It also gets you $9 credit towards Kingdom of Amalur which looks interesting.
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It also gets you $9 credit towards Kingdom of Amalur which looks interesting.
Got it! Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
Activates on steam too.
Even at $5 I would not touch that game.
I got a 5 dollar credit toward another game in January as well, so is it worth 0 dollars?Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
If the demo is anything to go off of, I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
I said I could hold out until $10, and $5 is obviously half that, so I bit. It takes a tremendously bad game to not even be worth $5.
Steam Sales have forced me to be more selective in my tastes. In addition to cost I must also consider time. With a back log of 20+ games, I can't justify acquiring mediocre games even if they are cheap or free since I have so many high quality games waiting to be played.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
I'm more selective now as well, especially with the indie bundles that seem to be popping up like weeds lately, but as I mentioned the art style is intriguing to me (hooray for admitting to being a marketing casualty!) and I've been wanting something a bit hack and slashy. Also, the game has gotten some decent reviews from a few other boards I mention; nothing groundbreaking, but good enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
To each their own. My personal opinion is its not a game worth wasting my time on.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
Once in a while I like a game that lets me just turn off the brain and start hitting things with swords, so I'm hoping DS3 will at least be that for me.
It will do that. I finished the game twice. I played it on 360 and enjoyed it. At the time I was completely bored of shooters and was at a busy time when I didn't have much time to game and playing it in 30 min chunks here and there worked good. Some of the combos were fun but zero replay ability. I did it solo then couch coop with my son and sold it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
I played through DS3 about a month ago. It would have been horrifically boring alone, but honestly, with a friend it was fun. I bought it specifically because you can co-op the whole campaign locally on PS3.
One tip though - the game is super easy, but if you want any kind of challenge at all, don't pick Reinhart. He may start off slow on the damage, but once you pump and synergize his skills, he single-handedly wrecks everything. I went with him because I wanted to play a caster, and my friend playing the warrior gets really annoyed because I can wipe everything off the screen before he can get more than 1 hit in. I have to sit back and do nothing just so he can have fun too. :p
Admittedly, I'm pretty liberal with what counts as being "worth it" for video games. I'm considerably more stingy in other areas of my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
For example, never signed up for itunes because I can't imagine spending a whole dollar per song. :D I still buy CDs for that reason, because I can find used CDs with 12-15 tracks on them for $6 or $7.
Then just rip them to iTunes. You know you can check CDs of music out from the library...just saying ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
I do rip them, I just don't rip them to itunes. Base MP3s are fine for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Astros Fan
And I prefer to actually own the music instead of just checking them out and taking it all, even if I'm buying used and the original band/producer/whatever isn't getting any money off it anyway. Just old fashioned that way, I guess. :D I'm not a huge music buyer in the first place, which is kind of my original point. I have a higher tolerance for spending money on "crappy" games because I consider games in general to be worth it while I don't think some other things are.
Got Force Uneashed 1 and 2 for $5 each. Finished the first on the 360. Figured for that price I'd get the 2nd.
Grabbed those. Good thing I checked this thread! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dyne
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Originally Posted by monroeski
ive moved completely to the cloud/streaming for my music needs.. pay $10/mo to slacker (spotify and rdio work too) and i can stream music ad-free 24/7 on my PC, my squeezebox radio, and my cellphone. i can request any song i like at any time and can also cache a whole station for offline listening... usually i just let the service mix the songs for me
i actually downgraded the 16gb SD card in my phone to a 4gb one since i dont keep any mp3s on it... just the whole process of shopping for songs and buying them and then syncing them to my player seems so archaic to me now
netflix was pretty cool and similar too (streaming movies and tv shows to my PC and phone)... the problem to me is that movies require more dedication of time and effort and i would rather use that time and effort for real life and gaming... so i dont mind paying more to get a single movie every once in awhile... music is a very passive activity that i do for at least 10 hours a day so i can justify $10/mo for it
someone over at anandtech's PC gaming forum won the steam daily deal...so it does happen!
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2212444
That's awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Astros Fan
Want some more awesomeness?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
http://www.coustier.com/index.php?faq
Just sign up, recreate your wishlist and those titles that go on sale will be auto-emailed to you that 'hey! XXXX game is on sale for $xx!!' or whatnot. This guy wrote this site himself and works great.
this is what the email looks like:
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This is a message to let you know The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Digital Premium Edition is on sale at Steam.
Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/20..._7_7_204_150_1
Original Price 39.99
Sale Price 23.99
You will not be notified again unless you visit www.coustier.com and modify your game tracking list.
Just a random note:
Just went to the stats page. 89.83% of people have multi-core CPU's, and >50% have 64-bit OS's. Maybe it's about time game designers focus on multi-threading and large-address memory options for their games?
Haven't they been doing this for years now? Seems logical considering that even this console generation has been using multi-core CPUs.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
Yeah, I guess. But even now the majority of games do not parallel-scale well. More to the point I'm thinking about Skyrim, with it's "LAA" bug/patch/fix/break/fix situation. The game only ran properly with LAA enabled. Games are getting bigger, they need more RAM. There has to be a reason for people to spend $90 on 16GB of RAM these days. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie