Board 8 > The Summer Steam Sale Topic.

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oops I told myself I would wait for NBA 2k18 but I bought 2k17 for $15
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Snrkiko posted...

yes very helpful!

anytime

if you'd like to know what other games I'd like to play, I'd be happy to recite my wishlist for you one game at a time
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iiicon posted...

Snrkiko posted...

yes very helpful!

anytime

if you'd like to know what other games I'd like to play, I'd be happy to recite my wishlist for you one game at a time

how do you feel about shadow Tactics
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I feel it's my kind of game at a price I'm not willing to pay right now
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iiicon posted...

I feel it's my kind of game at a price I'm not willing to pay right now

thanks!
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honestly that sums up most my wishlist

spending ~$6000 on summer childcare/vacation then resubbing to FF14 makes you reevaluate steam sales
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iiicon posted...

honestly that sums up most my wishlist

spending ~$6000 on summer childcare/vacation then resubbing to FF14 makes you reevaluate steam sales

you could stop resubbing to ff14
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but i like ff14
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well then the solution is clear

sell your child
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But which one, that's the question
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DpObliVion posted...

It doesn't seem that bad based on the requirements. If I were to get New Vegas though, I'd prefer to get it for PS3.

no no no no gods no

The mods for New Vegas are outstanding.
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iiicon posted...

DpObliVion posted...

Any good, cheap Western RPGs that can run on a fairly basic laptop? My collection is basically zero, so don't worry about suggesting even the most obvious ones.

Shadowrun: Dragonfall Director's Cut
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Divinity: Original Sin
Fallout New Vegas
Mass Effect 1 + 2
Alpha Protocol

So Shadowrun was another one that stood out to me as I checked these out. I see there's Dragonfall and Returns. Is it worth getting Returns first? Should it just be skipped?
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iiicon posted...

But which one, that's the question

the next one to cross you
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I'd say if you ever intend to play it you should play it first, since it'll seem like a giant step down after you play Dragonfall
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Returns is a pretty good campaign. Dragonfall DC and Hong Kong are far superior. If you only get one, it should be Dragonfall.
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Yeah, that isn't to say Returns is even a bad game (it isn't), but Dragonfall takes all of the kinks it had and irons them pretty well out
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I think someone round here said Orwell was a good game?
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voltch posted...

I think someone round here said Orwell was a good game?

I enjoyed it quite a bit. The story was told in a unique way
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Bought For Myself
Super Indie Karts ($4.99)
Human: Fall Flat ($5.99)
Quake Live ($2.49)
Wheels of Aurelia ($2.99)
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm Deluxe Upgrade ($9.19)
Don't Drop The Bass ($2.99) -- Got this for Extra Life shenanigans
Birdsketball ($0.99) -- Got this for Extra Life shenanigans

Bought For Myself Elsewhere During Sale
Neurovoider ($7.99) -- Humble Store matched Steam Sale and I used my extra 10% for Monthly
Immortal Redneck ($14.36) -- Humble Store matched Steam Sale
Cryptark ($10.11) -- Humble Store matches Steam Sale
Wolfenstein II The New Collosus ($35.18) -- CDKeys preorder was too good to pass up

Gifted To Me (Birthday Yesterday!)
The Sexy Brutale (Terastodon)
NieR Automata (Shad)
Voodoo Vince: Remastered (Shad)
Far Cry 5 (Emerald)
Lief is Strange Before the Storm (Bane)
TumbleSeed (Prof)
Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition (Weaku)
Cosmic Star Heroine (Arti)
Airscape The Fall of Gravity (Steiner)

Gifted To Others
Offworld Trading Company Jupiter's Forge Expansion Pack (Shad)
Quake Live (scoke)
GoNNER (Wigs)
Sentis (ICON)
Wheels of Aurelia (ICON)
The Longest Journey (Weaku)
CrossCells (Arti)
Volvox (Terastodon)
Owlboy (Bane)
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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Morrowind or Oblivion?

Morrowind: great game, terrible mechanics and gameplay
Oblivion: improvement on everything else, but the world itself is bland and sterile


On my wishlist:
$36 - Civ 6
$12 - Shantae Pirate's Curse
$10 - TITS
$10 - FF13-3
$9 - Stardew Valley
$7 - Moon Hunters
$5 - Kingdom Rush Frontiers
$5 (or $8) - DA:O
$4 - Valdis Story
$4 - Epic Battle Fantasy 4
$3 - Lara Craft Go

I don't even remember half these games or why I put them on there. (Moon Hunters?) Some I probably no longer have interest in. Looking for input, but don't automatically jump on Stardew Valley -- that's already there on reputation alone, but I dunno if I'll enjoy it or just get bored. I kinda liked Harvest Moon back in the day, but I got bored with it super easily. DA:O would be a repurchase since I apparently don't have the product key for my old version; I might love replaying it or tire of it quickly. I have about 300 hours played on Civ 5.

