Games on SALE!

bhamv3

bhamv3

Hmm, sounds like the Steam sale has got kinks it needs to work out.

Good thing none of the first day sales draw my interest, though
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Well, Steam is getting hammered again, but here are today's deals:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 $14.99
Red Orchestra 2 Heroes of Stalingrad $19.99
Half-Life franchise 75%-off $1.24 - $9.99
The Witcher $2.49
The Witcher 2 $23.99
Theater of War franchise $2.49 - $11.24
Sacred Gold $4.99
Sacred Gold 2 $9.99
Costume Quest $3.74
Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters $2.49
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale $4.99
LEGO Batman $4.99
Tropico 4 $13.59
Dungeons of Dreadmor $1.24

Plus, yesterdays deals seem to have been extended by a few hours.

Today's Achievments:
- Spiral Knights - Son of a Nutcracker! - Hit an opponent with a snowball in Lockdown.
- Psychonauts - Holiday Dinner - Cook and consume two different kinds of roast in one sitting.
- Dungeons of Dredmor - Diggle Nog! - Make some Diggle Nog. Who doesn't love a nice cold glass of Diggle Nog?
- Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad - Fighting The War on Christmas - Participate in a successful territory capture on Commissars House
- Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition - Megalopolis - Reach a population of 1000
- AI War: Fleet Command - In The Midst Of A Cold, Dark Winter - Lose at least 30,000 ships in a single game.


Direct2Drive one-days:
Fallout New Vegas w/ 2 DLC $19.95
Company of Heroes Complete Bundle $15.75
Also, it's $2 Tuesday: Mahjong Roadshow, Egg vs. Chicken or Tasty Planet


GamersGate deals:
Reign: Conflict of Nations $3.99
Sengoku $10.18
Plus the overall holiday sale is in it's 4th week. Notable deals include:
dammit, I don't have time for 11 pages of this right now.
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figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam one-days:
Achievments:
- Steam - Join the 2011 Holiday Group - Years from now, you can look back and say "I was there. . ." with a wistful glint in your eye. Go to the Steam Community to see who’s already had too much eggnog.
- Defense Grid: The Awakening - Flurry - Earn a gold medal on an adrenaline challenge mode.9
- Swords and Soldiers HD - All I Want For Christmas Is You - Use the Aztec Mindcontrol spell five times in a single online match.
- PAYDAY™ The Heist - Merry Xmas - In multiplayer, find a Xmas present on any level.
- Jurassic Park: The Game - Holiday Bonus - At the docks, get Miles to offer Nima a bonus.
- Guardians of Graxia - Gift of Efficacy - Cast the "Gift of Efficacy" spell on a friendly unit
Reminder: You can still earn achievements from past days and get the rewards. I think you have until Jan 1st to do so.


Direct2Drive one-days:
Shogun 2 & DLC bundle $29.95
DCS: Black Shark $13.35


GamersGate one-day: Unreal Tournament 3 Black $3.99


For console gamers, GameFly is having a used game sale.
 
Tress

Tress

That Swords and Soldiers achievement is bullshit. Online matches are nonstop zerg rushes, and it's hard to use that stupid spell twice. Using it five times is nigh impossible.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam Holiday Sale Day 4 one-days:
Torchlight $3.74
Limbo $2.49
SkyDrift $4.99
Operation Flashpoint: Red River $8.99
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising $2.99
Warhammer 40K Space Marine $24.99
Silent Hill Homecoming $9.99
Alien Breed Trilogy $5.74
Blur $4.99
Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga $9.99
Mass Effect $4.99
Mass Effect 2 $4.99
Brink $4.99
Avadon the Black Fortress $2.49


Today's Achievements:
- Rise of Immortals - Supporter - Get 10 assists in a match.
- The Polynomial - Space of the music - Sore throat - Eat too many (more than 10) snowflakes within game life. Snowflakes will be present in Christmas level when its Christmas.
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Sector Cleared - Successfully complete a Space Marine Exterminatus Arena (Kalkys Facility Escape or Hab Center Assault).
- Post Apocalyptic Mayhem - Ho-ho-hidden! - Find Santa’s secret hideaway.
- Toki Tori - Catch a Cold - Collect all ten snowflakes that appear in December before they melt
- DEFCON - Merry Christmas - Nuke Santa and thereby end Christmas for everyone, for ever more


Direct2Drive one-days:
Might & Magic: Heroes VI & Clash Of Heroes w/DLC bundle $49.95
Total War Collection $30.55


