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[wolfmat]

Selfquote for new page, does anyone has some advice?

Edit: Misunderstood. Disregard.

 

[Proc]

I'm thinking of grabbing:

1) dead rising 2: I don't see it getting much cheaper than $20; if its $10 next year, boy will I have egg on my face
2) darksiders: this seems like a good time to jump on this, pluse the inclusion of steam chievos is a bonus
3) mass effect: I only played it once all the way through on 360 through its critical path, I still own it for 360 but I'd rather play the series to completion on PC. I own the retail ME2 for PC and would have double dipped at $10 if it had the dlc included. Plus my girlfriend and I are way into Starwar (original trilogy) and I may get her to see if she likes watching me play it.

 

[Chris R]

Temped on Darksiders, but I'll just wait it out for it to be on sale in 6/12 months :lol Just Cause 2 is my stellar purchase of this sale so far, with SMB coming in second.

 

[WEGGLES]

I'm thinking of grabbing:

1) dead rising 2: I don't see it getting much cheaper than $20; if its $10 next year, boy will I have egg on my face
2) darksiders: this seems like a good time to jump on this, pluse the inclusion of steam chievos is a bonus
3) mass effect: I only played it once all the way through on 360 through its critical path, I still own it for 360 but I'd rather play the series to completion on PC. I own the retail ME2 for PC and would have double dipped at $10 if it had the dlc included. Plus my girlfriend and I are way into Starwar (original trilogy) and I may get her to see if she likes watching me play it.

If you found the first Dead Rising enjoyable, you'll like #2.
If you found the little things with it annoying, you won't like it. There aren't too many improvements to it.

 

[deleted]

Buy Commandos 2 on gog.com: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/commandos_2_3

Sure I could do that, but I don't want to buy the game for the third time (DVD on release and Steam), especially when something like this shouldn't happen.
Now its an older/cheap game, but it also could have been AvP or Bully (also not available in my region, also bought via Gaf-gifting).

I suppose there isn't a trick that can fix this problem like deleting the clientregistry.blob or something, so I'll just contact the support...

 

[Proc]

If you found the first Dead Rising enjoyable, you'll like #2.
If you found the little things with it annoying, you won't like it. There aren't too many improvements to it.

Hmm...my original dead rising is still unfinished. I think I will just continue to play that and buy DR2 when complete.

I'll gift my brother a copy of bad company 2 instead.

 

[BiggNife]

Haha, I'm having a hard time waiting for Crysis/Warhead to go on a daily sale. Those were the main games I wanted to get during this whole thing. Hopefully they'll go cheaper, else I'ma have to nab it for $30 before the sale ends.

The Crysis games have been daily deals during earlier sales (in fact I think it was included in last year's Christmas sale), so I'd be willing to bet they're going to do it again. I'd definitely wait it out.

 

[-tetsuo-]

I got Wings of Prey. Watching a few youtube video sold me.

 

[scorpian007]

Using Steam Calculator on my account isn't pretty :lol

 

[Visualante]

Using Steam Calculator on my account isn't pretty :lol

Why are you even using Steam calculator? If I click my username in Steam it shows the date and exact price I paid for all my purchases. Perhaps this doesn't work for some people or they just don't know about it? To my understanding Steam calculator is often way out due to sale prices.

 

[scorpian007]

It's a quick way of checking how much it would have all cost if the games were at full price. Can usually guess how much it costs in real dollars.

 

[Schmattakopf]

Is the AI War DLC only on sale today, or did that stay the same?

 

[Petrie]

So here's my tally thus far:

Altitude - 2 copies
CivCity: Rome
Commandos Pack
DoD: Source
Defense Grid - 2 copies
Deus Ex Pack
Flatout: Ultimate Carnage
Flight Control HD
King Arthur
Left 4 Dead 2
PB Winterbottom - 5 copies
Monkey Island pack
Overlord Pack - 2 copies
Puzzle Quest - 2 copies
Recettear
Shattered Union - 2 copies
Super Meat Boy
Totan Quest Pack - 2 copies
Trials 2
Tropico Pack
The Witcher

This isn't even counting the treasure hunt. At first I felt enlightened by these cheap PC games and saving money, but I'm starting to think it isn't saving me a damn thing...

