apparently steam is gonna do one soon also, a friend said.
Blimey! You can buy Deus Ex and System Shock 2 together for less than a fiver. Anyone who plays games on a PC and doesn't already own those two classics MUST buy them. Right now. Seriously, two deep and engrossing first person shooters (well, SS2 is more melee than shooter for much of the game), both with RPG elements that really can (if you choose) alter the style of play.
Go on. Treat yourself and your PC to two of the all time great PC games. And they're so old that they'll work on almost any PC you're likely to use nowadays. Plus being so old, they have some great mods (new levels and story-lines, things to add/improve the original levels, etc)
I was on there earlier, i'm wondering whether to buy Postal 2 cos the Steam version doesn't work anymore. I'm also thinking about getting Police Quest.
I had a quick look on my mobile last night and from what I saw on the first page, my picks will have been Tales From Monkey Island which I loved on PS3 and Shadowman which again, I loved on the N64, infact, I was only 2 or 3 collectables away from 100%'ing it! It was listed at $1.49 at the time, but I think I've missed it now. Great game though :-)
Just out of interest, does GoG use PayPal? I really don't like using my cards online, so I only really use sites that use PayPal!
Yes, GoG will let you use cards or Paypal. I've picked up another 9 games so far between the daily bundles and the continuous flash sales. Keep nipping back every couple of hours to see what's been added to the flash sales list.
Yes and no for me. DE has better augs which for me is a large part of the fun, so for that reason alone I prefer DE, but HR is very good too, and in some ways it is better than DE. Alright, lots of ways! But even though DE and HR were done by different companies with over a decade of time between them, the two games share many of the same strengths and weaknesses, which is something to be criticised in HR, since you'd think by now the NPCs (non-player characters) would have more life than simply standing there or following simple sentry duty walking routes, plus by now we should have much more freedom to roam (i.e. far less permanently locked doors, and you should be able to blow open the flimsy doors in apartment buildings with the rocket launcher you're carrying), and there should be much less repetition and much more possible interaction with the items you find in the offices/rooms/shops/etc. But then again, these criticisms are very rarely address in any other game, so it's perhaps unfair to blame HR for them.
Still, even with all that, HR is still very good indeed. And the developers are to be praised for not going down the 'Lets do a cheap reboot' road that Thief's developers took.
BTW, did you ever play Deus Ex: Invisible War, the official sequel to Deus Ex? Lots of people *detest* it, since it's so inferior to DE, and removed so many of the things that made DE so great, even though it was made by many of the same people (including Warren Spector). I mean, they removed the skill points system (Seriously!!! That's the first thing most people remember when they think of DE, so why on Earth would the developers have removed it from the sequel? That means that, unlike DE, DE:IW isn't an RPG/FPS hybrid), and the ability to search unconscious/dead people to get whatever they had in their pockets, amongst other things. They made some questionable (well, really stupid) design decisions, such as universal ammunition (all weapons use the same ammunition, be the weapon a flame-thrower, a pistol, a guided missile, etc), they made hacking an aug instead of a skill (which means you can't use the other aug options from that slot), they added boring plot side quests involving things like sales wars between coffee stalls/shops, and worst of all, they made the game feel like it was set in small bio-domes on an alien planet instead of open areas on Earth.
Having said all that, though, DE:IW is a good game. Not great, but if you treat is as a first person shooter then it's OK, but as a Deus Ex game it's terrible. And it does improve on DE in a couple of ways - you get augs much earlier in the game (and all the way through it), each aug canister gives you a lot more choice as to what aug you want to use it for, the augs are more fun in DE:IW than in DE, and you can replace installed augs with different choices (provided you have a new canister). And you can take over bots, security cameras, and turrets (provided you've chosen and upgrade the 'Bot command' aug) and control them in first person mode, which can be a lot of fun.
That's pretty much it, as far as I can remember, for things Invisible War does better than the Deus Ex. Oh, IW's story is more open ended, but it's overall less interesting, so it's not much of a plus point.
After Deus Ex: Invisible War came out, there was a third game planned (this was a long time before Human Revolution came out), which was supposed to be a more action/less RPG game than DE:IW (as if DE:IW had any RPG aspects at all!), though when it came out it didn't have the name 'Deus Ex' in it at all. The game is Project Snowblind, which is a straight first person shooter, set in the very near future (like Deus Ex), and you do get augs as you go through the game, but in Project Snowblind you don't get to choose which augs you get or when you get them, they are given to you as part of the story. It's a good game, and I much prefer it to Invisble War, but again it's nothing like the feel or gameplay of Deus Ex or Human Revolution. But it does let you hack into and control bots and turrets, plus it's the only Deus Ex related (albeit very tenously related) game where you can drive vehicles and mechs! So if you like straight (i.e. no RPG system) FPSs then Project Snowblind will probably please you, and maybe even Invisible War.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is free for 24 hours (I think it started from 5pm). I've only played the demo on XBLA and thought it was ok but not worth ?6.75 they were asking even though it's apparently got Cthulhu in it (I wish other Great Old Ones would appear instead of Cthulhu all the time).
Just got myself Alan Wake (brilliant on the 360), Abe's Exoddus (played that to death on the PS1), Sacred (liked the second one on the 360) all for less than $10.
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
The current daily deals, including Magrunner for free, started at 2pm UK time.
