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I’m already playing Hades 2 and FF Tactics comes out tomorrow.
So that, I guess, then probably nothing. /shrug.
Steam sales lose their luster when they’re so frequent.
As someone still halfway through SilkSong, I am immune
I’m barely into act 2, and then Supergiant had the Gall to drop Hades 2 on me as well.
I’ve been playing a few rounds of H2 when I rage quit Silksong because of platforming shenanigans / Hard ass boss fights / getting bodied by nobodies while trying to reclaim my cocoon.
Gonna be a bit before I’m buying new games.
I just bought Shape of Dreams and Hades 2 just got released. I’m drowning right now.
Don’t tempt me to spend even more money on games I will forget I bought 😅
What are you buying?
Groceries, maybe I can swing something during the winter sale.
I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.
Basically me on the last few of these sales. Such a backlog I can no longer justify even the deep discounts.
I have no data on this, but it doesn’t feel like the discounts are all that deep anymore
They’ve been pretty underwhelming for a while now.
You used to get crazy deals on games only a few months old. Now it’s just the same 50% off a five year old game before being ramped back up to full price between sales.
There’s a few bargains of stuff you may have missed, but likely they’ve been an Epic freebie, or on PSPlus or in a Humble Bundle by now.
Last winter sale was pretty good. I got the entire Borderlands collection, dlc included, for $36.
Its a mix of things.
- Part of it is that studios tend to price their games closer to what they are “worth”. So you have far fewer “This is a 20 dollar game we are gonna try to sell for 50”. They just put it at 20 to begin with (or get there pretty quick after launch). Which means that the same “get this for 10 bucks” is now 50% off instead of 80% off and so forth
- Part of it is that game dev has gotten more expensive at all scales and all selling Big Rigs 1 for 5 dollars will do is prevent people from buying Big Rigs 6 for 30
- Part of it is that… as you get older you are more likely to buy the games you want when they are “good enough” rather than waiting until EVERYTHING is at a max discount so you can spread the money you got from the banana stand over the summer as far as possible.
- Which ALSO means that you have a huge backlog and it is a lot easier to say “Do I really need this?”
Yeah. I’ve missed out on Yakuza 0 for 5€, now it’s always 12€. I mean it’s probably worth it, but not when I already own a ton of games that I still want to play.
Yakuza 0 is with it but then you have to play Yakuza 1-6 and then you put the games down and get gifted Yakuza 7 so now you have to beat 4 through 6 and they just announced Kiwami 3 so you’ll probably want to compare that to 3 remastered and next thing you know you’ve bought Yakuza Dead Souls and you’re questioning your life.
At one point I picked up six copies of Fallout: New Vegas at like three or four USD each. I kept the extras in my Steam inventory to trade or gift later. I traded some for TF2 items and gifted two or three to friends when Christmas hit.
Now no more 90% off of good games (okay rarely) and absolutely no keeping games in your inventory. It’s so different now.
Part of the sale issue for me, is that I sometimes already own these deep discount games. It makes it feel like there are less good deals.
Also some new games have what I consider to be really high base prices, so a 60% discount is still not near the impulse buy range.
Like, I’m sure Spider-Man is good but it’s still $60 and ‘only’ on a 50% sale? You can get it for $15 at GameStop.
I saw a game DLC I play that is ancient in game terms (Battletech) and they still want $15 per DLC.
That’s barely a sale imo.
Battletech rocks tho
I think it’s more discounted on GOG
Darktide 67%, X4 at 75% and Hades 75% off are all extremely tempting. I need to start seeding the idea of buying darktide to my friends. I dont even think its worth buying any of these when im so hopelessly addicted to Beyond All Reason.
I have…
Just Shapes & Beats
Nine Sols
Smushi Come Home
CATO: Buttered Cat
Is This Seat Taken?
GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink
Ballionaire
Pepper Grinder
Like a Dragon: Ishin!
…in my cart, but considering I‘m unlikely to get around to any of them this year, I‘ll let them sit in the cart throughout the sale and see whether I’ll pull the trigger on anything.
