Author Topic: The Bore Steam Thread :monocle (Read 1277371 times)

Bebpo · « **Reply #2340 on:** July 07, 2011, 02:25:01 PM »

Don't forget Activision sales (at least on CoD franchise, dunno about their non-CoD sales)

EA has good sale prices though? I dunno about bundles, but Mirrors Edge/Burnout/Dead Space are always dirt cheap. Though this was before Origin came along and they got steam-hatin; so maybe you're right.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2341 on:** July 07, 2011, 02:28:50 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on July 07, 2011, 02:25:01 PM

EA has good sale prices though? I dunno about bundles, but Mirrors Edge/Burnout/Dead Space are always dirt cheap. Though this was before Origin came along and they got steam-hatin; so maybe you're right.

I'm talking specifically about their bundles. Their Sims 3 sale was the game and all the add-ons for about $82, buying them separately, or you can get the bundle for $80.

Bebpo · « **Reply #2342 on:** July 07, 2011, 02:33:46 PM »

Actually I just looked for their recent stuff that I care about:

Bulletstorm = 0% discount, $29.99
Crysis 2 = -10000000000000000000000000000% discount because it doesn't even exist
Shadows of the Damned = no pc version

So yeah, PC EA has been sucking lately.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2343 on:** July 07, 2011, 02:38:16 PM »

EA, Capcom, and Rockstar are the worst offenders in my case. For every 3 releases 2 aren't featured on my region's market. And the games that make it are marked up.

cool breeze · « **Reply #2344 on:** July 07, 2011, 03:30:17 PM »

dead rising 2 pc retail version has been $20 for months, and for a while was at $15

dark void at $15 incoming!

Akala · « **Reply #2345 on:** July 07, 2011, 04:13:49 PM »

Actually, that nfs bundle a few days ago was a pretty good deal. 5 bux cheaper and I would have jumped.

archie4208 · « **Reply #2346 on:** July 07, 2011, 06:23:10 PM »

Yeah the publisher catalogs are on sale. (Except EA

)

One reason this sale seems relatively disappointing is because alot of people already own a good chunk of the games going on sale again. You can only offer Lara Croft for $3.75 so many times before everyone that is interested owns it.

etiolate · « **Reply #2347 on:** July 07, 2011, 06:42:32 PM »

haha i finally grabbed lara croft

Bebpo · « **Reply #2348 on:** July 07, 2011, 07:23:47 PM »

Quote from: Borys on July 07, 2011, 06:08:08 PM

Is it just me or are the sales offering worse "bang for the buck" than last year? Are there still THQ, Square, Eidos packs with *all* their games including 2011 releases? id Super Pack?

Yeah. Last year, even x-mas, most 1-2 year old quality games were $4.99. Now they're $7.50-9.99. Sale prices are rising! Very few $50 games selling for $3.74 or $4.99 anymore.

Which is a shame because that's my impulse purchase price point where I'll grab things I'm somewhat interested in. Anything higher than $4.99 and I'm out.

Anyhow, picked up my first game of the sale with Tomb Raider Underworld for $7.50. Yeah that's kind of a shitty price for such an old ass game that doesn't even have the endgame DLC chapters available. But I've been wanting to play it since it's the only post-reboot TR I haven't played and I didn't want to play it at <30fps on X360. Plus $7.50 is still less than the $20-30 they always want for it since it never goes on sale anymore.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2349 on:** July 07, 2011, 07:40:21 PM »

Good deal on Risen

cool breeze · « **Reply #2350 on:** July 07, 2011, 08:01:49 PM »

Capcom is just bad at this sale thing. THQ, Eidos, 2K, Bethesda, and even Sega drop prices low to make whatever they can on old ignored games. I'd be shocked if more than 10 people bought Bionic Commando for PC in the past year, yet Capcom's best offer is 50% off. The game bombed so hard the developer doesn't exist anymore. At this point they should just take whatever money they can get .

