STEAM!

[Tale]

Now you're just doing it on purpose.

[Hassat Hunter]

Anyone actually like 3 and 4? Or prefer them to 2?

I haven't got any other Gothics than 3, but it basically is Oblivion which you actually want to play instead of struggle to death. It still tires off eventually like Morrowind of course (little sooner obviously). So yeah, would advise to give it a run if it's cheap.

I miss the adventure genre. Every now and then I browse Steam's selection. 3/4 of the games are action/adventure or RPGs.

80% off at Telltale if you own BttF and got the code from the insider forum. Though with your name and avi, you might have knew that already... stock up!

[pmp10]

Anyone actually like 3 and 4? Or prefer them to 2?

I haven't got any other Gothics than 3, but it basically is Oblivion which you actually want to play instead of struggle to death. It still tires off eventually like Morrowind of course (little sooner obviously). So yeah, would advise to give it a run if it's cheap.

Can't say I see much similarity to Oblivion in Gothic 3.

It's a game whose only saving grace is it's huge world free to explore.

Unlike Oblivion you at least have a reason to do that as you won't run into the same level-scaled content everywhere.

Sadly everything else is poor, except perhaps combat which was completely atrocious.

[Tigranes]

Gothic 3 combat is fine with the community pack, once stunlocks are fixed. The world is good for exploration (except for the desert, I guess), there's faction C&C where you see the world change, and it's a pretty decent game if you're into that stuff.

[pmp10]

Here I'll have to disagree as I think the combat system is fundamentally broken.

I'm sure you can still find boar fights on youtube to illustrate the point, stunlocks were only symptoms of that player had no defensive options in a fight.

No system relaying on mindless button mashing with broken hitboxes should be called even serviceable.

[GreasyDogMeat]

Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light is on sale for only 5 bucks. Already have it on XBLA but if you don't have it I can't recommend it enough as a coop experience.

[Tigranes]

As I said, the extensive community work over the years has fixed most of the major problems with G3 combat - which absolutely does not depend on mindless button mashing. You would only think that if you played/watched early/vanilla G3.

[pmp10]

While I played various versions of the game I didn't find that any community patch improved the melee combat experience.

Rebalancing of spells and mana regeneration was very handy and new ways the game crashed on me quite interesting but the only change to your weapon swinging experience was that sometimes you'd be insta-killed for no apparent reason.

[Tigranes]

I suffered through G3 at launch, then returned about a year ago the Gothic 3 Community Patch was at 1.7 something. Freezes every 60 seconds due to CD-check were gone, game was significantly faster, quest dead-ends mostly fixed, crashes minimal, combat rebalanced, no stunlocks, no "random instakills", etc.

 

Certainly the game was literally unplayable for at least 18 months after launch, which by itself is a horrible indictment, but there always was a pretty good game underneath it all and the great thing is that the community work has actually brought it to light by now. If it's on sale and someone likes that style of games (esp. G1/2), it's a no-brainer.

[HoonDing]

I miss the adventure genre. Every now and then I browse Steam's selection. 3/4 of the games are action/adventure or RPGs. They list Just Cause 2! A few puzzlers. And the remainder I don't know if they're any good.

Good place to start: http://www.adventuregamers.com/recommendations.php

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Picked up Iron Grip: Warlord and Shattered Union - the first was fun, if dated, and the second doesn't like x64 Windows 7 (or at least my PC). Still, I'm not feeling horribly ripped-off seeing as the former was $2.50 and the latter was $0.49. Onward to tomorrow's sales...

[Azure79]

Surprisingly the only game I've bought so far is Bioshock 2.

[Guest Slinky]

Has anyone played UFO: Extraterrestrials? I missed X-COM back in the day and it's graphics are a bit too much for me to handle. Extraterrestrials seems like a nice remake, but the lack of gameplay videos and bot overrun official forums make me a little suspicious.

[taviow]

The only games I bought so far were not for myself! Christmas present for a friend. Yesterday I got him Super Meat Boy + Deus Ex Collection + Bad Company 2 + Amnesia the Dark Descent.

[Majek]

I miss the adventure genre. Every now and then I browse Steam's selection. 3/4 of the games are action/adventure or RPGs. They list Just Cause 2! A few puzzlers. And the remainder I don't know if they're any good.

 

Ooh, Sherlock Holmes Collection at 75% off!

Well you can forget steam and get the new telltale Back to the future game.

[Hurlshort]

Has anyone played UFO: Extraterrestrials? I missed X-COM back in the day and it's graphics are a bit too much for me to handle. Extraterrestrials seems like a nice remake, but the lack of gameplay videos and bot overrun official forums make me a little suspicious.

 

I own it, actually have the case and everything. It is like a decent fan-made remake of Xcom. Everything about it is fairly average. The problem is it really misses the charm of the original. It's hard to explain, but basically Xcom was like magic in a bottle, and UFO:E fails to capture that.

 

It's worth a few bucks though, some people really enjoyed it when it came out. Just the fact that it is an average turn based squad level game makes it fairly unique in today's market.

 

There is supposedly a sequel in the works.

[Purkake]

A much better X-COM remake called Xenonauts is still in the works...

[Purkake]

*whistles*

Edited December 22, 2010 by Purkake

[Guest Slinky]

Has anyone played UFO: Extraterrestrials? I missed X-COM back in the day and it's graphics are a bit too much for me to handle. Extraterrestrials seems like a nice remake, but the lack of gameplay videos and bot overrun official forums make me a little suspicious.

 

I own it, actually have the case and everything. It is like a decent fan-made remake of Xcom. Everything about it is fairly average. The problem is it really misses the charm of the original. It's hard to explain, but basically Xcom was like magic in a bottle, and UFO:E fails to capture that.

 

It's worth a few bucks though, some people really enjoyed it when it came out. Just the fact that it is an average turn based squad level game makes it fairly unique in today's market.

 

There is supposedly a sequel in the works.

Right, thanks. Will skip then.

[Morgoth]

So, I see SPORE is up for 10

[Rosbjerg]

So, I see SPORE is up for 10

[Morgoth]

Too bad. I get the Black & White vibe anyway. Nice playing around with the creature, but no real game around it.

Edited December 22, 2010 by Morgoth

[Morgoth]

Wow, Kane & Lynch 2 for 10 bucks already?

 

Anyone think it's worth the money?

[Tale]

Wow, Kane & Lynch 2 for 10 bucks already?

 

Anyone think it's worth the money?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Morgoth]

I do remember I had issues with the demo but by now this should have been fixed, right?

 

Right?