Will look out for it on the next Steam sale then :3
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Will look out for it on the next Steam sale then :3
I play it just fine on my rig. There's the texture pop-in, but that's probably due to my underpowered GPU (5670 1GB)
This Autumn & Winter Sale, I'm hoping I could get these titles...
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
D.I.R.T. 2
H.A.W.X
H.A.W.X 2
Deus Ex: GOTY Edition
Fallout 3: GOTY Edition
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Legend of Grimrock
Wrath of the Ninja
Hard Reset
... for around 2.50~5.00 USD each.
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
D.I.R.T. 2
H.A.W.X
H.A.W.X 2
Deus Ex: GOTY Edition
Fallout 3: GOTY Edition
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Legend of Grimrock
Wrath of the Ninja
Hard Reset
... for around 2.50~5.00 USD each.
Will do. I'm in no hurry to play it, to be honest.
$5 each, right? Not even Tony could get all that for five bucks, lol.
Yep, I want them to be around 2.50~5.00 USD each.
Visualante2
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You would think that but I think Company of Heroes 2 didn't meet the 2nd or 3rd "stretch" goals.
That's still a while off though, they tend to ramp up near release if XCOM is an indication.
I assume several will be discounted as part of the Autumn Sale, which should start in ~1.5 weeks.
I don't plan on spending much during the Autumn Sale. The LucasArts' stuff I'm missing (I don't trust Disney to keep the games around), any Capcom Dailies (you can't be sure when they'll go on sale again), and a few indies here and there should do me. The Christmas Sale is just six'ish weeks away, so it'd be wiser to show some restraint and wait on anything I don't immediately want... unless they show up as Daily/Midweek/Weekend Deals during the non-sale interim.
MagicWithEarvin
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Currently installing 21GB of RAGE. What'd you all think of this game?
AngryChinchilla
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I don't know why, but Cities in Motion completely grabbed me by the balls over the last 3 days. I can't really put my finger on why I have found it so addicting, but I wasted 9 hours of my day off today playing it.
jim-jam bongs
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you would be better off downloading 21gb of rick astley
graywolf323
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MagicWithEarvin
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Any other insightful comments about the game, jim-jam bongs?
PepsimanVsJoe
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Finished Old World Blues (Fallout NV expansion) earlier. Absolutely amazing.
Guess I'll do Dead Money next.
Guess I'll do Dead Money next.
Who are you and what have you done to JaseC?
Cover blown!
MagicWithEarvin
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So, just started playing RAGE - got everything maxed out, but can't turn on the Texture Detail option because an pop-up is telling me that I don't have the sufficient cores for it.
i5-3570k/660ti
Game is locked at 60fps and plays smoothly. However, I am not impressed with the textures. There's even some texture pop-in with the Texture Cache option set to Large. Tweaked some settings - looks alright to me.
i5-3570k/660ti
Game is locked at 60fps and plays smoothly. However, I am not impressed with the textures. There's even some texture pop-in with the Texture Cache option set to Large. Tweaked some settings - looks alright to me.
Dog Problems
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Was that TF2 item ever added for Faerie Solitaire?
Glass Rebel
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One of the best shooters this gen.
That isn't really saying much. Astley <3
YianGaruga
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I need to stop buying games anywhere but Amazon. Just bought Space Marine a few days ago for like $5. :/
Jawmuncher
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I'm still wondering how long these good DD deals will last from Amazon.
Since if it's anything like the Video Game Credit they used to offer sooner or later it's going right back to sucking over there.
Since if it's anything like the Video Game Credit they used to offer sooner or later it's going right back to sucking over there.
That's really going against the grain, usually Point Lookout is considered the best by far, and MZ the worst by far. Personally I didn't love any of the DLC, but MZ drove me insane on Very Hard so I lowered the difficulty to Very Easy
I'm loving it so far. Never really gave it a chance outside of the x360 demo but this caught me by surprise. I had to turn the FOV up to 90 though because I was getting headaches.
Stahp
jaundicejuice
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Started replaying New Vegas, began a new game on hardcore. Let's see how far the back-to-back Fallout marathon goes.
I don't see how or why Point Lookout would be considered the best out of all the add-ons. About the only notable thing going for Point Lookout was it took place in a sizable location that actually required a decent amount of exploration. The story, characters, questline, dialogue and rewards were all terrible. Desmond is outright the worst character in Fallout 3, easily. His try-hard dialogue and terrible VO made him immediately unlikable.
That's really going against the grain, usually Point Lookout is considered the best by far, and MZ the worst by far. Personally I didn't love any of the DLC, but MZ drove me insane on Very Hard so I lowered the difficulty to Very Easy
I don't see how or why Point Lookout would be considered the best out of all the add-ons. About the only notable thing going for Point Lookout was it took place in a sizable location that actually required a decent amount of exploration. The story, characters, questline, dialogue and rewards were all terrible. Desmond is outright the worst character in Fallout 3, easily. His try-hard dialogue and terrible VO made him immediately unlikable.
Glass Rebel
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Yeah like I said, I didn't really enjoy any of the DLC. Point Lookout is just the one I've heard being praised the most, precisely because it's the most non-linear.
