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STEAM | December II 2014 - A thread for people who don't like sale side posters.
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Are you male?
Attractive?
Rich?
Willing to spend money on this classy gentleman?
Anyhow the third choice is Bulletstorm.
Yep. Epic and/or EA don't care about it any more it seems.
PROVE ME WRONG, GUYS, PLEASE.
freshVeggie
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back for more... or should i say a thing finally.
second day of sale and still nothing grabbing me so far.
hopefully didn't miss any price shenanigans.
gonna check steam's deals for today quick.
second day of sale and still nothing grabbing me so far.
hopefully didn't miss any price shenanigans.
gonna check steam's deals for today quick.
oh ok already played that pirated a while ago since ea wasn't selling it to me
let's say two out of those four are true
us old timers should know steam sales just don't feel too exciting after it's second or third
it's just the same shit over and over again
nothing wrong with that since a lot of people don't have those games, but it's easy to lose enthusiasm
rich male, right?
Rich and willing to spend money on me? Awwww
ed: just kidding i love ya all
Playing Advent Rising right now. Best Not-Matrix game Ive played so far but it has its issues.
The Good: Lots of different weapons and powers, tons of action
The Bad: Flick targeting System, Steep Learning Curve for the controls. Power are way OP
The Ugly: You cant hotkey powers. A menu opens up and you select it.
Have you checked PC Gaming Wiki for that one? There are a few mods including widescreen fixes and a patch that fixes cinematics as well as some gameplay tweaks.
This one has always captivated my attention since its initial release, but I have never gotten around to playing it.
Bought it day one on the Xbox. To this day I lament that it didn't sell enough for the complete trilogy.
why haven't i seen this before
MMBosstones86
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Prison Architect is pretty awesome guys. Pick it up.
freshVeggie
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some good deals today for me
rage, but i have enough patience till it hits <3 with dlc included
also looks like steam changed the frontpage from the first day
no more dozens of wishlist stuff
and for me at least it's new with the continuous scrolling of deals.
space engineers looking good as ever but way too much for me
checked steamdb and i find it interesting that the historical highest steam discount of 50% ain't even the lowest ever it was. huh
ruse has some very good reviews. interesting. didn't hear of it when it was new.
wonder if it has nukes? since red alert 2 i love mega-weapons like that in games.
so satisfying to use nukes or ion beams from space.
rage, but i have enough patience till it hits <3 with dlc included
also looks like steam changed the frontpage from the first day
no more dozens of wishlist stuff
and for me at least it's new with the continuous scrolling of deals.
space engineers looking good as ever but way too much for me
checked steamdb and i find it interesting that the historical highest steam discount of 50% ain't even the lowest ever it was. huh
ruse has some very good reviews. interesting. didn't hear of it when it was new.
wonder if it has nukes? since red alert 2 i love mega-weapons like that in games.
so satisfying to use nukes or ion beams from space.
Any news on when it's out of the Alpha/Beta phase? Someone mentioned it's like Theme Hospital but with a different theme.
how much Bulletstorm is on the other side of the pond? and what are chances that GFWL will be patched out?
Does it have cheevos, cards, any additional incentives to pick it up?
I did, and then I remembered that I don't buy EaAc games, oh well. How far is it from full release anyway?
it's not in my regional store, cuz GFWL
I did, and then I remembered that I don't buy EaAc games, oh well. How far is it from full release anyway?
I'm getting both my wishlist stuff and the never ending scroll of games.
I've had it for a long time.Waiting for 1.0 release before playing because I'm stupid like that even though I know very well how finished (content-wise) the game actually is. In fact their monthly 30 minute update videos are excellent and I look forward to watching those.
Theme Hospital
Would love it on Steam.
I was hoping for you not to see that post, sorry.
I've had that game sitting on my GOG Wishlist for far too long. There was a big deal in the past since I remember Grief giving me an alert but there was very limited keys (sort of a flash deal) so I didn't got it.
It has never gone deeper and I don't think it ever will.
After the devs implemented multiplayer the sales have been very strong for it, so I guess the devs don't see why they should make a deeper discount than 50% for a while.
MMBosstones86
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I played it quite a bit over the summer and it 'seemed' relatively feature complete. It was basically a sandbox style prison simulator. I know they planned to add a bunch of new features/items and some sort of story driving stuff, but to be honest I haven't followed the development.
What I have played was pretty awesome.
I was hoping for you not to see that post, sorry.
I've had that game sitting on my GOG Wishlist for far too long. There was a big deal in the past since I remember Grief giving me an alert but there was very limited keys (sort of a flash deal) so I didn't got it.
You'll get your chance sooner or later, man. Goes on sale often.
Shalashaska
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Yeah, those are what got me to buy the game actually.
