Fair point. I grabbed the game. From the trailers and screenshots, it doesn’t look all that bad (for a free game), but…did they even try to hide the fact that they were ripping off Alien/Aliens?
I ended up grabbing:
Assassins Creed Collection
Cities XL 2011
Heroes V pack.
F1 2010
Lara Croft GoL
Lead and Gold
Magicka
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (overpriced still but…)
Sims 3: Generations
Titan Quest & IT
UFO: Extraterrestrials
Along with 4 or 5 indie games.
I didn’t care much about the daily achievements and only got enough tickets to claim the X3:TC missions.
At current speeds it will take until the Winter sale to download them all…
I ended up with 40 tickets. There was one ticket I could have gotten but didn’t bother.
Here’s my ‘haul’
Hamilton’s Great Adventure (alright little game)
Hoard (Sucks)
Sanctum (best so far)
Hitman Collection (I own all of these games. Why must I own them on Steam?)
Paradox Fantasy Pack (I really only wanted Majesty 2 but that was £10 for the complete pack yet the Paradox pack was £5. I hope these crappy looking elf games are fun)
Recettear (someone from SomethingAwful gifted me this for free)
Ticket buys
Spacechem Mission (didn’t really want but I own the game and needed to use the tickets)
Guardians of Grax or whatever. Don’t have the game. Needed to use the tickets
Killing Floor (own the game just wanted to get rid of tickets)
Ares (own the game. Looked mildly interesting)
Magicka (don’t own the game. Might buy it in the future)
Serious 8 (own the game just wanted to get rid of tickets)
Fate of the World (like Magicka)
Beat Hazard (mildly interesting)
X3 (mildly interesting I have hopes I will get interested in X again)
Shades for TF (own the game just wanted to get rid of tickets)
Portal 2 (own the game just wanted to get rid of tickets)
Alien Breed (because what the hell. Free game).
For a couple minutes one of my downloads said it had an estimated time of 291 days. (which dropped to 4 hours)
It’ll clear up in a few days. If you want, you can go into your steam settings and pick a different content server, others may be faster.
I’ve never run into those problems - at the bottom end I get at least 500K/s, and up to 1.5MB/s or so during the sales. During non-sale times I can get up to 4MB/s.
Eh, don’t knock it. Alien Breed was originally released for free a year or two ago to entice people onto Steam, and while it was a short game, and kind of shallow, it wasn’t bad. Alien Breed 2 is probably entertaining enough considering it’s free.
That’s Alien Swarm you’re thinking of, I think. Which was some sort of side project by some people at valve. They look similar, but I’d imagine Alien Swarm is of higher quality.
Ooops, damn. You’re right. They do look alike, enough that when I looked at screenshots of Alien Breed they did nothing to make me think that it wasn’t the game I was thinking of.
My haul:
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West
Borderlands GOTY
Braid
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
Rift
Portal 2
X3: Terran Conflict
Garry’s Mod
Hopefully, I’ll get to play most of them by December.
My haul:
HOARD
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
Guardians of Graxia (game and map pack) (I’ve put a ton of hours into it for under $3…well worth it).
Company of Heroes Gold
Worms Reloaded
PAM
Terraria
X3: Terran Conflict
Just Cause 2
I only wanted to get Batman.
I got:
-King’s Bounty
-Batman
-Fallout
-Fallout New Vegas
-Terraria
So not bad; made it out with less than $50. But still more than I meant to spend. Damn you Steam!
I managed to show some restraint this time around, if only because this is I’ve gone through several of these sales before.
Bioshock 2 ($5)
Braid ($2.50)
King’s Bounty collection (2 games plus an expansion) ($7)
X3: Terran Conflict ($5)
I think I’m starting to get the hang of X3TC. I had a slow start trying to get into trading until I realized that (at least if you choose the Terran Defender start) you can sell your first ship for enough money to buy a light freighter. Get a few speed and software upgrades and the travel time is tolerable, even though scoping out local prices without switching off the SETA is a bit awkward. Anyone got any early money-making tips? Is it worth getting into asteroid mining?
Let’s see:
Just Cause 2 + DLC
Battlefront 2 (not worth $2.50 IMO)
Magicka
Plants vs Zombies
Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money & Honest Hearts
Beat Hazard (an epileptic’s nightmare)
Sanctum (two copies)
C&C: Red Alert 3 + expansion
Portal 2
PAM
Almost $70, all told. Not too bad considering that expanded my list by a significant amount (I have a whole 51 games now; I just don’t buy them that often). I do regret not picking up Arkham Asylum or Worms Reloaded, but I’m pretty sure the games I have will keep me busy until the Christmas sale and they’ll be on sale or discounted by then.
Looks like they have a last day sale on publisher packs. The THQ pack is really good, as is the Valve pack if you don’t have a lot of valve games.
I find it hilarious that the PopCap pack is one of the more expensive packs. And it’s probably one of the most popular even then.
It was $50 before, I bought it for my mom. It’s a pretty big starter pack for casual players, but yeah it’s overpriced at $75. $50 would be good.
I was actually holding back this sale and not buying anything I was remotely interested in. I mean, I’ve already got 200 games I haven’t touched - logically I shouldn’t be so anxious to pile on more. But it’s hard to resist when it’s staring you in the face.
So my take:
DOW 2: Retribution (but I snuck in the 15 minute period it was $7.50)
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem 3 pack
Terraria at $2.50 before it was bumped up
Fallout 3 GOTY
Worms Reloaded
Sanctum
Beat Hazard Ultra
Civ 5 Denmark and Explorers pack
King Arthur - druids dlc
STALKER Call of Pripyat
DAO: Ultimate edition (best deal of the sale, or maybe Trine at $2 or Torchlight at $3)
Magica dlc
HOARD
Heroes pack (HOMM games)
SW Battlefront 2
And Kinthalis bought me F1 2010. Because he deemed a game would be worth double the cost if it meant you’d have the priviledge of playing with me. And he’s right. Let that be a lesson: if you buy a game you can play together, buy me a copy too and you will more than double the awesomeness of the gameplay experience.
Anyway, that’s my intentionally limiting myself reduced take. I’d have bought more except with my 400+ games I already owned most of the good stuff on sale as it is. Wheeee.
I got:
Civ V DLC (not the Daily Deal, as mentioned previously)
Defense Grid + Map Packs
Just Cause 2
Monday Night Combat
Napoleon Peninsular Campaign DLC
Sam & Max, the whole damn thing
SpaceChem
Trine
In terms of hours-played to money-spent, the best deal was probably SpaceChem. Those puzzles are HARD.
I ended up with 18 tickets.
Took some video of coop Sanctum if anyone wants to see what that’s like.
(Why yes, a beefy cpu has made me go on an overkill frapsing spree!)
I’m always curious to see how many games everyone has and how it grows over time, so I created the steam game count poll for after this summer sale. Please participate even if you have a relatively small game count.