I just want to point out that the version of Ticket to Ride for PC I had does not allow network play. My wife and I may be some of the few in the world that care about this, but it kind of sucks. Oh, and it has no “pass-and-play” kind of take-turn setup either. Online only(or vs. the computer).
I prefer the iOs version, which allows pass-and-play.
This is the Steam version but, yeah, no hot seat or LAN play. Solo (against AI) or online play.
On the plus side, apparently online play works across all versions so someone on a PC can play against a friend with an iPad.
The one that annoyed me was when I bought Saints Row 3 at the daily/flash deal price, and then it went even lower.
I don’t recall that. Was that a pricing error or something? 99.9% of the time the daily or flash sale is the best price so that’s when to strike.
I remember that. On the last day of (winter?) sale, they did a “Complete” bundle of SRTT with DLC for $13.49. I assumed it was a pricing error except it stayed up all day.
Current flash sales include Civ 5, Little Inferno $2.50, Football Manager 2013 $10, Duke Nukem 3d $3.39.
If you want to get in on the SDMB Multiplayer Civ 5 games, you need the gold edition of Civ 5. You can either buy the base game + gold edition for $12.50, or if you already own the base game, pick the “gold edition upgrade” for $5. That gives you gods and kings and all the civ DLC. If you want to play with us you’ll need that.
If you miss this chance I’m sure civ 5 will be a daily sale at some point, but might as well jump on it now.
Daily
Chivalry - 6.24
FTL - 2.50
FEZ 2 - 5
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - 4.50
Surgeon Simulator - 3.39
Walking Dead - 6.24
Darksiders 2 - 10
Anno 2070 - 15
Just cause 2 - 3
COD Blops 2 - 30
Flash/community choice (4 hours left)
Runner 2 - 7.50
Xcom - 10
Far Cry 3 - 24
Legend of Grimrock 3.75
GTA 4 - 5, or complete edition 7.50
Of those, Chivalry, Walking Dead, Just Cause 2, and FTL are highly recommended. JC2 and FTL at those prices are pretty much mandatory. SDMBers play chivalry fairly regularly. Grab all the DLC for JC2 also, might as well at that price. XCOM is good too although you may want to wait for $5 at some point in the future. The other games are about as cheap as they’ll ever get.
Oddly, I have this problem with STEAM; If something doesn’t show up on the frontpage, the odds of me actually discovering it are basically zero. You can click on browse by genre, and then it’s like “oh, here are a few random games” and then you can click on “Show all” and it shows you all in that genre, but you can’t really filter except for a couple of dropdowns that filter on completely stupid stuff (Who the hell wants to filter by PUBLISHER?) and don’t allow for multiselection, so if I wanted to browse for games that are both action and RPG, I can’t.
I think games just lack good classification systems. I mean hell, game genres are completely stupid. The “Action” category on Steam gives me, CoD:BLOPS, Bit Trip: Runner, DotA 2 and Joe Danger, 4 games that have about as much to do with one another as bricks, apples, measuring cups and sand. And don’t even get me started on the “RPG” category. I think this is why Steam is looking to allow people to create custom storefronts - because the idea of people as advocates of content is becoming so important.
Hmm. And to answer your request for assistance; Amazon does it’s filtering on the left hand side of the page. So if you start by:
Shop By Deparment -> Music, Movies and Games -> Video Games
Then you’ve got a bunch of filters on the left. You can click on Platform: PC, and then on the left (again) you’ve got Price, and Discount, and Average Customer Review, and Publisher and whatnot, and you can click on each one and they all STACK, so if you want games that are under $25 and more than 50% off, you can filter for that.
The only “sort” option is in the upper right of your results, and it only has a couple of options, but the filters are pretty good, so you probably won’t need more than the sort options offered.
Soooo, Skyrim: Legendary Edition is $35.99 as the community choice right now (40% off). I was hoping that the regular edition of Skyrim might drop to 19.99 during this sale, but as soon as I saw the LE go up a few weeks ago, I doubted that it would happen. I know this game is a new classic and I probably should have bought it a long time ago, but what say you all: is this the best price I’m going to get it for this summer?
No hard feelings if you’re wrong. 
It might go up to 50% but I doubt it’ll go higher. The legendary edition only came out a few weeks ago.
If you haven’t played it at all, this is a pretty good deal. I’ve already played Vanilla Skyrim on the PS3, so I’m personally waiting for the LE to drop to 20 bucks or so before I give it another runthrough.
Thanks JB.
Ahhh, screw it. I’m going to buy it. I’ll play it more than the 300 plus other games I haven’t gotten to. :smack::p:)
Crusdar Kings II is the Steam daily sale. Most noteworthy is that the Old Gods DLC is 75% off whereas it wasn’t discounted during the summer sale itself.
Dead Space 1 and 3, Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box, Crysis 2 Maximum, Mirror’s Edge, Medal of Honor for $1 or more, Battlefield 3 and Sims 3 if you beat the average price (currently $4.69)
Pretty ridiculous deal. But is it me, or is having a bunch of EA games basically the opposite of a “humble bundle”? I don’t know, just weird. Remember that if you’re not that thrilled with supporting EA, you could adjust the sliders so most/all of your money goes to charities.
Edit: Oh, EA is giving all the proceeds to charity, not taking a cut of their own. Well, hard to say that’s evil. Good work, EA.
I have about 300 unplayed games and I have no idea when I’ll have time for these ones, but yeah, this is too good for anyone to pass up.
Steam currently has a sale on various Total War games and DLCs, in anticipation of the Release of Rome II on the 3rd of September. Medieval II and Napoleon are each $3.74.
A Steam story:
Just Cause was on sale yesterday for $2.99. “What a great deal!” says I. “Sure I don’t have time to play it now, but later? Sure!”
Imagine my surprise when I learned that I already owned it. I’d picked it up during the Summer Sale (along with a hundred other games) and had completely forgotten about it.
Damn you, Steam. Damn you and your digital deals.
Hey guys, some keys incoming. I got the humble bundle but I’ve al ready got some games, so I’m giving out the keys…
As soon as I figure out how to get them
Ok a friend gave me permission to putup his extra keys as well.
Origin Keys:
Dead Space - 7DL4-RX2H-UE89-DB5R-YNYT
Burn out paradise - 732A-75PD-4UHA-T3ZV-GUXA
Crysis 2 - GEM5-4P3N-JQXK-8E68-2V3L
Deadspace 3 - GE5M-TYLX-5N9E-U3S5-J829
Battlefield 3 - DNCC-836R-5TP3-V5XF-FULX
More incoming…
Sims 3 keys:
Sims 3: CF66-4AJC-EGL4-35GE-XH6P
High End stuff: B3D5-9TF5-KZXZ-W3X2-LBTC
Late night: BH3B-NGCY-C4D7-MMXD-SAF3
Date night: EUDF-P63K-DQSV-WCZ2
Fly to a new, good home, my little ones! Fly!