merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

anyone want keys for knights of the old republic and sequel?

Someone take those, so good

Humble Monthly pretty decent again with Wasteland 2 and I Am Bread this month.
South Park/This War Of Mine doesn't sound bad, though i assume the rest of the games will suck

Talos Principle down 75% off this weekend.

Anyone want Contraption Maker?

Sure, I'll take those KOTOR keys if no-one else wants them - never played them even though everyone rants about how great they are!

If like me you've got an inexplicable soft spot for bad early cd-rom fmv, Return to Zork is cheap on gog at the moment. Zork Nemesis too, if you fancy a not too bad myst-like (also with a fair bit of fmv).

return to zork is v underrated imo.

want some rye?

all are fun but i maintain that grand inquisitor is the best of these.

well you're not as bad as you smell

I think Grand Inquisitor probably did a better job of recreating the tone of the original Zorks, but as a result felt a bit too knowing and less plain odd than those other two. Anyway GI is cheap atm too. Plus Dirk Benedict!

thomasintrouble, i webmailed u those kotor keys - enjoy!

Tempted by that Star Wars HB, but I hear some noise about the GOG versions having the superior iMuse versions of the old games. Any truth to that?

I think Grand Inquisitor probably did a better job of recreating the tone of the original Zorks, but as a result felt a bit too knowing and less plain odd than those other two.

otm, at least about GI and RtZ. nemesis basically isn't a zork game -- it's just a second-tier mystlike, which is high praise considering how many mystlikes there were and how many tiers down it went. but return to zork is an actual successor to the 1-3/beyond/zero series, violating canon tone only to the extent that previous zork games violated canon tone, whereas GI is mostly (v enjoyable) fanservice.

RtZ also has to be the most unforgiving non-sierra graphical adventure ever made. there's a thing you can do in a number of different ways in the opening fifteen seconds of the game and if you do it the wrong way you'll learn like ten hours later that you can't win.

GI never has the atmosphere of mysterious dread that coexisted with zork's wackiness; RtZ does. (nemesis does, but it also basically excises the wackiness.)

xpps belatedly thank you very much for Kotor. I'm away with work at the moment but i've now got something to look forward to when I get back!

Don't forget the critical Kotor 2 restored content mod, which we've probably mentioned elsewhere:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=485537937

https://www.humblebundle.com/jumbo-bundle-6
Includes Shadowrun Dragonfall DC and Boston Lockdown, Dreamfall Chapters, Magicka 2. I'm in. I'll... skip on the GreyGoo.

jesus, there's no way i'm ever gonna play half of what i already own.

i'll be happy dying with my library of thousands of unplayed games

which is to say i bought it too.
Anybody want a PC key for Oceanhorn? ILXmail me with your email.

dragonfall i'm interested in bc they say it's better than the core game which i got bored of pretty quickly.
warmachine tactics i'm also interested in except the reviews on steam are very mixed :(

sick humble bundle

Free LIMBO
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/limbo

pretty shit sale :(

golden 90% discounts fading into the ether

I think it's better than the last big sale, at least for indie games. I recommend English Country Tune, from the guy who made Stephen's Sausage Roll. 90% off, under $1.

other stuff I bought:
The Sea Will Claim Everything
Pony Island
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Kero Blaster, from the creators of Cave Story
Shadowgate 2014
Castle in the Darkness
Subject 13
Sega MegaDrive and Genesis packs 1-5 -- around 20 cents per game
something called Teddy Floppy Ear Bundle for $1

I've got like £11 in unused credit from trading card sales so I think I'll cash that in and pick up a steam controller for an effective £17.

Beyond that, I might grab Prison Architect and Divinity: Original Sin. Maybe Sniper Elite 3 too.

i can recommend prison architect + divinity - both good, solid (tho not classic) games

Feel like we almost should have a knowledgebase/wiki for our cheap Steam sale recommendations

anyone tried subnautica? one of the rps writers is heavily recommending it and it looks interstng.

i bought it b/c of that RPS article, it is very pleasant but even in non-survival mode is a little more minecrafty than i want. i have zero interest in resource management, just let me chill

maybe there's a straight chill mode idk i'ma go back to it tonight

picked up Please Don't Touch Anything ($0.99) and BloodGate ($0.89). most of the other stuff i'm interested isn't particularly discounted. sad!

those are in my cart too, heh. thanks Trump voice

subnautica has a chill mode yeah -- "exploration" i think. me on whatchu playin:

subnautica -- my go-to oculus demo: a standard post-minecraft survival game of the kind that now seems to be most of steam, but in the (alien, cartoony) ocean. can't play it that often, at least not with the thing on my head, cuz it scares me -- the 360-degree vulnerability; the distant groans of vast, unseen fauna. mostly play it as an environment, not a game, but wish i had the patience to craft myself a submarine or whatever. (would be less scared if i had a submarine.)

it's v pretty and the deeps are frightening to look at.

oh you still have to craft stuff to have stuff, even in the chillest mode -- maybe that's what you meant. i never made anything much more advanced than the handheld scanner.

http://www.wingamestore.com/

These guys have Borderlands: Pre-Sequel for $12 american. Anybody wanna play co-op?

Pack Gems into a Sack

Action Failed
You do not have enough Gems.

life is strange is FINALLY available on the mac and the first ep is currently free on steam. i know what i'll be doing tnite (if i'm not throwing away another promising character in nethack)

I paid 75p for the latest humble bundle and I got two games I already owned but didn't realise I already owned, plus Duke Nukem Forever.

so steam has made converting cards into wallet funds harder, because you now have to confirm every single sale by email or phone app. previously it was easy to use a game idler and an auto-seller, but no more.

Anno games on sale this weekend. Might give in and actually pay money for 2205

EDF is finally available for PC and it's 30% off until the 25th.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/410320/

stardew valley supposedly coming out for mac next week!!!

The new PSN summer sale overlaps heavily with my "big RPGs I meant to play but hadn't got around to buying yet" list. So I've got Witcher 3, Divinity Original Sin and Dragon Age Inquisition for £41 total. That's something like 10p per hour of gameplay, struggling to remember a better cost/entertainment ratio really. Course the downside is that these days I seem to fit in about 2 hours of gaming a week at most. So this lot is going to keep me busy for the next four years.

^^^ hitting the realisation that my current Steam Library (sans stuff on my wishlist) might well see me out.

Of course in a couple of years they'll come up with something where you can fit a jack behind your ear and game while you sleep.

LOL @ at the "We Need to Go Deeper" theme
https://www.gog.com/promo/20160808_weekly_staff_picks_we_need_to_go_deeper

new humble bundle = nuclear throne for $10 which really is enough on its own but you also get lethal league, the beginner's guide, galak-z, lovers in a dangerous spacetime, octodad, super time force ultra, and new games coming -- ALL MAC COMPATIBLE

yeah, the survive this bundle is also pretty rad.

galak z and super time force are both really fun