The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Elwro]

The offline mode does not work on my machine. I tried it twice and twice Steam said that all my games are not installed - I had to download and install them again! Never touching the offline mode after something like this.

 

[Grunker]

Ye, offline mode sucks donkey-balls. I can't play my steam-games when I'm offline without a little "creativity" (which I have in place for all of my Steam games).

 

[Hobo Elf]

Currently I've gotten Skyrim (christmas present from my brother), ArcaniA, which was fucking shit and I got bored with after 5 hours, and now I got Two Worlds 2 and the Pirate DLC. I have TW2 on the PS3, but the blur effect rapes my brian. Good thing I can easily edit out of the PC version.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Those fucking Steam special offers are addictive as hell. I got like 15 games just this week.

Yeah, it's a good idea to just buy a lot of games in the bi-annual sales to play for the rest of the year.

I stopped being desperate to play new releases on release day a long time ago. If it's not Risen 2 or a quality indie RPG I can fully wait for an 80% discount.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Strange, mine always works. Unless a game has started updating already of course, which the Valve ones do every 2nd day. If I get the "Steam servers are too shitty" message, I just quit Steam, disable network connection, then re-enable when Steam is running.

 

[Menckenstein]

I usually don't have issues with offline mode provided I don't start steam in it.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

More bad deals today.

Man, Amazon has much better discounts. It seems pretty obvious that they have much more bargaining power than Valve. Sucks about the US credit card/billing address thing.

 

[Gragt]

Another day, another 3 pieces of coal.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

I also don't understand the hunting for special discounts or something, it seems like a terrible waste of time. I'll pay the 3-5$, I don't want to waste time backtracking around doing stupid stuff.

 

[Metro]

Yeah I haven't gotten anything worthwhile from the rewards. Today I grabbed the Derpgeon Siege 3 DLC at 60% to go with the $5 I got the base game at from Amazon. Trying the demo for Xotic but that's probably all I'll get. I do recommend Binding of Isaac for the $1.24 they're asking. No brainer. Might not be in another indie bundle since it was already in the Voxatron bundle about a month ago.

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

If any one gets their hands on a NWN2 75% coupon I would be interested in trading something for it, coal, other coupons or a cheap game perhaps. A friend of mine would be interested in buying the game for a bit of a co-op romp through this game but since he missed the sale, I thought one of those coupons might actually come in handy.

 

[mugarod]

Is Shogun 2 worth it? I havent played total war game since Rome, and I am wondering if newer ones are good. Or should I get empire bundle instead? or both?

 

[Menckenstein]

Is Shogun 2 worth it? I havent played total war game since Rome, and I am wondering if newer ones are good. Or should I get empire bundle instead? or both?

Shogun 2 is the only good one since Rome.

 

[attackfighter]

I pirate all total war games because they always have a million DLCs/Expansions that I can't be bothered to sift through.

Also, I won Drakensang! Second game I've won; the other one being HL2 which I already own. Funny thing about Drakensang is that I also won a coupon for it awhile ago...

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Guess I'll probably pick up the Dungeon Siege 3 DLC. Might get Shogun 2 blood DLC and Rise of the Samurai. Not sure yet, Shogun 2 is the best Total War in quite a while, but I dunno if I'd be interested in an alternate campaign. Slightly tempted to pick up Edge, but ehhhhhhh.

 

[Metro]

Xotic is actually pretty nice albeit the FOV is somewhat cramped. I'll spend the day debating whether I'll get it or just hold out for an indie bundle.

 

[felipepepe]

Bros, I got Supreme Commander on the Holiday gift giveaway, any noble codexer wants it? It's an 8$ game , but I'll trade it no matter the price tags.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Woop, just traded Gemini Rue for Majesty 2 Collection, and Majesty 2 Collection for Xotic (Which looks kinda interesting). Then I traded Demolition Inc for 7 coal and GLOBAL OPS COMMANDO LIBYA http://store.steampowered.com/app/200020 which looks like an excellent piece of videogaming.

 

[Gord]

For those who are not interested in todays steam sales, there is a sale going on over at Impulse/Gamestop, too.
They have some potentially interesting games, too.

 

[Jaesun]

Someone wake me up when DX:HR is under 20$.

 

[Metro]

Someone wake me up when DX:HR is under 20$.

It was $10 on Gamer's Gate and Amazon a few days ago as noted a few pages back. After that it popped up again on Amazon for $15ish or so but it's currently back up over $20.

 

[Jaesun]

It was $10 on Gamer's Gate and Amazon a few days ago as noted a few pages back. After that it popped up again on Amazon for $15ish or so but it's currently back up over $20.

Yeah I saw that the other day, I just want the STEAM version. But I am not paying any more than 19.99$ for it.

 

[Metro]

It's a Steamworks game -- no matter where you buy it, it activates on Steam.

 

[Majestic47]

what the monocled drill bird said it true.
Anyways, bought nothing again today. How is Prejudice, it looks shiny..and cheap?

 

[oldmanpaco]

Just bought TW:Shogun2 and all the DLC. I feel dirty.

edit: Like Jaesun I need a DE:HR sale. I 'demoed' the game from start to finish and I need to actually buy it to not feel like a thief.