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[SapphiCine]

I thought about getting Bulletstorm but I was worried about all the GFWL issues. Did you already look into that and test it to make sure you can play it? I'd suggest doing that during the refund window just in case you have issues since it seems some people in the discussion forum for the game make it sound like it can be impossible to play on certain set-ups.

I loved the game on 360 and would really like to see another one eventually. I think current rumors are that a possible remaster might be around the corner after People Can Fly got the rights back? Not sure if that was debunked or it's still floating around.

Made it through the first chapter with little issue. The game did lock up once during the prologue turret sequence. Ctrl+Alt+Del unlocked it somehow. Might have been GFWL related, don't know. Disabled GFWL with the fix here aftewards.

My system
OS: Windows 10 Pro
GPU: GTX 970
CPU: i7 4790k
RAM: 8 GB

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Transformers Devestation
Blood One Unit Whole
Hexen
Serious Sam 3 dlc
Shadowrun: Hong Kong

Still considering Ys Origin, Axiom Verge, Shantae: Pirates Curse, and Momodora.

Axiom Verge and Momodora were the only game I bought and kept this sale, both fantastic games. Both are more metroid than castlevania in design.

 

[Allen Poe]

Spent $42.38 US on:

Amnesia: Dark Descent
Cloudbuilt
Crimzon Clover
One Finger Death Punch
Party Hard
Pony Island
Savant - Ascent
SOMA
The Stanley Parable
Valdis Story: Abyssal City

Following games were considered but I ultimately didn't pull the trigger:

Enter the Gungeon: Only $3.50 off, I could catch a better deal later, when I have less games in my backlog (wishful thinking on the backlog part)
Hyper Light Drifter: See above
The Evil Within: Had genuine interest in the game, but far too many negative reviews kinda turned me off from it
Splinter Cell Blacklist: honestly don't have a good reason to not buy, something just telling me "no." I enjoyed what i played of it on the xbox 360
Stories: The Path of Destinies: I have a feeling I can catch a 50% off or more deal later down the line
20XX: on the fence about if I want this one or not.

 

[Wibblewozzer]

Made it through the first chapter with little issue. The game did lock up once during the prologue turret sequence. Ctrl+Alt+Del unlocked it somehow. Might have been GFWL related, don't know. Disabled GFWL with the fix here aftewards.

My system
OS: Windows 10 Pro
GPU: GTX 970
CPU: i7 4790k
RAM: 8 GB

All good. Just wanted to make sure you weren't unaware of the potential issue and then not get around to trying it out until after the refund window. Have a good time with the game. It was one of my favorites from last generation with a surprisingly decent story considering the dialogue complaints.

Stories: The Path of Destinies: I have a feeling I can catch a 50% off or more deal later down the line

If you have a PS4 and PS Plus this is $5.99 right now. It starts a bit slow and the first roughly hour it takes to go through the story once seems basic but once you start replaying a second time through it unfolds and becomes much more interesting. I really love what it does with its storytelling. The combat and level design is simple enough but functional and with the upgrades the flow continues to speed up to the point that you can start rushing through to just get to more story stuff. I had a great time with it and still mean to go back to continue working on the other endings after I earned the true ending.

Edit: I really screwed up my edit and quoting! Anyhow...All fixed

 

[Decado]

Axiom Verge and Momodora are both fantastic and well worth it. I forget which Shantae is which but the GBA game that was ported seemed okay from the hour or so I played but I'd put that below those two games. If that's the more recent Shantae game than I don't have any experience with that one.

Ys games are neat but I'm no expert. Would that be your first? I think most people are fond of that one but I've only really put time into I and II and I think the series is a good time from that (and I think most people would put those two below most the other releases).

Haha thanks. I will buy all 3 eventually. Tempted now because they are in a bundle. It is the newer Shantae game. Never played one before but heard it is easily the best of the two on steam. I am torn between having no shortage of games to play and wanting to support these promising devs.

I have Oath but got stuck on Bird boss battle. Can't decide whether I could get into Origin. I liked Oath until I got stuck.

