Steam Holiday Sale 2010 - IT'S STARTED!!!!1!

[kronovan]

The Witcher super mega ultra deluxe edition for $5.

I never played this, but I hear I should.  I'll take it!

Holy crap I missed that. I still haven't played it either - IN!

[kronovan]

Some of the older games mentioned are ones I couldn't get to run on Windows XP, much less on Vista 64-bit. Is Steam doing any GoG-ing to make sure these can run on newer OS's?

Nope, with Steam it's very much buyer beware. Other than games based on Valve's Source engine, there's not much effort to make them compatible with newer OS's.  As well, don't expect Steam support to help you with a non backward compatible game or refund you for one that isn't - they just won't. That said, many of the older games they sell are backward compatible and they deliver the latest patched versions and auto-apply new patches.

[Purge]

The Witcher super mega ultra deluxe edition for $5.

I never played this, but I hear I should.  I'll take it!

Holy crap I missed that. I still haven't played it either - IN!

Screw you.

[CeeKay]

The Witcher super mega ultra deluxe edition for $5.

I never played this, but I hear I should.  I'll take it!

Holy crap I missed that. I still haven't played it either - IN!

Screw you.

it's only 5 bucks Purge.... what else you going to do with 5 bucks?

[Purge]

Now I know why Odysseus had himself tied to the mast - because you cannot count on your friends.

Sailor 1 to Odysseus : "Dude, those chicks are TOTALLY hawt man - and they're all kissin' each other and stuff!"
Odysseus to all of creation: "SHUT. THE. F***. UP!"
Odysseus  to Sailor 1 : " These ropes are chafing... I think you need to retie them..."

[Gratch]

Might as well break down and finally give Burnout Paradise a shot.  Won't get much cheaper than that.

[CeeKay]

Might as well break down and finally give Burnout Paradise a shot.  Won't get much cheaper than that.

I grabbed that, plus the rest of the indie packs I wanted.  I figure outside of any OMG daily deals I'll be grabbing a few more games off of my wishlist towards the end and that's it.

[Moliere]

Might as well break down and finally give Burnout Paradise a shot.  Won't get much cheaper than that.

I grabbed that, plus the rest of the indie packs I wanted.  I figure outside of any OMG daily deals I'll be grabbing a few more games off of my wishlist towards the end and that's it.

 

[CeeKay]

Might as well break down and finally give Burnout Paradise a shot.  Won't get much cheaper than that.

I grabbed that, plus the rest of the indie packs I wanted.  I figure outside of any OMG daily deals I'll be grabbing a few more games off of my wishlist towards the end and that's it.

 

of course I haven't mentioned how long my wish list is 

[jersoc]

I got the witcher on steam just to not have to mess with the whole patch process. Need to replay it before 2 since I lost my save.

[Lord Percy]

I pickup up battlefield 2 and would like to get the vietnam expansion, do you think it will go on sale or is $14.99 as low as it's going to get this holiday?

I get the feeling it's not going to go on sale because it's brand spanking new. Can't hurt to wait until the end of the sale though, unless you absolutely must play it before the end of the year.

Wel lthat and it's only $15 at the normal price.  That is a super bargain in today's game pricing market.

I'd be surprised if EA let Vietnam go on sale so soon.

Steam says I already spent 5 hours in Vietnam. This is soooo going to be worth the money. I mean, tanks have flamethrowers now. What's not to love?

[MaxSteele]

Might as well break down and finally give Burnout Paradise a shot.  Won't get much cheaper than that.

I grabbed that, plus the rest of the indie packs I wanted.  I figure outside of any OMG daily deals I'll be grabbing a few more games off of my wishlist towards the end and that's it.

Yeah, I would have got Paradise, but I already have it on the 360.

[earicci]

Might as well direct deposit the video card rebate I received today (GTS 450) into my Steam account - since that is where it is headed anyway -    .

[greeneggsnham]

The Witcher super mega ultra deluxe edition for $5.

I never played this, but I hear I should.  I'll take it!

Holy crap I missed that. I still haven't played it either - IN!

For anyone that doesn't already own The Witcher, do yourself a favor and BUY THIS NOW. Seriously, it's one of the best gaming investments you will ever make for 5 bucks.

[CeeKay]

The Witcher super mega ultra deluxe edition for $5.

I never played this, but I hear I should.  I'll take it!

Holy crap I missed that. I still haven't played it either - IN!

For anyone that doesn't already own The Witcher, do yourself a favor and BUY THIS NOW. Seriously, it's one of the best gaming investments you will ever make for 5 bucks.

