Just noticed Sword of the Stars Complete (and their individual units are on sale) for digital copies... That's the primary thing I was waiting for from the Steam sale with the hope they would run on my laptop (and the price is low enough I think I would be happy with just buying it now and not waiting). I know there are like 6 - 7 demos floating around of it right now, does anyone happen to know what the most recent demo was? I need to try this out before I plunk down the money for it since I won't have access to my gaming pc for a while with my move.
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BolognaSoup
Member
I want to buy Need for Speed HP for $5 but all of the recent 1 star reviews saying the key doesn't work are scaring me off. Should I just wait for a Steam sale? I have not purchased any games off Amazon Download yet as I just built this PC last week.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
That's not an issue, if there is amazon will fix it and really quickly.
TheNamelessOne
Member
I just played an hour and a half of Binary Domain and I must say this game is so much more than I was expecting. Loving the voice acting and found myself with a huge grin on my face when
you meet up with the British and Chinese.
its already been fixed. this happened very early when the deal came out. i bought it friday night and the eky was fine. tony confirmed they fixed the issue friday afternoon
Well, I had to deinstall my second gamepad and it's a common problem with The Run.
You can uncap the framerate, but there is no 60 with vsync option. The game is stuttering from time to time anyway, with locked 30 or unlocked 75...
Also, why is there still no FSAA in this game? I thought they patched it in?
Bought the X-Com pack. Considering I've never played a single game in the series, should I start with the first one or one of the sequels? I'm not sure I'll ever have time to play all of them, so if the sequels are signficantly improved, I might skip the original entirely. And are any of the sequels one of those abominations that shouldn't even have been made?
monocle_wearing_hyrax
Neo Member
theres a lot of great games with great storytelling, nothing wrong witg wanting more from a game.
monocle_wearing_hyrax
Neo Member
Have you played Spec: The Line yet, its a great game about war, it was inspired by Apocalypse Now and Heart Of Darkness.
Turn in-game vsync off and force it through D3DOverrider/RadeonPro/Inspector (no idea what kinda card you hace) if you want 60fps. Or use MSI Afterburner or Inspector to cap the framerate at 60 if that doesn't work. Or combine the two. You have some options.
monocle_wearing_hyrax
Neo Member
Theres actually a lot.
Max Payne 1 & 2
Half Life series
Silent Hill series
Spec Ops:The Line
Bishock
MGS Series
Condemned:Criminal Origins
and many more
Theres a lot of them out there.
MrTeachwell
Member
Thanks Tony I really appreciate your effort in answering this and everyone else's questions, I sometimes wonder if you sleep.
Amazon Video Gamer
Banned
We fixed this issue. Someone forgot to turn our keys on when we got our last batch, this is now fixed.
2-3 hours per night
.Cheers,
Tony
Recently is what I meant and sure some have passable stories. I don't mind a compelling story but it is by far the least important aspect of a videogame, at least where we are at right now. MGS is not a good story.
We can see all the 360 games you've played, and you've played plenty of games that had either no story or a terrible story.
TheNamelessOne
Member
It goes to everyone ITT
Gonna be honest, some of the game pisses me off. The inclusion of quick time events for no reason that add nothing but frustration, because they're pass/fail markers. The maddening boss fights that are either unclear how to "solve" them, the frustrating boss fights where you have to use a specific weapon in order to complete it, or your teammates going "hey, hey dan, hey dan, hey hey, why arent you doing this, hey dan what are you doing" every 5 seconds even though I'm trying but the boss is knocking me on my ass as soon as I get up several times in a row, etc
Other than that I liked the rest of the game. Someone mentioned part of the hard thing to get across in a trailer was how fun it is to play, and I agree. The characters are all awesome, the gunplay sounds awesome and feels awesome. It just is not perfect is all.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
We fixed this issue. Someone forgot to turn our keys on when we got our last batch, this is now fixed.
2-3 hours per night
Cheers,
Tony
Haha, I was going to say that but couldn't remember if it was the exact game so I changed it just in case.
Edit: Since I just remembered, did you hear anything more about nhl 09 still saying currently unavailable?
That's what I said.
...sorry, I'll get off your case. It just baffles me a bit how someone can play video games solely for story when it's by far the weakest aspect of the medium (so far).
Felix Lighter
Member
Why isn't Amazon pre-selling a digital version of Guild Wars 2? I need a deal on that game, man.
Koroviev
Member
Yeah, that's how I feel. At the same time, I appreciate interesting characters and good character design. I'm just not one to follow the overarching plot very closely, instead focusing on certain relationships or the development of individual characters.
Amazon Video Gamer
Banned
They're debating what they want to name my first kid. Once they settle on that, and the plan for what they plan on doing with my soul, we should have the NCSoft catalog up for sale, including GW2 pre-orders, once those decisions are made.
