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  • TheUnsane1TheUnsane1 PhiladelphiaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Is assbro playable if I don't have a gamepad? It looks really awesome but ive only played 1 and it left me with mixed feelings.

    Assassin's Creed 2 is so much better than one at basically everything. The only thing that I didn't think was just all around better was story. But that's not discrediting 2 as I just really like the story in the series and think they are on an even level. If you thought AssCree was a game that did some stuff right but had you chasing around too much random junk for no good reason and semi janky combat AssCree2 and Bro are pretty much going to be just what you are looking for.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    So is there ever a point when I actually get to download teh games I payed for? I've been trying to download portal 2 for 3 days now. How can their servers be busy for three days straight? It's not loke I can queu it for download or anything since it won't even let me get that far. This is bullshit.

    Is it bullshit when you go to Taco Bell at 12:30 and the place is packed?

    How about when you go to the grocery store at 6:30 PM on Friday the 1st?

    Try changing your download location to a country on the other side of the world and see if that boosts your download speeds.

    It would be bullshit if they made you give them the money without telling you that you were going to have to wait in line for three days before you could get your Potatoes 2.

    If they've already taken your money, you have every right to be upset that you haven't gotten a product in return.

    Also, he's right about download queueing. It's stupid that you can't just tell it to download, and let it retry the connection every once in a while. You have to manually initiate it over and over until it works.

    I don't know if it's possible to not know that the Steam servers are going to be wanged during a Steam sale. It happens during every major holiday or seasonal sale. All of them.

    Not only that, but if you waited three days before trying to change your download location (which is what everyone does during a Steam sale), than I just don't know, man.

    But we should probably ditch this tangent before we go back in time to 2004.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Is assbro playable if I don't have a gamepad? It looks really awesome but ive only played 1 and it left me with mixed feelings.

    It threw me at first and took a bit to adjust since I played the other two on consoles but otherwise perfectly fine.

    Edit: Also I agree that the first is the weakest of the series. I finally picked up Brotherhood and my only real complaint is I keep doing too much other fun stuff rather than advance the story. Which isn't really a complaint about the game.

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  • CorpekataCorpekata Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    3 days is a bit silly either way, so either he has the worst luck in the world, or something's going wrong.

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  • KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Big Isy wrote: »
    Anyone have some sanctum left over from a pack? I want in..... despite hating the tower defense games in general :lol:

    i can paypal or gift something in return.

    Well, this saves me from running a contest, or something :rotate:

    Ketar on
  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Man, I bought like all the DLCs for all the games.

    Shogun 2, Civilization 5, Just Cause, Gratuitous Space Battles, Magicka, Fallout: New Vegas, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Defense Grid, Fallout 3, Kane and Lynch 2, and RUSE.

    Oh damnit why did you remind me I don't have the Ikko Ikki Clan pack

    Time to add that to my cart

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Thread title should demand everyone buy Vampire immediately.

    But its 13 dollars...

    It's been $20 for the past three years! D:

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Straight from the Steam Chat:
    Primoman: because dude, I have received A LOT of free games
    Big Isy: there's no need to feel guilty, i got tonnes too but its just the nature of the whole thing
    Big Isy: some people get more than others
    Big Isy: some don'tget any
    Primoman: I feel somewhat guilty because on the first few days, I was basically lurking and quickly responding to the "first who quotes/PMs get this"
    Primoman: a few of them were games I never heard about, I just did it because WOO FREE GAME
    Primoman: AH HA HA HA
    Primoman: I JUST GOT GIFTED RIGHT NOW ; ;
    Big Isy: :D
    Primoman: It's Sanctum >>
    Big Isy: o haven't recieved a gift in a few days but i sent something out this morning
    Big Isy: Nice!

    Primoman: DAMMIT MAN
    Primoman: You are feeding my addiction. don't you know some people think I'm a game begger? ; ;
    Rorus Raz: LICK MY BOOTS
    Rorus Raz: LICK THEEEEEEM
    Primoman: YOU DON'T HAVE BOOTS, YOU HAVE HOOVES

    So much classiness it brings tears to my eyes. Goddamn.

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Man, I bought like all the DLCs for all the games.

