Good Old Games started their summer sale a few days ago. Steam’s summer sale is rumored to begin in about a week. Uplay, origin, humble store and others will probably cover the same time frame.
GOG is a good company and worthy of support. They used to specialize in old games, but I guess we’ve got feature creep and they have a store with lots of modern stuff too. You get Rebel Galaxy with any purchase and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare with anything >$10. Their prices seem pretty standard on the modern stuff, but if you want any old games they’re definitely the place to go - they make sure everything is configured for modern systems.
Hard to get excited anymore - ever since steam changed over to the static sale system rather than flash/daily sales the prices have been significantly higher than they used to be.
Just as well, I have literally 900 games on steam and it’s pretty silly to keep hoarding them - I’m trying to get my game buying down to mostly just the humble monthly bundle and 1 or 2 titles a month that I’m really interested in.
I’ll second the praise for GOG. I have an extensive library of games with them, both new and old, every title either free(!) or heavily discounted, and I’ve never had a technical issue running a program. I can play a game that’s 25 years old on Windows 10 without a problem.
I also have a game hoarding problem. I have more games than I’ll ever have time to play. I guess it’s a good problem to have though. If 10-year-old me could time travel and see my PC he’d probably go comatose with paralyzing glee.
Anyone played Dying Light? It’s a FPS zombie game but also has parkour and driving elements. The graphics look fantastic. Steam has it on sale until Friday for $24.
Can anyone here offer a review?
With almost 27,000 reviews it’s rated as Very Positive but I thought I’d check in with gamers I know and trust before I forked over the cash.
I’ve been partaking in the GOG sale. I’ve picked up all of the Elder Scrolls games, Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics, upgraded my Witcher 3 to GOTY edition, and picked up Dragon’s Dogma, Papers Please, The Saboteur, Pillars of Eternity, Darksiders Warmastered Edition, Homeworld Remastered Collection, This War Of Mine, War for the Overworld, and Saints Row IV… plus, of course, the free copies of Rebel Galaxy and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare.
I have gotten 6 emails from Steam since June 4, each one informing me that between 4 and 12 games are on sale. I wonder if the Summer Sale has started? :dubious:
And here I was being brave and try to root games I don’t like out of my Steam library - by adding a folder called “Horrible Games”. I got 6 games added to it so far that I played and hated. I was making solid progress and may even have been able to make a solid dent in my Steam Library of Unplayed Games by Christmas. I don’t really have money for the Summer Sale! Must not look, must not look…
I’ve been jumping through my accounts (Steam, Humble, GreenMan, GOG), so far the only thing I really want is XCOM 2, it’s about $23 on steam but I’m waiting to see if the price drops during their sale. I got NeverWinter Nights and both KOTOR games from GOG.
The GOOD thing about my Steam backlog is, since I have so many unplayed games that I can wait for the price I want. I was looking through the backlog yesterday after finishing Aliens vs Predator and realized I never even installed the last two Arkham games.
gogs sale is over but wow I got a lot of free stuff for spending maybe 30 bucks …I got the two announced games but I got some of the older elder scrolls stuff for free too (daggerfall and arena and one of the side things ) that I didn’t even know I was going to get until I looked at my purchases…
My problem is I have almost everything I want in their catalog …ive got like 522 games …When they have the normal weekend legacy sales i have whole pages that say “owned” …
It’s taking a while for the sales to propagate. Since there’s no longer any dailies or flash sales, it’s probably best to just wait a few hours for everything to settle down. My wish list keeps shuffling games on and off sale every time I refresh it.
So just to clarify, any sale that we see is the lowest price we’ll get for the duration of the sale, right? If I see something that I like today, there’s no need to wait to see if it goes lower?
Probably 6 or 7 games on my 150-game wishlist are at a price they haven’t been at before, so we continue with the new style of meh steam sales. I feel bad for someone who heard about the amazeballs of steam sales like 3+ years ago and just got into the game, they don’t know what sort of craziness they’re missing.
Which of these three should I choose: Fallout 4, Farcry 4, Just Cause 3? Really only need one of that type game for now
I was facing the same sort of choice with** Tides of Numenara, Pillars of Eternity, and Divinity Original Sin**. I had not looked at the store pages on them lately, and just did. Apparently Obsidian/Paradox got caught trying to raise their price right before the sale. Link Tons of bad reviews today. Oops! I think I’m going with Divinity here in hopes of local co-op being good.
Speaking of which… Anybody played some of these other local co-op games? Bundle Link