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[JaseC]

No settlers

Yeah, I bought them earlier. Side-note: Rise of an Empire vanilla is actually still available on Steam as part of the Settlers Pack. If your goal is to pick up all the games (sans Paths to a Kingdom vanilla, which actually is no longer available, even though Ubi still sells DLC for it), you want the aforementioned pack in addition to Paths to a Kingdom Deluxe Gold.

 

[Aaron]

Good day everyone!

Thanks for the Nippon!

 

[Zafir]

I've never really thought about it much before, but what happens if you go on holiday and use your steam account to purchase goods. Does that mark red flags like using a VPN/Proxy?

 

[legacyzero]

I just bought Assassins Creed IV.... I don't even really like Assassins Creed games....

What have I done...

I should avoid ACIII like the plague, right?

 

[Tizoc]

But I don't want to play a Thief game where I don't have 3 different keyboard keys that give 5 different speeds for forward movement ;_;

OK I'll save it for Yaiba and Killer is Dead.

Thanks for the Nippon!

Please do let us know how it wows you!

 

[JaseC]

I just bought Assassins Creed IV.... I don't even really like Assassins Creed games....

What have I done...

I should avoid ACIII like the plague, right?

AC3's biggest flaw is its setting. Colonial America just isn't aesthetically or architecturally interesting.

 

[maquiladora]

Is ACIII worth the 5 bucks? I really enjoyed IV.

 

[NG28]

Brah-hood.

brotherhood

Thanks, Brotherhood it is!

 

[Stallion Free]

Revelations or Brotherhood?

Revelations would make very little sense without Brotherhood.

 

[Milamber]

Aww yeah...

 

[Stallion Free]

AC3's biggest flaw is its setting. Colonial America just isn't aesthetically or architecturally interesting.

People also really struggled relating to the actual protagonist.

 

[JaseC]

I can buy the AC2 Deluxe upgrade even though I own the DDE. I love you, Ubi... sometimes.

 

[Grief.exe]

Aww yeah...

Awesome setup Milamber

 

[Dimitri2401]

Aww yeah...

Awesome! I'd kill for that.

 

[Turfster]

Is ACIII worth the 5 bucks? I really enjoyed IV.

No.

 

[Milamber]

Awesome setup Milamber

Awesome! I'd kill for that.

Thanks, I was gonna go for a joke set up but decided to use my real one.

 

[Deadbeat]

Hey look brothers in arms is still not a daily. Thanks ubi!

 

[ashecitism]

lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZ0W46ibLU

 

[Kuroyume]

There's one more day for the sale right? So a shot for the POP series to get a discount or not?

 

[Tellaerin]

[random braindump redacted]

 

[Bboy AJ]

Went ahead and bought a 360 wireless receiver since DS4 is not flawless. I had it working with Bluetooth but for some reason, it isn't working anymore. And Dark Souls just doesn't seem to work, no matter how many solutions I've tried. $20 for the wireless receiver it is. I'll miss the touchpad.

 

[Sajjaja]

Is ACIII worth the 5 bucks? I really enjoyed IV.

It's kind of stale, but it's worth 5 bucks. The ship battles are great.

 

[FloatOn]

I take it back. New Vegas is good again. Some of the best writing ever. Now if the combat were just a bit better this would be the game of forever.

 

[Milamber]

It's kind of stale, but it's worth 5 bucks. The ship battles are great.

Where is it $5?

 

[Stallion Free]

Hey look brothers in arms is still not a daily. Thanks ubi!

With 4 days or so of daily deals there was no way a franchise that dead would ever make the cut.

 

[Tellaerin]

I take it back. New Vegas is good again. Some of the best writing ever. Now if the combat were just a bit better this would be the game of forever.

There should be mods for that, no?

 

[JaseC]

With 4 days or so of daily deals there was no way a franchise that dead would ever make the cut.

Yeah, Ubi would need to expand to a week-long sale for anything outside of M&M/Anno, Far Cry, AssCreed and the Tom Clancy-based stuff to be featured.

