Steam Deals Thread: Mars War Logs + Mark of the Ninja - Dawn of Fantasy

[CeeKay]

7-7

Offspring Fling $3.99
http://store.steampowered.com/app/211360/

[Isgrimnur]

[CeeKay]

The Killing Floor is now on sale for $9.99 for the next 41ish hours, after wish the summer sale will commence^*.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/1250/



^*  maybe theoretically possibly potentially could be the truth^**.


^** or not.

[CeeKay]

7-8

Insecticide Part 1 $1.01
http://store.steampowered.com/app/16710/

just a heads up, the PC version of part 2 got cancelled:

To clarify, the full DS version of the game shipped, as did Part I of the PC downloadable version. However, Part II of the PC version was cancelled, although we were well into production. I wish I could say it was because of some anti-adventure game conspiracy or the assets were stolen by a band of thieves looking to sell game inventory items on the black market, or something similarly dramatic. I also wish I had a million dollars.

Unfortunately, that's not the case, and I don't. If it was, it might be easier to understand the whole thing, or fund Part II myself. Instead, the game was cancelled due to a whole host of complicated financial, technical, and marketing issues that I don't quite follow, but suspect had something to do with nobody buying the game.

Essentially, our original publisher, Gamecock, had this crazy idea of funding indie titles based on crazy ideas like Insecticide. We were very much in favor of this plan, but I guess the sales figures for their first titles weren't as supportive of the idea, and by the time ours came along and did mediocre business, the writing was on the wall, and probably some of it hit the fan too, and basically things weren't looking as promising.

However, we were heads down working on Part 2, hoping to deliver the definitive conclusion to the adventure for all 52 of our screaming fans, so we were surprised to learn that South Peak had bought Gamecock. Then the new publisher pretty much ignored us for a month or two while they "evaluated" the prospects of our title, which also wasn't a good sign. They ultimately decided not to publish Part II, and we never got much of an explanation, but I'm guessing someone there with a calculator was predicting trouble with the whole venture. Either that or they were just creeped out by bugs.

[USMC Kato]

I bit on Wargame: European Escalation. Always wanted it and for $19 seems like a great deal.  Just did the first/tutorial mission and so far i'm impressed.  Runs great as well.

[CeeKay]

some more stuff dug up for the fabled Summer Steam Sale:

Indie bundles:

    Day 1: Anomaly Warzone Earth, The Baconing, Cave Story+, EDGE, Lone Survivor.
    Day 2: Botanicula, E.Y.E, Oil Rush, Splice, Universe Sandbox,
    Day 3: Bit Trip Beat, Braid, Bunch of Heroes, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Runespell Overture,
    Day 4: A Valley Without Wind, Atom Zombie Smasher, Blocks that Matter, Sanctum, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP,
    Day 5: Audio Surf, Gemini Rue, Greed Corp, Tiny Bang Story, Ys: The Oath in Felghana
    Day 6: Awesome, Defcon, Space Chem, Ticket to Ride, Trauma
    Day 7: Avadon, Dungeons of Dredmor, Qube, Vessel, Zombie Driver
    Day 8: Demolition Inc, Hoard, Sol Exodus, Swords and Soldiers HD, Wings of Prey,
    Day 9: Capsized, Jamestown, Revenge of the Titans, VVVVVV, Zeno Clash
    Day 10: All Zombies Must Die, Beat Hazard, Bit trip Runner, Eufloria, Machinarium
    Day 11: Hydrophobia, Orion: Dino Beatdown, Star Ruler, Waveform, World of Goo

Other bundles:

    1C Collection Pack
    Adam's Venture Complete Bundle Retail
    Anno 2070 Pack
    Batman Arkham Asylum, Batman Arkham City and Batman Gotham City Imposters Bundle
    Bethesda Collection (BRINK, Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, Hunted)
    Bioshock Franchise Pack
    BIT.TRIP.BEAT Bundle
    BIT.TRIP.RUNNER Bundle
    Carpe Fulger Bundle (Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, Chantelise, Fortune Summoners)
    Civilization Collection
    Command and Conquer Franchise
    Dawn of War Franchise Pack
    Dead Island Complete
    Duke Nukem Bundle
    Foreign Legion Bundle
    Kalypso Collection (Tropico, Jagged Alliance, Airline Tycoon, etc)
    Majesty Franchise
    Paradox Collection (Magicka + dlcs, Mount and Blade, etc)
    Pendulo Adventure Pack
    Railworks 3 - Summer Sale Collection
    Red Orchestra Franchise Pack (ROW)
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Bundle
    Saints Row: The Third Franchise Pack
    Sniper Elite Franchise Pack
    Square Hit Collection (Hitman, Tomb Raider, Just Cause 2, Deus Ex, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Quantum Conundrum, Thief)
    Stardock Collection Pack
    Strategy First Complete Pack
    Sword of the Stars Franchise
    THQ Collection (Dawn of War, Warhammer, Stalker, Nexuiz, Darksiders, Metro 2033, etc)
    Total War: Shogun 2 Pack
    Victoria Franchise
    Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Pack
    Wings of Prey

