>one week till the steam summer sale starts
are you consooming anon?

>buying licenses

>>713051649 (OP)
Nothing, I think I have enough "legally owned" games across all platforms and I rarely play most of them

I'll wait for the Epic Summer Sale as always, aka the sale on the store that actually values its clients.

I will personally buy these. Metal Gear and Silent Hill I plan on playing as soon as they release so might as well get extra cards with them

>>713051649 (OP)
What imsim and schizocore games should I buy anonymouses?

nothing cause the games that i would pay are only off by 10% and i already own everything else.

>>713052406
how does Timothy Sweetie values his clients?

>>713052519
Peripeteia

>>713052738
>years old indie games
>10-30% off
when did indies became so greedy

hopefully some of these get a good sale

Nothing. My backlog got too big:
Forza Horizon 5, Gunbird, Gunbird 2, Dragon Blaze, Dragon Quest Builders 2, A-Train 9, Strikers 1945, Strikers 1945 2, Tetris Grandmaster, Tetris Grandmaster 4, Tales of Vesperia, Under Defeat, Talos Principle Reawakened, and another 5 or 6 other games that I haven't even started, including an autistic RPG that will consume a lot of time (Phantom Brave PC).
I anticipate five or six months before I have time to play new things.

>>713053291
>asian dev
these games never get good discounts

>>713052774
He has given out so many games you have no reason to actually spend money on any game.

Unless something really cool goes for very cheap then i highly doubt anything

>>713052408
Gex Trilogy looks disappointing. I bought 1 on PC back in the 90s, and I can emulate 2 and 3 on N64 with better fidelity. I paid what I owe.

>>713052828
I don't know. It seems like an ego-thing. There are a couple older games that were commercial flops that I wishlisted and have waited years for a good price. It never comes.

>>713053393
>gives out games you already bought on Steam a year or two before, or shovelware
>has a client that makes you use a web browser to view your game library
I don't even play my actual purchases on Epicbecause it sucks so bad.

>>713051649 (OP)
I might get Age of Wonders 4 just to make modding less of a pain

>>713053804
Have you tried Heroic?
Beats actually using their shitheap of a launcher.

>>713054045
Installing a third party launcher makes it even less desirable, even if Heroic is the bees' knees.
Also, just looked at it, and it's a web-based launcher as well. At least with Steam, I can go to small mode and barely interact with it.

no, i think i will be buying keys from grey market sites for half the price of steam sales.

>>713052406
Based tranon, I'll also be buying on epi-AAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i only buy multiplayer games since i pirate singleplayer games but the problem is i seem to own most noteworthy multiplayer games already (all of them old)
guess that couple dozen steam bucks won't get much use any time soon

>>713051649 (OP)
Name one engaging singleplayer game on steam actually worth investing time into that I haven't ready played.
I mean you don't know what I have or haven't played but my point is that steam sales stopped being exciting like 5 years ago.
I have completed my backlog and good games come out far slower than the time it takes my to extract all possible enjoyment from them.

>>713051707

Is there a viable way to render Steams DRM null for some older titles with it implemented? I have wanted to get the recently patched version of Star Wars Empire of War working without Steam so I can have permanent backups of its modded content for the future.

>>713053667
>Gex Trilogy looks disappointing
How so?

>>713054532
Lies of P

>>713054548
yeah

>>713054532
clair obscur
>>713054571
it's a poorly made emulator that runs all 3 gex games

>>713051707
Every platform is moving to licenses. Its a battle you cannot win

>>713054571
The 3D games are the PSX ports, not smoothed in any way. It's really lazy.

>>713054589
Already played.
I feel like steam sales only work if you have a huge backlog or missed some hidden gem that didn't get advertised and flew under the radar, which there's fewer and fewer of over time.

>>713051649 (OP)
Dunno. We'll see.

>>713052774
Encourages you to buy new remotes on a regular basis.

