The "I Got A New Game!" Thread

[ls612]

So I got quite a few things this holiday season.

• Space Engineers
• Prison Architect
• Galactic Civilizations III
• Batman Arkham Origins
• The Talos Principle
• Bioshock Infinite
• Shadow of Mordor
• Divinity Original Sin
• The Stanley Parable
• Dragon Age Inquisition

As well as some DLC for games I already own.

 

[Maniacal]

Thanks to Kan for Spec Ops: The Line!

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Transistor and Banner Saga so far. I think I'm done for this sale. Perhaps I'll get Ether One, it's 65% down now but it will probably get cheaper.

You Need a Budget 4 is on sale now too. Anyone tried it?

 

[Maniacal]

Ironically I can't afford it, but I have heard good things about it.

 

[Quintillus]

Ironically I can't afford it, but I have heard good things about it.

That is indeed rather ironic. I hadn't so much as heard of it, but the reviews do seem to be good. I suppose if you need a tool to help make sure you stay within a certain budget, and it does that effectively, it would be worth it.

Other than a couple CKII facepacks (Turkish and African, not counting the Norse I already had), I haven't picked up any new games this sale. I'm taking a "I already have a backlog, let's play some of it before buying more" approach to this winter's sale. Maybe by the summer sale I'll have a decent amount of the backlog covered.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Thanks to Kan for Spec Ops: The Line!

And thanks Kan for Assassin's Creed IV: Sea Shanty Edition Black Flag

 

[Arakhor]

And thanks Kan for Assassin's Creed IV: Sea Shanty Edition Black Flag

It's so much better than AC3, it's not even funny.

 

[Adam7Eight]

Looks like I need to become friends with this Kan guy.

As usual, I went overboard...

7 Days to Die
A Story About My Uncle
Assassin's Creed Black Flag
Brothers
Bully: SE
Child of Light
Darkness 2
Defense Grid 2
Duke Nukem 3D
The Escapists
Ether One
Five Nights at Freddy's 1 & 2
The Forest
Gemini Rue
LEGO Lord of the Rings
The Long Dark
Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes
Penumbra
Project Zomboid
Race the Sun
Rogue Legacy
The Room
Serious Sam complete
Shadow Warrior
Shadowrun Dragonfall
Shadowrun Returns
Shovel Knight
South Park Stick of Truth
Splinter Cell Blacklist
State of Decay
Thief
To the Moon
Transistor
Two Worlds
Vampire The Masquerade
The Walking Dead Season 2
The Wolf Among Us
XCOM Enemy Within

 

[civvver]

Holy crap dude, I used to be bad but never that bad.

I find myself getting cheaper and more picky now that I'm addicted to humble bundles. $7.49 for bioshock infinite? Pft call me when it's under $5 buddy. Or thrown into a bundle with 6 other games I'll never play.

Actually I have way too many games in my library so I'm trying really hard to only buy ones I know I'll play soon and even then that are heavily discounted. Like I will not pick up DA inqusition until it's under $30 even though I know I'd play it immediately and for hours. I was out of town so I haven't gotten to play any yet, but this Christmas season I got:

Transistor
Wolf among us
Brothers - this one pissed me off, I paid $3 for it then it went on sale for 90% off daily deal next day
Hunters of the Dead
Super Meat Boy
One Way Heroics
Hero Siege

The last 4 I just scoured all the under $2 games on sale trying to find some little gems. Haven't played any of them but Hunters looks like a plants vs zombie clone with rogue elements (sounds awesome and it was a buck). Super Meat Boy I don't know if I'll like that much but sometimes indie platformers are cool and it was 74 cents. One way heroics has some awesome reviews and hero siege looks like a cool rpg shooter type. I don't know when I'll fire them up but I'll put some small reviews when I do.

By far the toughest game to say no to was Defense Grid 2. I think it was down to around $9 and I LOVED the first one. Between the expansion maps for it I've got like 50 hours on it. But second one doesn't have quite as good reviews and I feel like it's going to be under $5 this summer.

 

[Maniacal]

Brothers - this one pissed me off, I paid $3 for it then it went on sale for 90% off daily deal next day

That is why you wait until something is a daily special, or the last day or two of the sale to buy it.

 

[CivCube]

Holy crap dude, I used to be bad but never that bad.

Steam has a large selection, but it's still finite. I don't buy nearly as many games nowadays as I did a few years ago. Of course, Steam had much better deals in 2011...

 

[ls612]

Holy crap dude, I used to be bad but never that bad.

I find myself getting cheaper and more picky now that I'm addicted to humble bundles. $7.49 for bioshock infinite? Pft call me when it's under $5 buddy. Or thrown into a bundle with 6 other games I'll never play.

As a college student I'm normally like that but I got $500 for Christmas and landed a $20 an hour full time internship for this summer, so I was willing to splurge a bit during the winter sale.

 

[Maniacal]

How the hell did you get an internship that pays $20 an hour!? What are you taking?

 

[Double A]

Advanced cocaine manufacture.

 

[Maniacal]

I still don't think he will be getting paid that much in Columbia.

 

[Zack]

How the hell did you get an internship that pays $20 an hour!? What are you taking?

Not unheard of in stem fields.

 

[Double A]

What kind of stems are in the field? Rose? Is the field curved?

 

[civvver]

Well yeah, if I were still single and childless I would probably own multiple 80 in led tvs with ps4s and xbox ones and buy every new release off steam lol. But I can't buy that stuff for myself anymore, now my video game money goes towards buying tinkerbelle barbies and frozen dvds and shoes for the wife.

"That is why you wait until something is a daily special, or the last day or two of the sale to buy it"

Yeah I know but it was already like 80% off. I find it funny that I get so mad about a buck fifty sometimes lol.

 

[ls612]

How the hell did you get an internship that pays $20 an hour!? What are you taking?

Computer science. It is a software engineering/testing internship, and I got to brag about my projects here at CFC as 'past experience' during the selection process.

 

[civvver]

I made $14 an hour as a computer programming intern in 2004. Technical internships usually pay pretty good these days considering hiring a professional to do the same job would cost them 3 or 4 times as much when you figure in benefits. It's actually pretty cheap labor for many software/engineering companies.