jim-jam bongs
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binary domain is awesome, it's so unashamedly dumb and fun that you can't help but get into it
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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 3 -
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Possible savings of $2.50 is practically a whole game! Yeah, I can wait thanks.
The base price on Steam is $50 and if they go with a standard 75% off sale it will only go down to $12.50. Just keep that in mind.
If you're not gonna play it before the Steam sale, there's no reason to buy it ahead. If it still goes for $9 or worst case scenario (lol), $10, you didn't really lose anything either.
My other doubt is Sleepy Dogs vs. Binary Domain. I can't do both, since I'm doing the buy games you'll play immediately challenge. I'll probably go for Binary Domain, since it's shorter...
It's $40 for me, not 50. 75% would be $10, but I've seen tons of 40 bucks games go for $7.50.
Oh, must not have dropped the price here in Aus ;_;
Wow, Homefront's single player story is short. Incredibly short.
I thought it was a pretty mediocre shooter and it felt even lazier than CoD. At least occasionally I enjoy shooting stuff in CoD games. If THQ/Kaos were seriously trying to chase CoD with it, they should've at least upped the polish on it. Stuff like scripting felt off (regroup? wait 10 more seconds) or it was really constricted, like having to wait for everyone to finish climbing the ladder before you got to go. Felt really rough to me in some spots, gunplay is at least as boring, if not more than MOH:Warfighter and just playing it almost felt like a chore rather than a game.
I thought it was a pretty mediocre shooter and it felt even lazier than CoD. At least occasionally I enjoy shooting stuff in CoD games. If THQ/Kaos were seriously trying to chase CoD with it, they should've at least upped the polish on it. Stuff like scripting felt off (regroup? wait 10 more seconds) or it was really constricted, like having to wait for everyone to finish climbing the ladder before you got to go. Felt really rough to me in some spots, gunplay is at least as boring, if not more than MOH:Warfighter and just playing it almost felt like a chore rather than a game.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Binary Domain is definitely worth it. I might just reinstall it again for a replay, since shooting them 'bots was loads of fun since they shred to bullets in ways enemies in shooters typically can't. Also shooting off limbs and having them continue to fight, or blasting off their heads and having them turn on their own. The game just nails region-based damage and has great feedback on your shots.
bigace33
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lol reading this mini review makes me sad. It was one of the reasons I bought the thq bundle. don't kniw if I should even waste my time with it now.8^ (
Baconsaurus Rex
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Good luck with that, two sales incoming and all in the span of a month
I'll try and ignore it, unless there's a achievement badge then I'm fucked.
So glad I'm not doing Steam Sale threads any more lol.
Jzero
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I didn't even know there was a sale before winter.
AngryChinchilla
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spindoctor
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Inversion for 5$. Surely it has to be worth that much right?
blindrocket
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Thanks for the good info. Madness because there is so much content on sale or is there a lot of timed and limited daily stuff like Amazon where I have to watch the clock and try and get in on it really quick or miss out?
Jzero
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I must of missed it for the last two years somehow.
Hopefully there won't be anything good so i don't waste any money until the winter sale.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
It's a little unoptimized and the story is pretty dumb but I enjoyed it quite a bit. I took screenshots here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=42962156&postcount=10732
Does Steam keep copies of cloud saves on the HDD somewhere?
It looks like I just lost 5 hours and 13% of my Saints Row 3 save for some reason. Everything was synced up and fine a few hours ago. I just went to play again and all my saves are gone with everything reverted back to how it was this morning.
Im wondering if the saves are hanging around somewhere for me to grab.
It looks like I just lost 5 hours and 13% of my Saints Row 3 save for some reason. Everything was synced up and fine a few hours ago. I just went to play again and all my saves are gone with everything reverted back to how it was this morning.
Im wondering if the saves are hanging around somewhere for me to grab.
I think it only started last year if I recall, the only problem with the autumn sale is taht it's way to close to the winter sale (less than month) which makes it a bit pointless.
scorpscarx
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Just do an explorer search for the game title, usually found in documents or appdata.
