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The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

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Wow, don't buy Chantelise. What a horrible game. What the hell is this, Ys meets Devil May Cry with a horrible magic system based on pickup up colored gems dropped by the enemies with absolutely horrible aiming? About 10 times less good than the charming Recettear.
 

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Jasede said:
Why is it that every time-

EVERY time I purchase a Steam game, there is some kind of sale the next week where you can buy it for 50% or 75% off?

EVERY SINGLE TIME

:x

Yeah I think Gaben is just trolling me some times too ,I bought the retail version of LA Noire they put it on the previous sale,I buy Arkham City,it's it on this sale
:rage:
 

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Humanity has risen! said:
Wow, don't buy Chantelise. What a horrible game. What the hell is this, Ys meets Devil May Cry with a horrible magic system based on pickup up colored gems dropped by the enemies with absolutely horrible aiming? About 10 times less good than the charming Recettear.

I kinda suspect that since the price point is lower than Racettear which came out earlier than Chantelise.
I avoided it completely and didn't regret my Racettear Purchase.

6th day and I'm just trading like mad..forgetting about Skyrim. :love:
 

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fucking gabe keeps giving me coupons for games i already have or stuff thats already on sale fucking piece of shit! :godimsomadtheyremovedthissmiley: :godimsomadtheyremovedthissmiley:
 

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Jasede said:
Why is it that every time-

EVERY time I purchase a Steam game, there is some kind of sale the next week where you can buy it for 50% or 75% off?

EVERY SINGLE TIME

:x

First rule of Steam: don't buy anything that isn't on sale!
 

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Guys do I even need the basic M&B or should I just buy the standalone expacs: Warband / Fire & Sword
 

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Majestic47 said:
Guys do I even need the basic M&B or should I just buy the standalone expacs: Warband / Fire & Sword

There are a lot of good mods for base M&B (The LotR one and the 1866 or w/e come to mind) so i'd recommend the original for mods and Warband for the new shit and upcoming mods. Fire & Sword isn't really that great.
 

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So, I have a giftable copy of Torchlight that I'd like to trade for a game. I'd really like Recettear, Geneforge Saga, or Payday, but I'm willing to entertain other offers (no coupons please, unless they're actually really good). Either post in here, PM me, or add me as a friend on Steam (The Ticktockman) and chat with me there about it.

Re: Mount & Blade, I hear that Warband is the one you want.
 
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It even manages to slow down on my GTX 570.

The game sucks, period.

NWN2 is a great deal indeed. The OC is much much better than Dragon Age. I never understood the hate about it, I thought that the characters were cliched but very well written and the dialogue sharp and fun. I miss those characters much more than anything Bioware has ever done save for Baldur's Gate 2 and KOTOR. I never felt that the game dragged on at any point, something incredibly rare with games for me.

It also has much better and many more environments than Dragon Age's tennis courts, and the Suikoden-like base building is cool.

I never played the MotB, but seeing as I thought Torment was an overhyped, pretentious, empty POS it's probably not for me. I'll probably enjoy Storms of Zehir more, I think usually I'm more of the hack and slash type (I think Might and Magic is the bees' knees).
 

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crafted 7 pieces of coal into 50% off of Trine, which I allready own. FUCK YOU GABEN
 

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Majestic47 said:
Guys do I even need the basic M&B or should I just buy the standalone expacs: Warband / Fire & Sword

Only reason to buy vanilla is because of a handful of aforementioned mods. That said, buying Warband and F&S separately is only like... a dollar cheaper than the bundle that includes vanilla so you might as well get it.

Humanity has risen! said:
It also has much better and many more environments than Dragon Age's tennis courts, and the Suikoden-like base building is cool.

Never played Dragon Age so I can't make the comparison. I did, however, play NWN2 base campaign and the environments/level design are terrible. Basically a series of hallways/narrow linear chutes.
 

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Yep. Crafting coal is the same as doing a winter achievement/objective, only you cannot get coal from it. Can still get shitty games, coupons, and shitty coupons for shitty games though.

But to be honest, you have better odds crafting your coal than you do holding on to it for entries to the final drawing.
 

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lol ignoring the achievement promo shit...I can't be bothered to spend $10 buying 5 indie games to get shitty coupons. what a shit mechanic.
 

Multi-headed Cow

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So you get the ones you already have the games for and lose time by playing video games and possibly gain free video games what the hell are you bitching about MY BRIAN
 

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bros i am thinking about getting one of the indie bundles but since i have never heard of at least half the games i cant decide between the awesome one the super one or the mega one

maybe it would be better to buy a few individual games instead
 

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Super One: Bunch of Heroes is crap. Cave Story, haven't played but looks like a pretty solid 8 bit throwback RPG/action platformer. Dungeons of Dredmor is a great 'introductory' rogue like -- not as deep as some of the free/ascii ones out there but fairly polished, lots of skills to choose from, and a pretty solid crafting system. Revenge of the Titans is a pretty fun retro tower defense although it's more 'arcade-y' than it is 'tower defense-y.' Limbo is a stereotypical indie/artsy puzzle platformer and is very short (three hours maybe). Gemini Rue is a very solid adventure game. Don't know anything about the rest.

