Board 8 > I need good games to buy off Steam.

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I just got hired as an FTE where I work and will now be making 400 or so more dollars a month. I don't want to spend it ALL on video games but I should at least celebrate with a couple choice purchases.

Any suggestions from 2 dollar games to 60 dollar games are welcome. It would take an awful lot to pry 60 bucks from me for one game but it's not impossible. Older games are fine too, chances are I haven't played it.

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suggestion: wait a few weeks for an inevitable steam sale and get a bunch of games cheap.

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Arma 2 Combined Operations so you can get the DayZ mod.

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What type of games are you looking for?
From: FAHtastic | #003

Arma 2 Combined Operations so you can get the DayZ mod.

And then get banned by a modder who has no idea what he is doing?

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Anything and everything.

I play all games outside of Rock Band types.

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Also my current Steam library:

Bully Scolarship Edition
Half Life 2 (E1/E2/LC)
NBA 2K11
Portal
Rome: Total War (Alexander)
TF2

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Deus Ex series

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AfroSquirrel posted...

What type of games are you looking for?
From: FAHtastic | #003

Arma 2 Combined Operations so you can get the DayZ mod.

And then get banned by a modder who has no idea what he is doing?

Hasn't happened to me, been playing DayZ for a month now.

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Deus Ex is a great idea!

DE: GOTY for 9.99...that's the first game with extras, right?

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Wait for the sale.

Also Oath in Felghana and Ys Origin.

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The summer sale will be huge if last year was any indication

Just definitely Just Cause 2

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Waitaminute...LA Noire is only 19.99?

That's interesting...is it good?

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Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
VVVVVV

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First, wait for the sale to start. Then buy these.

Audiosurf
Beat Hazard
Breath of Death VII
Cthulhu Saves the World
Dungeons of Dredmor
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Sequence
VVVVVV
Ys Origin
Ys: Oath in Felghana

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Any idea when the summer sale kicks off?

I can just play FFT until it starts.

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Also a great feature of Steam is the recommended games from friends, so if you have a good amount of friends, check out the recommendation tab and check out their reviews. Usually you can find some more obscure games that you might like that way.

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I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but chances are the Summer Sale is right around the corner.

Also, you need Ys games. Everybody needs Ys games.

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Ys Origin

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From: the7joker7 | #015

Any idea when the summer sale kicks off?

I can just play FFT until it starts.

Usually starts at the end of the month.

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Has anyone played L.A. Noire? Worth 20 bucks?

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wait until the Summer sale starts, but:

Bastion
Braid
Breath of Death VII
The Binding of Isaac + Wrath of the Lamb DLC
Cave Story Plus
Cthulhu Saves the World
Fortune Summoners
Frozen Synapse
Psychonauts
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Super Meat Boy
Terraria
Trine
VVVVVV
Wizorb
World of Goo

VVVVV keeps getting recommended to me...very well!

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VVVVVV is like a flash game you shouldn't be paying to play but you want to pay anyway since it's so damn good and awesome

Ys Origin
Ys The Ark of Napishkim
Binary Domain

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Oh man, you've never played Portal 2? One of my top 10 for sure. It's $20 all the time, but will almost certainly go on sale in a couple weeks.

Bastion and Super Meat Boy are landmark indie releases from past couple years, both $15 and very likely to go on sale.

Personally I would also recommend Peggle Nights. Peggle is sweet.

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So my 'definite' list looks like...

Deus Ex Series
VVVVV
LA Noire
Portal 2

But I'm open to just about everything in this topic. Those are the locks though.

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I'll just say that those are all prone to go on sale. (And honestly you should never pay full price for a Steam game unless you REALLY want it)

Also be on the look-out for various Indie Bundles, especially the Humble Bundle, those tend to contain Steam keys and you pick your own price on what to pay for them.

As for actual suggestions, Recettear and Super Meat Boy.

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STALKER series for sure, then

By that I mean Chernobyl and Pripyat

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Deus Ex a lock, yessss

Get the launcher from kentie.net, and the high resolution texture pack, also from that site. You can fix sound problems and make the game look a lot better with it.

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Don't buy anything yet, the Summer sale is going to start really soon, and it's going to be OFF THE CHAIN. (As always.)
By the way, Steam sale 101 incase you don't know: If you have your eyes on a title, wait for it to be a daily deal before buying it. If it's never a daily deal, you can just buy it on the last day of the sale for the regular discounted price.

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Do they do sales on games as old as Deus Ex?

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Often, because the old games get the least sales.

There'll probably be a day where all 3 games are on sale for like, $15, during the Summer Sale.

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Yeah, they put old games on sale all the time. Like neko said, you can bet on like a Deus Ex bundle or something for some absurd price, along with probably the original for 2 bucks on its own . >_>

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deus ex is regularly on sale. as are a LOT of the indie games people are throwing at you, most of which have been in indie bundles. so you can expect them to be 99% certain that steam's sale will include them at some point or another.

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Tag

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Alright, July 1st it is.

*plays more final fantasy tactics*

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Wazzup pretty much got all the ones I was going to recommend with the exception of a few:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Portal 2
The Dream Machine
Machinarium
Atom Zombie Smasher
SpaceChem
Limbo

a few others perhaps, but I'll stop there for now.

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