Steam Christmas Sale

[MattJack]

We've all seen it. It's going on til Jan. 3rd.

So, what yall gonna get? I got Champions Online($10.19, less than the actual membership), and I bought myself Rainbow Six Vegas 2($6.49?) for myself and my brothers.

Any suggestions on fun multiplayer games that are on sale right now? Maybe a cool indie game that you already have and want to tell us about?

Steam is going all out this year!

[Guitar Woman]

So far I've gotten:
Warrior Within
The Two Thrones
Beyond Good and Evil
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

This totals to 20 dollars. :picklehat

I've got Psychonauts and Braid in my shopping cart for 12 bucks, but I'm hesitating. I know I will eventually, though.

Team Fortress Classic is under 4 dollars right now, but I have no idea whether or not people still play it. Plus, you know, I've got TF2, which is pretty much perfect.

Dead Space is 11 dollars, but I'm sure I couldn't run it.

[bigtimecow]

from the i-mock chat thread

crayon physics, gish, both indiana jones lucasarts games, both oddworlds, star wars jedi knight pack, and star wars KOTOR

and i'm thinking of buying more, but my laptop sucks. that's why i usually stick to the super old or low res games. i want fucking fallout 3 to work because i would buy it in a second but i doubt it :(

[Nick]

Telltale Everything Pack

Bone: Out From Boneville
Bone: The Great Cow Race
Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock
Sam & Max 102: Situation: Comedy
Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball
Sam & Max 104: Abe Lincoln Must Die!
Sam & Max 105: Reality 2.0
Sam & Max 106: Bright Side of the Moon
Sam & Max 201: Ice Station Santa
Sam & Max 202: Moai Better Blues
Sam & Max 203: Night of the Raving Dead
Sam & Max 204: Chariots of the Dogs
Sam & Max 205: What’s New Beelzebub?
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Season 1
Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack
Telltale Texas Hold ‘Em
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Episode 2: The Last Resort
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Episode 4: The Bogey Man

Eidos Collector Pack

Batman: Arkham Asylum
Battlestations Pacific
Battlestations: Midway
Conflict: Denied Ops
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Flora's Fruit Farm
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Hitman: Blood Money
Hitman: Codename 47
Infernal
Just Cause
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™
Mini Ninjas
Project: Snowblind
Rogue Trooper
Shellshock 2: Blood Trails
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Tomb Raider: Legend
Tomb Raider: Underworld

Unreal Deal

Unreal 2: The Awakening
Unreal Gold
Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition
Unreal Tournament 3 Black
Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition

Painkiller: Collectors Pack (NA)

Painkiller Overdose
Painkiller: Black Edition
Painkiller: Resurrection


Super ID Software Pack

Commander Keen
DOOM 3
DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil
DOOM II
Final DOOM
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
HeXen
HeXen II
HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
Master Levels for Doom II
QUAKE
QUAKE II
QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero
QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
Quake III Arena
QUAKE III: Team Arena
QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Spear of Destiny
The Ultimate Doom
Wolfenstien 3D



Atari 80 Classics in 1
Indigo Prophecy
Sniper Elite

All that stuff cost me almost $200, but damn it's 82 games most of which I've never played before. :)

[Ant10708]

Maybe a cool indie game that you already have and want to tell us about?
machinarium

great puzzle game with a great art style all its own!

[MarioRPG]

Holy shit Nick, are you serious.

[Guitar Woman]

Bioshock is goddamn 5 dollars today.

I wish I had a better computer. :(

[Nick]

Holy shit Nick, are you serious.
I am serious. This is the best Christmas gift I've ever given myself. :)

http://steamcommunity.com/id/spittys/games

[MattJack]

Nick isn't fuckin* around. Nice way to commit man.

[Nick]

If I didn't have a job or responsibilities I would sit around playing video games all day. :(

[Guitar Woman]

Jade Empire for 4 dollars.

I have no idea what it is, but I was thinking "KOTOR in magical China" when I saw a little footage of it.

I also bought some games for other people just for the hell of it, but I'm probably already set back about 40 bucks by all the stuff I've gotten. The absolute last thing I'm going to buy is Psychonauts.

...No it won't be. Goddamnit, good deals, stop stealing my money.

