*** OFFICIAL Steam Games Deals Thread ***

Hmmm... How is Borderlands? For $7.64 (4-pack) it doesn't seem bad.

 

yeah i was considering getting Boarderlands but with all DLC (also 50% off) but not too sure

 

I'd say get it only if you have friends to play with, otherwise, it's really boring play by yourself. Borderlands is really a coop game, you will get better weapons, shields, etc, and enemies are tougher if you play coop.

 

i dont have any friends that have it
im not too sure really i think i will pass on it, wanting ETW and TWN to go on sale, wish i managed to get the pack of them

 

Borderlands is really good, but don't expect a story. It's all about guns guns and more guns, loot, and XP. Pure shooter with a little collection, and coop. Fun stuff if you have friends to play with, but playing alone is kinda pointless.


Crysis is 14.99, but you can get the Crysis Pack (includes Warhead) for $19.99. Non sale pack is reg $40, games individually are reg $50 for both.

So, is Crysis worth it? Last game I played by Crytek was Far Cry 1 back in the day.

 

I got the Crysis pack (Crysis, Warhead, Wars) for something like $13 during the Christmas sale. It was the best $13 I ever spent on games. I think Crysis Wars is really fun.

 

Borderlands and Max with the magic marker is a buy for me! Awesome deals today!

 

Picked up Borderlands + DLC and Prototype

 

kinda want borderlands but i don't know how it will run on the laptop in my sig

 

should run fine, and at 66% off, not a major investment

 

You kidding right?
You should be able to run Borderlands at max without any problems.

 

Yea i ran borderlands at max settings 1080p on a gtx 260m, so you shouldn't have a problem. Also its a great game, and had lots of fun, and the co-op is excellent with 4 people, it becomes way more difficult to kill stuff.

 

Just picked up Borderlands + all the DLC as well. I was waiting for them to have this sale!

 

I just payed 6.80 for DoD source yesterday or the day before and they just added it randomly to the list for 3.50. ARGGGGH! Just angry because I only played 45 minutes of it and really could have waited.

 

strange

can anyone else still see crysis?

I dont :S

 

yup, its the crysis maximum edition. both games are on sale too. oh and just got borderlands and two of the DLC =) (i heard that mad moxxis DLC isnt really all that fun, so i passed on it)

 

I surprised crsysis so much compared to gta 4. You would think it would be even cheaper. Obviously both games are having trouble selling because people cant run the game nicely?

 

Man only 50% off

Maximum edition is still 30$
Not too bad but a bit too much for me ATM
Would have gotten it for sure at 20

 

Maximum edition is $20 for me . Double check?

 

I would get crysis if it was more like 15$ for both games. The price just seems too high for how old of a game it is.

 

Has anyone been able to purchase anything? It keeps giving me an error when I try to buy something.

 

I don't live in the US
Here in the middle east their prices are higher

 

Oh damn that sucks. Anywho.. I just installed Borderlands and it's pretty laggy. I expected my laptop to run it at max setting at 60 FPS constant but I'm getting around 40 or so. I'm guessing this game doesn't utilize Crossfire/SLI mode?

 

Since when is 40 fps laggy? I'm running Dirt 2 on the highest settings and getting 29 fps average which looks perfectly smooth.

 

Haha I guess but I expected more out of this laptop since I spent so much money on it. I take the 40 FPS back, it's usually at 60+ but dips around 40-50 when I'm looking at small villages. I'm guessing it's because of the huge map.

 

I'm excited. Just bought Crysis. Never played it, hope my laptop handles it like I want it to!

 

So I just played borderlands single player on friends laptop (my friend does not have his own internet connection). I liked the style, gameplay, and graphics. However there does not seem to be any story cutscnes after the main ones at the start, and the quests are given silently, which is kind of lame. Do you guys think its worth the 11 bucks? I have no friends that can play with me. Can I just play online with random strangers like L4D (which I love to do).

 

I'll put it this way. It has no story and it has no cut-scenes; but it does have that same "distilled crack" quality that the old Diablo games had. I believe it has been described before as "Diablo for the FPS generation" and I'd say that is a very fair description. You really stop caring about story and play it just for the gameplay itself. It's quite excellent.

 

I went ahead and bought it, I mean 10 bucks!!! Its kind of calming to play single player because of the simple objectives and storyline, not much pressure to stay alive. I stayed clear of this game for so long because of the art style/enimies. However the presentation, comical elements, and of course the amazing gameplay makes up for any issue I had with it. It runs relativly well On my i5 17" MBP I am running with all the settings cranked up @ 1920 x 1200. I even turned on vysnc in the config file. However dynamic shadows and AA(AF was fine) killed the frame rate! So I took those off. Now I am 20-30 Fps which is alright, but I might turn some things down to get that 30+.

