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Sadly nothing as I’m kinda broke. Got enough in my backlog to see me through though.
I haven’t played a single game I bought from last summer sale ¯_(ツ)_/¯
What should I get? I’m back on Morrowind from a bout of dwarf fortress. A modern Morrowind would be perfect. But not oblivion I need something fresh. I’ve been eyeing start citizen but the reviews are really lackluster especially about the thing I care about.
I think I will get:
- The Caligula Effect: Overdose
- Death end re;Quest
- Death end re;Quest 2
- Fate/EXTELLA
- Fate/EXTELLA LINK
The problem is I have many games unplayed in my backlog.
I just got:
JoJo’s All-Star Battle R, Strobophagia, Arkham Origins: Blackgate
I’m not really into fighting games, but I got pretty into the JoJo anime and played the demo for All-Star Battle R before and I really liked it, so I got the deluxe edition or whatever for $20.
Strobophagia popped up on my homepage one time and caught my eye cause I like EDM, and mixing it into a game about a rave with a horror twist seemed pretty cool.
I’ve heard rough things about Blackgate as it’s a 3.5D side scrolling brawler, but I’m hoping it’ll play similar to those Assassin’s Creed Chronicles games, cause I really liked those when they came out. Also I just want to experience more of the Arkham story/universe. At some point I’d like to play Arkham Shadow as I watched a bit of gameplay and heard a lot of positive things about it.
Why is Persona 3 Portable more expensive than Persona 4 Golden? Why is SEGA being so stingy with only a 20% discount. Another 5% (on the SALE price) if we use the Persona bundle. Why SEGA…? It’s the oldest and ugliest one. Why…
To encourage you to spend a bit more on the remake
Summer Stale.
I miss the old sales, when games had deep discounts and the deals cycled like every 2/4/6/8 hours.
People got wise to it lol. People were posting flowcharts about not buying games until they were on flash deals if you want them. Also some years I think they did something that led people to believe only having specific games on your wishlist was advantageous which led to people removing everything from their wishlist except for stuff that was more expensive. That disproportionately hurt indie devs.
All in all I think I’m glad it’s gone. Plus the games (like that racing thing) never made sense to me.
i remember one year there was a game i wanted all year
and it came up on flash sale finally for like 95% off, and steam shit the bed for two hours and I couldnt check out, presumably from the crush of purchase attempts.
I emailed and asked if they’d honor the price given the issues on their side, and they said no, I missed the sale. Not gonna lie, that kinda heated me up quite a bit, cause I didnt miss the damn sale, I wasnt able to check out cause their end shit itself.
consumerism is a disease. i can’t believe I’m still seeing people asking for gamified fomo bullshit.
The periodic sale is already driving up the consumerism enough for me, I really don’t need to buy more games, but I want to
“WAH, WAH, HOW DARE PEOPLE LAMENT THE FACT THAT THEY USED TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE ONLY ESCAPE FROM THE HELL THAT IS REALITY!”
Do you have evidence to support that the flash deal prices aren’t the prices that are there for the entire length of the sale now?
Wow. That was unnecessary
Yeah idk if its nostalgia or wut.
In my head, the sales were much deeper like you say, but I could be wrong.
I also miss when the sale would start and there’d be a minigame or some type of event. They’ve really been streamlining a lot of stuff though I think to reduce network traffic maybe, or maybe they haven’t had the time for events when they are redesigning their whole client and steamos and stuff.
discounts were much deeper. because devs/publishers were more willing to give a 90% discount to their newer games if it was for 2/4 hours.
yup, but in exchange would you give up the refund process that we now have?
I’ve only had 3 refunds.
2 on the old system, 1 on the new system.
All were accepted and refunded, because all were for technical issues that made them literally, factually unplayable… and probably because in 10 years of steam I’ve only had 3 refunds.
So Yes, because it wouldnt change anything for me.
Has the refund process changed? From what I remember it has always been very easy to refund?
they were easy to get if the game was a scam or if you had serious unresolvable technical issues, but not so easy if you just impulse bought a game and regretted it.
Australia sued Valve due to their refund policy and Valve changed the refund policy to what it is today.
Well, the refund policy has only existed 10 years now. Well in it’s current form. Previously refunds were much harder to get.
Yes because by the time I actually get passed the character creator or the introduction I’ve usually already used up my time
Personally, yes.
The GOG summer sale is ongoing as well
One of my favorite games of all time, The Talos Principle, is on sale for $5. There’s a remastered version but honestly the original holds up really well. It’s a first person puzzle platformer game similar to Portal but the main point is the story, which is a really thought provoking philosophical exploration of humanity, machine consciousness, and self determination. It is legitimately the most interesting game I’ve played in the past 5 years and it has really caused me to think about these topics in ways I hadn’t before.
Myself I am buying Persona 5, Pizza tower, and the Phoenix Wright trilogy. I have been wanting to play Persona 5 basically since it came out, and I got to try Pizza Tower a few weeks ago at a friend’s house and really loved it as a fan of the Wario Land games. Phoenix Wright is just nostalgic for me and there really aren’t similar games out there.
Yes, second Talos Principal, it is excellent and the soundtrack too.
Talos Principle is a great puzzle solving game, but I did get tired of the back story and just started skipping it. If I wanted to be depressed I won’t be playing puzzle games.
WARNING : Playing excellent, well told, thought provoking puzzle games about AI will make you so much madder about the silly folk that say “I turned AI sentient” folk. 🙄
Great game, solid sequel too.
Lossless Scaling. Worth it
And Factorio still doesn’t changes price. Wth
Aa per the FAQ on their website, Factorio will never go on sale.
There’s always the five finger discount
Or you can simply cough up the money and pay for one of the best games ever made?
Iirc the creators said they’ll never put it on sale because that’s unfair to people who paid the full price. The price is the price for Factorio.
Gamers will use anything to justify the price for their favorite games.
I’m not saying it’s a bad game or anything, I’ve never actually played it as it doesn’t really look like my type of game, but the “reasoning” that they’ll never put it on sale because it’s “unfair” to people who paid full price is stupid.
I don’t think it goes on sale, at least not for any significant amount. To be fair, it’s easily worth the full price, which is not something I often say.
Yeah, they took a shot at doing their pricing strategy backwards from everyone else. The game was cheapest when it was in early access and the cost has only gone up as they make the game bigger and better. I don’t think it has ever gone on sale, but is easily worth the full price.
I have like 4k hours in that stupid game. I love it so much
It’s already the cheapest game per minute played
I’m guessing minecraft beats it. Or if you look at an individual player with thousands of hours it’s probably one of the mario speedrunners.
You meant the cheapest drug, right? Factorio is addicting.
It’s worse than alcohol but better than heroin
I bought: Drova - Forsaken Kin, Kamiko, Spiritfarer, & Beseige
I bought
- Nine Sols
- Gris
- Celeste
- Outer Wilds
- Unravel Two
Gris is a fun afternoon jaunt. I just picked up Outer Wilds finally, too. Looking forward to it quite a bit after reading a lot of reviews.
Ya’ll should be sure to get the DLC for outer wilds as well! And I’m sure you know, but go in as blind as possible!!
I bought the dlc bundled. They always get me with that.
Alright already have it but for my VR bros, Into the Radius is half price at 15 right now. It’s has its own story but it’s heavily inspired by stalker. Probably the best shooter/scavenger game on VR period.
Picked up: Supreme Commander Collection, Rider’s Republic, Rakugaki, The Stone of Madness, Look Outside, and Sol Cesto.
Not a bad sale imo…
Supreme Commander is good. It is the closest modern-ish game to Total Annihilation that I’ve seen.