>>713054730
Chants of Senaar

>>713052408
Same with MGS3 so i can play mgo before it inevitably dies.
RidiculoUS that you are paying 200€ for 2 game

>>713054720
>not smoothed in any way
And that's a bad thing why? Do you want a shitty xbr filter like pic related?
>>713054785
>RidiculoUS that you are paying 200€ for 2 game
180 but yeah, it sucks. I could save 20€ ignoring the deluxe editions, but eh, in for a penny, in for a pound

>>713052828
It's been long enough that almost everyone knows how best to work the system.
It doesn't matter if you put a game on sale for 10% or 30%, about as many people will buy it either way just by seeing any sale amount.
The majority won't budge if it doesn't meet other specific criteria.
To pull in a lot more people, either you make the price drop below a certain threshold (such as anything $30 and higher going for just under $20), put up a 50% or higher discount, or you go all out on an extremely steep sale to pump up the player numbers (usually coinciding with the dev/publisher getting ready to announce something new).

>>713054548
At that point for such an old game, just get the GOG copy. Empire at War is currently 65% off over there if you don't want to get it 100% off.

>>713051649 (OP)
how do i know if i am going to buy shit if i don't know what the sales are going to be like? got a few in my sites tho
>valkyrie elysium
>conscript
>signalis
>secret agent wizard boy and the international crime syndicate
>kyosho
>crystal project
>octopath traveller 1+2
>burggeist
>izon
>yellow taxi goes vroom
>lorns lore
>children of the sun
>kunitsugami
>tiny terry's turbo trip
>dreadout 2
>harold halibut
>thaumaturge
>gloomwood
>out of hands
>rusted moss
>arco
>bonfire peaks
>el shaddai
and loads more. my wishlist is over 500 games.

>>713055020
>>octopath traveller 1+2
I'm gonna tell you right now, don't bother unless you're really desperate for a four-niggas-in-a-row game

>>713054893
No, I want the PC or N64 version of 2, and the N64 version of 3 with proper resolution scaling. I don't want it to look like software rendering from pre-Voodoo times.

>>713055073
i love 4 niggas in a row. i also loved bravely default, and isn't octopath the same team and making something with a similar combat system?

Man I get fucked over again just before a sale. Not gonna have money for the next two months due to dentist bills.

>>713055020
download the steamdb extension, it shows you the all time discount of all games.
This stopped me from buying multiple games in the past since seeing someone at 60% off when it was 65% before triggers my poor ass brain

>>713051649 (OP)
I barely know what to buy at this point. There are maybe 2 games I can think of that I want off the top of my head. There may be a little more if I really thought about it, but a majority of what I want to play is old shit.

>>713052408
Do NOT buy the Gex Trilogy

>broken audio
>no upscaling
>forced to use save states
>literally just a bunch of roms from myrient within a terrible emulator with the Carbon Engine as a wrapper

The ONLY good thing about the Trilogy is the analog controls. Full 360 control really is a game changer. It's a fucking shame it's a piece of shit rushed hack job that somehow took over two years

>>713055102
You do realize that the n64 versions are inferior to ps1 and pc is literally the same game as ps1, right?
>>713055374
>>broken audio
Wasn't that on AMD gpus only and supposedly fixed with the latest patch?
>>no upscaling
I'm ok with that
>>forced to use save states
Ok this one is kinda bad

>>713055541
>asn't that on AMD gpus only and supposedly fixed with the latest patch?

No. I'm 4070ti here and the audio is fucking horrendous. Every track constantly cuts in and out, like the engine can't handle more than a few audio tracks at once. Any level that has a ticking timer sounds absolutely fucking atrocious. It was genuinely enough for me to refund it.

If you really want to play it anon, it's up on gog-games.to

https://gog-games.to/game/gex_trilogy

>>713055627
Oh, and don't listen to anyone who tells you to set your Max FPS at 60 and turn V-Sync off. This does NOT fix the audio issues.

>>713055541
The PC version of 2 can be hardware rendered, so no, it's not the same. And the N64 versions look much better, especially when run in 4k.

>>713051649 (OP)
>sale
more like stale, heh gottem

>>713052519
cringy zoomer tiktok tranny le shitzocore my new personality im sooo different and based and quirky and woah so deep art kys faggot
>>713052780
dev shill, kys ur game is genuinely bad, highly derivative with no artistic merit or gameplay or fun factor

>>713053291
>chrono ark
>ai limit
Stop being a massive retarded faggot weeaboo, anon. Those games are terrible.

