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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: idolminds on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 06:22:14 PM
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Looks like pretty much everything has a discount of some kind, and they have some one day only specials. Worth a look if you don't mind using Steam.
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Mirror's Edge is $5 again. I kicked myself when I missed the first time the deal was offered, so I think I won't let that happen again.
Also, GTA IV for under $8. Almost enough to make you forget about all the problems they had with it.
Also x2, Defense Grid for $2.50. That's tempting.
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X2 is a quality game. I haven't played the third, but 2 was really something. Story parts are a bit wonky, but everything else is solid and pretty compelling. Defense Grid is fucking fantastic if you like tower defense games. I had a great time with it. It's nothing all that revolutionary except that it looks quite impressive for a TD game. Total steal at that price. Anybody should get that. Kept me up until 4 in the morning or something on at least one occasion, as I recall.
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Man, there's some great deals in there.
Evil Genius = $1.99
Ghost Master = $1.99
Braid = $2.49
Indigo Prophecy = $3.39
Shadowgrounds + Shadowgrounds Survivor Pack = $3.99
SW: KOTOR - $4.99
Riddick: Dark Athena - $6.79 [with Tages DRM w/ install limits]
ARMA = $6.79
Ghostbuster - The Game - $6.79
Killing Floor = $9.99
Titan Quest: Gold Edition = $9.99
Jade Empire = $10.04
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - Director's Cut = $13.59
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl = $1.99
STALKER: Clear Sky = $4.99
Borderlands PC = $33.49
Borderlands - Zombie Island DLC (Steam Edition of BL is required) = $6.69 [with Securom install limits]
X2: The Threat and X3: Reunion Pack = $5.49
X3: Terran Conflict = $9.99
X3 Gold Pack [X3: Reunion + X3: Terran Conflict] = $14.99
Deus Ex - $6.69
Deus Ex: Invisible War - $6.69
Freedom Force = $3.34
Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich = $3.34
Freedom Force - Double Pack [Freedom Force + FF vs. Third Reich] = $5.01
Overlord = $2.99
Overlord: Raising Hell DLC = $4.99
Overlord 2 = $14.99
Overlord Complete Pack [Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell DLC, Overlord 2] - $17.99
Still looking through all this madness...
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Wow, Mirror's Edge for $5? It has to be worth that, right?
What is the Tages DRM?
Oh and I agree that Defense Grid is fantastic. I have it on XBLA.
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Wow, Mirror's Edge for $5? It has to be worth that, right?
Easily.
What is the Tages DRM?
Tages makes DRM - more internationally known.
Since this is Steam here, Tages DRM is extra additional online DRM (on top of the Steam DRM).
You have to authenticate your game online through other additional servers.
And it usually has install limits of some sort.
Depends on what the game dev/publisher levies on it.
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Mirror's Edge is easily worth the $5. Game is pretty sweet.
I see that The Void is on there for under $5. Made by the same guys who made Pathologic...which wasn't really good, but made grown men cry with it's atmosphere, I've heard good things. The game looks pretty unique and surreal/cool. Reviews have been favourable from what I've heard.
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OK I just bought STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky. What are they? Original and prequel? Original and addon? What's Pripyat?
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The stupid piece of shit still won't accept my credit card. It just doesn't recognize my place of residence with my ip address or some crap. It isn't an isolated problem. I have two cousins who haven't been able to buy games on STEAM because of this very problem.
Interestingly enough, EA causes no problem with my digital purchases.
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OK I just bought STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky. What are they? Original and prequel? Original and addon?
Original and prequel.
What's Pripyat?
I haven't heard of it, but I just looked it up and it is the sequel to Shadow of Chernobyl.
The stupid piece of shit still won't accept my credit card. It just doesn't recognize my place of residence with my ip address or some crap. It isn't an isolated problem. I have two cousins who haven't been able to buy games on STEAM because of this very problem.
Have you ever bought anything from Steam? Just curious.
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Have in Canada. Nowadays I just have someone gift me something and I reimburse them via Paypal.
But aside from the issue of bothering someone else, most of the really awesome steam sales last 24 hours, which is too small a window for me.
On the other hand, like EA's PC store, PSN has worked seamlessly for me.
The strange thing with both EA's online store and PSN is that with both of them, I have entered a fictional address in North America, yet they have no issues with taking my money.
Here with steam, I am being completely honest with my details, yet it continues to be a total bitch..
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Something else that is strange: I can only see Civilization IV in advertisements. When I click on, I see nothing. Apparently steam's version of Civ IV isn't to be sold outside of North America. I already had the game, but I was just curious to see the package.
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Today only:
Day of Defeat: Source: $2.49
Dead Space: $10.19
Zombie Driver: $2.49
Hearts of Iron III: $7.49
Complete Popcap Collection: $49.99
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Today only:
Day of Defeat: Source: $2.49
Dead Space: $10.19
Zombie Driver: $2.49
Hearts of Iron III: $7.49
Complete Popcap Collection: $49.99
Dead Space's really good - highly recommend that one. I recently uninstalled it to make room for other games - but yeah, I'm sure I'll wind up reinstalling that one. I really want to get by that one part w/ the Asteroid part in Chapter 7.
