Subtext: “Go find a game with multiplayer capability.”
Yep. $5 bucks to download and try a few games adds up. The demo, as you said, would be the best way to go.
Sorry. I don’t see $5 through a big list of games on sale this month as “cheap” when it’s all added up.
… So you are saying that the more discounted games are available, the worse off we are? Because it would be more expensive it would be in total to by them all, even though you don’t have to? That if a game you wanted to try was available to you for $5, you’d be dissapointed?
I guess if every game ever made was 99% off, it would be the worst thing ever, because hey, if you wanted to buy every game ever made it would still add up!
You are not within a hundred miles of making any sense.
Edit: He’s not paying $5 to “download and try” the game. He’d be paying that to own it. He’s asking if other people think that that particular game is worth that particular price. It’s not really any different than if he asked if Dragon Age was worth $50, except in this case obviously the steep discount means he could be happy with it even if he wasn’t totally in love with it.
Right. If every game were only a penny, it’d be horrible for everyone. You’re willing to take everything I say to the mattresses, aren’t you?
I wouldn’t pay $5 for Mirror’s Edge, in any case. The rest of this is extracurricular.
Please clarify what you mean then if I don’t understand your meaning. I gave it a decent effort, but you didn’t seem to be making any sense. Your main point seems to be “getting a bunch of games cheaply isn’t cheap because they add up eventually”, right?
Yeah, LOUNE, your point is horribly put forth. Your first comment was ‘why bother if you’re not sure’ and from there you’ve been going on about how little cheap purchases add up to a lot of wasted money. Andd from there seemed to indicate even the demo wasn’t worth the risk. You’d have done a lot better from the beginning if you’d said “I didn’t like it and I don’t think it’s even worth $5.” Thus, answering the OP in a clear and consistent manner.
As I said earlier, I think it was fun, and unique. I think there is a solid 5-8 hours of enjoyment there, maybe more depending on the person. If that much fun time is worth that much money, you’re good to go, IMO. And as Beef said, try the demo if you’re still not sure, or if money is tight.
Point taken. Perhaps it was handled by me in an unwieldy manner.
Mmm. Pineapple.
I suspect what actually happened was that there was a thread that related to PC gaming, so the alarms on your batcave all went off. You rushed in to see what insults you could throw, but then you realized that having a ton of games massively discounted available to people was pretty awesome. So how could you bitterly turn that into a negative? Well, uh, sure, you can get all these games for $5, but if you get like 20 of them… that’s $100! Not so cheap after all, huh? HAHAHAHAHA!
It’s amazing how often these video game threads get pretty dicey.
Quick highjack. Yup motion sickness often occurs due to conflicting signals from the eyes and the balance organs in the inner ear. Basically your eyes tell your brain that your moving, while your ears say you’re stationary. The resultant hissy-fit in your brain results in motion sickness.
I used have absolutely horrific motion sickness as a child. Now it just manifests as a feeling of tiredness and loss of appetite after any journey of an hour or more.
Funnily though computer games have never effected me.
Well they have made me fat and prone to random acts of violence…
Well, instead of spending nothing on games this month, you made me spend about $100. :smack:
You’re telling me.
You’re the one that came into the thread with the negative but nonsensical stance of (paraphrasing) - it’s too risky to try the demo, you just find a game you blindly trust to be good, oh and sure it may be $5 but if you buy lots of $5 games that adds up.
I was not even out of line - I tried to ask you to clarify your points because they didn’t seem to be making sense to me. You declined any attempt to clarify, and it was only then that I gave my own speculation as to what motivated you to come in and make your… contribution to this thread.
And now you play the victim as if I were the instigator.
And here we go again.
The demo is fine. Try it. That’s a perfectly valid and fine point you brought up. I didn’t even think about a demo.
However, in context of the holiday season and all the really good sales that are out there for games these days, people are looking around at some of these games they didn’t try before. Some are even buying multiple games at very low prices. This isn’t a bad thing, but I wouldn’t buy Mirror’s Edge for $5. Would this thread have started if it weren’t at a drastically reduced price? Would the drastically reduced price have even been offered if it weren’t the holiday season?
So yeah. Apparently, these game threads do get dicey, and part (Most? All?)of it is because of douches like us that’ll prattle back and forth about these things.
With respect, SenorBeef – and keeping in mind that I’m really grateful not just for your help but the incredible Steam deals you’ve shared with us – I do think you’ve been kinda over-the-top here. Same thing happened in my Team Fortress thread – responding to a fairly mundane post in a way that escalates the disagreement out of proportion. Maybe you guys have an ongoing feud or something, I dunno. Still, it’s a thread about whether someone should download a game, not an abortion / health care debate. Do things really need to get so pissy?
