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[fantomena]

Also is The Fall worth 3$

Where?

 

[Deques]

Where?

Amazon

 

[Dice]

So I picked up Sherlock and Jurassic Park in the Amazon sale. Now with Arkham Origins I'm debating whether or not to get the season pass or wait till the summer sale. On the one hand, I don't give a shit about the skins, and would rather just get Initiation, Cold, Cold Heart, and the Black Mask challenge pack at maybe 75% this summer. On the other hand, the DLC might never be on sale again, and they could release a GOTY edition and delete the DLC packs like they did before...

 

[arts&crafts]

Amazon

This a few other good deals as well. Like Batman, Metro and Dead Island packs, too bad I have most games that are on sale. http://www.amazon.com/b?node=7266959011&tag=childsplaycha-20

 

[The_Super_Inframan]

Defense Grid 2 getting a stealth release?

I can't check the store (at work), but SteamDB says released. As much as I want that game too, I can't handle it at the same time as Van Helsing 2 and Tropico 5.

Probably just the closed alpha/beta that should start around this time...

I backed DG2 and have no Infos about a release date yet

 

[Chance Hale]

Was going to click on that link but then I remembered in the last week along I've bought Dynasty Warriors 8, Wolfenstein, and Drakengard 3 so I should stop. Especially if I want to get Watch Dogs, really want to see more PC footage.

 

[Rhaknar]

is drakengard 3 not releasing on PC? or just not on steam?

 

[Knurek]

is drakengard 3 not releasing on PC? or just not on steam?

cavia is exclusive to consoles, so I'm guessing no PC version.

 

[arts&crafts]

How does this compare to the humble deal in terms of games?
Sonic Pack

I tried to buy the humble one but had a credit card issue

 

[Dusk Golem]

I was going to pass on Always Sometimes Monsters but the Steam comments are just fascinating. Some people's playthroughs are over in minutes, an hour, some people have played 5 hours and haven't reached the "end". A few are saying the game is 10 hours. Am I reading that right? Playing through the game once can take 10 hours? Or is multiple plathroughs trying different choices over 10 hours?

It sounds like the kind of branching narrative game I always wanted. I enjoyed TWD but I never replayed it because it never felt like making new meaningful choices, but rather "Oh, I'll choose that dialogue choice because I chose something different last time"

Still on the fence about this

Eurogamers Review for the game is glowing.

 

[Sini]

Why does Ubisoft keep having big sales on tons of their games but then they leave out Driver San Fransisco or only give it -40%? So random...

Why doesn't Ubi put The Settlers games or World in Conflict on 75% off sale?

 

[arts&crafts]

Why doesn't Ubi put The Settlers games or World in Conflict on 75% off sale?

Why does Ubisoft hinder their sales and make all their games U-play?

 

[Chance Hale]

Took me around 9 hours to get to the end of Always Sometimes Monsters. Too tired to go in any real detail but some "playthroughs" are really short because you can die by making certain choices which pulls up an ending screen. The game does have actual endings with credit roles. Not to imply that the game is trial and error based or lacking real choices, there is some really clever stuff in the game about how your character develops.

 

[Yakkue]

How does this compare to the humble deal in terms of games?
Sonic Pack

I tried to buy the humble one but had a credit card issue

Exactly the same games, just a bit pricier than the humble deal.

 

[Dice]

Why does Ubisoft hinder their sales and make all their games U-play?

I tried to hold out for Steam, but recently cracked and got Blacklist and Far Cry 3 at GamersGate, which makes their more recent reluctance with Driver more frustrating.

 

[arts&crafts]

Exactly the same games, just a bit pricier than the humble deal.

Dang will wait then, stupid credit cards...

 

[Turfster]

Shadowrun online early access, 40% off.

 

[Stallion Free]

Oh man, Lego Movie Game on sale?!

 

[More_Badass]

Took me around 9 hours to get to the end of Always Sometimes Monsters. Too tired to go in any real detail but some "playthroughs" are really short because you can die by making certain choices which pulls up an ending screen. The game does have actual endings with credit roles. Not to imply that the game is trial and error based or lacking real choices, there is some really clever stuff in the game about how your character develops.

