Putting the 'role' back in role-playing games since 2002.
Donate to Codex
Good Old Games
  • Welcome to rpgcodex.net, a site dedicated to discussing computer based role-playing games in a free and open fashion. We're less strict than other forums, but please refer to the rules.

    "This message is awaiting moderator approval": All new users must pass through our moderation queue before they will be able to post normally. Until your account has "passed" your posts will only be visible to yourself (and moderators) until they are approved. Give us a week to get around to approving / deleting / ignoring your mundane opinion on crap before hassling us about it. Once you have passed the moderation period (think of it as a test), you will be able to post normally, just like all the other retards.

The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

deshields538

Scholar
Joined
Sep 19, 2008
Messages
570
Location
On a dark desert highway
Warband is on sale?!?

I only just bought it last week at full price.

:rage:

Oh well, I got myself Counter-Strike: Source for £4.76 instead.
 

Quilty

Magister
Joined
Apr 11, 2008
Messages
2,406
Pegultagol said:
I've been looking at Men of War and its sale price of $8.74 along with its add-on pack.

Would it be worth it if I found Company of Heroes enjoyable?

I enjoyed both immensely. Especially on the higher difficulties. However, they're pretty hardcore if compared to Company of Heroes. Try the demo first, I think there are several available.
 

Darth Roxor

Royal Dongsmith
Staff Member
Joined
May 29, 2008
Messages
1,878,404
Location
Djibouti
yaster said:
Grunker said:
Tempting:
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy: 3,05€

Wait.. WHAT!? WTF is wrong with you mate!? It was terrible. Downright atrocious. Oblivion looks like masterpiece in comparison.

Eh, Fahrenheit is not bad. The first half is great, with all the mindfuck going on, and while the second half is one giant QTE, it has the best scene EVAR in video gaming: a blind old woman on a wheelchair turning into raging rogue internet.
 

Jaesun

Fabulous Ex-Moderator
Patron
Joined
May 14, 2004
Messages
37,241
Location
Seattle, WA USA
MCA
I picked up The Whispering World (Point and Click Adventure) and I finally will have to get over my fear of playing a uber oversexed heterosexual and b00bie card loving Geralt, as The Witcher Supar EXTREME Deluxe With Cheese and a free drink Edition was only 7$. Figured I might as well give it a try.
 

Zeus

Cipher
Joined
Apr 25, 2008
Messages
1,523
I bought Alien vs. Predator Classic 2000 because I always wanted to play it, and because I've dropped more than $1.25 on that "roll the ball up the snowy mountain game" while waiting for my food at Pizza Hut. :P

Random thought: How long do you think the guy who owns www.steam.com will hold out before cashing in his chips and moving to Hawaii?
 

deuxhero

Arcane
Joined
Jul 30, 2007
Messages
11,326
Location
Flowery Land
I lotthe the fact that everything goes on sale just as I spent all my money on a graphics card.

At a quick glance, the discounts all seem to be in the nature of 4-6 bucks off. Meh. Might have gotten Warband at this price, but other than that.
 

Multi-headed Cow

Guest
Black Bart Charley said:
Paying 5 bucks for a multimillion game. 5 dollar.
Feeling superior to pirates. priceless.
Not like those dollars add up or sell to people who wouldn't have bought it otherwise or anything. That would be crazy.

Alexandros said:
Bros I need the Kodex Kritical Konsensus on some games that I'm considering buying.

Witcher Xtreme Edition at 5,43 €. It's the only major RPG that I haven't played, is it worth it? Yes.

Space Rangers 2: Reboot at 4,74 €. Never played it, yes/no? Yes if you have BALLS OF STEEL for difficult games and like odd games.

Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge at 6,79 €. Looks a bit like Jagged Alliance, anyone played it?

UFO: Afterlight at 2,49 €. I'm a huge X-Com fan so I played Aftermath and Aftershock but thought they were meh. Is this one any better?

Tropico 3 at 10,19 €. Heard some good things about this one, are they true? They're pretty true. Easier than Tropico 1 but similarly good.

Swords of the Stars Complete at 14,99 €. Never played it and I'm pretty sure you will all recommend that I buy it, but I'm asking anyway. I recommend that you buy it. Scratched my space 4X itch better than anything since MoO2.
 
Joined
Jun 13, 2010
Messages
1,128
Multi-headed Cow said:
Black Bart Charley said:
Paying 5 bucks for a multimillion game. 5 dollar.
Feeling superior to pirates. priceless.
Not like those dollars add up or sell to people who wouldn't have bought it otherwise or anything. That would be crazy.

