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How is it an imitation of the first when the stories are nothing alike?
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How is it an imitation of the first when the stories are nothing alike?
hardcastlemccormick
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That's like saying the box art was a different color.
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In the case of the Bioshock games? No not really.
You will only think Bioshock 1 & 2's stories are alike if you've only played 2 for like an hour. I know this because I was one of those people. It's only because you think "Oh this gal is like Andrew Ryan, oh here's this Atlas type guy. EVERYTHING'S THE SAAAAAAAAME."
Also Braid never becomes interesting until the final level. And when you thought you had the story figured out
But then it tries to become to deep and
I'm just really a dumb guy so I hated that take and liked the first one much better.
Also Braid never becomes interesting until the final level. And when you thought you had the story figured out
Oh my God, I'm not saving my girlfriend. My girlfriend is actually going away from me. You've read all of Tim's monologues/letters about him and his girlfriend and how they broke up. And that's how it is! They broke up and she doesn't want to get back to him.
becomes an opinion on nuclear warfare?
Summary of all "art" games that are recommended. Just like Limbo.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
It's only as slow as your brain.
j/k it seems really clever at first, but pretty soon it's like "oooh, I get it... it was hard to see because it wasn't a puzzle so much as it's just a total bitch to perform even when you know what to do so I didn't think to even try such an absurd method..."
what are you insinuating?
The game looks good but the novelty wears off very quikly, the music feels out of place.
The platforming and puzzle sections are nothing special and there's not a unique use of the character's special abilities.
Dice
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Just a gag since it's a puzzle game. It does kinda suck and the story is so throwaway "shitty poetry I wrote about the girl I couldn't show my other shitty poetry to"
shiptoncraig
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Playing it was more fun than the original, but I just couldn't get the low-budget side story thing out of my mind while playing it. I think it depends if you're the sort of person who cares about production values or not.
Quite a while and unfortunately it never loses its pretentious visual style.
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Deleted member 10571
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While I don't like Limbo either, at least it's start is interesting. Braid on the other hand is just annoying.
Most of them, if not all are Steam keys and all of them receive additional 20% discount from GMG20-P4DLK-FKYRS
I'd also give a strong shoutout for Dark Messiah Might and Magic. A really great first person melee based game and what Arkane did before Dishonored (though in many ways I prefer Dark Messiah). With the 20% off you can get it for £2 as well and that's well worth getting for that price even if you end up hating it!
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
You must love math.
I actually do
I get that it's a "brainy" game and that it gets hard very fast but boring? I remember my heart racing at the end of that final level. Brilliant game imho.
What's with all the Braid hate? I admit it's not for everyone, but the puzzles were pretty damn good I thought. And I personally loved the narrative that accompanied the story, even if the whole
at the end was rather far-fetched and unnecessary.
Just beat Thomas Was Alone, which I'd put in the same box as Braid, and I gotta say that I absolutely loved it. Is this one seen as too artsy as well? Kind of curious on the general opinion here.
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Just beat Thomas Was Alone, which I'd put in the same box as Braid, and I gotta say that I absolutely loved it. Is this one seen as too artsy as well? Kind of curious on the general opinion here.
loganclaws
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I'm in canada and I don't see anything on your link. I also can't find Might and Magic Clash of heroes on GMG!
I actually do
I get that it's a "brainy" game and that it gets hard very fast but boring? I remember my heart racing at the end of that final level. Brilliant game imho.
I don't know, when a game has an item that can only be reached by waiting for 2 hours real time for a cloud to move, I think boring is a term that is valid. (I know it's optional, I liked braid but I drew the line at waiting for that damn cloud)
I can't see it from here in Canada but do they have Anno 2070?
Quick Sleeping Dogs questions:
1. It says you're an undercover cop. Can you play the game as a "good" character taking down criminals, as opposed to the GTA style of being on the other side?
2. Do cars often drive in the streets? In the screenshots I would see, the streets typically looked almost completely empty of pedestrians or cars, which seemed kind of strange if you yourself are driving around.