That's pretty impressive. From previews, I was expecting like a short 2-3 hour experience that would be highly replayable, but I certainly didn't expect playthroughs to be that long (this is a good thing).

Can you say in a non-spoiler way, how varied the playthroughs can be? Like it kind of the same basic general path every time, but you can affect the situations, or could playthroughs branch off in completely different ways compared to others?

 

[Knurek]

Oh man, Lego Movie Game on sale?!

Wonder how many new LEGO games we will get now that LEGO the Hobbit 'underperformed significantly'.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

Wonder how many new LEGO games we will get now that LEGO the Hobbit 'underperformed significantly'.

did you see the last NPD?

 

[Kiru]

Another chance to get a Magicka Wizard Wars Key for FREE

 

[JaseC]

Wonder how many new LEGO games we will get now that LEGO the Hobbit 'underperformed significantly'.

Just one.

Lego Pirates!

 

[Stallion Free]

Wonder how many new LEGO games we will get now that LEGO the Hobbit 'underperformed significantly'.

The games probably cost like nothing to make. Hobbit got the majority of it's assets from Lego LOTR.

 

[Knurek]

did you see the last NPD?

Aquamarine posted this in the NPD thread. <150k sales despite being in top 10.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

Aquamarine posted this in the NPD thread. <150k sales despite being in top 10.

1/3 of the top 10 games were lego games for last month. Like stallion said, these games aren't very costly to make and in a post-Lego-Movie world I'm pretty sure they're going to either keep selling or sell even more. That's theyre regularly going for $5 on PC isn't a sign that they aren't selling well so much as they're probably not selling gangbusters on PC.

 

[aku:jiki]

Man, I hate ditching a game at the very end of it, but I can't deal with the last shitty achievement in Risk of Rain. Got all the characters, did all their challenges, got almost the entire item log (I've killed like 8 billion magma wurms and never once seen its unique drop!) and unlocked all the artifacts. Doing the all artifact run to unlock the final one was a good bit of last challenge.

Really hate closing the book with a chapter left in it, but the last one is "drown 20 whorls". Play over and over until I not only get the underwater level, but get there with an adequate level of power but not too much so I can knock them back without killing them, get lucky in that it has active spawns AND that I don't get there too late so the Whorls don't spawn anymore. I mean, at that point, why not just put a slot machine on the main menu and have me pull that for five straight hours? It'd save me time at least.

Oh well, great game even if I wasn't enamored with every aspect of it and found parts of it disappointing. Well worth the 30 hour completion! Now I want to buy Nuclear Throne...

 

[jshackles]

Despite it's apparently bad sales, I really enjoyed Lego The Hobbit.

I played it for 32 hours and got to 100%. I'm happy with what I paid for it, even though I paid more than $15.

 

[Dice]

Man, I hate ditching a game at the very end of it, but I can't deal with the last shitty achievement in Risk of Rain.

I dropped Psychonauts halfway through the meat circus and just watched the rest on youtube. I regret nothing! I hate challenges like that and the one you describe, where there is some drawn out multi-part thing with chance timing and stupid AI in the mix before even getting to the part you want another shot at. It is bad game design and I don't play games for pure chores.

 

[Tizoc]

Russiabucks my friend, Russiabucks. You can already get it for cheaper than that

Hmm I should try Steam trading again then...
I can find offers for Divinity Dragon Commander for like 3 TF2 keys, but that'd mean the game would be for like under $9ish, and I'm a bit suspect about that lol.

 

[Zafir]

Hmm I should try Steam trading again then...
I can find offers for Divinity Dragon Commander for like 3 TF2 keys, but that'd mean the game would be for like under $9ish, and I'm a bit suspect about that lol.

It's because it was on sale recently. As long as you use Steams trade system you're covered if it gets revoked.

 

[_hekk05]

I'm playing War of the Human Tanks for the Playfire rewards, and man do these poor girls not have rights. The poor herald's life consisted of her delivering a message of maybe 2 sentences, then she exploded.