[MarioRPG]

There's some really fine games on there... I'll prolly pick some up some time... After the sale. I'm too strapped to cash in :/

[darkvare]

can smeone explain me how exactly does steam works?

[Guitar Woman]

You buy games, they're registered to your account forever, and you can download them on any computer as long as you're using your account.

My internet is slow as fuck, though, so it's going to take a week of solid downloading to actually get every game I bought. That and Steam is a little fucking buggy piece of shit that crashes at least twice daily and won't listen to me when I tell it to pause a download.

Like, I'll tell it to stop, right, so I can play some TF2. Then, when I connect to a server, my ping jumps to 400. I alt tab to catch Steam trying to quickly pause the download again. I resume the download, pause it and make sure it stays that way, go back to the game, and after the server I'm on switches maps the little bastard will start downloading again.

It's like when you tell a child to stay out of the fucking cookie jar, leave them alone for 5 minutes, then coming back to catch them stealing cookies. You beat them, tell them to stay the fuck out of the cookie jar, and then come back in another five minutes to find the little shits stealing more fucking cookies.

The weird thing is that it absolutely refuses to download when I'm playing an offline game that's still a Steam app. Fucking hate Steam; if these were all just deals I could use for normal retail copies of games, I'd go to a store and buy them.

[Pentegarn]

This thread prompted me to download steam on my new comp finally (only been 5 months now, bout time I say)

[darkvare]

wait so if i buy something from steam i have to be online to play it even if the game is not online?

[executioneer]

i think it depends on the game, most games don't require you to be online but they usually require steam to be running

[Guitar Woman]

wait so if i buy something from steam i have to be online to play it even if the game is not online?

Yeah, pretty much.

There's an offline mode option, but it's more or less a joke

[MattJack]

Yeah, pretty much.

There's an offline mode option, but it's more or less a joke

I kinda wish they had a Steam-Lite or something :(

I'm sure it will come around before we know it.

[Guitar Woman]

Through all my complaining, I got Max Payne 2 and Left 4 Dead at a total price of 10 dollars today. That makes about 10 games I've bought during this thing for 50 dollars. :(

I'm not even sure if I've got room on my hard drive for all this stuff, but I'd feel silly if I missed buying anything at prices like this.

[OxBlood]

Jade Empire for 4 dollars.

I have no idea what it is, but I was thinking "KOTOR in magical China" when I saw a little footage of it.


JE is a really nice game, one of my favorite Biowares games actually. Give it a spin.

Also DO get Psychonauts, that game is so damn good...man.

[bigtimecow]

mass effect dropped to 5 bucks today, BOUGHT

[Guitar Woman]

Sam and Max season 1 and 2 for 15 dollars is the best deal I've ever seen :(

BUT MY DEBIT CARD GOT DECLINED >: >: >:

[MattJack]

Champions Online isn't really that bad. I mean I'm playing with three of my friends, so that is probably why, but even so it was def worth 10.19 + membership (14.99 for 60 days total).

I'm not much of an MMO man, so my opinion on this being a good game or not probably doesn't carry much weight.

Has anyone else had any experience with Champions Online?

[MLE]

I've been considering getting and playing it. If I do, could I play with you boozers?

[MattJack]

Yeah, you can play with us if you'd like. It is so cheap right now, why not give it a try?

Just PM me if you want and I can give you vent info and any other info you may need to know(This also goes for any other I-Mockery forum warrior).

[executioneer]

i got:
arx fatalis (is this any good idk)
the lucasarts adventure pack (the dig, indiana jones and fate of atlantis/last crusade, loom
painkiller:black
psychonauts
sam&max complete
titan quest (might be good idk)

man its too bad i already bought sam and max s1, oh well

[OxBlood]

Arx is quite okay, a bit like Ultima Underworld. It´s just really REALLY ugly to look at. Titan Quest was considered one of the best Diablo-Clones when it came out and it´s still an okay game, though I like Torchlight better.

Right now I´m SO bored, even though I have so many unfinished games lying around...I hate that. My mind is set on FF13 and Mass Effect 2 and doesn´t want to play anything else...well, maybe Darksiders but I can´t afford buying more than one game a month until I get back into the working world...fuck that crap...