 

This is very surprising, I have played borderlands on a gtx 260m at 1080p and full details and i regularly got 40-50 fps, so unless your doing something i didn't, you should be able to obliterate 50 fps. I didn't use AA of AF and like one other thing, seeing how its really not necessary, maybe that helps you out.

 

Yea me and my buddy started playing borderlands and it is pretty fun. The game runs smooth on my laptop and it looks great for being an unreal 3 engine. I also bought the DLC general knoxx since I heard that was the best one.

 

I think the catalyst 10.6 drivers messed up crossfire again. That could be your problem

 

Wow, nice games today... they aren't heavily discounted but still!

BFBC2: 33.49
Just cause 2: 24.99
Metro 2033: 24.99
Devil May Cry 4: 7.50
Mount & Blade: 10.20
Portal: 1.99
Sam & Max Devil's Playhouse: 17.49
World Of Goo: 5.00
Freedom Force Pack: 1.87

The first 3 are of great interest... damnit steam, stop draining the wallet.

 

Kinda disappointed, nothing too great i mean JC2 and Metro i already have but would have been interested in BC2 but its still too much, if it was higher discounted then maybe but still at over £20 - think i will pass

 

So I found out the problem was Dynamic Shadow. Once I turn it off, constant max 62 FPS no matter where I go. Once I turn it on.. it drops to about 40ish. I read somewhere that ATI's are pretty weak against shadow focusing games. That and this game seems to be optimized for Nvidia cards. I also can't update to 10.6 due to some issues with Dell and ATI. Waiting for 10.7 and hopefully that driver will fix this issue. Oh well now I can play this game without any lag whatsoever.

 

So we still have one more day of deals. I'm hoping that Mount and Blade: Warband gets cheaper tomorrow. Either way, I'm going to buy it.

I'm on the fence on Bad Company 2. I used to play the 1942 series and Battlefield 2 years ago. Would it be worth buying?

 

YES, it is worth it! Rush mode is really fun.

 

I'm hoping for Warband too, at 9.99-ish.
Avoid BC2 at all costs. If you were a CoD player, I might have said yes, but as a BF2 player myself, BF:BC2 is surely a let down. BC has always been a watered-down version of Battlefield for the consoles. If you want to play a battlefield game without full-scale maps and vehicles, I'd say just play BF2 on an infantry-only server.

 

I see a couple of good games but definitely too high for a sale. I haven't bought anything yet so I'm hoping the final day will bring some new games and at least a repeat of the past deals, because now I feel I should have bought L4D2. It's the only game that interests me, and at $7.60 it was a good deal. If it does happen I hope someone creates a 4-pack buy, then I'm in.

Anyway, how is Devil May Cry 4?

 

Is this the last daily sale? Because ZZZZzzz.... LoL devil may cry 7.50. Not interested in anything there. I was hoping for the fallout games, some other random AAA older games, RCT3, ME1, better me2 deal.

 

I actually have an extra copy from a 4-pack if you're interested in getting me a game in return.

 

I think there will probably be on more day of daily deals for the 4th, seeing as thats the last day of all the deals.

 

Err, if you read Steam news at all, it very clearly states that the sale ends at 10AM PST on Monday, July 5th.

 

nostalgia is a funny thing. Couldn't disagree more.

The classes and weapons are great, limited vehical respawns forces mainly infantry action like it should. GFX is great, and the totally destructible enviorments really open up new gameplay options.

I'd say it's worth every penny, and much, much better then MW's dated look and arcade feel.

 

I'm glad Steam had a MW2 multi-player trial. If it weren't for that I would still be wishing for a sale. I didn't like it at all, but I do hear the single player story is nice. If MW2 is $10, then I will get it, otherwise I'd rather get CoD4 or BC2.

 

Singleplayer wasn't that great. It was horribly disjointed and not really believable.

 

I hope tomorrow, on the last day, there will be some very good deals. I feel the same like you on today's deal: nothing interesting.

 

What do you mean "nostalgia"? I and many others play BF2 to this day. You're selling BC2 from a MW perspective, which I already stated is fine but less relevant, since from a 1942/BF2 perspective it's watered-down.

 

I'll give you BF2, but 42'? Really?

From my memory BFBC2 is more like 42, which wasn't a bad thing IMO. Still, while it isn't BF2, it's much better then the other dreck out there, and it's as good as you'lll get till we see a true BF2 sequil.

 

well some people still play counter-strike 1.4.