was "Well shit, I missed the first several hours, but it's not like it matters since they don't have lightning deals or anything like that."
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(summer steam sale going on)
(http://i.imgur.com/5RTFx.jpg)
Still ain't got time to play the games I've ALREADY got (though I've made it to the last boss on Arkham Asylum) and don't have the funds at the moment, but...it's still summer for two more months, right?
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what the hell isn't this thread titled "Steam Steals"
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The real question is why isn't the thread icon "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY?
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i thought custom thread icons were out due to a change in the board infrastructure.
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The reason it doesn't work right now is because the process involves me actually doing something.
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That's the same reason you gave for why your cat died.
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I hear Mafia II is a pretty cool game, guys.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/w6gxt/steam_summer_sale_preview_indie_bundlesmore/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/w6gxt/steam_summer_sale_preview_indie_bundlesmore/)
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/wgisp/hidden_sales_on_steam_only_70_to_80/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/wgisp/hidden_sales_on_steam_only_70_to_80/)
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The BttF games are extremely well done.
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Hard Reset is 75% off for the duration, which is interesting because they just released their free expansion pack. It's an absolute fucking steal at $3.75
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Grimrock just went on sale again. If you haven't bought it yet and enjoyed games like a Bard's Tale, Eye of the Beholder, Wizardry, or the Gold Box games you will definitely get mileage out of Grimrock. additionally, there is a map editor coming out soon, so replayability!
Games like this really need to be a success. The old-school dungeon crawl is a dying genre in the US, and Grimrock is a great example of how good these games can be with modern engines and gameplay elements.
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Krater is a great game that you guys should vote for in this community election thing and then buy. It's like Diablo/Torchlight in a Borderlands setting.
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I thought Borderlands was Diablo/Torchlight in a Borderlands setting.
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I heard that Krater was poorly made and full of bugs on top of the fact that it wasn't good.
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I heard that Krater was poorly made and full of bugs on top of the fact that it wasn't good.
This post is full of lies. It is well-made and not buggy and also quite good.
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How you can vote on Krater when you're already voting for EYE, you guys?
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Because E.Y.E was already 75% off at least once?
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Also because EYE was one of the most poorly executed great ideas I have ever seen in my life?
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Also because EYE was one of the most poorly executed great ideas I have ever seen in my life?
I don't see how this is a bad thing.
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I'd vote for Duke Nukem Forever over voting for EYE.
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LOOKS LIKE YOU ALL LOST TO THE SHITTY TOWER DEFENSE GAME ANYWAY
HONK HONK
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Hey man, I've paid more for worse games than Sanctum. Battlefield 3 comes to mind.
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hahahha how fuckin typical. maybe krater will go on sale later (yes I know it's already on sale I meant more sale)
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Sanctum would have been okay if not for the idiotic fucking decision that you have to maze in 1st person mode even though there's a really good overhead view built into the engine.
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I actually didn't mind that. I think it was the lack of enemy variety that eventually killed it for me.
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I'm sure the answer to this is hiding in the DRM thread, but does the Steam version of Assassin's Creed games have Ubisoft's big dumb stupid DRM?
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I don't have it, but the only Ubisoft game I do have does, so I imagine yes
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I'm sure the answer to this is hiding in the DRM thread, but does the Steam version of Assassin's Creed games have Ubisoft's big dumb stupid DRM?
Used to! But don't anymore.
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I'm sure the answer to this is hiding in the DRM thread, but does the Steam version of Assassin's Creed games have Ubisoft's big dumb stupid DRM?
Used to! But don't anymore.
Do you know if this is for all games or just AC? I've avoided Ubisoft games for a while because the DRM annoys me on principle
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I'm sure the answer to this is hiding in the DRM thread, but does the Steam version of Assassin's Creed games have Ubisoft's big dumb stupid DRM?
Used to! But don't anymore.
Do you know if this is for all games or just AC? I've avoided Ubisoft games for a while because the DRM annoys me on principle
Just the Assassin's Creed series.
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God damn it Steam, do you have to put two monotone indie games together like that? It's just making my blood pressure spike.
If they make a pack out of them I might just :scanners:.
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(http://brentai.brontoforum.us/images/otherwhaaat.png)
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Yeah, but if you buy it you're putting money in the pockets of the people who made Samus go from the strongest female image in gaming to a DOA character, so.
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DoA characters may have boob physics, but at least they're, you know, strong and independent. Other M Samus is so bad I'm surprised she didn't trip while running away from Ridley
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Look, Bal - like every strong woman, Samus was just waiting for a man to save her.
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I've actually rediscovered how pissed I am about Metroid: Other M recently. Pretty upset about the whole thing, yeah.
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Lara Croft seems to think it was cool.
