Steam summer sale has started

Murbella · 2011-07-08T18:04:23.000Z

Kalle:

What tradition? Fallout 2 started you off as a tribal.

It is all in the clothes.

Sarkus · 2011-07-08T18:40:43.000Z

MattKeil:

I would largely agree. FNV just utterly failed to grab me. It has a few bright spots, mainly in certain sidequests, but I really prefer FO3 overall. Straying from the Vault Dweller player character tradition was a mistake, I’d say. I never had any kind of handle on who my character was or why I was supposed to care.

I like FNV but I agree its kind of weird that your character has an unsaid history that somehow got you to the point where you were a known courier in the area (or else why would you be on the list of options?) but nobody ever recognizes you. I think the idea was that they wanted the player to fill that story in however they wanted to, but instead it just seems like a huge blank spot in the story. Which is why the final DLC, which presumably will provide some backstory, is interesting. But thats an odd time to provide that, in the final DLC.

I’ve worked my way through the tutorial for yesterdays purchase, Cities XL 2011. It certainly looks better then Sim City 4 and there are a number of interesting and realistic options to planning that are nice to see. I guess I can see the complaints about the lack of mass transit options, but once you get beyond bus and subway lines, there isn’t a whole lot left. Light Rail and trams, I guess. Not a huge loss in my book, especially since the Sim City series never gave us trams either.

Tyjenks · 2011-07-08T18:52:27.000Z

Otagan:

At that price point, it’s practically impossible to justify unless you’ve finished what Reloaded has to offer. Odds are you, like myself, will tire of the game before you get to the point where DLC is viable. Reloaded is a ton of fun and worth the asking price, but it doesn’t last forever and I can’t bring myself to pay for any of the extra content. One look at my Steam account will tell you what a big deal that actually is.

Yep. That sounds like me, too. Thanks.

Think, like others, I will wait for FO 3 during the holiday sale and play New Vegas, which I already picked up. The price may go up, but I cannot see playing both.

Demorve · 2011-07-08T19:11:52.000Z

I have a question for our resident expert on space games. Mr Rubin, have you ever played or even heard about a game called Universe Sandbox? Steam has it for $4.99 and was wondering if it any good. It looks interesting, but it also looks like it could get pretty boring real fast. thoughts, opinions???

Gorath · 2011-07-08T19:23:53.000Z

Nikolaj:

That’s how I feel about Drakensang: River of Time. :(

Buy a cheap retail copy on eBay. Shipping will probably more expensive than the game.

malkav11 · 2011-07-08T19:23:57.000Z

Quitch:

Malkav11 means simplified in a bad way, but actually what they did was remove the pointless fiddly bits and then add depth to the combat. The depth that was missing from the first one. I really enjoyed the first one, but the second was better in almost every way, right down to the difficulty system.

Actually, what they did was remove all mechanical depth and decision-making outside of dialogue, and turned the combat into Gears of War minus any of the level, encounter and enemy design and variety that makes Gears of War 2 actually entertaining. (I didn’t like the first Gears.) So, yes, simplified in a bad way.

There’s a reason QT3 voted it GOTY for 2010.

And that reason is collective insanity.

Anyway, I’ve had this argument before and it goes nowhere productive. ME2’s still a good buy at $7 or so.

rrmorton · 2011-07-08T19:39:53.000Z

I’ve logged over 600 hours in Worms Reloaded so far and I’m eager for fresh meat! Buy it, everyone!

It’s a steal for 5 bucks. I wouldn’t bother with any of the DLC but the core multiplayer game is just fantastic. I still learn new things every time I play. It has the purest, most perfect gameplay balance of skill, strategy, and plain dumb luck.

Murbella · 2011-07-08T19:46:25.000Z

malkav11:

Anyway, I’ve had this argument before and it goes nowhere productive. ME2’s still a good buy at $7 or so.

Without a doubt.

Arguments on changes aside, i can’t imagine anyone who would think $7 for ME2 wasn’t a good deal (assuming they don’t hate 3rd person shooters obviously).

Not to turn this in to ME thread, but I’d strongly recommend playing me1 first as ME1 provides nearly all of the story movement in the series so far. Me2 is mostly a side story, trilogy plot wise. Of course this only matters if you plan to play ME3 and ME3 actually moves the story forward instead of building up a team to build up a team to build up a team.

