The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Berekän]

BTW is Victoria 2 any good?

Yes, if you like EU3 you should get Victoria 2, I'm playing it right now and so far I love it more than EU3

 

[Sulimo]

Just don't buy HoI3 on steam for now, the checksum is messed up so you won't be able to play with people without steam.

Just throwing it out there.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Sounds like there's going to be a Quakecon 2011 pack on Steam tomorrow/this weekend bros. All Bethesda published/owned games (TES games, Fallout 3 and NV, Brink, Hunted, Cthulhu, all the id games) and Quake 4 is finally getting added, and the whole bundle is apparently going to be $40 which is stupid cheap for all that.

 

[Jaesun]

you would have to pay ME 40$ to even play that shit.

 

[Metro]

Sounds like there's going to be a Quakecon 2011 pack on Steam tomorrow/this weekend bros. All Bethesda published/owned games (TES games, Fallout 3 and NV, Brink, Hunted, Cthulhu, all the id games) and Quake 4 is finally getting added, and the whole bundle is apparently going to be $40 which is stupid cheap for all that.

I can't see Bethesda selling all of that for $40. All I want is Morrowind... unfortunately I doubt there will be individual discounts.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Yeah, I'm hoping there will be. I'd snag a few of them individually, but I own too much of the pack to make buying it worthwhile.

 

[Gord]

Would be interesting if Old World Blues was on discount, too...

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Looks like it's only $40 if you preorder Skyrim and Rage, so lol.

Also JESUS CHRIST. I bought the id complete pack ages ago but that didn't add Quake 4 to my list, and they want $20 for it by itself. Bummer, since that's how you get the Quake 1 rocket launcher in TF2, plus Q4's ok.

Also also, all FNV DLC is marked down, but only 25%. But I'd wait, there will probably be a Fallout sale later in the weekend.

Also also also, free Brink weekend.

 

[drunkpriest]

whens gmod10 gonna be on sale again i gots to play TTT

 

[EvilSatan]

Looks like it's only $40 if you preorder Skyrim and Rage, so lol.

So pay $120, to make a $70 product into a $40 product, herp.


Jews @ Steam trying to trick us Brodexers.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx1Y_W4II0c
God DAMN it. I wants it.

 

[EvilSatan]

I am going to try the Brink for free weekend. I've heard the games fucking blows on an ATI card, which is what I have.

 

[Metro]

Looks like it's only $40 if you preorder Skyrim and Rage, so lol.

What a screw job. I knew it was going to be something like that. Here's hoping The Elder Scrolls is one of the daily specials and Morrowind drops to 75% off. Might try Brink this weekend although definitely not buy it -- the multiplayer is dead/filled with morons and the game itself is pretty mediocre.

 

[kingcomrade]

Well when I try to install the free Brink it doesn't do anything. Derp.

I really liked the idea of the id pack, but....I already own every single game in that pack, and not on Steam either. Except for the Doom 3 and Quake expansions

 

[Metro]

Not surprising since Brink is notoriously rife with bugs and optimization issues.

 

[EvilSatan]

K bro's, I just played Brink on my ATI card and got a max of 10 fps with a 5870 on lowest setting possible.


Verdict:


Piece of shit game obviously meant for consoles. DO NOT BUY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IF YOU ARE AN ATI USER.

 

[SoupNazi]

but then again why would you ever use ati right

 

[EvilSatan]

but then again why would you ever use ati right

I'm slowly figuring that out the hard way. Although from what I have seen with the latest Nvidia and ATI cards, ATI is winning. But then again, most games are optimized for Nvidia products.

 

[Sceptic]

K bro's, I just played Brink on my ATI card and got a max of 10 fps with a 5870 on lowest setting possible.

Got 60 FPS (because I use vsync) on 4870 with everything maxed (except motion blur and DOF, which I always turn off). So, yeah.

Still, game was full of glitches. Waiting for final patch before I give it a real try.

 

[Secretninja]

lol at the price for the doom pack. gzdoom is teh hard I guess. I bought the quake pack a while ago when it was like 7.50.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

but then again why would you ever use ati right

I'm slowly figuring that out the hard way. Although from what I have seen with the latest Nvidia and ATI cards, ATI is winning. But then again, most games are optimized for Nvidia products.

Nah. I have no particular leaning one way or the other - I just get the best I can afford at a particular time, regardless of colour (red/green). It's been my experience that for every game that has problems with ATI, there's another that has problems with nVidia.

Also, I recently sold a pair of GTX460's on ebay and upgraded to a pair of HD6970's (2GB) (actually, 6950's flashed to 6970). Ended up being a difference of $100 for almost double the performance of the 460's - pretty happy with that. I'm particularly impressed with ATI's latest drivers which seem much improved over the last time I had an ATI card (5870 - yeah, I change video cards almost as often as I change my undies).

 

[DalekFlay]

Not a great deal if you already got the id super pack during one of the hundred times it was on sale for like $15. Still, for everyone who missed all that it's a no-brainer.

Nice to see Quake 4 finally on there but I'm not paying $20 to replace my box copy. Maybe in a $5 sale.

 

[Metro]

I knew they'd only do 50% off Morrowind. Was 75% off a year ago. Methinks I'll PB it. Yes, I'm that cheap plus it's the principle of the thing!

 

[Secretninja]

I kind of hope new vegas goes on better sale so I can justify buying for the tf2 pip boy.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

It'll probably be 50% off later.