Steam Summer Sale OMG

[Cookiefist]

OMG
Doom 40% off!

JFYI

[Daywolf]

grr they won't take my plastic monopoly money again, gotta get a steam card :P
5 games in basket.
Nopem not doom, all indy games again. Last year for the summer sale I got the Arma 3 bundle. Still play it, really great game, but what is looking the best right now seems to be Windward (http://store.steampowered.com/app/326410/). It's an improved Sid Meier's: Pirates w/o the dancing junk.

[Thulack]

Steam cards are B1G1 20% off at bestbuy. So basically 10% off when you buy 2 cards of same value.

[Nihilist_santa]

grr they won't take my plastic monopoly money again, gotta get a steam card :P
5 games in basket.
Nopem not doom, all indy games again. Last year for the summer sale I got the Arma 3 bundle. Still play it, really great game, but what is looking the best right now seems to be Windward (http://store.steampowered.com/app/326410/). It's an improved Sid Meier's: Pirates w/o the dancing junk.

Yeah I grabbed some indie games myself like Sheltered and Gods Are Watching. Also grabbed Hurtworld has anyone given that one a try? Seems similar to Rust but with an interesting art style.

[Daywolf]

Steam cards are B1G1 20% off at bestbuy. So basically 10% off when you buy 2 cards of same value.
Oh that's cool ... welll sort of because things that go on sale are usually nowhere to be found after a day or two :D
But I checked a few hours ago, local Walmart had them in stock, and told my Walmart working friend to pick me one up tonight during shift (employee discount). Another one I'm picking up is The Long Dark (http://store.steampowered.com/app/305620/). I was debating between that and Salt for a solo survival game, but Dark and it's updates looks really nice after checking some of the youtubs vids, a lot of realism.
Here's their youboob channel https://www.youtube.com/user/hinterlandgames

[Rogean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJW_ML5aE9E

[Paleman]

Oh that's cool ... welll sort of because things that go on sale are usually nowhere to be found after a day or two :D
But I checked a few hours ago, local Walmart had them in stock, and told my Walmart working friend to pick me one up tonight during shift (employee discount). Another one I'm picking up is The Long Dark (http://store.steampowered.com/app/305620/). I was debating between that and Salt for a solo survival game, but Dark and it's updates looks really nice after checking some of the youtubs vids, a lot of realism.
Here's their youboob channel https://www.youtube.com/user/hinterlandgames

the long dark was a good choice. I love the atmosphere in that game

[Cookiefist]

The long dark looks interesting. Is it terrifying in any way?

[AzzarTheGod]

the long dark was a good choice. I love the atmosphere in that game

I might grab it based on you fellas feedback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJW_ML5aE9E

lol got about 300 dollars loaded prepaid right now for games. on the fence..

anyone else want to casually list some picks they got

[Daywolf]

I might grab it based on you fellas feedback.



lol got about 300 dollars loaded prepaid right now for games. on the fence..

anyone else want to casually list some picks they got
I haven't played it yet, running system restore atm... and failed again. M$ installed a driver, I rebooted, now I just get the big blue. Log says driver error. Not sure if it will run on my laptop, it's at min req specs.

Not sure what to req, I play a lot of sandbox games. Obviously Skyrim if you never played it. X series if you like space ships (X3 terran conflict or X Rebirth). Space Engineers if you like building-survival games.

[Soandso]

I picked up the Long Dark last year when it was on sale so it was earlier and I heard some things have changed, like they connected the maps together so its much bigger now. I really enjoyed it, especially playing it in the winter when it was cold as fuck and dark where I lived.

Its a very solitary game you will not come across very many lifeforms outside of wolves, unless they changed it. Its pretty standard, explore and find food and survival gear. It is pretty tough, gotta make sure you get good clothes and have a lot of food and drinkable water and enough kindling to keep a fire going while you sleep. It can get a little tedious with the extreme temperatures sometimes before you get gear, you wont even be able to be outside for more than a few minutes, which I thought was kinda much, its not like your in Antarctica during a storm.

