Steam Sale (Christmas, 2014 Edition)

racersedge

Cravez wrote: »

It's actually ok, certainly not the worst in the series. Some of the missions span across multiple areas so they can be quite big. It's very story driven compared to the other games in the series where every mission is pretty much a main mission whereas in previous games it sort of took a break between the storyline to give you a non related hit.

Yeah.. it's different, for lack of a better word than what some of the others. There are missions where you don't have a target to kill, for example. As Cravez said, it is story driven. Of the story, some parts feel a bit... off, but that is a personal opinion.

There is room for returning to it as well on play through's as in some levels there are different ways to go about it. Like most games these days, you can 'achieve' these different scenarios to.. well, boost your ego! :P I suppose if you enjoy going back at it and trying to nail a guy a different way, it's adds variety!

Overall, I enjoyed it - despite the differences from the past series. Few things take a bit of getting used to (such as how disguises work). Not the worst in the series (I still struggle to be a silent assassin in the first game which felt more like a FPS with stealth elements than what it turned out in later games).

You could do worse for four euro.

challengemaster

challengemaster wrote: »

Assetto Corsa is just out of early access, on v1.0 now so it's unlikely it'll get any bigger discount for a good while

Well... looks like I was wrong.. -50% now

Nedved85

challengemaster wrote: »

Well... looks like I was wrong.. -50% now

I snapped at that price, will tie me over until project Cars

dreamers75

Payday 2 GOTY with all DLC 22.93

Links234

dreamers75 wrote: »

Payday 2 GOTY with all DLC 22.93

Get it

dreamers75

Links234 wrote: »

Get it

Patience

Gamer Bhoy 89

Yep, I went crazy. I got the following games today and over the weekend;

Sniper Elite
Sniper Elite v2
Sniper Elite III
Age of Mythology Extended Edition
Hitman Codename 47
Hitman 2
Hitman Contracts
Hitman Blood Money
Flight Simulator X Steam Edition
Rust
The Forest (Thanks, PewDiePie)
Garry's Mod
Saints Row The Third
Saints Row IV
Shogun 2 Total War: Fall of the Samurai DLC
Shadowrun Returns

Two or three of the games I actually got off of Kinguin.net just to shave one or two euro off (they were cheaper than the actual Steam sale)

Out of all of those games, I'll probably finish...one of them (maybe :pac:)

McSasquatch II

Not a huge discount for either, but sorely tempted by both Endless Legend and Age of Wonders III. Can only afford one though... Thoughts?

Gonzovision

McSasquatch II wrote: »

Not a huge discount for either, but sorely tempted by both Endless Legend and Age of Wonders III. Can only afford one though... Thoughts?

Picked up Endless Legend the other day, fantastic game. The game Beyond Earth should have been.

McSasquatch II

Gonzovision wrote: »

Picked up Endless Legend the other day, fantastic game. The game Beyond Earth should have been.

Hmmm, it's the one that I've been leaning towards alright. Reviews have been good, and it's appeared in many "Best of 2014" type lists.

Wetbench4

bpb101 wrote: »

Lads does anybody know of some open world games with guns and its is modern(as it not laser guns but not swords)
dont paying 60 quid for farcry 4
Ive played(have)
gta iv
Mafia 1+2
Far cry 3
la noire

watch dogs looks a bit deer and not worth it from reading the reviews.
I really like the mafia games
Any suggestions

This is worth a look for the price http://store.steampowered.com/app/8190/

Sephiroth_dude

Gonzovision wrote: »

Picked up Endless Legend the other day, fantastic game. The game Beyond Earth should have been.

Is it one of those games that's u forgiving difficulty wise?

Sephiroth_dude

only have 35 left to play with as I owe the bank 18 :mad:

Wossack

mark of the ninja se, garrys mod, and hotline miami added.. not bad for 8 odd

Links234

Picked up Mark of the Ninja there so that's two games so far

nesf

Gonzovision wrote: »

Picked up Endless Legend the other day, fantastic game. The game Beyond Earth should have been.

Yeah, just broke myself, have been watching it for a good while even if I don't have the time for it at the moment.

Dave_The_Sheep

Fair warning for those thinking of Endless Legend. The game itself is actually really good - great city management, good unit variety, plus upgrading them is fun, along with your heroes. Great little game.

However, it's not the most stable. Crashing every hour or so randomly - and sometimes making particular decisions also crashes the game - then when you reload making the same decision crashes again. No big deal - unless it's a decision that's critical for your empire's well being.

Sephiroth_dude

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Fair warning for those thinking of Endless Legend. The game itself is actually really good - great city management, good unit variety, plus upgrading them is fun, along with your heroes. Great little game.

However, it's not the most stable. Crashing every hour or so randomly - and sometimes making particular decisions also crashes the game - then when you reload making the same decision crashes again. No big deal - unless it's a decision that's critical for your empire's well being.

Ah well if theres stability issues I'll pass till there sorted, How is it difficulty wise?

Dave_The_Sheep

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Ah well if theres stability issues I'll pass till there sorted, How is it difficulty wise?

Haven't really gotten beyond medium, to be honest. Can't really comment. The AI so far though, seems to make the choice to backstab you while you're at war with someone else. Annoying, but clever - intentional or not.

Headshot

Maybe its just me but this steam sale has been crap

Laviski

Headshot wrote: »

Maybe its just me but this steam sale has been crap

If you have bought all the.games you have eye on over the past years since the sale are common

bound to happen!

franman

Headshot wrote: »

Maybe its just me but this steam sale has been crap

Think the steam sales have been bad for the past couple of years. You can always find better deals other sites like amazon or greenmangaming

Headshot

Laviski wrote: »

If you have bought all the.games you have eye on over the past years since the sale are common

bound to happen!

I was expecting better prices tbh.

Age of Mythology was like 6-7 euro. A great game but quite old at this stage. It should of been 2 euro

Prices and the lack of games on sale are my main concern

Links234

Honestly, it does seem a little lackluster this year, there's been some utter rubbish in the community choice awards compared to before, which considering they used to be a lot more frequent you'd think they wouldn't need to pad them out. I'm just hoping there's a decent discount on Wolfenstein one of the days, and I'll be happy.

dreamers75

Links234 wrote: »

Honestly, it does seem a little lackluster this year, there's been some utter rubbish in the community choice awards compared to before, which considering they used to be a lot more frequent you'd think they wouldn't need to pad them out. I'm just hoping there's a decent discount on Wolfenstein one of the days, and I'll be happy.

Wolfenstein 15 on g2play atm

http://www.g2play.net/catalogsearch/result/index/?q=wolfenstein


was 12 yesterday waiting till its 10

degrassinoel

Headshot wrote: »

Maybe its just me but this steam sale has been crap

I was thinking that too, but at the same time at least half of what's on sale each day i already own, the others didnt interest me or weren't low enough to buy

Wossack

a lot of the usual suspects alright

community choice being poor, and very infrequent aint helping though

wotzgoingon

Anybody else not able to play on steam last night around 1am. Due to server overload.

Cravez

I kind of get the feeling that these type of discounts will now be the norm from now on. I imagine devs/publishers are giving out to Valve that prices are scraping the bottom of the barrel and that consumers are waiting until Sale time to buy their product rather than anytime else during the year. It might coincide with the change in the trading policy and also the region locks recently.

ShadowHearth

Well, I got myself Walking Dead season 2 for a fiver and Bioshock Infinite Season Pass as I really really want to play Burial at the Sea. More of Underwater Bioshock is great in my Books.

kingtiger

I see Gauntlet is now a tenner, have to buy it, loved that game when I was a kid

tbukela

Got Walking Dead Season 2 yesterday, had been waiting ages for it.

