Comments on: Weekend Sale: World of Goo Cheap. UT3 Black Free.

By: Professor

Professor — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:22:28 +0000

I’m glad I bought World of Goo, what a great way to spend 5$. I’m also glad I didn’t follow the trend and pirate it, because i know that would I have done so, I wouldn’t have bought it anyway.

By: Lollerskater

Lollerskater — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:24:38 +0000

FYI Unreal Tournament 3 is getting another free weekend this upcoming weekend. They say it’s because of the overwhelming success. I say it’s because they botched up last weekend and underestimated how many people would jump on it. Their emphasis on pre-loading the game increases this notion.

By: Dick Dastardley

Dick Dastardley — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:44:55 +0000

Status of UT3: Black – Uninstalled again.
Status of World of Goo – Absorbing just about every spare minute I can find.

Hmmmmmm.

By: TRS-80

TRS-80 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:59:33 +0000

Whoops, I just downloaded the whole thing before thinking to check if it runs on Linux (it doesn’t, unless you fork out for Cedega 7.1 that just came out, and the native client that was promised at release hasn’t materialised either). On the plus side, it didn’t use any of my monthly download quota thanks to iiNet’s unmetered Steam server.

By: Anthony Damiani

Anthony Damiani — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:33:35 +0000

What redrain85 said pretty much goes for me, too.

By: redrain85

redrain85 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:45:23 +0000

Even though I’m not a huge fan of casual games, for $5 I couldn’t resist picking up World of Goo. Especially after all the accolades it’s received.

I hope that Goo’s sales skyrocket during the sale, and prove once again that if you sell quality titles at a (more than) reasonable price, people will buy them rather than pirate them.

2D Boy may not be earning much on each copy sold: but the volume of sales could more than make up for that, as previously demonstrated.

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:32:49 +0000

Well, I liked ut3 more than ut2k4 and this update is brilliant…

By: Oak

Oak — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:43:53 +0000

The indie game Mr Robot is up for weekend sale on ImpulseDriven for the nice price of $4.

Ah! I always forget to check Impulse’s weekend deals. Cheers.

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:15:47 +0000

Pixel shaders are the new lens flares.

What is the new Greed gametype? According to WP, Titan involves getting more power-ups (and becoming larger) the better you’re doing, which seems—naturally un-balancing.

By: Terr

Terr — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:13:18 +0000

@dbdkmezz: Yes, I tought the demo was rubbish. They restricted it in so many ways (low res textures, single player model, boring maps) that it put me off as well. The full game offers more, better stuff.

But seeing the low, low price of 11 pounds I decided to buy it a few weeks ago and I think it’s a fun game with gorgeous graphics. And the Black patch has some nice additions as well.

@Tony: I can understand why some don’t like the bloom. But, there are community made mutators that give you control over that (can’t come up with a name, it’s on the official UT forum) . You can increase or decrease it, or turn it off. Same goes for the color tint overlay I believe.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:45:47 +0000

Well, I liked UT3. I thought it felt closer to ’99 than 2004 did. And it felt more… solid, I suppose.

Didn’t like the brown and bloom thing it had going on, though.

By: Masaq

Masaq — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:18:14 +0000

“I kind of wanted to try UT3, so I logged on to ask one of my steam friends about it, but literally nobody on my giant friends list was playing it … so that pretty much told me all I needed to know.”

I’m not sure about that. As has been mentioned above many people have had problems getting it this weekend, myself and friends included.

I hope they sort out the problems and extend the trial period a week. I’ve recently started playing UT2004 ONS again, but it’s really feeling the pinch of reduced players now. Maybe 100 worldwide concurrent at peak :(