>>713055832
I fucking wish they were stale, some publishers are mega greedy and stopped being offering deeper discounts for their games

>>713055992
Uhm, I award you one yike for this post.

i wanna bog these

>>713056228
days gone was kinda kino

>>713052408
>shitty remake of a 20 year old game
>shitty collection of 30yo roms
>preordering a silent hill game
please make better purchases

>>713055627
>>713055803
I'm not exactly sure what to tell you, I've just downloaded it and I'm having no audio issues, at least in 2. Does it happen in a specific game/level?

>>713055627
>playing 2 gives me motion sickness
Uhm bros, what now?

>>713051649 (OP)
I'm thinking of getting Peripeteia so hopefully there's a discount. And i also got my eye on Metal Garden.

Trying to find games that have an early 2000s presentation to them like games made on source engine. Y'know for example: Sin Episodes: Emergence, Judge Dredd Vs. Death., EYE Divine Cybermancy, G-String, Infra, VTMB, neotokyo
etc.
^ if you know anything let me know.
I'm burned out on modern games, i like old looking stuff.

>>713056343
Let me know how the first secret level in Gex 3 sounds

>>713056228
>Outer wilds
Kino game. I genuinely can't remember last time a game immersed me so much ,like this one, where my day just went by playing it.

>>713056228
>buying VNs

>>713056228
>>713056313
Days gone has spyware in it and it won't launch if you have the internet turned off.

>>713051649 (OP)
>He's still a loyal steamie when Nintendo already won

>>713051649 (OP)
I don't even have steam installed.
A resource hogger. Everytime you open it, takes you straight to the store. Even when you just double clicked the desktop icon of your preferred game. Ads, ads, ads.

>>713058454
>Everytime you open it, takes you straight to the store
Skill issue.
>Even when you just double clicked the desktop icon of your preferred game.
Either a skill issue or an outright lie.

>>713058361
I think VN writers deserve money as much as regular devs, granted Ryukishi's current work is ass especially for anything involving Higurashi.
If he's also interested in Umineko then I highly recommend he goes for Umineko Project instead.

>>713058752
Ten steam credits was added to your account.

>>713059409
Nice, gonna buy some games

>>713058824
Then buy it off their store where they get 100% of the profit.

>>713059409
>shilling is rooted in dishonesty
>you openly lied
>I call you on it
>I'm somehow the shill
I (((nose))) who's behind this.

>>713051707
>she thinks she owns her money

>>713053291
Only get AI Limit

>>713051707
I can torrent everything else, I don't mind paying for a game that actually works instead of dealing with cracked copies that are always a pain in the ass to get working.

I just want to spent the money, play the game and have fun...

But I always buy them on sale, never full price.

This is gonna be the first seasonal sale in ~5 years where I will not be purchasing any games. All the games on my wishlist at this point are ones that either get the same underwhelming "discount*" every time, they're too new to have any sale, or they have yet to release. I'm not budging until I see something extra special.

Goty only drops on august. I need me some shota football.

>>713056228
Scope up Outer Wilds if it's on sale for sure and GET THE OST. The OST is amazing and worth it, good music to put on and chill too.

>>713052406
One free game you don't care about has been deposited into your library.

>>713051649 (OP)
I'm definitely getting ys atleast

>>713051649 (OP)
I just bought Stellar Blade and Tainted Grail (this one on GOG) and I've got other shit to play as well, so probably not. Maybe if there's something super tempting.

>>713059818
>copy pasting a file is a pain in the ass

I fear what happens when you double click an icon.

>>713059869
Yeah I'm getting to that point too. 10% or 15% aint worth it. They need to sweeten the deal.

>>713051707
I think you meant boughtering?

>>713053291
>>713059946
>>713059893
This confirms my theory that most of /v/ / 4chan just play little anime girl games and anything that's not that gets shit on.

>>713060054
I miss when steam had 75% discounts

>>713059994
Kiddo I'm from the days where you had to run like 3 different programs to run a cracked game. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Last time I ran a pirated copy of something was 2009.

>>713051649 (OP)
If there's a cute anime girl trying to sell me stuff, I'll look at tags I feel like trying. Otherwise I'm still going through my backlog of 5 games.

i would like rise of ronin and yakuza pirate
but i don't believe any of them will be $20 or less

>>713060178
Yeah me too, it's rare. You know what? I wish Steam had some kind of button/feedback where users can request a discount and the games that get the most votes/requests would be heavily discounted during the next sale.

Yeah, Steam.............

>>713060283
She's retired now.

>>713060349
Discounts are done by the publishers, and just because they get spammed with a lot of votes doesn't mean they don't want to make money.

>>713060131
There is nothing wrong with non anime games but if they are not fun to play and have ugly trannies as characters I will not play them.

>>713060325
20% off at most on ronin if it even goes on sale. Pirate yakuza might get 30% but I wouldn't count on it

>>713060424
>She

>>713060427
The issue is it proves how much of 4chan is the kind of consumer that thinks with their dicks over anything else and they're always in constant denial about it.

Can't wait for the sale threads, they are the comfiest
I always shitpost when it begins and there are no deals keke

>>713060479
has

>>713060180
Ah yes, back when you had to run the crack, then an updater, and then finally run something DVDHider or NoCD to trick the game into thinking you have the disc inserted when you just have an iso

>>713054265
Its gonna refund them so whats the big deal. Still, fuck chinese spyware

>>713053291
good taste

Any underlooked 10/10 /v/core kino like Astlibra or Reverse Collapse that I haven't played? Heard good things about Chrono Ark so I'm eyeing that right now

>>713051707
*renting* licenses

>>713061684
Robocop is kino

i might get these

>>713061983
>not posting the OG one
newfag

I forgot about the sale..
I got yesterday
Resident Evil Revelation
& RE6

>>713062054
The OG one is the one with Valkyrie Profile, Fallout 4 and GTA5.

Sale? I can barely afford groceries.

>>713062392
mutt detected

>>713062392
Fuck your groceries. Pay your rent.

Probably not, I'm going to be buying a new graphics card this year so I have to pirate everything for the next couple of years.

>>713051649 (OP)
no

I got hit with backlog autism recently but it's worse than last time as I am actually close to finishing it, so won't be buying anything. All I got left is New Vegas, Deus Ex 1, REmake 1, and then I'm comfy.

Maybe if something goes ridiculously cheap, but I'm playing Cyberpunk right now, and I've got a lot of shit left to do.

>>713064285
I THINK JUDY SUCKS

>>713054548
You just drag and drop 1 dll and the game will work without steam. The name is goldberg emulator.

>>713051649 (OP)
Sale already active on GOG for 3 weeks. Buy there instead. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Proud gogger here! I love gog!

I want to finally get into Runefactory. I'm trying to beat MMO addiction. I don't have an issue with spending a lot of time on vidya but I don't want it to be on MMO's.
I hear games like Runefactory and fantasy life I are good grindy games.

>>713051649 (OP)
Might buy Serious Sam Siberian Mayhem if it's on sale.
I still need to buy the Project Wingman DLC which I know is dirt cheap already, but I think I remember it being on sale a while back so I might as well wait and see if it goes on sale again.

>>713059893
>class of '09
reddit

I "bought" Cult of the Lamb the other day off GOG and I'm having a blast, no joke.

>>713051649 (OP)
I will personally get Medieval Dynasty and Planet Crafter, i wanted to grab also the following games:
>Dead Island Ultimate edition
>Kenshi
>WWZ
>Killing Floor 2
>Palworld
>TLOU P1
>Against the Storm
>Dead Island 1
>AoE 2
Bought the highlighted games from key sites for cheaper than steam sale, only games left to buy now are the 2 ones i mentioned

>>713051649 (OP)
I'm getting We Love Katamari Reroll, Little Nightmares 2 and Powerwashing Simulator

>>713051649 (OP)
Maybe I'll pick up Metaphor and/or Crow Country
>>713056228
>Outer Wilds
Based, the DLC is also worth playing once you've finished the main game

Im stuck between getting Breath of Fire IV on GoG or getting E33. I like 4 niggas in a row games and have since I was little. BOF4 is my favorite RPG of all time for some reason so I may just get it again to relive my childhood.

>>713051707
in theory you also rent your home/car because the Government can take them away and you can't do shit about it
>b-but guns
have fun against drone swarm

>>713061113
YUP! All that shit and the game would be buggy still. Not worth it. Zoomies don't know the pain in the ass it used to be.