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She also thought braided ponytails were cool so
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I saved for this steam sale for a month. Now that it's over, here's a list of my purchases:
Steam sale haul:
Bethesda Collection (Skyrim, Hunted, Brink, New Vegas)
Crusader Kings II + DLC
Penumbra Collectors Pack
Hard Reset
Civ V + DLC
Hitman: Blood Money
The Darkness II
RAGE
Railworks 3 (Train Simulator 2012)
Red Orchestra 2 - Digital Deluxe
Secret of the Magic Crystals
Galactic Civilizations II
Fallout 3: GOTY
Saints Row The Third + all DLC
Gifts I bought other people:
Space Pirates and Zombies x2
Bioshock
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble
Secret of the Magic Crystals x5
Magical Diary
Deus Ex: Human Revolution + DLC
EYE: Divine Cybermancy
Dungeons of Dreadmor + DLC
Fortune Summoner
Fallout 3 GOTY
Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
Hitman: Blood Money
Star Wars: KOTOR
Legend of Grimrock x3
Warlock: Master of the Arcane
Total War: Shogun 2
Terraria
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Harry Enfield: loadsamoney (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-7v4qnHP8#)
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I got:
Batman: Arkham City (awesome!)
Blades of Time (not tried yet, prequel X-Blades sucks hard but had enough potential to make me curious about the follow-up)
Dark Souls (not on sale, I just happened to notice the preorders were open)
Evochron Mercenary (done tutorial only; I figure I'll be in the mood for what it is sooner or later)
Legend of Grimrock (awesome!)
Ninja Blade (so bad it's good, don't buy it for more than 5 dollars but I'd recommend it for less)
Prince of Persia: The One Without A Subtitle (not tried yet)
Sequence (pretty good)
Yar's Revenge (meh, I like a rail shooter but this one is astonishingly basic, and the use of the license is an ill-thought-out cash grab)
Ys: The Oath in Felghana (awesome!)
Ys Origin (not tried yet)
I think I've managed to restrain myself to stuff I'll actually play this time, so yeah, this was a good one.
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Hard Reset (Great but short)
Metro: 2033 (Great, scary, slightly short)
Driver: San Francisco (haven't played it yet)
Splinter Cell: Conviction (Haven't tried it yet)
Trine 2 (Haven't tried it yet)
Man, I had to hold back my arm like Dr. Strangelove to get that list that short.
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I haven't bought a thing! Hooray for apathy!
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Picked up Walking Dead from Telltale, Trine 1/2, and Darksiders. Was gifted Saints Row 3, Alan Wake, some kind of incredible pony game, and Space Pirates and Zombies which I am still trying to decide what to do with because I refuse to play a game called Space Pirates and Zombies, Shinra.
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niku it is a really good game
they're not even really zombies
some kind of incredible pony game
Secret of the magic crystals was the best deal this entire sale.
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SPAZ is a great game and the only word in the title isn't misleading is "Space"
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I got the DLC that I didn't have for Dungeon Defenders and passed out a lot of gift copies of Binding of Isaac/Wrath of the Lamb. I can't even rightly play Dungeon Defenders because all of my money is tied up and I can't buy a decent computer for a couple of weeks.
Oh well. I only spent like $20 altogether on this sale, give or take. Kind of proud of myself I suppose.
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I got The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb, for a friend who only had the base game.
That's it.
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Disappointingly this is what I consider a steam sale with little waste.
Arkham City
Binding of Isaac + DLC
Dungeons of Dredmor DLC
E.Y.E
Fable III
Hard Reset
Just Cause 2
Mafia II
Psychonauts
Sequence
Force Unleashed Pack
Vampire - Bloodlines
Ys Origin
Beat:
Fable III
Force Unleashed I
Haven't Played:
Hard Reset
Ys Origin
Considering I have at least a handful of games from when Steam first starting doing sales I have basically no intention of ever touching I'm happy with this.
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Ys Origin, Sam & Max Seasons 1-3, Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate, Just Cause 2 + All DLC, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, and The Final Hours of Portal 2. Also BONUS ROUND Green Man Gaming dropped The Last Remnant to $3 w/coupon today, which is hilarious and a little weird after I've spent the whole Steam Sale clamoring for a special discount on this one weird JRPG. Either the Brits have been tracking me specifically or I wasn't the only person doing it.
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UH I SURE HOPE THE REASON NONE OF YOU BOUGHT THE BTTF GAME ON STEAM SALE IS BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAVE COPIES
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UH I SURE HOPE THE REASON NONE OF YOU BOUGHT THE BTTF GAME ON STEAM SALE IS BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAVE COPIES
I have negative money right now, is that an acceptable excuse or was that a game that was worth robbing a gas station for.
Because I definitely could have done that.
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Puzzle Agent 2, L.A. Noire, Torchlight (no idea why, but under $4), Hard Reset, Arkham City Harley DLC (waaay too short).
Definitely the fewest things I've picked up on a Steam sale, but most of the stuff I already had, wasn't interested in, or WASN'T VOTED UP BY THE FUCKING SHITASS COMMUNITY etwp-oinygws ewtgionASNF
]pyg
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I want to be mad about the community gimmick but honestly both that and the Flash Deals were on top of the usual number of daily discounted items, so they were pure bonus. It did feel like a flick in the head when Last Remnant was put up against the entire Splinter Cell series though.
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UH I SURE HOPE THE REASON NONE OF YOU BOUGHT THE BTTF GAME ON STEAM SALE IS BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAVE COPIES
I sure do. I need to finish them though, I've only played the first two.
