tgb123
3182
It shouldn’t matter, because a bad game is a bad game at any price, but Gamersgate has SimCity for $24. Has it been fixed enough to make it worth getting?
Gorath
3183
It should be mentioned that the Flames of Vengeance expansion can be played without finishing the full game. It includes optional character generation. IMHO FoV is even better than Div2, although the open world setting was replaced by a Gothic style hub with tighly packed stories and quests.
So Div 2 and Div2: FoV are sufficiently different to give you two shots to find a great game. ;)
I can’t speak from experience because I avoided getting the game with the idea to wait for patches and some kind of collectors edition with the DLC, but I scratch my head a bit when the most recent fix list has this headlining it: “Mouse clicks will now be registered more accurately. This should improve the efficiency of mouse controls.”
Wait, tell me more. (Maybe in the Div2 thread.) Is FoV a complete experience? Div2 is a somewhat marginal game for me in my backlog. I’d much prefer to play a 10 hour standalone expansion to get the general idea of the game, if I can get away with it. What would I be missing other than “more of the same?”
The first campaign is called Ego Draconis, and starts you out at level 1. The second campaign, called Flames of Vengeance, starts you out at level 35. The combo pack is referred to as “The Dragon Knight Saga” and the Director’s Cut added a console option to the combo pack to work with (for cheat codes and what not). I would start with the first campaign, as the second is intended for people who have already played the game.
Gorath
3187
Div 2: DKS (-> the GOTY Edition including massive updates and rebalancing based on the XBox conversion) is a pretty smooth gameplay experience, but it has the typical Larian problem: It’s too long.
D2: FoV takes off at Div2’s cliffhanger and leads to a real ending. Instead of a huge (semi-)open world you explore just one city you had to visit briefly in Div2. FoV got a mid-price boxed release in a few European territories. Calling it DLC wouldn’t do it justice. It’s ca. 25 hours long and the content is of much higher quality than the typical DLC. So it’s 25 hours tighly packed with morally ambiguous quests, interesting little stories and combat. Enemies respawn now, but it was done right. Respawning is limited to certain areas, and there’s no surprise regarding the respawning. I found it perfectly okay.
IMHO FoV was even better than Div2. I’ve played it two times all the way through, something I generally only do if I had a lot of fun.
It’s not really MOTS. The focus is different. Div2 has wide open areas with quests spread out wide, while FoV is very compact and has less idle time. Which is fine for me, because Larian’s strength is making these little stories around their NPCs interesting.
Found Splinter Cell Blacklist Deluxe for cheap (29GBP) on gamesplanet, but after 5 hours I still have not received any installation key so I wouldn’t use them if you want instant access to any games. At least they let you download the game (all 19GB) (completed) but still no key to use.
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got key now, only took 6-7 hours.
So is it worth playing the first Divinity game? I had it way back in the day, but I never got further than a couple hours into it. Is it important to be able to follow along in II?
I think there have been more than two Divinity games at this point, but if you mean ‘Divine Divinity’, I can say I quite enjoyed it. It was a bit clunky compared to Diablo, and a bit goofy too, but after the early town/combat areas you’re given more freedom to explore a broader landscape with many more (and more interesting) characters and quests.
Divine Divinity is fantastic and a must play. After a few minutes/an hour maybe you’ll get over how dated the graphics look and instead enjoy all the rich text/lore/funny bits they have implemented.
Remember also: you can move stuff; so if you see a bed in a hut – maybe there is a trapdoor underneath it… or not! Who knows!
Also; If you run into a peddler selling magical artifacts – prepare yourself.
Loved how they described your stats as you advanced in them…
Beyond Divinity had STARFORCE so I never played that.
A lot of people loved Divine Divinity, I need to try it again. I was having a good time until I hit a roadblock early on, couldn’t get past the third level of the initial dungeon, everything was kicking my ass and I just couldn’t find a way around it, I assume I’d leveled my character poorly or something (I read a walkthrough which basically said "Oh this bit is way too easy and if you keep dying then YOU SUCK). My folks raved about the game though. Larian have said that Original Sin, the new one, is an attempt to get back to the feel of the original game.
What? What do you mean, this is the bargain thread? I KNOW THAT. Um… I don’t think anyone has mentioned that Fez is 50% off on Steam all weekend. I missed it at that price in the Summer Sale, so I bit. I’m 3 hours into it now, enjoying it much.
Final bump. Sale ends in a couple hours!
Just a reminder the Amazon Late Summer sale is still going, but it ends Sunday. Lots of games have been called out below, but they’ve also made a page where you can just see all the deals that unlock in Steam. Would have linked that eirlier, but the page was broken back when the sale began.
Gamersgate has a Crusader Kings 2 sale on - and I am pretty sure this is the first time it has discounted the ‘Old Gods’ expansion, as well as the DLCs released around the same time. Priced at a nice 66% off.
Only good for the Gamersgate version of CK2 of course.
Scuzz
3195
I recently played it after doing Dic:2 and FoV. I really enjoyed it as a throwback to the Baldurs Gate days of gaming. True, you don’t really get a controllable party but it is a huge game with lots to do. One drawback, there is a massive gamekiller about 4/5 of the way thru if you do something in the wrong order, however I was able via the internet forums to find a fix for it.
If you enjoy Icewind Dale, BG or early Diablo (I am told) style games you will like it.
Mass Effect Trilogy is only $12 on GMG with code: GMG20-8MUTY-M21VN
Awesome deal! :D
The problem with any EA game is always the DLC.
Nesrie
3198
Trying to make a purchase through them has locked my card. What a headache. They set off several fraud alerts. I’ve been buying from GG for a couple of years now, but they’ve completely changed their purchasing system. I guess I am done. Too bad my CK2 is locked in their system.
I have been purchasing games from GamersGate since November of 2010 and I have never had that experience. The only time I had an issue was when my credit card company prohibited purchases outside the U.S. unless I called in to get them authorized. Initially I used only PayPal when I bought something from GamersGate, but recently I noticed there is an option for using a credit card directly and I have been selecting it as my form of payment without any problem.
Nesrie
3200
I’ve used them since July 2010. I have never had a problem until today. My usual option for payment is gone, and two options set off fraud alerts on one of my cards, my usual card. I read they had changed something, but I didn’t realize it would be an issue for me since I have purchased CK2 from them not too long ago, and expansions too.
red_guy
3201
Fixed that for you. The problem isn’t EA (Battlefield, Amalur, Sims, SimCity DLC do get sales), it’s Bioware’s walled garden which never discounts Bioware points (because otherwise it would be possible to stockpile points to buy future Dragon Age 3 DLC cheap), and which never reduces the list price of DLC because they don’t have a system in place to do that - no Halloween sales, no “this is a year old, let’s halve its list price” plan. Of course, as EA owns Bioware, it’s ultimately EA’s responsibility to find a way to make Bioware’s walled garden accessible for the cash-strapped…
From meta-sales back to sales: GOG.com kicked off its five-year anniversary yesterday with a week-long “on average 80% off” sale on 25 (good?) newer games, and System Shock 2 is 75% off for a few more hours.
