merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

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

Eidos anthology - all 34 games for £31.99

https://store.eu.square-enix.com/emea_uk/games/pc-windows-download/Eidos-Anthology.php

Was just yearning for a replay of Thief 3...not

Still need to play Thief 3.

Warner Bros Studios titles on massive sale this weekend. Get Shadows of Morder GOTY for like $20.

Also Call of Duty series. I've never actually played MW1, and that was $10, which seems worth it.

Shadows of Mordor is fucking amazing, especially at that price - it's my personal favorite expression of what "next-gen" means to date (MGSV be damned)

has anyone done Steam and/or NVIDIA Game Streaming? I'm specifically interested in field reports of using Moonlight, which purportedly lets you stream your entire controller-supported library over your local network to an iOS device in Big Picture Mode and automatically using any connected MFi controllers as input devices to control everything. right now it's only available for jailbroken devices (and GeForce cards of 650+, which I have) and I haven't jailbroken a device since iOS, like, 5 (although this is kind of a blessing in disguise since I only have to JB iOS 8.1 or something), but if I can break my iPad and get this set up, I can basically play my entire Steam library using a combo of my iPad mini plus my Gamevice, which is unquestionably the single greatest present you can buy yourself if you have a mini and an interest in playing games with actual buttons and a terminal case of more money than sense.

that + Plex = being able to engage with all the media I use on my PC from anywhere in the apartment

I guess you're still kind of up shit creek when it comes to stuff which doesn't have a good controller mode, but then again I ended up finally beating Diablo 3 on PS4 so it's definitely possible to bolt a usable controller interface onto a system which by all rights should have nothing to do with this sort of thing

Someone buy this and report back to us on HATRED:
https://www.onemorebundle.com/
So that I don't...

RE4 and Remember Me were added to the Capcom bundle, making it a very good one.

Beat the average (around $9) for
RE4
RE5
RE Revelations 1
RE Revelations 2 episode 1
DmC
Lost Planet 3
Remember Me
Strider
Bionic Commando Rearmed

that's on humblebundle.com btw

i might bite on the hope that in the next year I'll finally get a new Mac/PC that could possibly play these games. a good chunk of thise was given away for free on PS+ already though

Vertiginous Golf, free for 24 hrs
http://store.steampowered.com/app/272890

is it any fun?

no idea, but *pfff* free

i am honestly in a place where my time is more valuable than playing a game to find out if it's fun
this is a novel position for me, i'm not sure what to do about it.
*downloads anyway*

Grim Fandango Remastered on Steam's Halloween sale for $5 (I think? I see £ not $), so don't buy the Humble Weekly Bundle for $13 just for that like I sort of just did

oh well, it's a good cause and I wanted Escape Goat 2 too. nobody tell me how cheap that is on Steam right now though

Not sure this is the best thread but my bff has a steam greenlight game up at the moment for votes, procedural/roguelike murder mystery fun, check it oot.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=538451515

Worth noting: he's done this all solo apart from the soundtrack.

big steam sale. thinking about getting the following (but haven't pulled the trigger yet):

NEO Scavenger: $14.99 $7.49
Elite: Dangerous: $44.99 $14.84
Dungeon of the Endless Pixel Edition $11.99 $4.07
Reus: $9.99 $1.99
Avernum: Escape from the Pit: $9.99 $1.99

thoughts on any of these? is elite dangerous good?

I gave NEO Scavenger 15 minutes, couldn't get over the interface which was like something out of the early '90s. YMMV though, see the video

that's the one i'm most sure about - i played the demo and loved it. how about elite dangerous tho?