merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

dishonored 2 for $35, mankind divided for $25 and x-com 2 for $30 all on amazon. i could get... 1 or maybe 2 of them. can anyone rate them?

also far cry 4 for $15 and the division for $20

Might as well just rename this holiday Backlog Day. Already dipped on Overwatch last week, Mad Max and Borderlands: Handsome Collection today, agonizing on how much more money I want to waste. Tempted on this year's Deus Ex, Doom, MGSV complete, Star Wars: Battlefront complete with the new Rogue One DLC, Witcher 3 complete, GTAV, MKXL all ~$25 from different retailers. Also some cheap older ones like the the Assassin's Creeds Unity/Syndicate ($8) and countless $4 blu-rays. Peer pressure me, guys.

And I've barely scraped GMG and Steam for their deals...

I can highly recommend Witcher 3

i picked up mankind divided for $25 and prodded my single friend w/ more disposable income to buy all the other good deals so i can borrow them from him when he's done

my stupid black friday purchase was to pick up rear speakers + centre speaker to turn my 2.0 hifi into a 5.0 hifi (dunno if i'll ever bother getting the .1)

are ps4 games good w/ surround sound?

Generally yes. I used to have 5.1 but moved my setup to a smaller room and haven't yet been bothered to connect the rear speakers, and I definitely miss the extra info they gave me in eg Destiny

just picked up the division for $12 at gamestop. pretty good price i thought.

XCOM 2 is next month's Humble Monthly, seems worth it for $12

decent humble bundle with Shantae, Pony Island, Day of the Tentacle, N++, VA11 Hall-A
http://www.humblebundle.com/overwhelmingly-positive-bundle

I'll get that today before it expires. Still trying to decide among the hundreds of charities available...

UFO Defense now free on Humble Bundle and redeemable on Steam.

Insane $30 minimum bundle, all to charity
https://www.humblebundle.com/freedom

includes the witness, stardew valley, around 40 more

that is an amazing bundle. too bad the only game i really want from it (the witness) doesn't work on osx.

ha, i was thinking the same thing.
i also own like 90% of it from previous humble bundles. tempted to buy in for the cause anyway

ditto

mentioned it in the wrong thread, but they're already running out of keys for new buyers on certain games (guessing this happened past the 100k mark), so might as well get in now

freedom bundle been adding more games the past couple days, also including the Double Fine documentary

Witness is $20 on sony ps4 store -- worth getting at that price?

yes.

i got it at that price and did not regret it.

Saints Row 2 for Windows is free on gog.com

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/ars-and-gog-two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together/

free download of the first The Witcher for mac/pc. i think you have to register an Ars account.

Probably the best indie Bundle in I don't know how long and all games are mac/pc/unix friendly:

https://www.humblebundle.com/humble-indie-bundle-18

$1 - Ziggurat, Windward, Steamworld Heist
$7 - Beholden, Goat Simulator GOATY, Kentucky Route Zero complete
$12 - Owlboy

More games coming.

Dang, they sold 11k of these things in like an hour

ziggurat owns

oh maybe worth it for kentucky route zero alone

Didn't realize Owlboy got a Mac/Linux release earlier in the year; will probably buy just for that
KRZ is in the backlog from... years ago :(

prob not all episodes tho!

wow, they never finished episode V? good god. might as well continue not to not play it!

"55 items from your Steam wishlist are on sale"

ffs

haaaa just got a similar email. only 2 of the games on my list are over 50% off, most between 20 and 50%. Sales ain't what they used to be :/

bummer for gog that they do literally the same discounts on the games they share with steam a week earlier and no one cares :(

even those retro releases that used to be on gog only eventually make their way to steam pretty quickly now, which was their unique selling point imo (besides DRM-free)

i just think it's funny how people shit themselves over the steam sale when such a huge amount of those deals were already available. the power of brand loyalty i guess. unless the appeal of steam sales really is just getting recent AAA games for cheap?

anyway i want to play RE4 for the first time, should i buy it cheap on steam or not cheap on ps3/wii u? it *feels* like it's supposed to be a console game

i bought my sister's wii u because i wanted to catch up with all the nintendo games i've missed since the n64 and it feels wrong to play a gamecube classic on pc

zeebo joke

ha...?

the current re4 port is supposed to be good, if you have a controller to use i'd just get it on PC

i don't know if you're joking but i actually do have a dream in the back of mind to buy an old Wii/Wii U since i haven't played Nintendo games since GameCube. and i hate the idea of emulating them

no joke (except the funny zeebo joke) i guess BOTW craze has made me want to play every zelda ever and they're all on wii u, and then i started thinking about all the metroid primes and marios i've never played

not the same as playing on a GC controller (and everything is still nintendo expensive) but it's scratching an itch

only the first metroid prime is essential fwiw

and I would say Killer7 but I'm a psycho. yeah like Viewtiful Joe there's a PS2 port, but that's the "real" version. but that'll probably never make it to the eShop because Capcom wants to forget that whole era it seems (pours out a cold one for PN 03)

Killer7 is great. Hopefully a PC port is in the cards since they did The Silver Case recently.

didn't think about that possibility, hope it comes true. definitely in my top 5 for the decade/console generation. hell Bayonetta 1 got a PC port finally

oh shit i need bayonetta too

https://www.humblebundle.com/care-package
limited availability mega sale
$30 or more for starbound, herstory, stardew valley, darkest dungeon, duck game, minecraft telltale, pony island, van helsing, arma gold, shadowrun, psychonauts, machinarium, magicka, kholat, lots more

Yup. I have almost all of these games, but I like that it's 100% to charity and will buy immediately

bought that b/c I just got a Steam Link w/ that super cheap deal and haven't played any of these

I've never used Gog before, but they have a Winter sale right now, and I got an account just to pick up Grim Fandango for FREE.
I loved this game when it came out and played it through a number of times. Wasn't tempted to buy the remaster though, as I've not had all that great an experience revisited adventure games that I played a lot in the 90s all that much. I remember them /too/ well, I guess. Still, this might be new enough that I didn't compulsively replay it the way my friends and I did with Day of the Tentacle.

Browsing GOG is weird—just the idea that someone might be willing to pay 10 bucks for Jazz Jackrabbit in 2017.
I'm half-tempted to buy "Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet" now. I remember liking its atmosphere, but not really getting anywhere with it. My English might still have been too poor to understand everything, but the top review on Gog does start off by saying "This game is very hard. I often found it unclear what needed to be done to progress."

Also, I should probably try The Dig once. It's the only Lucasfilm/Lucasarts adventure game I never played. I don't know if it just seemed too serious, or if I just never had the chance. I also never got to the end of the incredibly weird Zak McKracken. I do recall becoming a seagull at one point, and that the game came with a newspaper with articles like "Two-headed squirrel attacks two campers at once!"

Welp, this went off the rails. Go get Grim Fandango!