Steam Summer Sale 2014

CastorTroy

Looks like will be buying Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death, Blood Dragon, Walking Dead Season 2 and maybe Amnesia Machine For Pigs(Have the first but haven't played yet)

Didn't get a card for the first 3 votes.

Yeti Beast

Screw it, I'm not going to get Prison Architect despite wanting it. It's too dear compared to other Steam region's prices. I can ignore that when a game is only a few quid, but there's a difference of a few euro between €, and £/$. I'll get it on steamtrades.com instead.

degrassinoel

Links234 wrote: »

Is State of Decay worth a look?

It's a console port, and an obvious one.

But..

Despite it being a port it's not a terrible one,

It's a decent game, a bit jittery and jumpy here and there, but overall it's worth it. You'll get at least one playthrough out of it, and about 20 hours worth in that.

Rossi IRL

I see Tropico 5 is 25% off, shall i pull the trigger now or wait a few days,


Surely if its 25% off now it will be cheaper in a few days?

gazzamc

Rossi IRL wrote: »

I see Tropico 5 is 25% off, shall i pull the trigger now or wait a few days,


Surely if its 25% off now it will be cheaper in a few days?

If it's not a daily deal or flash sale wait for one and pick it up on the second last day if it doesn't get one(The last is encore only and all other sales end)

Krusader

Rossi IRL wrote: »

I see Tropico 5 is 25% off, shall i pull the trigger now or wait a few days,


Surely if its 25% off now it will be cheaper in a few days?

Only released so maybe it won't

1st purchases down:
State of Decay & Far Cry 3

Yeti Beast

Rossi IRL wrote: »

I see Tropico 5 is 25% off, shall i pull the trigger now or wait a few days,


Surely if its 25% off now it will be cheaper in a few days?

gazzamc

Krusader wrote: »

Only released so maybe it won't

1st purchases down:
State of Decay & Far Cry 3

It's not AAA so I can see it getting 40% off.. Depends on the publisher.

Monotype

CastorTroy wrote: »

Didn't get a card for the first 3 votes.

Yeah, I didn't get one on the third vote either, but it showed up afterwards at 6 o'clock. Also, you have to be level 8 to get cards. As far as I know, they'll give them to you backdated once you reach level 8.

Rossi IRL

Ill wait a couple of days,

I used to go mad on steam sales, not anymore


Tropico 5 will be the only game i buy this time around

gazzamc

Monotype wrote: »

Yeah, I didn't get one on the third vote either, but it showed up afterwards at 6 o'clock. Also, you have to be level 8 to get cards. As far as I know, they'll give them to you backdated once you reach level 8.

Are you sure? I remember getting cards before below level 8..

degrassinoel

Bought Rage, probably be an apt description of my mental state after i play it

Monotype

gazzamc wrote: »

Are you sure? I remember getting cards before below level 8..

Yep. It was level 5 at Christmas.

Maximus Alexander

Right lads, I bought Euro Truck Simulator 2. What the actual ****?

I need to uninstall Steam.

gazzamc

Monotype wrote: »

Yep. It was level 5 at Christmas.

Oh any idea why they upped it?

Monotype

gazzamc wrote: »

Oh any idea why they upped it?

To get people to buy more cards and invest in their trading system. Looks like it's working too. Some people are spending a fortune on cards.

Edit: It probably discourages multiple accounts too.

gazzamc

Monotype wrote: »

To get people to buy more cards and invest in their trading system. Looks like it's working too. Some people are spending a fortune on cards.

Edit: It probably discourages multiple accounts too.

I lucked out so, was at level 8 when it started.. At 10 now almost hitting 11

Rossi IRL

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Right lads, I bought Euro Truck Simulator 2. What the actual ****?

I need to uninstall Steam.

Tis a great game if you have a wheel

CastorTroy

I'm Level 7 with 17 XP away from 8

Maximus Alexander

Rossi IRL wrote: »

Tis a great game if you have a wheel

Now that you mention it actually I have a pretty snazzy wheel gathering dust somewhere that I bought for Gran Turismo 5, must fish that out.

Rossi IRL

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Now that you mention it actually I have a pretty snazzy wheel gathering dust somewhere that I bought for Gran Turismo 5, must fish that out.

Tis a nice game on max graphics aswell,

whenever i pop on for a drive, i plug the laptop into my tv and away i go

Kiith

degrassinoel wrote: »

Bought Rage, probably be an apt description of my mental state after i play it

It starts off really well, but i found it got very repetitive after a while.

Monotype

CastorTroy wrote: »

I'm Level 7 with 17 XP away from 8

If you don't want to be using up cards and haven't done it, you can do some of the tasks for the pillar of the community badge. That'll give you 200 in total.

Gbear

degrassinoel wrote: »

Bought Rage, probably be an apt description of my mental state after i play it

It suffers from atrocious texture pop-in but there's a little fix you can implement (google Rage pop-in fix or that sort of thing) and it helps quite a bit.

It tells your GPU to use more of it's memory or something.

Overheal

Seeing No Man's Sky appears to have spoiled my appetite for games.

