Steam bargains

[speedlolita]

Me too, lol.

[Havantgottaclue]

Recettear looks like a top little game. Worth reading all the dialogue just for the quirky humour. Plays really well and I could see it eating up a LOT of hours!

[QuantumCrayons]

Steam Black Friday Sale: 26th November 2010

Burnout Paradise- Ultimate: £7.49
Dawn of War II Gold Edition: £13.60
Machinarium: £3.75
Tropico 3 Gold Edition: £7.50
Torchlight: £3.75
Empire Total War: £9.99
ARMA II- Operation Arrowhead: £9.99
Blur: £9.99

Independent Pack III
Indie Clever Pack: £3.99
- Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time
- Eufloria
- Iron Grip: Warlord
- VVVVVV
- World of Goo

[Havantgottaclue]

Torchlight for £3.75 is fantastic value. I've heard it will install even on netbooks and so will run on many PCs even if they don't have a dedicated graphics card, so do yourself a favour and snap it up even if your PC's not cutting edge.

Not sure about today's indie pack, not for myself anyway - I already have World of Goo. I suppose at four quid you can hardly go wrong even if you own one of the five, but with so many games already I don't know whether I'll ever find the time to play what I already have!

My dad's birthday is tomorrow and I told him last weekend that if he signed up for Steam I'd be able to get him a few decent games. He must have a dozen or so games already and I haven't spent all that much. So this series of offers couldn't have been timed any better for me. I wanted to buy him World of Goo anyway and so I've gifted him today's Indie pack.

[speedlolita]

Just nabbed torchlight too, too cheap to pass up.

[DPrinny]

Torchlight for £3.75 is fantastic value. I've heard it will install even on netbooks and so will run on many PCs even if they don't have a dedicated graphics card, so do yourself a favour and snap it up even if your PC's not cutting edge.

Not sure about today's indie pack, not for myself anyway - I already have World of Goo. I suppose at four quid you can hardly go wrong even if you own one of the five, but with so many games already I don't know whether I'll ever find the time to play what I already have!

My dad's birthday is tomorrow and I told him last weekend that if he signed up for Steam I'd be able to get him a few decent games. He must have a dozen or so games already and I haven't spent all that much. So this series of offers couldn't have been timed any better for me. I wanted to buy him World of Goo anyway and so I've gifted him today's Indie pack.

You can always gift it to some one

[QuantumCrayons]

I've only got the three Indie packs so far, since I know they'll have longevity; can't see myself buying Torchlight.
Someone convince me?
@DPrinny: Not in this pack, sadly.

[Joey]

Machinarium: £3.75

An amazing point and click adventure that looks stunning, well worth the price!

[Havantgottaclue]

I bought Torchlight earlier this year having enjoyed Titan Quest which is another of these isometric looting RPGs. It is sitting in a dungeon-crawler queue behind Sacred 2 which I'm about a dozen hours through but the first half an hour or so was very impressive. Certainly it won't lack longevity ... dozens of hours of gameplay there if it's the kind of thing you like.

I know a couple of lads who've played Torchlight to death - beaten it on everything except hardcore I think - if your character dies in that mode it's lost for good! They both speak very highly of it.

Machinarium's nice but the puzzles are very obscure - or quite possibly I'm just crap at lateral thinking. I got the special edition a while ago just because it came with a CD of the music ... well worth it I'd say. Some really nice tracks, mostly very mellow stuff.

[QuantumCrayons]

Steam Black Friday Sale: 27th November 2010

Call of Duty 4- Modern Warfare: £9.99
Galcon Fusion: £1.75
Grand Theft Auto- Episodes From Liberty City: £6.80
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light: £4.99
Left 4 Dead 2: £3.75
King's Bounty- Platinum Edition: £7.50
Supreme Commander 2: £2.50
Wings of Prey: £9.99

Independent Pack IV
Indie Pulse Pack: £3.99
- Audiosurf
- Beat Hazard
- Beat.Trip beat
- Rhythm Zone
- The Polynomial: The Space of the Music

QC's Highlights
Left 4 Dead 2 for £3.75 is way too good to pass up. If you don't get it, you're silly.
Galcon Fusion is also a good time killer, and £3.99 for the Indie Pack, even just if you want Audiosurf if you didn't buy it earlier, is VERY good. Also, Bit.Trip Beat is better IMO

[Havantgottaclue]

Okay, so it's not the most dramatic knock-down in price but Lara Croft: Guardian of Light for a fiver is still peanuts - and I haven't really got anything else like it. Bought!

The indie pack looks interesting. I'm not sure it has much, if anything, in the way of long term appeal but for four quid I might give it a whirl. King's Bounty is interesting but I haven't finished Armoured Princess yet, and in all honesty I think three very similar games would get a bit monotonous after a while.

[Joey]

I think a load of people must be d/l L4D2 at the min as im having trouble getting the transaction to go through

[DPrinny]

QC's Highlights
Left 4 Dead 2 for £3.75 is way too good to pass up. If you don't get it, you're silly.

Or have a PC that wont play it.
PC gaming is horrible if your on a tighter budget than a fusion of Scrooge Mc Duck and Mr Burns when trying to save up for that ivory butt scratcher

[Havantgottaclue]

Specs aren't that high for L4D2 mind you. My NVidia 8800GTS can run it quite comfortably and you could probably pick one of those up for £25-30.

Obviously you're not going to get high resolutions, but as long as the game's engine is decent it comfortably outperforms the 360. Lara Croft: Guardian of Light runs well at 1280x1024 at a deliciously smooth 60FPS.

I think her clothes have been through the hot wash though. They just keep getting smaller and smaller.

[Havantgottaclue]

Okay, today's offers:

Street Fighter IV - £6.80
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - £10.04
Bit.Trip Beat - £3.49
Mount & Blade Complete - £7.50
The Ball - £7.49
World of Goo - £1.75
Patrician IV - £7.50
The Orange Box - £4.25
Indie Puzzle Pack, consisting of:
- Cogs
- Droplitz
- Puzzle Dimension
- Shatter
- Tidalis
all for £3.99

Have gone for 'The Ball' myself as it's more or less brand spanking new. Got 7/10 from GamesTM and looks an interesting first-person puzzle game.

EDIT: Just looked at the video for Shatter, it's a Breakout clone and quite frankly it gives me wood.