The steam christmas sale has BEGUN

[Rudi von Starnberg]

That's probably part of why it's there - the Steam top seller lists are sorted by income, not copies sold. So when Killing Floor was being sold for a fiver and was ranked higher than MW2, that meant that more than eight times as many copies of Killing Floor were being shifted.

As an example.

[Halo]

Hmm, not so tempting. They suckered us in with the deals yesterday and now give us moderate discounts. At least all the other stuff is still there, hidden away.

Under Recent Top Sellers you get most of the games they had heavily discounted yesterday, and Modern Warfare 2. I cannot believe that has been selling that much, espcially at £40.

The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 requires Steam to run, and they count every single PC copy of MW2 registered on Steam as a sale.

[Vimster]

Okay, well I just found it a little misleading.

[Jasberfloob]

Torchlight, Defense Grid and Evil Genius - should keep me happy for a couple of hours at least!

[tronied]

Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena, Gothic 3, Ghostbusters and Red Faction 2 - all for a total of just under £20

[therealjohnpeat]

That's probably part of why it's there - the Steam top seller lists are sorted by income, not copies sold. Citation needed

As an example.

[Retroid]

Never played the first Serious Sam and I was waiting for this new one to get under a tenner. Anyway, It's all I expected it to be and more! There's some stupid glitches and the graphics/engine are definitely dated (despite the new textures) but this game has shitted me up something rotten with the upredictable spawns and weird new types of enemy. The gameplay is more like a shmup than an FPS and it's refreshing yet cheesy as fook!

[Vimster]

Never played the first Serious Sam and I was waiting for this new one to get under a tenner. Anyway, It's all I expected it to be and more! There's some stupid glitches and the graphics/engine are definitely dated (despite the new textures) but this game has shitted me up something rotten with the upredictable spawns and weird new types of enemy. The gameplay is more like a shmup than an FPS and it's refreshing yet cheesy as fook!

It's great fun, especially when the big robots come in. We need more games that forego sophistication and replace it with pure fun. Will stick with my original copy for the time being though.

[daveodeth]

It's great fun, especially when the big robots come in. We need more games that forego sophistication and replace it with pure fun. Will stick with my original copy for the time being though.

It's the secrets that I love, they're proper secrets that let you get weapons well before you should.

[James Lyon]

Oof. Fifty pounds well spent. That's including the ID Super Pack, Riddick, Ghostbusters, Jedi Knight Collection, Republic Commando, Freedom Force, Outrun, the Oddworld Pack, King's and Space Quest and Audiosurf. That's just ridiculous!

And there's still more I want to get. I'm just pacing it out to make sure I don't have a heart attack at the checkout. Now what are the chances of the first Modern Warfare for a fiver when the next special offers roll around?

[Sigourney Beaver]

Alien Shooter is amazing!

[Vimster]

Now what are the chances of the first Modern Warfare for a fiver when the next special offers roll around?

Practiaclly nil, I would imagine. The damn thing has been out 2 years, it should be a fiver.

And I'm tempted to get Alien Shooter 2 Reloaded at 99p. If it's utter shit then no big loss, just like the old Mastertronic £1.99 days.

[Sigourney Beaver]

Only had a quick go of survival mode of the first Alien shooter so far but it controls very nicely. Can't say how the campaign is though.

[mr_woo]

Got myself Killing Floor, Foreign Legion - Buckets Of Blood and Sniper Elite for just over £10

Foreign Legion is really fun and well worth the £1.39 I spent on it. It's a simple wave defence game but it's light, breezy and fun. Killing Floor is a blast too, really enjoying that as well.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

Killing Floor is really solid and has improved a lot since release - Tripwire are doing sterling work adding stuff onto it. Some of the meatiest, most satisfying weapons of any game, I reckon. Some of the maps are excellent, particularly the conversion of the Red Orchestra map Hedgehog (which is kf_farm now I think), which is sprawling and huge and has cornfields of death.

[Gorf King]

Man, Audiosurf is brilliant. Normally I don't get on with rhythm action games - especially not ones that have you supposedly playing to a particular instrument - but this is fantastically compelling. The way that the courses are mapped from the audio just feels so right with rhythmic tracks: mid-period Autechre plus this game is even more hypnotic than, well, Autechre without it. Which is pretty bloody hypnotic. Plus, I'm actually at the top of some leaderboards for a change.

£1.50 is an insanely low price to pay for this much glory.

