Game Sales (Any): Your Recent IMPULSE Purchases

We've all done it. You see a game or two up for sale at a ridiculously low and price you go "Holy cow! Gotta get it before the deal's off!" and then you find yourself playing it for a very short period of time, only to never get back into it every again. It's those annoying impulse purchases. Have you been a victim of it this year so far or during any of the holiday sales last year? Of course it is entirely our own fault, but dammit Steam (for example)! - for putting full priced games up for 50 - 75% off!!!!!!

Which pointless purchases have you made recently?

During the Steam sales I bought Saints Row: The Third for less than 10 bucks. It was a wicked deal for sure but I only ended up playing two or three missions. Then I got distracted by other titles I got like Hitman Absolution and Far Cry 3 and I already know I won't be touching Saints Row at all any time soon...

I also just purchased and downloaded The Witcher 2. I don't even like RPGs...................

Dark Sector (I already know I hate it so not sure why)

Armed and Dangerous (sounded familiar)

Dead Pixels (was like $1)

A Valley Without Wind dual pack (no idea why)

Ace of Spades (no idea why)

Sleeping Dogs (already own it so no use but was only $4 so meh)

Blacklight Tango Down (was only $1 even tho I assume its dead)

Scoregasm (Only $1 so no reason)

KOTOR 1 and 2

Mark of the Ninja (Heard people talk about it and for $7 figured might as well.

This Steam sale wasn't as bad as usual, but I'll likely never play any of the games I bought.

I did that today when Sleeping Dogs was 91% off on Steam. Got it for $4.49.AmazonTreeBoa

KOTOR 1, is KOTOR 2 worth a buy?

Rage for $4.99 on Steam.

During the Steam sales I bought Saints Row: The Third for less than 10 bucks. It was a wicked deal for sure but I only ended up playing two or three missions. Then I got distracted by other titles.

Amster_G

The game picks up from the moment you start it and only continues to get better as you play haha. Give it a bit more of a chance and play passed those opening missions and you'll be hooked.

If you stick to the main missions it won't take too long to beat but either way Saints Row 3 was one helluva great game to play. Oh and there's also two different endings you can get plus the DLC if you bought the complete pack.

Gangstas in Space was a hilarious DLC and i recommend you at least play that one.

[QUOTE="AmazonTreeBoa"]I did that today when Sleeping Dogs was 91% off on Steam. Got it for $4.49.LittleMac19

[QUOTE="LittleMac19"][QUOTE="AmazonTreeBoa"]I did that today when Sleeping Dogs was 91% off on Steam. Got it for $4.49.MythPro1

Bought another copy of Hitman: Blood Money. I have the retail version which is "other drm." I wanted one for steam. Besides, I love that game. I would buy it 10 times if I had the money and give them away. For only $2.50, anyone that hasn't played it, SHOULD.Elann2008

Scribblenauts for $15.

Pumped in 10 hours already just messing around with the Character Creator and everything.

Hitman Absolution Professional Edition from GMG. Was 25 bucks and got $7 in GMG credit. Used that to get War in the North and The Last Remnant. I don't regret the purchase, killer steal IMO, but I haven't even touched any of those games yet.

Also some Sleeping Dogs DLC cause I just got Sleeping Dogs from Amazon last week.

Got BF3 Premium for £14 thought I would whilst it was that price. :D

Try to finish a game before you move on to the next, i know at times it may be difficult especially if you don't like the game but usually it does pay off in the end. Saints Row 3 was so damn fun i can't begin to tell you how much i enjoyed playing through this game. (I also purchased it from the Steam sale).

BattleSpectre

I'll eventually get back into it. I downloaded the game with the awareness of how crazy and over the top it is (I've watched reviews of it before) so I knew what I was downloading. It's just that I had a number of other priorities on my gaming list. Besides the other new games I bought, I still had a couple of titles to finish and because of all that I knew Saints Row would be left in the dust (for now).