I already have Balatro, why would I need another game?
I mean I was kinda tempted to get Planet Crafter, but then I thought about it for a bit and realized that I didn’t really want it.
If I had remembered this was coming, I might have waited a little bit to see if Maze Mice was gonna be on sale. Either way, nothing I’m desperately craving to buy, so I’ll probably see if any of the games on my wishlist go on sale for a good deal
Edit:
Might wait and see what’s on sale before making any purchases considering I spent a little more than I was expecting over the weekend.
Though I might splurge if Sonic Lost Worlds is on sale for a good price. Just for mods to make movement in that game actually bearable. Trying to run only to basically be slowed to a crawl by moving left or right is painful.
If you bought Maze Mice not too long before the sale started, you might be able to get the difference refunded to you by taking to Steam Support
Picked up Rogue Trader, Death Road to Canada, and Doom Eternal for $20. Not bad.
Rogue Trader is excellent. Wife and I have put almost 300 hours into that one with co-op.
Oh waw we bounced off pretty hard on that one playing coop. After spending so much time in BG3, the “look at player 1 when they’re talking to someone” was a major downer. I think we spend one evening in that game. I can totally see it shine as single player, but coop - can’t recommend.
That’s reassuring! The first one has to be my fave game. I’m replaying the first one and my love for it has only intensified. I can’t play for long rn, though. I’ve been anxious lately and can only handle so much of the spooky scary stuff lol.
I’m so excited to play the second. If it’s as good as you say it is, a third game would be awesome if they put the same amount of effort into it
Recommend 1000xRESIST if you want a story game.
Nothing lol, I have bills to pay.
I have room in my budget to buy maybe one game per year, and it’s never when a sale is on… *sigh*
I used my disposable income during the year to drop money in my steam wallet. That’s how I saved for the steam deck the first time around.
Maybe none, maybe a couple; lately I have resisted sales since my backlog is so big. That being said, some of the more interesting ones on my wishlist are on sale this time around. I might pick one or two of these:
First person shooters:
- Trepang2 (F.E.A.R. homage) - 60% off, $12
- Prodeus (boomer shooter) - 40% off, $15
- Metal: Hellsinger (boomer shooter) - 75% off, $8
Indie/puzzle/chill:
- The Talos Principle 2 - 70% off, $9
- Everspace 2 - 70% off, $15
- Ultimate Chicken Horse (casual/party couch co-op) - 65% off, $5
- Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition - 90% off, $3
- Untitled Goose Game - 55% off, $9
- It Takes Two - 75% off, $10
- Kaze and the Wild Masks (2D platformer) - 80% off, $3
- The Forgotten City - 75% off, $6
- Dreamscaper (indie roguelike) - 80% off, $5
Also:
- Persona 4 Golden (JRPGs aren’t really my thing, but I hear that this is literally one of the best games ever) - 50% off, $10
- God of War - 60% off, $20
- Desperados III (isometric tactics) - 90% off, $4
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2D platformer) - 75% off, $8
- Sifu - 60% off, $16
Careful about persona 4, game is super homophobic and overall not nice towards minorities. If that’s a dealbreaker to you, Persona 3 or 5 are better experiences. Id argue p5 feels less like a jrpg too
What if I want the gays AND jrpg?
In stars and time is a wonderful queer jrpg I love a lot. No cis het character in the main cast.
Persona 3 portable has a lesbian romance scene as female MC, or just if you consider the main character as genderqueer, which they kinda are in my headcannon tbh lol.
There’s Super Lesbian Animal RPG which i’ve heard a lot of good from.
Yeah it was a product of the PS2 era
I played it and don’t remember anything that isn’t typical in JPRGs. I guess you have to be able to withstand a certain amount of cringe if you’re a fan of Japanese games/anime.
No, I played quite a bit of jrpgs myself, and even my anime loving gf who usualy is okay with the usual cringe amount said that it’s just overwhelming in p4.
For context we’re trans and lesbians so it might just be that we’re more aware and concerned by the horrible moments than you.
