PSA: Game Discounts

[Josephus]

I've got a pretty decent Mac, but it's only got 512mb video ram. Minimum specs are 1000.

Decided to buy it anyways at $20 can't go wrong. haven't had an issue at all so far. Running smoothly, 20 years in. Optimistic.

[MadBurgerMaker]

An "Autumn Sale" seems to have just started on Steam.  Nov 27 - Dec 3.  Sleeping Dogs, Skyrim, L4D2, and Walking Dead are some the first daily deals.   

[Phillip V]

An "Autumn Sale" seems to have just started on Steam.  Nov 27 - Dec 3.  Sleeping Dogs, Skyrim, L4D2, and Walking Dead are some the first daily deals.   

I now bought Skyrim: Legendary Edition.

[Syt]

Gone Home is on flash sale on Steam for 75% off. Not so much a game as it is an interactive story telling experience (based on exploration of your family house), so might not be for everyone. I do enjoy the format, however (if you liked Dear Esther and/or The Stanley Parable you may enjoy this one, too). The sale price point (€4.74) seems about right. Duration for my playthrough was a good two hours and I don't think I found everything.

[Habbaku]

Thanks for the heads-up, Syt.   

I had it on my wishlist, but didn't get an e-mail about it for some reason.

[Solmyr]

Should I get Rome 2 now for -25% or wait until -50%?

[Phillip V]

Should I get Rome 2 now for -25% or wait until -50%?

Where?

[Solmyr]

It's on the Autumn sale on Steam, -25% until December 3rd.

[Grey Fox]

It's on the Autumn sale on Steam, -25% until December 3rd.

Is it the daily & flash sale? No, then you wait for the last day.

Respect the Rules, honor the Gaben.

[Phillip V]

Should I get Rome 2 now for -25% or wait until -50%?

It is still a whopping $62 with all the DLC.

[celedhring]

If a non-obscure title is discounted, there's a pretty good chance it will be eventually included in a daily or flash sale with a greater discount.

If not, purchase in the last day.

[MadBurgerMaker]

It is still a whopping $62 with all the DLC.

Fuck that.  Get it during the Xmas sale when it's cheaper.   The DLC stuff, except the blood pack, can be replicated pretty well with mods (they were giving away the Steppe Nomads stuff for free when they first released it though).  Baktria is going to be future DLC at some point too.

[Razgovory]

I didn't find Rome Total war to be that great.

[fhdz]

On account of the Steam sale, I picked up Skyrim and Dark Souls. :swoon:

[Syt]

The Gothic games are 50% off. I picked up the "universe" bundle for a tenner. It's Gothic 1, 2 with expansion and 3.

I got 1 & 2 for old times' sake. I especially like 2's little cosmos, that makes more sense than most fantasy settings. A small island, under threat of ork invasion. The king sends Paladins who pretty much declare martial law in the little harbor town. The farmers who supply the city with food are pressured into delivering more and more supplies till the largest land owner says "Enough!" and hires ex-cons as mercenaries to ward off the king's men.

There is actually a logic to the whole setting. The special ore on the island is (or rather: was) mined by convicts behind a magical one way barrier. A small harbor town is built to ship out the ore. And there's a bunch of farms to sustain the whole operation. I wish more fantasy settings were making that much sense.



I tried G3 again (without its India-made expansion), with the latest community patch that fixes 700+ issues that remained after official patching stopped. I was very butthurt by G3 on release - it was an unfinished, horribly buggy mess. It was encapsulated by two things for me:
1. The killer pigs of doom: wild boars are early enemies in the game. They (and some other beasts) come with an attack that knocks you over. Originally they had such a quick attack rate that once you were knocked over you could never get up again and were slowly mauled to death.
2. Running with a ranged combat companion into a herd of animals. The ranged character would not defend himself until he was attacked in melee by a beast. Which meant he was a) useless and b) quickly dead.

The opening of the game didn't help to endear it to me. Replaying it, despite fixes and a fan made rebalancing of combat/skills didn't change it. You're thrown into a combat against a horde of orks who outnumber you and your allies about 2:1. This is interrupted by the tutorial messages. You only need a few hits to be down on your ground. You can't die in this section, and are only kicked to the ground when your health runs out. You regenerate about 5% of your health, but as soon as you get up another ork comes over and knocks you back on your ass before you can get a new sword. The only way I could make it past this section right now was to run out of the little village to drink a health potion (the animation takes a few seconds and is interrupted when taking damage) and get a new weapon. Twice.

I played a bit, and there's lots of critters everywhere - which isn't unusual for a Gothic game. The game world was always very open from the start, but there were a lot of areas where you had to expect to get your ass kicked if you hadn't leveled high enough. Evasion was crucial in the early stages, and it also gave you a certain satisfaction when you could finally go and clear an area.