Steam - Black Friday Sale

[overclick]

I caved in and bought Machinarium, i have fancied it for ages and I am pretty sure 4 quid or so will be worth it.

Trying not to buy stuff on steam offers because I have loads of games I have never finished before the next! Half way through puzzle quest 2, torchlight, new vegas, me2, civ5, psychonauts and bioshock... and all i play is black ops since it came out, Need to sort myself out. At least I will be sorted if they ever make me redundant again!

 

[overclick]

heh, Machinarium downloaded quciker than I wrote the last post, time to give it a shot.

 

[barmyllama]

Bought Blur today.

 

[SeraphX]

Nobody won their wish list yet?

not yet, am hopeful they pick me over the countless millions of other users who loaded their wishlists up

 

[LeJosh]

Probably should've got recetear in that indie pack.

 

[Mattyjw]

I picked up a few yesterday, indie, Arkham and audiosurf. Might go with todays indie too Doc Clock looks amusing and the eufloria demo was alright not fifteen quid's worth though. The wednesday indie just didn't appeal though.

 

[jmc777]

Just the Indie pack for me today. I was planning on getting VVVVVV anyway.

 

[Armitage Shanks]

not yet, am hopeful they pick me over the countless millions of other users who loaded their wishlists up

Actually had Batman and Reccetear on my wishlist which I bought in the sale so had to quickly add couple more games to make sure I dont miss out either

 

[orderoftheflame]

Just the Indie pack for me today. I was planning on getting VVVVVV anyway.

Well worth it. It's a great little game.

 

[Mp4]

Tropico 3 worth it?

 

[physichull]

In ETW, do the factions now attack each other over seas?

 

[HeadlessChicken]

Tropico 3 worth it?

I really enjoyed Tropico 3. The pack comes with the addon as well. It's a bit annoying as I already have the base game, and the add-on alone is the same price as the pack they are doing

 

[dirtydog]

Bought Blur today.

Any good?

 

[Paul_cz]

I bought Blur too.
It is a good game, but weirdly demanding. If I put everything to minimum incl. 640*480 res and vsync off, I still only get 40 fps maximum! Pretty shocking.
And when I put everything to max, 1920*1200, 4*AA, I get 20-25 fps, which it super uncomfortable/unplayable.

I have C2D 3.0ghz, gtx280 1gb, 4gb ram

Really weird and makes me unhappy. I wonder if the bottleneck is the CPU or what. Still, it is really badly optimized. Shift runs like dream and looks miles and miles better.

 

[Kenai]

Obviously some of these have already happened but the info may be of use for the last few days of the sale:

Howdy, folks. Allow me to spoil some of the surprises coming up in the rest of this week's sales.

There will be more large packs (like today's HL2 10-pack/Borderlands 6-pack/RUSE 6-pack/Deus Ex 8-pack) every day until the 29th. I'm not sure the exact days that each will happen, or what the prices will be, but here's what the games will be, and the quantities of the packs, so y'all can start to do some basic planning on group-buys:

- Aliens vs Predator (2010) 6-pack
- Audiosurf 12-pack
- Braid 10-pack
- Counter-Strike: Source 6-pack
- Defense Grid: The Awakening 10-pack
- Empire: Total War 6-pack
- Freedom Force 10-pack
- Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City 6-pack
- Just Cause 2 8-pack
- Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West 10-pack
- Left 4 Dead 2 6-pack
- Mount & Blade: Warband 6-pack
- Nyxquest: Kindred Spirits 10-pack
- Osmos 12-pack
- Portal 6-pack
- Puzzle Quest 2 10-pack
- Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale 8 pack
- Red Faction: Guerrilla 8-pack
- Splinter Cell: Conviction 6-pack
- Trine 8-pack
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising 8-pack
- World of Goo 12-pack

Also, there will be more packs of indie games similar to today's Indie Energy Pack. 5 game per pack, on massive discount, one day only. Again, I don't know the daily order these will come in, or exactly what the discount will be, but, here's what the names and contents of the packs will be:

- Indie Air Pack: Altitude, DogFighter, Flotilla, Gratuitous Space Battles, Plain Sight
- Indie Clever Pack: Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time, Eufloria, Iron Grip: Warlord, VVVVVV, World of Goo
- Indie Pulse Pack: Audiosurf, Beat Hazard, Bit Trip Beat, The Polynomial, Rhythm Zone
- Indie Puzzle Pack: Cogs, Droplitz, Puzzle Dimension, Shatter, Tidalis
- Indie Story Pack: And Yet It Moves, Gish, Puzzle Agent, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, Jolly Rover

And of course, there will be more individual games on Daily Deals every day, but I don't have any info on what those will be. You'll just have to wait and see! Also, disclaimer: if any of this info is inaccurate, then oh well.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7874741&postcount=241

 

[PapaLazaru]

Lead & Gold pack for some OcUK posters would be great I have this game and enjoy it but no bugger plays it.

 

[spudbynight]

AVP and Liberty City multipacks will be good

Not played AVP but if I can get it in A multipack for a fiver I will go for it

 

[Armitage Shanks]

I really enjoyed Tropico 3. The pack comes with the addon as well. It's a bit annoying as I already have the base game, and the add-on alone is the same price as the pack they are doing

I was wondering if this was worth getting- does it provide a decent challenge? I've heard people describe it as too easy.

 

[dirtydog]

I bought Blur too.
It is a good game, but weirdly demanding. If I put everything to minimum incl. 640*480 res and vsync off, I still only get 40 fps maximum! Pretty shocking.
And when I put everything to max, 1920*1200, 4*AA, I get 20-25 fps, which it super uncomfortable/unplayable.

I have C2D 3.0ghz, gtx280 1gb, 4gb ram

Really weird and makes me unhappy. I wonder if the bottleneck is the CPU or what. Still, it is really badly optimized. Shift runs like dream and looks miles and miles better.

 

[Mattyjw]

damn audiosurfs gonna be in an indie pack I wish i'd known that before i bought it.