>>713062392
Get on SNAP dog, you'll get like $200 a month and you can put the money you save towards vidya finally.

>>713051649 (OP)
what would I even buy at this point? I got it all and what I don't have I should pirate to get the non cucked version. i actually cant think of a single game that I want to play that will be on this sale.

>>713051649 (OP)
Has GOG sale begun?
Does it mean if something isn't on sale now it won't be? Ages ago I heard that both gog and $team have the same sale prices, but the game I want is not discounted on gog but is discounted on $$team right now

>>713070000
Yes.
https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2025_summer_sale

>>713051707
cartfag cope
>tfw you supposedly own your cartridge games, but you can't even modify them to play romhacks or mods, or even install QOL features, and if you make backup copies you go to jail for "copyright infringement"
>but at least you can resell them for a fraction of the price you paid for them
>meanwhile the steam games I supposedly don't own can be modified a thousand ways, and are stored on like 4 separate storage mediums, and 99% of the time i don't even have to pay for them if i don't want to

But you "own" your games on console.

Thinking of picking up Ty.
Have fond memories of those games.

>>713052169
I'm with this anon. My backlogs have changed from monuments of shame for my poor financial decisions to bulwarks against further poor financial decisions. If I'm interested in your game but you're not discounting it to 10-15 bucks for AAA or under 5 for indie, well I got other shit to play.

>>713052519
Silent Hunter 3

>>713054548
Steam's DRM is the easiest DRM on the planet to get around.

>>713051707
oh no...... anyway

>>713066665
>Outher Wilds
Can a brainlet who never did puzzles enjoy this?

>>713051649 (OP)
ikm going to consooom and buy Icarus

>>713054548
Steam DRM is there to prevents 12 years old from drag and dropping the installation files into a pen drive, there are automatic tools available on github

>>713073592
It's not a difficult puzzle game, in fact I would say that the puzzles hardly even rate as puzzles, you just read stuff, make deductions, and keep track of information. There are a few mazing sections, but they're not that hard.

>>713051649 (OP)
>"Sale"
>-10%
>-20%
>-30%

>>713051707
>It's okay when Nintendo does it.

There's a lot of vidya I am interested in coming out in July and in the rest of the year, and I've got a few wargames I want to back on Kickstarter, so I don't even think I will be consooming any sales. In the meantime I can just play some city builders or other tactics games to keep me busy

>>713051649 (OP)
>-75%
>-80%
>-50%
What fucking year do you think it is

>>713074829
Looking at my wishlist it can be right now

>>713074975
Okay, now let's look at the 60 to 80 euro games.

>>713051649 (OP)
too many games on my backlog to even consider buying new ones. Also the sales kinda suck they don't even go past 50% nowadays

>>713051649 (OP)
Maybe, but the deals would have to be good enough to make me neglect my backlog

>>713051649 (OP)
cleared out most of my wishlist, now the only games left are games that came out this year, that i doubt will have much of a sale.

>>713060504
Whoa first time?

>>713051649 (OP)
Prince of Persia: Lost Crown
Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader
Void Stranger
at 50% off or more
Marvel Midnight Suns at $9.99 (it has been this price for months, slick fuckers raised it just now right before Steam Sale)
Pier Solar if it finally goes on sale. I might just grab it on GoG, it never fucking goes on sale on steam
Other than that, anything that falls to $3 or less is always fair game.

>>713051649 (OP)
if your game is not under 10 bucks and has zero replayability, I am not buying it

>>713051649 (OP)
No, there's literally no games

>>713054532
Monster sanctuary, cyber hook and devil daggers are all great titles.

>>713075919
Literally me.
Theres nothing to buy, no sale that can really change my mind either

I've recently gotten back into gaming
I want to get
>some Yakuza games
>some souls like games
Any cheap story based games I should play?

>>713060131
Anime website, get fucked and go back.

Surely you will play these games, you wouldn't add them to your backlog to rot forever right? Surely you're smarter than that.

>>713077000

>>713077000
These cowards won't admit it, but I will. Yes Anon, I am precisely that fucking stupid.

