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I'm really excited for Alien Isolation! It seems to be a good direction and surviving was always a major part of th movies. Seeing as how shooters didn't really work this could be really good. But I remain pretty skeptical about it because every Alien game I have played has left me down so it's hard for me to allow myself myself myself more than excited...especially being I was so let down by Colonial Marines...
tuiman wrote: How can you say that a PC is far cheaper?
The games are significantly cheaper, especially via Steam sales, Humble bundle etc etc etc. The savings made by buying PC games could easily make up the cost difference between an average gaming PC and a console in a year, if you buy a lot of games you will make up the difference even quicker. The hardware is certainly more expensive but it is also modular so its easy to upgrade, there is no such thing as 'next gen' PCs.
Only if you are desperate to get a game the day its released. I always wait a few months, and use stores that do trade-ins or buy and seel second hand on tradme ( the local ebay in NZ) all od sudden the cost of buying games is not that expensive at all. You just have to be smart about it. For example I just only recently got the last of us and was only $30nz second hand. Also all the reasons above that loki mentioned about PS network and PS+. SO far got tomb raider, and variuos others that I cant think of right now for free with that. Its only expensive if you make it expensive.
30 dorra is stupid expensive.
I wonder how good those "free" games where if you can't even remember them.
In steam you can also sell hats, and get hat moneys. With hat moneys you can moar hats or games that unlock hats. I used my hat moneys to buy xcom+dlc.
$30 is nothing for a game that has given me 100+hours of entertainment. Even if its more expensive than PC games it doesn't mean its stupid expensive.
Tomb-raider, bioshock infinite, metro last light, batman arkham city, boarderlands 2, devil may cry, pro evo soccer 14. These are all the free games that I personally have enjoyed playing, this year alone, from having a ps+ account and I still have half a year to go.
I am extremely, extremely sorry for taking this thread off topic. Its just that in every thread that is (mostly) about just console gaming there is always the one or two people that just jump in about how much better it is to have a pc and how much better pc's are than consoles. Just grinds my gears.
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Ok, I'm officially excited about Dreadnought.
I want that german ad for it in English please!
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
I might have to buy one then. The Halo MC edition and Crackdown with destructible environments...
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
$30 is nothing for a game that has given me 100+hours of entertainment. Even if its more expensive than PC games it doesn't mean its stupid expensive.
This is just anecdotal bs.
I have played dota 2 for 1040h and it has cost me -5€.
30$ is almost 3 weeks worth of dinners (5 meals per week) at local quality restaurant. Anything that costs more than your normal living expenses is expensive and paying for something is expensive is stupid. Thus 30 dorra is stupid expensive.
I wouldn't pay 30$ even for HL3.
Every time I hear "in my opinion" or "just my opinion" makes me want to strangle a puppy. People use their opinions as a shield that other poeple can't critisize and that is bs.
If you can't defend or won't defend your opinion then that "opinion" is bs. Stop trying to tip-toe and defend what you believe in.
$30 Gets you 15 quality restaurant meals? Where can you go to get a $2 meal that isn't a fast-food chain?
$300 I could understand, but $30 giving you 15 'quality restaurant' meals is complete BS.
The rest of your post is just idiotic.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
illuknisaa wrote: Honestly all games look pretty boring. fc3 was pretty good so fc4 might be worth to wait and AssGreed seems to have fixed the slowed ui.
$30 is nothing for a game that has given me 100+hours of entertainment. Even if its more expensive than PC games it doesn't mean its stupid expensive.
This is just anecdotal bs.
I have played dota 2 for 1040h and it has cost me -5€.
30$ is almost 3 weeks worth of dinners (5 meals per week) at local quality restaurant. Anything that costs more than your normal living expenses is expensive and paying for something is expensive is stupid. Thus 30 dorra is stupid expensive.
I wouldn't pay 30$ even for HL3.
Your food costs are ridiculous and impossible. Unless, as another poster suggested, you're eating off the dollar menu at McDonald's. And if that's your idea of fine dining, then your opinion of game quality cannot be trusted.
Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
Manchu wrote:I'm a Catholic. We eat our God.
Due to work, I can usually only ship any sales or trades out on Saturday morning. Please trade/purchase with this in mind.
If I have anything to say about PC/Console game costs its that the latter have horrified me
As someone that hadn't bought a video game in a retail store for half a decade stepping into GAME (a UK Vidya retail store) to see £65/70 new games was a massive shock
I'll admit, I think in about the past half-decade on Steam I've brought a £40 game once or twice due to the urge to play it being unbearable. I've bought a fair few £30 ones and I see no real issue with that; its mostly new games I've had a degree of hype for.