Can't decide between Endless Legends or Ages of Wonders III. Any recommendations?
Also waiting on Kerbal to drop further, is that realistic?

Links234

Got super meat boy, bit of an impulse buy but for that price meh

LostBoy101

Got bully just there. I loved that game!

VinLieger

Got Bully Super Meat Boy and Star Wars Empire at War,

Also have some cards for trading if anyone is up for a trade? Looking for 3, 6 ,9 and 10

have 2 of No. 3, 1 of No. 4 and 1 of No. 7 to trade with

Links234

Holy crap today's deals are underwhelming

J_E

Links234 wrote: »

Holy crap today's deals are underwhelming

Yeah I thought there would be some great deals on Christmas Day!

Links234

Flash sale is better even. Kinda wanted to get Gone Home as well, but I'm trying to not buy anything I'm not gonna play right away, so may give it a miss for now.

Actually, what's the advantage in Sleeping Dogs definitive edition? I picked up the standard game I think during the summer sale but never got around to even installing it yet.

Sephiroth_dude

Links234 wrote: »

Flash sale is better even. Kinda wanted to get Gone Home as well, but I'm trying to not buy anything I'm not gonna play right away, so may give it a miss for now.

Actually, what's the advantage in Sleeping Dogs definitive edition? I picked up the standard game I think during the summer sale but never got around to even installing it yet.

Better looking graphics is all I think.

sweetie

among the sleep any good?

I got rollercoaster tycoon
I've heard so many stories about it I had to give it a go. Well notyet, I'm still playing bg2 ee

mrcheez

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is €2.99 at the moment.

Lowest price so far according to isthereanydeal.com, and cheaper than the US$/GBP equivalent ($3.99 / £2.99)

TheDoc

Football Manager 33% off?

Man this sale has BLOWN so hard

Links234

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Better looking graphics is all I think.

So no advantage for me then. Really must play it at some stage

Krusader

TheDoc wrote: »

Football Manager 33% off?

Man this sale has BLOWN so hard

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=93574200&postcount=622

racersedge

It's felt like an odd sort of sale, to be fair. Perhaps we are so used to them now that we have become de-sensitised to the whole thing. That, coupled with other vendors offering games at comparable prices as well and suddenly the shine starts to come off these events.

Is this sale lasting longer than usual as well with going into the first few days of January? Would nearly prefer a shorter window which allowed for better titles to appear in daily deals. There has been a many days where you look at the titles and just shrug. I would have at least expected one stellar deal per day.

That been said, I have been more busier than usual than other sales (probably because I recently upgraded the computer). Day one say me pick up the truck simulator (for the giggles) and then snatched up Walking Dead Season 2 and the 400 Days DLC from Season 1 to tie it all together in a bow.

A belly full of alcohol saw me jump on the Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition last night and then this morning my hangover treated me to the Farcry Collection (sans the newest title). So all in all I've spent about thirty quid, which ain't half bad with what you would get in a bricks and motar for that.

Still have an eye on a few things. Be nice to see Splinter Cell appear with a bigger chunk off it and like a few others, might jump on Wolfenstein should it come up on a worthwhile deal.

Have to see as the newer titles just haven't had enough appeal to be worth jumping on. Did pass on Assetto Corsa... very tempted. However still feeling stung from getting rF2 last year and still racing on rF so might wait for that appear in later sales before jumping on that bandwagon.

80% off of Planetary Annihilation. Is it that bad? I remember it looked good before it was released

Sephiroth_dude

Deleted User wrote: »

80% off of Planetary Annihilation. Is it that bad? I remember it looked good before it was released

Definitely worth a fiver

Vojera

I picked up South Park: Stick of Truth as it was one of the two games I said I'd look out for and I know I'll play it right away. Otherwise the sale hasn't been great for me. Roll on 6pm, maybe I'll be surprised.

Links234

Banished is seriously worth picking up, otherwise today seems a bit underwhelming again.