Mega one: Atom Zombie Smasher is a really well done strategy game that isn't quite a tower defense. You have to send in helicopters to pick up people and deploy various defenses to stave off zombies. Not overly complex but really well done. Avadon is Avadon. Haven't played it but it's a Vogel RPG so I'm sure it's fine. Iron Grip: Warlord is a fairly un-polished and ugly looking (not a graphics whore but it looks fairly amateurish) FPS/RTS hybrid. Didn't hold my attention for more than an hour. Runespell is basically Puzzle Quest with cards. Sanctum isn't a bad FPS/TD hybrid but you really don't get much content with the base game and they milk it to death with nickel and dime DLC. I'd say Dungeon Defenders does a better job at the genre despite being third person. Zombie Driver is a surprisingly well done driving/destruction game with polished graphics and game play. Lots of content with the extra game modes they added. Rest I have no idea.

Awesome one: Blocks That Matter is a fairly fun puzzle platformer with a good amount of content. Eufloria is a fairly simplistic and somewhat boring strategy game where you take over spheres by sending X amount of seeds to attack them. Jamestown is a pretty fun 'SHMUP' that plays like an '80's arcade game. Swords and Soldiers is a decent sideways RTS that is pretty simplistic -- think I sunk about ten hours max into it. There's an online component but no one plays. Binding of Isaac is great Zelda/rogue-like hybrid that I've sunk 70+ hours into.

Overall I would say they aren't worth $20. Mostly because a lot of the good games in those packs have been available in indie bundles. You're better off just buying the ones that interest you individually for $2.50 or less. Hell, Dredmor was like $1.50 the other day. The 5 for $5 indie packs they ran last Holiday sale were much better bargains.
 

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Finally met and defeated Krampus in The Binding of Isaac. Took me a good deal of time since I probably opened around 20 Devil Rooms without meeting him, while some people report meeting him after opening 4 or 5 rooms. Of course it happened when I played with Eve and she did crap damage, not during a playthrough with Judas or Cain. Sure, I could have gone into Whore of Babylon form right away but it was risky, and if I died I had no idea of when I'd meet him away so I just did it in her normal form. He's like a weaker version of The Fallen, missing only the charge attack, but that still doesn't make him a weak boss, especially since you should have a good deck of items when you meet The Fallen late in the game, while Krampus can be met starting the second Basement level. In the end he got me down to half a heart, mostly thanks to Eve's slow speed, but that activated her curse and made things a bit easier. He almost killed me with his health almost depleted, but I still managed to get him. In fact, I first thought that the screen telling me I unlocked the Lump of Coal was the death screen … So yeah, another crappy coupon on the way :D
 

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Ok, this was my weirdest Binding of Isaac game evar. She is pretty much an ever worse glass cannon than Judas because she has crappy stats at the start but becomes the Whore of Babylon when she only has half a heart left (soul hearts do not count). But in this game I got a large amount of health enhancing items as well as pills, so by the end of the game I got 9 hearts, plus the Charm of the Vampire that would restore my health after a certain amount of damage dealt, which isn't good for a character that shines when she is close to death. I thought of trading those hearts in the Devil Room to make her very powerful and give Eve a survival chance in her demon form, but instead the first room gave me Krampus, as detailed above, and the second, found only later in the Depths, gave me the choice between the dead cat (very bad in this case) or the Book of Seven Sins, and that one not only is a rather mediocre choice, but was even worse due to the fact that I found the Bible much earlier.

So basically I was left with Eve fighting in normal form, with high speed thanks to the items I found, mediocre base damage that somehow got a nice bonus from the Little Chubby and the Lump of Coal (that one increases damage with the distance at which you hit the enemy), and the Cupid Arrow also increased the damage output by giving me piercing damage. And the Bible meant I could instantly kill Mom and Mom's Heart, which I did. Womb 2 was really weird because I only found Mom's Heart after exploring the whole level but every second or third room gave me a boss, with a challenge room giving me Fistula, Loki and Chub — I actually fought Fistula 3 times on that level!

So once again, this game shows that while your initial items may not be suited for your character and give you a bad start, some later drops may simply develop your character in a completely unexpected but effective way. Not many games manage to do that.
 

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Jamestown is very, very good if you remember the old arcade games. The "Mars as colonised in the XVIIth century" setting adds a tiny bit of brilliance to the whole package.

It becomes quite difficult at a point, though. Haven't finished it yet.

Before I played it I thought I was too old for this shit, but the game does a really good job at slowly grading the difficulty...
 

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Two Steamworks games on sale at other websites (activate on Steam):

* Deus Ex HR and all DLC 80% off at Gamer's Gate.

* Renegade Ops $3 at Amazon
 

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