Xmas game sales

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 4:32 am

Psyche911 wrote:
bitWISE wrote:State of Decay is up on the daily sale. Not an incredible deal but a great game for the money.
Aren't you sick of this zombie shit yet?

I'm not into Walking Dead for just the zombies and I haven't played the other zombie games like Deadrising or Dayz or whatever else. I never really got into Left 4 Dead either.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 8:20 am

Don Carlos wrote:
MKJ wrote:Chocobo breeding in FF7 is purely optional. as is KOTR btw. real men don't need summons to defeat Weapon.

well maybe Phoenix.
Phoenix was needed for Ruby, as was KOTR

lol no.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5cux9SREGY

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 7:22 pm

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 4:09 pm

Complete Valve pack for $20

http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/110618/ ... nsive-more

Gran Turismo 6 for $40

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CRL ... PDKIKX0DER

Post by **Eraser** » Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:54 pm

Memphis wrote:Max Payne 3 MP is fun fun fun. Even if some of Rockstar's art direction is fucking abysmal. Sure it looks pretty in motion, but those characters are some seriously ugly arsefaces. The amateurish screen effects and completely pointless smudge-o-vision killcam also grind my gears somewhat. Also it's infested with that perk-ridden trash system, forcing new players to contend with not only the more experienced, but also overpowered and cheap bullshit that pretty much equals to playing against a stack of hackers. When will this utterly filthy utterly insideous shit die?!

Still, shootdodging off rooftops and landing in a crumpled heap is fun.

Never tried the multi player in MP3, but the SP was shit. Had little to do with Max Payne at all IMO.

Post by **U4EA** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 8:42 am

On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is currently the Humble Bundle weekly sale. I was interested in getting these a few years ago, but never got around to it. Are they any good?

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:02 am

No idea - I'm on the verge of dropping for them as well....

Post by **vesp** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 12:05 pm

do it... 4 games, two comic ebooks and two soundtracks (the $6 to get episodes 3 and 4 is already above average to claim the soundtracks)

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 12:56 pm

Worth it then, yeah?

Post by **MKJ** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:54 pm

only ep3 works on mac. that doesnt make much sense.
pass

Post by **MKJ** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:18 pm

all wing commanders for $12
http://www.gog.com/promo/complete_wing_ ... promo_2013

Post by **bitWISE** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:08 pm

U4EA wrote:On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is currently the Humble Bundle weekly sale. I was interested in getting these a few years ago, but never got around to it. Are they any good?

Fuck. I just picked them all up during the Flash sale yesterday for $7.80 and no comics. First game is pretty cool so far. Great implementation of turn based combat.

Post by **U4EA** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:54 pm

I think I will go and pick up the Penny Arcade games, thanks.

Furthermore, highly recommended: Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons. Currently on sale for $4.49, but keep in mind it does require a controller to play. The game itself is a very touching experience.

Post by **Captain** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 8:53 pm

How does the story transition over from 2033? I also picked up Last Light but I'm playing through 2033 because I never finished it.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:13 pm

bitWISE wrote:
U4EA wrote:On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is currently the Humble Bundle weekly sale. I was interested in getting these a few years ago, but never got around to it. Are they any good?
Fuck. I just picked them all up during the Flash sale yesterday for $7.80 and no comics. First game is pretty cool so far. Great implementation of turn based combat.

Turn based...instant nope

Post by **U4EA** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 10:41 pm

Topic wrote:Re: Xmas game sales

MKJ wrote:mac

rofl moron alert?

Post by **bitWISE** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:04 am

Man the steam deals have been crap since Christmas day...

The daily personal specials from http://www.gog.com/ have been pretty solid though.

Post by **MKJ** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 7:32 am

U4EA wrote:
Topic wrote:Re: Xmas game sales

MKJ wrote:mac
rofl moron alert?

You know mac has been running on *nix for a bunch of years now right?
Worst case one could make a Wine wrapper but I'd rather have a native solution.

Turns out all PA games have a mac build but only 3 is available on Steam. The others are mac store appa. Apparently HumbleBundle doesnt support that :/

Post by **U4EA** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:10 am

MKJ wrote:You know mac has been running on *nix for a bunch of years now right?

Unless OSX can run any *nix binary as is, without wrapper trickery or modification, that doesn't really mean much. Can it?

Although this does kinda suck:

MKJ wrote:Turns out all PA games have a mac build but only 3 is available on Steam.

If PA have made builds for all their games, I should think Steam would want to have them.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:28 am

Memphis wrote:
Don Carlos wrote:
Turn based...instant nope
FFVII is as good as turn based.

It is. It is also one of only a handful of turn based games I am willing to play as it doesn't infuriate me.

Post by **Eraser** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:45 am

Don Carlos wrote:
Memphis wrote:FFVII is as good as turn based.
It is. It is also one of only a handful of turn based games I am willing to play as it doesn't infuriate me.

Whoa! You saying you don't like Civilization or XCom?

Post by **DTS** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:56 am

Why couldn't those 2 be included in his "handful of turn based games"?

Post by **MKJ** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 12:44 pm

U4EA wrote:
MKJ wrote:You know mac has been running on *nix for a bunch of years now right?
Unless OSX can run any *nix binary as is, without wrapper trickery or modification, that doesn't really mean much. Can it?

It does if that means I can run virtually any game. Sites like portdatabase.com have already done the work for me, and if not installing into a wrapper takes about 10 seconds extra. Given there's no driver or registry maintenance on mac I'd say making a game run properly is about as 'finicky' as running it on a Win install.

Post by **U4EA** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:28 pm

Then why wish for a native solution if this is good enough? Is it a performance issue?

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:36 pm

Eraser wrote:
Don Carlos wrote:
It is. It is also one of only a handful of turn based games I am willing to play as it doesn't infuriate me.
Whoa! You saying you don't like Civilization or XCom?

Not into Civ and I have never tried XCom. Tried the Red Alert games and I wasn't enthused either....same goes for Might & Magic and Total War games.

Worms on the other hand...