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Hey guys, if you're a PC gamer, then you will be happy to know the Steam Sale has at least been going on for a WEEK.
I bought The Heist 5.00
from dust 3.75
walking dead 10.00
saints row the third 13.00
L.A. noire for 5.00
Dead space 2 for 5.00

Considering:
you can get complete gta IV + all packs for 10.00
Max payne 3, MW3 for 30.00

Let me know if you guys wanna play games online.
 
JJ Rage said:
I played the beta, didn't particularly care for it. A lot of interesting combat mechanics and story stuff, but my MMO allegiance still sides with SWTOR. At least until Guild Wars 2 comes along.
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So I apparently judged this game too quickly. Typically when you're playing a game that's less than two months from release, you're not going to see too many drastic differences in the final product. But The Secret World is massively improved since the beta I played. A friend of mine loved it so much he bought me a copy to guilt trip me into playing the game with him, and I've enjoyed the hell out of it so far.

The combat systems and skill mechanics are interesting, although I'm not terribly enthralled with the combat itself. However I'm using a combo of dual pistols and elemental magic, so perhaps melee is more exciting. The lore of the world has been fleshed out so much since beta that it almost feels like an entirely different game. The writing is fantastic and is well supported by all the voice work they did for the game. The only game that's come even close to this kind of production value in an MMO is SWTOR. In a lot of ways, it bums me out that Funcom built an MMO around this world, because a single-player RPG set in this world would be fantastic, but the MMO model still handcuffs the developers in many ways.

The investigation missions are probably my favorite part of the game. A nice change of pace to the typical "Collect 8 Bear Pelts" nonsense of most MMOs. Now if only they didn't make me feel like a complete dumbass.
 
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Releasing this week. I pre-purchased so I'm in the head start, friday I think? Anyone else playing at launch? wouldn't mind having someone to play with.
 
Here's how my yearly foray into trying to like video games again is going down. I'm buying a 360 this time with:

Sleeping Dogs
Dragon's Dogma
Max Payne 3
Kingdoms of Amalur
Skyrim

If those can't pull me back in I might just have to pretend I quit gaming forever again, sell everything again, until I get the itch next year again. The Circle of my gaming life.
 
Wow, any info on this game, folks? I mean, I don't know much about this kind of games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pKrkf7BEb-4
 
Black Mesa Source is comin out this month. It'll keep me busy and cut me from other stuff. Let's say for about 4 hours?
 
Duck Rodgers said:
Here's how my yearly foray into trying to like video games again is going down. I'm buying a 360 this time with:

Sleeping Dogs
Dragon's Dogma
Max Payne 3
Kingdoms of Amalur
Skyrim

If those can't pull me back in I might just have to pretend I quit gaming forever again, sell everything again, until I get the itch next year again. The Circle of my gaming life.
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FWIW, I downloaded the demo of Sleeping Dogs a few days ago. I wasn't impressed. Hard to judge the immersiveness of the world with just a demo, but I found the combat very unsatisfying. It's a lot like the combat in the recent Batman games, but while Batman's combat is poetry in motion, Sleeping Dogs is infinitely more clumsy. Besides the controls being unresponsive if you press a button at the wrong moment, there appears to be no way to walk rather than jog, which was really driving me insane, since it made it difficult to make small adjustments in a game where spacing is important.

You've seen my giant write-up on Dragon's Dogma. It's certainly the most original one on your list. Hopefully you'll enjoy it.

I've done a playthrough of Kingdoms of Amalur. It was pretty good as action RPGs go. But it was too easy (I played on the hardest setting from the get-go, and rarely had a problem), and there's no post-game to speak of. Once I beat it, I really had no desire to jump back in again. I was also annoyed by the fact that the controller layout forced you to pick only four abilities when you'll likely have six or seven useful ones by the end.

I still haven't played Skyrim, but it looks about the same as Oblivion, which I've played into the ground. A good game by all accounts.

You'll have to tell me what you think about Max Payne, though. I've never played any of them.

You might consider picking up Borderlands 2 when it comes out in a week. I fully expect it to comfortably fall within my top 20 favorite games ever. I picked up the original Borderlands months after it was released because it looked like just another shooter, of which we have entirely too many. But I became a believer almost as soon as I began playing it, and with any luck the second game will be a lot better than the first.
 
FWIW, I've been playing Borderlands 2 pretty hard since it came out on September 18th, and it's as good as everyone thought it would be. Instant classic material. Current metacritic rating of 90, with one solitary review of 75, and all the rest being 80 or better. It's got more varied and smarter enemies, more weapon variety and differentiation, a better story, etc etc etc. There's a hell of a lot to love here.
 
AtheistPreacher said:
FWIW, I've been playing Borderlands 2 pretty hard since it came out on September 18th, and it's as good as everyone thought it would be. Instant classic material. Current metacritic rating of 90, with one solitary review of 75, and all the rest being 80 or better. It's got more varied and smarter enemies, more weapon variety and differentiation, a better story, etc etc etc. There's a hell of a lot to love here.
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Looking forward to this one if/when i get burnt out on GW2. Thanks for the heads up
 
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