Umm this is really tempting, lots of good games there that i never bought like the company of heroes series, warhammer series, titan quest series:

Package: THQ Complete Pack

THQ Complete Pack

Includes:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Full Spectrum Warrior
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
Titan Quest
Titan Quest - Immortal Throne
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Gold Edition
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - Soulstorm, Frontlines™
Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights,
Saints Row 2
Red Faction Guerrilla
Red Faction
Red Faction II


Can you USA guys please let me know the price you have? i'm pretty sure Steam translates $1=1€ that is a ripoff for us Europeans. If the price is in $, i'll ask one of you to buy it as gift for me and i'll paypal you the amount in $ that you had to pay.

Ok it was fast, SirFozzie purchased it for me and i saved around $35 compared with me paying it in euros.

Thanks a lot mate!

Wow what a holidays i'm going to have, don't know with which one to start!

Ubisoft WWII Collection - Age Verification

FM

i was intrigued by Mosby's Confederacy, but didn't end up even ever DLing the demo or anything - the reviews I read were nothing special and it seemed like the game mechanics were a bit...simpler than what i was expecting (if i recall correctly)

This shit is like crack.

So today, I set my 14-yr old up with an account so that I can give him the Star Wars Jedi Pack for 10 bucks, then I added Freedom Force for him too, because that looked like fun and it will run on his old computer.

Then, I just couldn't resist FM 2010.

Yeah- I considered Freedom Force, too, as I wanted to play that when it came out.

SI

Steam seems to have buckled to a crawl, getting insanely slow downolad times... :(

The Steam servers are getting killed right now. I have downloaded 32 GB since last night when I started. Damned Witcher is going to be done in a week at this rate. Only 36% done now.

so, is Arkham Asylum worth it? I just have a fear that it'll be like Assassin's Creed - really great concept, but tedious as the game progresses

Batman: Arkham Asylum is one of the best games of the year. I agree that Assassin's Creed was a huge disappointment. The only thing is that if you have a 360 or PS3, I think Batman is more of a console game. My only other knock on the game is that I wish it was longer.

Arkham Asylum was the best game of the year, hands down. It may be the best game of the last two years, honestly.

Great game actually but I have one issue with it. It relies too heavily on the frustratingly unbeatable boss formula as the game progresses.

It's fun playing with all of batman's toys which are made available to you. It's fun to use tactics and moves which you start to unlock to get through areas (most areas you have to isolate your targets strategically and use the tools which are available to you). Unless it's a group of unarmed, in most cases there you can pretty much go in and kick ass (which is fun too).

As 27 said, I see this as more of a console game as well. Not sure why, it just seems to play more like a console game (but I can't really define that to be honest, just the feel).

Uncharted 2 takes that honor. Though I am starting to move Dragon Age: Origins closer to the top.

:)

:+1:

Uncharted 2 is a fantastic experience.

It's 2 bucks, and its one of my favorite games, played it through like four times, hit my Top 100 countdown, etc

Yeah, I went ahead and jumped in on the deal. I figure I'll get at least $2 worth of fun out of it simply as a time waster.

I bought Arkham Asylum. Now really the one drawback of Steam - waiting to DL the damn thing. It'll be a couple of days at the rate this is going

Try switching your download location if it freezes up on you. You can do that under FILE/SETTINGS and then select the download tab. You'll have to restart, but that may speed things up especially if you switch time zones.

yeah, played around with it a bit, but couldn't seem to get higher than 180 or so KB/s. now it's like 35, but I think that's because of all the traffic.

Keep it on overnight. I went through the same thing with GTA IV. Their servers are getting hit hard right now with all of the sales.

I am at 640k right now with The Witcher d/l

I nearly bought Witcher...and still might. Debating it even though I have so many games already I haven't played.

The Witcher is a fantastic game. If you like an RPG where the choices you have to make are not obvious, then the Witcher is your game. Choices you make will have long reaching effects way past the time you make them. This is something Dragon Age did well with too.

