merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

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?

Yeah I was tempted for Elite Dangerous too, but my gfx card seems to be huffing and puffing lately so I'm holding back.

Others I've eyed up:
Stick of Truth
Cities Skylines
Call of Cthulhu

Whilst browsing now I've found one I'm certainly pulling the trigger on
Grim Fandango remasterd for £2.74

elite dangerous is insanely gorgeous but i'm not sure there's any more to it than flying through a narrow space station entrance into a cavernous spherical room encrusted with landing pads and saying "wow" over and over again. an upcoming patch will add, like, moon buggies, which will also be completely awesome, for a while. nb tho i never got anywhere in previous elites either; just said wow a lot.

i did once show first encounters to some youngs and they loled heartily over the my-first-3d graphics until i took off and flew away from the planet and just kept flying until i was in space, and then they were like OMG WHY DON'T THEY MAKE THIS NOW, and i can confirm that they did.

i can also confirm that when i play it i vocalize all the calls to my clipped female computer voice's responses

ha, that's great. So did they get around to adding planets yet?

planetary landing I mean

(could just look it up couldn't I)

the "horizons" expansion just went into beta, but i've been imprisoned by fallout 4.

yeah that's the thing - w/ fallout 4 it's hard to feel like i need any new video games but if elite dangerous is good i'm sure i'll want to get to it at some pt (btw neo scavenger is great)

is that you playing now? (mshinefi)

Yes

is neo scavenger finished?

Least appetizing Steam sale ever? I miss drowning in 75%, 80%, 90% off discounts.

That's probably what the Christmas sale will be like.

Haven't bought anything this time around, though I'm kinda curious about Endless Legend. Since I've not had any interest in playing anything other than Binding of Isaac Rebirth (and Afterbirth) for the last three months, I don't really see any point in buying anything at the moment. Also, I have quite a few unopened games left from the summer sale.

I got the First ep of Life is Strange, all of Krntucky Route Zero, and v cheap Grim Fandango and Gods Will Be Watching

huh, I hadn't noticed three of them were adventures. maybe even the last is, after a fashion

afterbirth is so good