 

[Catshade]

My haul in two batches, for the total equivalent of US$40:

Dex - Rp 33 999
Unrest - Rp 28 999
Crypt of the NecroDancer - Rp 28 999
To Be or Not To Be - Rp 29 999
Sunrider Academy - Rp 29 999
The Way We All Go - Rp 13 999
An Octave Higher - Rp 24 999
Love at First Sight - Rp 26 999
Party Hard - Rp 27 499
Highlands - Rp 30 599
Lakeview Cabin Collection - Rp 22 499
Not a Hero Launch - Rp 27 499
Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star - Rp 22 499
Machina of the Planet Tree -Planet Ruler- - Rp 27 499
12 is Better Than 6 - Rp 26 999

Subtotal Rp 1 603 985
Discount Rp 1 200 900 (74%)
Total Rp 403 085

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 - Rp 29 999
Castaway Paradise - Rp 28 999
Impossible Creatures - Rp 22 499
This War of Mine - Rp 33 999
Aerannis - Rp 11 499

Subtotal Rp 587 995
Discount Rp 461 000 (78%)
Total Rp 126 995

 

[Allen Poe]

Edit: I really screwed up my edit and quoting! Anyhow...All fixed

Yeah, I caught that at first haha. But good call on Stories, I might grab it on PS4 for $5.99, i have until the 5th to decide. With the graphical style the game uses, think it'll be a noticeable difference playing in 1080p on PS4 compared to 1440p on my pc?

 

[Danielsan]

Didn't intend to buy a lot of games (my backlog is huge), but ended up purchasing more than expected. Still managed to stay within a pre-set budget of € 50 however.

My pick-ups in order of purchase:

South Park: The Stick of Truth € 7,49
Cities Skylines € 11,19
Uncanny Valley € 0,99
Life is Strange € 9,99
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter € 3,79
Grim Fandango Remastered € 3,74

Total spend: € 37,19

 

[Wibblewozzer]

Yeah, I caught that at first haha. But good call on Stories, I might grab it on PS4 for $5.99, i have until the 5th to decide. With the graphical style the game uses, think it'll be a noticeable difference playing in 1080p on PS4 compared to 1440p on my pc?

It's sharp and clean so I didn't expect where you played it to have much of a bearing on the game but this review references both and suggests playing on PC: http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/Stories_The_Path_of_Destinies/

The developers also gave us a code to play on PS4, and I am told that the PS4 version is more issue-prone than PC, with framerate problems and typos in the text, so if you have a choice, go PC on this one.

Edit: I played on PC and looking now they've patched it since I played and fixed the broken achievements and added graphical settings. I imagine some work was done in fixing bugs as well as the PC version is a little buggy (I got stuck and had to reset the chapter at least once but I think it happened twice).

 

[MarioHead3]

I bought way more than I originally planned:

Deadbolt
Punch Club
Downwell
XCOM 2
Crusader Kings 2
Jackbox Party Pack 2
RE Revelations 2
Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic CD
Sonic Generations
BioShock
Lovely Planet
Oxenfree

A few of these I already own and just didn't want bring out the consoles to play them. I don't even want to think about how much I spent on all this shit I didn't need.

 

[hemo memo]

Toki Tori 2+
Teslagrad
Skyborn
Shadowrun: HK
Oxenfree
Invisible, Inc.
FTL
A Bird Story
Transistor

 

[Paganmoon]

Well, shit... 165€, about 100€ of that on VR titles. I think I still got games I haven't even played from last summers sale...

 

[Wok]

Total spent: 26,88€

Average spent per game: 3,36€

Bought:

• realMyst: Masterpiece Edition (2014)
• 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (2016)
• Kalimba (2015)
• Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014)
• Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997)
• Peggle Nights (2008)
• The Room (2014)
• 12 Labours of Hercules V: Kids of Hellas (2016)

 

[KainXVIII]

Total spent ~2500 rubles (~40$)

 

[TheTrain]

My haul:

Gothic Complete Pack 2011

Mass Effect Collection

The Cave

Oknytt

Massive Chalice

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty

The Bug Butcher

Pneuma: Breath of Life

Batman: Arkham Knight

NaissanceE

Lili: Child of Geos

Mind: Path to Thalamus

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Dead Rising 3

The Long Dark

This War of Mine

LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII

Fallout 4

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (ROW)

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition

Capsized

The Witcher 2

A Valley Without Wind

Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers

FRACT OSC

Realms of Arkania

Teslagrad

ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West Premium Edition ROW

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

Valdis Story: Abyssal City

SteamWorld Dig

Nihilumbra

FOTONICA

Realms of Arkania DLC1 Steam Store and Retail Key

Tower of Guns

A Story About My Uncle

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

The Fall

TRI: Of Friendship and Madness

Transistor

Momodora III

Abyss Odyssey

Calvino Noir

Laserlife

Apotheon

Venetica

Highlands

The Moon Sliver + The Music Machine

Toby: The Secret Mine

Total War: WARHAMMER - Blood for the Blood God

Lowglow

Bit Blaster XL

Tross

The Bard's Tale

Skyrim Hearthfire

Miasmata

Kairo

MirrorMoon EP

Alien Rage

Fable Anniversary

Enemy Front

Ancient Space

Rocket League® - Supersonic Fury DLC Pack

Rocket League® (Official Game Soundtrack)

