Game Deals Thread
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It probably hasn't aged well (and God knows if it's even possible to play-- was a Mac Classic game), but it was the BEST!!!
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Another great overlooked gem on GoG sale:
##Space Empires IV Deluxe
(official site)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMkaNgSa9Q4
Not 3. Not 5. Version 4, that's the best one.
This is the only 4X space empire style game that I ever liked enough to play seriously. I always find them too fiddly in terms of interface, or have no idea what I'm supposed to do and am too lazy to RTFM or experiment. But this one, just fit like a glove. I was into it within an hour. Look at the reviews, it seems I'm not the only one.
It's just one of those games that looks unimpressive on the surface, but has that little kernel of magic that distinguishes it from the herd.
A few pro tips:
- don't forget to pack up settlers into your colony ships (you don't want to finally reach a new planet, only to find the colony ship empty)
- focus on researching new planet types before anything else (see if you can trade this tech from the aliens you encounter)
- focus on long range missiles and point defenses early on
Also, create a cluster-styled galaxy map, then rush expansion into the central wheel of the cluster and set up defenses on all incoming wormholes. Then laugh maniacally when all your enemies are isolated into their own little arms and slowly wither away without trade and alliances they might have hoped for. Mwhahahahah!
Oh it's like 2 bucks, so it's a no brainer purchase.
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I also bought this:
##APOTHEON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Varg2g-kr4U
Some kind of Greek mythology inspired metroidvania. I'm into that shit, and it looks cool enough.
Still haven't tried it, though.$5.99 (60% off)
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Oh it's like 2 bucks, so it's a no brainer purchase.
Sweet, I never played any but the demo of SE IV. I admit to liking SE3 a bit better, but maybe because it was a bit simpler. I hadn't thought of that game in probably 10 years, except coincidentally I looked it up like a week ago. Gotta go pick this up.
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Looks like Stars! with a worse interface.
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Looks like Stars! with a worse interface.
Never got into stars. Interface is crappy looking, but I somehow got used to it.
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MANNNNN my college buddies and I SURVIVED on Stars! and ramen for like weeks at a time.
You had to play humans because Stars! had the WORST AI EVER.
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Knowing that most people who don't have the old Fallout games would like to have all of them, and that by now they're ancient, you'd think they would price the collection lower.
Or at least, y'know, lower than all three games combined.
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People seem to be under this impression that Valve is not utterly shitty at running an online store. I'm not sure why...
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Or at least, y'know, lower than all three games combined.
But the bundle includes tactics, so even if it was cheaper than the 3 put together you could still save buying individually.
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Could be worse.
Could be a PC port of Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. shudder
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People seem to be under this impression that Valve is not utterly shitty at running an online store.
They are? I've always thought that the consensus is "it sucks, but the deals are decent occasionally".
buying individually.
Eh, Tactics wasn't that bad. It ain't no F2, and the plot... kinda was there, but as a game it was pretty playable.
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Still no daily deal on Cities Skylines. Oh well.
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It's selling like hotcakes even with the tiny discount it had earlier in the week. I don't think you'll see a big sale on Cities Skylines until holidays at the soonest.
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metroidvania
The problem I have with metroidvania, is that I play them, then immediately want to quit and play super metroid.
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I just got that on sale.
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They had one on like day 2. Were you not paying attention?
The problem is it was only a smidgen off its base price... as I recall its price was $20.19 or something like that.
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They had one on like day 2. Were you not paying attention?
Obviously not, or else I might have got it then.
The price history thing here shows that it was discounted by 33% between the 13th and 15th, during which time I was mostly offline, hanging out with extended family in the US.
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Looks like Stars! with a worse interface.
O_o. You played Stars! back in the day, eh? Too bad the sequel dropped off the face of the earth.
Edit: yes, I see below you did.
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$20.19
Would think about it, but I got ETS2, then I got ETS2 again because Valve's outright hostile model of pricing DLCs meant it's cheaper to buy a bundle.
Seriously, I got X-COM:EU for free, while its current market value is apparently negative, because I haven't seen a single fucking deal where Enemy Within would be priced even a cent lower than the complete edition.
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Cities: Skylines is on sale again during the Encore sale.
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I think I'm gonna dive on it. Thanks for the heads up.
Games I got in summer sale:
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Talos Principle
Shantae: Risky's Revenge
Zigfrak
Sunless Sea - dug the 3 hours I played, except endless travel time
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Sakura Spirit WHICH I ONLY BOUGHT BECAUSE RANTIS WANTS TO MAKE A VIDEO MAKING FUN OF IT AND I TOLD HIM HE'S A SHITHEAD
Please, Don't Touch Anything - surprisingly fun, between Rantis and I we've found about half the endings
Montague's Mount
Magicite - actually gifted but close enough
How To Survive
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round - already beat story mode, yay me
Creeper World 3 - Dug it for the hour and a half I played and considering it's a (spit) tower defense game
Concursion
Cities: Skylines
BattleBlock TheaterMost of those titles I bought after I decided to just buy everything on my wishlist priced $2.50 or less.
I am consumer whore.
Also I gotta free some SSD space, damn.
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Similar problem: Now I have enough money to actually buy all the games I like.
