Thread: Bargain Thread 2012 Edition

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    Quote Originally Posted by Murbella View Post
    I am pretty sure they eventually fixed the ATI thing as I remember commenting about how stupid it was that a game not work on basically half the systems on release. Not sure on the quad core thing.
    There is an unofficial patch for ATI cards done by some former member of the dev (he did it for free on his own).

    I completed the game without problems on a Radeon 4870 (the processor is a Core Duo though not Quad) using that patch.
    It's an amazing game (especially the art direction) and I highly recommend it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balasarius View Post
    Lots and lots of complaints about it not working with ATI graphics cards and quad-core CPUs in the reviews...
    ATI card problem is fixed with a patch from Dec 2009.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daagar View Post

    According to the forums though, DotP 2013 is on the horizon likely meaning this is the last hurrah for the 2012 version (ie., no more decks/patches).
    Only because I brought it up in the first place: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazin...ily/arcana/945

    The only notable new things are iPad support and choose-your-land-to-tap. And it likely won't be $6.

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    http://www.gamefly.com/buy-games/Sea...s#.T38kTNV3SF8

    Yes, I know. It's Gamefly/D2D, so caveat emptor on the PC downloads.

    Highlights:
    Batman Arkham City - $15
    Alan Wake - $20
    CoD:MW2 - $10
    CoD:MW3 - $40
    Deus Ex: HR - $10

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    To be fair, I checked the gamefly client yesterday, and all of my games from D2D have now made it over to gamefly. It just took a while, but they got there.

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    I'm still missing games from my account on Gamefly.

    Still, it has only been four months.

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    Anyone noticed Fallout is FREE for a limited time now? I grabbed it already. :P

    http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout

    According to Abandonia for 48 hours since 5-4-2012....

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    Quote Originally Posted by MakuMaku View Post
    Anyone noticed Fallout is FREE for a limited time now? I grabbed it already. :P

    http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout

    According to Abandonia for 48 hours since 5-4-2012....
    Yes. We noticed. In this thread and a couple of other threads on the forum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Bismarck View Post
    I'm still missing games from my account on Gamefly.

    Still, it has only been four months.
    Only 4 out of 12 games available for me. Pretty shoddy. Means I'll never buy anything else from Gamefly, nor will I ever re-up my lapsed subscription with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balasarius View Post
    Lots and lots of complaints about it not working with ATI graphics cards and quad-core CPUs in the reviews...
    It works on my ati, the map overlay is utterly hosed. Fortunately the minimap works splendidly.

    It's a great game. I think I bought it 3 times now.

    Re: gamefly, ditto. Never using them again.

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    I just wanted to point out that in that Amazon sale, Elven Legacy Collection (Fantasy Wars) is only $3. That's a pretty darned awesome game for a pretty cheap price.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marcin View Post
    It works on my ati, the map overlay is utterly hosed. Fortunately the minimap works splendidly.
    You can fix the main map on PC Saboteur by dropping the resolution to 1280 x 720. Worked for my ATI card. Great game for $5

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    The Might and Magic RPGs are on sale at GOG. I remember playing the original on my Apple IIC and not making it very far because I kept dying in the first dungeon or whatever it was. Man those old school RPGs were hard. Never got far in Wizardry I or The Bards Tale I either. I think I'll give it another go and see if I can stand the graphics. I never was good at making maps (which is strange since I had a fascination with maps when I was a child) and I think mapping may be required in those old RPGs.

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    So LA Noire on Amazon is the standard version, without the dlc? For some reason I thought by time it came to PC, it had everything included already.

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    Might and Magic games were ALL about the mapping. The games came with a pad of special graph paper, for god's sake! There's no other way to find some of the random walls you can just walk through to find a secret passage. I find mapping fun, but if you don't, you might want to leave them be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by z0diac View Post
    So LA Noire on Amazon is the standard version, without the dlc? For some reason I thought by time it came to PC, it had everything included already.
    It did. Then, somewhere along the line, without mentioning it to anybody, they split it into two versions, one with and one without DLC. If you bought before that happened, you have the DLC. If not, you get to choose whether it's worth the extra cost to you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightgaunt View Post
    Might and Magic games were ALL about the mapping. The games came with a pad of special graph paper, for god's sake! There's no other way to find some of the random walls you can just walk through to find a secret passage. I find mapping fun, but if you don't, you might want to leave them be.
    Well from 2 on you could use the Wizard's eye spell to display a minimap in the corner. From 3 on there was a skill (Cartography?) that would auto map for you.

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    So holy crap, GamersGate has the 1C Complete Pack -- 86 games -- for about $21 at the moment:

    http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-1CBIGP...te-pack-bundle

    That's just...wow...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Rubin View Post
    So holy crap, GamersGate has the 1C Complete Pack -- 86 games -- for about $21 at the moment:

    http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-1CBIGP...te-pack-bundle

    That's just...wow...
    Holy crap. There are some really awful games in there, true, but there's also a lot of really original, cool gaming - King's Bounty, Men of War, Pathologic, Cryostasis, Space Rangers...

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    Right?! If I didn't own most of the good ones already, I'd likely jump on this. TONS of good gaming in there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Rubin View Post
    So holy crap, GamersGate has the 1C Complete Pack -- 86 games -- for about $21 at the moment:

    http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-1CBIGP...te-pack-bundle

    That's just...wow...
    Wow. Hmm. I'm contemplating the bundle to upgrade to Space Rangers 2 Reboot from the original release and to indulge my curiosity in the Star Wolves and Men of War series. Are there any particular gems among the dozens of unfamiliar titles there that would push it over the edge? I already have (and liked) the King's Bounty series and Fantasy Wars.

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    Off the top of my head (from a quick glance):

    Cryostasis
    Death to Spies Moment of Truth
    Pathologic
    UFO: Afterlight

    Are good and worth playing.

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    I was about to chime in on UFO Afterlight as well. The other 2 UFOs are icing if you like Afterlight and don't mind some rougher prequels, but Afterlight stands alone quite nicely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boojum View Post
    Wow. Hmm. I'm contemplating the bundle to upgrade to Space Rangers 2 Reboot from the original release and to indulge my curiosity in the Star Wolves and Men of War series. Are there any particular gems among the dozens of unfamiliar titles there that would push it over the edge? I already have (and liked) the King's Bounty series and Fantasy Wars.
    I thought the Death to Spies games were a good hitman-esque WW2 stealth game, if the genre interests you at all you'll likely dig it.

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    What about Farewell To Dragons in that 1C pack? any good?

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    Thanks, sounds like there's enough worthwhile sampling to go ahead and grab it then.

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    It appears you can gift individual games from the pack if you already own them, as well.

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    Any thoughts on Tomorrow War or the Pacific Storm games from the 1C pack?

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    The tomorrow war is decidedly "meh".

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    Man, I'm considering making a gamersgate account just for that 1C bundle, which is silly because I know I'll never play most of those.

    I kind of want to pick up the bundle just as a tourist pack through Russian game development. With games like Stalin Subway, Snajper, and Vivisector: Beast Within, there has to be _something_ interesting in there.

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