Get BioShock, Civ & X-Com For $54

@beetnek: What the hell do you need a source link for? It's on steam, what else do you need to know?

@Aprocalypse: They come with a preconfigured version of DOSbox for each game if they don't run natively in windows.

MrKlorox

@SilverStar95: this was the case with Valve games at least. I bought the orange box after already owning HL2 and EP1. I was given a gift copy of each to give to a steam friend. I would assume non Valve games are also like this since it's all Steam anyway.

MrKlorox

@Xusder: That's a whole lotta game for little money. Nice.

@breadtruck: Agreed. Though 60 is still a good price for this package... if you don't already own any of the modern games in it.

MrKlorox

@PeteyCoco: The Steam downloads of Doom and Doom II come with and run on DOSbox unless you grab a source port. I would assume the games that haven't been upgraded to work on Vista do require AND come with a pre-configured DOSbox.

MrKlorox

@Aprocalypse: Oh, wait, it's not available in Australia. Oh well.

If only I didn't already buy Bioshock for $5 and the XCom pack. D:

@Korvac: If you're running at least XP, I'd expect them to be working 100%. If you're really worried check the steam forums for each game to see if there's any problems with any specific hardware or some such.

Can say from personal experience that all the X-Com Games, Bioshock, Sid Meyer's Pirates all do, though!

Holy Crap, This is worth is for the Civ games and Bioshock alone.
Man I kill so many hours playing Civ IV.

tptmanno1

@Can I Really Be the Hero?: I agree with your thinking, only 3 of these games are any good. Still worth the 54 dollars for just those 3 games, but I'm guessing buying them separate would be cheaper. The hard drive space lost is also a lot less.

orijimi

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: Well said. I've never played Civ4, Prey, Pirates, or X-COM. Thank God for steam...

wox42

I love many of those games but are they all even still compatible with modern PCs?

@SilverStar95: I've always wondered that but never had a pack I wanted to buy with just one thing I already owned so never tried. Was tempted to buy the HOMMV one last week but didn't want to risk it.

ShineyBlueShoes

@kneegrow: Well no... not quite my math challenged friend. You can can get those three for $30. But with Civ IV and all the expansions that makes it a phenomenal deal since you're then getting X-Com, Railroad Tycoon, Prey and Pirates for free!

ShineyBlueShoes

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: F***ing amen, brotha!

20 games.

$3 each (approximately).

20 GAMES!

I will get this and enjoy (especially X-COM, I have never played that, and everyone I know says it's good).

Also Freedom Force, oh god, I only played the demo a long time ago!

My game backlog just got bigger...

@(Zombie) Goldwings: HD4770... cheaps and can run nearly everything.

@Kitsune Sniper: UK has it, and EU normally gets pretty neglected. All the games were on Steam originally, just now they are in a bundle.

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: I just LOL'd.

I already own Bioshock and the X-Com games from the pack... what happens if I buy it? Do the duplicates become gift tickets to give away?

SilverStar95

@EnigmaNemesis: Seriously. Those games are high quality.

Hey_Blinkon

@Can I Really Be the Hero?: Clicks on Can I Really Be the Hero? tile.

*selects Sonic Cannon*

Care to repeat?

It's worth it for Bioshock and the two Freedom Force games alone. Wow!

kneegrow

@Archaotic: True dat, and it's still a bargain price.

Can I Really Be the Hero?

@Kitsune Sniper:
UK gets it for £36

Charax

@Chrysolite: It's been said before and it'll be said again, different strokes for different folks, y'know?

@Can I Really Be the Hero?: I would say it's pretty much impossible to have a bundle of 20 games in which you love every single one, though...4 or 5 is a lot easier.

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: Don't worry, Three Dog and the Tunnel Snakes got my back. Plus, no one can penetrate my Tesla armor!

Can I Really Be the Hero?

@breadtruck: And after further review on Steam, this deal didnt exist before. That original comment I quoted threw me off I guess (maybe I should read slower ehh?). Sooooo.... never mind me. Looks like this truly is stupid cheap, and Im just stupid haha

@Archaotic: This comment was supposed to be a reply to another comments above(And a joke), but there are few games I love in this bundle, unlike the Orange Box, which I loved completely.

Can I Really Be the Hero?

@Kitsune Sniper: Not as frustratingly close, but I feel your pain. Did net cafes ever come to the US.....in southern California/Texas/New Mexico/Arizona?

Chrysolite

@(Zombie) Goldwings: Everybody's entitled to their own opinion, but after playing Portal for 30 minutes at a friend's apartment I imported The Orange Box for that game alone--and Portal was fun enough for me to give Half Life 2 and both of its mini-sequels a try, which I otherwise never would have considered doing.

I also credit that purchase with giving me the courage to pick up Bioshock, which I also really enjoyed.

So Portal did change my life....for a couple of months where I looked up and realized I'd been playing FPSs exclusively on my PS3.

Chrysolite

So can people -outside- of the US purchase these? Because I live three blocks -south- of the US and I can't even LOOK AT 2K'S DAMN CATALOG.