I just found them. My saves from earlier today appear to be there but I cant get the game to detect them.
scorpscarx
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Worst case scenario uninstall/redownload. Try verify game cache first though.
Isn't Winter Seal during/after Christmas though?
Well it's at a least a few days before Christmas eve at least and it goes past new years day.
lasts around two weeks.
my bet : 20th December - 3rd January
Rickenslacker
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SiN Episodes is really tragic as it had a lot of potential, but it's hard to recommend anyone getting it now. It's a quarter of an FPS campaign, you only get three weapons throughout, and I'm sad it'll never come to fruition. I liked the dynamic difficulty they were working at at the time, and it had a Horde mode before Gears 2 popularized the concept.
Verifying didnt do anything either. My save files are listed as "last modified: 4:51 pm" which is right when I last shut it off but that actual saves are this mornings data when I load them. Its like Steam overwrote my saves with old stuff or something.
I guess I have to do all this stuff over again. Im shutting Steam Cloud off if it can somehow pull stuff like this.
That ship sailed years ago and the prospect is now practically non-existent rather than simply unlikely. While MumboJumbo owns the SiN IP as a result of buying Ritual and, in fact, continues to self-publish Episode 1 (plus the original game) through Steam using the Ritual name, Ritual as a separate company no longer exists, and MJ itself is focused squarely on "premium casual games".
microtubule
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I started a Steamgifts giveaway for a SONIC CD Steam key.
it ends in 2 days.
Click here for the post
it ends in 2 days.
Click here for the post
a secret-boss
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thinking of getting that THQ deal just for SpaceMarine
As far as I know, Steam always asks what you want to do if the local saves and cloud saves don't match. It won't overwrite the local save unless you tell it to.
I've got my eye on the Plentiful Paradox Package for the Sword of the Stars games alone. The SotS Complete + II bundle is $40 on Steam, and 75% off would take that down to $10, which is exactly what Amazon will be asking for the PPP.
The Grim Heaper
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Forgot to post these giveaways here! Another 15 hours or so left.
Don't know about the store, but they've got Borderlands, Bioshock 2, Max Payne, Max Payne 2 and Midnight Club 2 for free:
http://uk.gamesplanet.com/buy-download-pc-games/all-video-games.html#p_1:price_ASC
http://uk.gamesplanet.com/buy-download-pc-games/all-video-games.html#p_1:price_ASC
blindrocket
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How does the winter sale work?
Do they just list all of their games for the sale price and you can order at any time until the sale ends?
Or is it timed throughout the day and with limited keys to be sold where I have to pay attention and be quick on the draw to get in on the deal (like an Amazon lightning deal)?
Do they just list all of their games for the sale price and you can order at any time until the sale ends?
Or is it timed throughout the day and with limited keys to be sold where I have to pay attention and be quick on the draw to get in on the deal (like an Amazon lightning deal)?
Most of the catalogue gets a discount and then there are daily deals where some games get further discounts. Usually there is some other gimmick as well. The most recent Summer sale had flash sales and community voted sales that lasted less than a day.
The number one rule of these sales it to wait until the game you want appears on a daily deal. That's usually when it gets the biggest discount.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
In past years, it has been the following:
- Almost everything goes on sale for the whole length of the sale
- In addition, 12-15 games go on especially steep sale for one-day periods during the sale.
- For the first 3 hours of the next day, yesterday's games are still available so you have a grace period.
- Once or twice during the sale, there are recap days with the best deals of previous days or weeks brought back for an encore.
This summer sale they added:
- Games on extra sale for 8 hours periods.
blindrocket
Member
Thanks, sounds good. So as long as I check on it daily, I should be able to get anything I want for as cheap as it will be offered.
I'm ready to "stock up" on titles for my new PC I will be building.
I kinda wanted to see Midnight Club 2, but my order is not going through. It says I didn't fill in proper payment options... but there's no place for me to input payment info.
Bummer.
Cloudius12
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You didn't get Midnight Club 2 for joining Rockstar Steam Group?
... what?
They gave that game away for free a while ago if you joined their steam group,
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Even within the deadline, they didn't fulfill their offer for soooo many people. It was a big mess.
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