Steam Summer sale - 19-30th June

No advantage no, just more variety in jobs and weapons. I'd recommend following the Golden Steam sale rule of waiting until its a daily or flash. www.isthereanydeal.com also helps with finding out if its cheaper elsewhere.

I enjoyed it, best played with like minded friends though and voice comms can help a lot on the harder difficulty levels, especially if you attempt to stealth them.

DazQ87 said:
Grabbed myself far cry 3, £3.75 seemed fair enough, I'm really hoping for a sale on South Park Stick of truth.

Also tempted by thief and metro last light, but I'm hoping they'll be on some kind of flash sale as well.
Click to expand...

Popular titles usually come up in the Daily or Flash sales, hold off until then.

As for Stick of Truth, it is currently cheaper at the UK rainforest site than it will be in the Steam community choice if it wins the vote. Steamworks title so works the same as if purchased direct. I suspect it will be cheaper again as well when other sites get in on the act.
 
Last edited:
elrasho said:
Shall I get all the DLC? Comes to £19.45. Will it give me an advantage in MP?
Click to expand...

pretty much all of payday is MP, you'd be daft to play it single player.

£20 is way over what I would pay for it with DLC, I would plump for about £12 meself.

Great game but the DLC isn't essential, I'd wait.
 
Yeah I'd agree with that. I forget what I paid but it wasn't that much. The DLC I'd say would be worth it would be the ones that include new heists. That being said there is quite a bit of variation on the games included heists, but I did find myself getting it a bit tired of some of them 20 or so hours in. Most of the DLC weapons are just variations on what is included in the game with the possible exception of the sniper rifles.

For clarification on the MP point, Payday 2 is a Co-Op game in the similar style as Left 4 Dead. You can play solo with AI team mates (or without if you prefer) but the game comes into its own when played with a full team of friends.
 
Jasseh said:
So far my wallet is safe... Already own everything I'd consider buying from the current deals (and paid less than they are charging in the sale).
Click to expand...

I am in a similar position. There is not really anything I am that interested in. Last Light was a game I wanted for ages, but I picked that up last month.

Watchdogs is a game I would be interested in trying but I cant see that coming down to anything less than £30.

Being a long standing ID fan, and a lover of FPS - Wolfenstein is another game I could be interested in but from what I can tell it is simply just run and gun like RTCW was. I kind of feel like FPS titles should have moved on in this day and age so I won't be buying that until it is in the bargain bucket.

I have to say, though, that in general there has not been anything I have been overly excited about for years. I dont know if that is because I have been gaming for 20 years and feel like I have seen it all, or if it is because of a distinct lack of originality from a lot of AAA titles.

It does seem that the indy scene is where it is at right now, with AAA developers just releasing the same tired formulas in a new box with maybe a couple of extra features.

Having said that, Titanfall has been a refreshing change but there are still just too many game breaking imbalances in that game for me to enjoy it. It just winds me up when I play it, and the matchmaking is still a joke.

Ho hum - maybe one day we will see something that made us feel the same way we felt when we first saw Tomb Raider, or when Half-Life first came out or when we first went online in Unreal Tournament (What I would give for a modern take on a proper arena shooter like UT or Q3). But perhaps part of the problem is that technology is advancing faster than creative ideas can keep up, so nothing feels original on these £1000+ PC's that many of us play on?
 
^^ Agree with pretty much 100% of what you said...

In some sense it's because in the earlier days developers + publishers either didn't really know what sold well, or knew that if a game was a bit of a flop it was mostly their reputation that would suffer and that could easily be rebuilt if the next game was better... Likewise players didn't really have much of a feeling for what was possible and what worked or didn't work

These days the budgets for the big titles are so huge and the fanbase so much less understanding so one or two major screw ups could completely kill off a whole developer (and it has happened to some)... What's the solution? Stick to reliable formulas that are proven to make money and don't alienate the fans by making many changes... Combine that with the rise in popularity in games among a wider audience (most of whom will happily buy the same old crap time and time again) and you've got your formula for the result we have today

Back on topic!! I've not bought anything yet either... Sort of wanted XCOM:Enemy Within but they haven't discounted it as much as I was hoping, and I already have all 3 of the other parts to XCOM:EU
 
Ok thanks guys ill definitely give them ago, was also looking at euro truck simulator collectors edition at £7.49. So hard choosing games as I kike a lot of different types
 
Not gonna bother with Aliens: Colonial Marines :p

Iovxw5n.png

Being a long standing ID fan, and a lover of FPS - Wolfenstein is another game I could be interested in but from what I can tell it is simply just run and gun like RTCW was. I kind of feel like FPS titles should have moved on in this day and age so I won't be buying that until it is in the bargain bucket.
Click to expand...

It's a good thing that what you can tell about the game is quite wrong then. It's a brilliant single player game filled with action and very good dialogue and cinematics.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom