- Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition (PC) -- $8.00, down from $39.99
- Post-Apocalyptic Mayhem (PC) -- $4.99, down from $9.99 (free to play this weekend)
- Dungeon Siege 3 (PC) -- $24.99, down from $59.99
Blood Bowl, Dungeon Siege 3 and P.A.M. get weekend Steam discounts
by Griffin McElroy 
on Sep 29th 2011 11:00PM
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Reader Comments (12)
Posted: Sep 29th 2011 11:08PM Colin said
Q: What exactly is Blood Bowl, and should I purchase it?
All I know is that it's Warhammer and American football.
All I know is that it's Warhammer and American football.
Posted: Sep 29th 2011 11:36PM The Aquacharger said
@Colin
It's a fun game but has a massive ammount of bugs. For $8 it's kinda hard still because of the ammount of bugs there are for the game.
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It's a fun game but has a massive ammount of bugs. For $8 it's kinda hard still because of the ammount of bugs there are for the game.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 8:35AM Damn Dirty Ape said
@Colin
Blood Bowl really has nothing to do with the rules of American football (it was originally designed by the British after all). It's more like Rugby really.
Basically two teams line up, one gets the ball, and they need to get it in the opponents endzone any way possible. How you do this varies greatly depending on your team and it's strengths. An elf team is great at passing the game and dodging around people (and can quickly score points) while an orc team might try to bash the other team into little bits and forget about the ball entirely.
It's important to note that the computer game is based on the board game that has been played, added to, and refined for over 20 years now. The basics of the game are really quite simple, but there are a lot of different skills that characters can develop that can change the game quite a bit.
Where Blood Bowl (board game or computer game) really shines is in league play. In league play you start with a basic team and play games against others in your league. As the league continues players get experience and can get new skills and better stats. Other players get killed and/or injured and have to replaced. In this way some teams can become very strong, but no matter how strong the team is it only takes a few bad dice rolls for their star player to be dead and buried. It can be quite painful to 'win' a game only to be three players short in your next game (but that's part of the fun).
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Blood Bowl really has nothing to do with the rules of American football (it was originally designed by the British after all). It's more like Rugby really.
Basically two teams line up, one gets the ball, and they need to get it in the opponents endzone any way possible. How you do this varies greatly depending on your team and it's strengths. An elf team is great at passing the game and dodging around people (and can quickly score points) while an orc team might try to bash the other team into little bits and forget about the ball entirely.
It's important to note that the computer game is based on the board game that has been played, added to, and refined for over 20 years now. The basics of the game are really quite simple, but there are a lot of different skills that characters can develop that can change the game quite a bit.
Where Blood Bowl (board game or computer game) really shines is in league play. In league play you start with a basic team and play games against others in your league. As the league continues players get experience and can get new skills and better stats. Other players get killed and/or injured and have to replaced. In this way some teams can become very strong, but no matter how strong the team is it only takes a few bad dice rolls for their star player to be dead and buried. It can be quite painful to 'win' a game only to be three players short in your next game (but that's part of the fun).
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 12:37PM The Aquacharger said
@Rollins
A few. You get disconnected less now.
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A few. You get disconnected less now.
Posted: Sep 29th 2011 11:13PM Acosta02 said
IT's P.A.M. already? I'm up too late...
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 12:30AM chispito said
I think they made a mistake. I have a hard time believing that the regular price for Dungeon Siege I and II is $55 (each).
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 2:38AM Faceless Troll said
I'm kind of tempted to pick up Dungeon Siege at these prices but I'm in the middle of Dragon Age 2 and have other games on my shopping list. Bah.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 9:07AM EvilCartographer said
I'm tempted to grab Blood Bowl every time it goes on sale, but I have an overwhelming feeling that I will be very bad at it.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 1:32PM wrongThinker said
@stiqlol Likewise!
