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Originally Posted by ThisIsMyUserName
When will I learn not to buy some of these on day one? I thought I got a deal on Left 4 Dead 2, then they drop it down further to 37$. <3 PC
Also I'm replaying HL2E2, TF2, Batman, Audiosurf
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Unless there's a big deal on preorders or a it's game i'm dying to play, I've forced myself to wait for sales on PC games and it usually ends up being steam's insane discounting. It's crazy but it's even cheaper than the discount I get from working in videogame retail (a relief, since these stores are abandoning the platform thanks to digital distribution rendering them irrelevant).
Between their games and this service, Valve have quickly become my favourite developer and, it seems, the unofficial representives of PC gaming.
I have no idea how they make money out of TF2 but I don't think there's been another game of such quality that's been updated so frequenty and with such care and skill for so long. I'm sure they'll release Episode 3 any decade now too.
Audiosurf's a game I keep coming back to - sometimes I hear songs that sound like good levels and sometimes it's reading about things like the PC Gamer/Rock, Paper Shotgun staff's epic back and forth over the leaderboards of Whuthering Heights (seriously, try it).
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Originally Posted by rhesusattack
So let's see...
I picked up Osmos for $1.99 yesterday. I like the look and concept of the game, we'll see if it can keep me hooked, though frankly at that price it doesn't really need to.
I've also been watching my wife play Dragon Age. I picked it up for her for Christmas because of the fantasy-ass fantasy setting cuz she loved Oblivion, but man. That is a tough game to get into, especially on the 360 it seems. I can't believe your character doesn't even talk during the conversations. I may be a minority here, but I am less and less a fan of Bioware RPGs with each one I check out.
Just about finished with Batman. I've beaten the story, found all the Riddler challenges and am now working on the challenge mode. That game's the shit!
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Osmos is a lovely little game, I do wonder what Carl Sagan would have made of it. Oh and feed the sun!
The core of the game is still great but Dragon Age is a bit of a dog on consoles, the console version of Mass Effect had problems too but not as pronounced.
I've heard the voice thing was an artistic choice of wanting you to inhabit a character of your creation, rather than role playing an edited one (like Shepard). It's an interesting point but the lack of voice acting is still jarring, perhaps a selection of voices is the way to go but that's going to be an expensive and time consuming workaround.
I think Batman was my game of the year, i've been waiting since the 8-bit era for a game that gets the feel of Batman right and this developer who came out of nowhere confidently strode in and got it right first time.