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[Trippy]

I found titan's quest really boring. I never could work out why, it's competently done and the price was really cheap, but it never had any off the excitement of diablo. Something to do with dull abilities, level design and loot I suspect.

Combat is a snooze-fest. It has Diablo-style loot but it does not have Diablo-style combat. If you aren't breaking mice playing the game it isn't a Diablo-clone, IMO.

[Thrawn]

Heh, Duke Nukem Forever for $9.99 already. 

[luckton]

Heh, Duke Nukem Forever for $9.99 already. 

Back where I first saw him many moons ago...in the shareware/discount bin at the local flea-market 

[Sir Fodder]

Tempted by the Red Faction: Armageddon sale but probably not gonna bite. Red Faction: Guerrilla was so fun due to the great open world mechanics and the greatest most iconic weapon since the crowbar, the sledgehammer! So fun running around busting up stuff, taking out enemies behind walls by busting right through them, rah. The remotely detonated charges were also super awesome. Guns suck. The Armageddon marketing makes it seem like a generic rail shooter game with some destruction mechanics, bleh, where the efff is the sledgehammer?!?

[Ingmar]

Yeah and it doesn't give me that awesome socialist worker's rebellion feel from what I've seen, which is a bummer. No sledgehammer is a big part of that I guess.

[schild]

I liked Titan Quest and hated Torchlight.

I hated both, which makes me sad.

Sad, or the President of the Official Backwoods No Fun Club? Or both, I suppose.

[proudft]

I also liked Titan Quest a good deal, but I have to point out the game is pretty damn long.  I was not really up for a second character to slog through the whole thing.  It was perfectly fun for the 40-hour or so first playthrough, though.   

If it had any random terrain I would probably still be playing it.

[Ingmar]

Yeah, it was pretty good, but the lack of random maps and just not QUITE enough mobs on the screen at once thing were the 2 big flaws. The loot was somehow just not quite as fun as Diablo 2's, too.

[Fabricated]

Titan Quest was slightly better about tuning drops to where you could complete a fucking set of armor than Torchlight was, but the lack of randomly generated areas just made it a bore to play through again.

[Rendakor]

Hearing everyone's replies, I might actually pick up TQ. I liked D2 a good deal but didn't care for Torchlight.

[Ginaz]

Homefront.  Is it worth $15?

[Ingmar]

Hearing everyone's replies, I might actually pick up TQ. I liked D2 a good deal but didn't care for Torchlight.

Hm, I'm not sure what this does to your thoughts, but I would say D2 and Torchlight are a fair bit more like each other than TQ is like either.

[Rendakor]

Really? Bleh. I didn't like Torchlight's skill trees whatsoever, and that's my favorite thing about Diablo clones. I also didn't care for the art style one bit; it looked too cartoony, particularly because all of the characters looked like children.

[Hawkbit]

TQ's trees are my favorite part of the game.  I think they're pretty broad, and it is entirely possible to build an uber character and also possible to build a dud. 

TQ's biggest issue is lack of 'fun' loot, and no random maps. 

I also didn't care for Torchlight very much because the trees were so... unorganized.  I can do cartoony, but the game just felt a mess.

[Ingmar]

Yeah the TQ trees are pretty involved.

[Azazel]

I had a great time with TQ, but my friends and I played it as a 4-player LAN game over several months worth of Friday nights. YMMV of course as a single player game. It also saves the games in a fucked-up manner in My Documents, so when our computers both died, we pretty much lost all of our characters and loot. I doubt this is a title THQ added Steam Cloud to. Not sure how it would play as a SP game, I'm sure it'd be decent enough but obviously the MP-with-friends adds a lot more and changes the experience dramatically.

I picked up RF: Armageddon yesterday. How much were RF 1 and 2? Despite having played them in the past, and being unlikely to play through them again, it might have been worthwhile to play them as a deboxing exercise...

[Malakili]

Meh, kinda disappointed that DoW2 isn't more than 50% off.  Under 10 bucks and I would've probably picked up Retribution.

[Miasma]

I preordered the next modern warfare and it gave me a call of duty 4 to give away if someone wants it.  I also have a copy of portal and puzzle agent.

Yeah that's right, puzzle agent, don't judge me.

[Paelos]

Make sure to pick up Dungeon Defenders this weekend if you want the preorder discounts on it.

[Vaiti]

Friend let me use his CD-KEY for Moderen Warfare 1 back in the day, plaued the crap out of the game, but never got around to buying it for myself. Dead graphics card means I'd get no use out of the game tho.

If no one has taken it, I'd like Puzzle Agent tho, I recall being intrigued by the video's of gameplay, but not enough for whatever the price was at the time. Never seen it on sale. Vaiti on steam as well.

[Miasma]

Okay, should have been sent.

[Threash]

Last Remnant any good?

[Vaiti]

Thanks Miasma, been enjoying it it, fun little game alot of cleverness in it. Assume you have the second part? More goodness? I'll have to pick it up if so.

Last Remnant is slow starting, but I love it. It's the single Steam title that they never fucking put on sale here in Europe. Always excluded. Pisses me off.

[Vaiti]

Holy shit, we actually got the daily deal as well.
-75% 7,50€

Bought.

[Miasma]

The second one is also good but it takes place in the exact same place, I was hoping for some new scenery.

[Rendakor]

I thought Last Remnant was ok, but it had very bad framerate issues on the Xbox which made it nearly unplayable.

[Vaiti]

The PC version is a million times better. No joke, they highly optimized the code. There is even extra content and features in the PC version over the Xbox version.
It's really one of those games that shows how badly others are doing PC ports. Game will run smooth and look amazing even on lower end machines.

[Trippy]

Except you really want a controller to play the game.

[Rasix]

The PC version is a million times better. No joke, they highly optimized the code. There is even extra content and features in the PC version over the Xbox version.
It's really one of those games that shows how badly others are doing PC ports. Game will run smooth and look amazing even on lower end machines.

It just about killed my last system.  Of course, that system now is pretty low end.

[Vaiti]

Except you really want a controller to play the game.

Well there is that. But who doesn't have a controller for their PC nowdays? Cavemen. Cavemen don't. and me, but I'm getting one I swear...

[Sky]

Well there is that. But who doesn't have a controller for their PC nowdays? Cavemen. Cavemen don't. and me, but I'm getting one I swear...

I'm arguably a cave man. Mountain man reformed, at least. I've had a wireless 360 pad for years. You should really pick on up, console ports usually go much better with it.

[Kail]

The thing about gamepads is that you either spend $20.00 for one that's unsupported in half the games out there, or you spend $70.00 for the XBox pad, which seems kind of steep considering the games I'll be using it for.

[Rasix]

I got my xbox controller for $15 bucks used at a Gamestop.  Granted it's wired, but for my PC, I don't need wireless.

[Sky]

Uh...what?

[Vaiti]

Well, I technically have a controller. A first gen Logitech Wireless Controller.  Still works, I just hate it. Use it to play Super Meat Boy alot tho. About the only game I will use it for, because, fuck trying to play Super Meat Boy with a keyboard.

I haven't gotten around to getting an Xbox one which I would tolerate for daily use, simply because they are stupid expensive here. 80€ or so for just the controller, good luck find it online without shipping that will put it up in the pricerange anyhow.

My upcming trip to the US in 2 weeks, I plan to abuse the "strong" euro and the cheap USD to grab me one at a bargain basement price. Likely this
That is, unless Newegg has gone down the shitter in the last 4 years. They ship super fast?

This would also be where schild jumps in and tells me how to use that NewEgg link at the upper right to get him money.