Submitted 2 weeks ago by BurntWits@sh.itjust.works to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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I think it’s been 3 consecutive years now that ive been waiting on a deep sale for some titles, but they have yet to reach lower than 10 bucks (max I’m willing to pay).
Some of them aren’t particularly old releases so I dont mind waiting more:
I might get those:
I assume I still got a few years until Baldur’s Gate 3 dips below $20.
Yeah! I’m wanting that game.
I have about $15 in steam credit, so I’m thinking of just pulling the trigger even though I have other games I’m actively playing.
You prob played them already, but the Divinity: Original Sin games are on deep discount
If you wait too long, larian’s new game will be out
UFO50 is good value even when it isn’t on sale imo. So much content crammed into it!
No Man’s Sky is fun and worth it
auomata is so so so worth it
Depends on what you’re looking for. I’d confidently recommend against buying it if you’re looking for an action game. There’s at least 10 better, cheaper candidates on Steam.
Definitely get Card Shark if you have a gamepad. I bought it a couple days ago, and I’m in love with it.
Oh wow thanks for the reminder, i actually live close to where that game stars off, so it’s a must play haha
At first I read “Wired West” and got hopeful for a new person experiencing Dust for the first time.
here is your reminder to take a peek over on GOG aswell. personally found steam’s offerings pretty lacking this year. GOG’s; less so.
True, I however got a Steam voucher as a present recently so it made more sense to use it for this. GOG doesn’t do vouchers or do they? Couldn’t find it last time I looked, you can gift specific games though. I might just be blind.
Anyway, to keep with theme of the thread I got 3 games for my voucher:
Dave the diver
Tunic
The last campfire
I remember Stranglehold being mind-blowing for its time. I’m pretty sure I had a physical copy that is long gone, but 5 bucks is not much to see how it has held up.
I highly recommend Jump Space if you can recruit your buddies! It’s pretty similar in terms of gameplay feel to Deep Rock Galactic - team play is pretty rewarding, goofing off won’t penalize you too hard. Worth every penny so far
Or just make sure you check isthereanydeal.
Slay the spire ringed is the lowest its ever been
One of my favorite games
Nothing, absolutely nothing. My backlog is huge with games that have hours to play.
This appears to be written in English, but I can’t make sense of it.
We must feed the backlog, always.
Number go up.
makes completion rates go down though, and adds an awful lot of zeroes (hours played)
net negative on the numbers, chief
According to isthereanydeal, these sales aren’t nearly as good as they were last seasonal sale in June
Whelp, either GameBillet, GreenManGaming, GOG or pirqcy
Gamebillet has been killing it lately
I seem to already have all the deep discounts I‘d be interested in… I currently only buy 80%+ discounts (if anything) since experience has taught me that anything lower than this will get there again very soon, so I’m not missing out by skipping now. I have like 200 untouched games anyway so I‘d probably just be throwing more on the pile… Gifts for friends are in the cart tho
So far just dlc for games I already own. Maybe I’ll get Slime Rancher.
I love Slime Rancher! Highly recommend.
I’m getting a 4-pack of Tabletop Simulator. Not sure if that counts, since I already did that once—I have new people to try to rope into playing boardgames digitally with me, lol.
Board Game Arena is so good already, though!
I have a lot of games I haven't played yet in my library, so I will patiently wait for another sale
Where can I learn this skill?
I know this isn’t all _that _ helpful but for me what worked was finally forcing myself to start playing a couple of the games in my backlog. It made me realize that I can really enjoy a lot of the games I already own which decreased my desire to buy new games.
My plan to work on my backlog this fall has utterly failed. Instead I’ve not been playing any games at all for the past month and a half, instead just working on a mod for STALKER Anomaly. Consequently I know in my heart of hearts that the right thing to do is not spend any money this sale. However, I am still looking at:
Tails of Iron (-92%)
The Banner Saga (-85%)
Bloodstained: Ritual of Night (-75%)
Virgo Versus The Zodiac (-75%)
Road 96 (-75%)
HYPER DEMON (-75%)
INMOST (-70%)
Trepang2 (-66% - if it was any lower I would just snap it)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was fun. It did evoke feelings of nostalgia for me, since Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was one of my favorite games back in the late 90s (tied with Resident Evil) and still one of my favorites of all time. I’m personally not a huge fan of the art style and it does lack a bit of polish here and there, but overall good especially at 75% off. Hope you enjoy it.
The one that looks tempting which I might actually get around to playing some day if I buy it is Hades.
Hades 1 & 2 are so good!
Played Hades 1, it’s super good when it clicked, if not it will feels like any other roguelike.
