Steam summer sale 2013
 

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I'll post anything that looks good while the sale's running. Earlier I saw Skyrim goty for $35 and Bioshock Infinite for $30.

Borderlands 2 for $10.99 right now. Ending in 7 hours.

So were the last 3 dlc's (2/3rds off), which I couldn't resist buying...

Psycho pack
ultimate vault hunter
tiny tina's dragon keep assualt.....

So happy I waited..on the other hand just bought skyrim deluxe for 60 and now it's 35..grrrrrrrrr

Already picked up Hotline Miami and Skyrim Legendary Edition.

Lord Gaben has not let us down.

Why couldn't I wait a fargin week!!!!!!!!!!....$24 :cuss::cuss::cuss::banghead::banghead:

muhhahahahah

I'm buying it all.

I was going to buy Bioshock Infinite for $29.99 on STeam before I found a deal on Ebay...

Bioshock Infinite
Crysis 3
Farcry 3 Blood Dragon

All for 20 bucks on the PC. Not 20 each. Just $20.

Bastion is 2 bucks right now. I got it a while back with the Humble Bundle, but it is very worth 2 bucks.

bought that with all the Borderlands 2 DLC I was missing, too good to pass up.

Love the Steam Summer Sale!

Just bought Civ V with all of its DLC and both expansions (including the one released very recently) for a total of about $30. Considering the potential time spent playing it, that's a damn fine deal.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition for $14

i played dragon age, but none of the 9 'content packs' or the awakening expansion..


thinking about playing it again since there is so much content i missed the first time...anyone think the extra stuff worth it?

Walking Dead season 1 for under $7.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown flash sale for $10.

If you haven't play this game yet, jump on this deal. That is a great game.

I hated it. Thankfully it was free on PSN+. I have never liked turn based games.

Love walking dead so far. Feels so throwback playing an adventure game.

Just Cause 2 is on sale for 2.99

I had a blast playing it.

And if you vote on Sleeping Dogs to be the next game on sale, you can get it for $6.25

Another fun game

Yup, got Borderlands 2 + pretty much all DLC yesterday. Decided to go a little deeper today and got Bully: Scholarship Edition, Hotline Miami and Sleeping Dogs. I'm a little sad I missed out on XCOM.

At first I was like, what. Then I finished reading.

Yea, if you don't like turn based, leave it alone.

But that game is very hard, and very challenging. I enjoyed the tactical aspect. Those aliens will murder you very easily if not careful.

Fez is $5 and FTL is $2.50 or $3. I think I'm gonna grab those.

Borderlands 2 is the only game i've felt like playing the last couple of weeks, trying to go back to Drox Operative...need...Borderlands.....3.....Ya I know it will be a couple of years.

I missed Civ 5: Brave New World on the flash sale because I was at work. Really hoping to see it again. And yes I will wait two weeks to play it to save $10.

Tomb Raider is $12.49 right now. I'm trying to decide if I should buy it. Anybody have thoughts on it?

My brother keeps pushing me to get it, says it is incredible, I am not buying steam games this year though lol

Witcher 2 and LA Noire for $5 (complete edition is $7.50).

Meh, I know they are popular but i couldn't stand either one.

Witcher 2 was incredible, IMO. LA Noire was a huge disappointment.

Why? And console or PC?

I played it on a console, but I don't think that was the culprit. I liked the fact they tried to create something fresh and new. The production quality and the voice acting were great but, in the end, it was just too boring for me. Something was missing, I just can't put my finger on it.

****ing hell. I bought Dragonborn the other day at full price and now it's on sale. :facepalm:

I remember all the hubbub about the Witcher and tried it only to find it lacking...perhaps it's too...European for me.

What did you find lacking? I thought it was a good linear RPG. Awesome graphics, great, satisfying combat, interesting story and good character progression. If you were expecting Skyrim, I can see how the lack of the open world would make the game seem inadequate, but it's just a different genre of RPG.

Witcher 3 is going to be everything Skyrim dreamt of being, though. :D

And Dragon Age: Inquisition is going to be everything Witcher 3 dreams of being. :D

I don't think I ever shared the hilarious "Beginning" video for Witcher 3:

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Frostbite 3.0 makes my blood rush to my loins.

Guess I'm just not a fan of linear RPG's, it's just seemed very bland. What makes SKyrim so great for me is the modding community, it is 2nd to none.

I couldn't finish either of the Witcher games. Maybe it was the translation, but the dialogue was pretty odd and the quests pretty generic. The invisible walls sucked too.

