Steam sale thread: Summer 2017 Edition

[Lain]

So... are you gonna play any of them?

Any of them? Of course. I've already played and finished The Music Machine and The Beginner's Guide, for instance. And I've started Aviary Attorney, Remember Me, and Undertale.

As far as the dirt cheap mediocreware goes, yeah sure... I'll eventually give everything a fair shake. Even if that means I try it for only an hour before determining that it's completely rubbish. Although I haven't just shoveled everything cheap into my cart... I did leave out a select handful of cheap titles that I felt seemed too unlikely to have even the slightest of redeemable qualities.

 

[sesselpupser]

I've played all of the games I've bought in this sale - Convoy and Dying Light - and I'm quite happy with the latter, but I've just requested a refund for the former. Assuming the refund goes through I might buy Party Hard, Ronin, The Wolf Among Us, Please, Don't Touch Anything or Metro: Last Light Redux. I kind of want something I can play on my MacBook Air without any peripherals, though, which rules out a few.

 

[Patrick]

Very disappointed with how the Sale goes now. Still ended buying Cities: Skylines and the DLC.

 

[David]

I've played all of the games I've bought in this sale - Convoy and Dying Light - and I'm quite happy with the latter, but I've just requested a refund for the former. Assuming the refund goes through I might buy Party Hard, Ronin, The Wolf Among Us, Please, Don't Touch Anything or Metro: Last Light Redux. I kind of want something I can play on my MacBook Air without any peripherals, though, which rules out a few.

I can strongly recommend The Wolf Among Us to anyone considering it. Very cool atmosphere and story.

 

[bluemoon_19]

I got my first refund yesterday after I bought simple planes and realised I have no creativity lol . Refund was accepted in an hour and got money back 24 hours later

 

[sesselpupser]

In the end I decided to have a look at Absolute Drift and Please, Don't Touch Anything. Absolute Drift is a pretty nice little game, very difficult to control with a keyboard given that it's a top down drifting sim (like Micro Machines but sideways and realistic), I recommend it for sure given the average GTPer's assumed preference for driving games. Please, Don't Touch Anything is a puzzle game in which you have to figure out various ways to trigger the apocalypse, I'd recommend that too at the current price.

@David Thanks for the recommendation, but having thought about it for a second, I decided to pass for now because I have quite a backlog of Telltale games and a huge backlog of other adventure games I've never played. I should really at least try to get through those before buying more!

 

[David]

@neema_t Understandable! Though I will say, of all the Telltale games Wolf is my favorite followed by Tales From the Borderlands.

Ordered some nice upgrade parts for my PC this week, so I'll probably grab Far Cry 4 and GTA V before the sale ends.

 

[Darla Starch]

Final Steam Sale purchase list:
Started with $90.35, ended with $1.92.

1. Crusader Kings II: Horse Lords
2. Crusader Kings II: Horse Lords Content Pack
3. Crusader Kings II: Orchestral House Lords
4. Universe Sandbox 2
5. Psychonauts
6. Spelunky
7. To The Moon
8. Euro Truck Simulator 2
9. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
10. Fallout
11. Fallout 2
12. Front Office Football 7 (REFUNDED)
13. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
14. Wolfenstein 3D
15. SLAMMED!
16. Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition
17. Grand Theft Auto III (REFUNDED)
18. Tomb Raider Collection (TR 1,2,3,4, Chronicles, Angel of Darkness, Anniversary, Legend, Underworld, Guardian of Light, 2013 Tomb Raider reboot)
19. Half-Life 2

 

[Roush_fan_99]

A little off topic but I bought Arma 3 on sale, is there an Arma thread/community on GTP?

 

[TiZzla]

Final Steam Sale purchase list:
Started with $90.35, ended with $1.92.

1. Crusader Kings II: Horse Lords
2. Crusader Kings II: Horse Lords Content Pack
3. Crusader Kings II: Orchestral House Lords
4. Universe Sandbox 2
5. Psychonauts
6. Spelunky
7. To The Moon
8. Euro Truck Simulator 2
9. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
10. Fallout
11. Fallout 2
12. Front Office Football 7 (REFUNDED)
13. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
14. Wolfenstein 3D
15. SLAMMED!
16. Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition
17. Grand Theft Auto III (REFUNDED)
18. Tomb Raider Collection (TR 1,2,3,4, Chronicles, Angel of Darkness, Anniversary, Legend, Underworld, Guardian of Light, 2013 Tomb Raider reboot)
19. Half-Life 2

Have you tried out GTA 4 yet? I wanted to get it a while back but I read that it was a horrendous PC port and it doesn't even run on Windows 8/10...

 

[Downhill Dino]

A little off topic but I bought Arma 3 on sale, is there an Arma thread/community on GTP?

We do but it's a bit of an old thread.

Hmm. Thought about getting Arma 3 too, but I got Red Orchestra 2 during this sale so that will occupy my realistic first-person shooter game time for now.

 

[Darla Starch]

Have you tried out GTA 4 yet? I wanted to get it a while back but I read that it was a horrendous PC port and it doesn't even run on Windows 8/10...

Not installed yet. Sitting alongside Dishonored, Saints Row, and ETS 2 while I wait for tax time to roll around.
(Besides, doubt that my current laptop could run it anyway)

 

[Roush_fan_99]

We do but it's a bit of an old thread.

Hmm. Thought about getting Arma 3 too, but I got Red Orchestra 2 during this sale so that will occupy my realistic first-person shooter game time for now.

