The Bargain Thread

TimJames · 2009-06-26T14:11:31.000Z

Cubit:

Impulse has Elven Legacy for $9.99 this weekend.

Hmm… ought to grab this and skip Fantasy Wars. And get Zeno Clash this weekend.

I’ll probably wait on Arma2 until retail or a very quick sale so that frees up game buying allowance from the wife…

Tracy_Baker · 2009-06-26T14:48:05.000Z

Abiding Dude:

Are these games compatible with Vista? It specifies 2000/XP only.

I just loaded HOMM5 in Vista and it worked fine. Doesn’t have any widescreen aspect ratios, however, so everything’s stretched at 1900x1080. Tested Dark Messiah and it works as well.

Papageno · 2009-06-26T14:48:33.000Z

I noticed earlier that newegg.com has Sim City Societies for 5 bucks shipped. Messrs. Chick, Murdock and Goodfellow gave it a somewhat positive mention on the latest ep of Three Moves Ahead.

FWIW

unbongwah · 2009-06-26T15:16:53.000Z

A reminder that LOTRO’s 2-year anniversary promo - get Mines of Moria for $10, subscribe to their 3-months-for-$30 plan - ends June 30th.

rei · 2009-06-26T15:20:05.000Z

Tracy Baker:

I just loaded HOMM5 in Vista and it worked fine. Doesn’t have any widescreen aspect ratios, however, so everything’s stretched at 1900x1080. Tested Dark Messiah and it works as well.

What video card? What cable is connecting it? DVI? VGA? HDMI? HDMI to DVI adapter?

You can set scaling to not stretch in your video drivers if you use DVI.

Nawid_A · 2009-06-26T15:44:03.000Z

If you can wait, you may be able to find better deals on DS3’s. I got mine by price matching around Black Friday time ($30). The normal price ($55) is just ridiculous.

Fugitive · 2009-06-26T15:54:06.000Z

rei:

What video card? What cable is connecting it? DVI? VGA? HDMI? HDMI to DVI adapter?

You can set scaling to not stretch in your video drivers if you use DVI.

Tracy means that the resolution properly matches what was selected, but the game itself is stretching what it renders to the window, which often happens with games that don’t really handle widescreen ratios but let you select widescreen resolutions anyway. Either you just live with it, find a hack that adds proper support, or knock it down to a 4:3 resolution.

Lorini · 2009-06-26T16:00:51.000Z

Devil Survivor for the DS is $24.99 at Fry’s.

Nawid_A · 2009-06-26T16:10:39.000Z

Lorini:

Devil Survivor for the DS is $24.99 at Fry’s.

Damn. I wish I didn’t break my DS.

Marcus · 2009-06-26T16:15:36.000Z

Lorini:

Devil Survivor for the DS is $24.99 at Fry’s.

Awesome I’ll be going to Frys tomorrow!

Kadath · 2009-06-26T18:20:02.000Z

Islanti:

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Nawid_A · 2009-06-26T18:21:12.000Z

Anyone know of any good PS3 game deals at Fry’s? Got a gift card there.
EDIT: PS2 also.

I’m trying to go cheap so I can stretch this gift card out as my game budget for a while (it’s about a $100).

Squee · 2009-06-27T02:58:08.000Z

Since it looks like no one has mentioned it yet, Zeno Clash is $10 on Steam for the weekend. Finally picked it up since it sounds a bit neat and I had been waiting for the price to drop since the pre-release sale.

JustinFletcher · 2009-06-27T06:45:30.000Z

Mysterio:

Also, for those who may not know, you can download the very impressive HoMM5 manuals created by fans and approved by Ubisoft here.

Nice! Thanks for the link.

Omniscia · 2009-06-27T08:02:52.000Z

So, when I was in Durham last week, I stopped in at Target and picked up Scene It! Box Office Smash, with four wireless controllers, for a paltry $9.98. Not bad for a fairly well-received trivia game and four wireless controllers.

Tracy_Baker · 2009-06-27T09:30:29.000Z

Omniscia:

So, when I was in Durham last week, I stopped in at Target and picked up Scene It! Box Office Smash, with four wireless controllers, for a paltry $9.98. Not bad for a fairly well-received trivia game and four wireless controllers.

Great find. Both Scene It games are great when company is over, and the second one moves from round to round much more quickly than the first one did.

ryan · 2009-06-27T10:32:54.000Z

I picked up Left 4 Dead - yeah, a little late - for $12.49 at my local Target; oddly enough, PC version was still expensive. Lord of the Rings: Conquest for 360 was $9.98 as well, but I passed on it.

Tman · 2009-06-27T10:36:00.000Z

Supreme Commander + Forged Alliance on Impulse this weekend for $19.99 for both.

Normally it’s $29.99 for the gold edition.

http://www.impulsedriven.com/products/ESD-IMP-W115

Lake · 2009-06-27T12:05:39.000Z

Kadath:

A better might be to get a year of Technet for $250, which nets you 10 licenses for Win 7 Ultimate, 10 for Office 2007 and more:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1430577

I saw that and the more I thought about it, the more I could not pass it up. I can get three copies of Windows 7, WHS and the new version of WHS later on cheaper this way.

DaveLong · 2009-06-27T12:30:21.000Z

Public service for NewEgg. I used their Free shipping option for Battle Fantasia ($29.99… great price) and it only took like three business days despite claiming 4-7. YMMV obviously, but that was pretty impressive.