Rocket League® - Revenge of the Battle-Cars DLC Pack

Rocket League® - Back to the Future™ Car Pack

Rocket League® - Chaos Run DLC Pack

Rocket League® - Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Car Pack

 

[bede-x]

ARK €15.39
Command & Conquer TW €2.49
The Ball €2.49
Landstalker €0.62
Light Crusader €0.62
Oddworld MO €1.24
Terraria €4.99
Rambo €3.89
The Last Tinker €3.99
Alien Rage €1.99
Final Fantasy XIII €6.49
Legend of Kay Anniversary €4.99
Creeper World 3 €2.99
Defender's Quest 6.99
The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human €4.99
Trash TV €1.39
Dokuro €3.99
Mushroom Men TT €2.99
Venetica €2.99
Grey Goo €9.51
Kalimba €3.39
Burnstar €2.49
Mighty Switch Force HDE €4.99
Mighty Switch Force HID €1.49

€97.30 in total. I also preordered INSIDE. Pretty happy with my haul and expect to be done with or have completed 90% of them by the time the next major sale comes around.

 

[Intheflorsh]

Cook, Serve, Delicious! - $2.49
Hard Reset Redux - $3.00
DOOM - $35.99
DOOM 3 - $2.49
SpaceChem - $0.99
Valkyria Chronicles - $4.99
Infinifactory - $12.49
SquareCells - $1.49
Outland - $0.99
Flywrench - $3.99
80 Days - $6.99

Grand Total - $75.90

Not too bad considering Doom accounts for almost half.

 

[Business]

The Witcher 3
Monkey Island 1&2 remastered
KoF XIII

could have been worst.

 

[ImboSlice]

At work right now and not 100% sure about prices, so here goes my lil' haul:

Invisible Inc.
Tales of Symphonia
Stardew Valley
Shadowrun: Dragonfall DC
Divinity: Original Sin EE

 

[SparksterMeta0]

Haul 1:
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale $4.99
Crimzon Clover $1.99
Punch Club $2.49
Downwell $1.49
Just Get Through $0.74
Rex Rocket $2.49
Bit Blaster XL $0.49
Total: $14.68

Haul 2:
Gunpoint $2.49
Two Tribes Pack $2.99
Duck Game $8.70
Cook, Serve, Delicious! $2.49
Kero Blaster $5.99
Crypt of the NecroDancer $3.74
HunieCam Studio $4.61
Catch Me $3.74
20XX $8.99
Pharaoh Rebirth $6.99
Parallax $2.49
Concrete Jungle $6.49
Undertale $6.99
Total: $66.70

Grand Total: $81.38

Also a couple of games bought from fellow gaffers:
JumpJet Rex
Stardew Valley

There were a few more I wanted, but a trip to a convention prevented me from getting them.

 

[Dandy Lyin]

I didn't get a whole lot.

OPUS: The Day We Found Earth
Costume Quest 2
Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers
Perils of Man
Gray Matter
RPGs by Spiders Studio pack(Of Orcs And Men, Mars: War Logs, Faery - Legends of Avalon, Bound By Flame)

I have know idea why I bought the Spiders pack. I was reading positive-ish reviews of Technomancer and bought it on a whim. 1 hour into Mars: War Logs and I'm pretty sure I'll never touch it again.

 

[The Lone Courier]

My haul:

 

[SnowTeeth]

Fallout 4
Final Fantasy 13
Valkyria Chronicles
The Old City: Leviathan
NEON STRUCT
Battlestation: Harbinger
X-Rebirth

 

[SapphiCine]

All good. Just wanted to make sure you weren't unaware of the potential issue and then not get around to trying it out until after the refund window. Have a good time with the game. It was one of my favorites from last generation with a surprisingly decent story considering the dialogue complaints.

Up to Act III now and the game has crashed once, loading after a death. Also seen some minor visual artifacts that I hope are the game and not my GPU.

 

[Mikeside]

Big haul for me this year:

Ori & the Blind Forest: Definitive Upgrade
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Warhammer Vermintide
Transformers: Devastation
SOMA
Dying Light
System Shock
Zombie Army Trilogy
Dredd vs Death
Letter Quest
Lakeview Cabin Collection
Lethis Path of Progress
YAIBA: Ninja Gaiden Z
Iron Brigade
Final Fantasy 8
House of the Dying Sun
American Truck Simulator
Euro Truck Simulator 2 DLC

Had some gift money from my birthday and about £20 from finally selling all my trading cards, so I only spent about £30 on all that.
Pretttay prettay good

 

[SmokedMeat]

Subnautica
Bioshock 2
Lego Jurassic Park
Quake 2

Almost grabbed Downwell, but sold enough Steam cards to afford Quake 2.