Its a good, uplifting feeling to be the proud and righteous man, to pay the developer and publishers their hard earned 5 dollars, right?
 

piydek

Cipher
Joined
Feb 13, 2006
Messages
819
Location
Croatia
Bought myself:

- Trine
- Shadowgrounds
- Shadowgrounds: survivor
- Alien vs Predator 2000 classic

for 9€ altogether. Crazy :lol: .
 

Annonchinil

Scholar
Joined
Mar 12, 2007
Messages
844
I am confused, which two space rangers games are sold on Steam? One appears to be the first game and not the sequel and Reboot appears to be some sort of RTS game.

Also any opinions on the Star Wolves games?
 

yaster

Liturgist
Joined
May 24, 2007
Messages
257
Annonchinil said:
I am confused, which two space rangers games are sold on Steam? One appears to be the first game and not the sequel and Reboot appears to be some sort of RTS game.

Reboot is expansion pack to SR2. RTS game (more like mix of action & rts but whatever) is part of SR2
 

Black_Willow

Arcane
Joined
Dec 21, 2007
Messages
1,866,230
Location
Borderline
Annonchinil said:
Also any opinions on the Star Wolves games?
The first is ok, certainly worth the price.
The second is pure turd and the third half-turd.

Jaesun said:
I picked up The Whispering World (Point and Click Adventure) and I finally will have to get over my fear of playing a uber oversexed heterosexual and b00bie card loving Geralt, as The Witcher Supar EXTREME Deluxe With Cheese and a free drink Edition was only 7$. Figured I might as well give it a try.
Don't. It may bring your latent hetero tendencies to surface.
 

Multi-headed Cow

Guest
Black Bart Charley said:
Multi-headed Cow said:
Black Bart Charley said:
Paying 5 bucks for a multimillion game. 5 dollar.
Feeling superior to pirates. priceless.
Not like those dollars add up or sell to people who wouldn't have bought it otherwise or anything. That would be crazy.

Its a good, uplifting feeling to be the proud and righteous man, to pay the developer and publishers their hard earned 5 dollars, right?
Sure is bro.
 

Antihero

Liturgist
Joined
May 8, 2010
Messages
859
Somebody's gotta fund their game welfare torrents.

But here's hoping to see if AP will come back on sale with a drop to $5-$10 before the end. (Steam's been crafty like that in the past... even for recent games like Torchlight, come to think of it). Mainly just to see what the fuss is about.
 

Metro

Arcane
Beg Auditor
Joined
Aug 27, 2009
Messages
27,792
Anyone have an opinion of Greed: Black Border? The metacritic score is in the gutter and I've seen a lot of people bash it but it looks like a halfway decent space ARPG -- main complaints I've seen is that there are basically no other npcs or quests so it is basically just an isometric shooter.

Other than that considering/waiting on daily sales for The Maw pack, Aquaria, Avancast, and yes... even Global Agenda if it drops below $20ish.
 

yaster

Liturgist
Joined
May 24, 2007
Messages
257
madbringer said:
And why even compare an adventure game to Oblivion?
It's not a comparison to form a argument. It's way of saying that it's "shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, very fuckin' bad & shit" without overusing the word shit

It's one of the few good adventure games to come out in a long time.
You just don't know others, you've no interest, right?

Fahrenheit was good.
Darth Roxor said:
Eh, Fahrenheit is not bad. The first half is great, with all the mindfuck going on, and while the second half is one giant QTE

:?

You know you are talking about the adventure game that thought that instead of the actual gameplay and puzzles it would be better to have quick time evens. God, I love this so much - press green button, press blue one, press yellow, green button, green again, yellow... ohh so fantastic and stimulating. It's so hard not to feel engrossed.

Shit gameplay. It would be better without it.

The game clearly must be intended as being as close to film as possible. Looking like film, playing like film, but not being a film so there wouldn't be actual competition to face. David Cage is wannabe film maker who is just too big inbreed to make film that would be somewhat noticeable.



And what is even funnier is that the only thing that could somehow save this shit from abyss (at least for some), the story is one of the worst I've ever seen. Given that games are generally very bad at this kind of stuff you could think It wouldn't be hard to make something good in comparison, but no, Indigo Prophecy fails. Or at least decent, as much shit as other video game shit, but no IP fails. Story is utter fail. Incohesive, juvenile power fantasy without any direction or prevailing theme, that just keeps on adding more and more stupid, redundant shit to it. With every minute is getting dumber and dumber, by 2nd part the only thing you will wonder about is who could be that stupid to though out all this crap, or why he allowed his six years old kid to write it for him.

