Valve gives some nice Christmas treats!
I have a slight problem with buying lots of games for my PC. A lot of the games that I can play are slightly older (due to my lackluster PC) and I always kinda feel ripped off when I’m buying a 3 year old game for $30. Well, luckily, Valve has some insane deals right now. So, I treated myself to a few presents and got all of the following games for $16, which is not bad at all. I almost went ahead and got Civ IV:Complete for $25 but backed off because I have a feeling I’m going to need some of that money for WoW:WotLK here fairly shortly. I did pull the trigger earlier this week and bought S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for $5 but, alas, that deal is off and its back to $15.
I think DOOM 1 and 2 were probably the best deals. They were only $1 each and it’s nice to have them on your Steam account so you don’t have to worry about going around, finding a version, having it be illegal/full of trojans/etc. Civilization III was only $3.75 for Civ III and all of its expansions so I jumped all over that.
I will admit that I passed on Peggle Deluxe and Portal because I already had them, but probably would have gotten them if I didn’t. I still wish more people would buy Defcon–it has to be one of my favorite games just because it shows how haunting the most simplistic of games can be. I have Defcon and I do love it, but I think their price point may be a bit high at this point. I bought it initially for $20 and I’m glad I did, but $10 is kind of high 2 years out. GTA: Vice City and GTA 3 were on there for $9, which I guess isn’t bad for people who haven’t played them yet. I was honestly kind of angry that Valve was selling Half Life 2: Lost Coast for the same as Half Life 2: Episode One. HL2E1 was a pretty damn good game (especially for their list price of $10) whereas Lost Coast was basically a tech demo for HDR. I almost grabbed Rainbox Six: Vegas because I once started playing a friend’s game and never got all of the way through it, but decided against it. Doom 3 (Working Title: “We’ll spawn monsters in every dark corner. Act Surprised”) was selling for $18 on this discount.
I have to say that I was surprised by the pure amount of selection on Steam whenever I was going through all of their games. Sure, they have a lot of games that I would never be interested in, but the number of high quality non-Valve games they have is mildly astounding. I know Steam is a DRM service and, as a general rule, I don’t like DRM systems but I can handle Steam’s approach. I like having the ability to install as many games as I want and not have to deal with finding their discs, entering their CD-Keys, downloading patches, etc. That convenience is worth it to me.
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