merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

steam again:
Civ 4 Complete (includes Colonization and 2 more expansion packs) $13.60
Left 4 Dead GOTY $7.50
Max Payne 1+2 $3.74
Osmos $2

The fact that Steam games cost the same # of units in both dollars and euros is silly. Despite this, I am tempted to buy Civ 4 Complete...played a game of Colonization, the 1994 original, last week, and loved it, and so I'd like to try the modernized version.

damn, that civ thing is tempting

anybody know anything about osmos? 2 bucks is my impulse buy threshhold.

ooooo, complete telltale for fifty bucks! all of monkey and sam and max and bone! VVVVV Tempting!

i bought osmos a month or so ago when it was £2 or so. is very slight, like a well-polished flash game (move around absorbing things smaller than you, avoiding things bigger than you)

gonna give it a shot.

daer video card, why u not shade 4 me

... and getting the civ 4 pack goddammit

Tempted to get the Max Payne 2-pack. I never played the sequel, and for a buck extra why not i guess (though then again, thinking about it, i don't know if ever want to play MP1 again)

I never once played those games! Always wanted to. No PC tho :(

max payne is sold out??

hmm max payne not showing up for me. wondering if it's some kind of licensing restriction for overseas buyers? shame :(

it is. there are people on neogaf trying to gift games to people in blocked regions.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=383007

aw man that sucks. could someone gift me max payne 1+2? I can paypal you 5 bucks

i can, shoot me a web mail with your email

thanks man! email sent

Crysis + Crysis Warhead $13.59
Street Fighter IV $10
Medieval II: Total War $5
Shattered Horizon $5
Multiwinia + Darwinia $3
Half-Life: Source $2.49

nothing for me today. i have half-life and multiwinia, and i can't run the others

multiwinia and darwinia worth it?

I've never played much multiwinia/darwinia, but I've enjoyed what I've played. Note: there's an xbla version coming out in a few weeks(?) that will probably end up having more players (though will obviously cost more than $3)

http://twitter.com/IVSoftware/statuses/6948538059

I was just watching some youtube videos of Shattered Horizon and that game looks pretty interesting (I'd never heard of it). A multiplayer only FPS in zero (and low?) gravity enviornments!?! has anybody here played it?

$5!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmnqR4yW5ZM

That looks pretty slick - i wonder how it plays. Too bad it's DX10 only (no-go for me as an XP dude)

Too bad Medieval ii didn't get a drop - i was thinking of skipping rome and just going straight to that, but since it's the same price as its been all week, i'll wait til the 3rd like a lot of other stuff i'm sitting on. Thinking about darwinia, but i'll probably pass unless somebody jumps up screaming about it

also, any of you holdouts should get SFIV, you punks, that is a crazy good price

But street fighter on a PC? Really?

Sam & Max Complete (telltale games only) $15
DOOM Pack Complete $13.59
Mass Effect $5
Portal $5
RedLynx Trials 2: Second Edition 2.49

xp as a PC gamer nowadays who doesn't have a pad of some sort? i have both the madcatz pad and a PS2 controller adapter setup

hmm... think i'm gonna have to finally bite on the sam and max games... i think i've waited long enough for this deal... but $15! that's more than i've paid for any game on steam

Pad isn't the issue really, it's lag. Bmups on PC have never really worked out for me, just because they're SO timing sensitive (even more than FPS), and I just feel like you can never trust a PC to keep up, cos it's always got other stuff going on in the background. Though to be fair, I haven't tried one for maybe 10 years, and it's potentially something that just isn't an issue like it used to be.

very tempted by Mass Effect for 3.75 euros but 12 gigs! and really I have three other rpgs on DS to play first (DQ 5, Suidoken Tierkreis, TWEWY) + I bought the Civ 4 Complete on sale the other night. Plus I have Medieval II to start sometime this spring also. And there is of course no time for any of this. But when I get back to my 360 in Sept. maybe I'll get Mass Effect for it---seems pretty cheap on it too.

I have the total opposite attitude Jim! I mean, I played virtually every CPS2 release and half the Neogeo fighters emulated on PC, I really don't see a problem. Even SF3 runs pretty much perfectly now. Maybe you've been burned by bad ports from the '90s? The SFIV PC port is actually pretty well handled, performance-wise.

I've already bought enough stuff to last me through at least the first half of 2010... think i'll just wait until next year for Sam and Max. Still saving my gift purchases for Sunday...

Red Alert 3 $10.19
Painkiller pack $8.74
Trine $5
Morrowind GOTY $5
Counter-Strike: Source $5

think trine is worth the five bucks? at this point i feel inundated with games!

final day of the steam sale - they brought back a bunch of the previous dailies

Defense Grid - $2.49
L4D2 - $33.49
GTA IV - $7.49
Torchlight - $4.99
Killing Floor - $4.99
STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl - $2.00
Bioshock - $4.99

once again giving the middle finger to those who bought Torchlight as a weekend deal for $10 a week ago

But there have been so many good deals that haven't even been highlighted on the dailies... so many to sift through right now for my final purchase and gifting. The Witcher is probably the last one I'm realy considering...

(not to mention the awesome GOG.com sale which I would totally be jumping on, but considering I no less than six games on backlog from that site alone, I've sworn it off until I can get some of that done. that sale ends today too!)

seriously though, get torchlight if you haven't already.

I couldn't resist that one earlier in the week. Oh yeah, might as well pimp the ILG Steam group here for those who don't know about it:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ILG

joinnnn usssssss

really want to pick up GTA IV but everything I've read indicates the port is borked

bit on Torchlight this time

I joined the Steam ILG group; I think it works; the interface isn't great.

is there no GOG thread? rumour is that Gabriel Knight 1 is coming very soon.

