19th June 2014, 2:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 23rd June 2014, 6:16 PM by A Black Falcon.)
There are a bunch of summer sales going on, so I got some stuff. Many of these are now over, but a few aren't yet.
PC DD
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Long Live the Queen - $3.40, GOG - visual novel/raising rpg. - Game not listed on IGN.
The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition - $4, GOG - Cheap! I really need to play this series.
Wing Commander 5 Prophecy (+ expansion) - $2.40, GOG - Now I have the whole main series; only don't have the not as interesting spinoffs. It's an okay, but not great, series. This one finally has polygonal graphics, which is a step forward.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - GameFly, $5. I've really wanted to play this game ever since its release because the developer (sadly closed of course, that was quite a big thing) was great (Rise of Nations!). It's an Origin game, so you pretty much have to play it there no matter where you buy it, so I finally downloaded Origin... hadn't done so before. I also have a few other Origin games from a Humble Bundle that I hadn't redeemed yet. Have now.
GearGrinder - $1, GamersGate - mediocre looking futuristic truck racing/combat game. I got this because of how much I like futuristic racing games, that's about it. Also $1. (the GamersGate stuff I had an additional 20% off coupon for, so the already discounted prices were cut even more to these levels. Nice! The GamersGate stuff was $11 total, so the three below add up to $10.)
Dawn of Discovery (Anno) - $5-20%, GamersGate - City-building sim. Popular series in Europe, not so much here because of the slow pace and economic focus. Why DOES Europe seem to like its things a little boring? Still, good series; I have one of the early Anno games and it is good. Basically it's like The Settlers.
Patrician+etc pack - $2.50-20% -- this includes The Patrician III, Darkstar One, and The Great Art Race. The first is part of a popular European medieval/renaissance Hanseatic League trading simulation series. I have the first game, which I got back in the early '90s probably because of the medieval theme. I like the setting, but the gameplay... argh, economics are NOT my thing, and that is entirely what this is! Still, I want to give it a try again. As for the others, The Great Art Race sounds uninteresting, and Darkstar One is a space combat/trading game, like a simpler spinoff of Privateer or X. I much prefer standard space combat games, but this one was cheap and simple-sounding enough that I don't mind trying it; who knows, could be fun. It's also on 360, interestingly. That shows how it's not exactly the most complex game. That's okay though, I've never cared to try the really complex ones like the X series or Elite...
Trials Evolution Gold - $5-20%, GamersGate. Second or third game in this popular series; this isn't the newest one, Fusion, but the one before that I think. It's a side-scrolling platform/racing game, as always. I think these games are decent to good, though I haven't played them all that much, oddly, and didn't own any before this. I'll have to play this now!
Also, after installing Origin it said that Peggle was free today (yesterday now), so I got that. So yeah, I also have Peggle for the PC as well.
PC DD
--
Long Live the Queen - $3.40, GOG - visual novel/raising rpg. - Game not listed on IGN.
The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition - $4, GOG - Cheap! I really need to play this series.
Wing Commander 5 Prophecy (+ expansion) - $2.40, GOG - Now I have the whole main series; only don't have the not as interesting spinoffs. It's an okay, but not great, series. This one finally has polygonal graphics, which is a step forward.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - GameFly, $5. I've really wanted to play this game ever since its release because the developer (sadly closed of course, that was quite a big thing) was great (Rise of Nations!). It's an Origin game, so you pretty much have to play it there no matter where you buy it, so I finally downloaded Origin... hadn't done so before. I also have a few other Origin games from a Humble Bundle that I hadn't redeemed yet. Have now.
GearGrinder - $1, GamersGate - mediocre looking futuristic truck racing/combat game. I got this because of how much I like futuristic racing games, that's about it. Also $1. (the GamersGate stuff I had an additional 20% off coupon for, so the already discounted prices were cut even more to these levels. Nice! The GamersGate stuff was $11 total, so the three below add up to $10.)
Dawn of Discovery (Anno) - $5-20%, GamersGate - City-building sim. Popular series in Europe, not so much here because of the slow pace and economic focus. Why DOES Europe seem to like its things a little boring? Still, good series; I have one of the early Anno games and it is good. Basically it's like The Settlers.
Patrician+etc pack - $2.50-20% -- this includes The Patrician III, Darkstar One, and The Great Art Race. The first is part of a popular European medieval/renaissance Hanseatic League trading simulation series. I have the first game, which I got back in the early '90s probably because of the medieval theme. I like the setting, but the gameplay... argh, economics are NOT my thing, and that is entirely what this is! Still, I want to give it a try again. As for the others, The Great Art Race sounds uninteresting, and Darkstar One is a space combat/trading game, like a simpler spinoff of Privateer or X. I much prefer standard space combat games, but this one was cheap and simple-sounding enough that I don't mind trying it; who knows, could be fun. It's also on 360, interestingly. That shows how it's not exactly the most complex game. That's okay though, I've never cared to try the really complex ones like the X series or Elite...
Trials Evolution Gold - $5-20%, GamersGate. Second or third game in this popular series; this isn't the newest one, Fusion, but the one before that I think. It's a side-scrolling platform/racing game, as always. I think these games are decent to good, though I haven't played them all that much, oddly, and didn't own any before this. I'll have to play this now!
Also, after installing Origin it said that Peggle was free today (yesterday now), so I got that. So yeah, I also have Peggle for the PC as well.