2014 Steam Summer Sale Thread

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sze5003

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Anyone played these Syberia games? Any good?

Syberia was a great game. I think there were 2 of them. If you like those type of adventure games I would get it. Well worth it for the story and interesting puzzles.
 

Pheran

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I'm in the same boat. I have so much backlog, I don't usually mess with DLC. But in this case, it doesn't look like you have a choice.....I don't see the base game listed for sale anymore (only the "complete" edition with all the DLC).

Regardless of whether you care about the DLC, Metro 2033 is easily worth $6.79 all by itself - great game.
 

Pheran

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Not true; I played it fine and dandy with keyboard this past weekend.

OK, I didn't know you could do that. The Steam page even states that the game requires a controller. It sounds painful though, I would still highly recommend a controller for Brothers.

PS: That "bug" is not a bug, in fact I would call that a mild spoiler. Please consider editing your post.
 
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sze5003

Lifer
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Yea I'm not sure how much I'm into monster fps games. I may as well pick it up. So looks like brothers, dark siders 2, metro, maybe myst tomorrow. But I never played myst. It looks like just an exploration game.
 

cronos

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Not true; I played it fine and dandy with keyboard this past weekend. Btw there is a bug
near the end where they move the action key from right-control to a differnet key.

It's not a bug!
and potentially a spoiler! you probably want to remove that comment
 
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ViRGE

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I see they rejiggered the Summer Adventure yet again. Now there are second and third place prizes, and if the scores are rigged it's not so blatant.

Still waiting for Child of Light to go on sale
I would not recommend holding your breath. It's too new and was a budget priced title to begin with. The fact that they even put the DLC on sale in the first place is surprising.

Still waiting for South Park to go on sale for reals
Then you'll be waiting for the next Steam sale. South Park has already been on sale for the summer sale, so it won't get any cheaper than it already was.
 

nageov3t

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buying Skyrim is making me sad now. lol

all I want is a totally free day to lock out the cats, have my BF be at work, and do nothing but game in the dark for a solid 10-12 hours.
 

Face2Face

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I would not recommend holding your breath. It's too new and was a budget priced title to begin with. The fact that they even put the DLC on sale in the first place is surprising.

I see it came out in April 2014, so it may not happen on Steam? I did hear it went for 25% off on Uplay, so I was hoping that would carry over to Steam. I may just pay the $15, I feel it's easily worth it, I just like a deal. I played the demo and loved it, even my kids wanted me to play it over and over again using Steam's big picture mode on my TV. Brings up some old school JRPG memories and the art style is pretty stunning.

buying Skyrim is making me sad now. lol

all I want is a totally free day to lock out the cats, have my BF be at work, and do nothing but game in the dark for a solid 10-12 hours.

I have about 275 hrs invested in Skyrim, that game took a hold of me. I used to think about it constantly, even dream about it. I even heard my daughter humming the Nordic version of the TES theme song yesterday while playing with her dolls.
 
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shortylickens

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Jul 15, 2003
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buying Skyrim is making me sad now. lol

all I want is a totally free day to lock out the cats, have my BF be at work, and do nothing but game in the dark for a solid 10-12 hours.

When you start gaming hardcore those things tend to die or leave on their own, so dont worry about it.
 

xantub

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Still waiting for South Park to go on sale for reals, also Tropico 5, Xenonauts, and Warlock 2 if they go cheap.
Warlock 2 was already on sale (might come back again later), I bought it at $14.99 3 days ago, so if it comes back during the event, that'll be the price.
 

ViRGE

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Oct 9, 1999
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I see it came out in April 2014, so it may not happen on Steam? I did hear it went for 25% off on Uplay, so I was hoping that would carry over to Steam. I may just pay the $15, I feel it's easily worth it, I just like a deal. I played the demo and loved it, even my kids wanted me to play it over and over again using Steam's big picture mode on my TV. Brings up some old school JRPG memories and the art style is pretty stunning.
It's up to the publisher, but games less than 3 months old very rarely go on sale in these Steam sales.
 

ViRGE

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Because the Internet was colluding to rig it, and cycle the winners daily.

http://www.pcgamer.com/uk/2014/06/2...er-sale-and-how-valve-is-trying-to-stop-them/
Honestly I don't buy that for a second. Steam has millions of active users at any point in time. A few Reddit denizens can't override the chaos that is the entire Steam user base.

Valve is the one rigging this, trying to salvage their poorly planned game after Day 1 made it clear that everyone would dogpile on to the winning team. And today's rule change is because their previous fix made it obvious that they were rigging it. This is a contest with predetermined outcomes to make sure everyone wins.
 

Seba

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I think that Valve/Steam intention (when they make this meta-game with teams) was to get more people to consume trading cards to make badges (there are probably millions of trading cards for sale).
 

sze5003

Lifer
Aug 18, 2012
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Still conflicted if I should get dark siders 2. Definately getting brothers though.
 

Artorias

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I've never played the Battlefield series, and eventually Bad Company 2 will go 75%. My question is it worth it, and is the multiplayer still active?
 

Midwayman

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Then you'll be waiting for the next Steam sale. South Park has already been on sale for the summer sale, so it won't get any cheaper than it already was.

True, but last year there were a lot of re-runs on sale titles. High profile title like that probably shows up more than once.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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looks like my team (purple) is set to win.

Best of luck to them cuz I see nothing I want, and am not about to spend money for some BS buying game.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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True, but last year there were a lot of re-runs on sale titles. High profile title like that probably shows up more than once.

Umm, actually I recall for both New Vegas and Skyrim, after the initial sale there were no markdowns for a long time.
So, yeah, theres that.
 

Bateluer

Lifer
Jun 23, 2001
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Honestly I don't buy that for a second. Steam has millions of active users at any point in time. A few Reddit denizens can't override the chaos that is the entire Steam user base.

Valve is the one rigging this, trying to salvage their poorly planned game after Day 1 made it clear that everyone would dogpile on to the winning team. And today's rule change is because their previous fix made it obvious that they were rigging it. This is a contest with predetermined outcomes to make sure everyone wins.

Teams were randomly assigned.
 

Topweasel

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Oct 19, 2000
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Honestly I don't buy that for a second. Steam has millions of active users at any point in time. A few Reddit denizens can't override the chaos that is the entire Steam user base.

Valve is the one rigging this, trying to salvage their poorly planned game after Day 1 made it clear that everyone would dogpile on to the winning team. And today's rule change is because their previous fix made it obvious that they were rigging it. This is a contest with predetermined outcomes to make sure everyone wins.
So you are suggesting that instead of people setting out to set a trend that even mapped out the days perfectly to the actual winners you believe that was Steam rigging the winners and eliminating competition where cards would be bought and sold in a fevor netting them .03 a pop voluntarily changed the policy to force competition because some forums suggested that they were rigging it?
 
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