I’m going to grab Sonic & All Stars Racing Tansformed. It’s sort of like Mario Kart, goofy casual racing. Very positive reviews. Grab it for $5 if you want to fool around with it with us.
Was really close to not buying anything which would be a first for me, but ended up getting Legends of Eisenwald. Can’t recommend it to everybody but it hits all the right buttons for me personally. Rare to get this close to pseudo-Middle Ages with the setting, most fantasy stuff either has blatantly modern society or some sort of very rose-tinted romantic version of ye olde ages. These guys got the striving for virtues and having noble ideals yet still raping and pillaging everything that moves and the intricate feudal power structures and constant maneuvering for more power right IMO. Combat is ok, some UI aspects are not that great but the atmosphere carries the game for me.
I bought Hitman: Blood Money with the change in my Steam wallet. Current thoughts are that the controls are annoying. I’m sure that some can be fixed, but having to hold down the RMB to open the inventory and then use the keyboard to select an item is bloody stupid.
Last day of the Steam sale, and I guess I’m not picking up a 4-pack of Fantasy Grounds. Just as well, I’d only then have to shell out for the stuff specific to any system I was working with. It’s a pricey solution to online gaming, and right now I’d have trouble putting together a party who can meet regularly.
Last chance now to get Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 for $2.99. I’ve been replaying it recently, and with the restored content and two recent official patches I can appreciate it a lot better than when it was new. It would be worth the $10 normal price, but even more of a bargain doesn’t hurt.
And now concludes the most boring steam winter sale ever. I still managed to spend $100, although about $40 was in gifts.
It’s funny, I was just thinking to myself “I’ve barely spent anything on gaming this year”, and then I went back in my account history and it turns out I’ve spent around $400. In the grand scheme of things, not too much to spend on a hobby, but my own personal estimation was closer to $200.
I spent $5 on a copy of Titanfall Deluxe (Amazon) that I’ll probably play once with some friends for shits & giggles. But $5 for a couple hours of shits & giggles ain’t bad.
The Steam end was pretty terrible and I didn’t buy a thing. I thought about buying Styx but it has a sequel coming out and Of Orcs & Men was bundled before so I wouldn’t be surprised to see Styx either bundled or with a base price reduction and cheaper in the nearish future.
I actually ended up gaining money this Steam sale, once I noticed you could get 3 trading cards a day flipping through the list of recommended games, and sold all of my duplicates (I did go ahead and make one set, even if I still don’t really understand why I should care about my “Steam Level”)
I ended up buying a few more than Hero Siege. Mostly quite old games, though: Age of Empires III, KOTOR II, Fight the Dragon, and a freebie, Relic Hunters Zero. So not the greatest sale ever, but I admit I was glad not to see GTA V or TW3 at 90% off, as I bought them at ~40% off earlier in the year.
Fight the Dragon might be interesting. It’s similar to Diablo but you build and share adventures. Has unimplemented features like adding music or putting the adventures together into a campaign, so sort of early access I guess.
Could add Hard West and Frozen Synapse to your squad v. squad tactics list.
I never understood this attitude and it’s toxic. You realize that some of the games you got at 75%+ off were games that other people got at 40% off earlier in the year, right? So they’re saying “damn, I wish Dave Hartwick didn’t get that game for a cheap price!” And for what? How does it benefit you that other people don’t get good deals?
Buy at a price you’re happy with. You’re never a victim because someone gets a better deal later.
The reviews for Hard West don’t push it into must buy territory by any means, but it has a 72 Metacritic rating and Steam user review aggregate is “Very Positive”. I like the genre and setting so I’ll probably get it eventually.
SenorBeef, I know you have your heart on your sleeve and a lot of opinions on a lot of things. I don’t personally give a shit about any of them and I hope you’re OK with that, since you crowned yourself king of games. I was glad because I correctly predicted that the winter sale wouldn’t be a better deal than what I got. Is that cool, Majesty?
Actually, no, that’s not cool at all. You’re just doubling down on your pointless toxicity.
It’s an extremely narcissistic, selfish, and utterly pointless position to feel victimized that someone later got a better deal than you. More than pointless, it’s actually counterproductive. All those games you bought at $5? Someone else bought them at $20 or $40 or $60 and now if they share your viewpoint, they’re going “damn, I wish that guy didn’t get that game for $5, I paid more for it a while ago!”
If they got their way, you wouldn’t get your cheap games.
And for absolutely nothing. You don’t benefit from other people not getting deals. Your life isn’t harmed by someone getting a deal cheaper than you did. But you benefit from getting cheaper deals that other people paid more for.
Every fucking sale I have to hear people whine about how they’ve been victimized by cheap games. It’s too bad you can’t get what you want and have every game stay $60 until the end of time so you don’t risk somehow being raped by someone else getting it cheaper.
Both of you take your sniping to the Pit and end it beyond this post, please.
Even with what I did buy from the earlier sale, frankly I feel a bit of a rube that I bought Shadows of Mordor, which I can’t make the time to play right now, for $20 bucks when I know damned well that I can not play it cheaper six months from now.
I’m not seeing that from the link. They noticibly fail to talk about revenue. They say people viewed more games - given that their card-earning gimmick was to view more games, that’s not surprising. And they say games outside the top 500 did better. Sure, I can buy that. But what about games in the top 500? What about overall revenue?
“In terms of revenue, the discount strategy and Discovery Queue usage resulted in a resounding success.”
Right, they’re talking about the games outside of the top 500 being improved, but not their overall revenue. They leave that informaton out of the charts.
Seems that they’re talking overall revenue with that statement and then go into details of popular game sales being strong as usual but other titles increasing sharply as well.
That said, I guess we’ll know for sure come June/July.