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Steam Summer Sales Thread: remember: you can actually play after buying

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Sims 3 and Medieval are both extremely tempting but it's looking like just Crossworlds for me today. Not quite ready for Sims 3 and the price on Medieval isn't where it needs to be to get me to bite. Close, but no cigar. If it had come up earlier in the sale I probably would have picked it up.

hylje said:
I am, and actually I thought there was a ticket for videos but I can't see it anymore.

They scrapped it. It doesn't appear to be working for anyone.
 
So now all we need is a US host for a L4D2 4 pack. It comes to $3.75 each, can't get any better than that.

1. US Host?
2. Sutton Dagger
3. My Bro
4. snoopeasystreet
 

Lemming

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Hey, i´ve seen a couple of people talking about the longest journey today.
Did it get a heavier discount? I wasn´t following.
Currently they are:
TLJ: $2,50
Dreamfall: TLJ: $4,99
Both: $6.24

I guess that at 6.30 its almost a giveaway
 

1-D_FTW

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Sgt.Pepper said:
I got the TF2 shades, Portal 2 gear, and Killing Floor characters. Dunno what else to get with the tickets I have.

Edit: seems like the video upload achievement was removed.

If you ever plan on getting Beat Hazard, the gold ship is good for keeping your ship from getting lost in the confusion.
 

Link Man

Banned
Well, nothing again today. Already have King's Bounty: The Legend and Armored Princess on D2D from a previous sale, and as I can't activate them on Steam, I can't get Crossworlds. Batman was tempting, but I had it on 360 and hated how stiff it was thanks to UE3 (maybe I just don't like weighty games).
 

Divius

Member
Do you guys think anything else pop up to spend the tickets on. maybe at the end of the sale? I got me some TF2 shades, but other than that there's not much I'm interested in.
 

Salsa

Member
&Divius said:
Do you guys think anything else pop up to spend the tickets on. maybe at the end of the sale? I got me some TF2 shades, but other than that there's not much I'm interested in.

nah
 

Zomba13

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Petrie said:
Didn't get it from the Steam Sale but definitely Civ 5. .
This. I count it as a steam sale item though as I activated it on Steam and I bet it wouldn't have gone on sale for so cheap on that day if it wasn't the Steam Summer Sale.
 

Servbot #42

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For the people that are wondering about the Gothic games i can give some small impressions, Gothic 1 & 2 (haven't played 3 yet) are RPG set in a open world, the gameplay is pretty standard you gain XP by fighting monsters, solving quest, Etc. Since they are pretty old games you can forget about having quest waypoints, you don't even start with a map, you have to buy or obtain one. The interface is functional except for the inventory management which is bad, Gothic 1's inventory screen was pretty much a single column with no way to sort your items, the sequel has better inventory management but not by much. There's no level scaling so if you go somewhere you are not suppossed to you will die, actually you will die a lot in the Gothic games until you get the hang of things.
Yeah the Gothic games definitely have a pretty rough start but after playing for a few hours i managed to enjoy the 2 games quite a lot, the world is pretty well made with lots of atmosphere and the quests are pretty good too and some even give you a couple of choices in how to complete them. If you don't mind some of the issues i have described i'd say to just get Gothic Universe pack since that contains Gothic 1, 2 & 3.
 

ElRenoRaven

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bigjimmystyle said:
I used this fix last night, works great.
Game runs a bit shitty though, are there any mods to improve it?

What's wrong when you run it? Runs great for me after I hex edited the blam save file to allow my resolution.
 
Is there anyone here who seriously has not played Arkham Asylum and is considering passing on it? I find it hard to believe that such a person exists on gaf, unless there are financial considerations in play. Been there.
 

Card Boy

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whats the story behind GTA 4 Complete and Securom? It says unlimited activations but i have a feeling it's talking about GTA4 only, or does it apply to EFLC aswell?
 

Alxjn

Member
Anyone know if Far Cry 1 will work with Windows 7 64bit, or if there is a fix for it? I tried running the demo, but none of the terrain shows up. Only the trees. :(
 
jakershaker said:
Atom Zombie Smasher is surprisingly awesome. Mix of a puzzle game and tower defense while you have to airlift people out of the cities you're defending. Units level up and you can do additional research as you rescue scientists.

Add to that a RISK like map, nice humour and catchy music and this might be the best find in this sale for me.

In short:

ATOM ZOMBIE SMASHER BUY BUY BUY
Yep just got the Dog Days achievement and its a fun little game. I'd say its slightly more RTS than Tower defense as you can move some of the units about. The only thing I don't like is how you can save yourself into the wrong mission so to speak and be forced to concede.

Also, it has a demo. And for Bandwidth strapped people its very small (I think demo was 40MB and full game 60MB).

Also Turba got updated with an achievement:
Summer Block Party
In one combo, clear at least 5 blocks of each color, 2 silver blocks and 1 bomb block. Those red blocks are real party animals.
Seems like it could be a bit of a pain.
 

Salsa

Member
echoshifting said:
Word, probably the best steam sale OP we've ever had. Keep up the good work man, it does not go unnoticed by all.

thank you as well

its no MGS4 OT, but i tried to go with functional over fancy. Im with Stumpokapow on how to make threads :p think it works better this way (he also helped out with suggestions and updating), specially considering some people away atm might be browsing from phones and such. Both The_Technomancer and LovingSteam did their part as well.
 
I just now noticed that Garry's Mod is only $2.50.

Is there anything that makes it worth owning? I know you can stage scenarios with all of the tools and assets it has, but is there any real reason to keep coming back to it?
 
Do you think its worth buying if I played and beat GTA 4 on consoles but have never played the episodes?
Or should I save my money on other sales in the future?

Games I want back on sale:
Darksiders, Oblivion, Shogun 2, ARMA II, Frozen synapse.
 

Card Boy

Banned
AppleSmack said:
Do you think its worth buying if I played and beat GTA 4 on consoles but have never played the episodes?

The Ballard of Gay Tony alone is like 10 times better than GTA4. It brings back alot of the 'GTA' elements GTA4 was missing, it has better characters and is actually fun.
 
Lol you convinced me. I bought it. Especially when I noticed I dont need to have GTA 4 installed to play the episodes which shortens the download time. The DL time was a big factor that put me off.
 

Soroc

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Smokey said:
gta iv + stories are on sale...

so will the good mods work with steam version?

Somebody earlier in the thread said the creater of the ICenhancer mod is working on releasing an update to it thats compatible with Steam next week. buy buy buy!!!
 
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Deleted member 17706

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Oh, neat. I just noticed that the two Eschalon Books are on sale! I may have to pick these up... They also looked pretty cool.

Has anyone here played through either of them?
 
InsertNameHere said:
Atom Zombie Smasher was really easy on casual mode and is now kicking my ass in normal mode. Jeeze.

Play on normal with a bunch of the beneficial modifiers on, and then as you get better at it you can let them go one by one. It is a very difficult game on normal with no "buffs" checked, make no mistake.
 
Anyone had problems with Battlefield Bad Company 2 on Steam? Every time I load it up, it starts making these weird beeping sounds and then freezes?

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"So now all we need is a US host for a L4D2 4 pack. It comes to $3.75 each, can't get any better than that.

1. US Host?
2. Sutton Dagger
3. My Bro
4. snoopeasystreet"
 

LM4sure

Banned
Damn, Beat Hazard is amazing!! Just played it for a good hour. You have to have a gamepad though. Sucks using keyboard and mouse.

I tried a game of multiplayer and it was cool, but how does it work with my own music? Does the person I'm playing have to have the song too?
 
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