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Lindsey Lohan · July 2012

I planned on getting back to the hotel and using some of my last funds to get Krater cheap...what the heck happened? Any more of this and I'll end up buying that train game...I've never played any of the Elderscrolls series so I voted Oblivion. That could be dangerous though, I've heard it's a gateway drug to Skyrim.

MegaMan001 · July 2012

Is there such a thing as a 'lull' in the Summer Sale? Cause I feel the last two days have been seriously lulled and plagued by terrible voting.

Foefaller · July 2012

Foefaller wrote: »

minor incident wrote: »

Foefaller wrote: »

BrocksMullet wrote: »

Renzo wrote: »

Seriously, the writing in The Bard's Tale is good stuff.

Intrigued.

Isn't the Bard voiced by Cary Elwes?

SOLD!

Just be warned: It's not him doing his normal/Wesley voice that he is most famous for, but it's still good.

...but the final, all-important fact, that will get you buying this game and playing it to the end.

The game as a Narrartor, and who is it? None other than Tony Jay.

HooverFan · July 2012

Requesting invite again, this time with added new sig...

HallowedFaith · July 2012

MegaMan001 wrote: »

Is there such a thing as a 'lull' in the Summer Sale? Cause I feel the last two days have been seriously lulled and plagued by terrible voting.

Sales are sales. Everything being on sale all week has been pretty bad ass, not everything is in a flash sale or voting sale. Gotta look around. Lot of good games went half off or more. I would say that there is never a 'lull' with Steam. Something is always uber cheap.

ToyD · July 2012

MegaMan001 wrote: »

Is there such a thing as a 'lull' in the Summer Sale? Cause I feel the last two days have been seriously lulled and plagued by terrible voting.

I start to feel that way, then I buy stuff I don't want to give away. It helps.

IvanIssacs · July 2012

@APODionysus ragegifted me Sanctum.

All of the class.

All of it.

Houn · July 2012

HooverFan wrote: »

Requesting invite again, this time with added new sig...

I've heard tell that they're not inviting people during the sale, to prevent casuals from bringing down the property values. Of course, I've been in the group for years, and I have seven cars on my lawn, so who knows?

So far, all I've bought is Skyrim. My wallet considers this a success. The only willpower-testing deal so far was SR3, and it's gone, so I should be safe. Should.

RainbowDespair · July 2012

I'm really surprised Krater lost out to Sanctum. Sanctum's a great game and all but it's on sale all the time. Whereas Krater just came out a few weeks ago and to my knowledge, this is the first time it's been on sale.

SteevL · July 2012

Foefaller wrote: »

Foefaller wrote: »

minor incident wrote: »

Foefaller wrote: »

BrocksMullet wrote: »

Renzo wrote: »

Seriously, the writing in The Bard's Tale is good stuff.

Intrigued.

Isn't the Bard voiced by Cary Elwes?

SOLD!

Just be warned: It's not him doing his normal/Wesley voice that he is most famous for, but it's still good.

...but the final, all-important fact, that will get you buying this game and playing it to the end.

The game as a Narrartor, and who is it? None other than Tony Jay.

Also, the narrator and the bard frequently insult each other, which is always nice.

Personally, I didn't really enjoy the Bard's Tale remake, having just finished it (after a long 6-year hiatus) on PS2 a few months ago. It was passable, but something just felt missing in the combat for me. Still, you can't go wrong at $2.49.

Lindsey Lohan · July 2012

I had a great summer sale so far, but I'm a new PC gamer so there was tons and tons of stuff that was new to me. I'm low on funds now, so there are a few things I probably won't get that I planned on (Ass Creed 1,2 and some Splinter Cell to name a few) but I gifted some, was gifted some, and bought quite a bit so I've probably got a backlog to keep me in games until Christmas and I'll probably get a couple more games before the sale ends.

Now I can't wait to actually play some stuff! Football Manager 2012 and Dear Esther both have me really interested as they seem like things I've never really tried before.

R0land1188 · July 2012

Lindsey Lohan wrote: »

I planned on getting back to the hotel and using some of my last funds to get Krater cheap...what the heck happened? Any more of this and I'll end up buying that train game...I've never played any of the Elderscrolls series so I voted Oblivion. That could be dangerous though, I've heard it's a gateway drug to Skyrim.

