The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread - AUTUMN SALE 2024

[Metro]

I wouldn't. Apparently Bit trip Runner sold so well on Steam that the developer will have enough cash to keep in business for quite a while -- thus I'd expect to see a lot more of the Bit Trip titles ported over to PC (there's about five or six). I'd bet there will be a pack of them for cheap in the future (personally I got Bit Trip Beat in the indie music pack for $5).

 

[Gragt]

The update for Super Meat Boy is slightly bugged: Super Meat World supports only the mouse so far (no keyboard or pad) and the cursor is invisible. Fun times.

That or it's intentional.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I wouldn't. Apparently Bit trip Runner sold so well on Steam that the developer will have enough cash to keep in business for quite a while -- thus I'd expect to see a lot more of the Bit Trip titles ported over to PC (there's about five or six). I'd bet there will be a pack of them for cheap in the future (personally I got Bit Trip Beat in the indie music pack for $5).

Yeah, I'm iffier on the Bit Trip game. Would like the Dejobaan games though. Figure I'll see if anyone buys it that already has Bit Trip and Wonderful End of the World and I'll offer to buy the pair off 'em for $5. Otherwise I dunno what I'll do. Probably buy it anyway in the hope I could sell the potato hat for $15 to cover it.

 

[Gragt]

Speaking of potato, Killing Floor is the potatoest codexian game evar: money has been replaced by potato.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Did they replace the money money money lines with potato potato potato?

 

[Gragt]

"It's rainin' potatoes!"

"Give us some bloody potatoes, will ya?"

I wish.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I did pick up 1 2 3 Kick It, and... Unfortunately it isn't yet as promising as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3W-r9IobwI yonder youtube. It's gonna be kind of a hybrid of Audiosurf and Aaaaaaaaaa, which sounds pretty cool. Just the current state of the game doesn't appear to match with the music that well or generate particularly good levels. Hopefully they get it up to speed because I like the idea.

 

[20 Eyes]

Not a deal, but Impulse has apparently been bought by Gamestop.
http://www.impulsedriven.com/news/2558/ ... y_GameStop
So... Yeah. ALL HAIL STEAM. ALL HAIL VALVE. MY LIFE FOR GABEN.

I'm pretty disappointed by this. I hate Gamestop and refuse to give them any of my monies.

 

[Metro]

Impulse was pretty mediocre anyway. I'm all for Steam having competition but unfortunately the other digital download outlets pale in comparison when it comes to the sale prices.

 

[Gragt]

GamersGate has a few good sales once in a while, and I saw them adapt prices to compete with Steam.

 

[kazgar]

is "the ball" any good? $5 for 8 hours or so of single play unreal engine 3 gameplay may be ok.

 

[Gragt]

From what I heard, the problem is that these 8 hours or so are rather dull and very repetitive, but I haven't played the bloody thing at all. I think I saw it compared to Portal, but what Portal did right was to throw some variety your way while The Ball has you repeating pretty much the same puzzle over and over before you get something new. That said you may want to wait for more opinions on it.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I wouldn't. Apparently Bit trip Runner sold so well on Steam that the developer will have enough cash to keep in business for quite a while -- thus I'd expect to see a lot more of the Bit Trip titles ported over to PC (there's about five or six). I'd bet there will be a pack of them for cheap in the future (personally I got Bit Trip Beat in the indie music pack for $5).

Yeah, I'm iffier on the Bit Trip game. Would like the Dejobaan games though. Figure I'll see if anyone buys it that already has Bit Trip and Wonderful End of the World and I'll offer to buy the pair off 'em for $5. Otherwise I dunno what I'll do. Probably buy it anyway in the hope I could sell the potato hat for $15 to cover it.

I bought AaAaAA!!! and The Wonderful End of the World. The latter is a fun Katamari clone, except they changed the giant trash monster into a potato monster for the duration of the potato sack deal (hell yeah my potato man is eating your buildings). If you like Katamari, you'll probably like this. There isn't much else to it. AaAaAA!!! is pretty good too. I like it better than Potato katamari.
As for the Bit Trip games, I only tried Bit Trip Runner, which isn't included in the potato sack. That's a pretty fun game, at least the first 2 worlds are. The 3rd one is kinda lame. Die 50 times on one level until you can play it perfectly. Snore.

 

[Metro]

From what I heard, the problem is that these 8 hours or so are rather dull and very repetitive, but I haven't played the bloody thing at all. I think I saw it compared to Portal, but what Portal did right was to throw some variety your way while The Ball has you repeating pretty much the same puzzle over and over before you get something new. That said you may want to wait for more opinions on it.

That's a pretty good analogy. The Ball is basically portal with another, more boring, gimmick and less humorous.

 

[Gragt]

Looks like Sega is desperate to sell AvP. That game has been on sale quite often.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/58520/
Blood Bowl Legendary edition $10. As shameful as limited activations are, it's kinda worth it.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Sort of tempted by this

 

[Gragt]

I'll wait for a sale of the GamesGate version.

 

[Quilty]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/58520/
Blood Bowl Legendary edition $10. As shameful as limited activations are, it's kinda worth it.

Do you know how many activations you get?

 

[Metro]

I'll wait for a sale of the GamesGate version.

That also uses SecuRom/activation limits. Pretty sure all versions do.

In other news: Global Agenda has gone free-to-play. If anyone already bought it (Why?!?!) you get upgraded to 'elite' status. My guess is the servers will be shut down within the year.

 

[Gragt]

I'll wait for a sale of the GamesGate version.

That also uses SecuRom/activation limits. Pretty sure all versions do.

Exactly. If I have to be bothered by SecuROM, I may as well not be bothered by Steam. If the Steam version was the only one exempt from it, I'd get that one.

 

[Metro]

Gabe is displeased!

 

[Gragt]

He looks happy to me.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/58520/
Blood Bowl Legendary edition $10. As shameful as limited activations are, it's kinda worth it.

Do you know how many activations you get?

Steam says 5. It does have a deactivation tool I believe, but if your computer takes a crap and you have to buy new hardware or simply forget to deactivate while updating you're up shit creek. Presumably Securom would clear your activations if you contacted them, but it's a hassle.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

In other news: Global Agenda has gone free-to-play. If anyone already bought it (Why?!?!) you get upgraded to 'elite' status. My guess is the servers will be shut down within the year.

It was $5! And I can't say I regret it, as I've had some fun with the PvP in that game. Worth taking a look at at free to play, but if free to play players are getting XP/tokens/credits at half the rate of "Elite" players (I assume F2P gets a downgrade while elite gets stuff at the same rate as before the change) you'll be leveling up amazingly slowly. Sonoran desert will get you to the teens at least most likely, but after that you'll be leveling on PvP and PvE missions, which will be pretty slow going.

Still, it's kinda fun. Also seemed like higher level characters and twinks aren't massively more powerful than people 20-30 levels lower than them. They've got access to different weapons and abilities, and get some bonuses from more skillpoints and better gear, but it's nowhere near like getting outleveled in WoW or something.