Steam Summer Sale Thread +Sticker Book

The Steam Summer Sale has started (and Steam hasn't crashed yet)

So post what you're buying, or tell us what everyone else should buy if they want to be real hardcore true gamers

spoke too soon, it started crapping itself

I'll check tomorrow when it's working properly.

GMG, humble and even PSN/XBL are way better. Steam sale sucks.

but do they have stickers?

Where is all the fun stuff ?

Like collecting coal ?

Or doing community achievements or voting on games ?

Now we have stickers, what's that about ? :p

wonder how many people waited for this sale thinking they will get battlegrounds for $15 lol

I have no idea what im getting this year.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand it crashed!

Probably will get Hitman, DMC4, DMC3, and Reflex

Every time I put a game on cart, they're not discounted.

At least before it crashed.

Bwahahahaha!!! It's down, as I knew it would be. I'll come back later when it works properly.

During the brief time I was able to try it, you do stuff they ask you to do, like view a friend's activity feed, and you get stickers to slap on the pages of the sticker book. If you fill every page, you get... ...something? I did get 12 trading cards from completing my first "quest," though, so that was cool.

Please buy Hitman!

http://steamcommunity.com/my/stickers/

Give it some time before you buy

Yeah, it's slow as molasses currently... Missed out on a bunch of games because of funds earlier, so now I can see if what I wanted is discounted.

Looks like they're still trying to put all those discounts up. For example, Prey is not discounted in my wishlist, but discounted on the store page. Give it some time.

Completed Quest

✔ Explore your Discovery Queue

✔ View your Friend Activity page

Now to play the waiting game...

Not looking for anything, the existence of my current backlog already ravages my soul.

PSN/XBL tend to be on par with Steam sales but are rarely better. Admittedly, Steam deals aren't as nutty as they used to be.

You can get better deals on Steam keys, though, from a myriad of places. Even Amazon will offer better deals than Steam.

Gonna buy some VR games for when my Vive arrives. If they go on sale. Other than that I got a really long wishlist but... not really feeling any of them at the moment... So that's a weird time for a sale to arrive.

I'm making a good VR game list and this is where I'm at:
The Lab (free)
Google Earth VR (free)
Digital Cybercherries Real Virtual Arcade (free)
Richie's Plank Experience (fear of heights)
Rick & Morty Virtual Rick-ality (I like their humor)
TheBlu
Soundstage
Superhot VR
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (I hear the dev is real serious about making it the best gun sim)

I could play Subnautica and Elite:Dangerous in VR cause I got those games. Maybe The Climb would be a better choice than Richie's Plank Experience to combat fear of heights?

Amazon also started a sale today it seems

https://www.amazon.com/game-download-Deals/b?node=7266959011

• Mafia 3 for $14 bucks sounds like a good buy despite all the hate it got at launch.
• Dishonored 2 19.99 looks good.

Those are my only 2 games I'm buying today and will post later on what else I might buy.

If anyone's interest and never played Shadow of Mordor Shadow of Mordor GOTY is $3.99. That's a steal right there and I play that game back on PS4. Get it while it's good.

i was wondering why the internet was a bit slow today.

anyway nothing for me. i need to clear out the backlog a bit. soo many games. even if i limit myself to just games available on linux....soooo many :S.

What is the point of the sticker book?

My list:

I am Setsuna

Resident Evil 7

Tyranny

Dark Souls 2 - Buying this now. $15 CAD? hell yeah.

I was planning to buy Shadow of War Gold Edition

Anyone knows what the other quest are? I currently only managed to unlock two of those.

Idk if it matters but the current humble monthly is DS2. It's 12 USD and you get DS2 immediately upon purchase

https://www.humblebundle.com/monthly

Review your steam store preferences

Anyone know if they've finally fixed Dishonored 2? It's 50% off and I'm kinda tempted.

Here's the list as shown to me:

Explore your Discovery Queue

View your Friend Activity page

Review your Preferences

I'm getting Portal 2, SOMA and Bioshock. When the store is functional...

Dead rising 3 & Hitman & Shadow of Mordor

I totally recommend:

• Company of Heroes 2 -75%
• Day of Infamy -40%

I have a crazy amount of hours in both games, their multiplayer is just so much fun.

TBH Dishonored and Mafia are some of my favourite games of last year.

They got a lot of hate for some reason, but when they are their best, they just pull you in.

I just love both games' settings.

Ack! I already have 8 items on my cart and seeing how much money I'm going to spend to buy them all is already giving me a heart ache. But I must... ...press... ...on.

So... what about that Dishonored 2, you guys? Also, what about Redout? Looks like a fine F-Zero clone - wonder if anyone played it...

Ack!

@madrocketeer: @drlostrib:

OK thanks.

To those who don't know how to review their preference, Kindly go to "Featured" page then click the "Edit your preference" between "TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTED DEALS" and the biggest pictured game.

or just use this link https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences/

I might pick up the Galactic Civ 3 bundle. It looks pretty fun.

40% off of Stein's Gate. If you never tried a Visual Novel and want to give them a chance, or if you like Visual Novels, it's highly recommended.
Steamworld Heist also highly recommended if you like turn based rpg. It's a lovely bite sized very original turn based game.

So far, I bought:

Darkest Dungeon®: Ancestral Edition

DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 Deluxe Edition

Looks like DOOM is down to $15 so should probably bite on that, on the flipside it seems they've decided to bump the sales price of Wolfenstein back up to $10

I don't buy early access games.

What are people's thoughts on Black Desert Online?

Need some recommendations? Here are some from the good folks over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Here are some of my favourites:

Torment: Tides of Numenera for £17.49/$22.49 – A sad man falls out of the sky and must read 2 million words to discover why

Transistor for £2.24/$2.99 – A talking sword and a mute woman form a special bond when they discover they both enjoy murdering

Wolfenstein: The New Order for £7.49/$9.99 – A comatose soldier wakes up in a panic, but is quickly reassured by a nearby doctor, who tells him everything is alt right

Grand Theft Auto V for £19.99/$24.99 – Three misfits try to modify their world for the better, but are impeded by overzealous men in suits

Teeheehee.

fixed?

Yeah, mate. That's exactly what the original line implies.

Don't worry guys, it got negative ratings on Steam. No one will buy it now

Tempted by This War is Mine. Would anyone recommend it and does it work with a controller? I currently have a better TV than monitor.

Nope. No one at all. Won't even make the first page of the Steam global Top Sellers list...

Oh.

Hahaha! Shadow of Mordor is $4.

Time to get Gamespot's Game of the Year 2014!

Bloody hell, it's going all crashy on me right now. There are some great deals though.

(Looks at the 20+ Steam tabs I have open on my browser while deciding what to buy)

Sor-wee.