    Shogun 2, Civilization 5, Just Cause, Gratuitous Space Battles, Magicka, Fallout: New Vegas, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Defense Grid, Fallout 3, Kane and Lynch 2, and RUSE.

    Oh damnit why did you remind me I don't have the Ikko Ikki Clan pack

    Time to add that to my cart

    I would've forgot about it if I wasn't adding the Civ5 Civilizations to my cart.

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  • SightTDWSightTDW Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Anyone still in need of the Bayheimer/Don't look at explosions ticket in Monday Night Combat? I've been trying for the last hour and I'm just about at wit's end.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I am agonizing more over what to spend the last $10 of my Steam wallet sale budget on than I have over any of my other purchases so far (which totaled about $90).

    I feel like I want to end the sale on a high note. But...but...there is nothing I really want badly in that price range.

    This is a strange feeling.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    So my cart right now contains...

    Civ 5 Vikings
    Shogun 2 Ikko Ikki clan
    Magicka Frozen Lake, Final Frontier, Marshlands, and Party Robes
    Gratuitous Space Battles Galactic Conquest, Nomads, Swarm, Order, Tribe
    Ghost Master
    and the Mawsome Pack

    Keep waffling over some other things like the Heretic + Hexen Bundle, which I've added and removed from my cart three times now

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  • RakaiRakai Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    So, out of the non-dailies, Syberia 1&2 for $7.50 is tempting me. Anyone have anything to say about them? Do they have any issues with win 7 64-bit?

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  • RakaiRakai Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Gaslight wrote: »
    I am agonizing more over what to spend the last $10 of my Steam wallet sale budget on than I have over any of my other purchases so far (which totaled about $90).

    I feel like I want to end the sale on a high note. But...but...there is nothing I really want badly in that price range.

    This is a strange feeling.

    I noticed a disturbing lack of Aquaria on your games list.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Straight from the Steam Chat:
    Primoman: because dude, I have received A LOT of free games
    Big Isy: there's no need to feel guilty, i got tonnes too but its just the nature of the whole thing
    Big Isy: some people get more than others
    Big Isy: some don'tget any
    Primoman: I feel somewhat guilty because on the first few days, I was basically lurking and quickly responding to the "first who quotes/PMs get this"
    Primoman: a few of them were games I never heard about, I just did it because WOO FREE GAME
    Primoman: AH HA HA HA
    Primoman: I JUST GOT GIFTED RIGHT NOW ; ;
    Big Isy: :D
    Primoman: It's Sanctum >>
    Big Isy: o haven't recieved a gift in a few days but i sent something out this morning
    Big Isy: Nice!

    Primoman: DAMMIT MAN
    Primoman: You are feeding my addiction. don't you know some people think I'm a game begger? ; ;
    Rorus Raz: LICK MY BOOTS
    Rorus Raz: LICK THEEEEEEM
    Primoman: YOU DON'T HAVE BOOTS, YOU HAVE HOOVES

    So much classiness it brings tears to my eyes. Goddamn.

    Man, I love our Steam Community.

    Fencingsax on
  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    The thing that keeps me from getting any of these Steam games during sales is that my comp can barely run anything anyway. I don't want to waste money buying them and having it not run: I usually "Can I Run It?" games first.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Gifted:
    Painkiller Black
    Recettear
    L4D bundle
    Atom Zombie smasher
    Gothic Universe
    Fallout 3 GOTY
    Last Remnant.

    Bought:
    Warhammer Retribution
    Lead & Gold
    Fallout NV DLC
    Risen
    Dead Space 2

    Got Gifted:
    Frozen synapse (Triple B)
    Druids DLC for King Arthur (LordYod)
    Alpha Protocol (Maddoc, though -shakefist-)


    Unrelated to the same:
    Picked up Lost Planet 2 for 10$ and Fear 3 for 14$ off ebay during this timeframe.

    47.64 to the Newell for me.
    46.39 to the Newell for other people.
    25$ to ebayers for me.

    119.03$ is the total damage thus far.

    Looking at a basket with 44.44 in it right now.
    Eschalon Book1+2
    sonic Adventure DX
    Starscape
    Drakensang 2
    Drakensang 2 addon
    Greed: Black Border
    Paradox fantasy pack
    Gratuitous space battles: galactic conquest.

