Bargain Thread 2012 Edition

sangkancil99 · 2012-11-22T20:29:59.000Z

Timsfker:

Jagged Alliance Back in Action is $8 for the next 12 hours.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/57740/

Question to anyone who has played both games; how does this compare to XCOM (the remake)? Thanks.

habibi · 2012-11-22T20:44:46.000Z

Mr Bismarck:

Apply the code GMG25-G4VDR-0ZL4Q on Green Man Gaming to get an extra 25% off, meaning Dishonored is $22.50.

Activates on Steam.

Wow! This is the best news for me so far. Does this herald the winter sale for GMG?

Normally I would wait for games to go really cheap but this past few months, because of GMG, I have spent on Dark Souls, XCOM and now Dishonored. I hate you GMG!

Thankfully, I am almost completing XCOM. Dishonored will be next game I am playing!

Edit: CRAP - you gotta be careful.
I got the Steam code and when I tried to activate, it says not available for my country!
I think I gotta use a VPN to activate it - thing is, GMG should not be selling if that is the case!

Nightgaunt · 2012-11-22T20:53:02.000Z

Indie semi-game-story-thing To The Moon is cheap on Steam now, too.

rei · 2012-11-22T22:03:33.000Z

Jesus Christ! Max Payne 3 is 30 gigs.

rezaf · 2012-11-22T22:42:03.000Z

sangkancil99:

Question to anyone who has played both games; how does this compare to XCOM (the remake)? Thanks.

It depends a little on what you’re looking for.
As for staying close to the original game, none of these does a good job.
XCOM is hands down a far better game than BiA, though and at least sticks to being turn-based, whilst BiA uses a real-time system with a seperate planning-mode. BiA’s production values are also WAY worse overall.
But of course BiA is older now and already has a sequel out, so it’s naturally a lot cheaper…

rezaf

JoshL · 2012-11-22T23:11:33.000Z

Rock8man:

Then at 9pm Target has 1600 MS point cards for $10.

By the way, thanks for this tip. I didn’t see it any of the ads, it wasn’t marked on the shelf, the employee wasn’t aware of it being on sale, but it did ring up at $10. I don’t know how you found out about it, but good work!

Now I just have to figure out what to buy with the points…

Brad_Grenz · 2012-11-22T23:24:31.000Z

Here’s a rundown of some of the biggest deals going live at Amazon’s digital game store tonight between Midnight and 1 AM.

Borderlands 2 for $29.99 (Steam)
Dark Souls for $14.99 (Steam)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted for $19.99 (Origin)
Mass Effec 1&2 plus Dragon Age 1&2 for $14.99 (Origin)
Mass Effect Trilogy for $29.99 (Origin)
Battlefield 3 Premium for $29.99 (Origin)
Batman: AA, LOTR: War in the North & Mortal Kombat Kollection for $9.99 (Steam)
Or Batman Arkham Asylum & Arkham City for $9.99 (Steam)

A bunch of the Paradox packs are back, including a couple new ones:

Plentiful Paradox Pack (Crusader Kings II, Magicka, Sword of the Stars, Victoria II) for $9.99 (Steam)
Paradox Seas Bundle (Commander, East India Company, Pirates of Blacl Cove, Ship Simulator, Victoria II) for $9.99 (Steam)
Paradox War Chest (Achtung, Gettysburg, Hearts of Iron III, King Arthur 1&2, Victoria II) for $7.49 (Steam)

Sega also has a Total War bundle (Empire, Napolean, Rome, Shogun, Medieval II) for $23.75 (steam)

These prices will probably start ticking over in about an hour.

Thraeg · 2012-11-22T23:37:44.000Z

Gorath:

So the main strengths are that TRoT is short, entertaining and to the point, exotic, polished and doesn’t do anything obviously wrong.

Thanks. Any thoughts on how it stacks up to its peers in the fairly-recent-European-RPG-that-got-positive-but-not-rapturous-buzz category (Divinity II, Risen, and Two Worlds II)?

Nightgaunt:

Indie semi-game-story-thing To The Moon is cheap on Steam now, too.

Nice. I got that in a recent bundle and have been waiting on a sale on the soundtrack.

Timsfker:

Awesomenauts is fun so far. It’s a side-scroller MOBA with pretty good bots and 2000 players on steam, definitely worth a look given it’s only $3.

Anyone want to go in on a 3-pack for $2.26 each?