Oh, I heard about that, it looked pretty cool, how is red orchestra.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Hard. Not the type of game I'm used to. Ended up aimlessly running in the direction my allies would be going in. It's like Battlefield but you have no idea where the enemies could be hiding. I guess it's why people say it's one of the more realistic representations of warfare, World War II specifically. I like it, makes me think a little harder.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I only bought the Assetto Corsa DLCs and the Scandinavia DLC for euro truck.

 

[Brett]

Oh, I heard about that, it looked pretty cool, how is red orchestra.

Hard. Not the type of game I'm used to. Ended up aimlessly running in the direction my allies would be going in. It's like Battlefield but you have no idea where the enemies could be hiding. I guess it's why people say it's one of the more realistic representations of warfare, World War II specifically. I like it, makes me think a little harder.

I have played a bit of Red Orchestra 2, but not enough to learn the game play or controls. It certainly looked like it could be fun, albeit frustrating at times.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

Does BFBC2 and vietnam still have a community on PC? they are $5 a piece right now.
I'm brand new to this whole PC gaming thing aside from iRacing and I built a computer a few months ago that's pretty overkill now that I'm realizing it's capability. It is nice to run the Nurburgring at full graphics at 130 FPS locked in iRacing and well over 150 locked on any other track, but not necessary.

I'm finding the controls for GTA V really clunky after playing ARMA

 

[Ettick]

Does BFBC2 and vietnam still have a community on PC? they are $5 a piece right now.
I'm brand new to this whole PC gaming thing aside from iRacing and I built a computer a few months ago that's pretty overkill now that I'm realizing it's capability. It is nice to run the Nurburgring at full graphics at 130 FPS locked in iRacing and well over 150 locked on any other track, but not necessary.

I was just playing it
It has a pretty big community, hundreds of people are online at a time. I don't think Vietnam has quite as many players as the base game though.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

awesome.....edit: downloading

edit: I am impressed with how east it is to request a refund like some of you were talking about. The Vietnam version accepted the key code then wouldn't let be back in and would't re-accept the key code.

Nobody online on regular version but I'm not surprised at midnight PST

 

[Flaren89]

For sure, gonna spend more for Cities Skyline and its night DLC, ppl say it is worth if you want a city builder game.

What about Sonic Adventure 2 and Ducktales: Remastered?

And other suggestions?

 

[Ross]

For anyone that hasn't played Sniper Elite III, it's 80% off at £7.99.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

I am so happy that I got BFBC2 again. I'm glad it wasn't over exaggerated in my head how good that game was/is. I still love it! It's so simple and doesn't have a bazillion gadgets and plays so balanced. I just wish there was a way to lock the framerate without going vsync I actually hit 43 C on my CPU (5820K & H110iGT), iRacing and Firestrike usually top out at 41 C (locked at 150 FPS on iRacing), not extreme but it kicks my fans up.

 

[Nexus]

I just wish there was a way to lock the framerate without going vsync I actually hit 43 C on my CPU (5820K & H110iGT), iRacing and Firestrike usually top out at 41 C (locked at 150 FPS on iRacing), not extreme but it kicks my fans up.

You can set a framerate limit in AMD Crimson or NVIDIA Inspector. There's other software that can do this too.

 

[sesselpupser]

So it's all over for at least a few months, what did you guys make of the lack of flash sales? I think it made for a much better experience because it used to be that Steam would fall over for a couple of hours every day when the store was updated, this time it seemed like everyone bought stuff they knew they wanted on day one then had all that time to think about other purchases, which was good - none of that I'm only buying this because it's cheap for a few hours and I might want it' nonsense.

Also, of the games you bought, how many have you played?

 

[Sureboss]

I like that I don't feel like I have to make a decision on a game in a certain time frame. I only bought Rebel Galaxy (as @Joey D mentioned it in here and I did some digging on it) in the end, I pondered Dying Light, but I do have a sizeable backlog at the moment.

Not played Rebel Galaxy yet, but hope to once the crazy first week of Jan is out the way.

 

[David]

@neema_t I'd be really interested to see Valve's data on how this style of sale works out compared to some of the other formats they've used over the past few years. I wonder if the flash sales and things helped or hurt compared to this. I know their economists and psychologists love experimenting with this stuff .

As for the games purchased; I haven't played any yet, but they were bought with the intention of installing them after my PC is upgraded later this week. Newegg took their damn time because of their end of year inventory and the holiday so my parts wont arrive until Thursday.

Ended up grabbing GTAV, Far Cry 4 (also have 3 from a previous sale that I haven't played yet), and Mad Max. Should all be a lot of fun on a nice, fresh machine.

 

[AlvaroF]

So we have a mini sale, the Lunar Year Sale. I've got 20€ to spend. What are the game(s) I can buy with that and that are good? My current wishlist is:

-Road Redemption (9,99€), modern day Road Rash;
-Cities Skyline (11,19€)
-Rocket League (12,99€)
-Euro Truck Simulator 2 (9,99€)
-Age of Empires HD (3,99€)

Far Cry 4 is not on my list and it costs (15,99€)

Of course I'm open to suggestions.

 

[Rallywagon]

Not sure what your tastes are but I'd cough up an extra quid or two and gotnwith rocket league and city skylines.

 

[sesselpupser]

I'd recommend Sky Rogue, it's a roguelike that's as close as you can get to classic Ace Combat on PC (besides emulation, of course). I'm not sure I'd recommend Road Redemption as it's not finished, but that hasn't stopped me buying Wreckfest so whatever I guess.

 

[AlvaroF]

Thanks for your feedback. My tastes roam around shooters and driving games. I wanted something a bit different, more sandbox style, like the Cities Skylines. But I may do what @Rallywagon suggested, since I'll probably add up another tenner to the wallet.