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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
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MysterD said:
About what games to get from your list, if you love RPG's and shooters mixed into an awesome hybrid then go get Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition when it's dirt-cheap - which is has been, many times.

And here is ITAD on FO NV Ultimate's best prices - click me.
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Just get the $6 one from DLGamer. Yes, it's been $5 in the past but not lately and Bethesda has been getting stingy with the $5 price point on the complete editions. It's a great game and the extra buck ain't nothing.

 
So DLgamer - They have a $7 minimum to use paypal.  I'd like to nab a copy of Ground Zeroes @ $5.  Anyone else want a copy at this price or interested in something else like New Vegas?  Send me a PM.

Thanks

 
No idea.  Where is DLGamer based?  They seem to have something about VAT, so EU I guess.  Do I need to be concerned with Region locks?  Is GZ cheaper on Nuuvem?

Edit - it is a bunch cheaper on Nuuvem.  About $1.40.  If it's buyable on Nuuvem, I guess that saves me a few bucks.  Anyone know?

 
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DrR0Ck said:
Edit - it is a bunch cheaper on Nuuvem. About $1.40. If it's buyable on Nuuvem, I guess that saves me a few bucks. Anyone know?
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I bought and activated it last winter with no problem. Don't know if it's Paypal gated or whatever nonsense but the game itself should be clean.

 
DrR0Ck said:
No idea. Where is DLGamer based? They seem to have something about VAT, so EU I guess. Do I need to be concerned with Region locks? Is GZ cheaper on Nuuvem?

Edit - it is a bunch cheaper on Nuuvem. About $1.40. If it's buyable on Nuuvem, I guess that saves me a few bucks. Anyone know?
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It was buyable with vpn a month ago. Just try it. Worst that could happen is it doesn't work. The Brazilian Mafia's not going to come to your house and capoeira your ass.
 
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Damnit guys, I'm gonna have to buy Shadow of Mordor GOTY and Ground Zeroes now. I'll have about a million frequent flyer miles after this.

 
archbishopthedoge said:
I got a refund last night and it processed in 24 hours. Thats a first. Usually takes 3 days.
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I got three refunds last night and the taunting not there yet wallet bux promised a 24 hour turnaround which is new. Usually it did take that long to get back in the account but they're all in my account now.

 
nny said:
The only thing I've bought so far is Undertale and I beat it. So far, this is probably the first time I've actually beaten all the games I've gotten from a Steam sale.

Can't let that stand, so these are the games I'm most tempted by in order from most to least:

Hotline Miami 2

Skyshine's Bedlam

Rollers of the Realm

Roundabout

Fallout: NV

Audiosurf 2

Anybody have strong feelings on the value of any of these?
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If I dont mention it, I dont have it.

I loved Hotline Miami 2. If you are familiar with the first game and enjoyed it, I'd highly suggest jumping in. Yes, it will be cheaper at some point. Yes, its most likely a bundle candidate at some point within the next calendar year. Its more of the same of the first game, but level design is not as strong as the first but there are sitll some absolutely terrific design choices and fun to be had. If you liked the music in the first, the 2nd's is even better. The level editor was just released so there's a ton of user made content starting to appear. If you've not played the first game, its not necessary to have played it to enjoy 2, but its arguably a better game and considering its easily gotten super cheap, go with that first to see if you like it. I fakey'd HM2 on release as it was one of my top 3 games I was most excited for this year. If you plan to play it now, do it.

Fallout NV - Its an all time great at this point IMO. Get the ultimate edition to avoid buying the DLC seperately as almost all of it is play-worthy. It sees the $6.79 price point somewhat often now, but its a time sucker so if you want something to take a lot of your time its a good investment. If you wait, you can get it at next sale.

