Steam sale thread: Summer 2017 Edition

Tyger
I think i'll grab Portal 2 as that's a steal. The thing that frustrates me a little though is that I was going to ask for Skyrim for Christmas anyway, then saw it's 50% off on Steam but that of course is based on the RRP, bringing it down to £17.49 or something. But you can get the DVD from ShopTo and others for about £23.00 now, so really I would sooner have that. Perhaps not a valid complaint, but still!
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Skyrim is super cheap from Gamefly with the code I posted above, better than 75% off I think.

Edit: and it's a Steamworks game so you just redeem the CD key on Steam rather than faff with Gamefly's downloader.
 
neema_t
Crysis is pretty great but don't be disappointed if you can't run it maxed out, you'd think a game of that age would have been tamed by modern graphics cards but that's not the case! Then again the returns are very much diminishing, you probably wouldn't spot the difference between high and maxed settings so it does still look gorgeous.
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Yeah I wont get my hopes too high. I'm playing crysis 2 on high settings (the lowest preset you know) and it still looks stunning in 1080p. I could probably afford to turn a few things up to very high and still get playable fps but I don't notice a difference.
Right now I'm using a 550ti, but Im hoping to get a 660 soon.
 
Just had a look at Crash Time III, I've heard it's a duller (in terms of missions) Burnout Paradise set in Germany. 75% off, £1.99, can't get cheaper than that... Might watch more videos first though.

Edit: terrible voice acting but less arcadey handling than BP.
 
neema_t
Crysis is pretty great but don't be disappointed if you can't run it maxed out,
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Crysis was a badly optimized game, though. It was just a show-off product from Crytek. I ran Crysis on medium settings on my laptop, and it still looked great. I'm sure you can run Crysis 2 on the same settings, but then it runs better than the first game and it looks better as well.

I might actually go for Crysis 2 now...
 
Bram Turismo
Crysis was a badly optimized game, though. It was just a show-off product from Crytek. I ran Crysis on medium settings on my laptop, and it still looked great. I'm sure you can run Crysis 2 on the same settings, but then it runs better than the first game and it looks better as well.

I might actually go for Crysis 2 now...
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Crysis 2 is actually a pretty great with all the upgrades. You can play through twice and use the upgrades from your first playthrough in the second one (means you'll have all upgrades then). That's making it more of a stealth game. :)
 
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Mr. S
Crysis 2 is actually a pretty great with all the upgrades. You can play through twice and use the upgrades from your first playthrough in the second one (means you'll have all upgrades then). That's making it more of a stealth game. :)
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That sounds like fun, maybe I'll try and finish it soon... Except that won't happen.

I seem to have developed a man flu, looking at this screen is somewhat uncomfortable so please forgive the lack of a deal update list. Mark of the Ninja, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Borderlands 2 and F1 2012 are a few I can remember. I think I'll get Mark of the Ninja. May I extremely recommend Borderlands 2? I love that game.
 
neema_t
Skyrim is super cheap from Gamefly with the code I posted above, better than 75% off I think.

Edit: and it's a Steamworks game so you just redeem the CD key on Steam rather than faff with Gamefly's downloader.
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It's £9.99 on Gamefly now yeah, will your code work on top of that, you think?
 
Tyger
Sweeet! Thanks for alerting us to these numerous bargains :)
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You won't be thanking me when you've got a backlog as long as your arm like I have, but you're welcome! However I can't take credit for finding any of them, I'm just reposting what I find on the internet, as in other forums and such. Savy Gamer (savygamer.co.uk) is a pretty good place to find game deals, they also cover console games, console hardware and I think they'll start doing PC hardware too.
 
I hear you on the backlog. I am boycotting the purchase of any more games until I finish what I have. The list isn't too long, but still...have to get through them. My most recent bargain purchase was the Alan Wake series for like $5. I'm on my second run of Mass Effect 3 and then I have to finish Dead Space 2. After that, DLC for Borderlands 2 and Skyrim are on the short list. New maps for BF3 will be out soon so that will slow down my progress....

:cheers:
 
neema_t
Just had a look at Crash Time III, I've heard it's a duller (in terms of missions) Burnout Paradise set in Germany. 75% off, £1.99, can't get cheaper than that... Might watch more videos first though.

Edit: terrible voice acting but less arcadey handling than BP.
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Did you get this? The voice acting does seem appalling (and about 95% unnecessary) but I kind of like the look of the game, it does have that emergency services/farm/golf cart simulator vibe that seems to be more popular in mainland Europe though. Looks like the earlier games had some fun free roam cheats.
 
Tyger
Did you get this? The voice acting does seem appalling (and about 95% unnecessary) but I kind of like the look of the game, it does have that emergency services/farm/golf cart simulator vibe that seems to be more popular in mainland Europe though. Looks like the earlier games had some fun free roam cheats.
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I did indeed, it's about 5-6GB though so I won't be able to play it until tomorrow, and that's if I've managed to shake this man flu by then.
 
