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>> No. 17227 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 10:41 am
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I bought the worms bundle twice absent mindedly so here are the extra keys .gs

Superfrog HD https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=sMmGPe2yUKPMm3HC
Worms Blast https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=DRYGuGM38VdnxfuF
Worms Crazy Golf https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=eYEPWANxqsCnqkfY
Worms Ultimate Mayhem https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=xbqFPzD2SDRXmNSz
Worms Armageddon https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=U7TeH7v3r64aWT74
Worms Pinball https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=B73d2Xh85TTbdGyE

One each, that means you bikethief and stickyfingerslad.

https://www.humblebundle.com/ is Batman GOTY editions and FEAR.
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>> No. 17228 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 1:01 pm
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Already have em all from the same bundle, but good lad. Hope .gs is nice enough to only take one each.

Also Superfrog HD is fanfuckingtastic but I can see why reviews say you have to be a fan of the original really.
>> No. 17229 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 1:09 pm
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Nabbed the crazy golf one cheers m8
>> No. 17230 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 1:12 pm
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I'm not going to take one as I can't run games on my machine, but I thoroughly encourage someone to pick out Worms Armageddon. Had a brilliant time with the Worms games as a kid.
>> No. 17231 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 1:24 pm
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Hate to be the greedy cunt who takes Armaegeddon, but my internet friends often play it together and now I won't need to feel left out. Thanks, lad, you've made my day/week.
>> No. 17232 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 1:28 pm
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>>17231
You must've got it seconds before me ;-;
>> No. 17235 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 1:52 pm
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Can we make a gs Worms Armageddon server?
>> No. 17239 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 7:38 pm
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Someone snagged Superfrog HD and Worms Ultimate Mayhem without saying anything. How rude.

Kind of you to offer anyway OP, thank you.
>> No. 17240 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 7:56 pm
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>>17239
I actually fucked up getting Superfrog. I thought it would be like when you buy the bundle yourself, and you just go to a page with the guys. So gave them a bullshit email.
Now no one can have it, unless OP can do something about it, I couldn't through normal channels. Whoops.

Thanks anyway OP.
>> No. 17241 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 8:40 pm
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>>17239
Sorry, I took Ultimate Mayhem. I won't be playing it until after I get my work done though.
Cheers OP, you make the world a little less shit.
>> No. 17242 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 9:08 pm
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>>17240
I'm the guy who fucked up getting Superfrog, and this thread made me realise I have a couple of steam keys I don't need. Here you go lads.

Broken Sword - PL769-P8CY4-FTZKP

Organ Trail - 6DGAK-3PVPX-6LV7K
>> No. 17243 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 10:01 pm
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Nice one, brother! I took Worms Pinball, thanks!
>>17242
I'll be greedy and nab that Organ Trail, too. I'd leave it for someone else but I've been wanting my own copy for months.
>> No. 17244 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 10:04 pm
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>>17227
I too have a few to spare.
I shall post them tomorrow afternoonish.
>> No. 17245 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 10:08 pm
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>>17243
>I'll be greedy and nab that Organ Trail
Never mind, its already gone.
>> No. 17246 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 10:12 pm
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>>17242
>Broken Sword
Aw snap. I wanted that one. Oh well
>> No. 17247 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 10:36 pm
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>>17244

May I suggest dropping ovr the course of the afternoon/evening to ensure Bike Thief doesn't nab all of them?
>> No. 17248 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 10:43 pm
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>>17247
So it shall be done.
>> No. 17249 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 11:51 pm
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One more spare from me, for a cracking little game.
Thomas Was Alone - NG0Z0-GNLMY-XVGGE
>> No. 17250 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 12:02 am
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>>17249
I'll keep Thomas company. Cheers.
>> No. 17251 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 12:08 am
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Superfrog https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=x86ws3w6ys2S2UTq
Worms Blast https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=Fe5YvEtpGws6RDhf
Worms Crazy Golf https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=CP53mh7u8yHmEkVA
Worms Ultimate Mayhem https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=vFrbAFxBhPrNGG3a
Worms Armageddon https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=nsHKPNcW45RdtkTt
Worms Pinball https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=amNSHCm56SW4kNpR
Worms Revolution Gold https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=FEYCnccnty6kszDV
Alien Breed Complete pack https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=EY7y4XyAnGWMyuSK
>> No. 17252 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 12:28 am
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>>17251
Superfrog HD worked this time. Thanks!

I played through Thomas Was Alone the other week, it's great to see developers trying something different and playing with the medium. I really enjoyed it.
>> No. 17253 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 12:28 am
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>>17251
Nabbed Worms Revolution.

Thanks ladm8.
>> No. 17254 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 1:20 am
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>>17253

Alien Breed out of general curiosity, nabbed.
>> No. 17255 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 1:24 am
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>>17254
It looked quite similar to the free Steam game Alien Swarm from the one or two screenshots I looked at.
>> No. 17256 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 1:36 am
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I've got a few I'll never use.

Eets Munchies - 3ZFG-XVOI-5RJ0-CML1

A Virus Named TOM - LW9D2-E6PYH-QM6J7

Dead Space - I22IN-LG59N-5YITL

Crysis 2 - B26ZG-MLDPM-5IC8Q

Medal of Honor - A57PW-WD0D9-ZWCQ7
>> No. 17257 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 3:36 am
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>>17252
What do you mean this time, I was the one who didn't get it last time :(.

I was hoping for it as it's the only game I've seen out of these that runs on Linux that I don't already have. Oh well, suppose I should buy it.
>> No. 17258 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:11 am
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>>17254
I had it on the Amiga. IIRC, the Net Yaroze game Psychon is a homage to it.
>> No. 17259 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 7:53 am
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>>17232

I ended up getting the Humble Bundle anyway so thought I'd return the favour:

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=cdZVFkMGvThVRSfD
>> No. 17260 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 9:04 am
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>>17258
The new games are a different breed indeed.
>> No. 17261 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 11:47 am
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>>17258
>Net Yaroze
Never thought I'd hear anyone here talking about the Yaroze. Did you have one?
>> No. 17262 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 11:53 am
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>>17258
>>17261
I plugged in my ps1 a while ago and spent a few days playing various net yaroze games on the OPM demo discs. There was a really good top down shooter, I forgot it's name.
>> No. 17263 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 12:37 pm
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>>17262
Ah, I'd forgotten about the OPM discs.

Rayfire?
>> No. 17264 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 12:47 pm
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>>17263
>>17262
I just google image searched 'Net Yaroze' and it was Psychon, as mentioned in >>17258
>> No. 17266 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 12:53 pm
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Oh my lord, Timeslip

https://www.youtube.com/v/wR9Q2j7yLmw
>> No. 17267 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 2:58 pm
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I have a load of demo discs saved up in the loft i drag out nostalgia now and again. The one with the MGS demo has a big bundle of Yarzoe games.

Fuck Yeah, The Incredible Coneman! https://www.youtube.com/v/4JU4iAqvQ0o
>> No. 17269 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 3:15 pm
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>>17266

That one was very clever. I can remember years later being unimpressed by various indie games ripping the idea off and putting fancy or pretentious graphics and styling on top and being hailed as great inventors. Not the first and won't be the last.

***ORIGINAL CONTENT DO NOT COPY***

The games medium has got old enough it is suffering from the same problems as music, film and literature. People lifitng a great deal of their work or inspiration from elsewhere. The other industries or fields are mature enough and have good enough critics and standards they can pick up on this, identify it and spread the word or judge it accordingly. Unfortunately the games industry is very immature in more than one sense of the word, as are the fans, critics and apparatus built around it. I'm hoping it is only a matter of time, but it really can't come soon enough.
>> No. 17270 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 3:45 pm
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Anyone remember the Net Yaroze game where you controlled an island in the sky and it sent out fighters/bombers and you had to battle an AI who did similar. You also controlled a fighter yourself and could get stuck into the fray to tip the balance. It was like an air based version of Future Cop's skirmish mode, "precinct assault" (which was also excellent).

>>17267

That was actually a decent little game. Some of those Net Yaroze chaps had talent.
>> No. 17271 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 3:52 pm
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>>17270

>Future Cop's skirmish mode, "precinct assault"

"Remember - Hovertanks, turrents, points, crime...beautiful". The multiplayer or skirmish mode was probably even better and more fun than the already fun main campaign. It had a good variation of difficulties and a nice extra hard secret mode. It'd be a super game to remake these days and with map making and modding possibilities it would have a lot more options. Add G-Police to that remake pile please.
>> No. 17272 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 4:59 pm
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Ok ladm8s, I have a bunch of steamkeys to give away from various bundles. Will be posting them through the night. First one coming when I get home in about half hour.
>> No. 17273 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:00 pm
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>>17272

Are we running a competetion to see who "liberates" the most?
>> No. 17274 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:05 pm
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>>17273
No, we're going to fairly divide them equally. Worry not about stalking the thread.
>> No. 17275 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:09 pm
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Aquaria - JB003-QAP9R-3ZGY5
>> No. 17276 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:10 pm
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>>17274

>We will divide them equally. But my equal part will be bigger than yours.
>> No. 17277 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:12 pm
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>>17276

Why so cynical? I've posted 8 and taken none.
>> No. 17278 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:17 pm
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>>17277

I was only 'aving a bubble, m7.
>> No. 17279 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:18 pm
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Ladm8s i'm gonna start posting my wares, please just.. be nice and share.

Fractal - 6CNVQ-80CNF-ZDVNF
Nightsky - 4Y0F8-PF684-CG92E
Waking Mars - PA6EN-KPTJH-VMB0A
>> No. 17280 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:23 pm
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Brazen (Prototype) - B7ZRX-Y4C7Z-M5GEN
>> No. 17281 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 5:25 pm
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The Humble Indie Bundle #3 - HKIXA-JHYJV-QV7I8
>> No. 17282 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 6:08 pm
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>>17251
Nabbed Ultimate Mayhem, cheers lad.
>> No. 17283 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 6:37 pm
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Wizorb, BIT.TRIP.RUNNER, Gratuitous Space Battles, and Jamestown - 9Q2KY-0PN8W-9DBPJ
>> No. 17284 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 6:39 pm
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The Binding of Isaac + Wrath of the Lamb DLC

XCJMP-DTXF0-B4VWB
>> No. 17285 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 8:00 pm
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You lovely shower of bastards.

Times like these I wish I had a computer powerful enough to run something other than minesweeper.
>> No. 17286 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 8:02 pm
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>>17283
Nabbed, many thanks!
>> No. 17287 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 8:10 pm
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>>17285
Most of these will run on a toaster.
>> No. 17288 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 8:18 pm
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>>17287

Currently playing Crysis 2 on mine. I just wish it had a few more buttons...
>> No. 17289 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 8:37 pm
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>>17288
You need to jiggle the crumb try to reload on mine. But the defrost button is broke so I cant fire in the first place.
>> No. 17290 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 8:48 pm
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>>17289

Cheers for the tip. Pity about the defrost m8, you have my sympathy.
>> No. 17291 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 9:22 pm
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>>17288
That'll overheat if you run it for too long. Here's a tip: when the framerate starts to drop, run a cold bath and submerse the toaster in it. You can keep playing while you soak!
>> No. 17292 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 9:42 pm
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>>17291

Why haven't I thought of this before? I've been bunging it in the freezer while paused. Cheers ladm7!
>> No. 17293 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 11:32 pm
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More key then?

Closure - 53QJB-X7XMD-6RCF3
Shank 2 - MI83M-KAPRV-X0YR8
Snapshot - XFPHX-IPR0M-RIQDK
Legend Of Grimrock - MXJE5-NQFEL-M8AT9
>> No. 17294 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 11:37 pm
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Dungeon Defenders + All DLC - Z2K2R-ZWKKY-MEXB9

Do acknowledge if you take any of these ladm8s, or if you attempt and some scoundrel has taken without saying.
>> No. 17295 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 11:52 pm
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>>17294

I really appreciate the effort lad, but I keep on getting the Steam equivalemt of "This voucher has been redeemed" every time. They are definitely going somewhere.
>> No. 17296 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 11:53 pm
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>>17293
Closure is great. Hope the ladm8 who got it appreciates it.
>> No. 17298 Anonymous
7th November 2013
Thursday 11:58 pm
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>>17296


Just out of interest, as the possible "free shiny things" got me to bother to download Steam (I play EVE so am not fussed about the failure on my behalf), where have all these keys come from? You can't have accidentally paid and downloaded so many games, twice, can you?
>> No. 17299 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:03 am
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>>17298
All off various bundles I either already owned games from, or just didn't fancy.

>>17295
I fear a bot is pinching them. I dont fancy posting the rest unless they're going to go to a worthy cause.
>> No. 17300 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:11 am
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>>17299

That might be a tad paranoid off to /boo/ with you.

If you still have more I am hapy to hit refresh after a certain period of time and see if I can actually do so. That might prove malevalence or not. I am warming up dinner though...
>> No. 17301 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:15 am
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>>17299

Obfusticate the keys so that no bot can steal them. For example, write it backwards.
>> No. 17303 Anonymous ## Admin ##
8th November 2013
Friday 12:16 am
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>>17299
We could pool all the keys together and raffle them off at Christmas. Users could express their interest in the games they wanted and that way we could distribute them more fairly.
>> No. 17304 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:16 am
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>>17302

I'd only agree to this if purps was the rafflemast-

>>17303

Oh. Carry on then.
>> No. 17305 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:17 am
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>>17301

Oh...canny.
>> No. 17306 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:18 am
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>>17301
Makes sense. Ok lads. Keys are now mirrored.

Cave Story + - ANE07-7XFGR-ZNKCF
>> No. 17307 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:19 am
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>>17306

Got that one, cheers lad. Fuck knows what it is about, but I assume it is worth a dig.
>> No. 17308 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:20 am
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>>17303
This works too. Ok lads, what have you. Mirrored keys now, or THE GREAT FATHER PURPS MYSTERY GIFT SACK?
>> No. 17309 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:21 am
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>>17308

Happy to grab entertainment now.
>> No. 17310 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:23 am
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>>17299
>I fear a bot is pinching them.
Wait, is this a thing now?
>> No. 17311 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:25 am
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>>17308>>17309
Last one til we get some more input. Also mirrored.

The Basement Colection - AJ7X5-Q8N9C-90DCV
>> No. 17312 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:28 am
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>>17310
It is on 4chan at least. And the lack of people acknowledging receipt despite keys being used leads me to believe as such.
>> No. 17313 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:31 am
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>>17311

>>17307 Here.

I waited a few and then tried, and to my embarassment got that as well. The Basement collection that is.

I think Bikethief some people are not being kind enough to thank OP. Cunts, the lot of you.
>> No. 17314 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:33 am
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>>17313

Oh, just out of interest, as I am new to Steam, is it possible for me to gift one of them to another lad?
>> No. 17315 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:35 am
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>>17310
One of our users writing a script to look for CD-key like strings in response to this thread strikes me as more likely than a bot roaming the internet, but I agree it's still far-fetched.

>>17311
Already taken within two minutes.
>> No. 17316 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:38 am
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>>17315

As the lad who ended up with it, may I re-iterate my request into whether it is possible to pass it on again? Or is going to end up a guilt-ridden purchase to put on here come payday?
>> No. 17317 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:40 am
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>>17316

You can't re-gift games once they've been activated, no.
>> No. 17318 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:42 am
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>>17303

I'd consider gifting my whole Steam account for something like that. It depends how much if any personal information there is on it.
>> No. 17319 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:42 am
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>>17317

Shit. Payday it is then. The particular joy in this is that it won't work with my set up anyway.

Ah well, cheers OP, the genorosity is appreciated, I am sure, by all those who avoid stealing bikes.
>> No. 17320 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 2:08 am
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>>17318
A nice thought, but impractical.
>> No. 17321 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 2:24 am
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>>17320
Why is it impractical?
>> No. 17322 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 3:48 am
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>>17321
Too much personal information on there.
>> No. 17323 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 12:22 pm
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Will be posting more Mirrored Keys this afternoon lads.
>> No. 17324 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 3:39 pm
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Offspring Fling - WPEY7-GHRB6-BMNF3

Dear Esther - (Requires a super toaster to play properly) - TH7DX-NH880-DGXFW
>> No. 17325 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 5:19 pm
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>>17324

As the lad who unintentionally grabbed two last night I haven't touched these also i only have a one slice toaster. Anyone got them? If so why the lack of thanks?
>> No. 17326 Anonymous
8th November 2013
Friday 6:17 pm
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>>17324

I took Offspring Fling. Cheers!
>> No. 17328 Anonymous
9th November 2013
Saturday 1:31 pm
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>>17325
One does not do good deeds for the praise and adulation; that way madness lies.
>> No. 17329 Anonymous
10th November 2013
Sunday 1:07 pm
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Want more lads?
>> No. 17389 Anonymous
11th November 2013
Monday 10:17 pm
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>>17329

I'm always looking for more lads!
>> No. 17393 Anonymous
11th November 2013
Monday 11:22 pm
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Just noticed they have a new tab on HB. Now there's the normal one, weekly one, and a new one called Store. Thay have different sales on every day in there apparently, and this is day one. I just bought Euro Truck Simulator 2 for 4 quid because I'm a sad bastard.
>> No. 17397 Anonymous
11th November 2013
Monday 11:42 pm
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>>17393
I didn't think I'd be given an excuse to post this.

https://www.youtube.com/v/J1_tE5MxjYA
>> No. 17398 Anonymous
11th November 2013
Monday 11:48 pm
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>>17397
That's superb. Thanks lad.
>> No. 17399 Anonymous
11th November 2013
Monday 11:51 pm
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>>17397
Chorus grated a bit but I was more amused with the verses than I thought I would be.
>> No. 17400 Anonymous
11th November 2013
Monday 11:57 pm
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You should try the street sweeper simulator. It even has the warning beeps and loops for the virtual pedestrians.
>> No. 17401 Anonymous
11th November 2013
Monday 11:57 pm
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Know what I especially like about the new tab on HB? the part where you can select Linux, and it only shows games available for Linux (bottom leftish).
Years ago, I told everyone that Linux could be a viable gaming platform. They called me mad! WELL LOOK WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!
>> No. 17402 Anonymous
12th November 2013
Tuesday 12:19 am
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>>17395
Made my night.
>> No. 17403 Anonymous
12th November 2013
Tuesday 1:45 am
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Holy balls, I just could not reverse the trailer into the spot. ended up getting annoyed with it and pressing the end early key.
Another day though (or in a little while) I will defeat it.
>> No. 17427 Anonymous
12th November 2013
Tuesday 7:14 pm
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>>17400

https://www.youtube.com/v/nbDTdoFnsNA
>> No. 17428 Anonymous
12th November 2013
Tuesday 7:17 pm
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>>17427

Living the dream. No matter what kind of game you can think of, it seem someone has had a go at it.
>> No. 17442 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 12:45 pm
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It's your lucky day lads. I have 4 codes to give away, which will happen either throughout today, tomorrow if I forget about it, or all at once if I get bored of stretching it out.
I'd appreciate knowing a human got them and not some bot so a thank you post would be nice, however it is not required.
First one for you Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY edition.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=nf6x4PhXXSRmnenY
Be warned, you MUST put in your real email, it won't just take you to a page with the steam key. I got burned that way with the Superfrog game early in this thread.
>> No. 17444 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 2:54 pm
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Code number 2, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=q4TTbrWzdawhnyyC
>> No. 17446 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 3:13 pm
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Ooh, while we're on the subject...you know how you can select how much you want to donate to the humble bundle? Well if you are going to donate more than you have to, consider trimming the excess off and spending that on a second humble bundle to post here. The developers still get the same amount of money and it's a fun thing to post here.
>> No. 17448 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 4:41 pm
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You'll have to do without the other 2 codes for now lads, as I've been banned for a week for misuse of apostrophe.
>> No. 17449 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 4:42 pm
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>>17446
That's a very good idea.
>> No. 17452 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 5:41 pm
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Let's just pretend I'm not banned for this post.
F.E.A.R. 3
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=VqVMN2WNudbwvp5v
>> No. 17453 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 5:45 pm
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>>17452

Got it. Cheers lad.
>> No. 17454 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 5:54 pm
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>>17453
You're welcome. Glad it's gone to a good home.
>> No. 17456 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 5:58 pm
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>>17454

We'll see if I can actually play it on this set up, but I have been meaning to check out the F.E.AR. series. 2 might have been more likely to run. But hey, in a fortnight I have a new build.
>> No. 17458 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 6:03 pm
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>>17456
Try grabbing that too. I suspect it's gone, but no one has posted saying they've taken it.
>> No. 17459 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 6:06 pm
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>>17458

Tried, but nabbed. In fairness it might have been someone just about to clock off from work. We shall see if he has the politeness to post after dinner.
>> No. 17462 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 6:45 pm
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Last one from me for now.
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=smf3y3WyBPqHYm6N
>> No. 17463 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 6:48 pm
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>>17462

You legend. You utter fucking legend.
>> No. 17464 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 6:53 pm
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>>17463
Glad to bring a little happinness to .gs.
>> No. 17465 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 8:04 pm
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Good Lord! MOO 1 + 2 giveaway sold out in about ten seconds at most and the sever pooped out for a few seconds after.
>> No. 17466 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 8:36 pm
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GOG are doing a lot of freebies too. You just do a pretend purchase and it's yours for good, including whatever extras they chuck in. Some good ones given away so far too, not only crappy ones. The pace has really picked up so word has really got about or the yanks are awake.
>> No. 17467 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 8:39 pm
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>>17466
> You just do a pretend purchase and it's yours for good, including whatever extras they chuck in.
Really? How, pray tell, does this work my friend?
>> No. 17468 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 8:42 pm
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>>17467

It's entirely above board and nothing clever. You just click on the button to buy it during the offer and it's listed as a £0 purchase and then it is instantly added without needing to do any paypal, etc. So even if you're wary of giving financial stuff to them you can still get the freebies. they also have a few semi-permanent freebie offers, including an ultima game. They too can be got the same way.
>> No. 17469 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 8:46 pm
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The servers are really being hammered, so jump in quick to give yourself time if you really want something. I managed to score Beyond Good and Evil for nowt. Very good platformer adventure back in the day. The games have no DRM and let you download them without needing to install any special software gateways like Steam or Origin, etc. If I end up with doubles in my panic I'll pass them on.
>> No. 17470 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 8:47 pm
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>>17469
>Origin
Anyone use this? I don't, but I've got a code for a game for it.
>> No. 17471 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 8:53 pm
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>>17470

I'm sure someone would be happy enough to even sign up for it if they really wanted the game or were skint. Might do someone down on their luck a good turn.

It is interesting to see how fast some games sell out and how long some sales drag out on GOG. It's a clear vote on popularity or desirability.

BG 2 complete for £1.50 right now!
>> No. 17472 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:02 pm
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>>17471
Fair enough. Here's the Origin code for Dead Space 3
6DNW-XTU3-5X9H-3JKV-NRH2
Looks like I have some others too...I got keys for Steam and Origin, but only ever redeemed the Steam ones. Dead Space 3 had no steam code.
These might work for you, unless Origin and Steam partnered for this (unlikely) or bikethief beats you to it.

These first two haven't been redeemed anywhere either, actually.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising Origin Key
C3G8-J5LB-32MK-85LY-QW2H
Populous Origin Key
D2AA-GNHG-D3DJ-A96Y-SF8R
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Try your luck with these.
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Dead Space Origin Key
BF7F-NXQ9-HSK7-YMGZ-DLPG
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Origin Key
7AFX-3RFK-9JXA-LKAE-6X6J
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition Origin Key
9Y2S-ARTE-YJL8-EB9L-YDYP
Medal of Honor Origin Key
AG2J-96KG-G6JC-GN6A-PXZC
Mirror's Edge Origin Key
BRUL-LAL4-PJWE-KSBH-DZN3
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Good luck!
>> No. 17473 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:10 pm
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Hundreds of hours of top quality RPG fun (before you even touch mods). The BG2 offer was spectacular. Was actually £1.29 with the current conversion rate. Less than a penny per hour of entertainment, I'd say. Plus, it is a very replayable game. I'd recommend it even at the standard price. Good value for money if things are a bit tight too.
>> No. 17474 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:12 pm
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>>17473
I would have jumped on it, but no Linux support.

That's why I've given away the codes I have in this thread.
>> No. 17475 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:14 pm
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>>17474

I'm sure it can be run on ubuntu and the like by now. It is hugely popular and a good few years old. Not the most demanding system-wise either.
>> No. 17477 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:20 pm
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>>17472
The C&C:RA3 key has been used. By me. Cheers.

https://www.youtube.com/v/Tb-gI_pFog0
>> No. 17478 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:21 pm
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>>17477
Great news lad, enjoy!
>> No. 17479 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:22 pm
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>>17477
I like the Hell March but the RA2 version is the fucking tits.

It fits so well in the game's intro as well: https://www.youtube.com/v/fnd0qg4I_MM
>> No. 17480 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:22 pm
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>>17477

That was the last playable C&C game. And only just, at that.
>> No. 17481 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:24 pm
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>> No. 17482 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:24 pm
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Planescape: Torment for £1.29 too. The instant it came up I dove for it. So must have many others as the server died for ages. Thankfully I managed to worm my way in and snatched one of the few hundred copies at that price (which vanished in seconds if you take the server outage out of it). Well worth it. I can get a year's supply of gaming fun for the price of one AAA title at this rate.
>> No. 17483 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:25 pm
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>>17479
The bit where it says WESTWOOD STUDIOS PROUDLY PRESENTS really makes me tear up a bit. It makes me think developers don't actually give a fuck about their products anymore. :(
>> No. 17484 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:25 pm
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>>17481

Ouch. Don't think I'll be paying that for a FPS any time soon.
>> No. 17485 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:27 pm
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>>17483

It was a shame what happened to Westwood. So many good companies were wiped out or twisted out of recognition by that era of EA gobbling them up. I'll never forget the hours of fun I had clicking on the Harkonnen adviser's nose to make him go into spasms of twitching like a lunatic.
>> No. 17486 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:30 pm
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>>17484
Right, that kind of money is reserved for F2P games.
>> No. 17487 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:38 pm
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>>17486

Horrifying seeing how much money people are putting into these farmville type money sinks. They are often very poor games and there are plenty much better games that do the same for a lower long term cost. I worry it'll damage the market again, just as DLC was a broken leg.
>> No. 17488 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:47 pm
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>>17487
>just as DLC was a broken leg.
You've not played many videogames this last generation, have you?
>> No. 17489 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 9:49 pm
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>>17488
As in that they damage the quality of the games, presumably.
>> No. 17490 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 10:09 pm
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>>17489
Add on levels arent so bad. Where it gets bad is in something like an online game where some of the "DLC" gives players an advantage.
>> No. 17491 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 10:10 pm
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>>17488

I was talking to my mate who used to be a big PC gamer back in the day, like 15 years ago. He doesn't understand DLC.

He doesn't understand why people buy it, or why they don't complain about it. He started talking about how it was "all down hill after The Sims" which he claims are the spawn of Satan because they would schedule "expansions" and charge full price for them, but you needed Sims vanilla to play them.

It wouldn't shock me if that is when EA started to realise they could get away with shit like that.
>> No. 17492 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 10:15 pm
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"DLC"Is good when it's stuff like the GTA V Expansions or RDR Undead Nightmare. Proper full flourished expansions.

New Guns & Outfits however, no.
>> No. 17493 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 10:17 pm
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>>17490

Yeah, no one minds the odd small expansion or extra levels. That one with the DLC advantage is a very nasty move though and is so obviously a shitty thing to do it says a lot about those behind it. Or just as nasty is the day zero DLC that was obviously stripped out of the game to be repackaged. It ends up in a sort of "collect them all" thing where you have to dart around and snap up these missing parts to get the complete experience and often these greatly increase the overall price. Very nasty and dishonest. And all that is assuming you are even able to get all the missing parts. If you're unlucky and the game is out of print you are stuffed, as you could well be if you bought it in the 'wrong' shop and you can't get those parts. Worst is when you see it happen to a sequel where the old game included it all but as the new game made in the "fuck the gamers and customers up the arse" era it is stripped to the bone to milk you dry. Like that other poster said, there doesn't seem to to be the pride and love there used to be. I'm glad this sad and soulless age isn't my only or first experience with gaming.
>> No. 17494 Anonymous
13th November 2013
Wednesday 10:23 pm
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I was particularly shocked and dismayed by Paradox doing it so badly. They even stripped out the unit counters (I shit ye not) and sold them as separate in some games. Things that used to be included as part of the very basics are hacked out and dripped back in and things that would be extra freebies (like the save game convertor) will cost you $10. Although Paradox seems to have changed somewhat over the years from the smaller company they used to be so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise they'd go sour elsewhere.
>> No. 17496 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 12:09 am
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The first DLC I remember is the horse armour in Oblivion, a non-functional graphical mod in a single-player game (amusingly, I read that as of a year or so ago there were still multiple people buying it every day on Xbox Live). Most customers find this pretty insulting, I know I considered DLC a dirty word for some time. Modern DLC packs, though, tend to have substantial extra content that people actually want. I don't really understand how people can't see the difference. DLC expansions are no weirder than sequels, they're just smaller in scope.

I wonder if in five or ten years time we'll be looking back on free-to-play and remarking how brutally consumer-unfriendly the play-to-win games we see today are. There's a lot of painfully clumsy monetisation that's going on in games at the moment but sooner or later someone's going to nail the cost/time/reward matrix just fucking right and we'll all come to enjoy it one way or another.
>> No. 17497 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 12:13 am
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The 80s and 90s were a golden age. It's sad we don't see the same greatness any more. I remember looking forward to what would come. I expected ever more complicated games and greater innovation. What I got was horse armour and graphic updates.
>> No. 17498 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 12:25 am
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I can also remember the sweeteners and promises when the digital system was being pushed - that we'd save money as we wouldn't have the costs of manuals and printing and producing physical copies that need to be shipped or sold through middle men. Yet almost always I can find the physical copy cheaper than the digital one. RIP OFF. Not only do they charge a much higher price they are clearly gouging for more profit as they have lower costs. And in the end you are beholden to them for your entire game collection's availability and continued usability. When they go tits up, bang goes all your games or DLC. We won't see the same preserved collections of old.
>> No. 17499 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 12:28 am
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>>17497
You're being a touch nostalgic I feel. Today, thanks to digital distribution and crowd funding, PC games are going through a veritable golden age. The apparent support for smaller developers on the new console platforms seem to indicate that gaming in general may be entering a renaissance where development once again opens up to all-comers, which can't be anything other than a good thing if complicated games and greater innovation are what you want. I'm genuinely confused as to why you'd feel the way you do.
>> No. 17500 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 12:40 am
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>>17498
> Yet almost always I can find the physical copy cheaper than the digital one.
Strange, with me it's the exact opposite.
>> No. 17501 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 1:11 am
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>>17500

Really? Any examples of that?

>>17499

Where are the fruits of this golden age then? All I've been shown are rotten apples.
>> No. 17502 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 1:26 am
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>>17499
>PC games are going through a veritable golden age.
Yeah. Irrespective of what games you loved in the 80s and 90s you can get more, and better, today in all those genres than you could back then, with few exceptions.

>I'm genuinely confused as to why you'd feel the way you do.
When people say "the 70s/80s/90s were a golden age" or similar what they mean is "I don't enjoy games as much as I used to when I was a highly impressionable child/teenager" which is a natural fact of modern games inevitably lacking that nostalgia. Nothing will ever alter my conviction that Chuckie Egg is one of the greatest platform games of all time, in the same way no one will ever convince me that Transformers: The Movie isn't a flawless gem of cartoon animation, but objectively I'm fucking wrong. The entertainment available today is better than we had as kids, and if I could trade Minesweeper for Minecraft among my childhood memories then I'd do it in a second.
>> No. 17503 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 2:21 am
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>>17502
> no one will ever convince me that Transformers: The Movie isn't a flawless gem of cartoon animation, but objectively I'm fucking wrong. The entertainment available today is better than we had as kids,
You're totally wrong, kids' films today have nothing with the depth and scope of emotion that Transformer: The Movie had.
>> No. 17504 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 2:22 am
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>>17501
> Really? Any examples of that?
Steam sales, Humble Bundle etc.
>> No. 17506 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 5:57 am
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Jack fucking Keane has broken the GOG.com sale. All the staff there have gone to bed so no one can do anything about it. It's been on sale for hours now, but almost no one wants to buy it, so it sits there forever. Some people bought copies just to try and get rid of it, but it isn't enough. Previous two games sold out in as many minutes. This must be hugely embarrassing to the developers/publishers and might get them to look at their games and their prices. The others must be doing something right when they can sell out before you get your CC details in.

