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Mosesandstick
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Um wow. I think I might end up ordering more games in the next day than I have in the past 3 years.
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Yegolev
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I almost bought Citizen Kabuto from GOG before I came to my senses. Need to stay off the net for a bit.
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Lucas
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STALKER for 1.99 Euros?  Oh, and a game called Mirror's Edge is available for only 3.74 Euros. I rummaged through the forum to see if there was a topic about it, and it seems a cool game to try out for that price. |
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« Last Edit: December 23, 2009, 08:29:47 AM by Lucas »
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Malakili
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STALKER for 1.99 Euros? Oh, and a game called Mirror's Edge is available for only 3.74 Euros. I rummaged through the forum to see if there was a topic about it, and it seems a cool game to try out for that price. RE: Mirror's Edge. I bought it when it was on sale for the same price a few weeks back, and I think it was worth it. Its more of a novelty than a game, and when it wears off, it kind of loses its appeal, but for that price, you can easily get your money's worth. Beware though, if you are prone to motion sickness, the game can really cause a mean bout of it. |
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Hoax
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I'd wait on buying ANYTHING. The Woot timer at the bottom will go for every day, buy your stuff if it shows up there and on January 2nd make the big purchases.
So that means STALKER (free practically duh) and Mirrors Edge are the big two and Mirrors Edge was on sale for 5 not long ago. Was it good on pc? I thought it looked cool but remember the ps3 version getting panned for repetition and stuff back when it came out. Id try it unless it was a bad console port and is going to piss me off that way. |
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Thrawn
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Was it good on pc? I thought it looked cool but remember the ps3 version getting panned for repetition and stuff back when it came out. Id try it unless it was a bad console port and is going to piss me off that way.
I picked Mirror's Edge up on PC the first time it was on sale and enjoyed it very much, didn't really have any complaints about any controls or anything. Although my wife did mention she got motion sick watching me play it.  Lost a lot of it's charm after playing through story mode once and doing a few time trial runs, but for $5 it was well worth it. |
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« Last Edit: December 23, 2009, 12:56:14 PM by Thrawn »
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Prospero
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I've heard the PC version action plays a bit better because of ye olde K+M. Plus if you have a graphics card that supports PhysX it has gratuitous flapping.
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Teleku
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This sale just pulled another $70 out of me  |
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Lucas
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Hmm, Batman or Borderlands? Hmm...  |
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Ingmar
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Hmm, Batman or Borderlands? Hmm... What is this "or"? |
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Lucas
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Hehehe...Anyways, back from my first session of vomiting Mirror's Edge: whoa, love the scenery (my 24" monitor helps :D) and yeah, I see why the novelty factor might wear off after a while, but the concept is great, as well as the music :)
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Merusk
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Spellforce 2 looks interesting for only $15. Anyone played it before?
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Strazos
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Last I heard, it came with Starforce, just FYI.
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Trippy
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According to the Game Details the Steam version has no non-Steam DRM -- i.e. no StarForce.
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Strazos
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Hooray, I might finally get it now...I've been eyeing it up for a few years now.
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Ragnoros
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Steam needs to upgrade their servers if they are going to be doing deals like this so often. Bought Witcher yesterday and after almost 24 hours solid of downloading I'm still 4 gigs away @ ~100KB/s
That or Steam should work it so you download the game sequentially and play the first bits while the rest downloads in the back, like the WoW trial. Because as it is I have downloaded over a Gig of making of videos in Polish that I, frankly, could do without. Gimmah Mah GAME Already!
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Does the steam version of Stalker: Clear Sky have the AIDS Starforce?
TAGES It says it on Steam. OK next question. Is it fucked up like Starforce, or is it relatively benign like SecuROM? I did a quick bit of reading via google, and I can't really tell. |
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NiX
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From what I recall it's somewhere in between, but I haven't heard of it doing terrible things like Starforce did.