Again tho, this was a over a year ago when it was very early on in development.

[Daywolf]

They added some challenge modes, one of them looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/oxUyd3H.jpg
It begins with the player char getting humped by a big griz. Then you gotta find some far off location where the gun is, while being hunted by the sex starved grizzy. I think I have an idea where they got the inspiration for this challenge. Some of the streamer youtube vids are hilarious ^^

Bought it, but pc still down. Just been playing windward on my lappy. Nice, I really liked sid meier's pirates, this is a nice spin off of it.

[Freakish]

I picked up Deus Ex, Fallout: New Vegas, and Civilization 5. Got my ass kicked on Deus Ex because I don't know what i'm doing. Tried Fallout and had a much better time. This game is polished.

Has anyone tried out the steam controller? My mouse can't seem to get the right callibration for gaming, i'm thinking of getting it.

[AzzarTheGod]

I picked up Deus Ex, Fallout: New Vegas, and Civilization 5. Got my ass kicked on Deus Ex because I don't know what i'm doing. Tried Fallout and had a much better time. This game is polished.

Has anyone tried out the steam controller? My mouse can't seem to get the right callibration for gaming, i'm thinking of getting it.

Check back in on New vegas, let me know if its worth a buy after you have given it a few sessions.

Sick of buying games only to find out its a console port and hard to play/bad on your fingers without a XBOX controller.

[barrettdc1]

Check back in on New vegas, let me know if its worth a buy after you have given it a few sessions.

Sick of buying games only to find out its a console port and hard to play/bad on your fingers without a XBOX controller.

I have New Vegas with all the DLC's. Put about 80+ hours into it. I've completed one of the DLC story-lines, and haven't finished anything else. Great game.

[AzzarTheGod]

I have New Vegas with all the DLC's. Put about 80+ hours into it. I've completed one of the DLC story-lines, and haven't finished anything else. Great game.

10-4. Will probably buy it tonight.

I bought Deus Ex Human Revolution. good storyline, but console port killed the fun as far as combat goes.

[Daywolf]

For an fps? Nah I'd get a trackball. You can have both a mouse and trackball on the system at the same time. I use a pc playstation controller when I need a game controller, but not so great for fps games. You lose accuracy, but retain the long-term comfort as you would get with a trackball. Yet trackball has both comfort and accuracy for fps gaming. Mouse can be a little more accuate in the short-run, but for long periods of gaming you don't get the fatigue which means accracy doesn't degrade and imo even improves with the trackball.

It's really only poor if you have bad finger control. I shred guitars and type 60wpm, so I find the trackball a deadly instrument on the virtual battlefield.

New Vegas is a solid game, any of the bethesda classics are.

[Psionide]

I'm interested in the Steam Link and Controller. Anyone have any input on these? Idk if 70 bux is worth it.

[Sage Truthbearer]

I'm interested in the Steam Link and Controller. Anyone have any input on these? Idk if 70 bux is worth it.

Steam link is pretty neat, I don't recommend the controller though.

[big_ole_jpn]

if you give money to bethesda you are trash

[big_ole_jpn]

and that's in addition to having shit taste

[Gruktar]

Check back in on New vegas, let me know if its worth a buy after you have given it a few sessions.

Sick of buying games only to find out its a console port and hard to play/bad on your fingers without a XBOX controller.

New Vegas is absolutely amazing. Fallout 4 is meh and gets a lot of well-deserved criticism, but New Vegas was developed by an entirely different company and I think they did a really good job with it. Definitely worth picking up while on sale.

[Freakish]

New Vegas is fun but I've been logging my hours today on Civilization 5. I think it's my best purchase of this sale.

[AzzarTheGod]

Hmm going to need a controller for New Vegas, as all the menus are designed for console as is most of the GUI mechanics... its been very taxing to a PC user.

Whats the best option?

Whats this steam link controller?

[derpcake]

Just get mods to chance the UI.

