I recommend everyone grab the Blood Bowl Chaos edition while it’s on flash sale right now. I want to try to organize a league of SDMBers.
One race each, first come first serve.
I recommend everyone grab the Blood Bowl Chaos edition while it’s on flash sale right now. I want to try to organize a league of SDMBers.
One race each, first come first serve.
Kinetic void also looked really cool to me.
Checking out the forums though, it seems the game is on pre-release. It’s still in alpha, and right now you cna only build ships and fly them around.
It looks promising, but I’m going to wait until there’s a game in there.
Picked up FTL and Scribblenauts. Hoping for good deals on XCOM, Total War, Fallout New Vegas. Was tempted by that 4X space empires game but it was so generic looking I can’t even remember the name now. Thought about Don’t Starve but I probably wouldn’t play it and it’s too complicated for the kids.
I wasn’t too enamoured with Don’t Starve. It’s very much the “you are going to be completely and utterly lost unless you play for 80 hours or look everything up online” type of game. This is admittedly true of Minecraft as well, but it’s a bit different since Minecraft isn’t actively trying to kill your character as the core feature of gameplay.
X-com was already on flash sale for 10 bucks. I suspect it’ll reappear in the last day at the same price.
The only games that I purchased that I’ve had time to play so far are X-Com, Krater, and The Cave.
Krater is an indie RPG made by a small team. It uses an engine that looks a lot like the Infinity Engine or whatever Baldurs Gate used. It has the Fallout/Wasteland kind of vibe to it. One thing that gave me pause is your characters only go to level 15, level ups don’t increase stats, and you have to unlock the levels 5 at a time (you have to pay 3000 gold to unlock levels 6-10, and 20000 gold for 11-15). Leveling up does give you more implant slots, which is where you get your stat increases from. You hit the level caps pretty quickly, I hit 5 in the first dungeon. I don’t think there’s a way to take out an implant once you put it in, so I think the strategy is to max out your guys until you get to the higher level areas, then when you have access to higher implants and gear, hire new guys and put the better implants in from the start. I’ve mixed feelings about this but I’m not real far into it so we’ll see. It’s a little more action oriented (you can’t pause and issue orders), but has lots of style and is a fun game so far.
X-Com has had its own thread here so I won’t say too much except that I’m having a blast. Again, I am not that far into it but really like it.
The Cave reminds me of Trine. A lot. You pick 3 out of 7 different characters (each with a unique ability), and use their abilities and objects you find along the way to solve puzzles and pass obstacles. It’s different than Trine in that there’s no combat and there is a narrator that sounds a lot like Sam Elliot from The Big Lebowski. Tons of humor and some of the puzzles are fairly challenging. I’m pretty sure there is at least one unique level per character and if you don’t have that character in your party of 3 you won’t see it on that play through. Some puzzles are solved the same way each play through, but a lot aren’t. If you have the scientist, hillbilly, and knight, you will solve some parts differently than if you have the adventurer, twins, and monk. If you’re a fan of the Trine/Braid games this is highly recommended, especially for the current price.
Either I missed it (and I was looking) or it didn’t go on sale here in Oz.
It also showed up in the community poll to make it ten bucks again, but it didn’t win (I forget what did that round).
Steam Summer Sale helps males understand females.
I noticed SimCity 4 was a flash sale, but missed it due to Steam server issues. Fingers crossed it reappears as well!
Fallout NV: Ultimate Ed is the cheapest it has ever been at $5.
Doom 3:BFG Ed. is also the cheapest it’s ever been at $5.
Fear 3 is $3.99 from GetGamesGo. They have it listed as 75% off but also have a lower MSRP than Steam has so I don’t see it getting any lower. Steam activated.
Is Witcher 2 any good to play with keyboard & mouse? I’ve read elsewhere that it’s a controller-type game, and while I have a controller, I vastly prefer the keyboard/mouse combo.
It worked out fine for me with kb/mouse - and I usually have serious problems playing console ports like that. The menus were annoying, though.
I don’t remember if I had to do any adjusting of any of the options or not - I may have had to turn off mouse acceleration or something simple like that. If I did, it was something I was able to google up quickly and easily. In any case, I remember playing through the game twice (to get both storylines), and had no control problems outside of the menus.
Thanks for the help. You’d think menu options would be the least difficult thing they’d have to fix when porting, but I guess not.
Kerbal Space Program on sale for $13.79 (for the next 18 hours from this post) for anyone who’s been waffling about getting it.
warhammer 40k dawn of war?
If you get it, play on highhest difficulty setting. It is a cakewalk.
good choice in FTL. I wasted 80 hours on that delicious game and do yourself a favor, play on easy mode and stick to it until you win on it before switching to normal. Oh and read up on how to unlock ships, it is NOT intuitive and the events that lead up to an unlock are kind of rare.
4X not 40k. See post #28, or the Wikipedia page more specifically.
So why should I want cards? Because I gotta catch 'em all? I’m voting for games I don’t care about (zombie game vs. zombie game vs. zombie game) because I get something for minimal effort, but I’m not going to go out of my way to buy a game to get collectibles. All I know is that I unlocked some just by playing a game through the story, but that’s it.
New Vegas $2.50 or $5 for expansions? Nice. They’re all pretty good. I’m not sure about Courier’s Stash though - loads you down with a lot of crap at the beginning, much of it redundant. And that canteen seems cheap on hardcore (you are playing the more immersive, not much harder version, yes?).
Well, keep in mind that the Witcher 2 was a port to consoles, not the more typical console-port-to-PC. CD Projekt RED have always been pretty clear that they are a PC first development company, though I gather for the third game it’ll be a simultaneous release for everyone, because they like money (and it’s hard to blame them for that).
In other Steam sale related matters, how did I not have Borderlands 2 already? I’m not a big fan of FPS gameplay but I can be convinced if there’s enough other good stuff going on, and Borderlands 2 had me from the opening video. I got in four or five hours this weekend and I love-love-love it.
you want cards to sell them. You can turn a profit occasionally if you get something rare