GamersGate one-day: Total War Shogun 2 $8.98


Okay, this is a crazy deal, Deus Ex Human Revolution for $9.99 (while it lasts)
http://www.amazon.com/Deus-Ex-Revolution-Standard-Download/dp/B005HRZ29K/ref=sr_1_1_title_3?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1324585017&sr=1-1
It redeems on Steam to boot.
(Hmm, I don't know why that link didn't auto-convert to an affiliate link.)
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam one-days:
Steam Achievements:
- Steam - Get what you want – trade! - Pick a friend to chat with from your Friends List, then hit "Invite to Trade." The rest is up to you. Games, coupons, coal. . .sorry, fruitcake doesn’t fit through our pipes.
- E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy - The Gift - Pick up the gift.
- Frozen Synapse - Now I Have A Machine Gun. Ho Ho Ho. - Play an Instant Skirmish and win with only your machine gunner left alive.
- AudioSurf - Candy Stripe - Make a candy stripe.
- Greed Corp - Walking in a winter wonderland - Win a match in a snow map in either the campaign or in battle mode
- Fate of the World - Let it Glow - Plunge the world into Global Thermonuclear War by 2075!

Direct2Drive one-days:
Dragon Age II $4.95
Cities in Motion bundle $19.95

GamersGate deals:
Men of War: Vietnam $8.74
Need for Speed: The Run $29.95
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam Holiday Sale Day Six
Achievements:
- CrimeCraft GangWars - Snow Ballin' - Earn a total of 200 points from Snow Brawl matches. This match type can be found under the events tab in the battles menu starting from level 8
- Hard Reset - Blizzard (Special) - Kill 50 enemies with electricity only
- Jamestown - With Your Nose So Bright... - Complete any mission playing as the Red Charge ship.
- Wings of Prey - It's winter! - Complete any mission on winter locations: Korsun, Stalingrad or Bulge
- Renegade Ops - Naughty or Nice - Receive a present from Santa Claus (Coldstrike DLC required)
- And Yet It Moves - Shown White - Ride on a severed branch in Chapter Two for about 20 meters without touching the ground.


Direct2Drive deals:
Battlefield 3 $39.95
Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition $7.50


GamersGate deals:
Saints Row: The Third $33.47
Battlefield 3 $39.95
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam Holiday Sale day 7:
Football Manager 2012 $26.79
Nuclear Dawn $4.99
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 $44.99
Dungeons $10.19
Dungeons: The Dark Lord $10.19
Overlord Complete Pack $4.99
Atom Zombie Smasher $2.49
Alice Madness Returns $7.49
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY $4.99
Fallout 3 GOTY $7.49
X Superbox $9.99
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 $3.39
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover $16.99
Killing Floor $4.99

Achievements:
- Steam - Have 10 items on your wishlist - You haven’t done this already?!? Do it! What if you win the Epic Holiday Giveaway? How do your friends know what to get you?
- Nuclear Dawn - Bad Santa - Kill a Commander in Silo during the 2011 Winter Sale
- X3: Albion Prelude - It's Cold Outside - Force a pilot to eject from his ship.
- Killing Floor - A Bloody Christmas Carol - Kill 15 XMas Clots, 5 xmas Stalkers, 5 XMas Crawlers, 1 XMas Siren and 1 XMas Bloat.
- Demolition Inc. - Car Jump I - You jumped 400m.
- Atom Zombie Smasher - KringleJammer - Defeat Wave 7 in the KringleJammer mini-game.


Direct2Drive deals:
Smugglers IV: Doomsday $7.50
Iceberg Interactive games 50%-off


GamersGate deals:
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad $19.98
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Man, I hate how lousy my current laptop (Dell) is at playing games. It's mostly the issue with the in-house video card that's good, but not recognized by just about every game. Not even Half-Life 2 or a lot of the newer Telltale games run smoothly. :( Which means a lot of these sales, I'd totally take advantage of...if my computer could even run them. I bought Orcs Must Die and someone gifted me a copy of Left 4 Dead, and I can't play either.
 
David

David

The nice thing about Steam is you'll always have the game available to you and will never lose it so long as you don't have your account hacked. I've bought games on sale that my old computer couldn't run (got Mass Effect for 2 bucks a couple years ago) with the intent of playing them next time I upgraded.

