Steam Summer Sale 2015

Calvin

Links234 wrote: »

Giving serious consideration to grabbing Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

If you've a PS4, it's free on that for PS+ members this month :P if you want to try it out beforehand

Links234

Fakman87 wrote: »

Lads is Skyrim legendary edition worth it for 10 or should I just go for the standard game at 3.75?

The DLC adds some very excellent storylines, Dawnguard is fantastic, but I've not finished Dragonborn. I'd say get it.

Links234

Calvin Leong wrote: »

If you've a PS4, it's free on that for PS+ members this month :P if you want to try it out beforehand

Nope, I've no consoles at all.

AlmightyCushion

Fakman87 wrote: »

Lads is Skyrim legendary edition worth it for 10 or should I just go for the standard game at 3.75?

Definitely get the DLC, it adds a lot to it and I haven't even done half of it yet.

Turtwig

And I've just passed the €200 barrier.

Oh and everyone really needs to give Euro Truck Sim 2 a shot.

Gamer Bhoy 89

Turtwig wrote: »

And I've just passed the €200 barrier.

Oh and everyone really needs to give Euro Truck Sim 2 a shot.

I'm at 138 and I am feeling pretty OCD about it! Might stick a tenner onto my account next week and find something on a daily.

Euro Truck Sim 2 is a ton of fun to play. The best part about it is you can listen to real live radio stations from around Europe - fair class

ShooterSF

Links234 wrote: »

Nothing particularly tempting today for me personally, but if you've not already got it, Banished is an absolute steal for that price so grab it. It's also not on the main page, but Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a hidden daily deal and going for €4.99 so well worth snapping up, it's gloriously fun.

Damn you I was doing so well. Been on my wishlist for ages but wouldn't have even noticed

Links234

ShooterSF wrote: »

Damn you I was doing so well. Been on my wishlist for ages but wouldn't have even noticed

I seriously cannot recommend it enough, snap it up!

Soundtrack is downright incredible too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcpGIVbPYrI

Links234

**** it, MGSV: Ground Zeroes nabbed

Turtwig

What type of game is Revengance?

jacksie66

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Links234

Turtwig wrote: »

What type of game is Revengance?

An awesome one! :pac:

It's developed by Platinum Games and is similar playstyle to Bayonetta, so very hack'n'slash combat heavy

Dair76

Ugh, I've spent €58 so far.... thought I was at about half that. Still, all good games methinks. No filler!

MiskyBoyy

Display Fusion for €4.99 too.

It's a program for managing multi monitors for those who don't know.

I've been using pirated version for past 2 years. Might get it legit for once lol.

Only thing putting me off is Windows 10 is coming out in a month and display fusion might be redundant for me then...

dreamers75

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dualmonitortb/

^^

Free

I bought Spelunky and played for about an hour there. Wtf. What is its appeal? Its terrible

Taylor365

Deleted User wrote: »

I bought Spelunky and played for about an hour there. Wtf. What is its appeal? Its terrible

Good thing you can refund! :DDDD

Not a NSA agent

Balls, elder scrolls online isnt included in the sale. Was hoping it would drop to 15-18 again but that was before it went for the GW2 style.

5uspect

dreamers75 wrote: »

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dualmonitortb/

^^

Free

Be wary of SourceForge, they're evil now.

5uspect

Deleted User wrote: »

I bought Spelunky and played for about an hour there. Wtf. What is its appeal? Its terrible

It's deeper than it appears.

Skerries

5uspect wrote: »

It's deeper than it appears.

you could say it's cavernous

Dair76

Nearly a week into the sale, and I'm only now noticing that the flash deals are available for 24 hours, and not 12.

Turtwig

5uspect wrote: »

Be wary of SourceForge, they're evil now.

How so?

Vojera

Picked up Never Alone, my first real purchase of the sale (Orion: Prelude doesn't really count :pac:). It looks interesting and is also short, which is (depressingly) a real selling point for me these days.

5uspect

5uspect wrote: »

It's deeper than it appears.

Care to elaborate? Feels like I'm playing a flash game with clunky controls.

HalloweenJack

Anybody get stranded deep?

I'm interested and a mate has it but he's not entirely sold on it.

Thargor

As well as a haul of games my new laptop arrived today just in time to play them

john the one

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Anybody get stranded deep?

I'm interested and a mate has it but he's not entirely sold on it.

I picked it up but got a refund for it.

For me, the crafting system was broke, couldnt craft tools or a fire. So I was basically stuck with a raft, a stick and a paddle.

