The Game Deals Thread (Steam, GamersGate, Good Old Games, etc.)

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edited 13th May '14 4:55:05 PM by GlennMagusHarvey

Gamefly Digital is doing a sale at the moment, and today's iteration of it is RPG daft. Everything from Fallout New Vegas to Dishonored and Quake.

http://digital.gamefly.co.uk/?stop_mobi=once&cid=ssd5uk060314#!/promotion/341

There's a special "farewell to arms" promo going on at GOG right now. It revolves around the ARMA series, which is leaving GOG and other digital distribution services later this June to go Steam only. 80% off if you buy the whole thing, 60% off if you're buying separately.

The possible reasons for them doing this range from Gamespy (their multiplayer service) closing down and willingness to move on to a different, more reliable multiplayer platform in Steamworks, to simply deciding that selling their games on services not named Steam isn't worth it, and everything in between.

I'm sure I bought Arma Gold online somewhere but I am beggared if I can remember which online service I bought it from. There's so damned many of them.

What would that mean for people who get it on GOG now?

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Like every other game that was eventually removed from GOG, you can still redownload it anytime after its removal from the store.

gog.com's summer sale is on now.

http://www.gog.com/

There are Elder Scrolls games on sale on Steam until sometime tomorrow morning. I've never played one, and if I get one now it will probably be quite some time before I get around to playing it (i.e. probably long enough for other sales to come by, although I don't know how often sales for these particular games occur). Skyrim LE is still a bit expensive for me, but I'm thinking of getting Morrowind and possibly Oblivion. Any advice?

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Morrowind is a good game but the combat engine was broken from the start. You could spend what seems like hours flailing at an enemy but if the game decides you haven't hit him, you won't do him any damage. They sorted that stuff out quite quickly when they decided to make Oblivion.

Best advice is to hang around the forums for the respective games online, both here and elsewhere. The games have been out for years and just about everything that the games include has been discussed by now.

When you do get whichever game seems best, do at least one playthrough of the vanilla version before you mod it within an inch of its life. That way you know what the game makers intended you to experience, and also what it's like when you say "I want more from it and I have the tools to do so".

and also because once you start modding theres very little chance of you making it through to the end of a main storyline.

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also what the fuck, online is 24.99 at a 50% discount?

a subscription game and the initial payment itself was originally 50 pounds (-1p) for the basic edition!?

edited 21st Jul '14 1:18:13 AM by Tarsen

Insert "this game is already on the downwards slope to free to playdom" rant here.

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Gamefly doing a sale on Nordic Games titles:

http://digital.gamefly.co.uk/#!/promotion/633

Up to 75 percent off.

edited 21st Jul '14 11:33:51 PM by TamH70

From now until August 5, there's a Steam sale on updated versions of both Trine games. Both games are 80% off, and you'll save a bit more money by purchasing them as a bundle.

I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!

And -50% on 100% Orange Juice for another 3 days!

Even better deal on 100% Orange Juice: https://groupees.com/babmb

So, the Bundle-in-a-Box is shutting down in a couple days.

If you've bought any bundles there, now's your last chance to grab all the downloads, Desura keys, and Steam keys, before the site goes down. The keys can be gotten by saving the webpage (they're in the source), but the other downloads...well, you'll just need to get them.

For what it's worth, I have a couple extra keys for the Eclectic Delights bundle, which consists of the following:

• Delve Deeper [D][S], including 2 DLC packs: Gratis Grottos and Treasures & Tunnels
• "Hexadecimal" (soundtrack of Droidscape: Basilica)
• Eversion [S]
• Fibrillation [D]
• Flibble
• Human Tanks I: War of the Human Tanks [D][S]
• Sound of the Human Tanks (soundtrack of Human Tanks I)
• Skylight [D]
• Shadows on the Vatican - Act I: Greed [D][S]
• Shadows on the Vatican - Act II: Wrath [D]
• Shadows on the Vatican (soundtrack)
• Stay Dead [D]
• The 4th Wall
• The Adventures of Shuggy [D][S]
• The Adventures of Shuggy (comic)
• The Adventures of Shuggy (soundtrack)

[D] = Desura key
[S] = Steam key
All products are available via direct download too.

If you're interested, let me know. Note that the key codes themselves will work later but the bundle has to be opened and downloads have to be gotten, like, now.

For those of you who don't have the Witcher games released so far, and want a heads-up on the characters and setting and so on for "The Witcher 3 - The Wild Hunt", yet don't want to pay lots of money for them on Steam, well, you're in luck.

Both "The Witcher" and "The Witcher 2" are available for an 80 percent discount right now on Gog.

http://www.gog.com/promo/the_witcher_1_2_special_promo_150814

edited 15th Aug '14 9:38:30 AM by TamH70

For another seven hours and change:

go here: https://www.humblebundle.com/store

Free Warlock: Master of the Arcane.

And also at the Humble Store: Stealth Bastard Deluxe for $1.49 (-85%).

It's the Humble Store's end-of-summer sale.

edited 9th Sep '14 2:13:23 AM by GlennMagusHarvey

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-ca/capcom-sale/cid=STORE-MSF77008-9_CAPCOMSALE

Capcom sale on the PSN.

4 of them are already on my purchases list. Might re-buy CvS2 just for online play.

Is Jurassic Park the Game a worth while buy at $7.50?

Nooooooo.

Not unless you want to make fun of it.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

That Bad? I know it's considered one of Telltales weaker efforts, but I didn't know it was completely awful. I'm not talking about Jurassic Park Trespasser.

Tropico 3 is free on Humble Store for the next half day or so.

A whole lot of Valve stuff (Half-Life etc) is on sale at the moment, seemingly for the next week or so.

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They just released Darkstone on Steam, and it's half off the first week. (Amusingly enough, even at full price it's a dollar cheaper on Steam than on GOG.)

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)

There's a huge sale on Paradox games going on on Steam until October 6, with deep discounts (up to 75%) on games like Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, and Magicka, with all the DLC trimmings.

There are also deals on some of their lesser-known published titles, such as Dungeonland, Cities in Motion, Knights of Pen and Paper, and The Showdown Effect.

I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!