[FoxxHound]

I might grab it based on you fellas feedback.



lol got about 300 dollars loaded prepaid right now for games. on the fence..

anyone else want to casually list some picks they got

Darkest Dungeon, D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines(My all time favorite game), Prison Architect, The Long Dark, Stanley Parable, Spore, Outlast, Hotline Miami, Don't Starve, Brothers, Grim Fandango

[Thulack]

Hmm going to need a controller for New Vegas, as all the menus are designed for console as is most of the GUI mechanics... its been very taxing to a PC user.

Whats the best option?

Whats this steam link controller?

Xbox will be coming out with a Bluetooth enabled XB1 controller soon. I'd wait for that or if you prefer PS4 controller can go that route. As someone who uses a trackball mouse you would think that the steam controller would fit right in but for playing games i couldnt get use to not actually having a joystick for my right thumb. So returned that.

[Jorgam]

I picked up Deus Ex, Fallout: New Vegas, and Civilization 5. Got my ass kicked on Deus Ex because I don't know what i'm doing. Tried Fallout and had a much better time. This game is polished.

Has anyone tried out the steam controller? My mouse can't seem to get the right callibration for gaming, i'm thinking of getting it.

Go hardcore mode on New Vegas! Prove your metal!

[Daywolf]

Yeah and I don't see the prob with keyboard/mouse at all with fallout. I've never used a controller with it, but I have with skyrim a little (out of some 700hrs in skyrim lol), and never had an issue using key mapping to do what the trackball (ball on top types I use) couldn't.

I'm liking the long dark. Got about 10hrs in so far. On my third start, 6th day based out of camp office at mystery lake. First start, didn't make it a day, eaten by lovable wolves. Second start, died in the lookout tower of dysentery lol second day. Boil that Canadian water, aye!I Game needs beer. haven't used any maps yet. Game's crazy, runs really good too. Determined to master Timberwolf Mountain. Game reminds me of um the hunters guild mod for skyrim, best mod there.

[Sage Truthbearer]

Hmm going to need a controller for New Vegas, as all the menus are designed for console as is most of the GUI mechanics... its been very taxing to a PC user.

Whats the best option?

Whats this steam link controller?

The Steam controller is pretty different from a normal controller. Normal controllers usually have a D-pad and two joysticks. The Steam Controller has a D-pad, only one joystick, and a trackpad.

The idea is that the Steam controller lets you play games where you'd normally want a mouse (like Civ) by providing a trackpad. The problem is the trackpad works really poorly at simulating a mouse. And because the Steam controller doesn't have two analog joysticks, it's basically unusable for games where you need two joysticks (like Rocket League or Dark Souls).

[derpcake]

i play rocket league on a keyboard

in fact the only game i don't play with a keyboard is Street Fighter, since I got a fight stick

also have an x-box controller, but the joysticks on it are terrible, so is the D-pad, i mean i did a challenge on SF which is purely input related, tried for an hour on a controller, never worked, got a fight stick, took 5 mins..

ymmv

[AzzarTheGod]

The Steam controller is pretty different from a normal controller. Normal controllers usually have a D-pad and two joysticks. The Steam Controller has a D-pad, only one joystick, and a trackpad.

The idea is that the Steam controller lets you play games where you'd normally want a mouse (like Civ) by providing a trackpad. The problem is the trackpad works really poorly at simulating a mouse. And because the Steam controller doesn't have two analog joysticks, it's basically unusable for games where you need two joysticks (like Rocket League or Dark Souls).

Appreciate the response.

So just go with an XBOX ? Is it plug n play? Or is there a required software system to download as well?

I was a PC purist my whole life but the best games just aren't designed for PC anymore.

[big_ole_jpn]

would be interedasted in PC controller recommendations too (mostly for emulation, dont need the mouse emulation).

I had a logitech USB controller once but the buttons were so stiff/snappy that they hurt my thumb joints just pressing. PS3 controllers are pretty great physically but the windows drivers are a pain in the balls and I have to run software everytime I plug them in. Xbox controllers are pretty much gay.

I've heard PS4 controllers are plug and play on Windows, can anyone confirm/deny/comment or recommend something superior?

