PSA: Game Discounts

[Caliga]

All of the Call of Doody games are for sale this weekend on Steam. 

[Syt]

GOG are taking a bunch of games out of their catalog, so they have a "Last Chance" sale with up to 80% off:

http://www.gog.com/promo/last_chance_special_promo_270814

If you buy now, the game will remain in your collection even after it's taken off their store.

Also, Activision sale (Vampire: The Masquerade, Kings/Space Quest, Krondor, Caesar III/Pharaoh) etc:

http://www.gog.com/games##sort=bestselling&devpub=activision&page=1

[Grey Fox]

All of the Call of Doody games are for sale this weekend on Steam. 

lol Activision and it's 50% off (down to 30$) for 3 year old games.

[DontSayBanana]

GOG are taking a bunch of games out of their catalog, so they have a "Last Chance" sale with up to 80% off:

http://www.gog.com/promo/last_chance_special_promo_270814

If you buy now, the game will remain in your collection even after it's taken off their store.

Most of this stuff is pretty esoteric, but just so you know, Red Faction 1 and 2 are in there along with Full Spectrum Warrior and FSW: Ten Hammers. 

I'm definitely getting the RF games and trying to decide if I want to get both FSW games or just the original.

[celedhring]

Are the Gothic games in this offer worth it? Heard mixed opinions of them.

[Razgovory]

Syt liked them, I did not.

[Grallon]

Earlier I bought Supreme Ruler 1936 - there must be a manual somewhere yes?




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[celedhring]

Syt liked them, I did not.

That's mixed, I guess.

[sbr]

Earlier I bought Supreme Ruler 1936 - there must be a manual somewhere yes?




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Steam Store page for the game

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/244410/manuals/Supreme%20Ruler%201936.pdf?t=1404328599

[Scipio]

Are the Gothic games in this offer worth it? Heard mixed opinions of them.

Gothic II is. Gothic III is unbelievably bad.

[Syt]

G3 is horrid. It's better than the clusterfuck that was originally released, but still not very good. Play Morrowind or Skyrim instead.

G1 was pretty good, if a bit stupid hard towards the end.

G2 was very good for its time, and it's one of the better designed fantasy worlds in that it makes sense (a small trade city, bunch of farms around to supply them and the mine valley, friction because the soldiers arriving need more food so the farmers hire mercenaries etc.).

It doesn't do a lot of hand holding, and in the beginning it's very easy to die because you took a wrong turn on a path or picked the wrong fight. The combat is a bit wonky.

Not sure how good the localization from German to English is, both in text and word. German voice acting tended towards the cheesy.

While knowing what happened in G1 and knowing some of the characters you meet again, playing it is not required. You get a bit of a primer at the beginning, and you could always check the wiki page.

[celedhring]

Will probably get Gothic 2, then. I fancy a decent RPG.

[Razgovory]

I liked the Gothic one concept, but I hated the combat, the voice acting, and many of the characters.  The second was slightly better but still had crap combat.  I played about 10 minutes of the third one.

[grumbler]

Will probably get Gothic 2, then. I fancy a decent RPG. 

IIRC, Gothic 2 has no mouse support.  Be forewarned; it's a great concept that is a PITA to play.

[Syt]

Will probably get Gothic 2, then. I fancy a decent RPG. 

IIRC, Gothic 2 has no mouse support.  Be forewarned; it's a great concept that is a PITA to play.

Uhm, yes it does. The menu system is a bit of a pain, but the normal gameplay is standard mouse-look with WASD movement.