Audiosurf 2 - I picked this up in a cheap trade abt two months ago or so. Its pretty cool. If you know the first game its more of the same, just prettier and some different modes + theres quite a bit of user made content for it . Super casual and not something you will likely put a lot of time in unless you get into creating tracks and that sort of thing. I havent put in a lot of time to say either way, but $6 as it currently is, is not "bad", but its another one that will possibly be bundled at some point and will definitely get lower.

 
why is secret ponchos not on sale T_T. I missed all the free giveaways of it and now its not on sale... gonna wait till the humble bundle. Most of these 50% off games I would buy them at 75% off, but since its 50% off I will just wait till in the humble or the next sale where its 75% off. No flash sales ruined the sales. I wonder if they have less sales overall due to no flash sales or more compared to last year

 
exodia13 said:
why is secret ponchos not on sale T_T. I missed all the free giveaways of it and now its not on sale... gonna wait till the humble bundle. Most of these 50% off games I would buy them at 75% off, but since its 50% off I will just wait till in the humble or the next sale where its 75% off. No flash sales ruined the sales. I wonder if they have less sales overall due to no flash sales or more compared to last year
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the community is very very small. There was talk of Free-To-Play among the developers. Good games but MP-only is not good for indie studio. I love the premise and setting of the game but wish it has some campaigns to flesh out the story and characters.

oh ya, to address your concern about the lack of sale, they said that they dont want to have sale due to the lack of visibility among 5000+ sale titles and that the previous sale was a few weeks ago

 
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this is the end, Mr.Fox

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Syntax Error said:
Isn't "procedurally generated tracks based on your music" supposed to be the whole point of Audiosurf?
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Yes, but people create tracks of their own with it too, not the obstacles which are generated by the algorithm, but the actual skin and style of the tube. IE there's an infinite runner track:

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The obstacles in each track are still procedurally generated.

 
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nny said:
The only thing I've bought so far is Undertale and I beat it. So far, this is probably the first time I've actually beaten all the games I've gotten from a Steam sale.

Can't let that stand, so these are the games I'm most tempted by in order from most to least:

Hotline Miami 2

Skyshine's Bedlam

Rollers of the Realm

Roundabout

Fallout: NV

Audiosurf 2

Anybody have strong feelings on the value of any of these?
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You should buy FONV. Many think it's the best of the modern fallout games, and it easily has the best value in terms of amount of content of the games you listed (can more than easily reach 50-70 hours in a playthrough depending on how much of the dlc you play/how much exploring you do, and more than that if you have content mods installed). Although it hits 5 bucks from time to time it's still more than worth it for 6.70 or whatever it's at right now for the complete edition. Also as others have mentioned it's the game that's most likely to never be bundled.

 
Cracks me up how much we see people here bitching that games are overpriced and not discounted enough yet games like Fallout, Undertale, and quite a few other big expensive/not discounted games get mentioned over and over as games to buy/being bought. Not trying to judge, its just a way CAG and deal hunters are constantly two faced. I mean even on steam at the community forums there are soooooo many complaints about the number of games under 50% off ......yet 11 of the best selling 16 games on sale are 50% or under.

Things don't change because as much as we humans love to bitch we love to contradict ourselves more.

 
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How much do you need to know about Borderlands to play Tales from the Borderlands? I am a huge fan of the series and am trying to figure out if I want to spend the $8.50 or wait for better price during summer sale. Would help tilt me towards buying if I knew my wife with her limited knowledge of the series might enjoy it as well. She has always chuckled at Borderlands and been happy to catch a story piece here or there, but never played or sat down and watched the first two games because the gameplay bored her.

 
MSI Magus said:
Cracks me up how much we see people here bitching that games are overpriced and not discounted enough yet Fallout and quite a few other big expensive/not discounted games get mentioned over and over as games to buy/being bought. Not trying to judge, its just a way CAG and deal hunters are constantly two faced. I mean even on steam at the community forums there are soooooo many complaints about the number of games under 50% off yet 11 of the best selling 16 games on sale are 50% or under.

