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2010 Steam Holiday Sale Thread: of GAF collectively handing over wallet to Based Gabe
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Java threatened that the bunny would die if I didn't buy the Overlord pack for $3, so I guess I'll try it even though I wasn't interested in the games. 
I miiiiight get the King Arthur pack (or should I just avoid the DLC?) if people think it's really that good, but I dunno. I'm not much of an RTS person and I'd want to read up on the game a little.
Arma II question: Is it worth it in people's opinions? $10 isn't bad, but I seem to recall it was rough on performance. I'd been waiting on a sale. Would it be better to wait on a cheaper deap for the combined Arma II + Arrowhead sale, or is Arrowhead not worth it?
I miiiiight get the King Arthur pack (or should I just avoid the DLC?) if people think it's really that good, but I dunno. I'm not much of an RTS person and I'd want to read up on the game a little.
Arma II question: Is it worth it in people's opinions? $10 isn't bad, but I seem to recall it was rough on performance. I'd been waiting on a sale. Would it be better to wait on a cheaper deap for the combined Arma II + Arrowhead sale, or is Arrowhead not worth it?
People need to pick up Borderlands. It's just a little UI polish away from being a classic. It still probably is.
I bet it's remembered as one of the best games this gen.
Hell no to BF2. It's full of pro's who can't be bothered to have a noob on their teams. I'm sure it's a great game, but if you're not into it already you've missed the boat.
I bet it's remembered as one of the best games this gen.
John said:
Hell no to BF2. It's full of pro's who can't be bothered to have a noob on their teams. I'm sure it's a great game, but if you're not into it already you've missed the boat.
Reluctant-Hero
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Hmm... I think I'll pass of purchases today. Might as well save my monies for the full priced Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
Well, DMC4 is slightly tempting...
Well, DMC4 is slightly tempting...
TheExecutive
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How is CS:Source's community these days? I am thinking about gifting it to my dad and was wondering if he will get slaughtered by tons of awesome players online :lol
ChoklitReign
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Fallout NV is finally mine. And now I own all the Borderlands DLC without buying the GOTY. My wishlist is shrinking every day thanks to these sales.
Mr. Luchador
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TheExecutive said:
Yes. He'll be slaughtered and they'll tell him all about it too.
TheExecutive
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Perfect! :lolChriswok said:
Anton Sugar
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Ceebs said:
Ooooooooh. Damn
The general impression I get is that General Knoxx is quite good, Mad Moxy's is quite bad, and the rest are in between. I haven't played them myself though.ZZMitch said:
I'm tempted to get Overlord, Arthur, AND Arma II now! I just want to know if Arrowhead is good/important. If it is, I'll probably just hold off on Arma II for now, and maybe get them together some day. I don't have much disk space left so I'm not trying the Arthur demo.
I think I'm gonna get New Vegas. Pretty good chance that I'll finish it before the fall of next year and I don't think it'll drop below 25 (I own FO3) before then.
side note: spent the last 2 hours fighting with display driver issues and had to boot into safe mode around a half dozen times to manually delete a .sys file to get my screen to turn on during boot - this one file would always be corrupted with each reinstall.
good times...
side note: spent the last 2 hours fighting with display driver issues and had to boot into safe mode around a half dozen times to manually delete a .sys file to get my screen to turn on during boot - this one file would always be corrupted with each reinstall.
good times...
Diomedeskun
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Don't want to spend over $10, so trying to decide whether to get overlord and Arthur packs, or just 1 overlord, base arthur, and DMC4.
Baloonatic
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Woohoo, Borderlands GOTY edition!
The_Inquisitor
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Is Saint's Row 2 worth it at that price? Haven't played first.
King Arthur bought even though I hadn't ever really looked into it, fuckers.
Waffling on BF2, I owned it when it first came out but lost the discs over the years. It was fun, but then I have all the newer ones to play too... but wasn't BF2 Karkand, frick and it's $5... fuck my life
Arma
And to people asking about Arma. Yeah it's pretty frickin awesome, personally I love flying the little bird choppers. It's so badass when your team takes one of the town, pops flares in the middle and you skim the rooftops and manage a perfect landing. Your buddies rush from the alleys and hop in, then you zip up and yaw over towards the next objective, or base if they need to replenish.
