atomic moth
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Steam Winter Sales 2012 Thread 2: [Extended To Jan 7th For Encore Deals]
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I like math. What's the deal with evochron?
Tesseract
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my avatar is euler.
Is it that bad?
Also, I tried my national credit card with Sine Mora and it worked apparently? How odd.
Out_Of_Ammo
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K, I've been seeing a lot of avatars similar to yours lately. Where are those from? Because they're awesome.
basic_text
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The first 2? Not that I've experienced but then I haven't really played much of them due to the lack of finding a decent controller setup. There's far too many buttons in those games!
TheNamelessOne
Member
Minerva's Den is the only thing I'm interested in when it comes to Bishock right now, so that would be nice.
zephervack
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I have an idea for the flash sales.
They should be sort of like Kickstarter in a way.
Say you commit $5 of your Steam wallet (which immediately become frozen) to buy Skyrim for example, only if X amount of people commit to buy it at that same price.
Pubs could figure out how much they would need to sell to make the profit they want.
So there could be 3 good games at ridiculously cheap prices battling it out for purchases.
I think it would be super exciting.
They should be sort of like Kickstarter in a way.
Say you commit $5 of your Steam wallet (which immediately become frozen) to buy Skyrim for example, only if X amount of people commit to buy it at that same price.
Pubs could figure out how much they would need to sell to make the profit they want.
So there could be 3 good games at ridiculously cheap prices battling it out for purchases.
I think it would be super exciting.
Only if you lose your money whether or not you get the same, to see the glorious butt pain.
That would be fun for the consumer, but I bet they'd see it as too much hassle. Enough people probably buy them at the standard sale price.
I couldn't get too far into Demon's Souls because of the difficulty. I've had much, much more fun with Dark Souls and for a longer period of time
Though I have to admit that I am starting to get tired of dying over and over again about right now. Losing 22k souls on my last run took the wind out of my sails.
This avatar of mine.... it wouldn't have been possible without the help of NEORICEISGOOD!! He's making them in the mangaGAF thread, though I think it's only for posters from there now. You can try asking but I don't know if he'll do it. He also doesn't do doubles.
Madrugador
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Same. I already have Bioshock 2 but I'll probably buy this pack if they sell it through Steam.
good man. great story and dialogue.
You can't register Mirror's Edge either, it has no CD Key.
Support sometimes helps you adding it to the account, but I never managed to.
diffusionx
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I am bummed I missed on that CoH complete pack.
Here's hoping it repeats in ~73 minutes.
Here's hoping it repeats in ~73 minutes.
pretty sure tomorrow is last day of new deals and Sunday is a recap day
Past sales have the last day as a recap.
YianGaruga
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Sale ends in 25 hours, so no.
I think a lot of people vote for a game because they own/love it. I do not like these people.
Blah! If this isn't proof that this is the weakest Steam sale to date, I don't know what is.
Re: Evochron Mercenary
I don't have a proper review for this game at the moment, but just wanted to warn anyone considering picking it up that you should have your physics degree ready if you want to participate in combat.
I played for three hours and still could not grasp being required to do all of the following at once: being familiar with a Newtonian based combat system and inertial dampening; drifting in one direction at a certain speed while having your guns firing in another direction; having to move at certain angles in comparison to enemy ships to better avoid vulnerability; using countermeasures for the barrage of incoming missiles in addition to afterburners and reducing your heat signature (cutting engines and the inertial dampening system) to better avoid them when you're out of countermeasures; how to make turns and at what speed and whether your IDS should be on at the time to avoid vulnerability. The list goes on. Wording the above correctly is difficult enough, but essentially I never learned how to not die.
I didn't get a chance to experience any other content because of this, but when/if I do I will rewrite my review. The following from the description on the store page will help you decide if it's right for you, though the word "simple" should be taken with a giant rock of salt:
I don't have a proper review for this game at the moment, but just wanted to warn anyone considering picking it up that you should have your physics degree ready if you want to participate in combat.
I played for three hours and still could not grasp being required to do all of the following at once: being familiar with a Newtonian based combat system and inertial dampening; drifting in one direction at a certain speed while having your guns firing in another direction; having to move at certain angles in comparison to enemy ships to better avoid vulnerability; using countermeasures for the barrage of incoming missiles in addition to afterburners and reducing your heat signature (cutting engines and the inertial dampening system) to better avoid them when you're out of countermeasures; how to make turns and at what speed and whether your IDS should be on at the time to avoid vulnerability. The list goes on. Wording the above correctly is difficult enough, but essentially I never learned how to not die.
I didn't get a chance to experience any other content because of this, but when/if I do I will rewrite my review. The following from the description on the store page will help you decide if it's right for you, though the word "simple" should be taken with a giant rock of salt:
Are you sure? I swear the day that Steam say is the last day of the sale just means it'll go until 10am PST the next day. Would be stupid saying the sale lasts until the 5th then closing it at 10am PST (PST is Valve time remember). 90% sure this is the case with sales in the past. Suppose we'll see in less than an hour what sales appear.
This sale, on the other hand...
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Deleted member 10571
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Analogue IS a visual novel, but it's pretty cool, especially for that price.
Last day, all new deals? Is that what you're saying?
Winter sale achievement hunt begins in 48 minutes.
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Deleted member 10571
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Buy Scratches, be done with it. Only good title in that pack if you ask me.
YianGaruga
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Look at some random game that is not daily/flash. It tells you when the sale ends.
For some reason, I've had Still Life and Syberia on my wishlist forever.
Dimitri2401
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Syberia is really good too!
Well pointed out!
Well I guess that means there's no hope for Fallout NV to drop then - what a letdown of a sale...
I'll pick it up from Gamersgate and grab all the DLC seperately then. Fancy playing it this weekend rather than waiting for a future sale. You watch, it'll go on a daily deal next week or something...
Oh, huh, just noticed it has DLC now (extra costumes for *Hyun-ae). Pretty cheap too, if nothing else nice shows up in the Daily Repeats tonight I might get it.
Just make sure you grab it before 10am when the dailies refresh.
Ugh this sounds so damn cool but I know it would put me off.
Sine Mora is only $2 at greenmangaming.com with the 20% off coupon GMG20-PJFEW-Y16HK
I H8 Memes
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Since it's not the 5th I'm assuming current normal discounts will continue after 1pm eastern. I convinced someone to wait until after todays sales are announced before buying Dead Space 2 just in case the pack goes on sale. I mean it could happen. Both Crysis series and Mass Effect series have been dailies/flash deals.
So we've got one more daily and three more flash deals and we're done, right? Then at 10AM PST tomorrow, we're back to normal?
masterkajo
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Good choice. I really like it. If it doesn't click right away, give it some time. The beginning can be a wee bit boring. Also you might want to try to use the widescreen patcher to play bigger resolutions.
Since dailies are 48 hours, today's might spill over past the end of the sale. But otherwise, yes.
I H8 Memes
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Well the ones from yesterday are ending in a few minutes so there would only be 6 games on sale as a daily for the next day.
Plus maybe Saturday will get its own daily. Maybe even Fallout New Vegas.
I H8 Memes
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Standard version of Fallout New Vegas is $5 on gamersgate. Pretty sure New Vegas is Steamworks. I don't really trust gamersgate anymore though.
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