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Adventures of Shuggy
Analogue: A Hate Story
Costume Quest
Fortune Summoners
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Mr. Robot
Offspring Fling!
Penumbra: Black Plague - Gold Edition
Quantum Conundrum
Rag Doll Kung Fu
Sideway
Solar 2
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
Tobe's Vertical Adventure
Vessel
Wizorb
Zero Gear - Four Pack
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Quantum Conundrum is pretty much what happens when you give Portal's designer a hundred thousand dollars to change teams but forget to hire off the writers as well.
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Quantum Conundrum is pretty much what happens when you give Portal's designer a hundred thousand dollars to change teams but forget to hire off the writers as well.
Not to mention the playtesters. Some of those puzzles reach such a level of finickiness that they'd probably have been rejected from Portal, or at least retooled.
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I only had issues with stacks of more than 5 blocks, but I've heard it's dependent on how good your processor is.
Regarding Fortune Summoners, would someone please tell Carpe Fulgur LizSoft that quests where you have to go back to the same place three times, each time after triggering a single event in the entire vast world, are not good game design?
Tiny & Big is pretty good. It could have more design space (I kept wanting to use my rope to tow myself up or pull things around corners) but is very polished and holds together well. I had more fun sending rocks rocketing around than throwing fluffy safes, at least.
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Regarding Fortune Summoners, would someone please tell Carpe Fulgur that quests where you have to go back to the same place three times, each time after triggering a single event in the entire vast world, are not good game design?
Carpe Fulgur couldn't do much about it; apparently the licensing agreement is so strict they couldn't get the full voice acting from the latest incarnation of the original, much less start changing the gameplay. In this case you'd want to have a word with LizSoft.
That said I enjoyed the fighting in FS so much that I didn't mind the backtracking at all, though clearly mileage will vary.
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Doh, just realized 1. Carpe Fulgur is the localizer not the developer and 2. FS is not by the same company that made Recettear after all. HOW MANY JAPANESE COMPANIES COULD BE MAKING RPGS WITH IMPROBABLY AGED MOE PROTAGONISTS SURELY NOT MORE THAN ONE ZARA YOU TARD.
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The problem with buying these massive collections is that you'll feel compelled to buy any missing pieces of the collection once they come down whether you actually have any interest in them or not.
Brink and Rage can go fuck themselves though.
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The dumbest thing is that Dishonored has a secret bonus of making the quakecon pack cheaper, but really who gives a fuck about that? Give me a discount on the preorder.
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You can't keep me from calling that game "Disbonered". Just try.
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For some odd reason, Steam gave me a 75% off Portal 2 coupon, and I already own Portal 2. If anyone wants to trade something for it or just take it, I'll be online for a while tonight, so just send me (http://steamcommunity.com/id/doolenmeyer/) a message or a friend request or whatever (trading and giving items appears to be done through Steam messages, and I think messages can only be sent to friends).
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Everyone that owned Portal 2 got one; the co-op map creation tool went live.
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Speaking of steam deals, I now mysteriously own all of the Fallout New Vegas DLC without ever purchasing any of it. I am not going to second guess you Steam if you want me to have it then I will take it.
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Did you consider the DLC at any of the Steam Sales? Those things have a way of making you drunk.
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If you bought Fallout: NV ultimate edition this last steam sale (it was 9.99) you got all the DLC with it.
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No, I didn't buy anything that would have given me the DLC. I just magically own them now.
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who wants to chip in for a worms revolution 4-pack
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I'm down.
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http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/79932/green-man-gaming-borderlands-2-season-pass-preorder-pc-digital-download (http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/79932/green-man-gaming-borderlands-2-season-pass-preorder-pc-digital-download)
$22.50 for the first four DLC, as soon as they become available. Not sure if want really, but there it is.
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I guess DLC packs selling before the game actually releases was the next logical step.
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They are really following Saints Row 3's example. At least with this you will probably get more than 2 hours entertainment.
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Can I interest anyone in some roses? Maybe some wars there-of or four packs? (If somehow no one else does I have the M&B pack discount)
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GoG.com is offering a free copy of Realms of Arkania 1 and 2 if you fill in this survey (http://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_annual_survey_get_a_game_for_free).
The deal expires tomorrow, so hurry.
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They are really following Saints Row 3's example. At least with this you will probably get more than 2 hours entertainment.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has a similar deal but for a while their marketing had fucked it up. They said when the game was being advertised that it would have a "subscription" component, which made a lot of people say "what the fuck are you talking about Activision" but ultimately the subscription was just a Season Pass + some social network thing that nobody on the planet gives a single fuck about.
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The subscription is buying their new game every year.
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Binding of Isaac + expansion for $1.98 on Steam if you don't have it already. Expansion alone is 74 cents.
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Someone figured out a thing that has the chance of fixing all of your problems. A lot of people are reporting that this makes steam actually load pages in a reasonable amount of time. (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=32993802&postcount=5) I tried it and it worked for me. Some people are also saying that it is improving some other things on the internet as well, like hd streaming from youtube. Does anyone know what that setting does?
