Steam summer sale has started

lordkosc · 2011-07-09T12:32:49.000Z

Nothing today…

And since tomorrow is the last day, Fate of the World will be mine!

Charlatan · 2011-07-09T12:42:01.000Z

Portal 2 and Terraria for me. My first two purchases of the sale. I suppose this means Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 isn’t going on sale since tomorrow is revisiting old sales.

Bought SupCom2 and DLC for my son… and found out that I own it already (which I did not recall… sadly).

Chris_Nahr · 2011-07-09T12:43:38.000Z

Those Prince of Persia games for €2.50 each are quite tempting… they all support gamepads, too. I think I’ll get the most recent one at least.

Papageno · 2011-07-09T12:49:18.000Z

So no answer on this P.A.M. game? I suppose I could try the demo. The only thing tempting me today is the Sam and Max stuff, and maybe the early X games (BTF and Extension just for nostalgia and modern-system updates).

lordkosc · 2011-07-09T12:58:32.000Z

*Regarding P.A.M. Demo…

Scratch that , the demo I played was for Crasher, and that game was not that great. Too many carmageddon clones out.

I surfed around, and couldn’t find a demo anywhere for PAM, not even gamershell, and they usually have every demo.

Omniscia · 2011-07-09T13:01:21.000Z

I hope the New Vegas DLC wasn’t too deeply discounted, because I totally missed that.

Papageno · 2011-07-09T13:03:02.000Z

Omniscia:

I hope the New Vegas DLC wasn’t too deeply discounted, because I totally missed that.

It was down to 3 bucks each.

BTW, I don’t see a way to download a demo for P.A.M.

Oh, did anyone manage to snag those free soundtracks for Company of Heroes?

malkav11 · 2011-07-09T13:17:21.000Z

Ben Sones:

Nothing today for me, either. I’m kicking myself for not jumping on the Shogun 2 deal, so I hope that they revisit that one. Other than that, this has been a pretty uneventful Steam sale for me. I picked up Spectromancer for $2.50… and that’s it. Wait, no–I also grabbed backup copies of The Longest Journey and Dreamfall, for $7.

The Shogun 2 deal was literally a whole $3 less than it is right now.

BrianRubin · 2011-07-09T13:21:58.000Z

lordkosc:

You own the X3 series, and Dead Space 1 / 2?

Both have space / space ships in them!

Not into horror, so not getting the Dead Space games.

rei · 2011-07-09T13:31:20.000Z

Dammit, I suppose some sort of higher power is telling me to prune my 1TB+ Steam folder with my data drive dying a corrupted death today.

Alan_Friesen · 2011-07-09T13:34:31.000Z

Yikes.

Hegemony
Paradox Fantasy Pack
Alien vs. Predator
New Vegas DLC
Mount and Blade: Warband, With Fire & Sword
Wings of Prey + DLC
Total War: Shogun 2 DLC
The Last Remnant
Hinterland
X-Superbox
Dead Space 2
Prototype

Just under $100. I also need to pick up Solar 2, Sturmovik 1946, 1C Space Pack, and Vampire Bloodlines tomorrow. It seems like a lot of money, but that’s a lot of gaming for my dollar.

Ben_Sones · 2011-07-09T13:35:00.000Z

malkav11:

The Shogun 2 deal was literally a whole $3 less than it is right now.

Are you sure? I thought it went lower than that.

Nope, it looks like you are right. Huh.

Quitch · 2011-07-09T13:40:36.000Z

Dean:

Yes.

See this thread:

http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=39384

But be warned, the Tony K AI makes an easy game even easier because all that tedious buffing you couldn’t be bothered is now something easy to do. Ensure you enable all the AI additions, like pre-emptive enemy buffering.

Kalle · 2011-07-09T13:41:09.000Z

Alan Friesen:

Yikes.

