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[Steam] sale now on. Trading card list in OP. Games on front page won't get any cheaper

smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road]Registered User regular
edited July 2013 in Social Entropy++
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According to Wikipedia, "Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation." According to those of us that know, Steam is the virtual equivalent of a crack dealer who will take all of your money to provide you with fleeting moments of satisfaction and joy.

And right now it is their infamous Summer Sale! Between now and July 22nd a buttload of games are reduced, with many being slashed even further for limited periods along the way. You can vote for games you want to be reduced, you can buy games for dirt cheap, you can gift them to other people, you can stock up on them until you create a backlog so huge you never want to open Steam and look at your game library again!

You can go to this handy website which shows games offered by Steam, listed in order of how much they are reduced. Go grab yourself a bargain!

You can also talk about other PC game stuff in here. But why would you want to! SALE SALE SALE!


Also Steam have started doing trading cards, which you can turn into badges, which you can turn into backgrounds and emoticons and stuff, which you can turn into ????? Because apparently buying and playing games isn't fun enough, now buying and playing games has to in itself become a game.

The regal and majestic Fyndir has created a handy spreadsheet so that people can more easily find and advertise cards. Which is pretty rad of him! It's right here so go use it you big nerd.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    smof i l u

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Everyone buy rogue Legacy

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I started playing a game today called Miasmata which seems kind of neat so far. It's a FPP adventure/survival type thing. I'm on an island and apparently have plague, and I need to find a cure. You have to use triangulation to map the island, and harvest ingredients to make medicine and stuff. So far it's been exploration and science which is pretty much the best things I could have in a game.

    My guy appears to be wearing rollerskates though and falls down any slight hill really easily which is amusing and annoying at the same time.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    is that the one that turns spookyscary

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    I love miasmata and I love that you can fall down.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Thomas is my favorite!!!

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    If you are intrigued by smof's description and want to know more, watch the giant bomb quick look

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Oh by the way smof I recommend playing with the sound off. The thing I love about the game is that there's no hud and no auto map or location tracking, so it is very un game like.

    But if you are in danger your heart beat speeds up, even if you can't see anything, so I just play it silently. There's no soundtrack to speak of so you're not missing anything

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I haven't got to 'the creature' yet. Though I did just spoil myself on what it looks like by accident.

    Should I spoiler that? I knew about it before I got the game but I can't remember if it was in the game description or not.

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    I think every description is like hey there is a thing after you

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Also my problem with falling down largely stems from wanting to get every statue mapped, so I force my guy to climb really steep hills to get to a statue so I can map it. And then he rollerskates down and falls arse over tit.

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Also you can halt your momentum by walking backwards and not running in long bursts

  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    GOG is selling the Ultima Anthology (1 - 9, and Underworld 1 & 2) for $9.

    Get you some!

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  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I try that but sometimes it isn't enough and I imagine my guy wildly flailing his arms backwards as he fails to slow down much like a looney tunes character.

  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    Bought The Longest Journey on a lark. Might play it later today.

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I have the Longest Journey 1 + 2 on CD. I have never made it past the first section of the first game. I am too dumb.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Bogey wrote: »
    GOG is selling the Ultima Anthology (1 - 9, and Underworld 1 & 2) for $9.

    Get you some!
    ultima 9 is included? they should pay us

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    I'm waiting for all the people who just started playing Secret World to hit the end game and find out how horrible it is trying to find groups for gear drops.

  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    is the joker funhouse super hard or something because I can't make it past level 3. inevitably I get hit while keeping the stun baton guy frozen/punch the stun baton guy breaking the freeze. my thumb hurts

  • marty_0001marty_0001 I am a file and you put documents in meRegistered User regular
    Yeah it's tricky. I try to just beat the shit out of normal thugs and then use weapon break on every guy with a stunner or knife.

    I've never got to level 6 or 7.

  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    Weaver wrote: »
    I'm waiting for all the people who just started playing Secret World to hit the end game and find out how horrible it is trying to find groups for gear drops.

    I'd be happy to run people through elites for gear, but you'd need to find a tank that would be able to take the agro okay

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  • ZandraconZandracon Registered User regular
    GMG has a weekend thing going on, 25% off a single one of these games, some of them are steam
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    Batman Arkham Origins
    Civilization V: Brave New World
    Dark
    Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
    Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
    Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Digital Collector's Edition
    Jack Keane (Noooow you see what I did there!)
    Magrunner: Dark Pulse
    Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition
    Moto GP 2013
    Pro Cycling Manager 2013
    Ride to Hell
    Saints Row IV
    Total War: Rome II

  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    Everyone buy rogue Legacy

    I've got a point in everything in the castle, and beaten the forest and castle bosses

    Just two more to go!!!!

