Forgot to post the deals today - they’ll still be there for another 6-10 hours.
Bastion $3.75 (or $6.25 with seperate downloadable soundtrack, which is pretty awesome)
“Double fine” bundle - Psychonauts, Stacking, Costume Quest $7.50. Looks like Psychonauts is $2.50 on its own.
Football manager 2012 $7.50
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action $10
Operation Flashpoint franchise - $11.25 for red river, $3.75 dragon rising, $13.75 both
Bioshock 1/2 $5 each
Splinter Cell Conviction $5 - surprised it isn’t the whole franchise
Space Pirates and Zombies $2.50
Bundle: Hydrophobia: Prophecy, Orion: Dino Beatdown, Star Ruler, Waveform, World of Goo $10
Flash deals:
Max Payne 3 $30
Saints Row $12.50 - or that franchise pack mentioned above still seems to be $13.50, so obvious buy if it’s still like that.
Walking Dead $15
Skyrim $30
Community Choice:
Fallout franchise 75% off
I like the idea behind the flash and community choice sales, but since they ended up just cycling most of the same games that were on daily sale anyway through it was sort of pointless. They should’ve taken the chance to showcase lesser known games that may not have been a regular daily sale.
My take was fairly modest - I’m trying to keep my spending down so long as I have 5000 unplayed games. Picked up some of the SR3 DLC, Red Orchestra 2, Order of War, F3AR, Nexuiz, some Fallout NV DLC, Vessel, Bastion Soundtrack, Tribe’s Ascend starter pack, Toy Soldiers, GRAW 2, and a gift copy of Trine 2.
I bought Civ V on sale last winter for a couple bucks and sat on it, then bought G&K from somewhere or another for 30% off when it was released and STILL never played it. This weekend I finally started and have been bumbling my way through using what vague principles I remembered from Civ II and I can see myself sinking a lot of time into that. I’m not sure what it was like pre-G&K since I know G&K not only did religion but also modified combat and everything but I’ve found it a very well rounded and fun game. The naysayers who prefer Civ IV had me worried.
Random Capitol Wasteland raider: “Fuck me!”
Me, having thrown a Nuka Grenade: “Yeah, you’re fucked.”
ETA: after playing through at least twice, I decided to just fool around within the FO3 environment. Used a little thing called Cheat-O-Matic to put in my inventory way more Nuka Grenades than I could possibly use.
I don’t know if it’s G&K or if the various updates/changes fixed the game, but I’m a reformed naysayer. I bought Civ V the day it came out, and was woefully disappointed. It just didn’t catch me the way Civ IV did, though I forced myself to play it for many, many hours.
So I put it away until last month, when I bought G&K. Holy crap, it’s Civ again! I’ve wasted WAY too many hours on it since I got G&K. So fun!
Too late; something to look out for during the winter sale, I guess.
I didn’t get much this time around: Alan Wake, VtM: Bloodlines, Monkey Island and the Pendulo adventure package. I probably got as much stuff in a single package from the Amazon sale (which is still on-going).
I spent about $64 and got BRINK, all the New Vegas DLC, Hunted, Skyrim, Crysis, Crysis 2, and Crysis 2: Warhead. Seems worth it to me.
(I still have no recollection of having purchased FEAR and Red Faction: Guerilla, which I did last November apparently. Weird. I don’t even know what RF:Guerilla is!)
Games I haven’t played include all of the above, DX:HR, and Batman: Arkham Asylum.
All in all I’d say I’m set for the next rainy day!
I was sedate. All New Vegas DLC except Courier’s, Trine 2, Magicka, and LeChuck’s Revenge SE.
Red Faction: Guerilla is pretty fun. You are a member of the resistance to a autocratic government on terraformed Mars. It captures the feel of being a guerilla pretty well: you’ll die with a full on assault, but do best with hit and run attacks. And you build up support with the locals when you have victories. Negatives are that the plot isn’t all that, and it maybe gets a bit repetitive, but it’s still fun.
I just beat Human Revolution, and am working my way though Missing Link. Maybe also repetitive towards the end, and has the drawbacks of all stealth games (e.g. get cool weapons, and never use them because you stealth, or use them and get the disadvantages). The story and especially the setting are quite fun.
I actually didn’t get anything. There wasn’t anything that jumped out for me. I already had CIV and the expansion, and I bought Saints Row the Third the day it came out.
Maybe something in the winter will grab my attention.
Gotta disagree, I love it. I think if you like Burnout Paradise or Need For Speed Most Wanted you’d love Driver San Francisco. The “shift” mechanic where you can warp into another vehicles and take control is very weird, and yet very satisfying. I think the graphics are great, especially the smooth transition between being in your car and whooshing up to an overhead city view. It also has an in-car view with nicely rendered dashboard and gauges.
There are many different vehicles from the 60s/70’s up to modern day. You only see a small portion of the available vehicles at first, I saw a lot more when I played multiplayer.
Multiplayer is where the shift mechanic really shines, suppose you are playing the tag game mode with a friend, and you crash and they take off, getting many blocks away from you. Normally in a 2-player game you’d practically give up, they are so far away you’d never catch up. But in Driver SanFran you can just zoom out to the city map, shift into a car near your friend, and you’re back in the action. There are a half dozen or more multiplayer modes including tag, races, capture the flag, and more.
The car handling seems fine to me, not as hard to drive as GTA IV but much more realistic than Burnout. You are driving 70’s cars after all.
I’ve did maybe 8 or 10 storyline missions, but there are plenty of diversions. Shift into a police car and bash suspects, shift into a limo and try to get someone to a show on time, that sort of thing. You earn credits just from driving around doing crazy stuff. The drops the cars take going over the hills in San Francisco are pretty satisfying.
The big sore spot is the Ubisoft DRM that “requires” an always on Internet connection. If I had known about it, I probably wouldn’t have bought the game in spite of the low price. It was causing my single-player game to lag every 10 seconds or so, but I discovered you can just go offline in Uplay in the launcher and it works fine. By the time I played multiplayer the lag issues seemed to be fine.
I kept myself pretty well in check, mostly by looking at the list of games I already have and noting how many I have not yet played/finished. My only purchases were
Limbo
Dear Esther
Alan Wake
Legend of Grimrock (I was holding out until a friend started comparing it to some nostalgic favorites of mine.)
I already played through Limbo, and it was well worth the money. I’m tempted to start a thread discussing the ending, but I fear it will only end in tears.
