Steam Summer Sale

Started by Oryx July 12th, 2012 11:09 AM
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Today the Steam Summer Sale has started, with tons of games at ridiculously low prices.

http://store.steampowered.com/

New deals every day, every 8 hours, and with random flash sales. Are you planning to blow any money this year on the sale?


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"At these prices, it's practically stealing!"

Now this is why I love Steam. They have these awesome prices and sales that cannot be beaten anywhere else. Seeing that they lowered the price of MW3 to half-off, I am gonna buy up on that! Thanks for posting this! Haven't checked Steam in eons...
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Just one of the reasons why Steam is one of the few digital download platforms that does things right. Been looking forward to this for a while. Nothing for me today, but I'm sure I'll buy a few things over the course of the week.

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I went ahead and picked up Ys: Origin. Forgot that I hadn't picked it up and at 11 bucks and some change, that's quite the deal.
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I highly recommend the daily deal of The Binding of Isaac. The game plus the expansion pack (that triples the content, I heard) is less than 2 dollars in total, and it's a really addicting game with enough difficulty to keep you occupied for quite a while.


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I love Steam sales because they're great for picking up older games of really high quality. The flash deals and daily deals of up to 75% off top-rate games are awesome if there are older games you never picked up, but want to play. Here's what I've got so far this sale:

- Total War: Shogun 2
- Portal 1 & 2
- Legend of Grimrock
- The Witcher
- Audiosurf
- Bioshock 1 & 2
- Skryim
- Left 4 Dead 1 & 2
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I've been looking forward to this all summer. <3 Was disappointed when it didn't start at the end of June but it was so amusing to check out all the people brewing conspiracy theories about what was going on daily deal every day after that.

For a while I was really iffy on the flash deals since some of them were going for only ~5 hours which seems like it would be really easy to sleep through, but they seem to have stabilized a bit at 8 or 10 hour deals and that's good with me.

So far I've gotten:
- Trine 2
- Y's Origin
- L.A. Noire

And I was gifted Analogue: A Hate Story by Zet so . By the end of the sale, I'd like to pick up The Walking Dead, Jurassic Park, Scarygirl, and maybe Game of Thrones. Scarygirl I'll probably pick up regardless but the others I'll only buy if they're on daily or flash deal.

Several times over this sale, I've clicked on a game to add it to my cart because of the deal only to see "You already own this game". Has this been happening to anyone else? I need to start playing through my Steam backlog more vigorously so I remember what I own and what I've bought but never glanced at. XD;
I went ahead and picked up Ys: Origin. Forgot that I hadn't picked it up and at 11 bucks and some change, that's quite the deal.
Aaaalways wait until the last day to buy games in case they become further discounted over the course of the week. Y's Origin went down to ~$7 on a flash deal yesterday so there's always a chance. :P (Though for a game that came out only two months ago, I am surprised it went on further discount.)


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So far, just picked up the Penumbra series, as I've always loved watching videos of the games, and I want to play something different. It was either them or Amnesia (or both), but I thought I'd sample Penumbra before Amnesia.


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So far I've gifted a few titles and gotten... Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition for myself. Feels good, man. I was gonna buy Skyrim, but I figure with that expansion already out there will be a GOTY coming sometime. I'll just wait for that.

Aaaalways wait until the last day to buy games in case they become further discounted over the course of the week. Y's Origin went down to ~$7 on a flash deal yesterday so there's always a chance. :P (Though for a game that came out only two months ago, I am surprised it went on further discount.)
Yeah, I normally do wait til the end... but I wanted to go ahead and start it, as I'd already beaten Oath a few times. XD
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Yeah, I normally do wait til the end... but I wanted to go ahead and start it, as I'd already beaten Oath a few times. XD
Fair enough! I imagine the default deal is more than enough if you've played any of the rest of the series before. :3 I've never touched any of 'em though so I was iffy until the flash deal... although I might've bitten at the end of the sale otherwise.


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Hopefully you like it! I got sucked into the series just this year. I dig it, yo.

Yay, Legend of Grimlock won the vote. At 6 bucks... that's a steal if you're into the old school dungeon crawlers.
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I'm a little disappointed in that because it was on daily deal the first day of the sale but I didn't want any of the listed so I don't care that much.

I really hope voting for things that have already been on further discount doesn't become a trend though. D:


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Staring very intently at The Walking Dead but I'm thinking I might pass on it since it's not even fully "out" yet (only 2/5 episodes are up, I think?) and I do want to read the series before I play this so 40% off just isn't enough for me to bite. :[

Is it just me or have all the Indie Bundles been pretty unimpressive?


