PSA: Game Discounts

[JonasSalk]

You should play MW2 SP, you get to kill Russians. All kinds of Russians.

No Russian?

I want to play MW2 just for that mission.

MW3 should just let you nuke a city.

[HisMajestyBOB]

You should play MW2 SP, you get to kill Russians. All kinds of Russians.

No Russian?

I want to play MW2 just for that mission.

MW3 should just let you nuke a city.

As long as ground zero is an orphanage.

[sbr]

Some interesting sales today:

Portal 2 50% off
All X3 games 75% off
NWN2 Platinum 66% off
Terraria 75% off
All Hitman games 75% off
Duke Nuke'em Forever 50% off

[Lucidor]

The X3 games look interesting. Any pros in getting the bundle, or should I just opt to get Terran Conflict?

[grumbler]

The X3 games look interesting. Any pros in getting the bundle, or should I just opt to get Terran Conflict?

I think that, at that price, getting them all makes the most sense.  That's what I did, anyway! 

[sbr]

I got the bundle too, though "people" say there isn't much need for the earlier games if you have TC.  Oh well, they were cheap if they are good I may poke around at all of them.

[derspiess]

Never played past the first level.  The M16 in early 1960's cuba kind of threw me off.  Not only is it a M16, but it has fucking grenade launcher attached!  C'mon, why not just give me a laser gun?  That's not even trying.  It's not like the 1960's had some derth of interesting weapons.

Be glad you didn't play further.  Later on you see AK74's, AK47's with grenade launchers, Steyr AUG's, and several other non-period weapons.  Not to mention ACOG sights & modern day night vision equipment.  I could look the other way if they sneaked one or two ahistorical weapons in there with the explanation that it was a prototype being developed, but it was so ridiculous it distracted me from the rest of the game, which I guess was already ridiculous enough.

Black Ops was supposed to be a continuation from World at War, but they obviously took MW2 weapons & technology & imported it into the 1960s.  I guess they felt they had to do it in order to keep up the online multiplayer momentum from MW2 (14 year olds aren't going to give up their tricked out M4 with 20 attachments for an SKS), but it was still damned retarded.

I finished the campaign as soon as I could & then sold my copy to Gamestop to get back $40-something of what I paid for it.  It had a lot of cool stuff, but I got my 'honest' Vietnam-era FPS fix from Bad Company 2: Vietnam.

[Razgovory]

The game Vietcong (released a long time ago), was a pretty good Vietnam game.  Used a lot of historical weapons including a lot from WWII (you are playing a special forces type who is up in the mountains training local tribe.  I guess they got a lot of surplus weaponry).   The sequel sucked though.

[Grey Fox]

Now that the Steam sell is over we can reflect on it. Gawd was it a piss poor year. In the end I got Sanctum & Just Cause 2. Not enough games were under 10$.

[Razgovory]

Be glad you didn't play further.  Later on you see AK74's, AK47's with grenade launchers, Steyr AUG's, and several other non-period weapons.  Not to mention ACOG sights & modern day night vision equipment.  I could look the other way if they sneaked one or two ahistorical weapons in there with the explanation that it was a prototype being developed, but it was so ridiculous it distracted me from the rest of the game, which I guess was already ridiculous enough.

Black Ops was supposed to be a continuation from World at War, but they obviously took MW2 weapons & technology & imported it into the 1960s.  I guess they felt they had to do it in order to keep up the online multiplayer momentum from MW2 (14 year olds aren't going to give up their tricked out M4 with 20 attachments for an SKS), but it was still damned retarded.

I finished the campaign as soon as I could & then sold my copy to Gamestop to get back $40-something of what I paid for it.  It had a lot of cool stuff, but I got my 'honest' Vietnam-era FPS fix from Bad Company 2: Vietnam.

Eh, I bought a copy of Steam.  I should probably finish it sometime.

[crazy canuck]

Now that the Steam sell is over we can reflect on it. Gawd was it a piss poor year. In the end I got Sanctum & Just Cause 2. Not enough games were under 10$.

Wasnt the good sale around Xmas last time or am I misremembering.

[mongers]

COD modern warfare 2 in Cuba? are you fucking high tamas?

oh, is that Black Ops? Sorry then I haven't played the SP of either, so sue me

Yeah.  They pretty much imported modern day weaponry, tactics and jargon into the 1960s.  Annoying as hell.  They manage to keep the weapons somewhat close to what was historically used on the Khe Sanh mission, but they blew it by having the grunts refer to the enemy as "tangos" & whatnot.  You never hear the term "Charlie" or "gook".  Sheesh.

Never played past the first level.  The M16 in early 1960's cuba kind of threw me off.  Not only is it a M16, but it has fucking grenade launcher attached!  C'mon, why not just give me a laser gun?  That's not even trying.  It's not like the 1960's had some derth of interesting weapons.

[The Brain]

 

[Lucidor]

[Razgovory]

What is that?  A Swedish K?