2013 Steam Autumn Sale: DEAD!!

[futurefields]

IIRC deluxe version gets you an extra sniper rifle, and a slightly different bow, and likea digital copy of the soundtrack i think. might be wrong about that

it doesnt add any new quests, locations or anything like that

 

[Demo24]

Ah, now I see. Base version it is!

 

[DaveSimmons]

Just Cause 2 is a fun sandbox game. I'd suggest only buying the base game.

You have no garage or armory -- if you buy a vehicle, it disappears as soon as you save your game, because saves do not include your current vehicle. If you buy a weapon and drop it, it's gone. Then you need to re-buy the vehicle or gun at the same price.

This makes the DLC somewhat useless since you can't afford to keep re-buying the vehicles when you load your saves. Instead, 99% of the time you'll need to grab a normal vehicle off the road.

 

[Zenoth]

I bought X-COM: Enemy Unknown, it's very fun. I remember playing older X-COM games before (a very long time ago, one on the PlayStation 1, and another on PC but in early 2000's, I think it was Apocalypse) and I liked them, but never completed any of those older ones (must have been via renting one or two times only). This one, however, is very good, but difficult, and that's amazing. It's a sort of game that needs you to think two times before doing any moves. I've completed only four missions and lost four guys already, lol. I'll restart a new game, probably on Ironman mode so that I have a true feeling of taking decisions and having permanent consequences linked to them. That's not the type of game I'd want to reload and retry constantly to have a full extraction on each missions, death will happen and I'll make bad decisions and I'll live with the consequences, really good game.

I remember, however, that soon after it was released there were known issues with the game, bugs, imbalance, camera problems. I'm late to the party but since then I guess a number of patches were released, so I guess I'm lucky to play the game in a better state than it was on release. I'm not seeing any issues for now, although I don't really like the default camera speed/sensitivity when simply moving the mouse to view the field around or move to aliens without feeling like the cameraman is sliding on ice, but that's a very minor, negligible thing. I'm enjoying the game a lot. There is a problem though, in that I can't find enough time to play this, Torchlight II and Van Helsing... I need to clone myself to play my games library, and I want a 500 hours week.

And to think... Steam holiday sales hasn't even happened yet... Steam, what are you doing to me.

 

[Ns1]

I bought X-COM: Enemy Unknown, it's very fun. I remember playing older X-COM games before (a very long time ago, one on the PlayStation 1, and another on PC but in early 2000's, I think it was Apocalypse) and I liked them, but never completed any of those older ones (must have been via renting one or two times only). This one, however, is very good, but difficult, and that's amazing. It's a sort of game that needs you to think two times before doing any moves. I've completed only four missions and lost four guys already, lol. I'll restart a new game, probably on Ironman mode so that I have a true feeling of taking decisions and having permanent consequences linked to them. That's not the type of game I'd want to reload and retry constantly to have a full extraction on each missions, death will happen and I'll make bad decisions and I'll live with the consequences, really good game.

I remember, however, that soon after it was released there were known issues with the game, bugs, imbalance, camera problems. I'm late to the party but since then I guess a number of patches were released, so I guess I'm lucky to play the game in a better state than it was on release. I'm not seeing any issues for now, although I don't really like the default camera speed/sensitivity when simply moving the mouse to view the field around or move to aliens without feeling like the cameraman is sliding on ice, but that's a very minor, negligible thing. I'm enjoying the game a lot. There is a problem though, in that I can't find enough time to play this, Torchlight II and Van Helsing... I need to clone myself to play my games library, and I want a 500 hours week.

And to think... Steam holiday sales hasn't even happened yet... Steam, what are you doing to me.

Yeah, I totally forgot how to abuse saves until I started playing xcom LOL. fuck that hardcore stuff - I want my vets!

 

[sweenish]

IIRC deluxe version gets you an extra sniper rifle, and a slightly different bow, and likea digital copy of the soundtrack i think. might be wrong about that

it doesnt add any new quests, locations or anything like that

It does add new quests.

The description on the game page tells you exactly the deluxe has over the base. This isn't voodoo that has to be decipered. This mini-rant isn't actually directed at futurefields, but the person who somehow couldn't figure this out.

 

[DaveSimmons]

It does add new quests.

The description on the game page tells you exactly the deluxe has over the base. This isn't voodoo that has to be decipered. This mini-rant isn't actually directed at futurefields, but the person who somehow couldn't figure this out.

DLC descriptions aren't always the whole story -- see my Just Cause 2 post above.

You buy the JC2 DLC, it gives you the right to buy vehicles that disappear when you save the game and weapons that disappear when you drop them. Yay!

 

[Imp]

Just Cause 2 is a fun sandbox game. I'd suggest only buying the base game.

Bought that a few sales ago... I think I loaded it up for 5 minutes, then never touched it again. It was $5, but I never had an interest in it. Woops.

 

[Imp]

Oh fuxxorz... Metro: Last Light is only $13.59. Paid full price for the original. I enjoyed how it kicked my computer's ass, but it was a bit short for $50. For $15... Do I dare?

 

[Firsttime]

DLC descriptions aren't always the whole story -- see my Just Cause 2 post above.

