PC Games Sales Thread - Page 210

On July 22 2012 08:58 OoFuzer wrote:
how is Civ V goty for 10 dollars?

On July 22 2012 09:05 Kenpachi wrote:

it gets better if you pick up its expansion.
for a new civ player, its a great game. I thoroughly enjoyed it. but the expansion is seriously a drastic improvement to it
GOTY comes with all but 2 DLCs which you can/should also pick up.

On July 22 2012 10:52 FaCE_1 wrote:
just bought VVVVV
hoping to see ID game go lower.. I want Doom 3 :D



if you want Civ V, you need to pick the expension, it's much better with it. Religion is nice, spy is nice, everything they added is nice :D

On July 22 2012 01:15 r.Evo wrote:


Wat.

If you like games which serve you everything on a silver platter, sure, get Oblivion or Skyrim over Morrowind. In Skyrim it takes you about 5 hours to become boss of some guild - in Morrowind it will take effort, dedication and 20+ hours. In Oblivion if you walk into a scary cave at lvl 1 the monsters there will be scaled for your convenience - In Morrowind you walk to a scary mountain as a freshly born adventurer at lvl 1, whack a skeleton on the head, do no damage and then get smacked back - dieing instantly.

Morrowind is one of the very few games that truely offer you a free world which makes sense in itself (5h till you're boss of the mages guild? 10-12h till you slay dragons without any trouble? REALLY?) and that doesn't hold your hand all the way along. In fact, the story and gameplay are so deep that trying to play it just to finish the main story is incredibly tiring.

Personally I tried - then I gave up, enjoyed the world and various cool characters and sidequests and started enjoying the game and the world itself. And maybe 100 hours later I finally was buff enough to finish the actual story. And then discovered some more.


No one makes games like this anymore today. The later Bethesda games (while still exemplatory for the genre) aimed to make things easier, more "casual" and more "fun" by offering quick bursts of gratification and an environment that adjusts to you. If you honestly think those are the better approaches, by all means, go for it.


As for the graphics, people earlier linked the 1.0 version of the graphics overhaul.

Here's version 2.0 (I prefer this video over the official trailer):

On July 22 2012 02:09 Dalguno wrote:


I totally agree. This was one of the first open world RPGs I ever played, and it was flat out hard. No fast travel- you have to find one of those transport things and pay to use it. The combat was difficult, but rewarding. The items felt like they had individuality, at least to me. Slostheim or whatever the expansion was called was way fun. I remember spending hours trying to become a werewolf just for fun. And the game was huge. So much fun. Definitely recommend Morrowind.