Topic: Steam Summer Sale 2016 (someone help me)

[PyroMenace]

God... and there's still dozens of others I would throw in my cart but these are the ones that managed to slip through.

[W7RE]

Is that just for the season pass, or does that include Borderlands TPS? That seems like a lot for a lackluster season pass for a game that was partially ignored because it was outsourced.

Dying Light is good, and the Following is mostly good. Not a bad choice.

I haven't played an AC game since 2, so I wouldn't know.

Wolfenstein: The New Order is a great choice, especially at that price. Best game, and best deal in your cart.

[PyroMenace]

I have a really close fondness to Borderlands and I've been wanting the season pass for sometime now, I know it's going to be worth to me. Assassin's Creed I'm a little bit of the same way, I've played every main line game up to Black Flag and I bought Unity not too long ago for $12 at a EB games. I've heard good things about Syndicate so now it's going to be a matter of how much I can stomach Unity after all the mediocre things I heard, I managed to get through AC3 so I'm really hoping it won't be another one of those.

Dying Light and Wolfenstein I've been really impressed with everything I've seen and are the ones I'm mostly likely to actually play than sit in my library.

[Cobra951]

TPS is a fine Borderlands-2 offshoot.  The added dynamics are low gravity and no air in much of the moon (Elpis).  If you're a BL junkie like me, you have to get it.  I spent months on it.

AC Syndicate's biggest strength is the game world, which is London.  Huge and very well realized, bustling with Victorian activity.  You get to alternate between a male and female character, usually at will, though not always.  Each can be specialized in approach, with the guy being the brawler, and the girl being the stealth master.  But you can make either of them skilled at either approach.  The gangs are a good element, and you can recruit up to 5 gang members at a time, when fully specced into it.  The character progression is rather involved, and entertaining.  Nothing tops AC4: Black Flag for me, but I found Syndicate more worthy than Unity.  You may not get to sail a tall ship, but horse-drawn carriages are a consolation--oh, and trains.  The parkour mechanics are probably the best yet.  Rather important in an AC game.

Wolfenstein is a good buy at that price.

Edit:  After reading your last post more carefully, let me say that Unity is a good game.  All the hate comes from the buggy initial release.  5 patches later, Ubisoft finished the development job rather well.

[MysterD]

AC Games:
I loved both Black Flag + Syndicate.

Unity I liked, but surely didn't love. Beautiful-looking game & I love that it's set in France - but yeah, it's not too much different than much of the earlier AC's....which is NOT what I want out of a AC game.

After AC Black Flag, honestly - the game series has been changed. We need more AC's that are doing interesting traversals, mission-types, and mechanics to keep the series fresh. I do not want to be like in AC1,2,3,Revelations, and Unity constantly always running and platforming 90% of the time & not many different mission-types. The series really burned me out by Revelations. Traversal needs to be broken-up, which both Black Flag + Syndicate got right. Black Flag w/ the ship traversal & Syndicate w/ the Batman Arkham-like rope-launcher, the moving train hub-base going around the game-world, & carriages really changed the series for the better and pushed it forward. Plus, less tailing missions in Syndicate really helped matter, as well.

Wolfenstein: TNO:
Can't recommend that FPS enough. Get it. Wolf: TNO is all kinds of awesome.
I really need to get around to Wolf: The Old Blood, sometime soon - had it for a bit, but just ain't gotten to it.

About the Steam Sales:
I normally wait until final day or close to it, since prices usually don't change much b/c they are trying to avoid getting slapped w/ refunds if prices change.

Also, a lot of other sites - i.e. such as Amazon DVG (Digital Video Game division) - purposely will either match or top Steam's prices. If you have Gift Card money, vouchers, or other things for certain sites - you can really save some money buying elsewhere. I really ain't seen much on Steam Sale that I think is at a worthwhile price for me yet; I've seen better prices elsewhere; there are better offers elsewhere; I'm still digging through games in my backlog and don't need a certain game yet; and/or whatever the case might be.

One of the few things I might be interested in is the Arcania + Gothic Pack at $5 at some places (Steam, IndieGala, WinGameStore, etc). Sure, I have 90% of this from retail (Gothic 1,2,3 and G3: FG) and Arcania games DRM-FREE from Amazon DVG - but I don't really want to break-out multiple discs, deal w/ disc DRM, having to patch things up, and any other bloody nonsense. Thing is: IndieGala gives you a free random game if you buy something from them, while WinGameStore has a 5% off coupon - it ain't much, but still....again, this proves there are better deals than Steam got going on, if you look hard enough.

IsThereAnyDeal can really do wonders w/ price-watching, price-checking, voucher-looking, promo-code looking, and things of that sort.

Also, Borderlands TPS Season Pass has in the past been $9.89 before on GameStop PC download, according to ITAD:
https://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/info?plain=borderlandspresequelseasonpass

[PyroMenace]

Edit:  After reading your last post more carefully, let me say that Unity is a good game.  All the hate comes from the buggy initial release.  5 patches later, Ubisoft finished the development job rather well.

That's good to hear because AC3 was fucking god awful about that. It was one of those most unstable and bug ridden games I've played and Ubisoft never bothered to fix it, or just gave up because it was a lost cause.

[gpw11]

I picked up a couple of things and I'm also kind of tempted to pick up an Assasin's Creed game but I still have some time left in Black Flag so maybe on the next sale.   One thing I've noticed though is that the Steam Sales are super boring now that they just have the same deals all week.  The new system (stemming from the refund policy?) really kind of killed the fun for me.