You buy the JC2 DLC, it gives you the right to buy vehicles that disappear when you save the game and weapons that disappear when you drop them. Yay!

Yeah but one of them is a monster truck. That one was worth every penny.

 

[blackened23]

Oh fuxxorz... Metro: Last Light is only $13.59. Paid full price for the original. I enjoyed how it kicked my computer's ass, but it was a bit short for $50. For $15... Do I dare?

Heck yeah. It's a great game especially if you enjoyed the original, just buy it.

 

[shortylickens]

Bought that a few sales ago... I think I loaded it up for 5 minutes, then never touched it again. It was $5, but I never had an interest in it. Woops.

I played it for an hour. Was not impressed. I keep hearing about this "sandbox" but it was more like quicksand. You get bogged down into pointlessly annoying jobs and I was tired of playing after just one short mission.

 

[Texashiker]

It sounds to me like you are commenting on a game you never actually played :hmm: (Not trying to be stupidly defensive about a game, of all things, but these comments sound odd, because you criticize one game for doing the exact thing the previous one did, and it seems you quit after about an hour.)

From my steam profile,

bl1 - 52 hours

bl2 - 3 hours

http://steamcommunity.com/id/old-school-player

I got tired of bl2 rather quickly.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I know this isn't related to Steam, but I doubt I'll get an answer anywhere else.

So I bought Assassin's Creed 3 from Amazon, and it appears that I got the Uplay version. Is it even possible to buy the Tyranny of King Washington DLC for Uplay? Ubi's store doesn't have it and every version I find to buy on other sites seems to be for Steam only.

 

[CPA]

Deadpool at $9.99 is most definitely worth it (new Flash Deal).

 

[Dahak]

I know this isn't related to Steam, but I doubt I'll get an answer anywhere else.

So I bought Assassin's Creed 3 from Amazon, and it appears that I got the Uplay version. Is it even possible to buy the Tyranny of King Washington DLC for Uplay? Ubi's store doesn't have it and every version I find to buy on other sites seems to be for Steam only.

All the AC still use Uplay even if it is the steam version. At least it does for me for AC2,ACB,ACR and AC4. I got AC3 from ssd purchases that was straight to uplay.

It should be available on uplay, after you sign in and click on games at the top, and click on AC 3, if you click on DLC on the left you should be able to get it. I cannot see it as I already have it.

Or depending on the pricing, you may want to pick up the season pass which will give you access to them as well. Amazon.com has it on for $15 which might be cheaper that the 3 packs.

Although it does say you need steam, but I think( Some one should verify) but it should still work for uplay. So don't hold me to that if I does not work, as I have not personally tried

 

[jlchoi]

Deadpool at $9.99 is most definitely worth it (new Flash Deal).

Looks like a funny game, but sounds like gameplay is mediocre and it doesn't look like it has much replayability. I'm tempted to get it, but I might have to hold off and save the funds for another game.

 

[DaveSimmons]

From my steam profile,

bl1 - 52 hours
bl2 - 3 hours

http://steamcommunity.com/id/old-school-player
I got tired of bl2 rather quickly.

With only 3 hours in BL2 you probably didn't get to the point of earning your class skill, and hadn't found all of the weapon types yet.

Since you also only put 52 hours into BL1, you were probably already burned out on the BL1/2 gameplay. BL2 is more of the same but with a real story and new classes, so if you are tired of shooty-looty fun you need to step away for awhile and come back later.

Try BL2 again next year. It's good.

 

[steelodon]

What about the Turtles game? Is that any good?

 

[steelodon]

There was a flash sale on it yesterday for $10, I snagged it.

Grabbed this one too last night.

 

[steelodon]

Deadpool at $9.99 is most definitely worth it (new Flash Deal).

Yeah I'm hesitating with grabbing this one.

 

[ViRGE]

What about the Turtles game? Is that any good?

Turtles game?

 

[zinfamous]

From my steam profile,

bl1 - 52 hours

bl2 - 3 hours

http://steamcommunity.com/id/old-school-player

I got tired of bl2 rather quickly.

so you didn't really play BL2. They both had the broken replay mechanic and the only thing BL2 did to slow it down, was to reduce XP gain...so, basically, it takes a few hours on your first playthrough to get to level 5 and get your class skill. BL1, takes about an hour, I think.

If you were burned out with the game, you were burned out. But like I said, I essentially preferred BL1 up until I hit about the same amount of time in both (embarrassingly long--will not report)...then I more than doubled that playtime in BL2. So, yeah. believe me when I tell you that there is literally nothing different between the mechanics of the two games. It only matters, really, if you like the different classes, and the changes they made to the loot table.

 

[Texashiker]

so you didn't really play BL2. They both had the broken replay mechanic and the only thing BL2 did to slow it down, was to reduce XP gain...so, basically, it takes a few hours on your first playthrough to get to level 5 and get your class skill. BL1, takes about an hour, I think.

To make things fair I'll give bl2 another try.

I will get more than 5 hours and go from there. So I'll play this evening, make some progress and see if the game gets any better.

From the few hours I played of bl2 I was not impressed.

 

[el-Capitan]

What about the Turtles game? Is that any good?

From reviews it take it is horrible, much of the mechanics are broken. Don't touch!