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

Gamers Gate is doing an up to 50% off sale on Bethesda titles this week.

http://www.gamersgate.com/campaign/706/bethesda-week?aff=ggnews

They've got two listings for the Go TY version of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, so pick the cheapest one if it's got all the stuff.

Dragon Age Origins, Dead Space and Sim City 3000 have arrived to Good Old Games, and are currently 60%, 60% and 50% off respectively.

Green Man Gaming are having a sale too:

https://www.greenmangaming.com/summer-sale-final-frontier/

It's heavily science-fictionish so your mileage may vary on whether or not you want to buy anything.

If anyone's ever been on the fence regarding Life is Strange and it's episodic design, now you've got a chance to download the 1st episode for free on Steam. Still gotta pay for the rest of the episodes though.

Oh shit son it's another quake con special. Watch your wallet for Doom 4 is coming along and is hitting for half price.

It's like a real steam sale in august.

How is Dishonored? I've had my eye on that for a bit.

You get punished for playing it the way that makes most sense given the setting and the plot. I.E. don't you dare kill any of these corrupt police types or you'll get a really shitty ending. Or kill anything else for that matter. We've got more information on it in our pages on the game, but that's my personal feelings on the title.

Arkham Knight is also n sale. Did the PC version ever get un-borked?

Slightly. But not completely. I'd still advise getting the console versions, if possible.

Well, Humble Bundle has this going on at the moment.

It looks like a great deal, but I'm wondering, would all those games actually work on my machine? Some of them are fairly recent and sound like they might have high graphics requirements. I'm running 64-bit Windows 7 on an FX-6300, a 2GB Radeon 7790 and 8GB of RAM, does that fall short for any of those games on a 1280X1024 monitor?

Try this website. It does a diagnostic run on your PC to see if it can run any of the games you mentioned.

Also, GOG.com has it weekly discount staff picks for these games.

Steam currently has Spore at 5CAD and the Spore complete bundle at 10CAD, for the next 20 hours or so. Worth it?

Haven't played it, but personally I wouldn't touch it even if it was cheaper.

I'd check the user reviews to see if the DRM issues are still affecting the game, that'll probably be your biggest concern.

Maybe if they were paying people to download it, I'd consider it.

Spore is not a game I would touch unless the game's page had "We've got rid of that fucking Secu ROM DRM garbage, honest!" written on it. Because there's nothing that makes a game better than system ruining rootkitty spyware.

October is coming to an end, any word on a Halloween/Fall sale?

Humble Bundle and Green Man Gaming are doing something on the lines of a Hallowe'en sale.

Oops. Bundle Stars, I should say.

edited 26th Oct '16 10:30:04 AM by TamH70

Humble Monthly has also got a pretty good pre-release game this month in Stardew Valley.

For $12 I thought it was worth it even if I don't like the other games that get released in around a week.

And then POOF! Steam Halloween sale!

Though, Greenman Gaming has the XCOM expansion I'm looking for.

Origin's Black Friday sale is now on. Some of the discounts are ludicrous, to be honest. For example, the Premium edition of Battlefield 4 is going for less than the base game cost last week.

https://www.origin.com/gbr/en-us/store/deals/bf_supersale

I know Origin's name is dirt in these parts, and elsewhere, but if you are prepared just to hold your nose, and buy some stuff, you're not going to see the games much cheaper elsewhere unless the site's hoisting the Jolly Roger and its staff are singing sea shanties and saying "Arr!!!" a lot.

A Good Bundle: It's a tiered pay what you want ($2 minimum) charity bundle of a crapton of quirky indie games (a few big names like Gone Home in there). Proceeds go 50/50 to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.

If only they were offering Mirror's Edge 2 at the same price for the PS 4, I definitely would've grabbed the digital copy then.

For any PS 4 users... there's a free 10% discount code available for a one-time use only for a few days. Add to that the Black Friday bonuses being offered to PS Plus users, and you can get some pretty good discounts on the digital library.

The Discount Code: D9NGJ7NF3L◊

Playstation Store Black Friday Specials

Steam fall sale is live. Nothing I want seems to be on sale.

There's also a "Steam Awards" thing going on.

Homeworld: Remastered was finally offered on sale for a good discount, so I finally purchased the sucker. Gonna be playing it tonight, provided the Thanksgiving festivities and "family time" don't get too much in the way.

It's also worth mentioning that the awards allow for one "players choice category" where they basically let you choose any game from Steam, be it in your library or not, and give it an award title of your choice. One of the better one's I've seen floating around so far is for No Man's Sky called the "Space Shuttle Challenger" award. A pretty suitable award title for that particular game, if you ask me.