Bargain Thread 2020

Father, Son and Holy Ghost, he who dies fastest sucks the most.

Almost forgot to grab the freebie!

Last Day!

I healed as a Druid in WotLK, including a Lich King kill. And the changes they made in Cataclysm 5-mans made me walk away from healing and never look back.

Free weekends on Steam: Darkest Dungeon, Cultist Simulator, and PixARK.

While grabbing the new System Shock demo, I noticed that GOG’s Summer Sale has started.

Yakuza 0 is $4.79 on Fanatical

Steam games on my wishlist on sale:

Project Warlock: $4.80
Williams Pinball collection 2: $5.99
House of the Dying Sun: $6.79

FYI, Project Warlock is one of the free Twitch Prime games for June.

Are those DRM free?

So if I subscribed to Prime for a month, and got the game, would I still have access after my month is up?

Fanatical has launched a new Kingslayer Bundle 2. 5 games + 3 DLC for $4.99.

  • Guilty Gear Xrd - Revelator
  • GRID
  • Part Hard 2 + Alien Butt Form DLC
  • Duke Nukem Forever + The Doctor Who Cloned Me and Hail to the Icons DLC
  • Expeditions : Viking

I am torn, as the only game I am really interested in is Expeditions : Viking, and at $4.99 it’s 75% off, which is a historic low all by itself.

Also at fanatical, the Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition Bundle is $6.39 and contains the Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition game plus Pirates of the Sword Coast, Infinite Dungeons, Wyvern Crown of Cormyr and Heroes of Neverwinter DLCs.

The PayDay 2 Legacy Bundle is $12.79 and contains the base game plus 36 DLC.

Humble has a Cities : Skylines Bundle.

  • $1 for the base game plus Deep Focus Radio DLC, which is a great deal.
  • BTA of around $7.50 and add Concerts, High Tech Buildings, Snowfall and Natural Disasters DLCs
  • Pay $18 and unlock Mass Transit, Green Cities, Industries, Campus, Art Deco and European Suburbia DLCs

Humble Store is havig a 1C Publisher Sale. Nice deals if you’re a Humble Choice subscriber.

  • Ancestor’s Legacy for $8.92 (75%) and the Saladin’s Conquest DLC for $2.80 (75%)
  • Deep Sky Derelicts for $5.77 (71%) and all DLC on sale as well
  • The Elven Legacy Collection, which is old but still great, for only $0.67 (92%)
  • Fall of Light for $2.54 (83%)
  • Fell Seal : Arbiter’s Mark for $8.66 (71%)
  • Re-Legion for $4.24 (79%)
  • Stygian : Reign of the Old Ones for $12.74 (58%)
  • and many more

No Man’s Sky is $23.99 (60%) on Indiegala

WinGameStore has Warhammer : Chaosbane for $16.49 (67%), a historic low, or get the Deluxe Version with extra emotes, pets and a gold boost, for $18.14.
The Magnus Edition at $23.09 (67%) contains all of that plus the Tomb Kings DLC and supposedly 2 additional DLCs yet to be released.

Exact same sentiment for me, except the game I’m curious about is Guilty Gear. Want to split the bundle?

Check your PMs my friend!

DoS enhanced edition is going for 10 local currencies.

https://www.gog.com/game/divinity_original_sin_enhanced_edition

I hated the last part based party based RPG I played - PoE. Boring and annoying combat and even more boring text masquerading as story. Any chances I’ll like DoS better?

DOS1’s combat is great, and bears no resemblance to PoE. It’s mostly about coming up with clever ways to combine effects. They completely screwed that system up in the sequel, sadly, but the first one is a blast.

The writing is… well mostly the writing is weird honestly. Peculiar sense of humor, strange leaps of logic, I had to use a wiki any number of times to figure out what I was supposed to be doing in a quest. I ended up finishing the game anyway, though, on the strength of the combat alone.

I politely disagree with Vinny in that I thought DOS2’s combat was even better and even more refined. DOS1 is absolutely worth $10 and if you enjoy the systems enough then definitely pick up DOS2 afterwards.

All that matters in DOS2 is damage, thanks to armor. You can’t even knock an enemy down if they’re wearing armor, which is hilariously stupid. Magic armor renders you immune to every elemental effect, so they’ve got this amazing system for combining elemental effects but in 2 none of it matters. It’s infuriating, honestly.

DOS1 is mercifully free of this nonsense, so all those interesting systems actually do something.

That is stupid. Armor makes you easier to knock down.

Right?

You might like the combat better, as it’s turn-based and highly tactical. I can’t imagine you’d like the writing better if you thought PoE’s strongest selling point was “boring”. Most people don’t rate Original Sin’s writing much at all, in contrast. Or, they like it, but admit it’s kind of goofy and lightweight. I guess maybe that’d be more your speed? IDK. I don’t know your tastes.

The way I dealt with battles is looked at which enemies had either higher phyiscal or magical armour. Then used the appropriate attacks to get the lower armour to zero then stun lock or kill. System works really nicely IMHO.