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JujuFish

Lifer
Feb 3, 2005
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It was $9 at GamersGate last month for Black Friday, but that was a pricing mistake and fixed pretty quickly.
 

Dankk

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$5 for LA Noire is a great deal.

Are you kidding me? All of those are superior (except perhaps the moral decisions) in Heavy Rain. Oh, and the choices actually matter in Heavy Rain, too. Like I said, it's decent.

Heavy Rain plays like a campy B-grade Lifetime Original drama with unlikable characters and terrible French voice acting. The Walking Dead, on the other hand, maintains the same visceral and engaging feel of the lauded primetime TV/comic book series it was inspired by. Despite the cartoony graphics, it still manages to be far more immersive and impacting than Heavy Rain.

To each his own though. I admit: I played all the way through Heavy Rain and thought it was pretty good, but there were too many things that kept it from being great. David Cage has some good ideas, but his creations are quite flawed.

Has The Walking Dead ever been over 50% off ?

Doesn't look like it.
 

JujuFish

Lifer
Feb 3, 2005
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Heavy Rain plays like a campy B-grade Lifetime Original drama with unlikable characters and terrible French voice acting. The Walking Dead, on the other hand, maintains the same visceral and engaging feel of the lauded primetime TV/comic book series it was inspired by. Despite the cartoony graphics, it still manages to be far more immersive and impacting than Heavy Rain.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

To each his own though. I admit: I played all the way through Heavy Rain and thought it was pretty good, but there were too many things that kept it from being great. David Cage has some good ideas, but his creations are quite flawed.
I think we can agree that they are both good games, and if you like one, you'll probably like the other.
 

Whirlwind

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Nov 4, 2006
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Is the Sleeping Dogs dlc worth it....or is just some of it good ?

Should I just wait for a better deal and snag it all, when cheaper.
 

lupi

Lifer
Apr 8, 2001
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If you want FTL, it's still on sale and a better deal at the developers website.
 

lupi

Lifer
Apr 8, 2001
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just logged into steam on my other computer and have a crap load of games in the download folder, when I select one to start downloading steam is telling me it has a new more efficent download for the game...some type of file optimization I assume?
 

KaOTiK

Lifer
Feb 5, 2001
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just logged into steam on my other computer and have a crap load of games in the download folder, when I select one to start downloading steam is telling me it has a new more efficent download for the game...some type of file optimization I assume?

Yeah. The new content system they have been switching games over too for a little bit now. It's to make the game smaller and easier to patch. Some games it will just be a small update, other games though you'll have to redownload the entire thing.
 

lupi

Lifer
Apr 8, 2001
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Yeah. The new content system they have been switching games over too for a little bit now. It's to make the game smaller and easier to patch. Some games it will just be a small update, other games though you'll have to redownload the entire thing.

what sucks about it for now is it only kets you do one game at a time.

hopefully it fixes things like downloading language sound files for every possible selection when you only want 1 and wasting much space.
 

KaOTiK

Lifer
Feb 5, 2001
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Any opinions on Alice or Orcs Must Die 2?

Both are good. I haven't played Alice much, but it is a decent platform with great style/visuals. Orcs Must Die! 2 is a ton of fun. If you liked the first one you'll enjoy the second as well.
 

KeithTalent

Elite Member | Administrator | No Lifer
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Grabbed Alice for ten bones. I think I remember Anubis creaming all over it when it first came out.

KT
 
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AlexAL

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Is the Sleeping Dogs dlc worth it....or is just some of it good ?

Should I just wait for a better deal and snag it all, when cheaper.

The missions DLC are good. The rest is subjective. I finished it and when I want a bit more of Sleeping Dogs I'll just get a DLC like Nightmare and play that.
 

Kyle

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Oct 14, 1999
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OMD2 is more of the same from OMD, just has new character to play, new weapons and traps, enemies, etc. Plus it now has co-op play.

Any reason to start w/ the first one? Or should I just grab OMD 2? I've not played either at all.

Missed Serious sam 3- prob would have grabbed that
 

AlexAL

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Thought I'd do something a little different, maybe save some $$ in the long run: Anyone want to glance through my wishlist, maybe point out a few worthless games to get rid of?
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197992200123/wishlist

Realistically I won't spend more than like $30 more this sale but who knows, could save me next summer or Christmas.

Damn, now THAT is a wishlist.

Skip Two Worlds 1, get Two Worlds 2. Scratch Devil May Cry 3, replace with 4. People laud Disciples 2 for gameplay as opposed to the washed down 3, you might want to read comparisons between 2 and 3. Or just get HOMM 3 from GOG? I've read enough uninspiring reviews of Cities XL that I removed it from my wishlist.
 
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KaOTiK

Lifer
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Thought I'd do something a little different, maybe save some $$ in the long run: Anyone want to glance through my wishlist, maybe point out a few worthless games to get rid of?
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197992200123/wishlist

Realistically I won't spend more than like $30 more this sale but who knows, could save me next summer or Christmas.

I looked at your wishlist and became sad because I own probably around 90% of it, 8% of it is on my wishlist and the last 2% is neither lol
 

maniacalpha1-1

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Damn, now THAT is a wishlist.

Skip Two Worlds 1, get Two Worlds 2. Scratch Devil May Cry 3, replaced with 4. People laud Disciples 2 for gameplay as opposed to the washed down 3, you might want to read comparisons between 2 and 3. Or just get HOMM 3 from GOG? I've read enough uninspiring review of Cities XL that I removed it from my wishlist.

Done! That's a couple off for free...

I looked at your wishlist and became sad because I own probably around 90% of it, 8% of it is on my wishlist and the last 2% is neither lol

LOL, probably the only ones on your wishlist are the ones you can't buy because they aren't out yet...
 

Barfo

Lifer
Jan 4, 2005
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Pshh, installing, running it once for a few minutes and never playing again doesn't count as playing
 
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