Weekend Impulse Buys - 1/21-24

[cheapo72]

Through the 24th, Impulse offers the following deals:

Tropico 3 $29.99 (25% off)
King's Bounty Gold Edition $33.74 (25% off)
Bob Came in Pieces $7.49 (24% off)
Sword of the Stars Ultimate Edition $14.99 (50% off) [original+Born of Blood+A Murder of Crows]
1C Racing Mega Pack $9.99 (50% off) [4x4 Hummer/AIM Racing/Classic Car Racing/Deathtrack: Resurrection/Streets of Moscow]

Additionally, (almost) all games published by Kalypso Digital Media are 50% off.

List: (link)

Spoiler

Game Name - Sale Price - (Metacritic Score)
Time of Shadows/Dawn of Magic 2 $14.99 (64)
Tropico Reloaded $4.99 (85) (78) (75)
Ceville $9.99 (73)
Grand Ages: Rome $14.99 (72)
Imperium Romanum $7.49 (63)
Imperium Romanum: Emperor $4.99 [included in Gold]
Imperium Romanum: Wilds of Germania $2.49 [included in Gold]
Imperium Romanum: Conquest of Brittania $2.49 [included in Gold]
Imperium Romanum: Gold $9.99
Hollywood Pictures 2 $7.49
Star Assault $7.49

Metacritic:
Tropico 3 (79)
King's Bounty (79)
King's Bounty: Armored Princess (82)
Sword of the Stars (68)
Sword of the Stars: Born in Blood (79)
Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows (75)
Death Track: Resurrection (54)


Streets of Moscow review

I couldn't find much info on Classic Car Racing, 4x4 Hummer, and AIM. But the screenshots did look really nice


Demos:
King's Bounty: The Legend
King's Bounty: Armored Princess
Tropico 3
Sword of the Stars
Death Track: Resurrection

 

[Nyxaz]

Did they not see the Steam sale of King's Bounty for $11 last week?

 

[DukeEdwardI]

I like Stardock as a company and I like the Impulse platform, but they REALLY need to step up on their deals. Every now and then they'll have something, but not often and Steam usually beats their price (Braid has been $5 twice on Steam, and I don't think it's gone below $10 on Impulse).

And how many times are they going to put Sword of the Stars and the Kalypso catalog up for sale? I feel like I see those games on sale every week.

 

[LurkerLito]

Unfortunately Stardock does not have the clout that steam does nor the userbase so it will probably be a while till they could offer something like King's Bounty Gold for $11. As much as I try to buy more on impulse, I still end up buying significantly more on steam because of the prices. I am really enjoying the KB series, and would have preferred it on impulse than steam just so I could double click the game and play without having to login to my Steam account. I was a bit ticked off the other night when I couldn't play any steam games cause I had a 20 minute outage on my ISP's side. That is the worst thing about Steam, no games unless you had the clairvoyance to know an outage was going to happen and put it in offline mode.

 

[kbomb84]

[quote name='LurkerLito']Unfortunately Stardock does not have the clout that steam does nor the userbase so it will probably be a while till they could offer something like King's Bounty Gold for $11. As much as I try to buy more on impulse, I still end up buying significantly more on steam because of the prices. I am really enjoying the KB series, and would have preferred it on impulse than steam just so I could double click the game and play without having to login to my Steam account. I was a bit ticked off the other night when I couldn't play any steam games cause I had a 20 minute outage on my ISP's side. That is the worst thing about Steam, no games unless you had the clairvoyance to know an outage was going to happen and put it in offline mode.[/QUOTE]

I had an outage for 4 days and if you start steam up, it takes about 5 mins to say it cannot connect and if you want to start in offline mode. As crappy as that is, at least it does work, eventually.

 

[DirkBelig]

As much as I'd love to support Stardock for their pro-customer policies, in the end it's all about the Benjamins baby and Steam and D2D just crush them price-wise. However, after the awesome D2D is Five and Steam Holiday sales when D2D and Steam's prices look weak now, Impulse is really out on their own.