3. Are there any recommendations about which DLC is good, if any? Even with the 75% discount, the main game is $10 and the DLC all together is like $17. :|
Traumahound
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Heh, I was kind of wondering why AMD made TressFX open and compatible on nVidia cards. Clever.
No Anno 2070. I'll list the titles and prices that I can see in the U.K. There's a good chance that the sale just isn't supposed to be visible yet since it rarely shows up on the front page, so I wouldn't get too worried if you can't see the page yet.
Heroes of Might and Magic V - £6.95
Might and Magic Clash of Heroes - £7.99
- I am the Boss DLC - £1.95
Heroes of Might and Magic VI Deluxe - £19.99
Babel Rising - £7.99
-Babel Rising: Sky is the Limit DLC - £2.39
From Dust - £11.99
erm, it maybe seems like the discounts have been removed? Yeah, somethings up, the prices seem to have reverted to their pre-sale state.
scorpscarx
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Sort of.
Yes, tons.
I wouldn't buy any dlc yet, it gets cheaper and it's abundant across the internet.
Pretty sure everyone has this game, if not then you should totally get it.
1. Not really. There are some police missions, but the whole point is the main character's inner struggle about falling to the dark side.
2. There are more cars than in GTA4.
I get some of the complaints about Bioshock 2, yes it was a retread in the sense that you return to Rapture, and I see how some people saw it as 2K simply cashing in on the success of the first game. But couldn't you say all of that about a lot of sequels? Most of them are iterative like that. It may not of had as many memorable locales or set pieces as the first game, but the mechanics were refined and expanded quite a bit and I enjoyed visiting Rapture one more time. It was a good game. A third Rapture-based Bioshock would have been overkill, but I'm glad we got a sequel.
On a different note, I feel like I'm in a tiny minority here, but I found Sleeping Dogs to be a pretty unremarkable game. Not bad by any means, but I do not get the gushing love for it.
Thanks. And yeah not really a time thing. GMG doesn't sell Ubisoft games to North America.
Thank you sir. I'm not really interested in the falling to the dark side thing, nor the violence, and that combined with 30 pieces of DLC probably just means it's not a game for me. =P
bigace33
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I've had the game for quite some time now, and I still ask myself this question. Horribly overrated game in my opinion, but I do respect the hard work that obviously went into it. Hopefully this guys next game will be more interesting.
1. You are mostly undercover, so you just do drug busts and other things in disguise, it's mostly being undercover in the triads and some evidence collecting.
2. Yes cars are everywhere, PC versions has an option to scale how many npcs/cars onscreen I think.
3. Play the game now, get all dlc later at another sale.
3.
Technically you're the good guy in Sleeping Dogs but I must have murdered thousands of civilians throughout the course of the game. Wei is Hong Kong's greatest monster.
Nightmare in North Point and The Zodiac Tournament are the only two content-expanding pieces of DLC, although the latter is nothing more than a small collection of fighting mini-missions not unlike those already in the game.
Yeah Daylights Saving Time happened at 2 in the morning today.
I see. It's in 3 weeks over here, hence the confusion
Am I the only one who didn't like BioShock? I only played like 2 or 3 hours of it, but except for the first 10 minutes, it was a complete drag, with horrible gameplay and shooting mechanics.
Does it get better? Should I force myself to continue? I liked the setting and story, but everything else was just awful.
Does it get better? Should I force myself to continue? I liked the setting and story, but everything else was just awful.
I would love to, but obvious pricing differences (9,99$ in the US Store, 12,49 for me) mixed with the cut version in the German store make a good case against the purchase. Any US Gaffer willing to gift the game to me (I can Paypal immediately)?
chixdiggit
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What an awesome deal on Sleeping Dogs. If my backlog wasn't so big I would play through it again.
Galaxy on Fire 2 Full HD is also a Daily, apparently, at 66% off ($6.80).
Same here.
Me.
It's also saying it can't synchronize with the cloud when I try to start Sonic Generations, which sucks because I'm specifically achievement hunting in it.
eidt: restarting Steam didn't do anything but rebooting the computer fixed the cloud warning I was getting. Store is loading intermittently.
paperspace
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Why did they remove the Steam Rating-titles? I liked them.
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