As expected, today is the last day, and an encore sale with the best sellers from previous sales.
Shogun 2: Total War $30
Terraria $5
GTA 4 with liberty city stories $10
Fallout New Vegas $15
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 $5 or complete with BC2/Vietnam/SPECACT $10
Just Cause 2 $5
Borderlands GOTY/complete $7.50
Sanctum $3.75
Fable 3 $25
Magicka $3 or complete pack $8
Witcher 2 $33.50
Dawn of War 2: Retribution $7.50 - Apparently it was $15 in the previous daily sale, so this may be a mistake that will be corrected, so grab it now if you want it. DOW2 expansions are standalone I believe so you don’t need DOW2.
Assassin’s Creed Franchise, Brotherhood $20, AC 1 and 2 $7
Portal 2 $25
Two Worlds $17
No new activities today, gives you 24 hours to complete the achievements you can and spend your tickets, they’ll be gone tomorrow. If you run out of things to spend tickets on, grab Alien Breed 2. It’s probably crap, but it’s a free game, and it has coop, so it might be fun.
Yep, DOW Retribution was a pricing mistake, it’s back up to 50% off/$15. I grabbed it before they corrected it. Surprised, they’d make a mistake after the Terreria incident yesterday - if that was a mistake, anyway.
I wasn’t sure what all I wanted, so I decided to get Fable 3, GTA 4, and Fallout:New Vegas. Came in at just under $50 for the 3. Also the free version of Champions Online, which is a fun diversion.
This was the first Steam Sale I’ve taken part of. They’re dangerous! I must’ve spent well over 100$, admittedly on good games I really want, but still.
Oh well, hopefully I’ll find the time to play at least half of them before the next sale.
Anyone else having issues loading games bought through the sales? I bought X3 TC last night but still can’t load it…I keep getting a message that the servers are all busy. However, just for drill I had it try a load for Mass Effect 2 (something I already had bough last year but never installed on my laptop) and that works fine.
This sale wasn’t as good as the typical steam sale for some reason. I hope it doesn’t set a trend.
I saw several games on sale for higher price than they’d been on sale for before. There were also a bunch of daily sales which were really nothing special and didn’t deserve that highlight. To be fair, in the past they’d do 5-7 sales a day, and now they upped it to about 12 - so I guess more doesn’t hurt, so long as there are at least 5-7 good deals there. Still, underwhelming in that regard. There were relatively few truly spectacular deals.
From today’s sale - everyone should have Just Cause 2, it’s just awesome - and some of the dlc is fun like the hovercraft, monster truck, and parachute thrusters - and they’re discounted too so pick them up for like a quarter each. Also, I tried battlefield bad company 2 again and they’ve made significant strides in the hit registration department so I like the game significantly more now. Vietnam is a worthwhile DLC - it’s not just some bullshit map pack like COD, it has new weapons, maps, music, vehicles, generally a different feel. You can get the game and Vietnam and some cosmetic dlc pack for $10. I’d definitely recommend it.
Make sure you spend your tickets from achievements today, or you’ll just lose them. They count as entries into the games drawing regardless of if you spend them or not so don’t hold back. Make sure you have your wishlist in order - you need at least 10 games on it to qualify for the drawing. Also there’s no sense in filling it up with a bunch of $5 games - you might as well put the expensive stuff you want on there. Preorders work too - if you can add it to your wishlist, it counts.
Also, check out the regular sale games to see if there’s anything you like. There’s some good stuff to be had that wasn’t a daily deal. If you keep the search bar blank and just hit search on the store page, it’ll list all games on steam. If you sort by price, it’ll sort from cheapest to most expensive - there’s actually a decent amount of stuff in the $1-2.50 range, like the penny arcade telltale games pack or ghost master or osmos or shatter. Quite a lot of cheap good stuff actually.
