What did you buy in the Steam Summer Sale?
I managed to go on an Adventure game hunt and grabbed
Broken Age ($9.99) - Fun point and click by Double Fine, just finished the first part of Vella's story.
Kentucky Route Zero ($12.49) - A strange indie, episodic point and click that I'm not sure If I like it or not. Only the first 3 Acts are avaliable.
Back to The Future - The Game ($4.99) - Telltale's last game with inventory puzzles. I've played it before but I had the terrible Wii port so it's gonna be fun to play it on PC with a smooth framerate.
Gemini Rue ($3.99) - An Adventure Game that was done by the same guys who developed The Blackwell Legacy. Haven't played it yet, it was hard on deciding between Rue or Resonance which also looked cool.
Killer Is Dead ($3.99) - The only purchase I made that wasn't an Adventure Game. A bland 3D hack and slash that doesn't try anything new. I bought it because it's by the same team who made No More Heroes, but so far I'm not enjoying it.
So, that's what I managed to grab. Any games you picked up on the sale that your glad you picked up or regret?
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Life is Strange episode 1: $2.50
The Witcher 2: $2.99
I bought both today, haven't tried either yet but I've heard good things about both. Also I felt like this summer sale was pretty ass, maybe I just own all the games I like, that's why I decided to buy The Witcher, never tried it but I want to try new things
I bought Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Audiosurf II, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. On top of that, I also bought two Team Fortress 2 taunts because they were on sale from the in-game store.
EDIT: Using some left over pocket change from my Steam wallet, I bought BattleBlock Theater and Telltale Texas Hold'em.
I finally boufht Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and one piece of DLC for Borderlands 2. Nothing very interesting this sale for me. Nothing that I didn't already have anyway.
All Fallout: New Vegas DLC with an exception being Dead Money as I already had it, Verdun, and Crusader Kings II with a couple DLC for it.
So far nothing, but I'm contemplating whether to get Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel or not. I heard it's not as good as the other games and some other negative things about it, but it's only $19.99 compared to $50 something it used to be. For anyone who has played TPS, is it worth it?
I actually bought every one of those games on the flash sales, I agree that the daily deals were pretty ass, especially the deals you get from playing that dumb steam flash game. I couldn't even play it once because there were too many people playing.
I always end up buying more at the GOG.com summer sale than I do during Steam's. This year, I only bought a few games at the Steam Summer Sale: Life Is Strange Season Pass and The Marvelous Miss Take. Then, tonight I found out that Tale of Tales was going to stop making video games due to the low sales of Sunset. Since I never heard of them before now, and their games look like games I would like, I purchased all of them as getting them all was only $24 during the summer sale.
At the GOG.com Summer Sale, however, I picked up:
Kentucky Route Zero Season Pass,
Jazzpunk,
Dark Fall 3: Lost Souls,
Among the Sleep,
Hatoful Boyfriend,
Supreme League of Patriots Season Pass,
Avernum: Escape from the Pit,
Might and Magic 6-Pack Limited Edition,
Might and Magic 7,
Might and Magic 8,
Crusaders of Might and Magic,
Might and Magic 9,
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs,
Real Myst Masterpiece Edition,
Q.U.B.E. Director's Cut,
Mind: Path to Thamalus,
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness,
Broken Age,
The Witcher Adventure Game,
Battle Realms + Winter of the Wolf,
Telltale's The Walking Dead games,
The Wolf Among Us,
The Gamers movie series,
Pier Solar and the Great Architects,
Jagged Alliance,
Jagged Alliance 2,
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers,
Shadowgate: Special Edition,
Dust: An Elysian Tail,
Super Frog HD,
Guacamelee: Super Turbo Championship Edition,
Freedom Planet,
Rise of the Triad: Dark War,
Pandemonium,
Pandemonium 2,
Papers, Please!,
Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded,
Rise of the Triad remake,
Cognition: Game of the Year Edition,
Steamworld Dig,
Harvester,
Toonstruck,
Indie Game: The Movie Special Edition, and
A Bird Story
And, I got the games S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and Xenonauts for my purchases (I already owned Sim City 2000)
I got Thief: Gold, Thief II: The Metal Age, and Thief: Deadly Shadows, all from Steam during the summer sale.