>>17504

Sale prices don't count or someone can say their mate Billy gave them the disc for 1p. Standard pricing only, please. The kind you can rely on to buy and have shipped or available any time and not hoping for the alignment of the planets and moons.
>> No. 17507 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 5:59 am
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>>17502

>Yeah. Irrespective of what games you loved in the 80s and 90s you can get more, and better, today in all those genres than you could back then, with few exceptions.

No you can't. You can -at best- get the same with better graphics or the same thing with very small changes. They lack the ambition and revolutionary leaps of old. Sad times.
>> No. 17508 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 7:36 am
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After six hours in the flash sale they managed to sell out Jack Keane 2 at last. Mostly because one person bought 20 copies to get rid of it and others were doing likewise after all those hours of madding frustration for everyone.
>> No. 17509 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 7:40 am
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>>17508

https://www.youtube.com/v/xvX_5ym_ajI

It was like Stalingrad, lads, but we survived. Over a thousand posts about it on the site and goodness knows how many elsewhere.
>> No. 17510 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 9:07 am
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>>17506
> Sale prices don't count or someone can say their mate Billy gave them the disc for 1p. Standard pricing only, please. The kind you can rely on to buy and have shipped or available any time and not hoping for the alignment of the planets and moons.
Counts for me. I get every game I want, and never have to wait longer than a month or so for it to show up somewhere on sale.
>> No. 17511 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 10:05 am
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>>17472
>>17477
In case anyone missed this earlier...or if you didn't, then it might be that we have only one Origin user on the board. If that's the case, fill your boots lad and grab them all.
>> No. 17512 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 10:34 am
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>>17507
You just aren't playing the right games.
>> No. 17513 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 12:09 pm
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>>17501
>Where are the fruits of this golden age then? All I've been shown are rotten apples.
That's always going to be subjective to a certain extent, but for me Hotline Miami, Fez, Crusader Kings 2, Braid, Skyrim, Dark Souls, the Bioshock series, the Mass Effect series, the Uncharted series, Bastion, Journey, The Last of Us, the Walking Dead, both Portals, Persona 4, Red Dead Redemption, GTA V, the Witcher, Mark of the Ninja, Kerbal Space program, Don't Starve, Dark Souls, Papers Please, and most recently Brothers have been the best example of the stellar quality of games in the past few years. I would also suggest that, contrary to >>17507, they're far more than "the same [thing as the 80s and 90s} with better graphics or with very small changes".
>> No. 17514 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 1:05 pm
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>>17513
But they're AAA titles, AAA titles are always bad
>> No. 17515 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 1:08 pm
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>>17513
Not who you replied to, but how old are you?

I think some of those games are classics (Skyrim, The Portal games) but a lot of the others are just middle of the road. Braid and Bastion, for example (maybe MOR is too unkind to them) just didn't grab me by the balls as much as say Starfox, Ocarina Of Time, or even Dizzy.

I'll say this, one genre that has been kicking out good games is the Adventure lot. If you ever liked point and click hair-tearers like the Discworld game, stuff like Critter Chronicles (available for Linux!) is awesome. It's the one time I feel that better graphics haven't made the developers lazy.

Portal 2 though...for me, best game of the last ten years.
>> No. 17516 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 1:12 pm
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>>17515
Braid is excellent. I wouldn't even mention Skyrim, the storyline was pretty rubbish and the quests generic.
>> No. 17517 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 1:17 pm
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>>17516
> I wouldn't even mention Skyrim, the storyline was pretty rubbish and the quests generic.
>> No. 17518 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 1:18 pm
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>>17517
I don't think so. All the quests involved going from A to B, more or less.
>> No. 17519 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 1:26 pm
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>>17515
Braid is something like six years old now and when it came out there basically was no indie games scene. I think it's a somewhat over-hyped game, it certainly became the darling of the "games are a serious artform for serious consideration" crowd, and their endless bleating about it gave it a legacy that anyone playing it now would probably struggle to match to the game's own merits. It was an important milestone, though, and I think you could reasonably make the case that it signalled the arrival of the mainstream indie game, which pretty much everyone agrees has been a good thing.

Starfox (on SNES) is a pretty shit game by the way. Terrible framerate, sluggish controls. You need some heavy-duty nostalgia goggles to make that game playable.
>> No. 17520 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 1:28 pm
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>>17519
> Starfox (on SNES) is a pretty shit game by the way. Terrible framerate, sluggish controls.
I agree the framerate is bad. Don't complain about the controls though lad. Not my fault if you're not top gun material.

I think Lylat Wars will stand the test of time though. That game was off the hook.
>> No. 17521 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 3:19 pm
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>>17520

Do a barrel roll.
>> No. 17532 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 4:56 pm
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Anyone fancy FEAR?

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=HhydAVWVcWyGTAsM
>> No. 17533 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 4:59 pm
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>>17532

Legend. Cheers lad. Got really excited about this looking at the wiki on the series last night.
>> No. 17535 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 5:01 pm
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>>17533
No worries. the Expansions for fear 1 are well worth a blast too. But they get retconned/ ignored by Fear 2 & 3 proper.
>> No. 17536 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 5:03 pm
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Warhammer 40,000 - Dawn of War

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>> No. 17540 Anonymous
14th November 2013
Thursday 5:09 pm
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>>17515
>Not who you replied to, but how old are you?
Old enough to have started playing games on a SNES.

And yet young/immature enough to be able to cite a couple dozen of my favourite videogames from the past generation off the top of my head.

The early to mid 2000s were really the nadir of gaming, I think. Unless you were a fan of WW2 shooters or the occasional modern shooter, there was rather a drought of interesting material. It's frankly incredible that the scene has changed to the point that Sony dedicated a huge chunk their E3 stage time to indie games this year. It would've been unfathomable that that could happen just a few years ago. I find it hard to be anything but optimistic about the state of gaming and its future.
>> No. 17567 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 12:45 am
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If Sony and EA get their claws into indie games then you can kiss it all goodbye, just as the great old smaller studios or companies like Westwood and Origin. The games scene was like a graveyard after that.
>> No. 17568 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 9:47 am
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One each lads.

Batman™: Arkham Asylum GOTY:
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=uTN3CehqSFrpEFAf

Batman™: Arkham City GOTY:
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=GhWUbGRVVq3P6EU6

Batman™: Arkham Origins DLC:
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=kheb8rWsGrcy8h3D
>> No. 17569 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 10:37 am
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>>17567
Indie games don't need Sony or EA though, that's the whole point. There are now tools and distribution methods that make it possible for an individual or a small team to make an interesting, professional quality game on a shoestring budget, and make a substantial profit if the result is good. The reason that (as >>17540 pointed out) the early 00's were such a creatively bankrupt time for videogames is that the market swung full tilt toward closed, proprietary consoles with high game unit costs, and these games were almost entirely bought from brick and mortar stores that added their own significant overheads. The barrier for entry was measured in millions dollars per game project and required hundreds of thousands of unit sales to break even. There is very little tolerance for risk in any environment like this, which is why we ended up storming Omaha beach ad nauseam.

Westwood got fucked because they needed EA. Team Meat, Mossmouth, Mojang, these folks don't need EA, and platform holders like Sony are increasingly coming to them cap in hand asking for access. The bad old days aren't coming back - the genie is out of the bottle. The real question is, to what extent is the rise in popularity of small, cheap games going to eat into the viability of triple-A blockbuster titles?
>> No. 17570 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 12:47 pm
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It has happened once, it will happen again. When you lads get old enough you'll understand. You'll see the cycle happen again and taste nothing but ashes and disappointment.
>> No. 17571 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 6:37 pm
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This in mind, I found a couple of nice old Sega leaflets a while back. Anyone wanna see em?
>> No. 17573 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 7:01 pm
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>>17571
Yes please.
>> No. 17574 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 7:09 pm
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>>17571
YES

I am going to dump some Viz ones, hope they aren't the same.
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15th November 2013
Friday 7:10 pm
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15th November 2013
Friday 7:10 pm
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15th November 2013
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>> No. 17578 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 7:13 pm
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>>17575
I dislike the quip about female players but I posted it anyway.
>> No. 17579 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 7:17 pm
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>>17578

Oh, you're one of those boring ones then. Pity.
>> No. 17580 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 7:43 pm
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>>17579
I just posted ancient videogame adverts from Viz, we can both rest easy in the knowledge that I'm pretty boring.
>> No. 17581 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 9:32 pm
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ok lads. Here we go.
>> No. 17582 Anonymous
15th November 2013
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>> No. 17583 Anonymous
15th November 2013
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>> No. 17584 Anonymous
15th November 2013
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>> No. 17585 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 9:35 pm
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And now, Megadrive.
>> No. 17586 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 9:35 pm
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15th November 2013
Friday 9:35 pm
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>> No. 17588 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 9:36 pm
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>> No. 17589 Anonymous
15th November 2013
Friday 9:38 pm
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And finally, a reaction image purloined from the Megadrive stuff.
>> No. 17604 Anonymous
16th November 2013
Saturday 8:47 am
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>> No. 17605 Anonymous
16th November 2013
Saturday 10:26 am
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>> No. 17606 Anonymous
16th November 2013
Saturday 10:26 am
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>> No. 17607 Anonymous
16th November 2013
Saturday 11:50 am
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>>17606
Holy fuck, I want one.
>> No. 17609 Anonymous
16th November 2013
Saturday 12:01 pm
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>>17607
The Mega PC is the less interesting of the two, being as it is functionally split in half (kind of like the image shows) - the "special" bit is the monitor which is both capable of both 15.6kHz for the Megadrive video and 31.2kHz for the PC VGA video (I have a feeling the sound card is shared but everything else is discrete, so the PC can't interact with the Megadrive or vice versa). The Teradrive actually allows you to talk to the 68k CPU but you're stuck with a 286 and a very odd, very custom Japanese system architecture. They are both pretty cool IMO.
>> No. 17647 Anonymous
18th November 2013
Monday 10:41 pm
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>>17228

I don't know why you like Superfrog HD so much, is it the nostalgia factor? I'm inclined to go on a AVGN type rant.

-Why can't you use spud whilst jumping?
-Why can't you use spud in the 8 cardinal directions?
-Half the time I don't know where the fuck I'm going despite the occasional arrows.
-It's cheesy as fuck.

It's growing on me but I still think it sucks and I'd never buy it on its own.
>> No. 17648 Anonymous
18th November 2013
Monday 10:53 pm
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>>17647
To add to that, is this game a sonic knock off?
What's the point of the fruit machines?
Why does he hold his breath underwater?
>> No. 17649 Anonymous
19th November 2013
Tuesday 12:20 pm
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>>17647>>17648
I grabbed a copy of Superfrog HD from this thread and I quite enjoyed it. All the things you mention are basically just remnants of 90s game design, and the limitations of the hardware of that era combined with development time/budget constraints. Saying it's "cheesy as fuck" is kind of missing the point, it's like saying that Mass Effect is a bit too sci-fi or that Disney movies are a bit family-friendly.

If you weren't playing games in the 80s and 90s it probably (and justifiably) has very little appeal.
>> No. 17650 Anonymous
19th November 2013
Tuesday 2:00 pm
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>>17647
I liked it back in 1992, so it's most likely that.

The game is pretty unchanged really. The levels are changed to be easier, but the original levels you unlock with the fruit machine are the proper ones.
>> No. 17777 Anonymous
28th November 2013
Thursday 10:00 pm
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Got Jamestown already from this HB if anyone wants it.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=eET3c685d2DbbkeC
>> No. 17882 Anonymous
3rd December 2013
Tuesday 9:52 pm
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Serious Sam 3 if anyone wants it. The online co-op is fun on this.

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=uPS2PNGrX6R7ddnw
>> No. 17883 Anonymous
4th December 2013
Wednesday 1:57 am
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>>17882
Thanks ladm8. Much appreciated.
>> No. 17884 Anonymous
4th December 2013
Wednesday 2:19 am
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Heartwarming to see the Christmas spirit in action here. N1.
>> No. 17885 Anonymous
4th December 2013
Wednesday 2:30 am
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>>17884
Have a nosey back through the thread lad, i'm sure half the games have not been claimed yet.
>> No. 17886 Anonymous
4th December 2013
Wednesday 2:44 am
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>>17885
I'm pretty sure 90% of them have been claimed. Quite a few were taken and not acknowledged.
>> No. 17887 Anonymous
4th December 2013
Wednesday 5:36 pm
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Anyone fancy some fun with Garry and his mod? Here yeh go.

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=XynzCUW5BpCEBfEb
>> No. 17888 Anonymous
4th December 2013
Wednesday 5:40 pm
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>>17887

One of those mods or game modes that can be very basic or hugely complicated and time consuming depending on how you approach it. Certainly fun for organising huge battles.
>> No. 17899 Anonymous
4th December 2013
Wednesday 10:00 pm
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>>17887
Well, once again some cunt appears to have taken it without posting. You're welcome.
>> No. 17900 Anonymous
4th December 2013
Wednesday 10:23 pm
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>>17899
That is really weird. I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to script a bot to monitor imageboards in order to snag and process game codes, but it does seem like a particularly cuntish thing to do.
>> No. 17901 Anonymous
4th December 2013
Wednesday 11:23 pm
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Apologies chaps. I grabbed that one earlier but as luck would have it, the internet dropped right after.

I intend to make something .gs related with it.
>> No. 17978 Anonymous
11th December 2013
Wednesday 5:29 am
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This one might be a bit dodgy because I clicked "gift" since I already owned Magicka then had a crisis of confidence since I didn't have the DnD DLC and redeemed it to my email account. But it didn't work when I tried to pair to my steam account.

Anyway here's the link, go mental. Obfuscated in case of crawl bots trying to steal stuff from such posted links.

https://www(dot)humble bundle(dot)com/downloads(questionmark)key= 2Dc u8W wwf 5KX 3ke 5
>> No. 17985 Anonymous
14th December 2013
Saturday 10:49 pm
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Magicka + 2 DLC:
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=8Mkuwk68zr25rhfU
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=5rcZvZ2VWvBCNeXH

Sanctum 2:
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=Hb6vwTm7Va8bDf3a
>> No. 17986 Anonymous
14th December 2013
Saturday 10:54 pm
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>>17985

Not taken them, but if there are any RPG type fans then have a look at Magicka.
>> No. 17987 Anonymous
15th December 2013
Sunday 12:40 pm
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>>17985

Cheers lad.
>> No. 17988 Anonymous
15th December 2013
Sunday 8:05 pm
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Killing Floor if anyone wants it. Tough learning curve, but fun. There's usually at least a few servers with about 40 people on. Plus the voice acting is English.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=xx5Mede2G4nK3PEN
>> No. 17989 Anonymous
16th December 2013
Monday 12:36 am
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>>17988

I grabbed that one as well, only due to the learning curb aspect.

I will grab a few in the new year to distribute to the other lads.
>> No. 17990 Anonymous
18th December 2013
Wednesday 2:38 am
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Quite pleased with how the thread turned out. Here come a couple more surplus games.
Little Inferno https://www.bumblebundle.com/gift?key=K5GF7d6vwCy5SNXn
Gemini Rue https://www.humblegrundle.com/gift?key=4EvkAD7Y3mNG8cX8
>> No. 17991 Anonymous
18th December 2013
Wednesday 2:08 pm
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>>17988
I bought Killing Floor, like, three years ago and have never played it. It looks like it belongs in the nineties, the era of gratuitous video game violence.
>> No. 17992 Anonymous
18th December 2013
Wednesday 2:30 pm
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>>17991

As a UT2004 mod originally, I find Killing Floor rather nicely conveys exactly the kind of not-too-serious online fun that has become almost entirely absent under today's gaming culture.

It reminds me of when FPS games were the mainstay exclusively of geeks with expensive PCs, not lowest common denominator rubbish that every 13 year old can play on their Xbox.
>> No. 17993 Anonymous
18th December 2013
Wednesday 6:44 pm
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>>17992

Well said, that person. Those are the kind of qualities it is too easy to overlook.
>> No. 17994 Anonymous
18th December 2013
Wednesday 6:45 pm
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>>17606

I liked that until I saw "Amstrad". The kiss of death.
>> No. 18034 Anonymous
21st December 2013
Saturday 11:34 pm
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>>17991

It's mostly just fun if you've got a few friends to play with. Not much to it at all really, just a plain old zombie mod released by itself.
>> No. 18035 Anonymous
24th December 2013
Tuesday 9:14 pm
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>>17227
I bought Superfrog HD on the PS3 the other day, and it seems i'm Number 1 in the world on a couple of levels.

Fucking hell, it cant have sold that few can it?
>> No. 18036 Anonymous
24th December 2013
Tuesday 10:05 pm
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>>18035

Probably just for that day or week, or perhaps month. Although, you could be. I held the 187th spot for a long time for the Ski Jump on Trails HD and that sold millions, and millions still play it to this day.

I got a pop up while playing AC 3 that said I was in the top 100 for Jaeger kills in the world, but on further inspection it was just for that day.
>> No. 18037 Anonymous
24th December 2013
Tuesday 10:33 pm
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>>18035
Me and my brother were on the top 10 global for nucleus co-op for many months.
>> No. 18038 Anonymous
25th December 2013
Wednesday 1:27 am
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>>18036>>18037
Ahh yes, seems it was the daily & weekly boards.

Still, 9th in the all time board on 1 map, so well chuffed.
>> No. 18069 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 7:35 pm
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>>18036
I hovered around the top 20 in Metal Gear Online's Team Sneaking mode. I was 5th for a few days. It made me feel a very strange mixture of pride and shame.
>> No. 18260 Anonymous
14th February 2014
Friday 10:04 pm
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Dungeon Keeper is free on gog.com right now
>> No. 18261 Anonymous
15th February 2014
Saturday 12:14 am
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>>18260
And DK2 75% off.

Maybe it's because I played DK2 first, which has a brilliant overarching campaign, but DK1 seems like a succession of poorly designed multiplayer maps to me with little linking them together.
>> No. 18262 Anonymous
15th February 2014
Saturday 1:02 am
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>>18261

I've played both and DK1 always felt to me like it was made with more love. DK2 felt to me more like a cash grab. There were some nice ideas in there, but overall, I thought, poorly executed.
>> No. 18263 Anonymous
15th February 2014
Saturday 1:33 am
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>>18262
I came back to both a few years ago. DK1 still great, DK2, not so much. Hard to say how much of that is nostalgia.
>> No. 18275 Anonymous
16th February 2014
Sunday 5:01 pm
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Civ III

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=5rB2UVypsnTfcntM
>> No. 18276 Anonymous
16th February 2014
Sunday 9:10 pm
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>>18275

I never liked that one. It made it too difficult to maintain a large empire, which is all I really like to do in Civ. That's why I play Civ IV where the only victory condition is Conquest.
>> No. 18381 Anonymous
28th March 2014
Friday 12:52 pm
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http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/03/27/dead-space-is-free-on-origin
>> No. 18429 Anonymous
23rd April 2014
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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Red Orchestra 2 is free on Steam for 24 hours lads.
>> No. 18430 Anonymous
23rd April 2014
Wednesday 8:36 pm
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>>18429

I loved that game for a solid year, but now when I try to play it I get about 2 minutes before it starts rubber banding and I get "session banned" for "speed hacking".

And when it's not lagging it's painfully unfinished, although I assume that's what the 8.5 GB patch just sorted out.
>> No. 18431 Anonymous
23rd April 2014
Wednesday 10:59 pm
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>>18430
An 8.5GB patch?! Fuck me they must have just rewrote the game from scratch!

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 18432 Anonymous
24th April 2014
Thursday 12:16 am
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>>18431

> rewrote

Sort it out lad.
>> No. 18671 Anonymous
1st June 2014
Sunday 9:16 pm
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Battlefield 3 is free on origin for the next couple of days.

If you have a gold account on a 360 then Dark Souls is free with the Games on Gold.
>> No. 18672 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 10:52 am
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>>18432

We getting banned for northernisms now?
>> No. 18673 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 10:55 am
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>>18672

That isn't a written colloquialism, next you'll be telling us "Baff" is an acceptable spelling of Bath.
>> No. 18674 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 12:21 pm
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>>18673
It's "Baff Spar", lad.
>> No. 18675 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 12:34 pm
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>>18673

"Baff" is a misspelling of a word whereas "rewrote" is an alternative form of the word "rewritten" which is used in the North. Your comparison is therefore not valid.
>> No. 18676 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 12:54 pm
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>>18675

I rewrote it.
I have rewritten it.

It is not an alternative form, it's simply a different conjugation of the verb. In that post it was used incorrectly, ergo it was a grammar error.
>> No. 18677 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:18 pm
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>>18676

It's a formal error but is used colloquially in the North which is my point; the rules need to be clearer. Do we have to use proper Oxford grammar and spelling at all times, or are we allowed to actually write like we talk?
>> No. 18678 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:30 pm
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>>18677

Stop saying every bit of shit grammar is "used in the North". If that's the case, then stop, because just because several million folksy football hooligans and teenage mothers do it, doesn't make it right.

And I'm allowed to say that, because I'm from Cheshire, which is in the North.
>> No. 18679 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:30 pm
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>>18677

> or are we allowed to actually write like we talk?

I'm not a mod so don't take this as gospel but I think the unwritten rule is "only in /iq/ or if done in a satirical, italicised or obviously humorous fashion". Terrible grammar and spelling was almost ubiquitous in the area I grew up in, but that doesn't mean I can claim such as a local colloquialism.
>> No. 18680 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:38 pm
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>>18679

In which case it makes sense that one must be banned for claiming something is "well good" or that you're going "round t'shop", right?
>> No. 18681 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:41 pm
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Actually I don't know why I'm arguing about this except that I want to be a dickhead, I'm sorry lads.
>> No. 18682 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:43 pm
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>>18677

>Do we have to use proper Oxford grammar and spelling at all times[?]

Outside of /iq/ or satire, Yes.
>> No. 18683 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:46 pm
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>>18680

I'm pretty sure that's still proper grammar, just not a formal manner of, err, it.

See how I just did an "err", obviously you shouldn't really write like that, but the grammar's still correct and this being the first person and an imageboard, I think it's okay. Maybe.

Regardless, not using the correct meaning of a word isn't really a colloquialism, it's just wrong.
>> No. 18684 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:46 pm
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>>18680

I'm not sure I want to even think too much about this, but "well good" as opposed to "very good" is probably at about the same point on the Sin-o-meter as conflating "less" and "fewer". Incorrect but widely used enough to not be ban worthy.

"T'shop", "missus", "aye", "m8", "blud" etc are all presumably done self-consciously and are generally used in context. Some of them also make up part of the general board culture, such as one exists. Sage because I'm just generally stabbing in the dark here.

In other words Lurk Moar Don't ban me please :(
>> No. 18685 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:48 pm
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>>18683

Yeah and the Masonic lodge should start letting in women, because no one remember why they aren't allowed in. Maybe.
>> No. 18686 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:51 pm
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>>18684

Lurk Moar is in the site's manifesto.
>> No. 18687 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:55 pm
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'Have wrote' has much more legitimacy, since it's an archaism coming from early modern English.
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/EModEGrammarIntro.htm
>> No. 18688 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 1:56 pm
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>>18685

I'm not sure your metaphor holds up. Nay, I don't think it do There's nothing there. When does satire become piss taking?

It's my understanding that the poster may jabber like an idiot until the mods turf them out, providing their grammar is in order while they do so.
>> No. 18689 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 2:17 pm
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>>18687

Archaism is Yy clue as to why Yat is wrong, lad.
>> No. 18690 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 2:26 pm
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>>18689

You have a strange mindset if you think that the only correct form of English is late-20th-Century English and it's not allowed to progress to other forms of uses or else it's "wrong" but also it's not allowed to regress to previous forms of uses or else it's "wrong".
>> No. 18691 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 2:33 pm
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>>18690

That is beautifully crafted Straw man you've constructed for yourself, if you only had a brain...
>> No. 18692 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 2:45 pm
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>>18691

By all means, deconstruct the "straw man".
>> No. 18693 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 3:00 pm
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>>18692

But then you'd just have a pile of straw and that shit gets everywhere.
>> No. 18694 Anonymous
2nd June 2014
Monday 3:09 pm
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>>18692

Really? Where in my post did I display a mindset that decries the fluidity of language?

If you are going to shitpost about languages, do it in /iq/.
>> No. 18848 Anonymous
18th June 2014
Wednesday 8:04 pm
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GOG has some pretty great deals up in bundles right now. You can get all of bullfrog's best games for under $10, and all the old Legacy of Kain, Hitman, Rayman, and Thief games for peanuts.

Also, the last truly great football game: http://www.gog.com/game/sensible_world_of_soccer_9697
>> No. 18849 Anonymous
19th June 2014
Thursday 6:43 pm
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Steam Summer sales on lads. Prepare your wallets.
>> No. 18850 Anonymous
19th June 2014
Thursday 6:45 pm
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>>18849

Is it summer already? Fucking hell. I hadn't even noticed.
>> No. 18853 Anonymous
20th June 2014
Friday 2:00 am
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>>18849

Fuck's sake. Here I was trying to save money... There's not usually much that interests me in them these days though. I feel I've played everything good already.

Far Cry 3 looks tempting for £3.74 though...
>> No. 18854 Anonymous
20th June 2014
Friday 2:07 am
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One Way Heroics is worth a chuck, only £0.57 in the Steam sale. Reminds me a bit of a slower paced and less stylish Half-Minute Hero, but it's still pretty fun and interesting. Roguelikelike where there is a wave of darkness on the left side of the screen moving towards the right, while you have to do your exploring kind of like a cross between an old school JRPG, a very basic roguelike, and those scrolling levels from Super Mario Bros 3. Very addictive, one of those games where you can't help but have another go when you die. Also when you die you get points that can be used to unlock perks/classes/storage space for your next character.

Also it has trading cards if you're working towards badges and stuff.
>> No. 18908 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 12:41 am
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Skyrim's £2.50 right now, in case you're the one person in the universe who doesn't already own it.

Also State of Decay is criminally underrated and is less than £4.

Oh yeah, and if you contribute points (by crafting badges, of course) on a day that your team wins, you have a chance of getting the top 3 games on your wishlist for free.
>> No. 18911 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 11:26 am
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Hmmmm... I don't know...

State of Decay looks crazy, for the price it's going for. Otherwise, I'm not sure, I don't want this to become a massive time sink. I play Quake Live these days, and thats free...
>> No. 18913 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 7:16 pm
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Eeeee Metro Last Light complete for six quid. Chuffed I am, that's my next couple of days gone.

I loved 2033, but I always feel like buying these kind of narrative-driven linear shooters is a waste of money when there are games out there that have so much more longevity. For that price it's more that worth it though, I'm sure.
>> No. 18915 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 9:21 pm
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>>18908
I don't own Skyrim. People go on about The Elder Scrolls, so I tried to play Morrowind, and it became abundantly clear that it would take a million years to get through it. I still don't know how one is supposed to make any money in that game without cheating. I ended up repeatedly buying and selling the same object to the same traders until I had emptied their purse and increased my bartering skill to max level, but that's clearly not the way one is supposed to do it.
>> No. 18916 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 9:32 pm
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>>18915
Morrowind and, to a lesser extent, Oblivion required the player to invest quite a lot more time to get anything out of them than Skyrim. It's a much more accessible game, you can't go wrong with it at £2.50.
>> No. 18917 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 9:37 pm
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Kingdoms of Amalur is on sale for £5. It's definitely worth a look if you like the Elder Scrolls games. Or if you like the state of Rhode Island and want to save them from their own poor financial decisions.
>> No. 18918 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 9:45 pm
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>>18917

KoA is basically a single player MMO, gameplay wise. It is good, don't get me wrong, but it is in dire need of some love.

It pains me that the source code is on a computer in an office basement somewhere.
>> No. 18919 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 9:49 pm
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Anyone played Contagion? I understand it's just No More Room in Hell but an actual game rather than a free unpolished mod. Which works for me because I like NMRIH. But I want some more opinions before I get it on the Daily Deal.
>> No. 18921 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 10:31 pm
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>>18919
Is alright, played it a few times and was not blown away.
Spend a lot of the time looking for some keys or something, which can be boring.
I did not enjoy NMRIH much either so I think the game is not for me.
>> No. 18922 Anonymous
22nd June 2014
Sunday 10:41 pm
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>>18915
> and it became abundantly clear that it would take a million years to get through it.
Nay. The Big Bad Evil Guy can be killed right from the start with a few tricks, if that's what you were looking for.
Otherwise Morrowind is exactly what you have stated. Cannot say it makes it any worse but I may be biased, as it is one of my favourite games.
>> No. 18923 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 12:08 am
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>>18922
>The Big Bad Evil Guy can be killed right from the start with a few tricks, if that's what you were looking for.
True though that may be, I can't imagine anyone buys Morrowind with the idea that they can speedrun through it on their early attempts. It's a vast game and not well suited to any new player who hasn't got tens or hundreds of hours spare to put into it. >>18916 is right in that Skyrim is more accessible, but the same caveat holds true - the game expects you to invest a lot of time. I enjoyed it but I was unemployed. If your free time is short it would be a singularly frustrating experience, I'd guess.
>> No. 18954 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 2:22 am
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>>18915

Morrowind hype is purely nostalgia goggles, IMO.

I can see why people like it, but every time I play it I get bored within about 3 hours of starting. The game is just so obtuse and uninviting, it doesn't so much reward exploration as force you to blunder about until something accidentally fun happens. You really need to invest a lot of time and effort in the game to get something out of it, which is far less true of Oblivion and Skyrim and makes the overall experience more pleasurable, despite their arguably less detailed and interesting worlds and lore.

Maybe when I was younger I would have had time for that but nowadays it's a huge turn-off. And no, mods don't make it better.
>> No. 18956 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 2:37 am
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>>18954
I think Morrowind's world is a lot more interesting than those of Skyrim and Oblivion. The region in Oblivion was primarily uninteresting grassy plains, with a small mountain bit for variety, the only major variation seemed to be between cities. Also the ruins/temples/caves dotting the area were too plentiful considering they tended to have copypasted interiors. Skyrim improved on that somewhat, but it again lacked anything unique. Morrowind's world seemed a lot more fantastical and alien with the volcano and the mushroom forests and the more interesting architecture, which was and still is refreshing when so many RPGs settle into the familiar rut of grassy middle-Earth type settings. Also the lack of hand-holding and the fact that exploration actually has a sense of danger attached is good.

Main issues with Morrowind are that sometimes it's very difficult to know where you're going, compared to Skyrim/Oblivion where you follow the arrows. Also the combat is incredibly infuriating as it attempts to go between classic dice rolling RPG combat and more action focused real time combat. So at early levels you're hitting a mud crab, the sword is physically colliding with the mud crab, but it's classed as a miss because the sword skill isn't high enough. Very frustrating. I think it's a game that someone who played Oblivion/Skyrim first would probably have difficulty warming to, and is one of those games that only seems to be majorly enjoyed by people who are tolerant of janky mechanics, like people who enjoy the Gothic/Risen games and Two Worlds and the Divinity series.
>> No. 18958 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 2:52 am
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>>18954
I agree. Even with steam's in-game web browser you can check maps and such, it's a pain in the backside with little return in terms of fun.
>> No. 18963 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 3:08 am
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For fucks sake, it's 3am and I'm downloading Morrowind and Oblivion.

It's not like I wanted to be productive this week anyway.
>> No. 18968 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 5:33 am
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>>18956

Yeah, like I said, I think Morrowind's world is definitely more interesting, it's just that it's not immersive in any way. It seems counter intuitive because you'd think having just a map and a diary, figuring things our for yourself, would be much MORE immersive; but the thing is that it IS a game, and you have to be able to think in the way that the game wants you to think before you can meaningfully engage with it. Constantly faffing with the clunky UI and negotiating the idiosyncracies of the various combat/skill systems, dice rolls and all, just constantly took me out of it and reminded me I'm just playing an ugly bastard game.

Oblivirim just did a much better job of making it clear how the world worked and what your part in it was to be, despite the fact they were much more restrained worlds. Skyrim was much more guilty of the lack of variety than Oblivion, I thought- It's the main thing that killed it in the end for me. I would be happy if I never fought another draugr in my life.
>> No. 19010 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 1:10 pm
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If you can get past Morrowind's flaws (and for a lot of people, these flaws are impossibly arcane) then you are rewarded with a beautifully hand-crafted world to explore.