...actually I still haven't gotten around to playing more than half an hour of Mass Effect >.>
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam Holiday Sale Day 8
Test Drive Unlimited 2 $6.79
A Game of Thrones - Genesis $19.99
Anomaly: Warzone Earth $2.49
Worms Complete Pack $19.99
Beat Hazard $2.49
Kings Bounty Platinum $8.74
Red Faction series $2.49 - $7.49
Bulletstorm $4.99
Bastion $5.09
Bastion Soundtrack Edition $8.48
Bastion Soundtrack $3.39
Rock of Ages $2.49
Sonic Generations $10.19
Far Cry $2.49
Far Cry 2 $4.99

Achievements:
- Rusty Hearts - All I Want for Christmas is Sewers - Complete the quest "A Simple Task" from Technical Officer Ryan.
- A Game of Thrones - Genesis - Winter is coming - Play as the Starks an entire multiplayer game or vs AI.
- Beat Hazard - Survive Christmas 10 - In Survival Mode last 10 mins while playing to a Christmas Radio Station
- Rock of Ages - Snowball War - Win a match using the Snowball boulder.
- Bastion - Ride the Wind - Use the Skyway in the Wharf District.
- Worms Reloaded - 12 Days of Winterval - Deal exactly 12 damage to a worm with 100 health.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam Holiday Sale Day 9
Achievements
- Steam - Write a recommendation - Example: "I really like the game, but I couldn’t find the stupid cake." You can write a recommendation for any game you own.
- AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome - I Have Come to The Point in My Life Where I Appreciate Christmas Mall Music - Seriously. Christmas mall music eventually seeps into your brain, and you get all domestic, and you start looking at the children and going, "well, wouldn't it be nice to have kids of my own someday, so that I can play video games with them?" In the meantime, get 4 stars on all the levels in the freeeee Christmas Mall Music pack.
- Solar 2 - Snowflake Star - Get 4 points in the star challenge mission "Snowball Fight".
- Sequence - Yet, I Love The Holidays - Defeat the Holiday Whompa.
- Cities in Motion - Winter Wonder - Transport 1000 passengers during November, December and January of any year.
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution - Winter Assault - Play for a total of 30 minutes against a human opponent on: Ice Station Obelis, Selenon Fissure, or Argent Shelf


Direct2Drive one-day: Democracy 2 $5.75
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

There are video walkthroughs for the Toki Tori one on Youtube. Took me a bit of time, but I got it in the end.

Also, I wrote a recommendation and got Anomaly Warzone Earth for it. Played the game until I got the achievement, and got coal for it. Not bad. :)
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

Staff member
Steam Holiday Sale Day 10
Achievements:
- Team Fortress 2 - Valve Gift Grab 2011 – TF2 - Collect three gifts dropped by opponents.
- Space Pirates and Zombies - Santa's Little Helper - Feed Santa so much milk and cookies, that an elf falls off his sleigh
- Revenge of the Titans - DRUNKEN FAMILY ARGUMENT - Hurrah! Christmas is finally over!
- Serious Sam 3: BFE - Christmas In Cairo - Decorate the Christmas tree.
- Dungeon Defenders - Jingled All the Way - Delivered all the presents, and saved Santa Tavernkeep from the vile clutches of Mega-Snowman in the 'Etherian Holiday Extravaganza Challenge Mission'!
- Sanctum - Festivus for the rest of us - Collect 10 presents.


Direct2Drive one-day: Fallout New Vegas $9.95 (redeems on Steam)
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Amorous Eyes said:
Some of those achievements are ridiculously hard.
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No kidding. I barely got anywhere on the Revenge of the Titans achievement. I assumed the purpose of these achievements was to get people to play games they might not have otherwise. Setting an achievement that requires advanced knowledge of the game kind of defeats that.

I'm consulting a walk-through for the RotT achievement, see if some strategy will help me win, but that'll have to wait for later.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam Holiday Sale - Day 11
Achievements
- Steam - Link your Facebook account - Make sure your highschool sweetheart(s), dogsitter, and second cousin twice-removed know you love fragging, ganking, and wearing silly hats. Click here.
- The Binding of Isaac - A Gift From Krampus - Find Krampus in Satans room for a gift!
- Xotic - Brain Freeze - Found and destroyed a blue Crystal Orb Brain
- Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Requiem of the Dead - Win a defensive siege battle with your daimyo during any winter turn.
- Men of War: Assault Squad - Crazy Scientist from the northern Arctic Cycle - Complete the bonus mission!
- Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve Gift Grab 2011 – L4D2 - Collect three gifts dropped by Special Infected in Versus Mode.

I hear that The Binding of Isaac achievement is very unfair because it's totally random if you even get a chance to fight the Krampus. Which has led me to download the game. I got it as part of a bundle, and didn't have any intention of playing, but this may be the only chance I get for three achievements in a single day, and I want to see just how bad it is to find a Krampus.
Edit: Took me a little over a half-hour, and that was with finding the Krampus in the first devil room I came across, and having enough power-ups to be able to survive the fight. Then the achievement didn't unlock because the developer's code is buggy. There is a fix that works retroactively. Still, I do not like this game, it's all that I hate about a rogue-like combined with some of what I hate about early Zelda games, all wrapped up in ugly symbolism.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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ThatNickGuy said:
Any relevant or helpful thougths on the game? :p
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I've only played a very little, and I found the graphics to be a little over-stylized. It was hard to tell what units were what. They all look kind of similar.