 

[Nabs]

lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZ0W46ibLU

"I am not going down like this"

So good.

 

[FloatOn]

There should be mods for that, no?

Maybe? I really don't have time to set that up though. I get that some concessions have to be made for the combat to work with vats, but when outside of vats I could only hope for the guns to feel as good as they are in metro last light. That's my hope for fallout 4.

 

[zeroOman]

Indeed even Jesus wants to.

damn u now I have to watched.....

 

[Benedict]

I have all of the Assassins creed games on PS3 and the last one on PS4, never really played the ones on PS3, but still tempted on this offer....

 

[Tellaerin]

Maybe? I really don't have time to set that up though. I get that some concessions have to be made for the combat to work with vats, but when outside of vats I could only hope for the guns to feel as good as they are in metro last light. That's my hope for fallout 4.

Installing FO3/NV mods is pretty painless if you use a mod manager like Nexus Mod Manager (NMM). I'd point you at a good combat mod myself, but I haven't really gone looking for any, though I know they're out there. (There are an insane number of mods for the Beth Fallouts.) I do seem to remember we had a big Fallout modding thread here at one point, and I imagine that there are people here who could recommend something in that vein. (Though depending on how far along you are, it might be something to look at for a future playthrough, if you do one.)

 

[JaseC]

I have all of the Assassins creed games on PS3 and the last one on PS4, never really played the ones on PS3, but still tempted on this offer....

AssCreed 2 aside (Ubi never patched the buggered LOD system), the PC versions look amazing and are a noticeable step up from the console versions. This is particularly true of 3 and 4, although optimisation leaves little to be desired in both.

 

[DocSeuss]

So, JaseC, when you gonna set up a guide for 'how to get all the games that aren't on Steam and what they are?'

I'm still not entirely sure what you were doing re: Settlers VII.

Also, it's infuriating seeing Settlers: Rise of an Empire on the store, but only Gold is available.

 

[natertots]

Liberation is a boring repetive game. Stay away from it.

That was my main concern. Thanks for saving me 15 dollars. Might pick up 2 and brotherhood instead.

 

[JaseC]

So, JaseC, when you gonna set up a guide for 'how to get all the games that aren't on Steam and what they are?'

When I have time. Away from GAF.

I'm still not entirely sure what you were doing re: Settlers VII.

Basically, I misread the app id that the Settlers 7 DLC requires. I thought it needed 48210, which is Paths to a Kingdom Gold Deluxe, but it actually requires 48120, which is Paths to a Kingdom vanilla and the game I've begged Ubi for as it's no longer available; consequently the DLC Complete Pack is sitting in my inventory in a useless state.

Edit: Err, wrong image. Fixed.

 

[fantomena]

That was my main concern. Thanks for saving me 15 dollars. Might pick up 2 and brotherhood instead.

It's worth 5$ and less, but nothing more.

 

[NingenJanai]

I just bought a PS4. There was a nice offer I couldn't resist.

I'm officially broke for a couple months, no more steam games for me for a while.

 

[Maxwood]

Hmmm, Black Flag is still a bit too expensive. I wished for a bigger discount. Too bad.
Never really got into the Assassin's series but after spending some quality time with Liberation i've grown really interested. Played a bit from the original before but other games, you know.

I don't like the way they handled the "nothing's true, everythings permitted" stuff, too be honest. (kinda spoilers? Current day

Spoiler

From what i've seen and heard that is. Also kinda suprised there's no contreversy surrounding the series with the whole "this magic apple made all wonders from every religion possible" stuff.

Curious though, which game has the least or none of that weird precursor stuff?

 

[Anteater]

just finished dust, pretty cool game, it could be better but people shouldn't dismiss it over the artstyle it has, not to mention the overall animations and cutscenes were really cool and better than some "AAA" games.

now on to guacamelee!

 

[JaseC]

I just bought a PS4. There was a nice offer I couldn't resist.

I'm officially broke for a couple months, no more steam games for me for a while.