A mental barrier prevents most people from gifting or buying $10+ games on a whim. Maybe if it had high praise. But $7.50? maybe. $5? sure, it looks alright -or- double dip. <$5? I don't know what this is, I'll never play it, but fuck it, bought.

Activision's sales make more sense. Singularity is $7.50 cuz it didn't do well, while CoD games remain high because they're still making bank. Capcom = DARK VOID! MEGA DEAL! 50% off! $15! I'VE HEARD NOTHING BUT...well, nothing. I'm going to buy four indie tower defense games and two eurojank instead, for the same price.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2351 on:** July 07, 2011, 08:38:59 PM »

And now SSF4:AE crashes every time I go to the options menu. Screw you, Capcom!

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2352 on:** July 07, 2011, 11:34:02 PM »

Eel gifted me Sanctum!

Eel

benjipwns · « **Reply #2353 on:** July 08, 2011, 08:56:35 AM »

Not Steam but free ARMA II, Men of War from Green Man Gaming and The Sun:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gaming/3681414/Games-for-gratis.html

Add to basket, then enter the code.

It's slow due to traffic, but eventually it works.

benjipwns · « **Reply #2354 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:21:26 AM »

Well, I would hope so since they're your servers.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

$:-\$

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Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #2355 on:** July 08, 2011, 10:45:54 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 07, 2011, 11:34:02 PM

Eel gifted me Sanctum!

Eel

thank you for Children of the Nile!

Great Rumbler

Brehvolution · « **Reply #2356 on:** July 08, 2011, 11:11:57 AM »

It warms the heart to see so much Steam love being spread around.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2357 on:** July 08, 2011, 11:58:23 AM »

Now we just need to get some Iron Roses gifting up in here.

cool breeze · « **Reply #2358 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:01:45 PM »

Last Renmant sale!

archie4208 · « **Reply #2359 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:03:00 PM »

ehhhh

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2360 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:16:15 PM »

been looking to get fallout 3 to be on steam in awhile. buy buy buy

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2361 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:24:01 PM »

I wish Universal Sandbox had been $2.50.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2362 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:30:06 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on July 08, 2011, 01:01:45 PM

Last Renmant sale!

Finally. Won't pass that sale up this time.

Bebpo · « **Reply #2363 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:39:37 PM »

Red Faction is so going to be $6 in a year

/shouldn't have paid $12 for Conviction. Still haven't played it :X

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2364 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:47:23 PM »

At least you only paid 12 dollars for it. I bought it new when it came out on the 360 and I stopped playing it around the 3rd mission. I ended up trading it in for next to nothing.

And I really wish ME2 had 360 controller support. I never understand why that isn't just a standard practice anymore especially since there's already a UI in place for a gamepad. Given the choice, I'd much rather play these games with a pad rather than my kb/m.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2365 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:48:09 PM »

FUCK YES LAST REMNANT

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2366 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:51:04 PM »

I don't know why I'm tempted to buy The Last Remnant. I've had the 360 version for over a year and a half and played like about 30 min of it. Why I'm fighting whether or not to buy it again is beyond me.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2367 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:53:02 PM »

How much is it for you Americanos? they better not be ripping me off a couple of bucks.

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2368 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:58:41 PM »

For Last Remnant? 10 bucks.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2369 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:59:39 PM »

$12.49 here. Nice try Squeenix.

Bebpo · « **Reply #2370 on:** July 08, 2011, 02:00:10 PM »

Quote from: Hitler Stole My Potato on July 08, 2011, 01:51:04 PM

I don't know why I'm tempted to buy The Last Remnant. I've had the 360 version for over a year and a half and played like about 30 min of it. Why I'm fighting whether or not to buy it again is beyond me.

The X360 version is a piece of shit though. Barely holds 20fps and battles take much, much longer without the turbo fast forward speed boost the PC version got.

