Comments on: The RPS Bargain Bucket: Multi-Kill

By: disperse

disperse — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:02:33 +0000

Thank you Vinrath and malkav11!

By: Tei

Tei — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:19:28 +0000

After a hour playing RFG, It crashed, eating all progress. Yay for no quicksaves.

By: drewski

drewski — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:24:22 +0000

It has to do with how much they’re prepared (and allowed) to undercut publishers and distributors in Australia. Because the retail price of Australian games is A$90-100 (or around US$80-90!!!) online distributors have limits placed on what price they can sell online for to prop up the Australian retail market.

It looks a little silly at the moment because the Australian dollar is so strong. The obvious answer is that retail prices for games in Australia should be plummeting as the dollar rises…but why do that when you can blatantly profiteer? It wouldn’t surprise me if Australia was the most expensive games market in the world right now.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:17:17 +0000

Man that RFG is great stupid fun. I’ll mirror what TotalBiscuit said above: Every game from here on needs to have RFG physics. Love the way the tall towers collapse and crumble, just like you’d expect them to (mostly).

By: Stromko

Stromko — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:49:53 +0000

I’ve only rented RF:G on console so far (got too many games to play as it is right now), but I found it became much more fun after I changed the difficulty to Easy. Until then I was dying every time things started getting good. I think I expected it to be as easy as Saints Row or Mercenaries. It’s also got some frustrating bits like when random resistance guys join you, they slow you down and get killed if you don’t babysit them. If you want to be a one-man army (as I do), just play it on Easy.

By: monkehhh

monkehhh — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:41:22 +0000

The EADM and Steam keys they sell don’t seem so bad because they get plugged in to a download manager service that gives you the game. It’s the games like Call of Duty 4 / WaW where you get a key and nothing else – useful for people who own the original media, dodgy for people who don’t and just want to play for cheap. I am one of these cheap CoD players, and it’s worked fine for me so far *touch wood*.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:13:55 +0000

I hadn’t noticed that, thanks malkav. I’ll pass it on to my friends who, foolishly, haven’t picked it up yet. :)

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:18:33 +0000

$25, at the moment – it’s a favorite to discount for their 48 Hour Madness sales.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:34:50 +0000

I have resisted buying anything for two of these now. YOU ARE WEAK, MISTER P.

Although I would totally cave if they get round to releasing Car Wot Goes Fast for under a fiver.

By: Thermal Ions

Thermal Ions — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:08:29 +0000

GamersGate has RFG for US$19.99 also and is purchasable at that price from Australia.

Not that I’ve ever used GG, does it work similar to Impulse? The help section on their site seems a little lacking in the specific details (but maybe I’m, blind).

By: Thermal Ions

Thermal Ions — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:28:30 +0000

As long as you’re comfortable in the legally grey area they operate within. They even admit as such on their own site: “So when it comes to legality you are probably on the edge but you are definitley not beyond it.”. While I agree with the start of their statement, the later is very open to interpretation, considering how you may have to acquire the actual game itself to go with the code they sell you.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:14:12 +0000

Light of altair is good, very good. I would say excellent were it not for the literally rock, paper, scissors combat.