I'm considering buying one myself. My Uni books are only going to cost me ~$250 this semester, which is going to leave me with around $750 to play with. Some of that will go towards buying 60-odd casual games on Steam that haven't been discounted in yonks, so I could put the remaining ~$600 towards a PS4...

...or I could finally slap together a cheap NAS system, which is something I've been meaning to do for about a year now...

...or I could just put it towards my Summer Sale fund. Decisions, decisions!

 

[DocSeuss]

One of my tags right now is "Uplay."

Another is City-builder, so it's all good, I guess? Steam seems to change it based on just the most recent games you've played, rather than the games you've played the most, so it changes more or less daily. The only City Builder I've played recently is Anno 2070.

When I have time. Away from GAF.

So... never.

Basically, I misread the app id that the Settlers 7 DLC requires. I thought it needed 48210, which is Paths to a Kingdom Gold Deluxe, but it actually requires 48120, which is Paths to a Kingdom vanilla and the game I've begged Ubi for as it's no longer available; consequently the DLC Complete Pack is sitting in my inventory in a useless state.

Edit: Err, wrong image. Fixed.

Ah, I own the gold edition, so I'm guessing it's all good. Eventually, I'll pick up that other version.

Was going to grab the other two (still frustrated that the previous Anno games never got patched and were removed from Steam), but noticed that they'd been on better sales before, so I can wait.

 

[fantomena]

Is AC3 Season Pass worth 7,5€?

 

[jshackles]

I'm considering buying one myself. My Uni books are only going to cost me ~$250 this semester, which is going to leave me with around $750 to play with. Some of that will go towards buying 60-odd casual games on Steam that haven't been discounted in yonks, so I could put the remaining ~$600 towards a PS4...

...or I could finally slap together a cheap NAS system, which is something I've been meaning to do for about a year now...

...or I could just put it towards my Summer Sale fund. Decisions, decisions!

SABnzbd and no NAS? JaseC what are you doing to yourself?

 

[Anteater]

I'm considering buying one myself. My Uni books are only going to cost me ~$250 this semester, which is going to leave me with around $750 to play with. Some of that will go towards buying 60-odd casual games on Steam that haven't been discounted in yonks, so I could put the remaining ~$600 towards a PS4...

...or I could finally slap together a cheap NAS system, which is something I've been meaning to do for about a year now...

...or I could just put it towards my Summer Sale fund. Decisions, decisions!

$600 is like 600 bundles man

 

[Tellaerin]

I just bought a PS4. There was a nice offer I couldn't resist.

I'm officially broke for a couple months, no more steam games for me for a while.

That's what you say now. But Steam sales are hard to resist... >.>

 

[JaseC]

So... never.

Quite possibly.

(It's a good idea, actually, and one I'll get around to... eventually. If I don't forget. I'm handy like that!)

Was going to grab the other two (still frustrated that the previous Anno games never got patched and were removed from Steam), but noticed that they'd been on better sales before, so I can wait.

Anno 1404 and the Venice expansion will be back soon. 1701 is another matter: curiously, even though Ubi owns both the developer and publisher, the game was published by Aspyr on Steam and is still to this day published by Deep Silver on GamersGate.

SABnzbd and no NAS? JaseC what are you doing to yourself?

Fighting a losing battle against the demon known as Low Free Space. The one free tray remaining in Eleven Hundred is specifically for an SSD.

 

[Ptaaty]

Absolutely loving Kingdom's of Amalur. Just $5 right now on amazon, $10 with DLC, both are steam activated no Origin. it does log in to EA servers though as part of the game.

It has the best combat I have ever played in this type of game. Basically it is like a Fable/Skyrim/DMC/hack and slash adventure RPG hybrid. Well executed game.

Really can't understate what a good varied combat engine adds to this style game.

 

[drizzle]

Is there a NAS host that allows me to run linux things, properly, through an SSH shell? Like DLNA servers, linux distribution sharing applications, http servers, so on and so forth?

I'm tired of hacking shit together.

 

[JaseC]

$600 is like 600 bundles man

You may have a point there.