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I played King Arthur 2 and I do not really advice for it.
The role playing part is certainly fun and my favorite part was making my heroes uber powerful. The games seems to be more filled with action at the beginning and in fact everything is scripted. It's not as you could do a new campaign with a new hero (wizard, fighter or warlords, but you can find plenty of these during the campaign), you would do exactly the same things twice.
Bad points: bad optimization, I would take Rome total war a million times over during fights. You can have magical creatures thats cool but the fights are so laggy it's not even fun. Tactic is a real joke, it seems your units do not even get tired. And because of the terrible fighting system its hard to make some interesting line fight or encirclement move. Your units just all clog up together into a giant blob from which they can hardly get out.
The campaign map is a little better but management has been dumped down to almost nothing. Building do not even generate wealth anymore, building them just let you have different kind of soldiers and diplomacy feels empty. You just ask for something, pay money in exchange for something else...without much effect. Your enemies are pre-determined, and all those you are not supposed to fight yet are super buffed so you don't even try.
Good: If I were to play that game again, I would only go for the roleplaying part, it's probably the only potent thing about the game, resolving the little enigmas and following the story which is quite interesting, and play only the absolute minimum of battle possibles, some cannot be autoed.
For 50$ or so I regret buying it on release, for 10$ it would be fine (like napoleon total war right now on steam, which is a far superior game).
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When will summer sale begin?
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Just heads up, all Deus Ex titles are 75% off.
While not flawless, I can recommend every single one of them (especially for that price).
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^Seconded, very enjoyable games and one of the few franchises that didn't just flat out cash out with the name.
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On June 17 2012 21:05 Arnstein wrote:
When will summer sale begin?
edit: Actually, it should be this coming Thursday, since the last two began on the final Thursdays of June as well.
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On June 22 2012 08:56 L0thar wrote:
Just heads up, all Deus Ex titles are 75% off.
While not flawless, I can recommend every single one of them (especially for that price).
Deus Ex 1 is flawless, the only reason you don't think it is flawless is that a) you haven't played it, b) you were playing it in a foreign language, or c) you were wearing a bucket on your head and earplugs in your ears while you played it. Or all three.
I advise anyone who is a fan of enjoying life to buy Deus Ex 1. Anyone who hates themselves should avoid buying it.
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L.A. Noire is 2.99 and the DLC for it is 2.99 as well. L.A. Noire is made by Rockstar and is basically GTA but restricted (you can't run people over). It's an incrediblly good story immersion game and If you enjoy games that are not only fun to play but suck you in emotionally with the story then yuo should really get this game. The world is huge and the gameplay is really different than any other game i've ever played. I would also compare how good the story was to as good as red dead/gta4 maybe even better. The cars are fun to drive, you can wreck some objects like fences, poles, etc. The gun fights are over pretty quickly but the gun fights are pretty damn satisfying even if they do seem to be over kind of shortly. Keep in mind, this is not a GTA clone, it has a lot of elements, but don't expect to dive out of a helicopter into a lake then rpg cars until you get 6 stars. It's not that kind of game. Also, the facial features on the characters and the body movements ARE INSANE. You will never look at game characters face normally ever again after you play this game. It's like they literally are real people...they used real people to do the thing with the faces. Seriously, 2.99 is a fucking steal, get this game.
EDIT: i just checked and it is 4.99 now for some reason, it was 2.99. Still definently worth the money though. thats really fucking cheap.
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Summer sale supposedly in just a couple days. Hoping to see Annoy 2070 on sale and, though it only came out a few days ago, Magic 2013.
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On June 27 2012 08:09 Jakatak_ wrote:
L.A. Noire is 2.99 and the DLC for it is 2.99 as well. L.A. Noire is made by Rockstar and is basically GTA but restricted (you can't run people over). It's an incrediblly good story immersion game and If you enjoy games that are not only fun to play but suck you in emotionally with the story then yuo should really get this game. The world is huge and the gameplay is really different than any other game i've ever played. I would also compare how good the story was to as good as red dead/gta4 maybe even better. The cars are fun to drive, you can wreck some objects like fences, poles, etc. The gun fights are over pretty quickly but the gun fights are pretty damn satisfying even if they do seem to be over kind of shortly. Keep in mind, this is not a GTA clone, it has a lot of elements, but don't expect to dive out of a helicopter into a lake then rpg cars until you get 6 stars. It's not that kind of game. Also, the facial features on the characters and the body movements ARE INSANE. You will never look at game characters face normally ever again after you play this game. It's like they literally are real people...they used real people to do the thing with the faces. Seriously, 2.99 is a fucking steal, get this game.
EDIT: i just checked and it is 4.99 now for some reason, it was 2.99. Still definently worth the money though. thats really fucking cheap.
what the hell I bought it for full price about 1 week ago. FFFFUUUU
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L.A. Noire is 7,49 and 9,99 with DLC for Euros.
Still should be worth it although I heard it's poorly optimized for PC's, good week of sales for me with Driver San Fransico and this now, and summer sale soon.
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I am getting seriously annoyed here when i see people from the US getting stuff for 5 dollars, and just because i live in Europe it suddenly costs double that amount for no apparent reason. Apparently Dollar = Euro was not ripoff enough for steam, so they decided to instead make it 5$=7.5€. Seriously bullshit. Is there a good way to pay American prices, because i really fail to see why i should pay double the amount americans pay for the same product on the same service.
