PSA: Game Discounts

[Caliga]

Shadowrun Returns is free on Humble Bundle atm.

[Solmyr]

Fallout 4 for 11€. I've seen that the reaction is mixed but I love the saga too much. Should I buy it?

For 11e it's fine. Plenty of stuff to do and experience, just don't expect your character's personality to be as customizable as previous Fallouts or Elder Scrolls. I understand the DLCs are better story-wise, though I haven't played them.

[Syt]

Haven't played it much myself, but I hear it's a decent open world shooter with crafting mechanics but not much of an RPG.

[Josquius]

I've got too many un finished rpgs for f4 as fun as f3 was.

[grumbler]

Fallout 4 for 11€. I've seen that the reaction is mixed but I love the saga too much. Should I buy it?

For 11e it's fine. Plenty of stuff to do and experience, just don't expect your character's personality to be as customizable as previous Fallouts or Elder Scrolls. I understand the DLCs are better story-wise, though I haven't played them.

It's more fun than FO3, but not nearly as fun as FONV.  No surreal vaults, though, and more of a shooter than an RPG. It's got some great visuals, though.  Worth getting just to see the game world.

[celedhring]

Fallout 4 for 11€. I've seen that the reaction is mixed but I love the saga too much. Should I buy it?

For 11e it's fine. Plenty of stuff to do and experience, just don't expect your character's personality to be as customizable as previous Fallouts or Elder Scrolls. I understand the DLCs are better story-wise, though I haven't played them.

If the DLCs have better narratives then I'll wait for the GOTY edition to get a bit cheaper.

Thanks for the input everybody.

[crazy canuck]

War in the East and in the West are deeply discounted.  I just not sure I want to take the plunge - who here has played and enjoyed them?

[PDH]

I was a tester for WiTE - it was very engrossing at the time, and put a lot of effort into it.  It suffers from some problems, and it seems to have a bit of the "Germans will wear down, the Russians will overcome" when playing FtF.   I haven't played it in years though.

I do enjoy the fact that I did win a 1 v 1 Germans vs USSR game that was posted on the forums...

[Solmyr]

It suffers from some problems, and it seems to have a bit of the "Germans will wear down, the Russians will overcome" when playing FtF.

Is it possible to have a WW2 Germans vs Soviets game any other way? That period sure gets a lot of gaming attention for being exceptionally unexciting to portray in a game.

[PDH]

It suffers from some problems, and it seems to have a bit of the "Germans will wear down, the Russians will overcome" when playing FtF.

Is it possible to have a WW2 Germans vs Soviets game any other way? That period sure gets a lot of gaming attention for being exceptionally unexciting to portray in a game.

I was more pointing to the fact that by later 1942 and the appearance of the first corps and guard corps, the balance shifts completely and fairly quickly to a USSR domination.  A good USSR player can begin successful entire length of the map campaigns that grind down the German player far faster than reality.  Just as another quibble is that the German supply lines allow things that shouldn't have been able to happen in 1941, the Soviets knocking on the German frontiers in middle 1943 just doesn't feel right.

Almost impossible to get right, I think.

[Habbaku]

It suffers from some problems, and it seems to have a bit of the "Germans will wear down, the Russians will overcome" when playing FtF.

Is it possible to have a WW2 Germans vs Soviets game any other way? That period sure gets a lot of gaming attention for being exceptionally unexciting to portray in a game.

There's a reason I prefer to play specific campaigns within the war rather than go full strategic.

[crazy canuck]

I think I will avoid War in the East - any views on War in the West?

[Tamas]

I think I will avoid War in the East - any views on War in the West?

I haven't played it extensively, but the features are very impressive - the air war can be a game in itself - the production chain of everything is detailed in the background. So for example, oil is transported from wells to refineries and then fuel to units, and you can try and bomb this at any stage you see fit - or all of it. It can be automated fully in terms of you just giving general orders to air formations, but if your thing is to manually assign targets for everyone every turn, you can do that as well.

Also, amphibious invasions are fairly easy to organise compared to the scale of the game.

[Berkut]

War in the East and in the West are deeply discounted.  I just not sure I want to take the plunge - who here has played and enjoyed them?

I ahve played and enjoyed WitE quite a bit, and I bought WitW but haven't ahd time to play it.

That being said, I think the fact that I enjoyed War in the East says more about me than it does the game...

[crazy canuck]

Thanks