FWIW, I wasn’t sure about Mirror’s Edge either but have purchased it because, y’know, $5. Haven’t even downloaded it yet 'cause my slow-ass connection is still chugging away at Medal of Honor: Airborne, but from all I’ve read, it should be quite pretty, if nothing else.
Look at post 16. You said “the demo should be a clear indication … why even bother risking it”? You seemed to be suggesting that playing the demo is some sort of risk. Even if you weren’t talking about the demo, it still doesn’t make a ton of sense. Buying any game you’ve never played before incurs some sort of risk, even if it sounds awesome. So that’s why people do stuff like read reviews or start threads like this to ask about it.
Most people don’t feel as though games without multiplayer are somehow so inferior that they’re automatically ruled out of buying, let alone at a low price. But I still don’t understand your point - they’re looking at games they haven’t tried before, which is exactly what this thread is about. The OP said that the premise is interesting but they’ve heard mixed things and wanted more opinions. You seem to be saying the process of looking for that information, and hence, uncertainty is proof that you shouldn’t even bother.
This specific thread, probably not - but why not a “Hey, is [game] worth [price]? I like the premise but I’ve heard mixed things” thread if you were to, as I said before, replace Mirror’s edge and $5 with Dragon Age and $50?
Steam has sales pretty regularly apart from the holiday, so yes. Even so, why would that matter?
It might vaguely be relevant if they said “I only have $20 to spend this Christmas, what should I spend it on?” - but the question was more like “Will I get $5 worth of fun out of mirror’s edge?”
Yes, there’s a history in both cases. LOUNE is an xbox 360 fanboy, which isn’t a big deal in itself, but he has more or less appointed himself Defender Of All Consoles and Basher of PC Games On The SDMB. He’ll come into PC-centric threads looking for something to bash. I made a joke about “alarms going off in his batcave” because he almost always shows up rapidly if something good is being said about any aspect of PC gaming, or something negative about any aspect of consoles.
So when he came in here saying things that seemed totally nonsensical to me, in an effort to understand his point I tried to figure out what his motivations were. And it hit me - console gamers don’t really get anything like the equivelant of what Steam is doing right now, so he’s looking for something negative to say. Only there’s not any downside to this, it’s pretty awesome, so his attempt to be negative ended up being pretty nonsensical (ie why “risk” trying a demo, sure $5 is a good price but if you keep buying games cheaply it ends up adding up, etc.)
I can see why, not knowing that, it would seem like my assumptions/conclusions in post #28 seem excessive.
As for Palooka - he is a Hardcore Gamer. He looks down at people who don’t play games in an optimal fashion, exploiting every unbalanced strategy or quirk in the game engine or playing at the highest level possible. The post he made in that thread is actually somewhat unusual in that it wasn’t blatantly dripping of condescension towards all gamers that aren’t like him.
Anyway, you were asking for advice on how to ease into the game without feeling useless or overwhelmed - and right off the bat he dismissed the (arguably) three easiest classes to play because they don’t belong as part of some competitive team vs competitive team strategy, which is something that’s like 15 steps away from where you are now as a gamer. It was misplaced advice that stemmed from his attitude of either playing super optimal competitive gameplay or don’t bother.
Medal of Honor: Airborne has my vote for one of the most frustrating and poorly designed WWII shooters ever made. 
I don’t know what in the fuck LOUNE was going on about either.
It’s not your connection, before I knew about the sale I redownloaded Mass Effect because 2 is coming out soon, I usually download at about 2.5 Mb/s and right now it’s chugging at 500Kb/s or so. Steam is just swamped right now.
Perhaps you mean Epilepsy?
But yeah, I can understand why you ask, and I actually LOLed at the fact that this was the immediate response to the OP.
Valid point. I don’t have either, but trip in the game, and you trip the light fantastic. [Well, you know what I mean.]
I got the game at $20.00 back in October. I could not believe, even on my Standard Def TV how visually stunning the game was. I am not as well practiced on FPS as most people, but I found the game to be great, hard, but fair. With outgiving much away, there were multiple times when I shouted four letter words at my TV, because I SURVIVED a scene in the game.
To get this game at 5 bucks, for me at least is a no brainer.
Then again, I liked the game back when it was 50, and didn’t have an up to date PC, Xbox or PS3. Picked the game up the same week I got my 360.
Yes, Yes and Yes. So much to “Drink in” with the eyes. To say nothing about the parkour mechanics that are a solid grade of B in terms of game play. Add to that, that it is the first game of it’s type?
Yes.