dave is ok
aztek is ok
The rare ones sell for a couple bucks
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them
- Thread starter MRORANGE
- Start date
- Status
AlphaProspector
Member
Curious about this. With all the E3 crashing GAF we lost track on the registry changes and I bet those ninjas sneaked some stuff while everyone was busy with the event!
I've been keeping my eye on the registry.
I haven't seen anything from Konami, they may have learned their lesson after Lords of Shadow.
The problem is, Valve has really locked up the system. The only way to find something now is if the developers slip up. Like with The Walking Dead 400 Days DLC.
I felt ashamed for the 22 dollars that got me the whole series (plus viking, but men, the pc port of that game is REALLY bad)
still, I bought the game for a dollar so I could gift it to a friend
I recall that I played the binding of isaac without internet the whole summer, and no achievements poped out
One month later, I played the game with internet for a second and PAF all the achievements appeared at the same time
I sold my lina background for 9 dollars (I received 7)
Now the price is at 6 dollars, I will wait a bit more to buy it cheaper since I loved the BG, but I knew that I could win money doing this
Don't you think it's interesting that valve has basically given us a direct way to measure the amount of $ per xp. Let's say it takes you $3 to craft a tf2 badge. $0.25 is the market value of a background and lets say its the same for an emoticon. Coupons are practically worthless. so that leaves $2.50 for the 100xp you get.
Obviously these numbers aren't exact, just examples, but i find it interesting that the most abstract part of the whole "game" effectively has to most monetary value, probably due to the fact that it cannot be traded.
I made up a rule when trading cards came out: never, ever buy a game only because it has cards.
Then again if said game is eventually in a bundle with another game I care about that can be a plus for buying the bundle of course.
MMBosstones86
Member
this is smart. If you are buying a game hoping to recoup the money with card sales...you are making a terrible mistake.
bobnowhere
Member
I had the same rule, but broke it with Cubemen 2. $1.99 for the game and made $2.50 exactly selling the cards. It would have been rude not to.
MMBosstones86
Member
oh absolutely not. But if you bought FTL for $5 because it had cards yesterday and expected to sell those cards for $5+...i don't think it would've worked out too well.
I don't know...
Sure, it's not 5 dollars. But it's 1.81 dollars (0.35 euros is 0.46 USD). (sorry Baha, I didn't get your request for the Kestrel in time..
)That's almost a 37% discount, if you do crazy math.
And I don't even research this at all: I just put the card I drop the moment I drop for 2-5 cents less than the cheapest one (because I just want to trade them in for money as quickly as possible). If you did proper research, and waited for optimal timing, you'd get more for them.
Yeah, I'm guilty of buying a game and hoping to recoup the cost via cards. Did that with Monster, and Cubemen 2. I think I paid the full 9.99 for Monster and made a dollar (!), while with C2, I almost broke even.
This isn't something I'm going to do often, but making the discounts even bigger with cards isn't bad.
Just as long as it is a game I actually want. The above two, not so much lol.
This isn't something I'm going to do often, but making the discounts even bigger with cards isn't bad.
Just as long as it is a game I actually want. The above two, not so much lol.
Monado Blade
Member
Nice. Looking forward to it and Revengeance.
It already is: You can see the price drop happening on cards the moment the new games go up. The price difference between days is crazy.
Once this goes wide, the prices will just drop even faster. You can see it on the TF2 Crate Market every time a new crate is introduced. The Robo Crates were being sold for 10 cents not long ago, now they're all 4 cents.
MMBosstones86
Member
Baconsaurus Rex
Member
Megaton
STAB-Gatekeeper
Member
I haven't played that series since MGS 2, I feel so out of touch with that storyline I wouldn't even understand whats going on (Assuming Kojima is still as crazy with the storyline as he was in MGS2), might just need to read a series summary to get up to speed. Really don't feel like playing through a bunch of those games just for the long winded dialogue sequences. I guess at this point its probably almost as convoluted as trying to understand the Resident Evil storyline
.I haven't played that series since MGS 2, I feel so out of touch with that storyline I wouldn't even understand whats going on (Assuming Kojima is still as crazy with the storyline as he was in MGS2), might just need to read a series summary to get up to speed. Really don't feel like playing through a bunch of those games just for the long winded dialogue sequences. I guess at this point its probably almost as convoluted as trying to understand the Resident Evil storyline
The protagonist of MGS3/V is Solid Snake's (MGS1/2) father, essentially.