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If you haven't already gotten Analogue: A Hate Story, it's $2.50 now and you should.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/209370/?snr=1_614_615_autumn2012indie_sts (http://store.steampowered.com/app/209370/?snr=1_614_615_autumn2012indie_sts)
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NO (http://www.corporate-sellout.com/index.php/2012/11/18/to-do/)
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What a cute and short list.
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http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/nexoros (http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/nexoros)
$2549.16
I don't think I need any more video games for a while...
*buys TF2 keys/tickets*
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I'm envious of anybody who can get more than 4 items into their lit before realizing that if they continue, they ain't playing any games this whole weekend.
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I can honestly say the only game I've purchased and haven't played is Mount & Blade. I've received a couple more games as gifts or for free (Portal, Humble Indie Bundle #1, Evil Genius), but I never actually intended to play them (though I might at some point if bored and curious).
I've even stopped buying MTG cards unless I pretty damned certain I'm going to use in a deck at some point (though that's still a pretty fair amount of cards).
Just don't ask me how many unpainted minis I have that I'm not planning to use (well, even that's not THAT bad... it's maybe around 40+, and I'll probably wind up selling some at some point).
So it works out that I don't have too much "idle money" in any of my hobbies. Of course, collectively, it's another story...
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What a cute and short list.
AND I INTEND TO KEEP IT THAT WAY
(Actually I decided mostly to cut it off at the previous console generation, and omit games I don't intend to finish like Super Paper Mario and Twilight Princess. And games like Scott Pilgrim that I'm only going to play when I have company anyway.
But crap, still forgot Castlevania.)
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But crap, still forgot Castlevania.)
Dr. Dre vs. Castlevania - Forgot About Dracula (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxcL6lDA4sA#)
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So apparently Steam's got a new frontend called Big Picture (http://store.steampowered.com/sale/big_picture_release?snr=1_4_4__118), designed for TV's. I've already got XBMC for that but it sure looks nice, and a lot less fiddly than XBMC's ROM Collection Browser plugin.
AT ANY RATE, there's a sale on "controller-friendly games". Sonic Generations is marked down yet again, and so is the Casino Night DLC, which is currently going for 39 cents.
Okay, fine, for 39 cents I will buy some DLC.
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dude, it's not the level, it's just a pinball minigame. don't do it.
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It still amuses me to no end that Monkey Island Special Edition is in that mix. Yes, all that means is that it has full controller support even through installation, but considering how many games that were actually made for controllers don't it implies a weird level of technical dedication.
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dude, it's not the level, it's just a pinball minigame. don't do it.
Yes but it costs less than a round of ACTUAL pinball.
Anyway Defenestration liked it (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=264.msg217639#msg217639).
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Amazon will pay you to buy Far Cry 2. (http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/85206/amazon.com-far-cry-2-fortunes-edition-pc-digital-download-5-future-credit-for-a-pc-digital-download-game) Apparently actually installing it will fill your toilet full of candiru or something though, so it's probably overpriced.
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gog.com giving away Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition for free. Nice if you need a quick reminder what all the fuss was ever about (hint: not strippers).
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I never did find the last secret in the first level.
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Scribblenauts $7.50 on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Warner-Bros-Digital-Distribution-Scribblenauts/dp/B00A4MWX04/)
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I missed Half Minute Hero the first couple times it came around, but picked it up for $3.39 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/214830/) just now. What a genius little thing!
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Torchlight 2 is a lot of fun for ten bucks. It feels like Diablo without a lot of the stat / enhancement clutter.
It sticks with the DII style of skill gains but feels like there's more than one or two correct answers for each class.
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Half the fun in that game comes from making builds that by all means should never work in a million years but actually kind of do. In fact, for one of the classes (outlander), doing the obvious basic "default" thing might be the single worst option.
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Half the fun in that game comes from making builds that by all means should never work in a million years but actually kind of do.
This is the most appealing thing anyone has said about any game I have heard in a long time.
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Half the fun in that game comes from making builds that by all means should never work in a million years but actually kind of do.
This is the most appealing thing anyone has said about any game I have heard in a long time.
it is also a lie
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:wat:
Considering the stuff I've soloed veteran with, I'm left to wonder what kind of wackity ass build wouldn't be able to beat the game, given proper execution. Unless you're purposefully gimping yourself by investing a ton in strength but using skills that don't base off weapon damage or something ridiculous like that.
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Does anyone have some spare copies of Magicka? I'm looking two or three copies for friends. I've got Deus Ex: Human Resources and a Dota 2 to trade.
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Looks like Ys I+II Chronicles is coming to Steam. If it's "Chronicles" then it probably has that ridiculous "everything on heavy guitar" soundtrack, but it's still an option if you want to play Ys proper and refuse to get the VC version like I've suggested.
EDIT:
* Soundtrack selectable from among the original 80s FM-synth, an early 2000s MIDI-style remix or a modern studio performance by Falcom’s in-house rock band.
* Character art selectable from 90s-style portraits or more modern anime designs.
Shut the fuck up and take my money.
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EDIT:
* Soundtrack selectable from among the original 80s FM-synth, an early 2000s MIDI-style remix or a modern studio performance by Falcom’s in-house rock band.