of course all the indie games I'm interested in are in packs where I have pretty much every other game 

[EngineNo9]

Honestly I'm not sure there is much there that will even interest me.  I've bought most of the things I'm interested in previously, including so many stupid bundles and packs with games I've never played.  Besides, most of these packs have been in a couple previous Steam sales, so if you haven't bought them before why would you now?

[mirage775]

Honestly I'm not sure there is much there that will even interest me.  I've bought most of the things I'm interested in previously, including so many stupid bundles and packs with games I've never played.  Besides, most of these packs have been in a couple previous Steam sales, so if you haven't bought them before why would you now?

Agreed, there's a few in the Indie section that I don't have, but have like the other 4 in the packs... 

[Lordnine]

Well, I'm sure you will find something in the 100's of other games on sale anyways so no big deal.   

[mirage775]

Well, I like turtles

[CeeKay]

7-9

Zombies Must Die Pack $5.09
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/14266/

[CeeKay]

Honestly I'm not sure there is much there that will even interest me.  I've bought most of the things I'm interested in previously, including so many stupid bundles and packs with games I've never played.  Besides, most of these packs have been in a couple previous Steam sales, so if you haven't bought them before why would you now?

Agreed, there's a few in the Indie section that I don't have, but have like the other 4 in the packs... 

that's the situation I'm in-  the first 8 days all have 1-2 games I'm interested in, and 1 of those each day is a new release since the Holiday sale.  hopefully they'll have gifting this time around.

[CeeKay]

Demolition Inc is on sale for $3.39 until July 27th, so I guess that means the summer sale won't start until then 
http://store.steampowered.com/app/98600/

[CeeKay]

more sale speculation.  hopefully it's a bunch of bunk; I remember last time they did timed flash sales and I'm not even sure how #9 would work.

[CeeKay]

7-10

Naval War Arctic Circle $4.99
http://store.steampowered.com/app/200050/

[CeeKay]

Midweek Madness is Dungeon Defenders for $5.09, plus a bunch of its DLC is on sale too:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/65800/

[CeeKay]

oooo..... the Midweek Madness sales ends at 10am...... could that mean....

Summer Sale, Summer Sale, Sum-Sum-Summer Sale!

[CeeKay]

7-10

Naval War Arctic Circle $4.99
http://store.steampowered.com/app/200050/

OK, I was just browsing the forums for this one trying to decide whether or not it was worth it, and found out that apparently there is no save feature during missions, which means if you start one you have to see it all the way through.  not necessarily a big deal on the shorter missions but it would truly suck to be playing one of the several hour missions only to make a small mistake towards the end (or if the game crashed) and having to redo the several hours over again.

[Isgrimnur]

Yup.  The OO discussion wraps around the same issue.  I'll wait for the patch and a later sale for that.  Not like I don't have enough to play as it is.

[CeeKay]

7-12

Defense Grid Sale - 75/76% off anything Defense Grid related
http://store.steampowered.com/app/18500/

[CeeKay]

Yup.  The OO discussion wraps around the same issue.  I'll wait for the patch and a later sale for that.  Not like I don't have enough to play as it is.

looks like people have been asking for some time, so I'm not going to hold my breath.

[Teggy]

HAPPY

Spoiler for Hiden:

maybe, possibly

STEAM SALE DAY!!!!

[Calavera]

HAPPY

Spoiler for Hiden:

maybe, possibly

STEAM SALE DAY!!!!

The prices are starting to adjust so it's really starting.

[CeeKay]

it's SUMMER SALE!

[Teggy]

No games this time?

What do you get if you achieve the badge?