It's like they don't want my money at all.

holy shit that's a lot of games

Deathbearer

Bought this just a couple minutes ago. I've honestly never played any of these games before, seemed too good to pass up.

@Archaotic: ...I think I'd be able to deal with Boston becoming a singularity of happiness. Especially if it's because of an X-COM revival.

I mean, it's freaking X-COM. (Turn-based only please.)

Wizard

I bought Civ IV:Gold alone a month ago for $40 and it was worth every cent. If you bought this, you could game forever and never spend a dime again.

That would be boring though.

@NoobKitten: I just need a good graphics card, but whenever I ask which one, I just get a shit ton of people telling me mumbo jumbo info about processing this and hard drive that, etc. As long as I can run it and it doesn't cost me more than $150 then I'm fine.

@Lord Raggleus Fraggleus: OH SHIT.

njd09

@pslong9: Oh, I agree, if it's a shooter or an RTS, there will be blood. Classic turn-based strategy all the way.

@Archaotic: Preferably not the part that I'm in. But if a true X-COM revival does happen (and if it's not turn-based, I'm... less likely to buy it), then I will deal with any singularities in Boston. It will be worth it.

pslong9

@(Zombie) Goldwings: Same here, sir. Same here. I played Portal, it was a decent puzzler, but it didn't change my life or anything like some people seem to say it did. Yeesh.

@Can I Really Be the Hero?: I never did get into Portal. Now before you all pelt me, I just never knew what the big deal was.
@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: Phew, I thought they were for me. Funny thing to since I can only take 2 shots lol*nervously*

I remember just 7 years ago how much Computer games were bundled like this. What happened? Oh yeah, the growth/evolution of the internet happened :/

Damn, I just bought the Civ4 pack for 35 bucks a few weeks.

And I own 13 of the 20 games in the pack. Damn damn damn.

@Luke Plunkett: No source link? Those kinds of things are greatly appreciated.

beetnek

@NoobKitten: A new monitor is nice, but you gotta upgrade the rest of it to keep up, yo.

@NoobKitten: If you have a mouse, it's not old enough.

spannu

@Archaotic: I assume the monitor doesn't count....

2K Box anyone? Holy balls

@Can I Really Be the Hero?:

One wonders whether you actually read the list.

KenseiKitsune

@NoobKitten: You should probably upgrade sometime soon. :[

@breadtruck: Disclaimer: And by "steam deals" I am referring to the package price, and not savings compared to buying each separately.

Based off individual prices, yes, it would be stupid cheap. ;P

@Strom Thurmond: A valid use of his time, and I approve. Seriously though, I've been hearing rumors his next game is an X-COM revival for almost a year now. If that happened, I would be so happy that parts of Boston would vanish into a singularity.

@Archaotic: Your probably right, it's just that ever since my computer crashed while I was installing Army Men, which was a good eight years ago, I just lost faith in it :(

@PeteyCoco: A valid question. I do not know, sir, as I use XP when I boot Windows. As far as I know, the DOS-era games have likely been upgraded to boot on Windows...at least, that would be smart.

@Archaotic: He's busy torturing and killing the various members of Gamecock.

@EnigmaNemesis: Just a click away :)

@(Zombie) Jolan: It makes it look like L4D2. OH I DID NOT JUST DO THAT, I DID NOT JUST DO THAT.

"The pack will normally retail for $60, but this weekend will only be $54."

Hmmm, that's not a very impressive savings. I like my Steam deals to be stupid cheap.

Sadly, I already own a few of those games, so re-buying the pack for only a 10% price reduction wouldnt be tolerable here like some of the other package deals I had gotten off Steam.

@Archaotic: I guess my question would be this: Do all the games work on Vista sans-DosBox?

@EnigmaNemesis:

Sheer willpower.

@Can I Really Be the Hero?: Holy shit you got some huge gahonies to say that . I would take Archaotics advice.

@NoobKitten:

How do you even post?

:-p

@Archaotic:

I knew I was saving these last two shells from my trip to the DC Wasteland for something.

You can have them, chosen one.

Now that is a heck of a deal!!!

@NoobKitten: If you can run DOS, you can probably run X-COM.

@Michael Dukakis - Mets fan:

Your first order of business should be publicly announcing your plans to buy out EA.

You know, for the lulz.

@Michael Dukakis - Mets fan:

$54 would be over priced.

I'm sure my PC could run a good 0.000000001% of those games. (Yes it's that old)

@Can I Really Be the Hero?: *cocks shotgun* I suggest you run. Quickly. >:[

Good...god...

Yes... but the Orange Box had good games.

Can I Really Be the Hero?

I thought I could buy 2k games for $54. Damn... my first order of business would have been making MLB 2k10 less sucky. That way all platforms can have a good MLB game.

Holyfcknshit! That's a real deal! (Hey that rhymes :)

Holy $%@&!

Damn. Makes orange box look like a ripoff.

That is one huge pack of games. I wonder why 2K would be hyping X-COM all of a sudden, though...hmmmmmmmm...

Paging Ken Levine. I repeat, paging Ken Levine.

Where's Transport Tycoon? That one was the best

gloveofpower

Why not have a similar bundle pack for the 360, damn it?!