# Steam Christmas Sale has started! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 20, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790 "2011-12-20T00:35:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/161 "2011-12-27T19:36:26Z")
I have to highly recommend Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic at $2.49, but can’t speak to the others. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/162 "2011-12-27T20:09:18Z")
Terraria for $2.50 is fun enough. It’s a 2D builder/adventure type game where you collect materials to build a house/castle, attract NPCs, forge weapons and armor and fight various beasties including several “bosses”. Gameplay is pretty simple, how much you enjoy it will depend a lot on your love of exploring and building. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/163 "2011-12-27T20:55:01Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Terraria for $2.50 is fun enough. It’s a 2D builder/adventure type game where you collect materials to build a house/castle, attract NPCs, forge weapons and armor and fight various beasties including several “bosses”. Gameplay is pretty simple, how much you enjoy it will depend a lot on your love of exploring and building. Those who like Minecraft and wonder what it would look like as a side-scroller would be interested. Steam says I have 310 hours invested in mine but much of that was when I left it idling on the main menu overnight. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/164 "2011-12-27T23:04:57Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > I’m behind on the times a bit - going out of town for Christmas will do that - and I haven’t yet completed the “trade” task. Anybody want to help me out? I’m “onlymostlydead” on Steam. I have the Majesty 2 collection freebie - any interest? Heck, even if you don’t want to trade you can just have it, it won’t run on my laptop. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/165 "2011-12-28T00:00:01Z")
I was able to work out a trade earlier today. It got me to 7 lumps of coal, and I’m wishing I’d have saved them for the raffle. All I got for “crafting” them was 33% off Bethesda titles - they’re all at least 50% off for the duration of the sale, except for Skyrim, which was available on the 24th…for 33% off regular price. At least it looks like the coupon can stack with other discounts, so if Skyrim goes on sale for some reason during January or February, it might make me pull the trigger. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/166 "2011-12-28T18:08:26Z")
New deals. Tomb Raider franchise 75% off. All games $2.50-$5. Space Pirates and Zombies $2.50 Machinarium $2.50 Section 8: Prejudice $3.75 Dungeon Defenders $3.75 Two Worlds franchise 66% off. Serious Sam franchise 50-90% off. Hearts of Iron franchise 75% off. $2.50 for HOI3, $2 for Semper Fi. Assassin’s Creed franchise 25-75% off. Dead Space 1/2 $5 each Homefront $7.50 Revenge of the Titans $2.50 Achievements for TF2 Space pirates and zombies Revenge of the Titans Serious Sam: BFE Dungeon Defenders Sanctum ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/167 "2011-12-28T18:37:09Z")
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is really good for $2.50 if you have someone to coop it with. Section 8 Prejudice is also very good, like a slower tribes game, but I’m not sure how big the player base still is. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/168 "2011-12-28T18:49:49Z")
How do you buy a 4 pack and give the other ones away? Section 8 prejudice has a 4 pack (4 copies of the game plus I believe 4 copies of the DLCs for $11.24. Each individual game plus the 3 DLCs is about $6.50. Does anyone want to go in on a 4 pack? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/169 "2011-12-28T18:55:16Z")
When you buy a 4 pack, you’ll have 3 extra giftable copies in your steam inventory. Then you can give them away to anyone on your friends list, or any e-mail address. When I do this, I just buy the 4 pack, send out the copies, and have people paypal me their share. Use personal/gift as a reason to avoid fees. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/170 "2011-12-28T19:33:56Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Threads from [2004](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=247353)and [2008](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=488359) suggest that Far Cry is pretty good. But the second thread was anticipation-based. Did it live up to its pre-sales excitement? Just some feedback: I am getting a lot of crashes with Far Cry (just the game is crashing, not the system) on Win7-64. No idea why — I have dozens of other Steam games, older and newer than Far Cry, and none of them crash. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/171 "2011-12-28T19:47:50Z")
Does anyone know anything about the Two Worlds RPGs? Worth the time or not? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/172 "2011-12-28T19:57:07Z")
I picked up Sins of a Solar Empire plus DLCs over the weekend (I already owned the game through Impulse, but I didn’t have the last DLC and it was like $6 for the whole set…plus, now it’s on Steam). That’s been the only thing I’ve bought in this sale so far. It’s given me a break from Skyrim and I’ve been getting back into it lately. I have to figure out how to add mods to Sins on Steam though…and find some of the mods I’ve used in the past (especially the capital ships mod…that was one of my favorites). -XT ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/173 "2011-12-28T22:24:43Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Does anyone know anything about the Two Worlds RPGs? Worth the time or not? I played through Two Worlds II and found it merely serviceable. Good enough to tide me over while I was waiting for Skyrim, but not something I’d ever go back to. I spent about 40 hours in it, there are plenty of side quests outside of the main quest, but it didn’t have the open-world-sandbox feel (more of an MMO quest-hub progression feel) and the final boss fight was stupid (all that time building up your character and the fight relied on using environmental objects that made all that character building meaningless). The main story was pretty good, but not outstanding. Graphics and music were great. Character animation was even more awkward than Bethesda’s. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/174 "2011-12-29T00:16:44Z")