Other than that, it seemed like a pretty decent tower defense game.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam Holiday Sale Day 12
Achievements:
- Day of Defeat: Source - Valve Gift Grab 2011 – DoD:S - Collect three gifts dropped by opponents.
- Super Meat Boy - The Golden Gift! - Complete all levels in "The Kids Xmas" chapter in super meat world IN ONE PLAY SESSION.
- Universe Sandbox - Snowball Earth - Freeze the Earth by moving it further from the Sun
- SpaceChem - Polar Expedition - Reach the south pole of Sernimir IV.
- Puzzle Agent 2 - Christmas Tree Census - Spend over $202,259 of taxpayer dollars; The number of Christmas trees cut in Minnesota in 2007 (source: USDA).
- Flight Control HD - Snowball - Land 5 helicopters in a row on the Windy airfield

Bwuh? No free achievement today?


Direct2Drive one-day: The Saboteur $4.95
 
Frank

Frank

No free achievement AND the Super Meat Boy level servers are down so it's impossible to do the Super Meat Boy achievement right now.

Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac? You boys got some fucking explainin' to do.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

The marketing folks at Valve are some sort of mad geniouses. This whole campaign is beyond brilliant. By tying the achievements to the lesser played titles, they are making money hand over fist even with the discounts.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Bowielee said:
The marketing folks at Valve are some sort of mad geniouses. This whole campaign is beyond brilliant. By tying the achievements to the lesser played titles, they are making money hand over fist even with the discounts.
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And they also introduce users to the various features of Steam (Facebook integration, recommendations, inventory, trading, screenshots, wishlists, and it's rumored tomorrow's achievement might be to turn on Steam Guard.) Speaking of wishlists, getting people to put 10 games on their list also broadcasts those games to their friends who then see more games to want in the future. There are so many layers to this, and Valve keeps adding little twists and tweaks with each major event. It's really quite an impressive way to get people to not only buy games, but also invest themselves in the system and become familiar with what Steam does besides just sell games.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Bowielee said:
The marketing folks at Valve are some sort of mad geniouses. This whole campaign is beyond brilliant. By tying the achievements to the lesser played titles, they are making money hand over fist even with the discounts.
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Except a lot of these games are indie titles, developed by companies that have very strong relationships with Valve. It's why Killing Floor and Super Meat Boy were in the Summer Scavenger Hunt, as well as the Great Gift Pile, and why The Binding of Isaac (from the makers of SMB) was on the list despite being from a company that already has a title in the achievement list. Valve's not promoting lesser played titles, they are cultivating sales for the indie community they constantly snipe talent from.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

AshburnerX said:
Except a lot of these games are indie titles, developed by companies that have very strong relationships with Valve. It's why Killing Floor and Super Meat Boy were in the Summer Scavenger Hunt, as well as the Great Gift Pile, and why The Binding of Isaac (from the makers of SMB) was on the list despite being from a company that already has a title in the achievement list. Valve's not promoting lesser played titles, they are cultivating sales for the indie community they constantly snipe talent from.
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Or both.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

AshburnerX said:
Except a lot of these games are indie titles, developed by companies that have very strong relationships with Valve. It's why Killing Floor and Super Meat Boy were in the Summer Scavenger Hunt, as well as the Great Gift Pile, and why The Binding of Isaac (from the makers of SMB) was on the list despite being from a company that already has a title in the achievement list. Valve's not promoting lesser played titles, they are cultivating sales for the indie community they constantly snipe talent from.
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A positive way of looking at it is promoting people who are loyal to Valve and Steam. It's basically saying "If you make a game and promote it on Steam, you can be sure we'll do everything we can to help people see and play that game."

It's funny, when I think about how they're integrating all these features into their sales, as the Figster pointed out. It honestly feels similar to how they make their games: integrating the learning portion of a new item/weapon/concept into the gameplay itself, rather than just telling you what buttons to push or having some idiot in your ear telling you what to do.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Steam Holiday Sale - Day 13
Achievements:
- Steam - Turn on Steam Guard - Best way to have visions of sugar-plums dancing in your head is to sleep soundly at night. Learn more here.
- Trine - Winter Secrets - Find the Academic, Bony and Crystalline holiday secret gifts.
- HOARD - Ruin Christmas - Incinerate 10 thieves who are dressed up like Santa's elves!
- BIT.TRIP BEAT - JINGLE.BELLS - Make a bell chime in Descent
- Counter-Strike: Source - Valve Gift Grab 2011 – CS:S - Collect three gifts dropped by opponents.
- Magicka - Ice Age - It's what killed the dinosaurs. Smash 100 frozen creatures to bits.


Direct2Drive one-day: DiRT 3 $24.95
 
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