stusser
4523
Stop giggling in your cube!
According to the previously leaked email, 12/19 through 1/2:
Pfft…us old-timers don’t need a leaked email to tell us the dates. :)
RickH
4526
I picked it up used from Gamefly for about that price and havent played it yet. One of the boys has, and he was wrapped up in it for a few days. His recommendation was “you should play this.” Don’t know if that rises to the level of special enough, though.
Three more games added: Cities in Motion 2, Sanctum Collection and OMD 1 Collection. Glad I waited to buy CiM2 when it was on sale on GMG a couple of weeks ago. Much better deal!
robc04
4528
If you end up liking CiM2, please let me know what you liked about it. Maybe I just didn’t ‘get it’.
How are the Sanctum games? I’m thinking of grabbing this mainly for the OMD 1 GotY and maybe the Serious Sam title (I already have OMD 2 and Garry’s Mod).
Good if you like the hybrid action/tower defense sub genre.
I enjoyed #1 a lot more than #2.
#2 had a lot of controversy when the developers moved the game to be much more player action focused and much less tower defense’y. I was one of the people who felt betrayed by this decision. The game isn’t bad, but this is another fine example of a developer throwing their original fan base under the bus to attempt to appeal to a different fan base. Of course some people liked this decision and if you prefer a greater percentage of shooting than towers, you might be happy with this change.
Note: the developers of sanctum honestly seem like nice guys so it is hard to really slam them for throwing people like me under the bus, but as a huge fan of the first game who preordered the second, i, and many others, were in for a pretty disappointing surprise.
If i had to pick one, i liked the OMD series more than the sanctum series though. I am neutral to the fact that one is 3rd person hack/slash and one is shooter. I think both styles work equally.
Giaddon
4531
The Sanctum games are great.
So it’s the 20th anniversary of the release of Doom, and nobody has it on sale? I’m disappoint. After reading all these glowing tributes to it, I want to play it again! Sadly, my 3.5" floppies just won’t cut it (yes, I still have them, but nothing to read them).
I liked Sanctum1 at first but tired of it quickly.
As far as action tower defense games go, I think Orcs Must Die does things much better.
Orcs Must Die had more interesting monster variety (this is subjective, but I dislike the utilitarian style of Sanctum’s monsters where they’re completely non-aggressive and their distinguishing features are mostly just a matter of where the big ‘you can damage us here’ bullseye is located).
Likewise, the tower selection in Sanctum was very limited, and it didn’t leverage physics or environmental variation as was the case in OMD.
I beat OMD 1 using a lot of action skills/weapons, but I didn’t feel 100% forced to do so because every enemy can be countered by most traps. It’s just that the player’s use of weapons and magic (particularly stuns and freezes) are a huge force multiplier with your traps. That’s not the case in Sanctum 1, which had one particular type of mob that absolutely had to be headshotted with the player’s sniper rifle, and this has to be done with extreme precision and without interruption because those mobs come in streams and your towers are 99.5% useless at stopping them.
[edit: On the flipside: Sanctum has much more maze building like a classic TD game. In OMD, walls are strangely expensive and you’re often forced to work with the maps’ existing paths instead of creating your own.]
You can’t do some of the later missions in OMD 1 without a lot of focus on action. OMD 2 is much worse in this sadly.
It is and was. It is for those who purchased it when it was sold. DA II is just one of the of the 250+ removed games from Steam.
No, I will never get tired of pointing out the wonders of Steam and online digital distribution.
So technically, it’s no longer sold on Steam. Steam, “the savior of PC gaming.”
malkav11
4536
Considering that vastly more games are available on Steam and other digital distributors than have ever been available at one time through physical retail and physically distributed games typically have fixed size print runs which sooner or later stop being refreshed, the fact that a relatively small number are no longer available for purchase on a particular digital distributor (but still entirely available to anyone who purchased them previously, and still available digitally elsewhere in most cases) is hardly a damning indictment of the market. I mean, I’d prefer it not happen at all, but come on.
flyinj
4537
And how many games were “removed” from GameStop/EB/retail shelves when that was the only way to get games?
Thousands. And how would you get those games that were removed? Mail order if you were lucky.
These days all you need to do is deal with having to use another instant digital storefront, and only for a small fraction of titles.
So, yeah, Steam is the savior of PC gaming.
Ultrazen
4538
Anyone that removes dragon age 2 from the marketplace, and saves even one person from wasting money on that horrible piece of crap of a game should get some kind of reward.
Also, get a horse!
intruder
4539
Sure but they call their current Midweek Sale “Dragon Age FRANCHISE” with one game available for someone who wants to buy those games now.
That’s why I put “Franchise” in “”.
It’s like we would call “Gone Home” a FRANCHISE.
Strike Suit Zero is $4.99 on Daily Royale today http://www.dailyroyale.com/
rei
4541
…I enjoyed Dragon Age 2 as a side-story.
Steam today: Ironclad Tactics $7.49 -50%.
2-pack is $11.24. From the guys that gave us SpaceChem! What’s the word on this game? Oh wait, QT3 thread. Sounds iffy, except to Jab.
Hidden Steam discount: Titan Quest Gold $4.99 -75%.
Base game and DLC sold separately, also -75%. Can’t find the reason this is on sale…no announcement. I’ve been playing the base game steadily for 2 weeks now, I wonder if I should pick up the DLC? Or switch to Path of Exile?
