I bought, unfortunately or not, everything that I wanted during that Exploratory sale just a few weeks earlier. I keep hoping that a certain new game released will be at least 10 bucks off for a short amount of time...

That and Shadow Warrior was what I call a good game. Worth playing. Love it's sale price.

@bisonhero: Since the sale proper started, I got:

• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
• Shadow Warrior
• LYNE
• R.U.S.E.
• Prison Architect
• Hack 'n' Slash + Spacebase DF-9
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
• Sanctum

Last week, I was doing a bunch of trading and what not and got all these games for incredibly cheap, about $40 for all of it:

• Red Faction Complete Bundle
• Ziggurat
• Paradox Platinum Pack (Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings II, etc - $4.50!)
• Star Wars: Empire at War Gold
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Echelon Pack
• Dishonored GOTY
• Saints Row IV Game of the Century Edition
• Payday 2 with all DLC
• X-3 Terran Conflict
• Space Engineers
• The Walking Dead: Season 2
• Call of Juarez
• Plus about 15 indie games from a couple of Indiegala bundles\

I totally, inexplicably, waited 3 years to pick up Bulletstorm!!!! I have bought a few more games than I usually do in these sales... Bulletstorm, Ethan Carter, Wolf Among Us, Metal Gear Rising, Rage, AVP, Don't Starve, Alpha Protocol, and Lords of the Fallen so far.

I decided to splurge a little bit to fill up what I will play for the next couple of months and still have only spent about 50 bucks so far. That's not bad for games that will last me a bit.

I bought the Golf Club yesterday.

It seems like a neat thing even if the commentary is hilariously bad

Bulletstorm is worth a buy at this price. I got it for $5 in one of the previous sales and I thought it was well worth it.

@mb: Bulletstorm requires GFWL. So long as people know...

@tuxfool: I was totally gonna buy it, but I heard that it just doesn't work anymore because of it.

So far have bought The Nightmare Cooperative and Pac Man Championship DX enjoying the hell out of both of them. Am waiting for hopefully a heavier price drop on Rogue Legacy, Papers Please and KOTOR.

Since I own the game, I'll download and install it for you and see what happens. It's a ton of fun and really cheap, it would be a shame to miss out on it for what "might" be a problem. It's 7gb so it should only take me about 20 minutes to install.

edit: It works fine. I was asked to sign in to Games for Windows Live, it updated, then I jumped right into the single player campaign without any difficulties at all. I tried multiplayer, got an error message about my Live account privileges. Not sure if that is related to a Gold subscription or if the multiplayer just doesn't work anymore.

Shadow Warrior is pretty awesome, I think I finished that game last year or something, it was PC exclusive, so it's a first-person shooter that was developed without the limitations of a dual-stick gamepad, which makes for some very hectic but extremely rewarding moments. You need a modern rig though.

I might but LA Noire, I think I'm old enough now to appreciate that kind of game, hah!

Edit: I just bought LA Noire Complete from Nuuvem, which is a Portuguese site that was selling it for 3.38 USD (comes with a steam key). Steam store needs to step up their game!

@treetrunk: Console versions of Shadow Warrior came out a couple months ago.

@mb: thanks for checking it out.

I'm still a bit leery as GFWL is going to be put out to pasture. It is dirt cheap though...

@mb: Wow I had no idea! It was exclusive when I got it. Those new controllers better be reactive as hell lol.

Yeah...I'm sure the game has an extreme amount of auto aim.

@mb: Yeah lol

hmm... I might buy Metro Redux from Nuuvem as well...

Well...the Metro Redux Bundle was just $16.99 before the Winter Sale started. Now it's $24.98 at 50% off as a Daily Deal. I was waiting for it to go on sale again for at least $16.99, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. Strange that they would discount it more before the sale started. The Nuuvem price is definitely better.

I already own 2033 and Last Light, before the sale owners of the originals were getting 50% discounts on the Redux versions. Now that's gone, and it's just 50% off...which is what it would have cost me anyway.

@mb said:

Yea that's exactly what I was thinking, I saw it go on sale for $16.99 before too but it is more expensive as a Daily Deal during the Winter Sale which is the first time I've ever seen that happen.

Edit: WOAH I just realised, the Metro Redux being sold from Nuuvem cannot be played outside Brazil!

On the nuuvem store page it says:

REGION LOCKED: Este jogo NÃO pode ser jogado fora do Brasil

Which translates to:

This game can be played outside Brazil NOT

@mb: I repeat, do NOT buy Metro Redux from Nuuvem, it cannot be activated outside Brazil!

Huh, my post from earlier must have gotten eaten by the mobile site.

Anyway, my gets thus far are Skyrim, Shadow Warrior, and just for the hell of it I bought Postal 2 for $2.50 on HumbleBundle. (I also bought Isaac Rebirth for a friend)

Still hoping New Vegas Ultimate Edition will fall down to $5 like it did a few weeks ago. Kicking myself for not hopping on that when I had the chance.