Dola. I don't have a PS3, so no Uncharted for me, although as Heavy Rain gets closer and closer, I get more and more tempted.

I did that with Medieval Total War II Wed. night and got up with the game stalled out at 71%. Got it going again after a few tries and went to work. Left work early, about 10:30 am and found after 3 hours it had made 86% and kept stalling.

Finally about 2:30 pm it came up 100%. Hit launch and play on the splash screen and error popped up and game wouldn't open. Went to Steam forum to find the launcher is screwed up, work around is to rename "MW2.exe" to "launcher.exe", simple enough but of course does not work.

Continue to look for answers on their forum and start to think I'm screwed but at least it was only $4.99. Close out firefox, which was covering my Steam screen, and see that Steam is downloading an update for MTW2 and the game will be ready in 1 hour 20 minutes. After the update I was finally playing the game at 4:30pm:) :banghead: :)

Normal day with Steam I think I'd have been up and running with the whole package in less than an hour. Christmas rush, about 18 hours:eek:


Didn't know about the "switch location" trick. Will certainly try that next time, thanks.

thanks for the input guys. Yeah, Hinterland was the one I was most interested in, but I also thought that Children of the Nile looked intersting. I read some reviews about Mosby's Confederacy and finally convinced myself it looked interesting enough to spring for the Tilted Mills pack at $14.99. :)

Other than those three (well four the sequel to the original Children of the Nile is also in there) I bought the following games:
Evil Genius
Freedom Force pack (installed the first game and yay, it works on my computer!)
Audiosurf
Ghost Master (for a buck, and reading the reviews, it looked goofy and funny enough for me to try out)
Zombie Shooter (kinda RPG shooter thing, looked silly enough for me to spend some time with)

All of that for 27.98, hard to beat.

Speaking of Audiosurf, tried it out with two very different songs, Metallica's Master of Puppets and Live's Lightning Crashes. Wow, fun both ways and the Lightning Crashes worked its way up, it spiked like crazy. Them bricks kept on coming like crazy... :)

I also installed the demo for Dark Messiah Might and Magic. Will fool around with it a bit and might get it too. My video card kinda sucks though and it kept me from even trying to get one of the STALKER games...

FM

this game is awesome :) I even placed first on a couple leader boards with more obscure music that apparently no one has tried before :D

Haven´t even touched the more sophisticated game modes, only the "mono" one for casual and pro.

That´ll be one of the more fun ways to have a first-listen to music from now on :)

Tried out Mirror´s edge, very nice concept and really works as advertised as you get immersed into your character and the attempt at reaching a "flow". Will try it more thorough once i´m back home and have a gamepad available.
Not much of a PC gamer, so my hand coordination using keyboard and mouse leaves a lot to be desired...

I'm thinking about either Rome or Medieval Total War 2 as well. I have the original Total War, but never really got into the actual battles simply because I just didn't have the patience to learn everything needed to win. The sad thing is that I love watching the recorded battles on youtube, etc. If you don't do the battles are either Rome or Medieval 2 worth it in your opinion? Or would I be better off getting something similar to Europa Universalis?

I had not heard of the location trick either until I read it on the forums. I had the same problems you had where it would pause for a couple of hours. I did a few switches which may have helped...I don't know.

I've played - and enjoyed - both Rome and TW2 and don't play the battles.

I don't think I'd enjoy the game if I didn't do the battles. Having said that I'm the kind of guy that plays every inning of every game in OOTP, watch the full 90 minutes of games in FM, and don't simulate any games while playing NBA2k or The Show. I have to be involved to enjoy the games.

I tried the demo of Europa and it didn't look like something I would enjoy. With the high regard the Civ series gets here I do need to take the time to try the demo. If I like it I'll probably give it a go the next time that Steam has a Civ sale.

Try Audiosurf with Nine Inch Nails. Damn, that's nasty.

Thanks for the info Draft Dodger. Is there anything in particular you really enjoyed about Rome/MW2? I remember playing the first TW and not really enjoying it without the battles. I'm guessing they've improved the other areas of play?

