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2010 Steam Holiday Sale Thread: of GAF collectively handing over wallet to Based Gabe
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Scalpel Knight
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DON'T BUY THE RUNAWAY GAMES YOU HAVE ALREADY SPENT 200 DOLLARS AND IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'LL PLAY ANYTHING EVER ANYWAYjj984jj said:
GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF, MAN
confused said:
CivCity: Rome (1$) and Children of the Nile Pack (3,12$)
RealMyst and Riven for 2,99$ each
Freedom Force vs the Third Reich for 1,69$
Toki Tori for 1,25$
Commandos Collection for 2,99$ (4 Commandos games)
LucasArts Adventure Pack for 4,99$ (2 Indiana games, The Dig, Loom)
Torchlight for 4,99$
Grand Ages: Rome for 3,99$ (I'll give impressions later)
Deus Ex GOTY for 4,99$
All the Indie Packs for under 5
If you never played them (or didnt play all of them) the Commandos Pack and LucasArts Adventure Pack are especially sweet.
confused said:
From the upcoming OT:
Due to the different setting, (Imagine building a military camp in SimCity as New York and defending against Miami or something... hm. We might be onto something.) you also need to take care of certain military aspects. In most of the games these are very tame as your job is to provide the corresponding infrastructure to sustain and supply your military, rather than leading them into battle. I cant speak for that part in Grand Ages yet because I havent seen it up to now but I'd say you shouldnt expect Total War-like battlefield mechanics. In CivCity you only build a fort, get them weapons and have them ready when enemies come. It basically functions as any other part of the game without having too much emphasis on it.
witchedwiz
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gaf, divinity 2 for 19? yay, nay?
MulderWasTaken
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Volcynika said:
This is the evilest: whole board with < and >
If you love Sudoku, give the demo a try. You can play for one full hour, and if you buy it afterward, all the achievements and progress made remains in the game. It's just $1.50!
confused said:
Definitely small scale, at least in CivCity and Children of the Nile. In those games its just one minor aspect, more or less equal with all the others. CivCity even divides the missions in economic and military with mission that have no military aspect at all and missions where your main task is to ensure that the military is standing. If you did that right, you will win the fights. The actual fighting is not that important. Same goes for Children of the Nile.
lastplayed
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:lolhamchan said:
Mr. Luchador
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Paradox Pack is probably the best purchase I've made so far. Sure, those Grand Strategy games might be very similar, but they're all set during different time periods, and overlap each other nicely!
I'd love a modern day version, but not entirely sure how that would work.
EUIII is awesome, Victoria II is great and Hearts of Iron III is down right nasty. Next to that Elven Legacy keeps things interesting, with his old school tactical RPG approach.
I'd love a modern day version, but not entirely sure how that would work.
EUIII is awesome, Victoria II is great and Hearts of Iron III is down right nasty. Next to that Elven Legacy keeps things interesting, with his old school tactical RPG approach.
confused said:
Grah. Thats exactly why I am writing the OT :lol
Anyway also from the OT:
CivCity if...
...you are new to the genre and really just want to dip your toe into what this could be like or if you cant resist a 1$ game purchase. Nothing wrong to start with this title. Runs on anything. No widescreen, doesnt bother me though.
Children of the Nile if...
...you cant stand the Rome setting, want to appease the egyptian gods, want huge settlers-like supply chains and arent offended by a bit ugly graphics. Also runs on anything. More complex than CivCity.
Fallout-NL
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How many more sets of deals do we get? Is this the last one or do we get a final recap in 6 hours?
lastplayed
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One recap I think. Probably.
tahrikmili
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Donos said:
No and no.
Thread for the City builders is up. More info and (hopefully) discussion to un-derail the steam thread over there:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=25189391
If people will participate in the other thread, most of them will be the same that posted here
Lets see whether the interest-level in these games is high enough.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=25189391
Smash88 said:
If people will participate in the other thread, most of them will be the same that posted here
Lets see whether the interest-level in these games is high enough.
lastplayed
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Zinga said:
Not really, it's always pretty snappy for me.
Diablohead
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I only think steam is a bit bloated when I had my pc on for a good 24 hours, but most of the time I turn it off at night.Zinga said:
I have 2gigs of ram and an above average pc (made in 2009) and yet to really see a problem with the new UI.
Danj said:So guys, anyone care to speculate what the last day's deals will be? Looking forward to 6pm GMT, I still have £8 to spend!
I don't think it will be new games but just the "best" deals/games all over. Hopefully no oblivion or i will fuuuuuuuuu.
Or just one deal: Bloodlines for 1 !
storafötter
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I am so uncertain if I want to buy Zeno Clash or not. Is there more to it than the artstyle, and fighting? and how long does it take to complete it.
Starwolf_UK
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Would also like to know...Lumine said:So... Ion Assault, Swarm Arena or neither?
One thing to bear in mind. Ion Assault only supports controllers via the X-input library (and recently at that, yes an arena shooter was released with no controller support). I'm kind of new to this getting controllers to work on PC and have a Wii Classic Controller which should work via glovepie...is there any way to get that X-input compatible.
British Monsoon
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Does Divinity II have native 360 controller support, or will I have to use an external program to map the controls to the pad? I only ask as I'm on a laptop and have no mouse currently, just a dreaded track-pad.
Psy-Phi
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For the last few years the final day has been a recap/retread of earlier sales. I'm not sure if they choose them with any particular measuring stick (i.e. Bets Selling Deals at their lowest prices of the sale, or deals that people have requested somewhere that I don't know about). Just think of it as a best of sale sale. Though I would be pleased as punch if they were all new still. And I'd go apeshit if Dreamfall/The Longest Journey were on sale.Danj said:So guys, anyone care to speculate what the last day's deals will be? Looking forward to 6pm GMT, I still have £8 to spend!
I know I can get TLJ on GoG, but that's not the one I want so much, just want it in my "collection" since I have the discs around here somewhere (likely won't play it again). I never got a chance to play Dreamfall though. If they were $15 together I'd bite so hard, I'd draw blood. But I may just buy them, it's only $25 for both (and just buying Dreamfall on Steam is $20, so I'd pay the same price if I were to get it at GoG).
Don't assume such things. ME1, ME2, Dragon Age & Sacred 2 do not have controller support and all are availabe on the 360. (there are probably more but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head that I remember not being able to find controller support).markot said:
catapult37
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All this hand-wringing over Zeno Clash!! It is GREAT, only about 4 hours long, too. BUY IT!!!!
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