Steam Summer Camp Sale has started!!

Quixoticism said:
I enjoyed Guild Wars immensely. Now I only play every now and then to fill my Hall for Guild Wars 2.
There's lots of good stuff to enjoy if you're just starting into it.
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Is Eye of the North important?
 
New vegas + DLCs, Just Cause 2, BC2. Not a bad way to spend 30 bucks.
 
Was a nice sale. I'm proud of myself for avoiding so many tempting games. My purchases were Fallout 3 GOTY, Borderlands GOTY and Deus Ex Complete pack.
 
I bought a bunch of little games... debating picking up Just Cause 2 just to be cool. However I have far too many games to play. My biggest disappointing purchase is probably Post Apocalyptic Mayhem because I was imagining this cool hardcore mariokart style mayhem and it's like a mediocre arcade game. The best one I picked up is probably Defense Grid. I like those tower defense games.

I also almost bought Assassin's Creed Brotherhood but I'll wait for it to get to like $10 because I haven't beaten the first one that I bought after playing AC2. I guess I still have to pick up The Longest Journey pack... even though I really... have too many games...

Plus Deus Ex is right there waiting for me in a month. I really should devote myself to beating a bunch of games soon. Take a whole week off work and just kick some ass.
 
Only bought Singularity for five bucks. Its been pretty meh so far but I'll probably beat it since I feel like I'm already close to the end. Worth five bucks at least. I also got Men of War for the cost of installing that green man gaming service. Irrelevant to steam, but the better of the two games I got, so I figured I'd mention it.
 
Anybody want to gift me terraria? I don't quite have enough in my paypal and I missed the sale yesterday. If you do, I'll love you long time and the paypal account of your choice will be $4.84 richer.

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Edit: Thankee sliver.
 
Bought Batman: AA and GTA 4. GTA is GTA, nothing revolutionary, but Batman has exceeded my expectations by a mile. I can easily see why this game was so well received by critics and fans alike. Makes me really look forward to Arkham City.
 
ZT said:
Is Eye of the North important?
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Eye of the North allows you connect your GW1 account with your GW2 account and you can get some rewards to redeem in GW2. :)
 
I can't believe I bought C&C4. What the hell is wrong with me?
 
ríomhaire said:
I can't believe I bought C&C4. What the hell is wrong with me?
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I almost bought C&C 3 before saying to myself "I hardly played Red Alert 3, this will not recapture my nostalgia from the original C&C." I don't know what happened to those games. Being on the forefront of modern RTS games must have been too much pressure.
 
Looked at that entire list and said to myself, "yep, you don't need anymore ****ing games"
 
I was on the verge of grabbing the THQ pack, but after looking into the games I thought I wanted, I came to the conclusion that I was more attracted by the immense value than by actually wanting to play all of them.

Settled with AssBro for this sale, think I came away relatively unscathed. :)
 
I made more logical purchases this time around, I am proud. After 3 years of this shit I have realized most of the impulse $1.50 indie game buys are not worth it, and I will likely never play them :p

Alpha Protobutt was well worth the 5 bucks. Even if it is clunky as hell.
 
You can play GW without it but I really like Eye of the North. As far as quality of content I think that Prophecies + Eye of the North have the best stuff. It's not the easiest to get started in though compared to Nightfall or even Factions.

Portal 2 for $25. :( Don't tempt me Frodo!
 
I got JC2, X3: TC, and... BC2 (becuz irl friends).

JC2 has so far been a success with me. Still downloading the other two.
 
I bought pretty much all indie games. I was kind of disappointed in the bit trip games because they really require you to be much further from your monitor than I'm used to since you're regularly looking from right to left.

I picked up Project Freedom because it was cheap and space shooty. It's actually pretty fun. Not a lot going on, but the gameplay is basically exactly what you had in the old Star Fox 64 when they gave you those open regions. The voice acting and animations for FMVs are horrible, but I didn't expect a lot of polish. I think the most impressive part is the control scheme. I don't think I've ever encountered a space shooter that you can control entirely with the mouse accurately and effectively until Project Freedom.

I really feel like I should have picked up JC2...oh well... next time I might...
 
bought a few games I'll probably never play and call of duty blops which I've played a lot of lately (single player is like beign in a michael bay movie)
 
My final list of purchases.

  • Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
  • Universe Sandbox
  • Alpha Protocol
  • X3 Terran Conflict

Money spent is a little over 28 euro, about half of which on Bloodlines.
 
StarBob said:
I almost bought C&C 3 before saying to myself "I hardly played Red Alert 3, this will not recapture my nostalgia from the original C&C." I don't know what happened to those games. Being on the forefront of modern RTS games must have been too much pressure.
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C&C3 is actually pretty good. The gameplay is very good and factional differences are quite good (though Nod is a bit more similar to GDI than in the others they retain their stealth and GDI retains their Mammoths, which have actually become useful for the first time). The Scrin are hard to deal with when you first encounter them but they're not really overpowered I think.