Niiiice. Xseed's PSP version has this feature, and I used it often, because all three versions of each track were differently great.
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Ten bucks says Zalem's "retro" portrait will just be her modern portrait with bigger hair.
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Ys had alway been one of those series I didn't pay any attention to, until I got Origins and Oath in Felghana during a Steam sale. Now this just makes me hope more remakes will be coming to PC in chronological order. I don't dig the games' tendency to be all, one level's worth of grinding is the difference between having a reasonable chance at killing a boss and "everything you do does 1 damage and the boss can two-shot you lol", but overall it is still good times.
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Man oh man you're going to love the start of this game then.
Also I found out that "90s style character portraits" just means the ones they've been using since Eternal. The new Chronicles ones look about the same except everyone now has special eyes. Including Zalem.
...mmmaybe I'll just wait until it's on sale, heh.
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everyone now has special eyes.
(http://brentai.brontoforum.us/images/SPECIALEYES.gif)
FAKEEDIT: Oh that's actually the file name. :joke:
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YS UPDATE: The achievement for measuring Tarf is EXACTLY what I had hoped for.
Also, more people have gotten that achievement than the one for finishing Time Attack.
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Weekend deals:
Steam proper has
Mark of the Ninja for $5 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/214560/) which I did and so should you.
War of the Roses for $5 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/230940/) and fuck that game and everyone who made it. Pretty sure it's still a broken mess but even if not just save the money for Chivalry if you're interested.
Cave Story for $2.50 for today (http://store.steampowered.com/app/200900/) but you probably already have it if you would want it.
Green Man has:
Last Remnant for $3.75 (http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/rpgs/last-remnant/) and I honestly can't tell if even that is worth it. Is any aspect of that game actually fun? It seems like one big grind from everything I've read and watched.
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Aliens vs Predator was a legit good game, and is only $3.74 here. (http://www.getgamesgo.com/product/aliens-vs-predator) And it activates on Steam, I think.
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Last Remnant has a pretty cool combat system, but yeah if you're not a big fan of FFXII style hunts then you should probably stay away.
Me, I'm eying Capsized, but it'd be nice if I could get a half hour in my day to try the demo. 12-hour days whoo.
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Natural Selection 2 is 50% off until the third. I don't know why it isn't on the front page, but here it is (http://store.steampowered.com/app/4920/)
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(http://i.imgur.com/rUvSn7L.jpg)
OMG
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:glee:
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Tropico 4 is on sale. $10 gets you the game + All DLC
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Bwahahaha that's magnificient
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Not as glorious, but Resident Evil 5 for $4 (http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/resident-evil-5/?gmgr=seqanamo). Today's voucher is GMG20-P4DLK-FKYRS. On the off-chance that somebody hasn't used GMG before, I changed that to a referral link.
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If anyone wants to play co-op I'll buy it.
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Still need to beat RE4, but that can be arranged.
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Amazon will give you a discount on video games as long as you buy some soap. (http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/92242/amazon-dead-space-3-xbox-360-ps3-or-pc-select-dove-men-care-products)
Hint.
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Dead Island GOTY $5 through Amazon, activates on Steam. (http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Island-Game-Edition-Online/dp/B008NAYASM/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1365142221&sr=8-5&keywords=dead+island)
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Garbage of the Year?
It takes some serious hubris to brand that game with a GOTY label.
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At some point GOTY just started meaning "with all the expansions". I assume marketing is okay with this because they like to imply that the game won an award somewhere in something besides one of their nephews' e-zines.
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Ha, looks like someone (http://www.gamecritics.com/brad-gallaway/game-of-the-year-2011) called it GOTY, at least (http://www.1up.com/news/dead-island-game-of-the-year-edition).
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I heard the game was messed up on launch, but since it's a PC game, I'm curious if they ever got that shit sorted out. Any good these days?
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I liked it and didn't have any problems with it.
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All Star Wars games are 66% off this weekend, whether purchased individually or as a package.
Good timing for me, given that I'm almost done with KOTOR and hadn't bought KOTOR II yet.
EDIT: The offer's only on for another hour or so, so FYI.
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All Star Wars games are 66% off this weekend
jeez, who issued that order
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Mass Effect 3 free after rebate (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832130281&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL050713&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL050713-_-EMC-050713-Index-_-PCGames-_-32130281-L025D)
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Still requires an Origin account despite being a physical copy, but that seems to be the only DRM (and is probably enough for a lot of people).
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For the record: Origin is shitty for various reasons, but it will not break anything.
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My definition of "break" includes introducing security vulnerabilities (http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/bug-on-eas-origin-game-platform-allows-attackers-to-hijack-player-pcs/) to my machine when we're talking about software I already don't like.
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My definition of "break" includes introducing security vulnerabilities (http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/bug-on-eas-origin-game-platform-allows-attackers-to-hijack-player-pcs/) to my machine when we're talking about software I already don't like.
If we are going to bring up issues that were already fixed, oh hey guys Steam opens my computer up to hackers! (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232427/The_Steam_URL_protocol_can_be_abused_to_exploit_vulnerabilities_in_games_researchers_say) This is also where I would put the equivalent link for Uplay as well, but no one cares about it.