Can a mod change the title to "rolling GOG/Steam specials"?

Freedom Force and FF vs 3rd Reich is $2 - http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1662/
Xcom apocalyse/enforcer/interceptor/terror from the deep/ufo defense is $2 - http://store.steampowered.com/sub/964/

I was using the rolling PC thread for that but felt kinda shillish to update the thread every few weeks just for GOG and Steam sales. Hope you guys didn't miss $2 Psychonauts this week. Y'all should be hitting CAG constantly anyway for this stuff.

argh, i did! let's be shills and keep this updated.

lol FOR SHAME i put it in the IPC thread

Titan Quest with addon pack is five bucks; will anyone rep for it?

Titan Quest with addon pack is five bucks; will anyone rep for it?
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 2:21 PM (50 minutes ago)

from 2006 summer thread:

I have started Titan Quest, it is amusing in the Diablo ways, I suppose. I never played Diablo/Diablo 2, though, so the idea never had a chance to really stale.
― Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 19:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

I don't relaly rmeember playing it except vaguely I remember starting it and going "meh" and quitting, so, not memorable. If you have Torchlight play it instead!

i do and i will

Torchlight really put the Diablo bug back in me after ten years, so I'll probably get this. Also, it has multiplayer, which TL sadly does not, and I'm in the mood for that.

TQ has gotten hype from some quarters too, some prefer it to Torchlight - it's supposedly a lot longer, more diverse environments and better class mixing.

Trine for $5 on Steam. Worth it? Y/N? Jeff, I remember you were waiting for this one.

Psychonauts $7 this weekend on GOG
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/psychonauts

The real killer though is Batman: Arkham Asylum for $12.50 from GFWL!
http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/02/25/batman-arkham-asylum-75-off-sale.aspx

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/3059

indie games midweek deal. 7 games for £10 or £2 each

Altitude
Bob Came In Pieces
Bullet Candy
Galcon Fusion
Gridrunner Revolution
Space Giraffe
Super Laser Racer

Gridrunner++ is great. Bob i haven't played but the video looks good. Bullet Candy i didn't get on with (think i need a joypad really as i suck with wasd and mouse)

epic winter sale with the $10 endless breadsticks is back

$6 for hades and inscryption, $8 for disco elysium, $11 for death stranding, $15 for hzd

i bought gris in the stream sale knowing full well that it's going to sit there only partially downloaded alongside all the others until the end of time.

(laptop only gets booted into Windows about once a month and i download a couple of hundred MB then, if i remember)

loop hero is free on epic store today. devolver digital roguelike/card game.

i got it like i do with most of the Epic freebies - remember it being very well regarded last year. still haven't played a single game in my Epic library though lol

all 3 of the nu-tomb raider games are free on epic today. i don't expect these are very good but might be worth trying at the low price of $0

ty will grab. have some combination of them on so many platforms already, what's one more

hah, rise must've been an older freebie (the second one), already in my library

I think I 100%’d all three of them. The plots are weak and things like the endless climbing get old fast but they’re so picturesque and my brain apparently never gets sick of that “ooh, secret passage!” feeling.

is there any exploration in the newer TRs or is it mainly running down a corridor?

They borrow heavily from Uncharted, so it’s pretty on rails at times. I think usually the first time you go through an area it’s fairly scripted, but then they open world it afterwards so side quests and stuff feel more free. Like, they give a good illusion of exploration.

The second at least* has a couple of big open areas (the size of four or five of the other levels) that you can wander around in - you have plot beacons that tell you where to go next so that frees the developers up to make it looser.

*can't remember the first, haven't played the third yet.

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/overwhelmingly-positive-gems

Might get this just for There is No Game: Wrong Dimension which I've heard very good things about. Anyone here played that?

I've played it. Lots of fun.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32498/Bioware_Mega_Collection/

Death Stranding free in the Epic store this week

loved death stranding, collaboratively repairing the world was so satisfying

Metro: Last Light Complete Edition free on Steam until 25th
https://store.steampowered.com/app/43160/Metro_Last_Light_Complete_Edition/

Spooky fishing game Dredge is 25% on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1562430/DREDGE/

33% off everything on epic store including new games like Talos Principle 2.

I just noticed that a bunch of my Steam wishlist is on sale but I didn't get any email notifications -- this happen to anyone else?

I got a Spring Sale notification

I know a sale is coming up when I start to get emails saying I've sold cards on the market, as per this week
I don't understand why people buy cards before a sale tho?

Metal gear rising: reveangance, el shaddai ascension of the metatron and ffviii are my pick ups

i bought ender lilies and deedlit in wonder labyrinth, two metroidvanias, because that's all i've been playing lately.

this month's humble choice has Hi-Fi Rush and the Yakuza RPG. pretty nuts.

Marvel's Midnight Suns free on EGS! https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns

<3 Majik

Magik, dammit.

https://www.polygon.com/deals/24176923/tell-me-why-dontnod-free-pride-month-deal-sale

Charity bundle with Tunic and over 400 more games
https://itch.io/b/2863/california-fire-relief-bundle

excellent bundle, bought!
can recommend Misericorde, a murder mystery kinetic (i.e. no choices) vn set in a 15th Century convent, one of the best things I read last year

i've been waiting for all 3 parts of that to be out before i dig in but it looks cool

i'll buy this bundle, but damn 400 is too many to go through, to be real

a few i've liked:

tangle tower is a good detective game in the phoenix wright mold
octodad is very silly, especially when played co-op
cosmic express is an excellent pen&paper style puzzle game from the creators of a monster's expedition
elephantasy flipside is a creative and hard isometric zelda/metroid style game without combat

Control Ultimate Edition is $4 (yes 4 American dollars) (you can buy a lot with etc.) on steam!