Oblivion didn't front-load its problems in such a way. Instead, it left it up to the player to discover for himself that there was no demonic invasion, that every Oblivion gate was the same, that every Aylied ruin was the same, ... , that rigidly level-scaled enemies mean that no matter where you are you or what you're fighting it's always manageable (unless you levelled non-combat skills in which case fuck you, get ready to hit the goblin 30 times before it dies), spell-making was removed, many skills were removed or merged, many spells were removed or toned down, it had an even worse trading system than Morrowind where merchants had a 'maximum value per item' that they were willing to pay, "I saw a mudcrab the other day", a new physics engine with some potential yet no spells to take advantage of this, a fairly tedious minigame for lockpicking, an utter bullshit minigame for dialogue, that weapon skills have very little effect on damage dealt and no effect on chance to hit which makes it shit as an RPG, no options besides block - attack which makes it shit as an action game, no choices in dialogue, "I saw a mudcrab the other day", become head of every guild, become head of the mages' guild without casting a single spell, most guild quests (mages, fighters, dark brotherhood) are about killing someone, ALL loot is scaled to your level so dungeon crawling and thieving both lose their thrill, stealth is binary, 'Radiant AI' was nothing but a schedule and inane conversations, "I saw a mudcrab the other day".

Excuse me, but I'm very bitter about Oblivion.
>> No. 19011 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 1:58 pm
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>>19010

I watched the attached comparison of Skyrim and Morrowind this morning and realised that I've only really played one "true" RPG, and that was Deus Ex. My definition of a "true RPG" is one where you have to immerse yourself in the game or get slapped like a fool. Not that one you can hop in and out of is inherently bad, but it'd be nice for the lore of a world to mean something more. Lore more, more lore, law maw. Wibble.

And do you find being told "I saw a Mudcrab today", by Oblivion's endless population of simpletons, more or less annoying than being told "someone killed a dragon recently", when it was in fact you killing yet another dragon, practically on the steps of the city you're in?

https://www.youtube.com/v/1wujJnlsJh4

PS. It's a rather splendid channel so I'd recommend a subscription.
>> No. 19019 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 4:25 pm
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>>19010
Jesus, you described Oblivion down to a tee. I agree with you 110%.

I bought the game on a whim since I noticed it had pretty graphics and nice atmosphere. However, you're dead right about everything.

I might add how broken the game is logically. For instance, I never played past the 1st story line mission, reason was that I was so fucking annoyed that random Oblivion gates would pop up when I'm free roaming. There was simply nothing more annoying. And they continued until you completed x amount of story line quests.

If you ignore them, you can essentially complete the rest of the game - which begs the question, the evil lad behind it all, he has some patience doesn't he? "LETS INVADE CYRODIL! OH NO, WAIT, THE HERO IS BUSY DOING SOMETHING ELSE, BETTER WAIT THEN..." Stupid.

The dialogue was also shambolic, the repetition, the unnatural voices, the general plastic feel of it all. Very poorly done.

The ONLY way the game is remotely playable is with mods, especially OOO, which abolishes the idiotic leveling system and treasure scaling system. Oh wow an onion and a iron sword after a 2 hour dungeon crawl.

And the other thing that rea-"Oblivion.exe has stopped working"
>> No. 19022 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 4:46 pm
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The only redeeming feature of Oblivion is the slew of sex mods where I can live out my fantasies as a fat black bird with a twelve incher.
>> No. 19023 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 4:49 pm
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What really killed Oblivion for me was the realisation that >30% of all my play time was spent waiting for the thing to load between areas.

(That's what you get for playing the game on a PS3. I ended up keeping a Gameboy with Tetris nearby to fill the time.)
>> No. 19025 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 4:59 pm
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>>19010
>an utter bullshit minigame for dialogue
I've never played Oblivion and I still find this video very amusing.

https://www.youtube.com/v/tAHBMj2N5Qs
>> No. 19030 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 5:21 pm
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>>19011

You have a rather unique - and literal - definition of a "true RPG". Have you played Gothic?

Skyrim's dialogue is just as inane as Oblivion's, but there was so much pre-game hype around Oblivion's NPCs that when I did get my hands on the game interactions left me cold. In comparison, when Skyrim was released I expected another horrendous disappointment, so when it was released I was actually pleasantly surprised that it improved some things over its predecessor. It's a more focused and honest action game. With the mod Requiem it even becomes a damn good first-person RPG in its own right.

>>19019

Oblivion's demonic invasion story just doesn't suit the aimless world exploration also encouraged by the game. What's more, the guilds (the most powerful organisations in the province) don't give a shit about the invasion. It would be cool if once you were head of the Mages Guild you could order them to close Oblivion gates with you or whatever, just to do SOMETHING to show that the main quest is actually happening. The same goes for Skyrim and I think >>19011's video explains why very well. In fact, I'm probably saying the same things he did in a less precise way.
>> No. 19039 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 5:53 pm
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>>19030
> What's more, the guilds (the most powerful organisations in the province) don't give a shit about the invasion.

Come to think of it, yeah, it's amazingly stupid.

The game also forces you to be good, if you chose to be bad you get essentially cut off from the cities by the psychic athlete guards. That killed immersion for me big time. Doesn't matter were you are, they always have a knowledge of your crimes. Again, stupid.

I never finished the game since it just got so tedious, and as I mentioned, mods fixed it heavily, but the downside was that it crashed nearly every 20 minutes on the dot. And it was an inherent problem for all players, regardless of system specs.
>> No. 19071 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 8:28 pm
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Aside;

Can anyone point me to a worthwhile RPG?

Strictly NOT JRPG, no turn-based combat bollox, nothing uses ascii as an interface, not too much boring dialogue.
>> No. 19072 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 8:30 pm
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>>19071
Deus Ex.
KOTOR 1 + 2.
>> No. 19073 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 8:31 pm
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>>19071
Landstalker : Treasures of King Nole

It's a Megadrive game mind.
>> No. 19075 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 8:34 pm
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>>19071
Dragon Age Origins is excellent if you haven't already played it. Real shame about the sequel.
>> No. 19076 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 8:35 pm
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>>19071

>no turn-based

YOU! You are the reason the Dragon Quest games rarely get localised.

Why do you enjoy seeing me in pain, lad? I live a good life!
>> No. 19077 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 8:36 pm
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>>19075

The new one isn't looking up to much either. Dragon Age 2.5, by the looks of it.
>> No. 19078 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 8:45 pm
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>>19076
The ONLY turn based game I found ok was Fallout 2.

>>19075
Dunno, the hub-bub from the sequels put a really bad taste in my mouth.

What about stuff like Baldurs Gate?
>> No. 19079 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>19071

>no turn-based combat bollox
>not too much boring dialogue

Have you considered action games instead?
>> No. 19082 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 9:59 pm
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>>19079
M-maybe...

Come to think of it, fuck... I apologise, I'm no RPG player - the best one I consider is FO3. And even with that, I lose concentration after a short time. All I've ever wanted is a decent RPG, or something what I described.
>> No. 19086 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 11:11 pm
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>>19082

Have you considered S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Deus Ex or System Shock 2?

I'm trying to think of stuff to recommend but all I can think of is the 'FPS with RPG elements'; can you be more specific with what you enjoyed in Fallout 3? I'm assuming you've tried New Vegas. If not then you really should.
>> No. 19087 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 11:19 pm
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>>19086
I didn't like NV as much as FO3, even when I bought that first.

I don't know m8, it might be something other than me being a fussy git, it might be depression, or the fact I'm 25, or just don't see the fun in games anymore...

Stalker looks awesome, but I've heard some fundamental flaws with it's gameplay.
>> No. 19088 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 11:25 pm
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>>19082
Maybe try Alpha Protocol? It's a bit weird and very easily broken, but at its core it's a third person shooter with quite a bit of versatility in how you play and the choices you make. Also it's interesting because it's one of the few games I've played where moral choices are more than "be a dick" or "be Jesus".

Or Mass Effect 2? First game's combat is very poor, but ME2 and ME3 have pretty standard cover based shooter combat, and it's not too wordy.

Borderlands 2 (skip the first one, it's very dull unless you're doing co-op) is a neat little FPS RPG too, where action is at the forefront and dialogue is minimal. Slightly too wacky for my tastes though.

Also a brilliant but very much overlooked action RPG is Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga. There's a fair bit of dialogue, but it's mostly very funny without being too over the top RANDUMXD. Combat is real time, plays sort of like Oblivion/Skyrim but a lot more dynamic and with more backflipping around to dodge attacks. Character building is nice too - you can pick and choose skills from various disciplines, so you can be a skilled necromancer who can hold his own with a greatsword, and who also can pick off enemies from a distance with bow skills. Also you can transform into a dragon for aerial combat and general exploration which is very cool.

Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning might be up your street. Combat like a simple God Of War style, not too much story and the lore is by R.A. Salvator. Think it was developed to be like a mix of WoW and The Elder Scrolls for the CoD generation, and if that description doesn't make you want to slit your throat, you might enjoy it.
>> No. 19089 Anonymous
23rd June 2014
Monday 11:32 pm
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>>19087

>Stalker looks awesome, but I've heard some fundamental flaws with it's gameplay.

This sounds familiar. It's the kind of thought that's gone through my head before. If you think it looks awesome then you should give it a chance. Or don't.

Otherwise, maybe you're looking in the wrong place. I've never been into Roguelikes before but there's one based on Doom that's grabbed my attention more than any other game in the last year: http://doom.chaosforge.org/ it's free and there's no ascii in sight.

Unfortunately the combat is turn-based but really I'm just talking about myself here instead of being helpful
>> No. 19090 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 12:06 am
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>>19088

I really appreciate your input guys, makes me feel like I've been out of the loop for quite some time though.

Hmmm... As a young lad, 12-18, I would spend considerable time playing games, any and all - it was such a fantastic period in my life, I never considered those years wasted.

My defining games would be GTA: VC to SA. Metal Gear Solid 2 (I would kill for MGS 3 to be on PC), Half-Life 2, TF2, Day of Defeat, Minecraft, FO3 and the Hitman series (up to Blood Money). There is some muck I've wasted time on like Oblivion, Warcraft 3 (the custom game mode saved it for me) and a few others. These days I've caught myself getting back into Minecraft, as it's something of nostalgia and pure fun, I bought it right when it was discovered on /v/ almost 5 years ago, definitely paid off the ten quid. What worries me is that if I find something really really good, I'll get sucked into it, to the point where it becomes a massive time sink. I play the odd Quake Live match here and there, but it's super easy to pick up and put down. Zero commitment.

To continue my rambling, games these days I feel are so dumbed down and spoonfed to players - the atmosphere really dies when you're surrounded by "highlighted" objects or obvious hints, or arrows, or whatever.

Sod it, just keep up the recommendations - I'm really liking this Quake Rogue Like >>19089. Might give that a look.
>> No. 19091 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 12:17 am
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>>19087

>just don't see the fun in games anymore...

I went through a spell around the exact same age, but I got back into gaming again when they brought out Wind Waker HD. There is just something about Nintendo games.

They may not know how to do online properly, but they know fun.
>> No. 19092 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 12:47 am
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>>19090
If you want some things that are pure fun, I'd recommend Dead Rising 2: Off The Record. Goofy violent fun in Not-Las-Vegas where you can dress up as a gimp and kill a bunch of zombies with a giant dildo, or attach machine guns to an electric wheelchair and ride about like a warmongering cripple, or tame a tiger and go rip up zombies together, and as far as I'm aware it's the only Dead Rising game to have a sandbox mode with no time management aspects to worry about.

And if you're a fan of GTA:VC and SA, the Saint's Row games are worth a look at. You can skip the first two, SR3 is when the series found its tone as a ridiculously over-the-top GTA style game, and SR4 is SR3 but with superpowers and a lot of really well done video game parodies. It's as if you got the daftest missions from VC and SA, made the whole game full of them, and then cranked it up a lot more. A very nice contrast to GTAIV's shift towards realism. But can come across as a bit too try-hard for many.

Monaco is a neat arcadey stealth game, similar stealth mechanics to Metal Gear Solid 1, all about robbing banks and mansions and whatnot. Can be played 4 player co-op too, and because of the diversity of playable classes this is probably the best option for if you want to plan out your heist.

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is the spin off focussing on Raiden after the events of MGS4. No longer a whiny baby, he's a cyborg ninja who has embraced the nickname of Jack The Ripper. It's similar to Devil May Cry games in terms of gameplay, but with its stand out mechanics being a focus on parrying, and the Zaibatsu ability which lets you slow time while you aim your cuts precisely, perhaps to elegantly sever someone's arm off so you can use it for handprint recognition and open a gate, or perhaps to reduce someone to chunks. Very over the top, not as cutscene heavy as the normal MGS series, with a really good soundtrack. The prologue mission has you fight a Metal Gear RAY single-handedly armed with only a sword, and win.

https://www.youtube.com/v/n4esw5BEqfs
>> No. 19093 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 1:44 am
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Well I grabbed "Gone Home" earlier this evening in Steam sales. Quite an interesting little 2 hour story adventure thing. Quite slow paced, probably not for everyone, but I think the denizens of britfa.gs would appreciate it.
>> No. 19094 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 2:39 am
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>>19092
I counter with SR2 being the pinnacle of the series.
Perfect balance between fun and serious.
>> No. 19095 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 12:06 pm
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>>19090
>I would kill for MGS 3 to be on PC
You may be able to emulate it with PCSX2. You'll want a quad-core CPU and a relatively modern GPU, mind.

>To continue my rambling, games these days I feel are so dumbed down and spoonfed to players - the atmosphere really dies when you're surrounded by "highlighted" objects or obvious hints, or arrows, or whatever.
Roguelikes are the absolute antithesis of what you're talking about here, so you might enjoy that DoomRL after all. I would also recommend Spelunky, it's an action platformer where you start from scratch each game, death is permanent, and it has randomised levels, all of which gets it lumped under the roguelike label. In keeping with the genre, it's also fucking brutally tough - it will not hold your hand. There's not much in the way of dialogue to worry about, either.

As an RPG recommendation I'd toss in another vote for the Mass Effect games. Whilst there's a lot of dialogue, you are given a fair range of choice regarding what gets said, which I found satisfying and engrossing. I actually looked forward to conversations, rather than the usual RPG thing of "oh great, here comes another monologue, just give me the quest and fuck off". The story was decent enough to keep my attention, and the world was pretty well realised - there's a lot of content, a lot of places to go and people to meet, and I found the interplay between the various races pretty fascinating. The combat gets a lot of shit, and at times it doesn't half deserve it, but if you go in knowing that the combat just isn't that exciting then it shouldn't be a deal breaker. It's not as bad as people make out.

Spelunky and Mass Effect are both going cheap in the Steam summer sale thing, incidentally.
>> No. 19096 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 1:49 pm
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>>19092
Echoing Dead Rising as a good choice. I played the latest one round a mate's house and it seemed a lot less fun and ridiculous which is a shame. Though even on the original Dead Rising 2 even though there was no true sandbox mode you could easily just ignore the missions and cause havoc then reload a save or restart when you feel like it.

I'm also seconding Saint's Row. Didn't play the first but the second was good, a decent mix of daft stuff without being too try-hard. The third was just mental, really enjoyed the missions but my main gripe was that the combat got really repetetive with enemies that tanked a lot of damage.

Even thought GTAIV shifted towards realism (which I actually still enjoyed, Nico is a great character and the whole story was well put together with the missions and pacing etc) GTAV kinda forgets realism. Nowhere near Saints Row levels of chaos but you have guys in full EOD suits somehow also carrying miniguns and lots of other stuff where the devs clearly didn't let realism get in the way of a good mission.
>> No. 19098 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 4:01 pm
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>>18923
> I can't imagine anyone buys Morrowind with the idea that they can speedrun through it on their early attempts.
I have seen folks speedrunning every game they can speedrun, I don't see any reason for Morrowind being an exception. This world is crazy enough anyway.
> If your free time is short it would be a singularly frustrating experience, I'd guess.
I think it depends on your 'addiction' habits.
>>18956
> Skyrim improved on that somewhat,
It did indeed. I have actually enjoyed fucking around the dungeons in Skyrim. Especially with the 'stealthy archer' build. Wipe out a dungeon singlehandedly. Go figure.
> Main issues with Morrowind are that sometimes it's very difficult to know where you're going, compared to Skyrim/Oblivion where you follow the arrows.
That was frustrating sometimes, but I liked it anyway.
> as a miss because the sword skill isn't high enough. Very frustrating.
And don't even try to swing a sledgehammer. You are going to pass out earlier than it would finally reach the target.
>>19010
> an utter bullshit minigame for dialogue
Did you figure out how to make any use of it m8? That minigame was one of my major gripes with Oblivion.
>>19011
I completed Deus Ex recently. Thank god I was accurate with augmentations selection. And don't forget to grab that bloody jedi sword.
>>19071
Planescape: Torment. I am not sure about the dialogue part… well it will be either very interesting or very boring. It was the former for me. Also, Deus Ex.
>>19092
> It's as if you got the daftest missions from VC
What, more bombs dropped by a frigging RC helicopter?
Although it does not scare me as it used to. Having flown a Hydra for decent amount of time, flying in GTA is not tedious for me anymore.
>> No. 19099 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 4:52 pm
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>>19095
>You may be able to emulate it with PCSX2. You'll want a quad-core CPU and a relatively modern GPU, mind.

I looked into this a while back, it seems like you need a monster of a computer though. Even if my laptop is quite decent for it's age, it's just too much of a task.

I have a PS double back in my parents attic, all I'd need is a TV - which seems like a hassle. So I don't know... Maybe at some stage I'd come across something ultra cheap on GumTree.

Otherwise ME and Spelunky... Don't know, the former's operatic soap drama theme running through it puts me off a bit. I watched a few cut-scenes here and there and the characters just put me off. Spelunky looks kind of childish and stupid to be honest. Sorry.
>> No. 19101 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 11:14 pm
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>>19099
You could pick up an old CRT tv for next to nothing, which would be adequate for a PS2 game.

MGS3 was the first MGS game I played actually so it has a special nostalgia for me. Anyone know if the HD version is worth getting?
>> No. 19102 Anonymous
24th June 2014
Tuesday 11:46 pm
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>>19101
The HD versions are definitely worth a chuck, especially as the collection is only like £12 at CEX. I think MGS3 is the best looking of the bunch, as MGS2 always looked very sparse anyway by the nature of its setting, and Peace Walker is very muddy looking so you can tell it was originally a PSP game. Also it's the Substance/Subsistence versions of 2/3, so it has the Snake Tales from MGS2, and the camera in MGS3 is more dynamic which is good. Peace Walker is fun, very different from most other MGS games though - more mission based, lots and lots of sidequests, and if you're interested in MGSV at all it's something you need to play as the plot of PW leads pretty much directly into Ground Zeroes.

If you have a PS3, might be worth getting the Legacy Collection - MGS1, MGS1: VR Missions, MGS2 HD, MGS3 HD, MGS Peace Walker HD, MGS4. Also MGS3 HD contains the original MSX versions of the first two Metal Gear games, so you have basically every main MGS game (excluding Ground Zeroes, and the totally unimportant Portable Ops, and the various spin offs).
>> No. 19103 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 12:29 am
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>>19102
I see, so would Legacy Collection still be worth it over the HD trilogy if I've already got MGS4? Is the MGS1 an HD remaster because if so I would be so happy.

As for the spinoffs, I personally found the PSP AC!D and Portable Ops games surprisingly fun in their own ways, though I wouldn't call them essential.
>> No. 19104 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 12:35 am
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>>19103
Ah, no point getting the Legacy collection if you already have MGS4, as it has a download code for MGS/MGSVR as PS Classics. Not remastered unfortunately, so you may as well just buy them on the store individually. There is the remake of MGS on Gamecube, but that's pretty expensive/hard to find nowadays I believe, and a lot of MGS purists seem to hate it because of a few changes to the cinematics (during the fight with the Harrier, there's a moment not in the original version where Snake jumps on top of one of the missles and rides it into the plane like he'd been playing too much DMC3).

AC!D was brilliant. I'd love a HD remake of those games, or for them to be released on 3DS or something. So much fun. Portable Ops was good too, but I think in terms of he overall series narrative it's not important, and Peace Walker fleshes out PO's gameplay a lot better.
>> No. 19105 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 12:39 am
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>>19104
I don't think AC!D would work on a non-portable console so well but I still enjoyed it. It sounded like a really shit idea when I heard you control snake with cards but it worked a lot better than I thought.

Maybe porting or having sequels on Vita and DS handhelds could work though. Seems a bit pointless though now that technology is such that you can have a full 3D MGS game on those systems.
>> No. 19106 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 1:14 pm
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>>19105
I don't think a proper MGS game lends itself to handheld play. The main advantage of handheld systems is the portability, and the ability to pick up and play when you've got a few minutes to kill. With MGS it's not unheard of to have 10 solid minutes of cutscenes, which isn't the best thing if you're wanting to kill time during your commute. But something a bit snappier like AC!D works a lot better for handheld play.

I can't see the 3DS or Vita getting an AC!D sequel though. The 3DS is just Nintendo games and a few Atlus/NIS RPGs, and the Vita is just even more niche Atlus/NIS RPGs nowadays. To say that the PSV was originally marketed with stuff like CoD and Uncharted, the only people I know who own one nowadays are people solely interested in stuff like Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God Hot and Spicy, Everything Nicey Limited Edition and Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
>> No. 19107 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 2:42 pm
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>>19106
Has the Vita been hacked to fuck in the same way as PSP was?

To be honest I think that for most people smartphones or tablets fill the role of 10 minute commute time waster. I think that Vita and DS would find more of a niche by offering more in depth games (compared to Angry Birds or whatever the kids play these days) but in a smaller package suitable for people who travel a lot (especially e.g. kids who move between parents a lot). They'd have to be very well optimised for gaming such that a gaming laptop wouldn't be a better choice.
>> No. 19108 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 3:29 pm
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>>19087
>>19089
STALKER is a bit flawed, but it's not fundamentally flawed. They are great games.

The best of the series is Call of Pripyat, because unlike the other two it establishes an immersive economy - you need money to travel between areas, and to get money you need to go artifact-hunting. I think they had this in mind for Shadow of Chernobyl but it got scaled back with all the other ambitious ideas they had with the end result of a much more linear game.
>> No. 19109 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 3:45 pm
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>>19108

Call of Pripyat even has some decent quests. You can inadvertently reduce your options later on if you handle a particular early mission in a certain way:

Selling the item 'Morgan's PDA' to Beard nets you a few thousand RU, but it can be used later.

Otherwise, install it (no need for mods) and begin with a clear sky mind. You can then go back to SoC which is also good.
>> No. 19110 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 4:24 pm
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>>19108
My favourite's SOC by a mile. COP isn't nearly as good, in my opinion. Whereas SOC is a mystery game with different, strikingly different areas, COP tries too hard to be 'open world' and it doesn't work that well.

Still a decent game though.
>> No. 19111 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 5:23 pm
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>>19110>>19108>>19109

Can I dive into any of the sequels, or is it wise to begin from the start?
>> No. 19112 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 5:26 pm
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>>19111
Start from the start. There's a permanent thread with a first timers guide concerning the series and what to play on the /vg/ board on another chan you should check out.
>> No. 19113 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 5:47 pm
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>>19112

Thanks.

Back to the Steam sale. Nothing has piqued my fancy, everything is either indie shovelware or incomplete games that resemble a uni students comp. science project.

I cannot for the life of me answer how flash games from New Grounds are now considered worth paying for on Steam.
>> No. 19114 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 10:36 pm
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Clueless lad here,

picked up State of Decay for under £8, gotta say I'm loving it so far.
Few things irk me though, like you can't give items to characters so they can patch themselves up. Nor can you give them better weapons.

I've also learned that the game plays while you're gone, so if I leave it for a week, will it everyone be dead and/or zombies raping them?
>> No. 19115 Anonymous
25th June 2014
Wednesday 11:31 pm
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>>19114
Pretty much yes.

Shame how theres no way to just disable the more sim aspects in the options, and play it like a Dead Rising affair.
>> No. 19116 Anonymous
26th June 2014
Thursday 12:39 am
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>>19113
Gunpoint probably could've been a Newgrounds title. It was probably the best game I played last year, and well worth the money.
>> No. 19117 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 1:08 am
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Not on sale, but Shovel Knight just came out, and it's very fun. It really does feel like an authentic NES game, though the difficulty curve is a bit less steep than the Mega Man games which it most closely resembles. Gameplay is a cross between Mega Man and DuckTales, but with more side content due to having a Super Mario Bros 3 style world map with optional levels. Also it's due some free content updates within the next few months as it met loads of stretch goals in Kickstarter, so new playable campaigns and shit like that. Super fun game.
>> No. 19118 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 2:38 am
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I WANT TO BUY A FUN GAME BUT THEY ALL LOOK SHIT!

It's been such a long time since a game has made me go "wow, would you look at that", but I can't even find something to make me go "oh, kewl" right now. FarCry 3 Blood Dragon looks good I suppose.

Does anyone know any good indie games that aren't, as someone else has already mentioned, the Newgrounds fodder of yesteryear?
>> No. 19119 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 6:13 am
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>>19118
The swapper is pretty damn good.
>> No. 19120 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 10:42 am
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>>19118

As I've mentioned, I got State of Decay - it's really good, really really good. But not excellent. Therefore making it worth the £7.something. Some aspects of the game are brilliantly designed, but others make zero sense. As other SoD players are aware, you can't drop items, you can't store them back in the place from where you've found them and you can't directly give NPC characters your stuff. It would've been an extremely simple thing to implement.

You're correct with how shit games are these day.
>> No. 19121 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 12:42 pm
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>>19118
Call of Juarez, Gunslinger.

Seriously.
>> No. 19122 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 1:48 pm
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>>19120
£7? You should've waited til the end of the sale, there's a good chance it'll be reduced again before it's over.
>> No. 19123 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 2:02 pm
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I bought Borderlands 2 with all the DLC for £8.x, I've played it before (pirated it, bringing shame upon my family) but at that price it's a good chunk of content, I had no idea they'd made so much DLC for it.

I did run into a weird glitch, the game will fail to correctly read saves and crashes when loading if you've got more than one gamepad attached. What the fuck is that about?
>> No. 19124 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 2:21 pm
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>>19122
How likely is this to happen? I was afraid that it might jump back up to it's original price and I figured I'd pull the trigger - £7 is not a whole lot anyway - given that I've wasted far more money on stuff that hasn't been nearly as fun.
>> No. 19125 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 9:20 pm
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>>19119>>19120>>19121

I bought Fallout: NV, Morrowind and LA Noir.

>"fun", "indie"

What happened!? Where were you guys?!
>> No. 19126 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 9:29 pm
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>>19125
Does L.A. Noire work for you? I've had really trouble starting it up.
>> No. 19127 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 9:34 pm
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>>19126

I don't know yet. I'll get back to you with my unimaginably shit internet in about 6 days weeks.
>> No. 19128 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 10:01 pm
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>>19126
"Really trouble". This heat's getting to me. Real*
>> No. 19129 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 10:24 pm
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Free copy of Spacechem anyone?

89403-FQZ4T-Z79ZC - Steam
>> No. 19130 Anonymous
28th June 2014
Saturday 11:09 pm
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>>19129
Nar fanks, not got the patience for that puzzley strategy brainy stuff these days.
>> No. 19131 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 1:36 am
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Would like to throw in a Recommendation for Among The Sleep.

Played the demo then bought .
>> No. 19132 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 2:50 am
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>>19129
Don't mind if I do. Just the tutorial levels were unusually satisfying. Cheers.
>> No. 19133 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 3:23 am
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>>19118
Bad Rats is excellent, worth ten times the asking price
>> No. 19134 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 9:37 am
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>>19133
THIS MAN IS A LIAR AND HE LIES.
>> No. 19135 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 9:56 am
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Ignore the above post, it's just some spiteful git trying to make sure you don't get the best game on steam, Bad Rats.
>> No. 19136 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 11:52 am
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>>19132
I thought I'd pay the favour forward. SpaceChem again. Do let me know if it works, if only because I've never used this store before.
Steam: D9PWP-BA5EZ-VLT00
>> No. 19138 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 3:07 pm
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Did anyone get DW8 in the sale? Is it any good? I'm currently playing through DW7, and it's the first time I've properly played the series and it's very fun. Kind of on the fence about 8 though.
>> No. 19139 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 8:09 pm
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Bumping this thread as it's the last sale day.

And as predicted there is a massive discount on most things.

-75% on State of Decay, the bastards.

Lets go!
>> No. 19140 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 8:16 pm
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>>19136
Cheers mate, much appreciated.
>> No. 19141 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 8:29 pm
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Everyone and their mam on the otherchan has been praising a game called Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae which is apparently a very good character action game. It's going for something like a couple of quid.

I believe Marlow Briggs is another good game but I haven't seen the price for that yet.

I didn't buy much this time around. Only just bought something today. I tried playing the steam market game today hoping I could get an item that sells for mad dosh. Most steam bucks I made on one item was about 43p and £1 for a couple of foil cards I managed to get.
>> No. 19142 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 9:06 pm
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Got DEFCON for under a 2 quid and rest of State of Decay DLC for 4 quid. Not bad. I have no idea how this will impact my non-existent social life and academic work.
>> No. 19143 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 9:11 pm
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>>19141
> Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae
No, it seems crap. I' played about 15 minutes. It's just fighting some guys in an arena. I'm not sure if the scene changes eventually. There didn't seem to be any plot or anything - just fighting these guys.
>> No. 19144 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 10:16 pm
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>>19143
>Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae focuses on high-speed arena-based action.

Yup. From what I've heard it's pretty much a arena based platinum game clone which is right up my alley. Just pure gameplay. There's also another game on Steam which looks like a 2D DMC but I cannot recall the name. Maybe I'm just starved for character action games at the moment considering DmC bombed and the rest have been dumbed down. Even Metal Gear Rising which was a Platinum game was somewhat dumbed down even with complaining about the parry system (which isn't broken and it's people not actually listening to the tutorial).

Honestly I don't know why people value plot these days. Maybe I'm getting sick of the cinematic rubbish that barely reaches 30FPS and just want a fun game.
>> No. 19145 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 10:32 pm
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>>19144
I think you can have a decent plot and good gameplay. The DMC series has perfectly fine plots, particularly DMC4, and they've got great gameplay (except for DMC2 obviously). I'm also not counting DmC in this, as that was dumbed down tripe trying to target the CoD audience instead of the actual DMC audience. Rising's plot was alright, though that was more due to memorable characters than the actual narrative, and I really adored the combat on harder difficulties because parrying felt so cool.

But yeah, I hunger for decent character action games too. The Wonderful 101 was great, but it was more of an action strategy game than a character action game. Bayonetta was good, but it lacked the spark that made DMC3 so great. The Ninja Gaiden games have always struck me as mediocre, with a difficulty level that is unfair rather than fun as the challenge comes from shitty controls and having way too many boss rushes. I've got high hopes for Bayonetta 2, judging from the trailers it looks a bit more interesting than the first one. I'm sort of filling the gap for character action games with Dynasty Warriors 7. A tad clunky, and nowhere near as challenging as the DMC games, but it's fun enough and there's plenty of content. It gets a bad rep in the west for being repetitive, but it's very enjoyable single handedly taking out over a thousand enemy troops per battle using a magic flute and a fan. The setting/story is very cool too, but that's only because the source material is Romance Of The Three Kingdoms which is hard to make uninteresting.
>> No. 19146 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 10:44 pm
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>>19145
A good plot/story can enhance a game with good gameplay. It doesn't work the other way though.

Rising was good because it had fantastic gameplay but it was enhanced due to the implementation of music cues. The music on its own is nothing special but playing the game was amazing the first time you hear the vocals kick it at the last moments. The plot was insane even for a Metal Gear game and it was a silly plot to save all the children's brains from a US senator jacked up on nanomachine steroids. But due to all the mechanics and sheer outrageousness you couldn't help being drawn into the story.

It may sound like a common thing but Gone Home for example was simply awful because there was no gameplay to speak of. It didn't push any boundaries and was undeserving of its praise. The Stanley Parable on the other hand is a similar game (a walking simulator) but it often feature mechanics that surprised you.

I just think games should have gameplay as their number one priority. Plot and soundtrack should remain secondary. There's nothing more infuriating having to put down a controller to watch some cutscene you don't really care much about when you just want to play a game. QTEs aren't a suitable solution to long cutscenes either.
>> No. 19147 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 10:56 pm
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>>19146
Yeah, I forgot how great the music was in MGRR. Very over the top, but then again most of the game is too. Fighting the nanomachine enhanced hulked up senator surrounded by the flames of burning vehicles while rock music plays. Fucking radical. I think music is probably one of the most important parts of a game, after gameplay itself. If you're going to spend hours playing a game, you want the music to not get annoying.

