According to the Steam featured store page, the encore sales are up.
Now, are these encore sales the lowest prices the games were featured at, or are they still fluctuating a little bit?
some more Steam recommendations:
The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition is 85% off at $2.99
Saints Row IV Game of the Century edition is 75% off at $7.49
Trine enchanted edition is 85% at $2.24
Defense Grid: The Awakening is 75% at $2.49
Civ 5: Brave New World is on sale at 75% off. I have base and Gods and Kings; does BNW add all that much for $7.50? I’m pretty happy with G&K, but maybe there’s something special in BNW I’m not aware of.
BNW adds depth to culture and cultural victories, and gives more viable non-combat ways to play the game. It’s not and night and day difference, but if you play a lot of civ you’ll get your money’s worth out of it.
I’ve made a few small purchases on Steam this time, but nothing over $10. Time to splurge. What should I go with - Civilization: Beyond Earth, or Shadow of Mordor?
I haven’t played either, but a lot of people were listing Civ: BE as their biggest disappointment of the year while almost everybody seems to love SoM. So if they are both the types of games you like, I’d go with Shadow of Mordor.
Shadow of Mordor. You can save another 5 bucks if you buy it from BundleStars
That’s my answer. I haven’t played either yet but people raved about Shadow of Mordor and groaned about Beyond Earth. I’m sure BE has redeeming features and SoM has downsides but the safe money (assuming you like “Batman/Sleeping Dogs” style combat games) is Shadow of Mordor.
I bought relatively little this season. From Steam, only Transistor and How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition. From Amazon, just a buck copy of Cursed Crusade. And from my Brazilian friends at Nuuvem, I picked up Shadow of Mordor, Castlevania LoS 2 and Castlevania LoS Mirror of Fate HD.
I had intended to perhaps get Wasteland 2 and/or Divinity Original Sin but neither went below 50% so I wasn’t really tempted by the sales. I can wait for summer sales and demand 66% off I guess.
BE was my biggest disappointment of the year and I regret buying it.
Mordor has consistently been on top ten lists.
Does Rome 2 have that drop-in multiplayer system they had a few games ago? You can sign up to be the opponent in someone else’s campaign if the fight is evenly matched. Does that system work? Do people do it?
If it’s actually something that’s used regularly, I’ll grab rome 2 now before the new one comes out and people move to that one. If not, I’ll just wait a bit until it’s cheaper.
Anybody got a review of Borderlands Prequel? BL2 is among my top 10 all time games, but I haven’t heard much buzz on the prequel, and decided to wait till these sales back when it was released. But now I still haven’t heard much, and I’m wondering if it’s a "wait till the DLCs come out and get the package deal next year"type game.
Haven’t played the BL Pre-Sequel but from what I’ve read, it’s pretty much more BL2. There’s some changes and stuff of course but no where near the jump BL2 was from BL1. But if you loved BL2 it stands to reason you’d like this one as well.
Wait, combat games? I thought it was more of an RPG. Is it one of those games where you have to memorize three dozen different keystroke combinations in order to fight well? Because I suck at those.
It’s an RPG with a combat system based on the Arkham games. I have not played it, but based on at least one Youtube video I’ve seen it’s too easy, not too difficult.
So combat is more timing-based than combo-based?
I’d just head over to Youtube and check a short section of a Let’s Play video at this point if you are curious what the combat is like, it’s the best way to see it for yourself. From the videos I’ve watched it’s a lot more combat/action oriented than an actual RPG. Every damn game has some sort of talent point progression these days, doesn’t quite make it a RPG in my books.
Ended up going with Skyrim, South Park, and Saint’s Row IV.
Arkham-style combat is about making up your own combos based on what’s happening around you. You try to keep hitting enemies without either being hit in return or missing an attack: how you do that is up to you. If you perform the “wrong” combo it’s not arbitrarily wrong, it’s wrong because you punched when there wasn’t anyone to punch, or because someone was going to hit you with a chair and you didn’t do anything to stop him.
That’s cool. I was just afraid it was something like** Darksiders II**, which I tried playing recently. After a while there, combat was like, “So was that leftclick-leftclick-back-jump-leftclick, or leftclick-leftclick-jump-back-leftclick? Never mind, I’m dead again.”
Arkham style is definitely worth a try. Heaps of combos but very little combo memorization, at least compared to fighting games like Tekken.
Done. Bought it.