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Posted July 05, 2010
Damn, the new sale sucks! 10% off the overpriced modern warfare 2 DLC
Posted July 05, 2010
Gifted L4D and Gmod to a friend and got Buried in Time for myself here. Now that was a deal.
Post edited July 05, 2010 by Cy-Fox
Posted July 05, 2010
I picked up 12 games, $3.89 US per game on average.
Bioshock
Indigo Prophecy
King's Bounty: Gold Edition
Men of War
Painkiller: Black Edition
Port Royale 2
Sacred: Gold
Space Rangers Pack
Star Wars: Empire at War Gold
UFO: Afterlight
I wanted the Max Payne bundle but it isn't available here. Avencast was tempting but the reviews weren't great and I'm not short on games to play.
Posted July 05, 2010
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Hardrada: I picked up 12 games, $3.89 US per game on average

Decent picks.
Posted July 06, 2010
I bought 10 games, an average of USD3.87 per game... not bad when there's Activision games involved, huh?
-Zeno Clash
-Introversion Complete Pack - Summer 2010 (4 games)
-Call of Duty Pack - Summer 2010 (5 games)
And I already own The Witcher from a past sale... but they shouldn't had changed the price for it, it was only $6.79 and probably selling like water in the desert.
From who came the decision for the price to went up, to $13.39? Steam or the publisher/developer?
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PoSSeSSeDCoW: There's some cross-pollination going on. The Steam thread here and a David vs. Goliath thread on Steam general forums.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1332176

Thanks for the link, I've read all posts.
Indeed, two things that I love about GOG is not having regional restrictions and not having different prices for each region. :)
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fabricioz: No, I wasn't talking about NC, because I never bought anything from them. I was referring to companies which I worked with, like Vivendi-Universal/Atari, Greenleaf, the late Brasoft (which went bankrupt and each director founded another distributor, that's how TD was created)... Brasoft was kinda good actually.
Some of them did translate the games and hired some garage studio to dub the voice act, like they did in Starcraft (which I have original and could only play with original voice downloading from Battle.net digital distribution server) and Max Payne. That was really awful! And I say that as an studio owner and audio producer for games :)
Also, the tech support of any of these companies was really painful. I managed this department when I was at Tech Dealer and we did some very good work on it, solving almost any of the customers problems and actually digging the problems and creating a knowledge base for each game. No other publisher had it in Brazil by that time.
But now, I don't know how is the markey today. I never bought a console game in the stores around here, I bring them from outside, so I never recurred to NC support or something like it.

Well, I don't know how it was with Vivendi/Atari products, but I do know the Brasoft and Greenleaf products. I've also bought lots of those magazine+games' CD bundles, 'cause they were cheap compared to the retail games.
Brasoft had a good fame, yes... but suddenly they disappeared from the market; we, gamers, don't know what the hell happened with it. (I don't know the background story, like you probably do.)
I've heard the StarCraft 1 localization (and translation) was crap really, but the Max Payne 1 was really good... that guy which voiced Max got the right mood of the game. StarCraft 2 will be localized for Brazil, but I don't know who's doing it and which distributor.
I never bought a console game here too, I tend to import the games too... but I've seen some NC titles on stores. It's just the box in english and a white label containing the NC logo and bar code, that's their "localization process". (Or it was before, I don't know how NC is doing it today).
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fabricioz: As I said, localization is a very sensitive subject, you need to have a very good team working on it so they won't write bs, translate part of the code, make text fit in the visual fields and boxes, make the text sync with events and dialogues... it's not so simple as it seems. Most of localizations here in Brazil really stinks.
I don't know about the games Microsoft did translate, like Viva Pinata, but seems it they looked (and sounded) good. But I always prefer to hear the original sounds.

Indeed, it's not simple. Halo 3 was also localized, if I recall correctly.
I always do prefer the original sound and voices, always. The only thing I do like is the box in portuguese and subtitles not from Portugal's portuguese, but Brazilian.
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Crassmaster: 9th Company : Roots of Terror - You play as Russian troops in Afghanistan in the 80's. I'll drop $5 on a premise that unique.

