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dammit I forgot to make the comment in my first post that square have been worthless jerk-offs ever since they broke up with nintendo even more so now they got back together and had sloppy make-up sex now writing that just seems tacky and unoriginal

You learn spells like Blue Magic: the zombies fueled by type-o blood hit you with their cankerous, open-wounded limbs, and your body absorbs the power inherent in the fluid.

Are you secretly my alter ego? This similarity is downright creepy.

lol I am pretty sure being jaded and cynical is neither more or less popular than it ever was, that's just the way some people are guy like me fuck square enix

I mean your mother.

Yeah. But you can still get Braid and Machinarium (my favorite two of the bunch) for $8 with today's sales.

So there are some cool sales right now. A few of them are actually repeats from Black Friday (EVE Online, KOTOR) but others are ones I have been waiting a while for! Like Mirror's Edge for $5!

It's Nintendo's North American site, so it should read March 3rd.

It's not a... perfect example.

craaaap valve put darksiders on sale AGAIN so it's just sittin' there, starin' me in the face, DARIN' me to buy it borderlands wants my attention too but it's not down to TEN FREAKING DOLLARS man what game isn't worth 10 bucks! EDIT: Alternatively, is borderlands one of those games where you don't really need the DLC to have fun, in which case, it IS only $10? Please answer no to this question. For my bank account's sake.

See, even Don't Look Back doesn't portray a real narrative, though. It's little more than a concept, just like Missile Command. There is no character development, as you know little to nothing about these figures on the screen, and there is no sequence of meaningful events. I hate to say it, but I honestly can't conceive of a way to convey a well-developed story (with deep, intriguing characters) with absolutely no use of either dialogue or visual cues. The thing is, though, dialogue and cutscenes do not have to interfere with gameplay, nor do they have to hand the story to you on a silver platter. I think pretty much any Valve game is a decent example of this. Even when games like Half-Life do stop and say "Look! Listen!", more often than not you retain full control of your character, and you can still affect and interact with your surroundings in the meantime. Exposition does not have to mean force-fed explanation.

I don't know about you guys but when I first played Missile Command I just tried to keep all the cities alive because I thought that was my objective. Then one inevitably got destroyed and I saw that it was fine, and over time I realized that it was easier to let them get destroyed until I was down to the last one. There was no "gut-wrenching" involved, no moral decisions, nothing, because the game never told me in any way (written word or graphic presentation) that there was some kind of weight attached to what was going on. There was simply a game presented, and over time, with trial and error, I learned how to play it. Finding any extravagant narrative there is just reaching in retrospect.

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YESSSS Mass Effect sales! Also guys what is Darksiders like?

New sales... eh. Some of them might be pretty interesting for the rest of you, though. AvP, Bully, DoD, Just Cause 2, Assassin's Creed 2, Call of Duty 4, Spore, and the complete Monkey Island pack. Hey guys, what's Recettear like? The art style keeps making me think of recent Tales series games, but I'm not sure that's quite right...

Guys all of these games are incredible. All of them. Even if you only pay $5 ($1 for each game), get this. Preferably you'd pay more for, you know, charity and everything, but as a game pack alone, this is at least as good (in my opinion way better) than any pack on sale through Steam right now. BONUS: I woke up this morning to find all the games from the first Humble Indie Bundle in my inbox. Hella sweet.

Calling basically everyone over 17 (a large portion of this forum) "old fogeys" probably didn't get you off to a great start. Honestly, guys, while there may be merit to the argument that the average young'un is more likely to dismiss older games than a veteran is to dismiss new releases, I don't think this means there's something inherently "different" or "wrong" about the new generation. It doesn't necessarily mean there's some fundamental shift in game development that's caused this. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it until someone presents non-anecdotal, objective evidence to the contrary; games are games are games are games. The chances of finding a dud are the same whether you're looking on the Atari or 360. It may be more noticeable now that games are a larger, more mainstream industry, and therefore more prolific, but that doesn't mean things have changed for the worse. The thing is, every rising generation has a tendency to think the previous one is full of crap. They're more likely to stick with what's "new" and "hip," regardless of how much logic may or may not be thrown at them in defense of the "classic." And then they'll grow older, mature, gain perspective and realize that not everything they've been taught is a scheme to convince them to be lame. And they'll appreciate a broader range of new things--with or without abandonment of what they've cherished in the past. This happens with everything; look at politics. Every senior generation has, on average, swung toward more conservative views as they've aged. And many of them entertained liberal preferences when they were young. Just because a generation may start out one way doesn't mean they're any different than we were; we just see things that way because time has passed and circumstances have changed. It all comes around eventually.

Yeah, all I've done so far is pick up Super Meat Boy and Eets. I also gifted Portal to a friend; who shouldn't own that for only $2.25? It's that time of year!

Hmmm... sounds like I'm better off spending my time and money on other sales this year. Here's hoping for Mass Effect sales!

Hurrrr... I haven't beaten Bioshock yet. Is the sequel really worth it, guys? I'm not talking money ($10 is more than reasonable), but time. Is Bioshock 2 worth my time?

So basically what I'm really saying is I'm horribly indecisive. I should probably just get FO3, because by the time I'm actually ready to play New Vegas its price will have dropped down anyway, and there are always decent deals on Morrowind. EDIT: New Vegas is actually cheaper right now on Amazon, on sale for $29.99. Doesn't Steam allow you to activate games you buy outside their service somehow?

Right. But that still leaves the dilemma of whether to buy Fallout 3 now (daily deal), or hope for the whole Bethesda Pack to go on sale. This would probably be a much easier decision if I didn't already own vanilla Oblivion, or if I'd finished it and knew whether I was really hungering for more content (Knights of the Nine & Shivering Isles) or not.

So let me get this straight: the daily deals will disappear after today, while all the game packs and publisher's catalog sales will remain AT MOST the listed price through the 2nd, yes? Just trying to decide whether I ought to pick up Fallout 3 now, or wait and see if the whole Bethesda Pack goes on sale later, not to mention whether to move or sit on a myriad of other games that may show up as a future day's deal.

Finally got around to taking those pictures, geez. Thumbnails; click for full view.

godDAMN this sale is going to kick my bank account's ass