Game Deals Thread
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
DiRT 5 () is on Bungle Choice this month. I wonder if it's any good?
DiRT 5 is a stylized arcade rally game. If you like the style that DiRT 3 or especially DiRT 4 were, you'll probably like DiRT 5.
If you're looking for a less stylized arcade rally game, DiRT 5 isn't for you.
I'm happy to report that Forza Hujviņzin 4 just fucked off my wishlist. It sat there for a long time, because it kind of looked good, countryside and that street in Edinburgh. Checked it with my peg leg and goddamn it's fucking shite. Road discovered, near miss, near hit, drift point printer go brrr, some other points go brrr, ate your salad. Oi, sunshine, how about you let me see the bloody road, mate, yeah? Maybe that crap can be turned off, but then the entire premise of a "festival" run by soy hipsters on public roads is goofy. Much like any arcade racer in the past 10 years.
This is... exactly what Forza Horizon is supposed to be. If you don't like this, you don't like Forza Horizon and should play a different game.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
DiRT 5 () is on Bungle Choice this month. I wonder if it's any good?
I like it but then I also like Burnout Paradise and Forza Horizon 4 so
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
NFS Heat .... It's probably another stupid shit, but I gotta tick the box.
And goddamn it is. Fucking hell. How did we arrive to this point as a species! Goddamn hipsters
And it doesn't even look good. Everything cranked to the max and there's no AA whatsoever + their B-movie shit rates negative on Ebert scale.Oh, found the screenshot. It's got character selection screen. Let's play that game, pick one hipster that looks the least like a bum from Bay Area, except clearly modelled by interns:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
should play a different game.
There are none! Sims and half-sims are alright, but if I just want to tear up the road, there's only hipster shit these days. Whatever happened with actual illegal racing? Stop pretending there's some stupid fucking festival going on, with party hats and all that colorful shit. Codemasters did that a couple times, it was alright. Stop it, for fucks sake.
Yeah, I know I'm old and not down with the game these days. Do they even say it like that anymore? Oh whatever...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
should play a different game.
There are none! Sims and half-sims are alright, but if I just want to tear up the road, there's only hipster shit these days. Whatever happened with actual illegal racing?
Have you tried The Crew? That's the only illegal street racing game that's not NFS that came out last generation, I think.
The reason there's not more is probably because there's a societal push to discourage illegal street racing, probably for a very good reason.
You'll note that The Fast and the Furious, the original, was about illegal street racing when they made it... 20 years ago. There's no illegal street racing anymore though.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
there's a societal push to discourage illegal street racing, probably for a very good reason.
Are you serious? Are you Leland Yee in disguise?
There's no illegal street racing anymore though.
Did you see some Lego movie version of those or something? Yeah, there's only ever more ludicrous even more criminal activities and wanton destruction of property.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
there's a societal push to discourage illegal street racing, probably for a very good reason.
Are you serious? Are you Leland Yee in disguise?
I said that there's a good reason to discourage illegal street racing. I didn't say that encouraging video game developers to censor themselves is the right way to go about it.
There's no illegal street racing anymore though.
Did you see some Lego movie version of those or something? Yeah, there's only ever more ludicrous even more criminal activities and wanton destruction of property.
Yeah, but there's no illegal street racing.
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Activision releases the same shooter game over and over again with minimal changes. Why can't EA just re-release NFS Underground 2 every year, with no changes except a couple new tracks and a few new cars? That was a perfect arcade racing game. Every other game released since was utter shit in comparison. Except for original Most Wanted, which was almost but not quite as good.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
Yeah, but there's no illegal street racing.
There totally is. Not the exact competitive kind as in the first two, yeah, but I'm not sure there's any difference with regards to discouraging unsafe driving on public roads.
And there's certainly no shortage of idiots dangerously driving their excessively loud sticker-ridden badly modded junkers either, so the "soshal preshure", if there was supposed to be any, hasn't worked very well either.