On another note, i kind of laughed when i saw last remnant for sale. The game didn’t do very well and a lot of people disliked it, but i got it a long time ago and liked it a lot. I even bought a 360 controller to play it with on my PC (i do recommend a gamepad over mouse/keyboard). Hugely underrated game with a pretty good story and a unique/mostly interesting combat system.

The combat system was either hit or miss with people though. You never really had direct control over your people. You give engagement commands to squadrons of unique npcs and these commands cause them to do various actions based on their ai. This system of indirect control gave the game a unique flavor which i liked.

Note: i didn’t finish last remnant because i got side tracked and then never got back to it, but i do plan to go back to it, one day. It is in my backlog.

spiffy · 2011-07-08T19:58:15.000Z

Finally, something I wanted… Dirt 3, and Mafia 2 DLC! Although I’m so out of touch with gaming these days I might actually want so much more if I knew anything about half these titles. Anway, whoot more racing!

Bill_Dungsroman · 2011-07-08T20:02:50.000Z

Honestly, ME2 isn’t really the best example of a sequel improving on every aspect of its predecessor. They changed a bunch of stuff sure, but if you go in realizing that you do not at all have to explore every planet then you will have a blast playing ME1. It has a great ending (well, all the events leading up to the ending I suppose, the ending is fine too).

Blips · 2011-07-08T20:04:49.000Z

Bill Dungsroman:

Honestly, ME2 isn’t really the best example of a sequel improving on every aspect of its predecessor. They changed a bunch of stuff sure, but if you go in realizing that you do not at all have to explore every planet then you will have a blast playing ME1. It has a great ending (well, all the events leading up to the ending I suppose, the ending is fine too).

As a stand alone game, ME2 would be great. As a Mass Effect game, it pretty much soured the entire main story line for me. Not to mention all the simplification.

Pyperkub · 2011-07-08T20:38:19.000Z

Houngan:

Defense Grid is well worth $4, that’s for sure. I’ve already gotten hours out of it.

H.

Me too. If it shows up on the last day’s sale, anyone who doesn’t have it should jump on it.

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Dean · 2011-07-08T20:59:34.000Z

Nothing of interest to me in the Daily Deals today, so I went hunting in the Indies area and came up with:

Blueberry Garden - $1.25
Time Gentlemen, Please! - $1.24
The Wonderful End of the World - $3.40

I can’t imagine those games are going any lower than a buck, and ever since Dejobaan published WEotW I’ve been promising Ichiro that I’d play it, but I never even bought it.

Plus I always assign some weird indie game to my Critical Studies class to play. Steam sales are great for finding those.

Marcin · 2011-07-08T21:09:41.000Z

Blips:

As a stand alone game, ME2 would be great. As a Mass Effect game, it pretty much soured the entire main story line for me. Not to mention all the simplification.

Yes.

malkav11:

collective insanity.

Yes!

Man, I need to remember who said this for future reference. :) So you think NV is better than FO3? Hmm… I enjoyed FO3 up to the point where I started de-leveling (the auto-leveling or whatever was making me gradually weaker than the same bandits I’ve been flattening for the last 5 levels). When I hit level 11 and I started needing nearly a full clip despite pumping Small Arms all the time (well, and all the other stuff I always want to do in a Bethesda game) after 2,3-shotting the same foes … just got tedious.

krayzkrok · 2011-07-08T21:10:20.000Z

Brian Rubin:

Welp, nothing to buy for me today. If I had more money I’d get Divinity II, but I’ll wait for another sale.

Divinity II was $9.95 about two weeks ago on Steam. This Daily Deal isn’t much cop! It was also $9.95 during the Chrismas sale, so I’d say it’ll hit a much lower price at some point. It’s well worth it though, one of the most enjoyable RPG I’ve played.

maxle · 2011-07-08T21:12:00.000Z

Divinity 2 was not $10 during the Christmas sale, unless Austrlia inexplicably was granted a better price than America was.

Marcin · 2011-07-08T21:13:04.000Z

Maybe Divinity II base game, not DKS. It’s on my wishlist so I check it pretty frequently … if it really was 10 bucks a bit ago, I’d be one sad panda. :/

maxle · 2011-07-08T21:17:01.000Z

Could be. Alls I know is I bought DKS over Christmas and it was $20

krayzkrok · 2011-07-08T21:20:50.000Z

Ok, it would seem I’m losing my marbles. I had to check though, you’re right - it’s never been $9.99. Um… it seems I left the oven on! Must dash…

Blips · 2011-07-08T21:32:40.000Z

Dean:

The Wonderful End of the World - $3.40

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

WHY DID YOU BUY THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE?!?