merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

anyone play Crusader Kings II? Thankfully, the Mac options are much smaller so I have less to be tempted by. However, this looks interesting but I've never played a Paradox game and have heard the learning curve can be a bit much.

i am a big eu3 fan but i couldn't get into ck2. i dunno, it's dynastic but in a totally personality free way. i was not sure what the appeal was supposed to be.

it did inspire me to play eu3 again of course, and lose another hundred hours of my life down that hole

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CK2 is great if you want to get into dynastic conquest, I guess. I need to play a proper tutorial to get really into it.

Obviously if anyone here hasn't player Portal 2, £3.74 or equivalent is an insanely good price for ILG's second favourite game of 2011.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-11-valve-counters-eas-steam-sales-cheapen-intellectual-property-accusation

A megacorp got butthurt about Steam sales and decides to go the sour grapes route.

Would I be better off trying EU3? That's on sale too. Is their a good place to start with the Paradox style games?

The publisher packs look so big and unwieldy that I can't imagine wanting to go for any of them. I've already

Tho it's cool to see that you can get Virtua Fighter 2 from Sega there.

Somebody tell me about Mount & Blade: War Band. Is it multiplayer only? I'd get it just for the Napoleonic expansion.

Yeah odd that the next thing EA did after that was gouging sales on Origin

xp Warband is multiplayer-focused, but there are subtle tweaks and extras added to the single player. Still no "real" single player or questing. Maybe I'll get Napoleonic if it goes cheaper on a daily deal. But OTOH, I think maybe I've milked as much as I can out of Mount and Blade.

um anyone know if Magical Diary any good

50% off Analogue: A Hate Story

strongly tempted

So much stuff on steam now, a lot maybe falls through the cracks? Here's a few deals to take a look at...

Pixeljunk Eden - $2.00
Unique, beautiful platform game. PC version supposedly has improved controls and difficulty curve.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/105800/

Serious Sam: Random Encounter - $1.69
I've been meaning to pick up the RPG shooter(?) by the team that made Super Crate Box. Looks crazy!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/201480/

Bit.Trip.Runner - $2.49 (may get cheaper?)
Fantastic memorization platformer. Extremely challenging.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/63710/

also Legend of Grimrock for $6.00 is pretty much a must buy if you haven't already.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/207170/

as the SA Steam thread says, WAIT FOR THE DAILY DEAL.

But I went ahead and bought Stacking anyway, since its just seven fiddy.

i'll wait for a daily on analogue, otherwise it's last day

grimrock, i'm pretty tempted, but no mac means i'll probably never play at this pt

thumbs up on bit.trip.runner, very cool, but almost certainly gonna be a daily deal

Spacechem $2.50 for the next hour - easy recommendation
Can anyone recommend the Back to the Future game?

I can not recommend it unless you love the telltale style

i'm kinda 50/50 on it, so... i guess not. i'm thinking about getting that Walking Dead game if it goes daily

i still need to finish playing all those Sam & Max's. For some reason, the jokes seem far slower in coming than the lucasarts original.

or the comics, even.

the comics were crazy tho! but you're right, everything feels slower

I think Steve Purcell is still out there working at Pixar, which is perfect if you think about it

Trine 2 under $4 right now.

- bought Legend of Grimrock
- forgot to buy SpaceChem in the flash sale, annoyed even though I didn't really like the demo
- got excited about a Telltale Collection which was slightly cheaper than the complete set was at Christmas and then realised it isn't the complete set, not buying that
- thinking of maybe picking up Indie Game: The Movie or Civ 3 ($2.50 I guess? £1.49 anyway) before the end of the summer sale

zappi's rumours were correct about the first indie bundle, so, assuming the others are right too, any thoughts on their contents? I have one game from pretty much each bundle, so they're still potentially a good deal

Got Trine 1 and 2 for £3.49. I KNOW I WILL NEVER PLAY THEM.

- bought Legend of Grimrock
- did not buy Legend of Grimrock because after adding it to my cart I realised my graphics card isn't up to it

Three purchases in the last 12 hours! I mean three transactions, 14 games purchased (mostly because they dropped below £10)

Also previously unaware of (and now very thankful for) the feature where it'll block out the 'buy for me' button if you've already got one of the games.

got Trine 2. bring 'em on, Steam

thanks for the portal 2 heads-up. am tempted to buy it even though i don't have the disk space for it (see also lego batman - bought at christmas, still not even downloaded let alone played)

make sure you get portal before the deal ends this afternoon

Current flash deals:
Sanctum $2.50
easy recommend for tower defense people, though i wouldn't rank it as high as Defense Grid
Darksiders $5
gonna pass but kingfish, this one's for u

oof, now i'm mad at myself for not yelling at you guys to pick up Saints Row 3 last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUo1PgKksgw&feature=player_embedded

had me worried there, but i got in with only 16 hours to spare 8)

skyrim + new vegas and all NV dlc, brink and Hunted (whatever that is). all for £40.

seems inevitable that Skyrim and New Vegas will both be daily/flash deals, and I think Brink already was

Brink's 75% off right now.

oh yeah - it's in the community poll right now with GRAW2 and Stronghold

I've never heard anybody say anything good about Brink after it actually came out, so buyer beware. Ditto Stronghold 3.

I always get more out of a game if i pay full price for it rather than at a discount.

but then you lose the immeasurable satisfaction of dollars per hour of entertainment ratio boosting

ok, i bought portal 2 + analogue: a hate story

New flash deals:
Hoard $2.50
Super SF4 AE - $10

tempted on both. but... well, i already have AE on Xbox, but I'll be tempted to double dip if anyone else is getting it. Hoard I hear is good but is also pretty multiplayer focused

shiit, 4-pack of AE is only $30

response vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5IId0OcdCY

somebody let me know when Red Faction: Guerilla drops below 33% off.

I wonder how much EA is losing out on by pulling all their games. I mean, yeah, their own service gets them a better cut of each sale, but how is an Origin sale going to compete with the hyped seasonal purchasing frenzy that accompanies each regular Steam event?

They lose the benefit of discovery

And the ease of looking up a game

Has an aggregator of all the stores been developed?