Comments on: The RPS Bargain Bucket: Reborn!

By: LewieP

LewieP — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:59:58 +0000

If you have Prey, you might as well play the first 20 minutes of it. It has a pretty kickass opening.

By: Rinox

Rinox — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:41:43 +0000

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….

By: Freudian Slip

Freudian Slip — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:10:57 +0000

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.

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:53:22 +0000

“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.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:50:00 +0000

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.

By: Rinox

Rinox — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:33:48 +0000

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.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:09:45 +0000

…..what atmosphere did Daggerfall have? it was Clonesville in Cloneland.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:55:01 +0000

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.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:44:12 +0000

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.

By: TRS-80

TRS-80 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:25:00 +0000

The 2K Huge Games Pack isn’t available down under either. Buckermann: That’s standard Australian retail pricing.

By: Buckermann

Buckermann — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:05:35 +0000

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.

By: Freudian Slip

Freudian Slip — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:50:18 +0000

\o/ I’d claim victory but Valve have just scored an extra tenner off me so even in glory I lose.