Mentalepsy: The new Tomb Raider is $8 on amazon.com (Steam key).
I'm considering it. I liked the previous Crystal Dynamics games and I am interested in this one, but I have serious doubts about it, and $8 is still twice what I'd normally pay for a Steam key.
The game is just stunning, especially if you have an ATI Radeon for the realistic hair effects (although I believe they've added something similar for nVidia now too). I got it free with my video card, but after playing it I think the game is well worth several times the $8 sale price for gameplay alone. Even people who don't care for Tomb Raider type games are buying it and enjoying it, it's really something else IMHO. The only flaw it has is the occasional QTE sequence (quick timer event) which many gamers find annoying (myself included), but once you get past that shit the game plays for hours on end very enjoyably.
Having said that, I generally wont pay more than $5 max for a game these days, and usually no more than $3 so I can't fault someone for waiting for it to drop into that range or appear in a bundle with other games that work out to $3-5 each either. :)
retsuseiba: Testament of Sherlock Holmes is on a flash sale at Steam. I'm thinking about getting it for a friend. How does it compare to the other SH games in terms of plot and gameplay?
I've got this game and think it is very good for what is ultimately a point and click mystery/detective game. The thing I really like about it is that it uses a semi-modern 3D engine for graphics and it implements 3 game modes you can cycle between with the press of a key. 1st person perspective, 3rd person perspective, and a fixed-perspective point-n-click type experience. So you can either choose the interface of whichever of these genres you prefer and stick with it through the game, or you can toggle between them for whichever interface seems to give more perspective on a given situation at the time. It's the first game I've ever seen that does this in such a genre-crossing manner. Cool game!
