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[umiman]

I thought the Magic game was actually quite nice. Until after 3 hours or so when I realized you can't speed up the turns... Theeeennnn yeah.... wasn't so fun any more.

[forsaken1111]

So there's no sense buying MtG unless you're going to take up playing the card game IRL?

I was always interested in the game, but never had the money or the people to actually play cards.

the MtG game is fun on its own. They're saying the game is more fun with real cards playing against real people.

[RedWarrior0]

Yeah, I eventually decided on New Vegas without DLC, and SpaceChem.

[userpay]

So there's no sense buying MtG unless you're going to take up playing the card game IRL?

I was always interested in the game, but never had the money or the people to actually play cards.

Being (or had been) a MtG player myself I'd say rather than buy the video game, while it might be cheaper overall, find where tournaments are being held in your area. Essentially you do a free signup for a MtG membership card and you'll get booster packs for cheaper than normal during the tournament at the store in question. Or at least thats how it works in my area. For example at the store where I did the weekly Friday tournaments the boosters you use for the tourney are like 25% off and everything else MtG related was 10% or something like that.

[Tellemurius]

Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena and Butcher Bay, classics, a steal, get it damnit.

[Shadowlord]

I ended up trying the Civ V demo when Civ V came out, being unhappy with it for mostly the same reasons I got bored with Civ IV (lots of time waiting for things to happen, hitting next turn, lots of micromanagement of workers, etc), and now I have CivRev instead. No workers to micromanage, units build much faster, and some other things are simplified as well, but they kept culture and culture-flipping and even added back caravans (which is odd, since those almost need micromanaging) and the spaceships similar to how like they were in Civ II. The diplomacy and lack of options (for world size, for instance) when setting up a game are the only things I think are a bit weak. Oh, and the advisors talk in nonsense words like they're characters in Spore, with text bubbles showing the real text.

[Deon]

I've won -50% Nordic Games ticket (it's all Gothic series including Arcania, The Guild II with expansions, Painkiller series and Spellforce series), is anyone interested in it?

[RedKing]

I grabbed MTG: DotP because while I was never into Magic (or any other CCG, other than perhaps SJ Games' Illuminati: NWO), I enjoyed the hell out of the old Microprose MTG game.

And I'm a married guy with who has a job and doesn't live in his parents' basement, so having the time and inclination to get out to tournaments (not to mention the cash outlay to be spending on decks) is non-existent.

I'm curious to see how good the AI is. The AI on the Microprose game was pretty good but occasionally made lolwut type errors, like nuking their own card or casting a heal on me (and not in a situation where an enchantment would give them bonus mana from it or anything). Played the beginning match last night and was faring poorly against the computer (partly due to the starter deck being made of fail and partly due to my unfamiliarity with all the new rules and card types). I was disappointed they didn't have the "build your deck by travelling around and fighting against weaker critters" type of campaign like in the original.

[ECrownofFire]

New sales are up, too lazy to post them

Get Magicka and Bioshock for sure if you don't already have them.

[nenjin]

$5 for Bioshock 2? Yeah, I think I'm all over that one.

[RedWarrior0]

Okay, I'll volunteer:

-75% Hitman franchise
-75% Bioshock and Bioshock 2
-75% Counterstrike franchise
-75% LA Noire
-50% Dead Island
-75% HOARD
-75% Grid
-50% to -75% Might and Magic franchise
-66% Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale
-75% Magicka
-50% Rochard
-75% BIT.TRIP RUNNER and BIT.TRIP BEAT

I have nothing to say, because I don't know half of those games.

HOARD seems mildly interesting, but I don't have much more than its price... anyone know much about it?
EDIT: Scratch that, I do appear to be out of money for this holiday season
EDIT THE SECOND:

Spoiler: What I got for Christmas this year... (click to show/hide)

Far Cry 2 + all DLC
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Dungeons of Dreadmor + Realm of the Diggle Gods
SPAZ
The Binding of Isaac
Cthulhu Saves the World
Breath of Death VII
Europa Universalis III Complete
DEFCON
Fallout: New Vegas
SpaceChem
Bioshock
Magicka

All in all, a good haul, IMO. I still need to play most of them.

[Micro102]

Ok, I see the first X-COM game on steam, and recall having a hellish time getting it to run and ultimately giving up. Am I gonna have to go through that again, or is the steam version instantly playable and available for a 32-bit computer?

[Mephisto]

The Steam version comes with DosBox pre-setup. It works perfectly.

LA Noire: Good game supposedly, but I won't buy it because purchasing it won't actually support the creators.

[Shadowlord]

LA Noire: Good game supposedly, but I won't buy it because purchasing it won't actually support the creators.

What?

[Darkmere]

The Steam version comes with DosBox pre-setup. It works perfectly.

Seconded. A fine replacement for my long-ago-lost 3.5" floppies. Not that I have a drive to even use them if I had them.