Before this past summer sale, the Prince of Persia series had a great discount. I didn't bother to pick it up then since I was going to pick it up during the sale.
Foolish me, it wasn't discounted the same during the sale, nor since :/
It's a good sign that Majesco even applied general discounts to Bloodrayne, Advent Rising, etc. In the past, they haven't been paying attention to us at all.
MMBosstones86
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there is. reduced flash sales and votes limits the amount of deals each day.
Nabs
Member
No discount on Betrayal
I was hoping to snatch up the WayForward/Midnight City titles this sale.
BasilZero
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I was disappointed that the Collection was taken off the Steam packs list but not so much anymore since I hear that the Digital Deluxe Edition of Forgotten Sands has a copy of Sands of Time with it.
Just waiting for it to hit 75% before I dig in lol
Oh really?
. Well hopefully....it'll go to 75% somehow .freshVeggie
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yeah, i get you
but even though i am not a young guy, i wouldn't have thought to adapt this fast
on that topic
i again forgot to enter for a giveaway -_-
speev's mighty one
it was kinda funny to make poke at myself for becoming old and forgetful but i think my sleep rhythm is kinda affecting me more serious than i thought
patience young padawan. patience
i have it. and i trust in it
voted for bulletstorm :3
in hopes that rise in sales will push them to remove gfwl.
rubbingfuriously
orthodoxy1095
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Per recommendations, bought Prison Architect. I think I actually done with the sale now. That's already too much stuff for the backlog.
Stop making me reconsider not buying ACUnity.
And glad I could get a laugh out of someone for that...
I would definitely err on the side of caution as it's a monumentally demanding game. Don't take the systems requirements for a joke they're pretty bang on in fact.
At 1920x1080 running around collecting things with environmental quality on Ultra and textures turned down to High with all the Nvidia shiny stuff on and just FXAA for anti aliasing I get a 40-60fps swing which is about the same for me in Black Flag bar texture quality but that due to some heft VRAM demands (ie it pretty much uses 2.7GB at those setting and caches to the remaining space as you move around too). 2560x1440 and it's high 20's for the most part with some mid 40's when on the rooftops which again the same as Black Flag for me. Any higher resolution and I get VRAM stutter unless I cap the frame rate to smooth things out. I would say a 780/970/290x would be about the minimum you could get away with some of the higher settings as there isn't much to scale the game. Going back to my initial settings and putting texture to Ultra you can feel asset swapping going on but most is mitigated capping the framerate at 31fps but a GPU with more VRAM would be better equipped like a Titan/970/980 or 290/290x.
Haven't tried it with SLI yet but heard the latest patch has some issues reintroduced that and I've got my GPU's split over two PC's again to see how much difference the CPU makes. And it's pretty tough on the CPU side of things if you have a straight up quad core although hyperthreading can help but the more physical cores the better.
So with all that said it you got the hardware and not put off by the cost might be worth taking a punt but looking at Black Flag's price a year on and the amount of games releasing these days you could easily wait it out for a cheaper price.
Thanks for reminding me, that I need to pick this up. I would like a tad deeper discount, though
Dragon1893
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OK, that is pure gold.
freshVeggie
Member
great work petri! appreciate the effort.
not gonna use it yet since i ain't no frost or jase, so i still know what i own lol
i also like that you start your list with 0 instead of 1
for those not knowing or wanting to search
never heard of it before. thanks for posting this. gonna watch some vids on youtube.
never saw this movie.
is it trashy good as street fighter movie or just plain trashy?
freshVeggie
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people in europe ain't sweating coins. already we have to pay by far the most for games on steam.
this is bs and will just like steam's recent changes will only lead to me giving waaaay less money to them. period.
Cosmic Schwung
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I couldn't comment on other regions but I recall in the UK the collection didn't actually have a saving. In fact I think it was a few pennies cheaper to get them individually. Annoyingly (and bafflingly) the digital deluxe version isn't available in the UK.
And with this I'd probably stop buying directly from Steam. Especially thanks to the recent region lock changes.
Prices here are often higher than the US already.
Available in 1080p on youtube.
EDIT: [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZatGG2hTeIg"]Alt link if that one doesnt work for ya[/URL]
It's very 90s like trashy. I think its so bad its good.
lashman
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apparently we are ... according to publishers ... I mean - 60 for new ubi games - that's totally fair
corrosivefrost
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For the same reason Shovel Knight hasn't, I'd wager.
Go ahead and define "higher" for me, please?
lashman
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don't worry - next thing they'll do is lock all the keys (so, say bye-bye to nuuvem) ... and then they'll probably make acrtag also work on gifting/trading between EU and the US as well .... also - I wish I was only joking, but that's probably gonna happen
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