A lot of people say it's a good game but it wouldn't work for me so I can't recommend it

super_furry

Not sure if it's just me but the sale just doesn't seem to have the same kind of impact this year as it has in the past. The deals don't seem to be as good, many of daily deals max out at 30% off and only bring it inline to the price that you buy the keys elsewhere. Maybe it's down to the fact that I've got so much in the past but all I've bought this time around have been Wolfenstein, Ethan Carter and Insurgency.

super_furry

Deleted User wrote: »

I bought Spelunky and played for about an hour there. Wtf. What is its appeal? Its terrible

Stick with it, it's great. Although I personally think it's a game much more suited to a handheld like the Vita.

Links234

Vojera wrote: »

Picked up Never Alone, my first real purchase of the sale (Orion: Prelude doesn't really count :pac:). It looks interesting and is also short, which is (depressingly) a real selling point for me these days.

I don't think there's anything depressing about short being a selling point, here's why!

Some of the most downright incredible, memorable and enjoyable games I've played have been quite short. Portal for example took me 2 hours to finish over the space of a couple of days, and the sequel 7 hours, which although was a longer playtime was still pretty short compared to other games. However short they were, the Portal games remain amazing, immersive and seriously memorable games and they'll stick with me as a seriously positive experience. I've been singing the praises of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, but I've finished it (with some DLC left to do) in 12 hours. Tomb Raider I finished in 18 hours, Bioshock Infinite 14 hours (though I didn't play the Burial At Sea DLC yet) and Hotline Miami 5 hours. People complained that Dishonored was short, though according to Steam I've 43 hours in that one, so I can't personally say that one is short.

These are games that are utterly fantastic, have great gameplay and tell a great story. Some might say they do this in spite of boasting hundreds of hours of gameplay, I would actually say they do it because of their shorter playtimes. There are a lot of games that could be described as 'Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle' and then there are games that while small, pack a lot of depth and detail into their worlds. Length doesn't equal quality. I used to play World of Warcraft, and although there was a lot I enjoyed about it like the raids, there was so much in that game that was just timesink after timesink and grinding after grinding, quests that were usually just some permutation of collect x number of item, kill x number of mobs, kill this special mob and bring back their head. There was some great gameplay mechanics, the endgame was wonderful, but the rest was just padding and timesinks.

So I certainly get why short can be a selling point, at least in terms of single player story driven games, multiplayer is a bit of a different beast.

Links234

super_furry wrote: »

Not sure if it's just me but the sale just doesn't seem to have the same kind of impact this year as it has in the past. The deals don't seem to be as good, many of daily deals max out at 30% off and only bring it inline to the price that you buy the keys elsewhere. Maybe it's down to the fact that I've got so much in the past but all I've bought this time around have been Wolfenstein, Ethan Carter and Insurgency.

Honestly, a lot of people tend to think that Steam sales aren't as good as they were, and that's mainly down to people having bought a lot of the games they want already. This is a fantastic sale, even if I've only bought a few things. I've actually bought more than I thought I would. You'll always remember the sale you had the biggest, most extravagant spurge on. 2013 I got €75 towards whatever I wanted on Steam as my birthday present from my sister and I went wild! I still have a few games from then that I've not played, so afterwards I slowed down when it came to sales.

The reality is, we're getting amazing deals, it's a really excellent sale. But Steam just has more competition now, so folks often pick up things elsewhere, the humble store and gog for example.

This was from 2011:



This was from 2012:



This was from 2013:

J Mysterio

Links234 wrote: »

Giving serious consideration to grabbing Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Was free on PS+ for the PS4 this month.

Links234

J Mysterio wrote: »

Was free on PS+ for the PS4 this month.

I know, but I don't have a PS4 and I already bought it

Turtwig

This is my first steam sale in possibly four years. You have no idea how delighted I've been with it. Once it's done I'll list everything I got.

Links234

Also thinking pretty seriously about grabbing Devil May Cry. Hmm...

nesf

Turtwig wrote: »

This is my first steam sale in possibly four years. You have no idea how delighted I've been with it. Once it's done I'll list everything I got.

Ah! €200 makes a lot of sense then. I'm around €120 but I'm "buying for two" after getting my son into PC gaming.

