Steam Halloween SaleFollow

Notable for me is that Amnesia is on sale, which is a fantastically atmospheric horror game. Also, the Painkiller pack is about $5 I think, and it's supposed to have good action in it.

Best of all, of course, is that you can get the Railworks DLC Trains vs Zombies.

I've got that one but haven't tried it yet. Everyone says to play it undisturbed and with headphones if possible but my home life isn't conducive to playing in a terror bubble.

It's true. Play it when the kids are in bed, turn the lights off and put the headphones on. You don't need to devote huge playing blocks to it, i could really only handle about 30-45 min of the stress at a time. Granted i was really immersed.

I'm tempted by the stalker packs too, I remember a buddy of mine at work played one of them and liked it. I'll ask him after lunch for more details.

I think I might pick up Borderlands too for something to tool around with since that was in my "missed it" while playing MMO's list. THe bad part of this though si that I still have games I have not finished from the summer sale. Oo

Party becuase some of them I got about halfway though, got bored and quit. Was just playing Bioshock 2 last night after remembering I got that on summer sale.

The single player campaign is not good?

The single player campaign is the same as the co-op campaign. It's hard for me to explain why it's not fun, maybe because its just not that interesting solo, but I originally bought Borderlands on xbox when a friend came to visit from out of town. We played it nonstop. When he left, i played it about 20 minutes and never touched it again. later I bought it again on a steam sale and put another 126 hours into co-op, and if you knew me you'd know that kinda of mileage from a non-mmo game is insane.

The only part of Borderlands I didn't like was how certain fights feel like they were designed around two players and were annoying to try to solo. SpoilerFor example the Rakkhive I was spending most of my time killing the dang rakk's it kept spawning and very little of my time was spent chipping away from it's large health pool and this was on normal. Overall though I enjoyed the game and it's uniqueness despite it's flaws.

I will certainly look into this bundle.

I only played as Lilith, but I didn't find any boss fight hard. For the Rakkhive, just kill the Rakks with a machine gun of some form and snipe and rocket launch the hive between groups. Of course, I didn't stand around down in that big open area to fight it, I went up on to the ledge so the Rakks could only come at me from one direction.

The boss fight that annoyed me the most was the one where the guy you need to kill is up at the top of a canyon with a rocket launcher/machine guy contraption. It didn't annoy me because it was hard, but because one shot from my acid based triple rocket launcher of doom was enough kill him both times I played through the game. Then I had to climb all the way up there to get my loot off of his corpse.

Edited, Oct 29th 2011 1:49am by Turin

Picked up the STALKER bundle. Might get something else before the weekend is out.

Picked up SAW, Silent Hill, Painkiller Pack, and Cthulu Saves The World.

I bought it anyway. Held off on Stalker for some reason though... /shrug

I keep going back and forth on Stalker (I don't feel like cap'ing it any more). It ain't amazing but it ain't bad, either and I keep playing it. Definitely harder than Far Cry 2 was (last FPS I played). Granted, some (most) of that is probably me sucking but the early weapons at least are sh*t for accuracy and damage but you get torn up quickly if you just stand in the open and fire or try to rush the enemy. There's a lot of reloading the game going on. And flanking to try and get close enough from the side/behind to pop someone in the head with any degree of success.

But for $4.75 or whatever it worked out to, I sure can't complain. This is for Shadow of Chernobyl; I can't speak yet for how the sequel plays.

Edit: Also picked up Cthulhu Saves the World and Vampire: the Masquerade.

Edited, Oct 30th 2011 12:36pm by Jophiel

If anyone else picked up Stalker, you're going to want to get the "Complete" mod. Lots of tweaks and fixes without changing the core game and a massive graphics overhaul.