twisty on 22/7/2012 at 06:23
A disappointing final day's sale. Nothing new or noteworthy at an attractive price-point; to me anyway, as I either already own or am not interested in the final offering. I'm also surprised to see a lot of games that were heavily discounted and/or packaged in previous sales, and also a number of older games such as Kotor (2003) feature in the mix.
henke on 22/7/2012 at 07:29
Oh shit yeah, today is the last day isn't it? Well, they finally put ARMA2:CO at 40%, bet a lot of people are kicking themselves over buying it at 20% earlier. I finally took the plunge myself and got ARMA2:OA(since I already have the base game).
Anyway, MY HAUL:
ARMA2:OA
Crash Time 3
Crysis 2 Maximum Ed.
Darksiders
Dead Island: Ryder White DLC
Frozen Synapse: RED DLC
Helldorado
Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith - honestly I don't think I can be bothered with this one. Gets really hard to catch up with games you've missed the first time if you wait too long (a decade and a half in this case). Those graphics, and that LEVELDESIGN! Ugh. At one point in the first level the only way to get to another part of the base is through an airvent. Who designed this place? Also the game keeps crashing.
L.A. Noire Complete
Mafia 2: Jimmy's Vengeance DLC - finished this yesterday, it was fun. Will do a write-up.
Max Payne 3
MS Flight All the DLC
PoP: The Forgotten Sands
Renegade Ops - Reached the last mission (I think) with Jeshibu yesterday. It's a fun game though the gameplay doesn't really evolve over the course of the game, and evetually it starts feeling a bit samey. The co-op is ok, but not great because there's hardly any actual teamwork, everyone just drives around and does their own thing. You can split up and complete different objectives ofcourse, and that's a big help on timed missions as difficulty doesn't seem to scale up with more players. I got the Reinforcements and Coldstrike DLCs as well. Might wait a while before getting started on Coldstrike.
Serious Sam 3
Splinter Cell: Conviction
The Walking Dead
The Witcher 1 & 2 EE (from GOG)
Worms Reloaded
How much bread did I spend on all that? One Hundred And Fifty Breads! European Breads! Fine French LOAFS
scumble on 22/7/2012 at 10:11
Quote Posted by henke
Driver SF is not Driver 2. If you had to attach a number to it it would be Driver 5 (or 6, if we include that PSP game).
Yes, good point, but you knew what I meant...
Incidentally, Driver SF makes me wonder how they made GTA4 run like such a dog on the PC. On the face of it it appears to have higher detail textures and runs very smoothly. Perhaps the difference is in the detail of people walking around as one always stays in the car.
The last thing I will get is Burnout Paradise as my kids like a game where you're actually supposed to crash into things. The only problem is that Steam have run out of activation keys so while the game is sitting on my hard drive I can't actually play it. This is where this kind of distribution get on my nerves. If I'd bought an actual box I could at least be sure I could activate the damn thing. Thwarted by a shortage of character strings. Marvellous.
Damn, now I've gone and bought the Fable 3 collection. Somebody stop me...
bleaksand on 22/7/2012 at 13:34
Steam Summer Sale, Day 10, accumulated loot:
[INDENT]• Alan Wake Franchise -- This one came out of left field!
• Dead Island -- Something ♥♥♥ romantic ♥♥♥ to co-op with sweetie.
• Fallout 3 - GOTY -- Recent acquisition; Previously played ... MUST FEED LIBRARY-BEAST!
• FEAR 3 -- For better or worse, I gotta see how the series plays out.
• Splinter Cell Conviction -- Watched young nephew play some last winter ... and he just kept doing it WRONG! [/INDENT]
All wishlist titles and came in under budget ... Huzzah!
Jason Moyer on 22/7/2012 at 13:38
Quote Posted by henke
Oh shit yeah, today
is the last day isn't it?
27 hours. 1pm EST tomorrow.
Oh and to add to my goddamn
HAUL, I picked up the Batman Franchise Pack and Universe Sandbox. Running around as 70's cartoon Batman in Arkham City was too good to pass up (I was originally just going to get the game and the Harley DLC).
henke on 22/7/2012 at 13:49
It's one more day? I can never figure out when these things end. It's the 22nd over here anyway.
Quote Posted by bleaksand
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FEAR 3 -- For better or worse, I gotta see how the series plays out.
Make sure you try the coop mode in that one too. The coop in it is as good as, or maybe even better than, that in Dead Island.
bleaksand on 22/7/2012 at 14:03
Quote Posted by henke
Make sure you try the coop mode in that one [FEAR 3] too. The coop in it is as good as, or maybe even better than, that in Dead Island.
Oh, really? I'll have to do just that.
Ugh ... I'm finding Dead Island co-op play with a loved one jarringly fun AND trying my patience!scumble on 22/7/2012 at 14:23
Can anyone who has managed to install Driver SF confirm that it works ok with an XBOX 360 controller on the PC? It seems a bit poor that using any other gamepad controller causes the entire game to crash. The controller emulator thing I found didn't work either...
henke on 22/7/2012 at 15:00
Quote Posted by bleaksand
Ugh … I'm finding Dead Island co-op play with a loved one jarringly fun AND trying my patience!If you want it to be tense and atmospheric you'll have to play it SP. Coop usually always sucks the immersion right out of any game. I played most of Dead Island in SP for just this reason. F3AR is so cliche'd and silly it doesn't matter if you're joking around with a friend while playing it tho.
How's it trying your patience btw?
bleaksand on 22/7/2012 at 16:13
- snippysnipsnip - [Self-edited due to harshness]
Yeah know, if my co-op group could just all agree to stop gaming at around the three-hour mark, a lot of fatigue-induced snarkiness could be adverted.