  • marty_0001marty_0001 I am a file and you put documents in meRegistered User regular
    Hey does Arkham Origins not have GFWL? Because that would be really terrific.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Bogey wrote: »
    GOG is selling the Ultima Anthology (1 - 9, and Underworld 1 & 2) for $9.

    Get you some!

    Psh, I did that months ago

    now, to murder Lord British...

  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    Zandracon wrote: »
    GMG has a weekend thing going on, 25% off a single one of these games, some of them are steam
    wrote: »
    Saints Row IV
    Total War: Rome II

    Oh man, I promised myself I wouldn't spend more money on games this month but ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck me that's a tempting deal.

  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    After like 20 minutes fooling around I've gotten the Steam version of Fallout 1.

    This game is amazing. Why yes mister super mutant I am a Robot who is snazzly dressed why thank you.

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  • RanlinRanlin Oh gosh Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    Everyone buy rogue Legacy

    That looks super fun.

    I kiiiinda wonder if eventually the gradual permanent power growth might not take away a bit much from the roguelike difficulty side of things, but I imagine that you can just opt out of using all of the crap you've unlocked if that actually happens to be the case.

    That might not even end up being an issue though, and it definitely looks fun, especially some of the wacky traits.

  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Ranlin wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    Everyone buy rogue Legacy

    That looks super fun.

    I kiiiinda wonder if eventually the gradual permanent power growth might not take away a bit much from the roguelike difficulty side of things, but I imagine that you can just opt out of using all of the crap you've unlocked if that actually happens to be the case.

    That might not even end up being an issue though, and it definitely looks fun, especially some of the wacky traits.

    This is my castle
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    It doesn't get a ton easier.

  • CorporateRedCorporateRed Wooooooo! Registered User regular
    After like 20 minutes fooling around I've gotten the Steam version of Fallout 1.

    This game is amazing. Why yes mister super mutant I am a Robot who is snazzly dressed why thank you.

    Great game. I've still never played 2, which I always mean to get around to. Fallout 3 was meh, and NV is also on my list of games to get around to.

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    by fooling around I mean I had to patch it to 1.2 (semi-official or something) and then I got high res texture packs so I could change the resolution and/or make it windowed

    and its friggen fantastic

    just the things you can say, the reactions

    New Vegas is better then 3 but buggier and less open

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    I think Fallout 2 was even better than the original. One of the things that FO3 and NV kinda missed that the first two had in spades was getting me to care about minor characters. I really tried to preserve my reputation with as many people as possible and meet every little person in town. It happened once in a while in 3, but in New Vegas I'm just like, eh.

    The charm isn't there. I walk into town, talk to one of the five people there, and make enemies who I can't really talk to afterward. I miss being able to wander around several cities and talk to several factions and then make a choice about who I want to get into bed with. (sometimes literally)

  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    like I wandered the desert aimlessly for a good 30 minutes because I went west and not east

    I ended up at the brotherhood of steel and they want me to go to some place called the glow and i'm like nah fuck you that sounds awfully suspicious and like I didn't crawl outa that vault yesterday its been like 2 weeks ok????

    so I went east and found sandy shades and used all my ammo on some rad scorpions and convinced some dude ian to join me for free and took his caps

    couldn't find any vendors any where so I punched my way through the necropolis sewers

    good game

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  • Lord HomsarLord Homsar Lord of Hammers Registered User regular
    It's always nice to see someone getting into Fallout for the first time. Exploration is fun in 1, 2 and New Vegas, but I didn't much like the wasteland in 3.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    The wasteland in 3 was alright aside from fucking DC proper.

  • Lord HomsarLord Homsar Lord of Hammers Registered User regular
    I liked the DLC more than the main quest, because the story was sooo boring.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Oh yeah the story in 3 suuuucked

    The best DLC was Point Lookout

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    I like Fallout 3 better than NV.

    Mostly due to the fact that I still can't get NV to RUN correctly.

  • Lord HomsarLord Homsar Lord of Hammers Registered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    I like Fallout 3 better than NV.

    Mostly due to the fact that I still can't get NV to RUN correctly.

    Have you played the first two games? If you can get into those, New Vegas shines with a new light.

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