Comments on: The RPS Bargain Bucket: Monkeys & Other Escapes

By: Natus

Natus — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:34:04 +0000

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!

By: Urthman

Urthman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:08:43 +0000

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.”

By: Tuelpo

Tuelpo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:20:12 +0000

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.

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:19:19 +0000

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.

By: Tei

Tei — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:20:31 +0000

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.

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:41:15 +0000

@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.

By: Gorgeras

Gorgeras — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:03:14 +0000

@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.

By: MacBeth

MacBeth — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:39:10 +0000

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.

By: ChaosSmurf

ChaosSmurf — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:43:48 +0000

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.

By: Über Nerd

Über Nerd — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:33:16 +0000

My first impulse buy on Steam via RPS; Penumbra: Collector Pack.

By: Malibu Stacey

Malibu Stacey — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:15:19 +0000

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.

By: Lukasz

Lukasz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:19:15 +0000

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??