You tell me. I don't think it was that bad, but spending around $80 was more then I expected going in as I already had everything I really want. I just ended up getting stuff like the POP bundle as I always wanted to get it but kept putting it off, some DLC bundles, and a couple $1-$2 indie games because why the fuck not? My biggest purchase was Dark Souls. I didn't want to get it because I always heard how terrible it was on PC and that type of repetitive artificially hard games never do anything for me. I put a few hours into it when I first got it but have yet to go back to it. I think I'm going to try again today and see if it can hook me this time.
On the plus side I played through a couple of the short indie games and it got me writing little mini reviews for games again so I guess that's something.
For Steam and whatnot, not too bad actually. Probably like $65 in total, $40 of which was Far Cry 3 so not nearly as bad as other years when I went whole hog and spent like $400. But I also am kinda running out of stuff to buy. I just bought the DoW2 pack, GalCiv pack, and Endless Space. All of which are long games that I don't have time to play but I bought them anyway. I really want to dig into Endless Space, as I haven't played a huge scale turn-based strategy game in a very long time.
I did buy some 3DS stuff at a local Boxing Day sale where it was buy 1 get 1 half off so I ended up spending about $50 on NSMB2 and Mario Kart 7. I am quite enjoying the 3DS so far.
I only spent about $60 on the Steam sales. Mostly Indie games that I've been meaning to buy for a long time. In the end there were some bigger games that was dirt cheap that got me too (Max Payne 3 and Sleeping Dogs).
Not bad with Hotline Miami, Don't Starve, McPixel & Sleepy Dogs game with the Nightmare/Drunken Master DLC. Glad I waited until the sales to get them to cut the prices on everything down to about half.
Not bad at all. I bought a few games, but mostly I looked at the current deals and said "Nope, nothing there". Felt kinda liberating.
I ended up buying Assassin's Creed II, Snapshot, Torchlight II, Thirty Flights of Loving and Botanicula. Aside from Torchlight, they all cost merely a few bucks each.
From the fall sale to the winter sales I bought about 10-15 games, but I saved a ridiculous amount of money. I think together they equaled about 2-3 full priced games so yea I'm happy, my best deal I think was Sleeping Dogs for $6.
Steam/PC(GreenMan): Xcom, Sleeping dogs, FTL, Walking Dead, Worms Revolution, Torchlight 2, Deus Ex Human Revolution, SimCity 4 (already owned on disk, bought for convenience) and my wife bought Sims 3.
XBL: Forza Horizon, Fez, Mark of the Ninja, Dust: An Elysean Tale.
Everyone's first Steam is always the worst, after that there isn't much else to buy other than the occasional discounted newish title.
I can agree with this. My first Summer sales I bought a lot of cheap indie games, I didn't buy anything this Christmas sale, although I did buy Hotline Miami during their Thanksgiving sales.
I picked up a few things, not too many. Got Xcom off of Amazon for $25. Picked up some stuff on Steam, too of course. Walking Dead for $12.50, FTL for some cheap price I don't recall, and my big get was Sleeping Dogs for $4.49. I think there was a price mistake I caught for 91% off. :)
Didn't get much. Mark of the ninja. Chivliry and counter strike for some freakin reason. Then I bought te xcom dlc for 4 bucks on green man. So not too bad
For the first time I didn't buy anything, mostly because I bought the full THQ humble bundle and therefore had a bunch of games to play out of that, like Saint's Row the Third which I haven't gotten to play yet.
My "first Steam" was not bad. Bought Hotline Miami, KOTOR2 and the STALKER pack that includes SoC and CoP. Was tempted to pick up Max Payne and some other stuff , and while the games were cheap, I hate having a large backlog. With the new games from Steam I have like 7-10 unfinished games between 360/PC, which is a lot for me.
So bad that I went to a ski shop in search of clearance discounts on last year's clearance model skis. But once I was in the store and found out the pair I was interested in were not actually discounted by any reasonable percentage, I went ahead and bought a 2013 model pair at full price because fuck it and yolo and et cetera. :D
This thread is about games though, yeah? I bought Forza Horizon on sale at a brick and mortar; Binding of Isaac and Dustforce during the Steam sale for pocket change.
Actually didn't buy a thing on Steam. Held off to the very last minutes of the 2-day sale extension-thingy from buying Darksiders II at $13.74 with all the DLC. Had to go back this past Fall's Bombcasts to see what the guys thought about the game, sounded like it wasn't the game for me.
I got Max Payne 3 from Amazon for $10, Hotline Miami from Amazon for free, and the Darksiders collection from Steam for $14. There was just nothing that i really saw that was a good enough deal otherwise that i either didn't already have or wasn't going to spend the money for. Was hoping that Bully would have gone cheaper on Steam but it never did.
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