I recognize Fallout 3 as a great game, but I grew to the point where I hated playing it, because of its unrelentingly hideous aesthetic. The graphics were excellent at depicting a bleak postapocalyptic landscape, and it’s entirely appropriate for such a landscape to look hideous. I just don’t want to spend so much time staring at burnt brown books on brown shelves and crumbling brown walls against a brown sky. I bought New Vegas at the same time, but I don’t know if I’ll ever actually play it.
Today’s Dailies
Far Cry - $2.49
Far Cry 2: Fortune’s Edition - $4.99
Bastion - $5.09
Game of Thrones: Genesis - $19.99
King’s Bounty franchise - 75% off
Worms franchise - 75% off
Anomaly: Warzone Earth - $2.49
Test Drive Unlimited 2 - $6.79
Red Faction franchise - 75% off
Rock of Ages - $2.49
Sonic: Generations - $10.19
Bulletstorm - $4.99
Beat Hazard - $2.49
Sorry for not listing franchises; this is hard enough on a tablet as is. I should leave the auto-corrections next time for extra fun 
Threads from 2004and 2008 suggest that Far Cry is pretty good. But the second thread was anticipation-based. Did it live up to its pre-sales excitement?
Most people don’t like Far Cry 2 but some people do. It’s not made by the same people as FC1. Most of the complaints relate to the tedium the game design brings - aimlessness, respawning enemies everywhere, etc.
Crysis is the true successor to Far Cry.
I liked Far Cry 2 well enough and would think it worth the five bucks but I’ll admit that the quick respawning guard outposts got tedious in a real hurry.
Whew, thanks. I have so little time to game that *tedium *is one of the worst descriptors out there. Oh, that and ‘checkpoint saving’. Okay, so that’s two words. Like ‘escort mission’. Bah. I take it if I appreciated Crysis I’ll get a kick out of FC1?
You should give New Vegas a shot - there’s still a lot of wasteland, but there’s also areas with trees, grass, and the Vegas Strip itself was untouched by the war, and is still inhabited and in pretty good condition. It’s not nearly as unrelentingly drab as three.
Bastion is absolutely worth $5. One of my favorite games of this year.
Good to know–I’ll fire it up at some point. Other than the drabness, F3 was a pretty good game.
They took it a bit too far, I think. Considering that it takes place 200+ years after the war ended, you’d think that some of the damage would have been repaired. It was a bit jarring to walk into the Brotherhood of Steel HQ and find that it had same “filled with junk” aesthetic as everywhere else. They can build power armor but not a vacuum cleaner?
Someone was kind enough to gift me Bulletstorm (I forget the SDMB name of the person, if I ever knew it) so if anyone wants to do the co-op, go ahead and grab it. I guess it’s an onslaught mode type co-op, but we can add to each other’s kill combos and do various awesome stuff.
The worms franchise has weird little cash-in games like a worms bubble bobble type game, a golf/challenge game, and a pinball game. The golf one actually doesn’t look too bad.
Is the new 3d worms game (ultimate mayhem) worth the $4?
The achievements are for
Rusty Hearts (f2p)
Game of Thrones Genesis
Beat Hazard
Rock of Ages
Bastion
Worms Reloaded
“You know, we could clean up some of this junk-”
“Heretic! Cleaning anything but weapons and equipment is not mentioned in the Codex, and is therefore forbidden!”
I’m behind on the times a bit - going out of town for Christmas will do that - and I haven’t yet completed the “trade” task. Anybody want to help me out? I’m “onlymostlydead” on Steam.
Question: If I add a CD key for a non-Steam-purchased (but available via Steam) game to Steam, will it require firing up Steam to play it, or can I still install it on a computer and play it the old-fashioned way? It’d be nice to see if I could avoid having to put the Play disc in for certain of my games via this method, but I’d hate to absolutely have to have Steam running (like when killing time in an airport).
What’s the “trade” task?
The only CD keys you can integrate into Steam are for Steamworks titles that require Steam is play any way. For games (or any program really), you only add a shortcut to the executable file. This allows you to run the program with the Steam overlay, but otherwise leaves it unaffected (so you’d still need the CD in the drive to validate or whatever.) You’d still be able to run the program external to Steam without any issues. This is true even for non-Steamworks titles that are available on Steam, unless you purchased it through Steam.
Phooey. I hoped there might be a difference between “Activate a Product on Steam” and “Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library” aside from being able to patch the former through Steam. 
New Steam sales:
Sequence: $1.24
Disciples III: Renaissance Steam Special Edition: $4.99
Disciples III: Resurrection: $7.49
Prince of Persia franchise: 75% off titles
Call of Duty Black Ops: $29.99
Star Wars franchise, various titles: 75% off
Cities in Motion: $4.99
Terraria: $2.49
Solar 2: $2.49
Stronghold 3: $33.49
Gothic franchise: 75% off
Dawn of War franchise: 66% off
F.E.A.R franchise: 50% off
Any of those worth getting?