Bargain Thread 2017

Mass Effect Andromeda is actually good.

I didn’t know we were allowed to express that opinion here. Quick, duck and cover!

Yeah, that’s heresy against the established narrative that Andromeda is busted and also crap. That’ll be twenty Hail Marys and a how’s your uncle.

REPORTED!

;)

Yeah, MEA is a steal at that price. Especially the MP if you like horde modes.

Uh, Binary Domain is much better than Gears of War.

PSN Flash sale is up… nothing catches my eye, though. A bunch of pinball tables, I guess?

As I said, the regular sale on right now is pretty good, however.

I’m racking my brain trying to think of one area that Binary Domain is superior than Gears of War and I think I’ve succeeded! I think weapon variety is probably better in BD. Then again, who needs weapon variety when you’ve got an assault rifle with a goddamn chainsaw attachment?

Me, for one. An assault rifle with a chainsaw attachment is still just an assault rifle 95% of the time. Getting close enough to chainsaw means getting shot a lot on the way in.

Gears was better online. Binary Domain is a better single player game.

Hence Binary Domain is better than Gears of War. QED.

I would quibble with the word “online”. Gears is better as a coop game, whether that’s online or same screen coop. Even as a same-screen coop game, it was a lot of fun when played that way.

The competitive multiplayer was a revelation when the first game arrived. I know they added the Horde thing in the sequel but myself and many others spent many hours playing multiplayer in the original. Those four on four fights were brutal, tense and exciting.

II can’t even get behind BD being the better single player game, I don’t remember there being a lot of enemy variety. Seems like most were robots, and as I recall you could pick them apart, like shoot their legs off and they would crawl to you. That was cool. And I think there were some pretty huge and epic boss fights in BD, so maybe I’ve got to give the edge there, but I really dug taking out the berserker with the Hammer of Dawn in Gears so maybe not.

But yeah I wasn’t even comparing multiplayer - did Binary Domain even have multiplayer? If so I didn’t try it.

To its credit, Binary Domain is the only one available on PC, which makes it not only the better game, but the only option between it and Gears of War for people like me.

Do you mean that Gears of War is not available on Steam? It came out on PC about 6 months after the 360 version did.

… it did?!

Edit: Wow… it did.

Plus, there’s Gears of War 4 which came out recently on the Windows Store.

Plus Gears of War Ultimate, which is a remaster of the original, with the DLC bundled together, and higher res textures and models.

I liked Binary Domain a lot better than Gears of war personally.