Now I'm really agonising over Pillars of Eternity, CoH II Ardennes and Planetary Annihilation... I'm after talking myself out of Offworld Trading Company because it's Early Access so far

DARK-KNIGHT

pool nation is an absolute steal at 99 cent seriously addictive any pool or snooker fan will love it.. buy it and ill school you all........

nesf

The list of shame so far. (I miscounted how much I'd spent, I was counting some games bought for the kid earlier in the month when I was thinking iin Steam wallet terms, I've spent around €80 so far)

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 -- Nostalgia
Valkyria Chronicals -- Been eying this for ages
Long Live the Queen -- This looks very interesting for a visual novel, not my thing usually.
Cities: Skylines -- No need to justify. :P
Tales of Maj'Eyal -- I hear it's a good roguelike
Xenonauts -- I played a lot of XCOM when I was a kid
Deathtrap -- Impulse
Avernum 2 -- Impulse
War for the Overworld -- I hear they've been fixing things...

DARK-KNIGHT

nesf wrote: »

The list of shame so far. (I miscounted how much I'd spent, I was counting some games bought for the kid earlier in the month when I was thinking iin Steam wallet terms, I've spent around €80 so far)

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 -- Nostalgia
Valkyria Chronicals -- Been eying this for ages
Long Live the Queen -- This looks very interesting for a visual novel, not my thing usually.
Cities: Skylines -- No need to justify. :P
Tales of Maj'Eyal -- I hear it's a good roguelike
Xenonauts -- I played a lot of XCOM when I was a kid
Deathtrap -- Impulse
Avernum 2 -- Impulse
War for the Overworld -- I hear they've been fixing things...

wow i didnt get any of those

0byme75341jo28

Spent like €100, too much

Links234

nesf wrote: »

The list of shame so far.

*rings bell* Shame! :pac:

Actually, Deathtrap is one I had my eye on for a bit, it's from the same people who made The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing games, which had this tower defense mini-game that was absolutely fantastic. Deathtrap is an entire game built from that. Based on how fun the tower defense game was in Van Helsing, it should be great

nesf

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

wow i didnt get any of those

A lot of them were hidden down in the special offers from that game thing they have people doing and in Flash sales. Easy to miss plus a lot of them are pretty niche or have been on sale before (Cities and VC).

Links234 wrote: »

*rings bell* Shame! :pac:

Actually, Deathtrap is one I had my eye on for a bit, it's from the same people who made The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing games, which had this tower defense mini-game that was absolutely fantastic. Deathtrap is an entire game built from that. Based on how fun the tower defense game was in Van Helsing, it should be great

Yeah it looks fun and eh, I'm awfully addicted to tower defense games.

LFC CONNAUGHTON

I'm buying things not even in the sale just because I'm in the mood of buying. So far I've got:
Terraria GOG
Kerbal Space Programming Kinguin
SimCity 4 GOG
Don't Starve + Reign of Giants
Metro Redux Bundle
Civ V Complete
Dishonored
BioShock Triple Pack

The sale made me even forget I bought BioShock.

Links234

Well, my rather conservative list is:

Valkyria Chronicles
Wolfenstein: The New Order
The Evil Within (This was gifted to me) + Season Pass (I bought this)
Insurgency
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

I had bought Valiant Hearts, but after a lot of back and forth on it, decided to request a refund.

I'm really enjoying The Evil Within. Well, maybe enjoying is the wrong word, I think I'd best describe this as a 'Nope simulator' :pac:

Calvin

think I've spent €10 max so far...nothing really jumping out at me. Although I'll probably pick up Total War:Rome 2 tomorrow.

don ramo

grabbed these for 60 quid

Skyrim legendary edition
Fallout 3 GOTY
Bioshock triple pack
Dishonored
Brothers-A tale of 2 sons

they were 50 when i assembled the list, but i procrastinated and ended up paying 60, still not bad, to buy on amazon would have set me back 105

also debating on getting GTA 5 over on the Playstation store for 25 quid,

for my gameplaying time i probably just purchased 4 years worth of games,

Fakman87

Ok lads buckle up.

Metro Redux
Elder Scrolls 3, 4 and 5
Portal 1 and 2
L4D 1 and 2
Stalker collection
RealMyst
Papers Please
Prison architect
Sherlock Holmes collection
Thief collection
Hitman collection
System shock 2
Xcom collection
Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Payday 2
Dishonored
Insurgency
This war of mine
Civ 5

All for the price of about two Ps4 games :P

john the one

Arma 3 for 18 euro is the cheapest I have seen yet. Must have 200 hours in that game if not more.

MiskyBoyy

john the one wrote: »

Arma 3 for 18 euro is the cheapest I have seen yet. Must have 200 hours in that game if not more.

Yeah it's a great price. Can't remember but think that maybe even cheaper than I paid for it in Alpha!