Damn, that is a good deal. Too bad that the AAA title on sale was not Assasin’s Creed III or similar. Can’t stand borderlands…
And the four pack is down to $30.
I managed to run Fallout 2 on my Win 7 laptop. It ran OK but with a few graphical glitches, mainly on the intro screen. This may well be due to the laptop having an integrated Intel HD graphics chip. I’ve not tried it on my Windows 8 desktop with an Nvidia card.
I picked up Disciples 3 on GG and played a skirmish map against one AI. In the beginning I never saw the AI for several hours and was worried this was one of those broken AIs that doesn’t do much. Then all of a sudden the AI appears with powerful high level heroes, much stronger than mine and I’m thinking game over man! Well, I just sit in my capital and the AI keeps circling with its forces, never attacking even though it could finish the game if it would just attack. I keep hitting end turn for several more hours and the AI never attacks! This is a pet peeve of mine. The game is effectively broken for me since the AI doesn’t know how to finish the game! Damn shame because it seems like a decent game otherwise.
robc04
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…and if it’s Reincarnation it is supposed to be the best version of Disciples III.
Yep, this is Disciples Reincarnated!
Alright boys. Xcom Enemy Unknown for $9.99 at gamersgate. Cheapest it has been so far. Deal of the week for me!
Hm, XCom shows as $15 for me… still a good price, but it’s not sub-$10!
It must have been one of their mistakes, it show as £11 for me, which is about $16.
Spec Ops: The Line is the daily deal on Steam for $7.50. That’s a buy, right? I heard it got very good reviews. Well, good word of mouth.
None
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I bought Spec Ops during one of the $4.99 sales and was happy with the price I paid for it. After finally completing it a couple of weeks ago I’d say it would have been worth $7.50 for me as well.
Otagan
1612
The gameplay is a mediocre cover-based third-person shooter, but the story trappings around it (choices and how they impact the game) are more interesting than that. I personally liked it well enough but never would have played it were it not for all the word of mouth you referred to.
Thraeg
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Coincidentally, I have a spare copy of XCOM from preordering BioShock that I’m looking to sell for $10.
Edit: sold
Wade42
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I don’t remember how much I paid for Spec Ops: The Line, but I’d say it’s easily worth $7.50. For the story, not so much the gameplay.
Hi all,
I know it’s not a game but it might be a heck of a bargain: Barnes and Noble is putting the Nook HD ($149) and Nook HD+ ($179) on sale this week. In parallel, WalMart is selling the HD+ for $199 plus a $20 gift card. The HD+ is a 9 inch tablet that doesn’t have a camera or HD connection, but is otherwise a pretty nice tablet.
I guess my concern before I consider one of these things is…why is B&N doing this? Is it just to boost sales that might be behind Amazon’s? Or are they planning on discontinuing the series and want to get rid of them. The fact that they’ve opened it up a bit to more outside content via Google Play almost seems to me like them admitting, “We’ve had enough. We admit it, we’re not a hardware company and don’t really feel like competing with this anymore. But we don’t want to be total dicks to anyone that already bought our hardware so we’re letting you get future content from Google Play.”
Anyone know what’s going on? $179 is pretty cheap considering I got the old Nook Color a couple years back for $250.
There was something going on with the Nook business, B&N sold it or something. So maybe the owners are doing something, or they’re liquidating stock, or something.
rei
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Why wouldn’t you get a nexus 7 instead?
Oh, I could…the Nexus 7 is certainly nice. But I find that for magazine reading, the 7 inch models are too tight.
On Spec Ops: The Line, 4 months after finishing it, I look back on it, and I really respect what they did with that game, and I’m glad I played it. My one regret is that I didn’t take more screenshots. There’s some gorgeous postcard moments in that game. I only took about a hundred screenshots, and I love scrolling through them on Steam. But I wish I’d taken more, since I got involved in the game at some point and forgot to keep taking photos as a virtual tourist of the destroyed city of Dubai.
Otagan
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The game hits you hard with it up-front and keeps it up throughout. One of the first things I did was snap this screenshot (as I’m sure many others did):
