Holiday sale on Steam: Get ' em while they're hot!

The Game Room
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Just in case anyone doesn’t know, Steam’s holiday sale is underway with ridiculously awesome prices. The sale’s until the New Year, so if you haven’t picked up some of these games – and if you have any money left after holiday purchases – you may wanna check this stuff out.

Here are some games, their regular prices, and their sale prices:

BioShock: $19.99 -> $4.99

Audiosurf: $9.99 -> $4.99

Portal: $19.99 -> $4.99

Mount & Blade: $29.99 -> $14.99

World of Goo: $19.99 -> $14.99

Trials 2: $9.99 -> $2.49

Multiwinia & Darwinia: $14.99 -> $7.49

Complete Valve Pack: $99.99 -> $74.99
(Considering Left4Dead is about $35 on its own, this is an amazing price for all HLs, Portal and TF2)

iD SuperPack: $69.99 -> $34.99
(A massive amount of gaming awesomeness. All Quakes, Dooms, Wolfensteins, Heritic/Hexen, and Commander Keens)

THQ Collector Pack: $99.99 -> $74.99
(Company of Heroes, CoH Opposint Fronts, Frontlines, S.T.A.L.K.E.R: SoC, Titan Quest, Warhammer…)

There’s a lot more. Clickity for a big list of the games on sale, according to the sale percentage (from 90% on down).

I’m gonna go for World of Goo and possibly Trials 2. What’re you gonna pick up?

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I’m disappointed in $5 Bioshock. That game plays like a bad console port. I wouldn’t buy it again, if I could go back.

$5 Peggle Deluxe is amazing and amazing value. That game is awesome.

I bought Audiosurf for $3 a few weeks back, but I’d definitely be willing to pay $5 for it. It’s also great.

If you’re not into the id pack, at least buy Ultimate Doom and Doom 2 for $1 each. It’s a $1 and Doom deserves it. The id pack is pretty amazing though, but I’ve played all those games for years. Maybe if id sexed it up with a Quake Live invite, eh? Huh? Are you listening id?

I’m waffling over the Civilization 4 pack, Unreal Tournament 3, and maybe the id pack. Damn I want to play Commander Keen again.

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Bah.

I’d held off on buying all this stuff because I don’t know how much of it will run on my system (HL2 just about pushed it to its limits).

Now I might have to bite the bullet.

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Thank you for the link.

Now all I have to do is Google every one of those games I haven’t heard of.

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Last day of the sale.

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I ended up buying World of Goo, but I kinda wish I hadn’t. I suck at it. It’s a lovely looking game with quirky artwork reminiscent of Dr. Seuss mated with Tim Burton, and also the music & sound effects are adorable, but … I suck at it. And I’m not quite certain why it’s gotten so much intense praise, although in fairness I suspect that’s because I haven’t gotten far enough into the game, and also because of my aforementioned suckage.

Serves me right for getting it without trying the demo first. Fortunately, it just cost $15 so I’m not really complaining. If you’re a fan of Lemmings or Bridge Builder or such games, it might be something you’ll really enjoy.

Now I’m debating going for BioShock, which is more my speed (I love the HL series and STALKER), but that’s one demo I did try, and it was frustratingly samey. So I probably won’t get it.

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The last day’s actually Jan 2.

I got Bioshock (I’ve played it before, but for $5, I’ll take GOTY 2007 again), World of Goo, Multi-Darwinia, and finally Unreal Tournament 3 (for half off).

Definitely an awesome time to pick up Portal, TF2, or Audiosurf if one hasn’t already.

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TrackMania is kinda fun. Stunt mode reminds me of Crash mode in the Burnout series.