Topic: The Unofficial Steam Sales Thread

http://www.screwattack.com/news/nvidia-teases-half-life-3

God damn it, Valve. Why did you have to make me associate your most anticipated game with crowbars?

EDIT: Also, Nvidia is announcing something at 3:30 AM tomorrow (April 29th).

EDIT: Apparently I was wrong; Nvidia is announcing something between 7:30PM PST and 8:30PM PST tonight. Source: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/zombies_crowbars_and_br...

Just edited my post with the crowbar images. Apparently Nvidia is announcing something between 7:30PM PST and 8:30PM PST tonight. Personally I'll have to sleep through the time-slot as my hopes are not that big.

The "Big Reveal" that Nvidia had planned was most likely this. I guess I was in the right to not get my hopes up.

It seems that Valve is going to make some sort of announcement. Most likely about the Pyro update.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/t08wy/valve_prepping_f...

Bastion is 60% off now. I got the soundtrack edition .

First one sucks, this one is gonna suck. Of course its 3 Bucks. Smh.
Thank God I only had to pay .50 Cents for that.

EA indie bundle on sale including warp, shank, shank 2, gatling gears, deathspank and deathspank thongs of virtue also not on sale but a ton of new megadrive/genesis games have just been added to the service too, buying the megadrive games as a bundle will save you money its about half price if you buy them as bundle 5.

50% off arkahm city too!!!.

Today only, grab it NOW

@irken This is two days late, but I already did that on Transformers Day last year.

Look at what we have here...

I did not see that, thanks.

@V8_Ninja Thanks for posting that. Might have missed it otherwise.

I downloaded Tropico 4 for the Free Weekend that goes up the Sunday afternoon. I really enjoyed what I've played so far. I can't afford Tropico 4 right now, but I'm considering getting Tropico 3 or Tropico Reloaded. Anyone have any recommendations?

Well I have the Tropico 3 but I haven't really played it enough to have a firm opinion of it. All I can now say is that it looks pretty and has some nice music. I really need to play more of it.

I think I heard that Tropico 3 and 4 are very similar. So that is probably a decent route to go down.

Thanks, guys. I think I'll wait untill the Summer Sale, I have too many games I'm not playing and a sim game like this won't help.

Anyone know anything about the Commando games? Look interesting. Like a WW2 RTS?

Anyone notice that Portal 2 is 66% off or that you can buy the Portal Bundle for an even better deal?

I wasn't particularly drawn in to the Diablo III hype machine - more so after learning about its always on DRM, which is a shame, because I'm quite fond of those sort of games.

Enter Torchlight 2 - which I've been watching a Yogscast series on, which I've gone ahead and preordered, bagging a free version of Torchlight 1 with it.

That's £14.99 for Torchlight 1+2 versus £12.99 for Torchlight 1 on its own, or indeed whatever Diablo 3 ends up retailing at (I'm guessing at least £34.99).

I also had my eye on either Endless Space or Galactic Civilizations, but I watched some videos on YouTube, and the former looked kind of dull, and the latter looked kind of dull and was in entirely in Czech. Which is a pity, because I really think I'd enjoy that sort of game - expanding through space and building up an empire, researching technologies and battling other ships...

By my first impressions, it could do with a bit more micromanagement, but then I guess I've been spoilt by another space game I enjoyed playing up until recetly - Shores of Hazeron.

If you're reading this, by the way, @Reala, what are your thoughts on Galactic Civilization II? I notice you own the game yourself.

I must also try to play more demos. I bet I'll be able to shave a few titles off my wishlist (currently @ 44 items!)

And here I am, the dude with Steam, who has to wait 95284759456385692764956 hours just to download TF2 'cause of his hellacrap laptop that has a broken keyboard. I have to use a different laptop for everything else because of how bad it is.

P.S I added @edhe. Waiting for response

I found galactic civ 2 to be a lot of fun the tech trees are huge and I feel each civ feels more unique than the actual Sid Meier civilization series, you can't just invade a planet right away you need to research invasion first which removes the chance of simply being wiped out straight away early in the game which I think is a good idea; gives you a fair chance to build your civ up first; also a lot of customisations in vehicles can modify them or create your own.

Overall a really good alternative to the more famous civ series of games; maybe not quite as good as say civ 4 with all its expansion packs but it does have quite a bit of personality in its civs available; more so than the Sid Meier civ series I felt would even go so far as to say its near Alpha Centauri in that regard.