I'll probably hold off for now. I like Sweed's suggestion of trying Civ 4 complete when it's on sale again. I did enjoy Civ 3. Plus I'm still leaning towards getting the Witcher before it goes off sale. Ugh...way too many good deals going on right now.

I'm with you on playing every inning of OOTP or all games of NBA2K or The Show, but watching the full 90 minutes of a game in FM? You, sir, need to take some vitamins or something.

I skipped over Rome, but Medieval 2 and Empire I only play a few key battles here and there and still enjoy the game thoroughly.

never really got Audiosurf. I've heard raves, so I'm sure I'm missing something.

already bought Arkhanam. Thinking about Torchlight and The Witcher as well.

those are the only two I've played. I found them entertaining enough without the battles (I can't even imagine finishing a campaign playing through all the battles), but I can see where it would be kind of tedious

i play selected battles in RTW and MTW

I dunno.

Way I look at it is, if there is an outstanding original IP and an outstanding sequel, I'm more willing to give my GOTY vote to the original IP.

The sequel has a base on which to build, which doesn't detract from it so much as it makes the quality of the original IP, which doesn't have that foundation, so much more impressive.

Arkham Asylum is my Game of the Year, and that isn't to take anything away from Uncharted 2.

Granted this is just opinion and if you like Arkham Asylum more that is your perogative but here is my take on that sentiment:

If the sequel is better than the other game in question it has to go to the sequel. It's not about who "did more" to get there with the game, it's about which game is better.

Arkham Asylum wouldn't even be second in my opinion, Dragon Age gets that nod.

Not to take anything away from Arkham Asylum but after the midway point of the game it starts to become a game where you are just waiting for it to end. Uncharted 2 is a game where once you start to realize you are near the end you hope that there is a twist and the game continues as it has you hooked to that high of a degree. Dragon Ages seems opposite of Arkham Asylum to me, the start had me wondering if it was worth the hype but as the game progressed I began to get into it more.


If I compare the games to music I would see them this way:

Uncharted 2 - Classic anthem song that defines a genre (one you could listen to forever) sung by a group that has been there before and done that before but this time even better

Arkham Asylum - Song from a new group that you LOVE when you first hear it and want to hear nothing else for the first few weeks but soon you start to wonder what you saw in that song and it ends up at the back of your playlist only to be turned to once in a while for nostalgia when you haven't heard it for a while

Dragon Age - Song that doesn't pull you in at first but after you (begrudgingly) hear it a few times you start to really like it

dola: Wife gave me Modern Warfare 2 for Christmas so my list may change sometime in the near future... :)

Yeah.. I've been taking it slowly (solo play) because I do not want the ride to end. :)

yeah, took me 7 hours to finish it. Great ride, but way too short

Just like the last one.. but a thrill ride nonetheless!

What difficulty were you playing Modern Warfare on?

for anybody who didn't think Torchlight at $9.99 was not enough of a good deal, it's a $4.99 today only over on Steam. It's a lot of clean fun.

FM

Dragon Age is also on sale 25% off ($37.49) for the next 23.5 hours or so.

Today's specials include:

Torchlight - 4.99
Prototype - 19.99
Star Wars Premium Pack - 24.99
Lumines + Expansion - 2.99
Dragon Age Deluxe Ed. - 48.74
Universe at War Earth Assault - 4.99
Dragon Age - 37.49

Surprised to see both Dragon Age's on there, plus the Star Wars pack has like 10 games. Torchlight has to be a must buy at that price.

got the star wars pack - it is indeed like 10 games...and at 24.99 i figured that's a pretty damn good value

For the flight-sim junkies, Thirdwire has a Strike Fighters 2 Collection pack available through December 28 for $50. Basically all four Strike Fighters 2 games for $30 off. They also have a free downloader that is a combined installer for those who bought the 4 individually.

Wow i can't believe i never bought Company of Heroes before. It's a really really fun WWII based RTS/Tactical game, after playing it a bit today, i want to watch Band Of Brothers tonight for like 10th time :D