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

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Foliorum Viridum

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Terraria
Vampire: The Masquerade
Fallout: NV - Honest Hearts DLC
Two Worlds II
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Super Meat Boy
Hamilton's Great Adventure
Bit.Trip.Runner
The Witcher
The Witcher 2
The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

That's one pretty amazing list for 10 days worth of sales. Nearly everything I really wanted went on sale. My girlfriend picked up a few cheap indie games as well which I couldn't be bothered to list, but I'm sure I'll like a few of them.

There's probably, what, 300-400 hours of gameplay there easy. Summer here I come!
 
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The Mana Legend

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So I've been trying to download Titan Quest for like, an hour, but the servers have been too busy.

Looks like Valve should invest a bit more into servers in the coming year.
 
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Palette Swap

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Wow, I finally got around to trying Jamestown. It's Cave on Steam.
Anyone interested in Cave shooters should get it.

This, Aquaria and Beat Hazard (Ultra) are my biggest revelations in this sale. I haven't gotten around to playing Frozen Synapse yet. And Atom Zombie Smasher would be on that list if I hadn't gotten it 1 or 2 weeks before the sale.

And of course, motherfucking Just Cause 2 for the 3 people out there who've already managed to avoid it like 4 times at 5 bucks.

Finally, thanks to whoever (Stallion Free IIRC?) advised to use the Tron Legacy soundtrack with music games. It's incredible in its own right but becomes godlike once paired with BH or Audiosurf.
 
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RoboShmup

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Was hoping Space Chem or Super Meat Boy would go back on sale. Oh well.

I think today I'll just pick up the Oddboxx. I've always wanted to play those games.
 
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Artofwar420

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My last purchases for the sale:

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Good sale everybody.
 
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jim-jam bongs

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Palette Swap said:
And of course, motherfucking Just Cause 2 for the 3 people out there who've already managed to avoid it like 4 times at 5 bucks.
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*raises hand sheepishly*

Yeah I actually don't know how I managed to keep skipping it considering how many people with great taste recommended it to me, but I fixed it. Grabbed JC1 and JC2 with all the JC2 DLC for $10.95.
 
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Card Boy

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slidewinder said:
Wow, Amazon matching Steam's pricing mistake. Jump on that people, it's a great game.
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Question is does it work for non-Americans if you put a fake US adress in? Does anyone know? Help me out here guys. Its 60usd on Aussie Steam at $30 (at -50% off)
 
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Veins

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Tempted to re-buy BC2 on PC for the graphics on my new PC even though I pretty much ranked up everything on PS3. Haven't played SP yet though, is it any good?
 
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HotHamWater

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Veins said:
Tempted to re-buy BC2 on PC for the graphics on my new PC even though I pretty much ranked up everything on PS3. Haven't played SP yet though, is it any good?
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SP is pretty mediocre. You know, bald bad guy and shit. I'd imagine it'll look glorious with the settings cranked at 60FPS, if your PC can handle that.
 
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OmegaDragon

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I started playing Warband because of this sale. Man it's addicting, fighting battles, selling the loot, fightings more battles. I now have 20 recruits, all originally peasants but almost all are upgraded, and I'm enlisted by one of the kingdoms.
I also played Trine. Gorgeous game and pretty fun too.
 
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JoshuaJSlone

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Is there a way to upload screenshots to Steam that weren't taken with the Overlay/F12 method? Was hoping to show off my first major Just Cause 2 adventure now that the controls and all are clicking with me to help convince other people.

I just hookshotted my way up a mountain, parachuted from the peak, landed on a road and got in a car chase, drove my truck off a cliff, jumped out with the parachute, landed on a military base, hookshotted onto a flying enemy helicopter and hijacked it, parachuted out when it exploded, THEN I died.
 