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@Gąska I don't agree entirely, but since you also have a serious looking , there's your internets high five -->
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@Gąska said in Game Deals Thread:
Activision releases the same shooter game over and over again with minimal changes. Why can't EA just re-release NFS Underground 2 every year, with no changes except a couple new tracks and a few new cars? That was a perfect arcade racing game. Every other game released since was utter shit in comparison. Except for original Most Wanted, which was almost but not quite as good.
Probably the licensing of the cars. The auto manufacturers aren't going to want to lend their names to a piece of nostalgia from 20 years ago. If they're on board with the game, they're going to want it to advertise their modern cars. Does Dodge have a modern-day Neon that competes with the Miata? Does Ford? They don't even make sedans anymore.
Also, IIRC, the upgrade parts are licensed too. And visual upgrades on your car is a huge part of those games.
That said, NFS Underground 1 and 2 are great games. I've had a lot of fun with both of them.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear Except for by now 50 year old Chargers and the like. Both Schmorza and NFS Sheat have those as one of your starting picks, too. I wonder what the climate change brigade has to say about that...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear Except for by now 50 year old Chargers and the like. Both Schmorza and NFS Sheat have those as one of your starting picks, too. I wonder what the climate change brigade has to say about that...
Forza also includes the modern versions of those cars. I bet modern NFS games do as well.
A straight up remake of NFS Underground with modern graphics but the same cars would be a period piece set 20 years ago in the same culture that the original Fast and Furious movie is set in, right? All the cars in that game and in that culture would be either cheap, customizable rice burners or the cars that Detroit built to compete with them, right?
Because it's a remake, in theory you could include those cars and also their modern day equivalents. Except that some of the rice burners, and especially the cars Detroit built, don't have modern equivalents.
Forza, which isn't set in any particular culture, includes the rice burners, but also has traditional muscle cars. Both the modern version and the classic versions. A Charger or a Mustang would feel out of place in NFS Underground.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear Honestly, I wouldn't care if old cars are missing. I can play the older game if I want to. I mostly miss the driving model. In all arcade racers since ~2010, cars either drive like a rocket-powered brick or like a toy car you have in your hand and can do 90 turn in an instant without even touching brakes. NFSU2 was a perfect combination for me - it still feels like driving a real car with turn radius and grip, but it's forgiving enough that you don't need to be very attentive or precise and can just chill out. And the Street X mode where it's a short circuit with a sharp turn after a sharp turn so you can barely reach 100MPH - what other game has that?
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
A straight up remake of NFS Underground with modern graphics but the same cars
Except that's not what @Gąska said.
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
A Charger or a Mustang would feel out of place in NFS Underground.
A wild NFS Carbon appears...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
A Charger or a Mustang would feel out of place in NFS Underground.
A wild NFS Carbon appears...
LOL.
Funny you mention Carbon. It's the game I have the most love/hate reaction to out of all NFS titles. It would be a very good game if they didn't change the driving model. It has the best cars, the best tuning, fun tracks, and the rocket-powered-brick problem I mentioned where cars just refuse to turn unless you hit the handbrake. And the drift physics are laughable. My biggest gaming dream is to do the Murcielago canyon drift challenge from Carbon but with U2 physics.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
A Charger or a Mustang would feel out of place in NFS Underground.
A wild NFS Carbon appears...
Carbon has a much wider variety of cars.
The fact that everything is an import tuner is an important part of NFS Underground. A straight up remake of NFS Underground with mostly modern cars would be like doing a remake of Vice City where it's not the 80s.
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@Gąska said in Game Deals Thread:
My biggest gaming dream is to do the Murcielago canyon drift challenge from Carbon but with U2 physics.
With or without camera being moved sideways on purpose, to fuck with your sense of direction?
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
remake of Vice City where it's not the 80s.
