PSA: Game Discounts

[Scipio]

Tales from the Borderlands is awesome. Best Telltale Games game yet. Superb. Just excellent.

[celedhring]

Tales from the Borderlands is awesome. Best Telltale Games game yet. Superb. Just excellent.

Indeed, I bought it in these sales and I'm absolutely in awe. It's amazing.

I guess that - like my other favorite Telltalle game, Fables - it won't get a season 2. 

[frunk]

Anybody tried Franchise Hockey Manager 2?  It looks interesting.

[Syt]

Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations is 50% off on Steam:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/321410/

Not a game for me, but some peeps here might like it.

[celedhring]

I bought Empire TV Tycoon off steam. The game may not look like much, but it's a remake/knockoff of Mad TV, one of my favorite games from the 90s. They are still adding features, but the game is pretty much complete, and pretty addictive.

[Razgovory]

Wow, it's 50% off and still 40 bucks?

[PRC]

I picked up a few older games on the cheap including Wasteland 2: Directors Cut, FTL, Shadowrun Returns and Legend of Grimrock II. 

The only one i've played so far is FTL and it's damn fun!

[celedhring]

FTL is great.

I heartily recommend Shadowrun: Dragonfall, which is far superior to vanilla Shadowrun.

[Norgy]

The game Syt introduces is suitably self-punishingly Nordic.

"Hah! Gotcha!"
"No, you did not, prepare to be entered from the rear by mighty Soviet Navy"

[garbon]

So are we sure that the steam sale is actually flat prices throughout the sale these days? Far Cry 4 was definitely on sale yesterday but isn't today.

[garbon]

Tales from the Borderlands is awesome. Best Telltale Games game yet. Superb. Just excellent.

Indeed, I bought it in these sales and I'm absolutely in awe. It's amazing.

I guess that - like my other favorite Telltalle game, Fables - it won't get a season 2. 

I would not have bought it if it word for these favorables from Languish and it is indeed great. Perhaps it needs better PR.

[celedhring]

I suppose that a game based on a shooter isn't really going to appeal to Telltale's usual crowd, nor shooter fans are going to buy a Telltale game. But it's a gem.

[garbon]

I hadn't planned initially to get it, as yeah, I don't really care for Borderlands as a shooter.

[Scipio]

It is by far the best Telltale Game that is not Fables related.

[Syt]

http://www.pcgamer.com/something-strange-is-afoot-in-the-steam-winter-sale/?utm_content=buffer7cdb1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgfb

Something strange is happening in the Steam Winter Sale

On the surface, the 2015 Steam Winter Sale seems fairly mundane as these things go: Good deals, cute comic, but nothing we haven't seen before. But maybe—just maybe—there's more to it than meets the eye. The Steam Sale Detectives on Reddit have discovered a rabbit hole, and at this point there's no telling how deep it goes.

The "rabbit hole" is actually a hidden password prompt that can be reached by going to any Steam store page and typing "search" (without the quotes) and pressing enter. The prompt is apparently handled by this bit of "nothing to see here" javascript, which includes a link to store.steampowered.com/actions/clues. Entering the correct password will presumably lead to a different page, but there's no hint as to what it might be.

Or is there? Of course there is! The first page of the Northpole Noir comic originally featured a barcode, which closely—but not perfectly—matched the barcode tattooed on Agent 47 of Hitman fame. Entering that code on the Steam store page for Hitman: Codename 47 results in another code, and that, appended to the Winter Comic URL, leads to an audio file:

"I was on the right track. I could feel it. Tomorrow, I was going to search again."

That's not all: The "incorrect" Hitman bar code replaces three numbers—6, 0, and 4—with three 9s, which also happen to figure prominently and in a similar sequence in a string of text hidden in the Northpole Noir "Sending a Message" trading card: 794E2CEA991. There are other potential clues as well, like the "nesse" printed very faintly in the bottom-left of the first page of the Northpole Noir comic, which just happens to be under the part of the cover that was torn away. Some or all of them may be red herrings, but one thing's for sure: There's a mystery here, and we need to solve it.