merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

Free D-Dino D-Day D-Dum
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/07/02/free-steam-key/

so witcher 2 is unplayable on the mac

why? I bought it in a sale earlier this year so obv I'll never play it but just in case...

Well on my retina MacBook w all settings on low it still is jerky and laggy

Humble 2K bundle, all on Steam http://www.humblebundle.com/

pay what you want (min $1 for Steam keys):
Bioshock
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
The Darkness II

beat the average:
Bioshock 2
Mafia 2
Spec Ops: The Line
"more games coming soon"

pay $20 or more:
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Bioshock Infinite

didn't they already do a 2K bundle at some point? I guess I'm in for $1 for Bureau.

maybe? hard to keep track tbh. only one out of this I had was Bioshock so wth might as well beat the average.

specops was a sneaky great game. rest dont really inspire me tho. maybe $1 for the bureau. (of course xcom at $20 is a good deal but thats not the point of these things :P)

i own everything in this from previous sales and bundles except for Bureau. even Bioshock: Infinite from PS+

fantastic humble bundle this week-
cook serve delicious, ootp14 + universe sandbox pay what you want (worth it for ootp14 alone imho)
$6 for turbo dismount and tropico4 (if t4 was mac compatible, i'd def do it)
$10 for euro truck simulator 2

i already have CSD, but tempted to pay for Turbo Dismount. i am a fool.

i haven't tried CSD before. it's pretty cool!

The current indiegala bundle has Five Nights at Freddys. $2.

Is that game worth the trouble?

I haven't played it, but I can't tell if Cawthon's Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. for ios is as uh good-bad as it is on purpose or by accident. Some of his games are fun, but they're also usually tossed off and cheap-looking. There's one I play called Forever Quester that give you virtually no decisions of consequence to make, and unlike other progression quests, you don't even get the satisfaction of obsessively tapping your screen. The most sensible way to progress is to close the app and open it the next day, click through the experience points you made, and close the app again. Some of his apps have funny ideas, like 20 Useless Apps and Chubby Hurdles, but they still feel like shovelware. Chipper & Sons, though, is like that one app he really tried hard on. It has rote progression quest aspects to it, with lots of routine collecting and converting of resources for the sake of no discernable goal, but he adds a lot of details and character and nooks that he didn't have to add to keep his players being busy bees in their touch screen tap factory. He chooses these incredibly cheap, trite, shallow mechanics and decides that this is how he'll express himself.

The game also has a pre-rendered 3d ugliness to it, like 3rd rate studio Donkey Kong Country ripoff graphics, but he makes them appealingly dark and dingy, with this uncanny 3d glossiness that undermines the logging camp forest gloom. I dunno. He's one to watch.

*gives you not give you

i talked about 5 Nights at Freddys a bit on the other steam thread, and personally i'd say it's worth 2 bucks for the experience (i paid $5 and was fine with that). there's a free demo of the first two nights that might be enough for some people, as the rest of the game is just the same gameplay but increasingly harder.

Humble Indie Bundle 12 is out.
Steamworld Dig, Hammerwatch, Gunpoint.
BTA Tier: Papers Please, LUFTRAUSERS, Gone Home. +more later
$10+ tier: Prison Architect
And some silly $65 tier with physical goods.

(just bought Steamworld on 3DS, of course, and own half the rest)

nice; that's a buyer.

yeah i'll cave soon

btw this is a pretty good retro bundle:
http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/night-dive-bundle/
system shock 2, 7th guest/11th hour, wizardry 6+7+8, I have no mouth and i must scream, harvester, shadow man

ooo, that is a really nice bundle + almost everything on mac

GOG is also running a 6-year anniversary sale with new deals every day
http://www.gog.com/promo/6th_birthday_promo_year_three_100914
Def. recommend a few of today's Mac-compatible deals: Planescape: Torment and Alpha Centauri + expansion (though it may be moot with the spiritual sequel coming out soon)

Bleh, already own two of the three new bonuses in HIB 12. I did want to play The Bridge, at least.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/09/17/east-india-company-free/

wow, humble weekly bundle has deadly premonition dir's cut in it, y'all get on that!

yeah, i chuckled at the email spam i got from humble on this:

11 games featuring something new, old, puzzling, frightening and also Deadly Premonition

bunch of the lego games are on sale on steam atm. i picked up legos marvel for $5 + it works on the mac

The WB games sale is interesting. I already picked up Injustice and the DC Scribblenauts game.

