EA Week: June 14 - June 21 (Dragon Age Day)

[Mosesandstick]

Is DS worth getting or are the controls that bad?

[Samwise]

Dead Space is not worth getting.  The PC controls are that bad, I assure you.

Mirror's Edge is super awesome IMO, especially at $5.  Although I haven't played the PC version.

[Hoax]

Dead Space? I thought it was great. Not even sure what the controls complaint is?

[Samwise]

It seems like some people have had better luck than others, so it's probably hardware-dependent.  For me, it was literally like playing with a defective mouse.  Sensitivity would randomly go up and down and make it incredibly frustrating to aim at things.

[Thrawn]

I've been pleasantly surprised by Burnout: Paradise.  Not usually much of a racing game fan but I'm enjoying it and was well worth the $8 or whatever it was.

Have to post a screenshot as always, never get tired of it.   

[Morfiend]

It seems like some people have had better luck than others, so it's probably hardware-dependent.  For me, it was literally like playing with a defective mouse.  Sensitivity would randomly go up and down and make it incredibly frustrating to aim at things.

I bought Dead Space and Mirror's Edge. The fucking mouse controls in Dead Space are making the game damn near unplayable. I have tried some of the fixes I found online, it helped a little bit, but still REALLY bad. Im considering asking Steam for a refund.

[Rasix]

Controls play pretty well on the PS3.  Only minor issue is that aim and fire are L1/R1 when I just got done playing Red Dead Redemption, which was L2/R2.  Yah, I know this doesn't help you any. 

[Morfiend]

Seriously. How hard is it to fuck up the MOUSE in FPS/TPS. Grr. If I had paid more than $10 for it, I would be pissed.

[Chimpy]

When does the day change? It is almost 11:30 AM and it is still listing it as friday for fuck's sake.

[Paelos]

10AM Pacific. 20 minutes from now.

[Segoris]

Updated. I think they did pretty good for today's sale.

[Chimpy]

All of my friends kept telling me I should try Mass Effect. Now I will!

Though having to wait 3 years for the download makes me wish I had cable instead of DSL.

[Paelos]

Yeah, ME2 was on sale for $24 ($5 less than new on Amazon), so I'm going to give it a go. ME1 is well worth it at $5.

[Kageru]

So, let's see.. On a straight conversion ME2 should be 27.60/41.45 Australian dollars (normal versus deluxe) but the actual prices are 41.99/47.99. So strangely enough the deluxe version is better "value" by box price but never been too impressed with the extras they put in. Still, tempting, although I have ME1 sitting around from the xmas sale waiting for some gaming time.

Will probably get one of ME2 or Dragon Age. Deciding which is going to be fun.

[Mosesandstick]

ME2 is 18 pounds on Steam, I can order a physical online for 15. Going to do so now 

[Paelos]

Yeah I've found that it's always good to do a quick scan on some Steam "sales" to make sure the physical copies aren't already cheaper.

[Goreschach]

Yeah, I'm not too excited about this ME2 sale. I think I'll just wait for the holiday sale. They'll probably have a better deal then.

[Paelos]

What holiday are yall waiting for? Christmas? I'm just wondering if there's some impending sale on the 4th or something.

[Goreschach]

If last new year's is any indication, steam will have another huge, wallet sucking sale around christmas.

[Sky]

I figured since ME is selling on Steam normally for $20, paying less than $25 for ME2 is worth it, since I don't have to wait around for the xmas sale. And for $5, I'll just toss out my ME discs...

[Lantyssa]

I bought ME for just that reason.  My disk was already sketchy on installs.  Maybe this way I'll have the correct patch, too.

[Soulflame]

I was hoping for a better sale price on ME2.  I'll hold out til the Christmas super-sale.  Although all I bought during last year/s mega-sale was Defense Grid.

[Chimpy]

So the ME dowload finished, I clicked play. It did the "direct X installation" it seems every game needs from steam then won't load. Even closing steam and trying to open the game through the shortcut won't work. I get the "play Mass Effect" selection box and then it just stops even trying to load.

Don't know if it is a steam thing, or a Mass effect thing, or a Win 7 thing but this is annoying.

