Microcenter is selling the Thrustmaster T500RS racing wheel for $149.99
http://www.microcenter.com/product/355399/T500RS_Racing_Wheel_for_PS3
Normally $600
From what I gather, anyone that gets the game for Desura (which can be instead without the client) should get a key for Steam as soon as it comes out on steam.
Jab
4405
Toysrus is currently running a sale where if you buy either Angrybirds Star Wars or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game, you can any Wii or 3DS game for free. That includes the latest Zelda game, Pokemon and a lot more.
Free Steam keys for Enclave if you sign up on this site:
If you don’t understand German, click on the little flag icon in the upper right to choose English. Then choose “New User”, setup a new account, and look for the registration email. I received another email with the Steam key right after clicking the registration link from the email.
Assassins Creed 4 (boxed versions) , PC/360/PS3 on sale @ Amazon.
$29.99
Carcasonne is free at the amazon app store. Seems like a good port.
Best Buy has Fire Emblem Awakening (3DS) for $14.99!!!
Reminds me that I bought it back in May at $39.99 and still haven’t played it yet!
corkeh
4410
Looks like the Tomb Raider games are on an unannounced daily sale, including all the DLC.
New humble bundle:
Natural Selection 2
Sanctum 2
Magicka & some DLC
Orcs Must Die 2
Garry’s Mod
Serious Sam 3
BTA is currently under $4. I’m glad I didn’t jump on the tempting big sales several of these games had on Steam this week.
I’m tempted by that just for Orcs must die 2. But I promised myself I wouldn’t buy Assassin’s Creed IV and Orcs Must Die 2 until I played the previous game in the series first.
Problem is that the first OMD is sooooo hard. I have no idea how to get through it. Probably the hardest tower defense game I’ve attempted after Desktop TD.
I got much farther in OMD when I realized that unlike other TD games, I have to get most kills myself, not from defenses I set up. But even that wasn’t enough in later levels.
I wouldn’t say you need to get most kills yourself in Orcs Must Die. You do have to help, particularly early in a level before you’ve got proper machinery set up. Some levels require more manual kills than others.
There are a fair number of instructional videos out there, showing how to beat levels in both games on both normal and nightmare. Players take different approaches, some relying more on personal skill and others more on traps and pathing. The final level, for example, has 8 entrances to the rift, and I’ve seen people defend it themselves and I’ve seen barricade paths set up so there’s only 1 entrance. I beat it using the latter, since I am not particularly good at the shooty bits.
I didn’t have much problem beating most levels without much action in the first one, but I felt like you really need to do a lot more in the seuqel
stusser
4415
Great deal for four bucks. I bit even though I don’t plan on playing any of them, just because I don’t own them yet. I have a sickness.
You’re a “collector”. And since the things you collect are pretty cheap, you can do it guilt-free.
stusser
4417
On the bright side, at least the crap I collect doesn’t clutter up my apartment. You could never tell I’m a hoarder!
Wade42
4418
Bought. Thanks, Gigglemoo!
Crater
4419
I had that realization the other day - if I had a physical box for every digital game I own, the health department would have likely condemned my house by now.
Yeah, seriously. It’d be one hell of a Hoarders special if I had to own physical boxes of my Steam collection.
ioticus
4421
I never played a Tomb Raider game, is the bundle worth buying at 13.99? Caveat being I hate jumping puzzles and puzzles in general, and I don’t know how much of that is in these games.
I think you’re both right and wrong.
There were a lot of levels in OMD that you could dominate with smart tower placement. However, the further in the campaign you went, the higher the frequency of “FUCK TOWERS” levels. By this I mean levels that were specifically designed to not be easily defendable by a low number of tower choke points. As a huge tower defense fan, OMD 1/2 are still some of my favorite games though.
For a pretty long time i was stuck on the last level in OMD in fact.
If you do watch the pro guides on youtube, later in the campaign you will find people running around like a madman and nuking enemy groups down before it even gets to their towers.
Agree with this. I also felt the 2nd one moved the bar between action and tower defense closer to the action side, but not by THAT much. Mainly #2 just performed the same move away from tower focused defense that #1 did, just earlier in the campaign.
In some ways i guess this makes the player be more active, but in a tower defense game i really want to spend the vast majority of my attention on creating a genius killing field.
