Summer 2014 Steam Sale is Live

So far i got:

Divinity Original Sin

Euro Truck Simulator 2

Sins of Solar Empire: Rebellion

Mafia 2

Trine 1+2

Velvet Assasin

Witcher 2

Skyrim Legendary Edition

Don't Starve, Risk of Rain, UnEpic.

Bought Age of Empires legacy bundle as a gift for a family member (Age II + Forgotten DLC + AGE III complete). It was a daily deal at 13.74$ compared to 69.97$ regular price; it's technically a steal

I also got Payday the heist for myself. Still waiting for the 75% on Id Software stuff to get my hands on DOOM I and II bundle

Anyone here who can hype/unhype Planetary Annhilation? I'm a bit tempted because of the novelty value and epicness (you can't experience this anywhere else).

Anyone?

Don't get it. Honestly its not what sup com and TA were. The maps are totally random and there is effectively no consideration for terrain when you play, that means no choke points, no front line, defenses are next to useless. Its basically who can just harass as quick as possible to win.

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(Use HD + fullscreen! It's blurry for the first few seconds though.)

Here's a simple gameplay video which I just recorded of Door Kickers and it's the replay of a mission. Basically, you plan how your troopers move, which angles they should cover and when etc. A really nifty feature is that troopers can be ordered to wait at certain points until they hear one of three go codes which you can issue (alpha, bravo, charlie - you hear these in the video). This allows for some neat coordination. Very rewarding game and I highly recommend it if you liked Frozen Synapse or if you're a fan of tactical games like Rainbow Six. I've only played 4 hours but there's definitely potential here.

Sounds good, I think I'll grab it =)

why is there no killing floor 2 thread?

Got Metro 2033 at 80% off (2.99$). the offer is still valid for the next 4 hours if you need to sink your teeth in .

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Got Metro 2033 at 80% off (2.99$). the offer is still valid for the next 4 hours if you need to sink your teeth in .

Man I really wish Metro 2033 would have played out in a STALKER like sandbox instead. I would have so much fun just going between the different metro stations collecting weapons and doing shit, before going to the end of each line to shit my pants from whatever terror they could dream up there...

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Man I really wish Metro 2033 would have played out in a STALKER like sandbox instead. I would have so much fun just going between the different metro stations collecting weapons and doing shit, before going to the end of each line to shit my pants from whatever terror they could dream up there...

Yeah, Metro was too scripted in the ways that Stalker at least FELT natural. The NPCs in COP felt like the most natural, realistic NPCs I've ever seen, because their canned animations expressing their emotions were based on dynamic experiences rather than scripted and voice acted events. Seeing a dude surrounded by corpses wearing similar clothes, his head in his hands, is a really moving moment in COP that feels run of the mill in most games, where you know those corpses were just placed there for set design, rather than previously living NPCs that had been killed by dynamic bad luck.

anyone know of any games on sale that have good or creative environment art direction? I don't mean impressive visual fidelity but just games that have a unique feel to the environments. So hard to pick out games in the summer sale!

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anyone know of any games on sale that have good or creative environment art direction? I don't mean impressive visual fidelity but just games that have a unique feel to the environments. So hard to pick out games in the summer sale!

Depths of Fear: Knossos. It's set in the Labyrinth of the Minotaur, which has been altered to house a dozen other famous Greek monsters like the Hydra and Satyr, with randomly generated stages with different themes. It's like $2 right now.

Also Betrayer, on sale for the next hour for $4, is really good. Nice exploration and investigation based gameplay in a Roanoke Colony type setting. Very beautiful game, and I really dig how they let you fuck with the light and color saturation on the fly to set a mood you want.

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Also Betrayer, on sale for the next hour for $4, is really good. Nice exploration and investigation based gameplay in a Roanoke Colony type setting. Very beautiful game, and I really dig how they let you fuck with the light and color saturation on the fly to set a mood you want.

That is that Sin City like game right (visually)? Is it really worth getting?

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Here's a simple gameplay video which I just recorded of Door Kickers and it's the replay of a mission. Basically, you plan how your troopers move, which angles they should cover and when etc. A really nifty feature is that troopers can be ordered to wait at certain points until they hear one of three go codes which you can issue (alpha, bravo, charlie - you hear these in the video). This allows for some neat coordination. Very rewarding game and I highly recommend it if you liked Frozen Synapse or if you're a fan of tactical games like Rainbow Six. I've only played 4 hours but there's definitely potential here.

Sounds good, I think I'll grab it =)

You should! I'm hooked

There's also Workshop support, so you can keep on playing.

Here's a video I made:

Bought it too i'm hooked as well, that sucks i had the very same game concept

playing Tomb Raider, tis really solid, but god damn those frustrating quicktime events, what makes it worse is it's red text on a black background, what where they thinking?

Yep chris, those QTE made me rage quit a game I was otherwise enjoying.

Steam Sales in a nutshell: I was looking at today's deals and saw Scribblenauts which looked pretty cool but I wasn't a 100% sure I should get it, after 5 minutes of watching reviews I finally was like: Fuck it, I'll get it. So I clicked on "buy" and noticed I already have it...

Probably got it from another sale, lol

I went with a plan of not buying anything over 5€ this year... and I still managed to spend 50€ in 3 days