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  • edited September 2011
    (which is a bit of a mouthful)

    It's a great collection of puzzles and at a great price.
  • edited September 2011
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    It's a great collection of puzzles and at a great price.
    Still an awkward name!
  • edited September 2011
    Today's Daily Deal is the Elven Legacy series. All four games in the series are 66% off.

    The list:

    Elven Legacy
    Elven Legacy: Magic
    Elven Legacy: Ranger
    Elven Legacy: Siege

    All are £1.16 or $1.66. The collection of all four is £3.74, or $5.10.
  • edited September 2011
    Today's daily deal is Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords.

    Look like a decent enough puzzle game, it's up for €3.33
  • edited September 2011
    You forgot the UK price, numbskull! :p

    And you did it all wrong! See, you do it like this. Game title in bold letters, like so: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. Then the price. I do Pounds then Dollars, but either way's fine. So: £2.00 or $3.33. Finally, if it's an obscure title, a brief description.


    Put it all together and you have:

    Today's Daily Deal is Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. £2 or $3.33.

    This isn't the standard Puzzler Quest. It's an attempt to infuse the puzzle game with a single-player story. How well it works is a matter for debate, but it's cheap, so give it a go if you're interested.

    ...see? Much more professional. :p
  • edited September 2011
    Not at all. Firstly I know nothing about Puzzle Quest, and my Steam doesn't display the prices in £, and I will do bold lettering when it damn well pleases me.

    Besides, who cares about the freaking British currency anyway? :)
  • edited September 2011
    Obviously, since Telltale itself deals in dollars, we should list US dollars first! =P
  • edited September 2011
    If we can't make everyone happy then we should make everyone unhappy, by using currencies that very few on these forums, if anyone at all uses. Like Icelandic krónur, Golden Sovereigns or Republic credits.
  • edited September 2011
    Steam says I put 30 hours of my life into this game. But Steam is not correct. It's actually 51 hours (Xfire). For 1 playthrough on easy.
    This game is great to play when you want to listen to a podcast or just make time go by. I highly recommend it.
  • edited September 2011
    caeska wrote: »
    Not at all. Firstly I know nothing about Puzzle Quest, and my Steam doesn't display the prices in £, and I will do bold lettering when it damn well pleases me.

    Besides, who cares about the freaking British currency anyway? :)
    1) If you don't know anything about a game, check the store page. There's usually enough info to sound like you know what the game's like on there. I do it all the time :D

    2) My Steam doesn't display prices in $, but I do it anyway. I'm just nice like that.

    3) SteamPrices.com displays the price for all three prices - Pounds, Dollars and Euros. It's what I use. And it makes me awesome.

    4) Bold letting is the future and you will respect it!

    5) I care about the British currency :(

    6) There is NOOOOOOO point 6.

    7) No poofters!

    DISCLAMER: This post may not be entirely serious, and may contain one or more references to Monty Python. You have been warned.
  • edited September 2011
    caeska wrote: »
    or Republic credits.

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    Republic credits? Republic credits are no good out here. I need something more real.
  • edited September 2011
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  • edited September 2011
    OK, it's not a daily deal, but I just found Digital Combat Simulator: Black Shark on offer, half price at £15.09 or $26.79, with its sequel Digital Combat Simulator: A-10C Warthog having a third off at £20.09 or $40.19.

    They're both aircraft simulators, with the aircraft being simulated mentioned in the title.
  • edited September 2011
    The daily deal:

    Call of Juarez®: Bound in Blood 75% off

    A WildWest-style shooter. 4.99€, £2.49 or $5.00
  • edited September 2011
    The Daily Deal for today is actually a really good one. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, which is now £2.49, or $4.99.

    It's... well, it's one of the few games that Yahtzee actually liked. What more can you say?

    EDIT: Gah! Ninja'd!
  • edited September 2011
    you also have the wrong US-price.

    http://store.steampowered.com/?cc=us
  • edited September 2011
    The Daily Deal for today is actually a really good one. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, which is now £2.49, or $4.99.

    It's... well, it's one of the few games that Yahtzee actually liked. What more can you say?

    EDIT: Gah! Ninja'd!

    It's kinda like COD in the wild west, but it's good fun. I enjoyed it a lot.

    The one set in modern times that's just out is supposed to be atrocious.
  • edited September 2011
    der_ketzer - SteamPrices.com hadn't updated, so I took an educated guess. I was off by a single penny. I will never live it down. :(

    JedExodus - The first two Call of Juarez games, both of which are set in the Wild West, are great fun, though in different ways. The recent game is set in modern times and has nothing to do with the rest of the series, except one of the main characters is supposedly a descendant of the protagonist of CoJ1. Oh, and it's also rubbish. :(
  • edited September 2011
    der_ketzer - SteamPrices.com hadn't updated, so I took an educated guess. I was off by a single penny. I will never live it down. :(
    Bookmark my link. It shows you the US-store. Then you don't need SteamPrices.
  • edited September 2011
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    Bookmark my link. It shows you the US-store. Then you don't need SteamPrices.
    Will do!

