The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

Well, I understand how the game works, my problem is I don't grasp what everything does. I.e. when I play as Denmark I can easily set goals and in broad strokes know how to get there, but I fail on certain fronts without knowing why, and there's still a shitton of options I have no idea how to benefit from.

 

no worries, that's what MP is for. we will help you overcome the challenges. like a helpdesk.

 

Hehe. What version do you play? I only have Europa Universalis III Complete.

 

One of the weekend deals is CitiesXL 2012, 75% off. Thoughts? I love city builders but have heard some bad things about this franchise. Also, I still giggle like a 12 year old when I read the summary at the top of the steam page (yes, I understand why it does that but still funny).

 

Yeah. Please someone who has played this let is know how it is!

 

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=742

Sounds pretty broken to me.

 

Played LIMBO for about an hour and I feel sorry for anyone who paid full price. Just another bland indie physics puzzle platformer... with no music. Inferior to Trine in just about every aspect I can think of, quite frankly.

 

I got it for free, but yeah, it's not worth the price, no way. I'm not sure it's a good game, however as an interactive experience it's pretty effective at what it does... it's damn creepy and the visual style really plays with suggestion and trickery. The lack of music is also really effective in creating a sense of foreboding and dread. I just don't think puzzle platformer is a great match for those ideas, especially as they aren't really executed amazingly well anyway.

 

Any opinions on Driver: San Francisco? It's apparently on daily sale on 75% off. I was curious about how it turned out.

 

it's on my to try sometime list
all signs point to it being a good game that slipped underneath the radar

don't know if there's technical problems but you should be good for the worth playing factor

http://www.gamefaqs.com/xbox360/948814-driver-san-francisco/reviews/review-147915

 

Does it still have the always-on DRM?

 

I got the Driver game on the Xbox for almost full-price and don't regret it in the slightest. I don't know how it is for the PC, but for me it was an extremely fun game to play.

 

Thanks, it was on a similar list for me as well.

Cheers, thanks for infoes.

Guess I'll give it a try, doubt it'll dip below 75% on Summer Sale anyway. And it's on my 75% Off On Ubisoft Titles or No Sale list, too, so I guess I'm not going against my principles either.

 

Dragon Age Origins is offered at Origin for 5 bucks, and I'm wondering if its worth it, considering that some people here have raved about it.
I really disliked Baldurs Gate 2 and Kotor due to its cliche ridden plot, lack of moral greyness in characters and devoidness of meaningful c&c. Also combat became really just tedious after a while to me (in case of BG due to its frequency, in case of Kotor because you just spammed the same skill combos over and over).

Consequently, I didn't play a single Bioware game since then, but apparently the plot became with Mass Effect and Dragon Age a bit less black and white if I'm not mistaken.
So, does the price warrant handing out my credit card details to EA and wasting a couple of hours on the game?

 

It is well worth it. Don't you know it's the best RPG since Arcanum?

Honestly, it is very good. Fuck the haters. For 5 bucks it's a steal.

 

The two SCUMM Indiana Jones adventure games are 50% off on Steam.

I really recommend everyone buy Fate of Atlantis if they haven't already done so. It is one of my favourite adventure games and features - gasp! - multiple paths!

 

Last crusade is so-so but FoA is right up there with Monkey Island 2, day of the tentacle and grim fandango on the awesome scale. I reccomend you play it with next-gen CD-ROM voices off though since the VA for indy is kinda pants.

There are indeed multiple paths. You choose fairly early in the game (after recovering a certain journal) and are locked in from that point. The three paths are different enough to warrant multiple playthroughs. Remember to save before picking one. I reccomend going with TEAM first, followed by WITS, then FIGHT. Team is the easiest of the three with a little extra "WTF is going on" being illuminated by Sophia. Wits is the most monocle path. Fight has some kinda meh action scenes (although killing the opera nazi was really satisfying).

 

The endings are pretty cool too - and risky, considering Indy gets killed in a couple of them, which I can't imagine Lucas signing off on.

 

Last Crusade is fine. You young whipper snappers are just to used to all the new fangled Lucas Arts perks!

 

I think Last Crusades main flaw was that there was already a movie made of it which was 1) Better paced and writte and 2) spoiled a lot of the puzzles in the game.

Fate of Atalantis is a new indy adventure which gave LA a lot more freedom to craft a narrative that worked for a videogame. I'm not saying that people shouldn't get LC at all (although it's one of my least-favourite lucasarts adventures). Just that FoA is far, far better.

 

I'm so tired of this genre.

 

I do agree. And yeah, being based on the actual movie definitely limited what they could do in LC.

I don't know why so many indie devs keep going to this well. I guess because it's easy to make them and the unwashed masses will ooo and aaaah over them like they did LIMBO? It's not a bad game but it's basically just a slowed down version of Super Mario Brothers.

 

And yet another indie game that has so many problems on release that it's basically dead already. Judging by the description, Fray sounded similar to Syndicate, except with multiplayer focus. Looking at the forums it seems that the servers are absolute shit, people are having connection problems, no AI bots and co-op is actually 2v2 PvP which isn't fucking co-op. Too bad since it had all the good buzzwords too: turn-based, strategy, multiplayer and dystopian future with mega-corporations.

 

Picked up Jurassic Park THE VIDEOGAME since it could be had for $6.50, and I figured what the hell I haven't disliked a Telltale game yet, may as well try their supposed worst one. It is QTE madness, way overboard compared to Walking Dead. Still, after fucking with it a little bit I'm not so offended I won't keep playing. Should be alright for a run through but I can certainly see why people said to avoid it at a higher price.

Also partially picked it up due to selling shit in D3. Those two items covered the cost of this and Warlock when it goes on sale for $7.50 in July.

 

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