Foliorum Viridum
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I'd probably jump on Rayman and Dust if the Summer sale wasn't around the corner. Seems silly not to wait now just in case they have any crazier deals.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread - Summer sales usually last week of June
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I tried From Dust the other night and it still feels awful on PC. 30 fps + garbage mouse control = no fun.
SteveWinwood
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Welp.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
They'll hunt you. They'll condemn you; set the dogs on you. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes... the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people need to know that a game is being propped up because they don't have Mario.
You're the hero the Steam thread deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, they'll hunt you, because you can take it.
According to HowLongToBeat.com it takes about 9 hours to do all the main stuff and 13 hours if you do all the side stuff (collecting medals, speedrunning the levels etc.) as well. Like New Super Mario Bros Wii, single player is probably the best way to play the game and multiplayer is fun because you can mess with the other players.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
will pick it up for a dime in Indie Gala 32
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Buy Rayman for 15 bucks or wait for summer sale?
AngryChinchilla
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I will do the same, and never play it like the rest of the alien shooter series sitting in my steam library.
ClovingWestbrook
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Not that you believe me since I don't play games at all but your friend is wrong, it's an amazing platformer.
I H8 Memes
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I tried to be pretty vague so I hope it wasn't my post that spoiled it. But yes this was the only section that I found scary at all. Great atmosphere there and
the emptiness and quietness of the area together with not having enemies constantly thrown at you made for one of the few sections of the game that made me feel uncomfortable as I moved through it.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Summer sale generally means 33-75% off MSRP. MSRP will still be 29.99 for Summer Sale. So if Rayman is 50% off, 66% off, or 75% off you're better off waiting, but if it's only 33% off in the summer sale, you lose by waiting.
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It's frustrating because the gameplay would benefit from the finesse of the mouse.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
ClosingADoor
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Nice deal for Rayman, but will wait. Too many games to justify the price for myself at the moment.
Would you care to bet 5.00 dollars that it will be more than 33%? It's going to be at least 50 percent (and probably 66 or 75).
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
The only real way to win the Steam sales game is to not play: only buy stuff that you'll get to within a week or two. If you miss out on a deeper discount before a seasonal sale, evaluate if the seasonal sale price is worth it, or wait for another opportunity when it'll probably be even cheaper. Not every game needs to be on your Steam list as quickly as possible or ever.
Foliorum Viridum
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Just wait. It will almost certainly be the same, if not more likely to be 66%/75% off.
Very few games which I've passed in regular sales have had worse sales in the big ones. In fact, they're usually always better.
Wait.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
No bets here. I expect it'll be 50% across the summer sale, and maybe featured in a daily deal for higher.
I suspect MSRP will be $19.99 by Christmas, which should make it $5-10 for the Christmas sale.
From Dust is a title everyone calling himself a gamer should try, it really has some amazing stuff concealed under clunky controls (even with a 360 pad it's not that smooth, control-wise, unfortunately). I don't see the problem with being locked at 30fps, it's a sim game, not a racing game.
It has a huge issue though, and it's the lack of a sandbox mode available since the beginning AND with a huge map (you unlock something like that at the end of the missions, but it really is a tiny map to play with), but other than that I think it's a little gem of this generation and I really wish there were more games in a genre long forgotten, now that the tech allows some really amazing stuff with physics and such.
Another issue would of course be the lack of PC optimization (hey ubisoft, time to put some effort in your ports, right?) but at this low price I really can't consider that a big issue.
It has a huge issue though, and it's the lack of a sandbox mode available since the beginning AND with a huge map (you unlock something like that at the end of the missions, but it really is a tiny map to play with), but other than that I think it's a little gem of this generation and I really wish there were more games in a genre long forgotten, now that the tech allows some really amazing stuff with physics and such.
Another issue would of course be the lack of PC optimization (hey ubisoft, time to put some effort in your ports, right?) but at this low price I really can't consider that a big issue.
Except there are general floors for games. And the floor hasn't changed in a while. So if you know you want to buy the game when it hits rock bottom, there's no harm in purchasing (so you can then play without having to wait whenever the mood strikes).
This obviously only applies to games that are rock bottom pricing. This is the only way you win the Steam game (and even then, you still need to exercise willpower on games you only like in theory and will never truly play).
Heh. Just had to throw it out there. Wanted to see if you'd take a sucker bet from the sucker's perspective for once
Foliorum Viridum
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Nothing for me today, luckily/sadly. Only Rayman interests me but I can wait for it to hit 10 or below.
Remaining days will most likely be AssCreed and Splinter Cell/Prince of Persia.
Remaining days will most likely be AssCreed and Splinter Cell/Prince of Persia.