I think certain genres can get away with putting story/setting before gameplay, like adventure games. Like the Monkey Island series, very good stories, well written, but not much gameplay other than a bit of puzzle solving. But I suppose puzzle solving is more gameplay than walking simulators like Gone Home and Proteus have.

I think putting story/aesthetic before gameplay is a major problem with indie games in the last few years. There are plenty of great indie games, but there are a lot of stinkers with barely any gameplay like the aforementioned Gone Home and Proteus, and also stuff like The Graveyard, The Path, Outlast, effectively everything on Kongregate/Newgrounds that isn't a TD game. I think the success of Braid prompted a wave of arty platformers, but none of them had the interesting gameplay mechanics of Braid. And the success of these arty platformers just lead to 'art' games, which are utter wank.
>> No. 19148 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 11:20 pm
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>>19144
> There's also another game on Steam which looks like a 2D DMC but I cannot recall the name.
Hmm, maybe Dust: An Elysian Tail
>> No. 19149 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 11:23 pm
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>>19148
Nope although thanks for reminding me that I don't have it, I'll have to look into getting that.

The one I'm thinking of is very obscure and people on the otherchan were talking about it in the last xmas sale.
>> No. 19150 Anonymous
29th June 2014
Sunday 11:24 pm
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>>19146
> There's nothing more infuriating having to put down a controller to watch some cutscene you don't really care much about when you just want to play a game.
The recent Wolfy was terrible for this... killed the game.
>> No. 19151 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 2:23 pm
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There are some cases where the gameplay and story are very heavily reliant on one another. Look at STALKER and the Metro series for example. The gameplay almost completely leans on the setting, because without the unique atmosphere that the backstory and environment creates, you'd be left with Just Another Shooter.

Gameplay, despite the fact it sounds like a nice purist, logical truism when it comes to videoGAMES, is not the be all end all. Much like poor production can spoil an otherwise excellent album, presentation and story go a long way towards a videogame's quality as entertainment (if not art) pieces.
>> No. 19152 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 2:28 pm
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>>19151
I don't think that's true at all. STALKER: SOC has a decent story and setting but really that's completely secondary to everything else. If it had a 'nice story' but wasn't challenging and fun then nobody would care about it.
>> No. 19153 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 2:34 pm
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>>19152

It was challenging and fun because you were in the Zone. If you take Stalker out of the Zone, you are left with something that pretty much resembles the recent Far Cry games, or Bethesda's RPGs.

In Stalker's case I think the exact opposite of what you say is true- The game itself was riddled with bugs and flaws, but it was unique and immersive enough to make people persevere. It did something that a lot of games forget to do, it created a world that was really interesting and that you wanted to spend time in.
>> No. 19154 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 2:35 pm
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>>19153
>If you take Stalker out of the Zone

the Zone was introduced fairly late into the STALKER development process.

The game isn't riddled with bugs and flaws at all, when you use the right patch. I don't give a single fuck about 'story' in video games and it's something I replay every year.
>> No. 19155 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 3:38 pm
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>>19110
Have you played Clear Sky?
>> No. 19156 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 3:41 pm
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>>19155
Yes, but not for very long. It runs really badly on my laptop unlike SOC and COP, which are tolerable. Might give it a second look when I get a decent PC.
>> No. 19157 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 4:07 pm
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>>19155
Clear Sky irritated me because I could never conclusively win the faction war. It's been years since I played it and I can still remember the radio chatter word for word: 'The bandits have overrun the Garbage again! God knows where they came from but the place is crawling with them!'
>> No. 19158 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 4:19 pm
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>>19157
Apparently it's fairly easy to patch the most broken aspects of it and it's a pretty good game after that point. Not as good as SOC or COP, but still good.
>> No. 19159 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 7:27 pm
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>>19154
>I don't give a single fuck about 'story' in video games

Whislt I agree there are plenty of enjoyable games out there with very flimsy or non-existent storylines, surely a good plot can only help make a good game better? In many ways I think games have the potential to be an even better story telling medium than books or films because of the length of time you spend literally in control of the protagonist.

Out of interest, do you read a lot of books or watch a lot of films? When you game, do you tend to play for very short periods or hours at a time? And do you game on PC or console? I'm just trying to get a picture of what kind of gamer you are without making unfair prejudices.
>> No. 19160 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 7:49 pm
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>>19159
>surely a good plot can only help make a good game better?

Certainly, but it's still not important relative to the actual gameplay of the thing. A game can have a fucking stupid and rubbish story and still be good.

>Out of interest, do you read a lot of books or watch a lot of films?

Yes to both plus TV.

> When you game, do you tend to play for very short periods or hours at a time?

Hours when I can help it.

>Platform
PC.
>> No. 19161 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 7:54 pm
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>>19159
Not him but the state of plot in most video games are simply immature.

I'm not talking about how game plots are just male power fantasy like most journalists go on about but that they shove some agenda in which likely hurts the cause of several different groups like the LGBT community which in itself is a total mess considering some people within that community hate each other. For example Dragon Age Inquisition has made a big deal about having a "fully" gay character. There's nothing said about the actual game, just that there are homosexual characters one of which is basically a cross between Freddie Mercury and Antonio Banderas as a bumder. I don't give half a shit I just want to know if the game looks any good. The Witcher 3 on the other hand is a story heavy game which follows the Polish novels and short stories.

One thing that makes these two games similar besides the actual setting is that the elves are second class citizens. Witcher as a whole tackles discrimination far better than Dragon Age. Not only that it's a secondary side to the story in The Witcher meanwhile the majority of Bioware's games since EA took over is the constant "OH LOOK GAY PEOPLE" right into the foreground. I don't care, it's not clever to use modern day issues in fantasy or sci-fi settings as a primary plot point.

I also dislike David Cage. The last three games he made were not games. I'm thankful he didn't get praised for Beyond Two Souls because if those games were put into cinemas they'd be ripped apart by the critics and cinema-goers alike. The fact Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain were praised by journalists is an insult to actual good stories in video games and they should not be used as a template for future video game stories.
>> No. 19162 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 7:56 pm
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>>19161
>Not him but the state of plot in most video games are simply immature.

So what? Why does it have to be 'mature'? Why does DOOM need to a plot beyond "OH FUCK, DEMONS/ALIENS/ZOMBIES"?

The supposed need for some kind of 'deep story' with social commentary and all that stupid shit is just ridiculous.
>> No. 19163 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 8:13 pm
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>>19162
Exactly and I think I fucked up my previous post about it,

The constant desire for a deep story is hurting the industry because there are far too many developers fudging up modern day issues with homosexuals for example. I would be downright insulted by EA if I was a homosexual. I would be insulted by those people who complained by a lack of women in the new Assassin's Creed game if I was a woman. There are too many people who want video games to be art or be mature like other entertainment industries but really all I want to do is play video games.

Then there's Metal Gear Solid 5. A game which goes beyond it's original message of war is bad to war is hell and the people who complained about a character wearing a bikini have some fucking nerve when the game is about war being horrible and the atrocities in that game are nothing compared to The Nanking Massacre, the Balkan war and Unit 731 which show the true nature of humanity in war. Keep in mind these examples are all 20th century events and we have a good few millennia of atrocities in human history yet these people complain that a woman is wearing skimpy clothing or that women and black people are under-represented.
>> No. 19164 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 8:17 pm
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>>19161
David Cage always makes me laugh, when he described game overs as 'a failure of the game designer'. But I agree, a lot of games try too hard to tell mature stories, but end up failing. I think it's almost impossible to make a game that is fun to play which also tackles serious subjects well. The Witcher series is good, and its story manages to deal with relatively sensitive things like discrimination, while still realising that it's ultimately a game about hunting monsters. But things like Bioware's handling of LGBT characters by making everyone a bisexual nymphomaniac isn't good, even though they're praised for their progressiveness. Or Bioshock Infinite's themes of racism and classism, which gaming journalists said were done very well, but it was so shallow - the white and the wealthy were evil, the poor and the coloured were good.

I think one of the best explorations of mature themes was done in Persona 4, surprisingly. A couple of characters have insecurities surrounding their sexuality and gender, and rather than it coming across as pandering or being played for laughs, it's handled remarkably well. Like the violent tough-guy punk who is confused about his sexuality, due to being mocked by girls for his hobbies including knitting and sewing. He's not gay incidentally, but he learns to come to terms with his feminine side. Or the girl who dresses and acts like a boy, despite being a straight female, because of her fear of not getting proper respect in her line of work if she showed her femininity. I think when a cheesy cartoony JRPG handles themes of sexuality better than a company specialising in mature and progressive WRPGs, there's something amiss.
>> No. 19165 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 8:44 pm
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>>19163

>There are too many people who want video games to be art or be mature like other entertainment industries

Fucking right. The funny thing is that it certainly isn't the gamers themselves who want this.

Who is it? Journos. Pathetic failures who couldn't even get work writing the lowest of tabloid dreck, and thus wound up reviewing shooters for Xbox POWER... Of course they have a chip on their shoulder. Of course they are going to push this "games are art" agenda. Of course they are going to leap on whatever social-justice ideology comes within sniffing distance and offers them even a tiny morsel of self-importance.

You can't blame them really. They have to. Or else, they'd have to come to terms with the fact that their life's work is meaningless. All that student debt, that English Literature degree, all boiling down to "An enjoyable if unoriginal romp, easily recommendable for fans of the genre. 7/10."
>> No. 19166 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 8:47 pm
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>>19164
Surely MGS games are a great example of how an interesting plot can help a good game be remembered as a great one? People don't remember MGS games just because of the sneaking or even the over the top boss-fights but because it's set in a mad universe with mad characters.
>> No. 19167 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 8:58 pm
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>>19166
MGS games for me are memorable when you see how much detail and love went into making it.

There are some mechanics in MGS2, a game released in 2001, that are absent in modern day games for no real reason. A lot of developers will claim a mechanic isn't viable due to how difficult it is to implement in current consoles. A game made in 2001 initially for PS2 which was actually quite a weak console can do that.

One thing about the MGS series is that each of them differs from the previous game in the series. Each of them try to push a gameplay boundary. Meanwhile there are franchises that have been barely around a decade and have more games out which are essentially identical to each other in terms of gameplay. MGS5 base building will probably be a highlight for me. In PW it was all menus, in TPP you can walk around your base. Despite one being on PSP and the other on consoles there is some definite improvement.
>> No. 19168 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 9:53 pm
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I want my games to have story. Playing Halo for the first time was incredible, deep sense of discovery and mystery.
>> No. 19169 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 10:50 pm
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"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important. "
>> No. 19170 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 11:16 pm
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I think a lot of you are thinking of "story" in the wrong way. A story in a game doesn't necessarily have to be a kind of A to B movie type thing, but something more abstract. For instance open world games form stories all the time, most of which are entirely incidental.

I think it's more about getting the right mixture of narrative and atmosphere than telling a precision point tale like you might have to in a film.

I don't know, I'm having really good ideas but I'm too tired to articulate them. Can everyone just take my word that I'm super smart and really ace? Thanks.
>> No. 19171 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 11:22 pm
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>>19170
Story shouldn't take me away from the gameplay. Nor should story be presented in the "hold hand to ear" way where the only interaction is walking slowly down a corridor.

If I am interested in the lore of a game I much prefer to do it when I choose, not when the game decides. Like codex and encyclopaedias. Audio diaries are shite though as they're just ruin any immersion despite being designed for immersive story telling. What's worse is you're often too busy to listen to the audio diaries and they appear when characters are speaking so you're trying to listen to the character following you and an MP3 at the same time.
>> No. 19172 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 11:23 pm
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>>19168
To be honest it felt like that for all of us, but being anywhere from 7-13 we didn't have the mental faculties to know exactly why. Looking back now I can say without a doubt that it was the score that did it all. It encapsulated the mood of every minute perfectly, matched the urgency and tempo of the time etc. The story was only a secondary device.For me anyway.
>> No. 19173 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 11:26 pm
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>>19171

I think Oblivion did it right. If you want to know more about the Lore you find a book or someone to talk to about it, otherwise you're fucked. The way all the books were written in different styles was a really neat touch too.

If you have a codex or a massive list of things that just gets bigger as you go, e.g. Mass Effect reading it just turns in to a chore.
>> No. 19174 Anonymous
30th June 2014
Monday 11:32 pm
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>>19173
Xenonauts does encyclopaedic entries well

Entries are only unlocked when you unlock the relevant item or construct new base segments or capture an alien. I cannot recall if the original Xcom did this. Can't really remember how the most recent Xcom did it either. Xenonauts really only gives you stuff you may want to read like the alien articles that will tell you the weaknesses. Assassin's Creed will give you entries about a lot that is irrelevant to the gameplay. I love Renaissance Italy so I appreciate the little history lesson but chances are I double check on the internet anyway. Ubisoft aren't known for being honest and being good fact finders.
>> No. 19175 Anonymous
1st July 2014
Tuesday 3:35 pm
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>>19173
Deus Ex too. Wanna delve into? Here are books, newspapers, public terminals, NPCs, computers, datacubes, just go for it. No? Good, carry on.
>> No. 19176 Anonymous
1st July 2014
Tuesday 3:39 pm
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>>19173

Another issue with the Mass Effect system is that it's in the menu, rather than something like a Pip Boy that feels like part of the game. The moment you're opening the menu in a game you've essentially encountered a problem and are trying to solve it, not immerse yourself in a story.
>> No. 19177 Anonymous
1st July 2014
Tuesday 9:35 pm
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DLC Quest is 50p at the minute on Steam. It's rather good.
>> No. 19178 Anonymous
1st July 2014
Tuesday 9:57 pm
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>>19177
Just noticed Shadow Warrior is 7.50 which is cheaper than it was during the big sale at 9 quid.

Was thinking of getting it during the sale. Good thing I didn't get it during then.
>> No. 19179 Anonymous
3rd July 2014
Thursday 3:20 am
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Guess I'll wait for the Holiday Sale to nab this one.
>> No. 19185 Anonymous
3rd July 2014
Thursday 3:54 pm
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>>19179
GOTYAY
>> No. 19188 Anonymous
3rd July 2014
Thursday 10:58 pm
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>>19185
It will be topped by this.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/rock-simulator-2014-leaves-no-stone-unturned-90361460559.html

https://www.youtube.com/v/BNg6_u5RU2Q
>> No. 19195 Anonymous
5th July 2014
Saturday 1:13 am
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Whoa. Would this assuage any of the griping about The Elder Scrolls? Skywind, a project to mod Morrowind into the Skyrim engine.

How do you pronounce 'assuage' anyway

https://www.youtube.com/v/PoETrlXkhfs
>> No. 19197 Anonymous
5th July 2014
Saturday 1:18 am
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>>19179

Lad.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/42719/
>> No. 19198 Anonymous
5th July 2014
Saturday 1:22 am
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>>19195

I believe it's "ass-way-g". That's a soft "g" btw. Very soft.
>> No. 19208 Anonymous
5th July 2014
Saturday 6:46 pm
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>>19195

I don't understand how they are getting away with this. Wasn't there a virtually identical project for Oblivion that got shut down the moment Beth caught wind of it?
>> No. 19209 Anonymous
5th July 2014
Saturday 6:51 pm
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>>19208

Morroblivion got shut down? Shame.
>> No. 19210 Anonymous
5th July 2014
Saturday 9:30 pm
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Free Steam copy of Dino D-Day anyone?

KMM59-T5FTG-F333G
>> No. 19211 Anonymous
5th July 2014
Saturday 9:58 pm
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>>19208

Black Mesa is just a port of Half Life onto the Half life 2 engine, Valve didn't really care. I don't think it costs anything though. It is supposed to have been Steam Greenlit, but still isn't up on the store.

Maybe the Morroblivion guys didn't bother asking for permission or were looking to charge for the mod. Usually, companies leave crowd funded mods (which Skywind is) alone as long as the don't start charging for stuff.
>> No. 19212 Anonymous
5th July 2014
Saturday 11:14 pm
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>>19211
If I remember rightly, Black Mesa is going to show up on the steam store when it's complete as a fully fledged, buyable game, with a lesser supported Free version still available.
>> No. 19213 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 2:00 am
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>>19209
>>19208

You what? Morroblivion is almost complete. The main game is 100% done and Tribunal is 99% done. It was never shut down.
>> No. 19215 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 4:53 am
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>>19211

It's not a port, it's a remake. Half-Life Source is the port.
>> No. 19216 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 11:02 am
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>>19215
This. There are differences, off the top of my head it changes up the order/locations in which you first get certain guns, and some of the levels designs were changed up a bit too (On A Rail got shortened, mercifully).

I did laugh when I read that they'd be doing Xen "later". Fucking Xen. Nobody liked it.

For some reason it ran like a dog on both my laptop (which should've been fine) and my PC (which was massively more powerful than the game should've needed). If they fix that for a Greenlight edition then I'd be happy to give them a few quid, it was quite good fun when it wasn't stuttering along and dropping frames for no good reason.
>> No. 19217 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 12:09 pm
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>>19213

https://www.youtube.com/v/bmRgMKqymKw

Skipping to about 6 minutes, it is so strange to see Morrowind's lovely voice acting attached to Oblivion's panoramic heads. I think I'll forever associate the odd, doughy alien creatures of Oblivion with this poor guy, the voice actor for an Imperial male (who coincidentally is also an ice hockey announcer).
>> No. 19218 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 1:02 pm
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>>19208
This is addressed in the FAQ on TESRenewal.com.

Wasn't Morroblivion shut down by Bethesda?

Several years ago, at the beginning of the Morroblivion project, the project thread was shut down on the official Bethesda forums, and hosting of it on TES Nexus was taken down at Bethesda's request, due to some apparent licensing issues with using textures from Morrowind in Oblivion.

Please respect Bethesda's legal concerns and do not post or discuss Morroblivion on the Bethesda official forums, TES Nexus, Planet Elder Scrolls, other similar sites, social networking sites etc.

These legal issues have now been circumvented with mesh and texture replacers, and community development of the project is still going on here at Morroblivion.com.

>> No. 19219 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 1:04 pm
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>>19212
They're going to charge for Black Mesa? That's really fucking cheeky.
>> No. 19220 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 1:21 pm
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>>19219
Aparantly it's being remade again on a new engine, which is most likely Source 2. And it'll be given OFFICIAL half Life remake status by Valve.
>> No. 19221 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 3:44 pm
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>>19216
> On A Rail
They didn't remove the turn where you get shot with a rocket if you don't duck down in time, did they?

I'd replay Half-Life 2 but it crashes every 10-20 minutes for no apparent reason.
>> No. 19222 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 3:52 pm
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>>19219
I wouldn't mind paying for it to be honest, a bunch of lads doing this in their spare time is worthy of recognition.
>> No. 19223 Anonymous
6th July 2014
Sunday 11:49 pm
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>>19222
No they've certainly worked hard and I don't have a problem with paying for it in itself; it's just them saying oh actually we've come to think we deserve to be paid for what we initially promised would be free. That doesn't sit right with me.
>> No. 19224 Anonymous
7th July 2014
Monday 12:22 am
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>>19223
True, it kind of shakes any integrity they had.

Unless they give a solid reason - for instance, having to take time off work/family to do this. Then I suppose it's acceptable.
>> No. 19225 Anonymous
7th July 2014
Monday 1:22 am
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>>19224>>19223
They'll still have a standard free version on Source. Whats been said is that the pay for version will be on a new engine, with all sorts of extra bells & whistles.
>> No. 19226 Anonymous
7th July 2014
Monday 2:33 am
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>>19225

And also sponsered by Valve if I understand it correctly? Which probably explains the price tag.

A billion in the bank clearly isn't enough for Gabe to get his end away.
>> No. 19227 Anonymous
7th July 2014
Monday 12:01 pm
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>>19226>>19225>>19224
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/11/20/black-mesa-coming-to-steam-for-real-moneydollars/
>> No. 19293 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 8:15 am
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Free Steam copy of Gun Monkeys annyone?

9KRPR-GZLDP-JQ6AL
>> No. 19294 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 4:54 pm
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>>19293
The hell is Gun Monkeys.
>> No. 19296 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 9:18 pm
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>>19294
Quite nice looking.

https://www.youtube.com/v/JRFOGxiXuZw
>> No. 19297 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 12:57 am
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>>19296
Looks like a epileptic mess.

But gameplay-wise, it's another boring side scroller, yawn.
>> No. 19298 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 9:31 am
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>>19293

Cheers lad, I'll look forward to never playing it like every other game in my steam collection!
>> No. 19299 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 3:15 pm
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>>19298
Good of you to say thanks.
>> No. 19303 Anonymous
23rd July 2014
Wednesday 10:10 pm
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FXI62-B2BHH-6NLFY - Steam.

Free copy of GTR Evolution then anyone?
>> No. 19304 Anonymous
24th July 2014
Thursday 1:31 pm
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>>19303
Thanks m8 pal m8 lad m8 pal
>> No. 19305 Anonymous
24th July 2014
Thursday 2:29 pm
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>>19304
FUCK YOU YOU'RE NOW JUST TAKING THE PISS ONCE IN ONE POST I CAN MAYBE JUST UNDERSTAND (BUT NOT REALLY) AND NOW YOU'RE PURPOSELY TRYING TO PISS ME OFF JUST STOP!
>> No. 19306 Anonymous
24th July 2014
Thursday 2:44 pm
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>>19305
You may be confusing me for someone else.
>> No. 19307 Anonymous
24th July 2014
Thursday 2:48 pm
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>>19305

Truly tragic.
>> No. 19308 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 12:48 am
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Just to let anyone who was unaware that the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection is completely (legal-wise) free on origin if you use the code I-LOVE-THE-SIMS on origin until 31st

http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-get-the-sims-2-ultimate-collection/.

However I understand completely if you really won't risk it as a lot of people dislike the origin platform and EA themselves. Either way you could probably pirate it and it would technically be completely legal.
>> No. 19309 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 3:22 am
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>>19308

Yeah, I think a torrent is the less distasteful route. The gaming community can be hypocrites sometimes; you can't just boycott a company until they are giving something away for free, have some dignity

I wouldn't be surprised if this was to boost Origin attachment rates before the Q2 report and raise awareness for the new Sims, which I hear has Swimming pools as DLC.

Honestly, I'm not a bitter man, but when it comes to EA I sincerely hope they fail and will toast to it if the day ever comes.

Sorry to digress so severely, carry on nothing to see here.
>> No. 19310 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 5:25 am
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>>19308
I deleted my Sims 2 torrents, installed Origin, and have been downloading it all day. Saves me several gigs of space.
>> No. 19311 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 1:06 pm
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Thanks EA™! I was sceptical before, but Origin™ Is simply sublime. 5 star move by EA™ giving away a free game, they must really care about their fans.
>> No. 19312 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 1:14 pm
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>>19310

A few extra gigs of space are worth it to avoid the endless showers to wash away the sha-

DIRTYDIRTYDIRTYCAN'TGETCLEAN!


>> No. 19313 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 8:35 pm
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Sorta related to this thread, seen a game pop up on Steam today called Only If.

It's a game where you wake up after a hard night's partying and try and find out what happens. From the blurb:
>Only If is a surreal first person adventure-puzzle game. You play as Anthony Clyde, who, after a heavy night of partying, wakes up to find himself in an unfamiliar bed with no memory of the previous night's events. Unfortunately, escaping these unfamiliar, opulent surroundings will prove to be no easy task, as an unseen, menacing, radio-bound antagonist will stop at nothing to block Anthony's path at every turn.

>The game's mechanics are designed to be experimental and unpredictable, to defy the logic of "What you see is what you get". Is the environment changing around you, or is it your imagination? Will jumping to your death kill you, or will it save you? Could the wrong answer actually turn out to be the right answer?

>In Only If, you will fail a lot, you will die a lot, and you will undoubtedly be confused. Or will you?

Anyway, it's free, and there's a Linux version. Downloading it now, will report back at some point.
>> No. 19314 Anonymous
26th July 2014
Saturday 8:41 pm
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>>19313
Unplayable on Linux, has that shitty Unity engine bug from a few Unity versions ago where it freezes every 2 seconds and you have to alt+tab out and in again to get it to continue.

FFS, just get the latest version of Unity and recompile, this is a fixed fucking issue.
>> No. 19331 Anonymous
31st July 2014
Thursday 5:26 pm
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Free games lads?

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/07/31/free-steam-key/
>> No. 19332 Anonymous
31st July 2014
Thursday 7:07 pm
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>>19314
Not this lad; but I just finished it on Windows. It was shit.
>> No. 19333 Anonymous
31st July 2014
Thursday 11:47 pm
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>>19331
Shite free games.
>> No. 19334 Anonymous
31st July 2014
Thursday 11:59 pm
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>>19331
Not worth disabling my blockers and certainly not worth "liking". Cheers though.
>> No. 19335 Anonymous
1st August 2014
Friday 12:12 am
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>>19331
>Free games lads?

Way ahead of you.
>> No. 19336 Anonymous
1st August 2014
Friday 2:57 pm
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>>19335
Way ahead in the rootkit department.
>> No. 19337 Anonymous
1st August 2014
Friday 8:23 pm
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>>19336
2002 called, m8.
>> No. 19368 Anonymous
8th August 2014
Friday 8:43 pm
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Sort of relevent, but if any of you lads have Command & Conquer, The First Decade you can have a natter with Origin support, give them the serial and they'll give you the complete collection for free.
>> No. 19369 Anonymous
8th August 2014
Friday 8:49 pm
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>>19368
Would you mind saying that again?
>> No. 19370 Anonymous
8th August 2014
Friday 8:49 pm
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>>19368
If you already have it they'll give you it for free?
>> No. 19371 Anonymous
8th August 2014
Friday 8:49 pm
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Farming Simulator 15 is 10% off right now, it's only £22.49. Fucking hell lads. They're practically giving it away.
>> No. 19372 Anonymous
8th August 2014
Friday 9:11 pm
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>>19371

I'm still playing the original Rollercoaster Tycoon, thank you very much.
>> No. 19375 Anonymous
8th August 2014
Friday 11:30 pm
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>>19370>>19369
The first decade was a physical disc release that has every C&C up to generals zero hour.

They dont sell it on origin, only the Ultimate collection. Which has every single C&C. So if you try to redeem the serial, it wont add to origin. If you chat with the Origin live help, they will add the Ultimate version to your account, thus giving you a whole bunch of free games. Now obviously it requires you owning the first decade set, but I thought I might just advise.
>> No. 19376 Anonymous
8th August 2014
Friday 11:37 pm
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>>19375
So you're saying, if you own The First Decade, Origin will let you have all the C&C games, even those released after the TFD collection?
>> No. 19378 Anonymous
9th August 2014
Saturday 12:29 am
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>>19376
Yes.

All I did was have a natter with one of their live help people, they confirmed the serial for First Decade, and told me they were upgrading it to Ultimate, free of charge because FD is out of date. Gave me a serial, redeemed it, and boom. Essentially given C&C3, Kanes Wrath, RA3, Uprising & C&C4 for free.

Origin / EA have been in a pretty good way of things recently. They gave everyone with the original Sims 2 a free upgrade to the complete set. You can get Wing Commander 3 for nothing right now, and you can get Battlefield 4 for a full week trial too. Plenty of time to burn through the campaign and piss about a bit.
>> No. 19394 Anonymous
10th August 2014
Sunday 10:45 pm
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>>19378
Ah thanks lad, I nabbed WC3.
>> No. 19413 Anonymous
20th August 2014
Wednesday 7:27 pm
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https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=zevBKDnTsumt4A3C

Terraria for anyone who wants it. Remember to pass the favour along.
>> No. 19414 Anonymous
20th August 2014
Wednesday 11:47 pm
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>>19413
Tried to nab it, but it's already gone lad.
>> No. 19420 Anonymous
21st August 2014
Thursday 11:09 pm
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>>19378

Yeah, the longer they keep up this free retro games malarkey then the more likely I am to keep Origin on my system as a full-time partner to Steam. The Mrs was delighted when I pretended to have actually put effort into getting The Sims 2 and all the expansions, and WC3 is a delightful nostalgia blast. I would have loved it even more if they put Prophecy up, mind you. Otherwise I only really have it on here for Battlefield (although heaven forbid, I didn't pay full price for it, I just got a CD key off one of those dodgy sites. Hopefully it was stolen so none of the money went to EA).
>> No. 19490 Anonymous
11th September 2014
Thursday 6:13 pm
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The PS1 version of Theme Hospital is free at the moment on the PSN store.

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/games/theme-hospital/cid=EP0006-NPEF00015_00-GTHEMEHOSP000001?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=playstation%20store&utm_campaign=PX+-+PlayStation+-+Brand+-+UK&EMCID=GM300000_store
>> No. 19491 Anonymous
11th September 2014
Thursday 6:20 pm
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>>19490
PS1? What? Who would want to play Theme Hospital on a PlayStation?
>> No. 19492 Anonymous
11th September 2014
Thursday 10:12 pm
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>>19491

That's actually where I first got the game, ah sitting under my transformers quilt on the sofa, playing on the big TV for a change because I was sick from school, those were the days...

Until my dad came off and ripped the plug out because video game consoles break TVs if you play them too much.
>> No. 19493 Anonymous
11th September 2014
Thursday 10:27 pm
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>>19492
Oh parents and their lack of tech knowledge.
>> No. 19494 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 2:18 pm
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>>19492
Staying home "ill" from school and playing videogames, as a kid nothing beats that.

Does the Playstation version of Theme Hospital make any concessions for the controller? Does it use the analogue sticks, at least?
>> No. 19495 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 2:23 pm
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>>19493
Or, alternatively, "oh parents and their willingness to effect ignorance to provide excuses".
>> No. 19496 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 4:23 pm
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>>19494
I think so. You could use the PS1 mouse with it too.
>> No. 19497 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 4:24 pm
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>>19496
There was a mouse peripheral? Well that changes everything.
>> No. 19498 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 4:48 pm
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>>19497
This was pretty good on the PS1 too. Had the standard Isometric view, and a 3d one.
>> No. 19499 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 8:10 pm
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>>19494

Analogue sticks on a ps1 mate?
>> No. 19500 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 8:16 pm
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>>19499
Yeah mate.
>> No. 19502 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 8:21 pm
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>>19500

I've just had the realisation that I can't remember my childhood any more.

I actually think I remember my mates mum buying him one for xmas and asking me to test it on my playstation to see if it works, I remember playing a mission impossible game with it and then getting it taken away, never to see another again until the PS2
>> No. 19504 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 8:26 pm
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>>19502
I remember just the highlights. Like a MoTD episode.
>> No. 19505 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 9:55 pm
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I'm one of the lucky few in the UK who has been given early access to the Super Smash Bros. 4 demo for 3DS.

I'm fucking speechless...

I have 4 codes, so if any of you fancy one I'll drop one in an email for you. I'm so fucking giddy, I've never won anything!
>> No. 19506 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 10:08 pm
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>>19505

Is kirby still trash?
>> No. 19507 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 10:14 pm
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>>19506

You don't get him in the demo. They give you Mario, Pikachu, Megaman and Villager.
>> No. 19508 Anonymous
12th September 2014
Friday 10:21 pm
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I tagged a few 3DS owning friends on FB and they've all bitten my hand off.

Sorry, lads. Should have kept one. I'll delete this later.
>> No. 19633 Anonymous
29th October 2014
Wednesday 11:03 am
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https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=pwGNHp83bCVTq3Kh

Free copy of Teleglitch : Must die more edition.
>> No. 19635 Anonymous
29th October 2014
Wednesday 12:27 pm
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>>19633
Thank you kindly. It's my birthday!
>> No. 19636 Anonymous
29th October 2014
Wednesday 12:50 pm
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>>19635

Many happy returns, lad.
>> No. 19647 Anonymous
31st October 2014
Friday 10:26 am
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Free Haloween themed Payday 2 masks ladm8s?

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=YHcaEvsWRFwu6GYU
>> No. 19649 Anonymous
6th November 2014
Thursday 9:09 pm
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Humble Bundle is giving away a free copy of Teleglitch to anyone who puts in their email. Some Halloween thingy.
>> No. 19650 Anonymous
7th November 2014
Friday 7:27 pm
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https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/bday2014

Metro 2033 is free for the next 24 hours.
>> No. 19652 Anonymous
7th November 2014
Friday 7:54 pm
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>>19650
I got all excited until I grabbed my copy and realised that there isn't a Linux version, unlike the sequel. Bums.
>> No. 19653 Anonymous
7th November 2014
Friday 11:27 pm
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>>19652

Which is weird because the sequel is much more casual.
>> No. 19654 Anonymous
10th November 2014
Monday 12:29 am
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I came across a forthcoming puzzle-em-up called Talos Principle. There's a public test demo release on Steam now for free. Only 4 puzzles + secrets, but worth a look if you like a bit of Portal/Antichamber/etc.
>> No. 19655 Anonymous
10th November 2014
Monday 1:18 am
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>>19654
Yeah, I played that too. Good game, can't wait for the full release. Also, available for Linux.
>> No. 19657 Anonymous
10th November 2014
Monday 1:45 am
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>>19655

> Good game, good game.
>> No. 19658 Anonymous
12th November 2014
Wednesday 12:02 am
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Hey, if anyone wants it, have a key for insurgency (a game that I'm totally unfamiliar with and will probably never play):

https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=8UW77n4bAVuaTKa2

I'm sharing this because if I do I get another game with the humble bundle, which I am also unfamiliar with and will probably never play.