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That the vulnerability is essentially the same as a steam vulnerability is mentioned in the Ars Technica article. Though I'd be interested in reading about how EA fixed the problem if I didn't have to google it myself.
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Seeing as I can't find anything that confirms that either ever fixed the vulnerability, who knows. Probably patched in some blacklists so that buttfuck.tk can't launch steam/origin.
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Wait, so System Shock 2 is on Steam now too? Does it have the same compatibility enhancements as GOG or what? I've had pretty limited success with older games on Steam.
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It should run just fine. The only thing different is that the GoG version came with SS2Tool pre-installed, and I think due to a problem stopped including it a few days after launch.
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Anybody who cares probably already knows, but On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Part 3 is now free.
Google it, I'm not gonna wrestle my phone to link something that should be easy to find.
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http://penny-arcade.com/static/rainslick-giveaway (http://penny-arcade.com/static/rainslick-giveaway)
Lazy.
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Don't say that!
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LAZY
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NO U
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WII U.
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Sweet.
Now does anybody know who I talk to about recovering my lost license key for Episode 1? I got it from Play Greenhouse or whatever the PA store thing they had was that just kinda went away.
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Huh. I was curious myself so I looked around. The game downloads at playgreenhouse.com (http://www.playgreenhouse.com/) are still up, but if I hadn't kept my e-mail receipts I'd have no clue where to find my codes either. (I guess it's not worth asking but, for the form, I assume you didn't keep those?) The twitter link on that page leads to mention of a support@playgreenhouse.com specifically for lost codes, but that was almost three years ago. If that doesn't work, I'd suggest sending a tweet to @pa_megacorp (https://twitter.com/PA_Megacorp); I can't seem to find you on there though, so if you don't wanna mess with that I can send one for you if you like.
Or you could try merch@penny-arcade.com yourself, though I assume that's one busy-ass inbox.
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Speaking of hilarious and maddening, is "8.75 - GameInformer" really the best thing Resident Evil: Revelations can say about itself? There's got to be a point where no advertising is actually the best advertising.
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It actually isn't bad. Its claim to fame was that it played well and looked really good on the 3DS. I have no clue how that translates to consoles though.
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1000000000000000000000000 is a fun mobile game if you can get past the fact that the art assets aren't even trying any more. I'd normally skip it just for that but it's free on Amazon Appstore today, so enjoy.
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So, Defiance (http://store.steampowered.com/app/224600/) is on a weekend sale. $40 is a bit past my "Sure, I'll give it a shot" threshold, but the 4-pack for $125, at $31 a head, pretty much nails it. I have one other person who might be interested, are there perchance two folks here interested in going in on that?
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Amazon summer sale's started. (http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/wiki/stores/amazon/summersale)
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Steam summer sale's started. (http://store.steampowered.com/)
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Hahaha, site's crashed.
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http://gaben.tv/ (http://gaben.tv/)
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GIVE
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ME
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ALL
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CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARDS
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FYI, if you're going to buy Tomb Raider, it's cheaper on Amazon than on Steam (you'll get a valid Steam Key for the game with the Amazon purchase). Plus you can put in a gift code, GOONCAVE, for a further 15% off the Amazon price. The deal is US-only, but if you can get a US resident to buy it for you, they can just send you the Steam key (which is what I did).
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CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARDS
Can you explain the appeal of this?
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It's the same appeal as hats.
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People you're playing with see your hats. Who sees your cards?
(I don't get hats either, frankly.)
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People don't see your cards, but they see the badges you get from cards.
You can also get backgrounds and emotes that can be used in Steam (Posts on steam message boards or in steamchat)
http://steamcommunity.com/id/L3DivineBuster/ (http://steamcommunity.com/id/L3DivineBuster/) Example of badges and a background
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Or you could have been selling the cards for like 20 cents per. I haven't spent a real dollar on steam for the past month.
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If you get a bunch of cards from the same set you can trade them in for badges, of which we don't need no stinkin'.
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You have to get a complete set from a game to make a badge for that game, and you can never get a full set for a game just from playing it.
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Or you could have been selling the cards for like 20 cents per. I haven't spent a real dollar on steam for the past month.
You can get 20 cents per card? Where can you do that?
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Yeah, the sale has been crashing the prices of any games you'd already own with cards. The lowest I've seen has been 8 cents per card, and it can only go more downhill from there.
I expect any game worth playing will have it's cards go for a nickel at most when we're done. Shit like Zack Zero and The Dark will remain strong, because those games are so awful they hoped cards would make people buy the game (It did not work)
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I'll just keep giving them to lyrai, anyway, she'll get more out of them than I would.
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Steam has been down so much this week, the thumbnail in my Chrome new tab page just says, "Sorry!" instead of "Steam".
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store.sorrypowered.com
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My stupid loves-to-play-with-dolls heart is eyeing Sims 3 content, but other persons in the family have portions of the series via Origin, and Steam and Origin don't play nice.
