Wot I bought last - a fool and their money mystary edition

[Melusina]

Two months after my last post:

steam:

Atelier Ryza

Sparklite

Croixleur Sigma Deluxe

Spire of Sorcery LEA

Muse Dash + dlc

Nanotale Typing Chronicles

Six Ages Ride like a Wind

Pine

Kingdom Come Royal DLCs

Noita

 

On GOG

Indivisible

Stranded Sails EotCI

Stardew Valley

Stygian RotOO

 

[Mamoulian War]

On 11/21/2019 at 12:20 AM, ShadySands said:

I kinda liked it but I played it after CK2 and EU4 so it felt lacking to me

I can’t find any decent guides, can you give me an advice how to sue for peace in this game? I just do not know how to get any other response than rejection of the treaty.

[ShadySands]

Sorry, I haven't played it for a while now and even then I only played it for an hour or two before dropping it and starting a new game of CK2

[Melusina]

Serpent in the Staglands

Knights of the Chalice

Driftland the Magic Revival

Ara Fell

 

all of them steam sale.

 

Forgot new Tangledeep dlc for both GOG and steam

Edited November 26, 2019 by Melusina

[Keyrock]

I scooped up the Sherlock Holmes Collection from Stream's Autumn Sale. It has 6 of the older Frogwares Sherlock games. It was $4 so worst case scenario is that I wasted the money to buy a burger.

[Tale]

Disco Elysium, Master Chief Collection, Choice of the Deathless (found out it was written by Max Gladstone, author of Empress of Forever), and Heaven Will Be Mine. HWBM is an english language visual novel that's apparently about giant robots, the future of humanity, and... queer romance? Sounds quirky and fun enough I've been eyeing it.

[Mamoulian War]

Unreal Tournament Classic, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal 2: The Awakening purchased on GOG during the current sale

[Melusina]

Semblance - steam sale.

[Raithe]

Picked up both Far Cry 5 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey in the Ubisoft sales...

Sometimes you have to plunge on the time wasting activities..

[Melusina]

More:

catmaze

Trials of Mana (again)

Ni no Kuni 1

[LadyCrimson]

I caved and bought RE2-remake + Planet Zoo. Probably won't try them until tomorrow tho. Unless I can't sleep.

[Keyrock]

I scooped up Shadow of the Torture Porn Raider and Dishonored during the Steam Winter sale. The first purchase plus completing some of the activities gave me enough tokens to get the $5 discount which made the second purchase nearly free. I still haven't even played through Rise of the Torture Porn Raider, I'll do that once I run through Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. Hopefully Rise is better than Torture Porn Raider (2013). I'm mostly interested in playing Shadow, since I heard people complaining that it didn't have enough Lara murdering and too much puzzling and platforming for their tastes, which made it sound like it would be more up my alley, since I'm all about puzzle platforming and not that into Lara murdering 500 Russians or whoever it winds up being in Shadow. I mean, I'm sure I'll still wind up having to murder a whole bunch of people, Lara's bloodthirst is nigh unquenchable, I just hope it's not quite as many.

Edited December 22, 2019 by Keyrock

[the_dog_days]

Bought RD2 for PC. Downloaded the 120gb game and then had to download 67gb patch (I'm guessing that's what it is).

[Lorfean]

Resident Evil 2 (remake), Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

@Keyrock I finished Rise of the Tomb Raider yesterday and, honestly, I don't see the whole torture porn angle you keep referring to. I might see how a case can be made for the first game crossing into that category, but Rise literally has one scene (the one you posted a screenshot of in the other thread) where Lara is physically assaulted while captured and tied to a chair, and I didn't think it was gratuitous -- considering the captor's motivation and end goal (see spoiler below) I'm surprised he didn't permanently cripple or outright kill her. But of course that would have meant the end of the game. *shrug*

That said, yes, there is indeed way too much combat in Rise of the Tomb Raider and I am also looking forward to Shadow, which, from all accounts, focuses more on exploration and puzzle-solving.

 

Spoiler:

Spoiler

Saving his sister from certain death as a result of terminal illness.

 

Edited January 8, 2020 by Lorfean

[Wormerine]

So I finally broke, installed Origin and bought overpriced Mass Effect 2 DLCs for my steam version of ME2. As I was there, I also finally bought ME3 and it's DLCs (I played my friend's copy on launch). 

Two things. For everyone complaining about Epic Store (they are not wrong): so far I had far worse experience with Origin - I even had to reinstall the bloody thing, to get the DLCs download properly.

Point 2 - now I know why DLCs are so overpirced. ME3 is even more garbage, then I remember so I wanted to refund it, but EA doesn't offer the refunds for DLCs, which were a far more expensive part of the purchase. 
 
Shame one me. Get lost EA. Back to ignoring you for another 10 years. 