TurinTur · 2012-11-22T23:42:24.000Z

rezaf:

It depends a little on what you’re looking for.
As for staying close to the original game, none of these does a good job.
XCOM is hands down a far better game than BiA, though and at least sticks to being turn-based, whilst BiA uses a real-time system with a seperate planning-mode. BiA’s production values are also WAY worse overall.
But of course BiA is older now and already has a sequel out, so it’s naturally a lot cheaper…

rezaf

What sequel?

habibi · 2012-11-22T23:57:21.000Z

Brad Grenz:

Dark Souls for $14.99 (Steam)

This is a steal! If you don’t get this, you hate games. But be warned, its best played with a controller… so if you don’t have one, it cost more than $15 to play this game.

habibi · 2012-11-23T00:28:32.000Z

Not as funny as the comic upthread but in the spirit of Steam Sales…

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Edit: flickr sucks, imgur wins again!

Giaddon · 2012-11-23T00:30:00.000Z

TurinTur:

What sequel?

Probably Crossfire.

sangkancil99 · 2012-11-23T01:46:14.000Z

rezaf:

It depends a little on what you’re looking for.
As for staying close to the original game, none of these does a good job.
XCOM is hands down a far better game than BiA, though and at least sticks to being turn-based, whilst BiA uses a real-time system with a seperate planning-mode. BiA’s production values are also WAY worse overall.
But of course BiA is older now and already has a sequel out, so it’s naturally a lot cheaper…

rezaf

Cool, good to know. Thanks for your comments.

TurinTur · 2012-11-23T02:01:37.000Z

@JA BIA
I think it’s worth it, for that price. Maybe it isn’t a $40 game, but for $8 it’s a very decent game.

Crossfire is more an expansion in scope and features, from what I’m reading.

Gorath · 2012-11-23T05:12:58.000Z

JA:BiA is a good game, especially after patching. Easily worth the 8$.

Gorath · 2012-11-23T05:16:05.000Z

Nightgaunt:

Indie semi-game-story-thing To The Moon is cheap on Steam now, too.

To the Moon and several other indie games are in the current GoG 5 for 10$ sale!

rezaf · 2012-11-23T05:34:21.000Z

Giaddon:

Probably Crossfire.

Yeah, I was referring to Crossfire. Not sure if it’s worth being called a sequel or if it’s more of a standalone addon, but that’s what I meant anyway.

Gorath:

JA:BiA is a good game, especially after patching. Easily worth the 8$.

The pretty mediocre production values kinda bothered me, but yeah, I guess for $8 you can’t really lose much.

rezaf

Gorath · 2012-11-23T05:56:09.000Z

Boojum:

Thanks. Any thoughts on how it stacks up to its peers in the fairly-recent-European-RPG-that-got-positive-but-not-rapturous-buzz category (Divinity II, Risen, and Two Worlds II)?

Haven’t played any Two Worlds.

If you tried to be rational and objective you could probably find good reasons why TRoT is the best of the lot. But it’s also the most demanding because it’s a Baldur’s Gate style party RPG, not a single char action-RPG like the others.

All 3 are different games.

Risen is basically Gothic 2 with a good combat system and a harmless interface. Good game, but look somewhere else for innovation. Open world (big enough for ca. 40 hours), a lot of depth, pretty hardcore. Extensive dungeon crawling in the last 3rd. If you every wanted to play Gothic without breaking your fingers, this is the game to buy. Still worth a shot for 5$.

Divinity 2 DKS is Div2 + Flames of Vengeance (only released in Old Europe) + a massive patch Larian ported back from the XBox.
DKS is clearly the most accessible and most entertaining of the lot. Easy to get into, nice visuals, superb music. Nice game to explore for an hour or two. Larian is good at telling little stories and creating morally ambiguous situations. Div 2 is more relaxed than Risen.
It suffers from the typical Larian problem though: too much content. You could cut a whole TRoT out and would make the game even better.
I’m a huge Flames of Vengeance fan. It has a different focus: a city hub instead of an open world. Everything happens in a few different districts. The compact world makes things move faster. 20 hours of joy. I finished this two times, so I can easily recommend you to roll a character for FoV even you burn out on Div2. Or alternatively play the whole game all the way through, of course.
The DKS bundle is easy to recommend. 10 bucks, 20 bucks - doesn’t matter.

Mark_Asher · 2012-11-23T06:05:34.000Z

WoW Battlechest is a Groupon Goods deal today for $5. It includes a month of play time.

Omniscia · 2012-11-23T06:19:21.000Z

Mr Bismarck:

Apply the code GMG25-G4VDR-0ZL4Q on Green Man Gaming to get an extra 25% off, meaning Dishonored is $22.50.

Activates on Steam.

Damn it. This was the one game I was really waiting for to go on sale, and it rejected my payment. My other transactions at GMG went through without a hitch. No idea what’s up with that.

Maybe I should just take it as a sign to focus on my backlog this year.

It wasn’t a credit card-related thing, either. The Paypal payment went through, and immediately thereafter was refunded to me.