Author Topic: Steam Summer Sale is over. What were your best and worst purchases?  (Read 2707 times)

I beefed my games catalogue pretty good with the sale, I bought these games:

Organ Trail: Director's cut
Viscera Cleanup Detail
The Puppy Games Pack (Droid Assault, Titan Attacks, Ultratron)
Hotline Miami
Killer is Dead
METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE
Betrayer
The Fall
The Wolf Among Us
State of Decay
Sleeping Dogs
L.A. Noire

I'd have to say I've had the most fun with Killer is Dead, aside from the Gigolo missions. I've sunken the most hours into State of Decay though, which I can vouch as being pretty strong as well. The worst I would say has to be tied between Betrayer and LA Noire. LA Noire runs like stuff compared to most of the games I own. I've gotten the least distance in it compared to the rest of the games. the loving painfully long tutorial section did help by leaving the most intriguing aspect (Lie, Doubt, Truth)  till the end. Betrayer is similarly boring, but with hope or good intentions. you spend a lot of time walking around, but the mechanics and style work quite well (as an indie game).

what purchases were you most satisfied and dissatisfied with?

euro truck simulator 2, which i cannot even download, was easily my worst
lone survivor was my best

What I got:

Prison Architect - Fun game, don't regret
Sleeping Dogs - Haven't played it, could've bought some other stuff I wanted more
Nether - Haven't played it, not very optimistic, I didn't really think this one through and I think the money could've been used better
Next Car Game - loving amazing game, love the stuff out of it
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 - I like this game, one of the things I set out to purchase at the beginning of the sale. Never went flash / daily, unfortunately.

well I Got
nothing!
because the summers ale was at the loving end of the month and so i spent all my lovingmoney hoping it would be at the loving beggining of july!
forget you steam!

best purchases: everything
i got battleblock theater, super puzzle platformer deluxe, psychonauts and payday: the heist

neat collection if you ask me

Spectraball - Very enjoyable, kinda poor on environment aesthetics on the later levels but the game itself is very enjoyable, it's comparable to Ballance but you don't have multiple weighted balls and you instead have a special move. The campaign is pretty poor in level quantity but very varied, and then there's the tons of user-produced content which is for the most part enjoyable.
Prison Architect - Gud enough.
E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy - Awesome for a source engine game, really well done.
Project Zomboid - Great example for a early access title, it may as well be released as-is and still be a great title.
Battleblock Theater - Played up to Ch. 4 in co-op and I enjoyed this a lot.
Planetary Annihilation - Only played with a friend in co-op with him against the AI, crashed for like 3 times as the host but interestingly enough I was able to join back. The AI is simply brutal even on easiest difficulty and we were barely able to defeat even one (We did do it though.). It bugged me a lot when I seen $10 and $15 microtransaction ACUs on a full-paid title, this is plain out cowmilking out of a game that is not even released (if). But the game itself is quite enjoyable. But I would rather play SupCom.
War of the Vikings - War of the Roses was better, this is a great downpour and I can't even get constant 60 FPS on low settings. It's sort of enjoyable though if I am not to compare it to WotR but I can't enjoy it fully due to lacking performance. A game like this is unreasonable to have PC lag at even on lowest.
Takedown: Red Sabre - I don't know why I thought this would've been a good idea in the first place.
Broforce - I am too bad at it to find it enjoyable, not that it's a bad game.

I have not played the following yet, but I did get them:

Banished
Space Engineers
Metro: Last Light
Metal Slug 3
Don't Starve
Darksiders II

« Last Edit: July 01, 2014, 06:58:32 AM by LeetZero »

Best:
Sam and Max Complete Series - Great humor, and also a really tricky game. I may suck at it but i still love it.
RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe - Creating amusement parks, early memories, charging for the bathroom.
Bioshock Infinite - From what i've played of it, its a really different feel than the other Bioshock games. The storyline is interesting and once you start playing you find it hard to put down for a while.
Gifted - BattleBlock Theater (thanks Ninja Decoy!) - Nice controls, cool visuals, a sweet level editor, and the narrator is the best one to listen to.

Haven't yet played FULLY:
Super Meat Boy
Retro City Rampage
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (asks me about stuff uPlay)
Gifted - Castle Crashers

Bad purchases:
Bioshock Infinite - Only because I bought it for $15 and then 2 minutes afterwards it went for $7.49.  forget.
« Last Edit: July 01, 2014, 07:58:34 PM by TeeOS »

Best: far cry 3 blood dragon
Worst: papers please
I just cannot get into it.

best: fallout: new vegas
worst: PAYDAY 2 (not bad at all, just can't run it for stuff.)

I didn't get much during the sale but

Battleblock Theater
: really fun game, even better with friends. worth the 3 dollars I spent on it by far
DLC Quest: funny little joke game, still has some enjoyability to it, I'd say it was worth the 50 cents
Guns of Icarus Online: really cool airship combat game where you have to manage and repair your airship if its damaged, me and my friends had a amazing time playing it. worth it definitely.
Dungeon Defenders: Fun game, but I haven't really gotten into it that much due to buggy connection issues with my friend.
Final Doom: Nice old game, but I can never get use to the controls in it and I can't rebind them.
Hotline Miami: Haven't played it yet but I heard its good

Hotline Miami: Haven't played it yet but I heard its good
Really good, but I'm pretty sure I've broken things because of it.

I haven't tried all the games I bought, I got 9 I think. I must say though, Strata is one of the most elegant and intriguing puzzle games I have ever played. You are into puzzle games, get this game.

I got Half Life (1), Portals 1+2 (Haven't played them yet), and Garry's mod (For a friend)

I only bought a new bl key.

Blockland - You already know.
The Stanley Parable - Great game, would recommend. A british guy narrated everything I did. 10/10.
Papers, Please - You get to use a body scanner for a day. 10/10.
Lone Survivor - Had to take drugs to survive. 10/10.
Borderlands 2 - Eh, it's playable, but not all that great. It's boring where I'm at.
Bad Rats - Gave it to someone else. forget you Doughboy. jk ily
Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Not available on current platform.
« Last Edit: July 01, 2014, 09:09:20 AM by mus »