Comments on: The RPS Bargain Bucket – Gooey Brothers

By: KilgoreTrout XL

KilgoreTrout XL — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:09:30 +0000

You really should try Braid if you haven’t yet- it’s a pretty fucking amazing game. One hell of a soundtrack too.

World of goo was entertaining as well.

By: Wooly

Wooly — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:53:02 +0000

What a great week for sales! If only I didn’t already own almost all of them… =/

“So, VERDICT TIME people. Are the Brothers in Arms games with $25 for all three? What games are they similar to?”

ABSOLUTELY YES. Like has been said, it’s rather like Ghost Recon in WWII, but it also has a great story, especially for an action game. The third one came out at the same time as CoD5, and doesn’t have a multiplayer component that’s as interesting as CoD’s. However, its Single player is way better than CoD World atinfinitelyrespawningsoldiers War’s shitty campaign.

I thought the first 2 were better, but the third’s great too.

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:59:56 +0000

Reply to DarkNoghri
Well I aint sure of Road to Hill 30 (played the xbox version) but Earned in Blood and Hells Highway don’t even use disc checks.

Also “The PC version of [Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood] contains the controversial StarForce DRM which may interfere with some CD/DVD burners, burning software and disk mounting software.

Purchasing the game on Valve’s Steam does not include StarForce.” But again I’ve got it installed right now from a disk and there is no CD check.

By: LewieP

LewieP — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:26:22 +0000

Prince of Persia is pretty terrible. They pissed away anything that was good about the sands of time trilogy, and replaced it with fluff. It’s like the whole game is one long QTE that you can switch your brain off for. Mirror’s Edge is what you should play if you want a game that expands on the good recent POP games.

And yeah, it was my Mum who did that World of Goo painting. I am pretty sure she emailed 2Dboy to ask permission to paint it (it’s for charity), and they were excited to see the finished painting.

I know that David Hellman has seen the painting of Braid that she did.

I’ve posted a link to her paintings here before, but in case any of you missed it first time round, click here.

By: DarkNoghri

DarkNoghri — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:13:28 +0000

Also, I’m fairly certain one of the retail Brothers in Arms games had Starforce DRM. Hopefully removed for Steam.

By: DarkNoghri

DarkNoghri — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:11:26 +0000

For those in the US (does GoGamer ship to the UK?), there are a couple of games on sale for under 10$. DOD:S is 6$, as are Mercs 2, the new Prince of Persia, and Mirror’s Edge. Shipping is usually a couple bucks. http://www.gogamer.com

By: Wedge

Wedge — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:48:58 +0000

You obviously didn’t play the Burger King games then. They were amazing.

By: Mark O'Brien

Mark O'Brien — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:03:12 +0000

@oceanClub

My Mirror’s Edge download took between five and five and a half hours, so it was a lot faster than 40 kBps for me. Might be your ISP throttling it for some reason?

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:52:09 +0000

@Bhazor

Thanks, sounds like a pass then.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:49:24 +0000

If you’ve somehow managed to avoid the 30 or so other times King’s Bounty: The Legend has been on sale, it’s GamersGate’s deal of the day.

I’m kind of disappointed with that feature, to be honest. A lot of things that have already been on sale, recently, for about the same price.

By: Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:55:16 +0000

While I claim to hate scat-play I just can’t get enough of those delicious chocolate covered bananas.

I didn’t like Braid all that much though.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:53:02 +0000

@Viskernus

D2D, from my single experience with it, seems to be pretty light on DRM. There’s no client, and nothing obvious tied to the download. It wouldn’t surprise me if the installer phones home the first time you run it, but D2D downloaded games certainly run fine without an internet connection. What I CAN tell you is that D2D games often retain their 3rd party DRM, so in the case of Mirror’s Edge you’re probably still looking at an install limit simply because the retail version has one.