The Steam Thread! (Deals+Discussion)

Slabs
Slabs
Since 7268 Days
WARNING - Avoid Gothic 2 if you have Windows 7 and an nVidia card. You can't leave the starting tower because of some lovely graphical corruption that will lock the game up. nVidia know about it and are supposed to be fixing it.

Gothic 3 works though. Quite good as well.
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Wheat_Thins
Wheat_Thins
Since 7006 Days
Hi all, I have not PC gamed in approx 5 years. My new parts are on the way and I should be able to play anything / everything with what kind of PC I will have built by next Monday. What are the top 3-5 games you have played in the last 5 years that are available on steam so I can start catching up?
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roxwell
Since 7187 Days
Company of Heroes.
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 7006 Days
W40K Dawn of War 2 + expansion (RTS)
Batman AA (BATMAN): it's also on consoles but the PC version looks impressive.
Orange Box & L4D (FPS)
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines (RPG): This might be a bit older than 5 years. Also I would recommend to install fan patch for it.
Civilization 4 + expansions (TBS) or maybe wait and see how good the 5th game is, which is coming this fall.

There has been so many great games in the past 5 years so it's hard to pick top5 steam games. It would also help if you could tell what kind of games you like.

Edit: yes, Company of Heroes rules too.
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FireWire - IEEE 1394
FireWire
Since 7239 Days
Okay Wheat, let's see this is gonna be a bit of a long and diverse (as in different genre's) list but here we go:

Shooters:
- Half life 2, Episode 1 and 2.
- Portal
- Team Fortress 2
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Crysis + Crysis warhead
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl
- Borderlands
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Action/adventure:
- Batman Arkham Asylum
- Assassins Creed 2
- Resident Evil 5

RPG's:
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Mass Effect/Mass Effect 2

Strategy:
- Warhammer 40.000 Dawn of War II + Expansion
- Company of Heroes + Expansions

Indie:
- Trine
- Osmos
- Zeno Clash
- Torchlight
- The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
- Trials HD
- Machinarium
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 7006 Days
Trials HD is 360 game ;) but yeah Trials 2 is a great game.

How could I forgot Torchlight? Awesome Diablo style singleplayer game.
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FireWire - IEEE 1394
FireWire
Since 7239 Days
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UrukHaiPT
UrukHaiPT
Since 6766 Days
Some great games already mentioned, here's some more:

RPG:

Witcher;
Oblivion/Fallout 3 GOTY editions;
Titan quest - action rpg;

Strategy: Check the Total war series.

If you like city build games:

Anno 1404 + expansion, and Tropico 3 are both great choices.

This just of the top of my head. There's so many good games to be played!

And oh keep an eye on the daily deals at steam! Buy games for a cool price, and when you get new PC set, just install them.
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 7006 Days
I think Batman wouldn't waste time watching soccer ;)
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7238 Days
Bruce Wayne watches real Football.

@Wheat_Thins: People have already covered a lot of the good recent stuff. It's sorta depressing how much of that is multiplatform, but many of those games shine on the PC and five years is actually a pretty tremendous window. My first recommendation would be to check out Steam's current sale and the best deals you'll find on there for any brand new (relatively speaking) PC gamer are:

Valve Complete Pack (currently on sale for $66.99) http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2546/
THQ Complete Pack (currently on sale for $49.99) http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4587/

There's no quicker way to build a library of amazing PC games than those two packs!
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 7006 Days
Trackmania Nations is really fun game. It's free too!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/11020/
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UrukHaiPT
UrukHaiPT
Since 6766 Days
Today daily deals:

http://store.steampowered.com/news/4007/
Flatout: Ultimate Carnage -90%
Red Orchestra -75%
Left 4 Dead -66%
Shatter -75%
Mas Effect 2 -40%
The Void -75%
The Guild II + Pirates of the European Seas -50%
Torchlight -75%
I can't recommend Shatter high enough. It's worth just the soundtrack alone so good.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7238 Days
In the USA Red Faction Gorilla is also on sale for a fiver.
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UrukHaiPT
UrukHaiPT
Since 6766 Days
Posted by GriftGFX
In the USA Red Faction Gorilla is also on sale for a fiver.
Oh... So Europe gets screwd in price most of the time, and we can't even buy all deals in a digital distribution service. Way to go Gabe! :P

Already have the game anyway, and i recommend it. It's pretty fun to wreck stuff down.
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Slabs
Slabs
Since 7268 Days
Ridiculous price for Flatout! Gotta get me one of them!
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blmbox
blmbox
Since 6570 Days
The Witcher's £8 now. :(
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GriftGFX
Since 7238 Days
Posted by blmbox
The Witcher's £8 now. :(
Yeah, they doubled the price in the US store too. Pisses me off. It wasn't a daily deal :(
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UrukHaiPT
UrukHaiPT
Since 6766 Days
Posted by GriftGFX
Yeah, they doubled the price in the US store too. Pisses me off. It wasn't a daily deal :(
Fucking Atari. And screw them for not releasing all their games on Europe on steam...

I think there's a high chance Witcher will be a daily deal until sunday. If not it's still worth the current price, for a 50+ hours long RPG :)
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blmbox
blmbox
Since 6570 Days
I think I'm gonna go for the Oddworld Pack instead. Both Oddysee and Exoddus for just over £5. :)
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FireWire - IEEE 1394
FireWire
Since 7239 Days
Okay fuck it;

Got Shatter (Double dipped since I have it on the ps3 ), Flatout and Red Faction.

Now all I need is Borderlands and Splinter Cell Conviction for around 10 euro's and I'm complete for the moment
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7238 Days
Posted by blmbox
I think I'm gonna go for the Oddworld Pack instead. Both Oddysee and Exoddus for just over £5. :)
Wasn't that a daily deal like yesterday? :P
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blmbox
blmbox
Since 6570 Days
Posted by GriftGFX
Wasn't that a daily deal like yesterday? :P
... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Tomarru
Since 6310 Days
Yea, was like £2.15 yesterday for the pair.
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UrukHaiPT
Since 6766 Days
Oh i see Red faction now, slow Steam :P

Such great deals today for who doesn't own those games. Shatter - Torchlight are very good :)
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7238 Days
Torchlight is digital crack, and at $5 it's an insanely good bargain. The game is well worth $20 if you're into those kinds of hack-and-slash Diablo clones.
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