[mirage775]

The Witcher super mega ultra deluxe edition for $5.

I never played this, but I hear I should.  I'll take it!

Holy crap I missed that. I still haven't played it either - IN!

For anyone that doesn't already own The Witcher, do yourself a favor and BUY THIS NOW. Seriously, it's one of the best gaming investments you will ever make for 5 bucks.

I bought the Enhanced Edition last Christman for $5 bucks and never played it, LOL

[Gratch]

The Witcher super mega ultra deluxe edition for $5.

I never played this, but I hear I should.  I'll take it!

Holy crap I missed that. I still haven't played it either - IN!

For anyone that doesn't already own The Witcher, do yourself a favor and BUY THIS NOW. Seriously, it's one of the best gaming investments you will ever make for 5 bucks.

I'll likely be the lone dissenting voice, but I thought The Witcher was merely 'meh'.  I give them full marks for the remarkable job they did tweaking the NWN engine, but thought the game itself - the lame fetch quests, the endless backtracking, the juvenile "hurrrr, bewbs, hurrrr' humor - was pretty lackluster.

[shon]

The Witcher super mega ultra deluxe edition for $5.

I never played this, but I hear I should.  I'll take it!

Holy crap I missed that. I still haven't played it either - IN!

For anyone that doesn't already own The Witcher, do yourself a favor and BUY THIS NOW. Seriously, it's one of the best gaming investments you will ever make for 5 bucks.

I'll likely be the lone dissenting voice, but I thought The Witcher was merely 'meh'.  I give them full marks for the remarkable job they did tweaking the NWN engine, but thought the game itself - the lame fetch quests, the endless backtracking, the juvenile "hurrrr, bewbs, hurrrr' humor - was pretty lackluster.

I really enjoyed the game, I thought some of the decisions you made were well done and did have consequences.  I was able to map my 360 controller and play it that way and it was great. 

[Ænima]

Is The Witcher more like NWN or Diablo?

[Caine]

Is The Witcher more like NWN or Diablo?

definitely more like nwn but with a more active combat system which relies on timing your button presses to keep combos going.  it's not a click-fest ala diablo and from a gameplay standard, it is nothing at all like diablo. 

[kronovan]

Something I discovered deep in the depths of the Steam Store, 1 of my fave arcade racers and it's sequel for truly bargain prices - Flatout $1.49 and Flatout 2 $3.99. My son and I loved playing Flatout on the Xbox, so I bought 2 copies of Flatout 2 so we can make each other eat dirt. 

[Isgrimnur]

I'm already in for:

Cricket Revolution
Evil Genius
Medieval II: Total War
The Witcher
Burnout Paradise: Ultimate Box
Men of War Gold
Indie flight pack to get the two games in it that weren't in the Thanksgiving Indie flight pack.  Still cheaper than buying them separately.

[Tokek]

My haul so far:
Bethesda Pack
The Witcher

Total damage to wallet: $75

I'm hoping they won't have anymore sales that I would be tempted to buy.

*Sigh* Just bought Puzzle Quest and Greed, total: $4

So now total damage is up to $79.

[mirage775]

So far I've bought 5 games and spent under $30, thank God!  I hope they don't have anything else that I'm tempted by.  I blame CeeKay for what I bought!

[Greggy_D]

I got the witcher on steam just to not have to mess with the whole patch process.

I did the same.

[Greggy_D]

Picked up Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light for only $3.60.  Steam gave me a further discount from the $5.10 sale price because I already owned another Tomb Raider game.

[Morgul]

I'll likely be the lone dissenting voice, but I thought The Witcher was merely 'meh'. 

If this were Old England and I were King George you be beheaded for that statement.

[CeeKay]

I'll likely be the lone dissenting voice, but I thought The Witcher was merely 'meh'. 

If this were Old England and I were King George you be beheaded for that statement.

hell, do it anyways.  we'll all vouch that it was justifiable 

[Turtle]

Same Meh on the Witcher's combat mechanics, but overall liked the story and setting. Actually got me to read the books.

[CeeKay]

I just totalled up the amount I've spent so far, and I'm sitting at $118.60.  figuring the few things left that I want I should hit my earlier estimate of $200.

[Captain Caveman]

I just totalled up the amount I've spent so far, and I'm sitting at $118.60.  figuring the few things left that I want I should hit my earlier estimate of $200.

After the sale season is over, I'd really get a kick out of having you list your ENTIRE backlog. I'm starting to flex my index finger muscles now in preparation of some heavy use of my scroll wheel. 

