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Sniper Elite III is a lot of fun. It's like Assassin's Creed in WWII, with less parkour and more long-ranged shooting.

I'm playing it completely wrong though - trying to get close for stealth melee kills - but it is fun and incredibly tense. I mean I could use my machine gun to butcher all the Nazis, but doing it all silent like with my knife and silenced pistol is fun.

On some ways it's almost like a third-person Commandos game where you play the Sniper, Green Beret and Demoman all at the same time.

Glad I picked it up in the sale.

There's a lot of games I "kinda sorta" want, but nothing that I'm getting overly excited about.

So yeah, haven't bought anything yet.

Would like to pick up The Witcher, Shadows of Morder, Fallout 4, but I don't like buying games I don't intend to play immediately so I may just leave them.

I might grab pillars of eternity still. Need to know if it's worth it. If somebody could tell me it'd be appreciated.

A caution to any Australian buyers, the exchange rate at the moment is bad enough that many games actually come out cheaper if you buy them from EB Games on their end of financial year sale rather than Steam's mid year sale.

I've come across a few games that were cheaper on Steam and some that were cheaper from EB.

EDIT: Are The Witcher expansions completely separate from the core game or do they somewhat modify it? I'm wondering if there's any advantage to me buying the game with the expansions, or just buy it without the expansions and get the expansions later.

Witcher 3? Pretty sure you need the core game for them.

And you should get the core game. And get it on GOG, not on Steam.

Sorry I meant it the other way around, as in, would it be a disadvantage to play the core game without the expansions or are the expansions separate so that it would make no difference if I only bought the core game now and bought the expansions later on.

It's currently cheaper on Steam than GoG, is there any reason to get it on GoG over Steam?

If you do get Witcher 3 with its expansion, don't buy the bundle. For whatever reason you save a few dollars if you buy the base game and the Expansion Pass separately.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Sorry I meant it the other way around, as in, would it be a disadvantage to play the core game without the expansions or are the expansions separate so that it would make no difference if I only bought the core game now and bought the expansions later on.

It's currently cheaper on Steam than GoG, is there any reason to get it on GoG over Steam?

I think the main argument for GOG would be lack of DRM and also that way more of the money will go to CD Projekt, the developers of The Witcher games, as they run GOG.

So basically Steam can't take their cut.

Yeah, I appreciate that. But the game is currently $34AUD on steam, $35AUD from EB Games and $68AUD on GoG.

I could wait until it comes on sale on GoG again, looking through my past email notifications from GoG it was last on sale in March.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:


EDIT: Are The Witcher expansions completely separate from the core game or do they somewhat modify it? I'm wondering if there's any advantage to me buying the game with the expansions, or just buy it without the expansions and get the expansions later.

The two expansions are meant to be played after you've finished the main storyline. They don't change any part of the main game. But both are totally worth buying at some point.

Jebus10000 wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:


EDIT: Are The Witcher expansions completely separate from the core game or do they somewhat modify it? I'm wondering if there's any advantage to me buying the game with the expansions, or just buy it without the expansions and get the expansions later.

The two expansions are meant to be played after you've finished the main storyline. They don't change any part of the main game. But both are totally worth buying at some point.

Cheers! That's what I needed to know.

Quake Collection. Undying classics

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Sorry I meant it the other way around, as in, would it be a disadvantage to play the core game without the expansions or are the expansions separate so that it would make no difference if I only bought the core game now and bought the expansions later on.

Hmm... you don't have to have the expansions right away. The expansion stuff doesn't show up as a possible quest until Level 35-ish, and it takes a while to get there running through the main game. You can wait to get them.

I bought the the witcher trilogy pack and the witcher 3 expansion pass. Expansion pass wasnt on sale but was cheaper than the 10% discounted expansions anyway. EBgames charges a fortune for the expansions too. They sell blood & wine alone for $50.

Installing witcher 3 at the moment. Now to wait 3-4 days for it to download.

Will seriously do self harm if my steam download resets itself afterwards.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Hmm... you don't have to have the expansions right away. The expansion stuff doesn't show up as a possible quest until Level 35-ish, and it takes a while to get there running through the main game. You can wait to get them.

I have about 70 hours in the game and I am only level 32....

Steam Refunded money back to me, and I got Dawn of War Winter Assault and Dawn of War Soulstorm

Dropbear Victim wrote:
Installing witcher 3 at the moment. Now to wait 3-4 days for it to download.

Yeah... I was forced to reinstall the game after my files got corrupted (no idea how), and once I had finished installing it it was time for 30gb worth of patches! YAY!

Yeah, that's why I ended up buying the physical copy from EBGames instead (and getting a refund off Steam for the digital copy I bought in the sale).

You're able to link the physical copy to your GoG account so you can still buy the DLC digitally. Bonus is that it only takes an hour on a good PC to install (plus however long it takes for you to download the latest patch).

Last few days of the sale. Debating to spend 10.00$ on a RWBY game while it's still in early access, or spending 2.00$ on the second Risen game.

Don't buy unfinished games.

Listen to the poor Australians complain about having to download something

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Dropbear Victim wrote:
Installing witcher 3 at the moment. Now to wait 3-4 days for it to download.

Yeah... I was forced to reinstall the game after my files got corrupted (no idea how), and once I had finished installing it it was time for 30gb worth of patches! YAY!

It sounds like your "patches" were actually completely redownloading the game. Unless those were the expansions, I didn't buy the expansions. I just finished downloading TW3 on Steam, it was 31.7GB download but once it was done there was nothing else to download.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Listen to the poor Australians complain about having to download something

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Dropbear Victim wrote:
Installing witcher 3 at the moment. Now to wait 3-4 days for it to download.

Yeah... I was forced to reinstall the game after my files got corrupted (no idea how), and once I had finished installing it it was time for 30gb worth of patches! YAY!

It sounds like your "patches" were actually completely redownloading the game. Unless those were the expansions, I didn't buy the expansions. I just finished downloading TW3 on Steam, it was 31.7GB download but once it was done there was nothing else to download.

Does Australia have really slow internet or something?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Don't buy unfinished games.

Depends on the game. I have quite a few of them in my Steam library and only a couple of them have not delivered (most notable Starbase DF-9)

I bought the Blitzkrieg complete pack even though I have physical copies of the first 2 already but it was only £1.50 more than buying the 3rd one so....

Incidentally Blitzkrieg 3 is still in early access

Its a bit of a weird game though. Its very much like one of those base building mobile games but with much better graphics. Its enjoyable enough for £10 or so though.

My brother gifted me 7 Day to Die and Primordia, not a bad way to end the sale I suppose.

I just did an exchange to get the last missing card for the badge… and Steam told me I had to wait for 24 hours to get it, so just after the cards become useless. Great job Steam!

They really have gone out of their way to make it difficult to trade and sell cards, haven't they?

 BrookM wrote:
My brother gifted me 7 Day to Die and Primordia, not a bad way to end the sale I suppose.

7 Days to Die is a pretty good game. A bit rough around the edges, but if you vcan get past that, it can be a lot of fun.

Got Bioshock, Half Life 2, Witcher 2 and the first Dark souls. Thining of getting Verdun, however, doubt my computer can run it, could someone give me a hand with the specs not really up to scratch on workings of computers.

Requirements:
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: Geforce GTX 960M / Radeon HD 7750 or higher, 1GB video card memory

My Computer:
Processor: AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics 2.00 GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB

Thanks

Well at the very least i got Vermintide. It's actually really fun. It's basically just like Left 4 dead except Fantasy and fighting skaven.