    Today's Daily Deal is the interestingly-named Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!. It's £4.49 or $4.99, which doesn't quite work out the same.

    I have trouble understanding what this game is, not having played it. It's supposed to be an RPG which is based around minigames, but beyond that...
  • edited September 2011
    It's a big pile of horrible. Avoid at all cost!
    Play the demo if you don't believe me.
  • edited September 2011
    Midweek Madness is Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalker 2012, and its various add-ons.

    The original game: £3.49 / $4.99
    Special Edition: £6.99 / $9.99 (For actual extras, check here - it's underneath the DLC)
    Individual DLC: 39p / 49c
    Complete Bundle: £13.19 / $17.99

    And today's Daily Deal is Restaurant Empire II, which is £5.10 or $6.80.

    EDIT: There's also a five-day Paradox Interactive event. The main draw is the complete pack, which is something like 70 titles for one low price. Each day there'll also be an individual game (and add-ons, presumably) on offer.

    Anyway. The complete collection, which has so many games I'm not even going to attempt to list them and will instead let Steam do it for me, is £74.99 or a penny short of $100.

    Today's Paradox Deal is the Cities in Motion collection, all 75% off. The list:

    Cities in Motion: £3.74 / $4.99
    Cities in Motion Design Classics DLC: 87p / $1.24
    Cities in Motion Design Marvels DLC: 87p / $1.24
    Cities in Motion Design Now DLC: 87p / $1.24
    Cities in Motion Tokyo DLC: $1.99 / $2.49
    ...and the entire collection: $7.49 / $9.99
  • edited September 2011
    You should have listed every game on that list, you lazy boy.
    But you failed to mention that there is a special on PENUMBRA: BLACK PLAGUE GOLD, which is awesome! It's on for $4,49, which is worth it in my opinion.
    And MAGICKA is 5 bucks, and each of the various addons are from 50 cents to 1,49.

    Also I found Magic the Gathering 2012 disappointing, the previous version was much better. I just don't like the new cards for some reason. Oh well.
  • edited September 2011
    that's because EVERYTHING from Paradox is 50% off.
  • edited September 2011
    caeska wrote: »
    You should have listed every game on that list, you lazy boy.
    But you failed to mention that there is a special on PENUMBRA: BLACK PLAGUE GOLD, which is awesome! It's on for $4,49, which is worth it in my opinion.
    And MAGICKA is 5 bucks, and each of the various addons are from 50 cents to 1,49.
    Yeah, I'm lazy, sue me. Check the link, everything's listed there. Including Magica and Penumbra.

    I'm hoping Penumbra Gold will go down a fraction further, cause it's not a game I'd normally be interested in, but if the price is right...
  • edited September 2011
    I'm hoping Penumbra Gold will go down a fraction further, cause it's not a game I'd normally be interested in, but if the price is right...

    Penumbra is great. :cool:
  • edited September 2011
    Today's daily deal is BIT.TRIP BEAT: $2
    The game looks to be alot of fun, i mean how can a game with leaderboards and achievements not be fun?
  • edited September 2011
    caeska wrote: »
    Today's daily deal is BIT.TRIP BEAT: $2
    The game looks to be alot of fun, i mean how can a game with leaderboards and achievements not be fun?

    Does it have a demo? I want to know if it runs on my shoddy toaster.
  • edited September 2011
    Fair few to get through here, bear with me.

    Today's Daily Deal is indeed BIT.TRIP BEAT, though it's £1.75 or $2.50. A whole 50 cents more than you thought, caeska!

    Today's Paradox Price-Cut is Sengoku, a newly-released character driven strategy game set in 16th century Japan. £19.99 or $23.99.

    And the weekend deal... the Star Wars collection (and a few individual titles) are 50% off! Woo! The individual titles:

    Battlefront II: £3.24 / $4.99
    Empire at War (Gold): £7.49 / $9.99
    Knights of the Old Republic: £3.49 / $4.99
    Republic Commando: £3.49 / $4.99

    ...and the entire Star Wars collection is £34.99 or $49.99. The collection consists of...

    <deep breath> Battlefront II, Dark Forces, Empire at War (Gold), Jedi Knight, Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Republic Commando, Starfighter, The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, The Force Unleashed (Ultimate Sith Edition) and The Force Unleashed II.

    Phew!
  • edited September 2011
    Fair few to get through here, bear with me.

