The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Alienman]

Hand to hand combat with a alien sounds wrong :/

 

[ciox]

Weird, I felt AVP 2010 was better than CM, like it had slightly less dumbed down gameplay / silly bosses / other weird interruptions. Talking only about the Marines campaigns.

AVP Gold is also 75% off, get on that if you somehow haven't already.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

AvP (1999) is gut, but you might want to hunt down the patch that restores the original cinematics from the non-Gold release. Because of that I recommend getting the GOG version of AvP instead of Steam.

AvP2 would be swell to have with modern amenities, but is sadly in legal limbo. (Good thing I still own my boxed copy.)

AvP (2010) has Lance Henriksen in it, looks better than the previous two AvP games... and that's it for the positives. The Marine campaign feels off, the Alien campaign was weird and the Predator campaign didn't even interest me (unlike in AvP2 where it awesome fun).

Aliens CM is utter total shit. It's the kind of shit where you think your bathroom trip is going to be a normal one, but after 35 minutes on the can your asshole is still bleeding and you're forced to call HazMat to help you flush away the eldritch horrors you've spawned.

Go play this instead. It's free and even has split-screen two-player mode.

 

[Jigawatt]

My like for Aliens outweighs my disdain for Pitchford unfortunaly, so he can have my 3 Euros.

Good news! Randy only gets 2

 

[Alienman]

SEGA is publisher, forgot about that, so I guess he only gets 0.5 Euro.

 

[Latelistener]

I know, I know, it's not the best game ever and it got a really bad rap, but you can't go wrong for 3 bucks.

I think the DLC (Stasis Interrupted) is worth playing. It's how the main game should have been.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Ended up buying Endless Space 2, but I just refunded it. All my fears and complaints I had expressed about the game before it was released came true. I'll just go back to enjoying Endless Legend so I picked up the Tempest DLC for it, which is the last DLC that I didn't own.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Contemplating getting Papers, Please. Anyone here who's played it? Is it any good? Steam reviews say yes, but steam reviews always say yes.

 

[Zombra]

Contemplating getting Papers, Please. Anyone here who's played it? Is it any good? Steam reviews say yes, but steam reviews always say yes.

It really is excellent. If you're at all interested, grab it nao.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Contemplating getting Papers, Please. Anyone here who's played it? Is it any good? Steam reviews say yes, but steam reviews always say yes.

It really is excellent. If you're at all interested, grab it nao.

Great, thanks! Roughly how long would you say it is? I'm expecting it to be fairly small, but it looks like it could have a lot of branching.

 

[Zombra]

Contemplating getting Papers, Please. Anyone here who's played it? Is it any good? Steam reviews say yes, but steam reviews always say yes.

It really is excellent. If you're at all interested, grab it nao.

Great, thanks! Roughly how long would you say it is? I'm expecting it to be fairly small, but it looks like it could have a lot of branching.

There are lots of different endings but I found I was satisfied after just one playthrough. I got 6+ hours out of it. But if you are broke and don't have a million other games to play I bet you'd find this fun for several playthroughs.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Contemplating getting Papers, Please. Anyone here who's played it? Is it any good? Steam reviews say yes, but steam reviews always say yes.

It really is excellent. If you're at all interested, grab it nao.

Great, thanks! Roughly how long would you say it is? I'm expecting it to be fairly small, but it looks like it could have a lot of branching.

There are lots of different endings but I found I was satisfied after just one playthrough. I got 6+ hours out of it. But if you are broke and don't have a million other games to play I bet you'd find this fun for several playthroughs.

I'm not, and I do
Turns out it was on sale on gog too, so I ended up getting it there. Suddenly I'm in the wrong thread

 

[Strange Fellow]

Aaand I'm in jail and my family is cold, sick and starving. Well, it's not like I didn't deserve it.

Glory to Arstotzka.

 

[Latelistener]

Cause no trouble.

 

[unfairlight]

When I tried to do my work honestly in Papers Please I got put into a jail.

 

[Great Deceiver]

That's it for me.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

Ended up buying Endless Space 2, but I just refunded it. All my fears and complaints I had expressed about the game before it was released came true. I'll just go back to enjoying Endless Legend so I picked up the Tempest DLC for it, which is the last DLC that I didn't own.

I've requested a refund too. It's mind boggling how they've made Endless Legend so much fun, yet Space fails so bad. Let me know if you want to do multiplayer achievements, I'm 4 away from 100% it, but I think only 1 or 2 are multiplayer.

 

[DalekFlay]

Is Lost Horizon 2 really as useless as the reviews say? Screenshots look pretty nice, and I really liked the first game.

 

[janior]

AvP (1999) is gut, but you might want to hunt down the patch that restores the original cinematics from the non-Gold release. Because of that I recommend getting the GOG version of AvP instead of Steam.

AvP2 would be swell to have with modern amenities, but is sadly in legal limbo. (Good thing I still own my boxed copy.)

AvP (2010) has Lance Henriksen in it, looks better than the previous two AvP games... and that's it for the positives. The Marine campaign feels off, the Alien campaign was weird and the Predator campaign didn't even interest me (unlike in AvP2 where it awesome fun).

Aliens CM is utter total shit. It's the kind of shit where you think your bathroom trip is going to be a normal one, but after 35 minutes on the can your asshole is still bleeding and you're forced to call HazMat to help you flush away the eldritch horrors you've spawned.

Go play this instead. It's free and even has split-screen two-player mode.

I strongly recommend playing this https://alien.chaosforge.org/ very tense and gets alien atmosphere right.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Aaand I'm in jail and my family is cold, sick and starving. Well, it's not like I didn't deserve it.

Glory to Arstotzka.

From the sounds of it your family is going to star in the sequel, "Wallets, Please."

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Weird, I felt AVP 2010 was better than CM, like it had slightly less dumbed down gameplay / silly bosses / other weird interruptions. Talking only about the Marines campaigns.

AVP Gold is also 75% off, get on that if you somehow haven't already.

AVP 2010 isn't bad, it's not as good as AVP2 but it's "decent." I'm a bit of a fanboy for Aliens, so I thought AVP2 nailed the immersive aspects of playing the Alien campaign best. But I did have some fun with 2010, the Alien gameplay itself is probably the best of the bunch but you didn't go through the various stages which detracts from it immensely.

 

[hello friend]

AVP2 was so good. The campaign, yes, but the multiplayer was GLORIOUS.

 

[Latelistener]

AVP 2010 MP was totally ruined by "fatality" animations.
Basically, when you're killing someone from behind and waiting for an animation to end, someone is already behind you preparing, so as someone behind him...

 

[Nuclear Explosion]

I am considering buying Day of the Tentacle Remastered since it is 70% off. I have never played a point-and-click adventure game before. Is it a decent starting point?

 

[Insane Psychic]

I am considering buying Day of the Tentacle Remastered since it is 70% off. I have never played a point-and-click adventure game before. Is it a decent starting point?

It's pretty fun, and not laced with too much unfair BS, like some others. I managed to complete it without any walkthroughs back in the day, so it's not too difficult either. It's somewhat of a sequel to Maniac Mansion, which you could actually play in game in the original, if I recall correctly. I dunno if that's possible in the remaster though.