Games on SALE!
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I may have come off as overly snarky, sorry. But that's a fair assessment - I really enjoy visual novels, nekkid content or not. I feel the format offers a lot, and isn't explored enough.
But I can respect it, that you don't care for it.
In case people are interested - Humble Bundle has Dirt Showdown for free for the next 21 hours as part of their Winter Sale... Redeems on Steam.
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/shadowrun-triplepack?hmb_source=search_bar
Humble Bundle has the Shadowrun Returns 3-pack: Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and Shadowrun: Hong Kong.
If you don't have them, this is a great price to get all 3.
Humble Bundle has the Shadowrun Returns 3-pack: Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and Shadowrun: Hong Kong.
If you don't have them, this is a great price to get all 3.
True that but compared to the other games it's a distant 3rd.
Hong Kong is also in the 'Best of 2016' bundle, at about 4$, in case any of you have the other two.
figmentPez
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Chrono.gg's daily sale is Enter the Gungeon for $7
Tales of Bersaria is about 5 bucks off for 4-5 more hours, if you're into that kind of thing.
I think the game unlocks around 3PM PST.
I think the game unlocks around 3PM PST.
Psst. Hey man. *opens up his trench coat* Want a free copy of X-Com UFO Defense?
Hey just thought I should post this in this thread, in case anyone is in the habit of buying/reselling codes:
Nvidia stops promotional game resales by tying codes to hardware
--Patrick
Nvidia stops promotional game resales by tying codes to hardware
--Patrick
The last promotional game I got from Nvidia was Gears of War 4, which required going through the Windows 10 Store, which was so broken and troublesome I said fuck it I don't want to play Gears anyway.
Don't care if I'll be getting some Disagrees here but I'll say it, EA is a scumbag company but Origin is a better platform overall than Steam.
Sure the selection of games are limited but I don't have any issues with the software, deals are solid and I'm fine by it. Support is top notch.
Malware.
GasBandit
Staff member
I hate the proliferation of publisher-specific "platforms." Steam at least is multipublisher. Even if Uplay wasn't broken shit, and even if Origin is smooth as a glass baby bottom, I don't care - it isn't technical problems that I object to here. It's the idea of how much control and access I'm willing to give a publisher to my computer. I was probably one of the most delayed adopters of steam - I was a hardcore, unrepentant pirate until about 2012 or so. I finally got lured into steam because shit was 5 bucks and under and had steamworks in the backend to make it easy to multiplayer.
Half of my resistance to blizzard games comes from me not even liking to have battlenet, too, even though there's nothing wrong with battlenet other than it's yet one more memory-resident publisher gateway put between me and game dot exe.
I heard this discussion in the past and to be honest I don't agree with it.
Origin: Has come a long way since it was first released. Used to be incredibly buggy, malware-like, quite ugly with very few games on it. Now it's actually pretty good, the recent update to the UI is very nice, decent sales, good cloud sync and other EA stuff like the refund policy and Origin subscription service are apparently quite good. Free monthly game. Support is excellent. Some people still encounter some bugs but I don't personally, my main complaint against Origin is that the community features are very weak.
Steam: Steam gets a lot of hate and sometimes it deserves it but for the most part it works amazingly. The amount of functionality in Steam is insane and probably more than all the other clients combined. It has very good community tools, a fairly good store front, Steam workshop, SteamVR, Steam Market and good services for developers to post announcements or answer forums. The downsides of Steam at the moment is the overlay which is archaic, the sales of old are GONE compared to sales from 3rd party websites and there is just a general feel of age in the client. It looks fine but the client hasn't been overhauled for many years, I'd love for Valve to almost start from scratch and see what they could come up with because I think they can do better than Steam. Support is abysmal and shitty. Refund policy is new and mostly useless with the 2 hours limit. Lastly, the entire thing has been taken over by the Early Access shit.
Long story short, Origin has gone a long way and since EA is in the business of making money it makes sense. Steam gets a nice chunk of profit and EA doesn't like that.
This won't change your opinion, nor do I plan to.
I just typed this because I'm a corporate EA shill now.
ALL HAIR CORPORATE.
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Honestly I agree, Origin isn't nearly as awful as it once was. The new program is small and runs great, and I've had zero issues with it.
Compared to Win10 store, UPlay, Battle.net (didn't it change name recently? oh well) and some others, yeah, Origin isn't all that bad. And I do really think Steam needs more competition. It's why I'll buy from GOG if I can.
I dislike publisher-restricted clients as well, though -I don't want 10 different programs running in the background just to play games.
Origin was originally a steaming pile of dog excrement, but it's slowly improved. Windows live for games was a puddle of diarrhetic cow production, and it's only gotten worse.
I dislike publisher-restricted clients as well, though -I don't want 10 different programs running in the background just to play games.
Origin was originally a steaming pile of dog excrement, but it's slowly improved. Windows live for games was a puddle of diarrhetic cow production, and it's only gotten worse.
So I don't do this a lot, but as someone that loves a lot of the old school Star Wars games, this bundle is simply absurd. It could have a quarter of the games and it'd still be a very good deal to me
https://www.humblebundle.com/star-wars-3-bundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/star-wars-3-bundle
Yeah, I looked, but I think The Force Unleashed II is the only game of the whole bundle I don't already own at least once (and two or three times for some....Sigh, GOG and Steam and CDs)
It's like 4 hours long so don't bother if you were thinking about it. I rented it one day and beat it that night. Super pissed.
Played it when it released, Imp Agent, max level, #1 PVPer on my server, completed all content in my guild in 2 months. Got bored and never went back.
I'm hoping for a more single player experience.