    Today's Daily Deal is indeed BIT.TRIP BEAT, though it's £1.75 or $2.50. A whole 50 cents more than you thought, caeska!

    No, my Steam lists it as €2, which usually is the same as USD. So that makes it cheaper if you live in Europe in this instance it seems.

    And the weekend deal... the Star Wars collection (and a few individual titles) are 50% off! Woo! The individual titles:

    Battlefront II: £3.24 / $4.99
    Empire at War (Gold): £7.49 / $9.99
    Knights of the Old Republic: £3.49 / $4.99
    Republic Commando: £3.49 / $4.99

    Ah, but it's only Thursday, and thus not weekend yet. So there couldn't possibly be a weekend deal...yet. So I believe it is you who are mistaken...about a great many...things.

    Oh and I'm afraid...the deflector shield...will be...quite...operational when your friends arrive...
  • edited September 2011
    caeska wrote: »
    No, my Steam lists it as €2, which usually is the same as USD. So that makes it cheaper if you live in Europe in this instance it seems.
    It's actually different this time. Here's the proof. It seems your overconfidence is your weakness.
  • edited September 2011
    Today's Daily Deal is Darksiders, the Zelda-clone about one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It's not a happy game, but it is a good one, and a steal at $5 / £5 (grr price conversion sucks grr).

    Today's Paradox Price-Cut is the King Arthur series, which is 75% off, except the two DLC packs, which are still 50%. There's a couple of items in the series, so here's the list:

    King Arthur - The Role-Playing Wargame: $4.99 / £3.74
    King Arthur - The Druids: $2.49 / £1.99
    King Arthur - The Saxons: $2.49 / £1.74
    King Arthur DLC - Knights and Vassals: 99c / 74p
    King Arthur DLC - Legendary Artifacts: 99c / 74p
    (Note that if you want the DLC, you'll have to manually select it from the list, since it's still only 50%. Not sure why, but eh.)

    ...or all of those for $7.49 / £6.24.

    Note that the recently released stand-alone expansion IS NOT on offer.
  • edited September 2011
    It's actually different this time. Here's the proof. It seems your overconfidence is your weakness.

    Your faith in Steam is yours.

    Today's Daily Deal is Darksiders, the Zelda-clone about one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It's not a happy game, but it is a good one, and a steal at $5 / £5 (grr price conversion sucks grr).

    I wouldn't call it a Zelda clone. Zelda is artistic and entertaining. Darksiders is...mindless button-mashing. The fighting style reminds me of Fable, and the story is to my liking quite disagreeable.

    And yes the price conversion does suck...if you live in the UK that is! Heh heh. The Americans it seems are getting the best deal. If we had just stuck to using credits we wouldn't have this problem.
  • edited September 2011
    caeska wrote: »
    I wouldn't call it a Zelda clone. Zelda is artistic and entertaining. Darksiders is...mindless button-mashing. The fighting style reminds me of Fable, and the story is to my liking quite disagreeable.
    Aside from the combat (which is, as you say, repetitive), the general feel of the game is incredibly similar to that of a Zelda game - Twilight Princess, most notably.

    I will concede that it's not a Zelda clone though. That 'honour' falls to Starfox Adventures. Ugh.
  • edited September 2011
    Not really advertised on their main menu at all, but Portal is free up until the 20th.
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/
  • edited September 2011
    Vanished wrote: »
    Not really advertised on their main menu at all, but Portal is free up until the 20th.
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/
    Ah, thanks for mentioning that. Completely forgot it, since I (and, I estimate, 97% of people with Steam) already own it.

    Out of curiosity, do you know if it's 'free-to-play for a couple days' or 'free forever, but you have to grab it during the next few days'?
  • edited September 2011
    Vanished wrote: »
    Not really advertised on their main menu at all, but Portal is free up until the 20th.
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/

    Last time that that happened, Portal 2 was announced. Since Valve can't count past 3, does that mean the DLC is on its way?
  • edited September 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Last time that that happened, Portal 2 was announced. Since Valve can't count past 3, does that mean the DLC is on its way?
    Sorry but there are more than 3 counter strike games.
  • edited September 2011
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    Sorry but there are more than 3 counter strike games.

    Whoops, thought Day of Defeat was different. And then Id still be wrong with the new counter strike:o
  • edited September 2011
    Today's Daily Deal is Mirror's Edge, the first-person Free-Running game. £3.25 or $5.

    Today's Paradox Price-Cut is the Mount & Blade series. There's three games in the series:

    Mount & Blade: £3.74 / $4.99
    Mount & Blade - Warband: £4.99 / $7.49
    Mount & Blade - With Fire and Sword: £2.29 / $1.74

    ...or the trilogy for £8.74 / $12.49.
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