The story left me a bit underwhelmed. It's more a sequel to Tiberian Dawn than Tiberian Sun. The post-apocalyptic feel is gone and Tiberium has been retconned into just a crystal and all Tiberian plantlife is gone. I also don't like the FMVs too much. Everything in the GDI cutscenes are blue and everything in the Nod cutscenes are red and there is a lot of shakey cam. It looks like Battlestar Galactica. The one gem of the story is the Scrin campaign. The FMVs are much more like the old-fashioned ones and contains one of the few interesting plot revelations.


Anyway, this is something I wrote about C&C4 on another forum:
I remember playing C&C4 before. It was dreadful. One of the first missions has you defending the Scrin tower (which isn't even in the map). This was mostly a tutorial and you repaired some turrets and called in airstrikes on targets. But then near the end of the level they're like
"Oh you should put an engineer in in this walker to capture it because you might be needing it nudge nudge wink wink."
And then you're told that you should build two bunkers to defend against nod attacks. Anyone with half a brain is expecting the map to expand and that you're going to have to hold off the attack. So you build the two bunkers and...
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
You win from building two bunkers! Capturing the avatar mech? Utterly pointless. Nod is scarred away by your two mighty bunkers and evidently they didn't even bother to model the tower you're supposedly defending or at least they didn't put it into that map.

Then Kane rings you up and calls you! He wants you to join his side, he's clearly very impressed by your amazing bunker-building skills. Then your commander calls you (apparently she was spying on your calls, how nice) and says not to join Kane because he's a murderer. And if you join Kane's bunker building alliance she just lets you walk away. She just lets you leave without having you arrested or courtmartialed or anything for disobeying a direct order.

The next mission (if you choose Nod) has you escorting three buses of civilians which your wife is on (yeah you have a badly acted wife). While escorting the buses you go about fifty feet and down a ramp, then a cutscene kicks in. The buses stop for no apparent reason, then some militia show up and start throwing firebombs at one of them. My tanks, which are right next to the buses just ignore the militia for no reason and then your wife pops up and unconvincingly shouts "YOU DID IT HONEY I LOVE YOU!". After being firebombed for about ten solid seconds the bus finally explodes and then a few seconds later your wife looks over the side with a shocked face (apparently having just noticed all the explosions). Then you're allowed to continue.

Also the GDI forces that are friendly to you at the start of the level start attacking you at some point for no reason.



So yeah long story short I bought it because it was on sale and I'm an idiot.
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I think I changed my mind, Alpha Protocol is pissing me off now. Just enough that I might uninstall it. I got to that 80's boss guy, and that ****ing fight is so broken and bullshit. I upgraded primarily in stealth, CQC and pistols, so I am absolutely ****ed in this boss battle. The fact that they do not make boss battles tailored to your playing style is stupid.
I love a challenge, but the mechanics in this are retarded and broken. Maybe I'll restart one day as a tech specialist instead of a stealthy dude.
 
Shakermaker said:
My final list of purchases.

  • Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
  • Universe Sandbox
  • Alpha Protocol
  • X3 Terran Conflict

Money spent is a little over 28 euro, about half of which on Bloodlines.
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All great choices, I'm proud of you Shakermaker!
 
ZT said:
I think I changed my mind, Alpha Protocol is pissing me off now. Just enough that I might uninstall it. I got to that 80's boss guy, and that ****ing fight is so broken and bullshit. I upgraded primarily in stealth, CQC and pistols, so I am absolutely ****ed in this boss battle. The fact that they do not make boss battles tailored to your playing style is stupid.
I love a challenge, but the mechanics in this are retarded and broken. Maybe I'll restart one day as a tech specialist instead of a stealthy dude.
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I did the same thing, and managed to beat him pretty easily. You just gotta keep moving, and lure him around into places where you can unload on him for a second or two when he gets tired. The cover is pretty shit, so you need to move all the time, and don't lose sight of him or you'll miss a lot of opportunities to wreck him.

Also, theres some sneaky shit you can do before the fight to help, if you're friendly with Heck.
 
ZT said:
I think I changed my mind, Alpha Protocol is pissing me off now. Just enough that I might uninstall it. I got to that 80's boss guy, and that ****ing fight is so broken and bullshit. I upgraded primarily in stealth, CQC and pistols, so I am absolutely ****ed in this boss battle. The fact that they do not make boss battles tailored to your playing style is stupid.
I love a challenge, but the mechanics in this are retarded and broken. Maybe I'll restart one day as a tech specialist instead of a stealthy dude.
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High pistols actually breaks the fight and makes it rather easy. You should be using chain shot on him, as much as you can. Just target his face with it several times, so he loses just about half of his health each time you do it.
 
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