Total spent $20 Steam card

 

[newtypepilot]

Only got 3 games. Since I don't want a backlog.

Party hard
LA noire complete edition
Axiom verge

Only spent around $15 cad though, thanks to money made from selling trading cards.

 

[StereoVsn]

Here goes, most I ever spent

South Park: The Stick of Truth $7.50
Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition $20.00
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - The Collection $10.00
DEFCON $1.75
Prison Architect $7.50
Terraria $5.00
Remember Me + Combo Lab Pack DLC $6.80
Child of Light $3.75
Fable Anniversary $5.25
E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy $2.50
Hard Reset Redux/Enhanced Edition $4.50
The Stanley Parable $3.00
Undertale $7.00
Victor Vran $5.00
Valkyria Chronicles $5.00
To The Moon $2.00
Pillars of Eternity $18.00
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut $20.00

Total is $134.55


Debating on Pillars of Eternity White March Parts 1 and 2 for $18 before the sale ends. Definitely not buying another PC game for a long, long time.

Great ROG haul here. You should add Trails in the Sky and Shadoweun though. Latter is cheap as hell for what it offers.

 

[Sendou]

The Witcher 3 + Expansion Pass
Stardew Valley
Firewatch
Ori and the Blinding Forest: Definitive Edition (update)
SUPERHOT
GTA V
Invisible, Inc. DLC

Through family sharing:

DOOM 2016
Zero Escape 3

 

[Deleted member 325805]

Steam sales are when I fill the backlog on the cheap as I'm on a budget, for £31.67 I managed to grab the following:

Bioshock 1,2 & 3
Alan Wake
Alan Wake American Nightmare
Spec Ops: The Line
Bulletstorm
Hard Reset Extended
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

Doom and Tomb Raider were the two big ones I wanted but they just didn't hit my buy price, I have to set a hard £15 per SP game limit so I wasn't expecting them to hit that, but damn it was close. Hoping for the Winter sale.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Steam sales are when I fill the backlog on the cheap as I'm on a budget, for £31.67 I managed to grab the following:

Bioshock 1,2 & 3
Alan Wake
Alan Wake American Nightmare
Spec Ops: The Line
Bulletstorm
Hard Reset Extended
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

Doom and Tomb Raider were the two big ones I wanted but they just didn't hit my buy price, I have to set a hard £15 per SP game limit so I wasn't expecting them to hit that, but damn it was close. Hoping for the Winter sale.

How is Bulletstorm? Are you on Windows 10?

 

[camequipped]

GAF you win, I bought SDV. Other purchases pale in significance.

 

[Jintor]

VA-11 HALL-A (not on sale)
Neptunia U (don't judge)
Shadowrun: HK
Dead Rising 3
Dustforce
D4
Flywrench
Mini Metro
Game Dev Tycoon

about $60 USD

 

[UrbanRats]

First Steam Sale where i bought absolutely nothing (barely looked at it, infact).
Am i cured?

 

[Arex]

So far just 2 games:

Shadow of Mordor GOTY S$2.25
Tomb Raider S$5.49

Still on the fence on:

Football Manager 2016
EuroTruck 2

Not sure if I'll have time to sink on these 2 games, I can probably wait till the next sale lol

 

[dr_rus]

+ not really sale related but I've got Prison Architect and Inside during the sale.

 

[Real_Madrid]

I only bought following games:

Minerva's Den
Aperture Tag (portal 2 mod)
Serious Sam 2
The Room
The Fall
Outland
Prospekt

 

[PhoenixWrong]

Darkest Dungeon
Enter the Gungeon
Invisible, Inc.
TowerFall Ascension

... and, of course, preordered INSIDE.

 

[StereoVsn]

My haul for the sale:

Mars: War Logs
Fable Anniversary
Dragon Fantasy Book 1
Don't Starve - Shipwrecked
Tropical 5 - Complete Collection
X Rebirth: Home Of the Light (surprisingly well rated)
Sonic CD
Sonic Racing Transformed DLC
PAC-MAN DX+ Bundle
Costume Quest 1&2 Bundle
InvisibleInc, Contingency Plan
Pillars of Eternity White March 1&2 Expansion
Celestian Tales DLC
Aselia the Eternal (older SRPG & VN mix it looks like)

Spent about $80 on the above. Not bad overall but not 100% sure about Aselia game and X:Rebirth expansion.

