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If you haven't played Portal, or know someone who hasn't, run, run, I say, right over to Steam and pick it up for $1.99 - today only. Other stuff is on sale of course, but all pales before a $1.99 Portal. Oh, and it's available for Mac or PC. Play it; gift it. Can you go wrong? I didn't think so.
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I 100% agree with ya Xtal! INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's only fitting that the fine writers at tap-repeatedly have written several articles about madness and what it means to be going insane lately on the front page. Steam is driving my retirement savings insane with all of their great deals left and right. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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The only game that enticed me today is Dark Fall Lost Souls (Steam: $10.19). I can't tell if my games-to-be-played backlog is growing or not. It seems as if each time I buy a new (RPG becoming more common) game I look on the shelf and see an adventure game that I thought I might like, but which now pales in comparison with what I've been playing for the last 7 months. The Dark Falls were favorites some years ago, so I'll most likely enjoy this one.
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Today's (7/4) bag o' goodies include:
Trine - $4.00; L4D2 - $10.19; GTA IV - $4.99; Thief: Deadly Shadows - $2.99...
There's a bunch of others but I'm too lazy to list them all. It's that kind of day. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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Toger said:
The rest of today's (7/2) deals spark no interest in me; therefore, they won't be of interest to anyone else. [Image Can Not Be Found]
GTA IV got a mention from you so what the Friar Tuck is going on there Tog? Mmh? Mmh? [Image Can Not Be Found]
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GTA IV holds a special place in my heart. It makes me laugh; although according to all the "adults" out there, it's dissolving my brain. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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GTA IV holds a special place in my heart. It makes me laugh; although according to all the "adults" out there, it's dissolving my brain. [Image Can Not Be Found]
What's an adult?
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I would have picked up GTA IV just to avoid all the Games for Windows stuff you have to wade through. At least I think you can avoid it, but at my download speed, it would have taken a week to download. I so envy people who can download in what seems like a flash. I did get Torchlight a while ago, since it is a pretty small file.
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I noticed Portal when it was on for $1.99 -- what was absolutely amazing was that it was not even on the Steam top sellers list. I think the reason is obvious: everyone in the world already has Portal. They went out and got it two months ago from Steam when it was free.
And if not then it was already bundled in their 3-year-old copy of The Orange Box.
Alright, so shall Portal be the new champion of the "owned by such and such number of people" record, displacing Warcraft, Sims, Super Mario, etc.? I think it shall.
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GTA IV holds a special place in my heart. It makes me laugh; although according to all the "adults" out there, it's dissolving my brain. [Image Can Not Be Found]
I think its ability to make me laugh a lot kept me hanging in there. Brucie alone was worth the price of entry because he was just so matcho bro baby and combining that with Niko's deadpan retorts, and especially his emails, it was just hilarious.
I crumbled and bought the Introversion pack for £5 which included Darwinia, Multiwinia, Defcon and Uplink. I also bought an odd little platformer called Eversion which is pretty dark.
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I bought Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for $6.79. I bought it for Escape From Butcher's Bay which I've coveted since it came out. What an unusual game (EfBB) it's far longer than the reviews led me to believe, it has very few interactive options, yet managed to be quite difficult to figure out where to go/what to do next. You do lots of work to escape, collecting various bits only to recaptured and put in even deeper security to do it all again three times in total. Very strange.
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I heard good things about both Riddick games, but skipped the purchase because I have so much to play now. Do you recommend it, Helmut?
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I played the first Riddick game and really enjoyed it. It is unusual but a lot of fun. I just picked up the second game from Newegg for $1.99 including shipping. I guess it includes the first game as well. Hard to turn dowm such a great bargain, especially since I am very limited in downloading games.
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I've got both, but only played the first. I re-aquainted myself with it, then tried to get into the second, but it was too much Riddick to take in without a break. What little I played of the second seems more of the same. The first game was great, decent story and fairly good voice acting. Back in the day, it had superlative gfx and looked great - the updated PS3 version still looked fairly good. The quests were pretty good, and it fleshed out the whole Riddick mythos a little more, filling in some gaps.
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I'd agree with both the above. I really like the movies despite not really liking Vin Diesel in the role. How is that possible? I'm kinda fascinated with escape artists I guess. Anyway, the games are good back story fill, the voice acting is quite good and it is entirely possible to get too much too quickly.
In the first game you can't pick up assault weapons (DNA recognition giving shocks if you're not in the database, kinda like the silo bathroom scheme) from characters you kill for long stretches of the game and you're forced to live in sneaky primitive weapon mode for long stretches. In the second one, you can effectively squeeze the trigger with the corpses finger so you aren't forced to play it quite so careful and I think it suffers for it.
It turns out they added more content as well as updating the graphics in the EfBB reworking so maybe that's why it was quite a lot more than the 10 hours I'd read about. Solid, professional, essential if you're a fan of the series, certainly worth while to collect at < $10, but probably not going to jump to the head of your queue.
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I'm absolutely fascinated by Riddick (I saw Pitch Black in the theatre. Didn't catch Chronicles until it came out on blu-ray). Methinks I'll have to pick up Dark Athena so I can play EfBB. If Pokey liked it, I'll probably like it as well.
Oh and Pokey, I've been meaning to tell you: nice deal on that used copy of Heavy Rain over at GB!
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Toger, that was a nice find. It is rare to see anything other than adventure games listed. Very rarely an RPG or action game will show up. To find a PS3 game is rare. I hope I like it. EFBB was very original and had a variety of locations, at times plays like an adventure and uses stealth. It didn't sound like a game I would usually buy, but a lot of people were praising it.
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Can we get a silo crew in to weld shut all the ventilation shafts and to put the unbreakable lights in everywhere? That'll solve a lot of problems.
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If you're going to weld shut all the ventilation ducts, does that mean once a day you'll have some mechanism to swap out the good air for the bad? And have porcupine-wolves running through the halls?
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The covers to the ducts should be grills to let the air through, but they should not be removable. This overused cliche accounts for 90% of Riddick's ability to move through these high security installations and I don't want him getting into the silo rec-room and changing the channel on the flatscreen. When it eventually arrives, of course.
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