CatInABox

I just checked out the list of games that people on the purple team won. Almost all of them are grand, but one poor sucker had Leisure Suit Larry on his wish list and that's what he got. Poor guy.

MiskyBoyy

CatInABox wrote: »

I just checked out the list of games that people on the purple team won. Almost all of them are grand, but one poor sucker had Leisure Suit Larry on his wish list and that's what he got. Poor guy.

Where can you see? lol

degrassinoel

Kiith wrote: »

It starts off really well, but i found it got very repetitive after a while.

Just got to wellsprings and got that exact impression, i might stick with for a while though lest i buy more games

degrassinoel

Gbear wrote: »

It suffers from atrocious texture pop-in but there's a little fix you can implement (google Rage pop-in fix or that sort of thing) and it helps quite a bit.

It tells your GPU to use more of it's memory or something.

seems okay to me tbh, it's actually really detailed, surprising for a three year old title, cheers though

Calhoun

Overheal wrote: »

Seeing No Man's Sky appears to have spoiled my appetite for games.

How so? it looks kinda cool?

James74

Calhoun wrote: »

How so? it looks kinda cool?

I think that's his point. Nothing else is looking as good as what NMS is hopefully shaping up to be.

Vicxas

NMS is set to be amazing.

dreamers75

bougah call of juaraez to occupy a few hours, i liked the 1st 2 then there was a modern one? that i never got then this one came out.

super_furry

I thought I was better, I thought I was past this. I've already caved and bought more in two days than I did in all of the Christmas sale.

Haul so far -

The Bureau
Payday 2
Sid Meier's Pirates
Don't Starve
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Shadowrrun Returns
Papers Please

Links234

What's currently in the community choice offer?

Yeti Beast

The Blue Team is bleedin' brutal!

Links234 wrote: »

What's currently in the community choice offer?

Last winner, or two choices up for decision now?

Links234

Last winner. Seem to have issues viewing on mobile

Yeti Beast

It was the Sci-fi collection or whatever they called it; Frozen Synapse, Shadowrun Returns, E.Y.E. and Master Reboot.

Links234

Is it worth upgrading to shadowrun deluxe edition? And the dragonfall dlc? Been on my wishlist a while and currently 60%

Pushtrak

I got the dragonfall DLC anyway. Been wanting to get that when it went on sale. Obviously, having just bought it I can't personally vouch for it, but I think I read reviews about how it was a lot better than the main game, and I really liked the main game.

I'll be calling it a night soon. I mostly am up because I wanted to vote on the community choice.. But anyone with a spare 3 for the summer cards? I need a 3, and would like to trade a 1 if possible though I could trade a 6. I have one more 1 so obviously I'd prefer to trade that if possible.

nix

The only game i want is South park but i doubt it will go up, if so probably feck all off it

Mostly just indy crap so far too

Pushtrak

Might go for an all right price for the Christmas one.There have been lots of great indie games there.

Calvin

Might go for Papers Please if it's gone down further! Looks like a great boredom killer.

Anyone played State of Decay? Is it any good? Looking for games that have the longevity factor..or replayability.

MiskyBoyy

nix wrote: »

The only game i want is South park but i doubt it will go up, if so probably feck all off it

Mostly just indy crap so far too

Just under 20 on Kinguin if any good to ya?
http://www.kinguin.net/category/5112/south-park-the-stick-of-truth-steam-key/

Washington Irving

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Might go for Papers Please if it's gone down further! Looks like a great boredom killer.

70% off at €2.69 now.

Been meaning to try it for a while.

Sarky

Just completed The Fall. Steam says it took 10 hours but I did leave it unattended for a couple of hours, probably closer to 8. Very atmospheric, very interesting premise. I'd recommend it.

Overheal

Sarky wrote: »

Just completed The Fall. Steam says it took 10 hours but I did leave it unattended for a couple of hours, probably closer to 8. Very atmospheric, very interesting premise. I'd recommend it.

holy ****, saw the trailer, it resonated with some daydreams I had as a teen when drawing stuff that an AI could potentially auto-pilot a suit. Have to try this.

edit: ph yeah I came in here to ask does anyone know if Planetary Annihilation is "done enough" yet to justify it's $25 purchase?

degrassinoel

Overheal wrote: »

holy ****, saw the trailer, it resonated with some daydreams I had as a teen when drawing stuff that an AI could potentially auto-pilot a suit. Have to try this.

edit: ph yeah I came in here to ask does anyone know if Planetary Annihilation is "done enough" yet to justify it's $25 purchase?

I was debating wether to buy it or not and after a look at their forums i decided not to, they've only just implemented a single player campaign, so they are nowere near finished yet

Tipsy McSwagger

Might get Payday 2

Links234

At that price, it's well worth it

I was hoping we'd see something off the new DLC, as it's €6.99 which is pretty expensive and all the other DLC was €4.99 at launch. I assumed they'd bumped up the price because it was released just before the sale and they had it that expensive so they wouldn't lose out too much when it was discounted, but I guess I was wrong.