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Airland Battle is on sale, It's the best RTS game i've played for a loooong time, the first game in the series was a little bit of a letdown, but this one addressed pretty much all of the problems it had and made it so much better.
I bought it for a friend just then, and i'll probably buy copies for some more people before the sale's over.
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At five dollars it just feels wrong to not finally pay for the hundred of hours I've played New Vegas.
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Chivalry is 75% off for four more hours.
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Well now that that's over, who's in for a 4-pack of Rise of the Triad?
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In.
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Also, fuck, the actual thing I planned to buy during hte Steam Sale and I forgot and now it's back up to $30
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Actual thing?
Also, I looked into it and my machine is still running DDR2 RAM.
Yikes.
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There was only one real package I was hoping would go on flash sale during the Steam Sale. As per the usual rules of the sale, you wait until the last day. Unfortunately, the last day of the steam sale coincided with a shitty day of my own, and I completely forgot to buy it.
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If it was the recettear discount, I was saddened that it didn't come up.
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CK2 The Old Gods DLC 75% off! (http://store.steampowered.com/app/210908/)
(along with the rest of the CK2 stuff)
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Whoa hey, thanks for the heads-up, I was waiting for that.
Hmm... Do I...? Gah. I'm mildly annoyed that I'm only missing one piece of DLC now but I'm still not convinced to pay 1.24$ for Sunset Invasion.
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Just check your couch, you'll probably find more than that.
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It's not even a question of price. My dudes have enough history-based hardship on their hands already, they don't need need fictional Aztecs to come wreck their shit. (Not that they wouldn't return the favor several centuries later of course...)
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Well now that that's over, who's in for a 4-pack of Rise of the Triad?
In.
Anybody else? Bueller?
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Hmmm OK. do you take steam cards just kidding
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Duuuuuuuh sure?
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Fuggit, I went ahead and grabbed the thing. Anyone who decides they want a copy can Paypal $11.25 right into my pants.
Meanwhile, the Deep Silver bundle is probably going to make me feel even sillier for buying Dead Island.
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BRENTAI HOW DO I PAYPAL YOUR PANTS
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BRENTAISPANTS@GMAIL.COM ISN'T WORKING
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Capcom Weekend (http://store.steampowered.com/sale/Capcom30Year?snr=1_4_4__118).
Should I just go ahead and spend the $2.50 on Bionic Commando?
What about $15 on Dead Rising 2? (Keeping in mind that I still haven't finished the first one. Not that I'm worried about missing important story elements or anything, just is the second one different enough to justify playing it when I've still got the first one to look forward to?)
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Should I just go ahead and spend the $2.50 on Bionic Commando?
Oh yeah, definitely. Do it. It's incredible. Heck, you mentioning it just now makes me want to replay it. It might be my Deus Ex.
EDIT: Oh wait, I'm talking about Rearmed, I didn't notice the newer one is also 2.50. I only saw that one LP'd and it looked average at best.
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No, that's good! I couldn't remember which one was the good one and the page inexplicably lists them both under the same release date. (I guess that's Steam release date, not PC release date?)
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They're both good, honestly. Rearmed is a great enhanced remake, and Bionic Commando is a lot of fun. Blow the $5, get both.
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(I guess that's Steam release date, not PC release date?)
Yup. The games took a while to make it on Steam for some reason. I got Rearmed near release and had to resort to gamersgate.com at the time.
I said back then that as a remake, it deserved possibly the highest praise, in that it made the original obsolete. I still believe it.
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"Dark Void Zero", a game which came out 2 years ago, is an NES-style retro thing, and is single-player, requires online activation seperate from steam and has securom
One step forward, two steps Capcom
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Arkham Asylum GOTY $5, Arkham City GOTY $7.50. GFWL (http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=200260) and SecuROM (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=86410828) have been removed.
If you've already got the vanilla version of the games, you automatically get upgraded to GOTY...and lose all your save data. Yay?
This puts the Steam versions of the games at 1/3 and 1/2 of what you'd pay for them on Xbox and PS3 right now. So I'm pretty sure I've just been rewarded for dragging my feet on deciding whether and when to replace my Xbox 360 copy.
So if you haven't played either of these for whatever reason, now's the time. They really are pretty excellent.
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Bioshock Infinite for $15, code works on Steam. (http://www.amazon.com/2K-Games-Bioshock-Triple-Download/dp/B00DOD0TZG/ref=lp_409566_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1385316913&sr=1-1)
Also comes bundled with a couple crap games if you want.
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Also, Walking Dead Complete (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ELJRCDO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00ELJRCDO&linkCode=as2&tag=corporatesell-20) for $7.50 or, if you've already got all of Season 1, just 400 Days (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DRKJ7VI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00DRKJ7VI&linkCode=as2&tag=corporatesell-20) for $1.25.
Also also, Skyrim (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CJ7IUGS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00CJ7IUGS&linkCode=as2&tag=corporatesell-20) for Jesus-Christ-Skyrim-is-still-$30-on-deep-discount.
(All links are affiliate links.)
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Skyrim for $30: That would be because that's the GOTY Edition that came out a few months ago that comes with all the DLC.
