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Well, I bought Rome: Total War for $5 a couple days ago, so that was nice. Silent Hunter for $6 was pretty awesome too (that wasn't on sale though).

 LumenPraebeo wrote:
Go on sale Thief! Why won't you go on sale!!! *sobs*

I swear it was on sale a week or two ago.

I passed since several reviews said dishonored was better, so I bought that.

Don't bother buying Fallout 3 if you have windows 7 or later, I have just spent about half an hour fiddling with .ini files and it still crashes before you can even start the game.

 Palindrome wrote:
Don't bother buying Fallout 3 if you have windows 7 or later, I have just spent about half an hour fiddling with .ini files and it still crashes before you can even start the game.

And this is why one should always stay informed when it comes to the quirks of various games.

 Talizvar wrote:
Why PC players cling to being the "master race" is that I am a god with mouse and keyboard, then play the same game on console with a controller and wandered around getting beat up at every turn... was like I was drunk. For button mashing, a controller cannot be beat (as well as maneuvering) but looking around and acquiring targets without aim assist is BRUTAL. Mouse just kills it for speed and precise aim.

So... I have an appreciation for the hardships mortals face.

You can get game pads for the PC when the keyboard and mouse is not the best tool for the game.

Yeah. Controllers work on PC's. They work fine.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

And this is why one should always stay informed when it comes to the quirks of various games.

I was/am, unfortunately getting broken games to function doesn't always work.

 Cheesecat wrote:
You can get game pads for the PC when the keyboard and mouse is not the best tool for the game.

Well aware, but mouse and keyboard (and more flexibility of power and storage) is what differentiates it the most in my eyes.
When I play a console I am forced to use a controller rather than an option on the PC... not the ideal for me.

 Talizvar wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
You can get game pads for the PC when the keyboard and mouse is not the best tool for the game.

Well aware, but mouse and keyboard (and more flexibility of power and storage) is what differentiates it the most in my eyes.
When I play a console I am forced to use a controller rather than an option on the PC... not the ideal for me.

Aye, the option part is key. Mouse and Keyboard is objective bad for, say, flight games. If I want to putter around Ace Combat for some Su-33 fun, I use my PS3 controller, makes life a lot easier. However, after growing up with Counter-Strike, I just can't do console FPSs. It's a shame some times; I love the aesthetic of the Resistance series, I enjoyed Halo 1 on my PC quite a bit, and would like to play the others, but it feels like being in a drunken stupor to use a controller.

As for the sale, I grabbed Call of Juarez; Gunslinger. It was a genuinely fun, arcadey western FPS. Good presentation, fun quirks, well worth the $3.75.

I also got Rome:Total War for $5, purely so I could play the awesome Europa Barbarorum mod again; my old R:TW disks haven't survived. That mod is better than Rome 2 by a fair margin. Especially because it doesn't crash constantly...

All I'm waiting for now is to see if Victoria 2 goes on sale for more than 50%; I'd like to nab the expansions, as i"m a suck for Paradox games and the 19th century in general.

I ended up buying Kerbal Space Program yesterday. I messed around with it some last night. I have a feeling that game will devour large portions of my life.

 squall018 wrote:
I ended up buying Kerbal Space Program yesterday. I messed around with it some last night. I have a feeling that game will devour large portions of my life.

How is this game? Been a bit curious about this one and been considering buying it.

 squall018 wrote:
I ended up buying Kerbal Space Program yesterday. I messed around with it some last night. I have a feeling that game will devour large portions of my life.

Trust me, KSP isn't just a game, it's a way of life.

Also, on the whole "PC vs Console" debate for FPS games, I honestly have decided it comes down to people preferring the control scheme they're most used to. I personally am no good with either a mouse or a gamepad. Believe it or not I actually prefer a laptop track pad. After beating a couple FPS games with it (because I had no mouse with me at college) I couldn't imagine playing an FPS with anything else. This is the point where everybody is free to go

Part of me wants to get KSP, but another can't justify the price-tag for a game I'll play a few times to crash stuff, and then never touch again.

 Trondheim wrote:

 squall018 wrote:
I ended up buying Kerbal Space Program yesterday. I messed around with it some last night. I have a feeling that game will devour large portions of my life.

How is this game? Been a bit curious about this one and been considering buying it.

