PC Games Sales Thread - Page 376

On July 20 2013 09:29 carraway wrote:
The Skyrim DLCs are very shallow in terms of added depth. Dawnguard and Dragonborn both consist of a fairly brief main quest and some sidequests; Dragonborn adds more landscape to play around with, and I'd say it's the better choice in terms of variety -- Hermaeus Mora alone is more interesting than any character in Dawnguard. Dawnguard adds a little bit of high-end crafting functionality, but nothing you really need given how easy it is to min/max the base game.

Solstheim is pretty small, so I wouldn't set your expectations too high.

On July 20 2013 09:52 Eschaton wrote:


Ah, ok thanks, I think I'll skip them both then. Can't say how disappointing it is for such shallow DLC to be released, given the possibilities and the commercial success of the base game. I suppose all of Bethesda's efforts have been going towards Elder Scrolls Online.

On July 20 2013 10:02 Murdco wrote:

they are not developing that either ZeniMax Online Studios are making that game, Bethesda has taken a turn towards making the horse armor DLC less outrageous but equally shallow in the form of their latest efforts.

On July 20 2013 10:45 Darpa wrote:
Is it just me or this sale pretty underwhelming.

All the games that are big discounts were already for sale in the last sale. There doesnt seem to be alot of titles on sale worth buying. >< . The flash sales literally have games that are terrible and not worth looking at, right now its : Football Manager, NBA2k13 and F1. The last set was indy games.

Tomb raider, Hitman, being the exception. No other premium quality games with 75% of deal. (at least recent games)

On July 20 2013 10:45 Darpa wrote:
Is it just me or this sale pretty underwhelming.

All the games that are big discounts were already for sale in the last sale. There doesnt seem to be alot of titles on sale worth buying. >< . The flash sales literally have games that are terrible and not worth looking at, right now its : Football Manager, NBA2k13 and F1. The last set was indy games.

Tomb raider, Hitman, being the exception. No other premium quality games with 75% of deal. (at least recent games)

On July 20 2013 10:52 TheYango wrote:

While I can understand if the genre isn't up your alley, Football Manager 2k13 is probably one of the best spreadsheet/management games. Definitely not "terrible and not worth looking at".

On July 20 2013 10:52 TheYango wrote:

While I can understand if the genre isn't up your alley, Football Manager 2k13 is probably one of the best spreadsheet/management games. Definitely not "terrible and not worth looking at".

On July 20 2013 10:54 SKC wrote:
Those are also not Flash Sales, they are the Community's Choice options. And it is pretty much insane to say the community choice games have all been worthless, you just have to look at the current one, Super Meat Boy. The Flash Sales are Star Conflict, Fallout NV, Hitman Absolution and FTL. Definatelly not terrible games as well.

On July 20 2013 11:02 y0su wrote:

Yeah, I'm quite happy with my FM13 purchase and although very tempted by NBA2k13 (92 metacritic and one of the only major sports games still shipped for pc) and F1 I had to draw the line somewhere.

On July 20 2013 11:07 SKC wrote:

Which major sports games aren't available to PC anymore? Afaik PES and FIFA should be the biggest ones and still have PC versions, NBA has it seems, so I guess NA sports such as Madden and whathever is done for Baseball? I'm sure it's not their main focus anymore, but I don't think PC ports are such a rarity.

On July 20 2013 12:36 Trumpet wrote:
Community choice is just there to get me hype and then make me mad. Why did people pick SMB over newer games to be there on the same damn sale price it's been for nearly ever sale up to this point!?? So mad!! Also anyone who likes games that focus of decision making, space, ship battles, oregon trail, or any combination of those things absolutely ought to pick up FTL at $2.50. I've played that game more than I want to admit, it's brilliantly addictive and rewarding.

On July 20 2013 12:09 Darpa wrote:



Didnt really mean to shit on them, but they are for a very specific demographic. I mean more that flash sales are 8 hours instead of 4 like last year, and lack of premium content in my opinion (at least premium content that hasnt already been offered through other sales).

Also, Community choice games are only picking the item for sale are they not? The original 3 choices are set by steam and not by some community vote. Otherwise I cant see how those games would end up in the box over tons of other favorites since those are pretty specific games. It also wouldnt make sense to have 3 random Indy games on the community choice section before this.

I suppose Im not trying to undercut those games, they may have their merits, but lets be real here those games arent exactly hot ticket items.

On July 20 2013 03:36 Battleaxe wrote:
With what I've played of Witcher 2, I lost interest after about 2-3 hours where as I couldn't put Witcher down until I finished it, and I just played through Witcher ~1 month ago.

Witcher 2 looks good, but eh I just can't get into it. I'd say your problem likely has something to do with Win8, I've got 3570k, GTX 650, and 8gb RAM, had no problems running it. Perhaps go into the steam folder and try setting the executable to run in WinXP/Vista/7 compatibility mode and see if that helps.

On July 20 2013 12:36 Trumpet wrote:
Community choice is just there to get me hype and then make me mad. Why did people pick SMB over newer games to be there on the same damn sale price it's been for nearly ever sale up to this point!?? So mad!! Also anyone who likes games that focus of decision making, space, ship battles, oregon trail, or any combination of those things absolutely ought to pick up FTL at $2.50. I've played that game more than I want to admit, it's brilliantly addictive and rewarding.