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The Steam 2014 Holiday Sale (The Haul Thus Far…)

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Here we go. A couple of days into the Steam sale and here’s the damage so far:

Bioshock Infinite Season Pass – Bought the main game on launch and after hearing great stuff about the Buried at Sea DLC’s, the Season Pass was a no-brainer buy for less than P300.00

X-Com Enemy Within – Same as above. Plowed through 40 hours of X-Com sans the expansion. Heard it’s a totally different game. A great buy for the price!

Gabriel Knight – Thanks Jed Revita of OMGeek!

Euro Truck Simulator 2 – Because P99.00

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – Fast. Replayable. OMG.

Shadow Warrior – Thanks Dre! Supposedly really good!

Sid Meier’s Beyond Earth – the most expensive game on sale I got (thus far!) as it broke the P1,000 mark. But so worth it. Put in around 4 hours.

What have you bought?

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Thief: A reboot from out of the shadows

Mediocre reviews towards the reboot of the Thief franchise can be credited to how the stealth genre has changed in the past decade. In a sense, stealth has been “perfected” in may different ways: Mark of the Ninja on one end of the spectrum turning sneaking into an arcade platform jumper while Splinter Cell, Deus Ex: HR and Hitman have carved their own niches into to action-stealth genre. And then there’s Dishonored, which in my opinion is Thief’s spiritual successor.