17th June 2018, 6:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 20th June 2018, 8:15 PM by A Black Falcon.)
PC DD - Today is the last day to get Quake Champions for free (on Steam or its website) and For Honor for free (on UPlay), so I got both of those. For Honor is a pretty fun game (I have it for X1), so it's cool to also own it for PC. Of course they're giving it out because the game has lots of DLC which is still very definitely paid, but still, it's nice.
PC DD - GOG sale. There are a lot of things I could have gotten in this sale, but I went with only a few.
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Pillars of Eternity: The White March - Expansion Pass - $15 (on sale). So, I got PoE as a physical box thanks to having backed the Kickstarter. I never got the expansion, though, because I was unhappy that they never allowed people who got the kickstarter version to buy the expansions for their physical-disc copy of the game. I do want to play this stuff, though, so I finally redeemed my PoE key (choosing GOG over Steam) and got the expansion since it's on sale.
Beyond Divinity - $0.60 (on sale) - The second game in this series.
Jazz Jackrabbit Collection - $8 (on sale) - It's awesome that JJ1 finally got a digital re-release, so I had to get it eventually. The discount wasn't much, but the game is worth getting anyway. I've actually never played the full version of Jazz 1 before, only the demos... (this is why I didn't get JJ2 also, that one I do have. It does include an expansion I don't have, so I'll get it eventually, but not now.
Also since I spent over $20 in the sale I got both of the bonus games they're offering -- you get Sunless Sea for spending $5, and Rime for spending $20. Both of those games look interesting and aren't games I had, so they're nice bonuses. The GOG sale ends tomorrow, I should say.
Switch DD
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Blossom Tales - $11, on sale. This is an indie Zelda clone which has gotten some attention. I've played it some now and it's fun. It's not on par with Zelda, but it is fun and has some nice ideas. This is a very classic Zelda-inspired game, with many items, puzzles, and enemy styles taken right out of the Zelda series, but there is enough different here to make the game unique. Unoriginal, but unique. And yeah, it's probably worth getting.
Spiral Splatter - $4, on sale. This is a difficult but fun game that's very much like Irritating Stick, except with some added complexities like switches. It's kind of in between Irritating Stick and KuruKuru Kururin in complexity. I think it's also on mobile, but any game this hard is going to be a lot better with a controller... preferably a Gamecube one, since it has a better analog stick. See the Switch OS thread for my issue I had with that when I wanted to stop playing, though... but it's definitely the right controller for this game, when I switched from Joycon to GC controller I instantly got better at the game.
Wii U DD
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Family Tennis SP - $4, on sale. ... I don't know, I was curious about whether this is actually any good... and it's playable, but not that good. The tennis gameplay is alright, but there are next to no options and it does some weird things, most notably that there is no 'you need to win by two' rule -- so if it's 40-40, the next point wins the game right there, which is really weird for Tennis. Also matches are to two points per round, with two rounds winning the match, so they're short. The gameplay is a lot better in any Mario Tennis game too. Still, for the low price this costs it's not THAT bad.
Also I got all the XBL Games with Gold titles for the 360 and X1 since whenever I last mentioned it.
PC DD - GOG sale. There are a lot of things I could have gotten in this sale, but I went with only a few.
--
Pillars of Eternity: The White March - Expansion Pass - $15 (on sale). So, I got PoE as a physical box thanks to having backed the Kickstarter. I never got the expansion, though, because I was unhappy that they never allowed people who got the kickstarter version to buy the expansions for their physical-disc copy of the game. I do want to play this stuff, though, so I finally redeemed my PoE key (choosing GOG over Steam) and got the expansion since it's on sale.
Beyond Divinity - $0.60 (on sale) - The second game in this series.
Jazz Jackrabbit Collection - $8 (on sale) - It's awesome that JJ1 finally got a digital re-release, so I had to get it eventually. The discount wasn't much, but the game is worth getting anyway. I've actually never played the full version of Jazz 1 before, only the demos... (this is why I didn't get JJ2 also, that one I do have. It does include an expansion I don't have, so I'll get it eventually, but not now.
Also since I spent over $20 in the sale I got both of the bonus games they're offering -- you get Sunless Sea for spending $5, and Rime for spending $20. Both of those games look interesting and aren't games I had, so they're nice bonuses. The GOG sale ends tomorrow, I should say.
Switch DD
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Blossom Tales - $11, on sale. This is an indie Zelda clone which has gotten some attention. I've played it some now and it's fun. It's not on par with Zelda, but it is fun and has some nice ideas. This is a very classic Zelda-inspired game, with many items, puzzles, and enemy styles taken right out of the Zelda series, but there is enough different here to make the game unique. Unoriginal, but unique. And yeah, it's probably worth getting.
Spiral Splatter - $4, on sale. This is a difficult but fun game that's very much like Irritating Stick, except with some added complexities like switches. It's kind of in between Irritating Stick and KuruKuru Kururin in complexity. I think it's also on mobile, but any game this hard is going to be a lot better with a controller... preferably a Gamecube one, since it has a better analog stick. See the Switch OS thread for my issue I had with that when I wanted to stop playing, though... but it's definitely the right controller for this game, when I switched from Joycon to GC controller I instantly got better at the game.
Wii U DD
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Family Tennis SP - $4, on sale. ... I don't know, I was curious about whether this is actually any good... and it's playable, but not that good. The tennis gameplay is alright, but there are next to no options and it does some weird things, most notably that there is no 'you need to win by two' rule -- so if it's 40-40, the next point wins the game right there, which is really weird for Tennis. Also matches are to two points per round, with two rounds winning the match, so they're short. The gameplay is a lot better in any Mario Tennis game too. Still, for the low price this costs it's not THAT bad.
Also I got all the XBL Games with Gold titles for the 360 and X1 since whenever I last mentioned it.