Lindsey, I loathed Oblivions game play it was awkward and no intuitive (at least for a newbie like myself) but Skyrim was amazing.

Bullio · July 2012

oakke wrote: »

These games are not going to play themselves, you know.

Well, maybe Bad Rats will. Who knows what kind of freakish things it does when you're not looking.

Not even Bad Rats would play Bad Rats.

Idx86 · July 2012

@OneAngryPossum is a classy son of a mammal, and hooked me up with Deus Ex DLC of The Missing Link! This was the one non-buyers remorse I had during the sale, and now I don't have to worry.

Thank you so much!!

HooverFan · July 2012

Houn wrote: »

HooverFan wrote: »

Requesting invite again, this time with added new sig...

I've heard tell that they're not inviting people during the sale, to prevent casuals from bringing down the property values. Of course, I've been in the group for years, and I have seven cars on my lawn, so who knows?

So far, all I've bought is Skyrim. My wallet considers this a success. The only willpower-testing deal so far was SR3, and it's gone, so I should be safe. Should.

Hence why anybody playing Borderlands should be in wangchat and using that group since not everybody is part of the main group.

Although being here for 5 years and on Steam for 7 has gotta count for something, especially when all i'm looking for is ability to get into the chat.

HallowedFaith · July 2012

I wouldn't worry about chat during the Sale. It gets rather stupid in there at times and they are trying to avoid people begging for games and what not. Few more days and it will all go back to normal. 20 people in chat, 4 of them talking.

exis · July 2012

R0land1188 wrote: »

Lindsey Lohan wrote: »

I planned on getting back to the hotel and using some of my last funds to get Krater cheap...what the heck happened? Any more of this and I'll end up buying that train game...I've never played any of the Elderscrolls series so I voted Oblivion. That could be dangerous though, I've heard it's a gateway drug to Skyrim.

Lindsey, I loathed Oblivions game play it was awkward and no intuitive (at least for a newbie like myself) but Skyrim was amazing.

I had exactly the same experience. Bought Oblivion day 1 and played about 2-3 hours of it. Bought Skyrim day 1 and played about 80 hours over the following 3 weeks. Not to say that Oblivion is terrible or anything, but it wasn't what I was looking for at the time, and after playing Skyrim I doubt I could go back to it.

RT800 · July 2012

Vote Torchlight

Gear Girl · July 2012

Winners! Also thanks to @Mal for a copy of Loom.

@Taramoor

@Pemulis

@Sir Carcass

@Kristmas Kthulhu

@Lep

@pyromaniac221

@Shade

@Jeix

@Dahkath

@21stCentury

@TheRoadVirus

Gifts will be sent out shortly.

baudattitude · July 2012

Binary Domain bought in the last five minutes, followed by Take On Helicopters in its first five minutes. There go two of the most expensive things on my wishlist.

Man of the Waves · July 2012

Binary Domain is an alright game.

They tried implementing voice commands and "conversations" with squad members. My opinion is that they failed terribly. It was a good idea, but I couldn't get it to work even in a quiet room. The squad members's trust is based on what you say to them, but they game would get my response wrong more than half the time. Unfortunately, the dialogue is bad, too.

The shooting bits are average. It's a cover-based affair against robotic enemies. The high point being location based damage, in that you can take out legs or arms and when you score a head shot kill, the robot turns on its allies.

The game does look good, though, and it is fun to play. Worth the 10 bucks I got it for from Amazon.

Spec-Ops: The Line is a much better squad-based, third-person shooter, so get that instead. Although, the only way to win that game is not to play, so there is that...

I was looking forward to Binary Domain, even though I didn't know that's what it was until I actually bought it. I remembered hearing about the squad-based voice commend implementation and trust mechanics a while ago, but I didn't remember what game it was. They are neat ideas, but poorly implemented here.

Dashui · July 2012

I've got to say it again how classy @Mackenzier is for gifting me Avernum: Escape from the Pit. I've never heard of it before but wish I had. It feels a bit like Baldur's Gate meets Fallout 1/2 (turn-based, AP combat) meets Elder Scrolls (freedom to explore a giant world). It's a really fun throwback to the role-playing games of the 90s.

Edit: And then he gifted me the Eschalon games. Oh Jesus!