Can't really say as I have spent about 45 minutes with. It doesn't seem to be something you can just play around with. It looks like you really have to sink your teeth into it. Steep learning curve.

 Palindrome wrote:
Don't bother buying Fallout 3 if you have windows 7 or later, I have just spent about half an hour fiddling with .ini files and it still crashes before you can even start the game.

Hmmmm...I have Windows 7 and Fallout 3 chugs along just fine on it for me.

~Tim?

 Palindrome wrote:
Don't bother buying Fallout 3 if you have windows 7 or later, I have just spent about half an hour fiddling with .ini files and it still crashes before you can even start the game.

I vaguely remember downloading a patch thing that made it work fine.

I don't remember where I found it.

So I guess all this post is good for is me lauding my ability to play fallout 3 over you.... phrasing.

I had zero problems with Windows 7 and Fallout 3.

Anyone know any good horror games for me to buy? *warning*

I have bought
Outlast
Fear (All of them)
Doom BFG edition
Home
I have no mouth and I must Scream

And thats it thus far.

So any suggestions?

 Trondheim wrote:

 squall018 wrote:
I ended up buying Kerbal Space Program yesterday. I messed around with it some last night. I have a feeling that game will devour large portions of my life.

How is this game? Been a bit curious about this one and been considering buying it.

Kerbal Space Program is definitely worth getting. You've got a whole bunch of parts and you can assemble them into different land, air and space vehicles and dock them together, go to other planets, capture asteroids. For example, here's a spaceplane of my own design, after reaching orbit:

 Asherian Command wrote:
Anyone know any good horror games for me to buy? *warning*

I have bought
Outlast
Fear (All of them)
Doom BFG edition
Home
I have no mouth and I must Scream

And thats it thus far.

So any suggestions?

I see you have no problems with "pixelated" horror games, so check out "Lone Survivor". Looks pretty good from what I saw in a Let's Play.

I have my eye on "The Cat Lady". Seems pretty cool but unfortunately the pack that had it didn't win the "Community's Choice" vote.

"Cry of Fear" is Free and from what I saw in a Let's Play it can be pretty darn good.

Check the "Penumbra" series. This one is more about puzzle and survival, I can only guess this is where Amnesia got it's inspiration from.

And of course if the platform isn't a problem, get the Project Zero / Fatal Frame (different name in Europe and USA) series for PS2. Damn, I love these games.

Last 7 hours guys. Don't miss anything!

It finishes on the 30th (which is tommorow).

 Palindrome wrote:
It finishes on the 30th (which is tommorow).

Wait, as in it ends at 2359 on the 30th of June, or it ends at 0000 on the 30th June? Because I planned on buying Xcom Enemy Within before the sale ended.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Last 7 hours guys. Don't miss anything!

One day too early

 motyak wrote:

 Palindrome wrote:
It finishes on the 30th (which is tommorow).

Wait, as in it ends at 2359 on the 30th of June, or it ends at 0000 on the 30th June? Because I planned on buying Xcom Enemy Within before the sale ended.

I think it will end on 23:59 on the 30th in what ever timezone Seattle is in.

 Sigvatr wrote:
One day too early

Voting is closed. There won't be another player's choice after this batch expires, which happens to be the same time everything else expires. Sale ends on the 30th, meaning it ends on the 30th. It doesn't last 'til the end of the 30th, it means it ends when the 30th begins.

At least, that's the way Valve has done it in the past.

Apparently it finishes at 1800 BST tomorrow.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
One day too early

Voting is closed. There won't be another player's choice after this batch expires, which happens to be the same time everything else expires. Sale ends on the 30th, meaning it ends on the 30th. It doesn't last 'til the end of the 30th, it means it ends when the 30th begins.

At least, that's the way Valve has done it in the past.

Ah well, time zones

At 7 pm here (it's 1:15 pm here now), the last day starts and you get one more day with the "most favorite" sales.

Just picked up Avernum 4,5, and 6 for $3. I pumped so much time into Exile:Escape from the Pit back in the day. I can't wait to see where the series has gone.

State of Decay ...because zombies. I'm into open world survival games, but didn't pick this particular one up because it didn't have mouse support. Even if I can't manage to have it work on my linux laptop at least I didn't have to drop anything more than £5 on it.