 

[slidewinder]

Is the AI War DLC only on sale today, or did that stay the same?

Stayed the same.

 

[Proc]

I'm just diving into my copy of KOTOR that I bought for under $5 a while back.

I applied the widescreen patch and it looks absolutely stunning at 1080p. Its hard to believe this is a 7+ year old game. I'm looking forward to delving deeper into this one.

 

[Schmattakopf]

Stayed the same.

Thanks.

 

[Minsc]

I have a huge backlog so I am willing to wait for it to be on sale. I buy most of my games on sale or discounted and I save quite a bit of money, if that's idiotic then so be it.

It has a pretty good chance of being in the top 5 or even top 3 RPGs you've ever played. Skipping out on it indefinitely and never playing it if you like RPGs is a poor idea, given it is available for so cheap.

I'm not saying you should buy it (maybe you don't even care much for RPGs, then it makes sense to ignore it to some extent), just pointing out to anyone that enjoys RPGs, particularly ones that step off the beaten path a bit, you could be indefinitely skipping over one of the best games you'll play over $10 on a $20 asking price!

Compression works that well? Not that I've ever seen. I could be wrong though. Just saying that that's a huge compression rate.

Yup, DA:O in particular, my copy compresses close to 50% using Steam's built in backup compression, which probably isn't nearly as good as 7-zip/winrar.

 

[jediyoshi]

After another round of check out stare down, I went ahead and bought Wings of Prey ($5.99). A little bummed about the DLC, it's sale price is still above the price of the game ($7.49).

 

[IceMarker]

__STEAM HOLIDAY SALE HALFTIME REPORT__

My wallet gave in to:
-Super Meat Boy
-The Witcher
-Just Cause 2
-Mass Effect
-Mass Effect 2

Spoiler

And I intend to spend more.

 

[fresquito]

Halfway sale:

The Witcher
Trials 2
Batman
Super Meat Boy
Lara Croft (a friend gifted it to me)

I don't plan on getting any other game. Maybe some indie game for super, super cheap.

 

[opticalmace]

So far:

Battlefield Bad Company 2
RACE 07
GTR Evolution

Things are good.

 

[Cindres]

At the half way mark:
Just Cause 2
Batman
Super Meat Boy

Bangin'

 

[Veins]

Yes, there's an option to force DX9, I'm not sure what it is though, since I'm playing on XP. My only concern would be the 2gig of RAM, because of the higher overhead in Win7, but it shouldn't make a huge difference. The game doesn't require a powerhouse to run. There are various graphics options you can turn down too.

-nod3d10 IIRC.

Got around to downloading Red Faction: Guerilla. Seems to be running well, thanks guys!

 

[kennah]

Since this sale has started I started playing a few of the games I bought last year and never touched. Thanks a lot steam!

 

[Sidewinder]

So here I am again with my Pentium 4 3.2Ghz and Radeon X850...this time I got Witcher in my basket. Somehow I managed to persuade myself not to buy it last week.

I know my rig fulfills the minimum requirements, I played the demo many moons ago and AFAIR it didn't play too badly...but if anybody played through it with a similar PC, I'd be delighted to hear their impressions.

 

[brain_stew]

About to nab Dead Rising 2 for $20, yay or nay? It seems to me that it won't go an lower, at least not soon.

Definitely recommended from me. Great PC port as well (heck, its the only version without game crippling technical issues) sans slightly dodgy wireless controller support (Which can be fixed).

Disable depth of field, it'll cripple your framerate and looks like crap anyway. You'll still get the effect in cutscenes anyway.

 

[Massa]

Do I need to de-activate Steam from an older computer before installing it in a different one?

Currently I'm actually using it on two systems already, my Mac OS X partition on my Mac and on a different PC with Windows. The PC is a piece of crap that shuts off from overheating so I'm going to try installing it on Windows on the Mac.

 

[FOOTE]

This year I bought myself Amnesia, The Witcher, and Cities 2011.

 

[brain_stew]

Do I need to de-activate Steam from an older computer before installing it in a different one?

Currently I'm actually using it on two systems already, my Mac OS X partition on my Mac and on a different PC with Windows. The PC is a piece of crap that shuts off from overheating so I'm going to try installing it on Windows on the Mac.