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Dead Space's really good - highly recommend that one. I recently uninstalled it to make room for other games - but yeah, I'm sure I'll wind up reinstalling that one. I really want to get by that one part w/ the Asteroid part in Chapter 7.
I can't remember why on earth I never played more than 1 level of it, but I loved what I played. I liked it so much that I just recently bought Dead Space extraction just because it's Dead Space. I have to borrow my brother's Wii because I don't have one.
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I can't remember why on earth I never played more than 1 level of it, but I loved what I played. I liked it so much that I just recently bought Dead Space extraction just because it's Dead Space. I have to borrow my brother's Wii because I don't have one.
I could be wrong, but maybe you're just like me - you love what you play with one game (Dead Space, in your case), but then you go buy some other game (whatever it might be and for whatever reason) and somehow the one you were playing (Dead Space, in your case) winds up on the back-burner. :P That has happened to me w/ lots of games - i.e. Psychonauts. I loved what I played w/ that one, but somehow, it wound up on the back-burner b/c I bought some other game that took over my life.
Though, I took a break from Dead Space b/c of that goddamn Asteroid puzzle in Chapter 7.
But, yeah - Dead Space kicks ass. It's gonna be interesting to see what they might do w/ Dead Space 2, since there's no release date for it anytime soon...
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Aww man, $3 for Zombie Driver. They've had some damn good sales that I wont take advantage of...
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Aww man, $3 for Zombie Driver. They've had some damn good sales that I wont take advantage of...
You so need some sort of DSL connection service or cable modem or something faster in our area, man....
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A fast connection doesn't make Steam stop sucking, it just makes it suck less. I won't even use it anymore I hate it so goddamn much. The last couple things I tried to use with it were completely broken. I just gave up trying to make it work after sifting through the thousands of forum posts from people who also couldn't get it working and couldn't get answers. I'm just done with it. Unless there's something I really want and I have absolutely no alternative but to deal with it, at this point it doesn't matter how cheap the shit is.
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Todays specials:
Burnout Paradise $7.50
Space Siege $5
Orange Box $15
Killing Floor $5
Prey $2.25.
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Man, even at $2.25 I still don't think I'd jump at Prey. I have already played and beat it, and it wasn't a memorable enough of an experience to give it a whirl again.
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I got dead space with like 5 min to go in the deal. I hate countdown timers.
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Todays specials:
Burnout Paradise $7.50
Space Siege $5
Orange Box $15
Killing Floor $5
Prey $2.25.
Bioshock $4.99 got added b/c they ran out of Prey keys (for now).
It says if they get enuff keys again, they'll re-run the Prey deal.
But...OMG @ Prey for $2.25. That's a great deal.
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I loved Prey. Not the best game ever, but had some really cool, fun moments. Totally worth $5 to $10 even still. $2.25 is practically free.
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Prey PC kicked ass. Getting the CE when I did was worth the $20 or so I spent on.
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I still don't understand how you run out of keys. How long does it take to put a new key into the database? What century are we in? Am I missing something?
I remember this scenario happening with another game recently. I wasn't as annoyed because I wasn't about to buy it.
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Its happened at least twice in this holiday sale alone, at least that Ive heard of. And I agree, how is this even a problem that can happen? I mean I know how it happens, that Take2 or whoever the publisher of the game is only gives Steam X number of cdkeys to sell and has to generate more, but why are they not giving Valve/Steam the ability to generate them on-demand?
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Today's Steam Deals
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King Arthur: The Roleplaying War Game = $19.99
Silent Hill: Homecoming = $9.99
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor = $7.49
Stormrise = $7.49
Jade Empire: Special Edition = $3.75
Mr. Robot = $1.99
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Wed's Steam Deals
Osmos = $1.99
Max Payne 1 = $2.49
Max Payne 2 = $2.49
Max Payne 1 and 2 Bundle = $3.79
Civ 4 = $6.79
Civ 4: Complete (Civ 4 + Warlords + Beyond the Sword + Colonization) - $13.60
Left 4 Dead 1 = $7.49
Call of Duty: World at War = $24.99
FIFA Manager 10 = $33.49
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Oooh, L4D. Nice, I'm gonna grab that.
Edit: Anyone up for a game tonight?
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L4D is tempting, but feels pointless since I have it on Xbox, as well as L4D2. Did L4D ever get any decent mods?
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Nothing major, just some custom campaigns. But with the new L4D2 SDK that includes the L4D1 textures and such, those campaigns will become playable in L4D2 anyway.
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Thursday's Steam Deals...
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See Idol's prices in the post below...
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Correction, Half-Life: Source is $2.49.
I'm surprised they still charge actual money for it, though. It was basically a tech demo to show how porting HL mods to HL2 would be easy. And seeing as how pretty much no mods ever got ported over like that, I'd say it didn't work out like they hoped.