Things don't change because as much as we humans love to bitch we love to contradict ourselves more.
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Fallout 4 [base-game] was 50% off in a GMG Coupon Glitch (that was supposed to only work on MGSV: TPP, but instead worked on anything - including FO4), which is probably why many CAG's here had it since Day 1.

 
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MysterD said:
Fallout 4 [base-game] was 50% off in a GMG Coupon Glitch (that was supposed to only work on MGSV: TPP, but instead worked on anything - including FO4), which is probably why many CAG's here had it since Day 1.
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There is a difference between reccomending and buying it at that price and its current price. Even before it had the tiny discount it was a top selling game of sale. Its a bad example anyways with it being soooo new and being the current cultural "I gots to play this because everyone else is" game. I just as easily could have said Rocket League.

Point is we gamers are very hive minded and just as susceptible to overpaying for the new hotness/whats popular. Every site I go to I see the same bitching about sale prices....but like I said I see those same shit discounted games being recommended and selling. We want to have our cake and eat it too. We want the biggest best sales, but most are not willing to wait for them so over time there have been worse and worse sales.

 
Thanks for the recommendations. I hesitate on Fallout:NV because I've put 40 hours into FO4 and feel like it might be hard to go backwards. Plus I've got plenty of other open world type games in my backlog I could play if I'm in the mood for something like that.

I think I'll end up buying Hotline Miami 2 and waiting for the rest to get bundled. The only reason I hesitate on HM2 is that I never got the secret ending in HM1 so if I really want to play more HM, I could go back and get the secret ending in that game.

The thing about Skyshine's Bedlam is I hear it's similar to Banner Saga. I'm really excited for BS2 and I wonder if buying Bedlam would hold me over until that game not only comes out, but eventually gets a discount. Or should I just take the money I'd spend on Bedlam and put it towards BS2 for when it comes out?

 
MSI Magus said:
Point is we gamers people are very hive minded and just as susceptible to overpaying for the new hotness/whats popular. Every site I go to I see the same bitching about sale prices....but like I said I see those same shit discounted games stuff in general being recommended and selling. We want to have our cake and eat it too. We want the biggest best sales, but most are not willing to wait for them so over time there have been worse and worse sales.
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That's a lot of words to say nothing...anyway, fixed a few things for ya

you are welcome

 
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MSI Magus said:
How much do you need to know about Borderlands to play Tales from the Borderlands? I am a huge fan of the series and am trying to figure out if I want to spend the $8.50 or wait for better price during summer sale. Would help tilt me towards buying if I knew my wife with her limited knowledge of the series might enjoy it as well. She has always chuckled at Borderlands and been happy to catch a story piece here or there, but never played or sat down and watched the first two games because the gameplay bored her.
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IMO, not a lot. Can't recall many callbacks to BL1/BL2, though one of the characters it does help to have played BL2 to...get better (for lack of better words) but probably be fine even without having played 2.

 
Voken said:
That's a lot of words to say nothing...anyway, fixed a few things for ya

you are welcome
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Have to have said more then nothing if you felt the need to edit it.

Anyways, yes all humans are hive minded. Its not hard to look at any industry and whats popular and in and out going trends and figure that out. But if it makes you feel smarter editing someone elses posts on the internet to reflect a wider view point(that I basically intended anyways), more power to you wacko.

 
nny said:
Thanks for the recommendations. I hesitate on Fallout:NV because I've put 40 hours into FO4 and feel like it might be hard to go backwards. Plus I've got plenty of other open world type games in my backlog I could play if I'm in the mood for something like that.

I think I'll end up buying Hotline Miami 2 and waiting for the rest to get bundled. The only reason I hesitate on HM2 is that I never got the secret ending in HM1 so if I really want to play more HM, I could go back and get the secret ending in that game.