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When I was in Europe last summer, I used my school's VPN to get me back to American prices.
Though it varies quite a bit per game. I actually saw a few that were cheaper in euros than in dollars.
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On June 27 2012 15:45 Simberto wrote:
I am getting seriously annoyed here when i see people from the US getting stuff for 5 dollars, and just because i live in Europe it suddenly costs double that amount for no apparent reason. Apparently Dollar = Euro was not ripoff enough for steam, so they decided to instead make it 5$=7.5€. Seriously bullshit. Is there a good way to pay American prices, because i really fail to see why i should pay double the amount americans pay for the same product on the same service.
before buying older games on steam better check on gog.com there you pay $ prices even as a european
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Apparently, you can get both Breath of Death 7 and Cthulhu saves the world when you buy On the rain-slick precipice of darkness 3.
Now, i have not played that third game, but the first two i can highly recommend, and i just bought the third one just because it is by the same developer, and appears to follow the same formula as the two others, which i enjoyed a lot (This also means that i now have tradeable copies of the other two games i already own, which given their already cheap price i would trade for basically any game). They are basically retro-style rpgs with a bit of weird humour going on.
I can highly recommend them if you are into that sort of thing.
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On June 27 2012 15:45 Simberto wrote:
I am getting seriously annoyed here when i see people from the US getting stuff for 5 dollars, and just because i live in Europe it suddenly costs double that amount for no apparent reason. Apparently Dollar = Euro was not ripoff enough for steam, so they decided to instead make it 5$=7.5€. Seriously bullshit. Is there a good way to pay American prices, because i really fail to see why i should pay double the amount americans pay for the same product on the same service.
valve doesnt make the steam prices, publishers do, by the way.
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On June 27 2012 16:00 Mysticesper wrote:
When I was in Europe last summer, I used my school's VPN to get me back to American prices.
Though it varies quite a bit per game. I actually saw a few that were cheaper in euros than in dollars.
Well but you created your account in the US didnt you?
I tried using a VPN to get an US IP but I still couldnt buy stuff for $ prices (or uncensored versions - Germany yeah!). It was okay until the actually payment step.
Best option would be to find someone who can gift you those items.
On June 28 2012 04:05 Simberto wrote:
Apparently, you can get both Breath of Death 7 and Cthulhu saves the world when you buy On the rain-slick precipice of darkness 3.
Now, i have not played that third game, but the first two i can highly recommend, and i just bought the third one just because it is by the same developer, and appears to follow the same formula as the two others, which i enjoyed a lot (This also means that i now have tradeable copies of the other two games i already own, which given their already cheap price i would trade for basically any game). They are basically retro-style rpgs with a bit of weird humour going on.
I can highly recommend them if you are into that sort of thing.
I bought BoD7 & Cthulhu both for 2.5€. I only played Cthulhu and well... you REALLY need to love & miss those old RPGs to enjoy it.
The dialog was funny but not better than your average sitcom (it was bad).
Combat was even worse. Spam autoattack to victory! Sure some bosses required a special here and there but overall - it was horrid. I'd say pay 10€ and get a decent JRPG. You will have a better experience (and probably more value since those have optional grinds^^).
Reading it again it might sound negative:
I enjoyed it. But I like grindy JRPGs.
If you havent played i.e. FF VI on an emulator: go play that instead 
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On Jun 27 2012 21:05 Simberto wrote:
Apparently, you can get both Breath of Death 7 and Cthulhu saves the world when you buy On the rain-slick precipice of darkness 3.
Now, i have not played that third game, but the first two i can highly recommend, and i just bought the third one just because it is by the same developer, and appears to follow the same formula as the two others, which i enjoyed a lot (This also means that i now have tradeable copies of the other two games i already own, which given their already cheap price i would trade for basically any game). They are basically retro-style rpgs with a bit of weird humour going on.
I can highly recommend them if you are into that sort of thing.
I've played the third one for 2 hours now, and I can say I like that one too. Best combat yet (and just challenging enough on Hard) I think the story is worse than Cthulhu and the UI is annoying, but it's still well worth my 4 euro's (and 2 duplicate games for my friends)
edit: I agree with the person above though, you need at least a bit of experience with this kind of game to really enjoy it.
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Considering the weekend deal, summer sale starts at earliest during monday. I've seen estimations as late as 12th for starting date, but I expect it to start 5th or earlier.
I need to get my wallet and bandwidth ready...
Also considering the current sale, DoWs were pretty decent games, Retribution got rid of GFWL and rebalanced lot of stuff and DoW1 is still pretty good (though quite imbalanced). Space Marine was something like 8 hours on hardest difficulty I think and the multiplayer is laggy as hell p2p, so unless you want to have some oomph stomping orc and chaos faces I don't really recommend it.
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On June 27 2012 15:45 Simberto wrote:
I am getting seriously annoyed here when i see people from the US getting stuff for 5 dollars, and just because i live in Europe it suddenly costs double that amount for no apparent reason. Apparently Dollar = Euro was not ripoff enough for steam, so they decided to instead make it 5$=7.5€. Seriously bullshit. Is there a good way to pay American prices, because i really fail to see why i should pay double the amount americans pay for the same product on the same service.
I have no evidence, but for hardware its because the UK has retarded tax rates on, well, everything.
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