merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

No, just this one.

If people like having the living shit scared out of them*, Amnesia is on special now.

KOTOR is stupid cheap, but I have no idea who wouldn't have played it yet.

* I understand it's basically a game-length version of the Cradle level from Thief, but I never played that because I don't like having the living shit scared out of me.

how do I shot gaming PC

most cost effective way to put it together myself from individual components?

So help me I just bought Amnesia. Open question whether I will regret the purchase because I never get round to playing it, or because I get the living shit scared out of me.

cozen yes its cheaper to put it together yrself but if yr not confident then places do it for you for not that much of a mark up
eg. http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/desktop-pcs/intel-gaming-computers/
and even if you don't use them sites like the above are useful, cos you can go through the steps of putting an order together, picking the parts you want & it checks if they are all compatible

~buys second xbox instead~

I didn't know there was an original Dear Esther. I actually know almost nothing about it, I think I read the first couple of paragraphs of an article about it, and then stopped because I'd already decided I wanted to play it, and didn't want to run into any spoilers, and I've been meaning to pick it up since then.

fair enough - i can understand wanting to try it out if you didn't play the original, but i'm really surprised that the commercial remake even happened

btw you guys have until about 4 more hours to get Saints Row 3 for $12.50

Building a PC is not difficult if you are handy in the slightest and have a basic understanding of the parts.

Search out the Falcon guide: http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af150/The_FalconO6/CurrentLogicalPCBuyingGuide/Guide.png

it's not difficult, just really time consuming. it only takes an hour to build the thing, maybe, but the time you'll spend researching the parts... i think paying an extra $100 or so for some guy to do all the shopping and putting it together is fair. plus, let's be honest - once you're in that deep you're not gonna be saving a lot of money anymore since you'll actually start caring about what parts are in there

i love picking pc parts and putting it all together. however this path leads directly to, like, buying a trackIR.

wait, why the heck is that guide in a giant .png?

btw search the guides on Anandtech and Ars Technica if you want more guidance, they do roundups every couple of months or so to reflect recent pricing on parts

it only takes an hour to build the thing, maybe

If you do it right, sure, but if you do it like me it takes a whole week!

hey, no judgment here, i got out the game completely after about 10 years or so, crashed so hard i went Mac

it's would take me about a week of reading just to decipher your average spec sheet

what gfx card, what processor, how much ram... ~buys third xbox~

Eurogamer specced a complete and perfectly respectable ~£300 PC a couple of weeks ago, you could just copy this:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-introducing-the-digital-foundry-pc

i caved in and got witcher and dear esther, goddammit

pffffffforks

I got Dear Esther too!

me too!

binary domain is one of the flash deals right now, $13.59, well worth it at that price.

awesome, thanks jim - I'll look into that

just want to play dayz tbrr

I just finished Dear Esther and I can't imagine playing it again either but it was pretty incredible I think.

Is Binary Domain good? I got it as part of the Sega bundle but don't know anything about it.

awesome, thanks jim - I'll look into that

just want to play dayz tbrr

― skrill xx (cozen)

just a quick heads up, because that £300 PC probably isn't good enough to run ARMA II / dayz - it doesn't seem to meet the minumum specs. ARMA II is actaully one of the most demanding games (from what I understand - never played it myself)...

binary domain is a gears of war clone by the team that made all the yakuza games (except the zombie one). it's a straight up 3rd person cover based shooter, buttons laid out just like gears. EXCEPT and this is important the story is "good" (in a japanese way) and the characters are really fun. there's a lot of interaction between squad members and they respond to the player's choices (both dialogue and in-gameplay) somewhat convincingly.

mostly, it has two of my favorite characters in recent games--big bo, who at first seems like another racist japanese attempt at portraying an african-american man but somehow transcends all that and is just a total bro; and cain, a french robot with a french accent (?) and a neckerchief (??). both of these guys are on some hk-47 level shit.

the actual robot-shooting gameplay is kind of whatever, not gears-level polish but better than most i guess.

i'm kinda trogging my way through the original Gears right now - the story indeed does suck

PC gaming can HMD

Head Mounted Display?

heavy metal duty?

hog many discs.

hold my dingus

what would I have to add to the eurogamer PC to run dayz?

cozen u should also check refurbished PCs. you can pick up some real bargains if you're not bothered abt the system & components being brand-new ( do your research of course!)

Just Cause 2 is $3.74 for a few hours.

ooh carpe fulgar sale. just what i've been waitin' for.

one arm bandit with Trine 1/2 75% off coupons & Shadowgrounds games redeemable on Stream as prizes http://summerseal.com/

Bought Rage yesterday for $10. What is the ILG consensus on that one ?

I also bought Rage the other day (for $10), but I've only played less than an hour. So far it feels like a pretty generic shooter, well actually it feels almost exactly like the beginning of Borderlands. Go talk to this guy, go fetch him something, shoot a bunch of mutant dudes, get thing, bring it back to guy, go see another guy...

Tempted to get Indie Bundle VII. I already own Dredmor (ok) and Zombie Driver (good) so I'd be going in for Vessel, QUBE and Avadon. Thoughts?

Part of me also thinks that Vessel and QUBE seem destined for humble/indie bundles

I got Reccettear, the other two games in the Carpe Fulgur pack aren't any more expensive if you just get them separately anyway, and I've never heard of either of them. Worth grabbing?

I don't get the impression they're as good as Recettear just from chatter - I got them purely to support the translation group for their work on Recettear, tbh. One of them actually is a action-RPG that came out before earlier, I believe. I'll let you know in 20XX how they are when I get around to 'em...

all GTA games bundle for under a tenner.

minus the psp 'stories' games, but does include GTAIV & dlcs

I think it was £4.99 yesterday, but even at a tenner it's great value. I can't even remember if I bought it at £4.99 - that's how bad this mega-steam-sale has become. I definitely bought *something* last night, just can't remember what.

Anyone have any thoughts on The Longest Journey, the current community choice, also available in a bundle with "Dreamfall: The Longest Journey", which appears to be some kind of sequel?

Never got around to Dreamfall, but The Longest Journey is a very solid adventure game - one of those games that was so overlooked when it came out it kinda got turned around and became overrated on the internet - but still, it does correctly lay claim to being the last great adventure game of that age. Just remember it's going to have lots of '90s adventure game quirks (many many screens to walk through from A to B, pixel object hunts, some bizarre puzzle logic, etc.), but overall definitely worth it if you're into the genre. Easy recommend at that price.

xp Yes buy it immediately. Dreamfall is odd and ambitious (and kind of unrelated), but Dreamfall is an amazing adventure.

I guess I should also mention the story/character/world are definitely well done, stuff you probably care about

Didn't realise how old it was, but I grew up on Lucasarts and Sierra adventures so I can live with the quirks, though I'll admit my patience for them isn't what it was. Sounds worth the price, thanks!