Fuck sake. The main game I play on PC nowadays is Collecting Steam Games for No Real Reason.
>> No. 19659 Anonymous
12th November 2014
Wednesday 12:52 am
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>>19658
Thanks!
>> No. 19662 Anonymous
12th November 2014
Wednesday 1:00 pm
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>>19658
>The main game I play on PC nowadays is Collecting Steam Games for No Real Reason.
I've been playing that one for the last four years. I mean, what the fuck is "Saira"? Where did it come from? Did I ever really want to play Amnesia: The Dark Descent? I hate those horror games.
>> No. 19663 Anonymous
12th November 2014
Wednesday 1:06 pm
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>>19662
>Amnesia
I pirated that to see if it was worth buying. I've done this with a quite a few games, even buying them after I've completed the pirated version. Portal 2, Half Life, Various GTA games, and many more.

Amnesia is fucking shite. God knows why it gets such good reviews. It's obviously 2deep4me or something. Anyway, glad I never forked out for it.
>> No. 19675 Anonymous
12th November 2014
Wednesday 6:06 pm
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>>19663
I do the same these days. I used to be a day one buyer but over the last gen games have become way too short or shit to risk it. And the lack of real demos does not help.
>> No. 19679 Anonymous
14th November 2014
Friday 12:32 am
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Just realized I have loads of extra codes for stuff I either already own or don't want in my HB account. I'd like to gift some to you lads, but don't want them being snapped up by bots.
>> No. 19680 Anonymous
14th November 2014
Friday 1:00 am
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>>19679

You/the other lads could set up temp addresses with guerilla mail.
>> No. 19681 Anonymous
14th November 2014
Friday 1:08 am
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>>19679
>but don't want them being snapped up by bots
Do we have any evidence that this actually happened, or is this just a shit explanation for not having seen them acknowledged?
>> No. 19682 Anonymous
25th November 2014
Tuesday 12:21 pm
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>>19663
I'm not a horror game aficionado but I quite liked Amnesia. The story was interesting, the graphics decent, and there were many tense moments. Don't think I'd play it a second time through though.
>> No. 19683 Anonymous
25th November 2014
Tuesday 12:44 pm
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>>19682
I'm not a fan of horror games either but Dead Space is debatable my favourite game. So atmospheric.
>> No. 19697 Anonymous
28th November 2014
Friday 4:25 pm
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Total War: Rome 2: Caesar in Gaul (DLC) Requires base game
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=X2v6dTB5RyZWa6SV

Empire Total War
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=NAfNua5sM6cb7WqT

Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies: commando long name edition
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=v6FGzsMwaMAEskAK
>> No. 19698 Anonymous
28th November 2014
Friday 5:30 pm
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>>19697
Thanks for Empire! I never got round to buying it and I've got nothing to play at the moment.
>> No. 19699 Anonymous
28th November 2014
Friday 7:13 pm
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>>19697

Why did you ruin this (>>19698) poor Anon's weekend, you bugger?
>> No. 20089 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 2:13 pm
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>>19697
A couple more from the current humble bundle.

Dragon Age: Origins
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=YVG78DzPcNewzbGr

Dead Space 2
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=vCz2vpGWkVwmbZHV

If you grab one of these can you at least say so? I don't even care if you say thanks, I just want to know that it's going to a .gs user rather than some automated script thingie.
>> No. 20090 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 2:47 pm
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>>20089

I won't take one, I don't have the hardware and I'm also too much of a quivering vagina for Dead Space, but I'd like to note my apprecation of your generosity.
>> No. 20091 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 3:00 pm
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>>20089

I grabbed Dragon Age: Origins, thank you. I've been tempted to pick it up several times.
>> No. 20092 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 3:03 pm
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>>20090
FWIW Dead Space 2 is a bit more action-oriented than the first, so if the first scared you away you might get on better with the second. The third was a Gears clone (and not a very good one in my view), complete with a garbage Hollywood action movie plot; barely any horror at all.
>> No. 20093 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 4:28 pm
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>>20089
Nabbed Dead Space 2, thanks very muchly. I particularly like not having to install Origin to play it, saves me needing to exorcise my computer.
>> No. 20094 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 5:52 pm
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>>20089
Why don't you apply a ROT13 type cipher to the key, then post an image of the number of letters by which you advanced in the alphabet?
>> No. 20095 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 6:02 pm
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>>20094
Because I'm fucking lazy. I could've just written out the last letter of each phonetically I suppose, but it seems to have worked out.

>>20091
>>20093
You're both welcome, have fun.
>> No. 20096 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 6:03 pm
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>>20094
Is this even a thing? Do we have bots scouring this place for keys? Seems a bit far-fetched to me.
>> No. 20097 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 6:04 pm
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>>20096

I imagine they search strings over the entire web, rather than someone pointing it specifically here.
>> No. 20098 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 7:18 pm
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>>20097
While you could probably automate the part where you look for
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=Big83efYp0z1oAd5 I'm assuming you'd have to at least log into an account somewhere and enter a CAPTCHA of some sort. Given the timing issues, I doubt the Free Porn Attack would be viable.
>> No. 20100 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 8:22 pm
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>>20096
Pretty sure it's just a couple of users who grab it without saying anything.
>> No. 20101 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 9:44 pm
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>>20096
In general, yeah, on here specifically, I don't know. I know some subreddits are regularly scoured for keys by bots for shady resellers.
>> No. 20337 Anonymous
7th May 2015
Thursday 1:58 pm
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ACE - Arena: Cyber Evolution

PJPBP-MMMAJ-E4T and the last to letters are PEE and AY. Hopefully typing it that way slows down the bots.

You can have it because I got it in a bundle and there's no Linux version.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 21300 Anonymous
29th December 2015
Tuesday 10:05 pm
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Tomb Raider 1 - https://humblebundle.com/gift?key=GzNmhBfGYkSZt7ZU

Tomb Raider 2 - https://humblebundle.com/gift?key=R5yfRPfnZ3MFAmcY

Tomb Raider 3 - https://humblebundle.com/gift?key=m472E7Mbyu46AFx4

Murdered: Soul Suspect - https://humblebundle.com/gift?key=D5Rc5cD6tVANY636


Apparently the latter is just a bit shit but I thought there might be someone here who'd get a kick out of the old Tomb Raider games. Never could get on with them myself. Please post if you take one (or more), to save others the hassle of checking.
>> No. 21301 Anonymous
29th December 2015
Tuesday 10:48 pm
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>>21300
I've taken Soul Suspect. Thanks muchly lad, very generous.
>> No. 21302 Anonymous
29th December 2015
Tuesday 10:50 pm
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Wait it's only two quid? I would have bought it myself for that kind of money.
>> No. 21303 Anonymous
29th December 2015
Tuesday 10:59 pm
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>>21300
I took TRII, thanks lad.

Now to see if I can set up a macro to finally bruteforce the cheat that takes her top off.
>> No. 21304 Anonymous
29th December 2015
Tuesday 11:20 pm
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>>21303

Jonathan is a fucking liar m8, don't listen to him.
>> No. 21306 Anonymous
29th December 2015
Tuesday 11:49 pm
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>>21301
>>21303
You're welcome. Thanks for confirming the keys were taken.
>> No. 21307 Anonymous
30th December 2015
Wednesday 12:50 pm
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>>21300
Grabbed TR3.
Was always my favourite of the originals on the PS1. Cheers ladm8.
>> No. 21366 Anonymous
15th January 2016
Friday 11:23 pm
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If anyone wants Tesla Effect, have my spare copy:

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=3F2X6ZwmKrFVMAX7
>> No. 21367 Anonymous
16th January 2016
Saturday 12:04 am
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>>21366
Cheers lad, grabbed it.
>> No. 21368 Anonymous
16th January 2016
Saturday 12:29 pm
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https://store.eu.square-enix.com/emea_uk/games/pc-windows-download/Omikron-The-Nomad-Soul.php

You can grab a Steam copy of Omikron : The Nomad Soul for free until the 22nd. David Bowie was in it and did the soundtrack so it's their tribute to the fella. Good game too if I remember right.
>> No. 21369 Anonymous
16th January 2016
Saturday 12:59 pm
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>>21368
>Good game too if I remember right
I don't think you do.
>> No. 21394 Anonymous
2nd February 2016
Tuesday 5:23 pm
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I've got a giftable copy of Tomb Raider 2013 on Steam if anyone fancies it. I didn't realize I'd be getting an extra copy when I bought Rise of the Tomb Raider today. You'll need to add me on steam for me to gift it though: Profile name: Aimeesaurus and my profile picture is a somewhat humorous picture of a mug
>> No. 21395 Anonymous
2nd February 2016
Tuesday 5:43 pm
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>>21394
I would have done this if TR had Linux support.
>> No. 22125 Anonymous
3rd May 2017
Wednesday 2:59 am
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Missing the letter M at the end. Please post if you use it, I don't care whether you say thanks or not but it saves someone else from wasting their time trying to grab it.
>> No. 22126 Anonymous
4th May 2017
Thursday 10:35 pm
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I remember this thread. Gave a bunch of stuff away. I'll have a dig and see if I can find any more.
>> No. 22128 Anonymous
12th May 2017
Friday 12:01 am
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If anyone is interested there is a Dungeon Keeper clone called Dungeons 2 free on humble bundle atm.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZobfiywCejU

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/dungeons-2
>> No. 22149 Anonymous
20th July 2017
Thursday 8:14 pm
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https://www.humblebundle.com/store/shadow-warrior-special-edition

shadow warrior for free
>> No. 22161 Anonymous
3rd August 2017
Thursday 10:10 pm
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https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=wPANeWqD22kHhRa6

Free Steam copy of Saints Row 2 for you lads. First come first served.
>> No. 22193 Anonymous
15th September 2017
Friday 12:58 pm
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Psychnauts for free until 6pm on Saturday 16.
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/psychonauts
>> No. 22196 Anonymous
22nd September 2017
Friday 12:06 pm
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Outlast is free on Humble Bundle.

For anyone who wants it, here's the Resident Evil 0 Remaster:
3FNGK-2MERW-K5ILD
the last "D" is a C

And the Resident Evil 1 Remaster:
3K8GC-QAXNX-XL336
The last "6" is a 5

Also Dirt Rally:
ELPX8-R9XIC-L9ZRC
Last "C" is a B.

And finally, Inside:
ENL5V-8EABZ-TRBT9
the last "9" is an 8.
>> No. 22197 Anonymous
22nd September 2017
Friday 12:10 pm
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>>22196
Wait, also Undertale:
IPNK2-5KXRC-CFRTN
Last "N" is an M
>> No. 22198 Anonymous
22nd September 2017
Friday 12:53 pm
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>>22196
>>22197

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2LaJOVAiA
>> No. 22199 Anonymous
22nd September 2017
Friday 11:34 pm
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Could people please say if they're taking a code instead of being rude cunts, thanks.
>> No. 22200 Anonymous
24th September 2017
Sunday 5:04 pm
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>>22199
They're all gone, are they? Right, I'm not generally one to throw a tantrum about videogames of all things, but those were some decent titles, and it's hardly the first time you bloody ingrates couldn't even be bothered to say when you were snagging them. So fuck it, unless someone can propose a better solution, they're going up on G2A or some some other dodgy key reseller in the future, at least I'll get a few quid.
>> No. 22201 Anonymous
24th September 2017
Sunday 5:19 pm
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>>22200
>So fuck it, unless someone can propose a better solution, they're going up on G2A or some some other dodgy key reseller in the future, at least I'll get a few quid.

'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, what's all this business with you getting your hands on surplus steam keys then?
>> No. 22202 Anonymous
24th September 2017
Sunday 6:21 pm
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>>22200
I only tried Undertale, can't speak for the rest. Dunno how to find out without claiming them in the process.
>> No. 22204 Anonymous
26th September 2017
Tuesday 4:02 pm
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>>22200
We could post which games are on offer, and then someone who is actually polite could post to request the game, and then to mitigate someone else nabbing it you could negotiate a mutual time when you are both available for the key to be posted and for them to claim it?
>> No. 22205 Anonymous
26th September 2017
Tuesday 5:15 pm
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>>22204
Or just set up a throwaway email and someone can ask for one (1) of the codes you're chucking. Path of least resistance, lads.

Also fuck having steam beggars and if someone starts feeding them they will be all over the place. Undertale is £6.99 on steam, if you can't afford that then frankly you have better things to be doing with your time than playing wacky computer games.
>> No. 22206 Anonymous
26th September 2017
Tuesday 5:23 pm
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>>22205
Thought disposable email was pointless but didn't occur to me it's a way of ensuring only one person gets the key.

Not sure what you mean about Steam beggars? This thread's about offering keys as and when we have them, no-one is talking about tolerating 'please buy me this game'.
>> No. 22207 Anonymous
26th September 2017
Tuesday 6:20 pm
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>>22205
It's not that I can't afford £6.99 but that I could spend that same money on alcohol.
>> No. 22208 Anonymous
26th September 2017
Tuesday 8:44 pm
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>>22207
I can't tell if I posted this or not. I'm certain I've said that exact sentence before.
>> No. 22209 Anonymous
26th September 2017
Tuesday 8:55 pm
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>>22208


Well Short term memory loss (brown out) is a symptom of drinking too fast.
>> No. 22210 Anonymous
26th September 2017
Tuesday 9:35 pm
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>>22196>>22197>>22200
All gone lad.

Sames happened to me before, posted quite a few bits over time and very rare to get a thanks. There was suspicion they were being grabbed by bots etc.
>> No. 22211 Anonymous
26th September 2017
Tuesday 11:21 pm
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>>22210
He did change them up so bots wouldn't get them. Just someone being rude.

>>22208
Don't worry, it was me.
>> No. 22222 Anonymous
13th November 2017
Monday 1:21 am
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If you don't know yet, Blizzard just made Starcraft 2 free.
>> No. 22223 Anonymous
13th November 2017
Monday 2:16 pm
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>>22222
I see of the singleplayer only the first campaign is free. So it's like shareware in that respect?
>> No. 22226 Anonymous
21st November 2017
Tuesday 10:57 pm
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MDK is Free on GOG for a day or two.
>> No. 22227 Anonymous
22nd November 2017
Wednesday 1:00 pm
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>>22226
Cheers.
>> No. 22228 Anonymous
22nd November 2017
Wednesday 5:19 pm
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I can't believe I'm posting this again, but does anyone want a copy of Tomb Raider on Steam? The reboot. It has been sitting in my Steam inventory for 2 years, it's maddening. Why does no one want it?!
>> No. 22229 Anonymous
22nd November 2017
Wednesday 5:33 pm
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>>22228
I've had HL2 sitting around almost since it was new. I don't remember where it came from. Nobody seems interested.
>> No. 22230 Anonymous
22nd November 2017
Wednesday 7:12 pm
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>>22229
You were already an owner of HL2 when you bought The Orange Box?
>> No. 22231 Anonymous
22nd November 2017
Wednesday 9:46 pm
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>>22230
That makes sense.
>> No. 22233 Anonymous
30th November 2017
Thursday 10:03 pm
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Humble Bundle store has the mediocre to good 2013 squad shooter The Bureau: XCOM Declassified for free right now if anyone's desperate for something to play.

Also they currently have a codemasters racing bundle which left me with a spare Grid 2 copy, if any of you are interested.
>> No. 22234 Anonymous
1st December 2017
Friday 5:31 pm
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>>22233
I'll have it if it's still going spare.

I only bought the $1 tier in the bundle as I wanted to see if Toybox Turbos was as much like Micro Machines as it was hyped to be.
>> No. 22235 Anonymous
1st December 2017
Friday 8:03 pm
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>>22234
Enjoy.

http://bit.ly/2j8lviv
>> No. 22249 Anonymous
9th December 2017
Saturday 4:51 pm
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If you can tolerate Uplay Assassin's Creed Black Flag is available free for a week or so from Tuesday.

https://blog.ubi.com/get-two-ubisoft-pc-classics-free-december/
>> No. 22251 Anonymous
12th December 2017
Tuesday 8:19 pm
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Grim Fandango Remastered is free on GOG for a couple of days.
>> No. 22252 Anonymous
12th December 2017
Tuesday 8:46 pm
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>>22251
Great, thanks.
>> No. 22282 Anonymous
11th February 2018
Sunday 8:36 am
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There's a Rockstar humble bundle going on, so here's a few spare keys lads.

GTA III JYZ9K-MPK54-BRRLV
GTA Vice City L2K7M-D6KLJ-5EFGI
GTA San Andreas DM0P9-I8K5Q-LT22B
L.A. Noire EBGYZ-T6LRG-HELRP
>> No. 22283 Anonymous
11th February 2018
Sunday 9:12 am
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>>22282
Thanks, lad. San Andreas was the only thing I was interested in from the bundle but I wasn't prepared to pay £7 just for that.
>> No. 22284 Anonymous
11th February 2018
Sunday 11:16 am
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>>22283
Nice, have fun and thanks for saying that you snagged it, saves others the bother of trying.
>> No. 22285 Anonymous
11th February 2018
Sunday 11:19 am
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>>22282

I got really excited before realising I own all these already I just never play them. I have some thinking to do.
>> No. 22286 Anonymous
11th February 2018
Sunday 11:27 am
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>>22285
It's OK if you've played them at least once though, have you?
>> No. 22287 Anonymous
12th February 2018
Monday 12:46 pm
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>>22282
Tried to grab L.A Noire, but it's already gone.
Cheers anyway ladchap.
>> No. 22297 Anonymous
22nd March 2018
Thursday 7:27 pm
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F1 2015 is available for free from Humble Bundle for the next couple of days.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/f1-2015
>> No. 22330 Anonymous
26th March 2018
Monday 8:24 pm
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The Darkness II is free via Humble Bundle until Wednesday evening.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/the-darkness-ii
>> No. 22331 Anonymous
30th March 2018
Friday 9:31 pm
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Spec Ops : The Line, is free on Humble Bundle for another 20 hours or so.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/spec-ops-the-line
>> No. 22332 Anonymous
30th March 2018
Friday 9:53 pm
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>>22331
>free
Oh no, there is a price. That game fucked my head for 2 weeks after I finished it. Still, would recommend.
>> No. 22333 Anonymous
30th March 2018
Friday 10:39 pm
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>>22331

Sweet. Thanks for the heads up.
>> No. 22341 Anonymous
5th April 2018
Thursday 9:36 pm
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Crusader Kings II is free on Steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/203770/Crusader_Kings_II/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ZkO8CclhI
>> No. 22342 Anonymous
23rd April 2018
Monday 8:24 pm
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Darwin Project, yet another battle royale game, is now free on Steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/544920/Darwin_Project/
>> No. 22343 Anonymous
1st May 2018
Tuesday 5:14 pm
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Squeenix are offering a code to get Mini Ninjas for free, although I haven't received the Steam Key yet after my order was processed about five hours ago.
>> No. 22389 Anonymous
11th June 2018
Monday 10:50 pm
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For Honor: Starter Edition is free on Uplay until next Monday.

https://free.ubisoft.com/promotions/for_honor/26/
>> No. 22390 Anonymous
11th June 2018
Monday 11:24 pm
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>>22389
Thanks! I only use Uplay for these free giveaways.
>> No. 22391 Anonymous
13th June 2018
Wednesday 3:14 am
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The unsuccessful CliffyB FPS LawBreakers (which was previously $29.99, none of that $60 multiplayer-only bullshit), is now free-to-play until September when the servers are due to shut down.

I have to say I've had quite a bit of fun in the few games I've played so I recommend it if you want to give it a try. It's a 20 GB download on Steam if you can stomach that or have fibre. But it won't be anything drastically different to what you've seen in other class-based first person shooters (it reminds me of Dirty Bomb). It's certainly fast-paced and every class is able to fly around in some way so there's no sitting around, evident by the lack of a sniper class.

Cynics may start posting about how shit it is now.
>> No. 22398 Anonymous
17th June 2018
Sunday 8:06 am
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Another Battle Royale, Cuisine Royale, is free on Steam if you install it before the 25th.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/884660/Cuisine_Royale/
>> No. 22399 Anonymous
17th June 2018
Sunday 5:48 pm
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Quake Champions is currently free on Steam, if you're not in the mood for BR games.
It's as good as Quake has always been.
>> No. 22400 Anonymous
17th June 2018
Sunday 7:49 pm
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>>22391

I really wanted that game to do well too, I feel like there is a lack of good game to fill the gap where quake/unreal used to go in the modern gaming scene. It's either Overwatch and similar, or Battlefield and similar, with very little in between.

Quake Champions is no good because it's an actual Quake game, which means you just get pounded all day by crack fiends who have been playing it since QW. Unreal Tournament 4 was looking promising, but it's pretty much vaporware by this point.

It disheartens me to see the game shut down and all the servers closed. That just says something on its own- Back in the day, servers were run by players, you can still log on and play Quake 2 or UT99 to this day if you manage to find one. It sucks for all the people who bought it that they'll no longer be able to play it, because companies insist on centrally controlling everything nowadays. They couldn't even farm it out to some Korean F2P developer to stuff it full of microtransactions?

Also, unrelated, but I would give my left bollock for a sequel to Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
>> No. 22401 Anonymous
17th June 2018
Sunday 7:59 pm
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>>22400

Quake Champions is playable at the moment for most people because of the influx of newbies due to the free to play offer, and it was mentioned at E3.
>> No. 22402 Anonymous
19th June 2018
Tuesday 7:50 pm
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>>22399
> It's as good as Quake has always been.
No it's not. Quake Live is more enjoyable, it's quicker and has none that silly "special ability" nonsense.
>> No. 22403 Anonymous
19th June 2018
Tuesday 8:16 pm
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Can I get a Halo Reach PC port yet?
>> No. 22404 Anonymous
19th June 2018
Tuesday 11:59 pm
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>>22402

Oh, it's one of those people.
Fair if you don't like the abilities, but speed wise it's hardly slower even if you take one of slow champions.
>> No. 22409 Anonymous
22nd June 2018
Friday 6:55 pm
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>>22403
Might be on the way before too long.

The rumour is that the MCC will be on PC soon. Given the X1 launch, it will probably be an unplayable mess, though.
>> No. 22410 Anonymous
23rd June 2018
Saturday 11:28 am
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Steam sale, lads. Other than the Left 4 Dead bundle is there much worth getting?
>> No. 22411 Anonymous
23rd June 2018
Saturday 12:20 pm
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>>22410

If you haven't got the Witcher 3 yet I'd highly recommend you do. It's the meatiest RPG I've played in a long while and really shows up Bethesda and Bioware in the storyline and worldbuilding* stakes.

*yes I know it's based on books but you know what I mean
>> No. 22412 Anonymous
23rd June 2018
Saturday 1:48 pm
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>>22410
Stories Untold is a treat, best to go into it blind so I won't say anything.
>> No. 22413 Anonymous
23rd June 2018
Saturday 3:31 pm
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>>22410
I've picked up Alpha Protocol for a quid, 90% off. I've read it is an underrated RPG.
>> No. 22414 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 4:49 pm
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>>22390
Same. I'm glad I didn't actually pay anything for For Honor; it's extremely repetitive.
>> No. 22415 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 11:58 pm
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I'm quite enjoying ".T.E.S.T: Expected Behaviour" , a first person puzzler. Quite tricky in places, and I'm only halfway through.
>> No. 22416 Anonymous
26th June 2018
Tuesday 12:25 pm
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Colour me endeared, but I got a PS4 recently and just noticed Wild Arms 3 is a PSN download and is on sale for £3.99 ish. One of the best PS2 RPGs.

Not a freebie, but a great deal. I also fucking love Wild Arms, buy Wild Arms! They might make another... they wont.
>> No. 22418 Anonymous
22nd August 2018
Wednesday 8:41 pm
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>>22389
The For Honor Starter Edition is now free on Steam for a limited time.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/304390/FOR_HONOR/
>> No. 22419 Anonymous
24th August 2018
Friday 1:01 pm
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>>22418
I'm surprised the game is still being supported. I bought it at launch, and its playerbase seemed to shrink quite rapidly.
>> No. 22425 Anonymous
30th August 2018
Thursday 8:44 pm
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is free on Humble Bundle.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/warhammer-40000-space-marine
>> No. 22426 Anonymous
31st August 2018
Friday 8:28 am
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>>22425
Cheers for the heads up, grabbed a copy.
>> No. 22427 Anonymous
31st August 2018
Friday 5:17 pm
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>>22425

Sick, I'll reinstall my copy in the vain hopes of playing that multiplayer DLC I never got chance to play because the game was already dead.

And crush noobs with my fully kitted out deathmatch character
>> No. 22483 Anonymous
4th October 2018
Thursday 7:54 pm
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Shadow Warrior 2 is free on GOG for a couple of days.
>> No. 22486 Anonymous
24th October 2018
Wednesday 9:08 pm
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First decent Humble Bundle in a while.

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/wb-games-classics-bundle
>> No. 22487 Anonymous
25th October 2018
Thursday 10:49 pm
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Metro 2033 is free on Steam for 24 Hours
>> No. 22562 Anonymous
6th December 2018
Thursday 11:20 pm
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Company of Heroes 2 is free on Steam until Monday.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/231430/Company_of_Heroes_2/
>> No. 22616 Anonymous
14th December 2018
Friday 1:06 am
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Full Throttle Remastered is Free on GOG for 48 Hours.

https://www.gog.com/game/full_throttle_remastered
>> No. 22617 Anonymous
18th December 2018
Tuesday 10:40 pm
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Latest Humble Bundle is Sonic. Are the more recent games any good? I don't think I've played any since Sonic 3D on the Mega Do.

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/sonic-bundle
>> No. 22618 Anonymous
18th December 2018
Tuesday 11:28 pm
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>>22617

Sonic Mania is apparently good, they handed over the licence to the hard core mega drive modders, I believe otherwise they are considered shit.
>> No. 22619 Anonymous
19th December 2018
Wednesday 4:31 pm
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>>22617
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is one of the best racing games of all time as far as I'm concerned. Very fleshed out single player with lots of content.

Sonic Generations is good and so are Sonic CD and Sonic Mania. Rest of them range from shit to mediocre.
>> No. 22620 Anonymous
20th December 2018
Thursday 7:17 pm
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Epic have launched their own store for games. Every two weeks there is a new freebie offering apparently.

Subnautica free until Dec 28th. After that it's Super Meat Boy.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/
>> No. 22621 Anonymous
20th December 2018
Thursday 7:26 pm
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>>22620

Cheers.
>> No. 22622 Anonymous
21st December 2018
Friday 10:09 pm
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Seen anything good in the Steam sale?

https://store.steampowered.com/

Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes and Overcooked are both less than four quid, if you're looking for something fun for the family.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/341800/Keep_Talking_and_Nobody_Explodes/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/448510/Overcooked/

The Steam Controller is half price.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/353370/Steam_Controller/
>> No. 22690 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 9:44 am
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>>22620
This fortnight's freebie on Epic Games is The Jackbox Party Pack.

Time to get the mates round lads!
>> No. 22734 Anonymous
24th February 2019
Sunday 10:17 am
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This point and click adventure is free on epic games right now

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/thimbleweed-park/home
>> No. 22735 Anonymous
24th February 2019
Sunday 1:58 pm
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>>22734
There are many different clients which have free game incentives. If I didn't know better, I would be inclined towards the assumption that you want people to download the launcher and the free game is irrelevant.
>> No. 22736 Anonymous
24th February 2019
Sunday 2:20 pm
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>>22735
Not at all. People have shared games here which I have enjoyed in the past so I thought I'd contribute. I saw this on efreebies and I thought some people might like it. I'm not the same lad who mentioned it earlier.
>> No. 22737 Anonymous
24th February 2019
Sunday 2:20 pm
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>>22735

You reckon anyone is doing to bother directly marketing to the three of us?
>> No. 22738 Anonymous
24th February 2019
Sunday 2:33 pm
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>>22737
Fortnite must really be getting worried by Apex Legends if they're marketing directly to us.
>> No. 22923 Anonymous
15th June 2019
Saturday 12:23 pm
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That 1996 adventure game with Christopher Lloyd, Toonstruck, is free on GOG until Sunday afternoon.
>> No. 22947 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 1:27 pm
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Other than a misprice, which has now been rectified, for Two Point Hospital the Steam Summer Sale looks shite. I may pick up Swords of Ditto for £2.84, but that's it.
>> No. 22948 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 2:18 pm
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>>22947

You can get Blood bowl chaos edition for £2.99 which if you have any interest in blood bowl at all and don't have the newer blood bowl 2 already is a bargain. I am part of a league that plays on the old version so I am pedaling it to everyone I know.
>> No. 22965 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 8:43 am
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>>22947
The entire Valve back catalogue is on sale for 60 fucking pence. No-one has any excuse not to get these games if they haven't already.
>> No. 22966 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 8:49 am
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>>22965
No it isn't. That's probably your price because you already own nearly all of it. And the only games worth having from their back catalogue are either always completely free or Portal 1/2.
>> No. 22967 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 5:52 pm
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>>22966
Oops. Yeah you're right I see it's actually about a fiver for first timers. That's still a good deal though.

What have you got against Half Life? It's, um, the best PC game series ever made for a period of at least a decade.
>> No. 22968 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 9:36 pm
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>>22967
Yeah, Half-Life was good in the nineties, no doubt about it. It's almost 2020 mate. I wouldn't play a game like Half-Life now for the same reason I wouldn't watch a black and white movie.
>> No. 22969 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 9:47 pm
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>>22968
>I wouldn't play a game like Half-Life now for the same reason I wouldn't watch a black and white movie.
That says more about you than the quality of the game.
>> No. 22970 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 9:49 pm
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>>22968
You're going on The List.
>> No. 22972 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 8:49 am
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>>22969 >>22970
All right lads, I'll watch one black and white movie. How about Sin City? Will that make me a good person? Please tell me it would.
>> No. 22973 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 9:06 am
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>>22972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyGk5S6L8qI
>> No. 22974 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 9:44 am
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>>22972

>How about Sin City? Will that make me a good person? Please tell me it would.

No. No it would not.

In Which We Serve is on iPlayer at the moment. It's an absolute classic.

Kajaki is also on iPlayer, which isn't in black and white, but is the only good English-language film about a contemporary conflict.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sgt/in-which-we-serve

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08q8f1z/kajaki-the-true-story
>> No. 22975 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 9:48 am
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>>22974
My favourite black and white film is probably 12 Angry Men.
>> No. 22976 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 9:51 am
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>>22975

That is a strong one, not sure which is better that, Casablanca, or citizen Kane. It happened one night is another strong pick.
>> No. 22977 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 9:52 am
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>>22976

Oh and seven samurai.
>> No. 22978 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 10:00 am
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>>22975>>22976>>22977

I too have read IMDB's top 250 list.
>> No. 22979 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 10:03 am
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I like Last Year at Marienbad and The Seventh Seal but I probably wouldn't recommend them to other people unless they had a just-above-threshold dose of something psychedelic (including sleep deprivation) to watch them on.
>> No. 22980 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 10:13 am
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>>22976
Citizen Kane is a boring load of old wank, I don't care if it had groundbreaking camerawork or whatever.

>>22978
Shh child.
>> No. 22982 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 4:08 pm
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I'm going to stick my neck out and say Half Life never aged all that well.

It was remarkably influential game that led us into more "cinematic" storytelling, but I am often forced to wonder if that was even a good thing. Look where that influence led us over the next decade. From a gameplay perspective, it was also one of the games that pushed us towards "realism" where there is an overabundance of hitscan enemies and no real way of mitigating damage. This is what pushed us towards the Halo style model of regenerating shield/health, and ultimately, to boring cover shooters.

The older I get the more I can't escape the idea that Doom was not only one of the first but arguably always one of the best first person shooters. Its gameplay is so incredibly well balanced in all sorts of ways, that were certainly happy accidents rather than intentional, but I think all shooters should learn their lessons from it.