I want to grab pic rel only, boltgun and trepang2 i will buy from eneba

>>713051649 (OP)
Don't spend all your summer indoors playin games anons, you'll regret it

>>713077150
forgot pic

>>713077000
ive only got 40 games left on my backlog, need to buy more before i run out

>>713051649 (OP)
MAYBE if Stellar Blade or Space Marine 2 get a good discount
Otherwise nah

>>713077000
>steam backlog
>592

>steam wishlist
>451

>emulation backlog
>innumerable

i'm so fucking fucked, dood.

>>713076053
you're okay

>>713077000
I prefer to take the holistic approach. When the universe wills it I'll play a game, but sometimes that takes years. Eventually I will play War of the Human Tanks for example, but only when it is time.

>>713060080
Boughterizing.

I'm mostly going for Cyberpunk+the dlc but if the deals are good enough I'll pick up some of the other games on my most wanted list too. I've been really curious about Dominions 6 but the price tag coupled with the graphics have put me off.

>>713077678
i used to be like this, but then one day i just went through my library of games/roms and asked myself "do i see myself actually playing this game within the next 10 years"?
if i was unsure, i just hid or removed them. reduced my backlog by like 90%.

>>713051649 (OP)
Only Lost Judgement + exp
Maybe some Yakuza games since Im way behind

>>713051649 (OP)
I don't play PC anymore, it can't run a hunk of shit. Best I can do is early/mid 2000s games but I'm too poor to buy them, I'm going back to the 360. Sayonara, Niggers.

>>713078078
i already did that. my steam account is just shy of 3k games on it.

>>713077000
it takes a couple years but i do actually play them eventually. Just finished the ghost trick remaster i bought like 2 years ago

>>713051649 (OP)
probably the base anno 1800 if it goes on sale then just creamapi the shit out of it's DLCs

>>713051649 (OP)
I may get Streets of Rage 4 if it gets a sensible price.

>>713078874
Not even 7 bucks on the grey market

>>713051649 (OP)
ROGUE TRADER MOTHAFUCKA

I've got like 50 Rocksmith songs wishlisted

>>713078953
I don't want to support credit card theft because I have credit cards.

>>713055020
Might as well just get Conscript now that it's 50% off. Don't think you'll get a better deal. Lowest price cut I've seen anyway.

Would be nice if KCD2 saw a better sale than what it is on sale for right now but I doubt it which sucks

>>713080164
>Would be nice if KCD2 saw a better sale
Yeah it's not going past that 20% cut. So this was kind of like disappointment before the sale for me. Very much the standard of new Steam sales being less good as they used to be. Of where you could get a decent deals on new games sometimes.

>want to buy new games
>50 games that I bought and never played staring at me from the corner of my library

>>713051649 (OP)
Obviously waiting for sale, but these are the games I'm looking at.

>>713051649 (OP)
I'm getting Baldur's Gate 3, Deedlit's game and Lost Judgment, might get the Deadly Premonition games.

>>713080638
>the most mainstream normie youtuber bait games ever

Ngmi

>>713079715
Do you support multi factor authentication then you silly boomer

>>713080335
>So this was kind of like disappointment before the sale for m
Yeah I saw it go on sale and was just like fuck...
It just keeps feeling like I'm having to wait longer and longer to get decent deals but I guess it makes sense with the prices of games all going up. I just don't really want to buy games more expensive than 30-40 bucks and I have so much to play that it wouldn't be worth doing otherwise.

>>713061983
we got RDR now lol
only 30 more years until we get an AC remake/remaster trilogy or the same for bayo

>>713062569
He probably is if he can't afford groceries.

>>713051649 (OP)
I don't buy shit anymore. Keeping up with Humble Choice for less than $10 a month gets me more games than I can play.

>>713082458
It's just a joke about the character he's posting.

>>713082548
i've been on humble choice since 2018, but i skipped my first month this year and have skipped every month since. this year has been absolute shit for humble choice. i already got evil west, don't care enough for tomb raider remaster, and boltgun will be cheap down the line anyways. i'm getting tired of being served up the shittiest indie games imaginable. most of the time they are giving you shitty VNs, shitty metroidvanias, or shitty RTS/grand strategy games. not that those genres are bad, just that the games they are giving you are shitty ones.