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I'm having trouble making the transition from dual armor piercing sub machine guns to the face kill 20 guys and say "You shouldn't have messed with the Saints!"
(SR3)

to

"You should try and avoid guards if you can" ***** that 4 headshots now your low on ammo seriously get sneaking behind those cardboard boxes :*(
(DEHR)

New Humble Bundle is up!

...don't worry, there aren't actually games in it this time, it's all about music. Finally, something different.

Bundle includes the following albums:

Favoritism - MC Frontalot
Album Raises New and Troubling Questions - They Might Be Giants
Calling All Dawns - Christopher Tin
Best of Valkyria Chronicles - Hitoshi Sakimoto
Jonathan Coulton's Greatest Hits (and 13 Other Songs)

Bonus - Twelve Remixes of Four Songs - Ok Go



Edited, Jul 26th 2012 12:42pm by xypin

TMBG and JoCo? Wow, I might actually grab that!

None of the MGS games either?

Amazon sale is live for the day. Divine Divinity: DKS for $5.99, Binary Domain for $9.99, Syndicate for $15 and other stuff.

While not a download deal, its worth mentioning that Newegg is having a weekend sale on Assassin's Creed III. If you peorder it this weekend and use the dicount code EMCYTZT1964 it will only cost you $47.99. I doubt that it will be cheaper than that for quite a while.

Although I am many thousands of miles from there now, I have been in Lake Michigan at 9AM...

Naked.

Don't ask.

I spent $19.99 on Saturday and got a Civ bundle with Civ IV complete (I had some of it) and Civ V GOTY, and a Stronghold bundle. Awesome deal and I have to thank Joph for starting and posting in this thread, and the rest of you who have added to it.

Stronghold was a great game; for me it's right up there with Shogun in total time spent playing. I got lost in it on Sunday and played on and off all day. If you've played it before you'll know what I'm talking about: at around midnight my adviser asked me if it wasn't time for a snack. A bit later he "advised" me that I'd been playing "for an awfully long time" and wouldn't it be a good idea to take a break. I, of course, as the Lord of the Manor, was screaming at him at that point to shut up and find something useful to do besides spending my money hiring the jester away from the traveling faire.

Yeah, I got that whole Lord of the Manor thing going now.

Joph, do you have a site that lists deals, or do you just check several places daily?

I don't usually check any of the aggregators (steamgamesales, deals4downloads, etc). If stuff is boring for long enough I might just to scrape the barrel and see if there's anything out there.

GMG is good about sending out emails and tweets about their sales. Amazon is usually good about it as well and has a dedicated rep on some boards who talks about what'll be on sale and takes feedback. GamersGate and GetGames send out emails sometimes and sometimes I just look real quick to see what's up over there. Steam, for as large as it is, really kind of sucks at advertising outside of "Check the site". They send out tweets but their tweets are sort of jumbly messes. I'll admit to not religiously checking the dailies there because more often than not, it's some junk indie game no one cares about and after a week of that, I just forget to look.

I only really post about sales that seem interesting to me, which is part of why I don't bother with aggregators -- stuff is presented in a boring way and stuff gets lost in the list; I don't need to sift through twenty-five Magicka DLC sales and ten CiM DLC discounts to find the good stuff. Checking the sites I check only takes a few minutes anyway. I look for games I recognize or that have some buzz and that have either a significant discount or are new enough that any discount is sort of significant (i.e. 30% off God & Kings). Other stuff I tend to just pick up along the way, reading various boards.

Edit: Looking at that link reminds me of why else I don't bother with aggregators -- you get a bunch of stuff listed as "four days ago" or "three weeks ago". For the hassle of checking the site to make sure the deal is still active, I may as well just start by checking the site and seeing directly what sales are going on.

Edited, Jul 30th 2012 3:23pm by Jophiel

jumped on that BL2 deal. not bad.

Is there a limit to the amount of trade-in credit you can use? This doesn't look good for their profit margin.

Edit: Nevermind, looking at the page it seems you can only trade in one game to get the discount.

Edited, Jul 31st 2012 11:23am by Shaowstrike