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What are my chances of Batman : Arkham Asylum going for cheap any time soon? £15 is not so shabby but I'm paying 2 MMO subs at the moment so cannot quite justify it. I have no real experience of Steam sales...
It goes on sale pretty frequently. It's an awesome game, but if you're trying to save money, I'd say wait. It should be cheap during the summer sale at the latest.
Hoping for Borderlands to be on the sale. Missed it during the christmas sale and it hasn´t been since then.
By missed it I mean I saw it but didn´t associate the name with the game, since it came out at a time when I didn´t had a gaming PC and wasn´t following the news/releases that closely because I was stuck with a crappy 300kbps connection which meant even surfing the web could become a chore...
well it's more a case of me running a bit out of ammo at the amoeba stage while I had a bucketloads of shells, unused
also what was up with those fascists? Were they nazi nazis orrrr 'converted' russians? because the voice acting didn't help
They were Russian Nazi's. I know it sounds weird but such a thing exists IRL, so no, it's not some kind of huge crazy stretch for Metro 2033 to have them.
So, is any of the Mafia 2 DLC worth buying? Its significantly reduced in price, I already picked up the base game for $7.50.
Up to you, man.
They're both free form, GTA style missions. "Drive to five places in 2 minutes," type stuff.
In Jimmy, only the first and last mission have any story structure.
In Joe, there are 3 or 4 "story missions," and the last one is literally the final mission from Mafia 2, but set at night. It's even the same fucking building level. It made me rage so hard.
Hmm.. doesn't really sound worth the money to me then, especially if it made you rage at how half assed some of it was.
I got them both when they came out. They each took me 5 or 6 hours to play through. For 2.50, if you want to toss another 6 hours onto a 10 hour game, maybe it's worth it.
I kind of regret playing both. I wouldn't have felt burnt buying just one, but I still would've openly admitted how mediocre and far removed from the things I like about mafia that they are.
If you wantto get one, I liked the sandbox missions a little more in Joe's Adventures. They were more arcadey and fun and interesting. But, once again, that final level is absolutely the worst shit.
I was going to pass, but I actually enjoyed the Mafia 2 demo quite a bit, and it ran perfectly. I gave the demo a shot when the game first hit and it was practically unplayable. $7.50 for a 10 hour game sounds pretty nice right about now.
We'll almost certainly get the Bioshocks, the Civs, and Borderlands.
That's probably exactly what this sale will be. If you browse through their library, they don't have much of a showing on steam beyond a couple of classics (see: freedom force) and some outdated sports titles.
FUCK divinity 2's endgame and ending. Holy shit. I'm not sure if I'm underleveled or what, but fuck the whole endgame was dumb.
Now to move on to flames of vengeance. Is it just me or are games that are marketed (50 HOURS TO COMPLETE!!) usually doesn't take 50 hours? Divinity 2 and fallout 3 both got done under 30 hours, and with divinity 2 I was doing all sorts of sidequests, though I think you actually need to do the sidequests to actually be able to beat the main quest, because I cannot see how you get the levels you need otherwise.
Any Bethesda game clocks in at 50 hours when you consider how much brain power you spend looking for mods and looking for mods that jack the difficulty up.
God bless MMM for bringing STALKER monsters into F3 and thank you MR. sniper rifle for letting me run across the wasteland and free the Super Mutant Juggernaught at the slaver's camp on level 1!
Not directly Steam related but it'll probably be added to Steam later (supposedly the first few titles already are)
Expectations are today the new Humble Indie Bundle comes out:
The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle: Video
Bundle includes:
Shadowgrounds
Shadowgrounds Survivor
Trine
Jack Claw
Splot (pre-order)
They're not free, and in regards to the minimum price, you could pay as little as $0.01 if you wanted to. The previous Humble Indie Pack was available for several weeks, if I remember correctly.
They're not free, and in regards to the minimum price, you could pay as little as $0.01 if you wanted to. The previous Humble Indie Pack was available for several weeks, if I remember correctly.
Ahh, cool.
I'd like to pay $10 at least. I'll probably grab it next week sometime.
They're not free, and in regards to the minimum price, you could pay as little as $0.01 if you wanted to. The previous Humble Indie Pack was available for several weeks, if I remember correctly.
