I recommend Sonic Generations, a lot of people have been avoiding Sonic as of late, but Generations is really good as a Sonic game (ignoring the story, but seriously – break robots, jump into fat man, who cares). I’m not getting it on Steam, I mean, I have the absurdly expensive $200 European collector’s edition. I can’t imagine it being that much fun unless it has controller support though.
I got the steam version when it came out and I absolutely loved it (yes it does have controller support and I used it). Even did a fair amount of the optional extra stuff. I agree that it’s a flat out good game, not just “good for a sonic game”.
Not quite as good as sonic colors was, but overall I really liked it and would endorse it!
Sonic is too… fast. Things hit me before my brain has had time to even register them.
I have it for when my little cousins show up. They love it.
I really like that the new sales for today have gone up, but I still have some time to pick up the sales from yesterday too. They haven’t always done that, right?
Is Trine playable with a laptop touchpad? I’m going to try the demo if I remember, but any opinions are welcome.
Thanks,
–Cliffy
Blarg! Where is my Skyrim and Arma II daily sales! I’m impatient. 
Skyim is already on sale.
There is even a Bethesda combo pack that includes a ton of Brink and Fallout titles, with Skyrim included.
Skyrim will likely be a daily later, though.
Gotta obey the rules.
They need a voting round with Skyrim and ArmA II: CO just to watch half the Steam population go ape.
Does anyone have an opinion on Anno 2070? I’m intrigued, but it’s not very cheap.
What say you about From Dust? It looks intriguing and is cheap, but my main limiting factor lately is time.
I think the best thing about the Steam summer sale is that I can pick up older games I wanted , or new indies I’ve never heard of for really cheep. And play them on my non-gaming laptop without getting my lazy ass out of bed. Yay for low hardware requirements 
The demo was very difficult to play on my laptop but it has integrated graphics so it was relly jerky. If you don’t have dedicated graphics it could be tough.
That said I just picked up Tomb Raider:Underworld for $4.99 after trying the demo to make sure it would run.
Oh hey, the half-life franchise flash deal (half hour left) has half-life 2 deathmatch for $1.25. Get it. You get to fling toilets and cars at people with the gravity gun, and we have an SDMB game every once in a while. Hurry hurry.
OK I have Half-Life 2, that’s all I need to add Deathmatch, right?
Latest flash deal - for the next 12 hours, the Alan Wake Franchise (both games plus dev commentary videos) is on sale for $9.99.
The controls are very frustrating. It feels like they really half-assed the port from consoles. It’s pretty, and fun for a bit, but it didn’t hold my attention for long.
Thanks zoid. I picked up some other stuff and I don’t really have time for much gaming, so I think I’ll give it a pass. Maybe next year.
–Cliffy
Okay, fine, I’ll try Crusader Kings II. I still maintain that turn-based is better than (pausable) real-time, but the apparent emphasis on dynasty intrigues me.
HL2MD is a seperate game as far as steam is concerned. It was free for a few years but no longer, and it also came with HL2 if you bought it on steam, but not if you didn’t. You can also buy it standalone without owning HL2.