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Enes CanTear You Apart said:
Thanks for the great suggestions man. Repped. You indeed are an avid gamer.

I checked the games and definitely liked both Antichamber and The Stanley Parable. The resemblance of Antichamber to Portal is enough itself for me to want to buy it. And it has also enough difference and dissimilarity not to regret trying it.



I also liked the reviews about this game. I haven't played a game like this before and I would certainly love to try it.

However, since I'm not much of a gamer, I don't like to spend much for games. Actually the only two games I've ever purchased were Portal 2 and the M&B series because they were both brilliant games and I really wanted to support them. Anyway, The Stanley Parable is $15 at the moment in Steam and the Antichamber is $20. My question is, do you know when could another discount like you wrote in the above post be on these games on Steam and how could I learn about it if it ever happens?

Thanks in advance.
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No problem. I'm probably the biggest gamer geek on this board, so I'm always happy to give people whatever help I can in finding things they might like.

As for your question, theoretically there's a good way: add any games you're thinking about getting to your Steam wishlist. You can then tell Steam to e-mail you when any of them goes on sale. Unfortunately, the bad news is that I've never actually gotten this functionality to work correctly. :-/ Things on my wishlist go on sale and I don't get e-mails. So you may just want to bookmark the appropriate Steam pages for the games you want and keep checking back.

But, one nice thing about The Stanley Parable is that you can actually download a demo! On the Steam page, there is a very unobtrusive and easily missed grey button to the right of the green "Add to Cart" that says "Download PC Demo." This is a demo that was made specifically for one of the gaming conventions, and it's not the first part of the full game at all, it's entirely different content, so you won't be spoiling anything for yourself by playing it. It's not nearly so mind-bending and spectacular as the real thing, but it's fun in its own right and will give you a better sense of the flavor of the game.
 
AtheistPreacher said:
No problem. I'm probably the biggest gamer geek on this board, so I'm always happy to give people whatever help I can in finding things they might like.

As for your question, theoretically there's a good way: add any games you're thinking about getting to your Steam wishlist. You can then tell Steam to e-mail you when any of them goes on sale. Unfortunately, the bad news is that I've never actually gotten this functionality to work correctly. :-/ Things on my wishlist go on sale and I don't get e-mails. So you may just want to bookmark the appropriate Steam pages for the games you want and keep checking back.
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Thanks, I'll do both, I hope the wishlist method to work though, because I'm sure I will forget that even I bookmarked them.

AtheistPreacher said:
But, one nice thing about The Stanley Parable is that you can actually download a demo! On the Steam page, there is a very unobtrusive and easily missed grey button to the right of the green "Add to Cart" that says "Download PC Demo." This is a demo that was made specifically for one of the gaming conventions, and it's not the first part of the full game at all, it's entirely different content, so you won't be spoiling anything for yourself by playing it. It's not nearly so mind-bending and spectacular as the real thing, but it's fun in its own right and will give you a better sense of the flavor of the game.
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Yep, pretty unobtrusive button, no wonder I missed it too. But I'm downloading it right now and probably will try it this weekend. I'll get back to this thread when I've done that.

And thanks a lot again for the suggestions and infos.
 
Chris-L said:
Did anyone pick up Destiny?
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I didn't. A lot of people seem to like it, but I was unimpressed after playing the beta. I get the feeling it's been hyped up way past what the game itself actually merits.

I'll be interested to see how the game is received by critics, but so far there are virtually no reviews up. Metacritic has only two, one a 9/10 and another at 7/10. I imagine there will be a good many more up tomorrow.
 
I preordered the digital download for the PS4 been so busy I've barely been able to play, lvl 10 hunter. Everybody I know that has it either is on the PS3 or Xbox One so I haven't really been able to get the true multiplayer experience as of yet.
 
Anyone recommend a good FPS for the PC that you can just jump in and out of without being stuck in an unsaveable spot or in the middle of a mission or something?
 
LogGrad98 said:
Anyone recommend a good FPS for the PC that you can just jump in and out of without being stuck in an unsaveable spot or in the middle of a mission or something?
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have you played borderlands 2? great game, runs well on most PC's, short missions so even if you have to leave its not a huge deal to start them over.
 
I will have to check those out. Thanks!
 
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