Bargain Thread 2012 Edition

Mike_Hussey · 2012-11-07T08:41:56.000Z

Steam have MtG: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 at half price It’s a pretty good PC version of the card game, even if it’s not as good as the classic Microprose version from the '90s.

Armiger · 2012-11-07T10:16:43.000Z

Mike Hussey:

Steam have MtG: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 at half price It’s a pretty good PC version of the card game, even if it’s not as good as the classic Microprose version from the '90s.

How necessary/enjoyable are those myriad DLC addons? If they bring something substantial to the table, I’d rather wait for a complete package deal.

Gigglemoo · 2012-11-07T10:28:51.000Z

Armiger:

How necessary/enjoyable are those myriad DLC addons? If they bring something substantial to the table, I’d rather wait for a complete package deal.

Only the expansion is real dlc. The rest are unlocks you can earn through gameplay, and weird looking graphical effects for several cards. Those are basically “Look at me, shiny!”. I don’t know if they’ve fixed this with the 2013 version, but in 2012 and earlier shiny cards were broken on a large amount of computers… making it impossible to read the description/ability text.

biosc1 · 2012-11-07T10:33:33.000Z

Giaddon:

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare popped up on Greenman Gaming for $25, which means you can use the code (GMG25-UAAHK-6AI9S) to get it for $18.75. Steamworks.

Minus another $10 with my XCOM purchase credit from a few weeks back and…yay :)

Stepsongrapes · 2012-11-07T10:34:07.000Z

Mike Hussey:

Steam have MtG: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 at half price It’s a pretty good PC version of the card game, even if it’s not as good as the classic Microprose version from the '90s.

I’m pretty sure the relevant annual version of MtG is always in the Steam Holiday sale as a package and/or at 75% off, which shouldn’t be too far off.

Scuzz · 2012-11-07T10:38:00.000Z

Telefrog:

He’s asking if it’s on-the-couch splitscreen co-op or online only.

I have no idea. PC version here.

Bingo. Yes, that is what I am asking.

Armiger · 2012-11-07T10:43:20.000Z

Gigglemoo:

Only the expansion is real dlc. The rest are unlocks you can earn through gameplay, and weird looking graphical effects for several cards. Those are basically “Look at me, shiny!”. I don’t know if they’ve fixed this with the 2013 version, but in 2012 and earlier shiny cards were broken on a large amount of computers… making it impossible to read the description/ability text.

Stepsongrapes:

I’m pretty sure the relevant annual version of MtG is always in the Steam Holiday sale as a package and/or at 75% off, which shouldn’t be too far off.

Thanks. Guess I’ll hold out for that possible sale package.

legowarrior · 2012-11-07T17:13:25.000Z

Is this a good bargain?
http://www.desura.com/games/dawn-of-fantasy

Nomad_Soul · 2012-11-07T17:58:11.000Z

Giaddon:

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare popped up on Greenman Gaming for $25, which means you can use the code (GMG25-UAAHK-6AI9S) to get it for $18.75. Steamworks.

I’m having a total blast with the game (and dumped a big old post in the thread.)

Here’s a video on advanced combat tips (the game at its most technical):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llnRxtazljg&list=UUMnp3NA5Xfysq2LWY9jtgpA&index=7&feature=plcp

Here’s a video of more general gameplay from a new player (more chaotic):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0kTAW-Un9o&feature=related

Thanks. Jumped on it.

arrendek · 2012-11-08T06:54:33.000Z

legowarrior:

Is this a good bargain?
http://www.desura.com/games/dawn-of-fantasy

The sale makes the game super cheap. But if you mean “Is it worth it?” then maybe go no farther than the out of eight review: http://www.outofeight.info/2011/10/dawn-of-fantasy-review.html

Kildar · 2012-11-08T07:22:17.000Z

arrendek:

The sale makes the game super cheap. But if you mean “Is it worth it?” then maybe go no farther than the out of eight review: http://www.outofeight.info/2011/10/dawn-of-fantasy-review.html

The review is more than a year old, could be given the nature of the MMORTS game, the devs might have fixed whatever complaints the reviewer had.

Hefeweizen24 · 2012-11-08T08:24:20.000Z

Lego Lord of the Rings is on Green Man Gaming for 22.50 after the 25% discount for a preorder. Steamworks.

Given the Lego games history, this ought to be brilliant.

arrendek · 2012-11-08T08:28:36.000Z

Kildar:

The review is more than a year old, could be given the nature of the MMORTS game, the devs might have fixed whatever complaints the reviewer had.

Yeah, hopefully someone here has more recent info, but that’s all I could find. It looked cool so I went doing my own lookup and thought I’d share.

ineffablebob · 2012-11-08T08:56:18.000Z

Hefeweizen24:

Lego Lord of the Rings is on Green Man Gaming for 22.50 after the 25% discount for a preorder. Steamworks.

Given the Lego games history, this ought to be brilliant.

Maybe, although RPS didn’t think much of the demo.

Tciecka · 2012-11-08T09:23:44.000Z

Gamefly.com is showing that Bioshock is free today, as long as you use their Steam-Alike client after you ‘purchase’ it. Their client is an Adobe AIR app that you can find on the gamefly site.

I bought it by clicking on the link that is teasing this sale on the main page, here:
http://www.gamefly.com/download-games/

I think you can do the same thing at this page, also:
http://www.gamefly.com/Download-BioShock/150930/

Clicking the button adds it to a ‘cart’, which you then have to ‘check out’ from.
It did ask for credit card info, so be warned!

I have yet to test out downloading/installing from the Gamefly client, but i did confirm that I can load the client and see Bioshock in the ‘Games’ list.

Mr_Bismarck · 2012-11-08T09:39:30.000Z

That’d be the same Gamefly that still hasn’t made all of my Direct2Drive purchases available to me, 11 months after they took over D2D.

Fuck those guys.

amandachen · 2012-11-08T09:47:48.000Z

No way am I giving Gamefly my credit card info.

If anyone likes turn-based war, Gamersgate has the Wastelands Strategic Bundle for $17 (that’s 66% off). The bundle contains WW2: Time of Wrath, Storm over the Pacific, and Strategic War in Europe. I thought that’s a pretty good deal.

http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-WLSB/wastelands-strategic-bundle-bundle

Desura has some of those on sale too (75% off):
http://www.desura.com/games/world-war-2-time-of-wrath
http://www.desura.com/games/storm-over-the-pacific

scharmers · 2012-11-08T09:51:18.000Z

Mr Bismarck:

That’d be the same Gamefly that still hasn’t made all of my Direct2Drive purchases available to me, 11 months after they took over D2D.

Fuck those guys.

I’m pretty much of the opinion – no offense to the folks posting the info – that there should be a blacklist of GameFly mentions in bargain threads simply because of the bullshit mentioned above (of which I have also bitched about several times). Fuck you, GameFly. Where’s my games?

Gigglemoo · 2012-11-08T10:02:09.000Z

Amazon did the same thing with the Reflexive / Game Center Solution service they purchased. Closed with a month or three warning to download everything.

scharmers · 2012-11-08T10:28:34.000Z

Gigglemoo:

Amazon did the same thing with the Reflexive / Game Center Solution service they purchased. Closed with a month or three warning to download everything.

The download everything “solution” is still execrable, but I can understand and work with it.

But before D2D died, I downloaded everything I purchased from them. The problem is the authentication behind the games. I have the license keys for everything I downloaded, but GameFly didn’t update the authentication backend for many of them, hence a bunch of useless downloads.

So fuck GameFly. I would like to see “Fuck GameFly” on a Qt3 tag cloud.