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Steam sale survivors thread
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Since the sale I've installed and played the following.
Batman Arkham City < 1hour. :
GFWL made me lose patience.
Arma II CO < 1 hour :
Just testing the game editor again. Love Arma but need another week or so before I've everything set up properly for the game. Then I might consider trying DayZ. Not yet though.
Sins of a Solar Empire : Trinity. <8hrs. :
Absolutely adore this game. Played just two games, the second one is still on going. Watching the AI in action is just amazing, it's the kind of game you'd happily watch the battles on screen all day.
Slight annoyance in that I can't launch it via steam without a game crash have to launch it directly from its own installation folder.
Splinter Cell: Conviction <20hrs :
Fantastic game. At first I was a bit disappointed with how the game seemed to be forcing me to kill folks. Granted there are some forced kills in the game, but they were in every Splinter Cell and like every SC game the real challenge is in sneaking about unnoticed. Just like in Chaos Theory enemies come from areas you snuck past too, doubling the tension the further you sneak into the level without being spotted. Amazing game. Killing is so much fun too.
Sam Fisher is more of a Jack Bauer character but I think the game nailed both the Stealth aspect and the casual-ish predator style killer game as well.
Really, I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much. It's not Chaos Theory, but it's a might fine crafted game -game wise! Uplay's save feature isn't reliable at all so I initially completed the game in one sitting, due to having to start over twice. Yep, just like all SCs the game is rather short but very well worth the experience.
Need for Speed : Hot Pursuit < 24 hours.
Exhilerating game. The online multiplayer mode is just fantastic fun. Single player is good too but online is where it's at. Hot Pursuit with a couple of friends and the hours just fizz by. The sense of speed in the game is unreal, the scenery is gorgeous and the thrill of chase/hunt is blood pumping. Between this and Splinter Cell I'm delighted with the steam sale both games just make my heart go that little bit faster when I'm playing them.
Prince of Persia : Sands of Time < 3hours.
Great little platformer/avoid the traps game. The narrator Prince is a tad annoying but the game has aged very well.
Worms Reloaded <1hr.
Looks nice in HD but I still think Armageddon and WWP is going to be most I'll ever get out of worms.
Frozen Synapse <1hr (That can't be right!?
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Great little concept but still haven't been able to log in online so stuck with single player for now. Had really hoped to play it with friends online as we were learning the ropes. (I find that for some games being total noobs and playing privately is sheer fun that you can't experience once at least one member of the party become adept at a game.)
Unreal Tournament <1hr.
Instagib. Epics! I loved this game so much.
Assassins Creed II. <6hrs
This one is problematic. I think it's my internet settings but like SC the game just point blank refuses to save for me at times. Or worse, overwrite existing saves. Was thrilling fun, especially my first view of the entire city of Florence from a height and the dive, oh! the dive, into the river. So beautiful. So, so beautiful.
Terraria <2hrs.
This is very good fun. Grab some friends and play it with them.0 -
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Lets see in the order I bought them:-
AC Revelations - not installed yet
Bioshock 2 - not installed yet
Two Worlds 2 - Already have TW1 and need to play that first
Batman Arkham City - well into Asylum but need to finish it before moving on to this
Gothic 3 - loved Gothic 1, playing Gothic 2 so wanted this as I believe it's a perfectly playable game now with patches etc. I have the original box so this falls into the "nice to have on steam" list.
Bastion - not installed yet
X: Beyond the frontier/X2 the Threat - yet another set of games I already owned on disc gathering dust somewhere. Who knows when I will play them but it's the idea of playing them that counts
Fable the Lost Chapters - one I own on disc and never played. I have started this and looks fun. Very english.
AC, AC 2 Deluxe Edition, AC Brotherhood - they went cheap offering me a good opportunity to have all of the AC series on PC. I will get around to these at some point but not yet.
Thief Bundle - I own all of these already so more for the "nice to have on steam" list.
Splinter Cell Conviction - not installed yet. Enjoyed the others but have yet to complete Chaos Theory.
Driver San Fran - started this and seems fun with some seriously skiddy driving machanics.
Total damage - €72.84
After all that I sat down the other night and decided to restart Gothic 2 which I bought from gog. I was only an hour or so into it when I stopped a few months back and will probably be playing that now for the foreseeable. Loving it.0 -
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CastorTroy wrote: »I tried the steam calculator and it told me I had $0.00 worth of games. My credit card says otherwise.
Said the same for me as well. 0 -
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http://www.steamcalculator.com/faq.php?id=2#id-2How do I get my steam id? The calculator isn't taking the name I use to login...
Also, does it count what I have spent, or current value of the games?
It's current value since it'd have no idea what price you bought it at since that info isn't available except to you when you're logged into Steam
Make sure your profile is public. It can't access your Community profile otherwise to check how many games you have.CastorTroy wrote: »I tried the steam calculator and it told me I had $0.00 worth of games. My credit card says otherwise.
Mine: $1321.47 / €1207.97 / £939.87
Really shows the $1=€1 pricing Steam has going on. Between Steam sales and indie bundles, if I've spent a tenth of that on games, it'd probably be overestimating it.0 -
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Sierra Oscar wrote: »Just need an Autumn sale now.
next one will be only on xmas i thought?
feck all left to buy! 0 -
Here's how the Sale went for me;
Realises no money in bank account for sale.
Goes mad selling gear in D3 on the Real Money Auction House to fund inevitable purchases.
Builds up €140 over 2 weeks from D3 sales.
Charges €120 worth of games to Credit Card over course of sale.
Sale Ends.
Tries to extract money from B.net account to paypal and realises not possible.
Facepalm.
Sees brightside of having tonnes of new games to drown out the outstanding bill.
Plays Tribes Ascend exclusively since which is free to play.
Double Facepalm.
God damn you Steam Sale, god damn you to Hell!!! 0 -
Here's how the Sale went for me;
Realises no money in bank account for sale.
Goes mad selling gear in D3 on the Real Money Auction House to fund inevitable purchases.
Builds up €140 over 2 weeks from D3 sales.
Charges €120 worth of games to Credit Card over course of sale.
Sale Ends.
Tries to extract money from B.net account to paypal and realises not possible.
Facepalm.
Sees brightside of having tonnes of new games to drown out the outstanding bill.
Plays Tribes Ascend exclusively since which is free to play.
Double Facepalm.
God damn you Steam Sale, god damn you to Hell!!!
You could buy gold and then resell it, You will face a 30% loss but it is better than nothing.0 -
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ShadowHearth wrote: »next one will be only on xmas i thought?
feck all left to buy!
There was an Autumn sale last year iirc though it was short, only 4-5 days.
https://www.google.ie/search?q=autumn+sale+steam0 -
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ShadowHearth wrote: »Another day spent only with tropico 4. I can't believe it... So far from the games I bought it looks like the best bargain I got.
Can't believe it took you this long to buy it
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cherryghost wrote: »Can't believe it took you this long to buy it
i had tropico 3 from last time, but it was bitching about multiple monitors so i did not bothered with it anymore. now i got tropico 4 and it worked fine.
its a shame tropico 4 does not like my surround 3 monitor setup... 0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaSlM0abNNM
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