Ultima 7 Steam Sale Thanksgiving

November 23 – November 29

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Rumor has it that this Wednesday is the beginning of the Steam sale, and it sounds like Valve is dropping the short-term daily and flash-sale model in favor of dropping prices and keeping them there for the duration. That's much more boring, but I'm thankful for it all the same. Honestly, I don't need to be worrying about limited-time price drops while I'm trying to do my job, care for my family, or humor relatives over Thanksgiving.

This week is an interesting week, in that we're turning the corner from a release list dominated by Major Releases to games that missed their planned release date and weren't big enough productions to get pushed into 2016. Teslagrad has released on more platforms than I could name, and I can name a lot of platforms. I've always been a little interested in the game. It has a bunch of little hooks that catch my attention just in watching gameplay (name, puzzles, art style), but it was never enough to rise above the crowd. This week, the crowd sinks below Teslagrad.

Chris "C" Cesarano

It's the week that citizens across America come together to celebrate gluttony and a lack of restraint in all of its forms. Be it in devouring an over-abundance of food just because we can and claiming ourselves to be thankful for it, or donning our suburban combat gear to march into the Targets, Wal-Marts, and Best Buys of the world to secure consumer products at supposedly low prices, we show the world what it means to be a first world country living in excess.

And I love every damn minute of it.

There's really nothing for me to pick this week, even among the indie titles. At most I'd snag the Bioshock Collection if I had an Xbox One, or Beyond: Two Souls if I liked it enough to justify a second playthrough, let alone a second purchase.

My game of the week will instead be spent comparing Black Friday deals across the different stores. I may be "part of the problem", but there are few memories as pleasant as standing in line outside of a Target, befriending an Irish lady that offers you some hot chocolate spiked with Bailey's.

Felix “Silver Shroud” Threepaper

Has there been a week this year when a roguelike wasn’t released? Cardinal Quest 2 and One More Dungeon keep the roguelike rate ticking over. Strania - The Stella Machina - looks gloriously like the slick shmups I used to pump my paper-route money into at the arcades, but it’s a port so it doesn’t count.
Otherwise, there’s episode 3 of the surprisingly-cast Minecraft: Story Mode. Whoulda thunk you’d ever see (well, hear) Pee-Wee Herman and Corey Feldman in the same project?

FIVE: Guardians of David intrigues me most this week: an action-RPG set in ancient Canaan, telling the story of the rise of King David. I’m guessing there isn’t a speech-based solution to the Goliath quest.

Greg "Doubtingthomas396" Decker

Well, today is my birthday. Unless you're reading this on Tuesday, in which case it was yesterday. In keeping with a family tradition born of a desire to maintain youthful vigor, I want a toy. Unfortunately, I have no room in my house for more gewgaws.

Fortunately, RC Simulation 2 is right there for me. With a variety of toy vehicles and track-building tools, RC Simulation 2 takes a simulation of driving, flying and boating and makes a simulation out of it. Who can resist that much meta in one place? Not me!

RC Simulation 2 narrowly beats out Space Food Truck and Strania for my game of the week.

This week:

PC

  • Clannad
  • Cardinal Quest 2
  • One More Dungeon
  • FIVE: Guardians of David
  • Super Snow Fight
  • Mass Vector
  • RC Simulation 2.0
  • Strania - The Stella Machina -
  • Space Food Truck
  • Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 3: The Last Place You Look
  • Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy
  • Umihara Kawase Shun

PS4

  • Bloodborne: The Old Hunters
  • Beyond: Two Souls
  • Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 3: The Last Place You Look

Xbox One

  • Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 3: The Last Place You Look
  • The Bioshock Collection
  • One Final Breath

Wii U

PS3

  • Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 3: The Last Place You Look
  • One Final Breath

Xbox 360

  • Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 3: The Last Place You Look

3DS

Vita

  • One Final Breath
  • Teslagrad

Comments

Might play more Teslagrad now that it's portable. Might get Clannad, except it's probably windows only. Could pick up Beyond: Two Souls for PS4. Eh, a so-so week. I'll probably mostly play Fallout 4.

My choice:

Bloodborne: The Old Hunters: Prepare to Die Again: Again

Umihara Kawase Shun? Oh wow, I didn't realize they were releasing all three Umihara Kawase games to PC. Sweet! Very cool, quirky platforming indie Japanese games.

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Happy Birthday, Doubting Thomas!
May you get a million boring calming farmyard and auto sims.

It looks like the image for this post is from Ultima 7. Why is that? Did I miss some U7 goodness?

Beyond's on my at-some-point list

Pinkerton wrote:

It looks like the image for this post is from Ultima 7. Why is that? Did I miss some U7 goodness?

Probably something came up with in the Steam Sale thread or in a Google image search on "steam takes all my money sale".

Happy birthday, DT!

garion333 wrote:

Umihara Kawase Shun? Oh wow, I didn't realize they were releasing all three Umihara Kawase games to PC. Sweet! Very cool, quirky platforming indie Japanese games.

As I've watched this series show up on our release lists, I've always liked the aesthetic, but platformers are pretty heavily not my jam.

garion333 wrote:
Pinkerton wrote:

It looks like the image for this post is from Ultima 7. Why is that? Did I miss some U7 goodness?

Probably something came up with in the Steam Sale thread or in a Google image search on "steam takes all my money sale".

I was thinking about videogame banquets, and it's one of the best that came to mind—I always enjoyed the needless variety of items in Ultima games.

But then I also had to make it about Steam sales, so threw Gabe in there. And I found an old Ultima Online font to throw in some text.

Did folks think we just found these images online and stole them each week? These gems are bespoke craft imagery!

Happy BD DT!

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Happy Birthday, Ben Greg!!

Every time I see Clannad, I think of these folks:

I spent a lot of time listening to them in the '80s.