Ya it seemed either generic or an odd euro thing, either way I only played a bit.

I'm playing Far Cry 3 right now ... pretty damn awesome.

Yeah, that first screenshot was pretty sweet.

I will play TW3, I'm just looking forward to Inquisition more. I've had (and continue to have) a hard time getting into TW2.

TW3 is open world, therefore it will destroy my soul.

Can't wait.

And if it gets Bethesda to up their game...even better.

Inquisition is open world also.

That's a negative to my mind, but I'll play anyway.

BUY IT!!! Fun as hell.

Also, 17.49 will get you every tomb raider ever made, including the new one.

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I'm kicking myself for buying it on ebay for $15 now. Could have got the motherload for 2.50 more.

I really liked it a lot. Fun game.

It really doesn't get much better than Bethesda and the open world RPG. They do a great job and if you don't like it then mod it the way you do like it.

Well, thanks. Made me go buy it. These Steam sales make it too easy to justify buying a new game. The deals are great.

I always find myself buying more than I planned too as well.

Me too. It's because I will find one I missed the last time and feel I have to jump on the deal.

Yeap. I still got a shit ton of games from the Winter sale that I haven't even touched yet.

The deals are just too good to pass up!

Yeah, but once you play an MMO, the whole single player open world aspect just takes on this whole 'meh' thing for you. Don't get me wrong, I think Bethesda creates an excellent open world but it's just not enough to make their games truly great. They really need to work on their character progression and loot system, but that's a dead horse beaten to a pulp.

That's exactly how it feels for me. It's just an MMO grind without other players, and without the incentive of knowing I'll still be playing a year from now so it's not a total waste of time. There's no real storytelling crux to keep me going.

I'm curious to see what BioWare and CDProjektRed do with an open world game.

Not for me. Always draws me in, big time. I've never had better gaming experiences than I've had with Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim. DX: HR was semi-open world and was also brilliant.

And I hate MMOs. Mostly because they're TOO big.

Kind of hoping that BG: EE doesn't win the current vote, because I just bought the original on GOG, and I will still double dip if the new one comes in at $5, so I can get in on any upcoming stuff as well as BG2: EE if the issues with the publisher are ever worked out.

Yup, I love the single player games...I've tried many MMO's and never gotten into one.

They always draw me in for the first 80 hours, too. What's left after that? Your character is as good as he's going to get and the story sure as **** is not interesting or gripping enough to keep playing.

Once I've explored the world, completed the main quest and done the interesting side quests, the game is over.

That's still a shit ton of gameplay, let's not kid ourselves.

There's a reason these games take home game of the year awards.

I agree the loot system needs some work, but the world is so...beautiful...it's just fun to walk around in.

No doubt. One can't scoff at 80 hours of solid gameplay. Imagine Skyrim with Diablo style loot system and character progression, though. Don't give the player the ability to craft BIS shit, introduce sets and other epic lewtz and give the player some interesting skills that require "hard to make" choices. Boom! You got yourself a mother****ing game. Introduce DLC expansions with higher level caps, better gear, some stupid new quests and keep printing that money.

I logged over 60 hours in Fallout 3, over 90 in Fallout: NV and over 167 hours in Skyrim. I do everything slowly and savor it.

I can't get enough.

Here take my money..oh wait it doesn't exist. :(

People play for different reasons. While I've played all the TES games (excluding Skyrim, which I recently purchased...) I've always preferred BioWare-style RPGs because, to me, they're like novels in video game form. Cinematic, great scores, moving character moments. It's less about combat mechanics and loot, although they are still a key part of things. It's like being part of something, part of a story. Whereas Bethesda games aren't like that at all. Generally for me it's "tedious time sink" where other folks see gameplay, and I never really feel like I'm a character, the hero, rather just more of a guy sitting at a chair at home trying to raise my avatar's stats by angling my character in a corner of the mage guild basement while I tape my spacebar down to raise an athletic skill while I sleep (I literally did this in Morrowind LMAO). It's a grind.

Different strokes for different folks. :shrug:

That's the world we live in. It's like 15 million people watching American Idol while 400 thousand watch The Wire. I happen to think The Wire is a far better thing to watch, but I'm in the minority.

I've always found plenty of story in the Bethesda games. There's just so much.

In contrast, the more narrowly defined RPGs don't hold my interest as much.

In the end I'm more interested in the story of the world around me than my story. I'm just the guy who happens to come along and save it.

