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The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

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Let's see the first Summer Sale week's top sellers (by revenue, microtransactions don't count)!

#10 - Hollow Knight
#9 - Fallout 4
#8 - H1Z1: King of the Kill
#7 - Dishonored 2
#6 - Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition
#5 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
#4 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
#3 - NieR:Automata
#2 - Grand Theft Auto V
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

PUBG is still #1, without any sale.

Second week, just a bit of shuffle and the thing is still on the top:

#10 - DARK SOULS III
#9 - Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition
#8 - Fallout 4
#7 - Dishonored 2
#6 - H1Z1: King of the Kill
#5 - NieR:Automata
#4 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
#3 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
#2 - Grand Theft Auto V
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
 

Infinitron

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Codex Year of the Donut Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
Second week, just a bit of shuffle and the thing is still on the top:

Eurogamer article - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds as the WoW of Early Access multiplayer survival shooters: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...d-from-the-messy-history-of-survival-shooters

EVE is the exception, however, to a brutal rule: these wide-open online sandboxes are not consistent, and they do not last. Games get solved, and as they do their vocabulary shrinks. Those tense personal standoffs over a tin of beans in DayZ's early days were the product of player naivety: over time it became quicker and simpler to shoot each other and as a consequence the game went back to being a shooter. When this happens, it reveals what a multiplayer sandbox is actually about, and in turn this provides an opportunity for somebody else to come along and do that one thing better. As Ultima Online begat EverQuest begat World of Warcraft, so DayZ begat H1Z1 begat PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. There's a bittersweet symmetry to the way that Sony Online Entertainment, now Daybreak, occupy the midpoint of two different epoch-defining family trees.

That's an abridged genealogy: the rise of hunger games modes in Minecraft played an important part, as did the ongoing work of the same ArmA modding community that produced DayZ. It's worth pausing on H1Z1 in particular as the point where these factors coalesced and abruptly pivoted towards the form that Battlegrounds would ultimately adopt. Conceived as a game much closer to DayZ - something that would take advantage of SOE's experience as an MMO developer - H1Z1 instead owed its success to the popularity of its King of the Kill battle royale mode. This was the point where all of those different bloodlines intersected, where wisdom earned through the rapidly iterative process of mod development collided with an ambitious MMO template gradually degenerating into its basic component parts.

A little traditional multiplayer logic - some structure - in other words - made sense of the two. Matches had a defined length, a winner, something resembling item balance, and a metagame. Something of the heady potential of a survival sandbox survived in reduced form, but crucially this act of reduction made those experiences consistent and repeatable. It remained - remains - exciting to run into another player in the wilderness because both knew what to expect from the encounter. The survival shooter gained a measure of coherence, albeit by accident: H1Z1's biggest imperfections stem from the fact that the game it has become was not the game it was originally intended to be.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' tremendous success - at more than four million copies sold in three months, it must be considered among one of the biggest games of year on any platform - is owed to the remarkable-for-being-remarkable fact that it is one of the few games of its type that was conceived from the ground up to be the game that it is. It is very much like H1Z1 and the ArmA mods that made its lead designer's name, but it arrives with the backing of a publisher, with a specific design and scope, with a relatively traditional, easily-understood structure. It takes what was fundamentally appealing about survival sandbox games and makes it quick, accessible, relatively stable, and good-looking: more or less exactly what World of Warcraft did for the MMO, with equivalent results.
 
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Latelistener

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Some gud discounts:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/230070/The_Age_of_Decadence/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/237930/Transistor/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/268870/Satellite_Reign/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/359630/Independence_War_2_Edge_of_Chaos/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/370910/Kathy_Rain/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/336130/Shardlight/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/384110/Pathologic_Classic_HD/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/233550/Another_World__20th_Anniversary_Edition/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/2710/Act_of_War_Direct_Action/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/9760/Act_of_War_High_Treason/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/388880/Oxenfree/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/58610/Wargame_European_Escalation/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/237990/The_Banner_Saga/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/312840/Fahrenheit_Indigo_Prophecy_Remastered/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/214560/Mark_of_the_Ninja/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/222640/Aarklash_Legacy/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/2...Sins_of_the_Fathers_20th_Anniversary_Edition/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/236930/Blackwell_Epiphany/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/258520/The_Vanishing_of_Ethan_Carter/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/355050/Sky_Force_Anniversary/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/214730/Space_Rangers_HD_A_War_Apart/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/6910/Deus_Ex_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/248860/NEO_Scavenger/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/237430/Expeditions_Conquistador/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/292910/Deponia_The_Complete_Journey/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/22340/Call_of_Cthulhu_Dark_Corners_of_the_Earth/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/405820/Turok/
Also:
System Shock Pack
Ground Control Collection

