Steam Summer Sale 2014

[apsham]

How can some of you guys have over 100 unplayed games? That beggars belief to me.

To be honest, I have A LOT of games that were on Humble Bundles... games that I didn't exactly want in the first place, but got in the donation.

[METALMAN]

Get Crusader Kings because Crusader Kings is completely great, eff the Game of Thrones mod.

Yeeeeeeah but half the appeal of that game is the historical aspect, where as despite really enjoying history in school, I don't really know much about it, because they don't really teach you shit outside of World War 2 over here. Ironically I'd be more likely to know the landscape and the houses and so on of a fictional world rather than the real one.

Way to go, school.

OH MY GOD. Teach yourself. Have a little curiosity about the world around you. Don't expect everything to be served up on a plate. Join a library.

[Avenged Probably]

On the subject of crusader kings... Obviously a lot of you guys like it... I'm curious; sell it to me?

[Dan]

Rogue Legacy is 20% off during the Steam Summer Sale!!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/241600/

We'll be matching the price at our humble store too! Buy a copy there, and get a Steam Key + DRM free version to boot!

[rocksta]

On the subject of crusader kings... Obviously a lot of you guys like it... I'm curious; sell it to me?

Honestly best way to sell it is to go to the Crusader Kings thread here and go back to the first few pages and just read the hillarious, outrageous and twisted things that can happen and see all the EWBers doing boners to it. Then realize all that is with a fantastic historical backdrop. Then potentially bitch about how you know nothing about history and blah. Then realize this game could get you into history and you would be less shit. Not that you're shit.

[Avenged Probably]

Well I'm already very interested in history... Kinda what made me notice it in the first place. Shall go check the thread though

[apsham]

Rogue Legacy is 20% off during the Steam Summer Sale!!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/241600/

We'll be matching the price at our humble store too! Buy a copy there, and get a Steam Key + DRM free version to boot!

Holy shit. I thought that game looked so fucking boring until I read the description and realized the gimmick.

[King Ellis]

And of course, the best thing to come out of Rogue Legacy:

[Dan]

Rogue Legacy is 20% off during the Steam Summer Sale!!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/241600/

We'll be matching the price at our humble store too! Buy a copy there, and get a Steam Key + DRM free version to boot!

Holy shit. I thought that game looked so fucking boring until I read the description and realized the gimmick.

Rogue Legacy is brilliant.

[Ruki]

And of course, the best thing to come out of Rogue Legacy:

That is just fantastic.

[GhostMachine]

If I had the money, I'd pick up Bioshock Infinite. *sigh*

[apsham]

30 minutes away from new flash sales. Hoping there's something on there I want to tide my purchase lust over.

[Schlitzbrille]

If my laptop wasn't a several-year old shit with a messed-up screen (seriously, multiple cracks, plus discolorations over half of it, currently having to use an old PC monitor in order to get anything done on here) and wasn't unemployed, I'd get in on this.

But for now, I will sit back and watch you guys.

Edited July 12, 2013 by Barracuda Rostigraben

[thatblindgeye]

So, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum is on sale for $10. Tempted to get it after watching a video of some of the stuff in it >_<

Edited July 12, 2013 by Vitamin E

[SRN]

Get Crusader Kings because Crusader Kings is completely great, eff the Game of Thrones mod.

Yeeeeeeah but half the appeal of that game is the historical aspect, where as despite really enjoying history in school, I don't really know much about it, because they don't really teach you shit outside of World War 2 over here. Ironically I'd be more likely to know the landscape and the houses and so on of a fictional world rather than the real one.

Way to go, school.

OH MY GOD. Teach yourself. Have a little curiosity about the world around you. Don't expect everything to be served up on a plate. Join a library.

I can teach you history much easier than that; things happened, people got killed, some other people rebelled and here we are!

[Sousa]

Rogue Legacy is sooooooooooooooooooo good. If you're on the fence, Uncle Sousa is now pulling you off the fence onto my side. It's so much fun.

Keep in mind: it is hard. You will die. A lot. That's the point.

Best sell I can give for Crusader Kings 2 is that I was playing a duke in southern Ireland and unintentionally, through an arranged marriage, became king of Castille in Spain. Then when the queen died, I inherited Santiago. I became royalty in Spain--as an Irish duke--totally by accident.