    Choices. To pull the trigger or change stuff around or what.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I actually never had download problems all sale until today.

    Also, the games and the gifting and the contests are really fun, but I'm really excited over going from 16 steam friends to 65 in a week and the random conversations that pop up when someone sees you playing a game they need a recommendation for or random forum nonsense.

    With that said, the contests are still really fun. In honor of the gentlefolkliness of this thread and the impending end of time to buy things on sale, I suggest a bit of sport.

    CONTEST


    I'm going to fire up Time Gentlemen, please! for an unspecified amount of time not exceeding 1/2 hour from 10:20 EST. The PM I receive closest to my exiting the game without going over wins the game (plus Ben there, Dan that). No going over. That means you can't watch my steam status and post after it turns blue.

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  • TheUnsane1TheUnsane1 PhiladelphiaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Ugh... All the Civilization packs for Civ 5 or Vampire or both and no Aquaria and NyxQuest.

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  • CorpekataCorpekata Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Syberia games are good, not sure about any issues with 7 though (GoG has them as well I believe). The Steam release is only a few months old so I'd hope it wasn't borked.

    Corpekata on
  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Rakai wrote: »
    So, out of the non-dailies, Syberia 1&2 for $7.50 is tempting me. Anyone have anything to say about them? Do they have any issues with win 7 64-bit?

    Not a ton of help, but the first one, at least, plays nicely with WinXP, and it was a fun adventure game - particularly if you like clockwork machines. I was looking at them earlier and considered buying them even though I still have my discs. I feel like The Longest Journey pack was a better choice for me though as I have never played them.

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  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    So my tally (I think I got out for $30is)

    Bought:
    Lead and Gold
    Audio Surf
    Sanctum
    Dragon Age: Origins UE

    Received:
    Borderlands (Lord Yod)

    Gifted:
    Lead and Gold (3x)
    Torchlight

    To gift soon:
    Sanctum (3x)
    PA Adventures
    Just Cause 2

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  • BluefistBluefist Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Spoit wrote: »
    Total damages of about $65

    Not a bad haul

    Mine set me back around $25 as I'm running out of games to buy due to the last few sales.

    Terraria
    Lara Croft GOL DLC: Legacy of Kain Character Pack
    Guardians of Graxia Elves and Dwarves Expansion
    Atom Zombie Smasher
    Eschalon: Book I
    Eschalon Book II
    Magicka Complete Pack

    I'm still on the fence over picking up Painkiler Black Edition later today as I'm lacking in the funds department right now (I am in a lull between contracts).

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Does paypal accept debit cards? I've tried using my debit card to buy things online before, but it never works. It's not mastercard/visa certified or whatever.

    Trying to get me some Vampire.

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  • GuibsGuibs Weekend Warrior Somewhere up North.Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I finally ended up buying Portal 2 (finally) and you guys just sold me on Just Cause 2 with all DLc came to about 7.50$.

    If retribution was still 7.50 I think I would have bite considering I have the original game and the first acheivement. Unfortuantely, Amazon.com won't sell me the digital copy since I am from canada. Wonder if they do an IP location or just know from my account.

    So I think I behaved well with just Portal 2 and Just cause 2.

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  • CorpekataCorpekata Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    The thing that keeps me from getting any of these Steam games during sales is that my comp can barely run anything anyway. I don't want to waste money buying them and having it not run: I usually "Can I Run It?" games first.

    Can You Run it is nice, but I prefer the demo route. I've managed to get several games that technically shouldn't work going fine. Granted, it won't always be the ideal experience, but still, it's always worth checking demos out and testing things out.

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  • Crazed LlamaCrazed Llama Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    i still got a borderlands if anyone wants to trade something of approximate value

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  • Joe Camacho MKIIJoe Camacho MKII Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Ok guys, so it appears I can't escape servin the newell.. I'm currently looking at my wishlist and Painkiller Black is 5 USD... Should I pull the trigger or is there a better version on steam? (The pack has like 4 games).

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  • CorpekataCorpekata Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Guibs wrote: »
    I finally ended up buying Portal 2 (finally) and you guys just sold me on Just Cause 2 with all DLc came to about 7.50$.

    If retribution was still 7.50 I think I would have bite considering I have the original game and the first acheivement. Unfortuantely, Amazon.com won't sell me the digital copy since I am from canada. Wonder if they do an IP location or just know from my account.

