After a couple of weeks off whilst Savygamer’s LewieP was away wrestling five-hooved giant elk in Mongolia, our weekly round-up of reduced-price PC game delights returns. Any of these tickle your wickle, missus?
Fallout 3 – £13.49/€22.49/$24.99
As far as I am concerned, pretty much all the praise this game gets is entirely justified. I played it on the 360, so I guess you can all feel superior to me if you like, I’m certainly jealous of all the mods. In case you have been living in a bunker your entire life, Fallout 3 is a massive, open, post apocalyptic RPG. The combat is fun, the levelling system is very well put together, and it’s more often than not gorgeous to look at. My review here, Alec’s review here, and RPS coverage here.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion [Game of the Year Edition] Deluxe, Turbo – £12.50/$17.95
Just in case you hate guns, you could try this. It’s basically Fallout without guns. Ok not quite, but if you really like one of these two games, you’ll probably like the other. Swap post apocalyptic for fantasy, a brilliant levelling system for a fairly flawed one, and Liam Neeson for Patrick Stewart, and you’ll have a good idea of what to expect from Oblivion. This package comes with both expansions, and all of the DLC, so you’ll everything you need to pimp your horsie. You can get it without the extra fluff for £9.95/$14.95 if you prefer.
Vigil: Blood Bitterness – £1.49/€2.49/$2.49
On the one hand, this has a metascore of only 61. On the other hand, look at it. Again, on the second more positive hand, it is only one pound fifty. I’m gonna grab it methinks. Opinions anyone? Demo here.
Pinball games!
Good old games have four pinball games on promotion, with 20% off. I like the look of the one with the car on the box. I’ve never been a massive fan of pinball games. Short of 3D Pinball: Space Cadet, Pokeymon Pinball, and pinball dreams/fantasies, I’ve not really played many of them at all.
Bargain of the week
2K Huge Games Pack – £35.99/€53.99/$53.99
It’s incredible to think that for as much as EA and Ubisoft like to charge for new releases, you can get an incredible 20 games. You get Bioshock, a bunch of games with “Sid Meier’s” in the title, including Civ4 with all the expansions, Freedom Force 1 + 2, Prey, Shattered Union, and all the Xcom games. Pretty ace deal if you ask me, although I would like to take this opertunity to point out that Steam packages are a little broken. They basically punish you for having bought games previously. If you already own a game in a package, then buy the package, you are effectively paying for the same game twice, but only getting one license. It wouldn’t be too hard to set it up so that you either get a slight discount, or get a spare license to gift, like what Valve did for The Orange Box.
LewieP’s own site SavyGamer.co.uk is home to constantly-updated bargains across all formats.
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RPS is single handedly responsible for EVERY SINGLE ONE of my purchases in the last three months.
Never has my wallet been the slave of a single advisor before, not even to the mighty PC Gamer.
And I’ve told Steam I’m ‘in the UK’ but it still can’ts to rip me off :(
@Freudian Slip
If you have a friend in the UK, you could get them to gift it to you, then you pay them the cash.
@LewieP
That would require friends, which we all know PC Gamer’s don’t have. I’m just going to take the hit. I’ll become an MEP and claim it on expenses or something.
Oh great, my UK based card isn’t being accepted because I’m currently in Switzerland so I must be lying and stealing bank cards away from innocent UK citizens and buying Chocolate, Cuckoo clocks and GAMES 10 QUID MORE EXPENSIVE FOR THE SOLE REASON THAT MY PROXY ENDS IN .CH
:(
Wait, my billing address doesn’t have to be the same address as my card is linked to right? Lets try that.
\o/ I’d claim victory but Valve have just scored an extra tenner off me so even in glory I lose.
2K Huge Games Pack – £35.99/€53.99/$53.99
I would think about buying this for $53.99 or £35.99. But not for €53.99, even if I would think that it is worth this price for me (it isn’t simply because I already own a lot of the games).
But as a matter of principle I refuse to be fucked over just because I happen to live in Euroland.
