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I'm thinking about buying Walking Dead, but the description in the Steam store is talking about making sure you buy a season pass to get all the content when there's nothing like that on the page. Is it the complete game on sale or not?

If you want to co-op Borderlands, play with friends. Public games will make you miserable. With a good group is absolutely the right way to play, though.

So i bought Portal 2 in the Steam sale. Never played it, haven't had a gaming-able PC in a long time and i absolutely refused to play it on a console. Hold on though, first things first, i decided to play through the first Portal again. Took about two hours, that game is still really good. Here's the point i want to make, in that first game GlaDOS is at times funny and silly, but can also be pretty genuinely creepy and menacing. I was a little taken aback by how foreboding that game actually is, it's completely lost in the culture of memes that surrounds the game now. Then you go to Portal 2 and just for like the first half of the game, GlaDOS keeps making fat jokes about Chell. Less menacing, more vindictive shrew. You can argue that it works with the direction the story ultimately goes in, but it's a jarring shift at first, and i still don't think those gags are all that well written. That series is also taking a weird trajectory from breezy experimental puzzle game to behemothic triple-a monster. Portal 2 is massive in every way. It's certainly beautiful though, there's some really incredible scenery, and Valve is making good extensive use of that pre-baked physics simulation thing Source can do. That opening sequence especially leaves one hell of an impression. However, i'm super bummed out by those fade-to-black loading screens. It feels like such a betrayal of Valve's commitment to seamless gameplay, and they just kill momentum when they pop up in the middle of what seems to be a frantic chase. Anyways, i think i'm near the end of the game now. Portal 2 - It's pretty alright.

I have only bought one thing that i was not already planning on buying, and the sum total of what i've spent on this sale is still less than i have spent on individual games in the past, so i'm still feeling pretty good about it.

Every single Serious Sam game can be found for ten bucks by clicking through to the current Serious Sam 3 bundles. (Six games, two remakes, and two add-ons.) only two more hours on that one, but it's a crazy good deal, 90% off the normal price.

Like i said, it's certainly not deserted online.

Just a heads-up that Natural Selection II will be -75% on Steam for the next 7 hours or so.

It was in one of the community's choice votes, i don't know if it got picked. Edit: Replied at the same time, pffft.

I just bought Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. I understand Left 4 Dead 2 on PC includes all the content from the first game? Either way, i've already played both. I have not played Portal 2 before.

All of the subtext going on in this game is kind of hilarious. It sort of ends up being this really awful dark comedy about a 1980's surgeon and his crippling, unconfronted drug abuse.

I just started playing this after buying it in the Steam sale and i'm instantly in love with it, what a great game. There's just so many really, really cool systems in here. I mean, and just my absolutely favorite thing about what it's doing is that it can turn a situation with absolutely no enemies into this complex, interesting tactical scenario. Say your ship is on fire and venting atmosphere, multiple key systems have failed. Who do you need to send where, and in what order, to fix it? What other science fiction game has ever presented that staple sci-fi scenario emergently as part of its typical gameplay flow? God damn, it's so cool! Unlocking some of the alternate configurations and extra ships is proving fairly trying, i will say. I also wish there was a little more variety to the events that can pop up, i've seen a whole lot of repeats. Also, i had Nick Breckon show up on one of my ships, heh.

I've played through the game on the 360, but i picked up the PC version and its season pass through the Steam sale. (I never bought any of the dlc for the 360 version.) Gearbox did a really nice job with the PC version, all the dumb physx stuff amuses me more than it should.

Yeah, i'm not really understanding the Del Toro hate, i think he's a pretty tremendous director.

I am reminded of:

They followed up that video with another one: http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/buckner-and-garcia-s-found-me-the-bomb-revealed/2300-7680/ Ryan has what is an entirely appropriate response to the absurdity of having Buckner and Garcia write a song about your dumb Video game website.

I remember there being a campaign, but i don't think it really amounted to much. The skirmish AI puts up a good fight though, it's reasonably intelligent and has a good understanding of the game's tactics and strategies. (As far as i can remember, at least.)

I just saw Pacific Rim. Guillermo Del Toro has brought a super robot anime to life. What that implies is exactly what you get with no surprises. I also think it has a ton of structure and pacing problems, along with some particularly vacuous and uncharasmatic leads. It's a real dumb movie, with the meaning being both perjorative and positive all at once. Which is to say, i actually really, really enjoyed it, Del Toro's eye for visuals is in full effect here. This movie has some of the most incredible action i've ever seen on the big screen, and the degree to which i enjoyed myself is making the problems i had with the film so much more aggravating. I'd recommend it, it's a really fun summer movie, and my issues with it stem largely from expecting more out of Del Toro.

I'm seriously tempted by the shoot `em up, but i'll probably wait until Nintendo gets their internet streetpass exchange in place, because i still very rarely get hits. Fire Emblem: Awakening lets you send out an instance of your party to fight with passersby, you'll show up on their overworld map as an extra battle. (They can even recruit your version of the player avatar if they win!)

So i failed in doing this, but it looks like the exclusive things aren't actually tagged as special, so could somebody who got one order an extra one for me from their Nookingtons catalogue?

I would imagine that a lot of these things will probably cycle through the front page over the next few days, but you can pretty much run a search for just about anything on Steam and find it on sale right now.

Copy-protection is so great.

Isn't copy-protection great?

That definitely used to happen in Wild World when i played that. If you visit a town that has a villager considering leaving, and if there's an open slot in your own town, that very specific NPC might move to your town. They would retain their history and talk about their time in the town they came from, referencing their relationship with the other previous host player.

I admittedly never played Demon's Souls, but my general understanding is that it's simply better balanced than Demon's Souls. There's fewer silly, exploitative things you can do to break the game, but the trade-off is that more styles of play are viable as well. Dark Souls is not an extremely difficult game, it's just one that does not suffer fools. Learn the systems and movesets, consider every choice, play cautiously.

I love Borderlands, and BL2's PC version has always seemed like such a huge step up from the console versions, so I picked up the PC version of Borderlands 2 when it was pushed down to a 10 dollar price by the community vote. I've also not played any of its DLC, so i grabbed the season pass, which was also on sale for ten bucks. I purchased the steam version of System Shock 2 for a few bucks, because sure, i'll buy another copy of my favorite game. I also bought two of the Ys games that Xseed put up on Steam. I've never previously played Origins, but i whole-heartedly endorse Oath in Felghana, it's a fantastic action RPG. I for sure plan on getting FTL, Amnesia, and Portal 2. They're games i've been dying to play, and now that i finally have a capable gaming PC again, i'm very much looking forward to it. Maybe a few other things.