The Last Remnant: I haven't bought a proper JRPG in ages and decided to see how they improved so I grabbed this for $4. Well, I like the combat system, the world, the soundtrack and how you actually see the enemies for encounters. What I don't like is the god awful protagnonist (I hate this sub-genre trope), terrible writing that must have OK when it was wrote and then was completely lost in translation, and a lot of the voice acting is so bad I wish I could just turn it off. Played about 5 hours, feel satisfied, but I don't see myself going back to it any time soon.

Gray Matter: I had the blue coins for this one, so I decided to see what the big deal about Jane Jensen games were. I pretty much have no complaints, except for the fact that the ending feels awkward even though I guessed it about half way through and that the animations could use some work. If Gabriel Knights 1-2 weren't so old (and by proxy subject to the terrible adventure design of the early-mid 90's) I would snap them up in a hot second.

KOtOR 2: I spent an hour searching for and applying fan patches to this game (which I don't mind doing). Start a new game and everything is going pretty good for 3 hours until I save, turn off the game for a break, come back to the game freezing everytime I try to load a game. Well it was fun while it lasted I guess, I have 24-25 other games that are on my backlog and I would rather play those then spend a few more hours troubleshooting a game that is known to have a bunch of problems.

Natural Selection 2, bought it last night for $9, at first I was 50/50 about the game but honestly it's easily one of my fav MP FPS, so sad it didn't get a lot of attention compared to planetside 2.

Natural Selection 2, bought it last night for $9, at first I was 50/50 about the game but honestly it's easily one of my fav MP FPS, so sad it didn't get a lot of attention compared to planetside 2.

Ballroompirate

I usually never buy any PC games from Gamestop. But, as soon as I saw Far Cry 3, I knew I had to buy it.

I did that today when Sleeping Dogs was 91% off on Steam. Got it for $4.49.AmazonTreeBoa

my impulse buy?

i say spec ops. IT got good scores and it only was $2.50 from amazon lol

My biggest impulse buy this holiday season was probably JASF--Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters. I was in the store anyway to buy a joystick for DCS: A10C Warthog when I purchased it.

I liked Jane's F15 back in the day so I figured the game would be a simulation like that. When I got home I realised it was more of an arcadey game. Not only that, but I figured out my controllers and flight stick wouldn't even work with the game, without a major hassle which I haven't tried yet. The store's Christmas holiday mood, and the fact I like hardcopies of games got to me. For those $29.00 I could've bought quite a few games on Steam.

I usually never buy any PC games from Gamestop. But, as soon as I saw Far Cry 3, I knew I had to buy it.

jun_aka_pekto

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I usually never buy any PC games from Gamestop. But, as soon as I saw Far Cry 3, I knew I had to buy it.

k2theswiss

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Natural Selection 2, bought it last night for $9, at first I was 50/50 about the game but honestly it's easily one of my fav MP FPS, so sad it didn't get a lot of attention compared to planetside 2.

Elann2008

It's like mixing Starcraft,Counter Strike and AvP in a game. Well worth the $9.99 sale price. The play style is like a FPS with someone on your team being a "commander" who has a RTS view of the map, supplying/upgrading your armor and base, also it has a heavy mod support.

Here's what I ended up getting this Holiday:

1. Portal 2 (11/24) = $4.99

2. Batman Arkham City GotY (12/27) = $7.49

3. Deus Ex: Human Revolution (12/31) = $4.99

4. Painkiller: Black Edition (01/03) = $2.49

5. Thief II: The Metal Age (01/03) = $2.49

6. Bastion (01/03) = $3.74

I'm quite pleased, for a little over $26 I got quite a diverse well respected collection of gaming goodness I would say. I keep waiting to see Skyrim at 75% off (I knew it was too soon though), but hell, I haven't even finished Morrowind yet!

From Gog.com I picked up Zeus + Poseidon (packaged together), 2 of the most respected city-building games. Again, quite diverse from my Steam purchases.

Of the list I would consider Painkiller, Thief II, Bastion, Zeus, Poseidon as my impulse buys. The others I was determined to get.