The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Multi-headed Cow]

Finished Alan Wake's American Nightmare. 4.5 hours played including dicking around in a few of the arena maps. Definitely shootier than the original game and had more enemy types, but eh. Also continued the story which earns another "Eh" since Alan Wake's story peaked around the middle of the first game. Enjoyed it more than Darkness 2 though (Which I also finished, 6.5 hours including dicking around in side missions a bit).

Not sure what I'll play next. I'm not removing Dark Souls from an inventory, but mainly I just want to see how it looks/performs so I can decide how much I wanna buy it for. Sorta doubt I'll get so wrapped up in it I play through it now, but maybe. Still tempted to buy Sleeping Dogs from ruskies but I'm fighting the urge with FTL, Torchlight 2, and Borderlands 2 all preordered and coming soon. Still playing Skyrim here and there but I obsessively do these terrible radiant story quests so Dawnguard's taking longer than perhaps it should.

 

[Kane]

Then you can have jiggly water!

awesome another marketing video to sell people stuff they don't need. just like good ol DX10. i like how they carefully changed the color of the weapons and texture resolution so the scene looks more colorful.

 

[sser]

The physics on the cloth looks pretty nice, but the blobs of goop remind me of bubbly animations from the 1990s.

 

[Metro]

Yeah the static Borderlands world doesn't really mix well with the random objects with super physics.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Probably should find a TL2 thread but I'll just plop it in here.
http://www.torchlight2game.com/news/2012/08/24/one-week-until-pax/

Runic's announcing Torchlight 2's release date at PAX, which is on the 31st. Hopefully the release date is the 1st.

 

[Metro]

Probably the last technical day of Summer which is like September 21st or something.

 

[IDtenT]

Tacked on physics is the worst physics.

 

[Kane]

The physics on the cloth looks pretty nice, but the blobs of goop remind me of bubbly animations from the 1990s.

notice that in the comparision video there is no cloth at all.

 

[Grunker]

Finished Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Only about 7-8 hours but there's some replay value in it if you want to shoot for some of the score/time/hidden item objectives. One of the DLC came with the Amazon version I got in the Squeenix pack and it's pretty 'meh' -- basically just an arena map where you fight off waves of endless bad guys. For the $3.75 or so Steam tends to sell it at during sales it's a pretty good pickup if you're into isometric shooters with puzzles.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is certified fucking awesome. Played it single-player and co-op. Best 5€ I've spent on Steam, I think.

 

[Metro]

If anyone wants a key to an indie RTS published by Paradox called 'Starvoid' you can apparently get one here for free: http://www.fileplay.net/keys If anyone does it save me the 'gift key for a friend.' I'm not interested enough to take the time to enter in an e-mail address and register to yet another promo site but I might take one via PM! Game doesn't look that great, just another generic carbon copy low-budget RTS.

 

[sser]

Elder Scrolls scale of things: Better than Skyrim, worse than Morrowind.

Guy runs like his legs are made of rubber and some sections kinda suck and are just a buzzkill to be in, but the game really isn't that bad if you like open-world-esque third-person ARPGs. The magic system is pretty cool, too.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Is it wrong that I'm mildly tempted by Virtua Tennis? Makes me think of playing some crappy tennis game on my Atari 800 way back when and having a good time. And it's my understanding that this is akin to that, in that they're both "Fancy Pong".

Feels especially wrong since I finally broke down and bought Sleeping Dogs and Dark Souls. Dogs because I kept considering it and the demo gave a fairly good impression, and Souls because I pirated it to check out the performance and have been playing it like a fiend ever since. Really shouldn't spend the money or time on videogame tennis. AND YET...

 

[sea]

So, Two Worlds II is the daily deal and this is one of those games I've seen threads about here on the Codex but never had the interest to open and read what's this all about. Now I'm trying to dig through the mountains of flame wars about it and can't really make my mind, is it good or not? And how about 2W1?

Some good ideas here and there mechanically, pretty graphics, decent story concepts from time to time, good sense of humour, but loaded with way too many random fetch quests, the combat sucks, and the endgame was obviously rushed. The DLC is better and worth playing on its own due to a pretty good story and better gameplay pacing (albeit awful voice acting).

See here for similar impressions but with 5000x more linguistic bloat:

www.gamebanshee.com/reviews/108977-two-worlds-ii-review.html
http://www.gamebanshee.com/reviews/109125-two-worlds-ii-pirates-of-the-flying-fortress-review.html

 

[Don Peste]

AGSFGSGSFFGS

 

[J_C]

Multi-headed Cow

Being tempted by Virtua Tennis 4 is allright. It is a good arcade tennis game.

Anyway, I bought Walking Dead. I demod the first 2 episodes, and liket it a lot. Now this 40% sale gave me a reason to buy it.

 

[IDtenT]

Is it wrong that I'm mildly tempted by Virtua Tennis? Makes me think of playing some crappy tennis game on my Atari 800 way back when and having a good time. And it's my understanding that this is akin to that, in that they're both "Fancy Pong".

Feels especially wrong since I finally broke down and bought Sleeping Dogs and Dark Souls. Dogs because I kept considering it and the demo gave a fairly good impression, and Souls because I pirated it to check out the performance and have been playing it like a fiend ever since. Really shouldn't spend the money or time on videogame tennis. AND YET...

It's a really good arcade game. Sometimes you just need these quick, simple sports games to waste an hour or two on. This game is perfect for that. Plus the really difficult mode in exhibition mode is really difficult.

My biggest problem with the franchise is the lack of sets in career modes. Top Spin 2 was pretty good at that, but it was also more simulationy (think NFS vs. DiRT/GRID).

 

[Metro]

One day only: Max Payne 3 + GTA 4 complete for $25 on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00904XVS0/) aka Morgoth's Wet Dream bundle. There's also a non-steam version of the package.

 

[DwarvenFood]

If you still have not got it at this point, you are not a true gamer.

 

[RK47]

Guess I'm a $25 richer fake gamer.

 

[Secretninja]

The first max pain was so shitty I wouldn't buy this if it was greatest game ever and free

 

[commie]

The first max pain was so shitty I wouldn't buy this if it was greatest game ever and free

Cool troll bro.

 

[Gragt]

I'm not sure The Brazilian Slaughter would even care.

 

[IDtenT]

I'm not sure The Brazilian Slaughter would even care.

I think you underestimate The Brazilian Slaughter.

 

[Grunker]

I'm not sure The Brazilian Slaughter would even care.

I think you underestimate The Brazilian Slaughter.

I don't think it's possible to underestimate The Brazilian Slaughter.

 

[Gragt]

But maybe you can overestimate The Brazilian Slaughter.