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Orcs Must Die is a daily deal today. I already have it, but I'd recommend it to people who don't. Really good tower defense/action game.
Daily Deals for July 14th:
Two Worlds II 75% off
Frozen Synapse 90% off
Tropico 4 75% off
Dead Island 66% off
Orcs Must Die! 75% off
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 50% off
Borderlands 75% off
DiRT Showdown 50% off
Indie Bundle III (BIT.TRIP BEAT, Braid, Bunch of Heroes, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Runespell Overture)
Current Community Choice Winner:
Plants Vs Zombies
Current Community Choice Vote:
Left 4 Dead 2
Half-Life 2
Portal 2
Current Flash Deals:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 75% off
Sam & Max Complete Pack 75% off
Ys: Origin 60% off
Brink 75% off
Brink being a flash deal is very noteworthy. It means that people who wanted, say, Metro 2033 might still get it from a flash deal.
Glenn, I've decided to get you Ys origin. One of the games I wanted I can wait on, besides I have enough to play as it is.
Also, apparently, wishlist games staying on your wishlist even after you get them gifted is a bug, and not a feature.
Was. It's been fixed.
I liked it better the old way...
...that said, delta534 just decided to gift me Ys: Origin. Copious props!
...ironically, I got ninja'd by delta himself.
I have all of the current ones but voted for Alan Wake because it's the best of the set, IMO.
Considering picking up the Frozen Synapse DLC since I can afford it, but the vanilla game didn't hold my interest for long (I've been meaning to pick it up again, but I've also been procrastinating at that), so I'm not sure.
My hard drive now has two gigs less free space.
Well, it's had two gigs less free space since a few hours ago, compared to a few more hours ago.
No, it's not porn. Unless you consider sexy angel-winged goddesses porn.
Arkham Asylum is on sale for seven bucks, Arkham City is on sale for ten.
Highly, highly recommended. I love those games to death.
Oh, for a computer that could run really nice things. Meh, I have enough indie games at this point to keep me occupied for a good many months.
I can't help but notice a weird analogy here.
So you have immigrants in the United States who were respected professionals, such as doctors, engineers, and such, in their home country, but when they come over, they have to start from scratch, and many of them just set up a restaurant business. And if you live in the U.S. you know what kind of regard people give to places like those cheap-but-slightly-dingy fast Chinese food joints.
Now you have a game like Ys: the Oath of Felghana, which is part of a major videogame series in Japan, but when it finally gets ported to the U.S. it ends up in an indie bundle.
L.A. Noire won. Fair enough; it's a good game, though I maintain that Alan Wake is better.
Amnesia probably is too, but I quit playing it relatively early on due to...well, that's a long story and involves me ranting for like a page on the most difficult flaw for a survival horror game to overcome, so I'll save that for another time.
Also, I picked up some Arkham City DLC.
Ah, I didn't realize that. Probably would have voted for Amnesia if I had.
The next one will likely be Quantum Conundrum, but really ought to be Grimrock. It's the only one there with a decent discount, Quantum Conundrum isn't even close to as good as it should have been and Tiny and Big...well, doesn't really have any reputation that I'm aware of.
That would matter if Quantum Conundrum were worth even half of what it will cost if discounted.
I have it. I played it. I really wish I hadn't.
To clarify my view on Quantum Conundrum, it has a great core mechanic and a really fun aesthetic, but the level design...
Well, the first half of the game is a pretty decent puzzle game. Not Portal-tier, but solid enough that if the entire game were like that, it would be worth every penny.
The second half, though, throws out puzzles entirely in favor of being the worst platformer you will ever play. Aside from requiring improbable amounts of precision for a first-person game, you actually have to use the different dimensions to, in essence, play a separate platforming game with the platforms you're jumping between, while you're jumping between them. And if that all weren't absurd enough, the physics engine appears to, I kid you not, be slightly randomized, so it's entirely possible that you'll do everything exactly right on your eightieth try only for the table you're surfing on to suddenly be slightly heavier than all the other tables in the game, and thus fail to clear a gap.
After a certain point, roughly analogous to the last test chamber in Portal, things look like they're about to pick up, and then suddenly the narrator tells you what happens with all the interesting stuff you thought you were about to play and the credits roll.
do it
do it hard, fool
do it until your keyboard bleeds, moaning and asking for mercy
and then you'll look down and whisper
no
...Couldn't you have lowered the difficulty, though? Or is that a point you would address in your hypothetical rant?
So basically what happened with the latter half of QUBE.
Oh, hey, Grimrock won. That's good.
You know what? I'll buy it. Why not.
So I got some Steam Wallet funds.
Man, I'm probably gonna use it all up if I'm not careful.
Any recommendations?
Saints Row the Third.
You fight off an entire army of cops while airlifting a bank vault before you even get to make your character. And it goes up from there.
Wait, Quantum Conundrum was up? Damn. (Eh, regardless of what the-mod-formerly-known-as-INUH says about it.)