Let me give you, untainted ones, a taste of storyline: some factions fights for world control, government, some magical folks who just awaken called purple faction (for reelz) and aliens or robots, can't tell, same shit called orange faction. Main guy is son of gov employed fuck who works in secret military camp devoted to study aliens, as a kid he went over the fence and touched shitty magical crap, becoming superman able to rise from the grave (ohh wait maybe was resurrected by aliens, can't tell) and make jedi tricks like force jump over 10m or kick ass in matrix fashion with proper slow motion and whats not (yes, it's still adventure game we are talking about), but of course he don't remember all of this because eeee, well because. One day, he kills a guy in restroom in bar, but don't know why. It's ritual murder made by his hand but being mind controlled by aztec. Yes aztecs are in the game and make no sense just like the rest of this shit, i think they want to bring back magical folks from slumber, so that's why they do ritual murders and they needs others to perform it because eeee, because there wouldn't be a story otherwise, duh! But, let's continue - stupid shit follows, there is investigation blah blah blah police finds out he killed. He discover his powah when police is going to catch him, escapes. Aztecs want to kill him now too. Stupid shit follows. More stupid shit follows. Even more stupid shit follows. Even more stupid stupid shit follows. And so on, and so on. Like for example: there is secret organisation independent of gov with specialise in surveillance and they are the best informed folks on earth - they workd under cover being bums, and they are... homeless, see it is brilliant, bums don't need money to live! so they can be independent, and nobody take notice of bums in the streets so they could gather info everywhere! there is like whole 7 of them. For some reason world is getting colder, it's start as worst winter ever to end as -100 degree catastrophe, frozen land where life ceases to exist, except it doesn't because as we established writer is to fuckin' dumb to know. What's next? Ohhh did I tell you that main guy and then come back to kick some ass? Or did I tell you about the little girl from the ring with is probably the most retarded kid ever (luckily she's barely moving, so she cant do serious damage or jump in the front of the car) heh you can blame her for being stupid, because she's in fact a piece of rock, if you were a piece of rock you would be retarded too, wouldn't you, huh? She's the very rock main guy touched when he was a kid, yeah. And this rock is a key to world domination yada yada yada. Fuck, I hate this shit. I sure as fuck still remember way to much of it...

Shit, I've forgotten with what I was going to follow it up... fuck fuck fuck oohhh i remember! The whole thing have some dumb shit made up to excuse what happened in the beginning of the story. You may think that the start was nice but It's unfair to look at this that way - you're giving a benefit of doubt to every story that start, if doubt is unwarranted (as is the case) then benefit doesn't prevail, beginning was shit, it in best case scenario did a splendid job at introducing you to shit, hardly something that I would appreciate (I'd hated it in fact just for that, coincidance!). Let me give you a example: let say that somebody gave you a present. It's in the box wrapped in paper and tied with ribbon, it might be all tarnished, the dullest and the ugliest wrapping ever but still you want to know what's inside so you'll open it either way. And when ribbon is out, paper on the ground and you've opened the box what you see inside is huge bovine crap. What's then, would you tell that 1st part of the present was great? If the wrapping was all beautiful and properly appealing would you thought better of the present, and admitted that the present composed of huge bovine crap is not shit at all? Of course, the example won't fit anything but I think It fits stories perfectly, and while games are no all about stories as I said before IP's gameplay is qte crap, I don't think there is duller gameplay imaginable.


Therefore my points stands, and you're wrong - but fear not, I'm here to guide you in this dark land, just listen to mine opinions and accept them unconditionally as your very own! Everything would be just fine.



it has the best scene EVAR in video gaming: a blind old woman on a wheelchair turning into raging rogue internet.

So, you are one of those folks who claims that something is so bad it's good, right? Well, your choice. Different people, different preferences. But let me ask you for one thing: please, do, kindly, go fuck yourself.
 

Quilty

Magister
Joined
Apr 11, 2008
Messages
2,406
Farenheit seemed really awesome from the demo, then turned out to be some kind of trippy shit.

That said, I remember there was a sequence where you were in bed with a girl and it was a QTE moment. You had to balance out a slider while you fucked her or else...well, I dunno, I guess something bad would happen. I had no problems with that, though. :smug:
 

Metro

Arcane
Beg Auditor
Joined
Aug 27, 2009
Messages
27,792
kingcomrade said:
I bought L4D2 cause it was 10 bux. Why not?

Exactly.
 

As an Amazon Associate, rpgcodex.net earns from qualifying purchases.
Back
Top Bottom