Bargain Thread 2012 Edition

Pjerrot · 2012-05-21T14:15:59.000Z

Yellow5:

Lunar Flight is 75% off on Steam until May 25th. That drops the price down to $2.50.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/208600/

This brings me back. 35 years ago I played Moonlander on a DEC GT40 with a light pen (Moonlander on a DEC GT40). The only time I’ve played a game with a lightpen. It reminds me of the stylist I have with my PDA. Now everybody uses fingertouch smartphones. There’s a red thread there somewhere!

Meanwhile I bought Plants vs Zombies on steams weekend sale - 75% off. Sorry, that sale has closed.

Giaddon · 2012-05-21T16:34:15.000Z

Some strategy games on sale at Impulse right now:

RUSE - $10, Steamworks
World in Conflict: Gold - $5

lordkosc · 2012-05-22T09:24:33.000Z

GMG has FEAR 3 for $4.61 , if anyone cares… :p

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/shooter/fear-3/

Giaddon · 2012-05-22T10:03:54.000Z

The darn good Dead Island is $12 through Thursday on Steam.

Also all three Thief games for $13.50, or less individually.

$25 sets you up with some awesome gaming. Nice set of deals.

Kildar · 2012-05-22T10:09:24.000Z

King’s Crusade Collection for 4.99 at Gamersgate.

WarrenM · 2012-05-22T10:12:46.000Z

OK, I’ll bite for $12. Maybe this long weeked, I can get some zombie bashing on…

Rock8man · 2012-05-22T10:20:21.000Z

I’d jump all over that Dead Island deal if I had time for it. I think it is the game discussed the longest on the Quartertothree podcast. For other games, like Batman: Arkham City, it’s “oh we’ve already discussed that game last week, so let’s discuss something else”, but for Dead Island, it was a game of the week before it was out, and discussed extensively, then it was a game of the week after it came out, then it was a news story of the week, and then it was a game of the week again, I believe.

I will have to try it out some day, just to see how I feel about Moresby. Hearing Chick & McMaster talk about the game for so long, I just have to see certain parts of it myself.

Giaddon · 2012-05-22T10:22:49.000Z

My gut tells me that Dead Island is the best multiplayer open world RPG. I may be wrong, though.

WarrenM · 2012-05-22T10:46:34.000Z

Fuck … is it good single player? That’s what I’ll be playing.

Giaddon · 2012-05-22T10:54:09.000Z

Yeah, it’s good single player. The story sucks and the characters are terrible, but the environments and melee combat are excellent. The game gets worse as it goes on and introduces more ranged combat and human opponents, but it’s still quite good, IMO.

Turn off a bunch of the hud stuff - damage numbers and things. It feels great as an action game, and it’s much more fun when you don’t know how close you are to defeating the big zombies.

djotefsoup · 2012-05-22T10:57:42.000Z

TBH after playing it through 4 times as SP and then going MP … MP feels like a very late addition to the game. It’s not Left 4 Dead or anything like that, it’s just the same game only with more people in it (and more waiting to start quests). There’s no real “death penalty” - you always respawn within feet of your death - so even stuff like the MP healing mechanic, which sounds like it might be useful, is totally irrelevant to gameplay. 1st person combat animations look horrifically violent and meaty, 3rd person combat animations look goofy and disconnected. I could go on but there’s a big list of stuff like that which makes it feel like a hacked in mode.

It is a fantastic single player game though. Almost in spite of itself as Giaddon notes above - but still fantastically good.

malkav11 · 2012-05-22T10:59:35.000Z

FEAR 3 is well worth $5. It’s a solid shooter with horror stylings that Tom loved for reasons I don’t really entirely share (the scoring elements, which have limited pull for me) and really shines in the asymmetric coop.

Nikolaj · 2012-05-22T11:16:14.000Z

djotefsoup:

TBH after playing it through 4 times as SP and then going MP … MP feels like a very late addition to the game. It’s not Left 4 Dead or anything like that, it’s just the same game only with more people in it (and more waiting to start quests). There’s no real “death penalty” - you always respawn within feet of your death - so even stuff like the MP healing mechanic, which sounds like it might be useful, is totally irrelevant to gameplay. 1st person combat animations look horrifically violent and meaty, 3rd person combat animations look goofy and disconnected. I could go on but there’s a big list of stuff like that which makes it feel like a hacked in mode.

It is a fantastic single player game though. Almost in spite of itself as Giaddon notes above - but still fantastically good.

I really prefer the MP portion, but I agree that it’s perfectly playable as a SP game, and probably the best zombie game I’ve played (despite its flaws).

Marcin · 2012-05-22T11:44:15.000Z

I’ve also played DI in single player primarily, and thought it was excellent. Didn’t feel the need to bring in other players into the mix at all.

WarrenM · 2012-05-22T11:52:42.000Z

Awesome, thanks!

CLWheeljack · 2012-05-22T12:00:14.000Z

Rock8man:

I’d jump all over that Dead Island deal if I had time for it. I think it is the game discussed the longest on the Quartertothree podcast. For other games, like Batman: Arkham City, it’s “oh we’ve already discussed that game last week, so let’s discuss something else”, but for Dead Island, it was a game of the week before it was out, and discussed extensively, then it was a game of the week after it came out, then it was a news story of the week, and then it was a game of the week again, I believe.

Well, Tom does have a notorious pro-zombie bias.

aganazer · 2012-05-22T12:14:33.000Z

Giaddon:

My gut tells me that Dead Island is the best multiplayer open world RPG. I may be wrong, though.

It is. My wife and I loved it.

Ender · 2012-05-22T13:24:05.000Z

This review of Dead Island gives a good taste. I’m considering it myself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO7I9Q35P9s

TimJames · 2012-05-22T13:29:51.000Z

I was hoping to skip Dead Island because no one has breathed a word about the game in months. I have to rethink that if there’s going to be another wave of players now.

Two_Sheds · 2012-05-22T13:33:18.000Z

There has got to be something I’m missing with Dead Island. I played a few hours into the game and it just didn’t do anything for me. Maybe I should give it another shot.