Alltidxx
Saw that too. That's a good price. Still, I think I might wait a bit since I haven't run through Borderlands DLC yet.
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Only reason why I said that is because I pre-ordered it for 59.99 and now it's half off. :banghead:
 
It is a good deal, that's a great game. Doesn't quite live up to the original but nothing has come as close, the big DLC is supposed to be pretty good too. Only major problems with it are the boss battles being far too hard if you play fully stealth (what with not having a gun and being unable to beat them non-lethally) and the 'oh god you can't be serious' ending. Or should I say method of choosing which ending you want. Still, I loved almost every minute of it, I think my first playthrough was about 25 hours long.

This man flu is really kicking my arse but I'm guessing the Steam sale updates are pretty useless as you're probably checking Steam before coming here! Does anyone have any thoughts on Sonic Generations? Also, any predictions for the last day? I'm guessing it'll either be a lame encore sale or it'll be a new set, and I think if it's a new set one of the games will be Ghost Recon Future Soldier, another might be L.A. Noire. If GRFS goes below £10 I think I'll pick it up.
 
Thinking of getting the Augmented edition mainly for the soundtrack. Yeah the first Deus Ex was very good, one of my favorite game ever.

edit: Soundtrack is only half complete so I won't bother and just get the standard edition. Pity.

Sonic Generations is appealing to me but I'll probably get it another time if its around a fiver. I loved the Megadrive games and looks like a good reboot. Didn't play the more recent Sonic games as they looked really bad.
 
I'm tempted by Mirror's Edge.

Nearly 4 quid?

I'll sleep on it for the time being.

Wanted Hotline Miami, but for over a fiver, that's a little bit steep considering its a risky purchase (in comparison to other deals). And it is Indie style, so its not easy figuring out whether its actually good for me or not.

Borderland 2... now, that was tempting. But I will wait for the GOTY version, or later when its vastly reduced in price. Its not the cost that I'm having trouble with, its the fact that my life will have changes soon, so I'll have to revert to laptop gaming for a while! So getting laptop friendly games with an A8-3400/3500M chip would be highly useful.
 
Oh yeah, DX:HR has one of the best soundtracks this side of a Metal Gear Solid game, I got it from iTunes I think.

Mirror's Edge is worth £4, but I can never seem to stay focused for long enough to do more than one or two levels at a time, then I leave it for months and come back to it again. It'll probably be as cheap as it is now in the Christmas sale.

Shame you missed the Hotline Miami flash sale, I think I got it for about £3.50. It's great, über violent and you die a LOT, but really fun. I think the fact that deaths and the total time taken in previous lives before your winning run are ignored when it comes to your score combined with the instant restart when you do die (rather than how some games have a death cinematic, a loading screen and then a short cinematic when you respawn) means its not at all frustrating.
 
Well, that was annoying.

I dithered a bit too long and forgot about the Mirror's Edge deal and forgot about it.

So I didn't get it.

I will pick it up at a later time when its at the same price during Christmas or any other time. Oh well.

Hotline Miami, I kinda knew what the game was like, just wasn't quite sure whether to me, it was a reasonable value or not. But instant restarts sounds fab, back to the classic gaming of yesteryear!
 
^ Indeed.

CS: GO for £5.69 is the cheapest I've seen it so far, but if you can wait for the Christmas sale I wouldn't be surprised if it got cheaper. You all already know how you feel about MW3, Alan Wake is... Meh, original but I got a bit bored, and American Nightmare was available for $2 from GOG last week (that is if you bought four other games at $2 along with it). No idea about Castle Crashers, some people seemed to like Legend of Grimrock but it's not for me and a lot of people go on about The Witcher 2 as if it's the best game ever. Apparently it features a lot of sex.

Sniper Elite V2 was quite fun but £7.50 is asking a bit much for a 10 hour game I would have thought. Killing Floor is one of those games everyone should have by now just because it's always so cheap, it's a highly tactical horde mode co-op survival horror kind of thing featuring terrible British accents and dependable Unreal 2 engine first person shooting. It looks far worse than it is, believe me. GTA IV plus the Episodes for £6.24 is a pretty decent deal but I'm fairly convinced I once saw every GTA game ever released for £5 about a year back, on Steam, maybe it was £7.50. That's a lot of game but I imagine you've all played it by now.

As far as the indie sale goes:
- Osmos is great,
- Zeno Clash is apparently extremely bizarre but very cheap so I think I'll pick that up just to see how bizarre it really is.
- Never heard of Hamlet or the Last Game Without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement before,
- Shatter is pretty great, it's a Breakout-style block breaking game but with a few differences... For one thing, there are bosses, you can control the curve on the ball you're bouncing and you can also launch all of your lives at once for score bonuses. I don't know if I'm really good or if the game is designed to make you feel like you are, but it's really fun. And yes, I've had it for aaaaaages and thought I'd give it a quick 12-minute blast to let you know how I feel about it.
- Sword & Sworcery is good but far better on iOS (because of how the controls were designed),
- No idea about Ys Origin or Giana Sisters,
- Closure is meant to be good and
- VVVVVV is just brutally difficult but quite fun if you don't try too hard.


Don't forget: If it's not 75% off, it may drop that low in the Christmas sale.
 

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