Suggestions?
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Trails is so good. EBF4 is also pretty good, but you can basically play the whole game on Kongregate. If you're unsure, try it out there. I've heard mixed opinions about Civ 6.
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Sorry guys that morrowind or Oblivion post was towards DP asking for game suggestions, I already have both
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Kingdom Rush Frontiers is one of the best tower defense games, though TD isn't my kind of genre.
Lara Croft Go is fun, a bit simple, just some nice casual puzzle solving. I 100%'d on iOS.
Stardew is fantastic, I loved Harvest Moon as a kid and Stardew was more of the same but a lot better. I'm kinda waiting on the co-op before I get back into it.
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Get Shantae: Risky's Revenge before The Pirate's Curse.
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http://www.macgamestore.com/product/7253/Mafia-III/

Mafia 3 is $14
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Bought:

Hollow Knight
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Portal 2
Bastion
Transistor
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Bought:

Hollow Knight
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Portal 2
Bastion
Transistor

that's a good get
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Got Hollow Knight, One Piece Pirate Warriors and Day of the Tentacle Remastered. Played a little bit of Hollow Knight and I can tell I'm gonna love it, the presentation and atmosphere are top notch. Waiting to see how well One Piece actually runs on a mediocre laptop that theoretically meets the minimum reqs.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Bought:

Hollow Knight
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Portal 2
Bastion
Transistor

played 4/5 of these

dust is good
portal 2 is amazing (top 10 for me)
bastion is really good
transistor is good

enjoy
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I have Planet Coaster and New Vegas sitting in my cart at the moment, so I'll probably buy those at some point. There's other stuff that catches my eye, but I don't play as many PC games these days and have Horizon Zero Dawn and The Witcher 3 sitting on my PS4 from their summer sale that will probably suck up all my time once I *finally* beat Persona 5.

Luckily I don't get paid again until after the sale ends so I won't have that extra money in my account tempting me as much near the end of the sale.

azuarc posted...

I kinda liked Harvest Moon

You'll enjoy Stardew Valley.
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So far I have only bought Attack on Titan. Might be my only purchase too if only because I have so many other games already
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damn i was trying not to spend more on this sale than digis gift

but then I saw the umihara kawase trilogy was on sale for $8, historic low

welp
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I might get on to the road to boruto
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Bought a few more games, including Stories: PoD and Transistor. Might be done
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I think I want Just Cause 3. Or Red Faction: Space Asshole. Basically I just want a game where I can blow a lot of stuff up.
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I'm debating getting Zero Escape: The Nonary Games. On Steam it's pretty much $34 and on PS4 it's $30. Is there a difference between the games on either platform?

I kind of want to get it for the PS4 if I can because I think it would be a great game to play alongside someone, along with it being a slight bit cheaper, at least for the duration of today.
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I don't know about the differences, but I definitely recommend the series.
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Quick Google search yielded no discernible differences
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I've only played the new version of Nine Hours thus far, but the added voice acting is pretty great. Junpei has down "Why the hell am I here and why is everything crazypants"
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so far i've bought Beeswing and Magic Wand on itchio.

what are the good jigsaw puzzle games?
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Beyond Good & Evil
Earth 2150 Trilogy
Earth 2150 Lost Souls
Earth 2150 The Moon Project
Renowned Explorers
Shadow Complex Remastered
The Curious Expedition
The Witness
Ys I
Ys II

Only really played Renowned & Curious Exps so far. Like them both, suck at both, both play similar but feel very different so far.

Curious Expedition is fun to explore and reminds me of the exploration of A Dark Room. I like the map movement and terrain features, the limited inventory and party size making every item risk/reward to keep or buy, the dice roll combat is simple but awesome, terrain manipulation, curses, standing... it's a lot of fun so far.

Renowned Explorers has a lot more depth, and combat and trait focus, with a map system that reminds me of FTL but an economy and event-style system that feels like Gremlins Inc. It feels like it's not only harder to get into, but also much much harder to master. Lot of good humor and quest-style events though, and the combat system, though frustrating so far, is very interesting with lots of round-to-round prep almost required in later stages. A really sunny and playful Darkest Dungeon.
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Did a lot of clearing out my wishlist, both in the form of removing games and buying games that I don't think are going to get much cheaper. Some I won't play for awhile, but I've accepted that.

Life Goes On
Geometry Wars
Blood and Bacon
RunGunJumpGun
Gang Beasts

and the hot @iiicon rec Unexplored are my recent purchases. I have $100 in credit as a gift from the in-laws so I'm not being picky.
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Unexplored is GREAT
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iiicon posted...

Unexplored is GREAT

for me, it was between that and Caveblazers, and due to the higher profile I think Caveblazers has a better shot at being in a Humble Monthly, so I went with Unexplored. I also have three other new roguelikes in Immortal Redneck (really fucking good, imo), Neurovoider (also really good) and Cryptark (haven't played yet) since Humble matched the sale price on those games.
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my first run in Unexplored ended because an enemy ran out of a room and activated a switch locking me inside. that sort of reactive world is everything I want in a Roguelike.
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here's the list of games on my wishlist that cost less than what I've made selling Steam cards this month. anyone have any recommendations?
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iiicon posted...

here's the list of games on my wishlist that cost less than what I've made selling Steam cards this month. anyone have any recommendations?

I don't know about you, but now that you've reminded me that it exists, Episode 2 is out, and I've finally watched the trailer and it looks wonderful, I'm going to buy Bear With Me.

Which brings my current cart of possible-second-batch-of-purchases up to:
Bear With Me Episode 1&2
Of Orcs and Men
Hitman Season One
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak Expedition Guide
Pixeljunk Shooter Ultimate
Cyan Children's Pack (because I'm a HUGE Myst fan)

~£25 total
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i might have a key for dreambreak laying around. it's a really neat game. i'll check later

i believe utopia-9 is on your wishlist because of me, and i'll say, it's a very neat little game. it plays really well and i love the art style.

alone with you is really cool i have it on psn
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

i might have a key for dreambreak laying around. it's a really neat game. i'll check later

that'd be great!
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also bear with me looks neat i've never heard of it

this is a game that came across my queue today that looks really cool, and i've never heard of it. don't think i'm gonna buy it until it is cheaper tho

http://store.steampowered.com/app/347280/A_Quiver_of_Crows/

and RayDyn just came across this in his queue, turn-based shmup!?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/624690/NEXT_JUMP_Shmup_Tactics/
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