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Gamersgate is offering the entire 1C catalog for $20, which is 80+ games. While a large percentage of them aren't worth playing, the Men of War games were decent, King's bounty series was well received and I enjoyed the Star Wolves games. Also the Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusade seems decent.

King's Bounty is silly, but surprisingly good. Worth its price in any sale if you're a fan of turn-based, imho.

 

And re Max Payne 3: the previous games had that not-so-serious vibe to them, the baseball bat boy and the comics, and MP2 had a TV show with a NY detective who said amusing things like: 'When in my situation, you can only use metaphors...'

I fear it's going to be less like that and more like Max Payne shooting in GTA tech.

Never finished Kings Bounty. It was a nice game, but no substitute for HoMM3 unfortunately.

 

Those Heroes Chronicles standalone campaigns based on HoMM3 were such cynical cash-ins, but having skipped them initially, I'm rather happy with them being available on GoG. No matter how questionably written, HoMM campaigns do enough to keep me in.

Human Head Teases Possible Sequel to Rune (www.humanhead.com/)

Edited April 14, 201213 yr by funcroc

Human Head Teases Possible Sequel to Rune (www.humanhead.com/)

Aren't they supposed to finish Prey 2 first?

Where are we on that rumor that Prey 2 is canceled, by the way?

Where are we on that rumor that Prey 2 is canceled, by the way?

Bethesda refuted the Doom 4 cancellation on the same day it was claimed, but they didn't say a darn thing about Prey 2, which doesn't bode well...

Hmmm....

http://guysfromandromeda.com/

 

Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, the original creators of the Space Quest series by Sierra On-Line are back and rockin those Andromedan noses like no one

Rumor: Apple and Valve to collaborate on revolutionary home console

Rumor: Apple and Valve to collaborate on revolutionary home console

Why not? They can't just sit idly on their money forever.

Get ready to do pilgrimage to the Weeping Firewall and cry out in anguish when Steam becomes Mac games exclusively

A walled garden within a walled garden. *explodes*

http://www.eurogamer...t-story-details

 

http://www.eurogamer...rst-screenshots

 

Bye bye Unreal Engine!

Edited April 16, 201213 yr by Morgoth

Those are PC screenshots btw. I expect the Next-Gen console graphic fidelity to produce similar results.

 

Except, we PC elitists gamers can enjoy it far earlier!

Yaay, all that money and effort well spent.

 

Crysis 3.

 

Woohoo.

 

Because we need another ****ty FPS.

Interesting setting, running around some urban rainforest with a high tech bow.

Because we need another ****ty FPS.

Crysis series is not "another ****ty" FPS.

 

Feel free to go back and play another ****ty indie-dungein crawler/old-school RPG/whatever.

Interesting setting, running around some urban rainforest with a high tech bow.

While the game looks great, the real meat, the much touted sandbox gameplay style will fall short again, thanks to ancient console hardware. I think we need to wait another couple of years till open-world game design that looks and runs sufficient will arrive with the Next-Gen consoles.

And how exactly does Crysis differ from all the other generic shooters? Oh, yea it got better graphics!

 

I still want my money back for the unplayable mess that Crysis was (the battle on the deck).

Crysis was a generic mess, Crysis 2 was not.

Whatever, it was as stale as the rest of the Space Marine shooters we've been playing these last years.

 

If that is the best "next gen" gaming that I'm supposed to buy a new graphics card for I think I'll just stick to laughing at people who do.

Space Marine shooter? You mean Military shooter. Especially the annualised ones (Battlefield, MoH, CoD), those are the ones who are poison to the FPS genre. Yes, including RAGE from our "beloved" Doom and Quake creators. It's all garbage.

 

Only worthwhile FPS creators out there these days are Valve, Crytek, and Irrational.

You still haven't said why.

Crysis was a generic mess, Crysis 2 was not.

Crysis was a sandbox generic mess, Crysis 2 was a linear arcade shooter....and not.