Steam Summer Sales - What We Bought

I personally really like Steam Sales because since I'm not exactly able to spend money on full priced games at will, I usually wait for good games to come down in price, and then further down when Steam puts them on sale, and the recent Steam Sale was quite literally amazing.

Besides having the lowest prices of any of the mass sales that Steam has done, it was also the most interesting as it had a few pieces of minor DLC as prizes for a few "tickets" which you gained from completing various requirements in video games, mirroring the achievement system but on a smaller scale. Usually the games that had ticket "achievements" for the day were also ones up for sale on the same day, which can either be seen as something to do if you bought the game recently, or a bait for people to buy the game and that's the end of it. I don't mind either, but as always, the only people who know the true motives behind them are the people at Steam themselves. In any case,  it's generally a fun thing to do even if you weren't able to get all of the achievements. I didn't set out to get more than a few but it was more than enough to get the only prizes I wanted, which was the golden Force Commander helmet, the others I used on games I would play sometime in the future, I ended up only doing the ones that didn't involve playing a game since usually I didn't own any of the games they were giving out tickets for, but of course that's just the side dish, the real meal of the sale was of course, the sale.

Games Alice (Belahn), and I bought.

-Terraria

-Borderlands

-Wings of Prey
-Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

-Just Cause 2

-Bioshock 2

1.)Terraria

After watching Giantbomb's Quick Look of Terraria and hearing that it is basically Minecraft except more action oriented and 2D, plus it had coop, I knew that would be fun to play with Alice. Plus I tampered a bit with Minecraft's trial version but never bought it, and never really delved into it deeply. I thought the general concept of “living off the land” and creating buildings/items in a in-game world with the resources that you harvest was super appealing to me.

2.)Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

I honestly never found any Tomb Raider game appealing before this one, after reading a few reviews and looking more into Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, with the premise of it is similar to past Tomb Raider games, but with a overhead view, and coop, I decided that it was a game that I really wanted to play at least to see what it was like, and plus more coop games is always great.

3.)Wings of Prey

Alice actually bought this, and I didn't. It looked interesting to me because I haven't played a flight game seriously since the first Ace Combat games of the PS1, I also played 2 other games but I can't think of their names right now. So far, Wings of Prey seems way more like a flight simulation with shooting rather than a action game with jet fighters, but it's neat in that regard, if not more challenging than all of the similar games that I've played.

4.)Borderlands

I bought Borderlands at release, and played it to completion two times, along with it's DLC. However I also wanted to try it out with Alice on the PC. Mostly due to the fact that I'm in general not familiar with the keyboard as I am with the Xbox controller, Borderlands felt like a completely new experience, and it was much more fun playing it with Alice, and Adam (another friend) than alone, or with random people online. Plus, it also came with all of the DLC packs, and it was the price of 1 DLC alone at the DLC's release, so that helped further it's cause.

5 and 6.)Just Cause 2, and Bioshock 2

Again, we bought more single player games to get through just in case we run out of things to do, I personally haven't played either, I've heard good things about both of them.

Time spent so far per game (according to steam stats)

Terraria – 20.3 hours

Wings of Prey – 10.5 hours

Lara Croft and the GtoL – 10 hours

Borderlands – 6.3 hours

In other news

Adam's List (Top being the most fun, bottom being least fun/not played)

1.)The Witcher 2 – 21.9 hours (play time according to Steam stats again)

2.)The Witcher : Enhanced Edition – 32.9 hours

3.)Assassin's Creed : Brotherhood – 6 hours (from Xfire stats)

4.)Fallout 3 – Played on consoles, 0.2 hours recorded on Steam

5.)Fallout : New Vegas DLCs – 50.2 hours on original game

6.)X3 : Terran Conflict – 2.2 hours

7.)Torchlight – 6.2 hours

I asked him if he had any additional comments but he said no.

So as always, Sales are great, and in the end, while I couldn't get all of the games I wanted to get, I'm very happy with what I walked away with.