Spend! Spend it all! Don’t worry about the recession! Games will save the world! Savygamer’s LewieP has more pixel-based discounts for you good people. You can’t stop him, you know. He’ll keep on finding bargains until either he or the rest of humanity is dead and buried.
King’s Bounty: The Legend – £9.99/€9.99/$9.99
This is a repeat offender in the Bargain Bucket, it seems to keep coming back at low prices. King’s Bounty is a tactical RPG with lots of resource management and other such fun, and is Alec’s favorite game of 2008. A tenner is not far off the cheapest it has ever been available for. RPS Coverage here, and demo here.
Gothic 1+2 – £4.69/€5.36/$7.49 each
I enjoyed Gothic 3 enough to be somewhat interested in the earlier games in the series. If they are anything like Gothic 3, they will have massive open worlds, really open ended story, but be seriously buggy, and kind of dull to play for too long. How have these two games stood the test of time?
Tales of Monkey Island – £21.87/€25.01/$34.95
New Monkey Island games are being made! Not just that, but they are out soon! When you preorder the whole season, you get:
Collector’s DVD at the end of the season, with a special, limited edition cover painted by legendary Monkey Island artist Steve Purcell.
A free Telltale game of your choice
Access to a special Monkey Island section of Telltale’s website
Seems like it might be worth it if you’re planning on getting the full series anyway.
Escape Rosecliff Island – £7.47/$9.97
A hidden object/puzzle game from Pop Cap, set on a ‘mysterious private island’. You get 50% off during checkout. There is a demo here.
Escape From Paradise – £0.62/€0.71/$0.99
A puzzle game from Big Fish Games, set on an ‘uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean’. It’s down to this price because the sequel is out soon. There is a demo here.
Deal of the Week
Penumbra: Black Plague [Gold Edition] (contains Black Plague and Requiem) – £3.25/€3.75/$3.75
Penumbra: Overture – £2.25/€2.50/$2.50
Penumbra: Collector Pack (contains Black Plague, Requiem and Overture) – £4.50/€5/$5
Really creepy first person horror adventure games, and you can get the full series for not very much money right now. They are very atmospheric, and have a brilliant and immersive interface. Highly recommended at this price. Turn the lights out, volume up and lock your door.
If that lot’s not enough for you, do check out SavyGamer.co.uk for constantly-updated bargains across all formats.
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Ultima 8 has as many problems as great things, the spell casting was awesome, the combat was crap, the huge world to explore was great, the platforming was a joke, and so on
im not surprised many ppl hate it, i still think its worth playing tho (i remember i never finished it because i got hopelessly lost somewhere, im waiting for the emulator to get a bit better to give it another go)
It’s fair to say that any RPG fan who hasn’t played the Gothic games should do so, and this gog offer seems to be the perfect excuse to. Like mentioned earlier, if one has to choose between them, I would also say that Gothic 2 is the one to play. It’s the best in the series and probably will stay that way. The developers have thrown away all their goodwill and credibility with the abomination that is Gothic 3.
I swore I wouldn’t buy anything this weekend but I just couldn’t turn down Penumbra Complete at that price. I played the demo ages ago and it scared the crap out of me, I’ve been waiting for an excuse to pick it up ever since.
Indeed, gothic 1+2 are miles ahead of gothic 3, don’t be afraid thou, the controls are only weird in the first one (but you do get used to them fast enough so it’s not a problem), the second one has perfect controls.
And oh, such immersive worlds, it’s a thing of beauty, where they lack at backstory and lore, they excel at bringing the world to life, animals graze, attack each other, people hunt, eat, sleep, sit around a campfire and drink, they just FEEL alive, they don’t just stay around all day in one spot like other rpg’s *cough*morrowind*cough*.
Very recommended, especially the second one, the graphics have aged oh so well on that one, so if you’re that kind of person, it shouldn’t bother you at all.
Stupid cheap deals:
What i have yet to play:
Penumbra
Gothic 1-3
Broken Sword Trilogy
Pathalogic
Far Cry 1
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Heagemonia: Legions of Iron
Perimeter
and probably few more which escape me right now.
When Ill find the time to do that??
No one else noticed the newly added “Specials” tab in the Steam store which lists all the current special offers then?
Light of Altair is 20% off for a week as of the 4th of June.
My first impulse buy on Steam via RPS; Penumbra: Collector Pack.
There’s also all the Unreal games on Steam for something like £12. If you’ve never bought any of them (the fuck is wrong with you?) then it’s definetly worth it.
Bah. Couldn’t resist Penumbra pack at that price.
Add another to the massive list of games I have bought but haven’t got time to play.
@Jalf: “Eh, Prototype is €50 in the rest of Europe… :p”
Well that’s cos you silly sods gave away your economic independence and signed up for the Euro. Honestly, the French beheaded Marie Antoinette for being ignorant about cake but don’t kick up a fuss about their country being eroded, just so they can get their traditional farming subsidised.
In Britain, at least we’re being dragged in kicking and screaming.
@Urthman
Arx Fatalis is good. Really, really good. For having the entire game set underground in a Dwarven mine, repurposed to house the entire remaining surviving population of a dead planet, it looks really neat and is amazing to explore. It’s from the same guys as Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, if you’ve played that, to get a basic idea of what kind of style it has, though it’s closer to Ultima Underworld (They actually were shooting for licensing “UU3″ as the game’s branding in development but EA said no way) than Dark Messiah’s more straight-forward actiony sort of focus. Arx feels like a first person adventure for lots of it.
I have not bough “Light of Altair” solelly based on the “game over” screen. It force you to play again and again a scenary, and is boring, and stressing.
Heads up, buying Escape From Paradise for 99cents seems to get you signed up for some Big Fish Game Club thing. Easy enough to cancel by logging into your account, and it’s free for a month, but if you don’t cancel you’ll get an unpleasant surprise this time next month, and there doesn’t seem to be any warning about this.
Just a note of warning, I snagged Penumbra on my box running Windows 7 w/ an ATI x1900 xtx. The game will not run. Looks like I need to toss XP back on there for the first time in months.
One last bit of awesomeness regarding Gothic.
Let’s say you’ve heard the praise, you want to try Gothic, but you only have time for one game, so you’re going to go with what everyone recommends and start with Gothic 2. But you wonder, “Would I enjoy Gothic 2 more if I’d played the first game?” Well here’s your solution:
A fan-made 2-hour machinima, allowing you to watch someone play through the highlights and important story bits of the first Gothic.
http://www.gamershell.com/download_19245.shtml
Be warned, if you watch that your reaction might not be, “Now I’m really ready to play Gothic 2″ but, “Damn, that looks like an awesome game. I should’ve started with Gothic 1 after all.”
Hey, do we know if the older, classic Monkey island games will ever be re-released on GoG, or are the older games part of this?
Thanks!