On a related note, I wont buy the new Red Faction from Stardock. The price conversion from USD to Euro is just ridiculous:
http://www.stardock.com/about/newsitem.asp?id=1280
39.99 USD | 49.99 EUR | 34.99 GBP | 99.95 AUD
(the poor Australians have it even worse, the price more or less doubled)
Of course, it the sales fail to meet expectations, blame the greedy pirates.
PS: I apologize for the off-topic rant, but this really gets on my nerves.
The 2K Huge Games Pack isn’t available down under either. Buckermann: That’s standard Australian retail pricing.
Daggerfalls starting dungeon was easy.. dunno what the heck you are talking about but my 13 year old mind was more than capable of finding the way out.
The dungeon map was terrible mind you.. but the main joys of Daggerfall were above ground and lay in atmosphere, which, for me, has yet to be recaptured in Morrowind or Oblivion to the same extent.
gamersgate.com can bag you the new red faction at the us price, tom chick likes it ++
And he’s a grumpy git! much <3 though
Is saints row coop up to much? at that price is should grab 2 copies.
…..what atmosphere did Daggerfall have? it was Clonesville in Cloneland.
It took me days to get out of the Daggerfall starting dungeon. Days when I was still a student and had eons of time, that is. In fact, I didn’t even realize there was going to be a world OUTSIDE the dungeon for a long time. So when I got out and travelled to a town, I nearly choked on whatever I was eating (I think it was a cough drop) when I realized there was an actual world with cities and -granted, random- villages to explore. Hahaha. Good times. I may be a masochist, but I loved Daggerfall.
Say what you want about it being cloneissimo (I won’t deny it) and buggy (definitely not denying that), but it did a whole lot of things right for its time. But yes, without an iron will and a creative use of the mark and recall spells the dungeons could be hell.
Anyone remember their first encounter with a vampire ancient or ancient lich? Wow. I dropped to the floor as soon as they got in range. I had to reload, go to the mages’ guild and enchants a crapload of rings, gems and cloths with ‘reflect magic’ and watched the bastards blast themselves to oblivion. Muhahaha. Then I had to go back again cause they drained all my newly enchanted stuff. :/
Erh…sorry. Good times.
I’m on the ‘waiting for a Fallout 3 compilation pack with all the DLC in the box’ train, myself. Mostly because I don’t want to buy something via some kooky MS Live store on my PC.
I’m getting that Big Huge Games pack. I already got most of the Civ4 expansions, but don’t have Colonization (which isn’t worth 5$ on its ownsome, but..), been meaning to try out Sid Meier’s Railroads or Railroads 3 sometime, never bought Prey probably won’t play it but what the hell y’know? — rounding out my qualifications for getting it, supposedly their version of X-Com Apocalypse will work without much hackiness, and really is 3 copies of the entire trilogy enough for one man? I say no. SimCity Rome might also be interesting, haven’t messed around with a citybuilder in a long time.
I have more than 75% of the games on that list, but seeing as they’re charging 20-30$ for the things I don’t, alone, well what the hell. Maybe not a good reason since those prices too are set by the publisher.
“Saints Row 2 – £3.99 delivered”
Hmm; I took a punt on this game for €20 based on either the PCGUK or the RPS folk’s recommendation, and honestly, it’s toss. It really is a poor man’s GTA IV; the car steers like you’re trying to push a lump of hot butter around a frying pan. The pedestrians don’t even have a semblance of AI and just stand there.
P.
The only thing disapointing about the Big Huge Pack is the inclusion of Prey. That game was so bad it devalues the whole product. I’m getting flashbacks to that Rubics Cube puzzle and the corridors oh won’t someone please let me out of the corridors.
I actually thought Prey was pretty good and was underrated/too heavily criticized. But maybe I’m just continuing down the ‘masochist’ lane I first touched on with my Daggerfall comment earlier in this thread….
If you have Prey, you might as well play the first 20 minutes of it. It has a pretty kickass opening.