On Steam, Crusader Kings II is on sale. The base game is $8, or a package with a lot of the DLCs for $40 (everything released more than a year ago, I think).
Cities:Skylines is $19.99 on the Humble Store (33% off)
I’ve been waiting for this to drop a bit in price, I’ll snap it up when I get home tonight.
Arrrgh, I bought it but “Keys are temporarily exhausted for this product” since yesterday…
40% off the Mad Max game at GreenManGaming right now, until tomorrow afternoon with the code (MADMAX-SAVE40-MADMAX).
I loved the movie, and I can’t wait to play this.
I saw MM:FR pop up on Steam yesterday as well. Loved the flick, so let us know how the game is, please, DCnDC.
Will do. Preloaded last night, can’t wait to get home and fire it up.
I didn’t even hear about this until just last week, but the trailer looked awesome (as trailers often do), then I saw IGN give it a rather glowing review. GameSpot was less enthusiastic, but I watched a few gameplay videos and it looked pretty good to me. Normally I never pre-order games, but I was really interested in this and the 40% discount caught me in a spending mood yesterday.
I started Mad Max last night but haven’t gotten past the very beginning to start reviewing. Plays well though and I think it’ll be fun if you’re into that sort of game – kind of a mashup of Far Cry 4 and Just Cause with a dash of Batman and Fallout.
Some of the reviews I’ve read have been sort of funny in how they seem to miss the mark. One was complaining that Mad Max didn’t do a great job of realistically depicting a dystopian wasteland. You know, because the movie featuring a giant speaker truck and flamethrowing guitar gimp and a world where you distribute water by dumping 100,000 gallons of it into the dirt once a week was “realistic”. Or reviews criticizing the lack of a strong story. I think that, for most people, as long as you can blow stuff up real good they’re going to enjoy it. If you’re not playing Mad Max in order to blow stuff up, you picked the wrong game.
So I’ve been playing Mad Max for a couple of hours now.
It’s not entirely unlike a 3rd person Borderlands/Fallout New Vegas but with a much greater emphasis on vehicular combat rather than shooting. You do have a shotgun, but ammo is pretty rare. Hand-to-hand combat is very simple so far; you right click to parry and counter, and left click strikes. Driving is not perfect, but it’s still good fun. Aiming and firing your weapon slows down time so you can take aim. I haven’t done much free-range exploring, but so far the world seems pretty large, if not that widely varied in appearance. There’s two basic flavors of landscape: rocky and desert, but that’s certainly not unexpected.
An over-arching storyline has yet to emerge; the story so far has primarily been about acquiring and upgrading a new vehicle. As Jophiel puts it, you can blow stuff up real good, and I’m quite enjoying blowing stuff up real good, so I’m satisfied so far.
From what I’ve heard, driving starts pretty floaty but that’s more about your crappy car than the driving mechanics and it gets better as your car gets upgraded.
Ah. That makes sense!
Now I must take my leave. I have to go see some War Boys about some car parts…
Rarity of ammo becomes a non-issue soon enough. Stronghold upgrades will refill gas/water/health/ammo. Rather, the limitation is on how much you can carry at a time, and using it appropriately to meet the “challenges” that let you level up.
Got an Xbox 360? Goat Simulator is free, no idea for how long.
Dragon Age: Inquisition on sale via Origin, 60% off. $23.99 digital download, $27.99 digital deluxe edition.
Darkest Dungeon is on sale for 40% off on Steam ($11.99).
I really want this game, but I really despise EA/Origin. So I still wait for it to hit the $10 mark for the deluxe.
The deluxe content is trash anyway. At least buy it base for $10
Middle-Earth : Shadow of Mordor GOTY Edition is $16.99 on Steam this weekend.
Much better deal than that available. $15 with season pass.
GMG has a general sale code WINTER-ISCMNG-22PERC for 22% off for the next day and a half I think. Also, you have to log in to see their VIP page, but they often have sales there that no one else has. They have rocket league for $15 - and I don’t know if you can combine sales with discount codes, but if you can, it gets it down below $12. It’s a fantastic game and I’ll probably make a thread about it when I get unlazy.
That code should work for preorders too and stuff so if you’re silly enough to want to pay full price for a game anyway, you might as well do it through GMG.
Steam Halloween Sale started!