[KONGO]

Yeah, in CKII, Queen Jeep had recently mastered all of Ireland when some Norwish geezer kicked it and she became Queen of a United Ireland and Norway. It sucked, though, they were so far away and kept rebelling. Soaked up all my money.

[Sousa]

Here's Sousa selling CKII to all right-minded people.

I'm trying as Ireland again. This time I've been able to conquer all of southern Ireland, enough to create the King of Ireland title.

It's actually a pretty awesome story. I got a hunting event early on with Duke #1 with a 5% chance of being mortally wounded. Bam, Duke #1 dies a month in. Duke #2 does a pretty good job of claiming new territory and divvying it up, but his stats are horrible. I marry off his heir to a Castilian princess with the hopes of getting a decent ally without risking tying myself down with someone I'll want to backstab later. Duke #2 gets so goddamned old that he actually gains the title "The Old." Soon, my Spymaster sends word while I'm in the middle of a war in the middle of Ireland that my own heir--the one married to the Spanish princess--is plotting to kill me. Literally two days later, he succeeds in his plot...

...which means I'm now the exact same son who killed me.

This delightful turn of events grants me Kinslayer from the word go, and my no-account brothers all revolt at once, all while I'm trying to siege down Ossory (and failing because my brothers' armies all went in for hits and wrecked my forces and also jesus christ the count of Ossory is a stone badass). It's at this point that I notice that my totally awesome Spanish wife has 24 Intrigue, so I make her my Spymaster basically immediately and start her stirring the pot over in Dublin where one of my brothers is rebelling.

At this point, the "Call In Allies" button suddenly starts working, and the Castilian king agrees to help me out. He basically ships over 4,000 troops totally gratis and utterly wrecks the rebellion and Ossory. And then when I declare war on Kildare later on, he ships over still more troops.

So finally, my brothers have been whipped into shape, the Pope has granted me absolution for all that Kinslaying, and my heir is now married to the Countess of Ulster and will be inheriting territory the easy way while I wait for the gold and piety to make myself king. All of this has led the game to dub me Duke Brian II the Bold (yes, my kinslaying Spanish buddy with the hot spy wife is named Brian).

And Part 2:

Okay, the Continuing Adventures of the House of Brian have taken a turn for the strange.

So when we last left our hero Duke Brian II the Bold of Munster, he was in the process of fabricating a few more claims around Ulster just to give himself something to do while he built up enough piety and cash to declare himself king. In the midst of all of this--before I created the title--I noticed that Brian was now wearing a crown. It turns out that my awesome hot Castilian spy-wife was also heir to the throne, and ol' Brian suddenly found himself King of Castile--the largest Christian kingdom in Spain--before he became King of Ireland.

Sadly, this wouldn't last long--Castile sort of exploded into civil war, probably on account of the fact that their liege was slumming it as a Spymaster for some duke up in Ireland instead of, y'know, Reconquisting the shit out of Al-Andalus or something. Right as Brian finally declared himself King and sorted out a unified Ireland, the other shoe dropped, and my awesome hot (old) (still hot) Castilian spy-wife suddenly found herself maimed and imprisoned by the new King of Castile.

Not long after this, King Brian dies. I don't remember his son's name, it's weird, but he was married to the Countess of Ulster before she rebelled and was banished (I literally had to invite my own heir back to court just so I could make him Duke of Ulster, which was the plan all along). The queen mother is still rotting in a Spanish prison with her kneecaps blown off, and Brian Jr. begins claiming Welsh counties at the behest of his courtiers. There's also some incidental civil war because jesus christ these Irish guys have a fuck-ton of brothers, but sitting on a ton and a half of gold (and having allies in France) stopped that.

Then one day, the queen mother dropped dead.

We're now a generation removed, Brian Jr. was assassinated by his no-good brother, and the Kingdom of Ireland looks like this:

We are now the Kingdom of Ireland, Most of Wales, and... Santiago.

[apsham]

Son of a bitch. I just misclicked on the flash sale, didn't pay attention and ended up buying one of the wrong games. Oh well.

Going to test out Rouge and 7 Grand Steps for tonight.

[DJ Ice]

http://gaben.tv/

Just leaving this here.