Funny you mention that. Remind me in 2025. It appears that's kind of what's on the cooker.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear Also, for arguing with me. I had my internetpointzzz ratio so fucking close to 6.0f and then this happened.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
The fact that everything is an import tuner is an important part of NFS Underground.
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@Gąska said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
The fact that everything is an import tuner is an important part of NFS Underground.
[Snip a bunch of pictures of non-Japanese cars].Yeah, I know. I put the caveats on it the first few times. That's a figurate "all of the cars," not a literal "all of the cars". Most of those cars are American or Japanese cars built to compete with Miatas and cars like that.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
remake of Vice City where it's not the 80s.
Funny you mention that. Remind me in 2025. It appears that's kind of what's on the cooker.
"A game set in Vice City in modern times" is not the same thing as "A remake of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City except set in modern times."
Also, GTA: Vice City was only set 16 years in the past. (It was released in 2002 and set in 1986.) At the time, it felt significantly longer than that. It certainly doesn't feel like the moral panic around the game was 20 years ago.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear Also, for arguing with me. I had my internetpointzzz ratio so fucking close to 6.0f and then this happened.
I have no idea how I'm messing with your Internetpointzzz ratio. I'm neither upvoting nor downvoting you.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Game Deals Thread:
remake of Vice City where it's not the 80s.
Funny you mention that. Remind me in 2025. It appears that's kind of what's on the cooker.
"A game set in Vice City in modern times" is not the same thing as "A remake of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City except set in modern times."
Also, GTA: Vice City was only set 16 years in the past. (It was released in 2002 and set in 1986.) At the time, it felt significantly longer than that. It certainly doesn't feel like the moral panic around the game was 20 years ago.
I've been saying for some time that 2010s was the least life-changing decade in recent history. You could suddenly move 10 years back in time and you likely wouldn't notice it until you opened Facebook.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Game Deals Thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear Also, for arguing with me. I had my internetpointzzz ratio so fucking close to 6.0f and then this happened.
I have no idea how I'm messing with your Internetpointzzz ratio. I'm neither upvoting nor downvoting you.
He means he posted a bunch of angry replies to you that nobody will bother to read and so his average score per post went down.
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50% off:
Great game. You get screwed a lot by RNG, but when you aren't, it feels amazing. And there's dozens of viable builds for each character, so replayability is great.
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GOG is giving away multiple games, available until September 3:
- Ultima Underworld 1+2
- Syndicate Plus
- Syndicate Wars
https://www.gog.com/promo/rerelease_ultima_underworld_and_syndicate
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Tomb Rider games for pennies on GOG:
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Pretty cheap already, with a 75% percent discount you can get this game for less than 2 € (or equivalent).
The premise is somewhat simple: it's a 2D platformer where you need to find and reach the exit by stacking up boxes and/or getting keys to unlock barriers. There is no precision jumping required, but you can only carry one object at a time and when you do you can't jump as high. You can throw objects horizontally though.
So far so boring, but here's where it gets interesting: there are chests which you can jump inside that will transport you to another screen. These chests are themselves objects you can carry, throw and bring with you while you jump inside another chest.
This already adds another level of interest to the game, but there's more. Entering a screen through a chest saves the current state of the screen you're in. It will also create an exit portal on the screen you've just entered. Now, if you can reach and activate this portal, the world you're leaving will be reset to its initial state, but you will jump out of the previous chest into the previous world in its previously saved state while also bringing along whatever object you're carrying.
This means for example you can enter a chest on screen 1, grab a box on screen 2, exit through the portal back to screen 1, drop the box on screen 1, enter the chest to screen 2 again (which has been reset and has a new box in it), grab the new box, exit to screen 1 again, and now have two boxes. Or you can bring a key with you to unlock something in screen 2, exit through the portal back to screen 1 to grab a box, jump into screen 2 again... but now the barrier is back and the key is gone forever because screen 2 was reset when you exited through the portal. Oops.