[Sabreman]

I swept up a bunch of stuff in the last sale, but I at least got round to buying Gish this time. Quite lovely.

[champloo]

Man, Audiosurf is brilliant. Normally I don't get on with rhythm action games - especially not ones that have you supposedly playing to a particular instrument - but this is fantastically compelling. The way that the courses are mapped from the audio just feels so right with rhythmic tracks: mid-period Autechre plus this game is even more hypnotic than, well, Autechre without it. Which is pretty bloody hypnotic. Plus, I'm actually at the top of some leaderboards for a change.

£1.50 is an insanely low price to pay for this much glory.

It's fantastic isn't it. Probably the best deal I've had on Steam, which is really saying something.

[Guest nikolai]

New stuff is up, but it's all crap.

[vcassano]

That KB: Armoured Princess deal is brilliant! It is a great game and released barely a month ago (IIRC). Shame I don't have the time to play it so won't buy it.

[evildeadron]

its not all crap, Kings Bounty Armored Princess is an incredible game and its a steal at 75% off, its very much like the old heroes of might and magic games, only better.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

Red Faction Guerrilla, despite the slightly unoptimised PC port which is still a lot better than GTA4 and Saints Row 2, is a very fun splodey sandbox although eventually repetitive.

[therealjohnpeat]

its not all crap, Kings Bounty Armored Princess is an incredible game and its a steal at 75% off, its very much like the old heroes of might and magic games, only better.

That - it's a shame they don't have a similar deal on the original tbh *Editted to add: this is a new standalone game and not an expansion - yes??*

So far I've only picked-up Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood but I think I may splash on the Unreal Pack

Alien/Zombie Shooter 1/2 Reloaded/Revisted/Revolutions/whatever are great fun and easily worth their usual £6/7 price, let alone a couple-of-quid - but they're all quite similar so just get the latest one, whichever that is.

If you like that sort of thing, Shadowgrounds is also worth a peek.

[vcassano]

That - it's a shame they don't have a similar deal on the original tbh *Editted to add: this is a new standalone game and not an expansion - yes??*

Yeah, in fact it is practically a sequel.

[Ben]

All crap? I read about Cogs the other day on GameSetWatch's Best of 2009 Indie Roundup so have been waiting for it to appear.

I'm a big fan of puzzle games, and it's easy to recognize one in any community - hand them any version of Tetris, and it would keep them entertained for hours. It is from this simple concept that Lazy 8 Studios' Rob Jagnow built the solid foundation of Cogs on. All you have to do in this game is to move the tiles around a surface until the level objective is achieved, which is usually connecting one end of an object to another with a set of cogs or pipes. Sounds like Pipe Dream, yes? Even better.

The sheer satisfaction of solving a puzzle on your own was one of the things that Jonathan Blow wanted players to experience when playing Braid, and it is that same exact feeling you get in Cogs when the tiles click into place and contraptions whir to live. Sure, you can find the solutions online, but where's the fun in that?

Cogs is a game that everyone should try, regardless of whether they're fond of puzzle games or not - simply because it's one of the best puzzlers of its kind to be released in the past few years. The grandmaster of puzzle games Alexey Pajitnov has played Cogs at E3 recently, and even he couldn't bring himself to stop playing it. That is Lazy 8 Studio's bullet point, right there.

[champloo]

Just noticed that they have Aquaria for £7.50.

Definitely worth a shot at that price. It's probably the best Metroid/Castlevania-style clone I've played.

[RubberJohnny]

It's not all bad, I picked up Titan Quest Complete for a fiver.

[tronied]

Gothic 3 - I recommend you avoid it (even though its cheap):

- Start off by being thrown into a fight. Why or when is seemingly not important. Story is very light on the ground (if it exists at all).

- Watch as various characters walk through walls, walk around waste deep in the ground, or see the occasional half torso fly around the screen.

- You are told you need to go to some place in the forest, but to find your way you need to find some character who has completely disappeared from the village (probably stuck in the floor somewhere).

- Go around and kill a few things, realise how simple the combat is and get bored and stop playing.

Ghostbusters on the other hand I am having fun with. Seems like a good deal for a fiver. I am downloading Chronicles of Riddick now, so am looking forward to that also.

[Vimster]

I've not heard a good thing about Gothic 3 since release, sadly.

Tempted to pick up Killing Floor though. Is it good with randoms?

[Rudi von Starnberg]

Depends on the randoms, really. It's less affected by them than, say, Left 4 Dead, but you can still have some shit rounds if you're on a server with lots of idiots.