The thing about Skyshine's Bedlam is I hear it's similar to Banner Saga. I'm really excited for BS2 and I wonder if buying Bedlam would hold me over until that game not only comes out, but eventually gets a discount. Or should I just take the money I'd spend on Bedlam and put it towards BS2 for when it comes out?
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Just want to re advocate for New Vegas in the sense that outside of gunplay and graphics NV is superior in virtually every way over FO4

but then again if you're worried about it being difficult to play an earlier title gunplay and graphics would likely be the two things you'd be most worried about

either way though you're wrong and i'm right so whatever

 
DrR0Ck said:
No idea. Where is DLGamer based? They seem to have something about VAT, so EU I guess. Do I need to be concerned with Region locks? Is GZ cheaper on Nuuvem?

Edit - it is a bunch cheaper on Nuuvem. About $1.40. If it's buyable on Nuuvem, I guess that saves me a few bucks. Anyone know?
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Did the price on GZ change? I'm seeing $3.something. I could be failing at properly using a VPN. If the price hasn't changed and it's just me derping does anyone want to help me out by going to south america for me?

 
MSI Magus said:
Cracks me up how much we see people here bitching that games are overpriced and not discounted enough yet games like Fallout, Undertale, and quite a few other big expensive/not discounted games get mentioned over and over as games to buy/being bought. Not trying to judge, its just a way CAG and deal hunters are constantly two faced. I mean even on steam at the community forums there are soooooo many complaints about the number of games under 50% off ......yet 11 of the best selling 16 games on sale are 50% or under.

Things don't change because as much as we humans love to bitch we love to contradict ourselves more.
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I'm not arguing against your point, because I think there's some truth to what you're saying, but I'm not sure there's a complete correlation. We have no good way to know that the same people who are bitching about meager discounts are the same that are pushing games like Fallout 4 and Grand Theft Auto V to the top of the Best Sellers list.

If you look at the games on the list, you can easily guess the reason why each is there: some are big franchise games with a heavy following and the rest just have tremendous buzz. I don't think any of them is necessarily there because of the amazing discount, because many of those were already atop the list before the sale even began.

What's telling to me is this: we all heard Gabe Newell's spiel about heavy discounts equaling big sales, and we saw the data backing up his claims. We're not seeing that at the very top of the Steam Best Sellers list right now, and the lack of big discounts on desirable games is the reason why. Look a little farther down that list and you'll start seeing older games like Terraria -- that have sold a ton of copies -- nearly matching the rank of the new hot games.

The fact that you're not seeing heavily discounted games atop the list is exactly because there just aren't many of note. Heck, even Skyrim at 75% off, and the ancient Gary's Mod, are both competing with the likes of Fallout 4 and Rainbow Six: Siege.

But to your point... yes, people like to complain about discounts while pressing the BUY button on obvious bundle games like Undertale. Boredom? Gotta play the hot new game? I dunno.

 
MSI Magus said:
I mean even on steam at the community forums there are soooooo many complaints about the number of games under 50% off ......yet 11 of the best selling 16 games on sale are 50% or under.
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When most everything on sale is at a 50'ish% discount is it so hard to believe that the top sellers have 50'ish% discounts?

Does anyone have any experience with non beta Rainbow Six Siege? I am being peer pressured into it and I remember a few people here complaining that the beta wasn't very good.

 
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MSI Magus said:
Cracks me up how much we see people here bitching that games are overpriced and not discounted enough yet games like Fallout, Undertale, and quite a few other big expensive/not discounted games get mentioned over and over as games to buy/being bought.
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That only holds true if the same people complaining are doing the buying, doesn't it? For every person saying the sale sucks, you have some guy saying "Nuh uh, I bought this game and that game!" No reason to assume they're the same guy.

For the record, I say the sale sucks and so far I've bought nothing. Because it sucks. I might possibly buy Styx before it's done just because I've made at least that much in card money since the sale started.

 
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But to your point... yes, people like to complain about discounts while pressing the BUY button on obvious bundle games like Undertale. Boredom? Gotta play the hot new game? I dunno.
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Undertale will probably take at least a year to get bundled though, it's selling extremely well. It makes sense to buy it now rather than later if you really want to play it. I'm considering buying GTA5 because I want to play it and the steam version is only available on steam plus I don't want to wait for another steam sale.