After I discovered Fallout for the first time I spent hours going on the wiki and reading backstory about the world. Holy SHIT.

My 300 hours in Baldur's Gate 2 scoffs at your 80 hours of solid gameplay!

Technology has killed that aspect of gaming (I would say consoles, but it's the same on PC now). I used to think of a long game as something that takes me months to play. Then I look online and see kids complaining that ME2 was too long because it took them 40 hours to finish.

Ironically I recently loaded Baldur's Gate and I swear the first hour of the game, in 2013, was just as fun for me now as it was 15 years ago, for all the tiny 2D graphics, and crappy 4:3 cinematics that look like postage stamps on my monitor. There's still a feeling in that game of big things happening. It's hard to explain, but it's lacking in a lot of today's games.

I love Diablo style romps, Skyrims system of endless quests and Bioware namely the Mass Effect series..Love em' all.

Well, yeah... BioWare is king. BioWare know how to write some truly gripping stuff. They make you play for the story and make everything else secondary. Bethesda make the story secondary and focus on creating an open world. I get it. It's awesome in its own right. If you're going to give me an open world, however, give me a reason to keep exploring it. Give me some unique, epic items in dangerous places, make me work for them. Don't make me peak half way through the experience and get bored with it. :cuss:

Did you ever play either of the original Fallout games? Fallout 2 in particular was just an amazing game that's still playable to this day. Fallout 3 (which I did play, start to finish) felt pretty much like Oblivion with guns in a desert. Not that I didn't enjoy it, but it was a shadow of what came before.

I can't get over that isometric view, personally.

Just completely takes me out of the experience.

Nope. Like I said, isometric = meh.

That was the irony back when DA2 was out and people were complaining about the caves being reused. People who in the same thread would talk about how awesome Oblivion was. And I'm thinking, "wait, what? every environment, every freaking thing, in that entire game is recycled..."

I hear it's better in Skyrim but randomly generated dungeons that all pretty much looked the same with the same level-based enemies popping up everywhere eventually got old for me. I don't think I ever even finished half the main storyline in Oblivion before I got bored and went on to something else (probably lord of the rings online at that point - nothing kills SP gaming like MMOs - i'm in SWTOR right now, with 27 other games on my harddrive at the moment...)

You owe it to yourself to check out Drox Operative man, If you like Diablo style games and space...It's really something, plus these people need your money. $19.95 plus the xpac will be out soon....

http://www.soldak.com/Drox-Operative/Overview.html

Ah. Well, it's what I was playing in my late teens and early 20s, so it was never a thing.

I'm actually really looking forward to several isometric games coming out in the next two years, all kickstarter funded - Wasteland 2, Torment: Tides of Numenera and Project Eternity.

Dang, that looks interesting. I'll get it as soon as I get bored with Borderlands 2.

We don't get bored with Borderlands 2, something else catches our eye and then we come back later to it. ;)

Also when you start playing Drox, there is so much stuff it's almost overwhelming. It really is a lot of fun plus you can put it down and pick it up easy. It creates a random universe for each game and you can give up on a universe and start a new one with all your ship/components/upgrades/level anytime. Oh and there is also a free demo available from the website to check it out before you buy it.

I like bethesda games, i just hate their combat. Always clunky as hell.

Bioware writes some good stuff, and a lot of cheese to go along with it. I like their games but would like a more open world and a spacebar that wasn't trying to do so many things at once.

Far Cry 3 has a lot of elements of a game like skyrim with some assassins creed thrown in with good FPS combat. It's why I am still up at 3 a.m. Beautiful game, too. Huge open world that looks amazing. The story is pretty good so far, too.

And yeah, I still have several games from steam's winter sale that I haven't touched yet.

Apparently Far Cry 3 is Skyrim with guns.

Gonna have to check that out when I build my next box.

You should grab Just Cause 2. On steam for $2.99 right now which is too cheap to pass up. And it has a huge open world and some great gameplay. Everything in the game is over the top. From shooting your grappling hook and helicopters and reeling in and taking them over to the story, which is fun, but full of cheezy characters and cliches.

I cannot recommend that game highly enough at $2.99.

I just replayed Baldur's Gate 2 (off of GoG.com) and loved it all over again. Still one of the greatest RPG's you can play. If the encahced edition of BG1 goes up for sale on steam, I am going to pick it up.

/I love Skyrim too

System Shock 2 is less than 3 dollars right now. I'm picking it that game up. Again.