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Sky
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Well, what a time to be fucking broke. I own most of what I'd want out of the sale thus far, but there are a few tempting morsels, like the second Stalker. The page for Clear Sky sez: Oops, this is embarrassing. Due to high demand we have temporarily run out of unique keys for this title. You may, by all means, purchase at the awesome sale price but may not be able to play until we receive more unique product keys. It shouldn't take too long, we have sent armed guards to the publisher's house to get them out of bed, drive them to their secret lair and produce more keys. I know y'all be hatin', but ChampO for $10 is also temptating. Riddick and the first ArmA for $7. Dernit. |
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schild
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Is travel better in Clear sky?
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HaemishM
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I'm broke until payday, but a buddy got me Stalker: Shadow over Chernobyl for Christmas. I started playing it tonight. Is that headbob thing supposed to be a feature? It actually kind of makes my eyes cross. The gameplay seems good other than that. I plan on hitting a few of the cheaper bits of this sale when payday rolls around. There's a lot of tempting shit in there. Both Freedom Force's for less than $6? The Witcher?
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Trippy
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There's a config file hack to fix the bobbing, just Google on it.
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Mosesandstick
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Any point in getting GTAIV if I have it on the 360 already?
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Kageh
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Any point in getting GTAIV if I have it on the 360 already?
PC Version has better graphics if your computer can run it, and AFAIK something like a video editor and bigger multiplayer. No DLC (I think). |
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Kageh
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I'm broke until payday, but a buddy got me Stalker: Shadow over Chernobyl for Christmas. I started playing it tonight. Is that headbob thing supposed to be a feature? It actually kind of makes my eyes cross. The gameplay seems good other than that. I plan on hitting a few of the cheaper bits of this sale when payday rolls around. There's a lot of tempting shit in there. Both Freedom Force's for less than $6? The Witcher?
I have a profound love/hate relationship with Stalker. I really want to like it, and everytime I start having fun I either get lost by wandering around for ages in the wilderness or one-shotted by something I haven't seen coming, and we're back at start. |
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Teleku
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New daily deal set is up. L4D2, Serious Sam HD (tempting), and ID Software pack that contains pretty much every game ID has made for $24.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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Lucas
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New, 24-hour promotion for today (December 24th):
ID Superpack - 66.99 € 23.79
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter 19.99 € 9.99
Need For Speed: Shift 49.99 €37.49
Left 4 Dead 2 37.99 €25.45
Football Manager 2010 49.99 €37.49
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Teleku
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Thats interesting, as the US prices for those same games goes like this: ID Superpack - $23.79 Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter $9.99 Need For Speed: Shift $37.49 Left 4 Dead 2 $33.49 Football Manager 2010 $29.99 So, they only seem to have adjusted for exchange rate with L4D2, and you seem to be getting seriously fucked with Soccer Manager 2010 |
"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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Velorath
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New daily deal set is up. L4D2, Serious Sam HD (tempting), and ID Software pack that contains pretty much every game ID has made for $24.
I noticed the other day that none of the id stuff was on sale, and was thinking that maybe it was because they were planning on doing it as part of a one day sale. Using that same logic, I predict that there's going to be an Interplay sale at some point since none of their games are on sale yet either. |
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Kageh
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Today's sale is kind of meh though, at least compared to yesterday's. The "current" games are available at similar or lower prices from Amazon & Co. ID superpack is cool but I played Doom in 1994 and Hexen back then too, srsly. Dunno about Serious Sam HD.
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Hoax
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Today's sale is kind of meh though, at least compared to yesterday's. The "current" games are available at similar or lower prices from Amazon & Co. ID superpack is cool but I played Doom in 1994 and Hexen back then too, srsly. Dunno about Serious Sam HD.
Yeah i can happily ignore today's sale, I wish I had bought Mirrors Edge but I was too busy doing RL shopping to log into my Steam on someone else's machine and buy it. Oh well. |
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Lucas
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Yeah, I played Doom, Hexen, Heretic & C. back in the day so while it is tempting to have them sit in a safe Steam corner, there is just too much stuff to play with nowadays. On the other hand, I would like to see a BIG discount on the Popcap games package  |
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schild
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It's amazing how terrible ID is in the broad stroke of things given how important they were back in the day.
One good idea, nothing even remotely good since.
In fact, it's kind of surreal.
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schild
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ANYWAY
Does STALKER Clear sky have better travel than the first game?
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Rasix
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Waiting patiently for ME to go on sale so I can play the sequel on the PC.
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