It is.

Maybe I'll try to stream some of these steam games I bought so you guys can see how bad I am at gaming.

Anyone else get Great Giana Sisters when it was the daily for $3? Recommend a good controller or maybe an adapter to use either my 360 or PS3 controller on my PC? Also anyone interested in doing some Borderlands/Borderlands 2 at some point?

I bought that so probably, yes. I've only played it for about half an hour, but I could invest some time in it in the near future.

e: Also I know what I said about "action games" but I've been playing Rogue Legacy and long periods of my day have been going missing. The manner in which you adjust to the difficulty through learning enemy behavior rather than piling on upgrades reminds me of Dark Souls. Which is just about my favorite game.

Giana is good, I think they even released an easy mode recently if you have no functioning manhogans.

As for circlebox controllers, wired will work out of the box and wireless needs a dongle. Officials exist and fine, but you can find perfectly functional chinese knockoff ones on deal extreme or something for cheaper.

Shipping might take 3 weeks though.

I use the DS3 Tool program to connect a PS3 controller via USB. It works well enough, but I'd like to get a wired 360 controller at some point to simplify things a bit.

I'd wholly suggest just getting the 360 wired controller, period. The length of the cord is quite long and it's pretty much plug and play. Plus, they're.. what, 30 bucks?

Just anyone who has used a PS3 controller on their PC and wants to switch to 360, if you used motionjoy, be sure to properly uninstall and remove its drivers before plugging the 360 controller or it might not install the drivers correctly.

We were playing Monaco on the same computer with three controllers and the game would freeze after a few minutes of playing. Eventually we found out my friend had used motionjoy before and even though he thought he'd uninstalled it, it hadn't actually been removed and was messing with the 360 drivers. After removing all signs of motionjoy through the device manager, the 360 controller was properly recognized as an ms 360 controller, installed properly and the game no longer froze with three controllers plugged in at the same time.

Not sure if anyone played the first, but just got a beta key from one of my Steam friends for Payday 2, and it's really fun. Way harder than the first, leveling up is a little more interesting, AI is massively better, and we've seen a ton of variety on missions. Guns feel a lot more substantial, too. Altogether it's definitely a big improvement over the first one.

Anyone interested in a four pack (figure I might wait until a few days before release in case it goes on sale randomly)?

Changed the thread title so it can be reused. The Holiday sale started this past Thursday.

So far I've grabbed Electronic Super Joy, Arkham Origins Season Pass, pre-purchased Metal Gear Rising, Legend of Dungeon, and the Sleeping Dogs Collection.

Have anyone else's wallets taken a hit?


Edit: Well I THOUGHT I changed the title, guess that's only reflected on my first post. D'oh!

Double Edit: Whoever changed the thread title, thanks! Soooooooooo true.

There's some pretty tempting deals so far. But I'm holding out for 90% discount deals. I'm pretty sure I won't be playing them anytime soon, might as well buy a game at it's cheapest price.

I'm not talking to anybody who missed La-Mulana -90% yesterday.

Aside from that and on a more serious note, so far I've picked up The Binding of Isaac (with DLC), Deus Ex HR: Director's Cut (supposedly includes bonus content which I've never seen so hey), Papers Please and The Walking Dead. I hope I can get started on at least a couple of them before the end of the holidays.

I bought KOTOR2 so I can play it with the patch that makes it a whole game rather than the comedy Xbox version that doesn't have an ending.

The Walking Dead will take you about 6-8 hours to finish and you can't get stuck, so it's a safe bet for one of those "boy, it sure would be nice to finish a game I start for once" titles.

On the other end of the spectrum: La-Mulana. Ahahahahahahaha

Amazon has Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe for $15 and Injustice Ultimate for $20. I wanted to wait and see if Steam would match it with their daily deals today, but since they didn't I wasn't going to pass those up.

Now to see if Steam matches Castle of Illusion either tonight or tomorrow. If not, I'm nabbing it from Amazon for $3.75.

I'm hoping Steam will have some kind of Lego sale before this is over. I've been waiting for Lego Star Wars Complete and Lego Star Wars III to come down for months.

I bought Borderlands 2 for $7.5, and I'm really doing my best not to buy any more games.

Deus Ex HR is $4.5 today, and Mass Effect is for $9.99 :(

I now also have 4 snow globe cards.

I was tempted by Borderlands 2 but it's free on PSPlus this month and lord only knows I have enough games as it is.

I was sticking pretty well to my policy of not buying anything with a discount less than 80%. Then all the pinballs were on sale. And the Spelunky. And the Dark Souls. Oh no. Oh dear.

PS everyone get some Pinball FX2 tables because I have stomped mudholes in Shade and Deni's scores and I demand challengers. Except Civil War. Deni can keep the Civil War crown because I cannot bear to listen to that table's intro one more goddamn time. Do not buy Civil War, it is the most obnoxious thing.

(PS Hyde is the raddest and gifted me Gone Home, looking forward to sweet 90's housekeeping adventures)

I was actually going to argue about my destroying you on the civil war table. Thank you for letting me have that.

Also, I will now play more pinball, so as to be less of a disappointment to you.

I'm so sorry.

Goddamn I suck at pinball. :(

I've only played pinball on steam once. I wish my scores could be transferred from the ps3 over.

Don't worry, Pang. Your scores will be challenged.

So are there any tables you guys would recommend purchasing?

The problem with this is that a lot of the best tables are only buyable in bundles with tables that are sort of eh.

Balance of the Force pack is probably worth it just to have Starfighter Assault, which is probably my single favorite table now.

Marvel Pinball Original pack is pretty damn solid, the Iron Man table isn't incredible but it's not bad either.

Zen Classics pack is pretty skippable. At best Tesla is... inoffensive.

Avengers Chronicles pack is all winners, if I were to pick up just one pack I'd probably grab this one. Good mechanical variety between the 4 tables here.

Vengeance and Virtue pack gets you Ghost Rider. The X-Men and Thor tables are sort of uninspired, but: Ghost Rider. Suck it up.

Star Wars pack is pretty bland and I wouldn't bother unless you're That Guy Who Buys Everything With Star Wars On It.

Pinball FX2 Core Pack is... maybe worth it to get Biolab? Everything else is take or leave.

Epic Quest just sort of exists. The guy on the logo is rocking the Dreamworks Eyebrow pretty hard and that's roughly the level of cleverness you can expect.

Paranormal is just charming as all hell.

Civil War doesn't seem that great to me mechanically, setting aside the constant, ever-repeating VO that never stops. Ever. Until you ragequit.

IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS

Captain America is everything a Captain America table should be. Punch Nazis get Cubes lead Commandos get rad.

Ms. Splosion Man is an adorable bit of score-inflated candy, it loves throwing million-point bonuses at you for basically no effort on your part. Depending on your sense of humor the VO work on this might grate a bit but I like it.

Earth Defense more or less gets a free pass from me on the theme alone, but if the theme's not your bag you might find there's not a whole lot to do here.

Don't own Doctor Strange, Excalibur, Fantastic Four; have barely touched Mars but it seems okay.

I just play the free table. I'm trying to beat Shade's score on it, but I suck at pinball.

I... played the free table on steam? I don't remember doing this. I may have to go back and increase my score.