[CeeKay]

7-12

Terraria $2.49
Ridge Racer Unbounded $24.99
Crusader Kings 2 franchise sale
Portal franchise sale
Indie Bundle I $9.99
Crusader Kings franchise sale
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 $29.99
Legend of Grimrock $5.99
Heroes of Might & Magic franchise sale

[CeeKay]

maybe I'll try it like this for the sale:



thoughts?

[CeeKay]

No games this time?

What do you get if you achieve the badge?

badge?  I don't even see anything about achievements this time around.

[Teggy]

Go to your profile and you'll see your badges listed on the right hand side. Click through to see the community badge achievements and the summer sale achievements.

Other than that it doesn't appear they are doing a ticket/coal-type game.

[CeeKay]

looks like today is going to be a DLC day for me:

Crusader Kings 2: Sword of Islam and Songs of the Caliph
Shogun 2: Rise of the Samurai

I'm eying the Avernum games, they're current $5.99 for 4-6 and I doubt it'll go much lower, plus the Kohan Warchest is $4.99.

[CeeKay]

Go to your profile and you'll see your badges listed on the right hand side. Click through to see the community badge achievements and the summer sale achievements.

Other than that it doesn't appear they are doing a ticket/coal-type game.

ah, thanks.  I probably would have never noticed that there.

[Crawley]

Hmm. Only thing I might buy is the Fall of the Samurai and even that i'm not sure of. Likely would have gotten Ridge Racer if it was half that price. And Modern Warfare 3 is still too expensive at that price at this point. Might gift Grimrock and Portal 2 though. Other than that kinda a stinker for opening highlighted deals for me - but I know part of it is I've already purchased most of the games I want to own when they went on sale previously. So slim picking for things I actually want.

Also noticed Defense Grid bundle was cheaper than it was offered for the previous day when I gifted it. 

[CeeKay]

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ah, the joys of SUMMER SALE!

[CeeKay]

looks like today is going to be a DLC day for me:

Crusader Kings 2: Sword of Islam and Songs of the Caliph
Shogun 2: Rise of the Samurai

I'm eying the Avernum games, they're current $5.99 for 4-6 and I doubt it'll go much lower, plus the Kohan Warchest is $4.99.

decided to hold off on Kohan, I'm not sure how well it's held up plus it'll surely go on sale again.

[Cragmyre]

looks like today is going to be a DLC day for me:

Crusader Kings 2: Sword of Islam and Songs of the Caliph
Shogun 2: Rise of the Samurai

I'm eying the Avernum games, they're current $5.99 for 4-6 and I doubt it'll go much lower, plus the Kohan Warchest is $4.99.

decided to hold off on Kohan, I'm not sure how well it's held up plus it'll surely go on sale again.

Plus you have until the end of the sale, perhaps it will even be a daily and go cheaper 

[Teggy]

OK, questions:

1) Yea/Nay on Mafia 2? And if so, is the story DLC any good?
2) Any reason to double dip on Deus EX HR if I already have it on 360? (haven't played it yet)

[Purge]

2: No idea. I have it for both, haven't played it on either.
1: Didn't play it, but ATB loved it (IIRC)

[Hrothgar]

Gameplay wise the Kohan games have held up very well since no one has attempted the model again.  Graphically they might be a bit dated, but they all look better than Avernum.  If you have even a passing interest in strategy gaming, you should pick up the Kohan series.  I completed all three games.  That's pretty rare for me.

Just make sure you don't play Ahriman's gift first since it starts out at the end difficulty of Immortal Sovereigns.   Now go buy like a good consumer.

[CeeKay]

OK, questions:

1) Yea/Nay on Mafia 2? And if so, is the story DLC any good?
2) Any reason to double dip on Deus EX HR if I already have it on 360? (haven't played it yet)

1) heard they weren't.  the Vendetta one is supposedly a bunch of arcade like missions while Joe's Adventure involvves Joe, and I really didn't like Joe.
2) mouse/keyboard support?  sharper graphics? maybe because you double dipped you'll feel obligated to actually play it?

[CeeKay]

Gameplay wise the Kohan games have held up very well since no one has attempted the model again.  Graphically they might be a bit dated, but they all look better than Avernum.  If you have even a passing interest in strategy gaming, you should pick up the Kohan series.  I completed all three games.  That's pretty rare for me.

Just make sure you don't play Ahriman's gift first since it starts out at the end difficulty of Immortal Sovereigns.   Now go buy like a good consumer.

I loved the first one, can't remember if I got the second game or the actual sequel.  I was just worried the interface would feel too clunky nowadays.