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D, your prices are all messed up. Heres the real set:
Medieval: Total War = $4.99
Half-Life: Source = $2.49
Darwinia + Multiwinia = $2.99
Shattered Horizons = $4.99
Street Fighter 4 = $9.99
Crysis: Maximum Edition (Crysis + Crysis: Warhead/Wars) = $13.59
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Correction, Half-Life: Source is $2.49.
I'm surprised they still charge actual money for it, though. It was basically a tech demo to show how porting HL mods to HL2 would be easy. And seeing as how pretty much no mods ever got ported over like that, I'd say it didn't work out like they hoped.
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D, your prices are all messed up. Heres the real set:
Medieval: Total War = $4.99
Half-Life: Source = $2.49
Darwinia + Multiwinia = $2.99
Shattered Horizons = $4.99
Street Fighter 4 = $9.99
Crysis: Maximum Edition (Crysis + Crysis: Warhead/Wars) = $13.59
I guess that's what I get for jumping on there exactly at 12pm.
Guess it wasn't fully updated and fully marked-down (probably from the usual X-Mas prices to the major one day price-chops) when I jumped on there to check, since they still had cross-outs on prices and stuff.
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Yeah, looks like they put the games on the list before actually changing the prices. So now its all adjusted.
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Yeah, looks like they put the games on the list before actually changing the prices. So now its all adjusted.
Definitely good to know, for the future and all - since I'm off from work today and I'll also be here tomorrow and able to check it when the sale starts.
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Maximum purchase
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Yea so I caved a bought a bunch of stuff, I mean how could I not jump on some of those deals.
I bought:
Crysis pack
Trine
Braid
World of Goo
All games I've wanted to get around to playing sometime, shit, $2.49 for Braid is a giveaway.
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Here's the list for what's on tap to download...
I'll wait a few minutes before I post prices, so we don't have another incident like yesterday
Friday's Steam Deals
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Red Linx Trials 2: Second Edition = $2.49
Mass Effect = $4.99
Portal = $4.99
Doom - Complete Pack = $13.59
(Ultimate Doom; Doom 2 + Master Levels; Final Doom; Doom 3 + ROE)
Sam & Max Complete (Seasons 1 and 2 by Telltale) = $14.99
Devil May Cry 4 = $22.49
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Yeah I was just about to post that. I bought Mass Effect.
I've had some problems with Steam in the past, but this time around things are going quite well. Good prices on the games, and I get pretty good download speeds (around 1.2 Mb/S). No complaints at all.
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Side NOTE:
For any looking for Devil May Cry 4 for the PC (on disc) - look at Newegg.
$9.99 plus free shipping. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832233005&cm_re=devil_may_cry_4-_-32-233-005-_-Product)
You might be able to find DMC4 PC cheaper at Big Lots if you got a local one, if they got it in - it's been reported on CAG as being in their $6.99 club. I ain't seen it at my local Big Lots.
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I think I'm gonna get ME too. I already got Dead Space and Max Payne 2, but I cant pass it up for 5 bucks.
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I still hate Steam and it's still totally broken for me most of the time, but they do have some great sales. ME for five bucks is great. Though check retail if you like a hard copy... I think it's only like $10 now or something on PC. Great game, too.
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Saturday's Steam Deals
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Trine = $4.99
Counter-Strike: Source = $4.99
Morrowind - GOTY Edition (Morrowind + Tribunal + Bloodmoon) = $4.99
Painkiller - Collector's Pack (PK + BOH Expansion + Overdose + Resurrection) = $8.74
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 = $10.19
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I'm so tempted to buy Dawn of War II while it's $20. I really don't like RTS much at all, but I love the Warhammer universe, and I'm hearing this is more of an action RPG. (no base building, no resource gathering, no tech trees)
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Jump on it. I'm not an RTS guy either, but DoW II is fucking fantastic. If you like 40k, you owe it to yourself to play it. It's the best digital incarnation of it yet.
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Sunday's Deals - Return of the Some Of The Best Steam X-Mas Deals
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STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl = $2.00
Defense Grid: The Awakening = $2.49
Torchlight = $4.99
Killing Floor = $4.99
Bioshock = $4.99
Grand Theft Auto 4 = $7.49
Left 4 Dead 2 = $33.49
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Thank god this sale is over.
I got Dead Space, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Max Payne 2 and the Kings Quest collection. Not to mention Mirrors Edge on black friday.
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hahah...
Sometimes I am glad I can't buy directly on Steam. Fortunately I found an eBay seller who was dumping stuff. I got a hold of Torchlight, and Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor.
I got the Orange Box for my cousin and Mass Effect for my brother.
I am pretty sure that had my own credit card been working, I would have bought $100 worth of stuff I didn't need. It all adds up at the end.
At some point I was considering buying the Morrowind steam collection from that eBay seller when I realized I already had the retail package. I don't know why low prices drive me so insane that I seriously consider buying games I already have.
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Yeah, 5 bucks is that perfect price point where spending it on something you don't actually want isnt that big of a deal. Especially when a beer at a bar is 4.