Also, would really like a troller or software that allows me to emulate d-pad using analog, so i can play real old games with an analog stick. Not many emulators seem to support the xinput analog or whatever, and I would rather I could just have it interpret different axes as button presses/holds. please help, i have bushido blade to play.

[Sage Truthbearer]

Appreciate the response.

So just go with an XBOX ? Is it plug n play? Or is there a required software system to download as well?

I was a PC purist my whole life but the best games just aren't designed for PC anymore.

I have a Logitech F710. (https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-940-000117-Gamepad-F710/dp/B0041RR0TW) Owned this thing for a couple years. Battery lasts forever. Dropped it a million times and still works good as new.

It is plug n play, no software required since the driver auto-installs off the USB dongle. I either put the USB in my PC or Steam Link (which has 3 USB slots) depending which I want to use.

[big_ole_jpn]

I have a Logitech F710. (https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-940-000117-Gamepad-F710/dp/B0041RR0TW) Owned this thing for a couple years. Battery lasts forever. Dropped it a million times and still works good as new.

It is plug n play, no software required since the driver auto-installs off the USB dongle. I either put the USB in my PC or Steam Link (which has 3 USB slots) depending which I want to use.

can you comment on how the button press feels compared to a typical console controller? The other logitech controller I owned had buttons that felt distinctly shittier than any other controller I'd used

[AzzarTheGod]

can you comment on how the button press feels compared to a typical console controller? The other logitech controller I owned had buttons that felt distinctly shittier than any other controller I'd used

This, can we get a possible comparison of PS4 (or XBOX) to a Logitech feel wise?

Gotta make this purchase soon bros.

[Kevris]

PSA: Oculus is following suit with their own summer sale.

I nabbed:

Adrift - 13 bucks (Oculus store)
House of the Dying Sun - 17 bucks (Steam)
The Solus Project - 16 bucks (Steam)
The Town of Light - 13 bucks (Steam)

Haven't tried anything but House of the Dying Sun yet. I will say that it is pretty fucking great, albeit short. Good replay though, and VR space combat will never get old to me.

[Thulack]

would be interedasted in PC controller recommendations too (mostly for emulation, dont need the mouse emulation).

I had a logitech USB controller once but the buttons were so stiff/snappy that they hurt my thumb joints just pressing. PS3 controllers are pretty great physically but the windows drivers are a pain in the balls and I have to run software everytime I plug them in. Xbox controllers are pretty much gay.

I've heard PS4 controllers are plug and play on Windows, can anyone confirm/deny/comment or recommend something superior?

Also, would really like a troller or software that allows me to emulate d-pad using analog, so i can play real old games with an analog stick. Not many emulators seem to support the xinput analog or whatever, and I would rather I could just have it interpret different axes as button presses/holds. please help, i have bushido blade to play.

ps4 controller is not plug and play. Need to use InputMapper for it. After using PS4 controller for 2 years on PC i switched a XB1 controller after getting a XB1 back in march and realizing that the smaller ps4 controller was making my hands cramp while playing Overwatch where the XB1 controller didnt. due to its larger size and me not wrapping my hands all the way around it like the PS4. Ive never used a "PC Controller" by logitech or anything like that so cant comment. If you want to use wireless PS4 can be used with a bluetooth adapter. XBox you would need to buy a adapter for it to use wireless. They are coming out with new XB1 controllers in a few months that are bluetooth.

[Thulack]

The Steam controller is pretty different from a normal controller. Normal controllers usually have a D-pad and two joysticks. The Steam Controller has a D-pad, only one joystick, and a trackpad.

The idea is that the Steam controller lets you play games where you'd normally want a mouse (like Civ) by providing a trackpad. The problem is the trackpad works really poorly at simulating a mouse. And because the Steam controller doesn't have two analog joysticks, it's basically unusable for games where you need two joysticks (like Rocket League or Dark Souls).

This. I didnt like the trackpad on the steam controller at all. It was so small that it didnt emulate a mouse very well and i use a trackball mouse on a regular basis.

[Kevris]

Go hardcore mode on New Vegas! Prove your metal!

