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Steam Winter Sales 2012 | Deal quality keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
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Alex Connolly
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It's great. Single player has odd difficulty spikes and isn't as objectively creative as, say, Starcraft, but all in all, a fantastic game and 2012's best kept strategy secret.
The Grim Heaper
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Fable III lol
That was the first one.
Glorified G
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lol I voted for Braid but I forgot I already bought it.
chixdiggit
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Natural Selection 2 is incredible. I feel like I barely know what I'm doing and am still having fun.
It's a great RTS but it depends on what you want out of it. It's closest parent is probably World in Conflict mixed in with some RUSE(the good parts). You basically start a map with a set amount of points which allow you to mix and match different units. You can can go tank-heavy, helicopter bonanza or be a coward and use a lot of artillery. There are loads of different units and it strives for historical accuracy. There is some basic logistic stuff, you need to resupply your units with ammo and fuel, but it's all very simple with just some trucks or Chinook. There is no base building beyond capturing points.
The map size can be a bit overwhelming sometimes, but it's never forces you to micromanage everything. Multi-player is very reminiscent of WiC, where every player tends to focus on a particular branch and everyone tries to support each other.
Singleplayer seems descent, I haven't gotten very far into it. Seems that the russians are bad and that NATO needs to save the day.
Ya, your country was protecting you.
Voted Miasmata. Nice to see a community vote that isn't stuff like Deus Ex: HR, Grand Theft Auto 4, and Just Cause 2 which have all been on sale 500 times.
benjipwns
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Doesn't even have any achievements. I probably won't even bother trying the demo.
33% off dawnguard............ i'll wait a bit more. My Desktop is acting up, takes like 10 minutes to boot windows, normally 8 seconds.
Might want to backup that boot drive asap.
Typographenia
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Don't test fate!
Voted for Miasmata. Glad to see some fresh faces on this vote. Also, I did my part and voted for Monkey Island.
Would anyone like to buy me the two Monkey Island games? I'll give 400 microsoft points in return, I only have 300 of them right now due to Bing Rewards taking a bit to email me the last 100 but you'll get all 400 if you would help me get these two games. Not sure if the MSP codes are region exclusive but I'm American so take that into consideration.
Oh.
ZombieTimeMachine
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Done. I'm not really interested in any of them, but a bunch of people seem to want Miasmata.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
I actually came into the thread to see what games people wanted lol. Steam community will probably disappoint you though, like they did with Ys Origin last year.
Candeldandel
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Oh man, I saw your avatar and thought to myself "Woah, cool." I also thought about saying something, but decided against cluttering the thread. Went to right click/save...
SCREEEEEEEE
That file name got me.
I did the same with Monkey Island and I still have no idea when I bought it.
I've got 2 extra copies of Natural Selection 2 (regular edition) from a 4 pack I bought.
If anyone has Paypal and wants one or both, quote this post and I will send you a PM with my Steam info and Paypal email. They're $7.50 each, plus whatever the cost of the Paypal fees (you should see what they are when you send payment).
Edit: both copies gone to carbonbased and shintoki.
If anyone has Paypal and wants one or both, quote this post and I will send you a PM with my Steam info and Paypal email. They're $7.50 each, plus whatever the cost of the Paypal fees (you should see what they are when you send payment).
Edit: both copies gone to carbonbased and shintoki.
Everyone needs the Monkey Island bundle. They're the best adventure games ever created. The Monkey Island universe is so wonderfully charming and funny. There's some dispute about the quality of the remakes, I get the complaints about the basic art in the first one but they really stepped it up with the second, the art is stunning at times. Plus you can always just hit a button and switch to the classic art style, so it's a moot point.
Ys origin was still either a flash sale or a daily deal during the summer sale, since I got the game for 60% off.
Thats completely different.
And no AC is not Steamworks, they are just selling steam keys.
Miasmata looks freaking cool.
chixdiggit
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Really? When is that happening?
24th to the 26th
Wow, and I almost bit at $20. No brainer purchase, but after that I better hit the brakes.
holy crap
Buttonbasher
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To make it perfect, it should be up on the final day.
chixdiggit
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Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Based Tony to the rescue.
Hispanicguy
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Really have my eyes on Retro City Rampage and Mark of the Ninja (if it goes 50% or more). It's the only 2 games I would like that I could possibly afford. Between being unemployed and using whatever money I had left to celebrate a 3 year anniversary with my girlfriend earlier today, money is extremely tight though...but I can look at this as a great thing since I won't be tempted to buy 54642 other games that I'll never finish, haha.
I'll be checking out the daily/flash deals to see if either of these come up. If I have to get only 1, I'm leaning towards Mark of the Ninja. Everyone has said great things. I'll also be doing my part and voting for whichever game the majority of GAF has voted on.
I'll be checking out the daily/flash deals to see if either of these come up. If I have to get only 1, I'm leaning towards Mark of the Ninja. Everyone has said great things. I'll also be doing my part and voting for whichever game the majority of GAF has voted on.
Sorry for quoting myself, but I'd like to hear some opinions if I may (bolded the relevant questions):
antikythera
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Just noticed Vice City is back on Steam, that's cool.
I blindly voted (don't know about any of those 3 games) and it ended up being Miasmata so I guess yay?!
Typographenia
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I haven't bought the other DLC, but I would say, as cheap as it is, go ahead and get it if you're even remotely interested.
I definitely felt like I had a very fulfilling and expansive product from DE:HR, and Missing Link was a great complimentary piece of content. I had no interest in the other parts, though. If you're into that kind of thing, though, I bet it's solid additions.
Ugh, I just bought Scribblenauts!
Look into it.
If you like Adventure/Survival games it might be for you. $7.50 might not be steep enough of a discount for me, but game deserves more recognition.
AA Goty for $5 is a steal.
And yeah, that Scribblenauts deal is absolutely bonkers. I'll get that.
I would say no for Deus Ex: HR, but they are only a few cents a piece, so if you like the idea of extra weapons, you could go for it. The game won't feel incomplete without that stuff though.
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