Yep, I’m going to use the word “fantastic”. What game is perfect? It’s far superior to Bethesda’s Fallout games, and yet it feels like a direct spiritual successor to the original Fallout games in terms in terms of mechanics. Personally I find the loot stays interesting well into the game, especially on Hard mode where you need those resources, and there are some fun weapons. Combat will never get old* as long as you have Vicar Max in your group who says epic shit like “I’ll take your confession now!” and “Here’s a little trick I learned in prison!” while theatrically turning to your enemy and putting a shotgun blast through its skull. I love it. Plus, it makes me laugh. Not many games make me laugh.
*Also, this is one game where you should be playing on Hard at the very minimum, otherwise yes, combat gets rather easy. Hard is much more like it.
stusser
6300
Yep I’d agree with that. F:NV is better, but it’s superior to F3 and certainly the mediocre F4.
Played 6 hours. It’s interesting but frustrating. They make the controls somewhat realistic. Knapping those rock knife things for example requires good timing. Mess it up and you just smash the rock to pieces which is really annoying.
If I had more patience I’d enjoy it more. I didn’t get very far into the evolution, and exploring all the game has to offer (you can move to different biome, etc etc).
My thoughts on all of the above are they look great. Plus phoenix point. Price point drops on any of them and I will lurk and ambush one. But those seem to great choices.
robc04
6303
Have you guys played Fallen Order? I’d apply awesome and fantastic to that.
So, anything stands out to use the 10 dollar coupon on? I’m looking at the games that are around 14.99, and nothing really grabs me.
Silent
6305
I’ve definitely gotten my $4.99 worth out of the Division 2.
I was thinking of getting Outward, but I saw that too.
robc04
6307
I decided to bite the bullet and get Control while it was still on sale. This is the type of game I don’t mind owning on a platform other than Steam because once I play I’m probably done - other than if there is some good dlc.
Mark_L
6308
Really I’ve heard a lot of wonderful things about Control from voices I respect. I think you made a fine choice.
I ended up grabbing Operencia, Sojurn, Division 2, and Griftlands. Each was 5-7 after coupon.
I need to replay Operencia. I got half way through, and I screwed up one of my characters.
Watch out for how many active skills you can use.
Operencia is also free on Xbox pc at the moment, but figured I’d just grab it and have it for a rainy day at that price.
jsnell
6313
I was going to buy Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, but something went wrong. The transaction didn’t happen, but the coupon is gone. It can’t be reacquired, and it looks like getting more coupons is contingent on spending the existing one rather than on buying games. So it’s not like I could even restart the “chain” even if I wanted to. Oh, well :-/
If there’s one thing that’s been clear about the Epic Games Store, it’s that they’ve got their B team working on it. But even so, I’m rather surprised that anyone would write code for payment processing in a non-transactional manner.
That happened to me once. In my case I could “Void the transaction” (it hadn’t gone through, but was still on my transaction list). If you can do that you should get the coupon back.
Is today the last day of the sale? If so, I should stop procrastinating and decide on which ones I have time for and which ones will eventually show up on Game Pass.
The hardest decision has been Tetris Effect. I’ve been going back and forth in my mind. It’s $20 with the coupon on Epic, but it’s also the same price on PSN on PS4. Which one should I pick? Or should I just wait? At $20, it will probably get cheaper. And I do wonder if I’m past Tetris at this point, despite how much I loved it back in the day.
Edit: These were my other temptations.
Tetris Effect $20
Superliminal $6
Ghostbusters Remastered $5
Manifold Garden $8 (On Apple Arcade)
Sojourn $7
Outward $6
I’m tempted to get Surviving The Aftermath, even though it’s in early access. With the coupon it’d be $10 and that’s a very tempting price.
Tetris Effect sale no longer on sale on EGS.
jsnell
6318
Thanks for the hint, wouldn’t have thought to check that. Unfortunately it doesn’t show up on the transaction list :-(
