The Groginati Sales Thread

[Gusington]

Just bought it. Also noticed that I had bought Spec Ops: The Line at some point.

[Nefaro]

Also noticed that I had bought Spec Ops: The Line at some point.

Did you not notice until attempting to purchase it again? 

[Gusington]

Ha no when I went to redeem my code for XCOM there it was...

[Shelldrake]

Ha no when I went to redeem my code for XCOM there it was...

Gus, I think you will have great fun with XCOM and the expansion.  O0

[Gusington]

Can you give me a quick run down of XCOM? The story, style, etc?

[undercovergeek]

turn based, cover seeking, moving forward with fire support and snipers, alien zapping, rocket launching, shotgun to the facing, turn based, research in the base, autopsying turn based awesomeness

[Gusington]

Shouldn't that be 'researching in the base-ing'...for consistency?

[undercovergeek]

just buy the god damned game and shut up  :P

[Gusington]

I did already!

[JasonPratt]

I think that Humble Bundle must be giving away a secret code for The Line: I found one, too, when I logged in to get my Steam code.

I put it up to give away down in the free giveaways to Groghead members. I figure someone somewhere might not have played it yet (and yet like FPShooters). It's worth doing, for anyone at least half interested in a FPS.

Can you give me a quick run down of XCOM? The story, style, etc?

You have entered a whole new world. Save often.  :D

UGeek has summarized accurately; all versions of X-Com back to the 90s could be described that way, too (though except maybe for a lite-version on the Android -- I'm not sure -- no version has had random map generation since the original and its immediate sequel. Or if they did they were notoriously bad; but the original map generator was quite good. Fortunately, this fully upgraded version of the recent remake features a ton of maps so you're unlike to play the same one twice in one playthrough.)

[JasonPratt]

Since my commitment to not buying new games for a while has eroded spectacularly in the past week, I went ahead and picked up Alien: Ishitmasons and its season pass today. The total came in a few bucks under $30, and includes all DLC plus any future released DLC: it was an amazingly discounted sale for such a quality game still being retailed at the initial full price (usually).

I may never play it, but I have it.  :o If anyone still hasn't gotten it, well I'm sure a Spring Sale is coming soon and the same deal will be on the way but it isn't likely to get much better anytime soon: 75% discount, and a 50% discount on the Season Pass, which is itself cheaper than buying all current DLC at 50% discount (plus the recent one at full price) and will be good for any future releases (if any).

[Huw the Poo]

Planetary Annihilation is 80% off on Bundle Stars.

[Martok]

GamersGate has a couple different types of deals going down right now. 


First up, it's apparently Ubisoft Week, where they're rolling out 48-hour sales.  First one up is the Assassins Creed titles. 

In addition, they have up to 75% off of a number of space strategy games this weekend (through April 6) -- mostly the Endless Space, Sins of a Solar Empire, and Galactic Civilizations series (sorry, GalCiv3 pre-order not included!). 

[Pete Dero]

Matrix Easter Sale : everything -30 % http://www.matrixgames.com/news/1646/Happy.Easter!.

[Martok]

Armada 2526 Gold Edition is 80% off at Steam through April 13.