Today’s sales are up, and the lower right corner box is “We’re sorry, this game is not available in your region” for me. Something I’ve never seen before actually. Out of curiosity, is there anyone in a region who can see it and say what it is?
EDIT: Never mind; I refreshed it again and the games are all in other positions (so you couldn’t have told me, must be random), and now whatever-it-was IS “available in my region”. Store is getting overloaded and buggy.
Daily sales:
Borderlands Franchise 75% off - GOTY edition $7.50
Two Worlds $7.50 (75%)
Dead Island $10.20 (66%)
Frozen Synapse $5 (80%)
Orcs Must Die $3.75 (75%)
Skyrim $30 (50%)
Tropico 4 $7.50 (75%)
Dirt Showdown $25 (50%)
Bundle: Bit.Trip Beat, Braid, Bunch of Heroes, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Runespell: Overture $10
Current flash deals:
Star Wars: KOTOR $2.50 (75%)
Telltale’s Sam & Max $12.50 (75%)
Ys Origin $8 (60%)
Brink $5 (75%)
And the community choice:
Plants vs Zombies $2.50 (75%)
Skyrim is very dissapointing - they already did a 50% off sale a few months ago. Same with Dead Island - I want to buy the game but not for that much, and they’ve been doing $10 sales a few times.
Orcs must die is awesome and well worth that price.
The Skyrim price is really disappointing. That’s the one I was waiting for and I’m not sure I’ll get it now. I have it for 360, so I’m not really missing out… I just never feel like playing it there.
The funny thing is that even though Skyrim dropped in price today, the Bethesda pack is still the same price. They still even advertise it as “72% off!” even though in their own rundown it’s now only 45% off.
It’s actually Two Worlds II. The “box cover” is designed stupidly and confusingly.
Is anybody familiar with it?I am interested, but I can’t get a good sense from reviews of if it primarily single player or multiplayer. I would get it if it is solid in Single player, but seven fitty outside of my take-a-gamble range.
Yeah, the packs never change, nor do they necesarily have to tie in with any of the games individually on sale.
Other people I talked to seem to think that Skyrim was $40 in an earlier sale, and I’m misremembering it already being $30, so maybe it is a progressive discount. I can’t really blame them since it still sells well but it’s an easy decision to wait for me at that price point.
You are missing out, though, by having it on the 360 - the mod community for Elder Scrolls games is amongst the biggest and most diverse and brings a ton of added value to the game, ignoring the other factors.
I thought it only hit 33% on Steam but I bought it during a flash-style sale from GMG for 50% back in February. I didn’t think it’d go cheaper than 50% this time around and all those people who were expecting 75% would be disappointed.
Someone on the CAG Forums gave his brief impressions of Two Worlds here. Note that for $9.99 you can get the version with the DLC bundled. By his description it sounds about in league with Divinity II which was entertaining enough for the $5.99 I spent on it but nothing you’d run out and recommend to all your friends.
Skyrim is probably as cheap as it’s going to get for a while. It’s been able to defy expected price drops like no other game. Because it’s very, very good.
I like Tropico 4, but be warned that it’s pretty much just Tropico 3 with its expansion pack and another expansion pack’s worth of stuff added (well, and a different campaign). It looks like you can get the Modern Times expansion for five dollars; if you already have and like Tropico 4, then Modern Times is well worth it at that price. The other DLC (also on sale) can either be useless or handy, depending on your play style. The quick-dry cement factory can be handy in your first few years, but not so much later. The bunker is okay, but the description is incorrect (it houses 4 or 6 soldiers, who do need generals). Plantations are nice in the base game, but will effectively go obsolete almost immediately in any Modern Times mission. Each mini-DLC also comes with its own mission; each is pretty fun, and even sillier than normal for Tropico 4.
It’s a single-player semi-open-world first-person fantasy RPG. I say semi-open-world because the quest/story corrals you into appropriate areas as you go. The graphics and sound design are pretty good, not amazing, the game mechanics (combat, leveling, gearing) is pretty standard. In all, fairly mediocre or slightly above-average for the genre. Not terrible. I used it as a filler while I was waiting for Skyrim to release. I think there’s multiplayer deathmatch? Not sure if I’m remembering right. The ending is awful. 40 hours leveling, gearing, and tweaking my build to a playstyle I wanted and the final boss fight is fucking vehicle based.
Welp, I hadn’t bought anything the first few days, but I don’t own any of the Indie Bundle games except for Braid and they all look good (I understand Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is worth $10 on its own), Orcs Must Die has gotten good reviews even if I’m not big on tower defense, and the Sam & Max flash deal looks like it’s pretty good. There goes some cash.
If you’re looking for a true survival horror game, you’re going to be disappointed. The game is a pretty standard first person RPG in a zombie setting. You go around doing missions for NPCs, killing zombies and level up.
The game is melee heavy and you get to build all kinds of outlandish weapons like electrified pickaxes and flaming baseball bats. The combat, of which there is a lot, is visceral and fun. It isn’t a true open world game, but the levels are big and there’s much to explore.
The plot is a big ball of stupid, but doesn’t really get in the way. The missions are pretty dull for the most part; go there to retrieve that so you can go get something else from some other guy somewhere else.
It’s a pretty enjoyable zombie smasher RPG if you have a friend to play the campaign in co-op. The game loses a lot if you play it solo IMO. I played the entire campaign with a friend and we had a lot of fun.
Skyrim for $30…dammit. I’ve got $32 left in my brother’s birthday gift. I’m thinking soon I’ll have $2 left, because from what I hear, I’ll get more joy out of $30 worth of Skyrim than out of six other games at $5 each.
Until you have to blow $20 more on Dawnguard… get it if you like the genre/TES. I’ve got to lay off on buying ones that “look cool,” even if they are all <$3.
I flippin’ love the genre, and I loved Oblivion except found it fatally flawed (and by the time I’d spent hours patching it with various mods, I’d kind of lost interest). I hear Skyrim fixes the problems I had with Oblivion, so I’ve been wanting to play it since it came out, and I was hoping it would go on a ridiculous steam sale. Looks like it won’t, but I suppose half-off is pretty good.
I didn’t like parts of Oblivion because it was basically dumbed down Morrowind. Skyrim is still simpler than Morrowind, but much more refined. I asked because I know some people don’t like TES, but for you I don’t see how you couldn’t like it then.
I still can’t get Fallout 3(game of the year) for less than 11.99 or whatever their current sale is. Dude, they real way to move this product is $5, easily.