You can have Steam on as many systems as you like.

Only one can be online at a time but you can just set the rest to offline mode and you'll be able to play your downloaded games just fine.

 

[DietRob]

So far I've been very frugal up to halftime:
BFBC2
Alpha Protocol

I'm not sure what I'm waiting on deals for, I'll know when I see it.

 

[Double]

Just traded in my TR Anniversary from GMG for 10 bucks and able to buy Blood Bowl Legendary for another 10.

GODDAMNIT YES

Dont forget who made it possible for you

So anyone from the US wants to host a vanilla Borderlands 4-pack but doesnt need the 3 other copies?^^

 

[Servbot #42]

Ugh, I picked up Hitman Blood Money, knowing full well I should wait for the inevitable daily sale on it... Writing this so I may be shamed into self control by strangers.

Blood Money for 5 bucks is a steal, everyone should bite at that price. Don't feel feel bad for not waiting.

 

[Dice]

I wish I had a Terabyte bandwidth cap, but I don't think Comcast has noticed I already past theirs this month.

I'm with Comcast as well. I read their explanation and it said they only give a warning call to the top consumers, and they look at the last 3 months. So I think I'm safe, even with all that HD Korean TV I've been watching. 250GB is really too low.

 

[Kuugrr]

Halftime Damage Total:

Just Cause 2
The Witcher
Darksiders
Batman: AA
Mass Effect
Super Meat Boy
P.B. Winterbottom
Recettear

Not bad. Still holding out for a daily sale on Oblivion GOTY and hoping for a price drop of some kind on Singularity.

 

[derFeef]

I hate me for missing out on Blur. I hope Hot Pursuit gets a sale so I can play with my buddys.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Started playing the witcher last night, what an amazing game.

 

[Massa]

You can have Steam on as many systems as you like.

Only one can be online at a time but you can just set the rest to offline mode and you'll be able to play your downloaded games just fine.

Thank you very much, going to install it right away.

 

[Snuggles]

what is sale today?

I'm probaby not gonna get anything unless it's a really good one for like $5 or less. I have sooooo much to play and I'm just making it worse by falling for these deals.

 

[derFeef]

what is sale today?

Games. Lot´s of games.

 

[1-D_FTW]

what is sale today?

*shakes magic 8 ball*

"Come back in 4 hours."

 

[Leonsito]

what is sale today?

I'm probaby not gonna get anything unless it's a really good one for like $5 or less. I have sooooo much to play and I'm just making it worse by falling for these deals.

Nothing from Activision.

 

[BritBloke916]

I'm with Comcast as well. I read their explanation and it said they only give a warning call to the top consumers, and they look at the last 3 months. So I think I'm safe, even with all that HD Korean TV I've been watching. 250GB is really too low.

As a UK resident using British Telecom as my ISP (their Basic Broadband package) I have a monthly download allowance of 10GB. TEN. Per MONTH.

Fortunately I'm allowed to download games overnight at work onto the copy of Steam I have installed on my office laptop, and then use the backup / restore facility to get them home onto my HTPC via a USB key. My PSN purchases already consume a big chunk of my pitiful allowance without having to then download 20GB PC games :lol

 

[rasberryjam]

Loving this sale and I even got Burnout off of EA for free!

Does anyone know if I can activate it on steam?

 

[Dice]

WTF 10GB? Are they trying to kill the internet?

 

[Leonsito]

Loving this sale and I even got Burnout off of EA for free!

Does anyone know if I can activate it on steam?

You can't, I tried yesterday

 

[rasberryjam]

You can't, I tried yesterday

Dang, ah well. Still pumped that it was free, though. Thanks!

 

[mescalineeyes]

Nothing from Activision.

you mean Modern Warfare 1 & 2 and Blur weren't on sale?

good god, the Activision hate ...

 

[Snuggles]

Nothing from Activision.

fine with me

 

[Lostconfused]

you mean Modern Warfare 1 & 2 weren't on sale?

I don't think anyone can call that a sale.

 

[Veidt]

Loving this sale and I even got Burnout off of EA for free!

Does anyone know if I can activate it on steam?

It worked for me.