But, like Jennifer, I bought the majority of my games from GOG.com. Including: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Telltale's Back to the Future, The Witcher, and Tales of Monkey Island.
Verdun and CKII were good pickups.
Woah that's a lot of video games! Tell me what you think of Kentucky Route Zero once you get to it, I feel kinda out of place for not enjoying it as much as everyone else and another opinion might help me diecide, If I should just replay it again.
I just played Act 1... Kentucky Route Zero is... weird... so far. I'm not really sure what to think about it at this point. I like how it feels like a throwback to text adventures, without actually typing via a parser. It's also interesting the way that you get to choose the dialog of both the trucker and the woman he meets, and can optionally control her for a short time at the mine in order to have her find what she's looking for.
But, the story so far is really strange. I'm really not sure where they are going with it. It's got a really creepy vibe, but the story isn't exactly drawing me in yet. It has promise though, since it reminds me a lot of Grickle at this point, and the Grickle shorts have a tendency to start off slow and odd, and then throw a curve ball at you to go in a direction you weren't expecting. Hopefully the next act of Kentucky Route Zero does something similar.
Yeah, Kentucky Route Zero is a strange one. I feel like I rushed through the game way too fast and missed everything.
I'm liking it so far, it's enjoyable.
Back to the future, Jurassic park and Law and order: legacies.
Hmm lets see:
A lot :L
Kitty Powers: Matchmaker. Well, it was a gift, actually.
I didn't buy that much in this sale, the only games i did buy where South Park: The Stick of Truth and some DLC for Surgeon Simulator.
I picked some bad games.
Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Strider
I didn't buy anything at all, I wanted to try Alien:Isolation but at 12 euros I think I will wait for christmas sale when it will probably go around 6. GTA 5 sale was basically no sale at all so thats another one Im doing to get in winter sale. Most of the stuff I want I already own.
I have alien Isolation, its hard to keep playing that game, because of poor choices developers made when level design. I hate games that make me back track.
Deponia pack (which i paid something like 8€ for) is now discounted (together with other daedelic games) for around 8€, so yeah, buy it, NOW. It's a pretty standard adventure game (point and click, kind of like TTG's Hector) and has quite solid writing, the main character is a piece of shit that starts off completely egotistical and eventually ends up being a bit less egotistical, the black comedy is really good (unless you're 10 or like bitching about non-issues) and the puzzles are usually resolved in pretty straightforward ways (kinda rare for adventure games) the mechanics are nothing new from the genre, 2nd and 3rd game have new gimmiks but it's mostly clicking on stuff, combining stuff and clicking stuff on stuff.
More Gog than steam. Steam I only bought How to Survive and Lisa (the latter of which was on my wish list for a long time... the other was 75 cents...)
Best pick? Expeditions Conquistador. Some of the AI annoys the hell out of me (ie, there's are two paths to get to where you want to go, one goes next to an enemy and the other doesn't; enemy's get a free attack if you try to walk by them, and it automatically chooses the path that walks by them...) but besides a bit of frustrating things here and there, it's a really good game.
Just L4D2, I'm doing pretty well in hiding my wallet from myself
Deponia was a really funny game.
My computer fucking hates Daedelic games so the framerate is always super low when I play them, which also affects the lip synching which really urks me, but from what I've played of Deponia I enjoyed it.
I bought Valykria Chronicles too. Really enjoying the mechanics at moment.
It's weird though, nothing else really took my interest this summer sale and I ended up only buying that. I think it's because a lot of the games I'm interested in haven't arrived yet though. Anna's Quest is out next week, the whispered world 2 and the devils men doesn't have a release date yet, so...
I was tempted to get Kentucky Route zero, but at this point it doesn't seem to be getting finished, so I'm not going to bother.
Hearthfire DLC for Skyrim.
same here, it's a bit unnerving, especially during animated cutscenes
Bioshock series and Among The Sleep
I got myself Skyrim Legendary Edition.