Rickenslacker
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I played with texture detail turned off anyway, as it started to grate on me that all it seemingly did was add a grainy noise overlay on every texture in the game.
It looks great at times, but I just couldn't shake the feeling that I was in a world full of jpeg artifacts sometimes.
That's precisely what the option does; it's just a sharpen filter, nothing more.
Garou
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You can get better textures: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/ar...-resolution-textures-with-a-few-simple-tweaks
spindoctor
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Despite all it's flaws, it has some of the best FPS combat in any shooter in recent years. The shotgun in this game is a thing of beauty. The game also has some really nice level design and artwork, especially in the latter half. My advice would be to stick to the main missions and avoid the side quests which always send you back to the area you've just cleared.
Why? Are the prices on the winter sale lower than the rest of the sales/dailies?
In many cases, yes, especially in regard to recent titles. I figure if I'm going to be spending a large chunk of cash and there's a bigger sale just around the corner, I might as well wait and have my money go a little further.
spindoctor hit it on the head. Very nice feeling combat. The guns are great. Level design was pretty spot on.
Do we must perform this dance every 6 months, life?
Steam Sales Rules:
1) Only buy games on Daily Deals
2) Wait until the last day of the sale to buy a game you want that wasn't featured on a daily deal.
3) If a deal looks too good to be true, take it. It probably is a mistake. (see rule 4)
4) Secret rule number 4: 75% off is a good enough discount, it'll probably never get more discounted than that. The only scenario where it'll get cheaper is when the regular price drops outside of a sale and then it goes for 75% off again on the next sale.
Special Autumn Sale considerations:
Daily Deal prices might not be repeated on the Winter (Christmas) sale, so rule number 1 still applies. However, it has happened before.
Regular non-daily discounts will likely either be repeated or topped on a daily featured sale in the Winter (Christmas) sale. Since that is only weeks away, rule number 2, "wait until the last day of the sale", actually means "wait until the last day of the xmas sale".
Errors still happen, so if a newish game is listed at 75% off when the sale comes up or the daily deals refresh, you might want to buy it. It's probably a mistake.
Glass Rebel
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Oh fuck, I'm still missing the classic LucasArts adventures. I hope they don't get removed :-/
Pretty good game that unfortunately was one of those shooters that wanted to try and be a RPG at the same time. To be fair to id they worked on this game so damn long that back when they started, that horrible trend was only just beginning.
It has "quests" and by quests I mean things that tell you to go to the next shooting building that you were going to do anyway. It has a couple of nice looking settlements but there's not much to do in them other than buy/sell and go to the races. It has a half assed crafting system too.
It could have been a lot better if they tried to flesh out those RPG elements or take them out altogether and make an even better FPS. But I still really enjoyed myself for most of it.
I need KOTOR 2, several other Star Wars games (enough such that purchasing the pack would be cheaper than buying them individually, assuming they're all discounted by the same factor), Armed and Dangerous, and Thrillville. If Disney does the unthinkable before the Autumn Sale, I'll cry.
Steam redeemable @ Gamersgate (use code G2PO for an additional 5% off):
Darksiders II - $16.98 / $14.93 with IGN discount / $13.58 with IGN discount & code: G2PO
Darksiders II Season Pass - $6.80 / $5.78 with IGN Discount / $5.44 with IGN discount & code: G2PO
Steam redeemable @ Amazon:
Darksiders II - $16.99
Darksiders II Season Pass - $6.79
On Steam itself:
Darksiders II - $17.00 is the midweek madness. DLC not on sale.
Reminder that Borderlands 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown & Chivalry: Medieval Warfare are 35% off with voucher GMG35-5BRU6-ZDRX7 at GMG.
Darksiders II - $16.98 / $14.93 with IGN discount / $13.58 with IGN discount & code: G2PO
Darksiders II Season Pass - $6.80 / $5.78 with IGN Discount / $5.44 with IGN discount & code: G2PO
Steam redeemable @ Amazon:
Darksiders II - $16.99
Darksiders II Season Pass - $6.79
On Steam itself:
Darksiders II - $17.00 is the midweek madness. DLC not on sale.
Reminder that Borderlands 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown & Chivalry: Medieval Warfare are 35% off with voucher GMG35-5BRU6-ZDRX7 at GMG.
That length probably still has you on the 1st world which wasn't so bad.
The next world is when the game reaches joke-level with the amount of fetch quests you'll have to do. And then the last 2 worlds don't even really qualify as worlds since they're so small.
Oh gosh, I'm having a hard time resisting Black Ops II. Why is it that the one Holiday release I want is the only one without any discounts around release? $40 and I would be on that shit.
Dudez, I got it. And I absolutely suck at the game. Totally play togetherz.
Just bought. We'll definitely shoot some bros/zombies together soon. Semblance, if you're out there, you better give us a holler if or when you get on board too.
I suck pretty bad too, which is OK as long as I don't take the game too seriously.
Glass Rebel
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Brehs, does the Darksiders II Season Pass include all the relevant DLC?
jakershaker
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Doesn't the Darksiders 2 Season Pass feel a bit shaky? Will THQ even be around for that time/or be in a position the release anything else?
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