Sulphur on 7/2/2011 at 22:09
Yes yes, but did any of you asswipes ever get gifted PARASITE FUCKING EVE.
I should have known something was up when my friend gave the discs to me with a weird look on his face and said, 'Keep it'.
Even my dog refuses to let me use the discs as frisbees, it's that goddamn bad.
WingedKagouti on 7/2/2011 at 22:21
I'm not sure if this is a bonus or not, but I bought The Force Unleashed today at a very low price (store clearance sale) and the clerk accidentially gave me a TFU 2 disk instead. I didn't discover that until I got home.
Sulphur on 7/2/2011 at 22:36
Well, having recently finished both, I'm in a position to tell you about both games.
TFU1 - okay to horrible gameplay sections (google TFU star destroyer for the most infamous example), okay story, but is a horrific beyond horrific PC port.
TFU2 - somewhat better gameplay, amazing graphics (best real-time lightning ever rendered in a game for starters), almost non-existent narrative, lasts 4-5 hours at the maximum, and is a bearable PC port in comparison.
If you're not playing on the PC, that's probably a plus.
Volitions Advocate on 9/2/2011 at 18:39
When i bought Myst IV it came with a free full copy of Myst III. That was cool.
Personally I liked the old magazine discs with demos on them. I bought the very first issue of Boot magazine (now Maximum PC) and it had the shareware versions of Duke3d, Strife, Z, Hyperblade, Diablo (pre-release demo).. tons of games.. Now you're lucky if you can fit a 20 minute demo of a game on a single Dvd
Digital Nightfall on 9/2/2011 at 18:43
I got a free copy of Dungeon Keeper 2 when I bought Alice. That was great.
lost_soul on 9/2/2011 at 18:50
The best game I ever got as a pack-in was Unreal with a Voodoo 3 card. I actually already had a copy of the game that I had gotten used, but I had only played that on a Pentium 166 with a craptacular 2MB video card. Even on such a terrible machine, the game was impressive, but it absolutely blew my mind with the Voodoo 3. I had been playing Quake 2 and Duke3d before this, so you can imagine...
Oh yeah, and there was the Deus Ex and Thief 2 bundle.
EvaUnit02 on 10/2/2011 at 02:50
My copy of Duke Nukem 3D came with free full copies of Duke 1 & 2. Awesome platformers they were. I had only ever played the shareware versions up until that point.
This technically isn't one (since it's piracy), but my copy of Hexen 1 came with pay-to-unlock full versions of various Id Software titles, which only required a crack to decrypt. I finally received copies of Heretic 1 and Doom 2 Master Levels. I subsequently bought copies of both games off Steam many years later, so it's all cool.
Oh yeah, I've gotten some sweet ass free games on magazine cover discs. One issue of PC Gamer US that I bought in 2000 came with the likes of Wing Commander 1 (Win32 version from the rare Kilrathi Saga bundle), X-COM: UFO Defense, Duke 2 (again), Descent 1 and some other titles which escape me.
Last year I received an issue of Australian mag, PC Powerplay that came with a code to redeem one of two free games off GOG. Jagged Alliance 2: 1st stand-alone expansion (Deadly Games? I forget) or Lionheart (ya know, Black Isle's last game). I chose Lionheart, because I'd rather play a RPG over a RTT any day.