 

[didamangi]

I dropped Psychonauts halfway through the meat circus and just watched the rest on youtube. I regret nothing! I hate challenges like that and the one you describe, where there is some drawn out multi-part thing with chance timing and stupid AI in the mix before even getting to the part you want another shot at. It is bad game design and I don't play games for pure chores.

Just finished Psychonauts recently as well, the meat circus was patched to be easier than it was before believe it or not.

I'm playing War of the Human Tanks for the Playfire rewards, and man do these poor girls not have rights. The poor herald's life consisted of her delivering a message of maybe 2 sentences, then she exploded.

Easy and fast GMG credits that. I just hold ctrl through the entire talking parts.

 

[Stallion Free]

Lego Movie is pretty sweet at 4K. Thanks Durante!

 

[MUnited83]

Hmm I should try Steam trading again then...
I can find offers for Divinity Dragon Commander for like 3 TF2 keys, but that'd mean the game would be for like under $9ish, and I'm a bit suspect about that lol.

Was on sale recently, and many people stocked up on copies from 4-packs. I got my copy for like 5$

 

[corrosivefrost]

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[MMBosstones86]

And exploding junction boxes everywhere. Hacking pipes that destroy a whole street etc etc.

And bars to fill... lots of bars.

My Body is read

Spoiler

for a sale

 

[phantomspiker]

I dropped Psychonauts halfway through the meat circus and just watched the rest on youtube. I regret nothing! I hate challenges like that and the one you describe, where there is some drawn out multi-part thing with chance timing and stupid AI in the mix before even getting to the part you want another shot at. It is bad game design and I don't play games for pure chores.

There'a difficulty spike at the end for sure...I wouldn't call it bad design though. That place never really gave me any problems, and that was before the balance patch.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

I was going to pass on Always Sometimes Monsters but the Steam comments are just fascinating. Some people's playthroughs are over in minutes, an hour, some people have played 5 hours and haven't reached the "end". A few are saying the game is 10 hours. Am I reading that right? Playing through the game once can take 10 hours? Or is multiple plathroughs trying different choices over 10 hours?

It sounds like the kind of branching narrative game I always wanted. I enjoyed TWD but I never replayed it because it never felt like making new meaningful choices, but rather "Oh, I'll choose that dialogue choice because I chose something different last time"

Still on the fence about this

I'm still on my first play through, currently on day 7 of 30 and I'm two hours into the game. I'm not sure how meaningful the choices are, but I'll probably end up doing another play through soon after I finish my first, picking different choices.

I think it's the real Batman/Bruce Wayne. The one we're playing is going to turned out to be a robot controlled by that ventriloquist dude.

By far the best guess I've seen yet.

 

[HoosTrax]

Maybe not such a good idea to give a game a name that invokes a genre associated with mobile endless runner games.

 

[JaseC]

Maybe not such a good idea to give a game a name that invokes a genre associated with mobile endless runner games.

I'm waiting for the inevitable Runner Simulator.

 

[nexen]

Tried that streaming thing last night. Was shocked to find it played non-steam games just fine. My wireless network is apparently shit though. Anytime there were too many deltas in the frame it would stutter. My buddy had no such issues so I blame my gear right now.
I did have an issue where it was leaving zombie copies of the games running on the remote machine. Came downstairs this morning to find my box was still running three different games.
Still, if they work out the kinks I don't think I'll have to upgrade my laptop ever again and that is going to save me a ton of money.

 

[Stumpokapow]

It benefits immensely from co-op.

It also benefits immensely from UPlay.

Said no one ever.

Kaptain Brawe 2 kickstarter page

If funded, story will be made by Steve Ince (Monkey Island, Beneath a Steel Sky).

Btw, how good is the first one?

Kaptain Brawe is actually an enjoyable, good looking little game. It's a humorous goofy adventure game that feels closest to the LucasArts adventure games, although the writing and puzzles aren't as good. I stopped about 80% of the way through the game. I'd definitely buy a second instalment at some point. Very generous GAFfer Of All Trades gifted me the game several years ago, which I'm very grateful for.

Blade Kitten... isn't very good. The controls are unresponsive, the enemies random and the levels seem to stretch on for hours.

