The Christmas Sale Damage 2015 Thread

[BanzaiCat]

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Hope everyone's Christmas was good! I've been in Arizona this past week and will be for the week to come, so my online presence is somewhat spotty. I brought my work laptop to 'work' (read: play games on Steam) and I've snuck in several purchases that I'm almost certain will net me the third degree from the wife, but pfft, whatever.

I did get a few cool Christmas gifts, including a surround sound bar for the TV in the living room, from my father in law (but my mother in law and my wife are the ones who watch TV all the damn time and I never watch TV out there, so it's not going to do me any good...oh well, thought that counts and all that).

Though the real point of this thread is the Steam Christmas sale. Here's what I grabbed:

80 Days
80 Days is a pretty awesome little game. If you like Jules Verne at all and enjoy interactive storytelling, this game is for you. Even if you're 'meh' on interactive storytelling, the game is so seamless it feels like you're on a very satisfying adventure. Highly recommend.

Empire TV Tycoon
As the name implies, it's a TV station management game. Doesn't sound like it's all that, but what drew me in is that it uses real-world TV shows and movies, so you can 'buy' Star Wars and play it on your channel whenever you want, along with Rollerball and many, many others. Recommended if you like tycoon games and are a movie geek.

The Few
A very light Battle of Britain sim. This game sucks, to be honest...BUT...it's compelling enough to even things out. The English in-game is terrible (e.g., 'campagin' instead of 'campaign' in several places, and 'loose' instead of 'lose' in many others). The tutorial is okay but the game can really kick your ass really fast. I keep going back because I see a fault in my defenses that could be easily rectified, so I restart and do that fix, then forget to do something else, so I go back and restart and fix, and etcetera and etcetera. You can choose to fight battles yourself or let the game simulate them, but doing the latter usually means your squadron gets decimated. So too do German flights massacre your squadron if you're unlucky enough (or too slow) to leave it on the ground while the Germans attack. (This is one of the more unbalanced features of the game, as a flight of TWO Messerschmidt 109s can apparently destroy an entire squadron on the ground and kill most of the pilots. Every. Time. Still, I'll keep trying with it, because I really think there's a good game in there somewhere despite it being a pain in the ass.

Final Fantasy VIII
Never played a FF game before. This one disappoints. It's very convoluted and complicated, which isn't helped by a convoluted interface. I might try it again sometime, as I haven't really spent a lot of time on it.

Heroes of Steel RPG
This one is kind of fun. It's VERY much an indie title. It's an RPG where you control four characters (a warrior, cleric, rogue, and wizard - though for each character, you have two choices, each of which are pretty similar...e.g., you can use the Cleric or choose a Paladin instead), and these characters adventure in a world where 70-some years prior some disaster destroyed the outer world so everyone headed into the earth itself and its caverns. This kind of story has been done before, but it's still interesting. The artwork is very amateur (the Warrior looks...uh, well, here, take a look, he's on the far right:



Ha). Not bad artwork, it's just that some are much better than others. It's a top-down game, very much reminding me of the Warhammer RPG.

Sentinels of the Multiverse
Not a bad game, but it beat me badly in my first go-round. 'Badly' is defined in my book as me almost winning but the game starting to get obnoxious at the last minute forcing me to react and defend instead of go on the offensive, which is really aggrivating and frustrating for me. I'll definitely give it a few more tries as I like the superhero motif and the card play.

Star Wars: Dark Forces
Played a long, long time ago. A great game.

Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Never played, no idea what to expect, except that it has very good ratings.

Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Never played this, either, and heard just as good things about it.

Star Wars: Empire at War Gold
I own the discs for this, but as my DVD drive has been dead for over three years on my PC, and also because I saw this was on super sale with other Star Wars stuff right now, what the heck, I added it.

[LongBlade]

All Decks reporting in: no damage; shields at full.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Let's see.

I bought Darkest Dungeon, Shallow Space, and Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich for the PC.

I bought Bloody April, 1917, some battle foam, and some Star Wars LCG card packs for board game type stuff.

I also bought myself a new watch, some ammo, and a new reflex sight for a goofy rifle I picked up a few months ago.

[MetalDog]

...hopefully this doesn't exist somewhere else, but if it does, I'm sure the mods will fix it for me. :)

This what you're looking for? 

http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=15718.0

It's understandable that you didn't find it.  It's only got 8 pages in the Computer Gaming forum.  Who would have thought to look for a digital gaming service there?  Crazy, right?

[BanzaiCat]

 ::)

[MetalDog]

I see you found it ;)