First was a week, second at least 10 days I think, not sure how long this'll be
Today's Direct2Drive April deal should be Dirt 2 for 75% off, and Bioshock 2 is actually 75% off Thursday.
So, if timed correctly, Bioshock 2 will be 75% off on Steam on the same day. I wonder how that'll go down for D2D.
Probably not well.
I mean I think D2D is okay and all, but with Steam I open it and get a nice list of all my games, with D2D......I get lousy download links. I own several D2D games and I never play them, mostly because installing them is a hassle compared to Steam.
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So that's kind of odd.
Right now, Shattered Horizon is half off for 12.49
Or you could buy the Frontier Bundle with Shattered Horizon and Lead and Gold for... 12.49?
EDIT: Oh, nevermind, it's just reporting the price weird when you search all specials, Shattered Horizon is currently more expensive by itself.
Today's Direct2Drive April deal should be Dirt 2 for 75% off, and Bioshock 2 is actually 75% off Thursday.
So, if timed correctly, Bioshock 2 will be 75% off on Steam on the same day. I wonder how that'll go down for D2D.
Probably not well.
I mean I think D2D is okay and all, but with Steam I open it and get a nice list of all my games, with D2D......I get lousy download links. I own several D2D games and I never play them, mostly because installing them is a hassle compared to Steam.
Hah. I love Steam as much as the next guy, but honestly, how is manually installing a game to a "Games" folder a "hassle"? Literally the only difference is having to browse and select a folder. Both require you to install a program in order to download your game. Both have good download speeds (1.1Mb/s with D2D). Both have easily accessible stores. Both are kindergarden-ly simple. The only difference is the manual install on D2D's part which had to be done for literally every game you installed before Steam. Easy as pie.
I personally use shortcuts for all my installed games (Steam, D2D, GoG, etc) either on my quick bar or in a folder on my Desktop marked "Games". There's literally no difference between where I buy them except in post purchase patch support.
With that said, the post purchase patching on Steam's part is always enough for me to buy from Steam first in cases where the prices are the same. But the notion of "having to select your installation folder" as a hassle is just a bit extreme.
Edit: The more I read that, the more it comes off as an attack. It really wasn't meant to. I'm just saying any non-Steamworks game is going to require a manual install. And it's really not that hard. We all have horror stories about distributors though. D2D just hasn't fucked me over yet. Hah.
I just finished the campaign for Anomaly: Warzone Earth and it was fantastic. The change things up enough each mission to keep it from being boring. Gets kind of hectic near the end, too. The whole "reverse tower defense" thing is pretty cool. It'd be interesting to see if/how they could implement a multiplayer element.
Hah, you would think it'd be something like that. Or give each person a half of the game area and say whoever damages the center thing the most wins. Any idea I have really just breaks down into being a crappy knock off of a RTS game.
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It goes on sale pretty frequently. It's an awesome game, but if you're trying to save money, I'd say wait. It should be cheap during the summer sale at the latest.
By missed it I mean I saw it but didn´t associate the name with the game, since it came out at a time when I didn´t had a gaming PC and wasn´t following the news/releases that closely because I was stuck with a crappy 300kbps connection which meant even surfing the web could become a chore...
thanks again big isy, it was great stuff indeed
had some trouble with ammo in the later levels because I insisted on keeping the hellsing while I should have gotten a shotgun instead.
hi5! I love that game but its so hardware heavy. I was barely hitting 30 fps. Apparently the shotgun was supposed to be under powered but I liked it.
The shotgun is brutally underpowered still but I think they may have patched it up.
Goddamnit that game is so good.
also what was up with those fascists? Were they nazi nazis orrrr 'converted' russians? because the voice acting didn't help
They were Russian Nazi's. I know it sounds weird but such a thing exists IRL, so no, it's not some kind of huge crazy stretch for Metro 2033 to have them.
edit: a friend of mind spent some time in Ukraine and confirms that there's quite of a bit of Nazi groups roaming about. Heavily ironic, really.
Anyone know what happened?
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Up to you, man.
They're both free form, GTA style missions. "Drive to five places in 2 minutes," type stuff.
In Jimmy, only the first and last mission have any story structure.
In Joe, there are 3 or 4 "story missions," and the last one is literally the final mission from Mafia 2, but set at night. It's even the same fucking building level. It made me rage so hard.