Chime is a sort of tetrisy puzzle game with a music element that’s pretty cool. Gary’s mod is… a lot of stuff. It’s a physics based sandbox of the half-life 2 engine but there are a million random mods for it too. VVVVVVVV is liked a lot by platformer nerds.
Dear god yes. It’s GTA but with a superspy motif and a staggeringly cavalier lack of regard for physics. It’s ridiculously fun. I just spent an hour cruising an armed helicopter around an airport destroying everything I could find. I pissed the military off enough to send other choppers after me, and I shot them all down. When the last one finally dealt my chopper enough damage to set it on fire, I parachuted out of the chopper, sighted on the enemy, used my grappling hook to yank me over to it, threw the pilot out, and had a brand new chopper to continue terrorizing people.
The map is absolutely giant. The first sandbox area I’ve been playing in is easily as large as Liberty City itself, though admittedly with less non-destructive stuff to do.
Looking at my haul, I went from having virtually no games aside from an MMORPG or two, “ancient” stuff like Fallout 1&2 and my Orange Box to:
Amnesia
Audiosurf
Batman: AA
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Braid
Company of Heroes + Opposing Fronts
Dragon Age Origins: ultimate
Fallout 3
Far Cry 2
Just Cause 2
L4D2
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Portal 2
Terraria
Torchlight
It worked out to ~$7.00 each and should keep me busy for a good long while.
How many tickets/entries did you guys end up earning? I’m at 33… I could’ve got another 6 or so through games I own but they’re all time intensive so I didn’t bother - I only earned the ones I was going to anyway playing games I know, or others that only took a few minutes.
Bosstone talked me into it, too. My “must abuse physics” button needs a molly-guard. Or maybe I should spend more time punching mutant bears into orbit.
Splinter Cell Conviction - Neat gameplay and slick presentation, but bad console port. Choppy, and when I tried it co-op with a friend last night it got REALLY choppy. A lot of people are complaining about it but haven’t seen any good solutions.
Hitman Blood Money - Haven’t tried it yet but enjoyed the first Hitman.
Sanctum - It’s a tower defense game, but played from first-person view. A friend and I played it co-op last night, needs a little more variety but all in all a great little game.
Killing Floor - Haven’t tried it yet. Played it as a mod years ago, I assume the commercial release is better.
Deux Ex Collection - Haven’t played the new one, but I finished Deus Ex years ago and loved it.
Wings of Prey - Haven’t played flight sims for a while, this one has great ground scenery and the dogfighting is fun. Nice graphics and damage effects.
Just Cause 2 - It’s a big fun sandbox (except when you’re on a mission)
Star Wars Battlefront II - This one disappointed me a bit, I guess I’m used to the graphical quality and gameplay of Battlefield Bad Company 2, and this one just seems really aged in comparison. Still fun though, especially the vehicles. Nice gameplay variety, and bot support.
Bully - Haven’t tried it yet but like Rockstar games.
Too late to help, but it did go to 50% yesterday. I snapped that sucker up! Hopefully the severs will be up to the task so I can start downloading it over lunch today. Oooh, I’m really looking forward to getting out of work tonight.
It took me 12+ hours to download it on Saturday when it first hit 50% off. Depending on how far along I am, I may wind up having spent more time downloading it than completing it.
(Good game though… I have a few minor complaints but I’ll wait until I’m done and see how I feel at the end)
I only got 10, 6 from games and the rest from Steam account things. Escape the Heat took longest. Seriously people, what does a guy have to do to get set on fire?
I’ve got 4 prize tickets left–I claimed the shades and the snorkel, because those are the only items for games I actually have. Is there anything particularly compelling I should get with my last choice, just in case a future sale suckers me into buying the game later? I’ve got an hour left to pick something.
Everything is tied to a particular game, except Alien Breed 2, which is the whole game for free, but it’s probably pretty crap. Figure out what game you’re most likely to have and spend it there, and if you won’t get any of them, get the free game I suppose.