Where Half Life was great was in level design, atmosphere and environmental storytelling, but I think Half Life 2 surpasses it. Black Mesa infuriates me because they have messed with the formula to make it even more unforgiving- You have lower ammo caps and seem to take far more damage than the original; which only exacerbates what I think are already weaknesses in the first game.
>> No. 22984 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 4:34 pm
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>>22978

Yes imagine the idea that the films on the top of the poll that didn't just come out and get the hollywood hype train behind them might actually be good.

>>22980
>Citizen Kane is a boring load of old wank, I don't care if it had groundbreaking camerawork

It is the film I mentioned that tends to get the most heat firstly because people feel it is over praised, and also the subject matter and tone, the others I mentioned (even Seven Samurai) have comic relief moments Citizen Kane is dry as bone. I love it as a character piece though. I think you are supposed to come away sincerely saying 'the tragedy of the man' and I do.
>> No. 22985 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 4:41 pm
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>>22983>>22984
You can say that again.
>> No. 23002 Anonymous
24th July 2019
Wednesday 7:05 pm
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Don't-buy-games-for-years-lad here. Saw Dishonored was £1.50 on Steam so I thought what the hell I'll pick it up. Buying the 'Definitive Edition' including all the DLC cost me £3. But then discovered something amusing.

There are the sequel games, Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider. Buying the 'Complete Collection' which includes the DLC and the sequels is currently on offer for £16.49. But there is also a 'Death of the Outsider Deluxe Bundle' which includes both sequels on sale for £8.

So if you bought the Definitive Edition and the Deluxe Bundle you'd pay £11, and get all the games in the Complete Collection for about £5.50 less.

Nice pricing there lads!
>> No. 23003 Anonymous
26th July 2019
Friday 7:09 am
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>>22982

I was going to argue that you shouldn't judge Half Life on the games that it arguably led to, but I do sort of agree with you. I was only eight when Half Life 1 came out, so HL2 was the game I really remember and was blown away by. In terms of level design, it's stellar, I've only played through the game twice, yet could draw you out entire locations in there if I had to, it's just that memorable.

I definitely agree with you about Doom. I noticed a lot of people (rightly) gushing about how refreshing and perfectly balanced the new reboot was, and I can't help but think that style is exactly what an FPS is supposed to be. I do love Halo, but I'm not sure I love Halo for the gameplay. You can't even sprint in CE.
>> No. 23004 Anonymous
4th August 2019
Sunday 9:23 am
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This week's Epic Games freebies are Alan Wake and For Honor. For the latter it's the standard edition rather than the starter version they've used on most other occasions they've tried giving it away for free.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/collection/free-games-collection
>> No. 23005 Anonymous
4th August 2019
Sunday 3:10 pm
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Humble Bundle are selling Crusader Kings II and all its DLC. I keep seeing this game everywhere so I thought I'd pick it up for the $1. I go back to Steam and in the reviews everyone is raving about what an amazing deal getting all the DLC is for $15. So caving into peer pressure I went back and purchased it again. You lads can have the spare Steam keys.

Is this morally right? I dunno I'm only depriving the sick kids of $1 aren't I?

Crusader Kings II: 9TK5A-AKV2H-POZLOADS-CMPBX
The Old Gods DLC: H5CER-BEEFYPOZ-95XNN-ANVTK
The Republic DLC: DVQIF-87IPL-BEEFLOADS-JWN0X
Sunset Invasion DLC: EDMR8-POZCHASER-GZ39X-JYAIQ
Legacy of Rome DLC: CW54A-20R02-love and cherishED-0F5Q5
Sword of Islam DLC: DC2V3-DAFTWOGS-68M5X-MALPJ
>> No. 23006 Anonymous
4th August 2019
Sunday 3:15 pm
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>>23005
Pushing over and stealing the shoes from a Paradox bod's feet would be morally right. Their DLC is the cheekiest I've seen.
>> No. 23007 Anonymous
4th August 2019
Sunday 3:23 pm
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>>23006
Yeah, charging a quid for some fucking portraits or whatever is a joke, but I'm presuming that the actual expansions are all solid purchases.

But none of my money is going to them anyway, I always give it all to the charity.
>> No. 23052 Anonymous
17th September 2019
Tuesday 5:17 pm
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Rockstar are promoting their own games launcher by offering free copies of San Andreas.

https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/rockstar-games-launcher
>> No. 23053 Anonymous
18th September 2019
Wednesday 12:43 pm
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>>23052
Is it just as shite as the Social Club was back in 2008?
>> No. 23054 Anonymous
28th September 2019
Saturday 6:43 pm
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>>23052
RDR2 PC coming soon then, exclusive to their launcher.
>> No. 23057 Anonymous
30th September 2019
Monday 1:24 pm
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>>23054
Good thing the PS5 will be out next year so consoles will be cheap as chips. I like my games without invasive DRM, thanks.
>> No. 23058 Anonymous
30th September 2019
Monday 5:29 pm
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>>23057

I've got bad news for you about the current gen consoles then mate.
>> No. 23073 Anonymous
4th October 2019
Friday 8:47 pm
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>>23054
Almost. Looks like a Social Club exclusive for all of a month before it comes to Steam in early December. Most media sales are made within the first 2 weeks of release so it might work out for them, who knows.
>> No. 23129 Anonymous
28th October 2019
Monday 2:44 pm
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Assetto Corsa is only £13 on Steam, with all the DLC, right now. It's easily the most entertaining driving sim I've played and there are seemingly endless amounts of DLC for it, I can't recommend it enough.
>> No. 23130 Anonymous
28th October 2019
Monday 7:21 pm
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>>23129
I meant to say "endless amounts of mods for it", as you can see the DLC is definitively finite.
>> No. 23131 Anonymous
28th October 2019
Monday 11:20 pm
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>>23129
Interesting - I like a driving SIM and have seen the reviews of I and considered it in the past. I have a Logitech wheel/pedals and one of those driving seats to go with.

Why is it so good? I like Project Cars very much indeed, but with the wheel it's almost too easy once you've practiced enough.
>> No. 23134 Anonymous
29th October 2019
Tuesday 12:21 am
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>>23129
A couple of years ago I bought a wheel and pedals and thought I'd get into multiplayer racing in Assetto Corsa. Played it for maybe 15 hours total but eventually got bored of it and realised I'm not really into racing sims. I played the shit out of the old GT and Forza games but I was never one to autistically shave milliseconds off my laptimes or engage in the tedium of going around the same track over and over to learn the best racing lines, which is a necessity if you want to be competitive online.

I ended up selling the wheel and pedals, bought an old MS Sidewinder joystick because force feedback in joysticks went the way of the dodo for some reason, and had a blast blasting people in Il-2. Going pew-pew in the air or in space is a more fun thing to simulate than driving around a race track.
>> No. 23135 Anonymous
29th October 2019
Tuesday 8:11 am
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>>23131
The variety of tracks and the range of cars to drive is what I like most about it. It's definitely more of a sim than Project Cars, although the graphics aren't quite up to the same level. As I, eventually, mentioned it has a modding scene that's second to none. If you have a "local" racetrack that you've always thought "damn, I wish that was in a game for once", someone's probably at least working on adding it. Not that the base game's barren or anything, especially with all the DLC, there's just loads going on beyond that.

>>23134
>but I was never one to autistically shave milliseconds off my laptimes or engage in the tedium of going around the same track over and over to learn the best racing lines
Oh. Okay.

Il-2's ace too though. I've never managed to get a Sturmovik into space, but maybe I never tried hard enough.
>> No. 23451 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 8:29 am
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Tomb Raider is free on Steam/Squeenix.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/203160/Tomb_Raider/

https://square-enix-games.com/en_GB/news/stay-home-play-friends-family
>> No. 23452 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 10:45 am
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>>23451

Watch Dogs and The Stanley Parable are free on Epic.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/watch-dogs/home

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/the-stanley-parable/home
>> No. 23456 Anonymous
22nd March 2020
Sunday 2:12 am
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GOG have put together a bunch of free games, including some proper old-school classics.

https://www.gog.com/partner/stay_at_home
>> No. 23458 Anonymous
22nd March 2020
Sunday 10:50 am
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>>23456
Are any of them any good though?
>> No. 23459 Anonymous
22nd March 2020
Sunday 11:12 am
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>>23458
You seem to have answered your own question.
>> No. 23460 Anonymous
22nd March 2020
Sunday 11:35 am
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>>23458

Beneath A Steel Sky, POSTAL and Tyrian 2000 are excellent.
>> No. 23461 Anonymous
22nd March 2020
Sunday 12:49 pm
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>>23460
Seconding all of these.

Also if you were into platform games on the PC back in the early 90s then you might have encountered Jill of the Jungle and Bio Menace. Neither were stand-out titles in the shareware era in particular but the former is notable for being programmed by Tim Sweeney, who went on to found Epic, program the Unreal Engine and steer its course from Quake competitor to industry-wide middleware dominance, and then do Fortnite for 250 million kids or whatever it is now. He makes me feel like a right lazy cunt. Bio Menace is just pure Apogee nostalgia. Strangely gory, actually. I quite liked it back in the day.
>> No. 23465 Anonymous
22nd March 2020
Sunday 5:35 pm
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>>23456
Beneath a Steel Sky is hilarious and well worth a playthrough. Some of the dialog is brilliant, though the accents on the voice acting can be a little distracting at times. Can't say anything for the other games.
>> No. 23467 Anonymous
22nd March 2020
Sunday 9:31 pm
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>>23465
Joey was such a little shit.
>> No. 23468 Anonymous
23rd March 2020
Monday 9:42 am
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>>23467
That's not very nice, Rob.
>> No. 23472 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 5:27 pm
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Drawful 2 is currently free on steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/442070/Drawful_2/

The jackbox games are largely terrible and you only buy each pack to get one game out of them, and now they have made the best one free.
>> No. 23502 Anonymous
6th April 2020
Monday 11:37 pm
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Total War: Shogun 2 will be free between the 18th and 20th.

https://steamdb.info/sub/448598/
>> No. 23509 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 11:33 am
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This has only 7 hours left on it lads. $1000 of games and books for £25.50. I already have some of these games so I'll post the extra keys here once I've sorted them.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/04/01/humble-conquer-covid-19-bundle/
>> No. 23510 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 11:53 am
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>>23509
Go home Big Charity, your astroturfing won't work here.
>> No. 23511 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 12:02 pm
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>>23510
Sorry is this the free thread and I missed a different thread for sales?
>> No. 23512 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 12:26 pm
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>>23511
I'm not exactly sure to be honest. My difference engine isn't great at loading threads of this size. Carry on, I suppose.
>> No. 23513 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 12:47 pm
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>>23509
I gave it a go and will give out a few codes before the deadline if anyone doesn't want to miss out. Looking at the list, it's not worth the money.

Slightly miffed that you're limited in charities you donate to in 2020.
>> No. 23515 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 1:30 pm
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>>23513
Deadline?
>> No. 23516 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 2:34 pm
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>>23513
It appears you're referring to the deadline to buy these games at this price, not to give them out. The one Google search I did suggests the keys don't expire.
>> No. 23517 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 6:05 pm
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>>23515
>>23516
The deadline to buy the bundle if I keep a game you want.

Anyway, here is a long list of stuff, let everyone know what you have downloaded.

Steam:
Undertale
AYP3L-X079T-RAYMF

Psychonauts
LWRJ7-4G4Q7-0JQ3T

Tropico 4
9QHQM-4ZNLK-A4Y8H

The Witness
AP7A8-JX9XQ-D6AJ2

LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
AN07J-WXBIC-KL79J

Killing Floor 2
AI6VF-QAV42-4PHB5

Sniper Elite 3
ACW0W-BHM9Z-D4KWT

Worms Revolution
AXNFG-FKIX6-VLPFY

PAC-MAN™ CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2
A47ZA-HLMMF-5J748

World of Goo
9EAJH-4F9RI-70NPF

Stealth 2: A Game of Clones
97AQN-R940L-45QGL

Hacknet
9C226-8AXCW-EXZLF

Lostwinds
9P5AK-W8MKX-6BY4K

VVVVVV
9FILQ-ETEXW-QRAPX

Super Hexagon
9802X-4G2GP-J8M5E

Speed Brawl
A3KYZ-HBE69-9G0JX

DUCATI - 90th Anniversary
BJIZK-V3M2C-AMLW8

Other steam stuff:

Jackbox Party Pack 2 (party games to play over lan with your friends)
BNADW-PG2VI-TDMRI

Google: Tilt Brush (it's a painter for VR tech)
9XD28-G8ZZ7-B6NKK

Paizo:
Starfinder: Pact Worlds Campaign Setting (RPG book)
6APT 2B4G ENMX 4CZG

Music Maker EDM Edition (Make a temporary email once you have this and I'll send over the $10 voucher key)
P3-52694-89589-15030-66478-39923-80449
>> No. 23518 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 6:11 pm
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>>23517
Thanks lad - just nabbed stealth bastard 2
>> No. 23519 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 6:29 pm
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>>23517
Thanks, lad. Claimed Lego Batman and Tropico.
>> No. 23520 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 7:11 pm
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>>23517
I took the sniper game
>> No. 23521 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 7:30 pm
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If anyone wants HL2 and Lost Coast I have them as a "gift" I can give away but there's no key option.
>> No. 23522 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 9:04 pm
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>>23519
I wanted Tropico you twat.
>> No. 23524 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 9:29 pm
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>>23522
Snoozing = losing.
>> No. 23525 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 9:59 pm
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>>23522
If he hadn't taken it before me I still would have taken it before you.
>> No. 23527 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 8:43 am
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>>23517
Cheers lad got World of Goo and Worms.
>> No. 23528 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 2:30 pm
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>>23517
Well done lad, it looks like people are claiming them without issue, although in future I would suggest obfuscating the keys because we don't know if some scumbag has set up a bot to scrape webpages for them.
>> No. 23529 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 7:50 pm
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>>23517
Nabbed Undertale to see what all the fuss is about.
Cheer ladm8.
>> No. 23530 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 8:27 pm
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>>23527
I'd see a doctor about that if I were you.
>> No. 23534 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 12:34 pm
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>>23528
Would spoiling text actually work to protect such content from bots? Surely any bot would read the code (or whatever) rather than visually parse the text? I assume the spoiler tag doesn't obscure anything in the html files or whatever's under the bonnet.
>> No. 23535 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 1:01 pm
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>>23534

No, but I don't think that's what otherlad meant.
>> No. 23536 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 1:06 pm
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>>23534
It would work against naive bots if you used multiple spoiler tags.
>> No. 23543 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 7:36 pm
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https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-04-14-uncharted-the-nathan-drake-collection-journey-free-on-ps4-later-this-week#comments

Uncharted : The Nathan Drake Collection and Journey will be free to all PS4 owners shortly.
>> No. 23544 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 9:29 pm
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>>23543
Journey? That wasn't free already? Always seemed like a tech demo to me. You don't do anything in it. It belongs in a museum.
>> No. 23545 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 10:06 pm
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>>23544

There are people who like that sort of thing, so much so they gave it game of the year for being "an emotional experience".
>> No. 23546 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 12:09 am
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>>23517
Fuck sake, after a week I decided you'd all had your keys but nobody has claimed Psychonaughts. It's a great game and I'm only offering it because I've already played it. You climb into a paranoid conspiracy theorist's mind in one level and it's nuts.

...Unless somebody has already had it but I can't check because there's no way to verify if the key is still active without claiming it. Next time I'm doing an disposable email to dish out codes. No other way to do it.
>> No. 23547 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 1:32 am
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>>23546

Soz m8, I've already played it about tree times. I always give up at the meat level too.

(Aren't they doing Psychonauts 2 at some point?)
>> No. 23548 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 8:51 am
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>>23546
I bought the same bundle and plan to hand out the keys in a raffle. Not sure when or whether it'll be on the boards or Discord. Other people will be welcome to use it in future if it goes well.
>> No. 23549 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 12:51 pm
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>>23546

I own it on disk. but lad that game is 15 years old, imagine complaining because no one wanted your copy of The Sims 2.
>> No. 23550 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 1:06 pm
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>>23547
They released a trailer in 2018 but it's been delayed for a new release date somewhere in 2020.

>>23549
Worth a shot though, it's a great game and a shame if it just becomes a wasted code.

>but lad that game is 15 years old

You must be mistaken because I remember playing Psychonauts as an adult - it couldn't have been released more than 5 years ago. I bet you're one of those confused people who thinks they were born after 9/11.
>> No. 23551 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 1:27 pm
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I missed the post, soz. I tried to redeem Worms but someone else already has it. Thank you for the generosity regardless.
>> No. 23552 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 1:32 pm
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>>23550
>I bet you're one of those confused people who thinks they were born after 9/11.

no I was in university when it came out, like the people who were born after 9/11 are now.
>> No. 23553 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 1:41 pm
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>>23552
I was in secondary school. It was a teacher training day so I had the TV in the background whilst I was doing whatever it is that 13 year olds do on the internet. When I went back to school the next day my form tutor, who looked like Wizadora, was crying because she knew somebody in New York who may have been affected by it.
>> No. 23554 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 1:45 pm
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>>23553

I remember my mate telling me it had happened after he went into a news agents to buy fags and not believing him.
>> No. 23555 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 1:54 pm
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>>23554
I remember marking the day in my school planner by doodling the planes flying into the towers, and then tippexing it out some time later realising it was insensitive.
>> No. 23556 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 3:43 pm
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I just remember my dad not letting me put my cartoons on after I came home I was 28 years old.
>> No. 23557 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 3:46 pm
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>>23556
They replaced CBBC with rolling news coverage when Diana died. It pissed me off no end that they took off Dennis the Menace.
>> No. 23558 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 3:48 pm
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>>23556

Go to bed Stew.
>> No. 23560 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 5:07 pm
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>>23546
>Fuck sake, after a week I decided you'd all had your keys but nobody has claimed Psychonaughts
I thought someone else had already claimed it for some reason. Anyway I've taken it now, cheers.
>> No. 23562 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 7:44 pm
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A ladm8 rang me while i was walking home from School telling me the Russians had attacked America.
He was a bit mad on Command & conquer at the time.
>> No. 23571 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 8:16 pm
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Hitman GO is free on Android and iPhone right now.
>> No. 23575 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 1:07 am
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>>23571

Thanks. This game is making me feel like a total idiot. I also love how my £150 phone apparently can play better games than my £1500 work laptop.
>> No. 23576 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 1:47 am
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Just Cause 4 is free on Epic Games at the moment.
>> No. 23594 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 9:22 pm
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It's not free, but Alien: Isolation is £1.50 on Steam right now, you know, if you aren't afraid enough right now.
>> No. 23598 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 11:36 am
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>>23502
>Total War: Shogun 2 will be free between the 18th and 20th

6pm today is allegedly when it's now going live.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/201270/Total_War_SHOGUN_2/
>> No. 23600 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 11:55 am
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>>23598
*grumbling noises*
>> No. 23602 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 5:51 pm
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>>23600
This is ridiculous.
>> No. 23603 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 5:59 pm
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ONE MINUTE TO GO, BOYS. THE INTERNET BETTER NOT LET ME DOWN AGAIN.
>> No. 23604 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 6:09 pm
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>>23598
Everything says you're right except the page itself.
>> No. 23605 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 6:10 pm
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>>23604
I guess we have to kill Anon for lying to us.
>> No. 23607 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 6:19 pm
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>>23602
I host multiplayer games sometimes, alright. Stop spitting. STOP!
>> No. 23609 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 6:26 pm
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>>23605
How is Steam still having teething problems of this sort?
>> No. 23610 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 6:29 pm
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>>23604>>23605
It's showing as free when you search, but not on the actual page itself. Hmm.
>> No. 23611 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 7:36 pm
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I wonder how many people accidentally bought it without realising what's happened?
>> No. 23612 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 9:33 pm
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It's working now.
>> No. 23613 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 12:29 am
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It’s alright.
>> No. 23655 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 9:22 pm
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Rebellion are giving away Evil Genius for free.

Can't wait for Evil Genius 2, should be wicked rad.

https://id.rebellion.com/promo/evil-genius-giveaway
>> No. 23656 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 11:49 pm
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>>23655
I'll take it when they offer a direct .zip download rather than hide it behind a signup form. Not really free, by my estimate. I'll keep an eye on Evil Genius 2 though, looks cool.
>> No. 23704 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 10:22 am
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Epic Games upcoming freebies.
>> No. 23705 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 10:39 am
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>>23704

I suppose I'll grab Civ6.

Actually this has reminded me I got MechWarrior 5 and totally forgot about it, like I forget about any game that's on Epic or Origin or whatever instead of Steam.

Fuck all these launchers honestly. I miss having the CDs on a shelf.
>> No. 23706 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 10:45 am
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>>23705

If you don't mind installing yet another launcher, GOG Galaxy can automatically scan your accounts across all services and show all your games in one place, regardless of whether they're installed or not.

https://www.gog.com/galaxy
>> No. 23707 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 11:25 am
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>>23706
Thanks lad. Just discovered I own 5 copies of World of Goo.
>> No. 23708 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 2:37 pm
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Does anyone know what the reasoning is for Epic making some games free only if you hae 2FA on your account?
>> No. 23709 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 2:41 pm
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>>23708

They don't want people creating one-off accounts for each free game offer and then selling the games on the secondary market.
>> No. 23710 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 3:01 pm
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>>23708
The optimist in me wants it to be to encourage people to use 2FA, since discounts for using 2FA are starting to become a thing, but the cynic in me agrees with >>23709.
>> No. 23759 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 10:17 pm
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Trackmania will be free on Epic Games from July.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/trackmania/home
>> No. 23760 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 10:48 pm
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They really fucking want people to sign up to their store.
>> No. 23761 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 11:36 pm
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>>23760

Kids buy Fortnite V-Bucks, Epic make shitloads of money and spend it all on giving away quality games. I'm not complaining, especially now that GOG Galaxy puts all my games in one place.
>> No. 23764 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 10:25 am
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>>23760
I have no problem whatsoever with companies attempting to compete with Steam (and frankly Valve need a kick up the arse given Steam's numerous problems), and giving away free stuff is a pretty effective way of breaking a monopoly. Unfortunately the Epic store is rubbish at the moment in a way that Steam wasn't even when it launched, so we may have to wait a bit longer.
>> No. 23765 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 11:58 am
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>>23764
I just use it for the free shit.
>> No. 23766 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 12:33 pm
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>>23760
>>23761
>>23764
>>23765

You might be interested to read this file.
>> No. 23767 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 12:44 pm
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>>23766
>.matt on Facepunch responds to both points as being inaccurate. EGS isn't enumerating processes, he says, but instead writes, "this is literally how tools like Procman and Fiddler work, they have injected themselves into the running process." As for root certificates, .matt writes, "It is a launcher based around a web browers, this is how HTTPS works, of course it has to check your available certificate authorities—every other Electron application including Discord and Steam do this."

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-epic-games-store-is-spyware-how-a-toxic-accusation-was-started-by-anti-chinese-sentiment
>> No. 23768 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 12:52 pm
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>>23766
Didn't that get debunked? Most of image is akin to someone getting freaked by out the list of chemicals in a vaccine, screaming that one of them is used to clean car engines so shouldn't be in the human body, because they're scientifically illiterate and got scared by the sinister sounding words.
>> No. 23769 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 12:54 pm
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Come on guys, I think we can trust that imagine. It does fake Chinese racist talk and calls Internet Explorer, get this, NIGGERnet Explorer. Get it? He swapped out the word internet for a racial slur. Funniest shit I ever saw...
>> No. 23770 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 12:57 pm
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>>23766

I struggled to read through that as it's written in that fucking atrocious "swearing is cool because I'm 13" style, but even I know that just about everything there is completely normal. It's far too nice a day to actually go upstairs and check, but I'd bet good money I could find equally "sinister" processes being ran by any program at all.
>> No. 23771 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 1:48 pm
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>>23766
Google, Chrome, Android, and Windows are market leaders in their respective fields. Nobody cares about this shit. I wish they did, but the reality is that the privacy war was fought and lost long ago, and by freaking out when an online game store engages in what is now utterly typical behaviour you come across like one of those WWII Japanese holdouts from the 70s.
>> No. 23772 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 1:53 pm
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>>23771

Very true. Who gives a fuck what the Epic store is doing while Windows 10 telemetry sits there doing much worse anyway.
>> No. 23773 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 2:19 pm
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>>23771

Apple care.

>>23772

Windows 10 telemetry isn't particularly phlegmatic, it can be set to a bare minimum in Win 10 Pro and completely disabled in Win 10 Enterprise.
>> No. 23774 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 9:42 pm
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In an age where everyone is on Facebook and owns a Smartphone, do we really give a shit about another Launcher poking about a bit?
>> No. 23775 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 9:56 pm
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>>23773
And Pi-Hole completely sorts out the Win 10 telemetry and others.
>> No. 23776 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 9:27 am
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>>23774
"I've got AIDS, Corona and Lupus, might as well get cancer too".

Privacy is a continuum, not all or nothing.
>> No. 23777 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 1:16 pm
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Deliberating whether to buy Steep as the Winter Olympics version is available for £6.99 on the Xbox but the fact you can only play online is putting me off.
>> No. 23779 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 10:35 pm
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>>23704
The Ark giveaway has been delayed, allegedly because of what's happening in America, so they're offering Overcooked for free again instead.
>> No. 23780 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 10:36 pm
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>>23779
Fortuitous! I missed it the first time.
>> No. 23781 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 10:44 pm
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>>23708
Fortnite used to have a major issue with people cracking accounts which they'd sell on. They'd go after accounts which didn't have 2FA set up, which they'd then activate so the original account holder was completely shut out. I think Epic made it mandatory as a result of this.
>> No. 23818 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 6:31 pm
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Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 is now free on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048540/Kao_the_Kangaroo_Round_2/
>> No. 23819 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 6:33 pm
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>>23818
That looks like really good fun. My childhood was robbed by the likes of Half-Life, Halo and Unreal, so thank you for the heads up on this.
>> No. 23820 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:17 pm
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Is there any appetite for .gs Worms Armageddon games?
>> No. 23823 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 9:11 pm
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>>23820
And have to suffer the nimble fingered cunt who utilises ropes and dynamite? No thank you!
>> No. 23853 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 12:32 pm
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Tomorrow is the last day for ARK.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/ark/
>> No. 23855 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 2:00 pm
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>>23820
Is that THE Worms game. I was thinking of asking my mate if he wanted to play Worms so we have something to dip into that isn't a fullscale war simulator with a manual thicker than a bible, but there are about 20 Worms games on Steam so I was at a big of a loose end.
>> No. 23856 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 2:06 pm
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>>23855

The most recent 'real' worms game is WMD, Armageddon is 20 years old now but they didn't really do much with the formula in that time so it is about the same.
>> No. 23857 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 2:11 pm
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>>23855
I've not been keeping up with Worms either, but from the looks of the screenshots and what Wikipedia says you can safely ignore everything between Armageddon and WMD.
>> No. 23858 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 2:17 pm
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They should remake Hogs of War.
>> No. 23860 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 3:52 pm
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>>23858

Agreed. They'd have to keep the original Rik Mayall voice work, though.

There was a console remaster in the works about a year ago, don't know what happened to that.
>> No. 23861 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 5:19 pm
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>>23856
> Armageddon is 20 years old now

I remember playing the original worms on a 486 (hell, the original worms ran fine on an Amiga) but when I google the tech specs for Worms Armageddon I see that I need a video card: "Nvidia GeForce 8600GT (256MB), AMD/ATI Radeon HD3650 (256MB), Intel HD3000 or above.". I honestly don't remember that kind of tech being available twenty years ago. If you were rich you had a Creative Labs Voodoo 3D card with 16mb of video RAM and that was only to get 3D games running with (for the time) high def with a decent frame rate. Why would a flat 2D animated game like worms even need that?

Likewise, I also remember playing UT2004 on a stock desktop in 2007 with no trouble at all but if I google the specs for playing it on Steam now then it feels like I need a top of the line dedicated graphics card to even get it running.

Are steam / BIG GPU gaslighting us all to fuck here or am I stuck in some sort of cognitive dissonance time-loop where I've forgotten the graphics card history because I was always too poor to have one as a kid?

Sage for old man rambling, as usual.
>> No. 23862 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 6:20 pm
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>>23861
Without looking up the specifics, my guess would be that the executables compiled to run on modern systems probably use graphics APIs that are supported by those cards at minimum.
>> No. 23863 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 6:23 pm
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>>23861
The worms Armageddon requirements list Intel HD graphics, which is the IGPU on intel chips, so you don’t need a video card. They aren’t going to recommend hardware that was recommended 20 years ago as requirements for the steam release because a) that’s not really going to be of much use to the vast majority of people who have more modern setups and b) just because a card was capable of running a 2d game well off a cd in Windows 98 doesn’t mean it can run that same game well on steam in windows 10. They instead list low end contemporary hardware, which still happens to be substantially better than what was available at the time of original release.
>> No. 23864 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 8:03 pm
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>>23861

Just try walking into PC World and asking for a Radeon 9700 Pro today.

Although come to think of it, pretty soon the model numbers will have cycled back around far enough that they'd just say "Sorry, it's not out until next May."

Fuck.
>> No. 23865 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 9:14 pm
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>>23863
> b) just because a card was capable of running a 2d game well off a cd in Windows 98 doesn’t mean it can run that same game well on steam in windows 10

Which is interesting. How much overhead does Steam actually add? I could probably run a cracked / abandonware version in a Windows 98 VM on much lower specced machine than I could run it via Steam.

Then again I imagine that most people that are interested in any sort of gaming these days have a specced out GPU and that people like myself with business-spec laptops and desktops who want to play 15-20 year old games on them are such a vanishingly small proportion of the gaming public that it's not worth catering to us.
>> No. 23866 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 10:19 pm
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>>23865

>15-20 year old games on them are such a vanishingly small proportion of the gaming public that it's not worth catering to us.

The issue is more that it is fractal. To you the year 2005 is the golden age for me the golden age would be 10 years earlier.

This discussion did lead me to try dig out my disk version of Armageddon so I could check what the specs of the time were, but alas it it must have got lost in a move at some point.

Steam was about in 2005 but quite different from how it is today. I don't know enough about how the support old hardware but it would seem like a terrible dick move for a company to turn around and say "oh btw all those things you have bought and your system used to run, we have decided that you can no longer use them". This was at a point before the digital licence so I assume that if you own a physical copy of half-life 2 which required steam they must be under some sort of obligation to allow you to play it.
>> No. 23867 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 10:37 pm
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>>23866

I don't know, we're talking about a company that flatly refused to acknowledge that things like the Sales of Goods Act applied to them for nearly a decade.
>> No. 23868 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 8:45 am
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Because you're clearly all dumb, I went to the Steam discussion forums to find out more about these system requirements. There's an FAQ pinned to the top:

Q: I have read the system requirements on the Steam Store page and they're too high! Is that real?
A: No! It's not real. For some reason Team17 just copied them from Worms Revolution, possibly as a mistake since the game was originally in a bundle with the Worms Revolution preorder. The real system requirements are just like the original ones from 1999, though might be slightly higher due to software rendering. Note that custom maps of various big sizes lead to different operating memory usage.
>> No. 23869 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 10:32 am
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Given how most of the population of Ossett is on this website, and how Team 17 were until recently based in Ossett, it logically follows that there must be some employees of Team 17 here.

That established, I implore them to get a .gs reference into the next Worms game?
>> No. 23870 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 10:46 am
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>>23869

They're not in Ossett any more?

That's it, I'm never buying Worms again.
>> No. 23871 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 11:08 am
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>>23870
The devs are based off J41, off the roundabout with the Burger King and Bannatyne gym.
>> No. 23872 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 11:14 am
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>>23869
I'm picturing a Sneaky Smokester bounding along a landscape before exploding.
>> No. 23874 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 12:16 pm
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>>23871
Last I checked they were on Calder Island next to the Wetherby Whaler. Have they moved again?!
>> No. 23875 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 12:21 pm
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>>23874
Yep.

https://www.team17.com/contact/
>> No. 23878 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 7:46 pm
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Right that's it. I'm making a Britfa.gs themed Worms Armageddon map.
>> No. 23879 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 8:27 pm
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>>23878
I definitely want to see this.
>> No. 23880 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 6:35 pm
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Injustice: Gods Among Us is free on the Xbox store.

https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-gb/Product/Injustice-Gods-Among-Us/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80257520829
>> No. 23883 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 12:07 am
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>>23868

For anyone who actually cares I dug out an old copy of PC Zone that reviewed Worms 2 and these were the specs needed.