Big one today for me looks like Mount Your Friends for $1.99, that is the lowest it has ever been as far as I know.

The hidden gem today may just be Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines for $4.99. Hell of an RPG, it's a bit dated but worth playing if you missed it up until this point. Discounts to $4.99 are nothing new for this game either, though.

Saints Row IV is $4.99 again if you missed last week's pre-sale.

Why oh why does the combined Skyrim DLC keeps being more expensive than the Legendary Edition? It is a bit of a pet peeve but I got original Skyrim and buying the legendary edition means I got another obsolete game in my library. And besides, buying the whole game over again should be more expensive than just the DLC anyway, or?

My first big day of purchases and I got:

• Panzer Corps
• Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
• NBA 2K15
• Shadow Warrior
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Hearthfire

Previously I had purchased Assassin's Creed III and Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.

@nictel: Dawngaurd and Dragonborn are $5 each on Amazon right now. Lowest I've seen either of them in a long time.

Tempted to pick up Mount Your Friends. How is the single player on it? Don't know how often if ever I'll be able to play with/against someone.

Mount Your Friends has online multiplayer.

@mb said:

Like most things multiplayer, I like to be able to sit next to my opponent and if they are better than me, try to make it harder for them by smacking the controller out of their hands.

@nightriff: Alright then...don't buy it? It's two dollars. I would think it's worth it at that price just to have in your library just in case.

@mb: I bought it, don't worry. I'll try to convince the wife to play with me.

Just a heads up that the Humble Store is having it's encore day right now. Some choice deals include Gods Will Be Watching for $3.39, Rogue Legacy for $2.99, The Banner Saga for $4.99 and Nidhogg for $3.74!

Just a heads up if anyone is looking to buy This War of Mine (and you should be), the version from Humble costs the same and comes with a DRM-free version, a steam key, soundtrack, and some wallpapers.

@blzzzrrttt: Thanks for the heads up, snagged Legend of Grimrock for £1.49

Rogue Legacy and Unepic at £1.99 each are also suuuper tempting, hmm

Picked up GTA IV Complete Edition for $6 and the Alan Wake Franchise pack on Humble Bundle for only $4. Was going to pick up The Walking Dead Season 2 for the hell of it but I'm running low on cash for my debit card.

I don't want to spend a penny on this thing but Bastion looks awful nice and £2.74 is a more than fair price. I have bugger all in time to commit to it. :(

Valiant Hearts and Papers, Please were my most recent acquisitions. Have already played VH for like 2 hours straight that game is SO good, it's gorgeous and the music is fantastic.

Just Mount Your Friends and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for me today.

Oh that's good to hear. See I got a separate folder now with "Better version available" which already contains 10 games; e.g. it contains Dragon Age (when I got the ultimate edition) and Deus Ex: Human Revolution (For when I got the Director's Cut). It is nice to hear that Skyrim does this better.

How is Indie Game: The Movie? I don't feel like getting any more games this year, but that looks really interesting.

@baka_shinji17: It's quite good! It doesn't get into technical/game design stuff very much. It's largely a profile of Team Meat and Phil Fish, the ups and downs of creating such a big project with a small number of people, and how it affects them emotionally? There's also a brief interview with Jonathan Blow, though it's a relatively minor part of the movie.

Guys, how did Orion: Prelude win the poll? :(

IL-2 Sturmovik is actually a good game!

Sacred 3 is the first game I've seen with 'overwhelmingly negative' reviews

Bought Orion since my friend did. Even if it's a piece of shit, I'm only out 50 cents.

@treetrunk said:

Haha, yeah, it's always fun when you find one of those on Steam. I mean, people will defend some pretty mediocre games, so to be overwhelmingly negative, you know it has to be pretty bad.

I got MGSV:Ground Zeroes and Grim Dawn. Probably not going to get anything else since I have such a huge backlog, but I feel good about those two purchases.

I usually check the overwhelmingly negative games out first during the monday deals or something, you can find some properly awful games there. Morbid curiosity man :D

So far I've bought The Banner Saga for €5 and Antichamber for €1.39. Banner Saga is great so far, haven't played Antichamber yet.

Spelunky for 3 bucks is tempting. I know it'll take me a while before I get to playing it though and by then it might be cheaper. Hmm...

The strange part is reading those reviews. They're almost all extremely negative, yet spread out over a period of months - many from people who own hundreds of games on Steam. Evidently buying games without reading reviews is still a thing in 2014, even among experienced gamers. I don't get it.

I'm thinking about getting Dead Rising 3 on Green Man Gaming with its 45% discount (20% off voucher which comes down to $30). Although i was kinda wondering if the PC port is worth getting or am I better off getting the Xbox One version on boxing day?

I've been continually disappointed at the lack of Shovel Knight discounts.

Heads up deal seekers. MGS V: GZ is currently 6.80 on the PSN store for the PS4. Glad I held off on the PC version.