2011 Steam Halloween Sale:DEAD

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Watch out for these sales, at some point you just need to buying games that you may not play. If you are the type that values their time playing though a 20 hr game that isn't AAA may be a waste.

 

[Via]

Watch out for these sales, at some point you just need to buying games that you may not play. If you are the type that values their time playing though a 20 hr game that isn't AAA may be a waste.

Steam sale: common sense not found for most of us.

Many of these end up being a demo for me anyway. What do I have to lose trying Ghostbusters for less than $3?

If I like it I keep playing.

 

[Barfo]

Updated my post. No, avoid buying Redemption and Resurrection. ONLY get Black Edition, which comes with the original game, and the Battle Out of Hell expansion. They licensed out those sequels to some different developers and they turned out to be shit compared to the original.

Ok, thanks for the info

 

[Dankk]

Steam sale: common sense not found for most of us.

Many of these end up being a demo for me anyway. What do I have to lose trying Ghostbusters for less than $3?

If I like it I keep playing.

Agreed. For me, as soon as most games dip below the $5 mark, I go "ah hell with it" and buy it. Even if I play it for only an hour, it's not a big loss. I could've gone to my local movie theater for a matinee of a shitty movie at that price.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

So...trains vs zombies, how's that work?

 

[Texashiker]

YES,,,, I have been waiting for STALKER Call of Pripyat to go on sale!!!!!!!

 

[Dankk]

Also, one of the underdog indie titles that probably no one will mention, but deserves mentioning: Scratches. I haven't played it yet, but some people on Reddit have strongly recommended it. It's a very well-designed and very creepy point-and-click adventure game. The horror is fairly subtle; it's not "OOGA BOOGA" scary like most other modern horror games; but more of a "woah, did that really just happen?" kind of scary.

It'll probably be the one game that I buy from this sale (seeing as I already own most of everything there ).

 

[RandomSanity]

Was there such a large Halloween Sale last year? I don't recall one. Perhaps we will have a good Thanksgiving sale next month as well.

 

[pontifex]

is this just today's deals or the whole sale? everything is either stuff that everyone already has because it's been on sale 50 times already or its garbage.

 

[Elixer]

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines at $5 is a must-buy for any RPG player.

The game is good, however, it is inexcusable in its current release state.
What does that mean ?
It means that the game is unplayable, and the only way you can really play it is with a community patch, and they get nothing for fixing the game the way it should have been.
Throwing $5 at the publisher just sets a bad example of release what we have, and someone will come along and fix it mentality.

 

[Barfo]

I also hear good things about Ghost Master.

 

[Dankk]

is this just today's deals or the whole sale? everything is either stuff that everyone already has because it's been on sale 50 times already or its garbage.

No daily deals this time around. The sales you see there will remain the same until the 31st.

Also, that's a pretty rash generalization. There's a lot of gems there, many of which are newer games that haven't, in fact, been on sale for this cheap before.

 

[ImpulsE69]

It's official. I hate Steam. Such a backlog of games I'll either never play or only play a couple hours of

 

[pontifex]

No daily deals this time around. The sales you see there will remain the same until the 31st.

Also, that's a pretty rash generalization. There's a lot of gems there, many of which are newer games that haven't, in fact, been on sale for this cheap before.

not single game on that list that I don't already have or have any interest in.

 

[KaOTiK]

Was there such a large Halloween Sale last year? I don't recall one. Perhaps we will have a good Thanksgiving sale next month as well.

Yes, there was a Halloween sale last year and the year before that too
Thanksgiving gets a Black Friday sale that from my memory last year was very good and I have no doubt this year will be too. But the Holiday sale is the spot light sale each year, that is for when Santa bends you over one of Frosty's balls and lets the reindeer have their way with you while the elfs are capturing the moment on etch-a -sketches

 

[Iron Wolf]

Yes, there was a Halloween sale last year and the year before that too
Thanksgiving gets a Black Friday sale that from my memory last year was very good and I have no doubt this year will be too. But the Holiday sale is the spot light sale each year, that is for when Santa bends you over one of Frosty's balls and lets the reindeer have their way with you while the elfs are capturing the moment on etch-a -sketches

lol

I don't know though...it seems like I already have just about every game I want through previous sales, including older games which I have rebought through Steam just because I couldn't bear to not have them installed on my computer. I also been keeping up with the new releases this year. I think the real benefit for me at this point is when a game goes on sale that I somehow missed and never heard of and Steam brings it to my attention.

 

[DaveSimmons]

> Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines at $5 is a must-buy for any RPG player.

The game is good, however, it is inexcusable in its current release state.
What does that mean ?
It means that the game is unplayable, and the only way you can really play it is with a community patch, and they get nothing for fixing the game the way it should have been.
Throwing $5 at the publisher just sets a bad example of release what we have, and someone will come along and fix it mentality.

I look at it this way: Activision paid Troika to make the game, and the buggy mess it was delivered in by Troika kept it from being a hit. Activision paid for the one patch, but Troika still didn't fix everything. Then Troika went bankrupt without fixing the rest.

The money you're paying goes to Activision, to reward them for funding the game to begin with, a game they probably lost money on. It also shows support for the title that someday might inspire Activision or someone else to work on a sequel.

 

[pontifex]

Well fuck...

so true, so true

or at least on previous sales anyway. The last 2 or 3 sales have been pretty meh though as they always have the same stuff for sale. rarely ever anything new.

 

[you2]

space pirates and zombies look interesting.

 

[Texashiker]

Left 4 Dead - already have
Left 4 dead 2 - already have
Borderlands + dlc - already have
Painkiller black edition - already have
Bioshock 1 - already have
Fear 1 + addons - already have

Dead island - undecided, thinking of buying

Penumbra Collector Pack - thinking of buying/undecided
Amnesia: The Dark Descent - thinking of buying, lots of good reviews here in another thread

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl - already have
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat - going to buy / this is the one I have been waiting for

 

[Dankk]

space pirates and zombies look interesting.

Another game that's supposedly very good. I'll pick it up another time when it's cheaper. I think there was about it here on AT and the people who played it, really liked it.

 

[Jeffg010]

After seeing that other thread posted here I'm getting Amnesia.

 

[Cutterhead]

lol and I just bought Amnesia for $5 on Gamersgate last night. I even checked Steam first to make sure it wasn't equally discounted.

I don't care about the extra dollar I spent, but it would have been nice to have it on Steam.

 

[Dankk]

lol and I just bought Amnesia for $5 on Gamersgate last night. I even checked Steam first to make sure it wasn't equally discounted.

I don't care about the extra dollar I spent, but it would have been nice to have it on Steam.

Support the developer and spend an extra $4 to have it on Steam.

(Seriously though, it's not a bad idea. Fricional Games is one of my favorite indie developers, if not my favorite, and they deserve every bit of support they can get.)

When playing Amnesia, you'll also find that it far exceeds the quality of any average $4 game. I happily payed $20 for it on release, but also would've payed $30.

 

[Jules]

Ok, thanks for the info

Meh, For $2.50 more i just picked up the collection. So far im having fun playing Overdose.