I already have Fallout 3 GOTY for PS3, but am going to buy for PC just to be able to get to the mods community.
And since I can trade in the PS3 version on Amazon for $10, and buying the PC version today will cost $10, it’s essentially an even trade (as long as I don’t mind messing with the currency lock of the money I get back being an Amazon gift card). I lose playing on my big living room TV, and lose my game saves, but it seems a reasonable price to pay.
+1. I had to play this game in 20 minutes spurts. Any longer and the tension would start to squick me out. I love horror games, and this is arguably the best out of all of them. Truly disturbing on both a visceral and psychological level.
I’m not exaggerating about the psychological part, either. I’m not particularly introspective, but the level featuring real life torture devices actually made me feel ashamed to be human.
I’m with you irt ignoring professional reviewers. Pretty much if there’s a game I want to know about and none of my friends have it I only go by the suggestion of people in the Game Room here or Yahtzee from the Escapist Magazine.
At this point I just assume that “professional reviews” are just false flag advertisements.
Well, I broke down and bought the Empire&Napoleon pack… now I see that N:TW is a 20GB download. At the moment I’m in Brazil, and my max download speed is 120kb/s, with a 10GB limit per month (eep!). I’ll have to wait until I’m in a place with faster internet before I can even download it. Hope it’s good, though.
I should mention that despite all my complaints about Empire, Steam tells me I’ve spent 153 hours playing it…
Wow, Yahtzee? I enjoy watching his videos, mostly for the humour and the critique of what the gaming industry may be doing to gaming, but I’ve often found his “reviews” way off… most notably his review of The Witcher, which gives the impression he played 15 minutes into the first act without paying attention and then went off on a random rant. A lot of his criticisms simply aren’t true.
But yeah, I value the opinions of people here. Otherwise I tend to read user reviews at Metacritic et al, and just hope to find a pattern among reviews that aren’t written by either teens or people that are pushing an agenda.
Maybe it just has to do with the types of games I’m interested in to begin with. Even if he said the Witcher was a great game I probably wouldn’t get it, but when he said “Saints Row II is the best game of the year” I bought it and agreed.
Yeah, that makes sense - Yahtzee’s very clear about what type of gaming he likes, even though he insists on reviewing genres he dislikes or has no patience for. I figure any recommendation from him means it’ll probably be a good game for mindless action-y fun. (I eventually bought Saints Row II as well, and agree it’s entertaining, although I haven’t played it much yet)
Saturday’s deals. This is likely the last day of new deals - the sale continues through tomorrow but typically the last day is an encore for the best sellers
Supreme Commander 2 $3.75 (75%)
The X series, the space sim 4x thing, is 75% or a complete pack for $10
Terraria $2.50 or 4 pack $7.50
Dead Space pack with the first 2 games $20, or $15 for DS2 and $10 for DS1
Prince of Persia franchise 75% off - all games $2.50 or $5, or all 5 for $15
F1 2010 $10 (66%)
Portal 2 $25 (50%) or 2 pack for $45
Duke Nukem Forever $25 (50%)
Sam and Max Complete Pack $12.50 or individual seasons 75% off
Hitman franchise 75% off, $2.50 each
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem $2.50 or 3 pack for $6.25 (75%)
Neverwinter Nights 2 platinum $7 (66%)
Activities for Post Apocalyptic Mayhem, X3: Terran Conflict, Portal 2, Hydrophobia: Prophecy, Nimbus, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, Altitude, Turbo, and the freebie is to post a comment on a friend’s screenshot.
So… let’s see. Terraria is some sort of minecraft related 2d indie game that seems to have sold a billion copies and I don’t know wtf it is, but for $2.50 I’ll go ahead and find out.
I’m going to give Post Apocalyptic Mayhem a try, it’s a twisted metal style combat racing game. It doesn’t have a ton of content but it looks like the sort of thing we could play together, hop on vent, and have fun with a few times, and for $2.50 what else do you need?
Portal 2 for half off kind of explains itself.
Is NWN2 any good? I know people love NWN, but I never heard much about 2.
If you only want one hitman game, blood money is the one to get and it’s only $2.50 alone.
