The Bargain Thread

Omniscia · 2009-08-20T21:20:12.000Z

For those of you who didn’t already notice this in the game-relevant thread, the Steam Weekend Deal is up. 1701 A.D. Gold Edition for $14.99.

Jab · 2009-08-20T22:01:26.000Z

For anyone interested in the special edition of batman arkham asylum , amazon has both the ps3 and 360 edition discounted right now. Ps3 is $93 and 360 is $89.

Robert_Sharp · 2009-08-21T03:36:17.000Z

What? The SEs are really that much!? Do you get a batman suit with them?

WarrenM · 2009-08-21T05:14:49.000Z

$89? FFS, they’d better be including a batarang or something.

Brian_Seiler · 2009-08-21T05:17:20.000Z

EpicBoy:

$89? FFS, they’d better be including a batarang or something.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Sounds like you can’t throw it at dudes, though. Well, not unless you want the stand to get in the way.

TimJames · 2009-08-21T05:27:18.000Z

I wonder if they welded them together to keep the kids from detaching the stand and throwing the batarang into their brother’s head, just like Batman would.

Matthew_Jewkes · 2009-08-21T06:22:17.000Z

unbongwah:

Weekend Impulse buys are up:
Hero’s Tale (indie JRPG) $6

Holy Shit! This is an RPG Maker game!

unbongwah · 2009-08-21T06:31:47.000Z

Apparently there have been a number of indie RPG-Maker games. I think the Aveyond series and Deadly Sin also use it.

Telefrog · 2009-08-21T07:18:47.000Z

unbongwah:

Kingdom Elemental $15

Has anyone played this? Is it worth it?

kerzain · 2009-08-21T07:28:52.000Z

I haven’t played it, but looked around for reviews on it because it too caught my eye. This guy seems to like it:

http://www.gametunnel.com/kingdom-elemental-game-review.php

But I’m not sold on it. The game looks very tech demo-y or something to me .

ZekeDMS · 2009-08-21T08:17:06.000Z

Beyond Good and Evil plus Prince of Persia:Sands of Time for $9.99 this weekend on GOG!

$6.99 each, and if you haven’t played BG&E, strike yourself, then buy it immediately.

http://www.gog.com/en/page/ubiaction_promo/

MMcGlumphy · 2009-08-21T09:26:20.000Z

unbongwah:

Kingdom Elemental $15

Don’t want to pull any $$ from Stardock, but you can get it directly from the dev for $9.95…

http://www.chroniclogic.com/ke.htm

ZekeDMS · 2009-08-21T09:44:36.000Z

Droplitz on steam for $1.99 for a week, 80% off to celebrate the iPhone release.

unbongwah · 2009-08-21T09:55:47.000Z

Omniscia:

1701 A.D. Gold Edition for $14.99.

They’ve also got Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009 for $22.50 (25% off), Football Manager Live for $22 (50% off), and Killing Floor for $15 (25% off).

BobJustBob · 2009-08-21T11:05:34.000Z

ZekeDMS:

Droplitz on steam for $1.99 for a week, 80% off to celebrate the iPhone release.

Droplitz is an excellent puzzle game.

Tyjenks · 2009-08-21T11:10:36.000Z

kerzain:

I haven’t played it, but looked around for reviews on it because it too caught my eye. This guy seems to like it:

http://www.gametunnel.com/kingdom-elemental-game-review.php

But I’m not sold on it. The game looks very tech demo-y or something to me .

I played the demo a couple times and there is some interesting strategery, you kinda just kill waves of things with various party members. There was not enough to the game for my liking.

ZekeDMS · 2009-08-21T11:33:15.000Z

The Droplitz demo was interesting but not enough to really grab me for $10.

For $2, it would have to really suck to disappoint me.

TimJames · 2009-08-21T12:53:00.000Z

Tyjenks:

I played the demo a couple times and there is some interesting strategery, you kinda just kill waves of things with various party members. There was not enough to the game for my liking.

I agree, and it’s a bummer because it seems like it would be some quick casual fun.

Tyjenks · 2009-08-21T13:36:37.000Z

Tim James:

I agree, and it’s a bummer because it seems like it would be some quick casual fun.

And the dudes worked on it and refined it for quite a while. It is one of those games where the premise is good, the mechanics are interesting, but they just missed something and I cannot really point to it.

Adam_Eayrs · 2009-08-21T16:04:22.000Z

Alan Friesen:

The TeamX patch for the original Fallout is great too, but nothing like the Restoration Project patch by killap for FO2.

Jason McCullough did a mod list for FO 1/2 here. I believe there is another “I’m replaying FO2” thread that goes more in depth into the Restoration Project and other fancon projects.

Anyways, I thought almost all of the fan content was unbearably bad. Beyond the various unofficial bug fixes, the only worthwhile mod I found was one that reskinned Sulik and Cassidy when you gave them different armour. They were original sprites, not body-swaps with the game’s existing artwork, in-character with the NPCs (Sulik’s armour adorned with tiny tribal glyphs for instance) and they were just as good as anything that shipped with the game, which is much much more than you can say for any of the other mods out there. IIRC it was bundled with the Restoration Project, but came with its own clicky box in the installer.