Broken Sword: 20th Anniversary Collection
Black Mirror Bundle
Blackguards Franchise Pack
Valve Complete Pack
Eidos Anthology
Legacy of Kain games
Postal 2 + Paradise Lost
Mordor GOTY
Can't Stop Laughing Bundle (Castle Crashers + BattleBlock Theater)
Gothic Universe Edition
Shadowrun Complete Collection
Life is Strange Complete Season
 

RatTower

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I was kinda burnt out for this steam sale after getting all this good stuff at the GoG sale (the entire D&D Archives - i found myself really enjoying Eye of the Beholder, despite the fact that it bored me to death on the SNES back in the day).

Nevertheless I picked up some stuff.
Among other things Elminage Gothic, Outcast 1.1, Divinity 2 and since I didn't have any of its add ons...

Skyrim: Special Edition :hearnoevil:
 

Unkillable Cat

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Codex 2014 Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy
I was kinda burnt out for this steam sale after getting all this good stuff at the GoG sale (the entire D&D Archives - i found myself really enjoying Eye of the Beholder, despite the fact that it bored me to death on the SNES back in the day).

With that SNES interface I'm not surprised you were bored to death with it.

Glorious PC Master Race and all that. ;)
 

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Lots of stuff to pick up. Most of them in good price range.

Imperium Galactica series.
Act of War series
Quest for Infamy
NEO Scavenger
Eador: Masters of the Broken World
Legacy of Dorn: Herald of Oblivion
Conquest of Elysium 4
King of Dragon Pass
 

Alienman

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Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Codex Year of the Donut Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
My haul so far:

Technomancer - Binge played it over the weekend, loved it. Some issues. Re-spawning enemies and a little bit too much backtracking. Don't usually mind, but god damn some quests take you back 5-6 times through enemy territory.
Drakensang - Not played yet.
Drakensang: The River of Time - Looks and feel charming enough, but having serious trouble getting into it still. The combat feels weird and I don't fully get the system used for leveling and such.
Resonance - Not played yet, but if it's anything like Technobabylon I'm sure I'm going to like it.
Westboro - Not played yet but looks awesome. It looks like Exanima but in a cyberpunk setting.
 

Broseph

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Dex
Gothic 1+2+3
RPG Maker MV
Tales of Symphonia
Wasteland 2 Director's Cut

I'm surprised at how much I like Dex. It has that Shadow Returns art aesthetic that looks really nice.
 
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Why is titan quest so bad

The first quest I put in the game, when we were prototyping it for THQ was modeled after one of the 12 labors of Heracles. The Erymanthian Board was terrorizing a town and the hunters they sent after it hadn't returned. You had to ascend mount Erymanthos, discover the wreckage of the hunter's camp, and then continue on to the snow-capped summit to battle the monstrous board. Of course, I was told we couldn't have snow on the summit because people might not realize it snowed in Greece and then later the whole quest vanished and was replaced by generic crap like retrieving a dowry ring so some chick can get married while monsters are overrunning the world.
 

Dayyālu

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Hmm, I think I'm going to get Titan Quest.
Reading good things about it.

It's a good game with some basic problems in design. And extra difficulties are even more shabby in design.

Restarting the game on normal difficulty and sending Satyrs to the stratosphere is the best thing about it, funnily enough. Ragdolls!

If it's cheap, it's somewhat worth your money. The Codex is merely being edgy.
 

Kev Inkline

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A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
So far I've bought Codex of Victory, but I refunded it almost immediately. The idea was quite good, but it's the kind of game that demands autistic perfection from each turn or you'll get wrecked, run out of resources and then lose the game. I'm not really in the mood for playing a game that feels like you have to guess the most optimal strategy that the developers intended you to do or you lose.
A game with 'Codex' in title requires autistic perfection, makes you think...
+M
 

prettyfits

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Picked up:
Tomb Raider (2013)
Deponia
Black Mirror Bundle
Dragon Age:Origins (Never played it on pc)
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
 

Turjan

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I completely missed that the game that inspired the name of the latest Iron Tower Studio smash hit got a sequel already a year ago.



On sale now ;).
 

ERYFKRAD

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
There are no games that really interest me :(

Insert despair icon here.
Just get a hold of Severance : Blade of Darkness and hack some limbs. Turns :negative: into :positive: very effectively.
 

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