Completely agreed on all fronts. I played the 360 demo, which only has one level, and it lasted what felt like an hour. Enormous, endless, mostly repetitive and samey level segments. Ugh. I think their target audience was the kind of person that plays Bubsy 3D's first level ten thousand times or something.

Oh well, great game even if I wasn't enamored with every aspect of it and found parts of it disappointing.

This sounds remarkably like my summary of Rogue Legacy. I liked the game and recommend it, but every time I post about it it's to point out that I think the game is mostly a shallow low-skill grind masquerading as a skillful, deep game.

I dropped Psychonauts halfway through the meat circus and just watched the rest on youtube.

I played Psychonauts for the first time in 2010 or 2011, on PC, after the Steamworks patch for the game... and I died I think once in Meat Circus. Not only did I not find it hard, I was downright shocked to see that other people found it hard. I don't even know which segments people actually find hard. I read that originally there were no checkpoints, but I still don't quite get what the actual challenge was that people found with it. Like, why is it considered hard?

 

[JaseC]

Tried that streaming thing last night. Was shocked to find it played non-steam games just fine. My wireless network is apparently shit though. Anytime there were too many deltas in the frame it would stutter. My buddy had no such issues so I blame my gear right now.
I did have an issue where it was leaving zombie copies of the games running on the remote machine. Came downstairs this morning to find my box was still running three different games.
Still, if they work out the kinks I don't think I'll have to upgrade my laptop ever again and that is going to save me a ton of money.

Yeah, I didn't have much luck with streaming over wireless, but I was expecting as much. At some point I'll purchase an Ethernet over Power kit.

 

[Copons]

It just occurred to me that in less than 4 hours we're going to be twice as flabbergasted by both the new astounding Humble Daily Bundle and the new overwhelmingly cool Humble Weekly Bundle!

Yours truly,
The Humble Shill

Spoiler

I'm deeply sorry, but today in the office everything is boring as shit.

 

[Volimar]

It just occurred to me that in less than 4 hours we're going to be twice as flabbergasted by both the new astounding Humble Daily Bundle and the new overwhelmingly cool Humble Weekly Bundle!

Yours truly,
The Humble Shill

Spoiler

I'm deeply sorry, but today in the office everything is boring as shit.

 

[Cth]

Thanks corrosivefrost for Sweezy Gunner! Looks like a lot of fun!

 

[Vlad]

Man, I hate ditching a game at the very end of it, but I can't deal with the last shitty achievement in Risk of Rain. Got all the characters, did all their challenges, got almost the entire item log (I've killed like 8 billion magma wurms and never once seen its unique drop!) and unlocked all the artifacts. Doing the all artifact run to unlock the final one was a good bit of last challenge.

Really hate closing the book with a chapter left in it, but the last one is "drown 20 whorls". Play over and over until I not only get the underwater level, but get there with an adequate level of power but not too much so I can knock them back without killing them, get lucky in that it has active spawns AND that I don't get there too late so the Whorls don't spawn anymore. I mean, at that point, why not just put a slot machine on the main menu and have me pull that for five straight hours? It'd save me time at least.

Wow, I did not expect that achievement to be the one you're having trouble with. You ARE using the Enforcer to try it, right? Even though it's not one of his achievements, he's by far the best option to do it with. Just hang out on the bottom of the level and use the shield bash to knock a bunch of whorls into the pits. Sure, sometimes it sucks to not get the underwater level, but when I was trying for that one, I can't remember ever being powerful enough to kill a whorl in a single shield bash.

 

[Gangxxter]

Concerning Wolfenstein TNO Uncut:

Are you kidding me Bethesda? Now they have added Switzerland to the "ReleaseStateOverrideCountries" list but Austria is still missing from that list! That means Wolfenstein TNO uncut is still in "preloadonly" state in Austria although it would be perfectly legal to release it here.

Well there goes my hopes that Wolfenstein TNO uncut will be officially released in Austria. Now that they have added Switzerland to the list of countries where the game is released, I highly doubt they'll edit it again to include Austria too.

 

[Stallion Free]

It also benefits immensely from UPlay.

Said no one ever.

Lol it actually has a glitch where you have to delete your friend from your Uplay list and add them in game other wise they won't show up.