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So now that it's the holiday season some games that are available through Steam have gone down in price a bit, some more, some less.

I'm just curious if anyone can tell if there's some games here that are like ABSOLUTELY GOOD BARGAIN and shit. I already own TF2, Portal and L4D from there so leave those out.

There's a whole lot of fucking games and I know next to nothing about any of them so if anyone could recommend something then I could go and spend time researching said game(s) to see if I'd like it at all.

Bioshock is for 5€ which seems like a good bargain but I dunno, I never really gave two shits about that game. There's also Doom 1 and Doom 2 for 1 euro each but why would I buy them? I know from skulltag that no one plays them and the single-player is so played through that it doesn't interest me.

I can also tell that I have no interest for World of Goo nor Aquaria.

What is Savage 2? Is it sort of like a mismatch between an RTS and a FPS? It looks good enough and it's just 5 euros.



I noticed that there is actually multiple pages worth of these bargain games but what the fuck man, how can I view them all? Does this include EVERY steam distributed game?

Well anyway there's a Dawn of War collection pack thing which seems pretty rad but man I have no idea if I'll like that so I'll have to look up some further reviews. Talking about RTS games, Multiwinia is there also for 5 euros but I've heard that it has a pretty niche playerbase but I'm going to buy it anyhow because the demo was really fun.

EDIT: Well yes, yes it does apply to all of them. I thought it was just CERTAIN games but it's all of them.
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Well, you can get them for free anyway.
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Well, there are some indie games selling for only 99 cents. That's a pretty good deal I'd say, even if they're easy to pirate.
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If you have HL1 but not the expansions, the expansions are only 99 cents each. Also, Red orchestra is only 7.49, All the Unreal games are 19.99 in a pack, Audiosurf is only 4.99. Theres some other good savings out there, but i cant be bothered to dig past the main page.
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yea i picked up left 4 dead on sale for a pretty nice deal, which was good because we only had 3 out of 4 people willing to go in on a 4 pack.
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If you have HL1 but not the expansions, the expansions are only 99 cents each. Also, Red orchestra is only 7.49, All the Unreal games are 19.99 in a pack, Audiosurf is only 4.99. Theres some other good savings out there, but i cant be bothered to dig past the main page.

Or buy HL1 retail CD for 99 cents. When you add an HL retail key to steam it adds every single expansion pack (including things like CS/DoD) to your account.
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just got tf2. I can't even play it for a week but 10 dollars is a steal. I really like how steam works, I don't even need to have steam installed to buy games.
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I got TF2 and UT3 for 9$ each, L4D for $37.54. Great deals.
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I got me some Portal for 5 bucks, Beyond Good and Evil for 7.50, Far Cry for 7.50 and Psychonauts for 8.50. :D :D
Last Edit: December 29, 2008, 05:00:35 am by hobomasterxxx

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I got me some Portal for 5 bucks, Beyond Good and Evil for 7.50, Far Cry for 7.50 and Psychonauts for 8.50. :D :D
psychonauts is completely free on gamefly
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psychonauts is completely free on gamefly
What is gamefly?

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What is gamefly?

You pay a minimum $16 a month and they send you a game.  When you're done with it, you send it back and they send you another.
It's like NetFlix, except with video games.

He may have meant GameTAP, a distribution service.  http://www.gametap.com
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oh yea i meant gametap sorry. theres actually a bunch of free stuff on that.
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I was looking into gametap once for all the cool little arcade games there but i heard the emulation of said games was terrible.
EDIT: Alright im actually thinking of getting this gametap thing, but ive gotta ask, is gametap itself shit? Cause i would rather buy the game and spare myself from shitty annoying programs than have to tolerate bullshit.
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i just bought tf2 for 10 bucks! i told you guys i'd get the game if wasnt 20 bucks!!
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yeah the steam weekend deals and shit are actually legitimately great. I sort of like Titan Quest but I never owned it and lost the files I had downloaded ages ago but then Steam had it and the expansion together for like 10 bucks one weekend. You can't really go wrong, you can't even go to a theatre for that cheap and even if you only get a week of playtime from them, it's still a pretty good value.
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I was looking into gametap once for all the cool little arcade games there but i heard the emulation of said games was terrible.
EDIT: Alright im actually thinking of getting this gametap thing, but ive gotta ask, is gametap itself shit? Cause i would rather buy the game and spare myself from shitty annoying programs than have to tolerate bullshit.

you have to launch the games from gametap which can get annoying and some of the games (most notably the fighting games) suffer from rare slowdown, but otherwise it's pretty solid for the price.

if you're gonna get it you might as well go gold, it's worth it if only for sam & max which is fucking awesome
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i'm gonna have to look and pray they have sam and max. sam and max is the shit

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i'm gonna have to look and pray they have sam and max. sam and max is the shit
Steam has every single episode of Sam and Max.

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What is Savage 2? Is it sort of like a mismatch between an RTS and a FPS? It looks good enough and it's just 5 euros.

From what I can tell, it uses a similar mechanic to battlefield 2. This confused me though; I went to their website and it's free to try (with an account costing 9.99; a one time fee I assume). But on steam; it's 7.49 (marked down from 9.99). If you get it off steam, does that mean you get an account with that, or are they just selling you something you can get for free off their webpage?