If you have any interest at all in ever playing it, pick up the PC one. I imported the X360 one, played 30 mins, re-bought on PC for $10.

cool breeze · « **Reply #2371 on:** July 08, 2011, 02:45:36 PM »

Quote from: Hitler Stole My Potato on July 08, 2011, 01:47:23 PM

And I really wish ME2 had 360 controller support. I never understand why that isn't just a standard practice anymore especially since there's already a UI in place for a gamepad. Given the choice, I'd much rather play these games with a pad rather than my kb/m.

yeah, it's Bioshock 2 did it too. PC specific interface but you lose controller support. On the other end, games like Alpha Protocol have busted PC controls because the interface is still meant for a 360 pad.

Deus Ex Human Revolution (not out yet) has full controller support with button prompts and everything. But if you play it with keyboard and mouse, it dynamically adds a bar to map items the number keys, changes the hacking game for mouse interface, allows scrolling in in-game documents. That is one of the few exceptions, partly because a separate team is working on the PC version.

I'm mostly annoyed that Mass Effect 2 DLC is only on their lame Bioware store and they never put it on sale. Not even Origin has sales for the DLC. At least release a GOTY edition with all the DLC packed in.

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2372 on:** July 08, 2011, 03:06:30 PM »

And the lack of controller support was the reason I didn't double dip for Bioshock 2. I can't be the only one out there that skips these games because the developers don't include a gamepad option. To me it seems kind of ridiculous that they don't at least give us the choice, especially since there's already console versions out there. Fuck Xpadder. Give me proper native support.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2373 on:** July 08, 2011, 03:57:49 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on July 08, 2011, 02:45:36 PM

I'm mostly annoyed that Mass Effect 2 DLC is only on their lame Bioware store and they never put it on sale. Not even Origin has sales for the DLC. At least release a GOTY edition with all the DLC packed in.

EA is the absolute worst when it comes to DLC, outside of stuff like Idolm@ster and those cheap F2P Korean MMOs.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2374 on:** July 08, 2011, 03:58:38 PM »

and getting the dlc to install on the steam version is a bitch sometimes

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2375 on:** July 08, 2011, 04:19:33 PM »

As someone who had not yet bought Mafia II, I was happy to buy Mafia II

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2376 on:** July 08, 2011, 04:33:52 PM »

wait all pc games doing have gamepad support? (where it makes sense of course), what about oblivion?

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2377 on:** July 08, 2011, 04:43:44 PM »

Oblivion doesn't.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #2378 on:** July 08, 2011, 04:57:38 PM »

bought the empire total war + napolean total war pack, that's a lot of content for $10

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2379 on:** July 08, 2011, 06:35:30 PM »

Quote from: dcharlie on July 08, 2011, 05:45:17 PM

Can someone please gift me Last Remnant and Fallout 3 please

Fallout 3 is showing up as $16.99 for us Jbores :/

can paypal cash instantly

give me a shout - want to make sure to avoid you all rushing at the same time!

pm me your email

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2380 on:** July 08, 2011, 06:56:08 PM »

So tomorrow, according to GAF, it's going to be:

Dead Space franchise
Hitman franchise
X Superbox
Prince of Persia franchise

along with 8 other spots.

So far it looks like a bunch of nothing for me.

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2381 on:** July 08, 2011, 06:57:28 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on July 08, 2011, 06:54:15 PM

Has Dawn of War 2 Gold had a better deal this week than right now? It's $20 right now but I was thinking that if I wait until the final sale day their might be a better deal.

Also kinda thinking about Fallout 3, even though I'm afraid of how fucking broken it's going to be.