 
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blabla yer all hypocrites for complaining about not having good sales on games you only halfway give a crap about and will probably backlog anyway and for buying games you actually will play and, you know, get your money's worth at lesser sale prices.

Oh and you just like those games because everyone else does, not because they're addictive or interesting or made relatively well or different.

TL;DR You suck

Signed Bag Over His Head Guy
 
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Ok, ARK is awesome.  Never thought I'd have so much fun dying over and over again.  It's like Minecraft on Steroids and with dinosaurs.

I've also enjoyed what little of Plague, Inc I've managed to play.  Yeah, it was  33 percent off and Ark was 40 percent off.  I'm a heretic I suppose.  I guess 75 percent is a good rule if you have no clue when you'll play it.  Perhaps it's acceptable to make allowances for games you really will play and have fun with.

Besides, most of us are so far ahead on savings that we can easily absorb picking up some 30 percent game from time to time.

 
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MSI Magus said:
How much do you need to know about Borderlands to play Tales from the Borderlands? I am a huge fan of the series and am trying to figure out if I want to spend the $8.50 or wait for better price during summer sale. Would help tilt me towards buying if I knew my wife with her limited knowledge of the series might enjoy it as well. She has always chuckled at Borderlands and been happy to catch a story piece here or there, but never played or sat down and watched the first two games because the gameplay bored her.
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Very little. If she listened to/watched you play them and seemed to like that that'd probably be plenty and she'd probably get a kick out of Tales. Some characters show up from 1/2/1.5, but I don't really remember anything that was specifically geared toward people who played the games. There are one or two jokes that poke fun at the gameplay of Borderlands, but that's about it.

I also thought it was maybe the best of Telltale's interactive cartoons. Your choices are still 90% meaningless like the others and the ending falls flat like on most of 'em, but Tales from the Borderlands had some really good moments in it.

 
MSI Magus said:
Cracks me up how much we see people here bitching that games are overpriced and not discounted enough yet games like Fallout, Undertale, and quite a few other big expensive/not discounted games get mentioned over and over as games to buy/being bought. Not trying to judge, its just a way CAG and deal hunters are constantly two faced. I mean even on steam at the community forums there are soooooo many complaints about the number of games under 50% off ......yet 11 of the best selling 16 games on sale are 50% or under.

Things don't change because as much as we humans love to bitch we love to contradict ourselves more.
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Most of those games have been steeply discounted for four or five years now. Chances are most people own them. Re: Tales from the Borderlands. You don't 'play' it, you sit there and watch and sometimes hit button every ten minutes.

 
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spoderman said:
Undertale will probably take at least a year to get bundled though, it's selling extremely well. It makes sense to buy it now rather than later if you really want to play it. I'm considering buying GTA5 because I want to play it and the steam version is only available on steam plus I don't want to wait for another steam sale.
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Yeah, that's a totally valid point. Undertale does have a ton of buzz and it'll probably ride that wave into a late 2016 bundle. I've bought a number of games because I just wanted to play them now. I think many people feel the same about various games and genres. I'm considering GTA V as well for the exact same reasons.

Those are the games that are going to sell well, regardless.

 
The whole 'potentially bundled' thing has been turned on its head with the advent of Humble Monthly.  Not something you can rely on anymore.

 
I bought Fallout 4 pre-launch for $30 and sold it cuz I'm too cheap to pay that much and not committed enough to play it out of my backlog. I don't care enough to buy Mad Max over $10. I'm not buying GTA V, likely ever, since I think those games are shit. Obviously his opinion is just his opinion, and he's not a regular so it's very loosely based. MysterD is the closest person we have to his "omg AAA hype plebs" ranting.

Edited to remind you guys that this is PC. We're not consoletards. They're still paying $4 for shit bundle games like Desert Ashes and $10 for Thief, and we're getting pre-orders for next to nothing.

 
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