About 14 hours left in the sale, so do your last minute shopping.
Ended up getting a 4 pack of Verdun and distributing it. If anyone wants to play, contact me. There are bonuses for playing as a squad over time, it’s a very squad/teamwork oriented game in general.
Eldritch is $1.49 for anyone looking for a last minute way to spend money. Fun shooter/stealth game with procedurally generated levels and perma-death. Surprisingly atmospheric for its blocky indie graphics.
Stuff I bought:
Enemy Front
Ghostbusters (I actually owned this but not on Steam so I never remembered it)
Melody’s Escape
BloodGate
Blood & Bacon
ICY
Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Verdun
Kholat
Between Me & The Night
Intake
OddPlanet
Arkshot
Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain
LEGO: Jurassic World + DLC
How to Survive 2
Not all those were from Steam and a few were gifts but I doubt anyone cares about the gritty details of my game acquisitions.
So it’s down to the wire, and according to my self-imposed budget I can make one more large purchase. My choices are either Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain, the new *Doom * or Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition. Any last-moment recommendations?
I don’t know anything about Dying Light.
MGSV: The Phantom Pain is probably my favorite “open world” game, or at least a close second to The Witcher 3, but there’s an extremely obviously cut final act that will never be completed and patched in or released as DLC due to Konami sucking. I don’t think you really have to know a lot about MGS to “get it”, but at least playing Ground Zeroes would probably help. I really liked it, even though I never finished it I immensely enjoyed the time I spent with it.
It’s very different from most “Open World” games, because it doesn’t use the “travel to arbitrary points on the map and do stuff” model. There are primary missions and side mission (the side missions can get a little samey, though), but I had a ton of fun just running to random outposts and abducting dudes to serve in my army for absolutely no reason.
The new Doom is excellent, though my only complaint is that since it’s so easy to generate ammo for your guns, they don’t really have “theme levels”. Every level tends to be a random smattering of every enemy you’ve seen so far, and you pick your favorite gun and blow them up. It gets a bit samey, but is excellent and is probably the best single player FPS in years.
Thanks! Seeing as Witcher 3 is possibly my favorite game of all time (I’m actually just about to start a third run-through just to play Blood and Wine; I don’t *have *to start again from the beginning, but I’m going to anyway because I love it so much), any positive comparison is all I need. The lack of an ending bothers me a bit, but at least I know in advance. MGS:FP its is.
I’ll pick up *Doom *next fall or winter; it’s not as if I’ll finish up my backlog by them.
Didn’t get anything that compares with Jophiel’s list. Didn’t get Thea, on Miller’s advice. That’s OK, it’ll drop anyway.
Did get several inexpensive games with low hardware requirements. There’s an intermittent fault with my video card and I don’t feel like buying a new one right now, so I looked for stuff that will run on anything. Quite a satisfying sale. Plus I bought a friend Dungeons of the Endless and he likes it a lot.
To be clear, I like TPP and Witcher 3 for very different reasons. The Phantom Pain is much more fun to play, and its primary missions are amazing. You can replay them multiply times and take completely different approaches and still do well. Its story is nowhere near the level of The Witcher 3, though. Which is a shame because MGS2 and MGS3 have tons of interesting themes and ideas to explore. Quiet is also far, far more juvenile than the surprisingly decently handled glut of cleavage and prostitutes in The Witcher 3. She’s possibly below “The Witcher 1 turned sex into literal collectible cards” on the “juvenile treatment of female characters” scale.
As I posted earlier, you can get MGS:TPP for about $6 cheaper from Gameplanet and it comes with a free copy of MGS: Ground Zeroes.
Oh, just noticed Speedrunners is under 4 bucks. It’s really, really good.
Sounds a bit like Far Cry 3 and 4 - inane, deeply problematic story balanced by sublime gameplay.
Meant to mention, Steam support actually got back to me on the 3rd in an email. Asked me some tech suggestions with my router and also said to uncheck, then recheck the In-House streaming box in the options on Steam. As soon as I did, the Link found my computer.
Told them it was working, then told them they should put that information in the easy steps to try area, before sending people to support. Would have saved me a day, plus frustration. I did finally update my router firmware, so it wasn’t a complete waste.
Humble Store is having a “DRM Freedom” sale although most titles also come with Steam keys. Nothing stands out as a must-have for cheaper than it was a few days ago but, if you’re suffering from sale withdrawal, take a look.
Tales of Zestiria is $6.79 from Bandi Namco’s store page with coupon code BNE15OFF
Regular price is $49.99