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JaskoX1

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Veins said:
Tempted to re-buy BC2 on PC for the graphics on my new PC even though I pretty much ranked up everything on PS3. Haven't played SP yet though, is it any good?
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Short and sweet. Nice change of scenery across the missions. If you play on easy you can beat it in around 5 hours.
 
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Scythian

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Gez said:
Question is does it work for non-Americans if you put a fake US adress in? Does anyone know? Help me out here guys. Its 60usd on Aussie Steam at $30 (at -50% off)
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Worked for me, but the only way to find out is trying.
 
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PaulLFC

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Having a weird problem with the Sanctum demo (unless it's supposed to do this, but I don't see why it would).

Playing the tutorial, and when it asks me to aim at the blue square on the ground, I move the mouse to point at the ground, and the game automatically starts moving the crosshair back up towards the sky again. I've even tried letting go of the mouse - the crosshair will just move upwards on its own.

I've turned off mouse scrolling and mouse smoothing, and turned down the mouse sensitivity, but none of them seem to have made any difference.

Am I just being stupid and it's meant to do this? Seems strange if it is.
 
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cacophony

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GitarooMan said:
IMO 100% yes. I mostly just soloed the game and I still had a ton of fun. It's very, very, addictive and it has a cool vibe. You can get a lot of hours out of it.
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bought. If anything I love the art style.

now to wait about 40 hours for it to download.
 
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CecilRousso

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And just like that, Shatter is now in my account.

Don´t really know why, since I already beaten it on PS3. Have waited for the PS3 version to be updated with the additional modes for quite a while now, but the developers seems to have lost interest in it.
 
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MetatronM

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Stuck with what to do about this AssCreed pack.

I haven't played AssBro yet, but I do have access to my old roommate's 360 copy. AssCreed 2 I beat 100% fairly recently on the 360 as well.

If I were to get AssBro I might as well get the other 2 in the pack since it's only $7 for them, but I'm still debating whether it's really worth jumping on Brotherhood for $20 when it might be cheaper during the holiday sale (after Revelations comes out) and I could always play the 360 version in the meantime.

Decisions, decisions.
 
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Castor Krieg

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Just noticed Fallout collection is for sale for 10EUR. TEMPTING! Love 1&2, and my father spent like 100hrs+ on BoS. How are the older Fallouts working on Vista 64-bit?
 
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Petrie

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As someone who played maybe an hour of Just Cause 2 on 360 and ended up shelving it, is there anything that should make me give the Steam version a look besides prettier visuals?
 
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mxgt

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Petrie said:
As someone who played maybe an hour of Just Cause 2 on 360 and ended up shelving it, is there anything that should make me give the Steam version a look besides prettier visuals?
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You can mod it for even more craziness
 
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Mango Positive

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gdt5016 said:
Thinking about Borderlands, but I'd probably only play it Solo. Is the DLC worth the extra $2.50?
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I LOVED Borderlands and I played it solo. I also got the DLC, because at this price (I got it last winter sale), why not?

I just got all the Assasin's Creeds. And I was so proud of my resistance the first time!

My damages:

Assassin's Creed Collector's Pack - Summer Sale 2011
Mafia II
Killing Floor
Frozen Synapse - Two Pack
Two Worlds II
Darksiders
Just Cause 2
Hamiltons Great Adventure
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

I've played a hair of Vampire and Darksiders. I have to finish up with Bulletstorm (recommended) before I can touch any of them with any of the tenderness they deserve.
 
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Red

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Petrie said:
As someone who played maybe an hour of Just Cause 2 on 360 and ended up shelving it, is there anything that should make me give the Steam version a look besides prettier visuals?
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60fps, mods.
 
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Petrie

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Figured I'd post once more to see if anyone had anything they'd like to trade for Terraria before I go ahead and let me g/f's account redeem it (she'll likely never play it), looking for whatever random game you may have gift copies of on your account and is even a little bit of fun. Also have a copy of CivCity: Rome up for trade if anyone is interested in one, or both!
 
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