Some servers lock you from using their vehicles if you're not in their clan which sucks though. And when I played, it was pretty much always on the same map which got kinda stale. There were other ones out there though.
Also the game is very hardcore. You're going to die A LOT before you start to get a feel for it, when to medpack, etc. There's a huge risk of death as you're just pushing into town so yeah. Hell, you die a lot if you're 500m away on a hill sniping at the town, which is good I guess cause godmode would suck.
There are some great little side missions that pop up too in the map I played. Like an enemy convoy is tryign to get somewhere, so you saddle up a squad in a helo and find where they are, then go ahead of them and find a good ambush spot.
Or there are missions where you steal a prototype tank or helo, then your side gets to use it (until it crashes/explodifies)
I wish I had Operation Arrowhead/etc as comparison, I don't know whether to say wait for it to go on sale too.
Waffling on BF2, I owned it when it first came out but lost the discs over the years. It was fun, but then I have all the newer ones to play too... but wasn't BF2 Karkand, frick and it's $5... fuck my life
Arma
And to people asking about Arma. Yeah it's pretty frickin awesome, personally I love flying the little bird choppers. It's so badass when your team takes one of the town, pops flares in the middle and you skim the rooftops and manage a perfect landing. Your buddies rush from the alleys and hop in, then you zip up and yaw over towards the next objective, or base if they need to replenish.
Some servers lock you from using their vehicles if you're not in their clan which sucks though. And when I played, it was pretty much always on the same map which got kinda stale. There were other ones out there though.
Also the game is very hardcore. You're going to die A LOT before you start to get a feel for it, when to medpack, etc. There's a huge risk of death as you're just pushing into town so yeah. Hell, you die a lot if you're 500m away on a hill sniping at the town, which is good I guess cause godmode would suck.
There are some great little side missions that pop up too in the map I played. Like an enemy convoy is tryign to get somewhere, so you saddle up a squad in a helo and find where they are, then go ahead of them and find a good ambush spot.
Or there are missions where you steal a prototype tank or helo, then your side gets to use it (until it crashes/explodifies)
I wish I had Operation Arrowhead/etc as comparison, I don't know whether to say wait for it to go on sale too.
It sounds like you should check Xenus 2 and Precursors out... (More impressions here.)jiien said:
ARMA II is a hardcore military shooter with a large world, but doesn't quite play like anything you're describing. It's awesome though, here is a writeup of one of RPS' community gaming nights with it.
Gareth Bale
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How would Torchlight run on a 2 year old laptop? No idea about the specs apart from 2GB ram and Pentium Dual-Core Inside...?
The_Inquisitor
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azentium said:
I have a new i5 4-core.
But I mean how good is the plot and stuff.
Zero-Crescent
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Day 5:
King Arthur Complete Pack ($5.39)
Overlord Complete Pack ($3.00)
Sam & Max The Devil's Playhouse ($9.99)
Shattered Union ($0.49)
As I said, probably the most enticing day since the first one. I wasn't planning to buy Overlord originally, but getting the games for only $3 was too tempting to pass up (Insert "Curse you, Newell!" here). Also decided to take my chances on King Arthur, and picked up Shattered Union too.
King Arthur Complete Pack ($5.39)
Overlord Complete Pack ($3.00)
Sam & Max The Devil's Playhouse ($9.99)
Shattered Union ($0.49)
As I said, probably the most enticing day since the first one. I wasn't planning to buy Overlord originally, but getting the games for only $3 was too tempting to pass up (Insert "Curse you, Newell!" here). Also decided to take my chances on King Arthur, and picked up Shattered Union too.
do the king arthur expansions benefit the original campaign, or are they by separate? i don't usually buy expansions until i'm done with the oc. not so much a price thing, i just don't like to buy things i know there's every chance i won't play. atleast if it benefits the oc i know i''ll get something out of it.
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