I will try to find the issue that reviewed Worms Armageddon.
>> No. 23932 Anonymous
6th July 2020
Monday 8:23 pm
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In case you've missed it, Trackmania has been free on Epic Games since the start of the month.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/trackmania/
>> No. 23933 Anonymous
6th July 2020
Monday 10:12 pm
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Watch Dogs 2 will be available for free as part of next week's Ubisoft Forward event.

https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/41nS5f7EjNSB9Hi7CwSuVz/ubisoft-forward--everything-you-need-to-know
>> No. 23934 Anonymous
7th July 2020
Tuesday 12:03 pm
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Did some adding up; I've spent £141 on Steam in the last 12 months. And played about three of the fifty or so games and DLC that purchased.

That's... a decent ratio... right...?
>> No. 23935 Anonymous
7th July 2020
Tuesday 1:43 pm
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>>23934
I'd say I've played about 45% of my Steam library at some point, about 95 games in total, dropping to about 20% for those played for more than five hours.
>> No. 23936 Anonymous
7th July 2020
Tuesday 2:06 pm
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>>23934

Kind of depends where the games came from. I have a lot of shit I picked up in humble bundles that I really had no intention of playing as I got them but they were paired with something else.

I register 75 of them I never bothered with before on steam yesterday. Some of them it turns our were games I had been eyeing up for purchase on the switch anyway years later, so that was a nice surprise.
>> No. 23937 Anonymous
7th July 2020
Tuesday 2:12 pm
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>>23934
So many games seem to be an obnoxious time sink I feel like I won't play most of the things I own. Who has the time? I don't and I've been unemployed for the better part of 5 years.
>> No. 23943 Anonymous
13th July 2020
Monday 10:47 pm
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>>23933
This is now live.

https://register.ubisoft.com/ubisoft-forward-reward/en-GB
>> No. 23944 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 10:18 am
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>>23943
Thanks for the link. I couldn't log in during the event like everybody else - it was depressingly inevitable that a publisher's servers would be woefully underprepared for the burden.
>> No. 23945 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 10:22 am
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Because I'm well out of the loop, what exactly is a season pass? I'm still weighing up which Far Cry to go for.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/xbox-one-ubisoft-franchise-sale-inc-assassins-creed-far-cry-rainbow-six-siege-watch-dogs-and-ghost-recon-xbox-store-3504588
>> No. 23946 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 10:33 am
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>>23945
A season pass is a way publishers get you to pay for upcoming DLC before you actually see what some of it is. It's not so much of a risk now all the DLC is out so you know what it entails, but the tactic is to get people to commit to buying all the DLC well in advance, even if it takes months to come out and even if the public doesn't even know what they're dropping the £20-£40 on.
>> No. 23947 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 11:12 am
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>>23946
Thanks, lad. The choices are:-

- Far Cry 5 Gold Edition for £13.99, which includes a copy of Far Cry 3 (£2.49 separately), extra weapons and the DLC packs Dead Living Zombies, Lost on Mars and Hours of Darkness.

- Far Cry 5 for £8.24.

- Far Cry 4 for £4.99.

- Far Cry 4 and Primal for £11.24.

Think I need to stop being an indecisive fanny.
>> No. 23948 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 1:04 pm
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>>23947
Go for whichever setting you like best. 3 is modern pirate type people on a Pacific island. 4 is flamboyant dictator in the Himalayas. 5 is religious cult in rural USA. Primal is stone age. Personally I found 4 most compelling.
>> No. 23949 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 3:30 pm
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>>23947

I haven't played 5 yet, but I don't think it had as strong a reputation as 3 and 4. I think 4 is what I would buy out of all of those, it plays and feels exactly like 3, just bigger.

If you are really that unsure, just buy 3 for £2.50 and see if you enjoy it (you will) and then work through the remainder of the series from there.

You can definitely skip Primal. It's not bad, at all, it's just not as fun without guns.
>> No. 23954 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 7:51 pm
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>>23947
5 is marmite I find, you either find it repetitive and naff, or fall in love with it. It's an incredible map to wander around and take in the sights.
>> No. 24037 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 12:33 pm
24037 Mirror's Edge - Steam key
Like a twat I went and bought a code for the original, rather than the sequel, then spent 10 minutes trying to figure out why Steam kept refusing to install because the "product already exists". What a muppet.

66I4J-4HILN-XJ9GV
>> No. 24046 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 6:41 pm
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Behold! The .gs worms map!

I'll be hosting this map on this Saturday at 4pm as a Worms Armageddon match

name: britfags

password: purple

Be there or be square!
>> No. 24047 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 8:13 pm
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>>24046
Ok no one took the bait.

Here's the actual map

See you on Saturday
>> No. 24048 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 8:36 pm
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>>24047
Magnificent.
>> No. 24049 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 9:56 pm
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>>24046

Installed the game and fired it up just now. Looking forward to Saturday.
>> No. 24050 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 9:58 pm
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>>24047
Excellent work. I wish my shed was actually that big.
>> No. 24051 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 10:16 pm
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Found a tool for remaping keybindings.

https://worms2d.info/WkRemapKeys
>> No. 24052 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 12:29 am
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>>24050
The shed is actually fairly small, as most of it is taken up by a 4.7L V8, the front seats and cockpit of an Audi A4, and the subframe.
>> No. 24053 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 12:59 am
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>>24052

I do believe there's enough room to sleep in the back, which is all you need really.
>> No. 24054 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 9:32 pm
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>>24037
Claimed. Thank you.
>> No. 24057 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 7:38 pm
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If you want to play tomorrow but don't have the game here's a link from the other place:

https://mega.nz/file/SzpAmSCK#zjdLRMVfP3oW72s9hHlJfdttUpZzW-KhEiU05SkSMdQ

I take no responsibility of the extra detritus
>> No. 24058 Anonymous
25th July 2020
Saturday 4:00 pm
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>>24046

Lobby's up in AnythingGoes
>> No. 24063 Anonymous
27th July 2020
Monday 3:54 pm
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Did it go well lad?
>> No. 24064 Anonymous
27th July 2020
Monday 6:55 pm
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>>24063
The map looked amazing and we had fun but it was only 1 v 1.
>> No. 24065 Anonymous
27th July 2020
Monday 10:21 pm
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>>24064
Maybe try and make it a weekly thing, though not everyone can keep to a schedule.
>> No. 24066 Anonymous
27th July 2020
Monday 11:27 pm
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>>24064
Course you had fun, 2 players is pure Worms. 3 and more can get pretty chaotic.
>> No. 24067 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 9:17 am
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Rocket League is going free to play later this summer. However, any new PC user will have to get it from Epic rather than Steam.

https://www.rocketleague.com/free-to-play/
>> No. 24068 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 9:25 am
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>>24066

Honestly I need the chaos of 3 or more otherwise he'll kick my arse again.
>> No. 24069 Anonymous
29th July 2020
Wednesday 8:24 am
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Psychonauts is free on the Xbox.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/psychonauts/c5hhpg1txdng
>> No. 24070 Anonymous
29th July 2020
Wednesday 9:16 am
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>>24069
Showing as £8.99
>> No. 24071 Anonymous
29th July 2020
Wednesday 9:49 am
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>>24070
It worked for me this morning. I think it also depends upon what device you're using to access it. It's worked for some people by just refreshing the link.
>> No. 24106 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 7:12 pm
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A Total War Saga: Troy will be free to claim on Epic for 24 hours on 13th August.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/a-total-war-saga-troy/home

It's not going to be available on Steam until next summer; are they getting completely fucked over at the minute?
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6th August 2020
Thursday 7:24 pm
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>>24106
Steam peaks at over 19,000,000 active users a day, so I doubt "fucked over" is Valve's current state of being. However, I would be interested in seeing what kinds of numbers Epic is doing. They must be giving publishers rather generous offers for them to be allowing their games to be given away, especially new games, as "free" is not the first word that comes to mind when I head about a new AAA release coming down the pipe. Honestly, this kind of corporate generousity has made me far more suspiscious of Epic than any Chinese investment ever did.
>> No. 24108 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 7:27 pm
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>>24106

Buzzing, that's one to actually set a reminder for at least. I need something meaty to sink into for a bit.

CA games aren't worth paying money for any more anyway, if you've played any of the last half dozen you've played the next.
>> No. 24109 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 7:33 pm
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>>24107

It's more or less the same concept as Aldi doing things like selling a Karcher for £30 as a one-time offer, as long as you get there early doors Sunday morning. They're betting on the initial loss getting you through the door making up for itself when you pick something else up on your way round the shop.

Epic's biggest obstacle is pulling people away from an established launcher which is vastly feature superior, which people have a stronger social network on, and the majority of their established game library. A free game might be enough to get you to download their launcher, and you'll have to keep it installed to play that free game- Which is like a crack dealer giving you your first hit for free. As long as it's sat there on your desktop, you're a lot more likely to give it a click and see if they have anything else good going.

Also tells us CA probably already had this one pegged as more or less shovelware, because it's not Warhammer 3.
>> No. 24110 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 7:38 pm
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>>24106
A game that's just one, decade long, stalemate siege finally broken by a predetermined, non-playable tactic doesn't seem worth playing for free, frankly.

>Inspired by the famed creatures of Greek myth, you can call mythic units to your aid in the heat of battle, including fighters that resemble the Minotaur, the Cyclops, Giants and Centaurs.
It's a guy wearing an infant elephant skull on his head. Why would a cyclopes be at the siege of Troy anyway? They weren't there in the Iliad, they were on an island hundreds of miles away in the Odyssey which happens after the Trojan war. Then giants and centaurs aren't relevant in any shape or form.
>> No. 24113 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 5:14 pm
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F1 2018 is free on Humble Bundle.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/f1-2018-free-game
>> No. 24131 Anonymous
13th August 2020
Thursday 4:14 pm
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Total war Troy is free on the epic store for a day.

The bastards are trying rather desperately to make the platform relevant now.
>> No. 24132 Anonymous
13th August 2020
Thursday 4:37 pm
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>>24131

Buzzing, that's one to actually set a reminder for at least. I need something meaty to sink into for a bit.

CA games aren't worth paying money for any more anyway, if you've played any of the last half dozen you've played the next.
>> No. 24133 Anonymous
13th August 2020
Thursday 4:50 pm
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>>24131

Cheers, I forgot to actually set that reminder.

>>24132

My own clone! It's like we're in that Net Yaroze game about time travelling snails, where you can't bump into the past version of yourself or you get a paradox and game over.

Don't fucking touch me.
>> No. 24134 Anonymous
13th August 2020
Thursday 5:07 pm
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>>24133
>Net Yaroze

I played the fuck out of Psychon.
>> No. 24135 Anonymous
13th August 2020
Thursday 10:48 pm
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>>24134

Fucking hell that took me back.

That and Pushy II.
>> No. 24136 Anonymous
13th August 2020
Thursday 11:34 pm
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>>24134

This game had a belting soundtrack if I remember rightly.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDEjyfY2qNI

I do remember rightly. This is up there with Paradox keygen tunes.
>> No. 24137 Anonymous
14th August 2020
Friday 1:19 am
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>>24133
Net Yaroze was incredible really.
I still have that PS1 demo disc with about 20 of them on it.

Terra Incognita, the Incredible Coneman, Pushy 2.
>> No. 24162 Anonymous
21st August 2020
Friday 2:42 pm
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https://store.steampowered.com/sale/0451sale
No keys but some great old classics in the Fahrenheit 451 sale for very cheap.
>> No. 24163 Anonymous
21st August 2020
Friday 3:44 pm
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>>24162
451? That ought to be easy enough to remember.
>> No. 24164 Anonymous
21st August 2020
Friday 4:25 pm
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>>24162
Got a Steam key for the devs for Spirits of Xanadu as I already purchased it for the itch.io Racial Equality bundle, nice of them.

Steam really don't know how to split these games up. System Shock is 'Sci-Fi Horror', BioShock is 'RPG', and Deus Ex is 'Stealth', when of course they are all three.
>> No. 24167 Anonymous
21st August 2020
Friday 5:34 pm
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>>24164

Well it is inaccurate for all of them they are all just doom clones.

You can't really blame steam for miscatigorising them when every AAA game of the last decade has been a homogenous mess of sandbox action adventure fps camera with rpg mechanics and building mechanics slapped on.
>> No. 24173 Anonymous
22nd August 2020
Saturday 5:45 pm
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>>24164
>Deus Ex
>Sci-Fi Horror
If I were a mod, you'd be first against the wall for misgendering my fair Day of Sex like that. Greatest game of all time.

>>24167
Looks like somebody subscribes to Civvie 11.
>> No. 24208 Anonymous
1st September 2020
Tuesday 6:40 pm
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The Division is free via Ubisoft.

https://register.ubisoft.com/the-division/en-US
>> No. 24209 Anonymous
2nd September 2020
Wednesday 12:07 am
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>>24208
Cheers lad. Is it, um, actually any good?
>> No. 24212 Anonymous
2nd September 2020
Wednesday 9:25 am
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>>24209
Reviews are... divided.
>> No. 24213 Anonymous
2nd September 2020
Wednesday 9:26 am
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>>24212
But wot do u fink?
>> No. 24214 Anonymous
2nd September 2020
Wednesday 9:51 am
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>>24213
Idklol. I just hoard free games I never play.
>> No. 24218 Anonymous
3rd September 2020
Thursday 10:25 am
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>>24209
If you have a decent team of friends and play it properly, yes.
You CAN play it Solo, but it's clearly not designed around it.
>> No. 24219 Anonymous
3rd September 2020
Thursday 2:59 pm
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>>24218
>If you have a decent team of friends and play it properly, yes

This is where all these games completely fall apart.
>> No. 24220 Anonymous
3rd September 2020
Thursday 7:33 pm
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>>24219
Well, if a bunch of you wankers grab it we can get .Gs Squad.
>> No. 24257 Anonymous
10th September 2020
Thursday 7:21 pm
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Sonic Generations is only 74p via Humble Bundle.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sonic-generations
>> No. 24260 Anonymous
10th September 2020
Thursday 9:51 pm
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>>24257

Still a questionable purchase.
>> No. 24261 Anonymous
11th September 2020
Friday 7:18 am
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>>24260
I thought it was alright, barring the final boss fight.
>> No. 24272 Anonymous
13th September 2020
Sunday 8:17 pm
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Death Rally is free on steam
>> No. 24300 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 8:22 am
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>>24067
Rocket League will be free from 23rd September, with Epic Games offering a £10 coupon if you pick it up within the first month.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news/rocket-league-is-free-to-play-on-epic-games-store-starting-september-23
>> No. 24301 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 9:08 am
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I think Epic should do one if its sole aim is to have as many exclusives as possible. I don't need to go to the Nike store to buy a pair of Nike trainers so why should have to go to Epic's store to play games by developers they've acquisitioned well after a game's been released? I think EA maybe took some games down from third party online stores when they went all in on Origin, but they were at least games they published. I know Epic give away a lot of free stuff, but they're clearly anti-consumer when it comes down to it, the freebies are just to get people through the door. I know no one cares and most gamers would let Bobby Kotick and Todd Howard sell them and their families into slavery for a pre-order bonus, but, by God, I've known better days.
>> No. 24302 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 10:16 am
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>>24301
It will also be free to play on consoles. It's only on PC where they're trying to get one over on Steam.
>> No. 24303 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 12:24 pm
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>>24301

Gay Ben has been a relatively benevolent monopolist, but he's still a monopolist. It's categorically a bad thing to have one company controlling the overwhelming majority of PC games distribution, even if they do a reasonably good job of it.

Most of the non-Steam platforms are money-grubbing shit (I'm looking at you, Uplay), but the Epic Store is a serious effort to do things differently and in some ways better. It isn't completely shitted up with shovelware, they take a smaller cut from game publishers, they give prominent placement to actually good indie games, the launcher isn't absolutely terrible and there's now a first-party integration with GOG Galaxy.

I don't for a minute think that Epic are motivated by altruism, but the lack of real competition has made Valve utterly complacent and increasingly uninterested in the long-term wellbeing of the PC gaming ecosystem.
>> No. 24304 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 12:36 pm
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>>24300
It'll be like the dark days of early TF2 F2P again.
>> No. 24305 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 1:33 pm
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>>24303

The thing is when it was Steam controlling the spice, you could always still buy disc versions and CD keys off third party sites etc. But with Epic, exclusive means exclusive, and while the launcher isn't actively awful, it's missing a lot of features.

You can't even schedule or queue downloads (as of the last time I bought anything on it), and it kind of fucked me over on my shitty connection with my other half trying to download the same thing, but I was forced to download 30 fucking gigs of shite for Borderlands before it'd even start the one I wanted.
>> No. 24306 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 2:23 pm
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>>24305

Can you blame developers for going Epic-exclusive though? Steam take a 30% cut, but Epic only take 12% with generous marketing incentives for exclusivity. Valve could make the Epic Store irrelevant overnight if they wanted to, but they're still acting as if Steam is the only game in town.
>> No. 24307 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 2:46 pm
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>>24305
>it's missing a lot of features.

https://trello.com/b/GXLc34hk/epic-games-store-roadmap
>> No. 24308 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 2:48 pm
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>>24306
At least Steam does have some value proposition. Large existing community and decent support for it. And they only take that cut on purchases rather than recurring revenue. Contrast with, say, the Apple App Store, which demands you effectively gift them a third of your entire business for free just to even exist on iDevices.
>> No. 24309 Anonymous
16th September 2020
Wednesday 2:52 pm
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>>24306

Of course I can't blame profit seeking businesses for making decisions that will enable them to make more profits, but what has that got to do with me as an end user? I'm just inconvenienced. I wouldn't mind if I could just pick up a cheap retail copy like you used to be able to, but no- It's Epic or piracy.

Be under no illusions that Epic is trying to save us from the evil monopoly of Valve out of sheer altruism, they are only hoping to replace it with a monopoly of their own.
>> No. 24341 Anonymous
17th September 2020
Thursday 9:12 pm
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Now Football Manager 2020 is free on Epic. This might be the first free game from them I actually play rather than just hoard for the sake of it.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/football-manager-2020/
>> No. 24345 Anonymous
17th September 2020
Thursday 9:21 pm
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>>24341

TBF I've had loads of brilliant freebies from the Epic store - off the top of my head Borderlands 2, Civ VI, Subnautica, The Talos Principle and The Stanley Parable. I've no interest in Football Manager, but I'll probably give Watch Dogs 2 a go.
>> No. 24347 Anonymous
17th September 2020
Thursday 9:29 pm
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>>24345
I think I also have most of them, but they're all completely untouched.

I used to get FM every other season but for some reason I haven't bothered since FM2015, although I was on the fence about getting FM2021 when it was out seeing as Hull are now in League One. I think my last save was where I turned Alloa into the best team in the world.
>> No. 24350 Anonymous
17th September 2020
Thursday 10:37 pm
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Rollercoaster tYcoon 3 Compete Edition will be the next free Epic game from the 24th.

it's an all in one reissue of RCT3 with the add ons and updated for modern OS and resolutions etc.
>> No. 24352 Anonymous
17th September 2020
Thursday 11:26 pm
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>>24347

If I had to recommend one of them, it'd be Subnautica - it can get a little bit grindy later on, you will get confused about what you need to do and end up Googling stuff, but it's utterly captivating all the same. It's imaginative and visually gorgeous and incredibly atmospheric and there's a story that isn't utterly juvenile.
>> No. 24354 Anonymous
18th September 2020
Friday 12:10 am
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>>24350
Has any version topped the original? Just curious considering its widely regarded as a masterpiece.
>> No. 24355 Anonymous
18th September 2020
Friday 12:21 am
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>>24354
RCT2 is the best one, but 3 is still pretty decent.
>> No. 24371 Anonymous
18th September 2020
Friday 3:44 pm
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>>24352
Can I just say I only had to look up one thing on the web about Subnautica and that was where the Big Sub bits were, which it turned out I'd been past half a dozen times already I just hadn't been paying attention. I'm not saying that to be smug, I just think it gives you exactly the right amount of info, both in speech, text and visuals so that you know what you need to do.

Cracking fun, the biggest of recommendations from me too. I couldn't stop smiling when I got the Big Sub.
>> No. 24372 Anonymous
18th September 2020
Friday 3:47 pm
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>>24371
It'll never beat Sub Culture.
>> No. 24373 Anonymous
18th September 2020
Friday 7:19 pm
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>>24372
>> No. 24473 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 6:48 am
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Sonic 2 is free on Steam for the next week or so.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/71163/Sonic_The_Hedgehog_2/
>> No. 24491 Anonymous
11th October 2020
Sunday 3:33 pm
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>>24473
I'm almost tempted to pick up the bundle of Mega Drive and Genesis classics but I'm pretty sure I could find them all online.
>> No. 24541 Anonymous
2nd November 2020
Monday 5:32 pm
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Ghostbusters Remastered is free on Epic at the moment.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/ghostbusters-the-video-game-remastered/
>> No. 24542 Anonymous
2nd November 2020
Monday 9:26 pm
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>>24541

cheers lad!
>> No. 24600 Anonymous
17th December 2020
Thursday 8:32 am
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Amazon are trying to muscle in with Prime Gaming now. They're offering Overcooked, both Yooka-Laylee games and an exclusive Fall Guys bundle free for Prime members.

https://gaming.amazon.com/intro
>> No. 24601 Anonymous
17th December 2020
Thursday 8:58 am
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>>24600
Overcooked is quite neat as couch co-op. It's great at not making you rage at the game instead of each other.
>> No. 24602 Anonymous
17th December 2020
Thursday 1:25 pm
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Epic are doing a big Christmas promotion, with a different free game every day for the next 15 days.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news/the-holiday-sale-returns-on-december-17-plus-15-free-games
>> No. 24603 Anonymous
17th December 2020
Thursday 2:27 pm
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Prison Architect is free on GoG. Cracking game if you like that sort of thing.

https://www.gog.com/game/prison_architect
>> No. 24607 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 6:39 pm
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>>24603

Rabbi's weren't allowed to study this lart of the Bible back in the day.

It maps pretty closely to Revelations and the Book of Enoch.

Biblical literature is trippy af
>> No. 24608 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 7:01 pm
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>>24607
Yes, well, quite.
>> No. 24609 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 7:14 pm
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>>24608
I'm assuming he meant to reply to >>/b/440793 but got very muddled up.
>> No. 24610 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 9:15 pm
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>>24609
Yes, well, quite.
>> No. 24611 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 10:58 pm
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This is apparently all of the games that will be free on Epic.
>> No. 24612 Anonymous
21st December 2020
Monday 1:00 am
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>>24611

I picked up Cities Skylines since I'm a big classic Sim City fan and I'd already had the Epic Launcher installed from when I grabbed a couple of free alts for Elite Dangerous a few weeks ago. I only played it for a few minutes but it looked good.
>> No. 24613 Anonymous
21st December 2020
Monday 5:44 pm
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>>24612
I did the same, didn't LOVE it like Sim City. The other one in that list in a similar kind of genre is Tropico, which I played for a bit longer.
>> No. 24614 Anonymous
21st December 2020
Monday 6:05 pm
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>>24613
I think it's the kind of game where you need to pick up shitloads of DLC for it to be playable.
>> No. 24615 Anonymous
21st December 2020
Monday 9:13 pm
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>>24611
I saw a similar list posted a couple of days ago which turned out to be fake, so I'll take this one with a pinch of salt.
>> No. 24616 Anonymous
21st December 2020
Monday 10:00 pm
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>>24612>>24613
>Cities: Skylines

As a Lad who hated everything after SimCity 4 Rush Hour (and wished I could build without being restricted to diagonals and orthogonals), will I find urban planning nirvana with this?

I need something to stop me getting so engrossed in Animal Crossing.
>> No. 24617 Anonymous
21st December 2020
Monday 10:11 pm
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>>24616
Hmm, the only way I had fun is with motorways, and trying to manage traffic by squeezing in new routes and new junctions in an already cramped city. Full on spaghetti.
>> No. 24618 Anonymous
21st December 2020
Monday 10:18 pm
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>>24615
We're a third of the way through and it's been legit.
>> No. 24619 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 10:18 am
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>>24613

You're losing out on the experience quite a bit if you get it on Epic, as while it has a ton of DLC with interesting features arbitrarily split between them it also has a massive modding scene through the steam workshop, which Epic completely lacks.
>> No. 24620 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 4:41 pm
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>>24619
Also the achievements!
>> No. 24621 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 4:54 pm
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It's definitely Tropico tomorrow. The sunglasses are a dead giveaway.
>> No. 24622 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 4:55 pm
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Helps if I don't forget the image.
>> No. 24623 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 10:07 am
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>>24350
The open source remake of RCT2 is a must have, this and TTDX are some of the finest Tycoon games ever made.

Anyway, Brigador is free on GOG, it's a like an arcadey Mechwarrior where everything is destructible. It really just makes me pine for MechCommander 1 though.
>> No. 24624 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 12:47 pm
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>>24623
I downloaded it last night, but haven't opened it up yet. Is it not a RTS?
>> No. 24625 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 1:17 pm
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>>24624


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPnjH8a-W1U

It's a top down, 2D arcade shooter type thing.
>> No. 24626 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 1:43 pm
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>>24625
I got the email that said it was free and from the images it looked like Mech Commander. Oh well I will give it a bash this evening. I might even play Brigador!
>> No. 24743 Anonymous
8th January 2021
Friday 8:54 am
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Star Wars Battlefront II is free on Epic from Thursday.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/star-wars-battlefront-2/home
>> No. 24765 Anonymous
15th January 2021
Friday 3:24 pm
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Bomber Crew is free via Humble Bundle:

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/bomber-crew-free-game
>> No. 24774 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 12:55 pm
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Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is free on Steam until Monday.
>> No. 24775 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 1:29 pm
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Epic Games Store have published a year in review. Interesting figures:

>In 2020, PC customers on the Epic Games Store spent over $700M of which third party games represented 37% at $265M.

So only a third of transactions were third party games? Does that mean the entirety of the rest was Fortnite microtransactions?
>> No. 24776 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 1:37 pm
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>>24775
Most of it will be. They decided against making Fortnite: Save The World free to play but I don't know how much that costs.
>> No. 24781 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 11:05 pm
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>>24776
Barely anyone actually plays STW. It's pretty much entirely Fortnite V bucks.
>> No. 24794 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 1:38 pm
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FREE GARFIELD KART.

https://freebies.indiegala.com/garfield-kart
>> No. 24795 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 2:03 pm
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>>24794
I think this is the first time I've seen a game being offered for free with the only condition being I have to register, and not being bothered.
>> No. 24796 Anonymous
12th February 2021
Friday 12:05 am
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Rage 2 will be free on Spic Store from the 19th.
>> No. 24797 Anonymous
12th February 2021
Friday 8:54 am
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>>24796
Racist.
>> No. 24798 Anonymous
12th February 2021
Friday 9:45 am
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>>24797

Eh, Forget about it.
>> No. 24799 Anonymous
12th February 2021
Friday 10:10 am
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>>24796

Nice, I almost bought that a bit ago when I was desperate for something to play.

The only thing that stopped me is that I only seem to pay for games where you get to make your own character these days. It should be a standard feature.
>> No. 24800 Anonymous
12th February 2021
Friday 11:30 am
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>>24796

I'd be more excited about Infinite Drift, the other free game next week. It doesn't look particularly impressive, but the sequel Art of Rally was the best thing I played last year.
>> No. 24826 Anonymous
12th March 2021
Friday 1:02 pm
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Metro 2033 is free on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/43110/Metro_2033/
>> No. 24827 Anonymous
12th March 2021
Friday 1:46 pm
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>>24826
This is an excellent game, I recommend it to fans of atmospheric shooters like Half-Life.

Can't speak for the sequels though, are they any good?
>> No. 24828 Anonymous
12th March 2021
Friday 3:47 pm
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surviving Mars is free on Epic at the moment.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/surviving-mars#

I wonder if these companies know people like me no longer feel the need to buy games.
>> No. 24829 Anonymous
12th March 2021
Friday 3:55 pm
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>>24828
I have more games than I know what to do with. Finding the time to play them is the issue.
>> No. 24830 Anonymous
12th March 2021
Friday 4:07 pm
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>>24828
>I wonder if these companies know people like me no longer feel the need to buy games.

Because the one you've seen is a rip-off. It gives you the base game but it's made by paradox so it's only a way to hook you into the DLC bullshit which is purposely designed to be necessary for players. Same reason the base game HOI IV is perpetually on sale and why EUIV sits in my library despite me having no recollection of ever paying for it.

Metro 2033 >>24826 is a similar premise as the base game is quite broken in some features so they will likely get people purchasing the two redux versions and some will pick up the newer game that is still in its DLC release saga.
>> No. 24831 Anonymous
12th March 2021
Friday 5:39 pm
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>>24830

Fair point about paradox business model if a little unfair given that they quite clearly are developing more content and that isn't free to do, but I don't think that is the driver, it seems to be driven in these cases, it seems to by competition between steam and Epic themselves they want to be the default thing you open up and use on your machine because that means you are more likely to buy their games and giving everyone a free copy of GTA V (and others) is a way to influence that.
>> No. 24893 Anonymous
10th April 2021
Saturday 3:38 pm
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>A new court filing has revealed some interesting new details about Epic Games and Epic Games Store. According to the filling, Epic has lost around $181 million & $273 million on EGS in 2019 and 2020, respectively. This basically means that Epic Games Store has not been profitable these past two years. Epic expects its store to turn a profit in 2023, though this sounds like an optimistic scenario. Furthermore, Epic’s exclusives are not that profitable for the company.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/epic-games-lost-almost-181-million-273-million-on-egs-in-2019-and-2020-respectively/
>> No. 24894 Anonymous
10th April 2021
Saturday 3:52 pm
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>>24893
Even EA gave up Origin exclusivity. It took ages, but they realised it just wasn't worth it and I think on some level it breeds contempt from potential customers, not that EA need any help in that regard. Indeed, apart from Fortnite and a few games they've bribed into exclusivity deals I don't even know any "Epic Exclusives", let alone ones I'd be excited about. And do you have any idea how excited I'd have to be make another sodding account for something else I'd barely use?
>> No. 24897 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 10:13 am
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>>24894

I can think of games that have never come out on steam or have taken years to release on steam that have come out on epic which is as good as exclusive.

There are good arguments for a developer to sell on epic; they take a smaller cut on sales than steam. Ultimately they are both just shops and you are arguing you would never drive to Sainsbury's when you already drive to Tescos. The question is; if sainsbury's demonstrably cost less for more choice how long would it take for you to break habits and start shopping there?

The money loss is a sensible business move in the long term even if 100 million is too rich for my blood. You've got to convince people to leave their comfort zone and we are benefiting as early adopters all the time they are offering give away to get us through the door.
>> No. 24898 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 2:38 pm
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>>24897

Except in this case, it's more like Sainsbury's cost the same for less choice, except they occasionally cut a deal so they're the only ones allowed to sell your favourite flavour of Pringles for a year. The question is more like how long until you give in and make the trip because they're holding your Pringles hostage.
>> No. 24899 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 3:49 pm
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>>24898

No one is holding anything hostage your boot licking of a shop and everyone should just accept its monopolistic control of the market otherwise they are just an arsehole is laudable though.
>> No. 24900 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 4:00 pm
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>>24893
The propensity of tech companies to piss endless quantities of money up the wall never ceases to amaze me.
>> No. 24901 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 5:46 pm
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>>24899

... What? I don't think you understood the point being made there lad.
>> No. 24902 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 5:49 pm
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>>24901
>the point being made

"Epic bad. Steam good."
>> No. 24903 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 5:56 pm
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Competing with Steam is really hard for a multitude of reasons, but the biggest single hurdle is that people don't like having to use multiple launchers. Epic are flush with cash from Fortnite and have huge resources from Tencent, which they're using to try and break Steam's stranglehold on the market. They've bought some exclusive titles, but they've also invested massive amounts in giveaways. It's a long-term play and they're not expecting it to start paying off for many years.

To be fair to Epic, it's worth noting that they're not your typical corporate studio bastards - Tim Sweeney is a legit software guy and still has a majority stake in the company. Epic Store has been a real boon for indie developers, because it allows quality titles to escape the Steam slushpile and Epic offer very generous terms to small studios.
>> No. 24904 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 5:58 pm
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>>24902

Oh, it totally failed to occur to me you might be dense enough to mistake Epic's blatantly anti-consumer practice as sone sort of noble monopoly breaking coup. Steam doesn't even have a monopoly. GOG also exists, and people use that, because it's actually good. Not just because all the brute force of TenCent's money bought them some exclusive deals.

Get back to us when the Epic or EA or whoever stores have literally a single thing to offer customers other than reduced convenience.
>> No. 24905 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 6:08 pm
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>>24904

>Get back to us when the Epic or EA or whoever stores have literally a single thing to offer customers other than reduced convenience.