NWN2 is okay - fun if you’re into the genre, but not the excellent must-have with hundreds of mods and modules that the original NWN was.
Terraria is a bunch of fun if you’re into a combination of building, digging, and 2D action-RPG-ing. It’s got a lot of stuff going on and not a ton of useful in-game documentation; if you’re not the type who enjoys just playing with stuff and meandering around, you’ll want to keep the official wiki on your alt-tab.
Ha! Patience paid off! Portal 2’s only $25! In your face, Steam! I saved a whole…um…$8. Which I spent last night on Red Alert 3. Crap.
PAM does look good, but according to this review looking good is all it does. At $2.50 it’s probably still worth it.
Yeah, NWN2 never really grabbed me. It has potential, and maybe it gets better later (I got bored pretty soon), but as far as I played it wasn’t immersive or interesting.
The Sam and Max games are hilarious. I really enjoyed the first three Prince of Persia games (Sands of Time is one of my all-time favourite games), never played the 4th (reboot), and I refuse to buy the last (Forgotten Sands) since it has Ubisoft’s always-on internet DRM.
I’ve never played the X series (though apparently I bought X2 in another sale). Any good?
Glancing through it, it seems like the biggest complaint is the lack of content - but they’ve added 3 cars and a map for free since release so at least they’re working on it. I don’t need to get much fun out of a game for $2.50 and this seems like it’d have enough.
We’re going to give it a try soon so I’ll report back.
Thanks. You just saved me $5.
I’ve heard that there’s no reason to get anything other than X3: Terran Conflict.
Heh. If you’ve played Dragon Age, you’ve played NWN2, only better, faster, stronger. I loaded up NWN2 just recently, and I just couldn’t get over how clunky it felt in comparison. It was fun for me back in the day, though.
But is it any good? I haven’t played with spaceships in a long time, and I miss it.
If no one with actual experience posts, I’m downloading it now and can post some first impressions before the sale is over.
I really liked NWN2 back in the day, it’s one of the few games I’ve played multiple times. dI’ve seen plenty of people call the expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment, and call it about as good. Not sure if it’s fair, but there ya go. I will admit the OC is a little meh, however.
Initial verdict on PAM: The actual multiplayer infrastructure sucks, but the game itself is pretty fun. Worth $2.50, I’d say.
To be more specific, that “infrastructure” in terms of net code and stuff is fine. The stupid thing is that once you set up a game, and pick your cars and track, when that’s done you can only redo that same track with the same cars… there’s no option to mix it up in the lobby, so you have to leave the game, recreate it, and start again. It’s just kind of perplexingly stupid.
But… it’s also fast. It takes about 4 seconds to kill your current lobby and start a new one, another 10 seconds for everyone to join back, and then about 4 seconds from when you press go to when you’re actually racing. So it isn’t really that inconvenient, just poorly designed.
Otherwise it’s pretty fun. There’s not a lot of depth there - it’s not something you’ll be playing for 4 hours straight, or for months on end - but it’s fun to get together for maybe an hour here and there and blow each other up. The cars, tracks, and weapons are pretty fun for the most part. The game modes are kind of weird - you can do a normal race, or you can go for kills, but there’s no mode where both matter which seems like it’d be natural.
You’d get $2.50 worth of fun out of it playing it a few times with other sdmbers while on voice chat though.
X3 is a vast space game where you go from one ship to being able to buy massive carriers and destroyers. It’s jaw dropping the scope of the game. You can build a galactic empire of space stations interconnected factories trade ships scouring the universe to buy and sell for profits. Or you can ignore all of that and just go around and shoot other ships and steal their fighters for fun and profit.
The learning curve however is brutal. You’ll get nowhere until you read a few online guides and have spent about 20 hours in game. Flying is a bit awkward and last I played it there were still tons of bugs to iron out.
There’s also endless mods and tweaks for it. If there’s something in the game you don’t like you can usually find an answer for it on the forums.
It’s hard to rate the game overall. The scope and depth of the game is great and well worth seeing. The learning curve and the clunky menus make it hard to get into.