[213374U]

Yeah, it has been that way with DLC for Bioware's games since even before Origin was a thing. At least now you can purchase them, overpriced* as they may be, for an actual dollar amount. Back when they used "Bioware points", you had to buy bundles which were sized such that you'd always be either short by a bit, or have points in excess for whatever DLC you were interested in. Evidently, there were no refunds for points bundles, either. That was shady as hell. I wonder to what extent the price is dictated or influenced by Bioware and their previous pricing scheme.

*Currently the complete DLC bundle goes for ~10€, which seems reasonable. However that seems to be 66% off, meaning the regular price is about 30€ -- absurd.  I don't know if it's a sale or something, or it's a result of the Origin Access sub (which I got free from some promo...).

[Wormerine]

1 hour ago, 213374U said:

At least now you can purchase them, overpriced* as they may be, for an actual dollar amount. Back when they used "Bioware points", you had to buy bundles which were sized such that you'd always be either short by a bit, or have points in excess for whatever DLC you were interested in.

*Currently the complete DLC bundle goes for ~10€, which seems reasonable. However that seems to be 66% off, meaning the regular price is about 30€ -- absurd.  I don't know if it's a sale or something, or it's a result of the Origin Access sub (which I got free from some promo...).

Yes, I know. The first time I had a "pleasure" of interacting with a DLC was Dragon Age. 

I paid about 10 quid for each DLC pack during the sale (for ME2 and ME3), though considering the base game was being sold for 3 quid it still seemed like extortion - for an almost 10 years old games, I would hope to be able to buy one package. Still, it is not something I am butthurt about. 

Not being able to refund the DLCs with the game is just a noob trap - I assume an average player like me will buy entire package to start with. Oh well, I am in the process of modding ME3 so it's less vomit inducing. ME1 has a better presentation then ME3, not to mention the gameplay limitations (can't even holster my weapon now????). I feel sorry for the folks who worked on that game. Moving from ME1&ME2 to ME3 feels like teenage fanfiction. I forgot about everyone getting significant breast enlargement surgery before the Reaper attack. Oh, and space being used for everything you can imagine, making Shepard to exactly not what you want him to at any given time. 

[Lorfean]

DA:O was the first time they actually did DLC, wasn't it? Not counting the NWN Premium Modules, I guess...

Looking back at that, their DLC practices were shady from the get-go, really. Putting the only unique / non-humanoid companion in the game (Shale / The Stone Prisoner) and the return to a key location from the start of the game (Return to Ostagar) behind a pay wall...

I never bought or played ME3 because of the launch day DLC shenanigans. Sounds like I made the right call and didn't miss much. Loved 1 and 2 though, and sometimes consider getting them on Steam when they're on sale, as my Origin account is long gone. How well do they hold up?

Edited January 13, 2020 by Lorfean

[Melusina]

Neverinth

Islanders

Kelipot

Plague tale + dlc

Cat Quest II

Wonder Boy the Dragon's Trap

Atelier Ryza dlcs

Ori and the will of wisps preorder

Hades

Atelier Firis, Atelier Lydie and Suelle

and I believe that's it. All steam.

[Mamoulian War]

THE YAKUZA REMASTERED COLLECTION

[Katphood]

2 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

THE YAKUZA REMASTERED COLLECTION

Pics or it didn't happen.  

 

Yeah, got mine as well. Now if I could get Yakuza 4(PS3), Yakuza Ishin and Judgement, then my 'Yakuza Collection' will be complete...sort of.

A retailer has all of them here...I just hope he hasn't sold Yakuza 4(PS3) yet. Dang, at one point he even had the Yakuza 1 & 2 HD remaster for the PS3.

*sigh*

So many games and so little money...

[Keyrock]

I scooped up the Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate Bonus bundle (that's a mouth full) on Steam. The game also has like 8 bajillion dollars worth of DLC for it, I have no clue how much of that, if any, comes with this bundle. Anyway, the game had some ridiculous number of playable characters, like 100, or an equally ludicrous number, so I'm sure to find my ideal waifu or husbando in there somewhere with which to hilariously murder giant groups of enemy soldiers in spectacular fashion.

Edited February 17, 2020 by Keyrock

[wolfrider100]

Got the below games / dlc when GMG had

there special sale still going on last month.

- RAGE
- RAGE: The Scorchers DLC
- Smoke & Sacrifice
- Kyn: Deluxe Edition
- Dying Light - SHU Warrior Bundle DLC
- Dying Light - Vintage Gunslinger Bundle DLC
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition
 

Edited February 19, 2020 by wolfrider100

[LadyCrimson]

I caved (again) and bought Death Stranding for PS4. I installed it while playing Wolcen, quit Wolcen and started up Death Stranding.

The opening cutscenes are sooooooooo beautiful on the Pro/4k TV.  SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL.  Lots of that and story set up before getting to the actual main gameplay.  Which I usually don't like. But ... SOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIIIIFULLLLL.

[Mamoulian War]

Dishonored Trilogy on GOG