Games on SALE!

Oh hey, Child of Light is on sale. I've heard good things, and the game looks absolutely gorgeous in it's art style, maybe I'll...



... nope.
 
Shadow of Mordor is 40% off on Steam. Not huge, but for a fairly new game, might interest some, given that it's Batman: Arkham - meets - Assassin's Creed - in a Tolkien-like setting.
 
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Man, I bought more games this sale than I have in the last year. Just felt like it I guess.

Endless Legend, Pinball Arcade Seasons 1 and 2, Luftrausers, Pinball FX tables galore, Transistor, Super Time Force Ultra, Hero Siege, Evil Within and Gone Home.
 
Bought Shadow of Mordor. Husband rolls eyes.
Husband watches me play for 10 minutes, immediately buys it for himself as well.
 
It's currently 40% off...too much for my personal buying prices, but seriously considering asking one of my friends to gift it to me for my 30th birthday based on all you guys' recommendations...(last week - but my party isn't for another 3 weeks)
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Oh no! A great game from 1997 that's been on GOG for 5 bucks for ages is now free on origin! How will the literally dozens upon dozens of F2P games on steam ever stop the mass abandonment of steam for origin that will assuredly follow?!

:rolleyes:
 

figmentPez

Staff member
Star Wars Humble Bundle

KOTOR
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Dark Forces

Pay more than the average:
Battlefront 2
KOTOR 2
Republic Commando
Plus more to to be added next week.

More than $12
Empire at War Gold Pack
The Force Unleashed
The Force Unleashed 2
 
Star Wars Humble Bundle

KOTOR
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Dark Forces

Pay more than the average:
Battlefront 2
KOTOR 2
Republic Commando
Plus more to to be added next week.

More than $12
Empire at War Gold Pack
The Force Unleashed
The Force Unleashed 2
Only redeemable on STEAM, or also on GOG (at work, can't check site)? It's kind of a dick move to release all of these games on GOG over the last few weeks only to have HB of them all on Steam right after. Also, if it's only steam, a warning, some of these games are NOT fully functional in their Steam versions; GOG has remastered and updated quite a few to run on Win7/8 and 64 bit systems.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I'm a little perplexed that the bundle would have Dark Forces but not Jedi Knight or Jedi Knight 2 (especially given that Jedi Knight was originally sold as Dark Forces 2)
 

figmentPez

Staff member
Only redeemable on STEAM, or also on GOG (at work, can't check site)? It's kind of a dick move to release all of these games on GOG over the last few weeks only to have HB of them all on Steam right after. Also, if it's only steam, a warning, some of these games are NOT fully functional in their Steam versions; GOG has remastered and updated quite a few to run on Win7/8 and 64 bit systems.
Definitely not the GOG versions, because the Humble Bundle version of Dark Forces isn't Linux compatible, but the GOG version is.

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I'm a little perplexed that the bundle would have Dark Forces but not Jedi Knight or Jedi Knight 2 (especially given that Jedi Knight was originally sold as Dark Forces 2)
Probably because those games will be added next week.
 
I'm not 100% sure which games do or don't work properly under which OS, but there're definitely some changes. Republic Commando's Steam version definitely didn't work properly on Win 8, while GOG's does. Other games I'm not 100% sure of, but you can probably check on the GOG forums. Every Star Wars release over the past few weeks was met with "Does this version work on XXXX' with every response being "yes, this one does".
 
Too bad...Interest gone. I own half of the games, some on disc, some Steam, some GOG; I'd have like to have completed and centralized my collection, but it doesn't make any sense to do so on Steam.
 