Indeed, I'd love to see more game developers creating games based on such unique themes/settings. Lots of cool places and eras that haven't been explored yet, in games. (Red Orchestra is a good example of this, no game has beaten it).
There's a good movie about this, watch it if you didn't yet: ;)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417397/
Posted July 06, 2010
I bought several games aswell, but none over the top.
I think the mst expensive deals I did were Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Two Thrones(gifted). Also Bionicle: Rearms(traded with Crysis).
Oh wait, the most expensive was the ID-super pack, but someone gifted me it. From /v/. They seem to have a soft spot for Germans.
What else,mhhhh...
Avencast
Cryostasis
Day of Defeat: Source
Full Pipe
Gothic Bundle
Left4Dead2(gifted)
Red Orchestra
Thief DS
Titan Quest pack
Twin Sector
All in all, I think I got the games I wanted. There are maybe like 8 games on my wishlist, but they weren't on summer sale. I rather wait til I get a job since none of them will ever have any discounts as far I see it.
Posted July 06, 2010
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Tantrix: I think the mst expensive deals I did were Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Two Thrones(gifted).
Oh wait, the most expensive was the ID-super pack, but someone gifted me it. From /v/. They seem to have a soft spot for Germans.

Regarding Prince series, there's the "Prince Of Persia Sands of Time Trilogy" at retail: http://www.amazon.com/Prince-Persia-Sands-Time-Trilogy/dp/B001LKM0EW/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1278401061&sr=1-1
And congrats for the id pack, lots of classics. :)
Post edited July 06, 2010 by taczillabr
Posted July 06, 2010
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Tantrix: I think the mst expensive deals I did were Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Two Thrones(gifted).
Oh wait, the most expensive was the ID-super pack, but someone gifted me it. From /v/. They seem to have a soft spot for Germans.
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taczillabr:

German version of T2T is censored. No heads fall off and the like. Also, fuck tages.
ID pack is restricted because all the "ID-calssics" are restricted here due German censoreship. So I plead on the /v/ board for giftin'
And Warrior Within is always my favourite, I would buy it on every store I'd find it.
Post edited July 06, 2010 by Tantrix
Posted July 06, 2010
I bought only 3 game this time cause I already have a lot of game to finish.
Bought Time Gentlemen, please! Ghost Master and Puzzle Kindoms.
Posted July 06, 2010
Dunno how many i snagged during the sale...... I think I went a bit overboard... but meh... had decent internet speed :)
Posted July 06, 2010
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TheCheese33: I've been considering picking up The Whispered World while it's on sale. Does anyone here have an opinion on it?
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Anamon: Not that it'll do you a lot of good now that the sale is over, but since your question remained unanswered I wanted to say that it is the best Adventure game I have played in recent years. Both visuals and story are really up to par with the great LucasArts hits. Very lovely hand-drawn graphics, and although some say it looks "childish", it is merely "child-friendly" and actually has a pretty deep, mature story.
I don't know about the quality of the English localisation as I have the German original, but for me personally it was one of very few games lately that I felt were worth paying full-price for.

Thanks! I think I'll pick it up later, when I have the money for it.
Posted July 06, 2010
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lowyhong: How's A Farewell to Dragons? Seems rather well received.

It seems entirely average. Nothing spectular, but nothing too bad either.
Gameplay reminds me of the first Dungeon Siege, mixed with any of the Infinity Engine games. You have dialogue, and a camera that can move across the entire map, change angle and zoom.
Writing is alright, but suffers from translation issues. Some minor typos here and there, and there are occasionally some strange sentences, but all I've seen so far is understandable.
Combat is standard realtime with pause, similar to any Bioware game. Spellcasting is mana based.
There's one issue I have with the game, though, and that is the 'quest compass'. Every objective is marked directly on the map, and the main quest has an arrow on the screen which always point you in the right direction. Though from what I've seen so far, one of the characters in the party know where they are supposed to be going, so it might make some sense in a certain way.
Overall, it's entirely passable. Considering its price on sale, it might be worth it if you're just looking for another RPG.
Posted July 06, 2010
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Tantrix: German version of T2T is censored. No heads fall off and the like. Also, fuck tages.
ID pack is restricted because all the "ID-calssics" are restricted here due German censoreship. So I plead on the /v/ board for giftin'
And Warrior Within is always my favourite, I would buy it on every store I'd find it.

I'm not sure, but maybe that retail trilogy has a softer drm, or even no drm at all, search about it.
Yeah, I've forgot some id games were banned/censored by German laws (IIRC, That's the reason for Crysis 1 not having much blood and correct ragdolls on bodies). That's a great pack, enjoy it.
Posted July 06, 2010
i've got the retail POP trilogy, no DRM that i know of on SoT and WW, T2T uses Starforce (and i had to update it from the starforce site in order for it to actually play the game!)
Posted July 07, 2010
Anyone here who also lost their game purchases from the last 2 days of sale?
I just found out this morning that Just Cause 2 (including DLC's) and Men of War Gold is missing from my games list. Already sent a support ticket regarding this issue. I hope they will resolve the issue as fast as possible. :(
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