Today I realised that I haven't given away any spare indie bundle codes in a while, because they go live when it's late here and I simply forget to hand out the spares the next day. I can't remember which ones I've used (Steam doesn't display the used key message if you already own the game), so I've lumped all 2012 codes into this post, hidden behind the e-mail tag. Naturally, many of them will have been used already, by myself, but some will work. Due to the amount of keys contained herein, mention if they're already used or if you've used one, and I'll cull the list accordingly.
Indie Gala:
Steel Storm: Burning Retribution: 5HRXX-9RWG5-TYX5H
Indie Royale:
Tobe's Vertical Adventure: 03TAR-WBYMY-KKEGI
Osmos: 26XB2-0CHXN-0PBDV
Humble Bundle for Android:
Toki Tori: IMQNP-LHEN0-3QBHR
Windosill: GNMZD-I6LTF-Z90E5
(Ignore the broken text -- the formatting plays silly buggers with the email tag.)
Edit: B.U.T.T.O.N., Defense Grid & DLC, World of Goo, Blueberry Garden, Altitude, Botanicula/Machinarium/Samorost 2, Disciples II: Gallean's Return, Really Big Sky, Critical Mass, Bunch of Heroes, Hack, Slash, Loot, Unstoppable Gorg, Fortix 2, Flatout, Hacker Evolution, Astro Tripper, Alien Shooter 2, Alien Shooter, Depths of Peril, Alien Zombie Megadeath, Twin Sector, Greed Corp, Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes, Trapped Dead, Greed: Black Border, Future Wars, Cloning Clyde, Ancients of Ooga, Roboblitz, A.R.E.S: Extinction Agenda, and EDGE/Anomaly/Osmos removed.
Edit 2: Steel Storm: Burning Retribution, Tobe's Vertical Adventure, Osmos, Toki Tori, and Windosill are still available.
Indie Gala:
Steel Storm: Burning Retribution: 5HRXX-9RWG5-TYX5H
Indie Royale:
Tobe's Vertical Adventure: 03TAR-WBYMY-KKEGI
Osmos: 26XB2-0CHXN-0PBDV
Humble Bundle for Android:
Toki Tori: IMQNP-LHEN0-3QBHR
Windosill: GNMZD-I6LTF-Z90E5
(Ignore the broken text -- the formatting plays silly buggers with the email tag.)
Edit: B.U.T.T.O.N., Defense Grid & DLC, World of Goo, Blueberry Garden, Altitude, Botanicula/Machinarium/Samorost 2, Disciples II: Gallean's Return, Really Big Sky, Critical Mass, Bunch of Heroes, Hack, Slash, Loot, Unstoppable Gorg, Fortix 2, Flatout, Hacker Evolution, Astro Tripper, Alien Shooter 2, Alien Shooter, Depths of Peril, Alien Zombie Megadeath, Twin Sector, Greed Corp, Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes, Trapped Dead, Greed: Black Border, Future Wars, Cloning Clyde, Ancients of Ooga, Roboblitz, A.R.E.S: Extinction Agenda, and EDGE/Anomaly/Osmos removed.
Edit 2: Steel Storm: Burning Retribution, Tobe's Vertical Adventure, Osmos, Toki Tori, and Windosill are still available.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Got something against sharks?
And darn it, the "wait for it to go 5/10 bucks" is really strong in this one, looks like I'll let it slide.
Stumpokapow
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Jase, I used B.U.T.T.O.N. but it was already used.
SteveWinwood
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Blueberry Garden is also used JaseC, but thanks anyway!
Stumpokapow
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I tried RoboBlitz and it gave me an invalid code error--is it possible that they lock attempting to activate codes if you try too many duplicate ones?
YianGaruga
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I got Altitude! Thanks!
Botanicula, Disciples II and Really Big Sky are already used.
Hmm, perhaps. I just tried it myself and got the "Product already owned" error. Anyone else tried it?
That doesn't usually happen when a dev posts one of those huge lists that are force people to go one by one, but I'm getting that error too.
Are there any news on the Hard Reset DLC?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
So I know when people give away keys, people just claim anything just to own it, but you really owe it to yourself to try Fortix 2. It's really fun.
Got Hacker Evolution. Thanks.
Wok
Member
Thanks for Greed Corp.
Wok
Member
Before trying Greed Corp, I tried several which were already used:
- Roboblitz
- Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
- Twin Sector
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Took A.R.E.S., thanks JaseC!
Frank the Great
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Wok
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Yeah, they were in my purchase history. The handful that are left should work.
(Off-topic)
By the way, who is JaseC's avatar? This has been a mystery so far.
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