MoosehatIV · July 2012

@oneangrypossum just gifted me Rock of Ages for a poorly written witcher paragraph (with a typo...) and a picture of a lego geralt! What a classy amigo.

striderjg · July 2012

HooverFan wrote: »

Houn wrote: »

HooverFan wrote: »

Requesting invite again, this time with added new sig...

I've heard tell that they're not inviting people during the sale, to prevent casuals from bringing down the property values. Of course, I've been in the group for years, and I have seven cars on my lawn, so who knows?

So far, all I've bought is Skyrim. My wallet considers this a success. The only willpower-testing deal so far was SR3, and it's gone, so I should be safe. Should.

Hence why anybody playing Borderlands should be in wangchat and using that group since not everybody is part of the main group.

Although being here for 5 years and on Steam for 7 has gotta count for something, especially when all i'm looking for is ability to get into the chat.

Chat is open:
steam://friends/joinchat/103582791429521528

TheRoadVirus · July 2012

Thanks GG!

21stCentury · July 2012

Ohhhh my! Winning Saint's Row The Third? With all the DLC? (That's the full DLC one, right?)

i feel so lucky!

RT800 · July 2012

Sometimes I wish Steam sold other software besides games.

Lindsey Lohan · July 2012

exis wrote: »

R0land1188 wrote: »

Lindsey Lohan wrote: »

I planned on getting back to the hotel and using some of my last funds to get Krater cheap...what the heck happened? Any more of this and I'll end up buying that train game...I've never played any of the Elderscrolls series so I voted Oblivion. That could be dangerous though, I've heard it's a gateway drug to Skyrim.

Lindsey, I loathed Oblivions game play it was awkward and no intuitive (at least for a newbie like myself) but Skyrim was amazing.

I had exactly the same experience. Bought Oblivion day 1 and played about 2-3 hours of it. Bought Skyrim day 1 and played about 80 hours over the following 3 weeks. Not to say that Oblivion is terrible or anything, but it wasn't what I was looking for at the time, and after playing Skyrim I doubt I could go back to it.

But...but...it would only be $5 which fits into my budget...and it's beloved by all.

As a side note, tomorrow is museum day (thanks to the heat down here) and we're hitting the History of Video Games at the Smithsonian - I've heard it's kind of limited in its scope but I'm still pretty excited to share it with the kid.

HallowedFaith · July 2012

Photoshop CS6 - Now 75% off! (If only lol)

RT800 · July 2012

Oblivion is terrible.

Especially next to Skyrim.

Inkyblots · July 2012

Does valve restock the valve store often? I just saw the Wheatley LED flashlight and I want to buy 50 of them.

Gaslight · July 2012

RT800 wrote: »

Oblivion is terrible.

Especially next to Skyrim.

Most games are, next to Skyrim.

Dahkath · July 2012

@Gear Girl

Ooooo Thanks alot! Your a class act all around!

Taramoor · July 2012

@Gear Girl is a classy guy who gave me the chance to win BIT.Trip Beat, Runespell: Overture, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Bunch of Heroes, and Braid.

@OneAngryPossum is also classy and took pity on my pathetic drawings to gift me Jade Empire. I'm going to finish a drawing of quality and post it in his honor.

Antihippy · July 2012

RT800 wrote: »

Sometimes I wish Steam sold other software besides games.

They might be!

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Steam-Amazon-Accounting-Web-Publishing-Valve-Software,16314.html

pyromaniac221 · July 2012

Thanks so much @Gear Girl! You are a shining beacon of class, even amongst such a classy community.

Inkyblots · July 2012

Jade Empire is still my favorite Bioware game.

Lord_Snot · July 2012

Much love to @KafkaAU who decided there wasn't nearly enough robot death in my life.

Who knows how many robots shall die, all that is known is that it shall be many.

Bursar · July 2012

@Kristmas_Kthulu has gifted me Terraria! Thank you, classmeister! I'll claim it later.

In other news, I have yet to get a response from Steamgifts about re-rolling the results of my Sol Survivor giveaway.

Sir Carcass · July 2012

Gear Girl wrote: »

Sir Carcass

Dang, Steamgifts been treating me right lately.

Thanks for the awesome giveaways, you classy ~~lady~~ dude!

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