Dooooo iiiiiiit, Hades is so fucking gooooood
Hades is definitely right down my alley, even though I’d never played anything quite like it before. It’s one of the games that reignited my enjoyment for gaming, a hobby that I mostly set aside for about 20 years. It’s one of the very few games I can fire up when I have a bit of spare time and even though I’ve played through the levels a hundred times, it’s still so much fun.
I’ve tried to get into Hades 2 and so far it hasn’t captured that same level of enjoyment. I think I prefer the relative simplicity of the original and the fact that it takes much less time to start feeling powerful in the original. Much more rewarding. Of course, my opinion on that might change.
Fucking buy the game already. It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played.
It’s worth full price. Very, very few games are worth the full price.
I’d buy this game again on Steam if I could.
I put it down after about 20 hours, then came back after a few months and 100% it. Honestly that I gotta escape 10 times slog was demoralizing but worth it and very gratifying
Never played Doom 2016 but I’ve heard it’s very good.
Doom 2016 was my game for last year and into early this year. For what it’s worth, I enjoyed it quite a bit once I got into it. I tried to start it a few times and that didn’t work out, but then suddenly last winter, it all just clicked.
I had also tried Doom Eternal, and that’s not my thing. Doom 2016 lets you play at your own pace, your own style, and make your own choices on how to play … mostly. Doom Eternal you basically have to play it the way THEY want you to play and use the weapons THEY want you to use and if you don’t then you’re in for an unfun struggle. Doom 2016 isn’t really like that, in my opinion and experience.
One of the yt gamers I watch made a comment about how by the end of Doom the final boss isn’t the mastermind, it’s you. The demons are trying to survive the doomslayer as you rip and tear
Inscryption is fantastic. Enjoy it!
It’s also available on gog
If anybody is into vr, a lot of vr stuff is on sale right now
Well, be patient and buy it next year with frame
Yup, I’m super tempted to start stocking up on cheap VR games in anticipation for the Frame, but I need to see the final price and be 100% sure I’m going for it before I commit to games that I can’t otherwise play.
Anything in particular?
Highly depends on your vr experience and what type of games you’ve played.
Horror on VR is on a completely different level.
But some games that I put in a good pile are:
Arken age, Fujii, Zero Caliber, Contractors, Hotdogs Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Vermillion, Kayak VR mirage, Until You Fall, After The Fall, Half-Life Alyx, Down the Rabbit Hole, Vanishing Realms, Anthro Heat, and Google Earth VR.
It’s hard to find well rounded games that are also fleshed out. You generally get one or the other. H3 (hotdogs horseshoes and hand grenades) is one example, where the guns are top tier (and oh god the mods are so extensive) and the dev is STILL releasing updates weekly, even though the game came out in like 2016 or something, which is basically the first rush of VR. H3 basically has no story or continuity, and is very much a sandbox game. The dev adds in this and that and maybe a new gamemode or map or feature, but that game is really what you make of it. And I’ve dropped a few hours in, heh.
Arken Age, on the other hand, is kind of the opposite. That’s a somewhat linear explorer adventure game with a story (it’s also a much newer game… with more Meta money), and while it has SOME depth, it’s very much NOT a sandbox game. It’s closer to a Zelda game with guns and swords. Not my personal favorite, but still fun.
The Kayak one is cool, but feels like a big dev trying to make a money grab, until you realize it’s a very small indie studio of only a few people trying to pay bills and just charge too much for dlc because they’re probably too young or overvalue their work… i personally like their dlc, even if they’re really overpriced. Like very overpriced. I think they’re charging like $20 for each map that should be 10$ for all of the existing maps. And the progression feels live-service paced (slow). But it really is nice to just sit down in VR and kayak around in a beautiful, and sometimes exciting world.
I could talk about this for a long, long time. I’ll try to wrap it up.
Half life alyx is great, but VR has conventions that are developing and coming into popularity over time. An example of what I mean is this:
On a modern pistol, you have several controls. You have the gun itself, the magazine, the magazine release, you have the slide, the slide release, and the trigger. Which buttons do you map to what? The trigger and magazine release are pretty easy, but what about grabbing the slide vs grabbing the pistol itself? What about adding on a sight? What about a scope? What if you want to zero in or adjust the scope? Can you two-hand hold the pistol? Can you partial out the magazine to check how many rounds are in it? Can you add in individual rounds to a partial magazine? Are magazines unique or can you just drop a mag and release and not waste rounds? How far in do you have to load a magazine before it pulls itself the rest of the way in? Can you manually cock a hammer?
Now, what if you have a double barrel, side by side shotgun? Or fire modes?
You get the point. It’s a lot different in VR. If you play enough games, you definitely see the trends come and go.