The games I have no real hype for at all, like RAGE, Borderlands, X-COM Enemy Unknown I usually buy at £20 or less after a few months, if their reviews are in the region of 7.5~10. (Because critic rating systems are terrible and anything below 7.5 is increasing degrees of garbage and "humorously bad" by their general standard)
RAGE turned out naff, Borderlands turned out fairly fun for a while, X-COM Enemy Unknown I made a sub-conscious link to with the very old UFO:defense one, though I never played that, and I found X-COM EU to be one of the best purchases I've ever made.
But overall the thought of paying £40 makes me extremely uneasy and the thought of paying £70 is disgusting, no matter how much hype I have I will never, ever pay that much for a game.
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Mr.Omega wrote: If I have anything to say about PC/Console game costs its that the latter have horrified me
As someone that hadn't bought a video game in a retail store for half a decade stepping into GAME (a UK Vidya retail store) to see £65/70 new games was a massive shock
So shop on their own online stores and hunt down sales, just like you do with Steam. Sony even has the grace to reduce the price of the standard digital versions compared to the physical versions at launch.
If you're horrified by the cost of console games at retail, wander over the the (nearly non-existent) PC section and you'll see similar (though slightly cheaper due to lack of licensing) prices.
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Avatar 720 wrote: $30 Gets you 15 quality restaurant meals? Where can you go to get a $2 meal that isn't a fast-food chain?
$300 I could understand, but $30 giving you 15 'quality restaurant' meals is complete BS.
The rest of your post is just idiotic.
I'm an uni student. Fast food actually costs usually 3 times more than normal meal with student prices.
Finnish gov pays half of the food costs which allows companies to provide fast, cheap and quality food. Fast foods chains can't even compete with campus restaurants.
How is rest of my post idiotic? I have spent 0€ on dota 2 but various hats I've sold propably totals around 5€ if not more. I sold 1 chest for 3€ ffs.
Every time I hear "in my opinion" or "just my opinion" makes me want to strangle a puppy. People use their opinions as a shield that other poeple can't critisize and that is bs.
If you can't defend or won't defend your opinion then that "opinion" is bs. Stop trying to tip-toe and defend what you believe in.
Depends on the console. Sony gamers got plenty to be excited about, like Littlebigplanet 3, The Order 1886, Bloodborne and finally seeing a bit of in-engine stuff for Uncharted 4.
It's kind of hard to have a general thread like an E3 thread without it devolving into console wars. I only know one forum where that really happens, and it sure isn't here.
Cheesecat wrote: To be honest from what I've seen so far there isn't much to talk about so I can't blame people going off-topic.
Nonsense! There's heaps to talk about, and we get to keep talking about it 'til 2015, 'cause everything at this year's E3 isn't out yet, as this year's E3 is "The Great Holding Action of 2014".
-Loki- wrote: Depends on the console. Sony gamers got plenty to be excited about, like Littlebigplanet 3, The Order 1886, Bloodborne and finally seeing a bit of in-engine stuff for Uncharted 4.
It's kind of hard to have a general thread like an E3 thread without it devolving into console wars. I only know one forum where that really happens, and it sure isn't here.
Halo, Fable and Crackdown. I'm fairly excited, too
Slarg232 wrote: Here's an idea, why not leave games on the platform used to create them?[
Because developers like money.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Avatar 720 wrote: $30 Gets you 15 quality restaurant meals? Where can you go to get a $2 meal that isn't a fast-food chain?
$300 I could understand, but $30 giving you 15 'quality restaurant' meals is complete BS.
The rest of your post is just idiotic.
Where can you get a $2 meal that is a fast food chain?
The cheapest I've ever found is $3, and its hardly a full meal.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Yeah, I haven't found any that's less than four, myself.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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It was all right. Truth to tell I was pretty bored through the whole event. Most of it we've already seen before. One thing I will say. Sony needs to get Jake back. The new guy was so boring. I actually started to nod off at one point when they started in on the tv stuff. I was interested in the Halo collection though. Been some years since I played it. I wouldn't mine having them all on one disc. Not enough to buy the system though.
See I am not terribly excited for the Halo collection simply because I have literally sank hundreds of hours into the all of them, and don't really have the gumption to sit down and plow through all of them on Legendary again...
I would adore another ODST game though...in my opinion that one was the best of the whole lot.