Cheers,
Tony
Felix Lighter
Member
Sounds reasonable. ETA?
Amazon Video Gamer
Banned
I've been hearing "next week" for a month now so it literally should be any week now.
Cheers,
Tony
Xplatformer
Member
Just to add incentive to purchase. There is a Binary Domain multiplayer group growing on Steam. If you don't think an 8-10 hour single player experience is enough to invest $8 in the title, maybe it's multiplayer component will give you more value.
TheNamelessOne
Member
I couldn't either, but it works ingame.
TheApatheticOne
Member
Well, beat the first part of NFS: The Run. I really like it! Not as much as Hot Pursuit, but its a looking, and racing with traffic, and perfectly weaving in and out feels really good!
Id say its worth $10. The story, as discussed, is silly, but for my taste, I couldn't care less.
Id say its worth $10. The story, as discussed, is silly, but for my taste, I couldn't care less.
In my case, playing a game for the mechanics alone is just too boring. I play these games if the mechanics are good enough, of course (e.g., Chime), but there typically just isn't enough there to keep my interest engaged for long. But good mechanics paired with engaging narratives are golden for me - I can play such games for hours at a time (e.g., the Uncharted games, the Mass Effect games (even 3 was worth it, up until the last 10 minutes)). I'll take a game with a good story and adequate gameplay over a game with no story and excellent gameplay any day.
Played some more Binary Domain after remapping some keys, it feels better, though I still have some annoyances. Hopefully they'll go away with more playtime as I get used to the game.
The encounter with the rest of the squad was fun and
is going to be a fixed member of my party, I think.
The encounter with the rest of the squad was fun and
Faye
It's a GFWL key, not an Origin one. You have to call EA and apparently they'll add it that way.
try again, you'll find someone helpful if you're persistent.
Elginer
Member
I thought their Origin chat would work, apparently not.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Tony where are the new deals? You promised!
Except you didn't but who cares about the details.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Nope. It's useless. Call them, trust me. It took about 10 minutes and I got it added no problem.
EDIT: Woops, double post.
Amazon Video Gamer
Banned
Yeah I wish I could directly help with this, it sounds like the best solution our customers have come up with is to call Origin support. Sorry man, if our CS reps had the power to help we'd have them do so
.Lol, working on it, didn't get any calls back today, indicating people are still out from the 4th...or tired of hearing from me.
Will update as soon as I have info.
Cheers,
Tony
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I think it's past the time they would be open anyways.
To be honest, it's more Amazon's fault than Origin's. Origin's live chat support is indeed shitty, but Amazon should make this more transparent.
They registered my game on Origin and I still had to do that GFWL shite.
Edit: I did it thru chat.
lol wut?
it's amazon's fault that EA's CS is shit and they don't care about making a standard procedure to make all games work flawlessly with their client? I mean it's not third party games, you'd think at least first party and games published by them shouldn't have this kind of problems.
IcyRhythms
Member
Still nothing on Sniper Elite V2
Fantastical
Death Prophet
EA never said this game would register with Origin. People are just thinking it will because the others do. This is a GFW game and you get a GFW code. You can download it and play it fine without registering it with Origin. EA is actually kind of going out of their way to give you an Origin code for a game that existed before Origin did and probably has other deals with Microsoft since it's GFW.
There is no obligation for EA to let you register this game with Origin. The game exists on Origin, and yes it is published by EA, but you're just making the assumption that EA = Origin even though that's not really the case with games that existed before Origin.
I was very happy that I got the game working on Origin after a lackluster CS moment with the live chat, but a great with the phone call. I think it's up to Amazon to clearly list out what games register with what services.
Elginer
Member
I blame EA in all of this crap. Why the hell are you going to be pushing Origin and then some games you decide to use GFWL and then not others. Talk about mixed messaging. Make all of your games through your damn client and be done with it.
Here is your answer:
Origin is EA's platform/client if their own games won't work with it... well..............
Amazon Video Gamer
Banned
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EnbWfOyvL._AA300_.jpg
Games for Windows Live is pretty clearly labeled on the box shot, which is the only image on the page.
Are you saying that you think, for every product, we should denote what services it does not activate on?
So in, this case, we would have a note on the page that reads:
Note: This game requires Games for Windows Live activation but does not activate on Origin, Steam, Desura, Impulse, or Gamefly.
and that, for every product that does not activate on one of these services we should indicate so on page?
That doesn't seem reasonable.
Cheers,
Tony
There's no way you should be blaming Amazon. They don't claim anywhere that this game should register on Origin; they only say (correctly) that the game will be stored and available in your Amazon games library.
I wouldn't say EA is misleading customers either but I have to admit they're not doing a great work making it clear which titles activate on Origin and which don't. And the performance of their customer service is inconsistent as fuck.