Sniper Elite V2 is a fun time so far, aside from me sucking at stealth games. Looks nice too, obligatory muted color palette aside.
For anyone who cares, the V2 refers to you assassinating members of the Nazi V2 rocket program, not “Version 2”. Until I fired it up and watched the intro, I had no idea.
Picked up a few more games. Altered Beast from Sega’s old Genesis Pack, Plants vs. Zombies, and the package deal for The Longest Journey and Dreamfall even though I have those games. I figure that for $12, saving me the time and effort to go through my old boxes and reinstall each one and hoping they’ll work, its worth it. Plus there’s a bit of karma in it too. I’ve stolen a lot of games over the decades from when I used to trade floppy disks from friends to downloading emulators and using the R4 chip for the Nintendo DS. Now that I’m not a kid anymore and have disposable income, I’ll buy more stuff.
Risen is available to play for free on Void if you’re kinda-sorta-not-five-bucks-worth interested in it.
You essentially rent it for a month at the cost of watching a few video game ads when you start it.
This’ll be $10 bundled from Amazon on Sunday.
Burnout: Paradise
Need for Speed 2: Hot Pursuit
Man my 50 dollar budget for this year sale is getting pretty light. I got most of what my eye on, But I may have jumped the gun on a couple of them too early. Gotta use the last 8 wisely.
Is Red Orchestra 2 worth it with 75% off? Particularly since I never bother playing multiplayer.
Correction. It’s live now and it’s only $7.99
Are the civ games fun? I used to be addicted to the Age Of Empires games so I am assuming they are the same but better than that?
RO2 is exactly what it says on the tin and pretty good at that, but not worth getting if you’re never going to do multiplayer with it. …although I would question why not, because for this game, the multiplayer does a better job of capturing the atmosphere than most games’ single player does.
I could never get into Age of Empires, but I absolutely love CiV, especially with the expansion pack Gods and Kings. It’s a turn based strategy game, so a bit different than AoE.
Civ is incredibly addictive. I’ve only played Civ III and IV, and both have their good points and weak points. I’ve never played Age of Empires.
The Civ bundle includes III and IV, and it’s less than what I paid for the first IV. It’s worth it just for those two games.
As RandMcNally says, they are different but I would be surprised if you didn’t enjoy Civ V ( G & K) if you liked A of E.
I love driving games, but FFS stay away from Drive: San Francisco!
Yes, I put it in red so it would stand out better so people would know to STAY AWAY from this game.
It’s more a movie than a game (constant LONG cut scenes, even in the middle of gameplay), and when it is a game, the controls are unbelievably bad. The car won’t go where you steer it, and will continue to turn even tho you can see that the front wheels are straight (and your fingers are off the keyboard entirely).
Plus, the graphics are sometimes excellent and then other times they look like they were rendered 12 or 15 years ago.
REALLY shitty game. Don’t waste your $7 like I did. Er, that is to say, I wasted my own money, not yours. And I’m trying to help you not waste yours.
I just came here to ask about that game - so thanks. I’ve been looking for a good driving game, but I guess this isn’t it.
Weird, all the goons over at SomethingAwful are basically furiously masterbating at the game being on sale, I was going to buy it based on this alone. It sounds like for driving nuts the steering is a bit annoying, but the mechanics as a game look really cool.
Oh, do get VtM:Bloodlines from the flash sale if you like action/RPG. It’s the best storytelling to be had for money.
All but the simplest driving games are pretty awkward to handle with a keyboard, so I wouldn’t discount it for this. I mean, it may truly be awkward, but it may play fine with a wheel or gamepad.
I use a gamepad. Driver SF is fun, at least until the timed missions are too short to be forgiving. Looks like I won’t be able to finish unless I can find a way to cheat the timer.
Just driving around and taking down criminals is still fun, though.
Fucking finally, ARMA II CO is a daily deal. Just 40% off, but I just got it.
AH! Thank you, SenorBeef, for advising me to wait on Crysis. Just grabbed the bundle of Crysis, Crysis: Subtitle I Can’t Remember, and Crysis 2 Maximum Edition for $18. Awesome.
I kinda want to get Fallout 3 since I enjoyed Fallout:NV so much, but Steam is warning me that it’s not Windows 7-optimized. Would this therefore be a useless purchase?