Steam Sale Extravaganza

Steam had a sale all last week on over 200 titles, and would further discount on sale items to even lower prices each day, with the new discounts lasting 24 hours. I had just received my new PC, and as well have just recently graduated from college, so I had an empty hard drive and wads of spendable cash. So I kind of splurged on the sales. I purchased:

• Star Wars: Empire at War Gold;
• Thief: Deadly Shadows;
• Trine;
• Titan Quest;
• Titan Quest: Immortal Throne;
• The Witcher: Enhanced Edition;
• Torchlight;
• Sacred Gold;
• The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom;
• Day of Defeat: Source.

Ended up only having to pay just over $50, so I feel I got a steal of a deal. I've been playing mostly Torchlight and Day of Defeat: Source. I've been playing Torchlight because I wanted a Diablo fix (which happened to be the same reason I bought Sacred Gold and Titan Quest), and Day of Defeat: Source has been played a lot because I loved the original Day of Defeat when I was in high school.

It is a shame that not as many people play Day of Defeat (DoD) as play Counter-Strike: Source, because I feel it is a superior game. It has the same intensity of Counter-Strike matches, but you don't have to worry about getting obliterated instantly and spending the next five minutes watching some Terrorist try and find where the bomb carrier died so he can complete the objective. I loved playing as the Wehrmacht (Germans) and playing as a Rifleman (using the K-98). Unlike the Allied M1 Garand, the K-98 has a much more powerful shot, thus more likely killing your opponent in one shot, and the ability to reload your clip before you have fully expended your ammo in your current magazine. The K-98 also seems to be more accurate, with the ability to easily take both advancing or sniping positions with relative easy. If I am forced to play as the Allied, I either use the Springfield sniper rifle, or the Thompson, as I feel fairly weak with the Garand.