[CeeKay]

I just totalled up the amount I've spent so far, and I'm sitting at $118.60.  figuring the few things left that I want I should hit my earlier estimate of $200.

After the sale season is over, I'd really get a kick out of having you list your ENTIRE backlog. I'm starting to flex my index finger muscles now in preparation of some heavy use of my scroll wheel. 

hell, I'd probably be better off using the iPhone to record a video of me scrolling through it just to avoid index finger scrolling related injury lawsuits 

[mirage775]

I just totalled up the amount I've spent so far, and I'm sitting at $118.60.  figuring the few things left that I want I should hit my earlier estimate of $200.

After the sale season is over, I'd really get a kick out of having you list your ENTIRE backlog. I'm starting to flex my index finger muscles now in preparation of some heavy use of my scroll wheel. 

Good idea!  I'm sure my backlog isn't as bad as CeeKays...?  I'll post mine when this sell's over too!

[earicci]

I just totalled up the amount I've spent so far, and I'm sitting at $118.60.  figuring the few things left that I want I should hit my earlier estimate of $200.

After the sale season is over, I'd really get a kick out of having you list your ENTIRE backlog. I'm starting to flex my index finger muscles now in preparation of some heavy use of my scroll wheel. 

hell, I'd probably be better off using the iPhone to record a video of me scrolling through it just to avoid index finger scrolling related injury lawsuits 

Yes, I vote for a YouTube of Ceekay going over the complete backlog, with sales information (expenditures), games completed, games played, games in the backlog, time for posting GT, and a list of daily bathroom breaks. Seriously, I want to see how his operation works. Must have a staff of 6-8 to handle it all.   

[kronovan]

Same Meh on the Witcher's combat mechanics, but overall liked the story and setting. Actually got me to read the books.

There's books!? Good Lord, I am really out of touch with this RPG! Glad I picked it up in the sale.

[Morgul]

Same Meh on the Witcher's combat mechanics, but overall liked the story and setting. Actually got me to read the books.

There's books!? Good Lord, I am really out of touch with this RPG! Glad I picked it up in the sale.

Yea, they are pretty good too..  "dark" sort of fantasy.

sort of remind me of the old "thieves world"  Tales of the vulgar unicorn or something from back in the day.  The one I read was short stories, but there are a few different ones from itunes.

[CeeKay]

Same Meh on the Witcher's combat mechanics, but overall liked the story and setting. Actually got me to read the books.

There's books!? Good Lord, I am really out of touch with this RPG! Glad I picked it up in the sale.

they're written by Andrzej Sapkowski most of them are in Polish right now.  for English versions there's The Last Wish which is a compilation of short stories told as a series of flashbacks, and then Blood of Elves.  I haven't read BoE yet but I've heard complaints they skipped bringing over another collection that helps set up some of the characters in it.

[Bullwinkle]

I just totalled up the amount I've spent so far, and I'm sitting at $118.60.  figuring the few things left that I want I should hit my earlier estimate of $200.

After the sale season is over, I'd really get a kick out of having you list your ENTIRE backlog. I'm starting to flex my index finger muscles now in preparation of some heavy use of my scroll wheel. 

hell, I'd probably be better off using the iPhone to record a video of me scrolling through it just to avoid index finger scrolling related injury lawsuits 

Yes, I vote for a YouTube of Ceekay going over the complete backlog, with sales information (expenditures), games completed, games played, games in the backlog, time for posting GT, and a list of daily bathroom breaks. Seriously, I want to see how his operation works. Must have a staff of 6-8 to handle it all.   

Maybe he can make 20 of them and post them one after the other in Random YouTube Links.

[CeeKay]

I just totalled up the amount I've spent so far, and I'm sitting at $118.60.  figuring the few things left that I want I should hit my earlier estimate of $200.

After the sale season is over, I'd really get a kick out of having you list your ENTIRE backlog. I'm starting to flex my index finger muscles now in preparation of some heavy use of my scroll wheel. 

hell, I'd probably be better off using the iPhone to record a video of me scrolling through it just to avoid index finger scrolling related injury lawsuits 

Yes, I vote for a YouTube of Ceekay going over the complete backlog, with sales information (expenditures), games completed, games played, games in the backlog, time for posting GT, and a list of daily bathroom breaks. Seriously, I want to see how his operation works. Must have a staff of 6-8 to handle it all.   

I started outsourcing my operations.

~CeeKay India~

[earicci]

Do I need to own Burnout Paradise Ultimate after just having purchased NFS HP?  Also, I am a big Crossworlds fan - will Disciples II do anything for me (I already took a pass on III)?