I see that Steam is having a big sale of some of their older games. Anyone else considering buying anything, and if so, what are you looking at?
Personally, I’m kicking around the idea of buying the XCOM product pack. It seems to have all of the series of games in there, and I presume it is tweaked to work on windows XP (and hopefully 7, since that’s what I just upgraded too). I know when I tried to play one of the early one’s I had on 3.5" disk (yeah :p) I could never get it to load.
Anyway, anyone else thinking of buying anything on Steam?
If I may be permitted to shamelessly shill for a moment, Steam is currently offering my company’s (Telltale Games) entire catalog for a mere $50, which IMHO is a fantastic deal that normally goes for at least twice that. If you like old school adventure games like Space Quest & Monkey Island (yes, we did the new MI series), you should check it out: Welcome to Steam
I was tempted by someof the package deals, but I was able to talk myself out of them because each had some third-party DRM. It’s enough having to deal with Steam – the last thing I want is SecuROM on top of that. I forget which packages specifically, though one was the Eidos pack. That one struck me as worth it for Arkham Asylum alone (at least until the DRM angle shot down the deal).
The deals are awfully tempting. I might end up grabbing some other stuff from there, still.
Wow, that’s awesome. I have Sam and Max Season 1 and I’m glad that someone out there is still making adventure games. Just curious…why the commitment to episodic gaming? I think S&M would have worked better as one single game…
Don’t presume that the games will work with current rigs. I bought Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines and it runs too fast. Steam won’t refund it either, so I’m stuck with it.
I’ve tried registering multiple times for a Steam account. I can’t get past the verification screen where it asks you to type the letters at the bottom of the screen. Too bad for both of us. I was ready to spend money.
I picked up Zombie Driver yesterday. Never heard of it before, but watched the trailer, and it looked cool, especially for the price. Drive a taxi through hordes of zombies. You can actually do bloody doughnuts while splattering zombies everywhere. You get guns, but ammo is limited and they’re used sparingly. Fun game.
I am probably going to pick up Fallen Earth since it’s $25. They just started offering a free 10 day trial on their web site, so I’m going to check it out for a few days first and make sure its worth it. I’ve not played Borderlands, but FE sounds very similar, minus the cartoony graphics (Road Warrior/Fallout FPS MMO RPG). Seems cool so far.
Torchlight is $4.99. For that price I’ll probably pick it up, though I’ll probably not get around to playing it for a while - too many new games!
Evil Genius is $1.99! An awesome dungeon keeper type game that came out a few years ago. Play a James Bond style villan, and have your minions carve out a secret island lair. Different rooms have different functions, and you can research and build all sorts of fun traps. My favorite was a “fake entrance” to my lair, that led to a large room filled with about 50 bee traps all tied together. Any enemy agents (or tourists) unfortunate enough to wander in disappeared under a huge cloud of bees! No one ever survived the bee trap room of death.
Also recommending Defense Grid: the Awakening. Yes, I know there are dozens, if not hundreds, of free tower defense games. But this game has amazing graphics and it’s been crafted with love and care. Very nicely balanced levels mean there are a lot of different strategies, and each level has a ton of different modes and challenges to unlock
There’s a game on Steam called Gratuitous Space Battles, the name and description of which made me laugh. “Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.”
One of my sons plays Evil Genius religiously. I thought it looked pretty cute, and for $2, who can go wrong? Hell, that’s half the price of a Big Mac!!! :eek:
I ended up buying Mount and Blade and a fresh copy of Rome TW (the CD’s of my old copy finally gave up the ghost, and for 2 bucks I figured what the hell). Haven’t had time to play M&B yet…doubt it will be that great, but for the price I figured I might as well. Was going to get XCOM, but not sure if it will play on my system.
Joined Steam, bought Company of Heroes, have no idea how to get it to run. It says it’s ready. I click on the “Launch” button, it briefly says it’s gonna launch, and nothing happens. Well, there goes $15.
I had a friend that had a similar problem, I’ll have to ask what he did to fix it. Or try the steam forum there or google “CoH crash on launch” or “coh starts then hangs” etc.