 

[JMTHEFOX]

Bought
- Super House of Dead Ninjas
- Half Minute Hero Bundle
- Hyperdimension Neptune Re;birth 1
- Resident Evil 6

 

[Ryne]

Tried to empty my wishlist with games under 10 bucks:

Another Star - CDN$ 5.49
Celestian Tales: Old North - Howl of the Ravager - CDN$ 3.29
Celestian Tales: Old North - Alternate Costume Pack - CDN$ 1.31
Forge Quest - CDN$ 6.79
Dragon Fin Soup - CDN$ 8.79
LiEat - CDN$ 2.63
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - CDN$ 4.39
A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda EX - CDN$ 2.74
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure - CDN$ 5.27
Knights of Pen and Paper - Haunted Fall - CDN$ 1.86
Flat Kingdom - CDN$ 4.39
ClaDun x2 - CDN$ 8.79
The Last Tinker: City of Colors - CDN$ 4.59
Hotline Miami 2 - CDN$ 4.24
Mystik Belle - CDN$ 8.24
Chronicles of Teddy : Harmony of Exidus - CDN$ 8.49
The Amber Throne - CDN$ 8.49
Punch Club - CDN$ 2.74
MAGATAMA Earrings - CDN$ 3.89

I think I totaled just under 100 CAD.

 

[Deleted member 325805]

How is Bulletstorm? Are you on Windows 10?

I haven't started it yet, but I just booted up an echo mission for you and it ran at 60fps 100% of the time, not a single drop on max settings @ 1080p. And yeah, I'm on Windows 10.

You will need to do a little tweaking to get it running perfectly, but it took less than 5 minutes for me: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Bulletstorm

Specifically I did the ADS sensitivity, mouse smoothing and GFWL tweaks. The mouse tweaks were essential for correct movement IMO, and the GFWL tweak allows you to play the campaign without needing to have GFWL installed.

 

[Real_Madrid]

So far just 2 games:

Shadow of Mordor GOTY S$2.25
Tomb Raider S$5.49

Still on the fence on:

Football Manager 2016
EuroTruck 2

Not sure if I'll have time to sink on these 2 games, I can probably wait till the next sale lol

2,25 dollar? In my region (Europe) it shows as a 10 euro game.

 

[Tizoc]

Righty-o then
Spent $150 on these

Spent a total of 11.76 Gaben Dollars on
ORCS, Shadowgrounds bundle, Ikaruga, Cynaide Studios' Game of Thrones bundle

Spent around $50-55 on gifts otherwise :3

 

[TardisLover]

Just one

Fable Anniversary for £4.04

I think perhaps at 50 my urge to play games is diminishing, perhaps it shall return with the darker nights.... That said I am interested in the Bioshock updates, and also the new DLC for Two Worlds 2 (which was rather unexpected)

No current Backlog either

 

[Olli128]

Gta 5 (played already on ps3 but ready for a replay)
Doom
Darkest Dungeon
Minervas den for bioshock, gonna play the trilogy when remastered version is out

 

[Horseticuffs]

Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Grim Dawn
Costume Quest
Costume Quest 2
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
resident evil 4 / biohazard 4
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
DreadOut
Max Payne 3
The Evil Within
Steam Link
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Resident Evil 6
Soma
South Park: The Stick of Truth
White Noise Online
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$123.50
IF my math works out, that is. I probably don't need to tell you all that this is my first Steam Sale.

 

[MusePrime]

I spent about $100+ I believe but more than half of it was used with Steam Gift cards I got for free. So I spent out of pocket about $50 bucks Stayed mostly away from anything that was 20%-30% off because I know I'll pick it up either around winter sale or they will randomly go on sale.

12 is better than 6
Dungeons & Robots
Hotline Miami Collection
Bioshock 1 & 2 and Minerva DLC
Kung Fury
System Shock 2
The Long Dark
Dead by Daylight
Castlevania LOS 2 DLC
Invisible Inc
Dragons Dogma
A.R.E.S. EX
Resident Evil Origins Collection
Collect to Kill

Still deciding about
Proxy Blade Zero
The Way
Leap of Faith
Punch Club

 

[Linkark07]

Just bought these games:
-Neptunia Rebirth 2
-Neptunia Rebirth 3
-Neptunia U

And gifted a copy of Valkyria Chronicles to an uncle.

Ah, Steam sales don't sway me too much these days. Those days are finished... But my backlog is still big

 

[Large Professor]

Kero Blaster
Card City Nights
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe
Super House of Dead Ninjas
Party Hard
Ikaruga
Shadow of Mordor GOTY

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+/-30€