merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

or would i prefer GRID2 ($8.99) or Colin McRae ($2.09)?

I got Alien Isolation even though I'm not planning to at it until I have 1) new pc and 2) rift. Haven't been tempted enough by anything else yet though. I was hoping for a decent discount on Divinity: Original Sin but it's not gone lower than -33% and I've not finished Pillars of Eternity yet anyway.

Anyone played Grow Home (£2.99, don't know what in $) or Kairo (£0.79)?

Love the look of the former but am terrible at 3d platformers. Screenshots of Kairo hit some mystery nostalgia button in me and hey, it's cheap...

u know what the problem is? there are too many movies books music television shows games and not enough time

The burden of entertainment

glad i pulled the trigger on dirt3. so much fun.

Went in for Xenonauts & Apotheosis. I'm guessing the former will run on the work laptop.

Waiting for Wasteland 2 to hit more than 50%. Its like buying used books; the fun of acquisition is so much but real-life time constraints prevents you from consuming it all

christ the thought of playing alien isolation with a rift is legit terrifying

i want to try offworld trading company but even w/ 50% off it's still $20 and it feels like a $5 game to me - maybe a future humblebundle purchase. not to mention that my backlog of games is now approaching infinite.

Today's steam deals are pretty good. I finally bought Shovel Knight and I'm tempted by Hand of Fate, Life is Strange, and Ori.

Neverending Nightmares is kinda tempting

Today: Fallout Bundle just to legally own it on Steam.

Also, UnEpic

Hatoful Boyfriend $1.49! sold.

hand of fate is fantastic

Last day for the sale. Tempted to grab few $5 indies (Roundabout, Banner Saga) and some slightly more expensive ones (Hotline Miami 2, Shovel Knight, Wasteland 2), but ehh, remembered that Arkham Knight is coming out in two days and that'll keep me occupied for the immediate future. My usual end of sale routine now is to pick up a bunch of $1 - $2.50 games at the last minute.
Also I picked up X-Com: Enemy Within outside the sale a couple weeks ago, and HuniePop was a worthwhile purchase at $5.

eurotruck simulator 2 is only $4.59 but i can't get over how boring the premise sounds. is it really actually fun?

Fun isn't the right word for it really. It's meditative and the scenery's nice. It's a simulator in the sense that (I assume) it accurately recreates the feeling of doing that job irl, just drifting along the M62 listening to magic fm and making sure you're in the right lane so you don't miss your exit. I love it. But I wouldn't recommend it over The Stanley Parable at £2.49.

How about Chivalry: Medieval Warfare? Worth £1.89?

last Truck Sim game i played disappointed me cos i thought at least some of the landscape would be modelled on the real world, and sadly it wasn't

otherwise i'd be all over it

The Euro one kind of is - as in you can tell Wroclaw is meant to be Wroclaw and Warsaw is meant to be Warsaw but it is definitely not a street by street thing iirc.

euro truck is very meditative if u are into that

Good lord - didn't realize today that there are players deliberately trolling the Steam Monster Game rooms, using wormholes to skip the boss levels so players can't get money or superjumps (using a wormhole on a X100 level lets you jump 10 levels intead of 1).

was the Monster Game any good? I waited in a queue for 20 minutes to play it once and then my game started and ended while I wasn't looking for 1 minute and it put me back at the beginning of the queue, so that was the end of that idea for me

I bought a bunch of things, nearly all for under £4 because I've got such a backlog I can't justify paying more for something I may never get round to paying, but god help me the only one I've been playing so far is Gemcraft II, a not particularly revolutionary (and, ugh, Flash-based) tower defence game whose prequel I was addicted to on Kongregate a few years back. think I only picked it up to give the devs some money for the hours I spent on game 1, but nope, straight back down the addiction wormhole like the fool I am

Monster Game was an MMO version of Cookie Clicker that crashed all the time and had a secret metagame of breaking it by using automated click tools so... no not really worth it

There was no reason not to use autoclickers... actually, there was no reason to play it at all. It had only two types of levels, had little progression, and was unresponsive due to the networking.

Chainsaw Warrior looks interesting. $2 will get you the base game + DLC on IndieGameStand right now
https://indiegamestand.com/deal/

that does look cool. always interested in games workshop stuff. speaking of, have they put out a decent digital version of army-building, campaign-focused warhammer 40k yet? or are they worried that if they do it'll leach their over-priced miniatures sales?

hopefully if http://store.steampowered.com/app/364360/ is a success they will go on to 40k

Humble Borderlands Bundle going on right now. Pretty good if you don't have any of it - I got the 2nd tier just for the two character add-ons for BL2.
I wouldn't go to the $15 tier, just wait until the next sale if you want the BL2 season pass.

Deus Ex Human Revolution for $1 minimum to charity
http://gamechangercharity.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=503

elite: dangerous is $20 off - not that i need any more games for my queue. i'll probably wait until it's like 90% off.

dude i do not know how you find the time :)

the time to not buy discounted games?

to play them all!

pff that's the backlog metagame, you will never play them all. it's the greatest self-deception!

dude i do not know how you find the time :)

this is up there with "must be nice" in the passive aggressive hall of fame

coming from somebody who spends most of their non-working day playing games i wd say no but maybe i am pass-agging myself, who can say

as long as there is self-loathing involved it's ok

Humble bundle has war machine tactics for $13. Has anyone here tried it?

whoa weird. i didn't know that existed. i played the tabletop game for about a year when it came out (started shortly before the first expansion book, ended when they released the parallel game called hordes or wahtever) and it was awesome. if they carry those concepts over to a pc game that'd be amazing!

Dark Souls is the $10 beat the average in the new Humble Bundle, also includes Pacman DX+, Enslaved and Ace Combat
https://www.humblebundle.com/

glad I passed up Deadcore in the summer sale now. probably just dollar tier for me this time around, already have Enslaved and Dark Souls on other systems

only deadcore from that bundle is for mac, sadface

yup, just another reason to stick to the base tier

GOG is offering the full D&D experience for 21 bucks
Baldur's Gate original, Baldur's 2, Planescape, Neverwinter Diamond, Neverwinter 2 complet, Icewind Dale Complete, Icewind Dale 2 Complete, Temple of Elemental Evil, Dragonshard and Forgotten Realms Demon Stone
http://www.gog.com/promo/weekend_promo_hasbro_dd_classics_bundle_200815

the pre-BG games are out now too

http://www.gog.com/game/forgotten_realms_the_archives_collection_two

that's the best collection imo. vol 1 has the eye of the beholder games and vol 3 has the underrated menzoberranzan. i don't know where the ravenloft or al-qadim games are, those are good too.

heh, i think this is a "how old are you" question

my stepbrother gave me a 5 1/4" disk with hillsfar on it when i was in elementary school. it's basically thief meets red dead redemption meets skyrim, at least in my memory.

also meets shenmue

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