No, that's not what I mean, specifically. It's also true, though.
Steam games aren't a great back up to discs or other digital means. They're only useful as long as Steam runs, and there's very little (or, actually, no) guarantee they'll work on any given platform or continue to work.
GOG, on the other hand, supplies their games in simple .exe-s, which you can just keep a copy of yourself, complete and bundled with all necessary emulators or whatever; they also guarantee to make a conscious effort to keep their games working on all new generations of hard- and software in so far as possible. They've gotten quite a few games out on Mac which had never before been released there; about all of their "'old" games work on Linux as well as on Windows (where they weren't previously supported), and they have actually gone through almost their entire catalog when Win 8 came out and updated or changed drivers and installers to make them 64-bit compatible and Win8-compatible. As long as GOG exists, they'll keep updating the games to keep them working on newer systems. Even if GOG goes out of business, any games you've bought there can still be installed and played without limit. Steam offers neither. An external HD with all my Steam game installs is a brick if the Steam servers go off line. An HD with my GOG installs is still a perfectly functional back up of a great bunch of games.

Steam is and remains a DRM system, besides a content delivery system and a bunch of other things. They're the least evil in their category (comapred to UPlay , Origin, MS Games) perhaps, but GOG is not evil at all (yet. And except for their insistence on taking ALL of my money by delivering too many dang good games). There's a difference.
 
To put it in perspective, Steam is the big business that plays by the rules and is generally run by a fair, honest guy at even the worst of times. It wants to do business, but it wants to keep it's good name and it shows. You'd have a hard time complaining about it like 90% of the time.

GoG is the mom and pop place that makes things to order and puts that little bit of extra effort into everything it does. It's never going to be as big or successful as Steam, but it's never going to have to give in on quality ether. It's generally the superior product but you're never going to be able to buy everything you want there ether.
 

fade

Staff member
I mean, yeah I know that about steam, i just thought everyone loved it in spite of all that due to the benefits you get in trade for the managed environment.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I mean, yeah I know that about steam, i just thought everyone loved it in spite of all that due to the benefits you get in trade for the managed environment.
I resisted getting steam as long as I possibly could because I hate the concept of always-on DRM, but the steam sales won me over.
 
While we have no way of knowing if it's true, Gaben (or at least someone at valve, I'm too lazy to find the exact quote) have stated that valve has a master patch to remove all online drm from steam games should the service ever crumble and have to shut down.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
While we have no way of knowing if it's true, Gaben (or at least someone at valve, I'm too lazy to find the exact quote) have stated that valve has a master patch to remove all online drm from steam games should the service ever crumble and have to shut down.
This is true (rather it's true he's said that), but even so, I've got over 100 games in my steam library, and maybe 10-15 of them installed. Any of those games I don't have installed if and when "steam crumbles," I've lost out on. Though, in a pleasantly self-contradictory fashion, I hate keeping up with physical media now, too... soooooo.....
 
This is true (rather it's true he's said that), but even so, I've got over 100 games in my steam library, and maybe 10-15 of them installed. Any of those games I don't have installed if and when "steam crumbles," I've lost out on. Though, in a pleasantly self-contradictory fashion, I hate keeping up with physical media now, too... soooooo.....
Steam does have a backup feature. You're more than able to dump a compressed image of the data onto an external harddrive. Steam can even do it in batches if you want multiple games per folder.
 
Used to do this all the time when I went on deployment. Would run into a problem sometimes even with ensuring things were set up prior to in off-line mode. One thing that I noticed was even though you managed to gather all the achievements, whenever you reconnected to Steam they would be back to where they were when you first went offline. Such a bummer when I had half my library at the time complete.
 
In a Game Not on Sale post, the new Mortal Kombat has a fucking 100 dollar digital deluxe edition on Steam (in Canadian barely money).

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck off.
 
In a Game Not on Sale post, the new Mortal Kombat has a fucking 100 dollar digital deluxe edition on Steam (in Canadian barely money).

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck off.
Anyone who spends that much on it, I can only say this:
dense motherfucker.jpg

(I've been waiting to throw this bad boy out for awhile.)
 
Steam is having a big Square-Enix sale from Feb 5-9.

I'm tempted to get the Sleeping Dogs remastered. I own the original version for free through the deal for buying my new computer, but the remastered would be fun to get, I think.
 
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