And way too few time to actually play them.
It doesn't help that I like those huge-ass RPGs like Witcher III, Divinity: Original Sin or Pillars Of Eternity.
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Last Federation, 80% off at Steam.
I just bought this from my phone, while stuck at a wedding. Out of sheer boredom.
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Can anyone recommend a site that has the steam games listed but has better filters than the steam site?
I currently use https://steamdb.info/sales/ for deals but it has no filters at all, which makes browsing quite time consuming.
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What's wrong with the machine learning system they have set up on the Steam store?
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I'd like to have more control, to start with a bigger list and then whittle down with criteria of my choosing. I've stumbled across a few games that I wouldn't normally buy using the site above, but as I said, it can be an arduous process.
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I tried building one once but Steam's API is a shit.
After working on it for like 2 weeks, I congratulated the fuck out of SteamDB guys for being able to cope with it and keep-up with the random unannounced changes so well.
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A bunch of great DRM-free deals over at humble bundle store. Up to 80-90% off. I bought 3 indies I didn't have before (or at least didn't have at hb).
A few picks I know are good:
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Super Meat Boy for $2
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Luftrausers for $2
Side-view airplane shooter. Max 3-4 minutes before you die. A lunchbreak game. -
Legend of Grimrock for $3
Fantastic first-person step-based RPG
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Legend of Grimrock for $3Fantastic first-person step-based RPG
Legend of Grimrock goes too far into the teleporter puzzles and kind of ignores the combat for long periods. I dug it when I first started ("Oh boy! It's like Might and Magic III all over again!") but then a few levels in, it was just, "ANOTHER teleporter puzzle? Sheesh!"
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@cartman82 said:
Legend of Grimrock for $3Fantastic first-person step-based RPG
Legend of Grimrock goes too far into the teleporter puzzles and kind of ignores the combat for long periods. I dug it when I first started ("Oh boy! It's like Might and Magic III all over again!") but then a few levels in, it was just, "ANOTHER teleporter puzzle? Sheesh!"
That's not surprising to me... the game appears to be heavily influenced by Eye of the Beholder, which loved its teleporter puzzles.
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That's not surprising to me... the game appears to be heavily influenced by Eye of the Beholder, which loved its teleporter puzzles.
I actually liked the puzzles. I liked they don't hold your hand.
The ones I had most problems with were of the "answer riddle with object" type.
I think I had to look up a few.
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Race the Sunwas free on Steam for 24 hours, but the deal has expired.
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If you haven't played Half-Life 2, it's $2.49 right now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/220/
If you haven't played Portal 2, it's $4.99 right now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/620/
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How much do they cost if you have played them?
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Don't forget Shadow of Mordor and Spec Ops The Line
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ow much do they cost if you have played them?
Apparently it's the same. Although there's an additional discount if you buy a two-pack ($8.74).
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I should buy HL2 for a friend, and force him to play it.
maybe this weekend....
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I should buy HL2 for a friend, and force him to play it.maybe this weekend....
Like with a gun?
Just be prepared to shoot. After that long-ass "interactive" cut-scene where 4 or 5 unlikable characters blather on about teleporters for about 7 minutes, he'll prefer death.
Nah, I like the game. But I have to mention that boring-ass cut-scene because I know my saying that drives Ben L crazy.
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Like with a gun?
it's an option, yes.
After that long-ass "interactive" cut-scene where 4 or 5 unlikable characters blather on about teleporters for about 7 minutes, he'll prefer death.
that should've an option to skip it. or some way to shoot everyone of those characters
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You can use the table-sized teleporter on crap sitting around in the room. Wheeeeee.
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You can use the table-sized teleporter on crap sitting around in the room. Wheeeeee.
They went to the trouble of putting in a nicely-sized bathroom break and this is the thanks they get.
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I always had the impression I should have been taking the game seriously at that point, not just jumping around and crouching behind Alyx's arse while her dad expounds on important stuff that might have made sense if I had played the first one.
In the first one I was so bored by the end of the initial stupidly long train journey that I never bothered actually trying to play it
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Virtue's Last Reward is only $10 for the Vita / PSTV on PSN through the 30th.
If you don't know what Virtue's Last Reward is, you must have somehow missed @blakeyrat or myself talking about it in the past.
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One of the very very very few Japanese visual novel-type games I not only could tolerate, but actually enjoyed playing.
EDIT: except the final puzzle room was totally bullshit, I cheated through half of that. It was the kind of "ok we gave up" puzzles where they aren't hard to figure out what you should do, but it takes like 50 minutes to actually implement the solution.
EDIT EDIT: and if you do play it, have someone tell you how the "game flowchart" (or whatever they call it) works. You don't have to start from the beginning to try each branch. It took me awhile to figure that out.
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EDIT EDIT: and if you do play it, have someone tell you how the "game flowchart" (or whatever they call it) works. You don't have to start from the beginning to try each branch. It took me awhile to figure that out.
I know the physical version mentions in the manual, but it's never mentioned in game.
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or some way to shoot everyone of those characters
I believe what you want is called Half-Life, not Half-Life 2.
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The current humble bundle is quite good...
5 dirt/grid games, theme hospital and oversomething. And quite a bit of dlc