So apparently, you have to Run Steam as administrator, then run the ME launcher as administrator too to be able to run the game. Yay.

[Azazel]

ME2 is 18 pounds on Steam, I can order a physical online for 15. Going to do so now 

Who's got it for that?

Still, I'm waiting till I've played ME1 before getting ME2. I figure by then it has a much better chance of being GOTY edition or such with all the DLC included.

[caladein]

So the ME dowload finished, I clicked play. It did the "direct X installation" it seems every game needs from steam then won't load. Even closing steam and trying to open the game through the shortcut won't work. I get the "play Mass Effect" selection box and then it just stops even trying to load.

Don't know if it is a steam thing, or a Mass effect thing, or a Win 7 thing but this is annoying.

So apparently, you have to Run Steam as administrator, then run the ME launcher as administrator too to be able to run the game. Yay.

I remember there being a notice on the store page for ME1 that it required running as Administrator.

It's still down there but buried under System Requirements instead of as a highlighted notice.

* WINDOWS VISTA OR WINDOWS 7 USERS: Launching “Mass Effect” from Steam requires the setting “Run as Administrator”. If the User Account Control feature of Windows Vista is enabled, launching “Mass Effect” from Steam will result in failure. For users with User Account Control enabled, launch Steam using the “Run as Administrator” option or launch from the windows shortcut.

[Wasted]

I've been waiting for another $5.00 Mass Effect sale so I'll be grabbing that, I would have got ME2 but for the shitty discriminatory AU pricing they can go fuck themselves.

[K9]

ME2 is 18 pounds on Steam, I can order a physical online for 15. Going to do so now 

Who's got it for that?

Still, I'm waiting till I've played ME1 before getting ME2. I figure by then it has a much better chance of being GOTY edition or such with all the DLC included.

amazon.co.uk has it for £15 and change

Never played either, so going to pick up ME1 and see if I like it.

[Mosesandstick]

I used www.gamestracker.com to find a retailer. Usually if any of the other big retailers has it cheap amazon will automatically match the price anyways. One of the problems with discounted prices in the UK is that games has such high RRPs which (I hope) nearly nobody buys games at.

[Segoris]

The best deal, imo, is the Digital Deluxe edition + Awakenings. That actually isn't bad and Steam  fucked up by not listing that specifically. Sadly, Awakenings by itself is a shitty deal still at only 25% off so I guess I'm waiting on the holiday sale for that now.

[Rasix]

25%... I think I'll wait until Christmas. 

[trias_e]

25%... I think I'll wait until Christmas. 

This.  Disappointing deal if you already own the original and are just looking for Awakening.  I just picked up ME2 for 25 bucks,  but I don't feel like paying 30 bucks for an expansion, especially with the vast multitude of games I have yet to play in my steam library.  That's actually a nice side benefit to that fact;  I have tons of patience to wait for better deals.

[Azazel]

I used www.gamestracker.com to find a retailer. Usually if any of the other big retailers has it cheap amazon will automatically match the price anyways. One of the problems with discounted prices in the UK is that games has such high RRPs which (I hope) nearly nobody buys games at.

Could be worse. You could have our prices here. How do you get amazon.uk to match prices?

[Mosesandstick]

I don't. Amazon does. They're the only retailer I've seen where their prices are consistently near the lowest other retailer. It seems like their prices also fluctuate according to how the other retailers price their goods. At least that's my impression.

[Shrike]

ME for $6? Hell, yeah. I'd read that the PC port was a very different experience from the 360. Now I see that it is. Like a whole new game. Only bad point is it runs in 1280x960 (or some such) and is a touch fuzzy on my 1920x1200 LCD. Other than that minor grouch, I'm liking it a lot...again.

ME2. Well, I've got it. Not sure what I'll do with it. I've played the 360 version to death. Want to see the PC-pumped eye-candy, though, and I suppose I'll fix my screwed up renegade soldier save--finally. The real question will arise when ME3 comes out: PC or 360? Now it's actually a dilemma.

[Koyasha]

I got ME2 on PC for the ability to edit saves and such, basically.  Being able to use alternate hairstyles and not being forced to play through the entirety of ME1 every time I want to see what happens with a different set of decisions.