If you ever wanted to try the X series but didn't want to have to use Steam to do it, well now you can get it on GOG.com. And on top of that, it's even on sale for 75% off at the moment, which means that the entire series (minus X Rebirth, but that's no big loss[1]) is available on GOG.com right now for a little over $10 (or else it's 50% off each game individually, if you didn't get the entire series at once).
Just to note, I am still playing X3: Albion Prelude (with currently 988 hours into that game alone, according to Steam, not even including all the hours I'd previously put into the earlier games), to this very day in fact (meaning I literally just quit playing it only a few minutes ago, then opened Feedly to see this deal), so yeah, I can definitely recommend it, as I already have many times in the past.
[1] - With that said, however, I've been hearing that X Rebirth itself has been polished up into an actually halfway decent state nowadays as well, so whenever the next big 4.0 update comes along, I may give Rebirth another try. And, apparently, there's a whole new game coming at some point as well. Hopefully, this new game will be the true X4 that Rebirth definitely was not.
Just to note, I am still playing X3: Albion Prelude (with currently 988 hours into that game alone, according to Steam, not even including all the hours I'd previously put into the earlier games), to this very day in fact (meaning I literally just quit playing it only a few minutes ago, then opened Feedly to see this deal), so yeah, I can definitely recommend it, as I already have many times in the past.
[1] - With that said, however, I've been hearing that X Rebirth itself has been polished up into an actually halfway decent state nowadays as well, so whenever the next big 4.0 update comes along, I may give Rebirth another try. And, apparently, there's a whole new game coming at some point as well. Hopefully, this new game will be the true X4 that Rebirth definitely was not.