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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #240 on: December 24, 2010, 02:20:44 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #241 on: December 24, 2010, 02:24:26 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #242 on: December 24, 2010, 03:04:37 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #243 on: December 24, 2010, 05:30:48 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #244 on: December 24, 2010, 07:07:36 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #245 on: December 25, 2010, 12:20:33 PM »

Today, I introduced my little brother to the horrors of the steam sale.
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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #246 on: December 26, 2010, 06:22:50 PM »

Darksiders was really fun, and I actually began to enjoy the totally over the top art after a little bit.
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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #247 on: December 26, 2010, 06:28:34 PM »

I liked Darksiders on console, but I need to know for recommendation purposes: Is the PC port actually good?
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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #248 on: December 26, 2010, 07:20:27 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #249 on: December 26, 2010, 09:15:05 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #250 on: December 26, 2010, 09:35:23 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #251 on: December 27, 2010, 02:02:23 AM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #252 on: December 27, 2010, 04:07:56 AM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #253 on: December 27, 2010, 11:18:14 AM »

I can only think of three block puzzles, and they were all far more imaginative than your standard block puzzle.
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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #254 on: December 27, 2010, 04:39:17 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #255 on: December 27, 2010, 04:40:33 PM »

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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #256 on: December 27, 2010, 04:52:45 PM »

The inmates are going to be so pissed.
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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #257 on: December 28, 2010, 06:39:39 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #258 on: December 28, 2010, 10:28:28 PM »

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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Re: Steam Deals
« Reply #259 on: December 30, 2010, 08:14:56 PM »

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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