[Pentegarn]

titan quest (might be good idk)

It isn't terrible, I played it for awhile, it gets interesting when you can have a second class

[Ant10708]

$25 for the new ds zelda game over on amazon

and I had a 10 dollar credit from buying the mario game for wii. $15 bucks for a brand new zelda game. yay

[MattJack]

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4629/pokemonh.jpg

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/3749/pokemon2.jpg

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5356/pokemon3.jpg

ME(PIKACHU), MY BRO (ASH), MLE (CHARZARD)

$10.19

[MLE]

do it fgts

[Pentegarn]

I might rejoin their next free weekend. (I just can't hold a sustained attention span on Superhero MMOs. I get all these gimmicky ideas and keep starting over)

[Guitar Woman]

That Pikachu rendition is absolutely horrifying

[Chojin]

Champions Online isn't really that bad. I mean I'm playing with three of my friends, so that is probably why, but even so it was def worth 10.19 + membership (14.99 for 60 days total).

I'm not much of an MMO man, so my opinion on this being a good game or not probably doesn't carry much weight.

Has anyone else had any experience with Champions Online?

Yes, i preordered it and it sucked.

Xanadu plays it though! I'll have to find out what his name is on there.

[Pentegarn]

I haven't reached the 'it sucked' level of feeling about Champions yet. But I do have misgivings about not being able to stay interested in it past level 10. That might be alt-itis though. Superhero games tend to make me make lots of goofy characters.

[Chojin]

I feel guilty for not liking champions, and I feel that I really should get into it since I liked COH/COV so much.

I don't know what it is, but the game isn't satisfying at all to play. Even the neatest shit like swinging from a grappling gun somehow becomes old hat after 10 minutes.

[Pentegarn]

I agree with that. I felt COH/COV was more polished in game play. Maybe Champions just needs a year to get better. COH wasn't as good as now when it first went live.

Time will tell I suppose.

[Chojin]

COH wasn't as good as now when it first went live.

I think it was. It had some bugs, but the gameplay's pretty much been the same since day 1.

Champions is physically set up differently, to be more linear in format like a cross between COH and Guild Wars. For some reason, it doesn't work.

[MarioRPG]

That Pikachu rendition is absolutely horrifying

Yeah. Some things just shouldn't exist. That's what is nightmares are made of.

[MattJack]

That Pikachu rendition is absolutely horrifying

:lol

Funny because 10 minutes after I logged in somebody whispered me, "That is absolutely nightmarish."

[Pentegarn]

Edit: Never mind

[MattJack]

I feel guilty for not liking champions, and I feel that I really should get into it since I liked COH/COV so much.

I don't know what it is, but the game isn't satisfying at all to play. Even the neatest shit like swinging from a grappling gun somehow becomes old hat after 10 minutes.

Man it's all good. You probably have about 423246324 more hours of MMO time than me, so this game is probably pretty tame or whatever in comparison to some of yer other shi*.

[MLE]

I've played enough MMOs to have some experience here and there, and so far, I really do like this game. (Keep in mind this is within the first week or so, so I'll make sure to give you a better opinion after I've played a bit more)

[MLE]

Speaking of steam, what's everyone's steam IDs in the imock group? (people that don't have their names from here as their steam names)

[Guitar Woman]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/theSaucy

There's an I-Mockery steam group, too, although it contains a grand total of about six members and is ruled by a fat tyrant with a fatty fat fat iron fist

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/iMock

[MLE]

Who also, like, never comes around anymore. I'm part of the imock group, as I said before ;o

[executioneer]

angriestmonster

[ChrisGlass]

I got both STALKERS (even though I have the first on DVD) and the Jedi Knight collection and KOTOR. Also, Torchlight and Luxor 3.
$28 or so. Wish I could've spent more.

[King Hadas]

I was trying to be thrifty. Not buy a bunch of games I'd never play but seeing everything at full price. I'm filled with regret.

I regret not buying Stalker for $2 because I wasn't sure it would play on my computer.
I regret buying Civilizations 4 without its expansion packs because I wasn't sure I'd like it.
I regret not buying Gish, The Orange Box, Multiwinia/Darwinia, Aquaria

My Steam ID is KingHadas by the way. I only have one multi-player game on my account though, Civilizations IV.

[Dr. Boogie]

I got the first two Oddworld games, Aquaria, and a bunch of indie shooters.

[Pentegarn]

I bought Knights of the Old Republic 1, Torchlight, and I re-downloaded Orange Box from back when i bought it for 9.99