    So I think I behaved well with just Portal 2 and Just cause 2.

    You can do what Figgy (I believe) did and ask someone in the US to buy it and send you the code in exchange for either paypal or a Steam gift of equal value.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Ketar wrote: »
    Big Isy wrote: »
    Anyone have some sanctum left over from a pack? I want in..... despite hating the tower defense games in general :lol:

    i can paypal or gift something in return.

    Well, this saves me from running a contest, or something :rotate:

    You are incredibly classy for sorting this out. Sadly chatting to someone on steam convinced me that I won't like the game so the gift is still up for grabs.

    Big Classy on
  • TheUnsane1TheUnsane1 PhiladelphiaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    The Newell wins :( I got Vampire, all of the Civ 5 Civilization dlcs Aquaria and NyxQuest. I'm done.
    But,

    Winter is coming.

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  • BluefistBluefist Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'm really excited over going from 16 steam friends to 65 in a week and the random conversations that pop up when someone sees you playing a game they need a recommendation for or random forum nonsense.

    I've been meaning to get involved with this thread for a while. Went from 0 to 29 friends over the week myself.

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  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    TheUnsane1 wrote: »
    Winter is coming.

    Goddamn, that is the best summation of the Summer Sale.

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  • LawndartLawndart Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Oh, there's about half an hour left in my Chaos Contest.

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    My damages for the Summer Sale:

    Alpha Protocol
    C&C: Red Alert 3
    C&C: Red Alert 3 Uprising
    The Company of Heroes pack
    Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble!
    Deus Ex
    Deus Ex: IW
    Dreamfall
    Fallout: NV DLC
    HL Complete Pack
    The Longest Journey
    Magicka & DLC
    The PA games
    Plants Vs Zombies
    Poker Night at the Inventory
    STALKER pack
    Sanctum
    Civ 5 DLC
    The Sims 3 Generations
    Solar 2
    KOTOR
    Trine
    Braid
    VVVVVV
    all of Winter Voices
    Tropico 3
    Defense Grid DLC

    Gifted:
    Magicka Complete
    Defense Grid + DLC

    Received:
    Fallout NV

    oh, and I still have Dawn of War, the iD complete pack, and maybe Terraria to get.

    the Newell just got all of my money. ALL OF IT.

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  • RakaiRakai Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    jclast wrote: »
    Rakai wrote: »
    So, out of the non-dailies, Syberia 1&2 for $7.50 is tempting me. Anyone have anything to say about them? Do they have any issues with win 7 64-bit?

    Not a ton of help, but the first one, at least, plays nicely with WinXP, and it was a fun adventure game - particularly if you like clockwork machines. I was looking at them earlier and considered buying them even though I still have my discs. I feel like The Longest Journey pack was a better choice for me though as I have never played them.

    Heh, I'm in the exact opposite position. I have the discs for Dreamfall/TLJ and was considering picking them up just to have them on Steam. However I am likely going with Syberia 1&2 since I never played them.

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  • lowlylowlycooklowlylowlycook Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    TheUnsane1 wrote: »
    Winter is coming.

    Goddamn, that is the best summation of the Summer Sale.

    Clearly that has to be the next title after the sale is officially over.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Ouch, looks like I spent somewhere in the order of $80 in Steam games :(

    I have all the CnC3 games, all the X games, the id super pack...trying to think what else. Tomb Raider Guardian of Light, AI War, HoMM5 and Dark Messiah, and Prince of Persia.

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  • CorpekataCorpekata Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Going to be glad when the metagame is done. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it, but it sorta screws with your mind a bit. Games I wanted to backlog are getting played over games I really want. I'm rushing through some of the longer achievements in games that would be a lot more fun if I took my time with them. I know I could just ignore the tickets I'm missing. But part of my brain won't let me.

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  • JeixJeix Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Well I spent more than I wanted to but I really didn't buy much.

    Audiosurf
    Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light + DLC
    Other 3 Tomb Raider Games
    Magicka Complete

    I regret no purchases but I wish I bought Trine, and I kind of want to get sanctum but it looks like it would only be fun co-op and no one I know plays it.

    Hopefully the winter sale will be awesome and I will have more money then.

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