Steam Sale (New Year 2011)

That's 25 games and 7 DLC/expansions for about $95. Not bad at all.

...I've spent $95 on the sale?

Damn it I know this tactic. If they had everything on sale at one go people would just buy some stuff and go "that's enough" and that's that. By luring the audience back frequently with promises of new stuff they get people to buy in smaller amounts which will eventually add up to more than what they would've bought at one go because they see it as not one big amount but a bunch of small amounts.

I know all this but fall for it anyway, good job me.

Also damn it I haven't even played some of the games I bought in last year's sale. VERY nice.

Stuff I've played so far...

FEAR- I love the whole time-slowing gimmick because it lets people like me (i.e. people who get kicked from L4D2 for friendly fire) actually hit stuff. Also, you can do awesome shit like hop into the air, shoot a guy in the head, and then kick another guy in the face before landing.

I got bored after a bit because it's hideously repetitive, though. Also the "ooooooooh, creeeeeeeeepyyyyyyyyy" music gets annoying after awhile. I mean sure, it's a horror game, you need to have that, but damn it at least play something else while I'm shooting people in the face. Don't play that shit during big fucking firefights.

The horror stuff I've encountered so far is nice but some area bit too cheap or silly. Like the bit where all of a sudden you're wading through a pool of blood in what looks like a hospital. Okay, that's cool. AND THEN SKELETONS POP OUT. Fucking stupid. And then there's the bit where the little girl attacks some Delta Force guys with pyrokinesis. They spontaneously combust and become skeletons lying in big pools of blood. FIRE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.

Crysis is fun. The nanosuit mode system is cool and lets you handle things in multiple ways. I suck at the game even on easy mode, though.

Kane & Lynch 2 kind of sucks. Also the stupid DURHUR CAMERA SHAKE effect gives me headaches.

Played only a bit of C&C4 so far but I'm already fucking disappointed with what I've seen. Doubly so because I've been a fan of the series since its DOS days. Bah.

Edit: Made this.

The old Jedi Knight games are green because I played them ages ago, FYI.