Ubisoft week - Weekend - Ubisoft Classic Pack for $9.99

[Hawkbit]

Ubisoft Week on Steam - every day a sale, one day only. 

Monday:  Assassin's Creed $9.99
Tuesday:  Prince of Persia $24.99
Wednesday:  Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway $14.99
Thursday:  Far Cry 2 $14.99
Weekend:  Ubisoft Classic Pack $9.99

Classic pack is: Beyond Good and Evil, Far Cry, Dark Messiah Might and Magic, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

[Prospero]

I was sad to find out my processor is too slow to run AC. It's a dual core, but just a hair to slow. For 10 bucks I might pick it up and pray.

[Xuri]

I picked this up. Only, being from the mythical country known as "Europe", I have to pay 14,99€ instead of $9.99.

14,99€ --> $20,52 :(

[Hoax]

I already own it for PS3, haven't played it yet...

[Yegolev]

I have it on 360 and can say that it is very probably not what you think.  I should get back to it.

[Segoris]

I picked it up even though I heard it was a bit disappointing overall. I figure that for $10 it's worth buying and saving it for a rainy day

[Hawkbit]

Yeah, I would have been disappointed spending $50 on it, but it's not an overly terrible game and for $10 it seems like a steal. 

[SnakeCharmer]

Not worth 10 dollars.

[Yegolev]

I enjoyed it a great deal, which prompted my previous post.  It's really more of a collect-em-all/exploration game with stealthy stuff... meaning you collect map markers and walk very slowly.  Not really what was advertised.

[Teleku]

Today's deal is Prince of Persia, for $25:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/19980/

[schild]

I'm not sure PoP is worth it at anything above $10. Shame.

[Hawkbit]

Yeah, gotta pass on that one.  I'd buy it for $10 though. 

[schild]

If they don't do a Wheelman 50% off deal on release day tomorrow, I would expect Double Agent for $5, Heroes V Bundled for like $20 or maybe $15 and Settlers for $10. They might do HAWX or Endwar for 10 because they're total shit but I don't expect them to fuck around even trying to sell Lost or Grey's Fucking Anatomy.

[Baldrake]

Monday:  Assassin's Creed $9.99

Aaaaaaaaaahhhh dammit! Why did I read this on TUESDAY??

[Segoris]

Yeah, gotta pass on that one.  I'd buy it for $10 though. 

^This.

If they don't do a Wheelman 50% off deal on release day tomorrow, I would expect Double Agent for $5, Heroes V Bundled for like $20 or maybe $15 and Settlers for $10. They might do HAWX or Endwar for 10 because they're total shit but I don't expect them to fuck around even trying to sell Lost or Grey's Fucking Anatomy.

I was thinking Far Cry 2 @ $15, Heroes Bundle @ $20, and possibly Shaun White @ $15. If only it were "we're selling Ubisoft games at what they're actually worth" so HAWX would be $10 :(

[schild]

Hawx and Endwar would be free.

[Segoris]

Hawx and Endwar would be free.

Touché

[NiX]

Aaaaaaaaaahhhh dammit! Why did I read this on TUESDAY??

Here's what you do:

Step 1. Start a download of Assassin's Creed
Step 2. Take a screenshot of you downloading it
Step 3. Print off the screenshot
Step 4. Mail screenshot and $10 to Ubisoft and ask for a receipt. Just in case you want a return

[Hoax]

Hawx and Endwar would be free.

I sorta want to buy HAWKX is it is $10, but I don't know how much of a fuckwad Clancy has become, the planes looked shiney.  When did you have time to play it?

[schild]

How do I find the time to do anything? I'm pretty good at managing things these days. Considering the only thing left for me to manage IS my time.

[bhodi]

Wtf. PoP is way better than assassin's creed.

[schild]

Wtf. PoP is way better than assassin's creed.

No one said otherwise?

[schild]

Brother's in Arms: Hell's Highway, 50% off.

UBISoft can't even do a fucking sale correctly.

[Teleku]

I'd actually heard good things about Brothers In Arms.  That not true?

[NiX]

It's ok, but they tried way too hard to make it dramatic when the tech didn't have the capability.

[Teleku]

Hmm, so far they've put out games with a meta score of 79, 82, and 81, respectively. 

If these trends continue, I predict the next game will be Splinter Cell: Double Agent for $4.99!   

[Segoris]

Thursday - Far Cry 2 $14.99

I never did pick this up, I will today though for another rainy day title even though I heard it was worse then the first one.

[Samwise]

I might pick Far Cry up if it ever hits the price point where they will pay me to play it.

[schild]

Far Cry 1? I have 3-4 copies of the 64-bit addition lying around the house. I don't know why but I got a bunch of them in an envelope once.\

If I ever unpack, one of them is yours.

[Teleku]

Played the demo for Farcry 1, and it was pretty damn fun/cool.  What is everybody's beef with the franchise?

[schild]

Afaik, everyone liked the first, the second was like Grand Theft Columbia, had a dumb, dumb, dumb malaria mechanic and was all around meh. They totally fucked up what they were doing with the first one. Also, the gun play wasn't nearly as good.

[Samwise]

Played the demo for Farcry 1, and it was pretty damn fun/cool.  What is everybody's beef with the franchise?

If I could boil it down to one issue, it would be that they spent a lot of effort on having vegetation you could crawl around in that would obscure bad guys from you, but they didn't have it obscure YOU from the AI, so you'd have guys spot you from a mile away while you were hiding behind a bush.  That's just fucking clownshoes.  I think I spent about five minutes in the demo before saying "fuck this stupid shit" and uninstalling.

[Malakili]

Played the demo for Farcry 1, and it was pretty damn fun/cool.  What is everybody's beef with the franchise?

If I could boil it down to one issue, it would be that they spent a lot of effort on having vegetation you could crawl around in that would obscure bad guys from you, but they didn't have it obscure YOU from the AI, so you'd have guys spot you from a mile away while you were hiding behind a bush.  That's just fucking clownshoes.  I think I spent about five minutes in the demo before saying "fuck this stupid shit" and uninstalling.

I got the game "for free", in that it came with a video card I bought a number of years ago.  I figured, well, I may as well play it.  I got to one level, fairly far in the game, and as soon as I stepped outside from some tunnel I was in, I got sniped by people down a valley, across the water, that were so far away my computer wasn't even bothering to draw them.  It took me about 20 tries before I even survived past that tunnel, then said, this is ridiculous when I died anyway and had to do it AGAIN. 

Fun game, but that really was a deal breaker.

[Azazel]

I really liked the first one, despite it's serious flaws.

I really liked the second one, despite it's serious flaws, for the first half of the game. When the game hit the giant reset button at the midpoint, and threw you into a second area where you had to do the same shit as the first, I put it down and haven't picked it up since. I may finish it over my leave from work in a week, but mostly in order to have finished it, and to finish the f13 review I started back when I was enjoying it.

Having said that, $15 is probably the right price for it. You won't feel obliged to play it all the way through at that price, so you can stop when the fun drains out.

[Yegolev]

I feel the need to mention that these Ubisoft games are already on or coming soon to GOG.