As well as the free game, today's daily deals aren't just two bundle choices, but a whole slew of them. There's 30 bundled deals with up to 80% off, or 60% for individual titles from a bundle. If you've already bought part of one of the bundles, it counts towards the whole bundle deals. The Wing Commander series is tempting me, I can get the other 7 games I don't have yet for only $8. Even if they're crap they're less than a pound each so hardly a great loss.
Little Big Adventure isn't too bad Mel. I remember having it many moons back but never completing it...so to get it free and have another crack is cool.
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Blimey! You can buy Deus Ex and System Shock 2 together for less than a fiver. Anyone who plays games on a PC and doesn't already own those two classics MUST buy them. Right now. Seriously, two deep and engrossing first person shooters (well, SS2 is more melee than shooter for much of the game), both with RPG elements that really can (if you choose) alter the style of play.
Go on. Treat yourself and your PC to two of the all time great PC games. And they're so old that they'll work on almost any PC you're likely to use nowadays. Plus being so old, they have some great mods (new levels and story-lines, things to add/improve the original levels, etc)
Just out of interest, does GoG use PayPal? I really don't like using my cards online, so I only really use sites that use PayPal!
Yes and no for me. DE has better augs which for me is a large part of the fun, so for that reason alone I prefer DE, but HR is very good too, and in some ways it is better than DE. Alright, lots of ways! But even though DE and HR were done by different companies with over a decade of time between them, the two games share many of the same strengths and weaknesses, which is something to be criticised in HR, since you'd think by now the NPCs (non-player characters) would have more life than simply standing there or following simple sentry duty walking routes, plus by now we should have much more freedom to roam (i.e. far less permanently locked doors, and you should be able to blow open the flimsy doors in apartment buildings with the rocket launcher you're carrying), and there should be much less repetition and much more possible interaction with the items you find in the offices/rooms/shops/etc. But then again, these criticisms are very rarely address in any other game, so it's perhaps unfair to blame HR for them.
Still, even with all that, HR is still very good indeed. And the developers are to be praised for not going down the 'Lets do a cheap reboot' road that Thief's developers took.
BTW, did you ever play Deus Ex: Invisible War, the official sequel to Deus Ex? Lots of people *detest* it, since it's so inferior to DE, and removed so many of the things that made DE so great, even though it was made by many of the same people (including Warren Spector). I mean, they removed the skill points system (Seriously!!! That's the first thing most people remember when they think of DE, so why on Earth would the developers have removed it from the sequel? That means that, unlike DE, DE:IW isn't an RPG/FPS hybrid), and the ability to search unconscious/dead people to get whatever they had in their pockets, amongst other things. They made some questionable (well, really stupid) design decisions, such as universal ammunition (all weapons use the same ammunition, be the weapon a flame-thrower, a pistol, a guided missile, etc), they made hacking an aug instead of a skill (which means you can't use the other aug options from that slot), they added boring plot side quests involving things like sales wars between coffee stalls/shops, and worst of all, they made the game feel like it was set in small bio-domes on an alien planet instead of open areas on Earth.
Having said all that, though, DE:IW is a good game. Not great, but if you treat is as a first person shooter then it's OK, but as a Deus Ex game it's terrible. And it does improve on DE in a couple of ways - you get augs much earlier in the game (and all the way through it), each aug canister gives you a lot more choice as to what aug you want to use it for, the augs are more fun in DE:IW than in DE, and you can replace installed augs with different choices (provided you have a new canister). And you can take over bots, security cameras, and turrets (provided you've chosen and upgrade the 'Bot command' aug) and control them in first person mode, which can be a lot of fun.
That's pretty much it, as far as I can remember, for things Invisible War does better than the Deus Ex. Oh, IW's story is more open ended, but it's overall less interesting, so it's not much of a plus point.
After Deus Ex: Invisible War came out, there was a third game planned (this was a long time before Human Revolution came out), which was supposed to be a more action/less RPG game than DE:IW (as if DE:IW had any RPG aspects at all!), though when it came out it didn't have the name 'Deus Ex' in it at all. The game is Project Snowblind, which is a straight first person shooter, set in the very near future (like Deus Ex), and you do get augs as you go through the game, but in Project Snowblind you don't get to choose which augs you get or when you get them, they are given to you as part of the story. It's a good game, and I much prefer it to Invisble War, but again it's nothing like the feel or gameplay of Deus Ex or Human Revolution. But it does let you hack into and control bots and turrets, plus it's the only Deus Ex related (albeit very tenously related) game where you can drive vehicles and mechs! So if you like straight (i.e. no RPG system) FPSs then Project Snowblind will probably please you, and maybe even Invisible War.
Just got myself Alan Wake (brilliant on the 360), Abe's Exoddus (played that to death on the PS1), Sacred (liked the second one on the 360) all for less than $10.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
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As well as the free game, today's daily deals aren't just two bundle choices, but a whole slew of them. There's 30 bundled deals with up to 80% off, or 60% for individual titles from a bundle. If you've already bought part of one of the bundles, it counts towards the whole bundle deals. The Wing Commander series is tempting me, I can get the other 7 games I don't have yet for only $8. Even if they're crap they're less than a pound each so hardly a great loss.
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Little Big Adventure isn't too bad Mel. I remember having it many moons back but never completing it...so to get it free and have another crack is cool.
Worth getting for cock-all that's for certain.