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Naked Skyrim has gotten as low as $7.50 on PC I think, but only after Horse Armor Skyrim came out.
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Skyrim for $30: That would be because that's the GOTY Edition that came out a few months ago that comes with all the DLC.
Yes, and Arkham City, a game which came out later, has a GOTY edition that sells for $14.50 when it's NOT on sale.
And if it were a matter of the DLC being more recent, more expansive, relevant in any way, then vanilla Skyrim would not itself currently cost $30.
My point is that Skyrim's price has defied gravity to an almost Nintendoian extent.
Naked Skyrim has gotten as low as $7.50 on PC I think, but only after Horse Armor Skyrim came out.
I don't doubt it's been $7.50 some places at some times, but $30 is the current price on Amazon.
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We don't really have a general deals topic so: PS3 owners can get three free early PS1 games (Destruction Derby, Twisted Metal, and Warhawk - as far as Sony properties go, that's as "classic" as you get short of Jumping Flash) if they can put up with Playstation Home long enough to do the requisite 10-minute pixel hunt quest. It's fairly worth it just for Warhawk imo.
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Target will have the Zelda 3DS XL on BF for $150. (http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-confirms-legend-of-zelda-black-friday-3ds-xl-bundle-for-150/1100-6416417/) I'm lucky enough to be stuck on a mountain in Prescott Valley on that day, so I won't at all be tempted to very definitely have my arm broken trying to get whatever tiny stock of this they have, but good luck to the rest of you.
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@asktarget on twitter keeps going back and forth on whether the zelda 3ds is on sale or not.
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It Begins! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqlTUe_Unc#ws)
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BLESSED BE ARE THE CHILDREN OF HIS FLOCK!
http://gaben.tv/ (http://gaben.tv/)
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Attack on Gaben (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGxA48HQ1g#ws)
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Amazon's got Skyrim Legendary (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CJ7IUIQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00CJ7IUIQ&linkCode=as2&tag=corporatesell-20) down to $25 now -- but you're probably better off going with the entire Elder Scrolls Anthology (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E9I1FPI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00E9I1FPI&linkCode=as2&tag=corporatesell-20) for $5 more.
(Does Legendary have anything in it that the Anthology doesn't? I don't see any listed; Anthology says it's got Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn.)
(Both links are affiliate links.)
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Skyrim legendary was down to $20 on steam yesterday and as of writing still has some 8 hours on sale.
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And now the Anthology is down to $25 on Amazon.
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Bioshock Infinite is $20 on Steam, or $10 on Gamersgate (http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-BIOSI/bioshock-infinite?aff=ggnews) which can then be redeemed on Steam.
It's also $10 on Steam now so whatevs.
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...but you can still get the entire trilogy on Amazon for $15.
With Steam codes.
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I had not considered whether I wanted to pay an additional $5 for games I already own.
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Whoops, obviously that's my fault for not consulting the list I have right here of Every Game Constantine Owns and not yours for failing to provide context.
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Your failure to consult the List has been noted, and appropriate actions will be required in the future.
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Welp, once again during a Steam sale I've bought two entire series.
... from Amazon, for consoles.
Hm.
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/235460/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/235460/)
The time has come to an end
Yeah! This is what nature planned
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance music - Rules of Nature with Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTQIogLBFBs#ws)
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For those of you who got in on the pinball Humble weekly sale, the Balance of the Force pack is on sale on Steam for $2.49 now.
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If you're preordering Metal Gear Rising: http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/110200/gamefly---metal-gear-rising-revengeance-pre-order-pc-digital-download (http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/110200/gamefly---metal-gear-rising-revengeance-pre-order-pc-digital-download)
Alternately, buy on Amazon and get $5 off one of the mysterious Editor's Choice 2013 games.
IT ACTIVATES ON STEAM IT STILL GOES IN THIS THREAD AGH
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Wolf Among Us (http://store.steampowered.com/app/250320/) 33% off. (That's all of season 1, including the 4 episodes that haven't been released yet.)
I haven't been able to get my wife interested in a video game since Kirby's Epic Yarn. I think this'll be the one, since (1) she's a Fables fan and (2) it doesn't require any particular skill with a controller.
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"Left 4 Dead 2 - FREE Today Only!"
So that's a thing.
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So that's what's hammering their servers so bad that I can't get their store to sell me anything.
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Say, maybe we'll be able to (soon) get some games in, for the first time in months.
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Free L4D2 killed the server.
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RPG Maker VX Ace is half off (35 dollars) until January 2nd. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/220700/)
In case you're ever still entertaining the thought of making your own game.
Like I am.
I bought it.
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(http://i.imgur.com/IK3KOuS.png)
best deal ever
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Still not worth it
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Tiny Tina's Campaign of Carnage: Also starring Torque says otherwise
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My Siren's name is Brick and she is the prettiest Siren
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They had to undercut Playstation Plus somehow.
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Skulls of the Shogun (http://store.steampowered.com/app/228960/) is 75% off($3.74). You should go buy it because it's a great little strategy game and the people who made it kinda got screwed by Microsoft.
EDIT: a 4-pack is $11.74 if anyone is interested in splitting one.