I don't remember seeing Dawn of War pop up other than in the publisher pack. Still, I'd wait and see.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #2382 on:** July 08, 2011, 07:23:04 PM »

holy shit empire total war is 16GB

i started the download at 2 pm, it's gonna be 10 pm before i can play it

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #2383 on:** July 08, 2011, 08:06:51 PM »

make that sometime tomorrow, dl speeds tanking everywhere

have i mentioned how much i dislike steam today

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2384 on:** July 08, 2011, 08:15:52 PM »

Yeah, I'm getting ridiculously slow DL speeds off Steam. 120-500kb/sec - and that's when it's working. Most of the time it's idle.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #2385 on:** July 08, 2011, 08:18:19 PM »

None of the Total War stuff is available in Japan - anyone want to gift me that pack? If you do, send me your paypal address or face random Steam wishlist gift retaliation!

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #2386 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:10:35 PM »

it's $10.19 for the Empire & Napoleon Pack, which includes all DLC

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #2387 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:18:57 PM »

and hopefully i'll get to play it before the holiday sale

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2388 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:30:37 PM »

TLR is $12.49 here

Chaos Theory is the awesome Splinter Cell isn't it? Might get that too

cool breeze · « **Reply #2389 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:43:39 PM »

yeah, Chaos Theory is the best Splinter Cell.

Quote from: Hitler Stole My Potato on July 08, 2011, 06:56:08 PM

So tomorrow, according to GAF, it's going to be:

Dead Space franchise
Hitman franchise
X Superbox
Prince of Persia franchise

along with 8 other spots.

So far it looks like a bunch of nothing for me.

I'd buy Dead Space 2 if the price is right

I kinda wish I got it and Bulletstorm for $13 on Origin last week. The deal window was like five hours or something.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2390 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:49:27 PM »

Can you use a controller with Chaos Theory?

Mrbob · « **Reply #2391 on:** July 08, 2011, 10:07:23 PM »

Not native. But if you grab Pinnacle software you can make it work. I used Pinnacle for the first Splinter Cell game and it worked fairly well with my 360 controller.

Anyone play Universe Sandbox? Thinking about picking it up. I'd grab Amnesia but I'm not a fan of scary games.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #2392 on:** July 08, 2011, 10:10:23 PM »

All hail Eel O'Brian, Napoleon of Steam Gifters

Mrbob · « **Reply #2393 on:** July 08, 2011, 10:50:15 PM »

Add me:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/MrBob

I'll grab it for you and we can do payment via paypal.

FatalT · « **Reply #2394 on:** July 08, 2011, 11:31:00 PM »

I picked up The Last Remnant for myself and a friend. Fallout: New Vegas was $10 this week at Best Buy so I picked that up for PC too. It links to Steam so it still counts!

cool breeze · « **Reply #2395 on:** July 08, 2011, 11:52:18 PM »

Jamestown is pretty great! I should break out my virtua stick high grade, or at least something better than the wii cc pro.

Akala · « **Reply #2396 on:** July 09, 2011, 12:41:58 AM »

Bought some today but kinda pissed couldn't get in on the Jamestown sale cause my steam was borked.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2397 on:** July 09, 2011, 07:06:35 AM »

I've been Jamestown locally with my buddies using controllers. It's an awesome game! It sucks that MAF to gift it to me a day before the sale, he could've saved three bucks if he waited a few hours $:-\$

Mrbob · « **Reply #2398 on:** July 09, 2011, 11:00:57 AM »

I hope there is a Jamestown update in the future which adds online co op. Seems like it could get crazy with 4 people playing at once.

Also, Limbo confirmed to be out Aug 2 on Steam:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/08/limbo-confirmed-for-august-2nd/#more-65576

Ms Splosion man shown up in Steam registry as well:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/05/twisted-pixel-splosion-man-on-pc/

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2399 on:** July 09, 2011, 11:27:54 AM »

I ended up buying Conviction again yesterday and for whatever reason it seems to better this time around than when I played last year. Still there's some things that bug me, like how the game will fade into black and white while you're in shadow and the forced letterboxing. I don't know which of those two irks me more. I doubt there's mods for either of these things seeing how Ubi likes to fill each of their games with draconian DRM.

Seriously, that letterboxing is ridiculous. There's no need for it all.

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