Things become really interesting once you carry chests between screens, as they are subjected to the same rules as boxes and keys. Also at some point there are cycles, even chests which let you jump into a new instance of the same screen you're in. World states are saved like a computer stack.
Another interesting mechanic is that if you jump into a chest that's underwater the world you enter will be flooded; so you'll be able to swim to higher places but also styrofoam [?] barriers will float and change the layout of the world.
This is a puzzle game more than a platformer, you're basically managing objects across a stack of parallel worlds, and it's a little gem for its price.
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@Zecc said in Game Deals Thread:
managing objects across a stack
Never expected programming knowledge would be used for game mechanics...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Game Deals Thread:
@Zecc said in Game Deals Thread:
managing objects across a stack
Never expected programming knowledge would be used for game mechanics...
Plus other games by Zachtronics.
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( edit to mention: this is off-topic for this thread and besides the first one I don't even necessarily recommend these games )
And
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and I'm sure many others with the Automation and Programming tags on Steam.
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@Zecc said in Game Deals Thread:
( edit to mention: this is off-topic for this thread and besides the first one I don't even necessarily recommend these games )
and I'm sure many others with the Automation and Programming tags on Steam.I hope this doesn't awaken anything inside of me...
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Saints Row 3 Remastered, currently free on Epic until next week.
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/saints-row-the-third-remastered
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Automachef also free on Epic until next week
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@loopback0 what a coincidence.
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Quake - Enhanced Edition available for free if you own the original on Steam or Bethesda Launcher (whatever that is).
Same deal coming to GOG soon, but not yet available.
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Automachef is a decent game with a clunky interface that spoils it a bit.
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@Zecc said in Game Deals Thread:
Automachef is a decent game with a clunky interface that spoils it a bit.
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@Zecc said in Game Deals Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Game Deals Thread:
You're seeing something I'm not
It's a game about cooking. Spoils it. You know.... Like, food?
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@MrL said in Game Deals Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Game Deals Thread:
@Zecc said in Game Deals Thread:
managing objects across a stack
Never expected programming knowledge would be used for game mechanics...
Plus other games by Zachtronics.
I think SpaceChem is their best so far, that I've played.
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@PleegWat said in Game Deals Thread:
@MrL said in Game Deals Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Game Deals Thread:
@Zecc said in Game Deals Thread:
managing objects across a stack
Never expected programming knowledge would be used for game mechanics...
Plus other games by Zachtronics.
I think SpaceChem is their best so far, that I've played.
I played them all, except Moebius (yet), and can't really trll which one I like the most.
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@Gąska Is Ubisoft running a fork of the Epic store? It's got at least two different ways to activate the free game:
- The "Far Cry 3 giveaway" option in the Discover menu, which takes you to this page:
which does this when you click the green button:
- The "Free Games" section in the Games tab, which offers a blue button:
and that works just as well as the first:
- The "Far Cry 3 giveaway" option in the Discover menu, which takes you to this page:
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@hungrier It probably didn't work because the client had just updated itself. Or the RNG seed came up snake eyes for that particular session. After restarting the app, it worked
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@hungrier if it makes you feel better, I had the exact same issue.
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Surviving Mars is free on Steam until Noon Steam time.
I played it a bit when Epic gave it away for free. Seemed OK.
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@Parody Thanks. Also Civ VI Platinum Edition Bundle is 91% off: $14.68 vs. $167.91 full price. It isn't free or almost free, like most of the games posted here, but it's still a darned good price.
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There's a bunch of bad reviews complaining about how the new DLC has added a bunch of game breaking bugs. They seem to be the minority though, so who knows. It should be worth its current price at least.
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@Zecc Luckily, the DLCs cost money so this version should be unaffected
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@hungrier said in Game Deals Thread:
Luckily, the DLCs cost money
The first word is not one I would normally associate with the rest.
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Jagged Alliance (1) and Titan Quest are free on Steam for the next few days:
I had them both already. Haven't played Jagged Alliance, but Titan Quest seemed like a decent Diablo clone.