Can I just say that I'm on a bit of a PC gaming high right now? The wife was out for a few nights last week, so I had some time to sit down and actually poke around with the sale games that I picked up, and I love them all. Chivalry is ridiculous fun online, it's easy to jump into and contribute to a team (I'll be totally honest and say that most of my kills as of now are ganking people who don't see me coming) but I can see that there is still plenty of depth and experience that comes into 1 vs 1 duels that I still need to learn. And the extra plus is how lean the rest of the game is, no crazy complex controls, the leveling is fairly innocuous, simple server browser without any extra logons needed. And perhaps best yet, no time wasted trying to shoehorn anything single player more than a basic intro, it knows that it's a game about wacky multiplayer fun and chooses to focus just on that.
Also loving SASR:Transformed. It's like a love letter from the Dreamcast crammed into a modern package. All the good points of a kart racer without stupid crazy rubber banding AI. All the levels that I've hit so far are completely beautiful and the bright colors and characters are a breath of fresh air. Plus, as a PC gaming rarity, they were smart enough to realize that this is a local co-op genre and actually supported it, controller configuration is a bit wonky, but it was mad fun playing with the kids locally.
Put time into Super House of Dead Ninja and Hotline Miami as well, and those are also both super unique little time killers.
I think the common theme for the games above is speed and leanness. I'm guessing that once or twice a year I'll still like a "traditional" AAA game for the spectacle. But I'm actually super glad that I avoided Tomb Raider and FarCry 3 on this sale. I might get to one of them eventually, but as a busy Dad when I have 30 min to play a game all of the stuff that I listed above lets me actually "play a game" for that amount of time. No long tutorials, embarrassing B-movie grade cutscenes, filler gameplay to extend playtime. So yeah, that's my happy rant.