The hundred-odd free games I've had from them must count for something.
>> No. 24906 Anonymous
12th April 2021
Monday 12:34 pm
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>>24904
>GOG also exists, and people use that
I'm not him, and I think Galaxy is only marginally better than Epic. Its sync capability is dodgy. It can't even sync with Steam from day to day.

I bought the Bullfrog library and other 90s classics on GOG years and years ago, and I don't know why I would use it for anything else over Steam.

I think Epic are playing a good hand, they just have to get their launcher up to snuff.
>> No. 24907 Anonymous
12th April 2021
Monday 1:48 pm
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I mean the thing that's being left out of this discussion is that most people are quite happy using steam. Steam has more features than any of the others, people use it not only because that's what all their existing games are already on, but because it's more or less always been pretty decent. Gabe Newell isn't exactly holding a gun to anyone's head, people are using Steam because it's the best.

The thing is it's a fair argument in theory to say breaking the monopoly would lead to better prices or whatever, but this is the fucking gaming industry we're talking about. We, the consumer, are never going to see a single upside out of it. Prices aren't going anywhere other than up for us regardless, and you're a fucking mug if you believe otherwise. We will just have another password to remember.

I'm not Jim Stirling but he stole most of her good opinions from me.
>> No. 24908 Anonymous
12th April 2021
Monday 2:15 pm
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I just like the free games.
>> No. 24909 Anonymous
16th April 2021
Friday 7:22 am
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They might have done this deal before, possibly one of the Christmas giveaways, but Alien Isolation is free on Epic from next Thursday.
>> No. 24910 Anonymous
16th April 2021
Friday 12:02 pm
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>>24909
Yes they must have done, as it's marked Owned in my account.
>> No. 24928 Anonymous
7th May 2021
Friday 2:56 pm
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Would it be possible to run a tool that automatically adds free games across platforms to your library? I've found one for Epic but have yet to try it:
https://github.com/MasonStooksbury/Free-Games

I think this is what we need to keep up.
>> No. 24932 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 4:05 pm
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>>24928
What do programs like this actually do? Do they emulate clicks and stuff or is it more elegant than that? If the former do you have to keep your hands off the mouse and keyboard when you run it or you'll fuck up the sequence of events?
>> No. 24933 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 6:51 pm
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>>24932

It uses Selenium, which is a headless browser interface. The browser renders the page in memory and Selenium interacts with that page like a user would, but nothing is rendered to the screen and it all happens in the background. It's a very useful tool for testing and scraping Javascript-heavy websites.

https://www.selenium.dev/
>> No. 24944 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 7:48 pm
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It is shit but NBA 2k21 is currently free on Epic.
>> No. 24947 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 6:41 pm
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Saying-'where'-and-'sus'-simulator Among Us is currently free on Epic!
>> No. 24948 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 7:13 pm
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>>24947
The game is open to a fair bit of roleplay - if you wear the right hats people will generally give you a platform to conduct the session. It's just a shame the communication tools don't really facilitate it.
>> No. 24949 Anonymous
5th June 2021
Saturday 10:15 pm
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Frostpunk is this weeks Epic Freebie.
>> No. 24953 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 6:41 pm
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Some game called Control is free on Epic, which is weird because I'm sure it only just came out?
>> No. 24954 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 7:08 pm
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>>24953

It came out in 2019.
>> No. 24955 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 8:40 pm
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Surviving Mars: Deluxe Edition is free on Humble Bundle for the next 21 hours or so.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/surviving-mars-deluxe-edition-free-game
>> No. 24956 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 8:54 pm
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>>24955
I, for one, look forward to being shackled in another Paradox dlc nightmare with their free giveaway of the slightly expanded base game.
>> No. 24964 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 11:11 am
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Overcooked! 2 is free on Epic this week, with Sonic Mania free next week.
>> No. 25029 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 9:14 pm
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The Space Jam knockoff of Streets of Rage is available for free.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/space-jam-a-new-legacy-the-game/
>> No. 25068 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 12:36 am
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A Plague Tale : Innocence, is free on Epic at the moment.

Wonderful game.
>> No. 25069 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 2:00 am
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>>25068
Watched my friend in the final boss fight in that game with no context prior, I was absolutely baffled.
>> No. 25092 Anonymous
25th August 2021
Wednesday 11:17 pm
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Saints Row the 3rd : Remastered, is free on Epic for now.
>> No. 25099 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 1:35 am
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>>25092
Just watched the new trailer. Christ, it looks like a Fortnite ripoff and the acting is so stiff.
>> No. 25100 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 7:46 am
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>>25099

I mean the non-remastered one came out long before fortnite was a thing, not that the two play anything like each other - saint's row is unabashedly a silly GTA ripoff.

The acting, yeah, fair. The british voice you can pick for The Boss is pretty good, though.
>> No. 25102 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 9:51 am
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>>25100
No, the trailer for the new one.

https://youtu.be/YgjzDJA1o1E
>> No. 25105 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 10:09 am
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>>25102
Fucking hell, Brian.



"Ultimately Saints Row is the story of a start-up company, it’s just that the business The Saints are in happens to be crime."

Oh. Oh no.
>> No. 25106 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 11:08 am
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>>25105
I'm not suprised or anything, because Saints Row has been crap for ages, but being Watchdogs 2 but edgier is a new low for sure. Are they supposed to be superheroes or something? And the chracter models look hyper-real but then they're using cartoon guns? It's all so weird and I also feel bad for the developers who, while creating something very embarrassing either way, had to be tethered to a zombie franchise no one gives a monkey's about anymore. Saints Row IV came out eight years ago for goodness sake. Weird characters though, AnCap, multi-ethnic, superhero gangsters? That's not exactly what I think when I think organised crime and I don't think organised crime when I think good guys. Then again I don't think AnCap either.

Whatever, it was clearly never going to appeal to someone like me, who thinks GTA IV is probably the best open world crime-'em-up, with it's noughties NYC aethetics and story about a stressed middle aged nihilist. But I would note I was 13 when that game came out so the idea you have to make games about kids for kids is weird, especially when it's a genre that makes things like gunfights in hospitals and firebombings against local businesses a likelihood. I'm not trying to sound all "won't someone think of the children?", but if we could do so for a moment I would ask if they want to play characters 36 months older than themselves who look and sound like dickheads?

Make a game about, I don't know, Yardies. The shittest Yardies going, in the most depressing place imaginable, Cleveland or something? Five Shit Yardies in Cleveland, Ohio, I'd buy that, not this cyber-ponce guff.
>> No. 25107 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 11:22 am
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>>25106
Of course, there are loads of absolute fucking spackers in the comments going "THERE ARE WOMEN IN MY VIDEOGAME IT'S GOT DIVERSITY THIS CHARACTER IS NONBINARY IT'S THE WOKE BRIGADE", yet somehow forgetting Saints Row 2 had a gender slider in fucking 2008. Obviously what this means is that it now has the Ghostbusters Defence -- if anyone criticises this game they are just a chronic sexist.

Did they really think that co-opting #SelfMade #startup language was going to appeal? I get that they have refocussed their audience and gentrified the game, but were the Youth really crying out for a new Saints Row?

The thing that gets me the most is the voice acting in the trailer. It seems so flat and uninterested, and the pacing is just... bad.
>> No. 25110 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 12:24 pm
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>>25107
I think inclusivity and equality are great, but these are organised crimminals and therefore very bad people? So what's the idea? Why are they crimminals to begin with? They look like they should be at very good universities, not selling rocket launchers. You're right too, it completely feels like an attempt at making something cool by people who wouldn't know cool if it hit them in face, which I think its why we have three characters wearing black and one guy with no shirt talking about their start-up. Plus the kids love that Manfred Mann type beat, right? I know it's a sample, but it's still a sample from a Prodigy song from 2009. It's fine, they can use a twelve year old song, but it doesn't really gel with the rest of their hyper-modern style.

Really want to play my depressing Yardies game now.
>> No. 25114 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 12:52 pm
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>>25106
I think The Getaway has a mission where you attack a Yardies crack house, and GTA3 has the Yardies as minor antagonist. Probably the closest we'll ever get to Yardies being represented well in video games.
>> No. 25116 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 1:18 pm
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>>25114

Not quite Yardies, but GTA: Vice City had a fun and silly series of missions for a Haitian witch doctor. The game got quite a lot of flack for its portrayal of Cubans and Haitians, which may explain why developers choose not to include certain real life groups in games.

If I remember right, The Getaway actually had the antagonist calling people jungle bunnies, but you can get away with that as being in vox persona, I suppose.
>> No. 25118 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 2:55 pm
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>>25106
>GTA IV is probably the best open world crime-'em-up, with it's noughties NYC aethetics and story about a stressed middle aged nihilist

I am unheppy because of war in home country.
>> No. 25120 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 6:51 pm
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On a side note I always imagine the GTA series is set in the Matrix. Dunno why. Probably the cityscapes.
>> No. 25140 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 12:50 pm
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>>25116
Spear Chuckers, Darkies, the lot.
It was a bit controversial even then.
>> No. 25149 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 7:18 pm
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>>25120
>On a side note I always imagine the GTA series is set in the Matrix.

This kind of confuses me. So like the virtual world of GTA is actually a part of the cinematic fictional virtual world of the matrix films?
>> No. 25188 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 7:15 pm
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Far Cry 3 is free via Ubisoft.

https://store.ubi.com/uk/far-cry--3/56c4947a88a7e300458b45de.html
>> No. 25195 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 11:12 pm
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Nioh is free on Epic Games Store. I wasn't a fan, but it's a well made hybrid of Dark Souls, Diablo, and Ninja Gaiden. A lot of people like it, but way too hard for me.
>> No. 25197 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 2:20 pm
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https://twitter.com/letshugbro/status/1438110445613760513

On September 24th, Margaret Thatcher will rise from her grave. Only you can send her back to Hell.

3D: Doom Daddy Digital is proud to present 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐄, a new 𝙳𝙾𝙾𝙼 adventure for PC, Mac, Linux and whatever the hell you want to try running it on.
>> No. 25198 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 10:38 pm
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>>25197

Are you taking the piss? Me and my mate Dave came up with this idea ten years ago. These pricks have to stop listening to my brain signals.
>> No. 25199 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 4:54 pm
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Titan Quest and Jagged Alliance will be free on Steam in a few hours.

https://invisioncommunity.co.uk/thq-nordic-is-celebrating-its-10th-anniversary/
>> No. 25200 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 9:14 pm
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SkyrimVRLad here. Started playing Oblivion but I'm really starting to lose my patience for it. Even with mods to improve the user experience it feels like it was designed to frustrate the player at every step, combined with the Todd Howard Patented Glitches.

For example, the mouse isn't accelerated in menus, and unlike Fallout 3 which came ~2 years later on the same engine, there's no way to use your keyboard to navigate the menus. I've got a mod which introduces controller support which makes the menus navigable without getting carpal tunnel, but sometimes the menus don't pick up the controller and aiming with it is nigh-on impossible so I have to keep switching between the two.

If you go cave exploring and don't come out after about 0.1 seconds, you get the "your horse has returned to Leyawiiiiin stables" message, so what's the fucking point in having one if you have to fast travel to pick it up every time you get off it? It controls like fucking shit anyway so whatever.
>> No. 25201 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 9:40 pm
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>>25200

Oblivion is a very marmite game. It hasn't aged well at all, and even if you install enough mods to bring it up to a modern standard it's still a buggy mess. Far more unstable than even something like Stalker, and the process of adding content to it only leaves it less stable. Modding tools like Wrye Bash are arcane wizardry I still don't fully understand and getting it stable is a royal pain in the arse.

But for me it has a similar appeal to Stalker. It has this cozy type of alluring character which may or may not just be nostalgia. I'd like to think not, I played Morrowind when I was a kid and I don't feel as much nostalgia for it, it just feels old to me; with Oblivion I was in my late teens but I still feel strangely fond of it. The environment is picturesque, the music is soothing, the fundamental gaemplay loop is satisfying.

I guess the problem and the strength with Oblivion is that it's the raw, barebones template every subsequent Bethesda game has been built on. If you squint hard enough in Fallout 4 you can still see the skeleton of Oblivion underneath.
>> No. 25202 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 9:44 pm
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>>25200
I think you've got the wrong thread, ladm8. You want this one >>19768.
>> No. 25205 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 11:09 pm
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>>25202
So I do. My bad.
>> No. 25214 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 6:41 pm
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The Escapists free on Epic next week. If they keep this up I'm going to end up owning the entire Steam library of half-decent games.
>> No. 25297 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 7:30 am
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Apparently the Assassin's Creed Chronicles trilogy will be free on Uplay next week.
>> No. 25298 Anonymous
8th November 2021
Monday 7:41 pm
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Apparently the first 10,000 sign ups to Thunderful World get a free Steam key for SteamWorld Dig, but it keeps saying invalid email address when I try.

https://twitter.com/Thunderfulgames/status/1455897716345692160
>> No. 25299 Anonymous
9th November 2021
Tuesday 3:36 pm
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>>25297
This is now live until Friday. It turns out I have 11 free games in my Uplay account, which they've rebranded as Ubisoft Connect as they're pushing their subscription service now. £13 a month seems a lot to be able to play Far Cry and Assassin's Creed.
>> No. 25300 Anonymous
9th November 2021
Tuesday 6:47 pm
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>>25299
Every single one of these games is functionally decent, but blandly similar and there are so many of the fuckers and they take hours upon hours to complete which as an adult I don't have time for anymore. Someone posted once that Watch Dogs was supposed to be the closing chapter of an Assassin's Creed trilogy, and that would have been good, because it looks like they are going to continue this story forever.
>> No. 25301 Anonymous
10th November 2021
Wednesday 2:15 pm
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>>25300
You've got to respect Ubisoft for sticking with the modern day stuff. Nobody liked it in the first game, but they doubled down and as far as I'm aware, every game has its modern day shit. The ones set in the game studio were a lot of fun, I must admit.
>> No. 25310 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 5:25 pm
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Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is currently free on Ubisoft Connect. It looks like they'll be giving free games away for the next 3 weeks or so as part of their 35th anniversary.
>> No. 25355 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 12:01 pm
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Rayman Origins is free via Ubisoft from tomorrow until the 22nd.

Epic will probably start their Christmas giveaways soon. Prison Architect is one of the current freebies.
>> No. 25356 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 2:11 pm
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>>25355
Apparently Paradox ruined Prison Architect from the very first patch as soon as they got their mitts on it. I say apparently because I haven't dared play a Paradox version yet - when I got it on Steam I rolled it back to the final Introversion version immediately.
>> No. 25357 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 10:15 pm
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https://www.gog.com/game/shadow_tactics_blades_of_the_shogun
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is free on GoG until the 15th.
>> No. 25358 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 10:25 pm
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Also:
Anno 1404 on Ubisoft Connect until tomorrow
https://register.ubisoft.com/anno-1404/en-GB
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger on Steam until tomorrow.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/204450/Call_of_Juarez_Gunslinger
Godfall Challenger Edition on Epic until the 16th
https://epicgames.com/store/p/godfall--challenger-edition
>> No. 25359 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 2:31 pm
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>>25358
Gunslinger is great fun.
>> No. 25360 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 6:51 pm
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Epic is doing two weeks of daily freebies. Shenmue III is free today.
>> No. 25363 Anonymous
17th December 2021
Friday 10:24 pm
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Rayman: Origins until the 22nd
https://register.ubisoft.com/rayman-origins/en-GB
Neon Abyss until the 18th
https://epicgames.com/store/p/neon-abyss
>> No. 25372 Anonymous
19th December 2021
Sunday 10:28 pm
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The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter is todays Epic Freebie.
>> No. 25373 Anonymous
19th December 2021
Sunday 11:56 pm
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>>25372
Danke.
>> No. 25376 Anonymous
20th December 2021
Monday 4:38 pm
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Loop Hero today on Epic.
>> No. 25381 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 9:46 am
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Vampyr today.
>> No. 25382 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 12:24 pm
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>>25381
Prey?! Awesome.
>> No. 25383 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 4:34 pm
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>>25382
There's more than one game called Prey and I don't think they're connected at all. But I hope you get the Native American FPS from about 15 years ago, because that was amazing.
>> No. 25385 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 6:20 pm
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Today Epic is giving out the entire Tomb Raider reboot trilogy.
Not just the base games either, the definitive complete version of each.
>> No. 25386 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 6:26 pm
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>>25383

Nah, it was the modern one that became really boring once you figured out that the whole gimmick was just Charlie Brooker's What If Your Brain But Computer?: The Game.
>> No. 25387 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 7:50 pm
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>>25358
"Call of Juarez: Gunslinger" was super fun, but it joins "WH40K: Spcemarine" in the list of games which are really badly supported on modern hardware so it's a crapshoot if it'll work on your machine.
>> No. 25457 Anonymous
4th February 2022
Friday 12:43 pm
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Yooka-Laylee is free on Epic this week, but this must be at least the third time they've given it away so you probably already have it.
>> No. 25523 Anonymous
3rd March 2022
Thursday 6:26 pm
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Cities: Skylines is free on Epic again next week.
>> No. 25606 Anonymous
1st April 2022
Friday 10:52 am
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Total War: Warhammer is one of the Epic freebies this week.
>> No. 25611 Anonymous
4th April 2022
Monday 3:17 pm
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EUIV complete is on Humble Bundle - with 10% off for the most recent expansion. Total with expansion is £21.67.

I'd double check you get absolutely everything only they're completely out of keys at the moment. If anyone wants the EUIV base game for some reason then let me know.
>> No. 25612 Anonymous
4th April 2022
Monday 5:33 pm
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>>25611
I'm torn about whether to get this bundle. On one hand, it's hundreds of pounds and stuff for £20. On the other, most of the reviews of recent EUIV expansions on Steam mention how broken and buggy they are.
>> No. 25613 Anonymous
4th April 2022
Monday 6:40 pm
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>>25612
I've just assumed that I'll only be playing it with the mods anyway. The real question is how the fuck am I ever going to get the time to play a grand strategy game, it's not like I can just take a month off to form Germany.
>> No. 25686 Anonymous
19th May 2022
Thursday 7:48 pm
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Borderlands 3 is currently free on Epic.

I only recently found out they paid $146million to 2K for PC exclusivity for it back in 2019.
>> No. 25687 Anonymous
19th May 2022
Thursday 8:01 pm
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>>25686
You couldn't pay me to play Borderlands, unfortunately.
>> No. 25688 Anonymous
19th May 2022
Thursday 8:26 pm
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>>25687

Okay, thanks for letting us know.
>> No. 25689 Anonymous
19th May 2022
Thursday 8:34 pm
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>>25688
You're welcome, lad! Any time you need another opinion about a video game on this video game imageboard you let me know.
>> No. 25690 Anonymous
19th May 2022
Thursday 9:47 pm
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>>25687
I quite enjoyed Boarderlands. The looting mechnic was fun enough although once you found a decent gun it'd carry you through a lot of the game (across 30 odd hours I pretty much had 3 main weapons). Also you get to realise quite quickly there's barely a point in opening most of the non-weapon crates. The storytelling was pretty shit - plenty of oportunity to do something interesting (particularly how the bandits were being armed), but nothing really come of it.
As for the gameplay loop .. game sessions lasted about 2 hours before I noticed I was doing the same shit just in a different area.
I'd have played the 'newgame+' if you could change characters, but what it offers isn't really worth slogging through again.

I was going to make a review thread for it but fuck if I'm doing that for you cunts, i can barely make an effort for myself.
>> No. 25691 Anonymous
19th May 2022
Thursday 11:21 pm
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>>25687
More like bored-er-lands heheheheeeheee.
>> No. 25692 Anonymous
20th May 2022
Friday 10:47 am
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This looks bloody good. Will be buying it tonight I think.


>> No. 25696 Anonymous
27th May 2022
Friday 12:21 pm
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Bioshock 1, 2, Infinite and all DLC are free on Epic right now.

Bomber Crew is free on Steam.
>> No. 25697 Anonymous
13th June 2022
Monday 5:25 pm
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Shantae & The Pirate's Curse is free on GOG for 48 hours.
>> No. 25701 Anonymous
3rd July 2022
Sunday 7:41 pm
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Is there anything worth picking up in the summer sale? It seems especially shit this year.

I was tempted to pick up HOI IV but on inspection realised that you're not only needing to buy one full price DLC but they plan to release another one shortly.
>> No. 25702 Anonymous
3rd July 2022
Sunday 10:15 pm
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>>25692
Don't bother. It's OK, but unless you enjoy punching trees and rocks it's pretty stale. The Day/Night cycle has basically no impact, finding a good blood source is random so you may get stuck with +5% movemennt speed, and progression is entirely based on beating bosses. Can't beat them? Tough, no amount of grinding is going to help you.

It's a good 20-30hours of fun before you hit a wall, but unless you have 2-3 people to play it with I'd skip V Rising.
>> No. 25703 Anonymous
3rd July 2022
Sunday 11:21 pm
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>>25702

I'm increasingly realising you can't take WAB's opinion on pretty much anything that isn't a traditional PC shooter or strategy/management sim kind of game. He's great as a canary identifying bad ports with shite options or what have you, but he's not much good at actually identifying good games beyond that.
>> No. 25704 Anonymous
4th July 2022
Monday 12:20 pm
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>>25701
I've settled on just getting remake bundle of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro along with Psychonauts 2. I might pick up Duck Tales too.

You heard me, I'm sick of point and click indie games.
>> No. 25705 Anonymous
4th July 2022
Monday 3:21 pm
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>>25701

By this point steam sales serve pretty much exclusively for me to gradually pick up all the DLCs for the Total War games.

I think the problem is just that so little has come out over the last few years, that for a lot of companies, the game they were flogging four or five years ago is still the Current Product™. We've entered a wierd stasis of live services and perpetual early access games. There's never that thrill of picking up the last year's big release for a tenner any more because they realised in digital, there's no such thing as stock clearance; they can just keep selling it for 60 quid forever.
>> No. 25706 Anonymous
4th July 2022
Monday 6:00 pm
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>>25705

>There's never that thrill of picking up the last year's big release for a tenner any more because they realised in digital, there's no such thing as stock clearance; they can just keep selling it for 60 quid forever.

To be fair, half the problem is that rather than knocking a game down to four quid in the Steam sale, you can flog it to Epic for their giveaways. I currently have 221 games in my Epic library - some of them crap, but many of them AAA or good indie titles - none of which I've paid a penny for.
>> No. 25707 Anonymous
5th July 2022
Tuesday 9:42 am
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>>25706

True, but that's the gamer's equivalent of a well meaning German citizen unwittingly falling for Third Reich propaganda in 1937.
>> No. 25749 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 9:13 am
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The original Mafia will be free on Steam later this afternoon.
>> No. 25750 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 4:20 pm
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The Sims 4 will be free next month:

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/play-the-sims-4-for-free-beginning-october-18
>> No. 25819 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 2:26 pm
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Fallout 3 GOTY Edition is the current Epic freebie.
>> No. 25820 Anonymous
22nd October 2022
Saturday 2:56 am
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>>25819

Does the Epic store do anything to fuck with modding? Because Fallout 3 is by far best experienced in Tale of Two Wastelands.
>> No. 25838 Anonymous
4th November 2022
Friday 1:22 pm
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Vermintide 2 is free until Monday morning.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/552500/Warhammer_Vermintide_2/
>> No. 25863 Anonymous
11th November 2022
Friday 12:38 pm
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Evil Dead : The Game, is free from the 17th on Epic.
>> No. 25917 Anonymous
18th December 2022
Sunday 3:55 pm
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At what point do the games in Epic's Christmas freebies start being decent?
>> No. 25918 Anonymous
18th December 2022
Sunday 10:42 pm
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>>25917
There's generally a couple of bigger budgets towards the end.
Though really every game can be decent if it's your sort of thing.
>> No. 25921 Anonymous
19th December 2022
Monday 7:47 pm
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Tomorrow's Epic giveaway is almost certainly Wolfenstein: The New Order if you missed out on it earlier in the year.
>> No. 25922 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 5:51 pm
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>>25921
Indeed it is.
>> No. 25932 Anonymous
25th December 2022
Sunday 11:34 pm
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Death Stranding on Epic for free until 4pm Boxing Day.
>> No. 25933 Anonymous
25th December 2022
Sunday 11:37 pm
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Wouldn't recommend it if you're having a rough Christmas. You might actually top yourself.
>> No. 25939 Anonymous
29th December 2022
Thursday 10:15 pm
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The Epic Christmas giveaway has been a bit of a dud, but at least Kerbal will be next week's freebie.
>> No. 25944 Anonymous
19th January 2023
Thursday 9:12 am
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Rayman Raving Rabbids should be free from 2pm today via Ubisoft.

https://store.ubi.com/uk/rayman-raving-rabbids/5704fac688a7e32b078b4678.html
>> No. 25950 Anonymous
29th January 2023
Sunday 10:55 am
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Not free but Barotrauma is releasing 1.0 in February and the price will be going up with only "moderate" discounts in future. Right now it's on Steam sale at -80% so if you're at all interested suggest you get it now.
>> No. 25985 Anonymous
18th February 2023
Saturday 4:17 am
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King of Dragon Pass is free:
https://freebies.indiegala.com/king-of-dragon-pass

Don't miss it if you've not played it before, it may be a text-RPG but the setting and your role as king is not to be missed. The best thing about it is the fantasy setting feels closer to Conan than D&D and there's a lot of fun adventures to go on like a myth about how cattle were domesticated.
>> No. 25986 Anonymous
18th February 2023
Saturday 2:35 pm
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>>25985
I tried playing it sometime ago, found the system hard to get my head around. It's always been one of those 'must learn to play' kind of games though, the idea is awesome. Apparently there's a spiritual successor - google calls it 'Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind'.

>Surely I deserve a good wife
m8
>> No. 25988 Anonymous
3rd March 2023
Friday 12:14 pm
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Figment is currently free on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/493540/Figment/
>> No. 26018 Anonymous
7th April 2023
Friday 7:06 am
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Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is free on Steam until Sunday.
>> No. 26019 Anonymous
7th April 2023
Friday 7:38 pm
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Dying Light Enhanced Edition is free for a week on Epic.
Absolutely worth a go.
>> No. 26025 Anonymous
19th April 2023
Wednesday 7:20 am
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Desktop Dungeons is currently free on Steam if you claim it before the 25th.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226620/Desktop_Dungeons/
>> No. 26046 Anonymous
16th May 2023
Tuesday 6:24 pm
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Metro: Last Light will be free on Steam from Thursday.

https://twitter.com/MetroVideoGame/status/1658507631605022721
>> No. 26152 Anonymous
1st September 2023
Friday 8:13 am
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Football Manager 2023 will be free next Thursday on Epic Games through Prime Gaming.
>> No. 26240 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 7:40 pm
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Assassin's Creed Syndicate is free via Ubisoft for the next week or so.

https://store.ubisoft.com/uk/assassin-s-creed-syndicate/56c4947988a7e300458b45c6.html
>> No. 26241 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 11:24 pm
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Crikey, a whole decade of free games.
Interesting to look back a bit and see how the quality and number of freebies has changed over time.
>> No. 26242 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 11:56 pm
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>>26241

No, that's not possible. A decade ago was 1993. You couldn't download games from the internet in 1993. I'd just got Mortal Kombat on the Mega Drive.
>> No. 26244 Anonymous
28th November 2023
Tuesday 1:30 am
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Is Linux a viable gaming platform yet? Was madlad right? >>17401
>> No. 26245 Anonymous
28th November 2023
Tuesday 2:16 am
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>>26244

Yes, mainly thanks to the fact that the Steam Deck runs Linux. Valve put a lot of work into developing a compatibility layer to make Windows games run on it. You can go on the Steam Store, browse the Linux section and choose from thousands of titles with confidence that those games will actually run without any dicking about or weird game-breaking bugs.

Windows still offers a lot more choice of titles, but gaming on Linux is a thing that you can do without bitterly regretting all of the life decisions that led you to that point.
>> No. 26246 Anonymous
28th November 2023
Tuesday 6:44 pm
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Killer Instinct is free on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/577940/Killer_Instinct/
>> No. 26280 Anonymous
28th December 2023
Thursday 5:08 pm
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Cat Quest is currently free on Epic. Their Christmas giveaways have been a bit shit.
>> No. 26281 Anonymous
28th December 2023
Thursday 7:01 pm
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>>26280
Outer worlds complete on the 25th was decent, but yes it does seem a bit duff compared to last year.
>> No. 26282 Anonymous
31st December 2023
Sunday 2:23 am
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The 2022 Saints Row Reboot is free on Epic today.
It's a better game than it's reputation.
>> No. 26312 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 7:05 pm
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Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition is free on Steam for the next couple of days or so.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/383180/Dead_Island_Riptide_Definitive_Edition/
>> No. 26313 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 9:11 pm
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>>26312
I really enjoyed Dead Island Riptide, though it plays very differently to the first - a lot smoother gameplay experience (beside the framerate drops) but it felt more arcadey and focused toward multiplayer replayability.
>> No. 26402 Anonymous
16th May 2024
Thursday 6:44 pm
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Dragon Age: Inquisition is the current Epic giveaway.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dragon-age-inquisition-game-of-the-year-edition-2f0cbd
>> No. 26403 Anonymous
17th May 2024
Friday 12:59 pm
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Endless Legend is currently free on Steam. Some of the DLC is free as well.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/289130/ENDLESS_Legend/
>> No. 26404 Anonymous
18th May 2024
Saturday 8:17 pm
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>>26403
I tried it and the graphics are truly and utterly appalling. I much preferred the space colonisation of ES2.
>> No. 26405 Anonymous
22nd May 2024
Wednesday 11:44 am
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Monster Hunter World and Iceborne on Steam.
>> No. 26406 Anonymous
22nd May 2024
Wednesday 1:05 pm
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>>26405
Thanks ladm8.
>> No. 26407 Anonymous
22nd May 2024
Wednesday 3:52 pm
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Bought MH Rise on PS5. Never played anything from the series. Just started. Am I just getting too old or is this overwhelming/confusing?
>> No. 26408 Anonymous
22nd May 2024
Wednesday 3:56 pm
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>>26407
Monster Hunter has always been a bit like that, but if you've gotten into one they are all the same. They all have a gimmick, but you can ignore it and just bonk.

Rise and World are very similar, but World is designed to cater to new players whereas Rise is aimed more at people who have played a MH before.
>> No. 26409 Anonymous
24th May 2024
Friday 4:01 pm
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Planet Coaster is £1.49 on Steam for the next week.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/493340/Planet_Coaster/
>> No. 26520 Anonymous
26th August 2024
Monday 9:09 pm
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Tropico 4 is free on GOG for the next couple of days.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/tropico_4
>> No. 26565 Anonymous
5th September 2024
Thursday 12:55 pm
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Football Manager 2024 is the next Epic freebie.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/football-manager-2024

Allegedly FM25, out later this year, is going to be a bag of wank because the game is going to be heavily simplified in some misguided attempt to make it more like playing on a tablet and because they're introducing women's football they've decided to do away with characteristics like player weight.
>> No. 26685 Anonymous
7th February 2025
Friday 4:21 pm
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Shit I don't want from Humble Choice.

I had Immortals on PS5, an aggressively mediocre game. It's Origin only which makes it even less desirable to me.

Other two I will never play.
>> No. 26686 Anonymous
7th February 2025
Friday 4:27 pm
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>>26685
I took Dungeon Master, have had my eye on that for a while. Thanks dude, who'd have though autistic refreshing of britfa.gs every 25 minutes would pay off :)
>> No. 26687 Anonymous
10th February 2025
Monday 5:59 pm
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>>26565
FM25 has been canned entirely. 26 is the next one now.
>> No. 26813 Anonymous
5th May 2025
Monday 7:24 am
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Doom 1 + 2; Doom 3; Doom 64 (already own all three).

Doom VFR; Wolfenstein Cyberpilot (>VR)
>> No. 26814 Anonymous
5th May 2025
Monday 9:15 am
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>>26813

Cheers lad had been thinking about playing doom again recently. Didn't take doom 64 as I have that already on epic or doom vfr as I don't have a vr headset and it seemed rude for me hoard that.
>> No. 26815 Anonymous
5th May 2025
Monday 3:14 pm
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>>26813

I'll have Doom VFR, it's one of those I nearly bought a while ago but held off on. Cheers l8mad.
>> No. 26816 Anonymous
6th May 2025
Tuesday 11:46 pm
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>>26813
Tried grabbing Cyberpilot, but already gone.
Cheers anyway ladm8.

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