It hardly needs to be said, but Torchlight for 5$ is the most ridiculous awesomeness. You really have no excuse if you haven’t gotten it already.
How does Batman play on a keyboard/mouse? I don’t have a gamepad for my PC. I really loved the game when I had my PS3, but I don’t know if it would translate well to a different control system.
Batman works amazingly with the mouse and keyboard. The design team did a really good job utilizing the strengths of those controls.
It’s much easier and quicker to look around, and accurately aim at various enemies. I can go from one bad guy to the next to the next and so on with a quick flick of the wrist and a mouse press.
WAY better than using the clumsy controller, IMHO, and I tried both setups.
I could probably be talked into a group buy for Empire, if it’s relatively cheap.
I am feeling sort of stupid for not getting Batman on sale. Funds are a little tight at the moment tho…
Today:
L4D2 $5
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare $15
Wings of Prey $15
Supreme Commander 2 $3.75
Galcon Fusion $2.50
King’s Bounty Platinum Edition (Armored Princess, Crosswords, The Legend) $8.75
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light $7.49
GTA: Episodes from Liberty City $10.20
Indie Pulse Pack (Audiosurf, Beat Hazard, BIT.TRIP BEAT, Rhythm Zone, The Polynomial) $5
Gift packs:
Counterstrike Source 6 pack $25 ($4.16 per game)
NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits 10 pack $15 ($1.50 per game)
Red Faction Guerrilla 8 pack for $40 ($5 per game)
GTA: Episodes from Liberty City 6 pack for $45 ($7.50 per game)
L4D2 obviously if you haven’t gotten it by now is worth $5. It’s also our most regularly played game on the SDMB Steam Community.
COD4 is the last good COD game and probably still has an active multiplayer community since lots of people reject the ass that is subsequent CODs.
The Lara Croft game looks to be a puzzle-oriented action RPG… with coop modes I might just grab it.
And the Indie Pulse Pack, like all those packs, is a great deal. Audiosurf is worth the $5 alone and Beat Hazard is pretty decent… I haven’t tried the other 3 but all beat.trip look interesting.
Ok, I bought L5D. It will be a little while before I can play it tho. Stupid laptop.
King’s Bounty is a great game if you like tactical, turn-based fantasy wargaming. I think I have close to 130 hours played between KB: The Legend and KB: Armored Princess.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a fun, but I wouldn’t recommend it as a single player game. The co-op adds a lot of depth to the game that the single player lacks. There’s a lot of fun puzzles that you have to figure out together that are nerfed in single player so that you could complete them by yourself.
The game looks good with lots nice little details and runs smoothly. The combat, while simple, is lots of fun. Combat is another part where it’s more fun in co-op. There are spots where one player has to keep the enemies occupied and lead them to traps that the other player then has to activate. There’s a boss battle that requires cooperation to defeat that’s very intense. Speaking of intense, there are a few trap rooms where you have to think quickly or you die that are really well made.
The game uses a isometric viewpoint and you can’t control the camera. Your view is never blocked though. I’d recommend using a game pad as the analogue sticks gives you 360 degree movement that’ll make the platforming more precise. The game’s not bad with the mouse and keyboard either, but I preferred the game pad.
The game supports both online and local co-op. Haven’t played online so I can’t say how well it’s implemented.
A really fun game and the best Lara Croft game in years. I’ll give it 9 out of 10 in co-op. 8 out of 10 in single player.
They haven’t released names (and they’d be pretty much random to us anyway) but they do list which games have been awarded on this page.
If you’re getting King’s Bounty and the expansion, consider getting Crossworlds as well. It’s a rewrite/reimagining of Armored Princess with a lot of extra stash.
And that game is the true HOMMV, IMHO. 
I always played it with my 360 controller. Didn’t think much of it, just assumed the mouse and keyboard wouldn’t be all that great for that style of game.
I think I’m going to stay with the controller though. I don’t need any twitch aiming and it’s easier on my wrist.
I’m actually pretty impressed with this Rhythm Zone game in the indie pulse pack. It’s a guitar hero style game where you press the notes at the right time, but it takes any song you have and creates an easy/medium/hard/expert note chart based on it. I’ve only done a few songs but it has done a very good job of getting it right so far - the timing is perfect and what it chose to make as notes has been very good. It can’t exactly follow one instrument like in guitar hero, but it does a good job of figuring out what the most prominent instrument is at that moment and charting it. So it just has a really good feel for the flow of the song. And it has per-song leaderboards like audiosurf.
With audiosurf and beat hazard being pretty good (haven’t played the other two yet) I can definitely recommend the pack for $5. I mean, $1 per game people.
Yeah, I was able to configure my guitar hero guitar to play the game too, so it’s basically like guitar hero except you can play any music file on your computer. The differences are that it maps whatever instrument is prominent, so not strictly a guitar/bass track, there are only 4 notes/keys on all difficulties, it doesn’t go to 5 on hard+ like GH, and there’s no strum function - you tap out the notes at the right time, like doing hammer ons on GH. I wonder if there’s a mod somewhere to add strum functionality.
Still, very cool, and I can play some music that would never be on GH.
Can’t list games from iPod but 8 pack of Just Cause 2 at 7.50 per game. If interested send me board PM or message on steam. If we get 8 people I’ll buy it, pass it out and collect shares via paypal.
Same goes for mount and blade warband at 5.60. Contact me if interested.
I’ll go in on Just Cause 2, but considering how little interest there is in this thread I don’t think we’ll get enough people.
Ok, games today:
Indie Puzzle Pack (Cogs, Droplitz, Puzzle Dimension, Shatter, Tidalis) $5
Splinter Cell Conviction $20
World of Goo $2.50
Patrician 4 $10
Mount and Blade Complete (M&B, M&B Warband) $10
Bit.Trip Beat $5
The Ball $10
The Orange Box $7.50
Street Fighter 4 $10
Give packs/packages
Mount & Blade Warband 6 pack $35 ($5.83 per game)
Splinte Cell Conviction 6 pack $90 $15 per game
Just Cause 2 8 pack $60 ($7.50 per)
Osmos 12 pack for $20 ($1.66 per game)
You should’ve gotten World of Goo as part of one of the indie packs along with Bit.Trip. If you didn’t, world of goo is definitely worth $2.50. Orange Box, if you somehow don’t own those games by now, is one of the best deals ever. I recommend all the indie puzzle packs - at $1/game, you don’t need to get much out of it and you’re supporting Indie developers.
We’re at about 4 people for the Warband and Just Cause 2 packs, by the way. I’m not sure when/if we’ll fill up. If you don’t want to wait, you can buy an individual copy of mount & blade warband for $7.50 - really, the savings of about $2 is barely worth the coordination of a group buy, or you can get the original M&B + warband for $10, which is probably the best deal. Really it’s Just Cause 2 we should be focusing on, since it’s not available in a single pack. But I’ll still do the M&B warband pack if we get the people.
I should mention that Just Cause 2 is DX10, which means Vista/Win7 only. Does that work for you Darkhold?
I’m not too worried about getting the warband group buy - it’s $7.50 alone or $5.81 as a group so it’s only a $1.70 savings per game. Not bad but maybe not worth the minor paypal hassle. Plus for $2.50 more, you can get M&B and M&B: Warband, which is a better deal for people who have neither
JC2, on the other hand, isn’t on individual sale so a group buy is the only option. I have 5 takers so far, we need 3 more.