PSA: Game Discounts

[mongers]

What makes it different/better than your regular ARPG?

Sunk costs.

[The Brain]

What makes it different/better than your regular ARPG?

Nothing much. I find it soothing.

[Grey Fox]

What makes it different/better than your regular ARPG?

It's Titan Quest with a grim setting.

[Norgy]

A fair amount of big titles on sale too.

Well. Looks like I might give myself a gift. Or three.

[celedhring]

So far I've got Tales of Borderlands, Game of Thrones, and Wolfenstein: New Order. Might stop here just because that's enough to last me a while.

[crazy canuck]

What makes it different/better than your regular ARPG?

It's Titan Quest with a grim setting.

Sort of.  The character design options are more complex.  It makes PoE look fairly simple. The itemization is excellent and the game itself is very well designed.  My initial impression after playing around with a few classes yesterday is this is the best ARPG available.

A fair amount of big titles on sale too.

Well. Looks like I might give myself a gift. Or three.

What has caught your attention?

[Drakken]

A friend has sent me South Park - the Stick of Truth as Christmas Gift. Picked up to be a Jew. Having a lot of fun with that game. I loled so hard when I entered into Cartman's Mom's room and rummaged through her stuff.

Also purchased the full Company of Heroes package.

[Alcibiades]

What makes it different/better than your regular ARPG?

It's Titan Quest with a grim setting.

Sort of.  The character design options are more complex.  It makes PoE look fairly simple. The itemization is excellent and the game itself is very well designed.  My initial impression after playing around with a few classes yesterday is this is the best ARPG available.

A fair amount of big titles on sale too.

Well. Looks like I might give myself a gift. Or three.

What has caught your attention?

More complex than PoE eh?  Even with the new gem system? 

May give this a try if so.

[frunk]

PoE doesn't need to be more complex, it needs a better interface on the complexity it has.  How well is the information about items/skills conveyed?

[crazy canuck]

PoE doesn't need to be more complex, it needs a better interface on the complexity it has.  How well is the information about items/skills conveyed?

I agree.  At core it is a good system.  I like it a lot but they could do a better job explaining what modifies what and more important what does not.

[Syt]

The new Assassin's Creed (which got decent reviews) is 40% off during the sale.

[Iormlund]

Picked up Sunless Sea and Pillars of Eternity, though I probably won't play them for a while. Still on a Fallout 4 binge.

[Norgy]

What has caught your attention?

The whole Star Wars collection is on sale. I never tried KOTR II, so I bought it.
Also bought Metal Gear Solid V, as I tend to like open world games.

And three smaller titles for change; Door Kickers (which seems nice in a very difficult way), Frozen State (Early access, top-down game, find out what the hell happened in a Siberian town), and Bioshock 2. Well, that's not a small title, but it was almost free.

There's been a common theme to many early access games or releases the past 2 years or so; craft, fight, survive in first-person view. One that I found interesting, was the zombie-free The Longest Dark. You're all alone in a cold world, and the dangers are not so much from other creatures but from nature itself. Freezing, falling, starving.

[Syt]

I picked up a bunch of indie games. I also got the Ultimate Edition of The Secret World. I've been interested in its setting for a while and supposedly it's quite lore rich. It requires no subscription anymore, but the "Issues" (content updates) cost over €20 each. The Ultimate Edition is €22 at the moment and includes all issues up to 11, so I would only need to buy 12 and 13 if I feel like I might play this some more.

[Syt]

Duke Nukem 1, 2, 3D, and Manhattan Project are heavily discounted on GOG.com. The game rights will change hands on January 1st, and GOG.com haven't come to an agreement with the new owners yet.

It's similar to when they lost the rights to Fallout 1 & 2, only then they gave them away for free before taking them off (the games have since returned to the store).

If you buy the games now, they will stay in your account after 01/01/2016.

http://www.gog.com/promo/weekly_staff_pick_farewell_duke_281216