Geez. Thread should be about what you didn't buy. Some really good deals this year. At least for the stuff I want. I think I spent a total of $50 and picked up 12 titles.
Tried to buy 7 days to die, but steam kept saying there was a problem with my card.
Contacted steam support, they were no help.
Tried to buy a steam wallet code online, delivery took too long, ended up missing the sale.
7 days to die was the only game I wanted to buy. Stupid steam has been taking my card information for over 10 years. Then all of a sudden there is a problem?
I was tempted on that one. If you get around to it any time soon, you should let us know what you think.Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
I was tempted on that one. If you get around to it any time soon, you should let us know what you think.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
This War of Mine
Wow, what a week!
I was on the fence with a lot of those games... especially the ones that were more than $20. I was sold with Dragonball Xenoverse because of the Japanese voices, and the new Dragonball series starting next month may even drum up some more interest in the game for me.
Hm, I need to start playing that one. I was going to, but after I played the Borderlands game, I ended up a bit disappointed. The issue wasn't so much the story and such, but the awful stuttering in the game. It isn't my hardware (i7-4770k + 780 Ti), and some Googling turned up possible workarounds. Since Telltale pretty much just recycles their engine for every game, you may want to keep an eye out for that.
I was debating this one, but it almost seems too depressing.
First Person Hider. Or Alien 5: MacGyver Edition. (I'll ambush these two guys, throw their AKMs in the lake, and then take twelve ears of corn and this rubber clown nose.)Well alien isolation just gave me the finger. I was really enjoying it right up until it turns out you can't pick up guns from fallen enemies. There's a point early on where you're confronted by a group of survivors who all want to find and kill you. Stealth options without killing are severely limited given the terrain, so I decided to pick one off and take his gun, use that to take out the rest. So through no small investment of time and risk I do that... and I can't do jack shit because his gun just lies there on the floor despite my furious pressing of the use key. Looked it up and sure enough, it's no bug. And because of the killing the others are alerted and have me pinned down, I can't return fire, and I promptly die.
What is it with survival games that don't allow you to survive? Or only allow you to survive one way? *ugh*. I'll keep playing it, but by god that's frustrating.
Open up Steam. Click on your username in the top right corner. Click on account details. Click on Store Transactions.
I almost pulled the trigger on Shadows of Mordor, but I couldn't realistically see myself having time to play it any time in the foreseeable future.
Haha, learn something new every day. I always kept all my Steam receipts just so that I had a record of how much I spent on what but instead it was right here the whole time. It just never occurred to me to click on my username.
I noticed that for boxed games, it just labels it as free. I also just noticed that some of my trading cards sold but steam wallet is empty? I almost made back a whole dollar but no clue where it went.
That's the only thing I picked up (well, also GTA Vice City for a couple bucks, but that barely counts). I'm glad I did; it's been absolutely awesome. Best game I've played in a long time. Granted, it'll probably see price drops again in the future, and if you don't have time you don't have time... but it's worth it.
Geez. Thread should be about what you didn't buy. Some really good deals this year. At least for the stuff I want. I think I spent a total of $50 and picked up 12 titles.
I almost pulled the trigger on Shadows of Mordor, but I couldn't realistically see myself having time to play it any time in the foreseeable future.
Anyone play the SNIPER ELITE or SNIPER ELITE Zombie Army series?
3) Steam and it's sales have allowed us (gamers) to become more collectors than actual gamers. I currently have about 40 games in my "collection" but only actively play about 5% of them. A friend has 99 games but has only ever tried about 20% of them. Most of us have become collectors ...
I think the bolded is Steam's saving grace with the developers & publishers. While most of us are far less willing to pay full price for games, we also buy games we would never buy if their floor was $20 at target. If the money is the same, having a couple million copies sold beats a couple hundred thousand.Things that I personally learned from this last Steam sale:
1) The days of paying full retail for a game are gone.
2) Some of th emost promising games are those that I passed on years ago (2/3 rds of the games I bought were over 5 years old).
3) Steam and it's sales have allowed us (gamers) to become more collectors than actual gamers. I currently have about 40 games in my "collection" but only actively play about 5% of them. A friend has 99 games but has only ever tried about 20% of them. Most of us have become collectors ...
4) My last non sale Steam purchase was a bust. I payed twice what the last sale price was and hardly have hardly even touched the game. From now on I'll try to buy only during sales. Buy the games during a Steam sale, play them until the next sale, later, rinse, repeat.
FWIW ...
Holy crap!Sigh... I'm up to about 750+ games in my Steam library, and my list above doesn't help at all! :\
Holy crap!