Hegemony

For what it’s worth. Hegemony Gold is only sold through the developer’s homepage as far as I can tell but there are many gameplay improvements that I wouldn’t want to be without even if you have no interest in the two new campaigns. Diplomacy, manpower pools on a city basis instead of a global manpower pool, flanking bonuses, and a lot of other tweaks and additions.

If you register your steam serial with them you get a 20$ discount on Gold, bringing it down to $10. It’s well worth the price.

SlainteMhath · 2011-07-09T13:49:09.000Z

Kalle:

For what it’s worth. Hegemony Gold is only sold through the developer’s homepage as far as I can tell but there are many gameplay improvements that I wouldn’t want to be without even if you have no interest in the two new campaigns. Diplomacy, manpower pools on a city basis instead of a global manpower pool, flanking bonuses, and a lot of other tweaks and additions.

If you register your steam serial with them you get a 20$ discount on Gold, bringing it down to $10. It’s well worth the price.

Seconded. At $5 the Steam version of Hegmony (Philip) comes with a serial number that works at the developers site to net you Hegemony Gold for $10. So for $15 total you get the much improved version of the game plus 2 additional campaigns and a sandbox mode. Well worth the money.

triggercut · 2011-07-09T13:58:11.000Z

When the latest iteration of Prince Of Persia dropped last year, it showed up about the same time I was knee deep in a bunch of other games.

Now it’s 5 bucks in the sale.

I remember on a couple of podcasts–maybe GWJ and Giant Bombcast–that they seemed to like it fairly well. Anyone able to confirm that Forgotten Sands is decent?

strummer · 2011-07-09T14:11:29.000Z

Slainte Mhath:

Just a quick shout out to a fun little game that’s $2.50 for the duration of the Summer Sale. Hinterland, by Tilted Mill,

Anyone have input on the rest of the TitledMill Collection - a couple Children of the Nile titles and Mosby’s Confederacy?

The collection is only $6.24, so I don’t even know why I am asking as I am more than likely to buy it anyhow, play 2 of the 4 games for 23 minutes and then never think of them again until I select the “Delete Local Content” steam menu option at some point in the future when I need to make space on my drive.

rei · 2011-07-09T14:11:36.000Z

Yes, it’s more than decent. Some people (me) don’t like the design of the prince but it’s worth it for $5.

triggercut · 2011-07-09T14:23:14.000Z

strummer:

Anyone have input on the rest of the TitledMill Collection - a couple Children of the Nile titles and Mosby’s Confederacy?

The collection is only $6.24, so I don’t even know why I am asking as I am more than likely to buy it anyhow, play 2 of the 4 games for 23 minutes and then never think of them again until I select the “Delete Local Content” steam menu option at some point in the future when I need to make space on my drive.

Mosby’s not particularly good–it just doesn’t work that well.

COTN and expansions are fantastic.

Sadly, the other crown jewels in the Tilted Mill ouevre–Caesar IV and the fully-patched Sim City Societies–are owned by ActiBlizzard and EA respectively, and neither is available on Steam.

TheWombat · 2011-07-09T14:40:02.000Z

Slainte Mhath:

Nothing today that interests me. I did go ahead and bite on the 1C Strategy Pack (A Farewell to Dragons, Reign : Conflict of Nations, XIII Century Gold & Fantasy Wars) for $15 though as I don’t forsee those games in that collection being that cheap again anytime soon and most of them were on my wishlist.

Tomorrow should bring a rehash of most of the deals on the popular titles from previous days. I don’t see myself biting on any unless they redo the Two Worlds II deal. If not, I’ll snag Drakensang and River of Time for the same $17 I would have spent on TW2.

I highly recommend NWN2 Platinum to anyone who doesn’t have the series yet or even just wants Mask of the Betrayer and Storm of Zehir as the expansions are better than the base game (which is good by itself) and add tons of content.

Yeah, I bit on NWN2, as I’ve always wanted to fiddle with it and for like seven bucks or whatever it is I can’t resist.