I got them both when they came out. They each took me 5 or 6 hours to play through. For 2.50, if you want to toss another 6 hours onto a 10 hour game, maybe it's worth it.
I kind of regret playing both. I wouldn't have felt burnt buying just one, but I still would've openly admitted how mediocre and far removed from the things I like about mafia that they are.
If you wantto get one, I liked the sandbox missions a little more in Joe's Adventures. They were more arcadey and fun and interesting. But, once again, that final level is absolutely the worst shit.
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What other 2k games are worth picking up though? Civ5? Borderlands?
I'll probably end up getting those two as well.
I'm hoping for Borderlands GOTY, is it possible? After being able play the BulletStorm Demo, I'm willing to give more credit to my laptop.
That's probably exactly what this sale will be. If you browse through their library, they don't have much of a showing on steam beyond a couple of classics (see: freedom force) and some outdated sports titles.
If bioshock goes on sale Ill gladly buy those too. I bought a copy of both for someone else last sale but didn't even realize I don't own em. Whoops!
So here's hoping.
PS, we should play us some Borderlands, gentleman.
FUCK divinity 2's endgame and ending. Holy shit. I'm not sure if I'm underleveled or what, but fuck the whole endgame was dumb.
Now to move on to flames of vengeance. Is it just me or are games that are marketed (50 HOURS TO COMPLETE!!) usually doesn't take 50 hours? Divinity 2 and fallout 3 both got done under 30 hours, and with divinity 2 I was doing all sorts of sidequests, though I think you actually need to do the sidequests to actually be able to beat the main quest, because I cannot see how you get the levels you need otherwise.
God bless MMM for bringing STALKER monsters into F3 and thank you MR. sniper rifle for letting me run across the wasteland and free the Super Mutant Juggernaught at the slaver's camp on level 1!
Expectations are today the new Humble Indie Bundle comes out:
The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle: Video
Bundle includes:
Shadowgrounds
Shadowgrounds Survivor
Trine
Jack Claw
Splot (pre-order)
Free Mass Effect 2 get......
Various DLC that costs as much as a full game....
Going to the soup kitchen for dinner tonight !!
Is there a minimum you have to pay for those? They're not free, right, they cost a few cents?
Damn, I spent a lot of my spending money for the week already. How long do those stay up? I'd like to give a reasonable amount.
They're not free, and in regards to the minimum price, you could pay as little as $0.01 if you wanted to. The previous Humble Indie Pack was available for several weeks, if I remember correctly.
Ahh, cool.
I'd like to pay $10 at least. I'll probably grab it next week sometime.
First was a week, second at least 10 days I think, not sure how long this'll be
So, if timed correctly, Bioshock 2 will be 75% off on Steam on the same day. I wonder how that'll go down for D2D.
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Probably not well.
I mean I think D2D is okay and all, but with Steam I open it and get a nice list of all my games, with D2D......I get lousy download links. I own several D2D games and I never play them, mostly because installing them is a hassle compared to Steam.
Right now, Shattered Horizon is half off for 12.49
Or you could buy the Frontier Bundle with Shattered Horizon and Lead and Gold for... 12.49?
EDIT: Oh, nevermind, it's just reporting the price weird when you search all specials, Shattered Horizon is currently more expensive by itself.
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Hah. I love Steam as much as the next guy, but honestly, how is manually installing a game to a "Games" folder a "hassle"? Literally the only difference is having to browse and select a folder. Both require you to install a program in order to download your game. Both have good download speeds (1.1Mb/s with D2D). Both have easily accessible stores. Both are kindergarden-ly simple. The only difference is the manual install on D2D's part which had to be done for literally every game you installed before Steam. Easy as pie.
I personally use shortcuts for all my installed games (Steam, D2D, GoG, etc) either on my quick bar or in a folder on my Desktop marked "Games". There's literally no difference between where I buy them except in post purchase patch support.
With that said, the post purchase patching on Steam's part is always enough for me to buy from Steam first in cases where the prices are the same. But the notion of "having to select your installation folder" as a hassle is just a bit extreme.
Edit: The more I read that, the more it comes off as an attack. It really wasn't meant to. I'm just saying any non-Steamworks game is going to require a manual install. And it's really not that hard. We all have horror stories about distributors though. D2D just hasn't fucked me over yet. Hah.
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