Is Arkham Origins worth it?

Last year's P+C would definitely suggest so. I tend to run a sequel behind on arkham games, only finished City towards the end of last year, so I expect I'll get around to picking up Origins when the next one comes out.

Actually scratch that, just realised I've got enough credit on my account from trading card sales that I can grab this and Blackgate now. So yep, sold.

Tropico 3 is free on humblebundle.com

....and I already got that from another bundle...

... and it don't work on mac

i didn't have it yet, so thanks!

big steam sale on total war games. i see some of them are mac-friendly - empire: total war, napolean: total war, total war battles shogun + shogun 2

should i give any of them a try? i've loved civ-style games but i tried to get into europa universalis 3 and couldn't (too complicated/not enough patience)

TW is more about real-time tactical battles, closer to an RTS game like Warcraft than Civ. I know some fans, couldn't get into it myself

I've loved them since I was a kid and I got the first Medieval Total War with the Viking Invasion expansion but I still think the best one of the whole run was the original Rome Total War. I'm not sure they've done much to top that one.

I'd say that compared to Civ (and especially compared to EU!) the micromanagement aspects of any TW game are gonna be negligible. The games are designed to appeal to your sense of scale and the cinematic. As Nhex says, a major aspect of gameplay is developing tactics for controlling large numbers of troops in a real time battle (which are frequently beautiful and/or exhilarating to watch, I find) though I wouldn't necessarily agree that it has much in common with an RTS like Warcraft. It's all happening on a much grander scale than that.

if you have origin, EA is offering dragon age: origins and bejeweled 3 for free:

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house

LYNE definitely worth the $1 buy-in, IMO. Ends in the morning
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

Missed this unfortunately. They do have great stuff on Humble Bundle. Terrible site to navigate though.

In other news Tomb Raider was on sale last night. Laptop can't take it unfortunately - bit late finding that out.

On sale on Steam.

five bucks for the stanley parable on steam, guess i'll give that a try

Yeah, it's worth 5 bucks, just for the increasingly sarcastic iterative experience

ha, yes. it's very clever and even somewhat fun.
obviously my initial run was utterly contrary. then initially obedient then suddenly contrary. now i'm just trying to see how deep the rabbit hole is.
the broom closet!

It sounds like you haven't seen the best bit yet. And it's properly great.

wow, so as a new laptop gamer, steam sales don't last long then? no stanley parable for this dude

It varies, they do some flash deals, some that run for a weekend, some that last a week. And then the big summer and winter sales last a couple of weeks each, but within those you still have some titles that stay on sale the whole way through, others last a day, others 6 hours etc.

If you add stuff to your wishlist they'll notify you when those prices drop.

...if your Steam email address goes somewhere you read (mine doesn't so when I log in every 6 months, generally when Steam wants a new browser authenticated, I go "oh look, I missed out on games")

I could change this of course but

Reposting here for relevance:

Would anyone know a C&C-esque game on Steam where you have levels/missions where you build a base each time and have objectives?
― hyggeligt, Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Also while I could not take stress/decision making of "Gods Will Watch Us" it looks great and is 50% off.

In further news Tomb Raider is too new and fancy for my machine so I have purchased a dud (with additional cost of DLC). Is there a way of gifting on to some ILGer who has a better machine?

hah, i was thinking of the same thing about Gods Will Be Watching - the demo already was pretty brutal