Steam’s other weekend deal is Crysis 2 $7.49 (-75%). Crysis and Crysis Warhead also -75%.
This should be a better deal than StarDrive; its steam forum is still exploding with complaints. There’s a general complaint that the game crashes on startup, or just goes to a black screen.
red_guy
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+1 on that. I bought Crysis + Warhead on Steam a few years ago, and I was never able to run either. And the game keys refused to be installed on Origin, otherwise I could have attempted to play them that way. It did keep my backlog a bit smaller though. Maybe Crysis 2 behaves better.
There are EA sales all over the web: EA weekend deal on GOG; Origin (EU) is selling Sims stuff at deep(ish) discounts.
GOG’s EA Sale has damn near everything from the old Origin and EA catalogs priced at $2.39. All kinds of stuff like the Crusader titles, Lands of Lore games, Wing Commander games, Pretty much all the Ultimas, Dungeon Keepers, etc…
Also buy any game on GOG.com right now and you get Witcher Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut for FREE. I’m not sure if there is anyone who still doesn’t own the original Witcher game. Great RPG, and you can’t beat FREE.
mono
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Gamefly is having a sale on Devolver Games. 25 - 75% off many titles. Shadow Warrior has a 25% discount to drop it to $30. Hotline Miami is $5 bucks.
There’s also a 20% promo code you can stack on the sale: GFDOCT20
Oops, that’s good for only 1 more hour as I post this!
It does drop Shadow Warrior to $24, compared to $40 on Steam, and you get a Steam key.
Steam deal of the day is Sniper Elite V2 $7.49 (-75%). I wanted to say again?!?, but maybe it was the older version on sale. Shrug.
Steam-Capcom deal of the day is DmC Devil May Cry $12.49 (-75%). All DLCs -75%. Other games in series also -75%.
This is on my wishlist. But my backlog is tapping me on the shoulder. One-finger-reverse-PUNCH!
Thraeg
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How are these? The whole third-person melee combat genre is a bit of a hole in my background, apart from some semi-related stuff like God of War (meh) and D___ Souls (love).
Newegg has the digital versions of Brave New World and Borderlands 2 for $9 with code EMCWXWW235. More qualifying titles here.
And as a note, Mac and PC versions are interchangeable on Steam. It took Newegg a few minutes before they sent me the key.
Giaddon
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XCOM: Enemy Within is $20.25 at Greenman Gaming with code GMG25-7VBH8-67CAC. (code takes off 25%, not just for XCOM)
Er, I don’t know about this, but I installed Crysis 1 from Steam and played the whole way through, so I’m sure it isn’t fundamentally broken for everyone. I’ve actually downloaded and installed on two computers (first an old laptop, Vista 32 bit, and then a newer laptop, Win 7 64 bit). The old laptop had some graphical glitches (apparently related to system specs), but they went away when I turned down the graphics settings. Warhead (the expansion) ran fine too, but the opening didn’t grab me like the original game so it’s still sitting on my HD, waiting to be finished.
Not sure this really begins in the bargain thread…
Hmm. We were just talking about this in the beat 'em up thread. Boojum, I’ll get it if you get it. Except I need to rest my wrist from OFDP and Aces Wild.
Thraeg
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Done. I just looked up the thread, and it got a couple good recommendations, so I’ll give it a shot. Thanks for reminding me I also need to start OFDP.
I did some more research and DmC isn’t too popular with the hardcore crowd. I’m okay with that for now, but it means I’ll need to play another 3D brawler eventually. I guess this will give me a reference point.
Well, the original Devil May Cry (on PS2) combat is the inspiration for God of War, except GoW introduced a bunch of QTE mechanics, plus some stupid platforming bits. Thus, a DMC game should have fast combat, a combo count that eggs you on to chain from one enemy to the next, doing crazy shit like popping an enemy in the air, shooting it, jumping up to pop the enemy up some more, slam it down, etc. There are different weapons you can find that changes the mechanics…like a glove that makes you punch, and slows the game down to a more methodical rhythm.
It’s nothing like Dark Souls.
I think God of War did the basic combat stuff better, though. I tried Devil May Cry and gave up on it rapidly, whereas God of War hooked me really fast with just the basic fighting. Keep in mind that I’m not good at these sorts of games, but it seemed like the controls were better.
The Devil May Cry games have hitherto been pretty explicitly pitched at the kind of people who really enjoy deep system mastery, and I can personally attest to them being not especially rewarding for people who aren’t good at that sort of thing and have neither time nor interest in developing such mastery. The new DmC, though, is done by Ninja Theory, who have tended to have a much stronger emphasis on narrative than mechanics and while I’ve read it does still work pretty well for system mastery folks, I’m hopeful that it will have more to offer people like me.
habibi
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Bionic Commando Rearmed any good? $2.50 this weekend.
The original (Rearmed is a straight-up remake, from what I gather - the sequel is simply called Bionic Commando and the pack is only $5 on sale) was a wonderful arcade game back in the day. I have no idea how it would stand up in today’s environment, but I loved it back in the 80’s & 90’s.
I loved BCRearmed on XBLA. Its no-jump mechanic was refreshing…the attach & swing mechanic seems the same, but does give some variations on platform puzzles. It’s worth $2.50.
Bionic Commando, the 3-D remake, has received incredibly bad reviews.
The steam deal of yesterday is Space Hulk $20.09 -33%. This is are recent release of the popular Warhammer board game.
The steam-capcom deal of yesterday is the resident evil series for -75%. Except Raccoon City is -66% only.
DeepT
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Dragon commander is on sale on steam. It appears to be an RTS game. Is it any good? I have my reservations since this is the first RTS done by Larian.
