Holiday season game sales: Humble Bundle 4, Steam, Good Old Games, GamersGate, etc.

glennmagusharvey

Ultima 4 is free when you sign up for a GOG account.

Well, here's the whole list of free games you get when you sign up:
* Teenagent (PNCA, contemporary setting)
* Beneath a Steel Sky (PNCA, sci-fi setting)
* Lure of the Temptress (PNCA, fantasy setting, by the people who made Broken Sword)
* Tyrian 2000 (shmup, sci-fi setting)
* Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar (WRPG, fantasy setting)
* Dragonsphere (PNCA, fantasy setting)

And yes, the account itself is free.

Firebert

Hmm, I'll have to consider that sometime. Too busy with Steam right now, though...

ClockworkUniverse

Odd, I have an account I've never been able to buy anything on, and I have all of those but Ultima 4.

glennmagusharvey

Ultima 4 page: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/ultima_4

Try going there and seeing if it's free.  It might be a recent addition.

ClockworkUniverse

Ah, yeah.

IanExMachina

@GMH

Chanteliese £6.49

FoTW £9.99

(Basically steam are sometimes dicks with currency rates.)

glennmagusharvey

...I just found that Septerra Core is $2.48 at GamersGate.

Crimson

Just finished the Psychonauts achievement.

Got coal again.

ClockworkUniverse

How far into the game do you have to be to get it?

Crimson

A few hours in I think, as soon as you can get the pyrokenesis power.

I cheesed it by downloading a save from here. Kinda wish I didn't, the game is pretty good. Very reminiscent of N64-era Rare platformers (Banjo Kazooie/Donkey Kong 64)

ClockworkUniverse

Ah, okay, that's not bad. I've played the game before, I just didn't have the PC version.

Nyarly

I don't think that Ultima IV is a recent addition. When I signed up, it was already there. Then again, I have my GOG account only since a month...

But you have a point. With Ultima IV (I recommend using xu4 with it) being free already, it's only 22 new games, which... isn't much better.

Crimson

^^Though I have to say that the camera controls are pretty bad.

IanExMachina

Also to ask again if anyone wants to be gifted Counter-Strike: Source as I got that game from the gift pile and don't want it.

glennmagusharvey

Is that the standard Counter-Strike game?

IanExMachina

^

No Idea the store says:

THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF THE WORLD'S # 1 ONLINE ACTION GAME 

Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology. Featuring state of the art graphics, all new sounds, and introducing physics, Counter-Strike: Source is a must-have for every action gamer.

glennmagusharvey

Apparently, Septerra Core is like a JRPG but with western developers, a very intricately-designed setting and plot, and somewhat tedious gameplay.

Hmm.

Also, GamersGate offers Recettear for $6.78: http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-RAIST/recettear-an-item-shops-tale

So if you missed the Steam sale, you can still get it for a decent price.

Chantelise is $3.38: http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-CHANTE/chantelise-a-tale-of-two-sisters

Magicka is $3.40 and Torchlight is $7.48.

Edit: Did I say Torchlight was 3.78?  No.  Not that good.  That said, 7.48 on GG is still one cent cheaper than 7.49 on Steam, and GG is client-free.

Crimson

^^Why not? Might as well round out my library of Valve games.

Unless someone else wants it more.

IanExMachina

^
Just literally gifted it away, sorry.

glennmagusharvey

I think I ought to make some sort of price comparison between the various services.

For example:

Torchlight - S 7.49 GG 7.48 GOG -- Des -- Imp --
Recettear - S 9.99 GG 6.78 GOG -- Des -- Imp 19.99
Chantelise - S 4.99 GG 3.38 GOG -- Des -- Imp --
Fallout - S 4.99 GG -- GOG 2.99 Des 9.99 Imp 9.99
Fallout 2 - S 4.99 GG -- GOG 2.99 Des 9.99 Imp 9.99
Septerra Core - S -- GG 2.48 GOG 2.99 Des -- Imp --
Tropico Reloaded (T1, PI, T2PC) - S 3.49 GG 3.50 GOG 2.99 Des -- Imp 6.99
Mirror's Edge - S 9.99 GG 19.95 GOG -- Des -- Imp 19.99
Magicka - S 3.99 GG 3.40 GOG -- Des -- Imp 9.99
Thief: Deadly Shadows - S 13.39 GG 14.99 GOG -- Des -- Imp --

Now let's try a major recent title:

The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings - S 26.79 GG 19.98 GOG 23.99 Des -- Imp 39.99

I should probably have indicated which ones are sale prices.  Oh well, whatever.

Impulse seems to suck.  Impulse also happens to be owned by GameStop, so I'm slightly less sympathetic.

I should probably fix the thread title.

ClockworkUniverse

And...I don't have, or want, even one game for the achievements today T_T

Well, Space Marine's probably okay. But that one I can't afford.

Well, at least ME2's on sale. That'll let me finish up my definitive run on PC before ME3's out.

glennmagusharvey

I have yet to do yesterday's (or was it the day before yesterday's) Spiral Knights achievement, and this adds DEFCON to the pile.

Oh well, at least DEFCON seems like it might be kinda fun.  I have it from the Humble Introversion Bundle.

ClockworkUniverse

I was going to do the SK achievement. I installed it and started playing...then I uninstalled it, because I didn't like it.

glennmagusharvey

I prefer Eden Eternal to Spiral Knights.

I got interested in MMORPGs after I read .hack//Another Birth.  I started playing Spiral Knights.  I wasn't enjoying it, so I dropped it.

Then Cygan introduced me to Eden Eternal, which was much more fun in my opinion.

ClockworkUniverse

The only MMO I've played lately and enjoyed was TOR...but I can't play it anymore now that it's out, since I don't have a subscription T_T

Forzare

Just bought Psychonauts. I'm honestly surprised it actually runs on this computer.

EDIT:  Bluh, never mind. I don't think I can emphasize enough how unbelievably shitty this laptop is.

Nyarly

Just bought the aforementioned Ultima games. Haven't downloaded them yet. Don't know when I'll do that.

Forzare

Okay, I stole commandeered borrowed my dad's old laptop, to see if that works better.

I'm at least hoping it can run all these new games I bought.  It's old, but I'll be surprised if it can't.  Except maybe Amnesia, because I guess that actually has decent graphics I guess.  We'll see.

glennmagusharvey

Thief: the Dark Project is going for $5.99 on GamersGate.

(It's not available on Steam, Desura, Impulse, or Good Old Games.  This is the prequel to Thief: Deadly Shadows, which is available on GamersGate and Steam.)

Should buy?

Apparently, the game has trouble working in Windows 7 on a multi-core processor, which I have.  That said, fixes seem to exist.

ClockworkUniverse

The disc version is $3.96 on Amazon. And I don't even think that's just for the holidays.