Anyone want Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter? Maybe for some coal? Or for free if not? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/175 "2011-12-29T03:15:17Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Those who like Minecraft and wonder what it would look like as a side-scroller would be interested. Just bought this because it was cheap. Fair warning on the other side of the coin: if you played Minecraft for 10 minutes, got bored because you couldn’t figure out what you were supposed to do, and then never played it again (me) don’t get Terraria. It’s basically the same thing. Wandering about falling in pits. If you enjoyed lego blocks as a kid, you’d probably like the game. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/176 "2011-12-29T03:29:59Z")
> [@Captain\_C](#): > > Just bought this because it was cheap. Fair warning on the other side of the coin: if you played Minecraft for 10 minutes, got bored because you couldn’t figure out what you were supposed to do, and then never played it again (me) don’t get Terraria. It’s basically the same thing. Wandering about falling in pits. If you enjoyed lego blocks as a kid, you’d probably like the game. For both games, I had to go to a wiki to figure out how to survive the first twenty minutes of the game. I consider that a flaw in the game, not in me. However, with both games, once I figured out survival (and realized that playing with a wiki wasn’t cheating), the games became deeply engrossing for me. If you’re willing to give either a second chance, just figure that the wiki tells you what people in the world would already know (e.g., how to build a treasure chest), and give it a go with the wiki open and alt-tab at hand. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/177 "2011-12-29T18:06:20Z")
The Binding of Isaac $1.25 Mafia Franchise 75% off ($2.50 Mafia, $7.50 Mafia 2) Quake Franchise 75% off. All games/expansions for $7.50. Dungeon Siege 2 $20 (bad price, saw it on amazon for $5) Men of War franchise 75% off Total War franchise 75% off Sword of the Stars 2 $20 (don’t buy) L4D or L4D2 $5 each or $7.50 for both Wasteland Angel $2.50 LOTR War in the North $33 Xotic $2.50 Achievements: Link your steam account to your facebook account Binding of Isaac Xotic Total War Shogun 2 Men of War: Assault Squad L4D2 ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/178 "2011-12-29T20:15:38Z")
I think it’s Dungeon Siege III that’s on sale, not 2. Anyway, anyone crafted anything yet from their coal? I did it a couple of days ago, got a gift of DOTA II and now that gift is gone. It showed up once and I’ve never seen it since. I’ve also been buying a lot of the indie games that are cheap and have achievements that get you something in the great gift pile. It has been hit or miss at best. I like the idea of Valve promoting indie developers and getting their games exposed to a huge audience. But the onslaught of games is exhausting, and almost every one of the indie games has some sort or weird/different set of rules or controls that you must learn in order to play the game. The worst offender is Sequence. Sorry, that game is just not for me. Rock of Ages I can see going back and playing as it has intuitive controls, is simple to grasp the initial concept but looks to have a lot more depth to it. Anyway, if anyone still needs to do a trade I have a bunch of coupons that are basically useless to me since I own just about everything I could possibly want. If you see me on Steam send me a message - same name as here. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/179 "2011-12-29T20:41:51Z")
Just wanted to come in and say thanks to **SenorBeef** for listing the daily sale games and offering opinions on what he can. I’ve been checking the thread every day to see if there’s something I might have fun playing. Equal thanks, of course, to those of you who have also contributed. This thread has been useful and enlightening. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790/180 "2011-12-29T20:42:05Z")
> [@Headrush042](#): > > Bastion is absolutely worth $5. One of my favorite games of this year. I had heard good things about it, and it looked pretty, so I grabbed it. Figured I’d finish the achievement task, then pick it up again later. Instead, I played it straight through to the end. The gameplay reminded me a bit of _Secret of Evermore_, an old SNES favorite of mine, and the whole game–story, graphics, music, and all–was beautifully done. I particularly liked the little narrative touches. I think it’s telling that I found myself adding a challenge of sorts to the game: I never attacked any of the Ura, except when they were actually attacking the Bastion. I avoided them or ran from them when I could, and only used shield counters to fight the ones I had to. After what had happened, it didn’t seem right to go into what was left of their home and attack them. (If they killed themselves with their own aggression, that was their business.) I loved the choice with Zulf at the end, and the reaction of the other Ura if you choose to carry him out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-christmas-sale-has-started/606790.md?page=10)