Steam Summer Sale - Anyone got anything good?
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I don't even buy games anymore. Too sick and tired of giving money to a corpo that either hates me from the start or will hate me later. Same with indies.
Same. I just play free incremental idle games. If the dev is cool and not p2w. I’ll make dish out a few bucks.
You mentioned incremental and made me consider how i'm willing to spend more money on interesting substack articles than i am on games. Reading esoteric articles on titanomachy or ussr kabballah is more interesting than leveling up and looking for a mod to deuglify women.
I just found Starburst Incremental. It's nowhere near as complex as Antimatter Dimensions, but has the same understanding of what a prestige should do.
I tend to get them when once or twice a year I forget to pause Humble Choice. Got some decent games over time that I probably would have never played otherwise.
From my personal Steam Game Rankings, here are some games I recommend that are >= 50% off
FTL: Faster Than Light
Super Meat Boy
Devil Daggers
Downwell
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
The Swapper
Primordia [GOG]
Beat Hazard [GOG]
Noita [GOG]
SOMA [GOG]
Hedon Bloodrite
Batman Arkham City [GOG]
30XX
Super Kiwi 64
Pikuniku [GOG]
Hollow Knight [GOG]
Kero Blaster [GOG]
Receiver 2
Gunlocked
The Messenger [GOG]
CRYPTARK [GOG]
Parking Garage Rally Circuit
Gato Roboto [GOG]
Tetrobot and Co [GOG]
When I was an active gamer, I was doing what this guy was doing every Steam sale. I'd use some third-party site which brought up the Steam specials, I'd sort them by discount percentage and look closely at what was 80%+ off. Consequently, I amassed hundreds of games for very little money, the vast majority of which I'll probably never play.
Looking at this list:
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is 85% off and gets my general approval. I have completed this game. I can't remember whether it took dozens or over a hundred hours, however.
The others I either don't know or don't see as worthwhile, i.e. I probably wouldn't buy them with the benefit of foresight. So as for those I know but don't see as worthwhile (regarding the time to finish let alone complete them, that is, not the price):
The BioShock games I view as generic slop. I finished the second one, gave up on the first part way, and never bothered to complete any of them. Avoid.
The Mass Effect games are just 'whatever'. I finished the first game, completed and actually liked the second game (I'm far from the only one who thinks that the second game is a cut above the rest), and gave up quickly on the third. However, since the player character is carried over between games along with the results of certain decisions (e.g. I chose to save Kaidan over Ashley in ME1, which determines which of the two is in the subsequent games), you really want to commit to finishing or completing them in order. It's all or nothing. Today, I'd say it's too time-consuming to be worthwhile. (If you play them out of order, the game assumes a canonical decision, e.g. if you don't use an ME1 player character in ME2, ME2 will always assume that Kaidan is the surviving character of the two: replacing Kaidan with Ashley in the later games requires an ME1 game save in which Ashley was spared.)
The Metro games are very average, run-of-the-mill linear first-person shooters. I completed the first two but do not really have remarks to make on them. They are the closest thing that I'd make to a second recommendation.
The first Mass Effect was amazing. There's so much detail and thought put into the worldbuilding it could be its own 'cinematic universe'. Story has timeless themes even more relevant today. The gameplay was quirky and frustrating, but also charming and immersive. Everybody hates driving the Mako, but because of its physics which puts them more into the world (and also they secretly miss it).
The sequel Mass Effect 2 suffers from fixing things that weren't broken, no real worldbuilding, design by committee, weak proto-woke story. It's simply a mediocre game set in the amazing ME universe. The annoying parts are purposely added just to irritate you, like ammo or fuel to move around a star system, or the stupid planet-probe that people install a mod to bypass.
Mass Effect 3 is another 2, but with more proto-woke garbage.
I sometimes put on a blind lets-play in the background and in the first one everyone is talking about ideas and are interested and surprised by the plot turns. None of that in the sequels. They're not worth playing.
If anyone here hasn't, play the first one and stop. Use your imagination about what comes next after the story.
As me's progressed the action got better but the story got only worse.
Disco Elysium is cunty, pretentious, leftist trash. All the "right wing" traits are clearly inferior to the leftist traits.
2$ for dishonored is definitely a bargain
that game was remarkably replayable and high in quality
though the morality system is libtard tier
though in terms of raw value per dollar, get the Gothic trilogy bundle for 6$ i bought mine for like 4$ back in 2018 and got thousands of hours of entertainment with mods (total conversion packs, which are now on steam's workshop no need to use spine or third party software just put the beta launcher to steam workshop and mod away)
i will admit though, playing the remake definitely ruined Gothic 1 for me because the graphics are just impossible to compare to...
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is like three bucks. If you don't buy it you're crazy.
Can-can: The Video Game.
It's pretty good.
If you haven't played it, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is an excellent look into the DX universe. I replay it and the original DX every so often.
Rebel Galaxy's mechanics got boring pretty quick if I recall, but I still pull the OST up sometimes. They absolutely nailed the space western feel (even if it's largely licensed music).
Blues Saraceno, excellent music.
I’ll definitely have to check some out.
I used some deal with a credit card payment processor Paze and Newegg to buy up a ton of games for next to nothing. It was something like $10 of $10 if you use Paze and Newegg supported it. I filled out my Yakuza/Like a Dragon series from 6 to the most current, bought a Steam version of Bayonetta,Persona 5 Royal a few other things I can’t remember exact for like a total net of $31. It was something like $2 per game on stuff I know I’ll want. I’ll be done for ages now.
I may get Stellar Blade later this year, I kinda want Pragmata, and I may buy a couple Switch cartridges in Japan that would be total JDM non English releases. I can’t think of a western AAA game I’d buy for $2 that’s recent and I have what’s old already. I could have used that same deal to get some of the Sony drivel on PC for pennies and still chose not to. Lately I’ve found myself playing old Xbox 360 Ghost Recon games anyway.
I tried blade recently. Wouldn't recommend it, personally. Played a bit of pragmata and it felt like dark souls game (which ive never played) but with a cute sidekick.
I'm giving Stellar Blade a bit of extra credit for fighting back against the stupidity, but I'm still iffy on whether I'd enjoy, but I'll probably try it. Pragmata won't be a soon purchase at all if ever. There's no way I pay anywhere close to full price for it.
As soon as i got over the horny phase, i felt like i was playing a very mediocre slasher with nothing to it. I had a thought "would i play this game if the main protag was a gruff dude?" and that's when i knew i don't want to play it anymore. It's like with gachas. I won't play them but i'll partake in the fanservice.
I got a bunch of turn-based RPG games: Solista 2, Pathfinder, Zoria, Wasteland 3. Also, finally got Le Mans Ultimate.
I'm still sitting on 73k steam points I've no idea what to do with.
edit: I forgot, 40k: Rogue Trader
I got Arc Raiders from a grey market site. Luckily I did because while fun, its somewhat woke. Body type BS and no string male characters.