Back to half life alyx, that game is really good, but it’s a game from 2019, and technology and conventions can move FAST. Some stuff catches on, other stuff gets forgotten, innovation usually keeps pushing.
I think a large part of VR right now is watching and being part of this insanely young medium figure itself out in ALL of the ways. What a time to be alive.
Oh! Another thing I’ve noticed, is that older VR games, especially ones funded by meta/oculus, liked to show trailers of players superimposed over in-game footage. It’s fucking awful and cringe, but I do understand where they’re coming from, trying to show off a very new technology to the masses that HEY, THIS IS VR AND YOU HAVE ACTUAL PRESENCE. Or currently, where trailers try to show off the game by recording players ACT out stuff in game by flailing or physically reacting to stuff in game. Like shielding your face from an explosion or flailing your arms when flying through the air. Unfortunately, it looks just pre-rendered motion and once the potential buyer figures that out, it’s like realizing you’re being lied to and instantly erodes trust. But at the same time, you have to advertise to NEW vr players, who honestly DO react like that a lot of the time. Even I sometimes still flinch or fight aggressively in games that have you use swords. Like Until You Fall.
Oh, I also forgot to add Into the Radius. Those two games (1&2) are deeply flawed, but really fun stalker-type games. Best in class 100%. They’re both somehow still being developed. The mod scene in the first game is much better, but the second one is coming along nicely, and recently just had an update that added in gun PARTS. Like uppers, lowers, trigger assemblies, barrels. Real h3 mods type stuff. But all in a world of horror and supernatural anomalies and death and shooting guns. I’m holding off playing more for the devs to finish the games, which may take a year or two. They’re fun now, but they keep adding in big patches that change the game a lot and it messes with the challenge continuity for me.
Ugh. I need to cut off my spiel.
Uh, tldr: buy hl:alyx and anthro heat, and don’t sleep on Google Earth vr because it’s free. Oh, arizona sunshine is a finished product and worth actually playing through. Sorry for my adhd.
None of my wishlist games were under 10€ so I skipped all of the deals there. Instead I bought (or put to the cart as I wanna sleep over my decisions) lots of DLCs to Total War Warhammers, Powerwash Simulator and other games I already own and like to play.
One new game I want to purchase is the Case of the Golden Idol which looks really interesting
Good idea, the Total War Warhammer 3 DLC are appealing (when you just want to own all those factions), but base price is just too steep for individual expansions
Too poor to be in this community
Hey, there are always the free games given away by Epic and others…
Might be time to grab Psychonauts at -85% (C$12). The first game was great. Not too much else I’ve been tracking is at a price I’d go for at the moment, though I haven’t looked past my wishlist for now.
Darksiders bundle and Halo Master Chief Collection.
Sifu. Not that old but cheap enough
I bought two:
ACE COMBAT™7: SKIES UNKNOWN - $4.79 (Flying makes me hard)
Detroit: Become Human - $3.99 (always looking for something to experience with my barely-gamer s/o)
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is usually around $20 and seems worth it at that price and it is at $10 which seems like a genuinely great deal for a city builder/transit game.
isthereanydeal.com/game/…/info/
Riftbreaker at $11 is tempting too
The Harry Potter game probably
Hi-Fi Rush has been at $17.99 for about a week now, didn’t know that the winter sale was live so I thought DekuDeals was lying to me and jumped on that purchase.
2 days ago snatched Tomb Rider trilogy for under 6 euro.
Today got Slay the Spire, Witcher 3 and Detroit: Become Human for under 10.
I grabbed a bunch of adventures over at GOG: Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard, The Last Door, Black Mirror, Quern, and newly rereleased JRPG classic Breath of Fire IV.
I got Fallout 4’s DLC - primarily so I can play Fallout London. I also picked up X4: Foundations, and Fallout 76 as well. All were pretty heavily discounted.
I picked up Ikaruga. I can feel the input delay, but it’s still fun.
Picked up lords of the fallen and it’s been scratching that souls-like itch I’ve had since I finished elden ring.
Picked up Eastern Exorcist. Got it for free for Android from epic but no gamepad support. So now I buy the Steam version for gamepad support. Solid game
Palworld. Even though it never goes below 20€
I was looking at Fallout 76 since its 90% off but what’s the concensus on it? Plan is to play with the wife.
Vein. Bought a full copy today, been playing their free demo version. Still in development, but potentially a great game for people who enjoy crafting survival. You explore and scavenge for components you need to build supplies to survive. Everything can be broken down with the right tools. It’s not a fast-pace bloody hack and slash game, but more focused on building, occasionally dealing with zombies that want to eat your brains.
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I spent way too long thinking “my body is a machine…” was the title of a game lol. Incredible meme.