Also, this:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Ramallah/_J.E._Sawyer_releases_his_own_Fallout:_New_Vegas_m od

[Sage Truthbearer]

can you comment on how the button press feels compared to a typical console controller? The other logitech controller I owned had buttons that felt distinctly shittier than any other controller I'd used

On the Logitech the X/Y/A/B are pretty tactile and responsive. Not mushy at all. The D-pad is round and mushy but I don't use the D-pad a lot. The bumpers are crisp, but the triggers are slightly on the stiff side. The Logitech works great for me, but I bought it a couple years ago and there's probably better products on the market now. If I had to replace it today I would be looking at one of the two options below.

• DualShock 4 Wireless Controller for PlayStation 4 (https://www.amazon.com/DualShock-Wireless-Controller-PlayStation-Black-4/dp/B00BGA9X9W). It costs only $45 on Amazon, and I think PS4 makes a very comfortable and capable controller, but just know that it's not really plug-n-play. It will require some mapping setup for PC gaming.

• Microsoft Xbox One Controller + Wireless Adapter for Windows 10 (https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Controller-Wireless-Adapter-Windows/dp/B015IX3X3E) It costs a bit more at $66, but this is easier to setup for PC than the PS4 controller and is more comfortable for better for people who have larger hands.

[barrettdc1]

I have one of these from back in the day, lol

http://i.imgur.com/DghV0xN.jpg

I'd use it but I can't seem to find any drivers for Windows 7.

[AzzarTheGod]

Is XB1 plug and play? Or you have to map it?

[Thulack]

Is XB1 plug and play? Or you have to map it?

Xb1 is plug and play.

[Thulack]

On the Logitech the X/Y/A/B are pretty tactile and responsive. Not mushy at all. The D-pad is round and mushy but I don't use the D-pad a lot. The bumpers are crisp, but the triggers are slightly on the stiff side. The Logitech works great for me, but I bought it a couple years ago and there's probably better products on the market now. If I had to replace it today I would be looking at one of the two options below.

• DualShock 4 Wireless Controller for PlayStation 4 (https://www.amazon.com/DualShock-Wireless-Controller-PlayStation-Black-4/dp/B00BGA9X9W). It costs only $45 on Amazon, and I think PS4 makes a very comfortable and capable controller, but just know that it's not really plug-n-play. It will require some mapping setup for PC gaming.

• Microsoft Xbox One Controller + Wireless Adapter for Windows 10 (https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Controller-Wireless-Adapter-Windows/dp/B015IX3X3E) It costs a bit more at $66, but this is easier to setup for PC than the PS4 controller and is more comfortable for better for people who have larger hands.
You can find PS4 controllers for 35-45 dollars on sale. I just picked up a xb1 controller with wireless adapter for 54 for Open box from Best Buy and it works fine.

[AzzarTheGod]

Xb1 is plug and play.

Thanks rollin to bestbuy tonight. No more painfully scrolling and awkwardly fumbling and clicking through New Vegas menus.

Also I'll be damned if that special targeting system isn't designed for console 100%. Theres nothing PC about that target system. You guys are psychos for using a keyboard and mouse for that game (and other ports I have yet to come across)

[Freakish]

V.A.T.S? It sucks. Main reason I'm wanting a controller.

[Daywolf]

I have one of these from back in the day, lol

http://i.imgur.com/DghV0xN.jpg

I'd use it but I can't seem to find any drivers for Windows 7.
Oooooo I had one of those, was the best controller. Dogfights in bf1942 and wwii online were great with that.
Right now I just have a logitech ps controller. Yeah buttons were sticky at first, but it loosened up well.

Found out the long dark works perfectly fine on my 4yo laptop with intel hd. You can set the res way way down, though looks pretty bad below 640x400 med grfx settings, not that I'm running it that low (1280x600 I think). After 18hrs over the past few days, I say easily it earns it's 'very positive' steam rating for a single-player survival game.

Sales not over yet, think I might pick up the two geometry wars games. Also maybe car mechanic simulator hehe.

[maskedmelon]

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