merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

between HIB 17, the Capcom one and this one in 3 weeks they're killing it a little too hard for my wallet

synchronicity with the latest http://www.filfre.net/ article, which was about Sierra/KQ4 and made me super nostalgic for Sierra games even though the general gist was that KQ4 was horrible and impossible and not even fun (but had good sound)

I sort of want the Gabriel Knights and QfGs but the "pay more" options are a bit pricy for a bunch of elderly games which I'll never play and which were probably immensely frustrating so maybe I'll just put down a buck for the Space Quests and Police Quests

(I think PQ1 was my first graphical adventure? People say it's ridiculous how often you die, ohh man you die just because you didn't walk round the car before driving wah wah waah, but I played when I was young and quite bad at even basic game interaction and saving/dying every 20 seconds was all part of the game to me, constant instadeath not really bothering me tbh. PQ2 however, where I left the scene of the crime prematurely after my colleague told me to chase the bad guy and I got stuck in an insoluble state... or that annoying chasm walk in KQ3 which was bad enough the first time but should definitely have been unnecessary all subsequent times...)

"a bunch of elderly games which I'll never play"

new board description

man nuclear throne is actually pretty good i'm sorry i talked trash about it

<3

Tempted by nostalgia for PQ1 and The Beast Within but yeah they'll never get played.

i own all of those classics already. where's laura bow, actiblizzard?

tropico 4 free right now on humble

thx grabbed it

Some decent minimum-tier games on humblebundle.com
Odallus: The Dark Call -- A platformer inspired by Castlevania: SOTN. Got a big gameplay overhaul a few months ago.
Broken Age
Titan Souls

I mixed up Odallus and Slain. Both based on SOTN but Slain was the overhauled one.

Huge ass charity bundle for Planned Parenthood and ACLU:

https://itch.io/b/149/a-good-bundle

any recommendations on the best of the bunch?

those are a lot of games i've never heard of

Read Only Memories, Gone Home, Proteus are all worthwhile.

Waiting for legacy of the void to come down to $5

dishonored 2 for $35, mankind divided for $25 and x-com 2 for $30 all on amazon. i could get... 1 or maybe 2 of them. can anyone rate them?

also far cry 4 for $15 and the division for $20

Might as well just rename this holiday Backlog Day. Already dipped on Overwatch last week, Mad Max and Borderlands: Handsome Collection today, agonizing on how much more money I want to waste. Tempted on this year's Deus Ex, Doom, MGSV complete, Star Wars: Battlefront complete with the new Rogue One DLC, Witcher 3 complete, GTAV, MKXL all ~$25 from different retailers. Also some cheap older ones like the the Assassin's Creeds Unity/Syndicate ($8) and countless $4 blu-rays. Peer pressure me, guys.

And I've barely scraped GMG and Steam for their deals...

I can highly recommend Witcher 3

i picked up mankind divided for $25 and prodded my single friend w/ more disposable income to buy all the other good deals so i can borrow them from him when he's done

my stupid black friday purchase was to pick up rear speakers + centre speaker to turn my 2.0 hifi into a 5.0 hifi (dunno if i'll ever bother getting the .1)

are ps4 games good w/ surround sound?

Generally yes. I used to have 5.1 but moved my setup to a smaller room and haven't yet been bothered to connect the rear speakers, and I definitely miss the extra info they gave me in eg Destiny

just picked up the division for $12 at gamestop. pretty good price i thought.

XCOM 2 is next month's Humble Monthly, seems worth it for $12

decent humble bundle with Shantae, Pony Island, Day of the Tentacle, N++, VA11 Hall-A
http://www.humblebundle.com/overwhelmingly-positive-bundle

I'll get that today before it expires. Still trying to decide among the hundreds of charities available...

UFO Defense now free on Humble Bundle and redeemable on Steam.

Insane $30 minimum bundle, all to charity
https://www.humblebundle.com/freedom

includes the witness, stardew valley, around 40 more

that is an amazing bundle. too bad the only game i really want from it (the witness) doesn't work on osx.

ha, i was thinking the same thing.
i also own like 90% of it from previous humble bundles. tempted to buy in for the cause anyway

ditto

mentioned it in the wrong thread, but they're already running out of keys for new buyers on certain games (guessing this happened past the 100k mark), so might as well get in now

freedom bundle been adding more games the past couple days, also including the Double Fine documentary

Witness is $20 on sony ps4 store -- worth getting at that price?

yes.

i got it at that price and did not regret it.

Saints Row 2 for Windows is free on gog.com

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/ars-and-gog-two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together/

free download of the first The Witcher for mac/pc. i think you have to register an Ars account.

Probably the best indie Bundle in I don't know how long and all games are mac/pc/unix friendly:

https://www.humblebundle.com/humble-indie-bundle-18

$1 - Ziggurat, Windward, Steamworld Heist
$7 - Beholden, Goat Simulator GOATY, Kentucky Route Zero complete
$12 - Owlboy

More games coming.

Dang, they sold 11k of these things in like an hour

ziggurat owns

oh maybe worth it for kentucky route zero alone

Didn't realize Owlboy got a Mac/Linux release earlier in the year; will probably buy just for that
KRZ is in the backlog from... years ago :(

prob not all episodes tho!

wow, they never finished episode V? good god. might as well continue not to not play it!

"55 items from your Steam wishlist are on sale"

ffs

haaaa just got a similar email. only 2 of the games on my list are over 50% off, most between 20 and 50%. Sales ain't what they used to be :/

bummer for gog that they do literally the same discounts on the games they share with steam a week earlier and no one cares :(