Steam sale - including Sacred and Flatout

[MagGnome]

Strategy First has their entire catalog for 50% off on Steam, including Sacred Gold and the Flatout games. Are these worth the money? I've heard mixed reviews for Sacred, but $5 is hard to pass up for the gold version, especially considering that I almost picked it up at Target today for 7.50.

[total]

Fuck the haters, I liked Sacred. It was extremely buggy at first but the patches fixed a lot of what was wrong. I actually don't really enjoy most Diablo clones (or Diablo honestly) but I found Sacred to be pretty damn fun. It is extremely open though, as in there is very little direction in the game as a whole. You know what, I am going to buy it for $5. Just so I can have it in my Steam catalog. Way to go Mags, you just convinced me to convince myself to buy a game.

EDIT: One thing to note is that I played the game pretty much exclusively over my home LAN with a few other friends. That might have been some of the appeal for me.

[MagGnome]

Thanks for the reply total! I'll pick it up this weekend for sure. :)

[x Returner x]

I never played Scared but I had a lot of fun playing Flatout the mini games were the best part.

[Bad Buddha]

I had a great deal of fun with it. Lots of little side quests to have fun with. Like Total said, it's very open. It's easy to wander into a place that's way over your level.

I already have Sacred and Sacred Plus. Don't think I need Sacred Gold! But I am soooo tempted!

[MagGnome]

There are some other good games in Strategy First's catalog. Ghost Master is $2.50 for those who missed it during the last sale. There are some other good ones as well. I'll look them all of them later.

[Johan]

Steam weekend deals are becoming like a regular monthly phone or cable bill for me, but I get so much for the money they're charging, I'm not complaining. It really is amazing some of the prices on some terrific games. Great stuff.

[total]

Bought Ghost Master too just because Mags said the name. Seriously I spend $2.50 on coffee. More than that actually. Quite a bit more than that. Fuck.

[MagGnome]

Bought Ghost Master too just because Mags said the name. Seriously I spend $2.50 on coffee. More than that actually. Quite a bit more than that. Fuck.

I bought Ghost Master during the Steam Holiday sale for $2.50 but haven't played it yet. I played the demo back when the game first came out and had a good time with it. It's a pretty unique concept, and I'm sure it's worth $2.50. If you try it out be sure to come back with your impressions.

[Hexxagonal]

I picked up Flatout 2:UC and it's really rather good. Thanks for the recommendation on that one.

[jpublic]

I found Sacred to be mildly entertaining, but ultimately tedious.


OTOH, I picked up Jagged Alliance 2, Disciples II, and Space Empires 4Gold and 5 for kicks. Don't plan to play eny of them, but it's nice to have them in my library.

[Panthera]

It's unfortunate, because I really like a lot of Strategy First games, but very few of the good ones are on steam.

[MagGnome]

It's unfortunate, because I really like a lot of Strategy First games, but very few of the good ones are on steam.

Which ones are missing? I thought they had their whole catalog on there, but that probably isn't the case.

[Lint of Death]

I went ahead and bought Sacred since I've been curious about it for many years.
Anyone know how to change the game's resolution? edit - nevermind, it's impossible, but I found a config executable that let me turn off fullscreen.

[jpublic]

Lint - really? How did you manage that? Once of the prime reason I gave up on that was I couldn't figure out how to get windowed.

[MagGnome]

Yes, do tell. Low resolution games are almost unplayable without Window mode.

[Lint of Death]

You have to go into the Sacred folder in your Steam directory (steamapps -> common), and there's a config executable. Once you've changed the settings through that, just launch Sacred through Steam as normal. I know for me the game screwed up pretty bad when I first launched after using that config, but the second time it worked just fine.