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Yeah, that's a game that will be heavily discounted next sale I figure, maybe even 75% off. 40% isn't much worth it I wouldn't think.

I think I've got all the good games from the indie bundles previously. Definitely underwhelming.
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It's especially underwhelming because it looks like the "best" game in most of the bundles (the one carrying it--like Bastion or Braid) are always games that were in previous Humble Bundles. I know there are some people who don't pay attention to those but $10 for one game plus mediocre games as opposed to the $6 minimum for HiB which are all top-notch games...? Yeah, it's really hard to be impressed.

The very first year Steam did indie bundles, I remember they were phenomenal. $5 each and you got games that were normally like $20... and since this was before indie bundles were really a thing, it was so exciting. I remember getting Recettear, Puzzle Agent (one of my favourite games), And Yet it Moves, and some others. $5. There was a great rhythm one too for the same price (included Bit Trip Beat, Audiosurf, and others). I've been disappointed with every indie bundle on Steam since. :(


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I've been looking forward to this all summer. <3 Was disappointed when it didn't start at the end of June but it was so amusing to check out all the people brewing conspiracy theories about what was going on daily deal every day after that.

For a while I was really iffy on the flash deals since some of them were going for only ~5 hours which seems like it would be really easy to sleep through, but they seem to have stabilized a bit at 8 or 10 hour deals and that's good with me.

So far I've gotten:
- Trine 2
- Y's Origin
- L.A. Noire

And I was gifted Analogue: A Hate Story by Zet so . By the end of the sale, I'd like to pick up The Walking Dead, Jurassic Park, Scarygirl, and maybe Game of Thrones. Scarygirl I'll probably pick up regardless but the others I'll only buy if they're on daily or flash deal.

Several times over this sale, I've clicked on a game to add it to my cart because of the deal only to see "You already own this game". Has this been happening to anyone else? I need to start playing through my Steam backlog more vigorously so I remember what I own and what I've bought but never glanced at. XD;

Aaaalways wait until the last day to buy games in case they become further discounted over the course of the week. Y's Origin went down to ~$7 on a flash deal yesterday so there's always a chance. :P (Though for a game that came out only two months ago, I am surprised it went on further discount.)
Did you get the Daily Deal for Trine 2? I know Tom/Sanguinius recommended it to me just yesterday and was saying I should get it and then suddenly Daily Deal, haha.

I want Audiosurf and/or Bit Trip Runner but both of those are just on normal sales so I'm planning on waiting until the last day, because they could easily go on sale even lower at some point. XD; /cheap


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I'm kinda eying that Sega hits collection right now, mostly I can Sonic Generations and Total War for a fraction of the prices plus a bunch of legal Genesis ROMs and Genesis emulators to boot.

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Just went out and bought a $20 gift card, for now I'm looking at daily deals, hoping something too jaw-droppingly good to pass up, and so far nothing has- for me at least, mainly because I have most of the games that I'd want so far.

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Been checking this every day. So far picked up Serious Sam 3, Killing Floor and Two Worlds 2.
Is Two Worlds 2 any good? Is it worth picking up?

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Don't have to sit and stare at The Walking Dead anymore... someone gifted it to me. ♥ Of course, now this means I have to go consume the comics, haha.
Did you get the Daily Deal for Trine 2? I know Tom/Sanguinius recommended it to me just yesterday and was saying I should get it and then suddenly Daily Deal, haha.

I want Audiosurf and/or Bit Trip Runner but both of those are just on normal sales so I'm planning on waiting until the last day, because they could easily go on sale even lower at some point. XD; /cheap
It was the community choice deal for a bit, at the same price as the daily deal today, so I picked it up then. I have no idea what it's really like but I watched the first ep of an LP of it by a group I like and it seemed interesting enough to bite. It has co-op, too, so hopefully I can find someone to play it with. :)

Audiosurf is amazing but it's usually a daily deal somewhere so I'd wait, yeah. It's such a relaxing game and if you don't feel like doing anything but listen to music, you can play that while you listen! Bit Trip Runner though? NOT RECOMMENDED. It's absolutely infuriating. D: I would pay no more than $1 for it and even then you'll probably regret it. It masquerades as a rhythm game but honestly it's a game of rote memorization of jump timing. It's really not very skill-based and it's so unforgiving that it's hard for it to be fun. (If you miss a jump/block/crouch/whatever, you go back to start no matter where you are in the level.) It uh, looks nice though.


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