Would be nice if they would port over the HD collection as well, so people can get caught up.
Woah, love the "trailer".
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Steam Wallet cards are now available at 7-11 in the USA.
The only 2 games I haven't played are MGS4 and Peace Walker.
the protagonist of 4 was Solid Snake as well, but his cells are degrading from *plot element removed*
I am going to try to find Peace Walker, or the HD collection, on Craigslist and play through that, apparently it has a lot to do with the plot of MGS3/V. I picked up MGS4 from Craigslist, along with Demon Souls, Uncharted 2, and God of War, but I don't have a PS3 yet.
Two interesting things.
The ending of MGSV should bring us up in the timeline to the beginning of the original games, MG1 and MG2.
MGS2 was a complete mind fuck designed by Kojima as a 'post-modern deconstruction of the deceitful qualities present in its medium.'
As you described, the whole second part of the game was designed to make you hate it and question your place in the game. Slogging through the tutorials again, the constant codec calls, backtracking without radar, this pussy Raiden guy (who was actually an allegory of the player).
jediyoshi
Member
Paradox sale on Gamestop, a lot of Steam stuff
http://www.gamestop.com/browse?nav=16k-3-Paradox,28zu0
Leviathan: Warships - $4.99
http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/leviathan-warships/109159
Showdown Effect Deluxe Ed - $9.99
http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/the-showdown-effect-digital-deluxe-edition/107714
http://www.gamestop.com/browse?nav=16k-3-Paradox,28zu0
Leviathan: Warships - $4.99
http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/leviathan-warships/109159
Showdown Effect Deluxe Ed - $9.99
http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/the-showdown-effect-digital-deluxe-edition/107714
MMBosstones86
Member
When in doubt, the answer is 'nanomachines'. The timeline for MGS is a complete cluster fuck. Highly recommend 4, if you can stand to sit through a shitton of cut scenes.
Tizoc
Member
From what I've gathered, Kojima actually wanted MGS2 to be his final MGS game, but they kept bringing him back.
I guess in 4 he needed to tie up all loose ends and went with nano machines.
THough that begs the question:
Was Vamp injected with nanos that can heal him, and you injected the virus to counter it into him,
OR
is he really a regenerating vampire and the nanomachines were the one thing that could kill him?
OR
is he really a regenerating vampire and the nanomachines were the one thing that could kill him?
STAB-Gatekeeper
Member
I really liked the ending, until the final cutscene (which was meh). The complete breakdown of the game and its mechanics made it memorable to me, probably the only ps2/xbox era game I remember in as much detail. I guess its one of those things that can only work once, like the premise of Fight Club, once you know the twist you can see it coming from a mile away in other movies. But at the time MGS 2 blew my mind especially the fake game over screen. No other game that I can recall has broken the 4th wall so well, and these days its become kind of an annoying gimmick in both games and movies.
Hotline Miami 2 game start screen.
It's amazing how much $1.50 can make to my motivation to buy a game.
MMBosstones86
Member
he was redeemed in MGS4. I'll reserve judgement until I play revengence. Need it NOW!
Any of the Lego games or Portal 2.
My wife loves Puzzle Quest.
Terraria and Minecraft are always great options, they don't have local co-op though.
check out http://www.co-optimus.com/system/4/pc.html
MMBosstones86
Member
any thoughts on what the next weekly humble bundle will be? Can only go up from Serious Sam....right...?
cicero
Member
It is up to them to get interested in this type of promotion and ask Valve. Smaller devs are obviously going to go out of their way to try to increase sales.
39 dops here. No foils.
Honestly? LittleBig Planet. If you mean Steam-only, then yeah the Lego games.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I would never make a significant other suffer through those platforming mechanics. My girlfriend has played enough NSMB to know better.
Well, they must have fixed that in LBP 2, because it's not at all frustrating and neither I nor my girlfriend had to struggle with the controls. I'd only recommend co-op NSMB if a) you wanted to break up with her and b) the relatively gentle mercies of Dokapon weren't an option.
Glass Rebel
Member
If LBP2 was "fixed" I must be remembering LBP way better than it was.
- Status